target of terror. we're awaiting a first-ever joint session of the house and senate homeland security committees, looking into the threat into the u.s. military the not overseas but here at home in this country. good morning, everybody i'm bill hemmer. that's where we start today. >> i'm julie banderas. bill: martha is working a today. hello, stranger. >> let's have a good show. congressman peter king says there is evidence that extremists infiltrated our own bases and making troops a high-value target. bill: catherine herridge is in washington. this start the with what the fort hood in texas? >> reporter: yes, bill. according to testimony obtained by fox, it may be manifesting itself in two distinct ways. first insider threat.

the case often cited the case of major nidal hasan, from fort hood and killed 13 and injuried dozens more because he didn't believe military service could not be reconciled with invading muslim countries. >> they are symbols of american power. symbols of american might. if they can be killed then that is a great propaganda victory for al qaeda. >> reporter: two seattle, washington men and are often cited as the second example, the outsider threat. the men allegedly plotted attack a military installation near fort lewis in washington and using handguns and grown unaids. there have been six documented plots to target bases. bill: what is driving this, catherine? is there something we don't know about the increase on the threat? >> reporter: the driver here really is the web. it is often referred to as the digital jihad.

extremists don't need to travel overseas and they can connect with like minded individuals on the web and access training manuals an without traveling to somalia. senator lieberman has been ringing alarm bells about the role of the internet. he told fox that he believes the outsider threat is the greatest concern. the records show the united states military has become a direct target of violent islamist extremist here in the u.s. soldiers perhaps their families are vulnerable at work, at rest or military setting or civilian one of the one that won't be surprising, bill, one common thread is the writing and lectures of the american cleric, al-awlaki. bill: he is dead but sermons live on the internet in english. catherine, thank you. that hearing will begin momentarily, 9:30 eastern time, moments from now. you can watch it in its entirety streaming live on our website, foxnews.com and

headlines will be here in "america's newsroom." julie: a new gallop poll showing gingrich with 7%. vote -- 37% of the vote. romney has 22%. all the other candidates stuck in single digits. peter doocy is live from washington. how much better is newt doing today than last month? >> reporter: a lot better, julie. his poll numbers have almost tripled. rival mitt romney has not seen his support move at all in a month. look at the numbers are very staggering. first five days of december he has 37%. month ago he was 13%. romney on the other hand is at 22% now and 22% a month ago. all the other candidates are in single digits. third and fourth, both from texas. congressman ron paul up two points a month ago but down

from where he was three weeks ago. governor rick perry is at 7. that is shows a steady decline from the first week of november. romney, gingrich and perry santorum, huntsman, bachmann will all be here in d.c. addressing the republican jewish coalition. julie: how is romney responding peter? >> reporter: he says he will show up at a lot more stuff and not be celebrity tiff with interviews and events and here is why. >> you will see me on a lot more shows than i've been on in the last several months. part of that is we're getting as phil indicated toward the end of the process. now the time to make our case to the american people and to the people in iowa and new hampshire, south carolina, and florida and so i'll be, i'll be seeing you more often. >> reporter: and proof that we are going to see him a lot more often, when he leaves d.c. today, romney will fly to san francisco. then tomorrow back to the east coast to richmond. then friday it is out to iowa for this weekend's debate.

so racking up the frequent flyer miles. julie: thanks very much, peter does system the rise of gingrich causing romney to rethink his strategy. he is not only one apparently. how the president is revamping his attacks later this hour. another area where newt gingrich is topping mitt romney, the internet. leading romney in going dell searches both nationally and the early voting states. that is according to the data search engine giant reporting to "the hill" newspaper. gingrich parking most interest in south carolina and florida while google says voters are looking more into romney than they have in the past. bill: republican presidential candidates jostle for position, some voters say their impression of the field is getting worse and not better. 31% of those surveyed have a worse impression saying about 14%, say it is improving. half say nothing's changed. voters view of the president not getting better either. 19% say their impression is

better while 21% say their view is worse. that poll conducted by pew research center and "the washington post", julie. julie: a survey of voters in iowa suggest there is a shift what caucus-goers find important in the race. first of all reducing government spending and debt. 85% of voters agree that is crucial. 70% are concerned with job creation, followed closely by new business creation. just over half are concerned with tax reform, with the issue of illegal immigration at 46%. while caucus-goers oppose illegal immigration a solid 79% of voters favor streamlining the process for businesses to hire legal immigrants for jobs that americans just aren't taking with 19% against it. bill: who is in and who is out? mitt romney says he is out for the iowa debate moderated by donald trump. that is on the schedule for the end of december if it holds. here is romney with neil yesterday on "your world". >> no, i'm not participating

in that. we have two debates in december i agreed to participate in. the rest of the meant will be spent campaigning, doing the political work you've got to do to get the support of people. >> you blasted the president for his planned 17-day holiday trip. you said his idea of hands on is getting a better grip on a golf club. if you were to become president, what is the longest vacation you would take? >> well, a lot shorter than that i can tell you that. my view if i become president of the united states i will work my day and night off to make sure that i do high very best to get america strong again. bill: so far the only debates, the only candidates rather who committed to that trump debate are newt gingrich and rick santorum. if it holds it will happen on the 2 7th of december out of iowa. julie: house minority leader nancy pelosi walking back on her remarks hinting she could release damaging ethics committee research on

newt gingrich. gingrich firing back that would violate house rules. pelosi comes all her information is part of the public record. gingrich says he welcomes her criticism. >> i think republican primary being attacked by nancy pelosi is badge of honor. i would be happy for her to attack me once a week between now and the iowa caucuses. julie: gingrich dismissing the ethics panel that investigated him in the 1990s calling it overly political. bill: thursday, december 13th, the fox news republican debate getting underway out of the critical state of iowa, 9:00 eastern time. it is 6:00 on the west coast and if you have ever been to iowa during a presidential campaign everyone in that state is geared up for that. during the debate you will have access to instant analysis, live chats with our fox news contributors. you can find all of that at foxnews.com/debate. it will be a big night for us and the country. julie: yeah, it sure will be. the head of the faa grounded.

randy babbitt stepping down as faa administrator after a weekend arrest on suspicion of drunk driving. virginia police say babbitt was spotted driving on the wrong side of the road. as faa administrator babbitt over saw drug and alcohol testing programs for air traffic controllers and the pilots. the faa number two taking over babbitt's post. bill: get ready. winter is knocking on the door. extreme weather bearing down on the east coast. it is already snowing in the south, threatening to cause travel delays for the rest of the country and it is moving toward the east. meteorologist maria molina in the fox weather center. what are you see, maria. >> winter weather is starting ahead in the northeast. three inches of snow has fallen across parts of the south, in tennessee and especially looking at snow accumulating on bridges and overpasses of course because that is what cools down the quickest. across the northeast, mostly rain. a lot of it is coming down across new york city, philadelphia and d.c. metro

area. as we head westward the pink is showing up and the white stuff behind the rain? that is actually snow starting to move in. that is what we'll look at later on this afternoon. across the mid-south we do have an area of low pressure developing along this frontal boundary. that is producing this snow across northern parts of mississippi, along northwestern alabama. that is the system that will head into the northeast as we head later into this afternoon. 3:00 p.m. wednesday expected to see snow in upstate new york and western pennsylvania. this is overnight tonight. as the system moves into the northeast the wind will increase. we'll see wind 20 to 30 miles an hour at types of times. even higher than that. that will bring in some problems. most cities will stay mostly at rain. new york city, 3:00 a.m. thursday a little bit of know can sneak in there. bill: it is not that bad yet? >> no. bill: wait until we get the first blizzard, you won't go home. >> i will sleep in my office. bill: thanks,ò maria, keep us updated as the storm moves

across. julie: she loves every minute of it by the way. she is weather-ob sesed. for latest on the storm and what the weather will be like in your area, go to foxnews.com/weather. it is so easy. type in your zip code for our hometown. it is there 24 hours a day. bill: president obama says it is make-or-break for the middle class. this is the moment he argues. is the white house sewing the seeds of class warfare? a great panel, fair and balanced debate on that just ahead. julie: mitt romney hitting the gap. he is planning something he planned more than a year and doing something to catch newt gingrich. we'll tell you what he is doing and whether it will work. bill: lawmakers grilling eric holder over his royal in "fast and furious". we'll talk to a congressman that has couple key questions for the attorney general like this. >> you're not suggesting are you, general holder, it is not your responsibility to

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julie: the street of athens, greece, looking like a war zone. lawmakers are debating the 2012 budget as thousands of protesters marched outside the parcel anti- -- parliament there. riot police firing tear gas and scores of students and left wing protesters. the violence marking three years since a teenager was fatally shot by police. one officer received a life sentence for his role in that. >> when did you first know about the program officially i believe called fast and furious? >> not sure about the exact date but i probably heard about "fast and furious" for the first time over the last few weeks. bill: lawmakers say eric holder misled congress when he made that statement

in may. the u.s. attorney general will get a grilling on what he knew about the botched gun-running sting "fast and furious". republican congressman ted poe is on the committee. he will ask some of those questions. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. >> what do you believe is key to his testimony this time? >> eric holder is the chief law enforcement officer in the united states and he now is talking about the "fast and furious" in denial. i didn't know about it. i didn't read the memo. it is a habit of eric holder. if you recall last year when he was before our committee he talked about bad and unconstitutional the arizona immigration law was and he hadn't even read the law. here he comes. he talks about "fast and furious" he denies reading the memo. he has a habit of not reading. bill: he should have said months and not weeks ago? >> no question about it. yes, he knew about it last year or should have known about it. he said he just didn't get the memo. there were too many people in the justice department

that reads his memos. he is in charge. he's responsible. he is totally responsible for what took place in "fast and furious". bill: there are new documents that are now out. what do they tell you? >> they tell me that this operation was going on for a long period of time. that the justice department was in charge of this operation and it seems to me that the justice department has gone rogue with the idea of smuggling or facilitating the smuggling of weapons to our neighbor mexico, weapons that were used by the drug cartels to kill mexican nationals and apparently kill two americans. this is a very serious matter. people have died because of it and the justice department should be held responsible, specifically eric holder. bill: you have had very strong language on this topic from the very beginning. how do you think this is best-resolved, sir? >> it is best resolved by first we have an independent counsel to investigate the justice department. the justice department can't investigate the justice

department. they're not qualified plus we don't have any credibility in the justice department. and second, if crimes have been committed, people need to be prosecuted, if necessary, go to jail for their facilitation of this awful conduct by the justice department and atf. bill: that is some of the toughest language i have delivered. who should go to jail based at this point what you know? >> who should go to jail, people, if there are criminal violations that have been committed. that's why they need to be investigated, those individuals and the justice department. so, wherever the conduct lies the responsibility for criminal conduct if that's occurred those people should be held criminally responsible for that conduct so whoever it is. bill: there is another report that suggests there was money laundering that tried to help us lead ourselves to the drug cartels in mexico. that was headed up by the dea. are you going to tie that into what you want to find out from holder now? >> yes. that's also another situation where the united states follows the money

trail and millions of dollars used by the dea are followed to mexico, followed into the banks and the idea to try to capture the drug cartel kingpins, it hasn't happened. meanwhile millions of dollars have gone to the drug cartels and we haven't stopped that conduct. dea, atf, both under the justice department, we need to get some answers on these two agencies and their conduct. bill: involves guns and money and a lot of dirty business and we'll see where this hearing gets us. ted poe, we'll be watching. thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you, bill. bill: 19 minutes past. here's julie. julie: election fraud allegations touching the highest race in the land. eric shawn investigates. bill: alec baldwin, tweet this. tossed off american airlines plane? what he did to get the boot and what he said about it. >> he was very rude. cause us to be delayed. not very contract. not a very unselfish man.

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>> five, four, three, two, one, come on. ♪ . ♪ oh christmas tree, oh christmas tree, how lovely --. bill: that is house speaker john boehner lighting capitol christmas tree on a rainy night in washington. the speaker inviting a young cub scout and his family to do the honors. it lit up but briefly went out. water likely getting into the switch. that is a skinny tree, isn't it? that is a tree on a diet. julie: that is no good when a the tree goes out. bill: it took a couple seconds. julie: unfortunately it

rained last night. i guess better --. bill: the tree on a budget, kind of like all of us. julie: i think congress put that tree up. bill: maybe. julie: all right. allegations of forged signatures on some 2008 presidential primary petitions sparking a major criminal investigation right as we head into the 2012 season. fox's eric shawn uncovering some evidence of the alleged forgeries and he is live in new york city with more. hi, eric. >> reporter: hi, julie. there are questions whether president obama legally qualified for the ballot in the 2008 primary in indiana. our fox news investigation uncovered more evidence of possible election fraud in the race for the highest office in the land. is that your signature on there? >> that is not my signature. >> reporter: did you sign 24 petition for obama pam? >> no. >> reporter: you did not? >> no. >> reporter: charity was stunned to see her signature on a petition for barack obama in the 2008 indiana

presidential primary. her signature was forged on petitions to put then candidates barack obama and hillary clinton on the ballot. >> it is scary. people already lost faith in politics and the whole realm of politics and so, that's just kind of solidifies all of our worries, our concerns. >> reporter: robert hunter says his name was faked too. >> i did not sign for barack obama. >> reporter: someone forged this? >> that's correct. >> reporter: the investigation centers on democratic petitions that sailed through the st. joseph county registration board in south bend, indiana. the handwriting of voter registration deputy and democratic volunteer, dustin blythe reportedly matches writing on some of the suspect obama petitions. according to a handwriting analyst hired by the south bend tribune and the political newsletter, howie politics indiana. >> reporter: did you forge any signatures. >> i don't have anything to say. >> reporter: did you fake any petitions at all. >> i don't have anything to

say. >> reporter: blythe's lawyer says he did nothing wrong and handwriting comparisons are meaningless. >> handwriting is not the same as dna. handwriting is the no the same thing as fingerprints. >> sign it real quick? thank you. >> reporter: the scandal prompted elected officials to take steps on the upcoming presidential primary process throughout the state. state senator joan br the eden is the democratic party chairman. >> we'll get the bottom of this. i as party chairman will insure we do all we can to make sure this doesn't happen again. >> we set the bar higher in indiana. anybody would think twice before trying to tinker with the process. >> reporter: do you think the president qualified for the ballot? >> no. >> reporter: state republican party chairman eric holcomb has a blunt warning. >> this is the chicago way and it will not be tolerated in the state of indiana i would tell my friends across the country they need to be on the look out as well. it is just fact some folks

will do anything to try to win an election. >> reporter: in indiana, candidates need 500 signatures from each congressional district to t on the ballot. president obama made the cut in st. joseph's county by less than three dozen signatures. 534. reported 150 signatures may have been i can faed between his and hillary clinton's petitions but they were never challenged. the saint joseph county prosecutor, mike devorek is investigating the whole thing. julie. julie: eric shawn, thank you very much. bill: it will take a long time to get to the bottom of those investigations. we'll see where it goes. we'll see who blipgs first. the clock is ticking on the payroll tax cut. dueling bills from both sides, house and senate, republicans, democrats, so far no one is backing down. julie: mitt romney's campaign is switching gears hoping to catch up with a surging newt gingrich. what is his strategy now? are you ceiving a payout from a legal settlement

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bill: right at the half hour. we want to get back to one of our top stories. new reports that newt gingrich's surge is prompting the romney campaign to hit the reset button. romney launching an aggressive coast to coast campaign push. yesterday picking up endorsement from former vice president dan quayle in arizona. >> we have to figure out who

is the best person to go to washington and turn things around. it's not a washington politician. it's not a washington insider. it is somebody who has balanced budgets, who comes from the private sector, who knows how to create jobs and knows how to fix problems. bill: so that's quail weighing in. all told romney will travel more than 11,000 miles this week. on monday he was in boston headed to los angeles. yesterday, tuesday, tuesday is green there, arizona, for the quayle endorsement. and today, wednesday, which is purple, he flies from l.a. to washington and then back west to san francisco. now tomorrow on thursday he is in virginia. that's in yellow. on frid and saturday he is in iowa for the fox news republican debates. and then sunday in new york for an interview on "fox news sunday", his first

sunday interview in more than a year. brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to george w. bush. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: what do you make of this now strategy? >> what i make of it is there is national progression to a campaign and a strategy. you don't want to peak too early as we've seen. mitt has been the, the tortoise in the hear in the fable. has not blown out at 25%. that is the time for mitt to step on the gas. the race has shaken out enough that it will be between him and newt gingrich in iowa and new hampshire and in south carolina. he knows who is opponent is. he knows who he has to beat. he will break out and do the things he needs to do once the voters turned their attention to the election which is exactly what is occurring. bill: some of these things are extraordinary like the rise of gingrich. did his camp plan for gingrich at all do you believe? >> i think newt was certainly in the mix but as we've seen the last month, month and a half the race

has been extremely fluid. the good news for romney, he was able to continue plodding along and he was not someone who is behind and up. he was continually moving ahead. and that is exactly what your candidate should be doing. then there come as time to break out. this is the time to do it. and, you just, said, very articulately, exactly what he is doing. he is going back and forth and appearing more now on news programs. appearing in iowa and new hampshire, and in south carolina, important battleground states. exactly what he needs to do. bill: i talked about surprises, cain was a surprise. >> absolutely. bill: perry was a surprise. he is hanging in there. campaigns adjust as these events happen. how well-equipped do you think romney's campaign is when they say internally they have already built out a national campaign in the event of what they expect could be a long haul? >> he is very well-equipped. he has been doing this a long time.

he has got the financing and more importantly he has the organization in the battleground states, something newt is playing catch-up on. the money coming into newt right now is going to pay old bills. he doesn't have the kind of money to pay current expenditures or future expenditures, something that romney is able to do. now newt has to turn around his popularity and make that organizational strength and financial strength in order for him to be competitive. it is not, he can not rest on the polls. that is not enough. he is going to be able to move people to the polls and get people excited. that takes money, that takes organization. bill: romney too, he's kind of sort of avoided television but that is changing also when you think about his appearance this weekend with chris wallace. brad, thank you. brad blakeman out of washington. >> thank you so much. bill: check out "fox news sunday". mitt romney is chris wallace's guest for the entire hour. we'll find out a lot then the 11th of december. julie: the time is running out to extend the payroll

tax cut before it expires at year's end as democrats and republicans try to work out a deal that pays for it. the question is, how are they going to pay for it? this as senate republicans reject a democratic plan that would impose a surtax on americans making more than a million bucks a year, a plan senate minority leader mitch mcconnell hardly thinks is a compromise. >> democrats have another week of fun and games on the senate floor while tens of millions of working americans go another week whether they will see a smaller paycheck. julie: joining us kansas senator, jerry moran. republic can sits on the republican appropriations and banking committee. thanks for talking with us this morning. i don't need to resolve this and soon or social security payroll tax will go up next year, unemployment benefits will run dry and doctors who treat medicare patients will have their fees cut. what will it take for both sides to come to agreement before they adjourn on

december 15th. >> that is the multibillion-dollar question, julie, and a hard one for us to come up with. the ball is in the house of representatives court. what you see is exactly what leader mcconnell just said in the senate where there are political statements being made, votes being cast. last week both the republican plan to deal it with the issue of so-called payroll tax holiday was defeated. the democrat plan to do so and what has to take place here is that republicans and democrats of both the house and senate have to reach an agreement as to what that total package will take. from my perspective i voted against both the republican plan and the democrat plan and don't believe that, i don't say this in any cavalier way. i represent many people, a few hundred dollars makes a big difference in their family budget. julie: sure. >> but it bothers me greatly a couple things. we're taking for this payroll tax holiday, we are taking the social security trust fund and making it an even greater political football. it reduces the chances of

the solvency of social security in the future by reducing payments that individual taxpayers and employers are making into the trust fund and leaving up the success of social security, even further to the whim of congress. we're making it much more a political football. and also, we're taking the bowles-simpson, the in republican plan we took the bowles-simpson ideas for reducing spending to pay down the debt and deficit. we're using that to provide a so-called stimulus package. from my perspective it takes something that is very much in this broad package to conclude congressional session this year. julie: right. >> it takes something that really does create job growth, puts people to work and gives them greater certainty about their economic future and moves this country forward in a way that also doesn't increase the national debt. julie: it is interesting to hear you talk because it seems you really don't agree with either side and that's the problem. so as a republican if you don't agree with what republicans are coming up

with, i can't imagine democrats will. one major sticking point on democrats extending the tax break how to pay for it. democrat leaders continue to push the plan funded by roughly 2% surtax on those earning more than a million bucks a year. what do you think about that plan? >> i think we have to have a discussion about our tax code in a broad sense. i'm all for eliminating the loopholes, the things that people use to kind of scheme to avoid paying taxes. and i thought we were coming close to that. republicans and democrats i think generally agree but it hasn't happened yet. that's my point is, we need to have some long-term looks at our regulatory environment, our tax code, our spending patterns. this can't be about rushing from crisis to crisis. this tax benefit is going to expire at the end of the year and we've got to move immediately. we need to talk about what is good for the country in the long haul. this can't be about the next election. it has to be about the next generation and we're, again,

playing politics. this reminds me of the stimulus package for example, that president bush proposed and was approved by congress that gave everyone in the country a $600 check. well, i didn't vote for that one either because what we're doing is borrowing money. we don't have the money to pay for it. we borrow money from china, fill in the blank and we believe this hopefully stimulates the economy. do something that increases pay. julie: reduce congress's pay, what about that idea? >> that is a good idea. that is one of the pay-fors in the republican plan and i strongly support that. we ought to in fact go further than that freezing pay by congressman -- freezing --. julie: that is what average americans have had to deal with last several years. either getting laid off or their pay being frozen, if it happens to every-day joes, why not to congress? we'll have to wait and see on that. >> no arguments with that at all. julie: we're out of time. thanks senator moran for talking to us. >> thanks for the opportunity. good day. bill: a check of the markets,

how about it, huh? we're down 78 points. a lot of concern the deal in europe won't be a deal in the end after all. they will summit on thursday and friday. tim geithner is in europe. joe biden is in europe. huy hard are they turning the screws on the european countries to work that out? we'll talk to steve forbes coming in about 30 minutes. julie: president obama says it is make-or-break time for america's middle class. will the class warfare strategy work this time? bill: we have a great panel on that. they're warming up. this is a day that changed america. the attack on pearl harbor 70 years ago today. now new recordings of that tragic day now seen for the very first time. >> december 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.

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americans against the rich. president obama says republican economic policies are not fair saying voters are facing a defining moment in america. >> this is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class. because what is at stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, secure their retirement. bill: it went on for 57 minutes. alan colmes, the host of the alan colmes radio show. loved every second of it. >> can't get enough. bill: tucker carlson, fox news contributor, made a dub of the dvd. >> i did. bill: maybe not. >> i'm watching it horror in slow mo. >> playing it in my head. bill: what do you think about this? >> rye vealing speech. bill: how so? >> the president revealed himself ignorant and truly

left wing. i'm not into hyperbole. do you really believe, this is the case obama is making if we had higher taxes on rich we wouldn't have 17% real unemployment rate which we have now? do you think republicans are responsible for the current economy and obama's economic policies have had no effect? this is ludicrous. this is a last-ditch attempt to save a failing presidential campaign. >> he is being accused class warfare. what he is doing is pointing out class warfare. let's not accused pointing out class warfare on the other side with practicing class warfare. he is correct. i can't get an answer to the question, if low tax rates create jobs we have the lowest tax rates since harry truman where are those jobs we were told the lowest tax rates produce? clearly having low taxes is not producing jobs, republicans all they ever do talk about we have no jobs. >> i reject out of hand your ludicrous stipulation at that taxes are low. mine certainly aren't low. i pay more than half of all

income. >> we have lower taxes for people like you who are very rich. it is true. >> if you like. >> it is true. >> okay, you want to get to the mathematical truth? >> hard be objective truth? >> rich people pay for everything. >> are they creating jobs? where are the job creators. where are the jobs, where are the job creators. >> make overwhelming of the money government spends. >> where are the jobs. bill: alan, you make interesting point where are the jobs. wasn't this administration was supposed to create jobs? >> i thought boehner, i. bill: ask the question you are answer. provide a job. create a job. >> republicans won't let him. if he creates a works progress administration and put people to work on infrastructure and bridges and roads doing things like that we should have a bigger stimulus allows that to actually happen. bill: i thought every road in america would be paved. >> bigger stimulus, got money out faster we would have much more recovering economy. >> you know what? you should rest easy he is doing just that. there has been a massive

transfer of wealth from private sector middle class workers to unionized public sector employees. come to washington where i live. it is the richest place in the united states. why? because you are more likely to die in the job that you are to be fired if you work for the federal government and benefits and salaries are much higher much higher than comparable jobs. bill: just to bring you back to the speech from yesterday, i think it cuts both ways. if you're on the left, you love the message. his speech is being hailed as a great message for america. the risk here is that people don't trust government necessarily now. and that was an overriding message from yesterday, tucker. >> look he is not stupid. he understands that people are very wary, look the government is corrupt on some level and totally inefficient at every level yet he is making case that the government is a wiser, steward of your money than you are. the more fairly and intelligently allocate capital than the private sector. that is just stupid. nobody who understands economics believes that left or right. hard to believe he sees

that. >> we've seen years lack of regulation and seen regulation go away. seen regulation go away and republicans fight for less regulation and more money for the rich and corporations that has not helped the economy. >> alan, do you really believe that? he has been president for three years. we have 17% of the country out of work. that is the republicans fault? >> unemployment rate has actually, gotten better. we're down to 8.6%. not happening fast enough. it would happen faster if you guys on the right would actually allow a real stimulus to take place. people who want nothing more to get him out of office. >> let's agree not to repeat phony unemployment statistics. >> it is not phony up unemployment. bill: i guarantee both you will hear one word more than anything else in the next 12 months. that is the word fair. that is for you gentleman to decide what you consider fair. is it 50%. is it 60? is it 70? >> right now not fair the rich are not paying their fair share. >> oh, my god. they're paying for everything. >> you're crazy.

bill: make sure you guys come back next week. >> no question. bill: will you do that for me? i appreciate it. what do you have, julie. julie: coming up a game of winning touchdown in the championship game is stuff for glory, dave. but number 4 here will not remember it so fondly. why his mother is now calling it foul. >> if you're going to penalize him, penalize him for damsing, showboating or, you know, the football players do all that stuff. he didn't do that.

bill: we have new reaction after a high school football player's game-winning touchdown is wiped off the score board and with it a state championship. down by two, watch, matthew owens puts up his left arm. it was called back because

he raised his arm in try yum. the refs penalized him, called back the touchdown for excessive celebration. >> when he did it, proud, proud. i was so proud of my son. >> it was controversial nobody would be talking about it. we leave it up to people to decide whether it was the right call or the wrong call. bill: his team lost the title game by two points in the end. that kid got ripped off. that is not excessive. i agree with his mother. [explosions] julie: december 7th, 1941. the japanese attack on pearl harbor forever changing america and the world 70 years ago today. now never-before-seen video

and photographs of that fateful day have been discovered. phil keating has the story. >> this is a big piece of history. a lot of it has been disposed of, passed on, neglected, even thrown away. >> reporter: anyone who was ever seen this original film footage of the japanese attack on pearl harbor is almost certainly dead. the thick black smoke rising from u.s. battleships and destroyers. the boats racing to rescue sailors and the explosions of enormous fireballs, all captured in the ongoing chaos by navy war foifr clyde daughtry who wrote of his experience in a diary. >> i was excited. we had seen little koda chrome boxes of the day. we know it was old film and didn't know what was on them until actually had a chance to view it. >> reporter: world war ii his tore run john beolengre

bought the film stored in a florida garage for decades and all but forgotten. >> this was pretty much bottom of the chest, you know. and, we feel this is part of the whole find. >> reporter: the film is silent and so many years fragile and falling apart. the film has been duplicated digitally so this historic treasure of this day of infamy with the stars and stripes billowing in the burning sky won't be long forgotten again. that footage was only seen a couple times until the military quickly classified it. for all the decades it was locked away in a florida shed and garage. julie: thank you, phil keating. bill: remarkable to see. just about everyone claims they knew nothing about operation "fast and furious". somebody is not telling the truth. we're on the paper trail etergen,

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bill: brand-new hour, 10:00 in new york, 10:00 in washington. fox news alert. for the first time ever the homeland committee is holding a joint session and the focus is homegrown terrorism and targets targeting troops at military bases at home. here is peter king on that moments ago. >> military communities in the u.s. have recently become the most sought "avatar" gets of violent islamist extremists kaoebg seeking to kill americans in their homeland. we can't stand idly by while our military is struck down. bill: we will bring developments and headlines to you as we get them. it is still going on now. you can watch it streaming live at foxnews.com. the republican party may be drafting a new game plan for defeating president obama. apparently we were not supposed to know about it.

someone at the rnc reportedly allowed a report tpher thei reporter in their conference call and it apparently was done by mistake. brand-new hours of "america's newsroom." i'm bill hemmer. julie: i'm band band. billjulie banderas? bill: how are you doing. julie: i'm doing well. a republican polling firm expressing concerns that attacking the president could be dangerous. bill: he says, quote we are heavy to jump on board with heavy attacks. there are a lot of people that feel sorry for him. jonah goldberg, an editor and fox news contributor. how do you measure what the republican strategy should be, jonah? >> this is a very strange story. if it is in fact true it was an accident, somehow the reporter from yahoo news got to be a witness to a political suicide

packet. it is a very strange thing to say that they shouldn't attack the president because he is popular. in politics when your opponent is popular, which i don't think obama is, the may you make them unpopular is you educate the public by attacking him on why he shouldn't be popular. that's what they did to george bush, to bill clinton, that's what they've done in politics for as long as there has been politics. the republicans i think they should not go after, try to attack obama personally with nasty personal attacks, because for the most part i think they are groundless, he's a good family man and all the rest. but his political character is fair game and the guy has provided a lot of ammo to the republicans and conservatives generally? on that point, this is when ari fleischer said during the conference call. he said i don't like playing defense. when it comes to flip flopping barack obama is the king of flip

flopping, you can offer that to anybody. what he's talking about is the promise to cult the deficit in half, the stimulus that would lower unemployment, keep it below 8%. guantanamo, that was really important to the people on the left went unfilled. you can just put out the facts and let people decide. >> i think that is right. where i would disagree with ari on some of that, some of them are flip-flops and some of them are just failures. the argument you want to make about obama is he wasn't up to the job, he's got eve got in over his head. he failed to live up to the expectations he set for himself. he said if he didn't get the economy set he it would be a one-term experience.

it's if you disagree with obama it must be for bad motives. yesterday in a big speech in kansas president obama basically lied when he said there are billionaires out there paying 1% tax rate which the white house later conceded it was a made-up number and there is no basis for it. you can go after how he governs and how he governs is quite badly. bill: the speech tips the hand on the strategy from the white house and we will see how the american people receive it or not. joan a thank you. >> always good to be here. julie: an international firestor similarrers over a comment from the top american diplomat in belgium. calls today for the president to fire ambassador howard gutmam after saying anti-semitism is caused by israel's stance in the palestinian conflict. the presidential candidate seizing on the issue at a forum for jewish republicans. >> the american ambassador to belgium says muslim

anti-semitism is caused by israel. i don't know if the obama administration is waging psychological warfare against israel or not. they ought to fire him, and clean out the people who are pro islamist extremists in the state department and justice department. julie: gutman is jewish. he says he was misquoted. he says there has been hatred and violence against jews for a small sector of the population that hates jews just for hating. bill: about five minutes past the hour she is arguably the loudest cheerleader, mitt romney's wife ann. she talked about his bid for the white house anna lot more on fox & friends today. >> this is not an easy thing to

go through. all families that go through this recognize this is not easy. however, i was the one that actually made the decision this time. mitt was more reluctant about going forward this time. i said u kno, you know what, the country needs it. i really think the country will loose in mitt romney loses. bill: carl cameron interviewed mitt romney today. he will join us with that interview straight ahead. we'll talk to carl in 30 minutes. december 15th the fox news republican debate gets underway in the state of iowa, 9:00 eastern time, 6 on the west coast. during this debate you will have access to instant analysis and live chats with our fox news contributors at foxnews.com/debate. it's the first time we have done that and it will be a wonderful opportunity for our folks on the web to do that.

julie: attorney general eric holder set to receive again this week on fast and furious. that is of course the gun trafficking sting that ended up arming dangerous criminals. now dozens of lawmakers have called for holder's resignation. holders and others by the way in the administration claim they didn't know the extent of the program, but does the paper trail back them up? william la jeunesse is live in los angeles to explain. hi, william. >> reporter: well, julie, reports, analysis, briefings there is a paper trail miles and long in fast and furious all so that decision-makers can make better decisions. somehow in one of the largest operations ever taken by the atf, washington has amnesia. not the attorney general or his deputy. >> i cannot say for sure whether i saw a draft of the letter. >> reporter: or his former chief of staff. >> as it turns out, senator i

did not read that weekly report. >> reporter: nor apparently did officials at atf or homeland security. >> i did not know about fast and furious. >> no one was aware that guns were walking, my level or above me. >> reporter: those charged with stopping guns at the border actually had federal agents me to smuggle them. >> i could not believe that someone in the atf could let guns end up in the hands of criminals. >> reporter: top officials two it. >> he was not aware of what was happening in fast and furious. certainly i was not. >> we have no record any of kind of notice or heads up. >> reporter: some lawmakers simply don't buy it. >> there were memos with your name on it addressed to you referring to the fast and furious operation, are you just saying you didn't read them? >> i didn't receive them. >> reporter: according to investigators holder received 13 memos regarding fast and furious in 2010 that he never read, three members of his staff had intimate average of his program

and he says he didn't tell him about their concerns. tomorrow we will hear from the attorney general. julie: thank you so much. bill: there are new fears of a rising trend that would charge taxpayers even more. a new measure, the first one in california now would increase the income tax by 1 to 2% for those making $250 a year or more. it would tack on a half percent to the state sales tax, that would amount to $7 billion in new revenue per year for the next five years. if the measure passes could your state be next? elizabeth mcdonnell joins us now. how are you doing. >> reporter: hi, bill. bill: california is in a deep, deep hole and they are going to get out of it by raising taxes, is that the plan? >> reporter: that's the plan. in an unusual move governor jerry brown is doing an end run. he is trying to get these new tax hikes put on a signature gathering petition to deliver to

the voters directly instead of going through what he's calling a grid-lock sacramento. you're right about the taxes, he's calling them a temporary tax. the gop in california is not having it bill. they say the voters have already rejected these kind of taxes as a bail out for sacramento. whether or not governor jerry brown successes here remains to be seen. we are already seeing in new york state the governor here talking about raising taxes on the upper brackets as well. we saw this happen in maryland. they tried to install a new millionaire's tax. about one in seven taxpayers estimated left the state after that tax was enacted, bill, back to you. bill: you're watching california, you're watching new york where there is movement on that and maryland. is illinois next? do you see the trend. >> reporter: illinois tried to raise taxes. they saw an exodus between 1998

and 2008. thousands of people left the state. economists are looking at that and saying possibly because of the higher taxes in illinois is why those individuals left that state. bill: we'll watch the trend, see writ goes. we'll catch you on fbn. thank you,ee liz about i, elizabeth mcdonald. julie: timothy geithner is across the pond working on europe's debt crisis. steve forbes is straight ahead on that knee ha that. bill: this is not the day to show off and one guy apparently did not listen. >> you rile, in front of this group with all the important issues you have going on in this state you're wasting these people's time with a question on whether we plant questions in the audience. bill: what was that question that set off the new jersey governor, chris christie, and his fiery response? you will hear it. julie: albal alec baldwin, he's

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julie: he's never known to mince words. new jersey governor chris christie showing off his brash brand of no nonsense politics last night. watch what happens when an audience member asks if he plans questions at town hall discussions. >> first of all i don't know what candy is, i may have a friend named candy, i don't know who you are talking about. secondly to say it's a planted question, you're saying my staff

asked a certain question. >> correct. >> with all the important issues you have going on in this state you're wasting people's time on a question on whether we plant questions in the audience. >> with all due respect, if it was a planted question, you are wasting time alternate the town hall meeting. >> listen, if i planted the question, why the hell did i call on you? [laughter] julie: he didn't have much of a response to that. that guy had to know what was coming to him i'm sure. before the questions began governor christie warned the audience about show boating. bill: that guy runs a good day-to-day campaign. julie: it would be interesting. bill: more than $13 trillion in debt, that's what we are looking at at home, a housing crisis underway. the u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner. the vice president joe biden traveling through europe pressing europe officials to calm the debt crisis there.

>> i'm here in europe of course to emphasize how important it is to the united states and the world economy as a whole that germany and france succeed alongside the other nations of europe in building a stronger europe. bill: it is not clear at the moment whether or not those efforts are going to be successful. steve forbes, chairman and editor and chief of forms media. how are you doing, steve and good morning to you. >> hi, bill. how are you. bill: i'm doing fine. what are they doing about us. >> economic malpractice at home and in europe of course they want to get together and insure each other. for the u.s. to give advice to europe on how to grow is preposterous. but that's what he's doing. unfortunately in europe they're beginning to deal short term with the crisis, which is necessary. the advice they are giving is making the it worse. you'll see a recession in southern europe which will affect all of us ultimately.

25% of our exports go to europe. if they get in trouble we are going to get it here too. bill: you say they are not listening to us? is there anything that we can share with them that could lead them to do a more prosperous state? >> given what's happened to our economy, i know why geithner wants to go over, he wants to feel important, so bring hem over, give him a hamburger but not take his advice. it's like doctors who used to bleed patients with leaches. what europe needs is reaganesque policies, instead they are going to get more of the same. they are going to do like they do in california, bleed the patient and hope the patient gets better. bill: how tight is this to the re-election of 2012. if europe really can't pull itself out of its hole right now, and you just mentioned that's going to have an impact

on us, so there is a political prism by which to analyze that. how do you see it? >> obviously it's not going to help our economy if europe goes into a real tank, like we did in 2008, and so they want europe to pull out. unfortunately the policies that europe is pursuing short term i think they'll pull out of the spiral, but longer term it's just going to be morel tiff stag natiomore relative stag nation for us and for them. higher taxes is not the way to go. we need the spirit of ronald reagan. they want to have more jimmy carter, barack obama, higher taxes. it ain't going to work in the long term. bill: this is the debt ratio. greece 165%. italy 121. ireland 109. we are at a hundred percent. you wonder what we can offer them and you wonder how hard are they tightening the screws on the european leaders to do

something? >> it's proper to get the european leaders to act to make sure their banking system doesn't collapse. it has been in a slow-growth implosion, which will be devastating if it's not stopped. taking short term actions that is all to the good, but in terms of getting the patient back on his feet, or her feet, they are doing the exact opposite, wrong, and so it's one bad doctor giving advice to another bad doctor, the patient is not being helped by this bill. bill: they will have a summit on thursday and friday of this week in germany, at least one official came out saying he's pessimistic about the optimism for some sort of agreement to come out of the summit. we'll be watching it carefully. steve forbes thank you for your time today. >> thank you. julie: plan b for all? well the feds set to decide whether or not to put the controversial morning-after-pill on the shelves, and available without a prescription. we'll have a fair & balanced debate on that.

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bill: 25 minutes past the hour now. headlines now, new hope for the housing crisis in a credit agency saying the number of people behind on their mortgages may actually drop by the end of next year. we shall see. the power still out in california, a week after a massive windstorm damages nearing the $4 million mark as more than 6,000 still are in the dark. a myth-busters mishap, leaving a california home with a grand new

window, a cannonball missed its mark at the sheriff's bombing range, tore through a home 700 yards away, right as the kids were coming home from school. that made a mark, huh? julie: yeah, i bet. former illinois governor rod blagojevich to take the stand again today, day two. he is expected to ask the judge for mercy in sentencing. he could face up to 20 years in prison. judge andrew napolitano is a fox news senior analyst and the host of freedom watch on the fox news business network. before you tell me whether or not the judge should throw the book at blagojevich, i have a feeling i may know the answer, let's suspend that for a second and go become to yesterday. how surprised were you at the stark contrast surrounding the blagojevich circus, and the fact that his defense attorney came out with this conciliatory tone when they are now conceding that he did wrong, when all the while

he was innocent, innocent, innocent, up until yesterday? >> judges are of different minds on this. and some judges knowing that the defendant believes he didn't do anything wrong still expect a certain amount of remorse from that defendant. and believe it or not, making two different arguments, i didn't do anything wrong at trial, three months later, i was wrong, i know it, i shouldn't have done it, i'm sorry, i was a jerk i was a tkoerpbgs i wa dope, i was a fool, by the way no one was harmed by what i did. some judges buy that. blagojevich is a lawyer and was a public official, they can make two different arguments at different times in their lives. most judges do look for remorse on the part of the defendant. but some judges will understand. if you don't think you did anything wrong, then there is nothing that you can be worry for. governor blagojevich and his lawyers have decided he should

be sorry for doing something which he claims was not a crime. julie: they read this letter that his daughter wrote saying that, you know, please don't send my father to prison, it was a very tearful and emotional moment, and blagojevich now i guess is supposed to i guess try to gain some sympathy from this judge. the judge pretty much said this guy lied about selling obama's seat. he does not seem to be taking sympathy and he's not taking this lightly. do you think he's going to throw the book at him? >> there are two ways to look at this. one is he did commit technical violations of very serious crimes, and the maximum time in jail is 20 years, and the minimum probably is around ten, so any number between ten and 20. julie: what do you think he's going to get. >> is not going to be disturbed by the appeals court. i'll tell you in just a second. the other way to look at this is, nobody was harmed by what he did, this was an idle boast by a tpaofplt i have something her fool. i have something here that is

good as gold. that was part of the culture he was in. i think he's going to get a very stiff sentence. i think this judge who ruled in favor of the government almost all the time during the trial has accepted the argument that blagojevich was a corrupt public official and needs to send a message. it's risky to predict but i'll do it for you, julie, 17 years in a federal institution which is more than all his predecessors as governor combined received. julie: he's back in court 11:00am. we'll wait and see if you're right. 17 years is your proceed diction. judge napolitano good to see you. >> good to be here. julie: freedom watch every nig night. >> hemmer watches every night. bill: carl cameron just finished up an interview with mitt romney. and it is big cat week.

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bill: breaking news, this is intrigue, out of mexico city, the mexican government saying it's broken up a plot to smuggle a son of the late libyan dictator moammar qaddafi into that country. el-saadiqaddafi is his name. he was taking his family with false documents. it was an elaborate plan, several suspects opening bang accounts in mexico t to buy houses to be used by safe houses by his son. intriguing, out of mexico city moments ago. nearly all the republican presidential candidates speaking at a republican-jewish coalition forum at the moment. that is a live look inside the reagan building in washington d.c. most of them planning to step up

attacks on israeli policy. carl cameron just talked to one of the candidates. he's live. what did you find out? >> reporter: in a matter of seconds mr. romney will take the podium and address this group. we sidelined him beforehand and talked to him about his slippage in the polls and the ascent of newt gingrich. it looks like mr. gingrich winning in iowa in the polls. closing the gap in new hampshire where mitt romney has an advantage. he leads in florida, and in national polls. i asked mr. romney what issues he thought were the distinctions that would best draw the contrast between himself and newt gingrich that voters should be focusing on as we have the final 27 days before the caucuses, this is what he said. >> speaker gingrich said we ought to get rid of our child labor laws. that i think is a mistake. he's indicated that for people who have been here a certain length of time we should let them stay in the country with a form of amnesty. i think that is a mistake.

the list will go on and on as we get a clear skaeug clear indication of exactly where the speaker stands. we'll talk about those differences and i think that will make a difference in people's minds. >> reporter: mr. romney is currently tied for second with texas congressman ron paul in iowa. mr. paul was not invited to the rjc conference because they say he has not been supportive enough of the rjc. he'll be talking later today about his economic plan where he will argue this he's looking to create an opportunity agenda. he says mr. obama is creating an entitlement agenda, bill. bill: we heard from the romney camp they were going to make him more available to members of the media. and then it happens. carl cameron live in washington at that forum. julie: alec baldwin's notorious

temper getting him kicked off an airplane in l.a. he says he was playing a game on his cellphone before the plane left the gate. he apparently got angry when a flight attendant asked him to turn it off. the two had words and well baldwin wound up back in the terminal. >> i actually felt alec baldwin, while turning off his devices, he just got a little angry. >> he was on his phone an didn't want to get off the phone, then he snuck into the bathroom and became a little bit irate and they had to remove him there the flight. >> you may have recognized that first person who was interviewed there. that was boxer oscar de la hoya by the way. baldwin took to twitter. quote, flight attendant on american reamed me out for playing words with friends while we sat at the gate not moving, no wonder american is bankrupt. american tweeted right back saying, our flight attendants were following federal safety procedures on electronic devices

when aircraft door is closed. he got a lot of followers off of his tweets you were telling me. bill: that app apparently made a heck of a lot money off of him. somebody said i've heard of words with friends before, what is that game like, and he tweets, it's very a addicting. he claims he wenthey claim he went to the bathroom, these what brought the pilot out. once that door closes, game over. julie: exactly. i am curious about that app. i'm going to look into it. should teens be able to end a possible pregnancy without a doctor's help or without a parents' consent. that is what the feds are considering now. we'll talk to two doctors about the possibility of making plan b available on drugstore shelves.

bill: round two or rematch, jon huntsman versus donald trump. what huntsman is saying about trump in the presidential race on hannity. >> this becomes more politics entertainment as opposed to politics as part of a serious dialogue that this country has been waiting for. hey, the new guy is loaded with protein!

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down and makes less consequential the very important issues that we must be discussing to get this country back on its feet again. these are serious issues, shaun, this isn't about ratings for donald trupl, this is about jobs for the american people. bill: hunts is participating in this lincoln-style debate with newt gingrich. that will focus on foreign policy and national security. julie: a new debate over the controversial morning-after-pill. it's called plan b. the food and drug administration considering a proposal that would make the drug available to everyone without a prescription, so you won't have to go to the doctor, you just walk into your drugstore. dr. marc siegl is a member of the fox news medical a team and a professor. dr. kathleen london also joins us, a family practice physician and assistant professor. plan b has always been one of those things where this someone

doesn't use protected sex they have to go into the doctor, they have for plan b and it's prescribed. these meds, dr. siegel can be dangerous. what do you think about them becoming so easily accessible. >> the way it works it prevents implantation. there are political battles whether it's actually an abortion pill. that's not what we're here to discuss today. up to three days it can prevent pregnancy. i have a lot of problems of making it over-the-counter. close to day three you might not actually get enough of it. it can cause bleeding. it could mask a sexually transmitted disease, which you don't know about. all of which is leading up to my argument, either a nurse practitioner or doctor needs to be involved in this. we could have it on the pharmacy level. i have no problem about

prescribing this drug whatsoever. i am nervous about young women under the age of 17, going to a farm me, taking this. with no doctor in the loop and if there is bleeding, side effects, clots. >> this interferes with off lacing, doesn't free convenient implantation, there is no conception. let's start with that. because that's been the argument for not making it over-the-counter. it is behind the counter without a prescription if you're over 18. we've got numerous studies, actually now that have come forward in teenagers on being able to use it properly with the world's health organization it says it's safe, the american academy of pediatrics, the american academy of family physicians, the ama are all for making this over-the-counter. the plan b i does not increase clot risk. i think dr. siegel is confusion it with the other kind of

morning-after-pill that has two hormones in it. this one is safe. teenagers who are already asking sex should be able to prevent a presentin pregnancy. this will lead to fewer abortions. >> i want to cut in here. she can make all the proclamations she wants. everything she is saying is misinformation. there is no consensus about what this hormone does and how it works, when in the cycle it's used. if it plea vented off lacing it won't work in 72 hours. it is associated with increased blood clots. number three, what is the role of a physician? i can tell you, if my patients are going overseas to an area where there is dysentery i don't give them antibiotics just in case, i don't give them cholesterol drugs just in case. the way we were taught to practice is if we're in the loop and there is a medical problem we have to know about it, otherwise everything should be over-the-counter. what is the role of a physician,

a nurse practitioner. julie: you don't want to be taking this pill as a precautionary measure, well i might be pregnant so i might as well take the pill. this plan b drug is not 100% effective. what if it doesn't worg and you arwork and you are pregnant. >> nothing to the person or the fetus. the safety is there. the rest of the world all cont continue contraceptions are over-the-counter. doing this as a morning after is not a far reach. >> aspirin is one of the most dangerous drugs in the world and it's over-the-counter because it's always been over-the-counter. using things as over-the-counter as an argument for making more potentially dangerous drugs over-the-counter is a fallacious argument. we also have the issue of h ectopic pregnancy. >> it prevents them. >> having no doctor that they are going to is not a very good

idea. i'm very pro plan b, i'm not using a political argument here. i'm very pro plan b, i want to prescribe it and know who is taking it. julie: dr. siegel and dr. london thank you very much for a fair & balanced debate on this. obviously the debate continues. thank you very much. bill: the golden arches under fire for a new ad campaign. why critics are outraged with this mcdonald answer ad? looks somewhat innocuous. mountain lions and tigers are dangerous in the world, so why are they in our studios? that next. >> there is that female. >> sure enough it's a female cat who watches nervously. before we can get the dogs away from the tree she makes a move.

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fire for what critics say is its poor taste in a new ad. the controversy is over this billboard in chicago, which is supposed to look like giant french fries reaching up into the sky, but critics say the ad is very similar to tribute and light the annual display for victims of 9/11. mcdonald's is reportedly shutting off the light campaign by tomorrow night. bill: they are the most captivating creatures on the planet and they can be dangerous. a few hundred pound of teeth into your muscle, it is big cat week and national geographic takes you closer than you have ever got even before. watch here. >> we moved down the mountain towards him, he didn't runaway. he lurched out of a tree and he pinned his ears, dilated eyes, i just looked at him. >> holy cow.

>> a look i've seen b. i've got scars on my body the last time i saw it. this cat is going to back us off the mountain. bill: that man you see right there is casey anderson host of stalking the mountain lion. how are you doing? nice to see you again. i think you were here about six months ago, we were talking sharks and all that crazy stuff. i want you to introduce to that audience this fellow over here. >> this is martha. a 7-month-old bengal tiger. bill: just happens to be named mart that, because she is not here today, she's working later. >> i know. what is sad about this in a perfect world all these animals would be in the wild. right now there are more captive tigers than tigers in the wild. we are trying to generate appreciation for the cats and maybe people will do something about it. bill: do you recommend me petting martha, or should i stay where i am. >> i think keeping back is good,

she has big claws and big teeth, these are predators. bill: what are special about them. >> their stripes are just like a fingerprint, each tiger's are individual. they range all over asia and different places. you can see very strong. this cat will be very, very big. they eat lots of deer and antelope in the jungles. they are just a cool, athletic creature, very elusive. very hard to get on camera. stpho: it's so gorgeous and so beautiful. that is a tiger. now you'll introduce us to mountain lions. the tigers and lions don't mix very well. bill: see you martha, see you tomorrow at 9:00am. >> these cats range all the way from canada to the tip of south america. bill: is that so? >> as you may know these cats are moving east along the mississippi river. bill: martha was how big? >> 175 stphaot mountain lions are much smaller. i want to guess maybe 30, 35.

>> these guys are little. when they are stul grown they'll be just under a hundred pounds. this is callie and kaya. these cats are super, super allusive. they are out in people's back kwr-rdz and people don't eve backyards and people don't even know they exist. they are very adaptable, but they need our help. out of sight, out of mind you don't see these cats so you don't care about them. these what is so cool about big cat week. we want to generate excit excitement. bill: i think people out in california are having problems with mountain lions. you mentioned moving east. is that because they are spreading out or getting more comfortable with us. >> we are in their backyard. they eat the deer. bill: am i allowed to be ambitious here? >> she would like a little pat on the back.

bill: it's okay. i won't bite but you might. >> the mountain lion is cool, they are the biggest cat that purrs just like a house cat. bill: absolutely gorgeous. check it out it's called stalking the mountain lion with casey anderson kicks off december 11th 8:00 eastern time on the national geographic channel. well done okay? safe travels to you. julie: i'm dying over here. they had to make me sit down. bill: the mountain lions are wearing diamond necklaces. julie: those are the most gorgeous creatures i've ever seen. a new twist in the search for a florida mother who vanished after appearing on the people's court. coming up geraldo rivera live on the case of michelle parker and why police are now looking into the mother of her exfiance. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years?

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