>> i don't think he was too happy. >> that was fantastic. >> ryan seacrest. that's before the oscars even started. that's what happens when you bring a dictator to an event like this. we have your highlights live from hollywood with courtney friel. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> man, i don't blame ryan seacrest. if you've got a brand new tuxedo that costs thousands of dollars and borat dumps a -- >> that he borrowed. >> a dead guy on you. >> i thought it was the best part. i was sleeping until that happened of that was hysterical. they need to liven it up. these people in hollywood, they all look nice and they're worrying borrowed clothes and borrowed jewelry but this was actually fantastic. i laughed outloud. >> here's the thing, ryan seacrest has got to be elated. in all the red carpet shows which you say red carpet every other word, every other

sentence, rather, they're talking about him getting dumped on by a dictator named -- >> security is like let's get the dictator out of here. they pretended like he actually was kim jong-il there. watch out for ryan seacrest, he might be in trouble. >> it's interesting, they told him he couldn't come a week ago. we don't want any antics on the red carpet and next thing you know, he shows up. they expected nothing to happen? >> a guy that's involved in the academy is one of the head guys with borat's new movie. >> oh, really? you know a lot of stuff about phony characters. >> we'll tell you more about that shortly. in the meantime, more bad news. we've been telling you about the desperate situation in after sg-- afghanistan. we told you about how u.s. officers were murdered in the interior ministry and seven u.s. soldiers have been wounded. apparently, some demonstrator threw a grenade in a group and

seven hurt this morning. >> special forces are most that suffered. we don't know the rate yet. four americans are dead. 30 overall are hurt before this unrest happened 30 days ago. ambassador crocker said nothing is going to change. >> how? >> the taliban claiming revenge. why? remember last week what really sparked this whole thing was the fact that some of the qurans in a jail, messages were written in them. apparently, prisoners were trying to send messages to one another. now, that violates muslim law that you're not supposed to desecrate the quran. so then what happened was some of these qurans were burned at this nato base. there's debate about whether or not that's the right thing to do when a quran is desecrated or whether it was inappropriate. nonetheless, the nato commanders apologized but then the president of the united states apologized so the question remains, has that done anything difrn of different? >> i'll take a third angle to that. if you burn the quran, you could

apologize but also say, listen, there's no call for violence here. we're deeply offended that you're now targeting the people that are giving you a chance at a decent life. >> exactly right. so the united states says, according to "the new york times" this morning, we are committed to the project there also this does kind of mess things up because the president wants to take the troops out of there but it hinges on cooperation with the after -- afghanis but you can't trust them. u never know when they'll shoot you inside the head. >> inside a ministry, two officers shot. >> where they absolutely should have been safe. >> meantime, this has become an item of concern on the presidential stump. rick santorum yesterday criticized barack obama for apologizing. here. >> this is the danger of having a president that's weak. we're seeing it in afghanistan tonight. a president of the united states who apologizes at the drop of a hat that threatens our men and women in uniform because we are not strong.

we do not stand up for our values. we allow these people to do outrageous things. for no reason at all. we accept the fact that a mistake can lead to the killing of our troops, an innocent mistake. and that's somehow grounds for us to apologize and that's somehow legitimate grounds for them to be able to kill our troops and other people. this is where a strong president stands up for our values. stands up for our people. >> that's rick santorum's statement there. since barack obama's apology, nothing has happened. things have evidently gotten worse and what you could say, too, the minute you show, ok, we're going to apologize. they're saying that's not enough. we want an open trial for the officers or the patrol -- whoever they are, the infantrymen that burned these

qurans. so it's taking it to the next level. >> that's where i said -- and i think that's the important point is once you do that, then what's next? is it good enough? because the fact of the matter is, would this violence have escalated with or without the apology? nobody can say whether or not that would have happened anyway. brian brings up a great point. once you do it, then do they ask for more? here's hillary clinton, the secretary of state defending the apology. >> i find it, you know, somewhat troubling that our politics would inflame such a dangerous situation in afghanistan. it was the right thing to do, to have our president on record as saying, you know, this was not intentional. we deeply regret it. >> she's right. he came out. he said it was, you know, inadvertent, we apologize. she defends that. but he said even before he apologized, the president of the united states did, whoever did this will be held accountable which is exactly how things are supposed to operate.

>> i would like a third soundbite from hamid karzai saying as bad as i was and as offended as you are, these are the guys that have spent countless dollars training a 170,000 man security force. >> he did calm people down. >> the history has shown we can expect that from these volatile nations. i don't know, i agree with you, that would be nice to see but i think the likelihood of that happening is so slim. we'll continue to discuss this throughout the morning. what do you think about this situation? is the afghanistan violence now going to continue? and by the way, did the nato commanders ask the president to apologize? because i think that's an important point to bring up as well. i read something this morning that they asked the president to apologize and they're the ones there on the ground. >> all right. meanwhile, let's talk about on the ground in michigan and arizona. people are going to go to the polls tomorrow. and those four men would like to be the republican nominee. according to the real clear politics average, in the state

of michigan, mitt romney is currently up by two. in arizona, mitt romney and remember, it's a winner take all state. mitt romney is ahead by 11 and also in arizona yesterday, the governor jan brewer, i don't know why she waited so long she's a tea party favorite and she said she thinks mitt romney is the guy that should be president. >> it was interesting because obviously she said she was still making up her mind until the moment before she announced and she said i'm whole heartedly behind him and he's the best guy for the job. i think you get yourself in a little difficulty when you come out full throated for somebody but two minutes ago, you didn't know who you were going to endorse. she's taking a stand. a lot of people haven't this election cycle. >> and the midland daily of michigan will endorse mitt romney and they say so far, about 10% of michigan residents say i really haven't made up my mind yet which to me seems kind of low considering that number is a lot higher. it was a lot higher in south carolina and florida going in. but with the themes on the stump for santorum, it was his working

class roots. being a blue collar guy and growing up where he's growing. for mitt romney, it's showing everyone he's a conservative. mitt romney yesterday defined himself with chris wallace. >> i can't be perfect. i am who i am. with regard to the cars that we have, that's something that was talked about last september. people asked us what vehicles we own and we have a car that we have in california. we got a car that we have back in boston where our other home is. that's just the way it is. if people think there's something wrong with being successful in america, then they better vote for the other guy because i've been extraordinarily successful and i want to use that success and that know how to help the american people. >> what he was talking about, they were talking about their cars. a lot of cars are manufactured in michigan. he said he drives a -- he drives a mustang. his wife drives a couple of cadillacs meaning she's got one on the west coast and she's got one in the east coast. >> everything he says is -- and everything any candidate says is

going to be parsed and parsed again. i mean, he said another thing at nascar yesterday that he doesn't really follow it that much but that he knows a lot of the car owners. ok, right away, people pounce on that saying oh, there you have it. a guy who has made too much money. come on. we know that he's been really successful. i think that that's what really upsets people about politics. >> why is it our 7:30 guest eastern time is donald trump, he's worth five times as much of mitt romney than mitt romney does. i guess it's just a speak and what you say. let's talk -- i guess a little bit later we'll talk about something else on the stump. and that is religion. both candidates in michigan yesterday talking about their religious roots and see if that's the way to go. >> busy three hours to kick off right now. thanks for joining us on this monday. now the headlines. >> wikileaks is at it again. publishing more classified documents today that could put u.s. national security at risk. it's posting almost five million e-mails from strategic

forecasting incorporated known as strat 4. the global security group has been called a shadow c.i.a. how wikileaks got the e-mails and what secret information they contain is not yet known. violent plane crash in canada has left three people dead. dozens more injured. take a look at this. two cars jumped off the tracks, crashing into a building sending passengers and their luggage flying through the air. it happened in ontario north of niagara falls. the three people killed all injuries riding at the front of the train. 45 others were sent to the hospital. investigators on the scene this morning, they still don't know what set the cars off the tracks. a very quiet movie made lots of noise last night at the oscars. >> and the oscar goes to -- "the artist." >> so "the artist" the first silent film winner since 1929 took home five academy awards including best picture, director and best actor.

>> i love your country. if he could speak, he'd say -- i love you! >> it's another star or shall we say dictator making the headlines? despite initially being banned from the academy for coming dressed in character, comedian sasha baren cohen showed up with a surprise for ryan seacrest. >> the interesting thing is actually it's -- no. we've got kim jong-il. wait a minute. >> those were the ashes supposedly of kim jong-il. afterwards, seacrest tweeted my mom always told me to pack two jackets for red carpet. always wondered why. now i know. coming up in just 30 minutes, we'll have more oscar coverage

live from hollywood. you need a little levity, right? everybody is so primped up at those events fortunately you liked it. >> not have a dictator pour an urn on you. i've said it over and over again. for the first time in history, daytona 500 canceled for bad weather. anna is here with the latest. going to be bad again today, right? >> yep. they've got a noontime start on fox on all the affiliates. we have seen a few fans playing in the puddles and throughout the rain drops outside of their campers but this is something that even the die hards have never seen in the race's 54-year history, brian. drivers have raced under the lights. they've even raced around a pothole but never have they raced on a weekday. the crews had blowers out trying to dry out the tracks yesterday but once another storm cell moved in around 5:00 in the afternoon, they realized their efforts were futile and they decided to call the race for the first time in the race's more than 50-year history. we did catch up with a couple of celebrities.

jane lynch from "glee." and also kate upton, "sports illustrated" swimsuit cover girl were here with the honor of starting the race that, of course, never started. here's what they had to say. >> it's a huge deal. i mean, i've -- i went to daytona beach for spring break back in 1976. i haven't been here since but i knew this was a huge race and i was at taladega or "taladega nights" "and i know this is the grandfather of all nascar races. i'm thrilled to be here. >> really excited to be here and i've known about it my whole life, obviously. >> and back here in victory lane, there is a noon start time scheduled, everybody is crossing their fingers that mother nature will actually cooperate this time. coming up the next couple of hours here on "fox & friends", we've got bobby labonte and joey legana that we'll be interviewing to see if they can try to stay focused. >> thank you very much for the live report. what's going on at the bin laden compound under the dark night? we'll show you the video. >> how does $2.50 a gallon for

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>> soaring gas prices becoming a hot button issue on the campaign trail and newt gingrich is taking on the president's energy policies promising that he can bring them down to $2.50 a gallon. >> good! >> if you would like to have national energy, american energy policy, never again bow to a saudi king and pay $2.50 a gallon, newt gingrich will be your candidate. >> what exactly is gingrich's plan? we can't wait to find out. >> let's talk to this lady in green, liz clayman joins us to break it all down. >> wouldn't you love $2.50 a gallon? >> it would be fantastic. when barack obama took office, it was $1.89, something like that. let's take a look at newt's plan. >> ok, newt's plan has several points to it and he is putted this out as a big push. now, obviously, he's now

trailing in some of the polls, etc., so he needs a lot of attention and he's spending a lot of money to roll this out. couple of points here. remove bureaucratic and legal obstacles to oil and gas development off shore and on land. this is a pointed reference to keystone which was the pipeline that has been postponed for now. but, you know, as you look at what this would do, and i would love it, as i say, we would all love to have $2.50 a gallon gasoline but if fully implemented, keystone were in, even the transcanada people say it would only shave about 3 to 4 pennies off the price. oil trades, folks, on a global market. there are about a million moving parts. here's another one. end the ban on drilling in the west. they're talking about squeezing oil out of the shale. that's a high intensive energy effort to do that. it's expensive and you use a lot of energy to extract it. >> but it's restoring pennsylvania.

and areas like that where hopefully if it comes to new york, what about this one? give coastal states federal royalty sharing? >> if you were allowed the coastal states to start drilling off shore, well, that's been a battle for decades and decades. you're going to try and deal with that? i mean, coastal states have half and half, some people want it. some people absolutely despise the idea of that kind of drilling right off shore. so the battle is within the states and therefore, that would be a very, very tough effort to do. >> and his final point is to replace the e.p.a. with an environmental solutions agency. he's big on solutions. looking at his plan in total, would it work? >> no. sadly, no. and you can look at it and say it would work if all that mattered is the united states. but right now, you've got a fear of an iran oil embargo where they are threatening to cut off oil coming through the strait of hermuth. they export about 3.5 million barrels per day.

that's what they pop out there. but there are important points here, our usage of oil is going down in this country right now. it has fallen. so we have higher supplies. natural gas supplies at a five year high. you have the highest number of oil inventory since 1999. this market does not move on fundamentals. we would all love that. but it's really unrealistic unless you take in all the moving parts. >> look forward to seeing you everywhere. >> i want to pump $2.50 gas. don't we all? >> absolutely. >> coming up straight ahead, an appalling story. a man car jacked and beaten in broad daylight. what's worse is bystanders did nothing. >> and don't worry about voting. the election is over? three top officials saying president obama will be hanging around for another four years. are they taking the voters for granted? we're going to talk about that and so much more. ♪

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>> you want some headlines? i got them for you right now. police now say there's something suspicious about the disappearance of a florida firefighter. 31-year-old jerry pardamo vanished almost two weeks ago after driving from florida to maine to visit a pal. they recently searched a home there believed to be where he was last seen and the home that usama bin laden lived for years before being killed by u.s. navy seals reduced to nothing but rubble. bulldozers brought down the house in northwest pakistan over the weekend. the job, just finishing finally overnight. gretch? >> thanks very much. members of the obama administration doubling down now on the president's guarantee

that he has five more years to get things done. listen to this. >> my presidency is not over. i got another five years coming up. we're going to get this done. >> when we compare the president's vision for achieving an economy in the country that fulfills those values, he's going to win. >> watch what president obama says and does. he's our president. he represents all of the united states and he will be re-elected president. >> so if this overconfidence or is it the right strategy? joining me for a fair and balanced debate, didi benke and former director for the national committee and democratic strategist david mercer. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> is this strategy, there was a memo sent out to all the top advisors in the obama administration telling them to talk about winning another four years? >> well, that's what every first term president wants to do and administration wants to do so they can continue on their work. but i think we'd be reading too much into this to say it was an overconfidence. if you look at obama's record

back in 2008 or even as president, he always cautioned against overconfidence and went after every vote. he bought more voters into the electorate than any other presidential candidate before him. he will not take any vote for granted and secondly, we know, for instance, on the national security front with usama bin laden, he didn't talk about going after him, he just got him and then he announced to us that he did get it. he lets the results speak for himself. >> is this a strategy, because americans like winners? so you got to start the winning talk? >> it >> it's not a good strategy. confidence is good. being cocky is really bad. what's going on in the situation room in the obama white house? do they have miss cleo or the mentalist? you can't say that you're going to win for sure. and not only that, david, you are a really great fundraiser, of course, for clinton. whenever you're trying to get the donors, especially small

donors and saying i don't need any help. we got it in. that's not a very good strategy to be raising money because if you're going to be giving a $500 donation, you'll probably put it in the gas tank instead of giving it to obama when he says he's going to win. >> uh-oh. zinger. got the high gas prices in. response? >> i will say this, that for someone -- for the critics that are putting this out there like didi is to underestimate the president's strengths and at the same time, keep them from addressing their own overconfidence which we see with romney who just back in september and october was announcing v.p. prospects and he got a wake-up call -- if i might finish. and he woke up to the reality that he could not take the voters for granted and they have exacted a high price on him to the point that he may not even win his home state of michigan come tomorrow. >> 50%, i mean, with these gas prices going at $5. it's going to be carter all over again and people have to pay

$4.50, $5 in gas, you can forget it. >> my point is your candidates can't even break 40% in their own party. >> because you got four people running, it's a primary, david. >> and no one is wowing your party. no one has -- >> can beat barack obama. >> no one is bringing consensus. >> the one thing that's for sure is that you never know what news is going to happen the next day. and -- >> that's right. >> absolutely. >> it's impossible to know what's going to happen just yet come november. hey, thanks so much for getting up bright and early. appreciate it. see you soon. >> thanks, david. >> speaking of those gas prices, they are doubling from when president obama took office so what happened to the promises? >> i'm barack obama, i don't take money from oil companies or washington lobbyists, and i won't let them block change anymore. they'll pay a penalty. >> so back then when was a candidate, he had the answers to feeling your pain at the pump. so where are they now? let's be honest, hollywood's biggest night isn't just about the oscar.

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>> so tonight, enjoy yourselves because nothing can take the sting out of the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues. >> there you go. billy crystal hosting the oscars. courtney friel was there at the red carpet event and she's up early already in los angeles with a complete recap. good morning to you, court. >> hey, guys. so good to see you again and i'm sure anyone watching the show could see that the theme of the night was love for the movies and that's why it's fitting that "the artist" took home so many rewards. that movie was a pat on the back to hollywood and ode to cinema. it won five out of the 10 awards it was nominated for including best picture, best director, and best actor jean dejurdan and he was the first frenchman to win best actor. meryl streep won over viola davis for best actress. the critics were wrong in predicting that viola was going

to win for her role in "the help." supporting actor and actress, a shoo-in christopher plummer and octavia spencer. we can't forget about "hugo". there were five awards for that movie. more in the technical categories. "the descendents" won best screenplay and best original screenplay went to "midnight in paris." i'm sure you want to know what's trending on twitter about the fashion of the night. i wanted to pick out my favorite three hits and misses for you. i loved jessica chasdain, she wore alexander mcqueen dress that was gold and black embroidered. i thought it was so pretty. really stood out. viola davis had that emerald green vera wang dress and stacy keibler, i thought she was so beautiful in marcasa. as for the worse, sandra bullock was in marcasa, it was kind of frumpy. it didn't fit her right. melissa mccarthy also just

wasn't flattering. kind of too busy in marina rinaldi and sasha baren cohen, he said he was going to show up as the dictator and he certainly did. it caused some stir on the red carpet earlier, he was being interviewed by ryan seacrest and poured -- see what's in that urn there. he said those were kim jong-il's ashes and he poured them all over ryan seacrest. everybody is talking about that this morning and talking about angelina's right leg. as she was coming out, she was kind of sticking her leg out everywhere. and there were 3400 tweets per minute generated about her leg. and it even has its own twitter page now. >> wow. >> what about gwyneth paltrow, though? i loved that caped dress, it was so sophisticated and beautiful. >> i thought that was -- i thought that was pretty. and i loved when she came out and presented with robert downey jr. they did like a funny skit as they were presenting best documentary. that was one of my favorite

moments and later on in the morning, on "fox & friends", i'm going to show you some of the moments from the night in case you missed the show. >> fantastic. >> i'm shocked that people out there are against angelina jolie's leg. sticking the leg out. >> right. >> about time it has its own twitter page. >> my producer dan said i thought this show was boring. i would have turned it off if i hadn't needed to watch it for work but what i thought was interesting was angelina jolie sticking out her right leg. >> great, whoever that is. >> she didn't need any jewelry, she had her leg. >> fantastic. >> all right, courtney, thank you very much. up early in tinseltown. >> doing impersonations. >> i know. of dan. and then dan said -- >> speaking of up early, the prices are up as well. national gas prices up $0.18 over the last two weeks. the experts say they could go much higher. you know, if iran winds up getting their nuclear project blowed up by the israelis, look for that price to go even

higher. by a mile. >> as you remember, the president last week had that energy speech on thursday where he basically said there wasn't much that he could do as president but remember when he was a candidate, he did center some ideas. here's the then candidate obama. >> the gas lines of the 70's, democrats and republicans have talked about energy incentives but nothing's changed. except now exxon is making $40 billion a year and we're paying $3.50 for gas. i'm barack obama. i don't take money from oil companies or washington lobbyists and i won't let them block change anymore. they'll pay a penalty on windfall profits, we'll invest in alternative energy, create jobs and free ourselves from foreign oil. i approved this message because it's time washington worked for you. not them. >> it's interesting, there he does say that i'm barack obama, and i don't take money from lobbyists and stuff like that. actually, when you look at the people who are his big money bundlers, they are lobbyists in

many cases. so he does take money now that he is president from lobbyists. >> salad, -- sadly. the mid-atlantic states could be looking at $5 a gallon gas because we're shutting down three refineries. you would think we need new ones, we haven't built them since the 70's. >> the bottom line is americans don't care what the infighting is underneath. they want the prices to go down. somehow, this will probably affect who you end up voting for if we actually continue to see the rise in the gas prices. what do you think about that? let us know this morning. now the rest of your headlines. dream vacation turns into a nightmare after 22 cruise passengers get robbed at gun point in mexico. the group was returning to their ship after an excursion when their bus was hijacked by a group of men in hoods. >> in spanish, our guide interpreted that throw everything on the ground. and the next thing we heard is somebody said run. so everybody started to run. >> i noticed that we were down there, there were soldiers

walking around with automatic weapons so once we got off the ship, we got right back on. >> wow. carnival cruise lines, the sponsor of that trip has suspended the tour indefinitely and is working to reimburse the passengers for what they lost. >> meanwhile, an electric car battery company praised by president obama as a stimulus success has now laid off 125 workers since getting $390 million in government subsidies. but that hasn't stopped executives at a, 123 in michigan from giving themselves back pay raises. you saw that coming. while the company has lost more than $175 million last year alone, some executives are getting $30,000 raises. a watchdog group calls the raises highly suspicious saying it looks like the execs are padding their wallets in case the company goes belly up and in that business, it's happened. >> caught on camera, 86-year-old world war ii veteran carjacked

at a gas station in detroit. you're looking at it. his leg broken by the attacker. more outrageous, nobody did anything to help him. while he was crawling on the ground, people walked past him like he wasn't even there. >> i'm crawling and trying to get in the station and nobody -- everybody is walking right by me and going into the station there and instead, if i would have saw somebody crawl on the ground, i would have stopped myself. >> eventually, a good samaritan helped and called 911. the car was found a few hours later, the wheels and radio stolen. police are looking for the thief. >> let's take a look at the weather on this monday. and we told you about how the daytona 500 was canceled yesterday. down there, it looks like. another rainy day. that could be crazy day on the track. see what happens. meanwhile, the balance -- for the most part, the rest of the country is dry at this hour except down south. in the nascar zone. meanwhile, the current readings as you head out, it's bitterly

cold, 2 below in caribou right now. we've got about 40 here in new york and raleigh. 20's in the northern plains. 50's and 60's from texas through florida and along the gulf coast. later on today, in new york city, 55. the double nickel, about the same for raleigh. a little warmer than that in atlanta. northern plains, temperatures a little below freezing. southern plains, temperatures in the 60's. hot spot on this map, 82 today in tampa. that's a look at your travel cast for this monday. >> all right, from rolling pennies to a top job at the pentagon, our next guest says he did it all without any government handouts. his inspiring story next. >> and hypocrisy alert, president obama's campaign was bankrolled by the stars. and he helped push hollywood's liberal agenda so why doesn't anyone pick on his big dollar donors? that story coming up. ♪

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>> going to be somewhere at the top of the hour. you got 15 minutes. now, some headlines. more trouble for dominique strauss-khan, dsk, the former head of the international monetary fund not only accused of hiring hotel hookers with embezzled funds, sources tell "the new york post," strauss-khan has not paid more than $16,000 in overdue taxes on his townhouse in the district of columbia. and ben & jerry's apologizing for offending asians with their new taste the lin sanity frozen yogurt. it was supposed to honor the

knicks' overnight sensation. problem is it included fortune cookies as part of the recipe. ben & jerry's replaced the fortune cookies with waffle cone pieces instead. gretch, brian? >> all right, steve. well, it's an inspiring story about a man who grew up in poverty but paved his own way to an amazing career in the pentagon and white house. he says he relied on self-determination and strong faith. >> and joins us right now to talk about his brand new book called "rolling pennies in the dark, a memoir with a message." doug, tell us how far you came. you're 8 years old and you had to take over your house. why? >> because we had massive dysfunction, brian. both my parents were severe alcoholics, more often than not, we had no electricity. we had no phone. many times we had no heat. we went from living from homes into cars into cheap hotels into tents sometimes by the time i was 17 years of age, we had moved 34 times. each time was an eviction. many of those evictions were e

violent. it was a tough environment. i realized at 88, if i didn't do it, it maybe wasn't going to get done. >> that's fascinating life story that you tell and one of the things that you held on to literally was a little plastic baby jesus. you call it your most trusted friend. >> yeah, when i was 5 years old and going to a parochial school as, you know, in first grade, they were selling some trinkets on a table at the school and i saw a little plastic nativity scene and for whatever reason, i was just drawn to it and i asked a nun, can i have it? no, you can't have it. we'll sell it to you. well, i didn't understand what sell it to you means. you give me four quarters and we'll give you the little plastic nativity scene and i went home and asked my parents, i tried to ask them. they were both passed out in their bed and so i went into my dad's coat closet and found four quarters in his pocket and brought them back to school the next day and brought the nativity scene and that sort of became my confidant for quite a while. >> you had every reason to pack it in and say life has been bad for me, going in and out of detention homes.

you didn't. what's your mess avenlg to people out there in tough times and for politicians who say these people need social programs and need help? >> i mean, the number one message is self-responsibility. number one message is understanding that, you know, the person in the mirror, you don't want that person to be your enemy. you want that person to be your number one ally. and there is no easy way out of poverty. you know, and so -- and also, again, we have to understand that all of us can help, all of us can make a difference. it's not about trying to solve poverty in one day, you're not going to do that, even obviously look at over the last number of generations but we all know somebody in our family, friends, neighborhood that is going through tough times and if we just reach out to them one at a time, that does make a difference. >> you also became a writer for president reagan, for president h.w. bush and you have a poignant story about crying with president reagan? >> yeah, i had gone in. in the latter part of president reagan's administration, some conservatives, unfortunately, were attacking him a little bit and i thought that was a lot of ingratitude on their part to tell you the truth.

i wrote a column defending him while i was a writer for the president and he called me up at my desk at the white house and said doug, thank you so much. what can i do for you? i said mr. president, i'd love a picture in the oval office one of these days and we went in. when you do the photo ops with any president, you have about 30 sections or a minute before they usher you out so my entire life has been about sort of rolling the dice and taking a chance and i decided well, let me raise the subject of my dad's alcoholism because i knew president reagan's dad was a severe alcoholic and it was very embarrassing for president reagan many times growing up where he had to literally pick his dad up off the ground, on of the dirt and try to bring him home and once i raised the subject with president reagan, it was almost like, you know, the curtain dropped. he stepped closer to me. he started whispering to me and he said doug, tell me about it and we started talking about our childhoods together. and how cruel children can be to other children, you know, that are going through tough times. and then i started tearing up and then president reagan started tearing up and we cried together. in the oval office about our

dads. >> amazing. >> amazing story. and to think to where you've come, what an inspiring message for so many people. the new book is "rolling pennies in the dark" thanks so much. >> thank you guys so much. it's an honor. >> good job, doug. thanks. meanwhile, straight ahead, rick santorum not mincing words. he said president obama made a huge mistake by apologizing for the quran book burning. presidential hopeful will be here live in minutes. >> then president obama's campaign bankrolled by hollywood's elite like oprah and george clooney. yet the mainstream media barely blinked an eye, would republicans get the same pass if big oil bankrolls a republican candidate? that's next. when you have tough pain, do you want fast relief?

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>> talk about friends in high places. president obama getting some major star support for his re-election campaign. we barely hear about it in the mainstream media. according to a report, hollywood gave close to $49 million in political contributions in 2008 and 78%, almost 80% went to democrats. but imagine the outcry if an industry were to finance a republican president instead. joining us right now is conservative comedian brad stine. good morning to you, brad. >> good morning. steve, i got to get this straight. you're telling me that the liberal leaning hollywood elite are giving millions of dollars to the liberal leaning obama administration and the liberal leaning media aren't objectively reporting this? this is shocking. the next thing you're going to tell me a silent movie won best picture at the oscars! this is unbelievable. let me tell you something, the one absolute consistency with liberal media is their inability to see their own bias. it's happened forever. they never can see it.

it's the way that they've always been. the influence that the actors have in the obama administration used to be given to people who spoke seven languages and could kill you with a paper clip and a potato. those are the kind of people allowed in this world. let me tell you something, we live in a culture that loves personality over character, unfortunately, it does not shock me that the obama administration holds these people close, these actors close because they have something in common, the actor group and the obama administration. they're both experts at pretending and trying to convince you they're somebody they're not. >> exactly right. so that awards show last night, i couldn't tell if it was the oscars or a dnc fundraiser because a lot of those same people are the people that have contributed heavily to the president in the past and will in the future. i saw one interesting thing, all the air play when the president did that rift on al green, everybody played it on the nightly news but nobody mentioned that was a fundraiser

for $36,000 per ticket. nobody mentioned that. just the singing part. >> well, that's it, i mean, you know, they're not going to bring it up because they're unable to reveal to themselves they're not objective. they're not good reporters. it's not good journalism when they're not reporting the facts. they do it all the time. it's something we have to deal with. we have to find another way in. we have to find another group that allows the real truth to be revealed and sometimes it's fox, that's why i'm here. at least we get objective reporting and let the people decide, i've always said that. plus they're actors, for crying outloud. i mean, think about it. they've spent their life pretending to be somebody else. ok? they call it acting. we call it schizophrenia. that's all i'm going to say. >> brad stine, pleasure. he joins us this morning from nashville. thank you, sir. have a great week. >> i promise i will. >> i know you will. >> the white house says paying more taxes is patriotic. wait until you see who is not paying any taxes at all.

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>> good morning, everyone. today is monday, february 27th. i'm gretchen carlson. hope you had a great weekend and thank you for sharing your monday with us. a fox news alert, taliban now striking back. more u.s. soldiers attacked in afghanistan. the motive, pure revenge. wasn't president obama's apology supposed to prevent that? >> win michigan or go home. rick santorum's critics say tomorrow could be the last hope for his conservative campaign. is that true? the senator here live this hour. >> and bieber fever goes to the oscars. >> justin bieber. >> what's up? >> here to get you the 18 to 24 demographic. >> great. >> that's what it's all about. more of the moments you won't forget from hollywood's biggest night. "fox & friends" live from new

york city hour two starts now. >> thank you, borat. mr. big show. >> hope you had a great weekend and sensational weekend on your own because here in the east coast, unseasonably nice. it was a good time to put on your tight shorts, tight tank top and jog around. >> i saw a great story yesterday that talked about how we received so much less snow than what we got last year so it's good for cities and counties because they haven't had to spend all the o.t. on getting rid of all the snow. they've got stockpiles of salt and stuff like that and people haven't taken so many snow days off. it's been good for the economy! >> not good for goulashes. >> not good for some people in the economy who like shovel manufactures -- manufacturers maybe. >> bad for ski resorts but good for golf courses.

>> there's something weird about not having any show. in general, there's something weird about it. let's bring you up to speed about the news of the day. there's more violence happening over in afghanistan. what the heck is going to happen now. i mean, look, we've got another seven u.s. soldiers who have been wounded now in an attack. that happened actually today, monday, because they're, of course, ahead of us with time and there was an attack again yesterday, sunday. >> one a.p. photographer said the explosion happened right outside an airport, the airport and he said there were at least four other exploded cars along with the other exploded car that actually caused -- caused the attack. so they are continuing to act out or some of the afghans because of the burning of the qurans. keep in mind, too, this seems clearly that the taliban are trying to exacerbate the situation in the name of the religion they have in common. >> absolutely. and keep in mind, it was two of

our officers who were murdered, shot in the back of the head by a guy who is supposed to be loyal to afghanistan. he was given a post last week and when he heard them joking about what was going on with the quran, he shot them in the head. they're looking for him right now. hamid karzai has gone on television and radio and urged people to calm down, but that is not happening in afghanistan. >> we've already canceled, the afghan defense ministry is going to come here and lobby for more money, they've canceled their trip over here. they've been expected to argue against the u.s. proposal to reduce funding for the afghan security forces. we are paying their entire salary. >> that's right. >> a lot of the controversy stems from what the obama administration did to try to quell the violence there. in a three page letter, the president last week apologized for the burning of the qurans and many people had a problem with that including a guy who wants to be president against president obama, rick santorum.

>> this is the danger of having a president who is weak. we're seeing it in afghanistan tonight. a president of the united states who apologizes at the drop of a hat. that threatens our men and women in uniform because we are not strong. we do not stand up for our values. we allow these people to do outrageous things. for no reason at all. >> yeah. >> we accept the fact that a mistake can lead to the killing of our troops, an innocent mistake. and that's somehow grounds for us to apologize. and that's somehow legitimate grounds for them to be able to kill our troops and other people. this is where a strong president stands up for our values, stands up for our principles. >> and the united states says they are -- we are committed to the mission as it is right now.

but going forward with the withdrawal, what they count upon is cooperation with the afghanis. if you can't trust them to turn your back on them for fear they're going to shoot you in the head, this whole situation could fall apart. nonetheless, secretary of the state, hillary clinton was out yesterday and defended her president's and our president's apology on this matter. >> i find it, you know, somewhat troubling that our politics would inflame such a dangerous situation in afghanistan. it was the right thing to do, to have our president on record as saying, you know, this was not intentional. we deeply regret it. >> she also over the weekend said president obama, he'll be re-elected. that's kind of odd for a secretary of state to get involved in politics. >> impossible to know whether or not that apology would actually stem the violence or whether or not all of this uprising now would have happened no matter what because now we have reports that the taliban is trying to poison the food that's going into nato headquarters there. so -- >> and they are taking credit

for the car bomb that went off. >> that's right. >> so what is going to happen in afghanistan? i mean, this is going to be a big story moving forward for the next couple of days. in the meantime, let's talk about the presidential race here because tomorrow, of course, is the primary. for michigan, and for arizona and the race appears to be tightening now. there are the four candidates. romney, santorum, gingrich and ron paul. of course, the big pressure is on mitt romney to win his home state of michigan. and now there's kind of a varying degree of what the polls are saying. some have rick santorum up by a few points and some have mitt romney up by a few points. all pretty much within the margin of error. >> the real clear politics average which is, you know, they look at all of them that are out there up to the minute, they have mitt romney up by 2 1/2 in michigan, in arizona, romney which keep in mind, arizona is a winner take all state as you can see right there with 29 delegates, he is ahead by 11. people have wondered, why has rick santorum, you know, he was ahead by double digits just about a week or two ago. one of the new polls that is

just out in the last 24 hours is the p.p.p. poll and it suggests that, perhaps, mr. santorum who has been concentrating on social issues, maybe that is to blame for his skid because they say about 70% of the people in michigan are concerned with money problems, only 17% are worried about social issues. >> listen to this. the way that republicans have mapped this out, you can win the popular vote, maybe like mitt romney is about to and not get as many delegates as rick santorum. >> about a tie. >> so both could actually say -- and you know what? if it's that close, is there really a true winner, because isn't this done by delegates where, you know, georgia is winner take all with 76 and that looks like it's going to be newt and you have arizona which is going to be a winner take all and that is a substantial win for mitt romney. but i can't believe this scenario. also the rosetta stone poll, they have rick santorum up by two. >> in english? >> not sure. because it doesn't really matter but in five minutes, we can learn the other language.

>> but it was the republican national committee, i believe, that wanted to change the way in which the delegates were awarded. >> right. >> so now, here's what we have. >> they wanted the drama that president obama and senator clinton -- >> they might get it. they might get it all the way to a brokered convention. >> and chris christie was on this couch a couple of days ago saying that idea where we changed the rules, really stupid because everybody is winding up with a bloody nose. nonetheless, newt and santorum, rick were on the attack yesterday regarding religion and the president. listen. >> the biggest infringer upon rights? the most obvious to every american. the one that is front and center is obamacare. >> this is the most anti-religious administration in american history and it's not just war on the catholic church. i am tired of the 50 year offensive which has tried to drive god out of our lives. >> that was newt gingrich at a church in georgia, his home

state yesterday. so will religion become front and center now as part of the debate? >> right, there's an interesting op ed in the national review today and it says, the president has apologized to the afghanis but he's refused to apologize by forcing catholics to violate their religious beliefs or pay a tax penalty. he said just imagine what they'd do if barack obama adopted a rule forcing muslims to violate their religious beliefs or pay a tax penalty. that in the pages today in the national review. interesting. >> moments away, rick santorum in the meantime, let's do some headlines for you now because wikileaks is at it again. the controversial web site publishing more classified documents today that could put u.s. national security at risk. it's posting almost five million e-mails from strategic forecasting incorporated. that's also known as strat 4. what is it? the global security group has been called a shadow c.i.a. how wikileaks got the e-mails and what secret information they contain is not yet known.

strat-4 said some of the e-mails may be forged. violent train crash in canada has left three people dead and dozens more injured. take a look at this. two cars jumping off the tracks, crashing into a building sending passengers and their luggage flying through the air. >> came from a stop and i thought we were just like when you bump and you kind of move tracks, and then it got worse and it just -- the train just flipped on its side. and it just kept going like it was like almost like a plane crash. >> so the accident happened in ontario just north of niagara falls. the three people killed, all engineers riding in the front of the train. 45 others sent to the hospital. investigators on the scene this morning trying to figure out what went wrong. driving to work this morning, well, buckle up for another week of high prices at the pump. a recent lundberg survey found the national average of a gallon of regular gas now stuck at $3.69. it's jumped more than $0.18 in the past two weeks.

the rising price of crude oil believed to be the main factor driving that increase. comedian billy crystal kicking off the academy awards last night with a teen singing sensation. >> hey, you! >> hey, come over here! >> me? >> come here. >> come here. >> justin bieber? >> yeah, man, what's up? >> what are you doing here? >> i'm here on get you the 18 to 24 demographic. >> great. >> yeah. >> great, thanks. >> that was at the beginning of the show. it was very creative. but forget justin bieber, it was a very quiet movie making all the noise. "the artist", the first silent film since 1929 when the films were silent. took home five academy awards including best picture, director and actor. but actress meryl streep added a third golden statue to her collection. >> when they called my name, i had this feeling i could hear half of america going oh, no. oh, come on, why? her? again. you know.

but whatever. because she was fantastic in that role. and then there was sasha baren cohen. despite initially being banned by the academy from coming dressed in character, the dictator ended up showing up with a surprise, a big one for ryan seacrest, a dirty one. >> the interesting thing is actually -- >> oh, no, sorry. i dropped kim -- i dropped kim jong-il. wait a minute. >> whoopsy daisy. afterwards, seacrest tweeted "my mom always told me to pack two jackets for red carpet. always wondered why. now i know." pretty good sport in the tweet. i'm not so sure he was happy about it when it happened. >> moms have a lot of things down pat but to tell a child when you're on the red carpet bring an extra coat that's indeed a mom that's covered everything.

>> bring cookies and milk. >> it was entertaining. >> it was. next year, they should have an award for the dogs, though, that dog was fantastic. coming up, you just heard it. rick santorum not mincing words saying president obama made a huge mistake by apologizing for the quran burning. he joins us live next. >> and the real life hero on the big screen but did americans buy "act of valor" at the box office? ♪[music pys] ♪[music plays] ♪[music plays] purina one beyond. food for your cat orog.

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>> all right, and there you have presidential candidate rick santorum watching himself. hey, you've got to know, senator, that if you're going to make a gaffe, that's a good one to make, right? >> that was a pretty funny one to make. that was about my fourth or fifth town hall meeting. i had done two national shows, i had gotten two hours of sleep. it was the last -- it was like the last of the night. and i must admit i was a little punchy and that sort of slipped out but it was a funny one to make, yeah. >> well, in this race where so much has not been so funny, i mean, a lot of people have criticized you and the other republican candidates for getting down and dirty. do you think that's helped or hurt the party inevitably? >> well, all i can say is we've run a very, very positive race. we've been talking about what we're going to do to get jobs back in this country, to give opportunities for everybody in america to rise. that's what's been resonating here in michigan, we have a plan for manufacturing and a plan to reduce energy prices and really get this economy kicking again is really resonating here and,

you know, governor romney's attacks, you know, can't sit there and just be pummelled and not respond to them and that's what we've done and i think people see that, you know, we're the best candidate to come out of michigan and take on barack obama. that's what i hope will be load and clear tonight. >> and no candidate, not the president nor yourself for mitt romney and newt gingrich or ron paul are going to win without gaining the purple states, the battleground states and according to a recent poll, you only have a 38% favorability there. used to be a lot higher. mitt romney is even worse than yours at 27% and 53% say this whole battle is weakening the republican field. your reaction? >> i mean, that's what primaries are for. you have to slug it out. it's like doing a 15 round fight every other week. that's -- and you just battle and that primary is over and you go and go battle in another state. and that's what happened four years ago, remember, everybody said oh, well, we have to get the republican primary over so we can take on whoever the democrat is and they went into

the summer and everyone said, oh, they're killing each other. the key is that whoever wins this nomination, we're all going to get behind. the key is to defeat barack obama. i have no doubt the republicans will coalesce behind whoever the nominee is and we'll have a strong effort and candidate in the fall. >> you write today in the pages of "the wall street journal", you got an op ed talking about my economic freedom agenda. and you say that mitt romney who announced last week he's going to cut taxes across the board 20%, step in the right direction but it's not enough. >> yeah. i mean, you know, it's not a very bold plan. i mean, "the wall street journal" announced the same, you know, we've got a bold plan not just on cutting individual rates but simplifying the code dramatically, we take the corporate tax code, cut the rate which is 35% in half and make it a flat tax, you know, just simple, the little guy is going to pay the same taxes as the big guy and as you know from manufacturers, we eliminate the tax all together so we can compete and get our jobs back

from china and new mexico and other places and grow new jobs in the united states. that's a bold plan that is going to get jobs going in this country and particularly those who have been left behind in this economy and the other plans that governor romney has put together by a lot of washington insiders and folks that have been in that town for a long time who don't want fundamental change in our tax code. they're the ones that put his plan together. >> before we let you go, we got to show the santorum nascar. let's take a look at this photo. >> great. >> that looks pretty spiffy. >> it is pretty spiffy. we're very excited. we were hoping, obviously, yesterday for a -- a fun time. i will tell you, i talked to the driver on saturday and told him that since he's starting at the back of the pack in the 21st row, i said, you know, let's use the santorum -- let's use the santorum strategy, hang back, let the other cars in front get in wrecks and -- or drop out of the race and then move up at the end. and that's what hopefully -- that's hopefully the pattern he'll use. >> we'll see if that happens today. senator, glad you got some

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>> got your news by the numbers right now. first, $16,000. "the new york post" reports that's how much dominique strauss-khan owes in overdue taxes on his washington, d.c. townhouse. the city there might slap a lien on the property so it can seize his bank accounts. good luck. next, 125. that's how many workers have been laid off at the electric car battery company. a-123 since it received $390 million in our stimulus money. that's not stopping executives from giving themselves $30,000 raises. and finally, $24.7 million. that's how much the movie "act

of valor" made at the box office this weekend. it stars real life navy seals. it was number one at the box office. >> wow. >> congratulations. >> meanwhile, the daytona 500 was set to take place on sunday, yesterday. but heavy rain forced nascar officials to delay the event for the first time ever. so when can we expect to see the action take place on the track? >> let's break up the radar and the weather screen. fox news correspondent anna coiman joins us from daytona beach with the very latest. is it going to be raining again today, anna? >> good morning, guys. it's actually stopped right now and we're crossing our fingers for the 12:00 p.m. start time. officials are prepared to push that back and push that back even into the night if we have to so we can avoid a tuesday start. joined by the driver of the number 47 car, bobby labonte and you were the 2000 sprint cup champion, congratulations about a decade later for you. >> thanks a lot. >> you've been around the block

a few times. this is the first time this has been done in the 54-year history but rain delays have happened before. what do you do to prepare yourself? >> you hate to see this happen for the fans, obviously, and you know, we really had a great crowd yesterday. a lot of energy leading up to this race and, you know, as far as preparation, the drivers, we know we have a 12:00 start. we'll be ready for that. if we get pushed back, it disrupts our program as far as eating right, trying to get ready. the crew guys are all prepared for a 12:00 start so i mean, that just puts everybody in a delay mode and, you know, the attitude and enthusiasm goes downhill and hopefully we can get started at 12:00 and get this under way. >> we want to know how much you care about your fans and what a problem it's been for them. we see them pack up this morning. >> exactly. the excitement that i've seen all week long driving in and out, they've been here since a week ago thursday. so to see those folks have to miss the race, they've been here for all this time for that, they have a great time being here but unfortunately, it's going to happen.

a lot of folks will stay but a lot of them will have to go home. >> and this is really down to a science. they have the high powered blowers out yesterday. they'll start that you say about 10:00 probably today. it takes two hours to dry it out completely? >> it does. hopefully if the weather holds off, they'll have a couple of hours to dry the track and 12:00 hopefully get the green flag under way for the great american race. >> how does this track compare to others in sprint cup series? because i did the pace car experience a couple of days ago and that bank is, what, 31 degrees? it's steep. >> it's pretty steep. that will dry pretty fast. this is one of the fastest track we go to. we'll average about 200 miles an hour today and we race in a pack of cars which is really different than most of the tracks we go to other than taladega. you'll see a lot of cars in the pack hopefully today if we get this thing under way. once it dries off, it takes about two hours, once it dries off, we'll be ready to go. >> thank you very much. good morning and good luck to you, ok? >> thank you very much. >> have a great day and great race. we have joey lagono coming up in

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>> let's take a look at some winter weather finally coming a little late to the midwest. north dakota sees its first major snowfall of the season today. residents are digging out after several inches dumped down on parts of the state. road crews worked throughout the night to keep the roads clear. meanwhile, the northwest also getting hit. snow falling on the oregon coast causing some issues for drivers out there as well. more of the white stuff expected to fall in the next couple of days. all right. >> now the rest of your headlines for a monday. dream vacation turns into a nightmare after 22 cruise passengers get robbed at gun point? this is in mexico? the group was returning to their ship after an excursion when their bus was hijacked by a group of men in hoods. >> are you kidding? >> spanish, our guide

interpreted that throw everything on the ground and the next thing we heard is someone said run. everybody started to run. >> i noticed that we were down there, there were soldiers walking around with automatic weapons so once we got off the ship, we got right back on. >> crazy. carnival cruise lines, the sponsor of that trip has suspended that particular tour indefinitely and is working to reimburse the passengers for what they lost. >> a cab driver now coming clean about the death of an amazing race producer over in uganda. police arrested 23-year-old, his name is moses calanza after he confessed this weekend to selling rice and his assistant bad cocaine. he was found dead in the balcony. his assistant out cold by his side was left paralyzed on the right side of her body. rice's toxicology reports show major amounts of cocaine in his system. the drugs apparently cut from some lethal components.

>> we showed you this oscar moment at the top of the hour. >> interesting thing is actually it's -- no, no, sorry. i dropped kim -- >> sasha baren cohen in costume and in character as a dictator supposedly dumps an urn full of kim jong-il's ashes all over ryan seacrest. donald trump was at home. he watched this live and he joins us live right now. good morning to you, donald. >> good morning. >> what did you think about that? >> well, i thought it was a disgrace and frankly -- you know, ryan seacrest is a very good guy to put it mildly and that security guard on the right was pathetic. he wouldn't work for me for 15 seconds. that guy, they should have pummelled him. everybody knew it was coming. they shouldn't have allowed him there. they should have pummelled him to the ground. it would have been great. >> what about his security guards? there were two women there. they should have stopped the dictator. >> much more attractive than him. actually, i was focused on them to be honest with you.

>> a lot of people were. but donald, come on, you know if you're going to allow sasha baren cohen in character to come up to you during a live telecast, you cannot bet on what he might do. >> all i'm saying is the security guard on the right was pathetic. i mean, the way he handled that, i mean, it's like please come with me. please come with me. that's probably the -- that's really the problem with this country when you talk about crime and other things. that's the way things are handled. but i would have had him pummel him to the ground. that would have been much more interesting. what he did was not nice and it was wrong. in my opinion. >> you know publicity and right now, everybody is talking about ryan seacrest and the e channel. and that makes things a little bit better for him, right? >> that's true. that's good for this other character. but, you know, i think it was a shame the way it was handled. >> especially if it really was kim jong-il's ashes. >> get the dustbuster. >> move on to something that's much more serious because we're talking now about this escalating violence in afghanistan. because of the quran burning. and i'm wondering what you think

about how the administration thus far has handled it. there's been a lot of talk about the fact that the president wrote that three-page letter in which he apologized. >> well, i think the same as i've been thinking for the last number of years. what are we doing there? these people hate us. as soon as we leave, it's all going to blow up anyway. and you say what are we doing there? we're spending hundreds of billions of dollars, trillions of dollars on this nonsense and the minute we leave, everything blows up and the worst guy gets it and let me tell you, the worst one is the one that hates this country the most. will end up taking over afghanistan and as is going to happen with iraq and iran will end up going into iraq and getting the oil. what are we doing? we don't have money. we're a debtor nation. we can't build our own schools and yet, we build schools in afghanistan. i'll tell you, our thinking is so far off. it just shows the leadership of this country, i mean, we just don't have it. >> but donald, you know, too, when you ignore afghanistan,

buildings get planes driven into them. we can't just ignore that area of the world. >> you can do things through intelligence that you don't need and there's nobody more into the military than me. if anything, we should increase our military budget because it's obvious the world hates us but when you look at what's going on over there and the hatred that those people have for this country, i just say folks, it's time to start spending money on the united states. let's rebuild our own bridges. let's rebuild our own schools. it's terrible what's going on. >> so you're saying get out now. >> it's a total lack of respect for this country and for our leadership and what's going on there is unbelievable after having spent $700 billion. >> that's the sad part is how much time we've been there. isn't it the longest standing war in american history. >> it's many, many years and it will go on for many years and the sad part is as soon as it ends and you have those guys sitting back just waiting. as soon as that ends, there's other ways of doing it and it's

called through intelgsz but we don't have very much intelligence in this kunlt -- country anymore. >> the price of gas going through the roof and a lot of people are going without food, cutting back, trying to pay for things. listen, the president of the united states has a great idea on how to get us in the right direction and it involves something growing in the water. we're talking algae. here's the president. >> we're making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that's actually made from a plantlike substance. algae. you got a bunch of algae out here. right? if we can figure out how to make energy out of that, we'll be doing all right. believe it or not, we could replace up to 17% of all we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in the united states. >> yeah, who needs to drill when you can just grow something

that looks like moss, donald trump? >> well, i think you're not even asking me a serious question hopefully -->> the president is absolutely serious about that. >> well, it's almost inconceivab inconceivable. this is so out of control. we have so much natural gas. we have so much oil under our grant, the problem is anything you want to do or anything you want to build in this country, you can't go through the environmental permitting process. it takes you 12 years. and then they -- then really they end up rejecting you after that period of time. so it is an unbelievable -- you know we're the saudi arabia and more so of natural gas and yet, you're not allowed to take it out. fraking is becoming more and more difficult and it's proven to be safe. what's going on is unbelievable. >> right. but let's talk about something else. you were a big supporter of governor mitt romney over the last few weeks especially, you've come forward. he's got an issue you have. you have a lot more money than him. but you seem much more blue collar than governor mitt romney. what advice do you have for the governor about his wealth in

talking about it? for example, saying a couple of cadillacs, betting $10,000. that's not relating well to the every man. what advice do you have? >> if you look at what's happened in michigan, he was 15 points behind and now he's leading. and if you look at arizona, he's really doing great in arizona, i've done a lot of shows for him. a lot of radio shows and things and a robo call, i even did a robo call, whatever that may be and the fact that is that i think he's doing fine and, you know, i think he's starting to realize and i think he has realized but he didn't want to say it, that there's nothing wrong with the american dream. there's nothing wrong with success. and i actually heard him say this this morning and i thought it sounded great. i think he's doing really well and i think he's going to win michigan and i think he's going to win arizona and arizona big. >> and by the way, celebrity apprentice, you're off to a great start. the women are taking a beating. >> last night, victoria gotti was fired and. it was very dangerous move. >> no kidding! >> good luck. >> you better watch me today.

if anything happens, you know why. >> you know, brian and i could come over and do some food testing if you need us to. >> no thanks. i'll stay away for a couple of da days. i trust you guys very much. it was a great show, it was against the academy awards so i have no idea how well it did. thank you very much. >> thanks very much. >> coming up live in our program, we're going live to kentucky, all these hard working folks could lose their jobs to convicted criminals? >> we're surrounded by them. lazy people. always looking for the easy way out. our next guest, sick and tired of it. wait until you hear the solutions he's proposing but first -- >> the trivia question of the day. ♪

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>> well, we're surrounded by them. lazy people looking for the easy way out. >> we're not talking about the crew. >> no, no. >> hey! >> our next guest is sick and tired of it, though, and he has a solution. >> all right. he is the author of this book "take the stairs" a "new york times" bestseller. what's the point, take the stairs? get off the elevator and escalator, is that it? >> yeah, it is. we're in such not escalator mentality world, looking for the short cut and easy way. i think what we discovered really in our work at southwestern consulting, that successful people do the things they know they should be doing even when they don't feel like doing them. i.e. take the stairs. >> or going to that workout when you're dead tired, right? so talk about sacrifice, that's your first point. >> yeah, absolutely. i think what's really empowering about the whole dynamic of self-discipline in the book is that we realize that people who

are disciplined, it's not that they like discipline more than the rest of us, but that they actually think differently about it. and so the book presents seven different ways of thinking. so sacrifice is one of the underlying premises of the whole book called the paradox principle. >> what about commitment? >> yeah, commitment is -- well, here's the thing. what we know is that easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences. meanwhile, biblical short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences so it's all about having that different perspective and that enables them to choose a path different from most people, i.e. take the stairs. >> number three is focus. you say when it's diluted, what happened what happens? >> when we have diluted focus, we get diluted results and i think distraction is a dangerously deceptive saboteur of our goals. we live in a world of creative avoidance and procrastination is the most expensive and visible

cost. >> and blackberries and the iphones of the world helping or hurting? >> it depends on how you use them. >> sponsor your book tour. >> exactly. >> that's exactly right. >> you have integrity and schedule but then we go down to faith. interesting. so you put faith in this, why? >> absolutely. it's my favorite principle in the whole book because all the other strategies have to do with achieving success. and faith is the one that is a strategy for how to manage failure. how to handle setbacks and i think less the ability to see the entire future, we aren't entitled to evaluate the reasons why bad things happen today and so having that faith gives us the courage to move on in the face of tragedy. >> talk about just this, taking action, do something. >> absolutely. you know, the law of diminishing intent is one of the most dangerous things that we deal with every single day and i think we cultivate the habit of action in our life by demanding that we make progress and yet being completely freeing ourselves of the demand for perfection. >> if we're at home and went over your five principles and

say i don't do that, i don't do that. i don't do that. is there hope? >> absolutely. absolutely. i think we often write off the most successful people in the world and say they were always disciplined and they were always that way. but i'm telling you, we coach hundreds of people at southwestern through this process of understanding that you -- the wealthiest people in the world were often one time very broke. and the most healthy people were at one time not healthy. >> check out the book, it's an easy read and you can follow the seven steps to achieving true success. "take the stairs." great to have you. >> thanks for having me. >> nice meeting you. >> straight ahead, we go live to kentucky to meet this group of hard working americans. they can lose their jobs to convicted criminals. >> first on this day in history in 1967, "ruby tuesday" by the rolling stones was the number one song. [ male announcer ] what if you have potatoes?

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>> the answer to the trivia question of the day, joanne woodward. the winner is sonja reed from delaware, ohio. congratulations. meanwhile, last week, we told you about a company whose worksers were spared from losing their jobs to prison inmates. after their boss first joined us right here on "fox & friends." but now, the same thing could happen to another business responsible for making military t-shirts. joining us right now from his factory is chris reynolds, the president of campbellsville apparel company and joins us from kentucky. good morning, chris. and your many employees this morning!

>> good morning, good morning to you and thank you for coming. >> absolutely. chris, tell me what your factory makes for the federal government and how long you've been doing it. >> we've been manufacturing t-shirts, fleece garments for the last 10 years for a defense logistics agency. >> ok. and i understand your current contract is going to expire in october. at which time you are worried that fpi, federal prisons industry, may actually wind up getting your contract. right? >> well, our concern is that we know that they are allowed to bid on this contract. and we are very concerned because of their labor wages are so low that we're just afraid that we can't be competitive. >> i can completely understand that. and that's the same thing that michael manch was telling us last week from ashland industries there in kentucky as well because federal prison industries pays $0.23 an hour to prisoners to make things.

you have a much higher wage and you've got benefits as well. >> that's correct. our average is close to $12 an hour and we do pay a certain percentage of the medical, vision, dental, and our employees have such a difficult time just dealing with the idea that our federal prisoner who should be paying a debt to society could possibly take their jobs. they can't imagine. >> right. plus chris, the fact that fpi, federal prison industries, pays $0.23 an hour. you're north of $10 an hour. you can't compete with that! and now it sounds like there's a possibility that people serving time for, in some cases, serious, you know, serious crimes could take the jobs of all those men and women behind you. tell me the reaction on the factory floor there in kentucky to that. >> well, i think when we first started discussing it, the employees could not believe that that could happen here in america. i mean, that a prisoner could

actually take your work from them. just can't imagine. >> what do you think is going to happen? and what can you do and what can the people watching do to help you make sure that the prisoners don't wind up with the jobs of all those taxpayers there in that picture with you? >> right. right now, we're asking for a lot of help from our senators, our congressmen, our representatives, we're asking them to help. we know that there are two key pieces of legislation out there. number 2312 and 3634 that can intervene and limit the amount that the federal prisons can get. but in the meantime, we're hoping that they can intervene so our people will be eligible to have a fair opportunity to get this -- to get this work. >> sure. and chris, as i understand, you do have other contracts. smaller things that you make for the government. but if you lost this big t-shirt contract, what's going to happen? >> well, you're correct. we do have a brief contract and some fleece and that takes care of about 58 of our employees.

the majority of our employees, if we did not get this t-shirt contract, it could affect 115 of these people that you see standing here with me. >> yeah. all right. it's something -- by the way, we should point out we did talk to the bureau of prisons and asked them for comments. they told us the case is under review. so with any luck, all of you folks will keep your jobs out there in kentucky. chris reynolds & company, thank you very much for joining us live. good luck to you. >> thank you. >> what do you think about that? federal prisoners getting paid $0.23 an hour competing against people in the private industry. does that seem fair to you? e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com. meanwhile, he's saving lives for a living. but now, cops think this firefighter's own life is in jeopardy. he's gone missing without a trace. his story. and the president's decision to apologize for the quran burnings has many outraged but not dana perino, she says saying sorry was the right thing to do. wonder if she's sorry about standing there with brian.

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>> gretchen: good morning, everyone. today is monday, february 27. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks so much for sharing part of your day with us. we need to start off things with a fox news alert. taliban back for readvantage now. more u.s. soldiers under attack in afghanistan. so was the president's apology enough to quell the violence? dana perino here to weigh in. >> steve: has rick santorum's campaign reached the end of the road? some critics say a loss tomorrow could devastate his campaign. reaction from the senator himself moments away. brian? >> brian: love it or hate it. it's being called the moment of the night. >> the interesting thing is actually -- >> brian: you could see, he's

trying to get it off, it's not coming off. that was before the ceremony even started. we've got your oscar highlights live from hollywood. dictator and all. "fox & friends" starts right now >> gretchen: good morning, everyone. there seems to be a difference of opinion on whether or not people thought that was funny that sasha barring cohen put the fake ashes on ryan. >> brian: we don't know they're fake. >> gretchen: i didn't know that was going to factor into the debate. >> steve: ryan seacrest spent a couple hours saying, excuse me, who are you wearing? who are you wearing? in answer to the question, who are you wearing, it could be the former guy who ran north korea. >> brian: i love what donald trump said about a half hour ago, he said i would have my security guards pummel this guy. >> gretchen: he was mad at that security guard more than anyone else. >> steve: he didn't do his job,

donald said. >> gretchen: well okay. he could have been part of a skit. >> he looks like a great actor. >> gretchen: come on, when you have sasha barring cohen come up in an interview, based on his past, you know he'll do something. >> brian: he came on as barak -- borat and he came off as a sexist man. >> steve: if you wond who are won, we'll have highlights. dana perino is in the on deck circumstancele and we got your headlines right here. >> brian: the doughnut on her back. >> gretchen: let me start with the headlines because we have a violent train crash in canada. it killed three people. dozens more are left injured. take a look at this. two cars jumped off the tracks crashing into a building, sending horrified passengers and their luggage flying through the air. >> this is my first time. my parents usually drive me to toronto. this is the first time and i'll never do it again. >> i thought like when you bump and kind of move tracks, and then it got worse and the train

just flipped on its side and it kept going, like it was almost like a plane crash. >> gretchen: the crash happened in ontario north of niagara falls. the people killed were the engineers riding in the front of the train. 45 others were sent to the hospital. officials trying to figure out what sent the cars off the track. wikileaks is at it again. the web site publishing more classified documents today that could put u.s. national security at risk. it's posting 5 million e-mails from a company called strategic forecasting, incorporated. this is known as stratfor. the group has been called c.i.a. shadow. how wikileaks got the e-mails and what secret information they contained is not known yet. the company says some of the e-mails may be forged. foul play in the case of a missing florida firefighter. 31-year-old jerry vanished almost two weeks ago after driving more than 1600 miles to visit a friend in maine. his wife is completely beside

herself. >> i love him. he's my only rock. >> gretchen: his fellow firefighters traveled to maine to help in the search. police questioned this man, daniel porter, and his girlfriend. it's believed they are the last people to have seen him alive. police have also searched porter's father's home. very quiet movie made lots of noise last night at the oscars. >> and the oscar goes to "the artist" [ cheers and applause ] >> gretchen: so "the artist," the first silent film winner since 1929 took home five, including best picture, director and actor. and it was an emotional night for "the help." octavia spencer picked up her first oscar. >> thank you, academy, for

putting with the hottest guy in the room. i have to thank my family in alabama, the state of alabama. >> gretchen: and we just showed you this, despite initially being banned by the academy from coming dressed in character, sasha barring cohen showed up with a bit of a surprise for ryan seacrest. >> the interesting thing is actually... . >> gretchen: afterwards, seacrest tweeted, my mom always told me to pack two jackets for red carpets. always wondered why. now i know. being a good sport about it when he treated. didn't see the show. don't worry. coming up in 30 minutes, courtney friel joins us live from the oscars with some of the best moments and fashion picks.

>> brian: looked who walked in, dana perino. >> steve: what are you wearing? >> i don't know. i'm not wearing kim jung-il, that's all i know. >> brian: that's one thing about you. >> i see him coming down the hallway. >> brian: just run the other way because i cannot be trusted. i'm very clumsy. can we talk about secretary of state hillary clinton? she was talk being what's happening in afghanistan and syria, major meeting in tunisia. sat down with an interviewer and she said this about the president apologizing in afghanistan. >> i find it somewhat troubling that our politics would inflame such a dangerous situation in afghanistan. i well remember during the eight years of president bush's administration when something happened that was regrettable, unintentional as this incident was, president bush was quick to say, look, we're sorry about this. this is something that we

obviously did not mean to do. that's all that president obama was doing. >> steve: it does appear that afghanistan is on fire, if you watch the news reports. seven of our men and women injured, apparently somebody rolled a grenade in there. plus last week works of our guys shot in the back of the head over these or canness and it sounds like the taliban could be poisoning their food supply there. was the president of the united states right to apologize quickly? >> i think so. and that's based on the commander on the ground -- i don't know anything in particular. but this is having been in the white house, i could imagine what happened. that the commander on the ground or the intelligence officials called back to the white house and the national security council and say look, we are dealing with people that cannot be reasoned with. the best thing we can do to get president karzai to help us quell this problem and to protect our troops is for us to apologize. i know you don't want to do it, we don't want to do it, but it's the best thing to do and i think that's why they did it. >> brian: do you think there could be a ps involved? >> i do.

because the way president obama has positioned himself in the world as a different kind american leader, someone that he thinks that other people will listen to more, i think that it would have been effective both abroad and also here at home politically if he had said, and by the way, our men and women are there fighting for your rights for freedom of religion and your right to free speech and right to gather. to let's keep that in mind and knock it off. >> steve: don't kill our people. >> the thing that would have shown a moment of strength -- it would have been an apology plus, yes. >> gretchen: so do you think now the violence escalating, i mean, now it's always easy to look back 20/20, hindsight is 20/20, but do you think the apology has helped -- you think it was necessary, but do you think it has helped or is there no way to know that? >> i think probably what has happened is karzai being a weak leader and dealing with the taliban is probably in a situation of i can't control this. i need your help, can you help me? so the apology was one step to try to quell the violence. i think what's happening is also

that they all know we're leaving and we're leaving sooner than the commanders on the ground both on the afghan and the american side thought was the right thing to do. but we're leaving. and so this is just a little bit of show of strength on behalf of the taliban to say, we know you're going and we will be making our presence known. >> gretchen: will we leave quicker now because now there is a report out that the taliban is poisoning the food coming into nato? >> i certainly hope not because i don't think retreat in the face of these thugs and terrorists is the right thing to do. i know that there are -- they are trying to find some in the taliban that are willing to come into the government and be a part of a stronger leadership team. they're very hard to find. i hope we don't leave early. >> brian: something else struck me is that the secretary of state has come out and said president obama will win reelection. we know president obama said i'll be there another five years. then a third official has come forward and said this. what do you think about that tact? >> the secretary of state position in the cabinet is

usually tries to be pretty nonpolitical and she has been to a great extent. she needed to go yesterday on the sunday show, i think, because there is so much going on in the world and the american people deserve to hear from their current leadership as to what's going on. it was inevitable she would get a political question and you can see there is still a little political gene in her that -- where she was defending president obama. remember how fiercely they fought for that primary in 2008. but she has proven to be his most loyal cabinet secretary and one of the -- probably one of the most effective members of his cabinet. >> brian: she hasn't quit, like most of the others. >> no, i think she signaled, after this term, she'll be done. >> gretchen: it's interesting that she has been such an ally of the president because she doesn't really have to be necessarily and she quite frankly has been one of his best advisor, would you agree? >> i do. >> brian: what has she done that was that good? why are we celebrating hillary clinton? >> i think she helped keep a steadier hand and not letting things go completely left ward on some things. i think she's been a good advisor and a good

representative of america around the world. >> steve: before you leave, let's get your feeling on room temperature what's going to happen tomorrow in arizona and michigan. >> my gut instinct and my sources, which is really my gut, i think that romney probably wins we a hair in both and then -- >> steve: what does that do to santorum? >> he probably can continue on for a little while. he raised some money. there is an op ed in the "wall street journal" where he's talk being his economic plan. but he still -- all those things from last week, the debate performance and if you look at a lot of the conservatives journalists kind of questioning whether or not he would be the best one. >> steve: he was on our program about an hour ago and brian asked him about all this back and forth between you and mitt not good for the party. here is what he had to say about that. >> primaries are for that. you have to slug it out. it's like doing a 15-round fight every other week. you battle and then that primary

is over and you go and battle in another state. governor romney's attack, i can't sit there and be pummeled and not respond to them and that's what we've done and i think people see that we're the best candidate to come out of michigan and take on barak obama. >> steve: he said that at the end of the day, the republicans will all rally around their nominee, despite the bloodshed. >> i think that's true. but the question will then be a matter of intensity. how intense will that support be and then does that translate into get out the vote campaign. they are up against a very strong with the union support. the super pacs are one thing and will be helpful to both sides, probably more to republicans than democrats. but republicans do not have that kind of infrastructure in the third party groups. you look at what happened on the planned parenthood and clause. it takes the democrats a half second to mobilize and absolutely using one of their best friends, a lot of people in the media, to help get their message across. so the republicans have a really

steep hill to climb. >> gretchen: interesting point. we'll catch you on "the five." it's monday, so you'll be there all week? >> yes, this week. >> gretchen: we can't wait to see bob beckel. >> steve: how was your weekend? who were you wearing? thank you. straight ahead, an appalling story, a veteran who protected america carjacked and beaten in broad daylight. bystanders walking by did nothing. >> gretchen: the president's plan for a tax rate might have a nastily little side effect. our next guest says the new plan is going to hit small business where is it hurts. @@ ok, guys-- what's next ?

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new corporate rate tox proposal. the plan aims to simplify the tax code by reducing the corporate tax rate from 35 to 28% and also eliminates dozens of tax loopholes. how did it miss the point by actually hurting small businesses and building a bigger companies? that's what lot of people are saying. let's ask small business owner and mentor, amelia, also she's ceo of ama productions. i thought this would be welcomed by the small business people. but you say it doesn't affect them. >> no, again, this is what people do not understand. big business and small business do not function even remotely the same. so when you talk about a small business owner, right, that person files most of them file as an s corporation which means they file underneath the laws of an individual tax. not the corporate. the individual. so when you say, okay. 60% of the jobs are going to come from small business. small business is saying if you don't do rate reform, we can't grow. we can't build jobs. we can't. but they're not addressing it. so you want me to take 60% of the burden, but you don't want

me to give -- to give me the one thing i need. >> brian: the budget deficit committee actually did have recommendations on this. mitt romney did say i'm willing to take the tax brackets if he becomes president and cut out the percentage in which they give. >> yeah. but not enough. nobody is really embracing and saying, let's think of this formula. we're putting the pressure on small business. small business says, here is our top three things we need to do. we'll take on the challenge. we'll bring in the jobs. look at the last two years. where are the jobs coming from? small business. we have certain things we need. i get that this administration understands big corporations and i'm not asking them not to do that. but i'm saying, you need to pay attention to small business. >> brian: talk about the results. the results, nothing changes. the president gets his way and only big corporations benefit. but from the decrease, you say that we're going to -- this is going to cause small business to outsource and stop hire. >> we're completely handcuffed. we don't have the cash flow that we need because we don't have

access to capital. you're asking a ceo to do more and more of basically unpaid administrator that we are for the government and putting rules and regulations that basically pigeon hole us. >> brian: give me a percentage that would help. what is the right cut on the individual tax rate that would really help small business? >> it's this simple. if you do rate reform, now a small business person does not have to outsource to somebody else to actually file their taxes. they can say, this is what i make and turn it in. right now the business owner spends so much time and paperwork, they're taking the eye off the ball which is employ people. you either want them doing paperwork or employing people. >> brian: mr. president, call amelia, she's got this down. >> i'll come! >> brian: thanks so much. >> thanks so much. >> brian: 19 minutes after the hour. this navy seal helped take down osama bin laden. then was killed by the taliban attack on their helicopter. now his dad break his silence trying to pay it forward.

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>> gretchen: 24 minutes after the top of the hour. quick headlines. fox news alert. moments a reports of shots fired inside an ohio high school. a gunman on the loose right now. it's happening about 30 miles east of cleveland.

the high school is on lockdown and kids still on buses are being turned around and sent home. local reports say there are four possible victims. a medical helicopter has been dispaped. more as it comes into fox news. the house osama bin laden lived in for years before being killed reduced to nothing but rubble now. bulldozers brought down the home. the job just finishing overnight. steve? >> steve: thank you. "act of valor" raked in $30 million this week. but thanks to the father of a fallen navy seal, it also raised money for the navy seal foundation. brian bill was a member of seal team 6 which took part perhaps in the raid that killed osama bin laden, although it's unsure from his family members whether or not he did. he was tragically killed when seal team 6 and their helicopter was shot down in afghanistan. joining us now is the father of this american hero, scott bill.

he joins us live from orlando. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning. >> steve: it's good to have you. let's start with the fact that you saw this movie "act of valor" three weeks ago and you said to yourself what? >> that this would be a great idea to have a fund-raiser for my son to bring out more awareness in florida where i live and to raise some funds for the navy special warfare foundation, which is part of the navy seal foundation. >> steve: and you had the fund-raiser on friday and you raised $20,000 and that is fantastic. the main thing, you want people to see this movie so they know what your son and men and women like him do. right? >> yeah. there is other movies out there, but this one i think really portrays navy seals and how their dedication and commitment. also it shows you a side of the seals with men being married with their family and also shows you the sorrow of when a navy seal is killed and the outcome

and what happens. >> steve: right. we're looking at some pictures of your son, brian. tell us about him. >> brian was an extraordinary kid. unfortunately he was killed in afghanistan last year with 16 of his other seal teammates. he was an eagle scout in high school. he was captain of his hockey team, long distance swimmer. avenues mountaineer. his dream was to be an astronaut at some point in his life after serving his country. >> steve: that's the key, he wanted to serve his country and he was a navy seal for ten years. i mentioned at the top as i introduced you a moment ago, he may or may not have been involved in the osama bin laden raid. he can't even tell his own father, could he? >> no, he couldn't. we always were in the dark, you know. he would disappear for months at a time, didn't know where he was. he came home, he'd be fine. we never really worried about him that much because he was so

well trained and they do special operations missions which are focused on one particular event. we never worried that much. >> steve: although if i knew the details, tell us a little bit about -- i read about one operation where he was dropped out of an airplane. he parachuted 20, 25 miles out in the ocean and what was he trying to land on? >> that was just a training event. i was up staying with him and he went out one night and he said, oh, dad, i'll be home late in the morning. 8:00 o'clock or 9:00 o'clock. we've got to jump out of a plane at 20,000 feet, parachute down with boats into the atlantic. this was in november. so you can imagine it was a little cold. get into their boats, somewhere out there was a navy ship. they had find it. there were role players on the navy ship. this is all training. they had to get up on to the ship, take over the ship, and look for hostages on the ship. he came home the next morning at 9:00 o'clock. he was sick as a dog. cold, wet.

and that's just training. >> steve: just training. well, it's great that you would join us today and talk about your son's memory, brian. going forward, i know you would like perhaps to continue to raise money for this organization as well. right? >> yes, definitely. i'm just waiting to be an ambassador this month with the navy seal foundation out of virginia beach. i want to help fundraising in special events like this. there is also another event called birdies for the brave that phil mickleson started years ago sponsored by the pga and the proceeds go to special ops warrior, wounded warrior foundation and navy seal foundation. >> steve: all right. and as you said, everybody should go see the movie "act of valor" so people across the country know the sacrifices that these navy seals make for their country. >> yes, you're absolutely right. >> steve: we thank you very much for joining us live today from orlando. >> thank you very much, steve. >> steve: 29 minutes after the

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>> couple of seconds will do it. >> gretchen: the bieber fever was one of the big moments from the oscars. so let's go live to courtney friel live in l.a. for much more. you've got the winners, right? >> i do. i loved that clip with justin bieber. that was one of my favorite parts of the show, the opening spoof monologue with billy crystal. that's what we were expecting from him. it was a pretty safe and

traditional show. and there were lots of odes to loving movies and that's why it's fitting that "the artist" was the big winner of the night because that is such a pat on the back to hollywood. and it won best picture, best director, best actor. and if you missed the show, here are some of the highlights. >> say i'm batman. it will help me. >> thank you, academy, for putting me with the hottest guy in the room. >> you're only two years older than me, darling. where you been all my life? >> if john valentine could speak, he would say (speaking french) i love you! >> when they called my name, i

had this feeling i could hear half of america going, oh, no. oh, come on. why her again? you know. but whatever. >> and the oscar goes to "the artist." >> i want to say to my wife, who is here, that i love you, but it's just that. it's about the movie. you're the soul of the movie and the positive. >> gretchen: and that was meryl streep's third oscar win for best actress out of 17 nominations. let's talk about some of the things that are buzzing on-line right now. i don't know if you saw what happened on the red carpet with ryan seacrest. >> gretchen: oh, yeah. >> he was dressed as the dictator carrying what he claimed to be kim jung-il's ashes and then he poured them

all over ryan. so that's trending on twitter. and then everybody is talking about angelina jolie and her leg, how she was kind of sticking it out on the red carpet while she was presenting. the academy says that 3400 tweets per minute were generated around her leg. there is even a twitter account called angie's right leg. i'm not sure it can keep up tweeting. >> gretchen: what about jlo, did she have a wardrobe malfunction? >> so yeah. i kind of wondered about that when i was watching her and cameron diaz present the best costume and make-up award. those it together looked fabulous. i was like, is that her nipple kind of showing? and apparently jlo's nip slip has a twitter account as well. you can follow them this morning. it's good to see you guys again. >> brian: great to see you. you look fantastic, thanks. make sure you write.

>> steve: okay. >> brian: i had no idea about this malfunction. >> gretchen: yeah. >> brian: that was good question. >> gretchen: now your headlines beginning with the fox news alert in ohio high school on lockdown right now after a possible shooting. reports of a gunman on the loose. these are live pictures right now from ohio, 30 miles east of cleveland. police tell our local fox affiliate they were called to the school about one hour ago after a report of shots fired and according to the local sheriff, at least four students have been hurt. other local reports suggest there is a gunman on the loose still. but the sheriff told fox news this is no longer ongoing. we can tell you that several medical helicopters have been dispatched to the scene. more updates on this breaking news as it comes in. >> brian: 22 cruise passengers get robbed at gun point in mexico. the group was returning to their ship after an excursion in puerto vallarta when their bus was hijacked by a group of men in hoods. >> in spanish, our guide

interpreted that throw everything on the ground and the next thing we know is somebody said run. so everybody started to run. >> i noticed that we were down there, there were soldiers walking around with automatic weapons. got off the ship, we got right back on. >> brian: carnival cruise lines has suspended the tour indefinitely and is working to reimburse the passengers for what they lost. >> steve: meanwhile, an electric car battery company praised by president obama. remember when he praised it? well, now he praised it as a stimulus success. the company has laid off 125 workers since getting $390 million in government subsidies. but doesn't stop there. that hasn't stopped executive at a, 123 in michigan giving themselves fat pay raises. the company lost more than $175 million last year. some executives are getting $30,000 raises. watchdog group calls the raises highly suspicious, saying it

looks like the execs are padding their wallets just in case the company goes belly up. >> gretchen: caught on camera, 86-year-old world war ii veteran carjacked at a gas station in detroit. look at this video here. you can see the attacker hurts the man's legs, it's broken. even more outrageous, though, nobody did anything to help him. he's crawling on the ground at the gas station. people like that guy right there, didn't seem to bother him. they just walked right by him. >> i'm crawling and trying to get in the station. nobody -- just walking right by me and going on to the station. if i had saw somebody crawling like that on the ground, i would have stopped myself. >> gretchen: wow. eventually a good samaritan helped that man, called 911. the car was found a few hours later. its wheels and radio stolen. police still looking for that

thief. >> brian: the daytona 500 was set to take place on sunday. but heavy rain forced nascar officials to delay the event for the first time ever. so when can we expect drivers to be back in action? >> gretchen: now more from daytona beach with the latest. you got to extend your vacation in florida. >> yeah. just a little bit. unfortunately, the weather isn't really cooperating with us, though. we do have a little break, so they brought out the blowers here and it takes about two hours for them to actually dry the track. this is the first time in 54 years that this has actually happened where they have canceled the race. this is called the super bowl of racing and the mood here today, though, is very different. a lot of the water logged fans have actually packed up and are heading home. the die hards will stay to support their drivers and one of those drivers is joining us now, joey laganno. good morning to you. >> good morning, how are you?

>> fantastic. thanks for being with us. so waking up for a second day in a row, how do you keep yourself all amp upped. >> it's daytona 500. we go through this every once in a while throughout our season. it's unfortunate, we sit here and keep look for example radar and we keep looking at not very good. so we really want to get out there and at least run some laps and have fun. >> there were a lot of wrecks earlier this weekend in the nationwide. with the pack being back, are you concerned about that? >> no. still a lot of fun. unfortunately, we got -- we almost won this thing. we were out front and got cautioned at the last lap. it's been a lot of fun. really fun for the drivers out there. really exciting for the fans. but yeah, it is a little more dangerous. a lot more wrecks now since we're in the pack. one person's mistake ruins ten people's day, it seems like. so we got to keep our people out of that mess. >> it gets fired up in the last six to eight laps of the race because of the nature of it being so long and the high

speeds and the drafting. >> we got a million dollars plus to win. that will make everyone kick it up an extra notch. but like we were talking, the big deal is you got to be in it to win it. we got to survive to make it to the last ten laps and then go for it. >> good luck to you. hopefully you'll get that million dollars plus. we heard 19 million is up for grabs total. >> that would be okay with me. >> good luck. this is when the series gets kicked off. >> steve: they're vacuuming the field now. >> brian: right. as long as she does her live shots without an umbrella, we'll be okay. >> steve: she's tarpless. no tarp bailout. >> brian: as far as we know. >> gretchen: okay. it's happening more and more action parents falling on hard times and moving back in with their kids. wait a minute. parents moving back in with their kids? okay. do you have the cash to let them crash? finance expert dave ramsey is up next to answer your e-mails. >> brian: his decisions creating

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protests there, president obama is facing criticism at home for apologizing last week. so what does new york post columnist michael goodwin think? he joins me now. good morning, michael. we always say in advance that you are once in favor of president obama. you voted for him. so how did he stack up in your mind with this apology? >> i think the apology was a mistake for two reasons. basically the president doesn't have to get involved on this level. there is not -- it's not necessary for the president of the united states to apologize because something some soldiers did in afghanistan. this is not murder. they didn't mow down a village. this is no massacre or anything like that. this is a simple mistake. i think for the president to apologize elevates it. he also talks about holding those accountable. i mean, this is silly. now we have roughly 30 dead, four of them americans from these rioting and everything. i think what the president should have done is if he felt the need to apologize, at least connect it to the american

sacrifice, at least connect it to the fact that we have liberated tens of millions of muslims so the notion that somehow our intent is questionable, that somehow we're guilty of some crusade against the muslim world is just foolish. so i think the president, by apologizing, he basically just feeds into the narrative. those who would riot and kill over this insult on the koran do not in any way listen to an apology. they see it as weakness. they see it almost as an admission of guilt. >> gretchen: we're seeing the violence escalate. many people are saying, where did it get us. does it change your mind that apparently the nato commanders on the ground there are the ones who asked the president to apologize? >> no. i think that was their mistake, too. i think the idea that the president has to weigh in -- look. american soldiers do amazing things every day around the world. the president never talks about that. you can not just be the president who talks only when

they make a mistake. the president rarely talks about the war at all. it's as though it's exist not guilty some other universe. these are our soldiers. i think the notion that somehow the president would apologize for some mistake they made, yet never really discuss their heroism, never kind of explain to the american people, let alone the afghan people, the great things americans are doing around the world to liberate muslims from other muslims. that, to me, it turns the world upside down for the president to apologize, especially when it doesn't help. it only incites the mob. >> gretchen: it certainly turns the world upside down as to what now happens in afghanistan. michael goodwin, new york post columnist has written a column about this. thanks so much. we'll see you soon. >> my pleasure. >> gretchen: parents moving back in with their kids. it's happening more and more. what do you do if you can't afford to let them crash? dave rapsy answering your e-mails live on the curvy couch next. let's check in with hemmer for what's on at the top of the hour. what are you wearing? >> i'm wearing the same thing i

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one of them is still on the loose. the school remains locked down and several medical helicopters are on the way. guys? >> steve: thanks. are you unable to put a stop to using your credit cards or do you owe more than your house is worth? >> brian: dave ramsey is here to answer some of the most common questions and your e-mails as he gets set for his own wildly successful radio show. hi, dave. >> good morning, how are you? >> brian: what is it like to be on theouch? >> it's different. i need to get my own couch. >> steve: so you're on the curvy couch. we got the e-mail machine. here is one from julie from new york who says if i even use my credit cards, i wouldn't have a life living in new york city. there is no way around eating out and doing activities with friends and i never know how much to budget. so the cards give me freedom. how can i possibly live without revolving credit? you say -- you're laughing. you say people should cut them off. >> julie, honey, it's time to grow up. my goodness.

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