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walker's man share. we appreciate them, have a great weekend, everybody, dave will be snoozing in our man chair. >> clayton: and go to foxandfriends.com and we'll have ali sing dolly parton in the "after the show" show. >> eric: we start with a "fox news alert." 40 states, 80% of the nation, now set to lach massive joint investigation in -- launch a massive joint investors gags into the foreclosure mess, hundreds of thousands of buyers and sellers could be in a tangled web, losing homes when they shouldn't and what may be america's newest financial scandal. good morning, i'm eric sean and welcome to america's news headquarters for this sunday morning. >> jamie: good morning to you, i'm jamie colby, the investigation set to look into allegations that are ranging from showed paperwork to douwn right fraud, as many people were evicted from their homes when perhaps they should have been able to hold on to them. brenda buttner is a fox senior
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business correspondent, the anchor of bulls & bears and i heard the story and found it shocking, because, there are now 40 states attorneys general getting together? why did it take so long? where was the federal oversight on the seizures of homes from americans. >> there is so much paperwork coming in, and eventually, banks were just flooded, with paper and, what they did was, they basically assigned these robo signers. people who sat in a desk, and, signed. x, x, x, x, x... oftentimes, not even looking for verifying that the information on these papers was actually right. and there were many foreclosures that perhaps were not in foreclosure and has width spread implications for people who do not -- who aren't in foreclosure, and people who are looking for homes, people who are on the edge of foreclosure,
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it truly is a major issue in the housing market. >> jamie: and we'll talk about how it affects housing price and the stock market. closing above 11,000 at the end of the week and bank stocks not doing well and people should know, i would imagine, you would advise the banks could take a hit is a result and now the investigation is ongoing and they are stalling at least for bank of america, the foreclosures that they have planned, perhaps on the shoddy paperwork, why did bank of america do this, out of the good will of their heart or do they feel they have something the attorneys general and feds might find out they did wrong. >> it is hard to tell exactly why they did it but they saw a number of banks in a number of states and many attorneys general going after banks, and bank of america is one of the leading lender, in delinquent homes or homes that could go into foreclosure, we have to
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look into this and they discovered the robo signers, and are taking time, basically, to discover what went wrong and tay are taking a break. >> jamie: maybe homeowners get a break and, some are jumping on board and one not, wells fargo mentioned they are hesitant to do this and, lallowing people, pending foreclosure not to go into foreclosure but i want to ask, how did it happen in the first place? could it be the next huge financial mess we have to clean up. >> it is interesting, because, as i was reading this, i was harkening back to the subprime mortgage bubble that caused this and one of the big issues was, paperwork. people were just frankly lying on their paperwork. or not exactly saying what they were making. and, they were encouraged in many times, by the lenders, just put it down, just say that you are able to buy this house, you
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know, there are countless court cases on the issue. so, yes, it is an issue of not looking carefully enough at the paper that has been signed. >> jamie: i have to leave it there, not being able to keep up with it, even the administration offered relief and they were flooded with paperwork, too. >> the administration could not deal with it, either. >> jamie: thanks, great to have you weigh in on this. er eric. >> eric: disappointing news expected this week for people who get social security. the government is likely to announce that those who are on social security will not be getting a cost of living increase, because of this low and lack of inflation and it will only be the second time in the history of social security that there has been no cost of living adjustment. 58 million americans rely on social security, 64% of retirees.
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>> jamie: you're in america's election headquarters, sarah palin hitting the campaign trail in california, this weekend, and look at the video, thisdiego, s behalf of military veterans running for office an praising the tea party movement and calling for big change come election day. >> i feel confident that our country will feget put back on e right track and thank god, yes, we can see november from this house and we know soon the steps will be taken and can be led, the steps can be led by those who have served in uniform in the past. >> jamie: the former alaska governor will speak at a fund-raiser in bakersfield and attending that event with her, former vice president dick cheney and strategist and fox news contributor karl rove. >> eric: later today president obama heading to philadelphia
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where he'll headline a huge political rally there. hoping to boost enthusiasm among democrats. and will be joined by vice president joe biden who hails from nearby delaware. julie kirtz live in washington, with the latest on the president's day. good morning, julie. >> reporter: hi, eric, 23 days out and the president heads to philly this afternoon to try to rev up those first-time surge voters. who helped elect him in '08, this is the second of 4 big campaign rallies, headlining president obama, like the one in madison, last month, more than 17,000 people, turning out, the idea of course, is to try to reenergize democrats for the november 2nd elections, join the -- joined the president as you said in filmy, vice president joe biden and a pretty rare joints campaign appearance for them in the midterms, and, they have work to document a new poll by the "washington post" and howard -- harvard university highlights the challenge and finds tea party supporters and conservative voters, most
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energized for the midterms an 22% of democrats are saying they are interested in this election, and, get this, only 17%, of liberal democrats saying they are -- those are the folks, the president will be talking today. in philadelphia, on monday. he heads to miami to talk to democrats again. >> eric: thanks, we'll be on the president's visit, later on. in philadelphia. >> jamie: while the president is stepping it up, hoping to reignite the 2008 magic, the president's poll numbers are not all that positive, possibly giving republicans an extra boost and will the president's campaign push actually help democrats? joining us, david drucker, staff writer for roll call, we have talked about this, before, david, but, now we are so close to the midterm elections, where should barack obama be, right now? >> well, he should go anywhere where he can do some good for
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democratics candidates, and i think that means going to usually reliable democratic states that happen to have competitive senate races or competitive house raises and means going into democratic strongholds where he's going to get a receptive friendly audience, and, he needs to encourage those voters to actually go to the polls. people don't go to the polls in a midterm election the same as a presidential year and they are more prone to vote for president than to show up to vote for their congressman or throw out their congressman and for the president the issue is, can he affect the democratic base and get those numbers as much towards parity with the republican and conservative base as possible? and, might he have any effect on the independent voters that will be huge, on november 2nd? >> jamie: they have proven to be huge before and how effective do you think he'll be with nippeds and how important will it be to differentiate from the tea party movement which only seems to be
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growing by the day? >> well, i don't think the president is well liked, right now, among independents. in terms of his policies, you know, people still like the president as a person and that is definitely an asset. but, right now, republicans, excuse me, independent voters are breaking for republican candidates, heavily, and i don't think there is enough time for the president to turn that around. i also don't think the president does himself or his party any favors at this point, in constantly disparaging the tea party, tea party candidates, tea party activists, simply because people are not very happy right now with how the country is being head, and not happy with the economy and the job situation, and, i don't think they see the tea party as a threat, the way the president tries to present them and clearly you will not win over those activists and not do it any way but it hardens their resolve and i think to show up at the polls and vote out the president's allies in congress. >> jamie: that is interesting
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and it sounds like you are saying going that route is a waste of political time, because, it will not be effective. how much attention do you think this average american is spending right now, i know we follow it and track it closely, but, the unemployment numbers, the -- where the country is, the banking situation, with foreclosures, how close attention are americans paying, and how much will all of that weigh into their votes? >> well, i tend to think people are paying pretty close attention because things aren't going well and as i learned over the years in politics, when people are unhappy they pay real close attention and when they are happy they don't care and, less of a chance they'll show up at the polls. i think people are clearly factoring in the economy, and, the job situation, i think what is factored in to their outlook is the fact that they are not happy with washington and the foreclosure crisis, so to speak, is just sorts of another of the death by a thousand cuts that will afflict people in
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washington because if it hrts the economic recovery and causes a further problem of home values it is one more reason for people to be mad. i think that we will not know about turnout until we see it but we'll begin -- we will begin to get indications that week and next week, as early voting starts, in many states, absentee ballots start to roll in, i think, look, we both know, jamie, the economy is the number one thing people are concerned about, that is what is driving this election. that and a sort of sense that the leadership in congress and the white house is not quite doing its job as people would like. and, you know, we'll see how much that helps the republicans, on election day. >> jamie: obviously they would say they are doing their job and a great job, so glad to have you talk to us, david, good to see you. >> good to see you, jamie. thank you. >> eric: encouraging news out of hungary, this morning dealing with the toxic sludge. authorities say no new cracks have been found in the wall at the reservoir that has been holding that red sludge back.
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and, there were fears that the north wall of the reservoir was close to collapsing but they say, so far it is holding and protective walls are built to hold back any further spills and so far at least 7 people have been killed when the red sludge burst from the metals factory and swept through several villages and leaked into the danube river. >> jamie: now, is hosting a coming out party for kim jong-il's heir aparents, celebrating the 65th anniversary of the rulers party, he made a rare appearance with his youngest son, said to be the next leader, kim jong-un, was made a four star general, and some say it would carry the dynasty into the third generation, fox news has an incredible inside look of north korea and we'll actually have a report from north korea in the next hour. >> eric: a bombshell admission from iran, the head of iran's
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atomic agency admitting they have had spies working in their nuclear facilities. iran says several nuclear workers were paid to pass nuclear secrets to the west. this as iran also now says it is ready to reopen international nuclear talks, something they've said before, but they -- are they serious now? ambassador john bolton, a former u.s. ambassador to the united nations an fox news contributor who joins us every -- and fox news contributor who joins us every sunday morning at this time. good morning. >> good morning, glad to be here. >> eric: is the nuke program riddled like swiss cheese with spies or is it more iranian propaganda. >> well, this is important, in several levels. obviously for the countriy ies conducting the espionage, the u.s., israel, maybe others that is obviously not news and so saying it publicly is directed at various domestic audiences, perhaps to rally support for mahmoud ahmadinejad and the other rulers, to demonstrate they are under foreign attack, in effect and to lay the base
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for further attacks on the iranian opposition. which the regime always said was supported by the u.s. and the u.k. but, second, inside the nuclear program, as a message, they need to tighten up, they need to maintain communications security and on guard against the espionage and, sabotage those engaged in those activities, so a very interesting development, i think. >> eric: they had the computer worm they say infiltrated the facilities and claimed a nuclear scientist was kidnapped by the u.s., offered $5 million, by the caa and the guy decided not to take it an went back to iran. is that part of your, as you say, their efforts to try and scare people into not cooperating? >> well, there is a lot of disinformation going on here, but i think what they want to show is that they are vigilant against the espionage and i say that is a morale-motivator if anything for many of their internal people they have to do
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better and a message of intimidation against those who are trying to undermine the program domestically. but, i think it also shows the continuing determination that they demonstrated these 20 years to got a deliverable nuclear weapons capability. no flagging in that effort, at all. >> eric: they are also saying that they want to open talks, this month, and later next month and have been saying that before. what do you think it means? >> well, i think that they are could being the diplomatic charm offensive that was very much in display, in new york at the opening of the u.n. general assembly. even allowing you to interview mahmoud ahmadinejad, that shows how far they are prepared to go. while accusing you of being an agent of the united states, and the security council, if only. and i think this is -- it is a finger-pointing exercise, in the sense that they want to say, we are prepared to talk and we have been for several years and is this faults of the u.s. and the europeans and others, that the
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diplomatic track is not engaged. >> eric: it was a feisty interview, and confrontational i had with mahmoud ahmadinejad and in it, i asked him about the nuclear talks, he said that if the u.s. government accepts international law and justice, and fairness, with regard to iran, and respects iran, opportunities will be there for talks, what does he mean by that? i asked him, when will they do the same to the world community? >> well, this isn't part of the prop gaen-- this is part of the propaganda, it benefits iran and plays into the hands of those in the west and particularly, in the obama administration, that think there is actually a diplomatic way to resolve iran's continuing quest for nuclear weapons. and these talks buy time for iran to allow them to continue to make progress, both on the nuclear weapons and the ballistic missile program and gives them a kind of legitimacy and helps divide the united states from some of its, i'll be
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polite... weaker allies in europe who would like to cut deals and do business with iran. and so from the iranian point of view, it is a plus-plus and they are hoping that obama will succumb to it. >> eric: running out the clock, in other words, you think. >> they get closer every day, the longer negotiations are going on, the more people in this country and elsewhere say, oh, we don't want to do anything to disrupts the negotiations, and that is music to the ears of the regime in tehran. >> eric: u.s. ambassador john bolton, fox news contributor, always good to see you, sir, thank you so much as always. >> glad to be here. >> jamie: could there be a possible break in the suspected murder of an american husband on a border lake near mexico? mexican police now saying they have suspects. we'll bring you the latest on the developing story. >> eric: and shocking details about a mass overdose at a college party. 12 teens have been rushed to the hospital, a massive medical response, what made them sick, and just who might have been behind it.
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they found a mass overdose. and, the party was in central washington and was busted by cops, quick. 12 young people, most of them women, found passed out, or semiconscious. now, police believe something may have been slipped into their drinks, possibly making them targets for sexual assault, the party got out of hand when unwelcome guests showed up. >> there was an invite on facebook, and, the facebook invited like, attracted a bunch of locals or something, and potentially and the locals showed up and everything started going crazy. >> jamie: most of the students are from central washington university and coming up in the next hour we'll speak to the police chief on what the substance may have been and what happened and how some of the most seriously affected folks, still in the hospital, are doing. >> eric: than question are all americans, should voters give republicans another chance on capitol hill? or should the democrats stay in power, come election day? republican congressman eric
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cantor, and democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, gave their answers on fox news sunday. >> hopefully november 2nd becomes, we can have a new day in washington and can come together and work with some things, that will produce and -- results and get people back to work. >> american voters will have a choice between democratic candidates and incumbent members who have been pushing hard to turn the economy around, create jobs, have... the recovery acts, 3 million jobs, passed health care reforms. >> eric: and, joining us is the anchor of special report, bret baier filling in for chris wallace, this morning on fox news sunday. good morning. >> hey, eric, good morning. >> eric: there's the debate, both sides, what do they predict. >> both sides acknowledge that in this political environment with the economy where it is now, it's an uphill battle for
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democrats, debbie worries man schultz is making the case, across the country, she is saying races tighten, and based on individual one-on-one races and that is what democrats want to see, they want to see these individual campaigns, go head-to-head, times get negative, and, really, challenge each opponent who is taking on a democratic incumbent. republicans obviously want to nationalize this and with the economy, unemployment rate, 9.6, 95,000 jobs lost last month, that makes the case itself. as far as the economic situation. >> eric: in some states, i mean, the unemployment rate in nevada, like 14%, did they talk about the effects of the tea party. >> they didn't talk about the effect of the tea party, per se, but, congressman cantor dealt with the enthusiasm on the republican side. you know, one of the interesting things about the interview is, both were in remote locations, and both campaigning for candidates around the country. the tactic of talking over each
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other, was tough to steer from washington, and we had gone through it, to substantive answers and what was very interesting is when we had karl rove and joe trippe on talked at first about money coming from outside groups. specifically, the president going after karl rove, want you to tune into that, later on, today. >> eric: we'll see that and no matter how good are, some can't keep the politicians quiet. bret? thanks, as always, good to see you, working on sun and you can catch all of bret's interviews today on fox news sunday. the entire debate, between cantor and wasserman schultz, talking over each other, at your local fox station or right here later this afternoon on the fox news channel. >> jamie: never miss it. a popular diet drug, helping folks lose weight is being pulled off the market, folks. is it safe to take? what do you do if you did? did it work? dr. rosen fold and "sunday house call" is coming up. ♪
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head of the -- ahead of the midterm elections, weeks away. about three weeks, in fact, the president will be joined by vice presidented by in, who hails from the neighboring state of delaware. the attorneys general in 40 states launching a joint investigation en to the growing foreclosure scandal. several major banks have already put a freeze on foreclosures, as they investigate allegations of sloppy and illegal paperwork, that threaten people's homes. and, pakistan, reopening a critical afghan border crossing to nato supply trucks today. that ends an 11-day blockade that made nato convoys sitting ducks for the taliban. this opening comes four days after the u.s. apologized for helicopter strikes, that mistakenly killed two pakistani soldiers. ♪ >> jamie: it is sunday morning and you know it is time for "sunday house call," with us, "sunday house call" host, dr. isadore rosenfeld, the rossi
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distinguished professor, and how distinguish is he, please? of clinical medicine at the wild cornell medical center and we look forward to this all week. >> thank you. >> eric: doctor, good morning, good to see you. >> it is a special day today, i'm interested in these things, it is 10/10/10, 10th day of the 10th month of the 10th year and this october there are five fridays, five saturdays and five sunday, and that happens once every 823 years. this is a very special broadcast. >> eric: does that mean we get an extra paycheck. >> jamie: you do, eric. >> eric: let's have -- >> i want to start off today by saying a word about the glasses. a couple of weeks ago i told you about these reading glasses, that turn on like that, and have lights and are great are reading at night and told you where to get them and the reason i'm mentioning it again, today, is that i received a number of
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e-mails from people who said they didn't know where i can order them, if you want them right away go to panthervision.com on the internet, about 25 or $30. >> jamie: and you said they are great tor walking the dogs, too, at night, like headlights? >> no. no. no. no. you cane 't do that. i told you privately, if the company also makes a cap, with lights in it and... and we walk our dogs with that. anyway... panthervision.com. >> eric: we'll bring in the cap next week, from the eyes to the ears, if you work in a loud place you want to hear this. according to a study, persistent noise leads to more than just hearing problems, what about this new study, doc. >> we think about, when we think about working in a noisy environment, you would think of its impact on your hearing. and, there is no question, that chronic exposure to loud noise
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affects your hearing. but, now, the new observation is, that this loud noise also increases your risk for a heart attack. there are 22 million americans working in the a very noisy environment and apparently the noise also does something to the vascular system. it constricts the coronary arteries, and, the recent study of many thousand people working in the noisy environment, found that they are two to three times the risk of getting a heart attack. so, what do you do in these days, of difficult unemployment? you will not quit your job, because it is noisy. you stay with your job, but get hearing, you know, get things, plugs in your ears, ear plugs and they are -- and head sets to keep out the noise and the fact is, chronic exposure to loud
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noise is dangerous. >> jamie: that is great advice, doc. here's something else, we get a lot of e-mails on this, too, as men get older they lose their higher levels of testosterone which is the male hormone, and, now, there is word that low levels of testosterone could be associated with early onset alzheimer's. doctor, nobody wants that. what can they do? >> yes. you are absolutely right, as many get older, their testosterone levels, normally decline and in most men, that is tolerated very well. there may be some erectile dysfunction and may be some lack of energy, and, as your testosterone level goes down, your doctor can measure it and you can get a testosterone patch, to replace the low levels. to raise the low levels. but, the new observations are, that low testosterone levels are also associated with an increased risk of alzheimer's. so, here's the point:
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if you find that you are not feeling right, and in your 50s or 60s and not feeling right, you tire more easily, and, your memory isn't so good, you have difficulty finding a word, you are worried about your cognition, have your testosterone level checked. and, if it is low, it is the easiest thing in the world to get a testosterone patch to raise it. that may forestall or slow down the development of alzheimer's. according to this new research. >> jamie: great, doctor, ask your doctor about that. >> eric: and from that to diet drugs, you know, they are common for people trying to shed a few pounds, a diet drug is being pulled off the shelves, dr. rosenfeld bill talk about that. >> jamie: a rare appearance, fox news getting an inside look on the ground, rare indeed, we are
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>> eric: it promises to be a spectacular rescue, after a make break through for the 33 chilean miners trapped underground. rescue teams say they hope to pull them out, in the next three days. and the men have been stuck more than two months, since august 5th, after their mine caved in, just yesterday, crews managed to drill an escape shaft that was
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deep enough to finally reach them and chilean officials say they are working on reinforcing the walls and the plan to lower a specially built capsule that will pull up, each trapped miner, one by one, the miners are said to be in good condition and have their own spiritual advisor and have been working together as they wait to finally get out. ♪ >> jamie: every week, right here, the doctor helps us sort out medical myths, from fact. and, this week he is taking a look at the popular diet meridia, it was pulled off the shelves and was not an effective way to lose weight and there were concerns about safety and you cannot get it anymore. >> 2 or 3 weeks ago, i said on this show, that meridia was an effective weight reduction drug
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for many people, but that it caused an increased incidence of stroke and heart attack and i warned our viewers about that. well, within the last 48 hours, meridia has been pulled from the market. if you have been taking meridia indefinitely and for a long time and it works for you and you still have some left, you can probably continue to take it. if you are worried about it, stop it. the point is, you are not going to be able to get any more. it has been withdrawn from the market. >> eric: doctor, from meridia to plavix, many people take to it prevent their blood from clotting and some patients, have gastric problems that require an antacid and one viewer asked, can you take both, doctor. >> this is a very interesting item we will talk about. when you have been... when you have a stent put into your coronary arteries or have other cardiovascular process,
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procedure done, you are often given plavix. plavix interferes with the action of the platelets in the blood and prevents clotting and is a very important drug. it can cause bleeding in the gi tract, especially, if it is combined with aspirin. and, then, there is another drug, another group of antacids, ppis, like nexium... which are often taken together with the plavix, to prevent gastrointestinal complicationses. now, over the last few months, there has been -- there have been reports that the combining, the plavix with one of these gastric drugs decreases the effec effectiveness of the plavix and increases the risk of a clot forming in your vessels. the latest report is that this
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is not so. it is perfectly safe to take the plavix along with the antacid. now, only today, however, i learned of a new study that says that the -- these antacids, like nexi nexium, taken alone, without the plavix, for long periods of time, increase your risk of a heart attack. my message to you is this: if you are taking plavix, and prolosec, together, that is fine, puts if you are taking it alone, because you have reflux, acid, it increases your risk of a heart attack, 25%, so don't take it unless you really need it based on the latest report.
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and, it only came out this morning. >> jamie: life-saving advice from a practicing cardiologist, doc, you can use that this week with all the patients. how would you like to cut down the stress in your life? coming up, next, dr. rosenfeld has just the method to do that, it is actually, hundreds of years old. >> eric: and we're following brand new developments in the expected murder of david hartley. allegedly by mexican drug criminals and he and his wife were on jet skis in falcon lake? tiffany talked to geraldo about the attack and allegation that she made the story up. >> there is anything you would like to do to amend the story you have told so far? >> i stand on what i have told you, everything i have said is 110% true. i am telling everything i can. >> so is david dead? >> i truly believe that, yes.
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filled the pews, along with some big-time country stars, taking to the stage, there's our dolly! just five months ago, the music institution was ravaged by floodwaters and forced them to move elsewhere, but, now they are back and so are the tunes! we'll have a live report from inside the grand ole opry, straight ahead. >> ♪ ♪ nine to five... ♪ >> eric: back now with "sunday house call" and your host, dr. isadore rosenfeld, you know, he gets tons of e-mails an reads every one and, we bring a lot of them up every sunday and let's get to this e-mail, one viewer writes i'm a 70-year-old man with enlarged prostate and my urologist suggest aid microwave type procedure to shrink the prostate. is it safe and successful? doctor, a microwave. >> jamie: it sounds painful. >> it is a form of heat treatment and it is effective, there are other ways to do it. you can have a surgical
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procedure, minimally invasive surgical procedure and i personally prefer to have large prostates treated with laser, but, the thing to remember, about this heat treatment, the microwave therapy, is that a substantial number of patients receiving it have a rise in blood pressure while they are getting it. so, if you decide to accept that treatment, make sure your doctor checks your blood pressure every, few minutes during this procedure, which takes about an hour. >> jamie: i'm not a doctor, but if you have a pacemaker they always say, don't go near a microwave, i assume it is can tra indicated? -- contraindicated? >> yes. >> jamie: we don't want to be responsible the problem, this is an interesting topic. if you are looking for a way to reduce stress, and who isn't, you can get exercise but the doc has a tip, a method that has been around such a long time and, doc, many of us one consider it if you didn't talk about it.
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>> well, i told you, it is called tai-chi. i happen to be very interested in it. because every time i go to china, i go out on the streets, there are hundreds of people, standing on the streets, doing these tai-chi exercises. the late eric fromm, the psychologist, he did it every morning and, my son teaches tai-chi and teaches it around the country and the chinese have used it for centuries. it is a very mild form of... graceful form of exercise. look at that. it doesn't hurt the joints. that is my son, right there. >> jamie: on the left. >> doesn't hurt the joints, it causes -- results in improved balance, fewer falls, lower
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blood pressure, you can learn how to do it, and once you learn how to do it, you do it yourself, it doesn't require any equipment, it doesn't make you breathless, and, i mean, it a perfect form of exercise, the latest thing about tai-chi, that you want to know, is that there have been reports in the last couple of weeks, that people with heart failure who do these exercises regularly, have dramatic improvements. it lowers blood pressure, it is the best thing for you, and, arthur, if you are watching, i am going to start this tai-chi, the next time you come to visit me. >> jamie: sounds great. >> eric: we have to see that. >> fantastic thing and they are teaching it, hospital for special surgery in new york has it and virtually every hospital has a place where you can learn how to do it. >> eric: that is wonderful. >> if you want more information on it, go to playtai-chi.com.
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taichi, a wonderful form of exercise. >> eric: tons of tips how to stay healthy and we can't start the week right without hearing the doctor's healthy monday tip. that will be coming up next. >> jamie: and we want to bring you the latest on the story, it is troubling, a group of young people rushed to the hospital after overdosing at a college party and, police say they may have been targeted and we'll speak to the police chief next hour.
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>> eric: back with sunday house call and the host dr. isadore rosenfeld who every day at this time gives us a healthy monday tip. what is it this week? >> i think, eric, this is the most important thing i've said to you today. it has to do with blood pressure medication. for some reason, most people take their blood pressure medication in the morning. you know, you start the day, you take the medication you need. the fact is it's important to take blood pressure medication at night. that's because most people with high blood pressure -- normal people in the night, their pressure dips. people with high blood
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pressure, their pressure doesn't dip during the night. it rises. the best time to take your blood pressure medication is at night. most people require more than one blood pressure medication. usually a combination of pills. in this case, you can take one in the morning, but make sure to take one at night. check it out with your doctor and see what your blood pressure range is. but you will find that your highest levels are at night and time to treat them with the medication at night before you go to bed. >> eric: you would think you wake up in the morning and have coffee and all of that and if you have blood pressure, go sky high. >> i don't think coffee raises blood pressure. that's a whole other item. it's found in a recent study, it's found that people taking the blood pressure medication at night have a reduced incident of stroke and heart attack. very important advice. >> jamie: that is great. thank you so much.
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well, you want to keep your e-mails coming, it's housecall@foxnews.com. the doctor reads them all. we'll try to bring it up on a future edition of sunday housecall. if there is something you're interested in, go to foxnews.com/housecall to check out all the doc's great advice and those groovy glasses that he loves so much. doctor, thank you. all right. he offered me a pair, i told him i wasn't ready. take care. take care. >> eric: see you next sunday. captioned by closed captioning services, inc >> eric: we have a fox news alert. two suspects have identified in the suspected murder of an american jet skier along the u.s. mexico. after theny and her husband was jet skiing. this happened last month when tiffany said guzman from mexico chased them and opened
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fire. bullet struck david in the head. tiffany said she fled making it to the texas shoreline. mexican police link two members of the drug cartel to the case. david's body has not been found and there are accusations the mexican government has not done enough. we have more on the developing story when texas congressman ted poe joins us later. he says the mexican drug car tell control the lake. he will be with us later this hour. ♪ ♪ >> jamie: inside america's news headquarters, fox is where you need to be. countdown to the mid-term elections and the democrats biggest star is hitting the campaign trail. hitting it hard. president obama holding a rally in philadelphia hours from now, trying to fire up his base and avert a g.o.p. wave. that could put republicans in control of the house and some experts are saying possibly the senate. good morning, everyone. i'm jamie colby. great to have you here.
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>> eric: i'm eric shawn. welcome to a new hour of america's news headquarters for this sunday morning. both the president and vice president joe biden making a joint appearance in the hip-hop concert in the city of brotherly love. can they recreate what propelled them to the white house two years ago? mike emanuel has the latest. what are we expecting to see in philly? >> reporter: well, eric, we expect to see a huge rally to get the youth vote excited again. it was critical to president obama in 2008. there has been a lot of talk in the cycle about an enthusiasm gap if you will, saying republicans seem excited to go to the polls in mid-term elections. democrats seem less enthused. we see what we saw in madison, wisconsin, and bouie, maryland. the big rally. try to fire up the base and show democrats around the country in places where the democratic vote is important,
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inner city philadelphia, they are fired up. and try to show that with three weeks to go until the mid-terms, democrats should have hope and should hopefully turn out for the polls from the president's perspective. >> eric: there is less enthusiasm among the democrats. we have more on that in a minute. joe biden, the vice president, new edition on the campaign trail today? >> he is indeed. he talked about his pennsylvania roots growing up. part of his childhood in pennsylvania. serving from nearby delaware. see the president and the vice president on stage together. new wrinkle today. later this week you will see michigan obama, first lady, hit the campaign -- michelle obama, first lady hit the campaign trail. the first lady has a lot of popularity with democrats. she is seen as a secret weapon to hit the trail and try to help out democrats in the tough races around the country.
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obviously, a lot of post game analysis to see if she was a secret weapon or voters desided to vote the way they want vote. new wrinkle today and come this week. >> eric: getting down to the wire soon. we'll follow every second of it. mike, great to see you as always. jamie? >> jamie: if philadelphia is like the rest of the nation, the president may have a tough sell. mood of america, 59% of americans say we are on the wrong track. only 34% say the country is headed in the right direction. jennifer griffin in our washington bureau with more on that. jep, always good to see you. november 2, around the corner, hard to believe. how are the republican and democratic leaders trying to shape the voters' choice, especially given the polls? >> reporter: well, jamie, no place better to look than the sunday talk show circuit. look to how minority whipper rick cantor on "fox news sunday" with bret baier today. >> clearly, bret, over the last 20 months the country has
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seen what the other party has to offer. there hasn't been coming together in terms of trying to come up with solutions to get people back to work. now we have a sense with unemployment around 10% and 80% of people knowing someone out of a job. they want things to get better. >> reporter: congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz pushed back. >> we literally created 86 3w,000 private sector jobs this year alone. more jobs than the bush administration created. the republicans offer more of the failed policy of the past. they take to us the stranglehold that they had when it came to the tax cutting policy, only on the wealthy. exploded the deficit. took a $5.6 trillion surplus to $1.3 trillion deficit. now they want the key to the cars back. >> reporter: there are contradictory messages sent by the electorate.
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according to the recent polls and the voters say they're anti-washington, they still want the government to solve their current economic problems with large government programs, jamie. >> jamie: interesting. so if americans have a more negative view of government than they did, how much government do they want in their lives? what does it mean for democrats who control congress? >> ironically, according to a "washington post" poll done in conjunction with henry kaiser foundation and harvard university, most americans who say they want limited government also call social security and medicare important. after want government to regulate healthcare. a conflicting message sent by the i lec trart -- electorate. they want them to fight for more government money to get their jobs. >> jamie: a great review of the mood of america, jen. thank you. >> eric: you know republicans have been getting a big boost from the tea party.
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movement supporters rallying voters across the country. will the tea party deliver seats? simon rosenberg is president of the think tanks and the former clinton campaign advisor and karen is the former director for the national republican congressional committee. simon and karen, welcome to fox news on sunday morning. sigh among, you think the tea party will do it? help or hurt? >> it's for the establish republicans who got beaten in the election cycle by the tea party candidates. now that we are entering the fall, we will help create enthusiasm for republicans. the question is can the democrats respond? what we have seen in the last few weeks, it's definitive now that the republican wave crested and the race is tightening up across the country. we have a different dynamic the final few weeks. the tea party will make a net-positive contribution for republicans. >> eric: you think the wave is crested and we hear
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predictions that the republicans can take the house. >> they could. clearly the national poll numbers are better for the democrats today than they were three or four weeks ago. "washington post" had a column friday saying the house substantially improved for the democrats across the country. you have seen democrats in seven senate races with the better polling numbers they had a few weeks ago. this is a jump ball. i think what the parties do, the candidates do in the final few weeks will make a big difference. >> eric: karen, is it a jump ball? >> no. i think even more than the tea party, and i think the media is fixated on the tea party right now. what they're missing is the fact that it's the independent voters out there who swung the election in 2006 and in 2008 for democrats are once again going to swing this election in 2010 back toward the republican party. i think we're looking at well, if you support the tea party, then you are more likely to go vote. i think the bigger point is if you oppose government spending, higher taxes, if you
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oppose the healthcare bill. if you oppose the bail-out, you're much more motivated to go out there and vote for the fiscally conservative candidate on the ticket who is going to happen to be a republican in this case. >> eric: some of the polls have been showing that. "washington post" shows 43% of democrats are interested in the election. karen, you get 83% of tea party followers in delaware. they tripled, triple the number of republicans who came out in the primary. >> that's right. every poll, the gallup, "washington post," the others. a great deal of enthusiasm among republican voters. we're not seeing that on the democratic side. in fact, we're seeing blue collar white democrats who are likely to vote for republican candidates in this election. this is not something that obama and biden can go out there, hold rallies, hip-hop rallies and concerts to
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motivate voters. the voter motivation is coming from an anger at the federal government for overspending, overtaxing, and wasting a lot of money that we borrowed from china. >> eric: simon, how come there isn't that motivation among democrats? >> two things to keep in mind. one the democrats got more votes in the last two elections than the republicans. even if democrats have a lower turn-out they could do well in the election because more people voted democratic. substantially more people that voted democratic in the last two elections. not a lot of evidence despite the republican strength in the election, they surpass the 45-46% margin they got in the last two elections. a lot will depend if the democrats reclaim the votes lost in the last election. something i want to add quickly is something karen said. if the country was looking for the fiscally responsible party, they should vote for the democrats.
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right now, all the studies show the republican plan they proposed in the last few weeks will explode the deficit more than the plan that the democrats and president are offering. this will be one of the most interesting time closing part of the debate, which is the most fiscally irresponsible party in the last ten years of the americans have been the republican party. they are proposing the same thing they did before, got the exploding deficits in the last few years. the democrats have to do a better job making the case in the time weeks to have the election they want to have. >> eric: karen, that seems to be the opposite of what we're hearing. lo >> look, if democrats in party line vote voted in the healthcare reform bill. that angered a lot of people. tea party movement in the summer of 2009, president obama and the leadership of the democratic party made fun of, they mocked them. if you want to talk about the anger and the government, big government, expanding government, it's also the fact that the democratic leadership
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in washington continue to ignore the concerns of voters. forget the republican versus democrat. you have to focus on the independent voters that are going to swing this election. those independent voters if you look at the polling, if you dig down in the numbers do not like the healthcare bill. they do not like the bail-out. they did not like the stimulus. they don't like a lot of the things that have been voted along the party lines. democrats need to take accountability for that. stop making fun of voters who oppose those things. >> there is not a republican in america that has a plan to reduce the deficit by a penny. the big lie in the election is the republican offering to the american people that they will be more fiscally responsible for the democrats. that's not true. i think this is going to be an area where democrats have to do a much better job of drawing the stark contrast. that's why you can continue to
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see the democratic improvement in the time three weeks of this election. it will be a barn burner no, doubt. >> eric: barn burner either way. we'll see what happens. simon and karen, a few weeks to go. thank you so much. >> jamie: this is a fox news alert out of pakistan. key nato supply route into afghanistan is now reopened. pakistan ending an 11-day long blockade at the border crossing, closing the route after a u.s. helicopter strike killed two pakistani soldiers. militants destroyed dozen of nato trucks left vulnerable by the blockade in recent days. still ahead we look at whether pakistan is helping or hurting the afghan war, are we going everything we need them to do. how can we get them to do more? we speak with a c.i.a. counterterrorism analyst straight ahead. eric? >> eric: jamie, the middle east peace process talks are on. there could be a new wrinkle. israeli cabinet approved a loyalty bill that could deal a blow to the mideast process.
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the bill requires new citizens to pledge a loyalty oath to a, "jewish and democratic state." lawmakers say it smacks of racism and they say it could undermine the rights of israel's arab minority. >> jamie: in south korea, hundreds of people using balloons to get their message across the border to north korea. about 250 activists attack anti-north leaflets to thousands of balloons and they set them free, hoping the win will take them to the -- wind will take them to the people of the north. pamphlets are urging people to resist succession of power from the communist ruler kim jong il to his youngest son expected to be the next ruler. >> eric: speaking of north korea, fascinating and rare look at the communist leader. reclusive leader kim jong il and his son kim jong un, making rare appearance. greg palkot is in north korea
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and filed a report. greg? >> reporter: there has to be a morning after even for pyongyang, north korea. you are looking at it behind me. this is kim jong il square. a short while ago this was filled with 50,000 dancers celebrating or instructing to celebrate the next leader of north korea, his name is king jong un. son of the current leader kim jong il. u.s. is watching this closely, the past and current behavior in north korea described as erratic. the future looking uncertain. uncertain perhaps for the lives of the people we watched dancing tonight. tomorrow, some of them will get up to gruelling lives. eric? >> eric: thank you, greg. >> jamie: well, pakistan ending an 11-day blockade by reopening the key border process used by the nato troops. is this a sign they're working closer with the u.s. the way we need them to? we will look at that. >> eric: there is an investigation now underway in a mass overdose at a college party. dozen teens were rushed to the
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hospital, where police now say the group they may have been targeted. the police chief in charge of the investigation joins us next. with the latest details of the shocking case. >> definitely, a drug was in the bottle that everyone was chasing with. >> it's a date rape drug. basically, you don't know what you're doing when you are on it. so, pretty much black out. we had a mouse. what? don't frk, it's gone. who did it? i did. with ortho home defense max. guaranteed to kill the mouse. just push down the lever and it does the rest. nothing to see, nothing to touch. you just throw it away. no mess, no drama. ortho. defd what's yours. introducing total plus omega-3 honey almond flax cereal. all the nutrition of total, plu10% daily value omega-3 ala, and a delicious honey almond crunch. new total plus omega-3.
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>> eric: the crew will be there to mark the tenth anniversary of when the first crew was sent to the orbiting lab in 2000. when the space station had two modules. since then, they renovated and expanded the place. it now has more than ten rooms and as much living space as boeing jumbo jet. >> jamie: this is a disturbing story from washington state. police say a house party outside seattle took a
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dramatic turn when more than a dozen students had to be hospitalized after a mass overdose. they were literally dropping unconscious. 12 young people, most of them girls found passed out, some semi-conscious when authorities arrived. police believe there was an unknown substance that may have been slipped in their drink in a possible scheme to sexually assault the group of young women. joining me on the phone is chief scott ferguson, police from the police department. thank you, chief, for being with us. >> yes. >> jamie: this is so disturb; particularly, as a parent when you hear that the girls went to a party. do you know what the substance was at this point? >> at this point we don't know precisely what it was. we did recover blood and urine analysis. so that is being sent to the toxicology and we're waiting the results. >> jamie: do you have a sense of what it might be? >> we have a suspicion, but we are reluctant to indicate what it is. but we have a suspicion. >> jamie: what is the prognosis of some of the
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students? i know at least one of the young women remains in serious condition. >> yeah. fortunately for her, her family, she has been upgraded to stable condition. she is the one remaining in the hospital of the 12. >> jamie: tell me what you found, authorities, when you arrived on scene. one woman was slumped over in her car unconscious? >> we received initial report of an unconscious female at one of the local grocery stores in c le elem. officers learned she had come from a larger party in rosalyn and officers went to a large party at a house and had to breach the door to get in. opinion the entry in the house, they began to see people unconscious throughout the house. either unconscious or semi-unconscious state. >> jamie: i know you needed so many ambulances they had to come from the surrounding
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areas. who owned the house? or is anyone being charged or do you know who might be responsible? >> it's a recreation, weekend home. the owners have a son who is a college student, who is kind of the catalyst for this party. in terms of charging, right now, our primary objective is to work with the university police and the sheriff department to start interviewing the individuals involved and determine how the substance was introduced to the party. >> jamie: finally, can i ask you was there a sexual assault at the location? >> as officers were sweeping the inside of the house for other victims, a deputy walked in to a room and observed an individual involved in a sexual assault with a semi-unconscious woman. that individual was taken into custody. >> jamie: and charged? >> charges are possibly spending on this. the matter is under investigation, still. >> jamie: chief, thank you for the latest. a story fox will continue to follow. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> eric: you know our brave men and women in uniform
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aren't the only heroes coming home from iraq. coming up, a heart-breaking and inspiring story of love and dedication. the four-legged soldier who is healing thanks to a couple who lost their own son in war. >> there is new developments in the case of an american man believe to be murdered on the border with u.s. and mexico. tiffany says she was forced to leave her husband's body behind and run for her life after the couple came under gunfire. we are learning that there may be two suspects in the case that mexican authorities have. brand new information next. >> what that moment was like, the moment you had to let him go? >> awful. because i knew i had to leave him in mexico waters and there was -- i couldn't get him up. i have couldn't get him on my skis. it couldn't help him -- i couldn't help him. ♪ i was young
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>> jamie: welcome back. here are the stories making headlines at this hour. social security will not get cast of living due -- cost of living benefit due to inflation. president obama's headlines, a large campaign rally today in philadelphia. he is going to look to pump up the democratic base with the help of the hip-hop band, the roots. authorities in hungary say no new cracks found on the wall
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of the reservoir holding back. the constant red flesh. protective walls are built to hold back any further silt. good news. >> eric: fox news alert to tell you about. new developments in the suspected murder of david hartley. the american man whose wife says was shot together days ago in the lake between texas and mexico. police naming two members of the dug cartel as suspecteds in the case. the wife says she watched in horror as the fun day turned to a nightmare. geraldo rivera spoke to her about the shooting. >> what happened when he slipped from your grasp? >> when i had to leave him behind, he was shot in the head. and he had a life vest on, so he was floating on the top of the water. >> the texas congressman ted poe joins us live from houston, member of the house judiciary committee.
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congressman, the two suspects are brothers. they've been accused of the kidnappings and murders. does it surprise you? >> no, it doesn't. zedas have operationm control of this area of the lake. the mexican government doesn't patrol the lake at night. and they're naming the two individuals, they are notorious criminals. they haven't been arrested yet. it took a mexican government a while to get engaged in the process. >> eric: mexicans say they're doing enough. they say the search started when they found out about this. do you buy that? >> i don't. they called off the search over the last weekend. they don't search at night. because it's too dangerous. they do not have operational control of the border. we don't have operationm control of the border. the proof will be in the results. it's been over a week. they haven't found the body of david hartley. they not l not because the zedas have disposed of it. they can say that. they don't want our help. we offered our help to search for bodies and the criminals.
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they said no, no americans is going to help us. it's more talk. the mexican government has a notorious bad record for solving numerous bad records in mexico, especially drug-related. >> eric: numbers are unbelievable. 17,000 drug violence in the past years. you just said that the body has been disposed of. expand on that. >> yes. the zedas who probably are responsible for the homicide are not going to leave evidence in the lake. when they commit murders, unless they want to use the body as an example, but they dispose of the bodies. that's what has happened in mexico and the drug wars. when they commit homicide, they get rid of the body. i will be surprised if anyone finds david hartley's body. it's unfortunate, because, you know, he is an american citizen. result of the lack of border security on both sides of the border. it's a tragedy. >> eric: who do we do about
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this? what can we do? >> our federal government needs to understand we need to secure the border. instead of talk about it. we need to put resources everywhere. and the sections that are operationally controlled by the drug cartels. falcon lake. we need the coast guard there on falcon lake all the time. not just after some crime has been committed. we need to put the national guard on the southern border of the united states. not 1200 but 10,000 as i have proposed in legislation. to control the border. to keep the violence from coming in the united states. it takes boots on the ground, not just talk and surveillance. >> eric: you talk about the national guard. what can they do? they're not allowed to go across the border. mexico is a sovereign country. >> that is correct. as far as protecting this side of the border, we don't protect the border on our side either. we should encourage in cases like this, the mexican government to allow us to cooperate and find specific criminals that have committed crimes on the international
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borders. mexico doesn't really cooperate with us and let us help them. as far as protecting the border, we need the national guard on the border and the coast guard on the lake. the federal government answer to the problems is don't go near the border. that is not the border. secure the border and use whatever means necessary. >> eric: it's a tragic story. we're seeing the hartleys together, obviously on a cruise at another time. what does it say about the conditions now, when americans perhaps should not cross the board sther when you are on a lake on the jet ski and they come after you, as we're told. do we know why they did this? what was happening and why david is apparently now dead? >> this is a drug running group that run drugs to the united states. they operate at night. for some reason they saw the
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hartleys and took action to protect their turf and their territory. mexico needs to patrol their side of the lake. americans need to patrol our side. we should make the lake safe for both countries and citizens to have recreation on this massive lake. rather than say stay off the lake because the drug cartels control this entire area of the southern part of the southern part of the united states. >> eric: indication of what is happening on the border. congressman ted poe, in texas, houston, thank you for joining us this sunday morning. >> thank you, eric. >> jamie: knowing soldiers as i do and all those who serve, this could be my favorite story today. from the scars of war emerges a story of hope. this is gunner. a bomb sniffing marine dog shipped home from afghanistan for k-9 post traumatic stress disorder. we don't think about that a lot. he lost his nerve in battle and now he has found a home with a family who lost so much more.
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peter doocy is in our new york newsroom with the story. peter, i can't wait to hear more. >> reporter: jamie, dev and dan dunham from new york have had a rough few years. in 2004, their son jason dunham was patrol and sent in a coma when a grenade trying to protect his men from sent shrapnel flying in his brain. he died later at the naval hospital in maryland, just 22 years old. in 2007, they accepted their son's medal of honor in the white house in a ceremony with president bush. jason's mother said since her marine didn't come home, she had a place for a marine. this august, the dunhams adopted gunner. gunner was deployed to afghanistan to support the brave men and women on the front lines sniffing out bombs, but he never made it on a patrol. during the training, all he wanted to do is play fetch with the trainer. when it came down to the serious stuff, he was too skittish to fulfill his duty. so he was no good to marines overseas anymore. but he was welcomed in the
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dunham's home. even though he is now safe in the states, he still gets freaked out by loud noises like thunder which sent him in a frenzy on his second night in new york. >> he went in the kennel face first and tried to hide his face in the corner. gunner had stitches in his lip. he proceeded to tear them out. and i just decided after we tried to get him to sleep in the bed and he was just panicked that he seemed to be more comfortable in the kennel. >> reporter: deb and dan say that gunner is making progress but they know they will likely never make him forget about everything that traumatized him the same way that they'll never forget, jamie, what happened to their son. back to you. >> jamie: peter doocy, nice to meet that family. thank you. >> thank you. >> eric: wonderful. well, pakistan today reopening a critical border crossing in to afghanistan. did you know there was an 11-day blockade, that left the
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>> jamie: pakistan is allowing supply convoys to reach nato forces in afghanistan. a very important route. while the blockade was on, dozens of trucks were left vulnerable to militant attacks. u.s. officials are now saying members of pakistan spy agency are actually pressing the taliban to attack the u.s. in afghanistan. what? is pakistan going to fight with america or against it? joining us now, former c.i.a. counterterrorism analyst phillip mudd, former intelligence advisor to the f.b.i. very nice to meet you. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> jamie: intelligence is so important on the ground. how do we really determine whether pakistan is with us, or against us? >> one of the determination is what the pakistanis lost in nine years of war? they probably lost more officers than nato and u.s. forces lost in afghanistan since 9/11. it's also important to remember that we have a lot of questions about how pakistan pursues this war. this is effectively a nine-year civil war for them.
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we have the army and the security forces in pakistan fighting in their own tribal areas for longer than we fought our own civil war. it's not a surprise that there is tension in pakistan about how to pursue this war. >> jamie: there are more and more safe havens in pakistan for terrorist training camps and otherwise. and we know that there are also an increase in c.i.a. drones and attacks from us. are the pakistanis supportive of those efforts? or have they added to the rub? >> i think there is a difference between what you see in public and what you see in private. it's important for pakistanis not to have formers, members of al-qaeda in the tribal areas. they're not interested in having the guys there. i don't think privately they are too concerned when the u.s. goes out and takes out the foreigners. that said, the amount of popular support for america in pakistan is very low. the pakistani politicians and military are on the hook in public about supporting american operations. they might privately say look,
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as long as you don't kill too many pakistanis, go after al-qaeda. publicly, they will not get out there and give us support, i suspect. >> jamie: it seems that now the administration has announced there is a date certain when we will likely pull out of afghanistan, that pakistan being on the border could be left with a huge responsibility to keep their citizens safe if we're not there to try to stabilize or at least get some more civility to afghanistan. how much does that weigh on their minds about what might be ahead for them in terms of them deciding to be cooperative with us? >> i think they are deeply concerned about this. in the past, we had ups and downs with the pakistani after we provided support to get soviets out of afghanistan. we started to hammer them about the nuclear program and support for militants in india. then we came back in after 9/11 and said stick with us. now we say stick with us, but we may leave next year.
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if you are the pakistanis you say yeah, the americans are here now, but we have to prepare for the long-term, and that includes some element of taliban operating in afghanistan and pakistan. >> jamie: we know in afghanistan the government is talking to the taliban. do you think that pakistan is doing the same thing? >> i would strongly suspect they are doing the same thing. remember a couple of things here. they were talking to the taliban with our support -- or the predecessors to the taliban in the anti-soviet campaign. they have been talking for decades. secondly, some of these are their citizens. they are citizens in areas where there are now war zones and severe problems with civilian casualties and also sometimes with civilian dislocation. so i think it would be shocking to me if the pakistani army isn't talking to pakistanis who themselves are members of the taliban. >> jamie: phillip, you resume is spot-on for this issue. what would you tell the administration to do? >> i'd say look, we have to stay in this for the long
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haul. look at the problem from america we try to make them black and white. are they with us or against us? the issue here is people in pakistan will plot against innocents in new york unless we keep our boot on the neck of the taliban. there will be up and down and trucks burned at the border when the pakistanis become angry with us. if we don't stick with it, we will see more peopling from detroit, new york or miami or los angeles. >> jamie: i look forward to speaking to you again. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. >> eric: have you heard about the election ad that is sparking an uproar? wait until you hear what the actors supposedly were told to say. west virginia governor joe manchin was the target. he will react in the next hour. >> jamie: a gem of the country music world sparkling again. grand ole opry opening its doors in time for a major celebration. we are there. and we'll have a live report next. [ male announcer ] when it comes to energy bills,
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one of the mass weddings, that they are known for. look at this! marrying more than 7,000 couples in another mass ceremony. more than 20,000 guests attended the ceremony near seoul. >> jamie: big crowds can, too at a celebration. 85 years in the making. the grand ole opry, back to the original glory just in time for a star-studded celebration. it was five months ago that the country music institution was ravaged by floodwaters and now it is back in full swing. courtney friel live from the grand ole opry in nashville, tennessee. hey, court. how was the celebration? >> reporter: hey, jamie. it was such an honor to be here for the celebration. i was so excited. think about it, five months ago on the grand ole opry stage, it was flooded. 46 inches above the stage. water everywhere, which would
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have come up to here on me. the auditorium was gutted out. same with the stage area. but one special piece was salvageable. if you are familiar with the grand ole opry, you know this is from the old rieman audstoirm stage and good enough wood it could be kept and they put it back in here. because of the flooding, the anniversary was more special. trace atkins and dolly parton were here performing. >> jamie: what did they say about the new opry? has it been restored to its old glory? >> you know, they think it turned out for the better. something good came out of the tragedy. i caught up with both of them backstage. take a look. >> you witness some of the flooding that happened in the spring here? >> i live here. i live in nashville and we came to see all of the
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horrible stuff that has happened. it's so great to be back in here. they have done some wonderful things. they revamped it. we have a lot of things that are more wonderful even before and it was great then. >> it's beautiful. it's beautiful. what they have done with the place now, i mean, they captured so much of the history and there are many more pictures on the wall than there used to be. so many photographs that capture the history of the opry through the years. i lovehatt they've done. the dressing rooms have things now. it's great! >> reporter: if you would like to see more of my interview with trace and dolly, head to fox411.com, entertainment page. toss it to you. >> jamie: we'll check it out. thank you, courtney. >> eric: the world's richest man bill gates spending $1.5 million on something that has liz trotta raising her eyebrows. you don't want that! liz next. hey, guys, i know i've been bad at this in the past,
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>> eric: there is controversy this morning with the gates foundation. is it a noble effort or paying for news? liz trotta is a contributor that joins us every sunday with her commentary. good morning. >> good morning. >> eric: what is this about? >> abc news announced and the gates foundation, as in bill
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gates, one of the richest man in the world, announced that gates is going to give $1.5 million to abc news to commission, if you will, a one-year series of stories on healthcare, global healthcare and the poor. of course, the announcement is followed by a blathery statement by the tv executives saying that they were passionate about these kind of stories and it would have impendence. i see a real, real orange light here. caution! this is outside influence tainting the news. no matter what abc says about their independence, they are not going to finance the story totally. they are using bill gates and with bill gates and his foundation comes an agenda. it's been very clear. that is population control, helping the poor, globalism. one can only be reminded this
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incident and the lack of outrage i may add by a story in 1976 when the great e.b. white, long retired from the new yorker magazine, which he helped build as a matter of fact. and one of the great masters of the english language was reading in his local paper and found out that xerox corporation had decided to commission a piece in "esquire" magazine. it was to be written by salesbury, one of the stars of the "new york times" at that time and salesbury accepted a contract and $15,000 for travel expenses. and they would be running ads buffering this story. and "esquire" and xerox would give them a one-year contract. even in the retirement, on the
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little farm, e.w. white came roaring forth and begab correspondence with the xerox corporation. let me read to you one passage from several letters that passed between xerox and e.b. white. whatever money changing hands, something goes along with it. an intangible something that varies with the circumstances. it would be hard to resist the suspicion that esquire feels indebted to zero, that mr. salesbury feels undebted to both. the ownership or the sovereignty of esquire has been nibbled around the edges. that moral direction it seems to me should stand today. that's what is at stake here. e.b. white called the contract between "esquire" and xerox and writer an invitation to evil. he said it was a disaster for freedom of the press.
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i think you could apply those very words to the contract now between the gates foundation and abc news. the gates foundation in general as sort of winds its way through control using the american press. >> eric: liz, we only have a minute left. abc news says the news division will have editorial control over the series and they say it's like a sponsorship. david westin says the support will help with production costs. >> of course. you know as well as i do, and the quote makes it clear. psychologically you know you're indebted. i used to be called "the chilling factor." if you know you are getting money from somebody, would you dare displease them? although you talked yourself into an argument, yes i'm being objective. it's utter nonsense and just as wrong as it was in 1976. >> liz, as always. thank you. that does it for us. i'm eric shawn. >> i'm jamie colby. thank you for spending
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