today. and now, you know the news as fox reports this sunday, october 17th, 2010. i'm julie banderas, thanks for watching everyone, huckabee is inerand at 9 p.m. fight to m bret rescue tonight baier taking a look at key congressional races. >> have a great weekend. everyone. . . >> 9.6% unemployment. i can't look at the numbers. what's next, give me the list for the huckabee show tonight. marlo thomas, i like her. she's good for us. many married to phil donahue and a solid liberal. edward norton, not good. too appealing to the young audience, will take away the youth vote. done francisco, the guy,

what's huckabee trying to do get the latino audience? no way, jose. john kasich, the guy running for governor of ohio? this is bad. let me be clear, i've been to ohio a dozen times, and they'll all be wasted trips if we let kasich go on huckabee, it will kill us. that's it. cansle tonight's huckabee show, i want it off now. not me, you idiot, huckabee! >>. >> mike: ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [applaus [applause] >> welcome, everybody, thank you for joining us, welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city and let me say, thanks, mr. president. we are going to do the show anyway tonight.

wasn't that fun, having the president of the united states opening up our show? all right. you know what, for a year now, we have been talking about shovel-ready jobs, how if we had the shovel-ready jobs and the bill, 780 billion dollars we'll keep the unemployment low and put people to work and save the country aen save our economy. well, you know, how many of you have been noticing this, but the president has been talking about shovel-ready jobs for a long time. just watch. >> all of them have projects that are shovel-ready. we've got shovel-ready projects all across the country. shovel-ready projects. we are seeing shovels hit the ground. shovels are breaking ground. there are almost a hundred shovel-ready transportation projects already approved in colorado which are beginning to create jobs e shovel-ready jobs that's what we've been hearing about, but this week in a very revealing interview

in the new york times, the president made the statement, he said, there is no such thing as shovel ready projects. no such thing as shovel-ready projects? mr. president, just what have you been shovelling all this time? time? [applaus [applause] >> oh, my thanks to mike reid and also lauren from our staff putting this together and giving us the great idea. you know what, i think we can just say, take this job and shovel it. well, that's my view. [applause] >> i welcome yours. you can contact me at meike huckabee.com and sign up, go to my facebook, probably on twitter, all sorts of stuff. well, you know that a couple of weeks ago on the show we talked about the importance of ohio in the national political landscape and this weekend, president obama is making his 11th trip to the buckeye

state. that's where the race for governor has gotten a lot closer in recent days. the latest real clear politics average of polls has republican challenger john kasich ahead of incumbent democrat ted strickland by just five points, only two weeks ago. joining us from a rally in pomeroy, ohio is john kasich and i want to say in the interest of full disclosure, i am a friend of john and his wife karen, probably more so karen than even john. i wish she were running, but also, i want to say as someone who has endorsed him i'm not the least bit objective here, but i do say we've invited governor strickland to be on the show, he was unavailable this week, but we welcome him to be on the show anytime between now and the election. john, it's good to have you here and i know that this has been an intense race with an unusual amount of focus that the president has brought to ohio and a governor's race. why is president obama so focused on the governor's race of ohio? >> he's here because he knows

if he loses the governor's office in ohio, which is ground zero, he's in deep trouble for 2012. so, they're pulling out the stops and more money spent against me by the democratic party and cohorts than any other candidate in america, but we're still ahead, mike, and we're doing great (applause) >> a lot of those in ohio goes because in a presidential electi election, ohio is often the tipping point. you can go through the list of the presidential elections and this often indicates who's going to have it. how much of this is about his love of ohio and is it more about the reelection that he may be facing in 2012? >> no, i think that's what it's all about. he believes that if--

ted strickland said it himself. whoever wins in 10 is going to make it for 12. i'm not running against obama or ted striklands. this state is in trouble. raising poverty, rising homelessness, our entrepreneurs are et ohio movin if we do that we'll have a lot of influence once we move the needle and towards prosperity in the 2012 ewilkes, look, i know you very well, you and i don't hold personal grudges, it's not a personality contest, it's about the policies that spur growth and government as a last resort not a first resort. running the company from the bottom up. the more money people in their pockets the better we control our debts. what i focused when i was a congressman and led the effort for the budget. it's serious stuff here and not just for 10, but

implications for 12 as well. >> one of the charges that governor strickland has thrown against you, you are somewhat tied to wall street and you work with lehman brothers and that's one of the charges, but you're not exactly a person who grew up as a trust fund baby. so, just tell me your background and you know, tell me where you came from, john kasich growing up. >> well, mike, my father was a poseman, he carried mail on his back, he was a democrat all his life and i grew up in a blue collar town outside of pittsburgh, the keys rocks, if the wind blew the wrong way, the jobs were on the rocks. and i went to ohio state and my mother said shoot for the stars and you work hard and you can get there and i think that's one of the values i think we can get to. somebody is successful, and it's class warfare, it's an evil thing and pits people

against one another. by the way, mike, i was in business and ran a two-man office out in ohio and helped companies to create jobs. one they think we need in politics today just not people who have political success, but we need to have job creators, because it's pretty clear when you look at the obama administration and even ted strickland, if you don't understand how you can help small businesses to be strengthened and to expand and you don't understand innovation and how to help companies get ahead, you end up in this kind of a terrible situation economically, so we not only need people who can be successful in politics, but those that understand job creation as well and i'm proud of the fact that i was in business. >> mike: john kasich, thank you very much for joining us and again, i love you, but i think the wrong kasich is on the ballot, it ought to be karen. maybe one of these days. >> my wife just loves her and wait until they meet her they'll say they want her to run for governor. good luck with the show. >> mike: thank you, john kasich for joining us.

they may not vote for him, but may vote for karen could be the first lady. we would welcome governor strickland to come on the show anytime and of' known john and karen a long time. went to rwanda with them for a project for the one campaign and so they're dear friends. all right, even the bible says that laughter is your very best medicine. my next guest was raised with a legendary danny thomas and grew up around funnymen, bob hope, milton berl and george burns. that's strong medicine. marlo thomas will share some of her wonderful stories when we come back. [ female announcer ] staynce... stay twice... earn a free night! two separate stays at comfort inn or any of these choice hotels can earn you a free night -- only when you book at choicehotels.com.

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>> she's an actress, activist and philanthropist and she's got a brand new book out called growing up laughing and it will keep you laughing. please welcome marlo thomas. [applaus [applause] >> thank you so much for coming on. >> my pleasure. >> when i read your book, i thought i was going to skip through a little bit of it-- >> ye of little faith. >> let me tell you the stories they kept sucking me in. >> good. >> i could not get over the insight that you shared about the people you grew up with. >> right, yeah, well, mike, i grew up in a comedy household and that's why i call it greg up laughing and my dad was funny. the comedians he hung out with were funny, guys, milton berl, george burns, bob hope, loved

to make jokes all the time and pull pranks on each other and i thought about that, you know, about how my life really was about comedy all my life and i wanted to find out, there are a couple of them there. after my dad died and they came to the st. jude dinners. >> jan murray. >> and george and sid and milton. >> mike: what a great cast. >> and i decided i wanted to interview today's young comedians or great comedians, jerry seinfeld, chris rock, jon stewart and colbert and whoopi and lili and all of them and they were very much like these guys, completely taking the comedy seriously, honing their act and exciting to talk to them about the craft. i loved it. >> mike: and i learned more about not only the comedians, but about the nature of comedy and one of the most powerful statements was jerry seinfeld's when he said that comedy is like sports and i

thought that was extremely insightful and made me think, so is politics, instant feedback, win or lose and seinfeld says when you got on the stage you tell the joke and you know whether it worked or not. >> right, exactly. >> mike: you do a movie and people may say i loved it, but you don't really no. >> no interpretation is needed. no perception is needed. he said, you know, when you're doing a play and somebody comes back stage and said, you why great. you think to yourself, was i? was i good? fur he an a comedian you know darned well whether you're good or not aneas like a football game, or politics, the score is on the scoreboard. >> the laughter is the scoreboard for the comedian. >> yes and he said something, jerry seinfeld, adults of the children laugh 75 times a day and adults laugh 12 times. isn't that sad? >> what happens. >> come on, we've got to cheer up. >> mike: it is sad. >> yeah, and you know, i have a new website called marlo thomas.com and i have a laugh

of the day on my website and it's so much fun finding a laugh of the day. i mean, i go through millions of jokes and videos and it's great. >> mike: when you were growing up, danny thomas' daughter there were all of these moments and one of the things that struck me was a boy you dated named jimmy. >> yes. >> mike: you dumped him, but your dad didn't. >> no. >> and he had a hard time letting go. >> mike: obviously, but a powerful moment, something happened. i want you to tell that story. >> yes. what you did for jimmy. >> we had broken up. i wanted to be an actress and gone off to new york to study acting and i didn't know this story until after my dad died, i got a letter from jimmy my boyfriend in college. now, my father loved this guy and wanted me to marry him. >> i didn't want to get married, i wanted to be an actress and go off on my own and after my dad died, i got a letter from jimmy pew telling he used to go have beers with

my dad and one day his car was parked out in the alley, but my dad walked him out to the car, an old jalopy and jimmy was going to be a dentist, oh, my god you'll break every bone in your body and he opened up his garage door and somebody had given him a pickup truck for thanking him for coming to a convention, my dad would never drive it. jimmy, he said, you take this pickup truck. my father says i'm not going to allow you to get in that and break your hands your body. and he drives away in the pickup truck. now i never knew that story, so like my father, jimmy lost the girl, but got a v-8 engine (laughter) (applause). >> mike: after all. we're going to be back with more. the book is called growing up laughing and you will just absolutely find yourself laughing. it's a wonderful book by marlo

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. [ applause ] >> mike: you can sign up fo >> (applause) >> the huckabee report. mike huckabee.com and you can listen three times every day on 600 of america's finest radio stations and all the details at mike huckabee.com and click on the huckabee report. we're back with marlo thomas when we were talking about of about this incredible experience you had not only with the comics that you knew from your father, but a lot of the modern comedians. >> yes. >> mike: chris rock is certainly a very different kind of comedian than your dad. when you talk to him what did you glean from his experience growing up funny? >> well, i saw something

fascinating about chris rock, i love him. think he's great. his act, he has so many cuss words in his act, right. i ran his shows back to back so i could prepare for the interview, what amazed me about it is he's so moral, his messages are like a preacher, you know, don't beat your wife, get a job, take care of your kids, vote, be responsible, and many' writing them down and thinking, wow, this guy is like a preacher. i said to him there's a little bit of preacher. >> he said, yeah, my grandfather and great grandfather were preachers. >> mike: he uses the same message and-- >> that's very good. very funny. >> mike: interestingly, jerry seinfeld on the other hand talked about he did not use profanity in his show he thought he could be funnier and make the comedy more powerful by not doing it. >> it would make him better. >> my dad never said a dirty word on stage either. it's interesting how the

taboos changed. in my dad's day you could make what we now call politically incorrect jokes, sexist jokes, racist je racist jokes political jokes. today they can swear, but don't make the politically incorrect jeks. and it's interesting the taboos switched. >> mike: i want to ask you a day hard for you, february 6th 1991, you got a phone call at 1:30 in the morning. it will me about that moment. >> oh, my, we were asleep and the phone rang and the doctor was on the phone and he said dad died and i thought he meant his dad. i didn't he was talking about, calling my dad died and i screamed and fell on the floor and my husband walked over me to get to the phone and he said, who is it, what is it, who died and i heard him say oh, no, and it was a terrible moment. it was terrible because, first of all, i adored my dad,

obviously from my book. >> mike: obvious. >> a funny guy and good guy and a decent man and also, it was a shock because he was well. so, i think when that happens in your family, it really knocks you out. and it was a-- it was tough getting through, but you know, the thing that stayed with me is that he's inside of me and i, and i talk to him all the time. especially about st. jude's children's research hospital. i'm having a tough time, tough to raise 700 million a year. >> mike: how did he start, how and why. >> and i'll say to him, all right, daddy, you wanted me to do this so you better help me, this is your ball game and you better fix this. >> mike: st. jude is a magnificent hospital, not far from where i grew up. >> that's right, right across the river. >> mike: why, why st. jude hospital. >> i think it came out of his immigrant, you know, childhood and seeing that nobody-- he was one of ten kids, nine boys and a girl and my grandmother never had a

doctor. she just ran after these kids and took care of these kids and nobody went to the doctor in their family or a dentist. my dad had false teeth. kids in his neighborhood died of inflew enza and rodent bites and all kinds of things and he had a front row seat to the inequities of health care in this country and wanted to do something about it. and i think most the principles of st. jude have to do with a man with a great conscience. and no family is turned away for a family who can't pay. and every kid gets assigned to a doctor. i don't want to make kids better i want to find out what makes them sick. this is the place that studied medicine so he really did take his experience and do something very powerful with it, that came out of his own childhood experience. >> mike: what a great legacy that he left and you know, all of us grew up watching danny thomas on television aen thought we knew him and thought we liked him. i tell you, after reading your book i realize what a classic,

classy, wonderful human being, great father, great husband. >> yes. >> mike: and a great american and a wonderful, wonderful human being. >> thank you. >> mike: and you do a great job of telling us about in this book. >> great. >> mike: thank you, marlo. >> thank you. >> mike: what a delight to have you here. again the book is called "growing up laughing" available at barns and nobles, border's amazon.com. wherever books can be purchased. so the story at that brought the whole world together. an amazing rescue of the 33 miners in chile. and one of the most popular tv personalities in the entire latin community, he was a constant presence at the site and he'll join us with stories you haven't heard before. that's coming up next. [applause]. [ j. weissman ] it was 1975.

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new terrorist attack possibly targeting france. security was beefed up in paris and other european cities after an earlier unrelated terrorist threat. french foreign minister says they were informed by saudi intelligence services that al-qaeda and the arabian peninsula was active or envisioned being active on the european continent, notably in france. and ahmadnejad says he's ready to start nuclear talks on one condition, he wants western countries to condemn israel's suspected nuclear arsenal. the state department calling on tehran to set a date for the negotiations about you not responding to the demands about israel's alleged atomic weapons and the israeli government never confirmed or denied having then. you're watching fox news, the most powerful news channel (applause) >> next is the beloved host of the spanish language variety shows, one of the most popular television shows all

over the world. >> now, sit back, and favorite host francisco. now, more than ever, this is the best reason to stay home on saturday night! [applaus [applause] >> ♪ >> well, don francisco is from chile and launched his show there from oh, way back 50 years an ago and later moved to miami, but he maintains strong ties to his homeland and raising millions for children and earthquake victims there and made several trips to the mine where 33 men were trapped almost two and a half months and offered encouragement and support to them and their families. joining us now from miami is don francisco. and don, thank you so much for joining me today. [applause] >> you were physically present, went to the mine.

were you able to communicate with some of the miners during that period of time they were deep within the earth's surface? >> well, more with the families because that was very difficult. i got some letters from them, they were trapped for about 70 days and i went the first time when the people feel they were alive and then at that time people, they-- they were very scary because they didn't know that they were alive. and then i came back, now, three days before they were rescued and there was a lot of anxiety in the people. but i never talked to the miners direct. i got some letters and i talked to the families. >> mike: this incident, i think, has done more, not just

for the people of chile, i think all over the world. we needed a good injection of hope and optimism, and this brought the entire world together to all pray for these guys and their safety and then to celebrate when they were rescued. tell me what you felt when you saw that first miner rescued out of the mine. >> you know, that was so emotional for me, mike. because first, we had during this year, this is our bicentennial year, we have a very strong earthquake, we lost a lot of people, we destroyed-- which destroyed one third of the country and then we have the miners trapped and that was more than the life of the miners, that was a symbol for us. i was still emotional and everybody that was there, the national reporter, too, not only myself, not only the

chileans, everybody. that was so strong, that the-- across the borders from al over the world, they watched, i think it was 1 billion people that watched that. well, i know that, i can't imagine anybody watching this and not having just emotion well up because, as i think somebody wisely said, we were all chileans during this experience. the whole world felt a connection to those miners and to their families and knowing they were there and hoping that they would be able to be brought out. i want to talk about your work is amazing, don, i mean, you were involved in the efforts after the horrible earthquake in chile, raising 80 million dollars cash, 40 million dollars in other goods and supplies. that's a lot of money to raise to help those victims. what did you do? how did you go about getting people to give that kind of

money for the cause? >> well, first, i have to tell you that i do a telephone for hand capped children for 32 degrees and we do that united over television networks because in our country, we have a lot of solidarity because we need the solidarity. we have, oh, big earthquake or we have a big tsunami and always, we have to get together. our country is like an island. it's very long, about 4,000 miles long, but it's only 150 miles wide. it's between the mountains and the sea. we need each other always. and he think we, we know that when something big is going on in our country, we have to be united. and that was the reason that we got such big amount of money, 80 million dollars in cash, 40 million in goods. and the telethon of 27 hours and we are only 60 million people. >> one of the things that i've just marveled is

uninfluence in the latino community. you probably are the single most recognizable figure in all of that community and have been for many years. do you ever find it sort of a sense of responsibility that platform and pedestal you hold, do you ever want to get on and make a stand for some political opinion that you have or decide, hey, i think i'm going to run for office? i mean, you'd be tough if you were on the ballot. >> no, i never was interested in politics. but always nm-- i think that my work as a media man is putting in touch the need of the people with the government, with the people they have the solution in his hands and this, the reason that we work so close with our audience here in the united states, because one of the problems that the united states has aen our community has is that we have a high percentage of our viewers

are-- that's a problem for the country in my opinion and a big problem for the families. >> mike: i want to go back-- >> it's a mixture. >> mike: it is for sure, don. tell me something that you learned from the families that encouraged you and touched you because you talked to them out there outside the mine. there's got to be something that stands out that got to you deep inside. >> well, there were so many human stories. there was one of the miners, the youngest, and i spoke to his father and the father told me, i just talked to my son and my son told me that they are not 23 miners, there are 24 miners and i said why? because god is with them. because gait was so important for those men, each men has a

small bible in his hands. and then, they were praying, even some of them, they were not believers. at the end everybody was praying, was praying for life and then, i think something very emotional for me was how united was the country, and how much fantastic those men had 2100 feet down. >> very, very powerful. powerful story. don, thank you and thank the people of chile. >> before i leave. >> mike: yes. >> i like to show you that one of the rescuers, the first one who went down, the lawn one who came out, he gave me one of the glasses that-- the same glasses that each one was wearing when they came out, they're special glasses for the light. and maybe that is a symbol,

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he portrays a parole officer and here is a look at him questioning. >> why do you walk around free as an adult. >> never convicted after crime. >> anybody don't know wrong. >> i never broke the law. >> what, in a vite. vietnam never killed some kid? now, come on, man, how long you get to keep judging a person for one bad thing they done. >> mike: please welcome edward norton. [applaus [applause] >> edward, great to have you here. [applause] >> you did this film as a special project. i mean, you picked this role, not because you thought it was going to be a blockbuster, box

office seller although i think it may be, but there was something intriguing about the role of stone. tell me what captured your attention? >> well, i had worked with this film maker before, he directed a film "the painted veil" i was in. the character was interesting, he travels a long way in the film from a person-- i asked john what he thought the role was and he said, he said, i don't know what he sounds like or looks like, but when i meet him i want to think that this guy is not a strong candidate for a spiritual transformation. >> he was incorrigible the character was. in the beginning you thought this guy a hopeless. >> hopeless. >> mike: hopeless. is the evolution of his character in the film-- >> and he think there's a lot of ambiguity in this film, but i think that john has set up a film by the end you're forced to confront the assumptions you made about this person and consider the fact that it's possible that he's actually had a very unexpected, deep

experience and you know, and portraying someone that seems marginal, seems, you know, loopy or incorrigible as you said, and seems to have really found a separate kind of peace with himself, that was very interesting to me. >> mike: one of the things i loved about the film, edward, is that there is this contrast between your character, stone, who is this person you think has no redeeming qualities, and then we're introduced to robert de niro's character, jack, who seems to be like this wonderful citizen. in the course of the film, you find out that the people you think are really, really fantastic, have some flaws and that the people you think have nothing redeeming about them, have some qualities that maybe in fact valuable. but that's human nature. it's the way life really is. >> yeah, and i think don makes very interesting comments about the idea of a film in which one character is

literally, physically imprisoned, but another character is imprisoned within a life, he is married 40 years, he goes to church he has a good job, but he, inside, he feels very ll authentic feeling for these things and there's a consequence to that. >> mike: i want to at that you can about the research that you did because you went to some prisons and you talked to some inmates and tell me about an incident that really stand out to you, encounter with an inmate? >> there was a couple in particular. we were working in jackson, michigan, north of detroit where the film is set and john wanted the character to be rooted in detroit, in urban detroit. so, i met with guys who had come out of, out of that environment. they've been involved in the drug trade or they, you know, gangs, life and i found that a number of them had very profound insights into what the psychology is of going

through the process of getting assessed by another person, having your own, your own evolution as a person rated in some way and thought it was psychologically to see how anxious it makes them and i think in the character you see a lot of the anxiety of that in the beginning. >> mike: did you come away from this experience with a different understanding, appreciation or even maybe attitude toward the way we're locking people up in this country and the whole, really, correction system? >> well, i mean, you know, i know you've been an enormous amount of your career in politics looking at the troubles in the prison system. we have a problem, obviously, and being in there, it gave me enormous respect in some ways the troubles on both sides of the equations, the corrections officers were so, so fantastic and so committed, horribly undermanned, horribly overstretched like you could see where the cynicism comes

in from not having the resources to practice rehabilitation, really. and yet, you can see it from the guys inside, too, apparently you meet those guys and you say this is a person who is where they ought to be, but you also do meet people who are authentically looking for an opportunity in their lives to go a different route and yet, the resources are stretched. and i think, i think if not a knock on neb to say that we've-- we lock too many people up in this country or we use it as a default mechanism that we're, we're creating a-- the idea of prison has a cycle that's not about the facility, but that's about a life that doesn't train you to not be, keep returning to that facility i think is a very one we ought to be looking at. >> mike: the corrections director that served with me when i was governor quoted often, we lock a lot of people up not because we're afraid of them, but because we're mad at them and in the end, we have prisons with people who would be better 0 of in community

based, but some people ought to be there, didn't get there by singing too loud in church. but they're overincarcerated and you have warehouses with human people who are sometimes dehumanized even further almost counter intuitive. >> the reality of people incarcerated and you're confronted with it, it's intense and that it's something that we shouldn't, we shouldn't be using as a defought. we shouldn't be sending people into that by default because we don't have the energy or the care or love to, you know, try to pull people out of that environment because it's not an environment that is pulling out better people. >> mike: it's an absolutely brilliant performance and hope

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