see you soon. >> bp officials say they're confident, but is there an unseen danger deep in the gulf of mexico? some experts say giant plumes of oil are billowing under water. we'll take you live to the gulf. what kinds of tough questions will supreme court nominee elena kagan face at her confirmation hearing? we will have the tough republican on the judiciary committee, senator jeff sessions joins us live. and harsh criticism for kagan from newt gingrich. he tells fox he wants president obama to withdraw her nomination. i'll talk to chris wallace about his interview with the former house speaker. it's a busy weekend. rickey schroeder on his new military teamed project and a live welcome for the space shuttle atlantis crew at the international space station. america use necessary headquarters live from the nation's headquarters starts right now. bp is taking another crack at

its latest attempt to fix the massive oil spill in the gulf. using a mile long pipe to capture the oil. bp still hopeful despite yesterday's equipment issues that it's latest experiment will work. scientists found huge plumes of oil lurking under the surface of the water there. david lee miller is live in venice, louisiana, with the very latest. hi, david. >> reporter: hi, shannon. the latest developments now, fox cannot independently confirm, but there are reports that bp successfully was able to insert into the riser pipeline that is leaking the oil into the gulf, a tube a mile long. this is the tube that would then channel that oil up to the surface. according to these reports, they have been able to insert the tube, into the pipeline, but they have not yet been able to channel the oil to the surface. they were successful in channeling natural gas and they were able to burn that off. apparently two robotic submarines collided into one

another and disrupted the pipeline and the tube. again, it's hoped they will have another crack at this later today. we were in touch with bp, a spokesman identified as mark operatingler told us he could not confirm or deny these reports. he did say the riser tube operation as this is called, is an ongoing process. he said if there were any significant developments, we would be made aware of them later in the day. as for the plumes of oil that you mentioned, a group of scientists on a research ship, they've been out at the gulf now for two weeks on a research ship called the pelican, have identified what they say are at least three large plumes of oil. we do have now photographs that these scientists have provided. you can see some of the things that they themselves observed in the gulf. the scientists are taking samples and they believe that these large plumes did come from the oil spill, but they have not yet confirmed that. they also say that the oxygen levels in the gulf near the

spill are reduced about 30%. they say while that can be a bad thing for marine life, the positive side here is that it could show there are microbes eating away at the oil. if that's the case, nature is doing its part in cleaning up this massive mess. shannon. >> thank you very much with the latest. the crews of the space shuttle atlantis is getting used to its new home at the international space station. the shuttle docked less than two hours ago. first order of business is to expect a shuttle's 100-foot inspection boom where a cable has gotten snagged. the six astronaut also spend a week at the space station and install a new russian compartment. in 20 minute, the door will be open, there will be a welcome ceremony. we'll take you there live when that happens. when elena kagan appears before the congressional committee, you can bet she'll get tough questions from our next guest. senator jeff sessions is a ranking republican on the judiciary committee. he's been kind enough to join us today. great to see you.

>> thank you. >> you had a meeting with elena kagan. you described her as delightful. what can you tell us about the meeting? >> it was a lot of fun. we had practice long discussion just the two of us. i didn't press her to make commitments on any issue that talked about her history and her approach to things. i thought it was a good discussion. >> let me ask you, there has been criticism of her that she doesn't have enough experience. she hasn't been a judge and some folks are turning that around and saying, well, republicans didn't have a problem when harriette mires was nominated and they're comparing their experience levels. how do you respond? >> compared to sotomayor, her experience level is exceedingly thin. i said at the very beginning, sotomayor had an excellent background, private practice, a prosecutor, atrial judge and an appellate judge. that was president obama's first nomination. the harriette miers had 25 years of law practice and a big firm, full time practice, a leader in the texas bar and experience in

the white house. so it was thin and i made that point at the time. but i've never said and do not believe you have to be a judge, but i am disturbed, frankly, that she has almost no legal experience. she's never tried a case. she's never stood before a jury, examined a witness in a courtroom. that's a lack, i think, that is significant. but not disqualifying, but it's a serious lack. >> we know that we've had some jurists on the bench who haven't been judges prior to that. but i'm guessing your bigger concerns with her have to do with judicial philosophy. >> that's the key thing. i think the american people are upset, they believe that we are ignoring our constitutional order. i hear it all the time. a lot of people pull out their constitution when is they talk to you. they're concerned about it. so we have within the law school s some activist philosophies that are out there that suggest judges can allow

their empathy and president obama said, their feelings, their ideology to influence how they interpret plain words in our laws. i think that's a danger. i think all our liberties are weakened if a judge is not faithful to the law. if they can change the law, the next judge can change the law and the next judge can change the law and it just weakens the protections that our constitution gives every single american. >> one of the issues you've clearly broken with elena kagan on is the issue of military recruiters on campus at harvard law when she was the dean there. they were banned from using the office of career services there at harvard because of her opposition to don't ask don't tell, feeling the military is discriminatory because it wouldn't be recruiting gay students. did you all have is a chance to talk about that? >> a little bit. i do care about that. i was involved in the legislation and the secondary laws that were passed about that to try to deal with this

unbelievable problem that our great universities were denying the military the right to come on campus. it was a long battle. it was controversial even at harvard. when she became dean, they were allowed to come on campus. the law was being enforced. later it was challenged and she at various points unlawfully stopped the military from coming on campus, even though the law was still in force. eventually she filed two briefs attacking the law. one in the supreme court that was rejected 8-0 by the supreme court. and eventually the solomon amendment was upheld and the military could go on campus, but she was an advocate, she was a leader, she looked for the opportunity to pressure the military. the thing that's worrisome, congress and president clinton established this policy. it wasn't the military. yet, they were punishing our military men and women for

something the political branches did. if she want to do complain, let them complain to us. >> are you surprised that she's gotten push back and criticism from both the left and right, so many of them say she has an unknown record in many respects and so we have some folks on the left saying, we don't think she's going to be a great advocate for us and we are concerned. >> i think she does lack a record and i suppose the left could be worried about this nomination. one thing we should give her a full opportunity to do is to explain these issues and i think this hearing, shannon, is pretty significant. she has such a small legal record that can be examined, i think how she testifies is going to be important, the hearing will set a high bar, i think, and she'll have to meet it. >> any hints on a time line for the hearings? >> i told the president and i told her that i thought we could meet his goal, president obama's goal of completing this before august. unless something unusual occurs,

i believe that the hearings can be completed prior to the august recess and we will vote in the senate. >> be another busy summer. always great to have you. >> thank you. >> thank you for your time. the question many are asking ahead of tuesday's primary, will we see another referendum play out? democrats and republicans will be watching three of four senate primaries to see if incumbent prevail. >> the four states will go to the polls on tuesday, but they could end up changing the make-up of congress. the races will give us a real sense of just how frustrated voters are with washington. the close senate races in pennsylvania, arkansas, kentucky are the ones to watch on tuesday. in pennsylvania, arlen specter faces a big challenge from democratic congressman joe sestak. this morning specter defended his decision to switch parties and become a democrat, but sestak said specter needs to go.

>> the republican party is when the stimulus came up and president obama asked me for my support and it looked like we were sliding into a 1929 depression, i sided with president obama. it wasn't my job to be saved. >> these a poster child for what's gone wrong in washington, d.c., a generation of politicians who think they can take a position not based upon conviction or core beliefs, but about their electoral prospect. >> democratic senator blanch lincoln is in jeopardy. she leads in the polls, but could fall short of the majority she needs to avoid a runoff in june. she says she's a target of extremists on the right and the left. halter argued she represents much -- he represents much needed change and in kentucky, it's republicans fighting it out in a race that splits tea party conservatives with establishment republicans, kentucky secretary of state grayson is backed by

washington republicans like senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, but it's rand paul who leads by double digits in the polls there. eventual republican senate nominee in kentucky will face a well funded democrat in the general election. shannon? >> thank you very much for the preview. by the way, fox is your election headquarters. our political team will be live at all three big primaries. i'm heading to arkansas tonight. bret baier hosts a election special, inside campaign 2010. it's a 9:00 o'clock eastern right here on fox. by the way, by way of spoiler, i'll be playing basketball with one of the candidates and i don't play basketball. now to the crisis in southeast asia. the death toll is rising. government crack down of protesters is in effect and tourists are being told stay away from the city capitol in thailand. 30 people have been killed in just the past four days. the government hasn't responded to calls for talks mediated by

the u.n., but called off plans for a curfew. simon is a global radio news correspondent and joins us on the phone with the latest. good day to you, simon. >> good day. >> what can you tell us about the current situation there? >> the latest, the protesters have requested a cease fire and want the u.n. to come in and mediate. the government has actually refused this. they're basically claiming their sovereign right not to have external actors get involved in what they deem is a domestic political issue. the latest tonight is that there are more clashes taking place at a location where the red shirts tried to set up another rally site. i think the reds since yesterday have tried to open up a new zone for their speeches and their protest marches to take place on a highway about two miles away from the current rally site, which the government and the

army is threatening to disperse. since thursday night, an army crackdown has been attempted. they tried to lock down the main protest area, which is a shopping region in the middle of bangkok, a inn a high end shopping mall. that has led to the red shirts in response trying to stop the army encroach on this area. and they set up a new rally zone impromptu on a highway close to where some of the more serious clashes are taking place over the past couple of days. i was there a couple of hours ago and after a bit of gun fire, many of the protests were running down the road and alt streetlights went out. the since then i'm hearing reports that there is gun fire over in that area and it's not clear what's going on. the shut down of the streetlights was seen by the protesters as a prelude to the army moving in and trying to clear that area and prevent what

for them would be a bit of a strategic problem if a new rally site was set up before they could disperse the current one. >> simon giving us the latest. thank you for the update today. >> you're welcome. >> the volcano causing more delays. three airports are closed in northern island and britain impose add no fly zone for part of its air space, all because of another drifting cloud of ash. britain's department of transportation warns that heathrow airport could close at any time over the next few days. adding to the disruptions, british airways employees are threatening to strike on tuesday. asian airlines call ago bomb threat aboard one of its plane has hoax. yesterday canadian fighter jets escorted the plane coming from hong kong to safely land in vancouver. the airline said the aircraft has been cleared by canadian authorities to return home to hong kong. passengers say they were never told that there was a problem. rain and thunderstorms are

threatening parts of the east and tennessee and kentucky could get some more flooding. clearly something they don't need. rick is at the box weather center. hi, rick. >> hey there. after two weeks ago, when we saw all the historic flooding across that area, we do have more rain in the area. really anywhere to the east of the mississippi dealing with heavy showers and thunderstorms. that's where the most humid. that's where we're seeing all of that activity. we'll continue to see it throughout the day. even back again not as heavy across parts of arkansas, missouri. also watching a few thunderstorms into texas. this is going to be this week where we see most of the severe weather go again in and across texas. typical for this time of year and parts of oklahoma and texas. heavy rain across louisiana and towards parts of alabama and today's kind of active weather will be along this front that stalled out. areas of oklahoma and texas seeing the severe weather and flooding concerns right here across tennessee and kentucky. nothing like what we saw, but if you are having to clean up from some of those storms from a

couple weeks ago, more rain that you're going to have to deal with and localized flooding once again today. >> thank you very much. >> this is a fox news alert. authorities are telling fox news that a small plane has crashed into a house in clear water, florida. reports suggest three people were on board the plane. we don't know anything about their condition at this time. but we do know at least one 57-year-old man has been taken to a local hospital. the plane, register to do someone in mexico, apparently took off from the clear water airport. we'll keep you updated on that one. graduating class of washington university had an impresssive commencement speaker. michelle obama. she talked about everything this graduating class lived through, from natural disasters to the recession. >> you all have seen so much just since you were in middle school. you've witnessed terrorism touch our soil, you've seen the cost of war reach into our communities. you've watched unimaginable

devastation and suffering in the aftermath of the tsunami, a hurricane, an earthquake. you've felt the wrath of a recession that has changed your towns and even your families. that's a whole lot to bear for any generation. >> last week the first lady spoke to graduates at the university of arkansas at pine bluff and next month, she will address graduates at a high school right here in washington. a nun called out and reassigned from a catholic hospital because of her involvement in an abortion. that story is ahead. atlantis has docked. we'll take you live to space for a big nasa welcome.

>> this is fox news alert. the international space station is about to welcome in six new visitors. the hatch has opened for the crew of the space shuttle atlantis. this is a welcome ceremony, it will take place and unfold as the hatch has been opened. then the astronauts will get immediately to work preparing for tomorrow's first space walk. on the to do list, install ago russian compartment and fresh batteries. they will spend a week at the space station. you can see them there. we'll listen in. this is live.

>> for almost all of us on board atlantis, we've been here before, but it's bigger than we remember and speaking for myself, better than i remember. i love this place. >> speaking there at the international space station. all right. we'll continue to monitor that. you're looking at that space. the episcopal church consecrated its first woman as its second openly gay woman. the reverend philippe candeloro nonmary -- was ordained yesterday and makes her one of the two female bishops in their history. a catholic nun at st. joseph hess hospital has been reassigned because she allowed a patient to have an abortion whose life was in critical condition. it has drawn criticism from the diocese who said in part, quote,

if a catholic formally cooperate the in the procurement of an abortion, they are automatically excommunicated by that action. the church will continue to defend life and proclaim the evil of abortion. a vice president at the hospital said the abortion was necessary in order to save the life of the mother. the senate could be dan amending the financial overhaul bill as early as next week. supporters fear it will be derailed by the amendment. there are a lot of them. critics say the bill is now incomplete as it stands. "fox business" network correspondent peter barns is here to break it down for us. thanks for your time today. all right. so how close are they to getting this done? >> remember, this is the bill that's designed to help stop those trillion dollars bailouts of the banks. the house finished its version of this bill back in december. and the senate has been working on it for a couple of weeks trying to finish up here this next week, 75 amendments they've been going through. a lot of these are very tough now because of all the populist

anger among voters over the bailouts and the bonuses. i wanted to talk about three amendments that were considered in the senate. let's look at the full screen here. republicans wanted to make it harder in this bill for big banks to get bailed out because they are too big to fail. democrats actually liked this tougher language. that passed overwhelmingly 93 to 5. there are some republicans who also wanted to push the administration to start fixing fannie mae and freddie mac, the housing giants. we dumped $150 billion into them so far. more coming. that amendment, however, failed along a party line vote. finally, republicans wanted to limit this new consumer protection agency. they said we don't need a separate agency. it's an unnecessary bureaucracy and let existing agencies handle stronger consumer protections. but that one failed as well. the administration and democrats saying that this will create stronger consumer protections. but the democrats are ready to wrap up this amendment process. take a listen.

>> we don't have any other provisions in place than we did in the fall of 2008 when the problems exploded in our country. >> this bill reads more like a jurisdictional power grab to some of us than an honest attempt to insure that all the relevant regulators have the information and the authority that they need to do their jobs. >> so the senate will finish up work on this probably this week and then it has to go to a conference committee with the house to come up with a final bill. make no mistake about it, this will be the most significant legislation to crack down on wall street since the great depression. >> i was impressed that you talked about the too big to fail amendment, that they agreed on that. because there is not a lot of bipartisan agreement on anything. >> no one wants to have any kind of -- even a little tiny sliver that there might be more taxpayer bailouts.

another $700 billion tarp. nobody favors that. >> all right. peter, thank you so much for breaking it down in a way we can understand. we appreciate it. >> thanks. >> the u.s. government wants to know exactly how much bp is going to pay to clean up the gulf oil spill and if the containment efforts continue, executives were on capitol hill this week playing the blame game. coming up, we're going to talk to the chairman of the subcommittee that heard it all. congressman bart stupak joins us right after the break.

right now the welcoming ceremony for the crew of the shuttle atlantis is underway. the international space station. you're looking live here. the hatch just opened. shortly astronauts will go to work preparing for tomorrow's first space walk. on the to do list they've got is installing a russian compartment to the international space station and installing six fresh batteries. the crew will spend a week up there before heading back. this is atlantis' final mission.

researchers in the gulf are trying to figure out the scope of the damage caused by the oil spill so far. nicole collins has that and your other top stories. >> researchers say because the oil well is so deep, there are several unknown factors about how bad this spill really is. one researcher suggests the leaking oil has depleted oxygen levels in some areas by as much as 30%. despite setbacks, bp says it's confident its second attempt to use a mile long pipe to capture much of the oil will work. authorities rejecting pleas for talks with protesters and impose ago crack down on parts of the capitol city. so far at least 30 people have been killed in street protests between anti--government demonstrators and troops. senatorially hey and jeff session also meet to decide when hearings for elena kagan will begin. leahy says he expects her to be confirmed this summer. for the 32nd straight year, there is no triple crown winner.

kentucky derby winner super saver finished eighth in the preakness stakes. the winning horse, will you being at lucky, finished sixth at the kentucky derby. shannon, back to you. >> thanks, nicole. this is a fox news alert. detroit police say a 7-year-old girl has been shot by an officer who was searching a home for homicide suspect. it apparently happened after midnight local time there. the officer, quote, had an encounter with someone in he home as he entered and his weapon fired. we don't have any other details at this point. police say they were searching for a suspect and that suspect has since been arrested. but in the meantime, the 7-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed in detroit. u.s. government is demanding clarification from bp over its commitment to pay for costs related to the oil spill. in a letter to bp, obama administration officials said they hoped bp wouldn't try to rely on a statutory cap for costs. bp has said the $75 million cap was irrelevant and the company will pay for all costs and

legitimate claims. mississippi has become the third state to see oil wash up on its coast. beaches in louisiana and alabama have already seen the contamination. as thousands of gallons of oil gushed into the gulf, oil executives took turns pointing the finger on capitol hill. fox's james rosen has a look at the oil spill blame game. >> in the same hearing room where the senate probed the sinking of the titanic, executiveses from the companies faced questions about their companyies' respective roles. >> it's like a bit of a texas two step. oh, yeah, we're responsible, but bp says transocean, transocean says halliburton. so i can see the liability chase that's going to go on. >> no one knows why the deep water well exploded, ailing 11 workers and leaking an estimated 4 million gallons of oil into the gulf of mexico. the witnesses agreed that cement casings and a mechanism called the blowout preventer all failed

in some way in succession or at the same time to do their jobs. halliburton installed the cement casings. the casing was cemented cemented it functioned as expected, this may not have occurred. >> transocean owned the well. >> there was a sudden catastrophic failure of the well. the casing or both. without a failure of one of those elements, the explosion could not have occurred. >> and bp was the well's primary operator. >> why did transocean blowout preventer, the key fail safe mechanism fail to shut in the well and release the rig? >> they vowed bp will pay all costs for losses and damages caused by the spill. >> a harm to the fishing industry, both short-term and long-term, you're going to pay? >> we're going to pay all legitimate claims. >> if it's an impact from business loss, you're going to pay? >> we're going to pay all legitimate claims.

>> across town, the interior secretary announced the agent which overseas offshore drilling will be split into two agencies. >> we will/the american people that they have a strong and independent organization holding energy companies accountable and in compliance with the law of the land. >> that was james rosen reporting. as for the capitol hill finger pointing, president obama said that he did not appreciate the, quote, ridiculous spectacle. somebody who saw it, the chairman of the subcommittee that convened that hearing, he saw the finger pointing firsthand. congressman bart stupak of michigan joins us live on the phone. welcome, congressman. >> good afternoon. >> you have said bp has culture of imcompetence. please explain. >> i'm quoting their own 2007 management report. we've been investigating bp since the 2005 texas city explosion in which 15 people died and 170 were hurt and they run the main oil pipeline for

the united states on the north slope, transalaskaan pipeline. we've had nothing but problems up there for the last two, three years. now we have this explosion in the gulf where, unfortunately, 11 people died and the environmental catastrophe is upon us. it's a culture. their own reports, they indicate that they ignore risk. they accept nonconformance and allow imcompetence. that's their own report. bp even agrees with it. it's a culture of corruption there. >> do you agree with the president's assessment of how they handled the questioning this week, calling it a ridiculous spectacle? >> well, our committee didn't get into much finger pointing because we had areas we want to do talk about. the blowout protecter. i'm the one who brought up the point about the leaky valve because the fittings weren't set. the batteries were dead, the blowout protecter was wired wrong. at the sematics that bp had to work this was different than the protecter that's on the sea

floor with this thing. we went after certain parts of it. we were the committee that actually brought up the point that the cement casing was 1400 pounds per square inch on one side of the casing and then on the other side of the pipe, it was zero, which was a red flag, which should have -- it was two hours before this thing blew up. i think our committee, the oversite investigation subcommittee took a very methodical approach to it. we didn't sit there and they didn't have time to play finger pointing because we had fact, we had figures and their documents, we asked them to explain it. we're getting to the root of this matter. >> do you think in the midst of this tragedy there is any lesson to be gleaned that will help for the future to make sure it doesn't happen again? >> i think the president is on of it when he says we have to break up this mineral management service because they got too cozy with the oil companies. if you're in federal regulator, how can you go on these rigs and look at the sematics and say, they don't match the blowup

protecter, what's going on here? how can you allow people to grill in environmentally sensitive areas and not have them check the batteries, not check loose fittings on the blowout protecter to insure that there is going to be hydraulic pressure? i think the federal regulators were asleep at the switch here. i think they are too cozy with the oil companies. i'm glad they're going to split it up and there will be an enforcement division and a permitting division. >> congressman bart stupak, we thank you for your time on this sunday afternoon. >> thank you. >> critics of arizona's new immigration law are calling for an economic boycott of the state. hear what sarah palin says should be done about that instead. up next.

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this hour. the space shuttle atlantis has docked at the international space station. astronauts are getting to work after the welcoming ceremony. we showed you that live. the six astronauts will spend a week installing six fresh batteries and a new russian compartment. flight controllers had been keeping an eye on a piece of space junk, but it turned out it wasn't a threat. more trouble in the gulf. researchers found large oil plumes 4,000 feet beneath the surface of the water. scientists say there are three or four of these plumes and that at least one of them is ten miles long and a mile wide. they've also noticed 30% drop in oxygen levels in some areas which could harm sea leave for decades to come. tense of thousands people gathered in saint peter's square in rome to show solidarity over the scandal. 68 italian lay groups organized the demonstration which the pope called a beautiful and spontaneous show of faith and solidarity. alaska's former governor, sarah palin, is coming to

current arizona governor republican jan brewer's defense recording the state's new law cracking down on illegal immigration. >> it's time for americans across this great country to stand up and say, we're all arizonans now. and in clear unity we say, mr. president, do your job. secure our border. [ applause ] >> yesterday's event launched a web site that brewer said was an effort to educate america about border security amid increasing calls for a boycott of the state. it requires police responding to potential crimes to ask for proof of citizenship if there is a reasonable suspicion that the person is in the country illegally. convicted felons or illegal immigrants might be going toy shopping for a scary reason. the t.a.b.c. says some toy guns for sale can be easily convertd into real weapons. a fox news.com investigation

explains how all of this works. log on to find out how it's done and the reason the atf is overstepping its authority. coming up with former speaker of the house newt gingrich thinks about president obama's supreme court nominee. my conversation with chris wallace up next.

tough words for the president from former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. he claims president obama is running what he calls a secular socialist machine from the white house. i sat down with chris wallace for a preview of his interview on fox news sunday. a couple of fascinating guests today. let's start with newt gingrich. he's got a new book out and he's using a term about this current administration. no surprise, he's not a fan. but secular socialist machine. wow. >> exactly. i must say that was my reaction when i started reading the book because he's saying, first of all, it's a machine in the sense that like a chicago political machine, they ram things through like the stimulus package, or health care reform. socialist because he feels that they intrude in an inappropriate way into the private sector and secular because he believes there has been a rolling back of

this country's traditional sense of religious values. but he goes further than that and i questioned him about it. i challenge him about it. he says that this machine, secular socialist machine of obama and the democrats is as great a threat to the country as nazi germany and the soviet union and the cold war. that's a strong charge. he backs it up. some people will be outraged. some people will be persuaded. >> you also asked him about one of the big news stories, the nomination of elena kagan to the supreme court. he's the first national figure i heard take such a strong opposition to the point he thinks the president should withdraw her line. that stands in stark contrast to your other special guest, laura bush. >> that's right. gingrich says that her effort to keep the military from recruiting because the don't ask don't tell policy and whether or not that was discriminatory, he says shows she's anti--military and she shouldn't be on the supreme court and is exactly as

you said, he believes the president should withdraw her nomination. we asked laura bush when we interviewed her about her new book in dallas on friday, she said, i think her nomination is great. she didn't go into detail about her legal positions, but as we've known for some time, she's a big supporter of the idea of more women not only on the court, but in public life. >> and she gave you some great inside scoop about life in the white house, the days after 9-11. it's really a harrowing picture that she paints about the life they had to live. >> exactly. two aspects to it. one was the fear and the anxiety and i hadn't really thought it. we were all frightened after 9-11, particularly people who lived in cities that could be targets like washington and new york. but they were living in the white house, which had a big bull's eye. you knew this was the prime target for al-qaeda and she said any time they hear a noise, a plane, that they would be startled and wonder. the other thing she talks about and i think is very powerful is

becoming the wife of a war time president and talk about how she could see the lines crease his face and hear him at night lying awake and thinking about the troops and thinking about strategy and thinking about the decisions he had to make. it just gives you -- takes you inside the white house, inside the president's bedroom into a sense of what life was like during the very tough days for the bushes. >> she also gave you a generous look inside their life now. it's certainly changed. she ribs him about not knowing how to make coffee. but a special look at some photos. >> the first time that she's done -- they've done an interview at their new house in dallas. it isn't the white house, but they're living very well, thank you. >> all right. thank you very much, chris. >> you bet. >> you can catch all of his exclusive conversation with former first lady laura bush on fox news sunday. you'll also see his interview with newt gingrich, today, 6:00 o'clock and 2:00 o'clock first eastern. right here on the fox news

channel. after rickey schroeder has a new reality show in the works. it's not about him, it's about our military. we'll talk to him about his new project and the personal reasons he got involved.

>> great honor to me. 'cause i feel like i'm back in the force and i'm not just one of these guys lost by the wayside. the marine corps, we take care of our own. >> teams compete in multiple sports, like track and field, volleyball, basketball, swimming and archery. >> i think i'm a little overworked right now. i'm going to do okay. >> we believe that physical activity and physical accomplishment in getting back into life is a big part of your recovery. >> in order to be eligible, member the of the service must be wounded or ill. but not all injuries are

apparent. some competing here have traumatic brain injuries or posttraumatic stress. >> we didn't want them to feel stigmatized or left out or that their injuries weren't as significant as others. >> it's a collaborative effort between the department of defense, u.s. olympic committee, uso and others. don't mistake sportsmanship with rolling over. marine lance corporal justin and army sergeant daniel shared war stories and still room to talk smack. >> hands down. way better than this guy. >> i don't want to rub it in or nothing. >> both men lost legs in afghanistan. for them and many others, the fight remains. >> just 'cause of something like that, life doesn't stop. >> he's alive and that's the important thing. he's alive, he's here. that's what it's all about. >> organizers say these war i can't remember athletes are already asking for more events and in the spirit of the olympics, winter games.

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leaking oil into the gulf. so far they have not been successful in being able to channel that oil to the surface. this tube was successful in bringing natural gas to the surface, according to one report, that was then set aflame. now, the problem appears to be on the surface of the ocean, two robotic submarines collided together. this according to one unconfirmed report and that damaged the apparatus below that would bring the oil to the surface. bp says it is working on making this system a successful one and they will attempt again this process later today. we talked to bp a short time ago and asked them to confirm or deny these reports.

science say that they have identified at least three large plumes of oil out in the gulf. the scientists have spent the last two weeks in the gulf aboard a research vessel. one is described as being at least ten miles long and three miles wide. one of the scientists also says that it is possible the chemical agents that are being deployed underseas to disperse the oil could be contributing to this problem. they have taken samples of the water and they expect to have more results in the next few days and weeks. shannon? >> all right, david lee miller, thank you very much for the update there on the ground. three key senate primaries this tuesday are drawing national interest because of what they may say about the country's political climate. julie kirtz is breaking it all down for us. >> the most significant day on the electionle calendar so far

this year. the races in pennsylvania and arkansas and kentucky are the ones to watch for a look at what voters think about incumbents and washington. arlen specter faces a bill challenge from joe sestak. sestak saying specter is a poster child for what is wrong with washington. >> i think it is a race that actually where everybody knows washington is broken. everybody knows that if you are going to still send back to washington, d.c. a career politician that actually would switch his party as he said to keep his job then we are not going to fix the mess we got into by sending him back. >> i have fought the bickering and partisanship in washington. in my tenure in the senate i have voted in an independent way. >> in arkansas, lincoln is pend the days before the election telling voters she has power

and clout in washington and that is a good thing. lincoln is facing heat for his vote on the healthcare bill. her challenger bill halter says lincoln represents the status quo and in kentucky republicans fighting it out in a split between tea party conservatives and establishment republicans. kentucky's secretary of state grayson is backed by republicans like senate majority leader mitch mcconnell but rand paul leads by double figures could be a big day on tuesday and a test of how angry voters are with washington. thank you. >> thank you very much. we'll be watching up a those races on tuesday. >> in is a fox news alert. 7-year-old girl in detroit shot and killed by a police officer. this happened when an officer's gun went off during a struggle with a woman in a house where police were searching for a murder suspect.

officers set off a flash grenade as they entered after midnight with a warrant. was suspect was eventually arrested. now, the shooting is under investigation. the crew of the space shuttle "atlantis" is getting used to their new home. now, that they are docked they plan to take a look at the 100-foot inspection boom where a cable has gotten snagged. the first spacewalk is scheduled for tomorrow. thai authorities are rejecting pleas for talks with protesters. so far, at least 30 people killed in street protests between antigovernment protesters and troops. the clashes are the most prolonged and deadliest bout of political violence thailand has faced in decade. volcano in iceland causing

more flight delays again. some british airspace has just been closed. a no fly zone over parts of northern ireland with no flights getting into three parts there. it has opened and closed several times since the first volcano erupted last month. dutch investigators are hunting through debris crews where a flight crashed, killing all but one of the 104 aboard. one of the people killed was a first responder who died of a heart attack. the sole survivor a nine-year-old dutch boy returned home. that happened yesterday. his aunt and uncle were there to meet him. his parents and older brother died in the crash. cafe pacific is calling a boom threat aboard one of its planes a hoax. yesterday, canadian fighter jets escorted the plane. the airline says the aircraft has been cleared to return home to hong kong. passengers say they never new there was a problem. the senators in charge of

elena kagan's confirmation will meet next week. he agreed that she should be confirmed this summer if she has the votes. nicole is live in washington to tell us more. >> senator leahy said he is waiting for elena kagan to hand in a questionnaire provided by the economyee. he expects to get that in the next day or so and then they will decide on a start date for the hearings. some republicans argue it would be unfair to set a hearing date before they know how much the obama administration will share from the past year at solicitor general and how much will be exposed from her time in the white house. they were asking for the expedited release of records that she created and received while in the clinton administration.

it asks for 160,000-pages to afford the senate a reasonable opportunity to evaluate the nomination. while kagan's writing record is thin, a book review she wrote back in 1995 is shedding light on how she views the confirmation process. they intend to give her what she asked for of questions. >> there is only 100 people who get to vote on this lifetime nominee. we have to represent 300 million americans and so we have to ask good questions as we can to make up our mind just how we are going to vote. >> she has such a small legal record that can be examined. i think how she testifies is going be important. the hearing will set a high bar i think and she will have to meet it. >> elena kagan is expected back on capitol hill this week for more courtesy calls with u.s. senators. during last week's meetings she offered very little in the way

of her judicial philosophy. shannon? >> nicole, thank you very much. the insurgent group that commands al-qaeda in iraq named a new leader to replace a top militant that was killed in april. dominik is streaming live from baghdad with more on the new leader. hi. >> shannon, it appears that al-qaeda has capped off the crowns of its new leadership here in iraq by announcing a chief of the operation here better known as the atlantic state of iraq, that is what the locals call it here and awarded a deputy minister who will act at his deputy. they have the same last name, it doesn't mean to say they are related and this fact that might not be the real names at all to hide their true identities. they are war lords names. it does come 48 hours after al-qaeda named its minister for war here and that man had

pledged there would be rivers of blood and a bloody future ahead for the shia population here in iraq. there has been evidence of that. he said the campaign had actually begun on back on monday we saw 120 people killed in a series of aah dachas attacks the length and breadth of the country and just on friday evening a hideous attack up in the north of the country, a devastating triple suicide bombing on a small community of shia up there. it shows that al-qaeda has the ability but the people believe it has been -- there has been a loss of leadership, has the ability to do the large mass casualty events which is the style of al-qaeda when it chooses to strike here. al-qaeda's hiersrchy isn't really the problem here. today the announced -- they announced results of the final tally of the votes in the baghdad parliamentary seats

staying the same, creating a political vacuum here. we need the government to form a coalition and in order to do that they don't have the political will to do that and that is causing nervousness and frustration and anger amongst the iraqi people and that will increase sectarian pressure, playing into the hands of al-qaeda that wants to return to chaos. back to you. afghan president hamid karzai met with president obama at the white house this week. while they appeared to mend their sometimes strained relationship many wonder what is going to be the role of these two countries. thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> shannon: there was talk that it might not happen. there have been tensions between the two countries. how do you think it went this week? >> when i was watching president obama and president karzai i was thinking can this marriage be saved and probably more importantly can this

strategy be saved because with all the mackinaws and papering over the differences and -- make nice and pledging over the difference and pledges of karzai to take more responsibility, not a whole lot has changed and in fact the united states is still working with what has essentially been a sort of very unpreliable partner. the big problems still the same. corruption in afghanistan. you can't have a local populous that is going to embrace the afghan government if they don't have confidence in it. like donald rumsfeld said, you go to war with the partner you have, not the partner you hope to have the in the future. >> the pressure on karzai to get their act straightened up but then we have karzai responding by saying the west is too involved. throwing out a threat whether it was a joke or not to join the taliban. how do we walk that delicate

line with them? >> one of the problems that the united states has is they have a long-term strategy that they are trying to employ on a short-term time frame. all of the reenforcements supposed to be there for the surge are not yet there but when they get there they will be starting to prepare to leave and then the afghan people going to be there. at mil military calm we have a couple of reporters that have went over to embed there. the u.s. troops and allied troops are having a lot of success in small areas but there is an increasing area among a lot of the troops that the overall strategy is not going produce the result they are looking for in the time frame we are talking about. just a very problematic situation. >> do you think we can depend on karzai, the u.s. can? >> i don't think karzai is capable of delivering what the united states wants from him even if he wanted to because of the problems with corruption. his own procedure is part of the problem. he is one of the regional leaders that the united states

would like to get to be more responsible in. karzai is not in a position to push his brother out and he is not in a position to be able to unite this country. and if you look at the history of afghanistan and howards have ended there in the -- and how wars have ended there in the past. >> thanks for coming? >> thanks for having me. >> shannon: new developments with bp and the oil spill. the latest after this break. and down to the fire in several key states. we will take allong a look at r long-term incumbent senators could be out. and explosions along a highways in oregon but don't raise any in oregon but don't raise any red flags. we'll tell you why, coming up next. than tylenol 8 hour. so why am i still thinking about this? how are you? good, how are you? [ male announcer ] aleve. proven better on pain. can you believe how fast kids grow these days?

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>> shannon: this is a fox news alert. breaking news on the gulf oil spill. david lee miller has been covering this on the ground in louisiana. he joins us now. hi, david. >> confirmation of what appears to be the most significant development yet since the explosion in the gulf. authorities are confirming that the riser insertion tool has been successfully tested. authorities saying that this device that places a tube inside the 21-inch pipeline successfully captured oil as well as gas sand that they were able to channel this up to a

tanker ship on the surface. the oil was stored onboard the ship. we are told the natural gas itself was burned off. there was a setback of sorts. we are told that at one point the insertion tube the smaller tube did become dislodged. authorities are not not saying what led to that problem. there was one unconfirmed report that the robotics sub marines crashed and caused a problem with the pipeline. technicians have fully inspected and reinserted the tool which means progress could be made to reduce the amount of oil pouring into the gulf. according to authorities and i'm going to quote the statement they released, while not collecting it is an important step. bp said they were hoping the particular technique could reduce the spillage by three quarters. the ultimate solution is going to require another well and

that they say is probably two to three months away. this is a significant development today. shannon? >> all right, david. any word of a breakthrough is good news. thank you very much for bringing us the breaking news. politicians and pundits across the country will be paying close attention to the primary races in three states on tuesday to see if incumbents are able to hold on to their elected seats. joining us is marco rubio advisor todd harris and kiersten powers. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> hello. >> shannon: let's start by talking about utah. bob been net lost the seat. what do you make of that? >> it was just an earthquake not only in terms of the republican party but just i think in terms of what it portends for the rest of this year politically. everyone is talking about antiestablishment, anti-washington, antiincumbent mood but that is really the what. i think people need to focus on the why and the reason for the why is because of spending and

because of deficits. and, you know, senator bennett has a member of the appropriations committee and sending ear marks back home to utah, used to get praised for stuff like that, not any more. >> shannon: he had a bit of an issue from the right. arkansas, where the current sitting senator blanche lincoln. she may have trouble from the left because move on.org got involved. they raised more than a million dollars for the challenger. in the first three days he announced his candidacy, the left is facing challenges as well. >> it is natural that the left doesn't like her and probably have never liked her. she and she definitely has catered to more and more to her constituency down there which is what may save her in the end. she has to avoid a runoff so she has to get more than 50% of the vote. i think ultimately she will probably get out even if she has to do it in a runoff. the question is whether whether

or not she could avoid a runoff. it is looking like it could be in the direction of a runoff. >> shannon: she had to pend a lot of money and time defending herself as well. if she makes it and gets to the fall how is she positioned for that? >> she is in real trouble. basically a perfect scenario for republicans in arkansas because you have both democratic candidates beating up on each other, spending a whole lot of money, all of that heading into an environment where a democratic incumbent who, you know, supported the stimulus plan is already going to be at a disadvantage. i think republicans are feeling bullish about arkansas. >> turn to pennsylvania. arlen specter against a challenger joe sestack. who survives on tuesday. >> i think that arlen specter is probably going to lose his seat and what happened there was people were leaning towards

specter because they thought that sestack wouldn't do well in a primary and he showed that i can do well in a primary and he needed for people to come over to him. arlen specter is not a democrat, this is a democratic primary. if they can go for a democrat it will be a good candidate in the fall. >> shannon: and he was a democrat and then a republican and now back to being a democrat. how do you think that versus who wins on tuesday how do you think that seat plays out well in the fall election. >> republicans would love to run against arlen spect. it he can make it through the primary. >> because it would be the revenge of the dish best served cold. pat toomey is surprising a lot of people. he will be the republican nominee whether it is sestack or specter, he is beating both of them in the polls. but, you know, on the democratic side whether arlen

specter calls himself a republican or a democrat the one constant theme is that he is a shameless panderer willing to put his own self-interests first and foremost. he deserves to lose. >> thank you both. fox news your election headquarters. taking you inside 2010. join us as bret baier hosts fox news reporting inside campaign 2010. you do not want to miss this special. fox has all kinds of behind the scenes access in key races. tonight at 9:00 right here on fox. a series of blasts started a highway project in oregon. the project which includes target #-d explosions is underway. the project will build six miles of new roadwaynds and bridges and i would love to blow up some roads here in dak. my panelists i'm sure will agree.

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this is a fox news alert. we have been waiting for any kind of positive news on the bp oil spill for weeks now and we may be getting some. nicole collins with all the latest. >> there could soon be significant progress in the gulf oil spill now that a mile long pipe was tested and inserted. it was able to capture oil and gas and could be just in the nick of time as researchers found large oil plumes a thousand feet beneath the surface of the water. there are three or four plumes and at least one is ten miles long and a mile wide. political watchers are keeping a close eye on tuesday's senate primary elections in pennsylvania. up cumbent senator arlen specter faces his first primary since switching to the democratic party. dutch and american crash

investigators are searching through debris of the crash that killed all but one of the 104 people onboard. the sole survivor of the crash a 9-year-old boy returned home to the netherlands yesterday. critics of arizona's new immigration law are calling for an economic boycott of the state but sarah palin says those critics should focus on president obama. she joined governor january brewer saying the law is needed because the federal government won't enforce existing laws. those are the top stories right now. shannon, back to you. >> shannon: thank you very much, nicole. oil executives played the blame game on capitol hill. are they closer to containing the spill? getting word of a little progress but still a long ways to go. the ranking member of the energy and commerce committee. and back in '92 he worked for atlantic richfield oil and gas company and joins us now from las vegas. thank you for your time today. >> glad to be with you. >> you have seen the gulf first hand. can you tell us about what is going on? >> well, they have massive numbers of ships and equipment

on the surface of where the rig was trying to collect the oil that has come to the surface. they are expending every effort possible to find a way to stop the flow into the gulf on the ocean floor. and as you reported on this program several minutes ago they have apparently been able to get an insertion tube into the main spill area and are able to divert that to the surface where it can be collected so they are finally beginning to make progress. >> shannon: what do you make of the blame game. bp says it will pay for all the losses connected with the oil spill. the president says when they were on capitol hill trying to explain he said there was so much finger pointing it was what he called a ridiculous spectacle. what do you make of the blame game? >> i think it is to be expected when you have all the potential joint and several liability issues with an accident, an environmental accident of this type. no one company is going to want to come to the front and just take total responsibility. i do think that british

petroleum should be commended for saying they are going to pay for all the damages that are legitimate, the liability cap under current law is $75 million and that is something that we are going look at whether it needs to be increased. number one, we need to get the oil to stop spilling. number two, we need to make sure that we don't stop drilling in the gulf of mexico. we need to take whatever actions legislatively and regularly we make sure in the future we minimize the chances of this type of accident happening again. >> shannon: and you mentioned the offshore drilling. this morning senator chuck schumer says he is worried about what happens to energy policy now because part of the compromise involved allowing drilling and now there will be great concern over this. what do you see happening moving forward with energy policy and the attempts to get climate change legislation done? >> let me point out that that one well in the gulf of mexico if it produces what we think it could which would be

50,000-barrels a day is worth 10,000 oil wells producing in onshore texas where the average production is five thousand barrels a day. we do not need to stop drilling for oil and natural gas in the deep gulf. we do need to make sure that the technology is the best that it can be, that the procedures are the best that they can be, and that our federal and state regulators maintain vigilance to make sure that those technologies and procedures are used as they should be. but we should not stop drilling in the outer continental shelf. it is the single biggest natural gas and oil resources, not natural gas resource, oil resource that we still have in the united states. >> shannon: we wish you the best and all those working to protect the coastline as this plays out. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> shannon: a new trend developing in the job market. some people are finding they are better off accepting unemployment than accepting

real work. brenda buttner to tell us more. good work if you can get it? >> that's right, shannon. lots of people out there looking for work. the unemployment rate still near double digits as a helping hand from uncle sam while the laid off try to get back on payrolls they get unemployment benefits. now, when you can spend as many as 99 weeks on, there is some evidence that some out of work prefer collecting their checks and waiting until they are about to run out to seriously seek jobs. case in point, michigan, the state with the nation's highest jobless rate landscapers say they are looking for workers but many applicants are ignoring the help wanted offers to continue collecting unemployment benefits. it may make sense for dollars and cents. if i, say, a landscaping company pays 12 bucks an hour, that is $480 a week but then you need to take out taxes and you are down to 350.

on unemployment you can get as much as 255 to 387 per week tax free. makes a difference it seems. the jobless in michigan are collecting for a longer time. nearly 20 weeks last year. way up from the year before. of course, by and large, those on unemployment want to work, of course. but in lower wage areas there is some evidence in reports some from the administration itself that the most generous benefits nationally in years may increase unemployment. this raises a serious question, is extending unemployment benefits helpful or harmful to our economy and, indeed, to those who are out of work. some critics, especially of the government spend at record levels say the program is no longer as it once was, a lifeline between jobs. it is in danger of becoming instead an entitlement. back to you, shannon.

>> shannon: brenda buttner, thank you very much. what if you have a job and you want to keep it? that might mean moving. elizabeth is on that story. >> relocating can be a daunting task but we know of a georgia program making it just a little bit easier. we'll have that story, coming up. ♪

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>> shannon: a catholic nun at saint joseph hospital in phoenix has been reassigned following her decision to allow an abortion for a patient whose life was in critical condition. the nun's actions have drawn intense criticism from the head of the phoenix diocese while a vice president at the hospital said the abortion was necessary in order to save the life of the mother. in an economy where job seekers are desperate to find work those who are already employed are moving out of state when their companies relocate just because they want to keep their jobs. elizabeth is following the story from atlanta.

hi, elizabeth. >> hey, sho shannon. relocating isn't easy and coupled with double digit unemployment that is more problems. local chain here in metro atlanta is offering up a new program for the hundreds of families moving with atlanta's newest for the tune 500 company. ncr has been headquartered in dayton, ohio, for more than 45 years. employees had the opportunity to enroll in a program called georgia pathways. it creates a match pairing georgia families with dayton, ohio, families. the georgia family has no affiliation or connection with ncr. they discuss things that you can't really find on the internet or in a brochure, doctors, schools and daycares. it has never been done before and families say it has been a huge success. >> just sends the message that we do want to welcome all the employees here and their

families and help them to fit in and streamline it to where they can fit in really well here. >> now, shannon, georgia state officials riding high. the governor and his economic team instrumental in getting ncr here, offering things like tax breaks and grandfathering in a lot of the families to in state tuition. so that along with the pathways program has made it easier for the families to move to the peach state. >> shannon: nice perks if you have to relove. documents were released showing the legal fight over an iphone prototype. apple lawyers say publicity about the invaluable prototype would hinder iphone sales which last year added up to $13 billion. nearly a third of apple's sales. gizmodo says it purchased for

$5,000 after it was found at a german beer hall in a san francisco suburb. wondering if someone got fired over that. the game of quidditch is being played around the country by groups of young people. more from los angeles. i have read the books and have soon the movies. i'm not sure how you can play the game. how does it work? >> interesting. a hard hitting news day here on the west coast. move over rugby and tennis. a new sport that is taking college ca campuses by storm. if you have never heard of quid ditch, you are not alone and you are probably not a harry potter fan because that is where the whole concept really came from. theficational game developed by j.k. rowling for the popular harry potter books and later made its way to the field. not flying like they do in the movie here. the goal is to get four

different balls through elevated rings on the field. >> i think it has all the elements of an exciting game. there is a lot of activity, there is a lot of different activity. it is really fun to watch. there is some physical activity. kind of like rugby, dodgeball, soccer, a little bit of everything for everyone. >> there are quidditch teams in 45 states and 13 different countries but it is mostly played by college and high school kids. welcome to the university of california berkeley, one of 200 universities around the country where folks are enjoying this potter pasttime. >> you know, trying to get a little bit bigger where we have about 120 people on facebook that are members of the group so we are just trying to get a nice league started to have our own teams and play against each other and then sort of move bigger than that. >> quidditch appears to be more

popular on the east coast but it is spreading like wildfire here out west. the good news, shannon, grab your broom stick, they have teams in the beltway. i think you need to join up with the team. >> until the brooms actually fly i'm not going to do it. it looks very silly but. >> maybe the way to go. >> exercise is the important thing. we enjoyed your report, thank you. >> actor ricky schroder has a brand new reality show. a sneak peek at the new reelity show about army recruits. after the break he will tell us about the new project and the surprising thing he did after september 11th. she has this thing about bugs. no, no, no... i do not have a thing about bugs. i have a thing about bugs in our house. we used to call an exterminator. ugh... now i go ortho. home defense max. i use it once inside to kill the bugs.

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>> shannon: here are some of the top stories we are following this hour on america's news headquarters. there could still be significant progress in the gulf of mexico oil spill that has a mile long pipe now inserted and tested. overnight the tube was able to capture some oil and gas and it could be just in the knick of time as researchers found large oil plumes 4,000 feet beneath the surface of the water. a benefit concert is currently

underway in new orleans to aid the gulf coast recovery effort. proceeds from the concert will go to local wetteland recovery efforts as well as fishermen and their families. the space shuttle "atlantis" a docked at the international space station. it did dock this morning. six astronauts will spend a week at the station installing batteries and a new compartment. first ladfirst lady michelle oa delivered the commencement speech on the capitol mall. she challenged students to compete more than 1,000 hours of community service. a british airway no fly zone imposed over parts of northern ireland with no flights traveling to belfast or the isle of man. airspace in the region has opened and closed many times since the volcano first erupted

last month. those are your top stories for now. any one who watched the '80s tv show silver spoons knows who actor rickey schroder is. he stopped by to tell me about his new reality series starting strong. welcome to washington, d.c. great to have you here. >> thank you, shannon. >> you are part of the gi film festival because you have a brand new show remering. you are the brains behind the show. tell us what it is about. >> i after september 11th tried to join the army. >> you did? >> and it wasn't going to happen for me tornad me and ita medical issue. i was looking for opportunities what could i do to help use my talent for the armed forces. and so i was lucky enough to get a meeting at the pentagon and i asked them and they said why don't you figure out something creatively that you can use your skills and help us so i created an experimental program called starting strong

which is an army recruiting reality show. we take them into the army world and give them experience and show them outages th how ts can translate that to civilian career if they choose not to make it a career in the army and they enlist or they don't. >> shannon: this is the first i heard that you tried to enlist after 9/11. why is the military so near and dear to your heart? >> as a young boy i sat with my grandfathers and heard their stories of the navy and army and world war ii and sat with fascination listening to those things and huge fan of the john wayne movies as a kid growing up and then as you grow you realize war is not quite what the movies portrayed it to be. i went over to germany and saw the soldiers that come back there to get treatment from afghanistan and iraq. i just was inspired by them and their self-lessness and their sacrifice. one of the episodes for

starting strong, we went to fort sam houston in texas where all combat medics are created and trained and i was around a thousand young people between 18 and 25 and all volunteered to be combat medics and all knew they were going be deployed to combat zones and i was taken by them as a group, how impressive they were. and i played great military characters and roles in films over my career and so i don't know why the bond is there but it is there. >> shannon: are you hoping that the average american out there who gets a chance to watch your different can gain a deficits insight for appreciation into the military? >> i hope they get a sense how much the meantors and older people in the military care about the people they are training. they look at these kids like their sons and daughters. a lot of these kids they are training, they are parents themselves and they do have that kind of care and bond that i have seen anyway and my son

is starting college in the fall, can you believe it? >> can't believe it. >> i just turned 40 and i have one going to college. anyway, i'm hoping he goes into the rotc program. >> shannon: we are glad you channeled into something like this this people can enjoy. thanks for telling us all about it. >> shannon: we tried to be professional when was here but if you did grow up watching silver spoons i'm not sure we accomplished that. there are a lot more things ricky wasned while rick here. the film festival features films that honor the suc succes and accomplishments of service members. glenn close and gary is a nice were there. it is graduation time and for one 94-year-old grandmother it is about time. coming up we will tell you why

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and saying hi he thought it was funny. minnesota governor tim pawlenty didn't just welcome anglers who came to the opening day. he caught a fish himself. he kicked off the opener. he bagged four fish including a 22-inch walleye. the governor called the event picture perfect and added it could be a post card for what minnesota fishing openers should be. nice. this year's graduating class at george, washington, university here in the nation's capital had an impressive commencement speaker, first lady michelle obama. she said she is very confy kent the graduates will succeed. last week the first lady spoke to graduates at the university of arkansas pine bluff. next month she will address graduates right here in washington. not a bad commencement speaker. one of the world's oldest graduates has her degree in art history. hazel stores was one of 500 graduates at mills college an

all women abouts school in oakland. she says she has good reasons for taking so long to get her diploma. she says she hopes that others realize it is never too late to get your college education. congratulations to her and all the other grade wait graduatess weekend. former speaker newt gingrich has tough words for the administration. also saying president obama should withdrawal the nomination of elena kagan to the supreme court. and chris sat down with former first lady laura bush for a chat on life after the white house. and inside campaign 2010 tonight. a look at a lot of the top races coming up this tuesday, pennsylvania, arkansas, kentucky and other places as well. inside scoop from candidates on both sides of the ail. i'm shannon bream. tanks for watching fox news, fair and billioned.