jenna: it's been a big day. jon has sunk for us and done an et impression as well. jon: phone home. jenna: thanks for joining us. "america live" starts right now. megyn: we are awaiting a nasa news conference that could bring us closer to answering the biggest questions of human kind. are we alone in the universe? welcome to "america live" on a thursday, everyone, i'm megyn kelly. exactly one hour from now nasa is promising an announcement that the space agency says will affect the search for extraterrestrial life, those are their worst. rumors have run rampant on the internet on what could be a

ground-breaking find. we have had some leaks on what to expect, we will have a live report in a bit. an hour from now we will bring you the news from nasa as it happens right here. another fox news alert, this one in washington where ugly accusations are flying this hour in the fight to head off tax hikes for almost every american worker. any time now we expect democrats in the house to hold a vote on a bill that keeps taxes where they are for families earning less than $250,000 a year, but raises taxes sharply for small business owners and high income eastern earners. republicans are calling it a slap in the face saying this whole thing smacks of bad faith. here is house speaker designate john boehner moments ago. >> on the florida the majority is holding a vote to raise taxes

on american families and small businesses. the last thing our economy needs right now is a job-killing tax hike, and that is what this plan of theirs would mean. i'm trying to catch my breath so i don't refer to this maneuver going on today as chicken crap, all right? but this is nonsense, all right? the election was one month ago. we are 23 months from the next election, and the political games have already started trying to set up the next election. megyn: chicken crap for those of you who were not paying close attention at home, a new term being bandied about on capitol hill apparently. on top of that we have new warnings from the irs and the treasury department that there are reports some american taxpayers may have to file their tax returns twice if lawmakers don't figure out a resolution on these taxes in just a matter of

days. eric bolling from the fox business network joins us now with more on that. eric, it's a big enough pain in the butt to have to do it once if we have to do it twice that really is chicken crap. >> let me catch myself before i say chicken crap. chicken crap. the bottom line, what he's talking about he says the house is held by democrats wants to vote on this before the end of the year because that changes as of january 1st. the house wants to push that under $250,000 tax credit extension real quickly because they know the republicans are going to say no. they've already written the senate, 42 senators have said no. they can stop that legislation. you know what is chicken crap the both sigh of them, two of them going back and forth. what else is chicken crap if they do nothing at all will have to file higher taxes right now up until december 31st and come back next year if the tax credits are extended going

forward you have to refile, you have to go back to your accountant, subchapter s corporations, 3 million of them will have to go back and say you know what these were extended going forward. i have to pay you again. john boehner is right it's chicken crap, but on both sides. megyn: to clarify for people not immersed in the business world like you are. we have to file action returns by april 15th. businesses have different sales. are you saying that businesses may have to file twice now if they don't get a deal on the taxes in general? >> if nothing changes the tax tables will be printed, businesses will go, i made this much, this is my tax rate, i'm going to have to pay this. they'll go ahead and pay it now. megyn: they'll pay it before december 31. >> exactly. if that small business tax hike doesn't get -- go into effect after january 1st, january 30th, february, whenever they decide to extend above $250,000 those businesses will have to go back and refile

with the irs and say i guess you guys owe me a check. megyn: they have to rely on uncle sam to cut them a check in a timely manner. i'm sure uncle sam is going to pay interest after having kept their money. >> not at all, no interest, no penalties when you say them too much, it only happens when you don't pay them enough that's when the interest and penalties kick in. megyn: this is why so many people are so disappointed in the u.s. congress. it's not like they didn't know this was coming. they've had ten years. >> both sides in this this one are playing games. american taxpayers, the people who make $250,000 and above a lot them are subchapter s corporations which means they are small companies, they file as individuals so they are not double taxed. they are not taxed a second time, double taxation. they will be affected by the new legislation if they let the upper level above 250 expire.

megyn: people like you have been saying these folks need certainty. >> bingo. megyn: and the big mystery over how much in taxes everybody is going to owe doesn't help. you can follow the money with eric every night monday through friday on fox business network. 9:00pm eastern time. check it out. we are hearing this hour from two republicans who say they will support some of the dramatic cuts being recommended by the deficit commission. tom coburn of oklahoma and mike crappo say they will back the proposals. that puts half of the members in support. could he burn did not minimums words when he spoke about the urgency of doing something now. >> the real disease is we've abandoned the concepts of our founders. we've created reliance instead of depending on selfreliance. we've created government programs that are unaffordable,

abandoned limited government, we've abandoned theee number rated powers, now we are in trouble and nobody is looking at what the real problem is. and the real problem is us. alexander tyler said all republics fail. they all fail over fiscal issues. they are not conquered from without before they rot from within. we are rotting. we are rotting as we sit here and speak today. megyn: well they need several more votes from that commission in support of the plan in order to force a vote in the congress. the debt commission will vote tomorrow on a plan. we'll bring that to you as it breaks. fox news alert, we are waiting a moment that rarely happens on capitol hill, the censure of a member of congress, that is

expected to happen when congressman charlie rangel is called to take the floor of the house to go into the well of the house if you will. we just got this video of the congressman moments ago. fellow lawmakers are expected to give the veteran democrat addressing down of his 11 ethics violations. james rosen has more live from washington. you don't see this often and you don't see it from someone who is the chairman of the weighs and means committee. >> reporter: the scheduled time for the vote keeps sleeping. we expect by nightfall tonight charlie rangel will have stood in the well of the house and listened in disgrace as speaker nancy pelosi reads the verdict. he was found guilty of eleven violations of house rules stemming from charges that he failed for 17 years to disclose income from avila he owned in the dominican republic, that he used official letterheads to solicit funds, that he used a

rent-controlled apartment as his campaign and exhibited conduct unbecoming of the house. the chairman took no evident pleasure in so finding last month. >> i note that the code of government ethics states clearly that a public office is a public trust. it was our responsibility to determine whether representative rangel's conduct met that standard. >> reporter: the loan member of the ethics committee to say he found censure too harsh was butterfield from california who was the loan african-american on the panel. jim clyburn of south carolina indicated this week that he too opposes censure. >> i don't think the violations that he admitted to are that

egregious that censure would be in order. a reprimand would be more appropriate. >> reporter: he admitted his violations but seized on admission that there is no evidence of personal corruption here. rangel argues that reprimand is more appropriate and indeed the latest on this is we have just learned that supporters of charlie rangel are going to try to stage a vote that would just impose reprimand and not censure on him. they'll have to pull some parliamentary maneuvers to hold that kind of vote, it's not clear they will success. megyn: this all unfolds today, james. >> reporter: later this afternoon. megyn: james rosen is watching it all for us. james, thank you. another alert, there is growing anger this hour over reports that we now know the whereabouts of the man behind a massive dump of secret u.s. documents that were stolen and then provided to him. julian assange is a wanted man now, he is accused of rape in the country of sweden. british police know where he is,

but they won't arrest him. why not? rick folbaum has answers live in our newsroom. >> reporter: it doesn't seem like anybody is working too hard to present julian assange into custody. some lawmakers in this country of course are accusing the obama administration of working harder to crackdown on crooks that sell pirated dvd's than getting the man who is responsible for leaking all the classified documents. that may be because the white house isn't sure to get around legal challenges it may face if it pulls the plug on wikileaks. the julian assange character is wanted for other reasons, to face charges that he raped a woman in sweden. the times in london says the reason authorities have not picked him up is due to a mere administrative technicality. the times of london reporting that police in britain know julian assange is in that

country. they gave him an address upon arriving there and going through customs at the airport. the reason scotland yard has not arrested julian assange is because authorities in sweden did not fill out his arrest warrant correctly. julian assange's lawyer says his client has offered to help out in the rape investigation but swedish officials have not taken him up on that. the guy wanted for possibly raping someone and for publishing leaked classified documents that officials say have put americans lives at risk is just hanging out in london, no doubt loving all the attention he's getting. megyn: wow. rick folbaum, thank you sir. we are awaiting a nasa news conference that is capturing the attention of the world, and maybe beyond. the nation's top scientists make an announcement in less than an hour that they say will affect the search for intelligent life beyond earth. they have been touting this, folks they want us to pay attention and we will. we'll go to the front line of

america's third war. our own steve harrigan is in mexico reporting from one of the deadliest cities in the world, an incredible update. ♪

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megyn: in what they call an effort to save money house republicans are doing away with nancy pelosi's surprise prized global warming committee. john boehner says it's an attempt to rid congress of duplication. it will save taxpayers millions of dollars. nancy pelosi established the house celebrity committee on energy independence and global warming back in 2007. [music playing] ♪

megyn: at the top of the next hour a highly anticipated nasa news conference that is lighting up the internet with theory and rumor, an announcement on the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. that is how nasa is putting it. phil keating has morement what is nasa expected to say. >> reporter: they are expected to announce they have discovered alien life living amongst us here on planet earth, specifically out in california, at yosemite national park. in brand-new video released on youtube by the journal of science you can see the area in question, it's mono lake. it's there that a researcher has spent the past two years. she has been studying the mud around the basin which is about 25 square miles wide and large. within it is perhaps one of the world's most highly arsenic

levels in the world. in that, which is a poison she is going to announce that she discovered a bacteria, a micro-organism that's been living there. all life forms that we know on depend on tpo phorphus. this is a microbacteria that is able to do it in arsenic. the doctor, the researcher said, quote there is life as we know it and there is life as we don't know it. what would that look like? i am trying to give us a framework to work with to look for what we don't know, the particular framework of arsenic. now that it's been discovered that life can exist without phosphorus that opens us up to looking at other planetary

moons. maybe it would have been dismissed because it didn't have atmospheres, or water or ice similar to that of earth, they were dismissed as possible places that other life out in the universe could exist. titan the large satellite moon of saturn that is certainly one of the areas that scientists have been looking for for life because it does have a atmosphere similar to earth's and it's larger than mercury. very exciting for the scientific community without a doubt. megyn: i kind of stopped listening after you said alien life was found in california. then you talked about arsenic and so forth. you're sure this is found in some ocean, it's not like somebody took a walk down hollywood boulevard and finally decided to contact nasa. >> reporter: a little north of hollywood at mono lake, a beautiful place. megyn: in 40 minutes we'll find out whether phil keating's sources are any good and whether

he has the scansed skinny of what we're going to hear from nasa. nancy pelosi says the republicans are hypocrites for wanting to give tax breaks to the rich while they are fighting against extending unemployment benefit. but is almost two years on unemployment the time when we say enough is enough? juan williams on the possible financial and political costs up next. plus they did the crime, and now you're paying for their time, and a whole lot more. wait until you hear how thousands of inmates may have bilked uncle sam, and that means you, out of more than $130 million. and stossel once again not playing nice, but it's all to make a point. is america's current spending stealing from future generations? >> i'm going to take this, and i need this, because you need to take care of me. i need this, give me this, please? thank you very much.

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megyn: your tax dollars at work, a government investigator finding some 50,000 prison inmates across the country claimed tax refunds this year collecting more than $130 million while making absolutely no money. on the other hand the report noted that the irs spotted nearly a quarter million fraudulent tax returns this past year, preventing about a billion and a half dollars in fraudulent refunds from being paid out. a little bit of bad news and a little bit of good news. well the white house is now jumping into the debate overextending unemployment

benefits. government assistance is running out for more than 2 million jobless americans, but this would be the fifth time congress has extended those payments, and that would make this a record if they do it. and the cost of extending the benefits just through february, just through february tops $12 billion. so when does washington pull the plug? juan williams is a fox news political analyst and he has some thoughts on this. juan, you know the white house finally jumps into the fray today saying letting millions more americans fall into hardship will hurt our economy and will cut off an important source of demand in our economy. their theory is you give these folks, you know, unemployment payments and they go out and they spend them. so it's good for the economy. >> reporter: well that's their theory and they have the council of economic advisers issues a report that is going to go state-by-state, district by congressional district, megyn, so that each lawmaker on capitol hill, republican or democrat will see the impact in their

community and i think as a consequence feel pressured to vote to extend the unemployment benefits. megyn: i think they do feel pressure, here we are it's three and a half weeks before christmas, hanukkah is upon us. it's the holiday season. it seems like an unfair time to cut off the spiget. it's 12 bill to extend through february, it's 56 billion if we want to extend to 2011. there are legitimate arguments on the other side about how continuing to extend the benefits for many people who are unemployment doesn't give them incentive to find a job. >> reporter: the republicans are making the case if you want to do it, if you want to have a temporary, not for the entire year, if you want to have an extension cut something else in the federal budget. the white house is coming back right now in the course of discussions of the extension of

bush tax cuts maybe we could do some business here. it's become a negotiating point, a matter of politics. but there are structural changes taking place in the economy. i think most of your americans that you just suggested from your heart have sympathy for people who are out of work and been out of work for an extended period of time. we have more americans that have hit that 99-week mark than at any time in our country's history since we've been keeping records any way. it's a terrible situation. we understand that the economy structural lee is bad. we are coming out of a recession. are we taking away the incentive for people to find work because they know they can just rely on the unemployment benefits? megyn: i told this story yesterday on the air, juan. i personally know somebody who is unemployment and gets a check for $400 a week, and he openly says, look -- he's trying to get a job but he can't get a job at

that old salary. he says what incentive do i have to take a job at barnes & noble which isn't going to pay me $400 a week when i can eastern more by staying on unemployment? >> reporter: you know, to me it's crazy, because the longer that person is unemployed the more difficult it is then for them to get a job, because potential employers will look and see and say, gee they've been out forever, it doesn't make sense. this is partly playing into the cycle. at some point you loose your work ethics. getting up, showing up, dressing well all that good stuff. i don't know that that is smart. apparently people are making that calculation. i think it's a self-destructive one. that's what people are talking about in washington more than ever that in fact the government may not be helping somebody by offering them these benefits, we may be hurting them. the white house position as i've just explained to them, they can't be heartless in this situation.

megyn: let's say they extend them through february, that is 12 and a half billion to extend through february of 2011. at that point do we cut them off? the economy is not going to be noticeably better by february, probably, right? yes, we're past the holidays, but is it any more humane? at what point do we turn around and say, we're sorry, we're in a fiscal crisis, we have record debt and we have to say no this time. >> reporter: this is really now the nub of the issue then. let's forget the human element that we're just talking about. at some point you would have to cut them off just as you've described, i think you're exactly right. what if you're saying it's also going to slow our recovery coming out of recession. if you take that money that they would spend, and they are going to spend it because they don't have reserves, they don't have big savings, they are going to spend that money, and that helps our economy to keep going and to pick up speed. so if they don't have it the white house is saying -- the council of economic advisers is saying you know what this is

going to have a negative impact on all of us as americans and slow down economic recovery. that becomes a much more difficult conversation. then you also have to factor in added cost, the debt, and the rising debt levels. that's why at the moment -- megyn: by that logic, juan -- by that logic you could keep going forever, why don't we just keep paying the unemployment for five more years, if it's better for the economy. at some point you have to realize that entrepreneurship is stifled. there is a reality to the situation that weighs against what the council on economic relations is saying. >> reporter: the council of economic advisers. picking up on phil keating story, beam me up scotty, where is there intelligent life, these guys are arguing back and forth and it becomes a matter of a political football back and forth. they play the game, it's about a human -- we want to make sure people are taken care of, on the other hand people are saying

it's not an incentive for them to go get work. at some point they need to get the nation's business done. at the moment it's all politics here in washington,es, especialy with this lame-duck session, the democrats are trying to help somebody, and the republicans say how much longer can it go. megyn: what's with all the poultry references. lame-duck, chicken crap, sounds like a theme. >> reporter: yes, ma'am. megyn: a hollywood murder mystery that sounds like it is straight out of a movie script. the powerful promoter behind big films, like "driving miss daisy" and the recently released "burlesque" murdered smack-dab in the center of beverly hills. when police find a suspect he shoots himself in the head. wait until you hear where the story goes from there. a brave lawyer volunteers to be a police chief in a dangerous border down where no one wanted

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megyn: she took the job no one wanted and was murdered for it. 38-year-old ermelia garcia volunteered to be police chief in a mexican town. two months into the job drug gangs targeted her as she drove to work. violence like this has become the tragic norm south of the border. steve harrigan is there live with that story in one of the most dangerous cities on the border. steve. >> reporter: the mexican government has had some success in recent months killing or capturing some of the cartel leaders but that usually leads

to suicides vying for the top spot. in places like juarez right behind me, a new explosion of violence. in two states of mexico that border the u.s. the central government has lost control. >> they have one of the highest murder rates on the planet. higher than baghdad right now, higher than kabul in afghanistan. >> reporter: the worst spot is juarez across the border from el paso, texas. >> we've been in juarez about one hour and we've already come upon our first murder. these are the victim's family members. you can see they are basically collapsing with grief. the man has been murdered and dumped in this drainage ditch and the police and the fire department are here to try to pull the body out. >> reporter: murder in juarez has become routine. [speaking in spanish] >> the worst thing is when you

wake up and there are already ten or 15 people dead. as the day goes on there are another ten. sometimes 25 people killed by the end of the day. you realize how ugly this city is. >> reporter: ugly enough to make people flee. 5,000 houses abandoned in the last five months in juarez. families leave everything behind and run. it is an eerie feeling to walk around some of the abandoned neighborhoods and businesses, places where people are so scared they just picked up what they could carry and ran north. that is another concern too not only about violence spilling over the border to the u.s. side but also people too fleeing for safe-haven. megyn: that is just stunning, the pictures that you witnessed firsthand, steve. thank you, steve harrigan. well to give you some perspective, some more perspective of just how bad it is where steve was reporting. cuidad juarez has a population of 1.3 million. new york city 8.3 million.

already this year there have been nearly 3,000 murders in juarez. new york has less than 500 so far. and look at that last number, the number of murders per one hundred thousand residents. foxnews.com has extensive reporting on america's third war, statistics like those and some more background information, foxnews.com, check it out. here in america our red ink is closing in now on $14 trillion. and it is getting worse every day. but as fox business network's john stossel finds, if you think raising taxes is going to put a big dent in it, think again. stossel joins us now live here on set. you know, john, they are saying we have to do it all, we have to hike the taxes and we have to stop the spending and we have to impose some austerity measures otherwise we're not going to be able to tackle down this debt. >> and i argue that taxes aren't going to do it because rich people change their behavior and

they don't pay much more in taxes, it's never been shown to work at 90% rates or 40% rates. tax collections are about 19% of gdp. they this are spending 3-plus trillion dollars. isn't 2 trillion enough? if they just spent that there would be no deficit. it's the spending that is the problem. megyn: are the republicans making that argument? just this week in connection with the segment we were doing i did research on what had happened his tore being lee when we lowered the taxes on the rich as opposed to raise the taxes on them. we looked at the coolidge administration. george w bush. it was it was a revenue razor. >> reporter: they paid more taxes. when tax rates were 90% ronald reagan would make four movies and go ride horses. he said it didn't pay to make more movies, it changes our

behavior. we have a clip about this, what it's doing to the kids. raising taxes won't cover the entitlement deficit. the problem is the spending, every year it goes up. when president bush took office government spent $1.8 trillion, wasn't that enough? no. the president wanted to do things like give sr. a pre scripps drug entitlement. >> you are giving them the modern medicine they deserve. [applause] >> reporter: now the current administration has nearly doubled the spending. >> there you go. there you go. we are done. [applause] >> reporter: the obama administration alone has added more than a trillion dollars to the debt just this year. and as bad as that is it's going to get worse, the coming threat is entitlement, social security, medicaid, the big one medicare. what are we going to do about that? excuse me i have to take some of these. no, no i'm the old person, i need this. are we baby boomers

entitled to their money? no, i won't give it back, i need that. we boomers who expect to collect social security and medicare are basically stealing from babies. you two may not have much of a future, you have to pay for geezers like me. you better work really hard. megyn: is that fair? are we really -- are geezers like you stealing from the children when it comes to medicare, social security which you've been paying into your whole life. we have viewers write in and say i paid into social security and i'm entitled to get that money back. >> reporter: last time we talked about this your viewers gave me horrible mail. megyn: they did. it's kelly@foxnews.com. >> reporter: most geezers will collect two to three times more than they paid in. it can't be sustained. we are living too long. megyn: sometimes i think, have a heart. you don't want to take care of the elderly, the poor, who do

you want to take care of? isn't a civilized society required to look after those who are really hurting. >> reporter: yes, who are really hurting. some used medicare as their social life. i interviewed elderly people that say i paid into the system, i meet my friends at the doctors where i go all the time. megyn: isn't that the exception not the rule. >> reporter: the incentives don't ask how much the doctors cost. you don't pay for it. it's expected it will be taken care of. that is unsustainable as long as people my age plan to live past age 70. and i do frankly. megyn: i hope you're right. no one other than paul ryan is taking an honest serious look at how to tackle entitlements. >> reporter: he would preserve the system but you folks would have a new account, your own personal account. megyn: there's been very little appetite on either side to go there. john, thank you so much, sir. those little kids turned out to be fine as it turns out.

the little girl stopped crying as soon as john left the room. >> reporter: no children were hurt during that tape. megyn: you can check out john stossel at 9:00pm and at midnight on the fox business network. space the final frontier, but maybe not for long, the big announcement coming from nasa on the search foray lee and life. it's about 15 minutes away right now. you'll see it here, live. plus new developments in three minutes on a real-life hollywood mystery. a suspect in the m murder of ths hollywood publicist puts a bullet in his head. he was a person of interest. just as the cops move in he kills himself, why? >> i heard cops talking in the hallway, biggest thing in beverly hills, something, something, i put the bits and pieces together. i saw through the door in there what was going on, and i saw it roped off in the lobby. @=h

megyn: big developments today on

a story that seems ripped from some hollywood script. a high-powered hollywood publicist ronni chasen gunned down in her mercedes-benz in the middle of beverly hills two weeks ago. her killer pumping five bullets into her chest at close range. now police say a person of interest in her murder has killed himself, shooting himself in the head just as the cops were moving in. cops say the man bragged to neighbors that he had $10,000 coming to him for a job he did. did someone hire this guy to take out ronni chasen and why would they want to. rod wheeler is my guest now. this guy apparently it was an ex-con, they are not releasing his name officially. apparently was an ex-con, he served two stints in st. paul according to reports and vowed he would never go back to prison which could explain he shot himself in the head as the police were moving in. the question is, does this look like he was some sort of a

hitman hired by somebody to murder this publicist? >> absolutely. the police are trying to figure out what was the connection between this gentleman who killed himself and the victim. there appeared to be on the service no connection between the two. when you look at the autopsy report that is already published in certain media it looks as if this was definitely a hit, because of the grouping, the way this woman was shot. police are looking at not just the individual who killed himself, megyn but who could have been the people behind this individual that perhaps offered him $10,000 to kill this woman. megyn: in your experience as a homicide detective who would go find an ex-con and pay him if the reporting pans out 10 grand to murder somebody. is that a amateur who goes and does that or who does that? >> not necessarily an amateur, that's an excellent question, and it's not difficult to find a hitman in this country, believe

it or not. the going rate is anywhere from 10 to $25,000. even the number the $10,000 figure, when you hear that, that raises a red flag, because that is about the going rate. at the same time who was the person that this woman knew that perhaps wanted her killed. megyn: her relatives and friends say she swear she had no enemies. she was publicizing "burlesque" and she had done "driving miss days see" and others. there is wild speculation she had a relative who owed hundreds of thousands in gambling debts. the other theory was related to russian investors who were angry about a film that went sour. how are the police going to tackle this. >> they will look at each and every one. they will look at the timing. how did this particular hit guy come about. what is his relationship? who are the people he knew? they will try to piece all these things together. again this investigation is very

fluid and i think it's very important that the viewers understand that because this guy has killed himself this investigation is really at the beginning. now the cops have to find out who was it that was behind this guy if in fact he was the one that was paid to take this lady's life. megyn: they say this murder investigation is not over. >> that's right. megyn: thank you so much. we are ten minutes away from the big announcement from nasa on extraterrestrial life. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] at&t and blackberry have teamed up to keep your business moving. blackberry torch now just $99.99. only from at&t. rethink possible. blackberry torch now just $99.99. she starts at dawn and so does her back pain.om. that's two pills for a four hour drive. the drive is done. so it's a day of games and two more pills.

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megyn: the 2012 presidential hopefuls are already booking trips, guess where, the hawk eye state. you may not even know which state that is. you know which one i'm talking about, don't you? the starting gate for so many runs at the white house and the place where many stop dead in their tracks.

steve brown is live and let me reveal the mystery, spirit lake, iowa. hey, steve. >> reporter: hey, megyn. what would be new is if sarah palin announces she was running for president. we don't have that yet. she is currently still a potential presidential candidate. certainly she does have fans in iowa. another book-signing appearance in the hawk eye state at the walmart here at spirit lake, iowa. fans lined up very early, 250 in line at 7:30 this morning for an autograph. one woman even got her boot autographed by palin. she is also catching some flack here. the des moines register and the cedar rapids georgia set has questioned palin's visit for her lack of accessibility to media and possible caucus goers. if palin runs there will be an endorsement that she and another candidate will be after, that will be the new governor terry

brans t-rbg ed. he says he is not certain he will endorse, certainly not right away any way. >> i don't intend to endorse early at all. i intend to be very welcoming and encourage candidates to come here. i'm not ruling out the possibility of endorsing somebody at some point down the road. >> reporter: and branstad is causing a bit of a headache for potential presidential candidate. ao he's hiring brand-new staff for his administration. three caucus and four endorsers. he has a hundred more to go. they hire locals to help them run labor intensive persistent campaigns and a lot of them might get snatched up by the administration before the the campaigns get to hire them for themselves. megyn: steve brown in a live shot location that has to be the best advertisement for walmart they have never not paid for. >> reporter: probably. megyn: thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. megyn: fox news alert moments away now from a controversial

vote on the bush tax cuts. we are waiting to see what the plan is on capitol hill. will they do it or won't they? this is a live look on the floor of the house. the democrats defying their republican countsparts. now set to vote onyx tending the tax cuts, but only for families making less than $250,000 a year. that would mean a big hike for small business owners and for higher income americans. how republican leader john boehner calling the vote, quote, chicken crap. >> i think there are substantive conversations going on with the administration to stop all the tax hikes, and to cut spending. i'm hopeful that those conversations will continue, if ands and buts were candy and nuts every day would be christmas. megyn: this vote is on the heels of president obama's bi-partisan meeting with the gop leadership and the democrats, republicans therefore say that the move by the democrats is in bad faith.

why do they hold a vote when they are still on the other part of washington negotiating with the white house on what the vote should be on, on what the deal should be. a live report from the capitol moments away, stay tuned. another fox news alert, we are now moments away from what could be the answer to one of mankind's greatest mysteries. nasa is set to announce what is expected to be a ground-breaking development in the search for life in outer space, or maybe right here. while we wait corey powell, editor and chief of discover magazine joins me now. core raoerbgs life in outer space, extraterrestrial life here on earth, what exactly are we expecting? >> well, there was online betting about this. people are betting that nass ace going to reveal that area 51 had flying saucers. there is going to be life on mars i don't think you'll see that today. i think you'd have president obama or somebody a little different on if it was one of

those. the thing they are looking for it's probably more about the chemistry of life, how life can exist and where it could exist. megyn: it just got boring. >> i said the word chemistry. here is the real cool part. when you listen to the announcement listen to the idea that there could be basically alien life on earth. we are talking about mike skroebs, not things with ten particular cals. life on earth could be different than the way we thought and the way we look for it could be different than the way we thought. megyn: mike kroebs is that the very beginnings of alien life that don't match up with the very beginnings of human life exist? >> people have always asked this question. we are looking for life as we know it in the universe. people always say, what about life as we don't know it. i think that is the main thing to listen to for this announcement is life as we don't know it. the first thins that we are going to find if you think about how the earth is there is a lot of boring stuff a lot of germs and mike kroebs compared to a

relatively small number of more interesting things like people. most of the life out there if there is life out there is going to be the small stuff much once you find the small stuff that tells you where to look for what you really want to find the intelligent creatures out there, really any sign of life out there, as soon as you find one other it means if there is one there is probably a thousand, a billion, a trillion of them. megyn: where? if they found, you know, microbes feeding off of arsenic in the pacific ocean or wherever it is, i don't know what they are going to announce does that tell us there may be extraterrestrial life forming here on earth or does that tell us that we need to check other planets and other moons that have similar, you know, arsenic for life? >> in a way it tells you both of those things. first of all it tells you that if you want to understand alien life you might not have to go to another planet. you might be able to look around right here and see that life may have evolved more than one time

on this planet. we may be sharing this planet with other kinds of life that are not really like us. megyn: oh, really, thinking of area 251. >> that's where it starts to get interesting. you're absolutely right about the second part. when we are looking for life elsewhere in the universe it gives you a sense of where and how you should look. megyn: we are going to hear from four nasa experts. there is a geobiologist, an oceanographer, a biologist and ecologist. he's making the introductions. the lead researchers, he's making the introductions we are going to go through long bios of these folks. which one of these folks do you expect to take the lead? who is the lead researcher among these four? megyn: the lead researcher is lisa wolf simon the second one.

she is the one most directly involved with the paper. do we have a moment to talk. megyn: he is just going through their bios. don't worry folks, you won't miss any substance. they have long, long, long bios. >> the interesting thing. megyn: wait, she is talking, starry. gets tow live. >> the extraterrestrial life but not life as we know it. it was funded by the as throw biology program which is a program in nasa that focuses on the origin, evolution of life, the distribution of life and future of life on earth to inform us as to how we might search for life and evidence of life in other places in our solar system and beyond. funding somewhere gin of life research.

we are -- of funding origin of life we search. the research shows the origin of life and life in the universe program. i would like to introduce dr. dr. simon. what she did and what she found. >> as many of my colleagues would agree with, i'm always in exceptions to the rule. what i'm going to talk about days not that much different than another exception to the rule. so i have discovered -- i led a team that discovered something i have been thinking about for many years. idea subjectidea substitution. you can substitute arsenic for phosphorous. all life at we know requires carbon, hydr hydrogen, oxygen ad

sulphur. dna and rna. the information technologies, the proteins, and the lipids which separates you from everything else. so by discovering -- we discovered an organism that can substitute one element for another in the major biomolecules. i want to put this in the contexts of who, what, where and how. in an astro biological context of what this could mean from a practical and esoteric level. i would like to introduce gsaj-1 bacteria. these are not little potatoes. they are microbes that science calls little bugs. but they are not bugs. they are microbes. they look ordinary. this may look like a type of micrograph many of us may have

even before it's in extra extraordinary. so we'll talk about that. but first let's find out where this microbe is from. we are looking at a map of mono lake, california. it's in northern california east sierras outside of yosemite national park. if tuck roll that footage. mono lake is three times the salt of seawater. it's like bleach. it's got high levels of arsenic and it's teeming with life like bacteria and algae. and it's a major stopping points for migratory birds on their way through the united states. we went to look for an interesting microbe, we went to an unusual place. i'll tell you how we did this. if you wants to look for an organism that can substitute one element for another, you might want to think about where that particular element is abundant.

mono lake is abundant in arsen arsenic. think about the periodic table. arsenic lies just below phosphorous on the periodic table. they have the physical size of arsenic and phosphorous are similar. it's the physical size of the atom. they are similar. this chemical similarities and other things i with be happy to discuss at lengths with folks. but that lends insight into something. arsenic is toxic because it looks like phosphorous. your cells and my cells can't tell the difference. that's interesting to me as a wife oh chemist -- as a biochemist. is it just me. do you no longer understand? we still have corey powell. don't worry, we are monitoring its. you didn't understand it either. but corey did.

what the heck -- i think the real alert may be that nasa has a 14-year-old leading the search for extraterrestrial life. >> yeah -- megyn: she looks so young. >> our children are our future. megyn: good for her. but what was she saying. >> scientists have -- parts of their job is to be cautious. she is degree cautious in what she found here. the immediate thing is she is describing a microbe that eats arsenic. that's interesting in and of itself it's one of the most toxic things the environment for is. this form life eats it and needs it. you can imagine as you are using these microbes to clean up toxic waste spills. life can use a different kinds of chemistry.

its can operate differently than the life we know. she wasn't calling it alien life on earth, but that's what she is talking about. the kinds of life that we are is not the only kinds of possible life. we found a different kinds of life right here on earth. that tells you a lot about the life out there in the universe. megyn: i understand that much better than when she started talking about the periodic table of the elements. in any event, corey, thank you for putting it into language we can understand. he will continue to listen i bring us the headlines as he hears them in terms even i can understand. thank you. back to the controversy here on earth on capitol hill. house lawmakers are set to vote on the bush tax cuts. this could mean a tax hike for

families making more than $250,000 a year if it pals in the house and the senate. and if president obama signs off on it. critics call this a slap in the the -- a slap in the face to the president's attempt to have a bipartisan agreement just as the democrats are forcing their own version to the floor and wanting to vote. the republicans are saying that smacks of bad faith. which one of these deals are we suppose to be focused on. house speaker john boehner is saying priorities on the hill are way out of whack. >> reporter: the debate has been underway for a half-hour on the house floor. this is on the democratic proposal to extend bush tax cuts on incomes up to $250,000. folks who make more than that would get a tax cut on that portion of their income that is less than $250,000.

but an awful lot of businesses and folks wealthier than that would get nong nothing. it's not just the gop that thinks they are at odds with the president's suggestions he's willing to reach commongrounds, and it was followed up by appointing negotiators to get involved in that negotiation process. the republicans are not being offered the opportunity to offer amendments or alternatives. it will likely not pass with gop support. in the senate it will be virtually dead on arrival. michigan mcconnell says it won't get seriously considered here. jim demint says that in fact that's what they are going to go through. while there are compromises and

deals being discussed, both sides are dug in. republicans have the upper hands. and show no signs of blinking, meaning if they can't get the bush tax cuts extends, it will probably be christmas eve before we finds outs. there is a possibility when the gop takes over the house they will start all over and it will be a republican tax proposal. megyn: what that will do to payroll systems across the country if we have to do it then. if lawmakers do not reach an agreement on extending the tax cuts a typical family making $50,000 a year could pay $3,000 more in taxes. a family making $100,000 could give uncle sam $500,000 more a year. those who earn a million bucks or more could pay $50,000 more per year. supporters call it a path to citizenship.

critics call it amnesty for illegals. love it or leave it. why there are allegation some in congress are hiding the price tag on the so-called dream act which harry reid is pushing to get a vote on this week. and this 13-year-old student got pummeled by a fellow classmate in the middle of math class. we have the video. we'll show it to you in "kelly's court." the cameras were rolling as the fists flew right in front of the teacher. what the adult did not do that lands them all in "kelly's court." >> he came over and started hitting me. then i just was trying to defend myself. but he was dish was sitting in the chair so i couldn't. >> the school is to educate not to get killed it's really bad, you know. it's really bad. [ s. greenlee ] i would love to have been a musician

but i knew that i was going to need a day job. we actually have a lot of scientists that play music. the creativity, the innovation, there's definitely a tie there. one thing our scientists are working on is carbon capture and storage, which could prevent co2 from entering the atmosphere. we've just built a new plant to demonstrate how we can safely freeze out the co2 from natural gas. it looks like snow. it's one way that we're helping provide energy with fewer emissions. [ malhis day starts thwith his arthritis pain.. it's one way that we're helping provide energy that's breakfast with two pills. the morning is over, it's time for two more pills. the day marches on, back to more pills. and when he's finally home... but hang on; just two aleve can keep arthritis pain away all day

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megyn: enroll in the military or go to college and become a citizen. supporters call this a path to citizenship. critics call it amnesty for i will lels. steve king says the price tag may be the most outrageous part of the deal. king writing a letter to the congressional budget office demanding full disclosure on how much this bill will cost before there is any vote today or tomorrow. chris plant is a conservative radio talk show host. steve king says that his understanding is it could be as much as $20 billion cost to the taxpayers if we pass the so-called dream act. how could that be? >> if that's what the congressional budget office is

scoring it at it will probably turn out to be more. you are talking about free college. you are talking about all kinds of expenses. it sounds patriotic if you join the military there is a path to citizenship. we are talking about illegal aliens up to the age of 40 who would be eligible. megyn: the latest bill has it up to the age of 30. but there is anger on capitol hill because reid introduced four different bills. the republicans are saying we don't 10 know which bill we are supposed to be voting for. harry reid promised he would bring it to the floor. the republicans are saying we don't know which one we are voting for. give apparently bypassed the committee. so they don't know what they are about to vote on. >> all in the spirit of transparency and bipartisanship, no doubt.

the fundamental element that people are overlooking is this is one again the democrats playing the politics of race and ethnicity. the fundamental architecture of politics is essentially racist or race based. harry reid said when he was -- his son was running against an hispanicman said no hispanic in their right mind would vote republican. this is an incremental step by the democrats towards total amnesty and it's going to be one thing after another. what they are looking to do is buy into the hispanic community the growing hispanic voting block. it's about the permanent democrat majority. and the $20 billion. it's the tip nancy pelosi left at lunch today. it's a rock in the grand canyon when it comes to the annual

deficits of 1.3 trillion. megyn: the democrat position on this is, this is not comprehensive immigration reform. they say this is the least we can do. providing a path to citizenship for kids who were brought here through no fault of their own by their parents who illegally crossed the border. we are not just giving them citizenship, we are saying you have got to earn it by going to college or enrolling in the military. only then will we grant you permanent lawful status and years after that maybe we'll grant you citizenship. south's not amnesty, it's a chance. >> many foreign nationals serve in the u.s. military. then you have got a good argument for an expedited path to citizenship. but this is one of many bills. there are four floating around right now that the democrats are planning on bringing in one after another. the ultimate goal is complete amnesty.

once you established this as a precedents. then you will start look at fairness and equal treatment. if it's good for this group, it's also good for that group. how can you say we'll provide a path for these people but not for those people. in the final amall sits's about pandering to the hispanic vote. the democrats don't care about $20 billion. megyn: gutierrez out of chicago said if they don't pass it, it's not enough they are bringing it up. he says if they don't pass this and get this done, the dream act, then he's prepared to ditch president obama, ditch the democratic party and take this movement to the streets. he says he's going to make this akin to the civil rights movement, the hispanic caucus is going to not align itself with any particular party. they can't be counted on as a

reliable democratic vote. they will strike their own path and make this such an issue through protests and sit-s in that neither party can ignore it. >> let him bring it on. this is not a civil rights issue. there is not a civil right for every person on the planet to be in the united states illegally. it's more democratic politics. threats of treat violence. look at greece, that's what he's talking about. megyn: chris plant. chris is the brother of somebody who works here at fox. what is your relationship. you are like the son of the other bill plant. >> my father works for technically to protect him he's my stepfather. but my brother michael is a senior producer for fox news in new york. but of had nothing to do with this. megyn: thanks, chris.

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megyn: he scored a touchdown then gave up thanks to god.

then the refs gave him a 15-yard penalty. >> reporter: like he has done so many times this season. ronnie powers his way into the end zone for 6. then takes the knee. >> every time i get into the end zoin honor my lord because he gives me the strength. >> reporter: this time the referee hits him with a penalty for unsportsman like conduct. even fit is a prayer, i think it should go on. >> reporter: according to the washington athletics association rules players cannot draw attention to themselves. so when he scored and raised his hand to heaven, the refs said he was doing just that.

>> i do it every game. but i have learned now. >> reporter: even the coaches agreet refs got the call right. >> i admire the man. >> reporter: the 15-yard pen & at did not affect the outcome of the game. >> i thought it was crummy our kids didn't give thanks in public. >> reporter: we tried to ask what happened but we are told the organization doesn't give comments on calls. it is a judgment call by the ref. he says the next time he scores a touchdown he plans to play by the rules. >> we don't want penalties. megyn: for more on this story

you can head over to our web site foxnews.com. "fox and friends" had on the player this morning. the deficit commission wants to see uncle sam tax folks on their employer provided healthcare plans. but they want to see that change. why republican congressman paul ryan says that will push millions of us off our current plans and onto government-run exchanges which he says would drive up the cost of that healthcare law astronomically. plus a brawl behind the blackboard captured on cell phone. it's not the first time this team has been bullied in class. this time the video and the teacher were watching. and they all land in today's "kelly's court." plus it's a dog eat dog world unless you are a pampered pooch from chelsea, new york. canine catering like you have never seen before. you are not going to believe this.

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megyn: we are back with a search for life in outer space or

extraterrestrial life right here on earth. corey powell, the editor-in-chief of "discover" magazine has had his ear to this. what are the headlines. >> one of the interesting things is the scientists are talking about the fact that this new kinds of life they discovered, arsenic-based life could live on mars or saturn's moon titan. nasa has a spacecraft look at saturn. we have a probe going to mars next year. we could begin that kind of search immediately. the other interesting thing is a press release from yesterday, it was bigger news which is the discovery of a steamy atmosphere around an earth-like planet around another star. there are literally billions of these in our galaxy.

now that we know how to study them. this is probably the way we'll find in the next year or two really interesting chemical evidence of life on another planet. it's something we may be discovering right around the corner. megyn: corey, thank you so much. we appreciate you watching and interpreting. >> it's pretty amazing. megyn: we are grateful for you doing that translation for us. thanks so much. president obama's deficit commission wants to tax you on employer provided healthcare plans. right now, you don't get taxed on your employer healthcare. but they want to change that. republican congressman paul ryan poised to be the chair of the house budget committee says that will push millions of americans off their currents plans and onto government-run exchanges. what does that mean for the rest of us?

dan gerstein is a democratic strategist, and mike is a conservative talk show host. ryan is saying it's going to force more and more people onto government-run exchanges and run up the deficit because who pays for those government subsidies but the taxpayer? it's a cost increasing measure. and dan you responds to that how? >> when i saw the teaser i thought we would be talking about whether there is intelligent life in washington. i think this healthcare debate shows there is not much of it. here is the problem that we are so wrapped up in talking about obama care and things we don't know are going to happen. there are so many unknowns about this bill. and it's hard to predict what's going to happen. most conservative economists are saying, john mccain proposed this in his healthcare plan --

you have to tax high-cost employer provided healthcare plans because there is a huge disparity. if you get healthcare and you are self-employed versus if you work for an employer. megyn: when they were talking about doing that, they were saying then you have to open up competition so if i get forced off the fox plan then i have got choice. i can go out there and say i have got to buy my own insurance plan now. the government will give me a tax rebate for this. so let me shop the market. their point now is under the healthcare plan passed in march, we don't have the right to do that. so it's the worst of all worlds. >> you would have the right to do it. the's the idea of these exchanges. megyn: you can't go across state lines. >> that was a flaw in the plan. but the bottom line is there will be choice and come anything these exchanges. it's already happening in some states. megyn: but it's all government

run insurance exchanges that we are about to be forced onto according to him if they take away this fox deduction. >> dan just said there are a lot of unthose it's a 2,000-page bill. i'm glad you brought up unintended consequences. the fact that insurance is connected to your job is an intended consequence. it's connected to your job, not the person. that's why there are so many people who don't have insurance. when you switch jobs you are uninsured until six months down and your insurance kicks back in. the only reason that's the case is you factor in the new deal, fdr froze wages. megyn: we are gets off the beaten track. so fine. both sides can agree that it's better to have the insurance attached to the person, instead of the employer. but the problem is we don't have that choice. they didn't open up competition across state lines. so if i get kicks off the fox

plan i have limited options. paul ryan is saying i'm going to have to go on a government-run exchange. his points is if millions of americans have some do that. who sponsors those government-run exchanges? this does not winds up being a cost-saving measure. this winds up costing the taxpayers more. is that valid or isn't it? >> we don't know. it's a legitimate concern. i know paul. i work with him on the hill. he's serious about solving problems. i might disagree with him on some issues. at the same time the idea is with these exchanges by pooling competition and offering choice and getting the uninsured into the market it will lower cost and lower premiums. that's not in theory such a bad thing. the proof will in the pudding how these are sit and how they are run.

-- how they are set up and how they are run. >> how can anything the federal government is doing cost less money. it's unconstitutional and how could it cost less money? >> theoretically it's possible. megyn: it may or may not. but it doesn't comport with the promise i'll be able to keep the healthcare i currently have. the bottom line for ryan is fiscally we can't afford all these millions through these government exchanges. whether his predictions are true or not only time will tell. and whether we lose that fox deduction is in question. it's only a recommendation at this point. gentlemen, i have got to run. thanks so much. coming up at the top of the hour, student ohio b with mr. shepard smith. shep: you will never be forced off the fox plan. they let you get to 10 kids. what would happen if they let

all the tax cuts expire? what would happen? what would happen with the transfer of money? gerri will lils will be in here to break down the numbers for us. judge napolitano will be in here to tell us what that could mean. megyn: boys will be boys. but this is over the top. a 13-year-old middle school student brutally beaten in the middle of his math class by a kid he says has been tormenting him for weeks. his parents say they have complained repeatedly. but the video and what the teacher did not do lands them all in "kelly's court." during the break you can check out foxnews.com. click on the on the docket * section. read up on this case before the drops. [ male announcer ] welcome to that one time of year

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megyn: "kelly's court" is in session. the class melee and the teacher accused of turning a blind eye. joshua pool sitting at his desk minding his own business. the teacher is sitting steps away at his computer. he decides to ring the front office for help but declined to step in and stop the fight which lasts 15 minutes as these 13-year-olds pummeled each other. his parents say this is not the first time he has come under attack, and from this kid. now they are getting ready to sue. >> they wanted somebody to jump on. they came over and started hitting me. so then i just was trying to defend myself. but he was dish was sitting in a chair so i -- but i was sitting in a chair so i couldn't. megyn: lis, let me start with

you. if you are not going to have a teacher step in and protect these kids, who will? >> the teacher was standing by, switched the button to bring somebody in. but after a long time the teacher was on the computer playing computer games and not even paying attention to this fight. you saw it. things are falling down all over the place, one kid, thank goodness took the video so this got onto youtube which is how the parents were able to convince the principal that their kid had been damaged. don't forget the victim here, the 13-year-old boy being beaten up was suspended for six days because of this. megyn: because he fought back after he sat there and took a beating. how does that kid joshua pool end up getting suspended. >> they did the best they could at their level of awareness at the time. several students indicated the

alleged victim this case was the instigator in the hallway and did some things off camera allegedly that led to his suspension. they were on solid legal footing. do you believe that somehow a teacher during this melee sat and played solitaire on a computer? >> i don't see the teacher even coming over and standing above them. >> they guide what should happen? i don't think that's what happened. megyn: here is what the school says. the teacher pushed the call button requesting assistance. when the students wouldn't stop fighting the teach went to the hallway to get help and that's when the vice principal stepped in. teachers are not trained to stop the fights -- >> bravo.

>> this teacher didn't even come over. i'm not saying get involved in the fight. but not even to come over and call for help? not to do anything? >> it's become a two on one. i'll take both on. we'll send all teachers to the nhl to get trained on how to break up fights. megyn: rules that prohibit you from stepping in unless you have been trained. the normal policy is be a teacher. a 13-year-old, when's not 17. you can step in to protect that child. >> 13-year-olds don't carry weapons. they don't get involved in gangs. we should have our teachers stand in the middle of two kids fighting and put their lives on the line? you have push the call button. >> it didn't happen. he appreciated the call button. he just sat there and waited a

for somebody else who had no more expertise than he did. at least come over and say stop it. >> should resource officers who are trained come in, yes. should teachers put their lives on the line to top this? absolutely not. >> there was a case in october where a boy was beaten, his arm was broken. his mother got a $4 million verdict because a jury looks at this -- i have an 8th grade daughter. i'm look at this video saying could that be my daughter? >> when a teacher gets harmed by trying to break up two kids who are hell bent and harming each other -- megyn: you are not worried about the 13-year-old boy. >> i started off, i said i thought it was unfortunate. megyn: but you would let it happen again if you were in charge of the school. >> i would make sure school resource officers who are trained. someone who knows how to take

down kids safely and effectively. not teachers. megyn: lirks s, you mention a teacher collapsed and died. >> this teacher did nothing, megyn. just sat there. >> those aren't the facts, lis. >> you saw the video. did you see a teacher come on and stop it. >> the teacher did not get involved in that fight the right way. she shouldn't have gone the involved. >> he. >> if the teacher went over there and at least had some power of presence saying stop it -- >> the school doubled down on it by suspending the victim. >> that's a separate issue. megyn: the victim never threw a

blow nell was pummeled in the chair. >> apparently wave was us poanded for was what kids told authorities happened in the hallways. megyn: taunting. there was no allegation of physical violence. >> it depends on what you read. so they fired him for to reason? >> they suspend him for six days. you know what that does to a kid in 7th grade? that's a long time. megyn: good debate. this policy stinks. the school is so worried about protecting itself and its teacher it proar go -- it forgot the student. if this teach wasn't trained to help, he shouldn't have been in that classroom, period. okay. we are going to take a hard town something nicer. this will be. you irlove. these puppies are loving this. we'll show you pampering that

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