right now with "america live". megyn: thanks, guys. shocking revelations about the queen of daytime television. the woman who penned a biography about oprah says that woman and her supporters don't want you to read it. she will join us live. plus the final stop on the tea party express. tax day in the nation's capitol serving as super bowl sunday for some citizens against big government. we're live in washington. and ron paul, a darling of that tea party movement but a stunning new poll shows he may be a whole lot more popular than you think. he is our guest today. it all starts now on "america live". megyn: first up, president obama is about to face the music at kennedy space center. the president is expected to touch down in florida about 30 minutes from right now. set to announce a $6 billion increase in nasa's budget over the next five years. that is money the white house says will bring

thousands of new jobs to florida's so-called space coast and expand the range of space destinations so what is the problem? his plan also essentially eliminates manned space travel among other things. virt wally every astronaut to weigh in on that plan condemned it in very harsh language including neil armstrong the first man to walk on the moon. we have brian wilson at kennedy space center. what kind of crowd will president obama face today? >> reporter: it will be a skeptical crowd. this crowd cares deeply about the manned exploration of space. they will see the shuttle program come to an end. they have seen the constellation program which was next thing in line canceled. there were problems with that system and program. but they're very worried where we're going next. the obama administration, president will come here today and lay out his vision for the future. i think a lot of people would like to hear something from the president much like

what john kennedy said in 62 that we're going to the moon and we'll do these hard things. not because they are easy but because they are hard. that is sort of what they're looking for here today. the indication is that there will will be some middle ground. a lot of money thrown at research and development but no real vision laid out here today. megyn: brian, how does he satisfy critics? then he announced major cuts to the program. then you have all these astronauts coming out saying this is outrageous. then the president dialed it back a little i have sort of a compromise. still the astronauts came out and said, this is ridiculous, no, we're against this plan. how does he satisfy his critics. >> reporter: not all astronauts by the way. buzz aldrin is on board. buzz aldrin is on air force one on his way down. neil armstrong first man on the moon. jim lovell, that ill-fated pop lowell 13 flight. gene cernan, "the last man on the moon" are aligned. they say we don't think this is a vision for the future. we don't think this is going

far enough. what they're hearing in a few hours, what they are expected to hear but don't think it is quite on the beam. one of the things jim lovell said you don't throw money at research and development without knowing exactly what the ultimate goal is. you set the goal and do the research and development. those are critics. president will try to answer them today. at stake, a lot of jobs on the space coast and around the country because nasa employs a lot of people. megyn: brian, white house put out buzz aldrin to talk about his plan earlier this morning. is there any other astronauts besides buzz aldrin supporting on this plan? >> reporter: there is sally ride. that is name i know you have heard from the shuttle program. she is very much in favor of this there are those in the space program who like what the president is proposing who think it is in the right direction. there are a whole lot of people right now who are a bit skeptical. megyn: brian wilson thanks so much. we'll be joined by the first african-american female astronaut ever to go into

space. her name is mae jamison. she is my guest. we'll ask her what she thinks about the president's announcement in a bit. keep it tuned right here. thousands of people are turning out for tea party rallies across cross the united states. their goal? to make it clear to lawmakers in no uncertain terms and they are tired of deficits and big government and they intend to vote this coming november. hear is the scene earlier today in washington, d.c. kind of a partying. rallying. looks like a celebration. it is no coincidence that these rallies come on tax day. resentment of high taxes and waste is at the heart of the tea party movement. tea partiers are not only ones out on freedom plaza. counter protesters showed up. you can see them. see their signs? we hear this is prompting pretty heated arguments. in just a bit we'll get republican texas congressman ron paul on this program. we'll ask him for his take on the tea party movement.

and plus, wait until you see where congressman paul placed in a hypothetical matchup against president obama for 2012. brand new weekly numbers painting an ugly picture of the job market right now. the labor department reporting unexpected spike in unemployment. 484,000 people filing first time claims last week, meaning, seeking unemployment benefits. and that is the second straight week of rising jobless numbers. james rosen live in washington. james, they want, the obama administration and the country wants these numbers to be going into the other direction. any word from the administration why they see this surge in the new claims in the past couple weeks? >> reporter: the labor department, megyn, which puts out these numbers claims the spike owes its part to seasonal adjustments based on easter and cesar chavez day only formally observed in california.

bottom line the american job market remains very tough. let's break the numbers down for you. last week we saw 484,000 americans file for unemployment benefits for first time. up 24,000 from the week before. week before that which ended march 27th saw 442,000 such claims. that had been a drop of 3,000. contrast all of this with one year ago at this time, these claims exceeded 600,000 at that time. the peak, which came in march of '09, had been over 650,000. so much for first-time claims. now look at something called continuing claims. these are more than 4.5 million people who collected at least their second unemployment check last week who have yet exhausted 26 weeks most states provide continuing claims rose by 73,000 last week. means people are having tougher, not easier time getting off unemployment rolls. because weekly numbers can be volatile. you might consult the four-week average. over last month continuing claims are down, that is positive by close to 14,000.

the prior four-week average saw the claims declining by 38,000. what was a positive trend is slowing down. that's of course not positive. once again the bottom line here, megyn, people are remaining unemployed longer. that creates larger problems than simply paying their jobless benefits because their skills erode and become harder to employ down the line. megyn: wow!, that is tough situation. james rosen, thank you so much, james. >> thank you. megyn: it is sentencing day for the man who pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about a plot to attack new york city. remember this guy. i am? he will learn his fate in a brooklyn courtroom in two hours. he is facing up to six months in prison. that's it? six months? his guilty plea apparently spared him a longer jail sentence. he will be forced to leave the country or face deportation. that's good. you plot against the country, you should be forced to leave the country. maybe that is just me editorializing.

this imam admitted to lying about conversations he had with sawsy, the airport shuttle driver who planned entire plot to blow up the new york subway system. more on that as we get it. the u.s. is intensifying efforts to hunt down taliban members in afghanistan by doubling eheat ops forces. this summer in kandahar, beginning in june, a city known as the taliban capitol. mike emanuel is live. what is the deal with these special ops forces in afghanistan? is the elite of the elite. >> reporter: you're absolutely right, megyn. there there are about 89,000 american boots on the ground today in afghanistan. of that 5900 or so are those special-ops forces who have special skills, can operate in small units. for example, before the marjah offensive in the south were able to effectively do precision strikes to prep the battlefield for larger units to go in and do what they need to do in terms of

securing neighborhoods, and then allowing essentially, security to take place in those places and allow afghans to get back to their normal lives. since president obama taken office the number of special-ops forces in afghanistan has about doubled. this is significant because it is essentially crunch time in the war in afghanistan. the president and top military commanders have made the call that we need to make it happen and get in there and try to turn the tide if you will on the war and to really move forward towards winning this war, megyn. megyn: mike, the president made new comments on afghanistan. what's he saying about it now? >> reporter: that's right. he did an interview with australian broadcasting. he is expected to go to australia next month. he said we can not be in afghanistan in perpetuity. so he said it is still his intention by summer of 2011, next summer to start looking at withdrawing some american troops from afghanistan. australia has been a key contributor in the war in

afghanistan. so, one would expect that that would be a topic to come up when president obama does travel to australia, megyn. megyn: mike, thanks so much. folks he has gotten a lot of support from the tea party movement. now a new poll puts republican texas congressman ron paul essentially in a dead-heat with president obama in a hypothetical 2012 presidential race. and guess what? congressman paul joins us live on this broadcast today. and, america's manned space program reaches the end of an era. president obama says a new dawn of exploration is set to begin. astronauts across the board have mixed reactions and what does it mean for our next generation? all those kids who want to grow up to become an astronaut? we'll speak with a space pioneer, next. >> roger. m most calcium supplements... aren't absorbed properly unless taken with food. he recommended citracal. it's different -- it's calcium citrate, so it can be absorbed with or without food.

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pictures. would you look at that! look at that. this, huge plumes of black smoke. this is from iceland's erupting volcano, shooting 55,000 feet into the sky. bringing air traffic to a standstill across europe. look at this. you can see why. would you want to fly in that? airports are shut down in the u.k., ireland, france, sweden, denmark, norway. this is unbelievable. this looks like bigger than any explosion you can imagine. one scientist in iceland quoted as saying the thick cloud of volume canic ash could cause scattered disruptions in air travel, for days, even weeks to come. we'll have a live report on this just a bit later. wow!. speaking of outer space, we are awaiting president obama right now. he is is at cape canaveral where he is expected to make remarks in just a few minutes about his new strategy for the space program. there is a lot of uproar

about the administration's planned changes. critics like some of our very top astronaut, accuse the president of dismantling the space program. the white house says, that's unfair. we're going to be joined now by dr. mae jamison, the first african-american woman in space and national spokes women for making science make sense program. thanks for being here. this is so cool. you've gone up into space many years ago. you went up there for the first time i think it was endeavour, september of 1992. here is a picture of you. let's start with this. >> okay. megyn: what exactly, in your understanding is the president getting rid of that astronauts find objectionable? >> okay. well, let's put it this way. i don't think all astronauts have a problem with the program. i'm very much behind the program that president obama put into place. if we look what's happening we're starting with a set of givens where the space shuttle program was actually

set to retire a number of years ago. so that has been in work and in action. in fact this program extends it such that we go into 2011 to be able to complete the space station. one of the concerns that people have is whether or not we're going to be able to have a continuous presence in space. the continued capability going to space. that was going to be lost regardless of what happened with the president's program. what i think is really exciting about president obama's program is we're saying that we're going to be able to develop some more advanced technologies than we're contemplated with the constellation program which was canceled. talk about building better --. megyn: let me talk to you, dr. scott who are row wits is also an astronaut. he has been up into space four times. he said the president essentially canceling constellation program, including this portion orion we've already put 6 to 8 billion into. and so, no more trips to the moon and no more astronauts

going up into outer space. he used to run the program. >> no, no, no. no, no, no. that's not what is happening. right now we're actually extending the life, president's program actually extends the life of the space station. instead of it being closed down in 2015 as was happening before, it is being extended to at least 2020 and beyond. which means we will have a continuous presence of humans and u.s. astronauts in space all the way through 2020. megyn: don't we need to hitch a ride with the russians if we go up there? >> okay. and we, have to hitch a ride. we have to work with the russians but, remember, this was in works before president obama's plan ever came into place. constellation which was canceled was not going to get us there. was not going to be ready in 2015 or any time before that. megyn: did he not cancel the expeditions to moon? i thought, you tell me, but my understanding from the other astronauts we talked to --

>> let's make sure that we --, make sure we separate cancellation of constellation with astronauts in other bodies. constellation was set of vehicles and approaches to get us to the moon beyond earth orbit. that program has been canceled but the commitment to human spaceflight is still there it is still there from the perspective we're looking better technologies to do heavy lift launches we need to get to the moon and mars and other places. it is still there because we're doing research and humans we need to get there. it is importance of the space program is still there because we're emphasizing again, science literacy, making sure students, understand, there are challenges out there and the united states is committed to meeting them. megyn: don't you think it will be tough to inspire students to join up, for these programs and become, they want to become astronauts. that is what the astronaut told me yesterday. that is the dream.

he was six years old he watched neil armstrong go up there, one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. that inspired him to become a rocket scientist. let me finish the question and then you can respond. he and others, including jim lovell and neil armstrong came out and said the president's move is hurting that. he is all but eliminating that inspiration for little boys and girls. your response. >> no. absolutely not. when you look at it, i grew up during the apollo era again. i wanted to go into space and i would have loved to gone into the moon when i was in the space program. however this program does not stop human expansion into space. we have to understand, that kids, not every kid who is interested in space exploration wants to be an astronaut on a vehicle. that inspiration comes from many different places. this program continues human expansion. say one of the things we want to tie in this whole idea, as you see, there is continuous commitment to space exploration, which

includes an optimal balance between robotic missions and humans on missions. megyn: how are we going to get up there? how are we going to get up there? >> right now, again, be careful between making a difference between constellation being canceled and not having capacity to get up there. constellation wasn't getting us up there. it was relying constellation program also relied on russians to go up. what this program does is say, let's build better vehicles. so there is commitment to build additional heavy launch vehicles and make a decision on that 2015 after we explored new technologies, not looking over our shoeled saying glory days of nasa were back in apollo and we'll brush off a polly era technology, spruce it up and make it into something new. let's do something unique. think about different kind of vehicles better propulsion systems. megyn: got it. >> that is beauty of doing science and space exploration. megyn: i got to go. thanks for coming on.

two opposing views. one yesterday, and a different side today. all the best, doctor, thanks for being here. she took her own life after relentless bullying at school. six teens face charges in connection with her death. wait until you see what happened at first school board meeting since phoebe prince committed suicide. >> you need to whole officials who could have stepped in and stopped this at any time along the way responsible. >> unfortunately the school administrators did not learn of bullying by a second group of students until after phoebe's death.

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megyn: new fallout in the case of a teenager who took her own life after being bullied by fellow students relentlessly. emotions were running high

last night at first school committee meeting since 15-year-old phoebe prince committed suicide. look what happened. one man told to leave the meeting after calling for the committee chairman, principal, superintendent, all of them to step down. >> first amendment right. >> this is not your first amendment right. you are here as a guest of the school committee. and if your first amendment to go outside on streets and talk to whoever wants to talk to you. please leave. megyn: the chairman did in fact announce he will give up his leadership post. but says it has nothing to do with phoebe east suicide. he will remain on the committee. school officials under fire after allegations surfaced they did not do enough to protect phoebe from the bullying much of which took place on the school grounds and was, raised with school administrators. six classmates have been charged with serious crimes related to her death. well this is it. it is april 15th.

today's the day. you got till midnight. if you haven't mailed your tax return yet you better get on it. all week we're keeping an eye on your money for you. today we're looking at two proposed multibillion-dollar government programs and how much each one would cost you personally. maybe it will become a line item on your tax return. william la jeunesse is doing all the math. thank god, william, because i'm not a math afficionado. >> reporter: i actually like it. about a year ago, president obama announced to go through the budget page by page and line by line to cut out waste. here are two of the programs. 17 cargo plane as megyn talked about earlier the nasa program to put men on the moon. the calculator that we developed on "fox news".com cost what is each project costs you. you can judge for yourself. how does what you earn effect how you vote? considering almost half the country doesn't pay taxes. consider this graph. top 1% of taxpayers, those earning over $390,000, pay

the same tax, share the same income tax burden, as those in the lowest 95%, those earning, under 150,000. according to the tax foundation. >> last year, washington paid out more than $70 billion in refundable tax credits to individuals who had either no income tax liability or just a small one. so those people look at april 15th as payday rather than tax day. >> reporter: whether you pay a lot or a little no one wants to waste money. take the c-17 transport plane. it is one of 126 programs, targeted by the president for termination or reduction in the 2011 budget. last year congress refused to kill the purchase of 10 more c 1s, mostly to save jobs. but this year the president will try again. now it is your turn to tell congress what you want. go to this taxpayer calculator on foxnews.com where you can vote. do you want to save $2.5

billion by ending production of this plane? the pentagon says it doesn't want or need. or potentially save jobs of thousands of workers who build these planes in 42 states? we crunched numbers to give you an example to find out how much it costs you. so if you earn 15 grand the planes will cost you about a dollar. if you make between 200 and 250,000 grand, the planes will cost you about $70. right now up on our web site we have eight different federal programs that you can look at and how much you're paying for. some are under congressional consideration as new expenditures and others, megyn are on the chopping block. so now we're getting you involved in what congress is doing with your money. megyn: all right. i have to go back to that first graph you put up saying that the people who earn over $390,000 a year share the same income tax burden by those who are in the lowest earning group? >> reporter: bottom 95%. they both pay about $450

billion in taxes. roughly equal. and it has been closing. megyn: how can that be? i thought lowest earning group doesn't pay income taxes at all? >> reporter: lowest 95%. 4% don't pay taxes at all. megyn: right. >> reporter: looking from 47 and beyond. megyn: not just people who earn almost 400,000 a year. people who earn much less are shouldering tax burden as well? >> reporter: sure. megyn: i was told there would be no math and go over this with the producers. thanks, william. >> reporter: right. megyn: when i got to high school, 10th grade take intensive mat or intensive language. and well new developments today from a police beating caught on tape. the video cops subduing a college student initially charged with assaulting a police officer and disorderly conduct. the in other words the police charged the kid. those charges are have been dropped. not until the video came out. now fallout for officers who swung those billy clubs is

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pass judgment on the overhaul health care law, and troubled automaker toyota is conducting safety tests on its luxury suv, the move coming after consumer reports magazine issued a don't buy warning about the 2010 lexus. plus at least nine people are dead, 75 injured in burma, now known as myanmar after three bombs ripped through the city of yongon. authorities still don't know who was behind those blasts. well, here in this country, there are no delays for the tea party express. right now hundreds of rallies taking place across the united states, and they come on the biggest day for this young political movement. tax day. april 15th. meantime, a new poll puts one figure popular with tea partyers virtually neck and neck with president obama, a survey by rasmussen finds

president obama has a one percentage point edge over republican texas congressman ron paul in a hypothetical 2012 race. as you probably know congressman ron paul ran for the republican nomination in 2008. joining me now is congressman paul. what do you think of that, one point behind the president? >> well, a small victory, i guess, but not too much to think about. we'll have to wait and see what that means. but i was fascinated with it, and it goes to show that there's a lot of frustration out there, especially with independents and also some democrats, because i argue the case for limited government, even when obama pretends he's no limited government on civil lights and maybe a less aggressive war, he doesn't pursue those issues, so i think it's interesting, i hope it has significance, but right now i think it's a little premature to put too much stake on this. megyn: we all watched you during the primary process last presidential election and you had a libertarian

message back then, you believe in limited government and you argue that on virtually every point and nonetheless it didn't seem to resonate that much with the voters at the time. do you think that given what we've seen in this country since then that you will have a better shot if you decide to give it another go come 2012? >> well, at least the message is going to have a better shot because i think the message is spreading, because i think the attention that libertarian message came about after the financial crisis hit because that's what i had been talking about the most, was the financial problems that we face and the difficulty we have with this decifit and the bubble that we have, and i thought it probably would fade, any interest in what i was doing after the campaign but actually the interest has grown. i think it's the problems we face and people are realizing the government is inept, they're not capable of delivering what they promised, and how can the message of freedom not grow in strength? the people need something, they need gleght dollars that issue, and now when

it's offered to them, they say yeah, it makes a whole lot of sense because we can't depend upon borrowing money from china for our prosperity. they know we're going to have to go back to work and pay these bills. it's a very attractive message. megyn: those principles are embodied by the tea party movement, we've seen it on the signs and when they interview and give the rallies but not just the tea partyers feeling this way, we saw up in the -- we saw in the leadership to the health care legislation, that legislation, as you know and the country knows by now, the lawmakers pushed it through, the democrats were determined to push it through, so as the tea party movement grows and push for limited government grows, does it matter if that disconnect between what the people want and what the lawmakers do continues? >> well, at least we have something we can do about it and that's elections. there's a lot of frustration in this country and loss of liberty but if people want to stand up and do something

and work for shg, i think the massachusetts in -- the election in massachusetts, who would have dreamed a republican supported by the tea party movement could win in massachusetts? something significant is going on. we still have that option. so when the american people speak out, they can bring changes to washington. most of the time they're speaking out for more government, they've been so com place apartment, we've been rich and we could borrow and that's coming to an end. now the people have to speak out and they are, that's what the grassroots movement is about. the party is one part of it but there are others upset and i think that "rasmussen poll" showed just the average independent is looking for something different. so i think we live in very interesting times, and i think they're very healthy and there's no reason in the world why we can't present the case for constitutional government, personal liberty, free market economics, and for me, a more sensible foreign policy. megyn: congressman paul, do you think getting the

tentacles that government has placed into our lives out, on a go forward basis? in other words, are we just stuck with the massive entitlement programs that we have now, from social security, to medicare, medicaid, now the health care overhaul, government running some of the auto industry, government, you know, pushing on the banks and so on, is that just the way it's going to be? >> i think so, for a while longer, even though the growing resentment is there and something has to be done, but i think we'll get more help in the fall, but we're not going to all of the sudden have a majority who's going to vote and abolish some of these programs because politically, it's just so difficult. but i think what will happen is the bankruptcy will bring it to an end. think of the soviet system, it was a military empire but it ended without fighting them, they ended for economic reasons. our system is not like the soviet system but economically it's deeply flawed, it's built on a welfare system and debt. when the government can't

take care of the people it's promised to take care of, they will act on their own. that's when more independence in the states will occur, you talk about null fication and tenth amendment movement, that means the people are getting ready, just leave me alone, i'll take care of myself and i think that's very healthy. so i think it's going to be the collapse of the dollar system and our bond market and rapid inflation that will drive people to self-reliance and hopefully we can do that peacefully and have a transition and very simply, all we need to do is follow our constitution and that's the kind of government we would have. megyn: before i let you go, what is the singlemost important change you would like to see in this country to get us back on what you consider to be the right track? >> that is to emphasize the issue of liberty. the purpose of all political actions should be the protection of liberty. with the confidence that when you have a free society and make free choices you can have the most prosperous society.

then if you want to have people strive for excellence and the best way to do that is get the government out. you can't improve peoples' attitudes and their perspective on society by force. so this is what we need. we need the confidence that we once had in a free society where people can take care of themselves. the goal of all political action should be to promote liberty. megyn: are we going to see you on the ticket again in 2012, sir? >> no way of knowing that at this point because i don't know. no plans made. manager mig all right, we'll be watching, congressman ron paul, always a pleasure. >> thank you. mig folks, it is the story that oprah may not want you to read, a bee graphoo a biography penned by kitty kelly, chock full of things you didn't know about the woman on the right, the day of -- the queen of daytime tv. it's live about the page

turner that won't likely turn up in oprah's book club. there she was eating at the old country buffet when her six-month-old son got hungry, too. what happens next lands her on the docket in kelly's court, next. >> i was frustrate -- frustrated, i felt violated. >> this was pretty much where it was in the restaurant. >> if they don't like the breast feeding, they can put a blanket over their own head.

megyn: kelly's court is back in session, on the docket today, breast milk on the machine u at america's home office for grease and glutny, 24-year-old bethany morton claiming she got kicked out of the old country buffet in maplewood, minnesota all because she whipped out a breast and started nursing her son behind a booth. >> it's not against the law for me to breast feed and you can't make me put a blanket over it and she said that i had to, and i asked to speak to the manager. megyn: morton said the manager then told her cover up or else.

she refused and then the restaurant called the cops. she was asked to leave, and now the all you can eat palace is saying it was her irate fiance that got them the buffet boot. since then, there's been a nurse in and on and -- on and on it goes. let's ask our panel, mark and kimberly, here we go again, an argument between a breast feeding mother and a restaurant or a starbucks or in certain name, a corporate defendant here, who says they have the right to ask for a little modesty. did they, mark? >> i think they did. listen, i'm all in favor of defending women's rights to breast feed, we breast fed our children successfully but my wife used something that some women don't, it's called discretion and is it the right of a restaurant owner to request, is there a way to enforce your right, allowing you to breast feed

in our establishment but in a more discreet manner because little johnny is no longer interested in eating his chocolate sundae. by them asking that, that's okay. where they went wrong was husband, fiance, boyfriend, yelling and screaming and using profanity. that's where they lost it. >> that's what the restaurant says is the reason they were kicked out but kim, the law is on the mother's side. >> absolutely, they didn't do anything wrong and what's happening here is the restaurant and manager are trying to cover their -- not the boobs but their butt, by saying that he went all psycho about the breast milk situation. she actually was doing what she has every right to do. minnesota, like 44 other states, say breast feeding is permitted, whether in a public or private place. megyn: and that you don't have to cover up, it says. >> and you don't have to cover it up. she had no obligation whatsoever to cover her child's head with a blanket. you know, anybody who's had kids and breath fed, mark, you haven't -- breast

federal, they don't like that, they don't like to make a human tent, it's uncomfortable, disrupts the feeding proesand she wasn't in the main dining room. when they told her to cover up, that's what it went wrong, then the police chased after her, stopping short of -- short of tasering her. megyn: by the way, he had the helmet because he had a flat head, poor little guy. the children, she says that's what it looks like, you can't see the boob, you see them more on the naughty films they parade an on television. she says the kid didn't like it, the food hider, they call it! >> obviously it hinges on the fact, and i don't want my precious off spring to feel like they're suffocated either but there has to be discretion. if you boy the kim kimberly route, what she's suggesting is a woman could walk around the restaurant with both -- both generate milk, and apparently you could walk

around, literally, as long as you have a baby. if you have a baby, you don't get arrested. if you have a man saying can i have a side dish, cream corn, and that's where the problem is. >> look, it's fine, it'slena, but i don't want your brett milk near my burrito! >> this is getting a little suspicious. megyn: if you're in manhattan and interested in more information, go to the upper breast side! >> once again, mark is getting out of control or a little slightly mentally ill, we're not sure which. >> like the husband did! like the breast feeding husband did! >> ha ha. no one is going to walk around in a bikini, topless. that doesn't happen, mark. be reasonable! this woman was trying to be discreet, she was acting well within her rights, the restaurant didn't like it, so they weren't 1000 percent informed by the law, they didn't handle it right from

a customer service perspective, then they tried to cover it by calling the cops and saying he's going mental. megyn: there's a lot of pressure on mothers to breast feed their baby, then as soon as you do it, the kid is cry, you're trying not to spare the restaurants the screams, and they say we want you to do it the way you want to -- we want you to do it. >> you got to be discreet. apparently in mother and others like it don't want to adhere to discretion and that's where i draw the line. megyn: i don't know. i will say i breast fed buy baby but i use used the tent, the hooter hider. okay, mark, kimberly, thank you very much. one word for viewes, i'm all for modesty when breast feeding, i am, but the law in minnesota says you don't have to cover it, so the restaurant is out of line. however you feel, it really is odd how we have sexualized the breast where we feel uncomfortable using

it as god intended us to use it but don't mind when it's on girls gone wild.

mig new developments on the adoption case sparking tenses -- tensions between once cold war enemies. there's been no suspension of adoption children by americans. previous reports out of russia suggested a freeze had been put on thousands of cases. the controversy starting after a tennessee woman sent her seven-year-old adopted son back to moscow, alone on a plane, with a note, saying that he had severe psychological issues. dana lewis, streaming live from moscow with this one. hi dana. >> reporter: hi megyn.

it's not often you get the state department and the ministry contradicting each other. there has been no suspension of adoptions from russia, we checked with the foreign ministry and they say they stand by what they said, there is a suspicion. all of this is over the little boy sent back to russia, eight months after being adopted by his mother in tennessee, she said he was psychotic, authorities call it a callous case of return to sender and are freezing adoptions. there are hundreds of american families that have been thrown into limbo with this announce men. here's the announcement earlier today, russia's foreign minister, mr. enko, indicating russia is now insisting there be an agreement with the u.s. to guarantee the safety of children and until there is, adoptions are suspended. this is what he said earlier today. >> the adoption of russian children by u.s. citizens, which is now suspended, will be possible in the future

only if such an agreement is reached. >> reporter: megyn, what they're saying is the u.s. state department will send a high level delegation early next week, sit with the russians on tuesday and they hope to get an agreement going and adoptions underway. a lot of people in limbo because of this announcement. megyn: that's affecting a lot of parents. thank you very much, dana. april 15th is today and it's a dubious day across america because the tax man com either from coast to coast. neil cavuto also com either, live from the atlanta tea party, next. and the woman who wrote a shocking, unauthorized biography that oprah probably doesn't want you to read. kitty kelly joins us live, kitty kelly joins us live, next hour.[ crowd cheering ] [ male announcer ] competition... it pushes us to work harder. to be better. to win. but sometimes even rivals realize they share a common goal.

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megyn: a fox news alert. this is the day of the tax man and in some places the tea party. welcome, i'm megyn kelly.

while millions of americans are sending in their taxes today, thousands have converged on cities big and small across the country to protest. how effective with the tea party be in the upcoming election. >> reporter: it's hard to say. but they played a big role in massachusetts where scott brown's victory was in some measure attributed to the tea party movement. but they didn't help in the new york state 23rd congressional district. there is no doubt the energy that was here in freedom square a few hours ago and will be repro dmiewsd a short while over the george washington man amount will have an effect on the campaign. republicans are poised to win, 20, 25, 30 seats in the house.

it's certainly responsible already for the fact that republicans are well on their way toward knocking on the door and perhaps take back the majority of the house and senate. megyn: it doesn't look like there are a lot of people there. >> reporter: it's quieted down now. when you talk about the tea party movement. there is a whole bunch of different factions and organizations. the tea party express goes around the country. they started this 21-day odyssey in nevada. they started it in the hometown of harry reid. if you look at that. that's almost a roadmap of battleground states. the democrats who vote for healthcare reform find themselves vulnerable. you can see along their route a lot of states and campaigns where democrats actually voted against the obama healthcare

reform proposal and as a consequence have alienated themselves from their democratic base. they have been to 23 different states and 45 different cities to culminate today. it's a loud and boisterous group they are harnessing the energy they created across the country and they are take to it election day. there is one group about new group development. and there is another that does the conventions. megyn: we covered in the leadup to this event that some people who don't like the tea partyers would infiltrate these rallies and hold up signs that not reflect well on the tea partyers. what did you see? >> reporter: there has been serious talk and reporting, now a teacher in oregon has been

discovered to haved a row kaitd on his webpage -- to have advocated on his webpage that they should act out and try to embarrass the tea party movement as imposters conducting the worst and most inappropriate behavior they can imagine. that teacher in oregon is getting a lot of heat from his community as a consequence of this webpage. there was a counter protest here. it was democrats that hard with a big banner saying 95% of americans will get a tax cut from obama. it's been a classic example of american activism. they are raising hell. they are angry. but doing so peacefully. the protesters coming here trying to make their case. none of the inappropriate stuff some folks thought about and

perhaps that's the consequence. the folks who were going to try to make trouble got caught. the people who do get rowdy at these rallies are behaving themselves. there is a lot of outrage with way it's costing us with our tax returns come midnight. megyn: it reminds me of my husband's birthday two years ago. i put a little sparkle on the clay thing. look at this. if you are not in front of your tv look at this. thick clouds of volcanic ash forcing the cancellation of thousands of flights stranding passengers act continent and here in the united states. even interrupting military flights in and out of afghanistan. the volcano erupting in iceland

blog ash into the atmosphere. amy, what are you seeing there? can anybody fly? >> reporter: first of all, it's surreal people are saying. look at this day. it's one of the clearest days we have had in the u.k. in a long time. we see no evidence of this cloud. it's miles above us. also people are used to dealing with strikes, they are used to dealing with terror threats, a whole host disruptions, but no one ever heard of flights being ground and air space being closed for a volcanic ash disruption. at 8:00 tonight we'll have a better read on when the british airports will open back up. it won't be before 7:00 tomorrow morning for sure. this is just causing massive disruption because it's not just u.s. it's france, some of the nordic countries.

it's all blown this way. but as you mend some transatlantic flights have been affected. it's quite a big problem for the airlines to deal with. we are standing by for updates. this is dangerous matter up there that can clog engines and cause them to stop midnight which is a very dangerous situation as you can well imagine. megyn: how bizarre to see so clear on the ground and yet we seat pictures from up above. amy kellogg watching the blue skies. megyn: an investigation into sarah palin's speech at a fundraiser. she agreed to help the school raise money. now the california state attorney general jerry brown is launching an investigation. he wants to know about these financial arrangements and he wants to know how a draft of

palin's speak contract wound up in the trash when the university said it didn't have any information on that contract. some say the documents were dumped to hide them. the school says they were stolen. on and on it goes. so not you attorney general is involved and the question is is this about politics? the president of the california state university stanislaus foundation, that's the group that hired palin. matt, thanks for being here. wow, bet you didn't expect the attorney general to get involved. state lawmakers to get involved. groups across the country watching this to find out how much sarah palin is going to make when she comes out to give a speech to try to help your university. >> thank you, megyn. it's great to be here. when you say the word sarah palin you know there will be some excitement. but we did not know we would

have this much excitement. megyn: people want to know how much she is getting. you said that's private. she has a speaking contract that requires confidentiality. then someone found the contract in the university trash they say. they are accusing the university hiding the document, lying about the document. what do you say? >> there has never been anyone making a representation that we don't have the contract. we have the contract. we signed the contract. and it's a very generic common contract. and all contracts with the washington speaker's bureau are confidential. at the same time, i haven't physically seen the documents. i have seen them on the web. that is a draft of an earlier revision. that is not indeed the contract. we are concerned about where

that contract or where those documents came from. and there is an investigation into that as well. megyn: some students went dumpster diving. now the school is saying we believe it was stolen out of an administrator's office. the student denies that. the bottom line, do you think that this is political? do you think you are getting pinched by the attorney general and others because it's palin? >> absolutely. this is absolutely political. i want to say that our foundation operates under the auxiliary of the california state university. the auxiliary was voted in by the california state legislature to do exactly what we are doing. it's been doing it for decades. and as recently as two years ago the court of appeals upheld our ability to have confidential documents. megyn: jerry browns saying you

are a state university. what's to hide is their point. if there is nothing to hide. why not go to the washington speaker's bureau and go to palin and say can we disclose it because it's a public university and we are getting a lot of pushback. >> i understand that. we have the contract. and it was something within our legal bounds to do. and once we enter into an agreement, megyn, you know you need to honor a contract that you signed. that's our position. this contract will be -- megyn: are you still going to have her speak? >> absolutely. the community at large and up and down the state -- the press is beyond belief, but it's been tremendous for our fundraising. and that's what we are here to do. we are in difficult economic times. in the california state university system and the state at large we are trying to fill the gap financially for students

in services on this campus. megyn: you don't have to tell me what was in the contract. when sarah palin takes to the lectern will there be water on that lectern with bendy straws? >> i think there will be water on the lectern with bendy straws. >> we have got to the bottom of that. thanks for the update. by the way, the leaked copy of the contract talked about how palin wanted to fly first class, man the absence of that wanted a lear jet. and wanted water with bendy straws. one wrong movant roof of your mouth out. a brand-new tell-all book about the queen of talk. the author kitty kelley here live on "america live." she has scoops on oprah wintry. but are we to believe them.

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megyn: shocking revelations in a brand-new back about oprah winfrey. it examines her influence on american culture including politics, a subject oprah vowed to keep off limit until she endorsed then senator obama for path. her endorsement could have won many, many books, but did it cost her her credibility or ratings? this got a lot of interest during last presidential elections to see this woman finally go political. but did it cost her in terms of ratings?

>> it did cost her a lot in terms of ratings. about it also cost her in terms of credibility. she is still number one. she is still the number one rated talk show. but it was a place where conservative women, moderate women could go without a political agenda. for many years she stayed away from politics. i interviewed senator robert dole an wanted to get on when he was running against clinton and he under why she said yes at first, then she backed off. she was frightened about getting into politics. but then when he wrote his memoir which is very moving. she wouldn't have him on. i said why? and he said, what's wrong with you? i'm a republican. i said, do you really believe that? he said yes. megyn: you talk a lot about her

political activity and you talk about the woman. we feel as if we know oprah. she is very open about her life or at least was for most her career. one thing that caught my attention, and maybe i'm just not up to date. is questions about her sexuality. what do you base that on? >> oprah has made her sex at an area of speckd -- made herb sexuality an area of speculation. when ellen decided to come out as a lesbian and she had oprah be the therapist. oprah's audience was very, very upset. she asked her a lot of questions. she said, i'm not a lesbian, i'm not gay, i'm not in the closet and i'm not coming out. it took a lot of people by surprise because it wasn't on anybody's mind. but the fact that she has been

engaged since 1992 which has been 18 years, and she does have a friendship that everybody is poking fun at, that's why the speculation arises. i don't think she is lesbian at all. i don't think she is having an affair with gail. i think she had a strong band with stedman graham. megyn: she referred herself in the third person saying oprah doesn't do stairs. i read about the lavish spending. you could do this to anybody. you could go and do this to me. you could find people in my life who don't think much of me and they will tell you stories that may or may not be true and i don't comment to you because i don't want to fuel that fire and it winds up in a book and everybody takes it as fact. maybe she was joke. maybe she does just have a nice

friendship with gail. it just seems like are we really getting the full picture? >> we are getting the full picture because i interviewed over 800 people to do this. most of the sources in the book are on the record from phil donohue. if you go from her childhood and talk to members of her family, relatives, her aunt catherine. high school interview, college classmates. the biggest source of information in this book is oprah herself because she has given so many interviews over the years. and i collect every single one. megyn: you make it point that she changed a lot from when she first started. how? >> like you just said. the lavish spending. the immense wealth has sort of removed her from her audience. the chicago reporters who cover call it the dawn of the diva.

and the woman hat was once so -- the woman that was once so open and accessible is now rather removed. she has gotten distrusting. megyn: it happens a lot when people achieve that sort of fame. they get more closed up because they are a bigger target. when you have $4.2 billion you don't want to do anything to jeopardize that and you don't feel the need to talk to the press. >> oprah sees herself as a brand now. she doesn't want to do anything that she really cannot control. megyn: the bottom line you walked away with -- are you a fan? >> i'm not one of those crazy fans, but i admire her and i like her. this is after four years of investigating her life. megyn: i think a lot of people feel the same. it is a page turner. thanks so much. we appreciate it. folks, we would love to know what you think. head over to our web site

foxnews.com/americalive and vote on our quest day. will you be reading kitty kel yims new -- kitty kelley's new book on oprah? the video takes your breath away. a college student beaten to the ground by police officers. today there are new details on what might happen to the police caught on this tape. and rich, poor or middle class, who is paying what on this tax day? we looked into the numbers and you may be surprised what we found. 

megyn: fox news alert. this just coming in from the state of wisconsin.

former republican governor tommy thompson says he will not run for the u.s. senate in the fall. there had been speculation would decide to challenge democrat russ feingold. but thompson said he will not enter the race, saying the party needs new faces which means according to many political watchers that feingold looks to be in good shape ahead of election day. we are on it, more as we get it. did send in your taxes yet? you always get nervous when it's tax day. but one thing is true for everybody. your taxes are technically due. one thing that is not the same for all of us is how much each us is paying or getting back. on this tax day we'll break down who is paying what to the government so you know where you fall. jim angle did the math for us. let's start -- who pays taxes and who doesn't?

>> reporter: well, 140 millions slog through those final hours they will find almost half of them, about 67 million will owe no tax at all because wealthier are paying more and more of the total u.s. taxes than ever before. as a result of the bush tax kits the top 20% pay 86% of all income taxes up from 80% before. wealthier taxpayers are picking up more and more of the income tax burden than ever before. >> the top 5% of earners in this country earn. % of all the income but pay 60% of all the federal income taxes. the bottom 50% of earners earn 12% of all the income but pay 3%. all the taxes. >> reporter: meaning the top 50% pay a record 97% of income

taxes. megyn: that makes the system more progressive. more favorable to those who earn less. but is that a good thing? >> reporter: some worry about that. having that many americans off the tax rolls whether it's a good idea. >> it's democratically dangerous to have a country where a majority can vote for policies that just apply to the minority. >> folks ought to pay something or else they think government is free and they start voting for everything. >> reporter: others argue people. all income levels are concerned about deficits, whether they pay income taxes or not. >> i don't think polling data supports the idea these people say, jea, i'm in -- say i'm in favor of higher spending. >> reporter: they do pay social security and medicare

taxes though they get something in return for that. there is also an odd thing in polling about taxes. one shows 69% of americans chose 20% as the maximum tax rate anyone should pay. of course, the maximum today is 35% and under president obama it will go up to almost 40%. that suggests the tolerance for higher taxes is pretty low. megyn: what is rich? when we talk about the rich paying all the taxes, what is that? >> reporter: almost no one who makes $50,000 or less should be paying anything. if you have child tax credits and you have children and you take advantage of several tax credits you are not going to pay anything. there are a lot of people on the lower end of the income scale who make a profit off the income tax system. they get what in washington parlance are refundable tax credits which means you get a

check even if you didn't pay any taxes. some people get money they never paid in taxes at any point. so for anyone under 50, you are probably not paying any tax or at least not much at least in income taxes. megyn: thanks, jim. if you want to see how those numbers break down or if you want to show them to somebody else, it's posted for you on our web site. it's all your money segment. you can look up exactly how much of your money is going to specific government program. and jangle's report is posted under our "speaker's lobby blog." here it is almost 2:30 in the east and we are waiting for president obama to speak at kennedy space center charting his plan for the center. putting the brakes on manned space flight.

happening now, tea parties from coast to coast using tax day to spread their message. we are live with kneel cavuto in one event down in hot-lanta.

megyn: happening right now. president obama is touring a commercial rocket processing facility at kennedy space center down in florida. mr. obama is expected to speak

about the course his administration is chart for nasa and america's future in space. brian, set the scene for us. what is expected to happen? >> reporter: the real question on the minds of many people on the space coast is what is the president's vision for space in the future. is it going to be going to mars? to the moons of mars and to a larger space exploration or is it going to be a lot of research and development that may or may not go anywhere? that's the big question right now. many people are waiting to hear. a lot of people would like to hear what john f. kennedy said in 1962. he said the goal for a nation and 0 a lot of people would like to hear that today. megyn: when do we expect the president? >> he should be here there any

minute. the things that have been laid on the table are finding some favor among the astronaut corps. buzz aldrin is here. he supports it. jim lovell and other astronauts are against it. take a listen. >> it adds up to a lot of philosophical ideas what we may or may not do. everything in that budget is undefined. there is no focus. >> reporter: so in just a few moments we should hear what the president has in mind. i understand he's in the building and things should start in 10 minutes. megyn: for the first time a supreme court justice is speaking out over the mcoverhaul he's predict the highest court in the land will some day rule on the healthcare overhaul.

he says it's a good cad for the court's review. new fallout from a police beating from a university of maryland student that was caught on tape. in prince george's county, maryland, the police department suspending a second police officer who was at this scene. this incident happened after a basketball game last month. but video of the beating surfaced just this week. the cops charged this kid and said he incity gate it and d said he instigated it. now the question is what's going to happen to the police officers. they are investigating this incident. and questioning how these situations need to be handled in the future. >> is there a better way to do it? these are chaotic situations. anybody that's ever been out

there understands the chaos that occurs. you have bottles being thrown at you. fires set. so it's difficult for our officers and we don't want to put the students at risk as well or anybody out there celebrating. megyn: the student is threatening a lawsuit. are you feeling the pain? it's tax day. folks are holding protests all across america. the tea party express descending on washington, d.c. and local tea parties raising their voices in cities and towns from coast to coast. georgia, colorado, wisconsin, iowa, minnesota, alabama, oak, oregon. oak homa. every one is getting in on the action today. neil, what are you seeing so far in terms of who turned up and what the tone is? >> reporter: we are 3 1/2 hours away from the start of this. but i would say a pretty big crowd here already. i think it has more to do the

fact that i'm here. the reality is -- you know, it's interesting. you were mentioning the numbers before. when i was in sacramento last year for one of the first of these rallies, across the country they had half a million. this year the could be in excess of 2 million. a lot more convenient yous and a lot more d a lot more convenient -- a lot more convenient yous and a lot more folks. this is pretty much a good cross-section of america. we'll see a couple people who look like my uncle al, but that's okay. it is real america. these folks are ticked off on this tax day when we are giving more money to the government than on any other tax day, they are ticked off. this isn't a red or white or

blue movement. this is about green, money being wasted. today we are going to be talking to a prominent democrat who had enough of it. an obama supporter. so fair and balanced these people are pretty much ticked. megyn: are they ticked at everybody? you can hear them back up neil's claim. who are they ticked at. we hear most of them lean right on the scale, yet they are displeased with republicans as well as democrats. >> reporter: i remember last year in sacramento we were in the middle of those financial and bank rescues. and the venue there was the state capital where arnold arnold schwarzenegger was run can the show. i said a lot of these folks are telling me they are ticked at

you as well. an was getting booed by this audience. to hear the general media telling it it had to be right wing. by remember as well that it was at at sacramento event all day watching the local news that night covering the same rally i was at all day, and you would think it was a collection for a freak show. it was anything but. but i think all they are trying to do today and all you are seeing in these rallies today with so many people gathered across so many places to protest something that they feel passionate about, i don't care if it's antitax rally or antiwar rally. you cover it. we in the media cannot pick and choose our rallies and cause. this is a big deal. megyn: you mentioned these polls. the latest "new york times" cbs poll tells us about the people you are likely surrounds by.

they are wealthier and more well educated than the general public. and that most identify themselves as republican, white, male, married, older than 45. most crib themselves as conservative and president obama as very liberal and many are more likely to classify themselves as angry. what is the anger you are feeling from folks there. >> reporter: i would take a look at that survey by a grain of salt. it comes 48 hours after a separate "usa today" study found half the meivets so-called tea party movement are independents or non-republicans. so if this is a right ring kabal it has a funny way of showing it. when you see young moms caking their kids out of -- taking their kids out of school, when you see so many interrupt their day to be at an event like this,

it's not some sort of a moment or cause or a lady gaga concert. what it says is these people are ticked not only here, but across the country to break their routine. they are breaking their routine because they are tired of a routine. that's very significant. and it cross all political stripes. that's what's significant. megyn: we'll watch more when you take over at 4:00 p.m. eastern. thanks so much. all the best. before neil, comes studio b's shepard smith. he happens to be here with a preview of his show. >> the president will be speaking in just a little while regarding nasa and the future of nasa and the importance of nasa and all the rest. and as a result we are going to have a nasa veteran come on to explain to us all the things in our daily lives that nasa has brought us.

the list is astounding. and you wonder how developments will happen if nasa is scaled back. all of that unless breaking news changes everything. megyn: is a migration underway in america? people are leaving certain states in droves and it may have something to do with april 15. that's coming up. plus a possible security breach at the nation's top security agency. we'll tell you about the accusations and house involved.

megyn: a little billy joel. how much up pay in taxes depends

on where you live. a lot of people are deciding where they live based on how much they have to pay in taxes. 7 of the 8 states with the most people moving out have the highest state taxes. could it be related? are some states driving people away? pat, people in states like new york like california, like massachusetts are saying we have had it. we are going place like florida and texas where there is no state income tax and we can enjoy our money. >> in massachusetts they move to new hampshire where they have no state income tax. this is a market. people have choices. that's what they want. enough of this. when it gets to a level then you lose productive citizens saying it's not worth staying here and

paying. megyn: what is that level? >> it's when it keeps going up -- megyn: how much does it have to be for people to say enough is enough? federal tax for some people will be $38%. 10% on top of that. >> the states are going after -- because they are so strapped, they are going after soda taxes and tax -- you should have run the beatles "taxman." it's what they are doing. everything. taxing the air. it gets to a point where it's not productive. you look at new jersey which is really grim. how many high incomers got and moved. they take with them jobs and opportunities. the other problem that correlates to this is what we are doing with state employees. this is going to be the issue in 2010.

state employees, the fact that they make more than people who pay taxes and they have better benefits. they are saying don't cut us we shouldn't suffer at all because they have enormous political clout. megyn: is it not true people who are taxed more back in the 60s than they are now, the tax rates were higher. >> now you are dealing with the other problem. yes, it was, that was a product. world war ii. the top tax bracket was 92%. and we had a bigger middle class. megyn: you only got to keep 7% of what you earned? >> if you were a millionaire. that's what president kennedy went after, to cut that. problem is what you are getting for it. so many people believe the government does not function for them. that it's wasting their money

and putting the country so in debt they are paying taxesn and on getting further in the hole. the thing driving the tax revolt is much bigger it's a sense we are losing control of our country and our children will not have a future as good as ours. that violates everything america is about. megyn: the "new york times" poll supports that. that's what it says. >> i'm saying once you start there you work to two things. people are saying the makeup of this country's dna is we take responsibility. people want control. that's why you are having the -- megyn: they want a better life for their kids. >> this country will not go into that good night of decline. megyn: coming up its mission is to protect the nation from our enemy. the national security agency. now we are learning a former high-ranking executive has been

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megyn: a breach of the nation's top the security agency. we are learning now that a former high-rank executive at nsa has been charged with leaking top secret information to a reporter for a national newspaper. and it happened more than once. and he had access to highly sensitive and classified information. this man now facing serious potential prison time. catherine herridge with all the details. >> reporter: the nsa is one of the most secretive of the spy agencies. any kind of breach here is very significant. it is in charge of the

intelligence gathering which involves capturing and decoding information including phone calls and internet traffic. according to the indictment thomas drake was a senior executive and the charges include illegally possessing or retaining classified information and then trying to cover it up by shredding or destroying. then he's accused of lying to federal agents in the process. in terms of prison time, a case like this is likely to get a plea deal. but each counting carry up to 10 years. megyn: do we know who the reporter is? >> reporter: we have been able to identify the reporter mentioned in this case. megyn: they are doing a fox news alert because president obama is heading to the lectern. we'll listen in at president obama speaks to this crowd on his new program.

>> i want to thank charles bolton for his extraordinary leadership. i want to recognize dr. buzz aldrin as well who is in the house. [applause] >> four decade ago dozen became a legend and in the four decades since he has been one of america's leading vision airies and authorities on human space flight. few people can claim expertise of buzz and bill and charlie when it comes to space exploration. i have to say that few people are as singularly unimpressed by pair force one as those three.

sure, it many comfortable, but it can't even reach earth orbit. that is a strike contrast to the falcon 9 rocket we just saw on the launch pad that will be tested for the first time in the coming weeks. a couple other acknowledgments i want to make. we have got congresswoman sheila jackson-lee from texas visiting us. [applause] >> a big supporter of the space program. my director office of signs and technology policy, my chief science advisor, john holdren is here. and most of all i want to acknowledge your congresswoman suzanne cosmos. every time i meet with her, including the flight down here, she remind me of how important

our nasa programs are and how important this facility is. she is fighting for every single one of you and for her district and for the jobs in her district. you should know that you have got a great champion in congresswoman cosmos. please give her a rowrched applause. [applause] >> i also want to thank everybody for participating in today's conference. >> here at the kennedy space center we're surrounded by monuments and milestones of those contributions. it was from here nasa launched

mercury, gemini and apollo and shuttle discovery, piloted by charlie bolton, carried the hubble telescope into orbit. in my private office just off the oval, i've got the picture of jupiter from the hubble, so thank you, charlie, for helping decorate my office. it was from here that men and women propelled by sheer nerve and talent pushed the boundaries of humanity. that's the story of nasa and it's a story that started a little more than a half a century ago, far from the space coast in kaz i can stan. from thered the sovie