>> if obama says no to this bill it stops dead. >> and the government would stop in its tracks. >> stop playing games with the government. if you believe -- [ talking over each other ] >> the house -- to unare the government on a continuing resolution is a gimmick. pass a budget. stand for what you believe in. >> sean: where have they been? >> where have republicans been with earmarks? >> sean: that's all the time we have left. thanks for being with us. greta is standing by. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. >> greta: tonight, this is a disgrace. look at this. this is the omnibus spending bill, 1.1 trillion dollars, clocking in at nearly 2,000 pages. do you think any senator has read this? they it last night the vote is likely this weekend. we have much more on this minutes away. plus, you will see with own eye was dove this gunman to open fire at a school board

meeting in florida. >> please don't. please don't. please. >> i'm gonna kill, don't you. >> greta: you will hear the gunman say inis own words what dove him to attack. >> but first, this must enrage you. border agent gunned down, murdered in a late night shot out 10 miles from the arizona/ mexico border. four in custody, several more possibly connected are being hunted down. here's the question to which we must demand an answer from our government, what more has to happen before the government will facedown this growing war? we've spoken about this before and you have been a champion to try to get attention from the federal government. horrible news. >> it is a tragedy. agent terry was 40 years of age. three years at border patrol. 10 years with the police department previously. he was also part of the group

that is like a s.w.a.t. team the most elite part of the united states border patrol. for him to be murdered is a tragedy not#úlo just for the agents but for all americans. >> greta: the horrible thing is, who didn't know this was coming? you have been on air saying you need help. two senators, governor has been on. there's been demand for more help this is inevitable. >> 207,000 mexicans brutally being -- 27,000 mexicans brutally being murdered because of the cartel violence it is inevitable it will effect us. the tragic killing of the fifth generation southern arizona rancher. we have real challenges. secretary napolitano was already headed to the border,5cn she sped the trip up so she could be with the border patrol. it is that focus we need not just the secretary but the president needs to come.

>> greta: he hasn't. does it have to take a murder? this is not new. are you able to communicate at the white house? governor brewer has been there, had discussion, a few more national guard was sent. we've spoken to janet napolitano director of homeland security. she says there are more bodies on the border to try and protect us that is true, but the fact is, it is not doing the trick. >> to give credit where credit is due, the number of border patrol agents have doubled in the last couple of years. 1200 members of the national guard along the border. over half -- 560 in southern arizona. we also were able to pass a 600 million dollar border security funding bill, bipartisan house, senate was able to agree a couple of months ago. but the tragedy still continues that we have violence everyday. the president should be there. the secretary is coming back. this is our oil spill.

this is equivalent to the gulf coast oil spill, these tragedies along the southern arizona border. it is critical that the administration acknowledges that. people are living in fear. ranchers are living in fear. our communites do not feel safe. until they feel safe, i'm gonna continue to put more pressure on the united states government on the house, the senate and on the administration. i don't care which administration. bush akwvdeáj5ápáion didn't do as well of a job as they should have. obama administration needs to do better. >> greta: we traveled with secretary of state clinton, we've been covering the story almost every night. she described mexico as looking like colombia 20 years and was rebuked by that -- rebuked for that by president obama and president calderon of mexico. tell that to the family of the murdered border patrol. how do you get the president to take a look at your gulf spill?

how do you get him down there? >> keep nagging, keep bugging. i've been bringing members of congress down since i was first elected. just because we live directly on the border those of news southern states. border and immigration problems affect everyone in the country. mexican dug cartels are so sophisticated they are set up -- up across the worm. continuing to call out those in charge, those that responsible. -- i'm very happy that secretary napolitano will be in arizona starting this weekend. is it critical she is there? we have to do more. this is not a partisan issue. it has nothing to do wit the democrat party, republican party. national security begins with border security. >> greta: congresswoman, thanks very much. ready for more? the government drops the ball on our border, what is happening in washington is gridlock. we've been drowning in furious battles overtaxes. now the omnibus spending bill.

both matters should have been resolved months ago. senator lindsey graham joins us. you read it all? >> i haven't. my staff is reading it. it is ridiculous to try to pass something this big in three days this is the entire federal government funded by 1924 page document no one has had time to go through this is not good government. and this is what makes people mad and here we are doing it yet again. >> greta: this talks about the fiscal year 2010 that fan october 1. and you are just doing this now? >> we have not passed, 13 accounts to fun the government each is a checking account, so to speak. we haven't passed one appropriations building so they are all in one big mess called an omnibus, given us to yesterday to be passed before christmas with 6700 earmarks. senator coburn has them all designated, you can look at all the earmarks, eight

billion dollars 1.1 trillion spent in about four days that's why people are very upset. that's why republicans did well. if republicans help pass this bill, we are gonna lose our second chance with the american. people -- american people. >> greta: i don't know how you vote yes or no. even no is done by guessing. why don't you demand it be read. refuse to vote . look, this time it is the democrats. they control the agenda. they control this bill. it was -- this was spending -- spending was due october 1st. you are getting it shoved down your throat. >> we didn't pass a budget. running government without a budget is dangerous. for this to become law you need 60 votes in the senate. if republicans would hold firm with some democrats at least three democrats who are going to vote against this bill. we could stop it and do a continuing resolution for 45 days that funds the at current

levels. >> greta: everyone should have done his homework last october. nobody should go home for the christmas holiday. you should all do your work. get your work done. >> we should have passed a tax cut bill months ago. like you said for every night for the last year, the tax cuts have been due to expire for 10 years. here we are passing a tax package before christmas when it has been something we know we needed to do for years. >> greta: what spawned the tea party movement -- >> this right here. >> greta: stimulus bill that nobody read. it in ed the american people. what is the point of having representatives, you might as well toss a coin back home. >> if anybody in the senate believes the american people are gonna let this pass without being upset this is exactly what the election was about. people were tired of the stimulus bill, health care bill last year passed on a party-line vote christmas eve. and we still don't know what's in it. there's a billion dollars to

fund obama care in this bill. it is clear people want to relook at obamacare not fun it this is why people are mad. if republicans enable this to pass, we're losing our second chance with the american people. >> greta: what are you gone do -- gonna do? >> hopefully say no. >> greta: what do you mean hopefully. >> why would you vote yes on a document this big, 1.1 trillion, 6700 earmarks before christmas? it is irresponsible to pass this bill this way. we need to stop, pass a continuing resolution and do our business in a business-like manner next year. if this bill passes it will be a dis and a rejection of the last election. >> greta: should the senate reset and go home? >> yes, ma'am. >> greta: why? why didn't you stay and do the job? >> pass a continuing resolution and let the people who got elected november 2nd, deal with these financial

issues. we are in the lamest of lame ducks trying to do something that the people rejected november 2nd. yes, we should quit. pass a continuing resolution and let the new people who got elected by the american people figure out this mess this is what is wrong with washington this is why democrats got beat if six vote for in bill, good luck to the republican party. >> greta: are six republicans gonna vote? >> i think so. >> greta: that's the absurdity. >> six wrote this bill, three democrats and three republicans. my dear friends. if you think, as a ran you can sell this as good government, this is consistent with what the tea party and independent voters want to see happen in washington, you missed the whole election. it is like you were just completely tone depp and you don't know an election happened. if our party an degrees it will hurt our party for -- party or years to come the

president can rehabilitate himself with the american people if he told the congress, senate and house, you send me this bill i'll veto it this is what is wrong with government we are not going to did it this way. he should stand up and tell congress, don't pass this bill. >> greta: thank you. did a congressman get snubbed by president obama and speaker pelosi? the congressman will be here. and senator jim demint is here taking a shot at white house press secretary gibbs. have you seen this video of a high school basketball player violently attacking a ref ♪ oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. ♪ [ male announcer ] you know her. we know diamonds. together we'll make her holiday. that's why only zales is the diamond store.

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. >> greta: he does not like the compromise he has ideas of his own. he decided to write letters to president obama and speaker pelosi. what are his ideas and did he get answers to his letters. what don't you like about the tax compromise? >> i think it goes in the wrong direction. 857 billion dollars the largest bill passed other than the budget we were just talking about. where is that money going? how is it going to be used? did they find 850 billion dollars to borrow? is there real stimulus in this? if we took the high end for the wealthy the top 10% it is 50, maybe 60 billion dollars. if we use that money we could

hire a million teachers, put them in the classroom, educate our kids. make the most fundamental of all investments the educational process. instead we are going to further skew the system and pump 60 billion dollars into the highest and wealthiest of americans. at a time when we really need do other things than that. i wrote a letter to the president saying i don't like this >> greta: did you get an answer? >> no. >> greta: when did you write your letter? >> the 7th of december, pearl harbor day. >> greta: good day because it is a piece of history, terrible thing what happened. do you fan it rude that you write letters and get no answer? >> no. >> greta: why? why write if you don't expect an answer? >> i want them to know how i think about it. and the kinds of things that are important from my point of view. i am a representative. do i expect an answer?

not necessarily. i've been around for a long time in government issues. i was with the department of interior got letters from various members of congress when i was deputy secretary. the point is to make the point to get the issue to begin the debate and see where we can go with the debate. the legislation is now in the house, passed the senate this evening. we'll see what happens. on our side there's a lot of concern. get growth are you going to vote yes or no to it? >> we'll see what amendments are adopted tomorrow. >> greta: obviously you don't like it. you think it is wrong. i can't see you voting for it unless there is something that convinces you it is not wrong. >> amendments being offered that we know about this evening only deal with the estate tax. make an important modification, but it doesn't deal with the other things. there should be a decoupling. i don't think we ought to be carrying along the wealthiest of americans and their tax

break in exchange for an unemployment program for people that out of work and have no way to get any money, except -- get growth i thought unemployment is part of this. >> it is. >> greta: they've examine end today unemployment. and there's a -- extended unemployment. there's a big debate whether or not if you tax the wealthy bracket whether that is going to stimulate the economy or not. economic debate. >> it is. >> greta: for some it might be a class debate. >> it is probably all of those when you consider that in 1974 at the top 1% had 9% of the total income of americans. this year they are probably close to 25%. top 1% getting 25% of all the income in america. we've seen an enormous shift in the distribution of income. underlying wealth has similarly changed. >> greta: do you object to people -- a lot of that is earned money. people have earned that , a lot of them.

>> you must be refering to the wall street bankers that almost took the world into chaos. >> greta: i know people who work hard, they are not all the wall street people. >> the unlying problem is the get middle of america has stagnated over the last 20, 25 years. they've not seen their well-being improved. in fact, if you eliminate the two income family, husband and wife, you've seen a decline. they are working longer, harder, two people are working and they've been stagnated. at the same time you have seen this shift to the upper levels of america's wealth. that is an underlying problem. >> greta: i'll be watching your vote to see which way you vote. >> i think you will fan consistency in what we talked about tonight. >> greta: hop you come back. next, jim demint is here he wants to run out the clock and

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>> greta: senator jim demint just infuriated many democrats demanding the entire star treaty be read on the floor. he ultimately backed off. why did he change his mind? earlier he went on the record. senator, nice to see you. >> great that good to be back with you. >> greta: let's start with the start treaty. today robert gibbs said you were wasting time when you wanted to have it read. the senate majority leader

harry reid made one reference to you assange money . he said you had been in washington too long. what is the story? >> that's a compliment coming from gibbs. unfortunately, the democrats growth tar trying to push through their whole wish list before christmas. they are using christmas as a bargaining chip effectively in a major arms agreement with russia should not be considered in a lame duck session. we normally spent two weeks of debate and amendments and they are not going to give us that. i've tried to tell them if they bring it up we are going to make them run out clock on it. we were going to make them read the bill. they decided they didn't want to do that. they gave me an agreement to burn a whole day. i'm trying to run out the clock on this bad legislation so they can't do any more damage before the reinforcements get here in january. >> greta: the treaty has been around since may. it is not a question whether you are for the start treaty

or not but tackle -- tactical? >> the process is bad. a lot of us would like to add amendments to it. i have concerns about missile defense and some of the other agreements we are may going with the russians. we've asked for negotiating records and they won't give them us to. we think agreements have been made we don't know about. we need an open process and you can't do that on christmas eve with no debate. if they bring it up we'll do everything we can to delay it and make it hard for them to pass it. it is too important to treat it like one of their political check the book things. i know obama wants a foreign policy victory. i think this treaty would be bad for our country. >> greta: another topic, things get voted on that don't get read. first of all what is that? >> this is the omnibus spending bill. >> greta: when did you get it? >> yesterday afternoon, sometime yesterday.

>> greta: have you read the whole thing? >> and no one will read it. just the earmarks over 6,000 in small print on pages, just billions of give away. this is what the last election was about. america didn't want to do business like this any more. we are doing it again before christmas. we are supposed to, by law have this done before october to fund our government. right now we've got some stopgap continuing resolutions to fun the government. now they are trying to pass this horrible omnibus over a trillion dollars, thousands of earmarks. i can't believe anyone would vote for it. >> greta: why couldn't you do this before the new year started on october 1? second, with regard to tax cuts everybody has known since 2001 it was going to expire the end of the month. you guys wait until after election to spring that on each other and the american people like the tax debate. >> we tried to handle this i

brought up a continuing resolution long term that would take us through to the new congress. the democrats killed it. the same with continuing the same tax rates we've brought up several times in the last few years to continue the tax rates so we wouldn't have this brinksmanship that the democrats are playing. they are trying to create a crisis that we have to pass something before we leave. they expect us to pass something we haven't read. >> greta: who has read that? >> no one has. hundreds of staff had have put together pieces of it. appropriation committees, 12 have put together pieces of it. they threw it all together. we need to have a resolution that funds our government at current rates until the next congress gets here. >> greta: you need to do your job on time. i understand the sort of stopgap. the american people say we have to do our jobs on time. there's no budget, number one this is supposed to be done before october 1st. that hasn't been done. now it is dumped on everybody

the night you are supposed to vote. absurd to think anyone would vote yes or no. >> this is why the democrats were just voted out. the first time since i've been in congress house or senate that we haven't had a budget and passed our appropriation bills. it is a terrible thing we shouldn't be doing it before christmas this is a bunch of stocking stuffers for senators to try to get them to vote for it. this bits of candy earmarks they can take home this is what we are trying to end this cultural pork and wasteful spending. i'm going to work through christmas, new year's we are going to do everything we can to stop this. >> greta: you asked to read the start bill why didn't you ask to read on that? >> we will. if they bring this up, it will take a day and a half or to read this. we are trying to run out clock. they should not pass this legislation in this a lame

duck congress. >> greta: thank you, enjoy your reading. next, a gunman walks up from feet away opens fire on hostages at a school board meeting. the entire story and the raw video is next. >> senator orrin hatch guess on the record. we put his feet to the fire about waste and fraud and he says there's a lot of it in the omnibus and he says we are the omnibus and he says we are bein hey... everyone's eating tacos outside bill's office. [ chuckles ] you think that is some information i would have liked to know? i like tacos. you invited eric? i thought eric gave you the creeps. [ phone buzzes ] oh. [ chuckles ] yeah. hey. [ male announcer ] don't be left behind. get it first with at&t. the nation's fastest mobile broadband network. period.

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littleton attacked from behind with her purse. >> greta: duke did not shoot the woman and he did let her leave. moments later shooter predicted his own death. >> i'm gonna die today. >> can you talk for a minute? may i ask you a question? >> what is your question? >> may i ask you a question? >> greta: superintendent bill

husfield continued trying in vain to calm duke down but it was no use. >> will you let them go? you are obviously upset at me. so why are they here? >> they are part of it. >> part of what? >> stop the taxes. you said we don't need no taxes. as soon as you got in the system you turned around and said, oh now we need taxes again. >> i said we needed it from the beginning. i campaigned on that. >> no you didn't. >> yes i did. you can look on the material. i said from the beginning it is the most equitable way because everybody pays not just property owners. here's what i don't want to happen. i don't want anybody -- just listen to me for a minute.

i don't want anybody to get hurt. i've a feeling is what want the cops to come in and kill you, because you are mad. >> i'm going to die today. >> but why, this isn't worth it. please don't, please, please. [ shots fired ] >> greta: you saw the gunman get shot and fell to the gun. a security guard shooting him three times. the again man killed himself. the most unbelievable fact, no one was injured in the attack. >> now to capitol hill where senator orrin hatch on the record. nice to see you. >> good to see you. >> greta: how do you like that tax bill? >> i think that's a pretty good bill. 3/4 of it is something that i think i can support completely. i'd like the tax relief to be permanent. apparently we couldn't get that.

>> greta: even permanent is a misnomer. the whole idea of permanent is a little bit of -- it doesn't exist. >> the reason i voted for it is because i didn't want to get 721 billion dollars which is what would happen on january 1st to this another spending binge. they won't use it to pay down the deficit they will use it to spend more and try and reelect more department democrats. >> greta: some of the people in your party are upset, concerned, the fact that the extension of the unemployment instead it was further go into debt. >> i would prefer the insurance to be paid for, naturally. they weren't gonna pay for it. let's be honest about it, the democrats have always won on unemployment insurance. it is will over 100 weeks now. no question people are suffering. i don't want them to suffer. we also know there are people

who could be working who won't, because they've got unemployment insurance and they keep -- don't go out and start looking. especially jobs that might not be as good as what they had before. these are all things that had to be worked out. unemployment insurance was going to pass no matter what. >> greta: one other consideration is, do you agree or not there's a lot of waste in the government? if the senate and the house were aggressive in going out and finding the waste, that we could pay for this unemployment or insurance many times over? >> we could have paid for that amount of money leftover from the so-called stimulus bill or the a.m. leftover from tarp or any number of other funds that could have paid for it. they are not going to pay for it. they know they have an advantage. nobody wants to have people unemployment insurance is one

way we alleviate that suffering. on the other hand that was going to pass no matter what anybody said democrats have always won on that issue. we should have paid for it, we didn't. that's one of the things that i don't like about the bill. there's another thing was gonna pass regardless of this bill or not, the alternative minimum tax. that was established to make the 155 multi-millionaires who didn't pay taxes that year, pay taxes. now it affects up to 28 million americans. middle class people that will have to pay for that. we knew that had to be -- the fact of the matter is we wanted to keep those tax rates low. the thing that is really bad right now is this omnibus bill. that omnibus bill is 1.1 trillion dollars with all kinds of cats and dogs in it. there's a billion dollars to

implement the obamacare. there's a lot of bad things about that bill. they tell me that the democrats have the votes on it. even had some republican votes. >> greta: i think what most americans are sailing with the omnibus bill it is a foot and a half high. no one is going to read it who is going to vote on it. everybody is gonna guess. the american people think you send people to washington to make decisions for them and they will read through and know what they are voting on. the fact is nobody knows what is in that bill. you don't have time to read it. i think many americans are distressed by that. >> you are absolutely right. >> greta: and they should be. >> you are darn right they should be. what happened to the three-day rule that all the democrats said we would. >> greta: three days isn't even enough. >> it isn't but they don't have. democrats have had overwhelming numbers in the house and senate for four years. now in the last two years, not

on the overwhelming numbers but the presidency as well. why did they wait until the last two weeks of this session to bring up all of these cats and dogs and big spending issues knowing they might be able to put them through? >> greta: after the election one fair criticism taxpayers have people don't want to do tough decisions before the election. if you back it up further this omnibus spending bill is to finance a government which has been doing work up here. it is happening well after the deadline. your making my case. okay, they didn't want to do the necessary things that people should do and are elected to do in the first four years and the last four years. they waited until october that's still two or three months before the last two weeks. i gotta tell ya that's not the way to run a country, not the way to run a party. i think the american people that's why they changed the

house. they changed the senate to a degree, we got seven more seats, it is still 53-47. when we get in next year. they are trying to push things through now, with people who weren't elected. >> greta: should the american people be proud at the way the tax bill has happened the omnibus bill has happened? or anguished by the way it is done at the last minute even with how it seems to have been -- many thens passed without reading? >> i think the american people should be happy that we've been able to work out this tax bill. we kept the rates done and we've not increased taxes. we also are solving some serious problems. get growth how about the omnibus bill? >> they can't be happy with the omnibus bill. >> greta: i'm talking about the process. >> process is terrible. why are we suddenly at an omnibus bill at the end of this session? because they didn't do any appropriations work during the

year. they didn't come up with a budget. the appropriations committee did not come up with appropriations bill. >> greta: the rest of us would get fired if we did that. it is astounding the way things get put off at the last minute. if you are in college and you cram you don't do well on the exam. >> that's right. the rest of the world has to live up to its obligation. this outfit here, run by the democrats, and i have to say there were times when republicans didn't do the best job either. but at least tried to have appropriations bills and have transparency in passing appropriations bills. both sides have had troubles getting budgets out, because it is a very difficult process. at least an attempt ought to be made. i gotta tell ya, they wait until the last minute so they can punish the american people with stuff they know they would never get through otherwise. even though they've had these

majorities. >> greta: thank you, nice to see you, happy holidays. love your tie. >> thank you. i got on this good old christmas die tie. >> greta: it is a good christmas tie. >> thank you. >> greta: guess where florida attorney general mccollum is? he's going to tell you, next. >> the video is violent, raw and going viral. high school basketball player high school basketball player attacks a ref [ j. weissman ] it was 1975.

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the end of 2014. in hours, julian assange will try to win his freedom in a london courtroom. a judge agreed on tuesday to let him out on bail. but swedish officials want him to stay in jail until he is extradited to sweden for sex crime charges. we invite to you tune in to fox news business network. we return to "on the record with greta van susteren." if you would like more informs, go to foxnews.com. have a good night. we now return to on the record with greta. have a good night. >> greta: hours away. florida attorney general mccollum standing at the federal district courthouse in florida where tomorrow's show done between 20 states and the obama administration over the health care bill many he joins us live. good evening sir. what is going to happen tomorrow? no decision, what are the parties going to do? >> we are going to have an oral argument on motions for summary judgment a hour to

each side. we are each going to try to convince judge vincent at the last moment or two we have with him that our arguments have been right, pleadings filed, miranda of law. i've read both sides extensively. i think you could stack them up 10, 12 inches tall on your desk. we are going to make the argument tomorrow that we all have talked about many times that the individual mandate is unconstitutional. congress has no authority for it in the constitution. the commerce clause doesn't and cannot require -- congress cannot require people to buy an insurance policy or any product when they are not engaged in economic activity. something you and i talked about but not talked about a great deal the argument the state has that it is being coerced to cover more medicaid people. when medicaid again, it was designed for the needy. designed for the infirm and children. it was never designed for what

is in this law. the states didn't agree where those who are -- 38% over the poverty level, 138% and there's a 30% increase in the number of people covered. the cost to the tates are billions of dollars in many ways that we have no way of getting out of. we believe on both counts the judge can and will find ultimately, not tomorrow but in his ruling in january, february, that this is unconstitutional. >> greta: win or lose this is true also with the virginia case decided against the federal government. there is a provision in the supreme court rules in rule 11, if something is of great national importance you can bypass the appellate court go right to the supreme court and have it decided there. the obama administration has made an announcement it does not intend to fast track or it didn't want to. what is your thought? do you want yours fast tracked and why would the obama

administration not want that? >> i don't know why they wouldn't want it other than they are not too excited about getting there so fast while the issue is still so hot. we want to -- the states have all talked about it, all of -- all 20 of us we want to wait and see how judge vincent's rule reads. for most of us, and me personally, it would be nice to see it fast tracked to the supreme court. i don't know what the justice department's thinking may be. it is premature to judge it on that score. i'd like to know how this judge rules on severability after he rules on medicaid and individual mandate argument. judge hudson had a very narrow ruling on this subject. we may get a much different ruling in this court. we have to wait and see about the fast track part. most of us think it needs to

be decided sooner rather than later. >> greta: attorney general, thank you. oh how i wish we had cameras in the courtroom so we could watch, thank you sir. next, the best of the rest. brutally raw video of a high school basketball player attacking a ref. stick around you will see that video, next. >> how did the smash hit "seinfeld" help an inmate get special meals behind bars? we'll tell you. >> want to know the number hey, guys. printer's out of ink. just shake it. [ rattling ] [ male announcer ] need ink? staples has a low price guarantee on all the ink you need. find a lower price at another store, and we'll match it. that was easy. naturally colorful vegetables are often a good source of vitamins, fiber, or minerals. and who brings you more natural colors than campbell's condensed soups? campbell's.® it's amazing what soup can do.™

>> greta: here's the best of the rest. twitter just released the top 10 retweets of 2010. number eight from con west i'm sorry taylor referring to when -- from kanye west. i'm sorry taylor. number five, someone posing as osama bin laden. not falling for that. number one from steven colbert in honor of oil soaked birds tweets are now gurgles. cobert had the number one slot. justin bibler may be the winner within made the top 10 and two others are about him.

>> festivus miracle. inmate in a jail in california had jerry seinfeld to thank. as you may know the sitcom seinfeld popular rised a made up holiday called festivus. an inmate in a jail in california wanted healthier kosher meals behind bars. how did he justify the special treatment? he said festivus was part of his religion and demanded a certain diet. the state of california caught on to the scam. as for the prisoner apparently from lie -- liberia held by ice and facing deportation. maybe they have festivus in liberia. >> this is the definition of poor sportsman ship. a basketball player has been suspended from school for attacking a ref over a call he did not like. the player was tkhreupbl rent on several levels. first he -- was belligerent on several levels. he pushed a player, pushed a

ref and threw him to the ground. the game was stopped and the boy was immediately removed from the court. there you have the best of the rest. >> still ahead, the two words ! " # $ / 0 i

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