naval aeuf kwraeuters called it the bird gauge. apparently it crashed during a training exercise around the time of world war ii and sank to the bottom of the lake. jenna: pretty good condition if you look at it. jon: apparently because of the cold water great condition. jenna: wow, thanks for joining us everybody. jon: "america live" starts right now. megyn: fox news alert out of california an apparent massive ballistic missile seen streaking across the sky off the coast last night. now the u.s. military is saying it does not know who launched it. welcome to "america live." i'm megyn kelly. these are images of the mysterious incident. so far no clear explanation from the pentagon, from the navy, or the missile defense agency, which told fox news it did not launch any test missiles at the time these photos were taken. now the passenger is -- the pentagon is saying they cannot

back up a response from norad that there is no threat right now to the homeland. the pentagon is saying they cannot back it up because they have received a good enough explanation about what this was in the air. we hung up with a source that suggested to us that it may have been an accidental launch either from a navy sub or possibly a russian sub, this is off the coast of california. we are told that typically the missile command center can spot a launch within ten seconds of the missile breaking water. we'll have much more on this developing story, details just coming in in minutes. also developing this hour new details on a controversial case out of oklahoma, a federal judge has blocked a brand-new ban approved by the voters on the use of sharia law in state court decisions. voters just approved this by 70% a week ago in oklahoma. as soon as it had passed the head of the local counsel and islamic and american relations or cair went to court to stop

that law from becoming part of the oklahoma state constitution. now this judge has said it may indeed -- at least they need to slow things down to evaluate the claim that this violates the oklahoma constitution and cair's constitutional rights. trace gallagher has more live from our west coast newsroom. trace. >> reporter: for now, megyn the state board of elections can't certify the result because this restraining order which lasts for 14 days, the full hearing by the way comes up on november 22nd. the judge giving both sides a chance to ready their arguments. the measure passed by 70% of voters in oklahoma and says the courts should rely on state and federal law when deciding cases and forbids judges from using international or sharia law care. the islamic relations mitty says it violates the first amendment clause that bans the government from making laws respecting the establishment of religion.

other muslims say this measure singles out the muslim faith but does not singette out other faiths. listen. >> the judge might look at the law and say, you know what we'll take the rabbi testimony and we'll take the preacher testimony but your testimony is null and void because you're muslim. >> reporter: but the oklahoma lawmaker who sponsored this measure says the courts are increasingly consulting and using sharia law to decide matters pertaining to u.s. muslims in this country. listen to him. >> 70% of oklahoma citizens want to save their courts and have courts follow and interpret the law that is before them and not to legislate from the bench. >> reporter: just for a little context there, sharia law is based on the koran, the keeping of the prophet mohammed. in various countries writ is

practiced the interpretation widely differs. megyn: a huge response to our online survey on this sharia law decision. ug log onto foxnews.com and look for the you decide link. the question reads, should sharia law be banned by u.s. courts? you can take our survey and see what other viewers are saying on the story. new fallout today from an al-qaida effort to put bombs on board passenger planes. the u.s. has now put new restrictions on cargo coming into the united states. and added to the list of countries we are worried about, somalia. greg palkot is tracking that live from london. >> reporter: in part the fallout comes from a debate over the cost of safety versus the benefit of security. its all based on the fact that those explosive devices that came via ups and fedex from yemen heading towards america were only snagged at airports including one here in the u.k. because of an intelligence tip-off. the charge being made and reported today is that

washington has been aware of the risk of cargo, but did not put pressure on officials because of the big, business cost. 26-tons shipped worldwide every year, one insider told us that a full security check of all the packages would be devastating to the air cargo industry and to the global economy. they say they are acting in a safe way in an informed way. department of homeland security yesterday making these added restrictions to cargo transport, extending the cargo ban, not just yemen but also to include somalia another hotbed of terrorism in that region. a been on toner cartridges used in that latest plot over a certain size, and also greater concentration on what is being called, quote, high-risk cargo from elsewhere. the u.s. also says that it can't tell the rest of the world what it can do, it can only advice

and maybe do it's own pressuring. in fact yesterday, megyn, european union security chiefs met in brussels and are working on their own plans which can include a few other measures. blacklisting of countries with terror links sending packages elsewhere. getting better access to chipping database sis so they can find dangerous items from anyone to any where. they are worried about the cost of a broader security effort. one word from the german interior minister sums it all up. if it is going to be more expensive then it will be more expensive. no security is for free. megyn: flight concerns for president obama. he's in jakarta, indonesia, the city where he spent part of his childhood. his visit is being cut short due to the nearby volcano that started erupting a few weeks ago. there is concern that the volcano's ash plume could ground

flights. his next stop is the g-20 summit in south korea. his flight time has been moved up. new worries about the big tax battle shaping up in washington. the bush-era tax cuts are set to expire on december 31st. republicans want to extend all tax cuts for all americans. president obama is saying we cannot afford that. if both sides cannot reach a deal this is going to get very expensive. stu varney varney & company is my guest now. stu, now they are suggesting, this is from a senior fellow at the tax center. i think it's highly likely they will not be able to resolve this this year despite the resolution of the people in the congress, even the lame duck people who say we will get it resolved by january. >> reporter: this is the most important financial issue of the immediate future. if there is no deal on the bush tax cuts, then everybody always taxes go up, as of january the

1st. now -- >> anyone who pays taxes. >> reporter: anybody who pays taxes will see their taxes go up on january the 1st if there is no deal. megyn: i want to show our viewers. we made a graphic so you can see how this may affect you if this happens, okay. look at it here. the bottom tax bracket goes from 10% to 15% . the top goes to 35% to 39.6%. married couples lose 43% of their standard deduction, which is something that president bush took away. capital gains tax you pay 15% now it goes up to 20%. dividend taxes go from 15% to 39.6%. that i think is for the top earners. nonetheless a bunch of people will get hit. >> reporter: everybody who pays tax will see their taxes go up on january the 1st if there is no deal. before the election it looked like there was a deal. megyn: we talked about that.

>> reporter: extend the middle tax ruts forever, maybe them permanent. extend the tax cuts for the rich two or more years. after the election that deal seems to have broken down. some republicans are now dugging in their heels and want an even text made permanent for all taxpayers, and for the democrats, some are now saying, it's too much, we can't afford it. you k-pt give tax cuts to the rich -- can't give tax cuts to the rich. megyn: at all. >> reporter: well not to expend them. have their taxes go up for the rich on january the 1st. so that consensus is breaking apart. we've only got a two-week window of opportunity to fix it and get some kind of a deal. megyn: because if they don't reach a deal, stu and we get to even late december without a deal in place, it's not like payroll departments can instantaneously say, oh they have a tkaoefplt they are changing payrolls right now to accommodate. >> reporter: it must be fixed on

that two-week session of the lame duck congress. if it does not everybody's taxes will go up january 1st and there will be a significant impact on the overall economy. >> what is the game plan by the republicans. they think they have president obama in between a rock and hard place because -- do they think they have a mandate from last tuesday. >> reporter: yes, they do. megyn: the deal seemed like a reasonable one. you give the rich a couple year's extension because we are in bad economic times and the middle class a permanent one. >> reporter: the republicans want to stand on principle. they feel they have the momentum to make all of the cuts permanent. they do not want to so the tax cuts for the rich haoeufd off, by furniture indicated as they say, because in a couple of years you've got to go back and do it all over again. megyn: fight the same battle. >> reporter: do they get the tax cut or don't they. they want it all permanent right now. democrats won't have it at this moment. but they've got to get together to form a compromise of some sort. megyn: this is risky, the democrats, pushed this off, pushed this off, they wanted to

not deal with it in an election season. >> reporter: who gets the blame in this doesn't go off. megyn: don't look at me. i'm trying. medicare patients are about to take a huge hit on their services. the american medical association says this could be, quote, catastrophic unless congress and the white house step in. why wasn't this taken care of in the healthcare law they just passed? dr.~marc siegl knows and he joins us in three minutes. breaking news on this apparent missile launch. missile command officials releasing a new statement moments ago. trace is looking it over and he'll have the new information three minutes away. folks in a small missouri town fighting for the honor of a fallen her oefplt this is the story of the day if you watch nothing else today on "america live." please watch this. we will be joined by one of the hometown heros who confronted hateful protestors at a funeral for a faller soldier and said, not here, not this day.

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megyn: fox news alert out of california. new information on this apparent missile launch off the coast of california that was seen streaking across the sky last night. the military's northern command just released a statement, trace gallagher has been pouring over it. trace, what do they say. >> reporter: i can tell you this, megyn we have called every military base in the western region. we have called norad and north comm, those are responsible for defense in the united states and canada. north comm sent us a lengthy statement. they said we can confirm there is no threat to our nation. we asked them how they know that

and they didn't give us an answer to that. they went onto say, from all indications this was not, i repeat not a launch by a foreign military, but they won't say who this launch is from or if it even was a missile launch. you can see there that contrail that is following a flashy object. that is short for concentration tail from ankle engine. we've had experts say it looks like an intercontinental ballistic missile. was it a mistake? they have not found out. norad has satellites in the sky, in space, radar in the ground. they can tell if you're throwing a large frisbee on the beach. so they know, have a pretty good idea of what this was and we're going to find out what they say coming up in the minutes ahead. megyn: all right, trace, thank you. i should mention we are going to have captain chuck nash with us

moments away on that breaking news. there are new concerns involving the healthcare overhaul today. the nation's largest doctor's group which backs the overhaul now says that looming medicare cuts will be catastrophic for seniors. the democrats had taken money out of this bill to pay for the medicare services saying they needed to do that to reduce the deficit. now it seems we may be heading deeper into the red. i've confused even myself. i'll tell you what is going on. dr.~marc siegl is here, here is the deal, there is this medicare fix. the bottom line is every year they are supposed to put the payments by huge amounts. >> it keeps increasing every year. megyn: every year they postpone it. nobody wants to do that. the seniors are going to get hurt. it doesn't really hurt the doctors, it hurts the seniors. >> doctors can't work with that kind of cut. megyn: as it turns out doctors want to get paid too every year they postpone it.

when they redid healthcare the democrats tried to include a permanent fix in the house bill but then the congressional budget office came back and said that will mean the healthcare bill is not deficit neutral but it actually adds to the deficit and so the democrats said, get that the heck out of the bill. >> that is right. megyn: they took it out, passed the bill and didn't resolve that issue. sure enough that thing is coming up again this year and you guys are looking at 23% cut and who is going to get the shortened the seniors. megyn: doctors are -- the ama itself did a study that shows 17% of doctors without that cut are cutting the number of medicare patients they are seeing. seniors are in trouble. let me tell you something, the ama is a bunch of hypocrites, because they made a deal with president obama back in the spring of 2009 to get this included in chicago during the white coat ceremony. they sat down, they said, they wanted tort reform too, whatever happened to that we didn't get any tort reform and they didn't get this deal as all.

megyn: they wanted it to be a permanent fix that was in the healthcare bill so we won't have to go through this every year. >> it would have been $300 million more to the bill and everyone would have said it's not definite neutral. you can't write apply and script without making the actors happy. doctors are going to do what? see more and more patients when we are already full. and do what, take less and less money for seeing them. that is not going to happen in the real world and seniors know that. they have more and more medical problems, they are harder to take care them. i enjoy taking care of them but i need the time and need to get paid for it. megyn: it looks like chess. they wanted it to say it was deficit neutral. but there was this huge $300 billion cost to reimburse the doctors for medicare services that was over here. they were saying nobody look over here, we swear this isn't part of the -- even though it wasn't being addressed. yes it's deficit neutral i guess

but once you add in the real cost that they they are going to have to pass. >> they are going to do it as this band-aid. each time they delay it another six months. it was dade june 1st to december 1st. doctors get angrier and angrier. we don't think it's going to happen. president obama has said a lot of negative things on the air about doctors, i don't think he appreciates physicians properly. megyn: yeah is that? >> he made a point about some doctor amputating the wrong leg for money he said this at one point. the issues whether tons i wills are taken out for money. doctors are human beings and on the whole are a very hard-working group that try to take care of people. surgeons for many more years than i trained deserve to be paid for it. megyn: as a real, practical matter you have seniors who are on medicare who once can see you and now cannot even before this mess because you are just overwhelmed with numbers of patients. now you're looking at a 23 pherz cost in your reimbursement from medicare for the medicare

patients you still are seeing. >> they said 28% of seniors couldn't find a new primary doctor like me to go to to give them their medication. megyn: this is what the seniors are moving about with respect to their healthcare. >> that's why it's disingenuous to say your medical care will stay the same. how can it stay the same if your doctor doesn't stay the same, the doctor doesn't have the time to see you. a lot of seniors are seeing a robin hood situations here where services are being taken away from them, we'll restrict the services more, pay doctors less. we won't get the same level of care doing that. megyn: kathleen sebelius said she had a cabinet meeting where the president stressed preventing these disastrous cuts must be one of our top priorities. the white house want to prevent the cuts and i think the republicans want to prevent the cuts. the question is is it just a temporary band date and why can't the costs being dealt with.

>> the ama wants to too, they are coming out with ads. a lot of the people who wanted cuts could have done something. right now i predict another band-aid. doctors are very unhappy about that and many are dropping out of the ama. megyn: that's true we talked about that. dr.~marc siegl thank you so much. a guilty plea to report to you today involving the group acorn and charges that this left-wing voter advocacy group broke election laws in nevada. we'll have this right after this break. plus, eye on the white house, lots of names being tasked about as possible candidates this 2010. we will talk with president reagan's son about who he thinks will be the one republican who actually might be able to pose a real challenge to president obama. >> i don't need to run for office. i know that i don't need a title, in fact i love the freedom that i have, that i can sit here and i can tell you anything that i want to tell you and not have to worry so much about how it will affect my future political career, or my

relationship with senators or congressman. no, i'll say what i want to say and that's free, so i love the position that i'm in now.

megyn: quick update for you on the mystery missile launch in california. trace told us moments ago that northern command released a statement saying no foreign military was responsible for the launch. the navy released a statement just after that saying, it wasn't us. we've got calls in to the department of defense among others and we hope to have a little bit more on exactly what happened here. keep in mind as i told you this morning, what we heard from the pentagon first thing after nor rad told fox there was no threat to the homeland. the pentagon came become and said i can't back this up.

i haven't received a good enough explanation as to exactly what it was in the sky that appears to be a missile launch. we are on it. as we know more so will you. the left wing organizing group acorn is paying the price for allegations of voter fraud. this former supervisor for the community group cutting a deal to settle charges that volunteers were illegally paid to registered voters during the 2008 presidential campaign. eric shawn has more live from our new york city newsroom. >> reporter: it's another voter fraud-related acorn play, this time the former original director of voter registration has pled to charges related to an illegal voter registration scheme from the 2008 presidential election. that is the activist group president obama once worked for. she has pled to two misdemeanor charges of conspiracy in necessity. the charges knocked down from felonies in connections to what prosecutors say was acorn's plan to illegally pay for signing up

voters there. acorn caught at blackjack, or 21, hey it is las vegas after all. acorn's field director christopher edwards pled guilty and testified against acorn and the executive saying they all went along with the plan. >> i was never told by amy or anyone else to stop the program nor was i told by amy or anyone else that there was any legal jeopardy concerning that program. >> reporter: you may remember that acorn's las vegas office came under fire for alleged fake registrations including signing up the starting line up of the dallas cowboys. acorn itself faces felony charges and potential trial. they are in las vegas in two weeks. you know, megyn we've been on top of this story on voter fraud for two years now and allegations. people send us information -- if people want to send us information our address is voter

fraud at fox.com. we are particularly concerned with the elderly, their loved ones writing to us saying something is wrong, someone voted for them. we would like that information. megyn: taking the stand for a second day elizabeth smart retelling her heartbreaking story of the day her kidnaper snatched her out of her bed at 14 years old. a live report is next. plus, a community in missouri coming together to defend a fallen soldier's funeral from a controversial protest group, you know that group. we'll talk with one of the home-town heros that helped send the so-called westboro church packing.

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the afternoon. 35 miles off the coast out near catalina island, and this, look at the picture, is what it cap you are taourd. there is video of this, we have the still to show you. the video you can clearly see at the top there, you can see the fiery object and then you see the con trail which is court for condensation trail. this kind of lit up the southern california sky. we have called every military base in the western region, not a single one knows anything about this or at least they are telling us they know nothing about this. we contacted norad. they have no idea what this is. norad is responsible for proceed spechting -- protecting this country from any kind of aerial attack at all. was it a mistake? we still don't know, megyn, we are still calling. nobody has yet taken responsibility for this at all, and north come has said this was not -- northcomm said this was

not from a foreign military. private, mistake, we are still checking to find out exactly what this is all about. megyn: wow, all right, trace thank you. president obama says that he had to expand government and push through big bail outs to save us from another great depression. a claim some openly mock. now former president george w. bush is explaining his own decision to bail out the banks and it might sound late familiar. here he is with nbc's matt lauer. >> reporter: you went with the tarp program. >> we did. >> reporter: they call it the bank bail out 0 and they hate it. >> i can understand that. the idea of spending taxpayer's money to give to wall street and the banks to save them, a lot of people think they created the crisis in the first place. i can understand the anst. megyn: the president went onto

say that when somebody tells you we are facing another, you know, possible depression or economic collapse you've got to do something. joining us now leslie marshall a sinned dated radio fox show host and fox news contributor, and lar hrars on a syndicated talk show host. to me that sounded awfully familiar from what we heard from president obama. >> probably, megyn because it is. where was the tell louisiana prompter there? megyn: george bush doesn't use a tell louisiana prompter. >> i'm teasing. basically they are reading from the same script. unfortunately the american people tonight want this, still don't want it, it hasn't been proven to be good for america. this is in the hands of both parties and both presidents, only right now obama is in office and getting blamed for what was written into law by george w bush, whom we just saw. megyn: does president bush get a

pass on tarp, the short form for the bank bail out where as president obama doesn't get a pass for the many bail outs that followed? >> no, i don't think he gets a pass for it. what we were told and every economics expert i've been able to find since then says in the fall of 08 we were fashion something that could have sucked down the entire economy. the fact is it was made and had bipartisan support from congress. maybe it was right, maybe it was wrong. i appreciate the fact that the president said he's going to stick to his guns it was necessary to do at the time. i don't like the idea of the government bailing out car companies or banks because they should be free to fail. we were being told that if aig and some of the others had collapsed they would have pulled down so much of the rest of the economy with them we would have had a major meltdown. megyn: here is what i want to know. i watched this interview with matt lauer last night, and it was very interesting, i don't know if you caught it, but president bush was the first one to sort of blame himself, and to

criticize himself on a lot of issues. he refused to place any blame or criticize our current president, president obama, he didn't think it was right an hasn't done that in the past two years he's been out of the office. the tone president bush struck, i'll start with you lars. i know they hate it, they are thinking, they are bailing out wall street and why should we do that. for lack of a better term feeling people's pain and explaining why he had to do it seemed to be sort of a similar message from what we've heard from president obama and delivered in a different way. was the former president more effective at communicating that, i feel your pain message than we've seen from president obama? >> won't that be ironic if the man who was cast for eight years as the bumbling communicator who couldn't communicate could without a tell louisiana prompter do a whole lot better job than even president obama gives himself credit for? right now president obama keeps saying that the only reason things aren't working and the only reason that the american public is not getting behind his policies is either, a, the

president hasn't explained it well enough, and i think hundreds of speeches and hundreds of interviews ought to have done it, for b, the american people aren't smart enough to understand just how good his solutions are and so he needs to keep explaining. i think neither one washes. i wish the president, the current president had a little more of a former president's humility. megyn: let me ask you that about that sort of humility. matt lauer asked him about katrina it's an infamous photo of president bush. if you hadn't heard, folks, president bush is promoting his new book, "decision points." he's going to be on with hannity tonight at 9:00. he was asked about president bush flying over new orleans looking out of the window, he didn't stop there. watch how the former president reacted. >> let's get to the picture that we may have seen more of you in the last couple of years of our presidency than any other picture. you're sitting in air force one, you're flying back towards washington, you fly right over new or phraoepbs and you look

out the window. >> huge mistake. >> it made you look so out of touch. >> detached and uncaring, no question about it. megyn: my question is about the tone. he has an ability, does he not to make you feel like okay he actually goes get why people were ticked off? >> you know what, megyn, i have to say if this george w bush had been my president for eight years i would have liked him better, and i think what happens is when they are commander in chief they are a very different tone than when they are running for that position and retired from that position. for me and many americans especially the people who were victims of katrina it's not the photo, it's that he didn't land. megyn: yeah, and he talked about that, you know how he should have. lars why are you shaeub being your head? even the president said he should have touched down and put boots on the ground and handled the whole heck of a job brownie thing differently. >> i think the president made a

huge miscalculation. landing at the time. we know what kind of resources it takes to have a presidential visit in the middle of that type of disaster. i think he made the right decision the first time around the president thinks he didn't. and again this is president bush not unwillingness to blame the proper people who should have been blamed and that is the folks on the ground at the state and local level. megyn: i don't think we want to relitigate katrina. i started going back to the tone. it's so rare to hear him say, he came right out and said just awful, it was terrible. it was a mistake, i shouldn't have done it. it's kind of refreshing to hear a leader talk that way . but lars as leslie points out he's not the current president. does president obama -- the point i'm trying to get to, would president obama benefit from doing some of that. >> yes. megyn: or is it different when you're the current president? megyn: you have to communicate that you're confident in the decisions you're making. you can't very well sit there and i wouldn't expect the president to say i don't know

what i'm doing, i'm a deer caught in the headlights. when the president passes a healthcare plan and realizes over half of the country hates it, wants it repealed and changed an entire election because of it it's too much to say i can't explained it enough or the people don't understand what i'm doing. that doesn't wash. megyn: i wonder how it would work if president obama came out and said, yeah they hate it. this is why we had to do it and this is why. all right, panel thanks so much. folks we promised to get you to more information on this mystery missile launch. a live report now from the pentagon in about 15 minutes. former navy commander chuck nash has some thoughts on exactly what this may have been. he joins us from washington. plus, we've told you about the hateful protests outside of soldiers' funerals. one town 4 missouri paid close attention. this is the story of the day.

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incredible you heard they were coming, you decided to organize your small town. almost half of the town showed up, and how did you put a stop to it? >> well, basically, we'd already had one young fallen soldier from westin, and his family every year has a walk to remember, where we actually have pictures on the trail so everybody can see all of the fallen soldiers from kansas and missouri and the patriot guard riders are always there. i've got even to know them over the years. and i checked on their website and you can load onto it for free and find out any events that are coming. so when i saw this one i got a hold of becky, who is one of their officers, and she sent me the itinerary, what the riders planned to do, and all the details that i needed. megyn: just so our viewers know the patriot guard riders are devoted to stopping the westboro church protests. their mission statement is

respect. to show respect to our fallen heros at the funerals and shield the mourning family. they don't want confrontation or violence they want to protect the grieving family. you joined them and did that all over the site of that funeral. tell us where you all were stationed. >> we were at the intersection where i had understood that they were going to take one of the corners there. they had asked about it with the city. what we did was there was one of them in front of one of our little shopping areas. we parked there so they couldn't get close. in the other places we also had people parked and just be there, to where i knew that they'd have to get out of the van, and i figured they wouldn't do that. we had one corner which is full of the vfw, american legion gentlemen and all the other corners people lined up. they all had brought their flags. a couple of men had brought a car from a dealership, there was

a very big flag in there, and that was going to help block the people when they got there. megyn: so the family would never have to lay eyes on those hateful protestors. all they would see is american flags and hear patriotic music playing as they entered and exited the church. >> uh-huh. well the church is about a mile away, but this was the intersection at which the people from the westboro church were going to be. basically i asked the people to bring cd's. these young ladies from another business down there brought an entire sound system. we had a lot of background music. the people finally did get out of their van, they put up of their signs. megyn: when tow showed up to spew their hate what happened? >> well they opened up the van and they all came out and they started chanting, they started saying, i guess there is this one song about god hates america. they had little kids even

holding up these signs, and that was one of the reasons that i wanted to stop them, because i just continue imagine all these little kids, you know, seeing their daddies funeral and hearing god hates soldiers. the other two men pulled in front of them with the flag and the patriot flag was on the other side. when they got loud they gunned their motors so nobody heard them. after about 50 minutes they left. megyn: you said these men have gone to serve so we would be able to do this, come out and counter protest, and as a result they did not die in vein. >> that is correct. the thing is that these other people they may study law, know the law but you know what we live the law, and so it was just important for us to actually extend our own civil rights, you know -- in a dignified manner. the name of the operation was operation dignified protective stance. it said it all. you didn't want any fighting. that would have been disrespectful to the soldiers as

well. megyn: rebecca, good for you, good for the town of westin and the patriot guard riders. god bless all of you. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much. megyn: incredible, a great story. a developing story with this disabled cruise ship, the engines are out, the power mostly off, no air-conditioning and thousands of passengers are stuck. we'll have a report from the dock in moments as this thing gets towed to shore. until the cn of three good probiotics in phillips' colon health defended against the bad gas, diarrhea and constipation. ...and? it helped balance her lon. oh, now that's t best part. i love your work. [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health.

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megyn: the u.s. coast guard is on the scene of a stranded cruise ship, stranded off the coast of baja, california and was set to arrive in a mexican port. nearly 4500 people are on board. the ship has no ac, no hot water, no telephone service since yesterday. all the power has been cut off. and it all happened after an

engine room caught fire. right now the navy carrier the u.s. s. ronald reagan is heading toward that ship to help tow it back. we are monitoring it closely. we'll bring you updates as it happens. as the next congress moves into washington curious minds are wondering about house speakers' nancy pelosi's transition. how does it all work? what does she get to keep? what does she leave behind? and what about that time us huge gavel. james rosen knows, he's live in d.c. with all the answers. >> reporter: in the humming little village known as the capitol complex it is the permanent residents, the handy men and electricians. the career employees and the architect at the capitol that make the actual transfer of offices, the packing up of paintings and gavels happen. it's customary that the speaker and minority leader trade offices. the speaker enjoys senior plea more and larger real estate with a larger office off the house floor, plus numerous other

offices in the cannon building and elsewhere on capitol hill. they are working with nancy pelosi's staff, what she must leave behind, and what she must move back to san francisco, her minority office. the transfer must be complete by the time the next congress convenes on january 25th. >> everybody has to be out before christmastime so the architect of the capitol can redecorate the office. there is a whole deal here, because every speaker has a style, just like presidents do with the oval office. speaker pelosi redecorated her office after dennis hasterd moved out. she made it tpepl tphaoepl and nicer for her. speaker john boehner may want to put a different imprint and design on the office. >> reporter: it's stocking that sam blink is going on in this cast. and where there are haas rules there are no haas rules.

megyn: it will be awkward when they move the gavel. three minutes until new details on our top story. u.s. officials trying to find out who launched a possible ballistic missile off the coast of california. a live report from the pentagon three minutes away. a follow-up on a big story we covered in "kelly's court." a decision eulg are involving a florida dad who stormed onto a school bus and threatened kids who were bullying his disabled daughter. stay tuned. you want some fiber one honeclusters? yeah.

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pentagon. what do we know? >> reporter: we don't know a lot. we are checking into it. the pentagon has not given us a definitive explanation for this giant contrail that appeared to be the launching of a missile off the coast of california. it had all the earmarks of a large missile being launched. but the pentagon says they don't know who launched it or why or from where. there are per test missiles at vandenberg, they say it wasn't there. and the norad, the northern air defense organization says they are checking to see what it was. they put out this statement. at this time we are unable to provide specific details. but we are working to determine the exact nature of this event. we can confirm there is no indication of any threats to our

nation. now, of course there could be the possibility of an accidental launch of a missile from a navy ship or navy submarine. but the navy denies any involvement in this. they put out a carefully worded statement. we can look at what the navy says. we checked and confirmed the condensation trail was not associated with any navy operation. now, that doesn't exactly preclude the possibility of some kind of accident that is yet to be explained. but it just says it's in the connected with any navy operation. we checked with nasa. they haven't launched anything. they admit the thing is going up, not going down. so that's not likely. and we checked with the faa on the possibility of a commercial launch of a satellite and they didn't have licenses issues for commercial launched. so at this point no definitive explanation. megyn: let me confirm one thing with you.

norad is saying we don't perceive any threat to the homeland. but what we heard earlier is fox news reached out directly to the pentagon and colonel dave lapan, a pentagon spoargsman, said i can't back that up, that statement from norad because i haven't received a good enough explanation about what this was. is it true the building you are in at pentagon, they are not going as far as norad saying there is no threat to the homeland. > homeland. >> reporter: they are not saying there is a threat. he's saying he does not know what it was. norad saying they don't have any indication there was any threat. if there are missiles being launched and we don't know by whom or from where, that could indicate a threat. if there was a mistake made, that could be a threat. but norad says there was no threat in this case. obviously nothing was hit and nobody was hurt. but it does raise serious

questions. megyn: good reporting, we appreciate it. one man who may be able to help us separate fact from fiction is chuck nash. he's a retired u.s. navy captain and fox news analyst. this is bizarre. you have norad saying there is no threat to the homeland and the pentagon says we can't confirm that because we don't know what it was. >> this is a head scratcher. i think it's disingenuous to say we don't know what's going on. somebody knows what's going on, they are just trying to figure out how to explain it. the system that we have to monitor worldwide monitor events such as this and the unbelievable quickness that this can identify in advance, declare it as a launch, then actually give you very detailed information and then hand it off automatically to other systems which can tell you where it many

headed, i -- where it's headed. they have been around for a while. now the question is, what is it, and just how bad is it? because either somebody accidentally launched something or someone intentionally launched something and it could be somebody trying to make a point on some kind of a foreign weapons system off one of our coasts. it could have been an accidental launch from a u.s. system and everybody saying well, it wasn't one of our operations. you have got to parse this. it's early on. they are working through this. megyn: maybe we can get this navy statement. i want to ask captain nash about it. he point out they were parsing their words. look at this. we checked and confirmed the condensation trail was not associated with any navy operation. is that too parsed for you? they don't speak to what

preceded the condensation trail, whether it was a missile or what have you? >> at this point we don't know. we are all speculating here. but what i can tell you is that the system that we have, the system that we have that detects, tracks and classifies these types of events is a very solid system, it's been working for years, and were just going to have to wait until it's announced what it was. megyn: your final thought is they know, they are just not telling us. >> i think there is a fair amount of understanding. the who involved, they may not know. and because again if this was some foreign system, somebody got their hands on, and was trying to, you know, fire from some commercial ship off the coast and do something, they say there is no threat to the homeland. well, 5:00 last night, was

there? it depends on what the definition of what is is. megyn: either way it's a disturbing situation if that was a missile if you have folks who claim they don't know what happened. captain nash -- >> there are a lot of people trying to find out. megyn: i'm sure there is a scramble going operate now. steve raises a good point. nasa says it hasn't launched anything. meteorites generally come down, not go up. for weeks we have been hearing reports that different states are considering new get tough approaches to illegal immigration. now it looks like texas has a new proposal hitting the state legislature there. trace gallagher has more with what they are proposing down in texas. >> reporter: you talk about a current and incoming lawmakers in texas. they filed a flurry of new

measures at the clerk's office aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration. one representative, she is a republican lawmaker. she camped out in front of the clerk's office waiting for a rock concert to begin. she camped out for two nights so she could be the first one inside to file her measure that calls for police to be able to inquiry about the immigration status if somebody has already been pulled over and detained. it's likely arizona law would allow police to work with the feds. here is debbie riddle. >> i filed the immigration bill because the people of texas are no longer asking, they are demanding. we have got to make some significant steps regarding illegal immigration. in addition to that, border security. >> reporter: she says the main goal is to cut down on this gang activity, latino and mexican

gangs in texas. she says they have gotten out of control. other proposed bills would deny state funds for any community that dlee clairs itself a sanctuary city and some bills would force people could show two forms of i.d. before they can note. the aclu says they are ready to start filing lawsuits. >> i think it could be left to a bunch of lawyers. it's a costly fight. a fight that arizona is paying quite a bit for. >> reporter: 150 of the seats in the texas legislature. 99 are republican. that's the largest majority in 140 years. the senate 2/3 is republican as is governor rick perry. though rick perry says an arizona-style law is not a good fit for texas. though he may have his hands full with this legislature. megyn: every day the list gets

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megyn: this is a fox news alert. a u.s. coast guard is telling us a cruise ship stranded off the coast of mexico will arrive in mexico tomorrow afternoon. the coast guard says passengers have plenty of food and water. and that some of the ship's functions are fully restored. none of the 4,500 people onboard are hurt. but the ship had problems with its air-conditioning, hot water and telephone service. two mexican tugboats are expected to reach the ship and they will tow it into the mexican port. the u.s.s. reagan is getting ready to send food and supplies to this ship. what a situation.

>> do you think your brother will be president one day? >> i wish he would be. but he would ned to run first. >> i love the freedom that i have that i can sit here and tell you anything i want to tell you and not have to worry so much about how it will affect my future political career. >> i don't want to, i'm not going to. there is zero chance i will. i don't feel ready to run for president. i don't have a fire in the belly to run for president. everybody thinks i have left the door open. short of suicide i don't know what i have to do to convince you people i'm not running. i'm not running. megyn: they say no, and they say yes, others say maybe. but with all of these high-profile politicians, who will challenge president obama in 2012 in and which candidate has the best shot up against the city sitting -- up against the

sitting president? michael, i just want to point out to our viewers, i know chris christie is saying short of suicide. but let me take back some january 2006. barack obama goes on meet the press. so you will not run for president or vice president in 2008? he asked him. i will not. then barack obama goes on to say, you get tired of denying all this. he says i'm getting weary. i'm starting to look for new ways of saying the same things. the ainss no, hell, no, i'm not running. and who is our president today? which is why we doubt these people when they say not me. who is it going to be, michael? >> now the elections are over. we are starting in earnest what's going to happen in 2012. it will be a train wreck in iowa for people who where going to

show up to see and feel things out how the iowa caucuses where going in 2012. it might be anybody but obama in 2012. megyn: we have so many -- >> potential candidates, look at the governor of texas, rick perry. probably the most reaganesque. has a new book out. fed up. would love to be the president of the united states of america. mitt romney already has been down that road. what mitt romney has to do is find charisma. he has the meg whitman problem. can't relate to anybody making less than a million dollars a year. he has to learn to relate to the people in iowa and across this country. the next nominee for the rough can party will come from the gubernatorial race. either an ex-governor or a

sitting governor in the united states of america. that's what i'm going to tell you. megyn: what do you make of jeb bush? saying jeb is not going to do it in 2012, when he says that, he means it. >> most qualified republican on the planet is jeb bush. dual language. governor of florida, elected twice. the problem he has is his last name is bush, not reagan. megyn: what about mike huckabee? >> mike huckabee very good. but he has the problem with the police officers in seattle. i know it wasn't his fault but he will be blamed for it. if you want to be the president of the united states and get the nomination you need to have the passion of a michael huckabee. a lot of those who would like to be president don't have passion in their voice. they are not believable when they speak. when mike huckabee speaks you listen. megyn: sarah palin told greta

van susteren i will with no other qualified candidates emerge. if she is called to serve, she will. does she have a shot with the general electorate? >> no. she is too polarizing. could she raise money for the party? yes. but she is too polarizing to be elected the president of the united states of america. i'll hear about that on my facebook page. megyn: newt gingrich. >> newt gingrich a lot of baggage. i said your problem is three marriages and a few bags. he understands that. anybody who gets the nomination. if a republican becomes president of the united states, your first appointment should be newt gingrich. if mitt romney doesn't get the nomination your first

appointment should be mitt romney. megyn: we are starting to hear the name marco rubio. he has barely been elected to the senate out much florida. he's a rising star in the republican party web is hispanic, a self-made man. if he ran he would be in the office in the senate for th -- r the same amount of time as president obama. >> * he's th he's the phenom ofs party. he may be a player. whether he gets the nomination i don't know at this point in time. who was his biggest backer? jeb bush. megyn: what do you think 6 tim pawlenty. >> he needs a charisma shot. he needs charisma. that's one thing that tim pawlenty is looking. and most of these people the best thing they can do and sit

down and watch ronald reagan's speech severe. you have barack obama and bill clinton used to watch ronald reagan speeches to learn how to deliver a speech to get people on your side. the republicans running would do well to watch ronald reagan speeches. another problem they have is they are trying to out reaganesque each other. if they do that in 2012 we may end up with another john mccain. megyn: it was 21 years ago today that the berlin wall fell. it was two years prior to that that ronald reagan made one of his most famous speeches. >> about gorbachev, tear down this wall! megyn: sure enough that speech was in june of 1987 and two years later on this very day that wall came down. your thoughts? >> last year i have was there at 20th anniversary of tearing down that wall.

we opened up a reagan look at the checkpoint charlie museum. there was no mention of ronald reagan a year ago, no mention hoff built the wall. no mention whoer to down the wall, and the hero of a year ago with us gorbachev and the president of the united states barack obama sent a videotape to that event. he went to another country to try and bring the olympics to illinois. but he sent a videotape to berlin for the 20th anniversary. it was huge. i might reminds you, august 12, august 13 of next year will be the 50th anniversary of that wall being built. megyn: what a moment. it's one where you remember where you were. >> that's his legacy. megyn: folks we are getting more in on this mystery missile off the west coast and reports it may have been an accidental launch. trace gallagher a few minutes

away on what we just learned.

megyn: one of the biggest battles of the mid-terms may not be over yet. the department of justice reviewing a complaint filed by sharron angle. her complaint is that harry reid's campaign engaged in voter intimidation. and broke laws. she says they pushed harrah's

con i know employees to get out and vote for reid. we are getting a glimpse how the new gop majority in the house is taking shape and what they are about to do. congressman darrell issa promising oversight hearings taking aim at president obama's signature legislation including the stimulus package and healthcare reform. issa has been calling for investigation and hearings on several matters. but when you are in the minority you have no power. different story now. >> all of that changes. i, s.he wants to look into voter intimidation issues and fannie mae and freddie mac. he says this is not about launching a bunch of witch hunts, but making things for

transparent for the average american. >> we are going to look for the person most knowledgeable and have them before our commit he. in many cases we'll do it outside the public glare with republicans and democrats sitting there. we need to do investigations in a less partisan way. report * some. >> reporter: there are some on the other side of the aisle who are worried them take an aggressive no hold barred approach to investigation. >> just as speaker boehner is going to have to walk a line between giving the tea party a certain room to run to, but not letting them go hog wild, i think congressman issa will have the same challenge making sure that they allow to it vent but not take over the agenda.

>> reporter: public perception will be important moving forward. a rasmussen report shows a majority of people they polled are opposed to launching investigation into past actions by the obama administration. megyn: have you ever been yelled at in school? probably not like this. the teacher is suspended. kids call this bullying. some parents call it a good lesson. "kelly's court" hears from both sides in a moment. house democrats got crushes or shellacked if you want president obama's word. why nancy pelosi is actually throwing a victory party. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made.

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that theory. >> reporter: we have been talking to military sources and they are all saying they do not know what this is. but the military experts have told fox news they believe this was likely something the military knows full well about and this was likely a missile and that it was probably not accidental, but a full report would have immediately have been filed if it was accidental. you see right here this is the contrail. this is what they are talking about. this happened off the coast of california near catalina island. we have live pictures to show you. the problem with the theory is fit was a military launch it's standard operating procedure to notify the faa and the mariners in the area that a launch is coming so the air traffic control hours can notify the pilots so they know a launch is

coming. so it wasn't accidental it doesn't make any sense how this would be fired up. 35 miles up the coast everybody is asking where did the missile go? it likely landed in the ocean. we'll bring information to you as we get it. megyn: we hearing another possibility that perhaps this is just an optical illusion from a web site called contrail science that debunks conspiracy theories. suggests that a contrail streaming more zeenltly from an approaching aircraft can look like a vertical missile shot. we have another thing to follow up with from the military. thanks. we are getting reports that defeated democrats in the house so despondent they are bringing

in grief counselors on capitol hill. then why is nancy pelosi throwing a big party to celebrate the accomplishments of the last two years? mike later is a radio talk show host. and jamu green. this is the report. that the congressional democrats who came up short this past tuesday received a visit from a team of five people to talk about payroll and benefits and writing a resume. the team included a counselor to help with the emotional aspects of the loss. they talked about the emotional stages you go through in grief. stage one being denial. and one could argue perhaps nancy pelosi is having that problem right now throwing a victory party. >> democrats are definitely going through a lot of grieving these days. but it's not like nancy pelosi is doing what the artist prince talked about.

she is not partying like it's 1999. this is a sign of her leadership. to be a leader you have to inspire. the democrats on the ground, on the hill who have worked so hard to deliver result for the american people, they are not going to just roll over and play dead after this defeat last tuesday. they have to continue fighting for the middle class, for the millions of americans, for college students who have a thought celebrate out of the legislative accomplishments of pelosi's house. megyn: the questions is whether it looks tone deaf. michael, let me ask you. you have got all these members of the house meeting with grief counselors and you have the house speaker saying come on over, let's party. i know you have been kicked out but i'm all good. >> i want to say something one of our listeners made.

kayla is 9 years old and she made this for you. megyn: thank you from my whole family. >> i'm also having a party tomorrow afternoon to celebrate achievements of nancy pelosi we'll thank officer her losing the majority of her party, we'll thank her from ruining president obama's reelection chances perhaps. and for firing up the tea party. our party will have cake. her party has grief counselors. to raise a toast to something voters all across the country has rejected is tone deaf and out of touch to say the least. megyn: you can understand the resume services. that's a nice thing. does it look strange to the american people to see nancy pelosi throwing a party to

celebrate the accomplishments that many people believe are the reasons they got fired? >> it's not like this even an inaugural ball at mall in d.c. this is for many of the insiders and people who worked really hard. and i think she is actually showing how great of a leader she is by rallying the troops. by inspiring them and motivating them. that they have to keep fighting. the democratic agenda that has delivered so much is not something that's going to go away. but it's also i think a very clear to democrats and especially nancy pelosi how serious they took the votes in the mid-term elections. they are paying attention to really deliver for the american people. she does need to inspire and motivate. megyn: can she be doing both, taking seriously the message that was sent tuesday night and celebrating the achievements of

the 111th congress and pressing ahead with the agenda. >> she got her members to swear to protect this constitution of the united states, yet still encouraged them to completely throw out that swearing oath to the constitution. and the tea party message was get back to the constitution. so she can motivate her base all she wants. the base and the movement of the country are two polar opposites. megyn: her celebration is consistent with her statement that is we are not backing down from of any our agenda items. that is what her voters seemed to believe in san francisco who reelected her by a huge margin. thank you so much to both of you. over the top high raid or valuable lesson? a tough-talking student goes off

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megyn: teacher andrew larson is the voice on that tape. ranting and raving at three students he kept after class. he has been placed on unpaid administrative leave after the boys taped him with one of their cell phones then their parents complained. but most of the community and many of the classmates are supporting the teacher.

so what should happen to him? let's ask our panel. mark eiglarsh and joe yes joey . the teacher goes off on these kids because i guess there had been a pattern and the kids were giggling. and he had had about enough. and, joey, he launched into them. did he do anything wrong? >> i say he did not do anything wrong. he's an excellent teacher who by and large has done wonderful work at that school. i think that is something that has come out now because he has such tremendous support not only by students, but by parents. anybody who would get frustrated in a similar circumstance. we can't judge him on one aberrational act because students are needling him and pushing his buttons. we have to judge him by his

character and who is. he should get a slap on the wrist and allowed to proceed. megyn: why does he have unpaid administrative leave. why doesn't this boil down to the principal sitting down with him saying you can't be swearing at the kids. do a better job next time and that many the end of it. >> because it's not that minor. joey is not separating the guilt phase from the penalty phase. the guilt phase is -- did he use profanity? did he threaten physical violence? the answer is yes. the sentencing phase is you are a wonderful teacher, teenagers are difficult. this is an isolated incident for which he showed remorse and yes he deserves a less penalty than someone else. but clearly what he did, profanity, abuse of discretion, he's guilty fan * the kids say he made me feel scared.

they said he was pretty intense. one of the mothers said sit' the intensity of his angers. it's not even the words that bother me so much. it was the intensity of he was giggling in chance. but over giggleling? >> the point is that could he have exercised better judgment? yes, he could. but any human being would understand when your buttons are pushed it gets you to the point where enough is enough. all he did was -- you are making a criminal analogy. when you make a criminal analogy -- >> way was doing was simply saying let's separate the act from then the sentence. no one said he did anything crimal. megyn: i think you were on for skateboard cop. but it reminds me of this guy in obama whbaltimore in baltimore a

hero to many guys. what is your problem? you going to back talk your teacher? what makes you think you can come and do it to a police officer? stop calling me dude. remember that, mark? he didn't like the lip from the kid. he got in his face kind of like the teacher. >> here is the difference. the teachers are given a policy manual and they know what they can do in terms of what they can say and how they can discipline children. profanity and threats of physical violence are not permitted. >> what threat of physical violence? the bottom line was if you challenge me on the facts i'm going to answer you. i'm going to relationship you a new blank, joey. is that a threat in. >> that an expression that's commonly used.

it doesn't mean you will physically do it. you can do that verbally and through discipline and by instilling in the child thald they never act inappropriate in a certain way. >> i appreciate your argument, but if you ever start a school, my kids aren't going to it. >> kids need discipline. megyn: kids are so disrespectf disrespectful. they are just so frustrated to see the kids mouthing off in a way we never did when we were young and disrespecting their teach testifies and disrespecting cops. there has to be some empathy for the cop and the teacher in that situation. >> there is. if they were to fire him i would be defending his right to stay in that school. he's a wonderful teacher. if suspension was appropriate. it's like an adult time out. he needs a time out and realize -- not fired.

no one said fired. megyn: the parent don't want the teacher to lose his job but they want him to face a punishment. heal poll jieds an was we we morseful. >> he should not lose his reputation for being the excellent teacher he is. megyn: the other kids held a sit-in in support of the teacher saying they wouldn't have made it through high school if it hadn't been for him. one final word for our viewers. all all for tough teach horse don't take any lip from mouthy kids. but swearing at kids in a threatening manner is over the top. even if his heart is in the right place, he has no right to speak to those children like that. right after these parents are done securing them they should turn their ire on their own misbehaving children. a fox news alert. wore getting reports of a gunman on the campus. an elementary school in aiken,

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>> rinse, i'm telling you, you stay away from my daughter. you call the police. megyn: a florida dad who stormed a school bus and threatened the kids who his disabled daughter had been bullied buy mercilessly. he didn't board the school bus until he says the school failed

to act an raised it with them. he was charged with disorderly conduct an learned his fate in court. ing * live in our west --ing live in our. >> reporter: james jones apologized. he accepted a deal and he stays out of jail. instead james jones now has 6 months probation. he has a $1,000 fine. he has anger management class he has to attend. victim awareness classes. and do 10 hours of community service. here is james jones storm the school bus, then later apologizing. listen. >> my daughter [bleep]. this is it. i'm [bleep]. call the police. i tell you [inaudible] i don't

give [bleep] talking to a girl like that. this is my daughter. i'm telling you. i'm [bleep] >> i really strongly believe i should have don't a different way. but i did it that way. >> reporter: daughter suffers from cerebral palsy. he says he could not take her being bullied any longer. megyn: i'm stunned by that result, what he has to go through. child molesters have gotten less than this guy got. they were pulling condoms over her head. the school district accord together father did nothing about it. he didn't lay a finger on one of those boys. he got on and yelled. now $1,000 fine, community

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