to live. [ male announcer ] so don't blame it on aging. talk to your doctor and go to isitlowt.com to find out more. see you then. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [applaus [applause] >> what a great audience today. welcome to the fox news studios in new york city. well, the brash and vulgar rahm emanuel stepped down as chief of staff to run for mayor of chicago. in a huckabee exclusive we'll talk to another bold politician, former governor rod blagojevich.

and their future is on the line. even though the president and vice-president have been out speaking at colleges this week, a lot of young people are not that excited about this elek. we are going to ask some college students, why not? plus, he loves america. and he is not afraid to speak his mind or even sing about it. one of country music's biggest stars, toby keith is here with an exclusive performance. [applause] well, no matter how large and cloud the political dissatisfaction becomes. it appears that many entrenched washington insiders still can't read the signs. mistakes that the democrats in power seem to be making, seeing that the tea party are made up of well-organized republicans in some phony grass roots movements has been dismissed by none other than her royal highness speaker nancy pelosi, she's called them astroturf.

barney frank blames it on talk radio and cable news channels, but by the way, the mistake that the republicans have made is thinking that america loves them. and they just can't wait to put them back in power. and a somewhat modest proposals of the g.o.p. and the recently released dredge to america, they were nice, but they lacked the bault initiatives that would have caused americans to believe that they were deadly serious about changing the institutions of power and decentralizing the government at the federal level. for example, proposing strict term limits on members of congress just like we do on the president. ending congressional tensions and letting the members pay into the same social security and 401(k) programs that the rest of us have to do. promising a balanced budget amendment. maybe forbidding members of congress from lobbying for a three-year period after they leave office. and here is what i like, agreeing to a 5% annual pay

cut every year that the budget didn't balance those are the kinds of serious reforms that he think the republican need. americans aren't just mad at democrats and aren't in love with republicans yet, but they are angry is that some in both parties who have become what i like to call clept-kratt. an elected official gives it to someone who can win favor for future votes. he doesn't think the actions are wrong. that's the sad part. they can readily justifying stealing from those who worked and earn and giving to those who didn't by using words like fairness, passion, and rights. and many americans are sick of them and are fighting in this election to keep us from

becoming like europe. the good news, plenty of it, what i believe to be the god inspired genius and brilliance of our founders. america's constitution created us to be like a self-cleaning oven. every now and then, you have to turn up the heat to really high level and burn off the junk that's got to be cleaned. come november 2nd it will be time to open the oven door and clean out the ashes and remind ourselves that we really live in a great country and on election day, let's say goodbye to the cleptokrats. [applause] >> that's my view and i welcome yours, i'd love to hear from you. go to mike huckabee.com and e-mail your thoughts. you can also follow me on twitter and sign up on facebook at mike huckabee.com.

do you ever what happened to the neighborhood bully, butch, from the old our gang and little rascal series? well, by gosh, he went and got himself elected to congress. look at the resemblance. see it? in a fox news exclusive we found butch masquerading as alan grayson of the 8th district of florida shall the neighborhood bully with a congressional pension. >> if you have insurance don't get sick, if you don't have insurance, don't get sick. if you're sick don't get sick, just don't get sick, that's what the republicans have in moo ind for you, america, that's the republican health care plan, but i think that the republicans understand it's not always going to work. it's not foolproof so they have a backup plan in case you get sick. if you get sick in earthquake m, this is what the republicans want you to do. if you get sick america-- the republican health care plan is this. die quickly.

that's right. the republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick. >> mike: all right. if those comments don't seem outrageous enough, grayson is under fire for his republican ad against his republican challenger in a hotly contested race for florida's 8th congressional democrats. >> tried to take away our freedom in afghanistan, in iran and right here in central florida. >> and daniel webster wants to impose his radical fundamentalism on us. >> she should submit to me. that's in the bible. >> and the medical care and the right to divorce their abusers. >> submit to me. >> he wants to force women to bare the-- >> submit to me. >> dan webster hands off our bodies and our laws. >> joining us with his reaction, dan webster. good to have you here. thanks a lot. you know, dan, i want our audience to know i've known you for many, many years and in the way of full disclosure

i've been supporting you i think you're one of the great guys. i don't want anyone to think that it's objective. i know dan webster and that's not dan webster. what was the first response when you first saw the taliban dan ad on television. >> i was shocked and i was shocked because i knew i had not said that. i couldn't remember where they got that and i certainly had to do some digging to find it, but i knew what i said. >> mike: we have what you really did say. our audience has seen what he said you said. let's see what really happened at that speech, here it goes. >> so, write a journal, second, find a verse, i have a verse for my wife everses for my wife don't pick the ones that say she should submit to me. that's in the bible, but pick the ones that you're supposed to do.

so, instead, love your wife, even as christ loved the church and gave himself for it and as opposed to wives submit to your own husband, she can pray that if she wants to, but don't you pray it echt that's the polar opposite of what the ad says what you said. he cut and pasted a lot of words that weren't true. >> yes, i have to send-- a lot different than what i said, out of context, 180 degrees, it was absolutely opposite of what i said. >> you've got the statement. read one more time and by the way the context of this was you were at a ministry conference, a gathering of christian people and so it was not out of the ordinary. this was not a campaign speech, a number of yearsing a, read again exactly what you said. >> so, write a journal, second find a verse, i have a verse for my wife, verses for my wife don't pick the ones that

say she should submit to me. it's in the bible, but pick the ones you're supposed to do instead, love your wife even as christ loved the church and gave himself for it as opposed to wives submit yourself unto your own husband. she can pray that if she wants to, but don't you pray it. >> by the way, your lovely wife sandy is with you. sandy, thank you for standing up and just putting up with all the nonsense that you've had to put up with. dan, i want to tell you, we asked alan grayson to be on the program and he declined. what a surprise. but he did give us the statement and i want to share with our audience the statement that he said. he says, at a right wing institute for basic life principles conference in 2009 which teaches a literal interngs of the bible,

>> i've been it to some of the conferences for basic life principles and i consider myself as one who believes in the literal inner terms of the bible. i don't believe in beating up women and murdering people. what is your response to his defense of what he's done? >> well, i would think that he doesn't believe the truth. the truth is almost every media outlet, liberal, moderate, conservative and lots of public policy institutes or one step away from politics have judged this to be absolutely not only false, but also, just down right mean, dirty politics. >> mike: you've had some really amazing reaction not just from your supporters, but even people that aren't necessarily big dan webster guys. tell me about some of the reaction that you've had since grayson ran this ad. >> well, like i said, even the public policy center for the

university of pennsylvania who did an in depth study of the entire commercial, went through the facts, called both sides and looked into it and said second time in a week he's done it again, but this is a new low. this is the lowest, this is the worst campaign ad we've seen thus far. >> mike: dan, you could have responded with an evaully incendiary ad. did you want to deep down? oh, come on, come on, you wanted to? >> i probably wanted to (laughter) >> i did. >> mike: good, you're a normal human being, but you didn't do it. why not? >> well, i believe that this election is about issues and there are some issues that i could sum up with this one statement, washington is broken. and if you look at the economy, we're spiraling down, their response is to do a stimulus package that didn't work. if you look at the unemployment in our congressional district it's double digit, 12%, higher than

the national average and it's bad there. not only that, the reaction is not only-- we are going to, we're not even going to read the bills. so the process is broken, the economy is broken, the-- and we're borrowing 4 billion dollars a day, and the spending and overspending, all of that issue. now what, included in that, washington is broken, is the way we run races. it is. >> mike: yeah. >> i mean, that's broken, too, and to say that we're going to make it as personal, and burn the bridges and burn the earth and scorch the earth just to stay in an office is wrong and it's just as much wrong and just as much broken as the other things i talked about e if a person is dishonest in the manner if which he'll get a job probably be dishonest in the way he carries it out. i want to say what you responded was an ad unlike what most of us probably would have wanted to do or even done. this is the ad you used to respond to the taliban dan ad. let's take a look. >> i'm daniel webster, you want to know why washington is

broken. here are three numbers, 4 billion that's they're borrowing every day. 2.6 million. that's how many jobs we've lost at 98% that's how often my opponent has voted with nancy pelosi. they're in this together. i'm daniel webster and i approved this message because together we'll cut spending, jump start the economy and restore the promise, america is not broken, washington is. >> webster if we're serious about sending congress a message. >> dan webster is out to send washington a message. a pleasure to have you and i think a lot of people are pulling for you. we've also seen a pretty extraordinary uptick in your contributions online for alan grayson to do what they did. in politics they say asoo goes, so goes the nation. we'll break down the key midwestern state and find out why it em pacts the whole country. th

>> with the mid term elections a month away. president obama has been spending an awful lot of time in ohio. in fact, he's made ten trips to the buckeye state and got another major rally planned there before november the 2nd so why is ohio so very important. joining me as the political analyst for the network as well as the network, is michael barone. we have known that ohio is a big deal in presidential elections, everyone shifts basically, based on ohio, but i want to talk about how this affects all of us in terms of why ohio is so important, why the president is spending so much time there? >> welcome, governor, ohio has got 20 electoral votes right now and 18 congressional districts and one of the ten largest states and it has been very close in past elections.

if we go back to 2004, when george w. bush was running for reelection, ohio was a top target state for both george w. bush and john kerry. it went for bush by 51-49 margin and john kerry, some people say that somehow the votes were manipulated, actually bush carried it by more than 100,000 votes. but you can see from this map, john kerry carried cuyahoga county with cleveland. and the valley the old steel producing area and in a break through for the democrats, he carried franklin county, includes columbus, historically a republican area. but the rural counties, the small town counties basically went heavily for bush, including this area here which is the 8th congressional district represented by the house republican leader john boehner one of the most republican congressional districts outside the south. e i want us to talk, and take a quick look at the 2008 graph and i just want to briefly

touch upon it because i want to get to the gubernatorial race of four years ago. but the same thing happened in 2008. another-- >> another close election, yeah, and we had barack obama carried it 51-47. nationally, he got 53% of the vote in ohio and he got just 51% and you could see from that map, he makes headway in a few more of the counties and carrying most of that industrial northeast, the area around toledo and this county is ohio university. that's a small population area dominated by university people and they tend to vote left wing democrat and obama also carried the counties that have got columbus and cincinnati. cincinnati historically a republican town, home of republican presidewilliam howart and went for barack obama and by making the gains able to transform john kerry's 49% into and into the electoral

votes important to him. if the governor's race if you looked at point of view of coming off the 2000 election you would think that the they were all right. stickland, a congressman, elected by a margin and you can see, he swept most of the state and when we look how ted strickland has been doing in terms of his rating, from the public and in his race against john kasich the former republican we see that through 2009, ted strickland was ahead in the polls, a reputation of somewhat bipartisan governor and now we see in the current survey, this is the real clear politics average of recent polls, just a 4 point edge for kasich over stickland. this is emblematic how the issues, size and scope of government have also affected

state politics where these things, those issues are important once again. >> michael, the president has visited ohio ten times, he's going to do it one more time before the election. do you think these visits are helping or hurting ted strickland and the democrats in ohio? >> right now i think they're hurting ted strickland and the democrats because the president's job rating is below 50% positive in the state and because they bring out the issues of do we want this vast increase in the size and scope of government and i think the polling evidence pretty clear that people in ohio, like most americans, don't want it anymore and president obama's appearance in the state tends to highlight that issue. perhaps mr. strickland will have a delay until november 3rd. >> thank you very much for joining us, great to hear the analysis of ohio and from my perspective, mr. president, you might want to make more visits to ohio. in 2008, young voters headed to the polls in droves and

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huckabee report across america. five days a week, three times a day, you want to know where to listen go to mike huckabee.com and click on the huckabee report and subscribe to a daily pod cast for the commentary and news. well, two years after winning the presidency with the help of the largest youth voter turnout in u.s. history. president obama's out trying to win over young voters all over again. that's especially after recent polls show that their enthusiasm has waned for the mid terms. >> you know what the other side is counting on this time around. they're counting on you staying home. they're counting on your silence, they're counting on amnesia, they're betting on your apathy, especially because a lot of you are young folks. >> well, it's the president's attempt to mobilize the young people working? we sent out producers to find out. >> did you vote in the '08 election? >> i did, i voted for obama. >> are you voting in the mid terms.

>> i'm not actually. >> why aren't you voting? >> because i have school work, and i play baseball, also, so not really going to have too much time. don't you care about the direction of our kupt? see how it affects you, health care, obama extended health care for people up to ages 26 aren't there issues that are affecting you that you care about. >> no, i don't really care. >> mike: what can you say. i hope he's not a political science major, my first hope. and maybe he's in accounting i don't know, but anyway it's sad when people say they don't care, but obviously there are a lot of students and this is a student at a prestigious university who says he doesn't care. let's get more reactions. >> are you going to be voting in the mid determine. >> i'm definitely voting and i'm still doing research. not completely sure what i'm going to be doing because i want to make sure to get as much information as i can before i just you know, vote for anyone. >> mike: and that's kind of refreshing, somebody that actually wants to think about who she's going to vote for

and what the person stands for, how nice we need for voters like her and i hope there are a lot more, not just young ones, but older as well. let's see what other students had to say. >> are you going to vote in the mid terms. >> yes, i'm voting. >> why are you going to vote. >> it's important to be involved and aware and making sure that, you know, you have the right person there for the job, i guess. >> and since you're from pittsburgh, are you going back there to vote or how are you going to vote. >> i am the form ab my absentee ballot and send it back soon. >> mike: that's an important point a lot of people need to remember, if you can't be in your voting precinct on november 2nd. doesn't mean you can't vote. there's early voting in most states that is pretty simple and absentee voting and most states have absentee voting and early voting that means you can do it without an excuse and you don't have to file an affidavit saying you can't be there on election day.

if you want more information go to-- in fact what i do google how to vote in-- and name your state. it's as simple as that. how to vote in ohio, how to vote in idaho, wherever it is you live how to vote. google that or call your local county election coordinator and make sure you know where to vote and make sure you vote. let's see what other students had to say, are they going to vote or not. >> are you guys going to vote. >> yeah, i'm going to vote because i live in upstate new york and and i'm going to vote for the green party and people that will help-- >> great, great, what about you, are you going to vote. >> i'd like to, but i haven't been keeping up in the political news in miami, i don't feel i should vote on things i'm not aware about. >> maybe you can convince her to vote. do you think so? >> i'll try. >> mike: looks like one friend helping another. and maybe that's two votes counted as one. >> are you going to vote in the mid term elections.

>> no, i'm not. >> why not. >> i'm not informed what's going on in my city, i'm away from school. >> have you ever thought of the absentee ballot. >> i did in '08 and right now a lot going on and i don't have the time. >> mike: yeah, don't have the time. too busy to vote. well, congress isn't too busy to work you over with your every moment of the future. one more, one more, i want to get it in there. >> are you going to vote this coming up election? >> yes. >> what about you. >> yeah, definitely. >> why are you going to vote? >> i just think that now that i'm 18 it's really important thing to do and it's my right as a citizen and important to get involved politically and have my voice be heard. >> what about you. >> went through the trouble to register and figure now is my time to be a part of the democracy. >> mike: well, good, i'm glad at these those guys understanding their patriotic and civic duty to vote.

are you going to be voting next month. why don't you tell us why or why not. send it to us, at foxnews.com. coming up, rahm emanuel got a grand send-off at the white house, will chicago welcome him back with open arms? we are going to ask a former illinois governor and politician, rod blagojevich next. stay with us.

>> from america's news head quarters i am marianne rafferty. concerns al qaeda might be plot ago series of attacks. thousands of americans traveling to or living in europe are being urged to take every precaution. terrorists have a list of high profile targets in a number of major cities. the state department saying americans should remain vigilant and aware of their surroundings. former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel announcing he will run for mayor of chicago.

he has long dreamed of taking the helm of the city. he will have a tell it like it is listening tour. senior advisor to president clinton and u.s. congressman from illinois. he joined the obama administrations in 2009. i am marianne rafferty now back to huckabee for your latest headlines log on to foxnews.com. i'm julie banderas, you're watching the most powerful name in news, fox news channel. [applause] e. >> mike: the high turnover of senior staff members at the white house continues with the most significant to date being announced by the president on friday. >> on the one hand we're all very excited for rahm as he takes on a new channel for which he is extraordinarily well qualified. but we're also losing an incomparable leader of our staff and one who we're going

to miss very much. >> mike: rahm emanuel says he's quitting as chief of staff for his dream job, being mayor of the windy city. and if he's elected it's probably going to be blowing wind than ever in chicago. what does the move for chicago and the administration? we are going to ask former illinois governor rod blagojevich and governor, good to have you back with us. you know rahm emanuel pretty well. were you surprised by the decision? >> no, i wasn't. rahm is a very ambitious guy and indicated months before he was interested in running for mayor. it didn't surprise me that mayor daley chose not to run again. in fact, four days after president obama was elected, rahm and i had a telephone conversation where i was surprised, expressed my surprise to him that he was going to be the chief of staff. i thought he was on a path to become speaker of the house. and he indicated to me that he only wanted to do the job of chief of staff for two years and that he had hoped to have a place holder in the congressman that might get a cabinet position and he would come back and get a congressional seat. so the fact that he's come

back now to run for mayor is no surprise, and i think he will be a very competitive candidate for mayor. >> mike: well, the race is going to be in february, but january is something pretty big happening in chicago that involves you. the trial which you'll be going back through and one of the questions that we have for you, and this is, i think, significant you're here on our show, the first time you've talked about this since rahm's announcement. is he going to be called to testify in your trial? >> well, rahm is a central figure in the political discussions and the political deal that i was trying to put together, a deal that would have created 500,000 jobs through an investment of the infrastructure, something you ran and advocated as a candidate for president and health care for people and option of getting health care if they can afford it and a written guarantee not to raise taxes on rahm the day before my arrest agreed to be the go between between me ab the democratic house speaker for the initiatives. today the chicago tribune

released evidence that was supposed to be barred by court order as a front page order indicating that rahm talked to my chief of staff as the go between which raises questions about the propriety of some people actually releasing information, i believe in an effort to try to rurt rahm emanuel. rahm emanuel in his conversations with me and actions trying to put together the political deal to provide good results for people didn't do anything wrong, but he will be a central figure and testify to exactly what happened and i want to challenge the prosecutors who are persecuting me and may very well may be trying to do this to other people to release the evidence on the day before my arrest and let the people see what i was doing on october the 8th before they arrested me on december the 9th or the 7th. release evidence and let's see what rahm emanuel, david axlerod, harry reid and others had to say. changing routine politics and

i believe there ought to be a special prosecutor, mike, ainterpoed to have that evidence released and the government won't agree to release it as i advocated that they do. if the evidence is released are we going to find out dirty hands on part of these people or exonerate everybody including you. >> it will exonerate everybody including me and remove the cloud over rahm emanuel and the chicago tribune has on the front page somehow indicating he did something wrong. it's interesting what's happening. two weeks ago congressman jackson indicated he want today run for mayor and he's a player involved in these allegations as well. and they didn't caring him, didn't charge rahm emanuel, didn't charge harry reid, but charged me. when jessie, jr., jesse jackson, jr. said bring out any evidence if you have any. the very next day, more evidence was released to the president than congressional jackson by the personal relationships that was sealed evidence. so my point is someone is releasing evidence in violation of a court order.

there ought to be a special prosecutor that ought to at least go into court and investigate why the government decided to come and arrest me when i was not involved with what the prosecutor said with the crime spree and abraham lincoln would roll over in his grave and i challenge to release the evidence, rahm emanuel helping to putting together a deal that would help a lot of people. >> mike: a simple question, are you going to be voting for rahm emanuel whens he's running nor mayor. >> he'll reserve until i know who is in the race. and the people in chicago, this is an important election, and city of chicago faces serious challenges and the last thing they need are politically motivated prosecutors who are trying to determine an outcome of an election and they already undid an election when it came to removing me from the office and the rahm emanuel trying to

shape an election or congressman jackson trying to shape an election and that's where the prosecutors are to be. and i believe that's one of the reasons the wall street journal advocated that these people were persecuting me to be removed from office. >> mike: one thing, chicago politics is never boring. it may be dirty and rough and tumble, but never boring. what's up for you, besides the trial. anything else. >> my wife and patty are fighting through the persecution and doing the best we can to rebuild our lives and you know, samuel in the spalm. you would appreciate this, when the goliath approaches you to attack you have to do what david did and that is run out and quickly beat him and we've been trying to do that every step of the way and among the things we're trying to do as we fight through this persecution, is to rebuild our lives and one of the things i did the other day was build a national commercial for a national product which is a whole different world for me, not anything i expected.

>> mike: what's the product. >> the governor of the fifth largest state. >>. >> mike: what's the product. >> i have a contract, mike, i can't say. it's it was an interesting experience and interestingly, a product that my wife patty and i have used for years long before i was asked to do it and i feel comfortable not only advocating a product, but one we like. >> mike: everybody thinks it's going to be shampoo, you know that, right. just telling you. anxious to find out. great to have you with us, ron. thank you for joining me today and best wishes. >> thank you. >> mike: coming to you, red, white and blue, pat numb selling can't artist and

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e. >> mike: he's a platinum selling artist and recorded 21 number one hits and patriotic, performed for our troops on

several uso tours and he's not afraid to speak up for what he stands for. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome country superstar, toby keith. [applaus [applause] >> hey, brother. >> you know when i talk about you not being afraid to say what you think. that's been kind of the hall mark of who you have been. is that just something that comes natural for you to just blurt out what you're thinking? you like that? >> well, i think that first of all, it's great doing the show. >> mike: thank you. the honor is mine. i've been a big fan for a long time. >> well, we actually come from the same neck of the woods, right. >> mike: yes, we do. [applause] >> that's worth a little applause, come on. >> i actually lived in arkansas for three or four years, when i come in here i was doing what they do, it's

called calling the hogs in. what the university of arkansas does. calling the hogs in. >> mike: new yorkers do it i was walking down the streets of manhattan saying, pig, suey. >> first of all, when i think that you feel like that you're right about something that somebody asks your opinion of it, you answers and you answer honestly. when i support the troops, i never saw that as being political. the media and the extreme left and extreme right may make it political and the media and the people that watch that kind of stuff, but at the same time, my dad was a veteran and i just, i never saw supporting the troops as being political. you're supposed to support those people. >> we've got a great little piece of an interview that you were doing and you give your thoughts on politics and politicians and i want us to take a look at it. >> all right. here we go.

>> if you ever ran for office, what key issues would you base your complain on? >> i hate politics, politics suck, but there's a certain amount of good and bad in both sides, i could never be a politician because they lie too much. i wouldn't like the political side of having to have somebody tell me a lie and lie to me and me having to still campaign for them or be their friend or be agenda-driven. i don't knowi i don't think that has any place in my life, but guess what? i've got a great night gig. [laughter] >> yeah, you've got a great night gig. if i could sing like you i probably would have never had politics either. >> i didn't say you lied. >> mike: nows' trying-- look at it. i don't really want to argue with you, that's why people

are cynical about a lot of the politics, it comes across as being phony. people aren't saying what they really feel. when you write songs and when you sing them and then even when you do interviews like that, i think what people find very attractive about you is that you act like, i don't care whether you like it or not, you asked me a question, here is the answer. does it ever get you in trouble. >> well, that's why i could never be a politician. somebody asks you a question, i wouldn't even feel good about going against my own word for the sake of an agenda and then walk back here with my own people and have to look at them in the face. wow, we don't operate to the extreme like that. it's-- it'd be very difficult to do, but, yeah, i mean, when i did courtesy of red, white and blue, four days after 911 i wrote the song and my father passed away the previous march and in the fall that happened

and three or four days later, i scribbled that down in 20 minutes and 160 uso shows nine years in a row two weeks and this would be a great song over there and let the band break and do the acoustic. general jones the national security advisor now was commandant in the marine corps when i was doing a private show for 4,000 marines for the pentagon and going to afghanistan and the band hadn't heard this and i'm going to play this for you in late 2002 or something, and so i started playing for them and general jones, there wasn't a dry eye or unclenched fist in my room. how can we get a copy of that. i said i never recorded it. if we could record it, we could get a copy of it. please record that song and we became very good friends and finally as an afterthought i put it on one of the albums and radio stations got it started just playing it and here we go and then for the next two or three years, it

was just solid right wing, left wing, extremists they were either pumping me up or trying to take me down and i got caught in the cross fire. >> mike: and the sad thing it's a patriotic song. it's not a political song. we'll take a break and when we come back, i think the audience wants to hear toby keith sing and play, he's got a brand new album. >> governor huck is going to play the bass. >> mike: and he's got a brand new album and do a cut from that and talk about some of your other music. all that and more when toby 3qith and i come right back. what's up ? ugh. my feet are killin' me. you should get some custom fit orthotics. dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic center. it recommends the custom fit orthotic that's best for your feet. and footcare scientists are behind it. you'll get immediate comfort... ... and, you could save a couple hundred bucks. for locations see drscholls.com i got an egg a candy necklace an orange a band-aid a stamp helium i got a mustache [pop] lipstick

>> we're back with toby keith. he's got a brand new album. it comes out next tuesday and you can get it wherever music is sold and that includes the stores, downloaded on itunes and go to amazon, but heavens sack be sure to get it, tell him mike isn't you. >> toby you've done so many, it's 28 number one. i mean, that's just an amazing number of songs. you've had a big breakout hit called "i should have been a cowboy". >> yeah, 1993. that song did you know that was going to be a hit.

>> i don't know what a hit felt leike, i never had a hit. never had a song released. i was in dodge city in kansas on a pheasant hunting trip and wrote it while i was there. the more i liked it, i put it on the first album and the label fell in love with it. >> mike: let's play a chorus of that, just for the fun of it ♪ should have been a cowboy ♪ should have learned to rope a cow ♪ ♪ my six shooter, riding my pony on a cattle drive ♪ ♪ leaving the young girls hearts just like gene and roy, singing those camp fire songs, should have been a cowboy ♪ >> all right.

>> woo! [applause] >> i have a bunch of your songs in my own ipod i've downloaded one i like a lot. it's called "how do you like me now" one of your big hits. how much of this song is biographical. >> all of it, every bit of it. >> mike: was there some girl back there that you tried so hard to impress and she basically-- >> giving it a weight that it's not about me and my life because i'm dating the valedictorian. that spells it out. >> mike: we know it really didn't happen. but there's got to be a hint of that song. >> well, there's-- i think that everybody has people in their life who-- you know what is amazing they thought it was going to be a guys song, but we had so many girls and women out there say you know, my boss told me this and i ended up buying that company and firing his rear, you know. people used it as a--

as a catchall for different situations other than just somebody breaking-- >> i think that anybody who's been put down and told you'll never amount to anything. loves this song as do i. let's at least knock out a chorus, all right? ♪ how do you like me now ♪ now that i'm on my way ♪ you still think i'm crazy, down here today ♪ ♪ could i make you love me, but always dreamed about ♪ ♪ sitting in your radio, how do you like me now ♪ (applaus (applause) >> this new album that you've got. the title song from that. >> all right. hang in there. >> mike: i will try. >> scared, a german shepherd. >> mike: that's what i'll do. >> ♪ they've come in, i was

always quick to strike, had everything i owned in the saddles on my bike ♪ ♪ had a reputation, never stayed very long ♪ ♪ like the restless drifter, like the cowboy in the song ♪ ♪ i met a dark haired beauty would lay the whiskey down in southern arizona in a little border town ♪ ♪ she had to dance for money and that at the old saloon ♪ ♪ i dropped a dime in the jukebox and played that girl a tune, yeah ♪ never seen it coming, just that place in your soul, and firing rise ♪ ♪ makes you come together like wild horses when they run, now the cards are on the table and the bullets in the gun ♪

♪ she was sitting on my lap, we feel like... ♪ ♪ a man pulled up to the bar in a cadillac ♪ ♪ he grabbed her by her raven hair and threw her on the floor ♪ ♪ no free rides for the cowboy, that ain't what i pay you for ♪ ♪ she jumped up and grabbed my pistol stuck it in the fat man's back ♪ ♪ opening up your safe and put your money in the sack ♪ ♪ tied his hands behind him, blind folded his eyes, said if you're dumb enough to chase me you're dumb enough to die ♪ ♪ never see it coming, just hits you by surprise ♪ ♪ in your soul, and the fire in your eye ♪ ♪ makes you come together like

wild horses when they run ♪ ♪ now the cards are on the table and the bullets in the gun ♪ ♪ well, we rode across the border and down into mexico ♪ ♪ when you're running from the law ain't there where everybody goes ♪ ♪ came upon a town with a name i couldn't spell ♪ ♪ she gave me what i came for, in that mexican motel ♪ ♪ hey, i woke up and sound of running feet ♪ there were 50 federales in the street ♪ ♪ she grabbed the money and kissed me the last time and headed out the back ♪ ♪ every heartbeat pounding and only one thing left to do when

they got you all surrounded ♪ ♪ she fired that old pistol, but we didn't stand a prayer and money hit the gravel and bullets filled the air ♪ ♪ never see it coming, just hits you by surprise ♪ ♪ that cold place in your soul, that fire in your eyes ♪ ♪ makes you come together like wild horses when they run, now the cards are on the table and the bullets in the gun ♪ ♪ bullets in the gun ♪ bullets in the gun (applaus (applause) >> toby keith. the album is called "bullets in the gun". thanks for joining us. >> and your bass. >> mike: there you go, i could

use a good gig. hope you have a great week, from new york this is mike huckabee, thanks, good night huckabee, thanks, good night and god bless, everybody.

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