technology has made it possible to safely unlock this cleanly burning natural gas. this deposits can provide us with fuel for a hundred years, providing energy security and economic growth all across this country. it just takes somebody having thidea, and that's where the discovery comes from. nine and huckabee starts now. >> lowest job growth in 12 months and the numbers are bad news for barack obama. republicans say they can do better but which candidate has a chance to beat the president. >> i think mitt romney or tim pawulently is our nightmare. >> rick sanatorium thinks what he has to win the election. >> repeal obama care that is a job crusher. >> he crack down defense.

>> there is obstacles and diversity and they have been put in my way. tim tebow explain how family and faith help him face life challenges. >> i am not tough as she s. i can admit that. >> ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [cheers and applause] welcome everybody. thank you very much and welcome to the fox news studios in new york city. a couple of weeks ago when we featured the beauty of the gulf coast, we didn't get around to talk about shrimp. i love shrimp. most shrimp comes from along the gulf coast in florida and alabama and mississippi and louisiana and texas. in fact i had a shrimp dish in tony's italian restaurant in new york that was the best i

ever had. when it comes to shrimp. i am like buba. >> shrimp of the food of the sea. you can broil it and bake it and saute it and do shrimp creolu . shrimp stew and shrimp salad and shrimp in poitatos and shrimp sandwich. that is about it. i never thought i would be mad about shrimp but i am. even though our country is broke and trying to borrow more than the 14 trillion we already owe. some genius appropriated and spent your money and my money on shrimp. i am not talking about fried shrimp and barbecued shrimp or grilled shrimp or shrimp and grits. they are studying how shrimp can function on a treadmill.

not eye bit of money. no. $503,000 to watch shrimp on a treadmill. you know what, i don't care what shrimps do on a treadmill. i don't want my shrimp going to the gym. i want them to go to the grill or oven and table and skinny to outrun me. i want them to fat to nourish me. it is not the only stupid thing my tax dollar pays for. but it may be outrageous. if there say half brained idiot that believes that spending half million to put shrimp on a treadmill is a great idea let him spend his own money but not mine. i don't mind paying for soldier's equipment or veteran's medical care or taking care of eldarely

persons that mede medicine or pay for medicare and expect it to be there. i don't mind to use it to stop crime or who sent that photo of mr. weiner in his underwear or who ever it was. i mind a lot to spend it on shrimp doing a treadmill. the only thing with less brains than shrimp is the member of congress who thought it was worth half million to put a shrimp on a treadmill. let's send forest gump to congress and he knows what to do with the shrimp. that's my view and i welcome yours. you can e-mail me. and it is a daily pod cast.

and our friend ray stevens is here and he has a unique message to understand how washington is messing up our economy. the obama budget song. welcome ray stevens . ♪ i told my wife we had to get control of the finance in our household. that we had to sit down and make a budget we can live by. ♪ i said we'll list our incomes and all our bills. get the bills honey if you will and she got them and stacked them on the table three piles high. now i work two jobs and my cleans home and daughter baby sits and son mows lawns. that budget wouldn't balance no matter how we try. let's works for them and might work for us. i forgot my ethics and morals

and swallowed my pride. yeah. ♪ we loaded them up with the maximum debt ♪

i got to pick up my new cadillac and i am printing you you up a surprise birthday stimulus. i hope those republicans and tea party folks don't screw this up. renounce the sense of decency it gets easier and easier.

i think i will buy boardwalk and park place. i wonder what they want for general motor's company there? haha. [applause] >> ray stevens. ray, that was fantastic. >> you know, ray, you can say a lot music that you probably couldn't get away with just speaking it. why is music so powerful. >> i don't know it certainly is and i am concerned about the country for quite sometime now and i am not a politician and i decided to convey messages just like you say with a song. it is amazing. you get a set of lyrics that rhyme and put a melody to them and it sticks in peoplee mind. >> i know you have the passion that i do to make music available to every kid in america. >> absolutely. i can relate to that. when i was a kid my momma made me take piano lessons.

i didn't want to. i wanted to play baseball. but i had to practice an hour every day. look being back, i am glad she made me do that. >> ray stevens. thank you for being with us. coming up. how do they rate the republicans that are trying to unseat the current democrat in the white house . denver quarterback and i'm chef michael, and my dog bailey and i love to hang out in the kitchen. you love the aroma of beef tenderloin, don't you? you inspired a very special dog food. [ female announcer ] chef michael's canine creations. chef inspired. dog desired.

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>> the list of republican challengers is growing. former massachusetts governor mitt romney latest to announce his candidacy. >> when barack obama came to office we wished him well and hoped for the best. now in the third year of the four year term we have more

than slogans and promise to judge him by. obama has failed america. >> polls show romney as the early gop runner. does he or the other republican candidates have a chance of defeating barack obama in 2012? joining me the polster to former president carter and former senior counselor to bill clinton. >> let me start with you. let's look at the field of the people in the gop, do you see them rising to the opportunity to defeat barack obama next year? >> i do. there is a generic candidate and that is a southern border state form are governor who is a moderate on social issues and fiscal cob servative and appeal to the christian community and he's hosting this president and not running

for president. [applause] >> i was onering who that guy was. thank goodness and i am sure pat would agree with me you would make a strong candidate and two remaining ones we fear the most getting the nomination is mitt romney and tim pawulently and john hunts man who is unknown could emerge. those have the most appeal to the middle of the road where elections are divided. >> is lanny on track? >> particularly in the description of the mythical candidate. that candidate is an antiestablishment outside of the beltway person who is willing to criticize ball outs in wall street. but the other, i think he is right on the other candidates, i have to tell you,

republicans, the key is, who will appeal to democrats who are dissatisfied. who will win the independents which is what gave the republicans the house in the last election. the problem is, republicans seem to be on a suicide mission on medicare with senior citizens and independents who swung the election and i don't know what happened. romney the front runner made a comment about global warming that sounded like more al gore from al gore . i thought it was. did he think he has the nomination. and problem of running primary and general is a difficult one as you can imagine. >> lanny, is there somebody we haven't seen. george pataki and rick peryechris - perry and chris christie. will they change the face of the election for the republicans in your opinion >> i don't think guiliani is ever

going to get the nomination. people who know him from new york still remember the negative and vicious side of him and it caught up with him on the last time. there should be a possibility of christie who is an attractive candidate who could save his mind. he worked for a man no one gave a chance of being the nominee and jimmy carter bet everyone. in 1991, in exact low june of '91, the front runner in the democratic hine up of polls was mario comio and two jesse jackson and three dick ebhart and asterisk next to a governor of arkansas named bill clinton. that was june of '91. it is comical to see the way the pundits judge the polls now.

it doesn't mean anything until we get closer to the iowa caucus. >> pat, what are the issues that mack a republican ignite in the election and cause them to have the election and juice to go on for the general. >> we have a changing political situation right now. the economy is a problem with the president after yesterday's numbers it is about, it may be half of the election. but there is a greater issue out there, the issue of what i call the spector of decline that hangs over the country that people feel. that is in a way we have not seen in years. >> we haven't seen it since the jimmy carter years. >> and water gate. >> yes, he never used that word. >> but a sense of what the country in trouble . we have now the debt, we have question of are we going to make it in the world and what

happened to the economy. both partis and remember something that is important. right now, what is building up in the country, is a great opposition to both parties in power in washington. you can see it in the polls, the question can someone bridge that to be a major candidate and be the antiestablishment candidate and offer a vision. what is missing, we are hearing the same old arguments and debate and the voters are worried about what is happening to my children in the future of the country. no one yet managed to find the language in the vision. if it doesn't happen in the primaries, you are going to get it. that's why donald trump is on the scene. >> let me close this out for you. the rhetoric . campaign. no one has found that ability to connect to the hearts of votersings, i am still listening for that. something that goes to the heart and revs them up.

herman cain and maybe michelle back man. - bachmann. >> it is one thing. sarah palin is impressive political talent who loses her judgment when she starts to speak and so does michelle bachmann lose judgment of what is necessary to appeal to the country . seriously mike, that is where you would have been a powerful candidate. you can disagree with mike huckabee, but we are looking for someone who can bring us together. i think mitt romney or tim pawulently is our democrat nightmare. i am supporting barack obama but pat has it right. it is about the economy stupid and the independent voters who we lost in 2010 and barack obama is close to losing in 2012 and those two candidates pawulently and romney.

i like payoulently to appealing to moderate democrats that could be difficult for barack obama if the economy does not improve. >> it sounds fun to watch and relaxing for me to watch from herely. >> thank you. we like to keep up with you from time to time. >> one of the republicans expected to run for the republican ticket. former senator rick sanatorium joins me next. ♪ fare thee well ♪ farewell ♪ mr. gloom be on your way ♪ ♪ though you haven't any money you can still be bright and sunny ♪ ♪ sing polly wolly doodle all the day ♪

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joining me now joining me former pennsylvania senator rick sanatorium. it is great to have you here.

9.1 percent unemployment and anemic numbers. why aren't the jobs coming back. >> it is a combination of things. right now you have a head wind of energy prices that is result of obama shuth down oil drilling in the gulf and denying permits in alaska. i am not talking about an war. i am talking about existing areas for exploration and same thing for the oil fan in the upper midwest. they are reducing the output and relying on risky areas of the world and it has been going up and that is a huge heart attack to the economy of the country . obama care which is now implement taxes and regulations and increasing cost of health care and so on top of that. additional things like the

norb and threatening boeing approximate and a state that doesn't have union employment and epa and regulations on co2. you have a hostile atmosphere created by the administration and guess what we are not creating jobs. >> senator one of the thing that is is striking, half of the jobs were created by mcdonald and half of the national jobs that is not a bad job. >> right. >> i am grateful for the jobs, but it really shows just how dramatically off kilter we are economically . yet the democrats have not put forth a plan to say this is what we are going to do. at least a coherent plan. speak as what your plan would be. >> you are right. the democrats don't have a coherent plan and the mountain of debt and the inflating of

the curnessy and the impact on prices that being, has a negative affect. so let's go through all of those. get the fed back under control no ce 3. we have to do things to bring inflation under control. that's the major responsibility of the fed and we have seen this administration it looks like to try to throw money out there to get the economy going, it is not working and it is creating inflation. that's number one. number two, get our fiscal house in order. the fact that president obama has not put forward a responsible budget and said that spending a dollar and borrowing 40 sevens is not unsanitable. it is unsustainable. i would put forth concrete proposal. i support the ryan plan being implemented sooner than congressman ryan suggest. the problem is right now.

i would repeal obama care. that is a big job crusher out there and replace it with a system that believes in people instead of government in making health care decisions. that means tax breaks and government man dates for everybody. >> senator you are making the rowns in new hampshire and iowa and south carolina the places where presidential candidates go. tell me one of the moments you had talking to a potential voters that said to you, here's why i am running for president. relate to me an encounter that sums up that person who lost a job or has that sort of the look in his eye that said why do you want to be president? >> it is interesting. to me it was important in bedford, new hampshire i know you have been there before. >> i have beautiful place. >> he said i have done it

many, many years and you are different than the guys that come through. you know what, you were honest with us in every single answer and you answered every question and give us the details of why you believe it. i really think that right now we need someone who will actually lay out the facts for the people of the country who understand the issues and the root causes of the problems that we face and actually had a solution based in our founding principles that can restore america to its greatness. >> great to have you here. good to have you out on the campaign trial. >> thank you, mike. the good work you are doing. >> rick sanatorium. >> coming up. small businesses that used to thrive andow try are to survive. i will speak to three americans who are struggling with the economy . then tim bow is with us. then tim bow is with us. later. [ artis brown ] america is facing some tough challenges right now.

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>> the labor report released its news and national unemployment rate stands at 9.14 percent. we asked the white house for the latest assessment of the numbers and they sent us this statement. ♪ everything is coming in frozen. >> yes, they believe it is coming up roses. but for a lot of folks, they felt the thorns. but the down in economy impacted small businesses. joining me is three people who lost their businesses. good to have you here. alicon, you inspector new york and had a good job and had an interesting job serving people who had lots of money and then the bottom fell out and the business went bust. tell me what happened? >> it was the summer of 2007 . the business had started growing and i was hiring another people and thinking

about getting employees and all of my hard work came to fruition and then november 2007, the bottom just fell out and it seemed like overnight everything that i worked for bottomed out and for the next three years it was just struggle to gain new clientts and to keep the old ones. >> you did personal services for people. >> yes. >> people who had mon yenot a lot of time. >> yes. >> in an upturn economy that is a nice thing. >> it is wonderful. >> how long did it take to the beginning and then you shut the doors. >> i had the business for six years and it was going fairly well in the beginning and then 2007, november when things went down hill and then may of last year, i let go of a client and it just was so dry last summer and i kept doing everything that i could do to hold on to it and after

waiting for a client half an hour and realizing she wasn't ready for me. it is not work i don't love it and i need to go and focus on something different. at the time. i cried but i felt so relieved to sort of let it go. >> and rich, you were an architect and had a growing firm. what happened to your business. >> same sort of thing. spring 2007, started to see the writing on the wall. i had six employees and we did mostly medical commercial work and around may, june of 2007, the phones were not ringing and look being at the white elephant in the room, i might have to let go of my employees, they were like family to me and by october, 2007, the first week of october, you remember, we had the stock market took a major

dive. i lost two huge projects that would have taken us for a couple of years and i lost those and then it was down hill from there. >> estela, you had a different business. it was one that you had edible arrangements and gift baskets and things like this. when the economy went south, how did you know that this was not going to make it even though you were pouring your life savings into this? >> when i stopped getting orders . when the phone stopped ringging. people stopped coming in, people stopped -- they looked for other gift ideas. it was a novelty item and survived only in the holidays and when i was not able to put in decent orders in the summer and in the low season, i exew it was not going to work

anymore. >> what do you do to pick up the pieces? the wonderful part you didn't say i am on the canvass and didn't get up. what did you do to turn your life around? >> i was sitting in the back yard with my mother and dog and what did i want to do. she said start a pet care business and i decided to do that and not only did i do that i move to denver, colorado and found a wonderful place to live the breaker resorts that has 1500 home there is my clients right there and i started alley cat pet service and things are going well now. i love what i do and that is what makes a difference. i love what i do. >> what a wonderful thing to do. rich, you took your architectural business and now different. >> completely different. first thing i want to say, i

think when we got hit with the crisis, my wife and i decided, we need to be an example to our kid and how to get back up and go in a different direction . so, i took some patents we had on the shelf and decided to do something. i came up with open -- opacove, and we have life jackets that are coast guard approved. it is a brand new company and just taking off. >> it is not just a decoration. this is for parent to reach in to grab their child. >> this handle is so you could pull the child out and it wouldn't come off. >> stela what turned your life around. >> i am still having my full-time job i was able to keep in all of this . i am going to keep going and get my ph.d and do now what i

always wanted to do. >> thank you very much. >> one thing you have in common, from your challenges, you found something else and something to do. what i find remarkable about it. none of you said what is uncle sugar going to do for me. i have to wait for the government to bail me out. big insurance companies and car companies and they think the government has to bail them out. look what alicon and rich and estellle is doing. they are bailing themselves out. my friend, that is america. when people find their feet again and that's what i want to celebrate today. a lot of people are hurting. you may be one of them. don't give up. >> he is one of the top 10 influential athletes on the fordes list. tim tebow is next. [ alan ] admit it, brenda.

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christian beliefs. he has a new book out called through my eyes. welcome ladies and gentlemen, tim tebow. [applause] thank you for having me. >> great to have you here. when a person is in the pinnacle of success. how to say no to them. you have to know where you are going to set the boundaris and how to handle thuation when you are thrown into them. the number one thing is my faith . how i was going to handle things. >> and trials and adversary. and how are you handling the

situation. they are so supportive of me. >> you know, you have been able to communicate your faith in a way that very few people in any realm entertainment and sports and politics have been able to do. comes out with authtensity. how did you become a believer and that became real to you and how did it change your life? >> i became a believer when i was a boy and i was nervous and scared lying in bed that i didn't know christ and as my personal lord and savior. i was scared if i got in the car and got in a crash i feared dying and going to hell. next morning, i grabbed my mom and asked jesus to come in my heart. i went and jesus to forgive me of my sins and i went from

darkness to light and that was the best moment of my life. >> tim, a lot of cynics say that is something you did as a child . you will outgrow that. i don't think anybody is thinking of you as a child. you are in the nfl but you haven't outgrown that? >> absolutely not. my faith is the one thing that is absolutelyy what grounded me and keeps me motivated and i don't know what tomorrow holes . i am so blessed and because of my surroundings and people that have supported me. it will continue to change my life. it is not what you do but who you are around. it will affect you and encourage you and keep you motivate on the straight and narrow. >> you have great family

influence and you leave the family and go to a university that is full of pressure. did people say tone it down a bit and back off on the faith stuff it is not becoming of a college superstar? >> absolutely. a lot of the people say you don't need it so much or write the bible verses or why do you do that. making sure i had the love and respect of my teammates. they would understand where my faith came from and that was the driving force in my life even above and beyond football. when i had that, they understood and it was not something they was preaching or sharing. it really wasn't. it was just something i was living plain and simple . how do you share your faith and do this. it is not about it comes out

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plause plause [applause] >> we are back with tim tebow. one of the things people noticed about you when they watched on television. you would have a scripture

verse under your eye. phillipians. i can do all things through christ that strengthens me. >> few games in my junior year . 15 minutes before the game started and looking at the eye black and cream that you can write. well, which one should i go with. i was looking at it. if i go with eye black thing and take a silver sharpy. someone may see it and someone will read it or do a little good . okay immediately after i put it on. i thought of i can do all things through christ that strengthens me. that is a perfect verse for a football game and player. i wore that verse for the whole year and we got to the sec championship game. maybe it is time for me to

change that. i could feel on my heart to change. if we win, we are going to play for a national championship and i went to play oklahoma and i knew it was pressed on my heart to change the verse and i went to another verse . what verse to go with? john 3:16. the god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten somebody and that who so ever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. i told other people and they got nervous and i told about two or three hours before the game. coach myer, i am changing my bible verse to john 3:16. he was what? he was nervous. >> he said, what?

philians is a great verse. it got us here. >> i told him. coach it is on my heart i need to change it and it is the best thing. he said i trust you . i put it under my eyes and didn't think about it again and played the game and i was having lunch with coach myer and he got a call. uh-huh, uh-huh . he hangs up. i got a call from our pr people and during the game 94,000 googled john 3:16. it set a record. >> it was really cool how sometimes you may not think that something can be used for good, you know, first thing that i thought. how do 94 million people not know john 3:16. that was cool and awesome to see how good can work in a unique way when you are not

doing anything . you trust him and put a bible verse under your eye. it is cool. >> when those kinds of things become who you are. do the skeptics and critics say let's check him out. do they try to find out if you are real when you are away from the spotlights and cameras? there is always temptation and obstacles and adversity and they are thrown in my way, and one thing i try to share with people. i am not perfect. i am never perfect . i am mess up every day . that's what grace and faith is all about. getting back up when you get knocked down and continue the journey of faith and try to improve and get better and try to do the right thing a bit more . that's all i am about and trying to improve a little bit every day. i am so thankful for grace. none of us are perfect and we never will be.

>> through your eyes, you talk about the spot you and your mom did. this is amazing controversy that it stirred. what is so controversial about this. we'll talk about the impact that this television commercial had in the super bowl. here it is. >> i call him my miracle baby. he almost didn't make it in the world. so many times i almost lost him. it was so hard. he is all grown up and i still worry about his health. with all our family is been through we have to be tough. timmy, we are trying to tell our story here. >> i am sorry about that, mom. you still worry about me, mom. >> yeah, you are not nearly as tough as i am. >> that's true. i am not nearly as tough as she is. it was a great commercial and it was fun and it was really just to emphasize the value of human life.

you would have been one of those children in many families, doctors would have say, this one may not make it . family had a abortion . your mother decided not to and things turned out well. >> i am blessed to be here, i had a mom who is courageous and something positive is going to happen with that situation and i am here and blessed to have a mom with that much courage. it was a commercial that was based on, you know, just how amazing life is, and how great god can be. >> were you shocked at the reaction. there were people calling for boycotts and bans. i never saw anything like it? >> they didn't know what it was going to be about and how classy as the commercial. it was not knocking anymore. >> your mother got knocked. >> it was a positive piece and it was honestly a story about

me and my mom and the sacrifice and our love for each other and the sacrifice she made for me to be here. i will always be and extremely thankful for her to have that courage to believe that god had a plan for me even when most doctors said there was no plan for me. >> obviously there is a great plan and i want you to know, that i am becoming a denver bronchoplan because of my admiration for you. i know the pressures are incredible and i know you will with stand them and maintain accountability. your parents need to be commended for raising you and your family with a sense of love and acceptance and i hope that of all of the things that come out of your book. i hope people read it and i hope they get that family matters and the way that moms and dads love their children where well they end up being in the nfl or not. it matters how they turn out .

thank you for sharing it with us. >> thank you so much. thank you for having me. >> tim tebow. the book, it is a great encouragement to you. we'll be right back. a lot of times, things are right underneath our feet, and all we need to do is change the way we're thinking about them. a couple decades ago, we didn't even realize just how much natural gas was trapped irocks thounds of feet below us.

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