>> no help from him or the lawyer. >> great show later on this morning. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> hi. >> there's a lot of aroma therapy going on on the set because both guys have on a lot of cologne. smells nice for a monday morning. it is monday. it's march 12th. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks so much for sharing your time with us. at this very second, president obama is releasing more info to give himself a pat on the back for energy advancements. is it progress or propaganda? he mentioned that he had other failed projects like solyndra. we have all the breaking details for you just been released straight ahead. >> good morning, meantime, president obama's campaign advisor says this election is not really about president obama. >> the biggest issues are going to be economic. i don't think it's going to be a referendum. >> we'll let you decide that one. plus brand new poll numbers on where the president really stands. >> and it paints a scathing picture of governor sarah palin

and john mccain. the movie "game change" makes its debut. is it fact or hollywood fiction? senator mccain gets the last word. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> good morning, everyone. hope you had a fantastic weekend. it was so beautiful here on the east coast at least. peter johnson sitting in for steve. side right. side left, eric bolling sitting in for brian kilmeade. >> heavy lifting for you today, gretchen. >> not at all. great to have you here today. huge guest show today as well. dana perino will be stopping by with her thoughts and donald trump as he does every monday morning. >> there he is, mitt romney running for president has some big primaries coming up tomorrow and comedian jeff foxworthy will join us. >> good morning.

>> he has endorsed mitt romney. we'll get his thoughts on that. one minute ago, something very big was released. this is the president's energy advancement plan. actually, it's five things or seven things that he's touting that he has done since becoming president with regard to energy. a lot of people are going to say here's finally the president's response to high gas prices right now. that's probably the political answer as to why this is coming out today because some new poll numbers show that 2/3 of all americans are not happy with the way this president has handled the rising gas price situation. >> ok. here's some of the points that he's made. he says oil production is up and he goes through the monthly numbers. he also talks about gas, natural gas production being up. he goes through some of the numbers and he also talks about oil imports going down. in other words, we're importing fewer barrels of oil. here's the problem, though, you remember when president obama first was elected, gretchen, he said we shouldn't drill more right now because it would take

years upon years before we realized they had oil. if that's the case, you can't take credit for numbers that are on the books right now. it has to have been done, according to president obama's words, during a prior administration. i'm in the camp that says drill now because the sooner you drill, you're going to get the oil and you'll realize the oil sooner. i think these numbers do reflect increased drilling. it's great and a great start. we need more about this. >> we're not going to be hearing about some of the failed green energy policies. $535 million to solyndra. that chevy volt that eric bolling has become an expert one. ener1, spectrawatt, bankruptcy. it goes through. tesla motors $465 million loss. $400 million for abound solar. on and on. billions of dollars of loan guarantees of companies that have been going down.

>> if you add up the failed green energy policies, it's double the number of mandates and successes he's going to be unveiling today with seven. there's more than 14 of the failed ones on green energy. >> if you take that board one more time, take a look at that board, forget the billions of dollars that we've lost, literally tens of thousands of jobs have gone south because of that board. they put money over there, didn't work and people are being laid off left and right. >> it failed to mention that the president's scrap drilling off virginia in early 2010. barred drilling in alaska's bristol bay and never considered drilling off the pacific coast. so yeah, there's some good numbers but there's some other side of the ledger that it's interesting to talk about. >> it's also interesting because obviously there were a lot of people meeting behind closed doors to come up with these seven things because they knew the president was continue to be asked what can you do about rising gas prices? and here's the response, whether or not remember what the president said last week, he said people like newt gingrich who has a $2.50 plan to bring

gas prices down, that's just political talk. that really can't happen. that a president really can't do anything about high gas prices. >> can i point something else out? if these numbers are true, ok, say they are. increased oil production here domestically, that's fantastic. increased natural gas production. that's fantastic. there's one number you can't argue with and it's the other side of the coin. gasoline prices have more than doubled to $3.80 per gallon now. it was $1.83 the day president obama took office which means there has to be more than just drilling more and getting more oil out of the ground. we talked about some of the other solutions to it, gretchen. we talked about picking one fuel domestically, bringing the e.p.a. -- >> one blended fuel domestically, bringing the e.p.a. out of it. there's a couple of other things that you can do to bring the price of gasoline down. he may be increasing his oil production but failing miserably at gasoline prices. >> let's move on to how the people feel about president obama.

what it comes to being re-elected there's a new poll out this morning that more than half of the american poll believes that president obama will be re-elected and now says 54% say yes to that. in january, only 46% said yes to that. and i guess you could argue, you know, the economy appears to be on an upswing. there are jobs created the last time that you were here, eric, before the end of the week and the unemployment number has remained at 8.3%. it hasn't gone up. >> and also when you have republican candidates dumping on each other in a robust way, every day, i think you're going to see that number inch up. i think it's probably going to move 50/50 as time goes on. and in time, there's a nominee. >> there have been a lot of issues lately. the bishops with health care, with contraceptives and the other issue with sandra fluke but take a look at what robert gibbs thinks the big issue coming -- going forward is. take a listen. >> the biggest issues are going to be economic issues.

i think you -- you saw a good economic jobs report on friday. we took another important step in a long road to recovery. i don't think it's going to be a referendum. i think it's going to be a choice, bob. we're going to have a choice in this election about whether we're going to continue positive job growth and we'll go back to the policies of cutting taxes for the wealthy and ignoring the middle class. >> robert gibbs, the argument, he used to be the spokesperson for president obama. >> that's important, though. they'll turn the dialogue back to the economy, you know, president obama, that's a very weak point for president obama. the economy is not working for him. i'm surprised that -- >> not if it kicks up, i'm not. >> what's kicking up? >> because a lot of the people on the other side have said that they can't run on their record. so now, if the economy starts to tick up to their advantage, they're going to run on that. come on. >> think about what the definition of ticking up is. it would be unemployment getting maybe in the sevens. >> what he's saying is a continued positive job growth, whatever that means.

it doesn't mean that -- >> dropping below 8%. >> it is perception. it's perception of which direction the country is heading in. i just think it makes for interesting argument because the republicans have been banking on the fact that the economy would be their talking point, right? and so now if the economy perception wise appears to be going in the right direction, i think they're going to be all over it. >> that's the new spin. that's the new spin. >> they can spin it all they want on the left but the reality is 14 million people still out of work. $3.80 a gallon gasoline. i'm not sure what's so good and what the uptick is. >> that's what's happening in the debates. >> my point is that if you're a republican running for president, you stay on those two. stay on 8.3. stay on $3.80 and forget the other noise that's going on right now. and thank you, robert gibbs for moving it back to 8.3% and $3.80. >> but does this president also look at both sides of the fence? in other words, when the economy

is not doing so well, does he also take credit for that? or does he go back to something we just heard robert gibbs allude to as well. listen to this. >> the economic plans were warmed over, cut and paste from the past and there's a big gap between what i'm hearing from the american people as i travel around the country and what the president was delivering in this speech. >> to hear people struggling, working harder and harder just to get by. their wages and incomes have flat lined while bush has been in office. i want to roll back bush tax cuts for wealthiest and give middle class folks a tax break. the only warfare i've seen is the battle against the middle class over the last -- last 10, 15 years. 3 1/2 years later, we're still recovering from the worst economic crisis in our lifetime. >> so it appears that blaming bush is the other way that you handle it when the economy is not doing so well.

when the economy starts to do better, then take credit for it. >> that will continue, the blame bush patrol will continue. >> let's do headlines for your monday. we'll start with the fox news alert. american troops in afghanistan bracing for retaliation this morning because the taliban is vowing revenge for a deadly shooting. a u.s. soldier accused of going on that rampage killing 16 afghan civilians including nine children. right now, we know that the 38-year-old staff sergeant currently in u.s. custody is a married father of two from the army base in kuwait. he arriveed in afghanistan in december after three tours in iraq. >> i can tell you that we're pretty confident this was just one individual acting alone. and i can tell you that one of the reasons we know that is because when it was noticed that the individual left the outpost and it was noticed and reported up the chain of command, the command did exactly the right thing. >> president obama condemning the attacks and offering his condolences to the victim's

families. while you were sleeping, more cross border violence breaking out between israel and gaza. three people killed in the latest air strikes including two gaza militants. israel launching the strikes on several rocket launch sites after gaza militants fired a barrage of rockets at israeli towns. the clashes started after israel killed a top militant leader. so far, 18 militants have been killed. a developing story now and some incredible video out of southern california. a plane crash sparking a 10 acre fire. the plane crashed in a remote hilltop north of los angeles. amazingly, the pilot and his passenger walked away with minor injuries. the cause of the crash under investigation at this hour. senator john mccain's reaction to the hbo movie "game change." channel change. >> i watched the phoenix coyotes defeat the san jose sharks 3-0. it was a great game. of course, i'm not going to watch it. it's based on a book that's

completely biassed and what i don't understand and even in the tough world of politics, why there continues to be such assault on a good and decent person, sarah palin. a fine family person. a person whose nomination energized our campaign. >> well, governor palin, mccain was just speaking of her refuses to watch the movie and those are your headlines this morning. >> well, guys, got a lot coming up, right? >> big show. >> by the way, i watched that movie twice. >> you did? good job. >> i have not seen it. >> don't waste your time. >> should we be monitoring muslim students in the way of watching terror? you can decide coming up next. >> hours before the southern state primaries, big news involving rick perry. is there a game changing announcement that's in the works? [ male announcer ] juice drink too watery?

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>> in a rare move, the nypd is now under investigation by another law enforcement agency, the f.b.i. why? for conducting surveillance on muslim students. but several universities and even attorney general eric holder are expressing outrage over the program that was designed to protect new york city and america from another terrorist attack. pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter and fox news contributor judith miller here with us believes the police department was wise in taking precautions. good morning, judith. >> good morning. >> should the new york city police department and other police department facilities around the country not look at muslim student associations? should they not be looking at mosques if, in fact, there are investigative leads that take them there? >> of course they should. and that's exactly what the nypd

was doing and because it was doing that, we have foiled 14, 14 terrorist attempts on this city. >> wow. >> since 2001. if -- i mean, who are you going to monitor? baptists? are we going to -- mormons? i mean, when you go after it, you look he italian community. it's simple mapping. i just do not understand the furor and i do not understand the justice department's attitude towards the nypd program. >> and therein lies the issue there. the nypd when it crossed the state border. what should happen? should the nypd let the new jersey division of the f.b.i. know that they're doing this? >> it let everyone know it was doing it. it let the newark police know it was doing it. two members of that police

department were liaison officials with the nypd during this entire time. the former police chief of newark said yes, the nypd informed me of what they were doing. now, the question is -- did he tell the politicians and the f.b.i. what was going on? but, you know, the f.b.i. and the nypd worked together all the time on something called the joint terrorism task forces. so this is just kind of mistifying. i'm stressed that the attorney general didn't pick up the phone before he announced he was troubled by the nypd program to call commissioner ray kelly and say commissioner, are these stories accurate? is this an accurate description of your program? because the nypd would have said no, these stories aren't accurate. >> just in the few seconds that we have left, what is attorney general holder's motive in not doing that. >> i think he was just kind of

protecting himself because he was asked at a hearing and he said, oh, you know, if the reports are true, well, mr. holder, there is a telephone line between new york and washington. pick it up and use it. >> yeah. one of the most disturbing things is he said what he read in the newspaper. >> exactly. >> judith miller, thank you very much. >> nice to see you. >> coming up, chasing down a story has never hurt so bad. >> i will not be making any comments. oh, my god, that hurts. >> the video you just can't get enough of this morning. and female voters hung democrats out to dry during the 2010 midterm elections but this morning, the president has a plan to win them back. but is he only interested in the liberal women? two female washington insiders explain for us coming up next. @? is this what we're doing now?

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>> two more congressmen adding their names to a house resolution calling for attorney general eric holder's nomination. that makes a total of 120 house members that expressed no confidence in holder over the botched gunrunning program, fast and furious. and loved ones preparing to say a final farewell today to hero war correspondent marie colvin. her funeral will be held in a few minutes on long island, new york. she was killed in a rocket attack in syria last month.

it was apparently in retaliation for her coverage of the killing of civilians there. gretchen? >> thank you, peter. women were 53% of the national vote in 2008 and in the 2010 midterms they abandoned the democrats. now the president has a plan to win women back. let's ask two women who know. victoria jones, white house correspondent for talk radio news and maria done, host of federal news radio. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> victoria, what does president obama have to do? apparently this week he's going to roll out a bunch of programs to try to attract the female vote. will it be enough? >> it will be partly enough. look, the new "washington post"/abc news poll that has some not terribly good news for the president has good news on the president of how he's doing with women. 55-30, the president shows caring more about issues to do

with women and 60% of respondents say the birth control should be covered. so certainly, he's doing better with women. and also, he only lost women in 2010. from 1992 to 2008, he won with women in every election. so it's not a big lift. and also, centrists and moderate republicans are asking a lot of questions. they're not crazy about what they're seeing with what republicans are doing. they're not crazy about ultrasound shoving things up vaginas. they're not crazy about panels where women are not allowed to testify. they're not crazy about some of these things. >> isn't it interesting because some people would argue that the president is only going after the far left vote of the female category? in other words, is he really trying to woo all women to come to his side? >> you're right, gretchen, because i'll tell you, i'm black. i'm southern, and i'm a roman catholic and i certainly understand the president's strategy. he is so anxious to divert

attention away from the most important issue which is pressing all americans and that's the economy. and that's because he simply can't run on his record. but we've got to keep our eye on the ball. if you think about it, we're $16 trillion in debt and the president does not have an economic plan. what he wants to do is to borrow more money. print more money. and basically kick the can down the road for a few more years. and avoid all decision making. he cannot run on that. so he must create an inflammatory agenda to divert attention. >> let me ask you this, because women for the first time in such a long time went for republicans in majority in 2010, would there be any credence to the whole contraceptive controversy, would there be any credence to the fact that possibly this administration decided to go for women in that argument rather than catholics? >> there could be some credence but i think what you're seeing is you're seeing catholics also going for obama on that argument. the vast majority of catholic

women use contraception, too, and they're going for obama on this particular issue because they are favoring contraception on that issue. so when it comes to the issue of jobs, when you've got 227,000 jobs being created in february, you're seeing improvement in that area and 24 months of new jobs being created, i think you're seeing improvement there, too. >> i'm interested in your answer to that. >> no, you've got 16 million folks who are unemployed and i'll tell obama something about women. 94% of all women owners say that the economy is their number one issue. and the reason why is because obama's overreach and the overregulation of this current administration is making it almost impossible to create new jobs. and when you look at the fact that the women care about what all americans care about. they care about the price of gas at the pump. they care about the fact that the f.d.a. has so many regulations, that the price of food is going up. they care about the fact that the e.p.a. is causing power

plants to close down and when you look at this level of overregulation, what you vlz that obama is only beginning. he has hundreds more of these sort of overreaching governmental regulations coming down the road. that's what women care about. >> so much to discuss this morning amongst the three of us as women. thanks so much for your thoughts. i gotta go. >> thanks, gretchen. >> and when we come back to "fox & friends", just before tomorrow's southern state primaries, big news involving governor rick perry. is there a game changing announcement in the works? you'll find out. and this dog is lost and might never be found thanks to our regulation nation. why the heck are missing posters against the law now? but first, happy birthday to james taylor. he's 64. in my line of work, it's not uncommon for the term "hero" to be bandied about. but does bringing a floor back to life really make us heroes? [ chuckles ] yes. yes, it does.

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>> now time for your shot of the morning. a painful end for a reporter chasing a story. >> what do you have up your sleeve for this time around? >> i will not be making any comment. >> oh, my god, that hurt! >> oh, my goodness. >> ouch! >> he was trying to get an interview with a reluctant lawyer when he smashed into the pole. even that lawyer stopped to ask

him if he was ok and by the way, he was. but it hurts just to watch. and hopefully we'll play that three or four more times before the day is out. >> what's that mean, even the lawyer? >> he was running from him. >> nothing against you, peter, i think it was an antagonistic interview. he was trying to get away from him. oh, lord! >> that's not -- that's not funny. >> yeah. >> he might be calling you for some help. >> oh, my gosh. that's not -- i hope he's ok. i hope the lawyer is fine. >> who cares about the lawyer? no kidding. let's go back to the political scenario that's happening tomorrow. we have the important primaries of alabama and mississippi and could newt gingrich have some exclusive information up his sleeve right now? or did he release it on purpose during this time to help his votes down in those two states? could it be that he has already

promised governor rick perry of texas a v.p. slot if, in fact, he's the nominee? that's the news out of the gingrich camp this morning. >> and i think the governor perry folks have basically denied that and they said, you know, thanks for the -- the nice words and the consideration but it's kind of out there and so it gets into the bloodstream of the voting public and they say ok, that's interesting. you know, what does that mean? we also know that governor perry didn't do all that well and had to really drop out as a result. >> i like this. i actually like this. >> i knew you were going to say that. >> i do. i hope he's on board, i hope governor perry has been told of it. and i hope he's on board because -- >> and watching. >> first of all, he's not going to say yes, of course, i've agreed to that so you're not going to expect that answer. >> i don't think newt actually said it's definitely going to be perry, right? kind of exploring the possibility of it. >> and perry started his announcement by saying i chose to endorse newt gingrich because i believe he's the best

conservative candidate in this race. that would be flattering if, in fact, but there's been no discussion. >> is it a game changer? >> not sure if it's a game changer for newt but it's certainly going to help him in the south, i think. >> absolutely. >> in the meantime, mitt romney is getting a boost of his own in the south from comedian jeff foxworthy. he was out on the campaign stump touting why the reason in alabama and mississippi should vote for mitt romney. right now, it's interesting because it looks as if the two deemed more conservative candidates santorum and gingrich are splitting the vote down there. it's very, very tight in all three states but it looks like romney could be inching up as a result of those two candidates splitting the vote. >> i guess governor romney is leading in the state of mississippi at this point according to the polls. >> they're all over the place. i think they're all -- >> you know, the thing is if romney were to pull out either mississippi or alabama, that would go a long way towards those conservative, you know, further right conservatives saying we need someone.

we want to see someone more conservative. if he does vote and put one of those two states out, you'll be surprised to see a lot of people coalesce behind him. that may be a game changer, a win in either mississippi or alabama. >> so jeff foxworthy and mitt romney joining us on "fox & friends" this morning. 8:15 a.m. eastern time. in the meantime, rick santorum having his own retort to the romney report that, according to the mass, that romney has all the delegates that he needs. so rick santorum now saying that is based on what he deems to be fuzzy math. >> romney needs about 50% of the delegates and on the current track that we're on right now, the fact is that governor romney doesn't get to that number so the idea that you just make projections, this isn't a mathematical formula. someone who is outspent 10-1 and all the establishment behind him, all the wind to his back, he can't close the door in winning ohio and winning michigan by the skin of his teeth. >> so that's his thought process. it's interesting to point out

that santorum's advisors say that they would have won michigan and ohio if gingrich had not been in the race. and when you add up those two states plus alaska which romney won a combination of gingrich and santorum would have come out on top. there is some argument to be made for the fact that they're splitting the conservative vote. >> if you remember once a -- an imminent candidate is discovered in the process, they all start to fall. all the states, states, states. important to note, 95 delegates in new york. 140 or so in texas and california. 125, i think, those are later down the road a little bit. those are big numbers. so even if one candidate doesn't kind of get it together by the end, those states will be the deciding factors. >> all right, let's do some headlines for your monday. we've learned that a car bomb has exploded in a school in southern syria leaving a girl dead and 25 other people hurt. this comes as we're seeing

dramatic video out of syria of civilians narrowly escaping an artillery shell. more than 120 people have been killed in clashes the last two days including dozens of civilians. syria's government has resisted calls to stop the ongoing onslaught against there. the u.n. secretary general went there to stop the violence. it's still eight days from the official start of spring. in areas where it's usually still gold this time of year, it feels that spring has sprung. this is in north dakota, snow is on the ground but it was still warm out this morning. boaters getting a jump on the weekend on the missouri river. yep, they're water skiing there. a woman is trying to find her missing dog in massachusetts but you won't see any dog posters anywhere nearby. this is bridgette. she's been missing since last

november and her owner hasn't lost hope in finding her saying there's been 30 sightings of the dog but she's frustrated because hanging up lost dog signs is reportedly against the law in the town of acton. officials say zoning laws allow the signs but they have to come down in a timely manner. >> that's right. >> forget go west, young man. head to north dakota instead. unlike california which has seen its oil production slowly dry up, wilston, north dakota is seeing a boom because of hydraulic fraking. >> did the president say we can't drill our way out of our economic problems? stu? >> let me give you the news of the day. the gas price spike continued over the weekend, up another $0.05. national average $3.80 a gallon. and the headline in "the washington post" today is gas

prices sink, obama's ratings on the economy. >> it was down one day and i was getting hopeful and now up. >> three days where it levelled up and over the weekend straight up again to $3.80. >> why do you think? >> there's the change to the summer blend, you're beginning to see that and the price of oil is way out there at $107 a barrel. >> what's the lesson in north dakota? where are they doing things that other states should be doing? >> drill, baby, drill and you will get prosperity. >> it's not a joke like the president thinks. >> look at north dakota, they are drilling vigorously and about to become the number one oil location in the entire united states beating back alaska that has led for generations. they're offering $18 an hour at mcdonald's in wilston in north dakota plus a signing bonus. that's how short of labor they are. that's why it is boom territory in north dakota. contrast that with california which is the most hostile to

drilling of any state in the nation. their production is down by 1/3 over the years. they won't allow any fossil fuel development whatsoever. they have an unemployment rate of 11%. state is flat out bankrupt. >> a tale of two states. >> stuart, president obama released his energy success story this morning. in it, he takes credit for additional units of natural gas. >> that was straight of president bush's playbook. he opened up that territory. he opened up on private land. that's why you're seeing an oil boom in north dakota. that's why oil production in the united states is indeed up over the last three years. the groundwork was laid four or five years ago. >> i would assume that president obama won't be traveling to north dakota any time soon to tout the low unemployment rate there because it would be all -- wouldn't be a lot of it because of this fraking industry that's going on? >> yes, it is. if you look at -- the big picture here, we have enormous reserves in this shale under the

ground. numerous states, we have massive oil reserves but we're not allowed to go and get it. you could have an energy independent united states if we're alleowed to get what is ours. >> stuart varney 9:20 this morning on the fox business channel. >> abc just launched a new show called "good christian belles" poking fun at southern christian women. would the network launch a show called, as newt gingrich said, "good muslim belles"? we'll take a closer look coming up next. >> democrats unveil a plan to make college free for all students. guess who would pay for it. yep, you the taxpayer. heather noward is here to break it all down

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>> so how does absolutely free college tuition sound to you? some lawmakers are working on a proposal to do just that. >> heather noward is here with more details. >> nice to see you. parents want to listen up for this one. in the state of michigan, senate democrats introduced a new plan to pick up the tab for tuition at state universities there. the proposal would allow high school grads to get grants, these are not loans but rather grants of up to $9500 a year. a lot of folks in that state have shied away from the plan saying its nearly $2 billion price tag is too steep in the current economic environment. this would eventually cost about $442 for every household in the state. lawmakers who support the plan say it would be funded by

putting a term limit on corporate tax credits and charging tax to state retailers on line. of course, that's tax hikes right there. michigan college of affordability is an issue that resonates with families because college costs have risen dramatically statewide after the republican governor rick snyder cut education funding by 15% last year. michigan 2020 as the proposal has been dubbed comes as president obama plans a pledge to try to make college more affordable by encouraging universities to slow tuition rates. granted, this may sound good. a lot of money for students. a lot more than college costs in in state tuition rates but it's going to cost money for everybody. >> as a parent with somebody in college and you hear something like that at first, you say, wow, that sounds great. but then you say what is the cost? and you mentioned $2 billion. i mean, it's a tremendous amount of money to put on the taxpayer over time but if you've got a child in college, man, that

sounds like, you know, a chicken every pot and three cars in every garage. >> sometimes these things are too good to be true. there's nothing free in this world. unless you live in some of the countries of europe where this plan has been in effect for quite sometime. and taxes are about 55%. >> right, and then they caution us, don't go down that road! >> exactly. >> great to see you bright and early this morning. will we see you tomorrow morning at 5:00? >> i think so. >> good, we'll look forward to it. shocking confession from one of the country's leading cardiologists. we all have it wrong? the causes and the treatments. that cardiologist here next hour. >> the mainstream media not even blinking an eye about the new tv show "good christian belles" that pokes fun at southern christians, women. but what would happen if it was called "good muslim belles"? we'll tell you. i find the omega choices overwhelming.

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>> 52 minutes after the top of the hour. a former nasa scientist facing off against the space agency in court today. he claims he was fired for saying he believes in intelligent design, the theory, a higher power had a hand in creation. and president obama shooting for dollars? he's rounding a march madness pool on his web site. every user who submits a bracket will get asked to donate money to the campaign. we all know he likes basketball. peter? >> thanks, gretchen. the controversy of the new abc show "good christian belles" has reached the campaign trail. >> look at the new show that's

on thats the word christian in it and take that exact name, drop in christian and put in his limb and ask yourself is there any network that would have dared to run a show like that and you know the answer is not a one because anti-christian bigotry is just fine in the entertainment industry. >> conservative and christian comedian brad stine, big fan of yours, joins us from nashville. good morning, brad. >> good morning. i love this. this is my kind of topic. god bless you for bringing it on. >> why is it your kind of topic? isn't it funny to make fun of christian belles? >> well, listen, here's the beautiful thing. if christians complain about the bigotry that happens to us, why we're oversensitive but to liberals it's sophisticated. that's really their hypocrisy. you know, it was originally called "good christian witches" with a b, that's how little hollywood thinks of the 75% of americans who call themselves christians. here's the good news, i went to

the abc president and i said you need to be more open minded so they got a whole new line-up coming up. you'll love this. the first show is going to be called good gay cannibals. talk about your alternative lifestyle. these are guys that just like other guys, they eat them for breakfast! and then they leave with an extreme make-over. it's hysterical! then we got another one. it's kind of more adult related called "liberal loose ladies." that's right. it's all these loose liberal ladies who want the taxpayers to pay for contraception and all you have to provide is the tequila! that's right. because liberal ladies are so loose. and the last one, it's a classic. you're going to love this. it's called obama's mama. that's right! it's the white woman that raises the first black president and not wanting him to lose his heritage, why, he cares more when he gets in office about basketball and singing al green songs to hollywood elite than the fact that gas prices are higher than they've ever been in history and no one has a job in

this country and the big rate of our country has lost so much money, we're in such bad shape, we don't know what to do. that's her hysterical. >> kristen chenowith was on our show. >> i read the bible and i pray and i am a christian and there's been some backlash of oh, is this making fun of god and i first of all, wouldn't would anything that did that. that's not who i am. i wouldn't make fun of anybody's religion, frankly. but there's a difference of making fun of and having fun with. and the backdrop of our show is church. >> we got about 30 seconds, brad. how do you react to that? who's perfect? who's imperfect? are we talking about being perfect or talking about making fun of christian women? >> listen, i don't know this woman. all i know is if you're not dignifying something, you're bringing it down. you're not being more like jesus. you're being more like judas is what i'm thinking and listen, show me one show that's got a christian or conservative that's

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weekend. thank for sharing your time. president's top campaign advisor said this election is not a referendum on obama. >> the biggest issues are going to be economic. i don't think it's going to be a referendum. >> dana perino will weigh in on that one for us. >> and remember when alan grayson said this. >> the republican health care plan is this. die quickly! >> well, the ex-congressman just found himself in his own life or death situation. >> and whose bright idea was this? a $50 light bulb paid for with $10 million in taxpayer money. let's find out. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> good morning, everyone. hope you had a fantastic weekend. sitting in for steve and brian

today, we have peter johnson jr. and eric bolling. >> good morning. >> good to see the both of you. >> the gasman and the lawyer. is that what you said earlier? >> i also said you smelled nice. >> smell lovely, too. >> as if saying a lawyer was not a good thing. gasman, maybe i could have something up with a little bit better. >> i've known some lawyers full of gas. >> good line. take a look at who is coming up on the show. dana perino around the corner and donald trump joins us every monday. >> and mitt romney running for president, you know him. couple of big, big days. you have alabama and mississippi coming up tomorrow. he's going to join us. >> who was knocked off the apprentice last night? i don't know. we'll have to see. >> donald trump will have to tell us himself. jeff foxworthy maybe he knows. this fun loving comedian will be on fox news today. >> he's fantastic. >> we have to kick off your headlines with a developing story this morning. american troops in afghanistan bracing for retaliation today. that's because the taliban is vowing revenge now for that

deadly shooting yesterday. a u.s. soldier accused of going on a rampage killing 16 afghan civilians including nine children. right now, all we know is that that staff sergeant is 38 years old. currently in u.s. custody. a married father of two from the fort lewis army base. he arrived in afghanistan in december after three tours in iraq. >> i can tell you that we're going to let the facts and the evidence take us wherever they need to take us to figure out exactly what happened, what the motivation was here and then hold the individual responsible, accountable through u.s. law. >> president obama condemning the attacks and offering his condolences to the victim's family. brand new cross border violence erupting overnight between israel and gaza. islamic militants releasing this video of what they claim is them firing rockets into israel. israel launched strikes on several rocket sites after the

gaza attacks. three people have been killed in the latest round of air strikes including two gaza militants. the clashes started after israel killed a top militant leader. remember former democratic congressman alan grayson? here's a reminder for you. >> the republican health care plan is this, die quickly! >> he's facing a life or death scenario himself now. police in orlando say he ran a red light in his mercedes-benz and slammed into a bus. two people were hurt but grayson and his passenger were not. he was on his way to a campaign event at the time. going for a run won't just help your fitness levels? it will give your iphone a boost, too? it's all thanks to a new invention called the air mask. it uses the air from your lungs to charge your phone. the electronic mask contains tiny wind turbines. the energy created is transferred through a cable that goes straight to the device. the inventer from brazil says it saves energy and encourages

exercise. yeah, right. >> maybe -- eric, maybe you can hook that up to the chevy volt. >> i was wondering if president obama is going to take credit are for that. >> come on. >> in all realistic terms, you want to put that device on? they've been making ipods smaller and smaller for the exact opposite reason, right? i don't know. let's ask dana perino. she's live right now in d.c. for us. dana, are you going to put on a mask to go running any time soon? >> well, all i expect is by the time i get to new york tonight for "the five" that eric will have gone to the trinket shop that he owns and buy me one of those things so i can wear it on the show. >> if i can, i will. but you really threw us for a loop. i was moving over so you could sit on the end of the couch. why are you? you only have a few hours to get here. >> i'm in washington, d.c. but i'll be there. don't you worry. >> all right. >> so you're in d.c., your old stomping grounds when you were the first person for george w.

bush. the former spokesperson for president obama, robert gibbs was on the talk shows yesterday and now he's saying that this election will not be a referendum on his former boss. it's back to being about the economy because now the economy might be good news. listen to this. >> the biggest issues are going to be economic issues. i think you -- you saw a good economic jobs report on friday. we took another important step in a long road to recovery. i don't think it's going to be a referendum. i think it's going to be a choice, bob. we're going to have a choice in this election about whether we're going to continue positive job growth and we'll go back to the policies of cutting taxes for the wealthy and ignoring the middle class. many of the issues -- >> your comments, dana? >> well, i see it a little bit differently in that it's all of those things. it will be a referendum on the president. what's that every election is including the midterm elections. if you remember in 2010 when the democrats lost the house by such

a historic, huge, margin, that was a referendum on how the democrats had governed under president obama his first two years. so, of course, if you go up for re-election, it's about obama. the bumper stickers will be obama/biden 2012 and in fact, just last week, they produced through the campaign a 17 minute documentary all about obama! so this election will be about obama and that he's right, it's also going to be about the economy, obama's economy and do you want another four years of it? >> my problem here is why the economy a victory right now? i mean, the numbers aren't good. they're better than they were two years ago or last year but they're still worse than they were, you know, unemployment under bush averaged under 5% if i'm not mistaken so at 8%, where's the victory? >> so yeah, we are currently in the slowest recovery since world war ii but as i understand it, financial shocks like the one that we were dealt with in 2008,

the fall of 2008, sometimes those types of shocks take longer to get back but when president obama tries to run on the record of the stimulus money, they don't talk about it very much because those jobs did not materialize and while there have been positive trends, you just told me the other day something i didn't know that in those good job numbers, there wasn't a single construction job that was created. manufacturing was down and the thing that i think as sort a storm cloud on the horizon is our gdp forecast, our national economic growth forecasts have been reduced from about 2.2% now down to even 1.6% or 1.8% so it's not like things are all roses but there have been positive trends and i guess if they want to claim credit for that, that's fine. this election will be about president obama. >> what's the shorthand argument for the republicans in taking on this argument? gibbs is saying, well, the road to recovery is a long one. but now the trend line is a good one. do the republicans need to focus

on what took it so long to get to kind of a marginal situation that's not as optimistic as they would like to take credit for? has that become the issue? >> i think they have to say, it could have been better and he's going to make it a lot worse. you look at the taxes that they want to increase. if they're not going to allow us do the good energy things in the longer run will provide us more energy security both in the financial and a foreign policy security piece. and health care. obamacare is still one of the most negative things out there at 64% and it hasn't even kicked in yet. so i think they're going to have to focus on it could have been better. they're about to make it worse. if you want to stop this, you better vote for republicans in november and not just on the presidential level. >> ok, let's parse it down a little bit because the female vote is so important. it went for republicans in those midterm elections that we're talking about but usually the female vote goes to democrats and now the president's really reaching out to them this week.

ed with a couple of new initiatives. let's take a look at the president's job approval among women. approve 50%. disapprove 48%. basically split in half. how important is the female vote for both parties? >> extremely. women are elusive and complex creatures, as you well know, eric bolling. women in america have only been allowed to vote for less than 100 years and now they're one of the most important votes that you can try to get. i would say if you had 100 women in the room, just picked them at random, 40% would say i'm definitely voting for obama. 40% would say i'm definitely not voting for obama. i don't care who it is and there's that 20% of women that both parties are going to have to try to reach out to. and i think economic security, the future of the country, the amount of debt that we're carrying and take home pay for moms, whether you're a single mom or married, you start looking -- you go to app, my salary.com and put in your salary and it calculates for you

how much taxes you'll have to pay federal, state and local and you start realizing, wait a second, where's my future? and then the third part is the bigger picture of what kind of country is this going to be and are my kids going to be able to compete? >> before we run out of time, let's talk about the d.o.j. investigating the nypd. where are we on that? what's wrong with that? where's the breakdown? >> i think last week, you hit they -- it hit a peak in a way when eric holder, the attorney general of the united states was testifying in front of congress and made comments about the reports that he'd seen in the newspaper and questioned the integrity of the nypd officers that had, perhaps, been involved and something they were accused of, that he doesn't even know it was illegal. anyway, he said he was troubled by it. i think that that was sort of a souring point. that even the staff at the justice department must have thought, hold on a second. we're in a position to know. we have to protect the integrity of this investigation.

and at the end of it, they might ound , have to find out some sort of law was crossed. at the end of this investigation, we find out that the nypd followed the law as it is and attorney general holder will have to eat some words. >> yeah. >> but i also thought of fast & furious, dana, nobody ever knows anything. we didn't know about fast & furious. we didn't know about this. we don't know about anything. take a look at it. i mean, it's, you know. >> amazing lack of attention to detail at the very, very top and plus, if you're going to go to congress and the news of the day is what it is. usually as a staffer and on the way up to capitol hill, you brief your boss. by the way, make sure you're prepared to talk about the nypd. >> unless you're messaging is to criticize something that your department doesn't agree with. anyway -- >> dana, get to the train. get to the acela and hurry up, we need you at 5:00. >> thank you.

i'll be there. >> see you, dana. thanks so much for your time. coming up on the show, the president sticking to his guns today pushing more forms of alternative energy even though many have failed in the past. is it going to be a viable option? donald trump is here to weigh in on that. >> how's this for a bright idea? the government's latest green energy push investing your taxpayer money in light bulbs that costs $50 a pop. would you buy one of those? wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people are choosing advil. my name is lacey calvert and i'm a yoga instructor.

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families. get this, the cost of that new light bulb, 50 bucks. doesn't sound so affordable to me. congressman michael burgess has been sticking up for our traditional bulbs since the government ban was signed in 2007 and he joins us from dallas. is there a ban on incandescent light bulb? >> the manufacture is not occurring any longer. in the last appropriations bill, i had an amendment to prevent the manager department from enforcing that ban so it's still possible for companies to manufacture in the united states but the reality is people aren't getting back into the market. 100 watt bulb will be a thing of the past. >> all right, congressman, what's so affordable about a $50 light bulb anyway? >> it's not when you consider it's 60 watt counterpart the incandescent variety is $0.79 on the shelves of my retail outlets here in texas. there's that discrepancy. they say these are going to last

longer and burn less energy but i got to tell you, the difference between $0.79 and 50 bucks, that's a lot of time that light bulb has got to last and you've got to anticipate the electricity prices will go up over and above where they are now. the reality is the change-up doesn't help that -- people that much. now, i'm all for energy efficiency. please don't misunderstand. what i'm against is the government telling us what we've got to do. in this case, the prize money, yeah, i could be ok with competition generated by a prize but it doesn't look like it was well thought out and why in the world wasn't cost a consideration in awarding that prize? >> sir, very quickly, the department of energy released a statement and says the prize competition played a critical role in driving manufacturing and engineering innovations in the u.s. lighting industry and helping to make the next generation of energy saving l.e.d. lighting options more affordable for consumers but still, it's still a $50 light bulb. how is that possible? >> yeah, well, it obviously is

not more aforkedable for the consumer. wasn't it odd that a couple of the people participating in the prize found it had closed out and they didn't know about it. so there's a communication difficulties within that office of the department as well. >> sure, we'll have to leave it there but we want to also point out that phillips tells us there's a rebate you can mail in, i guess, get some of that money back. again, that's got to come from somewhere as well. all right. very quickly, last thought. >> well, just another example of a poor idea out of the department of energy. this particular office in the department of energy has excess funds they haven't spent since last year and they're asking for $500 million more in this year. it underscores the difficulty that we have getting any kind of efficiency out of department of energy let alone energy efficiency. >> i have to leave it there. thank you, representative. >> thank you. >> he shells out millions to fund media matters, leftie group that attacks fox news. now it appears mr. george soros getting a taste of his own

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>> ready for your news by the numbers? here we go. first, $3.80. that's the national average price for a gallon of gas. this is the third straight

increase. next, $250,000. that's how much billionaire george soros is accused of offering the cousin of his ex-girlfriend to drop her lawsuit against him. a brazilian actress is suing soros saying he backed out on his promise to buy her a luxury apartment. and finally, over $500 billion. that's how much apple's stock rebounded after news of its upcoming ipad 3 release. the tablet has sold out in preorders. gretchen? >> thank you, peter. heart disease as we all know. the leading cause of death in the united states and every year, an estimated 12 million americans spend about $19 million on cholesterol lowering drugs. but our next guest says scientists have it all wrong! and now those drugs aren't doing the job. dr. dwight lindell is a cardiologist who has performed over 5,000 open heart surgeries and the author of "the cure for heart disease" and he joins me live from phoenix this morning.

good morning to you, doctor. >> good morning, thank you. fun to be here. >> it's revolutionary what you're saying. what are we doing wrong? >> what we're doing wrong is following the government's dietary advice that we've had since the food pyramid was proposed. just look around at what it's done to our country. over 70% of us are overweight. 40% are obese. we have epidemics of diabetes and 25% of us still die of heart disease in spite of all the advances we've made. >> so more people now die of heart disease than before we started getting all these drugs to help fight cholesterol, correct? >> that's correct. >> so you actually argue that it's inflammation in the arteries that's causing this. how so? >> well, the cholesterol is a normal substance. cholesterol in your blood today, you produce 80% of it in your liver. we need cholesterol for every cell in our whole body and it never made sense why a normal substance would cause this problem. well, we now know and everybody

accepts the fact that arterial sclerosis is an inflammatory disease so we go about ways of trying to treat inflammation. we lowered cholesterol. we lowered our consumption of saturated fat and it didn't do any good because we never really got to the heart of the problem. what is causing this inflammation that then allows the cholesterol to be deposited in our arteries and give us a heart attack or a stroke. >> uh-huh. what is causing that inflammation? >> well, we've been on this low fat diet and that means high carbohydrate diet. a high sugar diet. and currently, we consume more sugar and more simple carbohydrates than our bodies can tolerate. and so we get what's called sugar spikes. we get high spikes of blood sugar after these meals. of low fat products. and those high sugar spikes actually kill the lining of our blood vessels. they also hurt the cells in the kidney. they hurt cells in the eyes and in the nerves which is why

diabetic people have that unique set of complications. >> so i mean, it flies in the face of what the american public thinks they're doing. they think that they're eating low-fat food so that they don't get heart disease and in fact, it's some of these processed foods is what you're arguing that end up killing them? >> absolutely. fat's got nothing to do with it. carbohydrates, sugar has everything to do with it. >> what can we offer our viewer this morning who is hearing this new revolutionary news today? what kinds of foods should we be eating? >> we should be eating everything that's natural. fish. meat. fowl. eggs. whole milk. whole food. real food. food without a bar code, for example, food that's not been highly processed. so we should be eating the healthy things that our great grandmother ate and not the things that we now eat that are so highly processed, so easily

digestible and so quickly raise our blood sugars. >> very interesting. you can find out more from dr. dwight lendell in "the cure for heart disease." thanks so much for your thoughts this morning. >> thank you. >> coming up next on the rundown, one small business owner says the government is feeding us broken promises so she's covering them in chocolate and getting sweet revenge. a story you definitely want to hear. plus the president is sticking to his guns today pushing his alternative energy successes but has he filled up his tank lately? where's the focus? donald trump here to weigh in on the high gas prices and what our future holds for us. right back. i'm a marathon runne, in absolute perfect physical condition and i had a heart attack right out of the clear blue... i'm on an aspirin regimen... and i take bayer chewables. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen.

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>> half past the hour of 7:00 if you're just waking up this morning on the east coast. 6:30 in the central time zone. >> good morning. >> let's do some headlines for you this morning now. a car bomb attack at a school in southern syria leaving one girl dead and dozens hurt today. it comes as former u.n. secretary general was unsuccessful in his bid to get the slaughter against civilians to end in that country. he met over the weekend with president assad. and we're seeing dramatic video of civilians barely escaping an attack.

>> more than 120 people have been killed in the last two days alone. many of them civilians. the u.n. says more than 8500 people have been killed since this uprising started last year. some incredible video out of southern california for you. a plane crashed sparking a 10-acre fire. the plane crashed into a remote hilltop north of l.a. and amazingly, though, the pilot and his passenger walked away with just minor injuries. the cause of the crash, under investigation at this hour. whitney houston's daughter breaking her silence for the first time since the singer's sudden death last month. in an emotional new interview, 19-year-old bobbi kristina says she still talks to her mom. >> i can hear her voice, you know, in spirit talking to me and telling me, you know, keep moving, baby. you know, i'm right here. i got you. i can always feel her. i can always feel her with me.

>> is that what you hear in your head? i got you? >> that's all i hear. >> over the weekend, reports surfaced she wants nothing to do with her father bobby brown and wants to change her name to kristina houston. our very own dave briggs took the plunge this weekend, the penguin plunge, that is. we promised dave is somewhere in that crowd. he is. this is westport, connecticut, jumping into the long island sound on saturday. there he is. there he is! all right! whoo! all right, dave. ok. just 42 degrees. dave was freezing for a reason, though. this plunge benefited the special olympics and these brave souls raised over $100,000. i might suggest that he does more of those kinds of things. >> great cause. i watched it over the weekend. that was great to watch. >> nice job, dave. >> donald, are you going to be doing that any time soon? >> i'm not so sure.

doesn't look too good to me. >> i was talking about going shirtless. >> ok. >> shirtless, i love, right? shirtless i love. >> all right. >> can we move on now? >> mr. trump, donald, good to speak to you. good to see your picture in the lower right-hand corner of the screen there. gasoline prices, gasoline $3.80 national average today. on its way up $2 higher than when president obama took over. yet, today, president obama says it's his fault that there's increased oil production. which one is it? gas prices up? more production? what matters? >> well, he's done nothing for oil production, eric, but i mean, obviously, if you drill and if you come up with oil and he said it's not immediate. it probably won't be within the next month but it's certainly going to help and it's going to help in the future. even if it was a year from now, it's going to help so you have to drill. you have to take the oil. we have so much oil. we have so much natural gas. we're just not allowed to get it. it's really amazing. i mean, the whole attitude is amazing. whether it's a pipeline that's

not approved or you can't drill oil, it's absolutely incredible and i think it's very politically bad for obama. >> in what way? i mean, obviously, the gas price situation is bad. there's a new poll out this morning that says 2/3 of all americans think that he has not done enough about lowering the price of gas. but he's now coming out with this big plan about the seven things he has done. will it work? >> i don't think the plan has worked because he's saying what he has done and it's obviously we're at a record level. in the history of this country, we've never paid more at this time for gasoline. now, in the summer, you could hit $5 and you could even hit $6 a gallon and that will end obama's presidency. because if that happens, number one, the country will tank. and number two, everyone is going to be extremely angry. they will not be happy with his no drilling policy. >> donald, how does this affect you and your companies when you're having to make a budget and you say, god, gas prices are going up. oil prices are going up. does it make you hesitant?

>> peter, it's really not a question of how it affects me. it's the psychology of how it affects everyone including people that deal with me and people that buy my product, etc., etc. the psychology is not positive in this country and it hasn't been for a long time. >> you know, can we just point out that one of the things that he -- that president obama has said that, i guess, credits his administration with the increase in natural gas production. where -- help me out here, donald. last three years, i haven't heard a pro natural gas policy out of the white house, have you? >> there has been no pro. and the only -- i mean, there's a little bit of an increase because the demand is so enormous it's forcing it out. and people are doing it, i think people are doing it frankly without approvals. they have no choice. you cannot get environmental approvals to do anything. forget about oil and gas. if you want to build, if you want to build buildings as an example, it's so long. it's so tedious. the process and i have people

and friends in china and other countries, they don't even know what i'm talking about. they want to build a job, they start the job. they don't wait around for seven years and five years. it's a very, very -- i could point job after job that's been killed because you cannot get environmental permits. >> right, and all the other regulations. i have to switch topics for you because the department of justice apparently investigating the new york police department's muslim surveillance program that's been in effect for quite sometime. when eric holder, the attorney general was asked about this under oath last week, he said yeah, i'm sort of troubled with the way that they have been going about their surveillance. what do you make of this? because the last time i checked, this police department had thwarted 14 potential terrorist attacks that the general public never found out about because they took care of them. >> well, gretchen, there's an expression, go where the action is and let's not kid ourselves. that's where the action is. whether we like it, whether we don't like it, whether it's politically correct which, perhaps, it isn't. you have to go where the action

is. and ray kelly, the commissioner in new york is one of the greatest ever in any country, in any state as a police commissioner. i mean, ray kelly has done an amazing job as the police commissioner of new york city and i have great trust in ray kelly but he's looking at it from the standpoint of let's -- let's see what's happening in the areas that are very troublesome. >> i agree with you. coming back to the election for a second, mr. trump, it looks like newt gingrich is trying to stir up some interest and now there's some talk, well maybe governor perry would be part of his team going forward. does that mean anything? are people swayed by that, that the notion, well, i'm going to have rick perry on my ticket? >> i like both of them very much. i don't think it matters at this point. i think mitt will do it, and i think it's time that people say look, we have to coalesce. we have to get behind a candidate. the candidate is going to be mitt romney and he's going to do a great job as a candidate and

he's going to do an incredible job as a president. i really believe he's going to win. and i think by the way, oil prices will be a big factor. >> mr. trump, couple of big primaries tomorrow. mississippi and alabama. mitt romney, if he wins one of those, what do you think? is that game over? does that mean he's going to be the presumptive nominee? >> it's not game over because nobody gets out. rick santorum who lost by 18 or 19 points running for the senate in pennsylvania just keeps going and going and he gets into a commercial airliner and flies to -- what does he have to lose by saying it? he doesn't get out. >> he keeps winning. >> he's not winning, gretch and he's not going to win and it's just not going to happen. in my opinion, it's not going to happen and the one that's winning is obama because at a certain point, you have to get behind a person and you have to start goings after obama, not each other. and what the republicans are doing is disgraceful. >> ok. so i mean, four years ago, we saw the same thing with obama and hillary clinton, too, they

went at each other. it was interesting because back then, the republicans were sort of salivating at that race. they said democrats are so energized. why don't you see it that way now as a republican? >> i've been ok with what's going on. for months, i've been telling you it's ok because we're talking about the republicans but now it's getting to be time. it's getting to be tedious. romney is going to win and i think it's now time for us to focus on obama which we're not doing. >> so you agree with the romney person, advisor who came out and said that mathematically, it's over now for any other candidate. >> it's pretty close. it's very hard for the other candidates certainly. i mean, it's pretty close. but if they're good republicans, they're going to say look, we've got to beat obama. let's get together. somebody has to get together and end this thing. because now it's getting tiresome and people are not liking it. the only one liking it is obama. >> speaking of obama, joe biden, vice president joe biden said he'll definitely be on the

ticket for a re-election campaign, what do you think about that? >> i think it's fine. i think they have a very good relationship and i think that's one of the people that president obama likes and i think that's fine. that's their choice but i think it's absolutely fine. >> you know about cutting the cord and making a decision. you're talking about that. another decision was made on the great "celebrity apprentice" show last night. let's take a look. >> i like being -- >> michael, here's the problem. you didn't lose this task because of you. whether he was in the background or whether he thought he should have been there, doesn't matter. you didn't lose because of lou. you lost because of you and adam to a certain extent. the executives felt you should have stepped up and wanted to see your name used at the highest level and not the secondary level and thought you didn't have the presence for the task. michael, you're fired! >> mr. trump, if it were me, when i'm on "celebrity apprentice" next season or the

one after, i want to put michael andretti in the car with a little camera and have him test drive it and that would be my ad. what do you think of that? >> he's the driver and he's a great guy and he did very well but he got fired and adam corolaa got fired. it was a double firing last night. adam took a lot of heat but he did a fantastic job. not easy. eric, if you want to be on it, i think you're making a mistake. it's not easy. >> you know i have the right ideas. you saw me drive the chevy volt, didn't you? >> i have a feeling that you're a winner. there may be a conflict here. >> we'll talk to mr. aels about that later. we'll get back to you. >> all right, donald, we would love people to comment on your twitter page. it's the real donald trump, right? >> that's right. we have a lot of people on that real donald trump. a lot of people. millions at this point. >> love reading it. good to see you. >> have a good time. thank you all very much. >> talk to you soon. coming up on "fox & friends", she adopted this boy from russia

and then sent him back. remember this story? because he threatened to burn her alive. now, a judge wants her to pay child support back in russia. is that fair? the legal debate is next. >> then he ignored the elephant in the living room but don't worry, barney frank is now all over the fannie and freddie mess. wait until you hear what he wants to happen now. >> first, the trivia question of the day -- i take a multivitamin, but i wanted more support for my heart. i found centrum specialist. a complete multivitamin enhanced

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>> you may remember this story. an american mother sent her 7-year-old adopted son to russia alone with a note in his backpack. torre hansen says she had no choice. she claims the boy was not only physically violent but he drew a picture of their house on fire. and said he would burn it down with everyone inside. this morning, there's a new twist in the case. a judge ruled she needs to pay child support to the orphanage in russia. joining us for a fair and balanced debate, defense attorney arthur adeila and my new pal, attorney faith jenkins. good morning. good morning. who owes who money? i mean, the mother says that she was swindled and she wouldn't pay. faith? >> well, she wanted to be the parent of this child and she legally became the parent of this child and still is.

as a result, she owes parental rights to this child. there are certain duties and responsibilities that she still owes. that includes child support. now, her claims about how violent he was, none of those things have been substantiated. in fact, since this child has been returned to russia, russian officials, he's been examined and they have found no violent tendencies with him. essentially, she sent this child back to russia as if she had some kind of buyer's remorse. and her story of wanting to absolve herself -- >> if he wants to burn down her house, it's buyer's remorse. what she claims is number one, there was fraud in the adoption because they didn't tell her this young child -- she should have been told. >> excuse me, miss jenkins. she was wrong to put the kid on a plane and send him back. that's not what's on trial here. what is on trial and was already decided in court and was thrown out is that she does not, another court says she does not owe the money in russia. >> say he wanted to burn the

house down. did he burn the house down? >> thank god, he didn't! mom said listen, he's violent to me. he's violent to my mother, his adopted grandmother. he's drawing pictures. i can't maintain him in school. >> how much did this mother pay back? >> she should pay child support. this child is in russia in an orphanage. he's not been adopted and officials say that he may not be able to be adopted. >> what we should do, peter, is write out a check. >> would you write a check? >> to the russian federation, here's $10,000. you know what that does, peter? it doesn't allow the kid to get adopted because russia won't want to give up her money. >> legally, what happened? did she respond to this lawsuit? >> no, she did not. >> there has to be an adjudication on the merits, correct? >> thank you, counselor. thank you, your honor. >> now, quiet down. please. please! >> she refused to appear in court. you are not rewarded -- >> counselor, you got to talk. >> she refused to -- >> i'll give you the last word.

>> she had many opportunities to appear in court. >> she missed it and blew it. >> she sent the kid back. you say pay now, pay later. she's paying russia. arthur, final word. >> this is economic discrimination. she lives in california. this case is in tennessee. she wrote to the judge and said i can't afford to get there. i'm sorry. >> discrimination? >> that's right. she couldn't afford the airline ticket. >> great debate. great lawyers. faith, arthur, god bless you. let's do it again. good to see you. breaking up -- waking up is hard to do. rest easy, coming up, the five newest and coolest ways to help you get out of the bed. and let me tell you what happened in 1974 on this day, "seasons in the sun" by terry jacks, number one song. do it, arthur. do it, faith! [ male announcer ] juice drink too watery?

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>> gretchen: good morning, everyone. as i clear my throat. today is monday, march 12. i'm gretchen carlson. thank you for sharing your time. you ever get a frog in your throat? >> yeah. >> gretchen: the president is stick to go his green energy guns. despite critics who say they failed in the past. we're live at the white house. >> peter: is this mitt romney's secret weapon? to help him win the south? >> you can't always talk about red necks unless you are one and i are one. >> peter: that's jeff foxworthy and governor mitt romney, now teaming up and both here live this hour. >> eric: here "game change" made its debut, blasting governor sarah palin and john mccain. is it fact or more just liberal

hollywood fiction? senator mccain responds. we'll have that. "fox & friends" starts right now >> gretchen: good morning, everyone. hope you had a great weekend, even you had tho move the clock forward. right? less sleep. but maybe in your opinion a sunny spirit. peter sitting in for steve and eric sitting in for brian. good to have both of you. fox news headlines. american troops in afghanistan bracing for retaliation because the taliban vowing readvantage for a deadly shooting yesterday. a u.s. soldier accused of going on a rampage killing 16 afghan civilians, including nine children. retinue we know 38 -- right now we know he's a married father of two from north lewis army base in washington state.

he arrived after three tours in iraq. >> i can tell that you we're pretty confident that this was just one individual acting alone. i can tell you one of the reasons we know that is because when it was noticed that the individual left the outpost and it was noticed and reported up the cable of command, the command did exactly the right thing. >> gretchen: president obama condemning the attacks and offering a his condolences to the victims' families. islamic militants releasing video of what they claim is them shooting off rockets into israel . gaza militants attacked a number of israeli towns in the last four days, disrupting the lives of 4 million israelis. israel launching strikes last night on several strikes, leaving three people dead. the fighting breaking out after israel killed a top militant

leader. this is the worst fighting in the region in over a year. democratic congressman barney frank calling for the man in charge of regulating fannie mae and freddie mac to get the boot now. frank and other democrats are upset because edward demarco refuses to force fannie and freddie to write down their mart, reducing the prims on the loans. he says that's too costly for taxpayers who gave them a bailout. frank admits whoever replaces him will probably do the same thing. senator john mccain's reaction to the movie "game change." channel change. >> i watched the phoenix coyotes defeat the san jose sharks 3-0. it was a great game. of course, i'm not going to watch it. it's based on a book that's completely biased and what i don't understand and even in the tough word of politics why there continues to be assaults on a good and decent person, sarah palin, a fine family person, a

person whose nomination energized our campaign. >> gretchen: former alaska governor sarah palin also refuses to watch the movie. apparently. those are your headlines for monday morning. >> eric: so despite gas prices rising again overnight to 3.80 a gallon, there is a new report out today from the obama administration touting its progress on making the u.s. more energy independent. >> peter: with more on this, we have wendell goler who is live at the white house. good morning, wendell. >> good morning, peter. the president is talking energy today in an event that has as much a political purpose as a policy one. he'll meet with local tv anchors, bypassing the white house press corp., taking questions from anchors in pittsburgh, cincinnati, denver, las vegas and other city, all in battle ground states that are important for his reelection bid. the president will showcase his all of the above energy approach, che talked about in his weekly energy address on

saturday. >> but you and i both know that with only 2% of the world's oil reserves, we can't just drill our way to lower gas price, not when we consume 20% of the world's oil. we need an all of the above strategy that relies less on foreign oil and more on american made energy. >> mr. obama says on his watch, we've reduced oil imports and increased domestic oil production, boosted fuel economy standards, doubled renewable energy generation and improved home energy efficiency and he had missteps. a half billion dollars one in the case of solyndra and the republicans say the rising price of gasoline works in their favor. >> when in november, because of the 3 1/2 years of opportunity that this president's had to turn things around and quite frankly he mate it worse, go to the gas pumps and you'll realize it's on his watch. >> new news poll suggests the president's negative ratings on

the economy are tied directly to rising gasoline prices. his negatives are up 4% to 50% since prices spiked in february. and his positives are down 4% to 46% in that poll. peter? >> peter: thanks, wendell. >> gretchen: wendell, thanks very much. so one thing that's not in this 7 point plan the president is putting out today is the discussion about the failed green energy policies that have also happened within the time span of his administration. so we made a list of them here, not too tough to do because there have been several of them. the chevy volt has gone on a hiatus as far as production because it was not selling very well. then you have the solyndra debauchle which most americans have heard about now. the energy company out in california that received a half billion dollars in taxpayer money and then we want belly up. >> peter: enter one, $118 million in federal money. beacon power, $61 million. speck tradition, bankruptcy.

a 123 systems # 83 million. it goes down and down. tesla motors, 465 million. 400 million at bound solar. 1.2 billion for sun power. billions of dollars. so we're not going to hear point 8 of this plan, coney capitalism. we haven't heard about that. >> eric: billions and tens of thousands of jobs lost. can we point out a couple of things? the chevy volt now, i'm not sure where this lies in the obama administration's fault level, but here is what they did do. we gave gm $50 billion. they paid back about $30 billion. they still owe us $20 billion. problem is, president obama went to a plant and said look, i'm going to be driving a chevy volt when i retire five years from now, basically saying he's going to get reelected and then drive a chevy volt. two days later, they halted production of the chevy volt because there wasn't enough demand for it to happen. the point is, luke at solyndra,

enter one, beacon, abound, the administration tells you these are things we need to be doing. we need to be spending taxpayers money hiring people to do it and they don't have a clue what the outcomes will be. they really should step back, let the private sector handle these things. save us a lot of money and probably create jobs that would be permanent jobs. not these temperature things that go away as soon as they realize they made a mistake. >> gretchen: no doubt the president felt pressure to put out a progress report because many are asking about whether or not the president can do anything about the high gas prices. here is the answer today coming from the president, but as stuart varney said, the price of gas continues to go up. >> peter: we talk about temporary jobs. there is one temporary job that needs filling, according to the republican party, who is going to be the republican vice presidential president? there is a story out there now that newt may be looking at governor perry before the primaries in alabama and mississippi to give him a boost in the south.

possibly a gingrich-perry ticket. governor perry's folks are not confirming that at this point. but it's a matter of some conversation now. >> gretchen: it is. it's a little about the cart before the horse, because nobody has the republican nomination for president quiet. but it could be that this information wanted to be leaked out by the gingrich campaign because perry is popular. may look at that and say, i kind of like that idea. >> eric: staying out on the campaign trail, rick santorum says the reports that romney has all the delegates that are needed to lock it up, he kind of disagrees with it. take a listen. >> romney needs about 50% of the delegates to be able -- on the current track we're on right now, the fact is that governor romney doesn't get to that number. so the idea that you just make projections, this isn't a mathematical formula. someone outspent ten to one, who has all the establishment behind him, all this, quote, wind at his back, yet he can't close the deal, winning ohio, winning

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>> gretchen: 14 minutes after the top of the hour. republican hopeful mitt romney focusing on the south today with key contests in mississippi and alabama tomorrow.

and presidential candidate and former massachusetts governor mitt romney joins me on the road from the whistle stop in mobile, alabama, the whistle stop. what's it? >> well, gretchen, it's a restaurant here with a train motif and a lot of people jammed in and a lot of people getting ready to be rained on. >> gretchen: did they have a birthday cake for you? because i understand it's your 65th birthday today. happy birthday. >> yeah. thank you so much. happy birthday on the road. i'm hoping for a real big present tomorrow from alabama and mississippi. [ cheers and applause ] >> gretchen: we don't show polls the day before, but some pundits are saying you could be inching up in these races. what would that mean if you could win one of these states or beth? >> be fab lurks of course. this is all about delegates. at this stage, we're putting together as many delegates as we can. we've got a good, solid lead. i've got by mar the most votes among republicans so far. we're hoping to be able to get

the nomination at some point and go on and replace barak obama. >> gretchen: senator santorum, we played a tape from one of his talk shows yesterday. here is what he said about you: someone who is outspent ten to one, who has the establishment behind him, had the wind at his back, yet he can't close the deal. he's talking about you, governor romney. how do you respond to senator santorum? >> we're closing the deal. state by state, delegate by delegate. i guess two, 2 1/2 as many times delegates as he has. many more republican voters than he has. by the way, we're pretty pleased with the progress we're making and that's the nature of the process here. delegates are aworded proportionately. it lengthens the process. but we're winning this and i expect we're going to get the nomination. he's fine guy, but in politics, you got to battle and that's what we're doing. >> gretchen: newt gingrich

continues to battle the both of you. he took aim at you yesterday and al-qaeda you the weakest candidate in some time. >> the most he's going to get in mississippi and alabama is probably a third and more likely it get 25 or 28%. so yes, ea front runner. he's not a very strong front runner. almost all conservatives are opposed to him, which is the base of the party. >> gretchen: how do you respond to mr. gingrich? >> it's funny listening to these guys. they're saying what they wish was the case, but happens not to be the case. don't forget, florida, new hampshire, michigan, arizona and many other states. these are places where conservatives were asked after the race who did they vote for and i won commandingly in those states among conservatives. and if i'm weak, what does that make newt gingrich, because i'm well ahead of him. i'm happy to be ahead and he's a good guy.

i don't bebridge them they're out there campaigning and getting hard, but ultimately i believe i'm going to become the nominee and the reason is we want someone who can beat barak obama. both newt gingrich and rick santorum spent their life in washington. if people think you just need to have the same people go back in different chairs and fix that place, i think they're wrong. they want someone from outside washington to go fix it. i'm going to. >> gretchen: last week some of your advisors said that mathematically, santorum and gingrich could not win this race even though you are not near the 1144 delegates that you need. mathematically, independently they can not. but what happens if rick santorum and newt gingrich decide to go at this thing together, one of them drops out and now there is only one candidate going up against mitt romney? is it still a mathematical impossibility? >> i don't think it's mathematically. anything is possible in politic, even the impossible.

but i do believe that if the two of them were -- or one were to decide not to run, i would get some of their support. the other guy would get some of the support. i'd expect to still go on and get the nomination because as you're seeing across the party, people who know us best, people who have worked with the speaker, people who have worked with senator santorum, people who know us lest have lined up -- best have lined up behind me. hopefully it gives people confidence that if the people who know you best are the ones that get behind you and support you, that's a good sign. if people who know you best don't support you, that ought to tell you something. >> gretchen: ultimately, the three of you are hoping that one of you beats barak obama in november. yesterday his former spokesperson, robert gibbs, seemed to be touting the economy as a strong point now for president obama. listen to this. >> the biggest issues are going to be economic issues. i think you saw a good economic jobs report on friday.

we took another important step in a long road to recovery. i don't think it's going to be a referendum. i think it's going to be a choice bob. we're going to have a choice whether we're going to continue positive job growth or continue the policies of cutting taxes for the appellatey. >> gretchen: is this having it both ways, when the economy kicks up slightly, now it's a positive thing to run on for president obama, but if it's not doing well, it's still to blame president bush? >> it's really pretty sad to listen to that. i know they're going to do their spinning as best as they can. but you've had 37 straight months with unemployment above 8%. that was the level they said they wouldn't exceed and they've been above it for 37 straight months. this president has failed the american people. we've had far too many people out of work for too long. of course, the economy is going to come back. recessions don't go on forever. but what this president has done, has undoubtedly made the

recession deeper. it has made it more difficult for the recession to come out of the recession. we've seen gas prices double. the american people are not happy. obamacare, they're not happy with it. they want to get rid of it. he's part of the reason it's been so long for this economy to get back on its feet. >> gretchen: all right. governor mitt romney v a fantastic day in the south. someone is going to bake awe real good cake. happy birthday. >> thanks very much. >> gretchen: we hear you have a new supporter out there with you. our viewers may like to hear from. jeff foxworthy joins us next with the governor. thanks so much. also coming up, chasing down a story has never hurt so bad. >> i will not be making any comment. oh, my god! >> gretchen: the video that you can't get enough of this morning. we do feel bad for this guy, but watch that, oh, my goodness. right back with jeff foxworthy

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>> peter: good morning. 24 minutes after the hour. we have quick headlines. the former democratic congressman who accused republicans of wanting you to die quickly is accused of driving too quickly. police in florida say alan grayson ran a red light in his mercedes, slamming into a bus. two people were hurt. grayson was not. and senate democrats in michigan introducing a new plan to pick up the tab for tuition at state universities. it would allow high school grads to get grants of up to $9,500 a year. many republicans shying away from the plan, saying the merely $2 billion price tag is too

steep. eric? >> gretchen: jeff foxworthy is supposed to joins, but we've had weather issues. now he's back. there he is! we thought you were pulling a joke on us, foxworthy. >> eric: he with us? >> i'm here. >> eric: give us a sense, what's going on there? who are you with there? >> i am here with governor romney and a whole bunch of good friends in mississippi. i mean in alabama. we're in mobile right now. i've been to a lot of places. >> peter: why did you choose governor romney and tell us what that's all about, jeff. >> you know, i was lucky enough to avoid politics for about 53 years. i'm not a big fan of it, but i love this country and i'm just shaking the hand with my job of too many vets have put their lives on the line and given up

limbs to not get out of my comfort zone. mitt is the right guy for the job and as a party, the republicans, when we come together, we are a very powerful force. we can do great things. but divided, we accomplish nothing. the time has come in georgia where i live, they said in the primary we could go it's time to choose. and it is time to choose. it's time to get united behind one candidate, the candidate that i believe has the best chance of beating barak obama in the fall and somebody to step in with the experience and the knowledge to straighten this economy out because i don't care when you're telling me it's getting better, it's not getting better. down here why we live, it's not getting better and it's got to change. >> gretchen: by the way, the governor will stick around and join you, but he went outside to give his speech in before the weather really gets bad there. but i understand that -- >> yeah. i'm the one giving it in the hard rain. >> gretchen: okay. i understand you've gotten a lot of new material from the feedback from people since you made this endorsement. what kind of new material?

>> peter: there is the feedback. >> gretchen: can you repeat it, jeff? >> yeah. >> peter: that's funny. he brings funniness wherever he goes. >> gretchen: you might think it's april fool. that's okay. that's interesting. so he's going to be in two states with mitt romney bringing his comedic talent and a lot of people really like jeff foxworthy. i think he's probably one of the most liked entertainers in america. so if he can bring some jokes to the tour, that's -- >> eric: i'm trying to think of what's funnier. losing jeff's satellite a few times on air or the producers laughing and is trying to come up with something after we lost it. >> gretchen: and now we have to keep ourselves and all the viewers hanging as to the feedback that jeff foxworthy got and the new material he's been able to accrue since endorsing

mitt romney. but maybe he'll tell us another time. jeff, thanks anyway. i have know you can't hear us. >> peter: 21st century bob hope now. jeff foxworthy. on the road. >> gretchen: coming up next, one small business owner says the government is feeding us broken promises, so she's covering them in chocolate and getting sweet revenge. a story you want to hear. >> eric: this lost dog might never be found thanks to a regulation nation. why are missing dog posters knew illegal? ah, welcome to hotels.com. if you're looking for a place to get together, you came to the right place. because here at hotels.com, we're only about hotels. finding you the perfect place is all we do.

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>> peter: it's time for your shot of the morning now. a painful end for a reporter chasing a hot news story. >> what do you have up your sleeve to be more successful this time around? >> i already said i will not be making any comment. >> oh, my god, that hurt. >> peter: he was trying to interview a reluctant lawyer, usually they are -- when he smashed into the pole. even the lawyer -- i'm not going to say this. the lawyer stopped to ask if he was okay. he was a very kind man. he was. but it hurts us just watching

it. whoa! oh, my god. that's not good. >> gretchen: when you say even a lawyer would stop because you are a lawyer. >> i am. but he's a kind lawyer, i'm sure. and that's the kind of emmy award winning performance -- that is the danger of journalism right there. >> eric: that's worse than texting and walking. >> peter: unfair and imbalanced. >> gretchen: i hate to see the black eye he has from that. >> peter: i hope he's okay. >> gretchen: let's get to headlines for monday. a car bomb attack at a school in southern syria leaving one girl dead, dozens more hurt. it comes as u.n. secretary annan made an unsuccessful bid to get the slaughter against civilians in syria to end. he met over the weekend with president assad there and we're seeing dramatic video of civilians barely escaping yet another attack. more than 120 people have been killed in just the last two

days. many of them civilians. the u.n. says more than 8500 people have been killed since the uprising started last year. incredible video out of southern california. a plane crash sparking a ten acre fire. the plane crashd into a remote hilltop north of l.a amazingly, the pilot and the passenger walked away with minor injuries. the cause of the crash under investigation at this hour. it's still eight days from the official start of spring, but in areas where it's usually still cold this time of year, it already feels like spring. can you believe this is north dakota? come on. water skiing right now? but it was warm over the weekend. boaters getting a jump on the season in the missouri river. she lost her candy business during the banking crisis. so alyssa shakespeare decided to rebuild with a new line called government cluster fudge. and it's catching on.

>> every time we turn around issues there is more regulation, keeping up with tax codes. when i started my company in college, i had no idea that i would instantly become the state federal local tax collector. but because i have such hatred towards bureaucracy, that i started government cluster fudge, helping you through your next bureau crappy experience one at a time. >> gretchen: doesn't that fudge look so good? >> peter: cluster fudge. just like saying it. >> gretchen: the other words that she has are broken promises and -- what was the other one? bag of lies? something like this. >> peter: cluster fudge is the best one. >> gretchen: bag of lies it is. >> eric: masters suddenly a big question mark for the one and only tiger woods. he was forced to pull out of the final round of the championship because pain in his achille's.

vanderbilt, they end the wildcats' winning streak. but not all bad for kentucky. they still planted the number one seed for the ncaa tournament. also scoring top seed syracuse, michigan state, and north carolina. and president obama apparently trying make money off march madness. the web site for his reelection campaign running its own racket contest. anyone who fills out a bracket is asked to donate to the campaign. the web site will publish the brackets of anyone who does better than the president. >> gretchen: besides cluster fudge, we have a lot of girl scout cookies on our set this morning. >> peter: yeah. they're wonderful. >> gretchen: can you believe it's the 100th anniversary of girl scouts today? >> peter: i learned it over the weekend. my daughter was studying it. it's wonderful. >> gretchen: so many successful women have been girl scouts in their childhood. so we want to do play a little game with you this morning. we're going to put up some pictures of these women when they were girl scouts and see if

you can guess who they are. what about this one? >> peter: lady gaga? >> gretchen: lady gaga. >> peter: no? >> eric: i can't play. i cheated. >> gretchen: you cheated. >> eric: i looked on the yellow card. >> gretchen: any idea who that is? no? this goes back quite some time. that is nancy reagan. >> peter: wow! that's pretty good. >> gretchen: here she is present day with some girl scouts. >> eric: how about this one? do we have another one? here it comes. >> peter: who is that? oh singing in the rain. that's a hint. right? >> eric: yeah! >> gretchen: chris got that right. debbie reynolds. all right! >> eric: aka article willis. >> peter: stop! >> gretchen: let's pick out another photo. this is a younger actress. more recent girl scout.

>> peter: who is that? >> gretchen: that's -- i think i know that one. d.f. >> eric: dakota fanning. >> peter: wow. >> gretchen: other famous girl scouts in other fields, barbara walter, danica patrick, martha stewart, lucille ball. mariah carey. >> peter: excellent. >> eric: and 3.2 million girls right now in 90 countries and also 160 million -- where is that number -- 60 million alum girl scouts. >> peter: peanut butter patties, savannah smiles. >> eric: this is the big one. >> gretchen: did you know that the thin mint is not only the number one selling girl scout cookies it's the hottest cookie in america. >> eric: the number one girl scout and third highest in america.

>> peter: it's exciting to have them. >> eric: here is a question, what are one and two? >> gretchen: probably oreo. >> eric: i don't know. >> gretchen: i think ore. number two, e-mail us. coming up, did you know most failed businesses make the same mistakes as u.s. government has done and is on the same track? >> peter: should police be monitoring muslim students in the name of fighting terror? trading their privacy perhaps for your safety. we're going to report and you decide in my line of work, it's not uncommon for the term "hero" to be bandied about.

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>> gretchen: couple headlines for you. two more congressmen adding their names to a resolution calling for eric holder's resignation. 120 house members stressed no confidence in holder over the botched gun running program, fast and furious. frustration for a massachusetts woman as her town is keeping her from hanging up lost dog posters for her missing husky bridget. officials say the flyers are allowed, but only for a limited time. hope she finds the dog. all right, eric, back to you. >> eric: thank you, gretchen. should the u.s. government be run like a business? our next guest says government can learn from mistakes made in the corporate world. dr. woody, is the author and advises several businesses and joins us from miami today. thank you very much. so we have a -- you outlined a

few things that businesses do that they're big mistakes that cost them business. what's the most important thing that the mistake we make that we shouldn't make? >> the first thing is, is not following your values. eric, in business, you know this. the values you follow, the values that you've espoused are your guiding principles and act as your compass in times of uncertainty. what happens is when leaders or organizations don't follow their values or they don't articulate them and communicate them in the way that the people who work with them understand, they tend to get into trouble. i think where the government can learn electric this is all the time you hear politicians and government officials espouse the values of freedom and the american entrepreneurial spirit, yet they continue to get in the way of those values with excess regulation and red tape. what you can learn from business here is espouse the values and get out of the way and let your organization, your people thrive

by what you believe in. >> eric: okay. mistake number two, focusing on differences rather than similarities and what that means. >> this one kills me because in business, when you've got folks in the board room with different agendas who are all out for themselves as opposed to looking out for the greater mission of the organization, you're going to have problems. great companies find ways to get everybody on board and find common ground. what really kills me, when you look at government, the idea of finding common ground, especially these days, isn't there anymore. so when you have a republican and a democrat agreeing on something, both the extreme sides of their parties lambaste them and chastise them for coming to agreement. and you see this even in political ads where you've got newt gingrich with a nancy pelosi, all of a sudden, that's a bad thing. or rick santorum who happened to vote oftentimes similarly to his colleague, hillary clinton, in the senate. guess what? there are times when it's okay

to agree and find common ground. i think the government needs to learn from this because successful businesses do find common ground and move forward with that. >> eric: this is one i want to dig into a little bit. believing in too big to fail. what do you mean by that? >> eric, you know this. in business, if you spend too much or try to spend your way out of a problem, you will go bankrupt. bankruptcy is part of the natural cycle of businesses in this country. so when the government says, we're just going to continue to spend and not think about what the return on that spending is, you're going to have problems. in business you look at spending as investing. what i say investing issues you look at what is the retn i'm going to get out of this? where is this going to get me? i think often times in government, the spending is more about how is this going to look or how is this going to play to constituents, but not necessarily what return am i going to get from this that will help the greater good of the community or the government or --

>> eric: the difference, dr. wood yerkes is when you're spend not guilty business, you're spending your profits and spending your own money. when you're spending government, you're spending other people's money. >> absolutely. so there is no accountability. i think they need to learn accountability and first of all v a balanced budget without a doubt because that's the way businesses run in this country. and that's how successful businesses run. >> eric: we don't have a lot of time. number 4 was overextending. let's move on to mistakes number 5, hiring stars instead of coaches. tell us what that means. >> eric, there is a reason why i'm in business. it's because of this: i think the most common mistake i see companies make is they promote their star players and make them coaches. they take the best player on the field, the best salesperson and decide to make them the one in charge. this would be the equivalent in the sports world of taking eli manning and making him coach of the giants next year. it's not something that makes sense in sports, but we do it in business and businesses do that tend to fail. now, here is how you apply it to

government. this is on us as voters, to be frank. a lot of times we tend to vote for and elect the showman, the people that excite us, that get us interested, intrigued and riled up in a crowd, instead of those coaches, managers or leaders that we really need who understand how to manage and take the helm of the ship and guide us in the right direction. >> eric: we'll have to leave it there. returning out of time. great advice, dr. woody woodward. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> eric: all right. police under fire for monitoring muslim students in the name of fighting terror. so what should come first? your protection or muslims' rights to privacy? we report; you decide. first, let's check in with mr. bill hemmer for what's on top of the hour. >> you don't leave this building, do you? >> eric: nice tie, can i borrow it? >> yes, you may. stop on by. leave a $20 bill. >> eric: 20? cheap. >> we'll see you at 5:00 o'clock

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>> peter: new york city police department under fire for investigating muslims under a controversial surveillance program. >> gretchen: critics ranging from local muslim protesters to even attorney general eric holder. with you our next guest has one thing to say to them. never forget. joining us now is new york post columnist and fox news

contributor, michael goodwin. good to see you. >> thank you. >> gretchen: your first line much your editorial, you never mince words. the misguided souls and professional whiners decided to keep the new york police department handcuffed, blind ask silent need a refresher course on terrorism. why? >> well, i think the criticism that the police department is getting over the surveillance programs, first of all, we should understand, they're doing everything legally that we have seen so far. there is absolutely no sense they're doing anything they are not allowed to do under federal law, under state court decree, everything else. so it essentially surveillance is going on public web sites. it is visiting neighborhoods. it's writing down the names of restaurants and locations of mosques and the identity of ethnic communities. this is all part of legal and routine surveillance when there are suspicions about individuals within a community. it's not about profiling an

entire community. it is looking for the base of operations for individuals. people should also remember that the new york city police have been involved in breaking up 14 plots against new york city, 14 terror plots against new york city since 9-11. so what i recommend is those who are so quick to criticize the police for doing their job, go down to the 9-11 memorial. walk through that park-like setting. touch the names on the memorial and then say, oh, the police should lower their guard. oh, the police shouldn't worry about this happening again. you go to the 9-11 memorial and you do remember what that day was like and you do remember all the people we lost and you come away, i think, and i hope everyone who visits will come away with a very different view about what the new york city police are doing. >> peter: a lot of new yorkers acknowledge that commissioner ray kelly may be one of the great police commissioner in new york city's history, historic drops in crime and historic saves in terms of terrorism.

but when you read some of these accounts and here is some of -- hear some of these advocacy groups, it's almost like thousands of people are being rounded up and put on buss and arrested because they happen to practice the muslim faith. that's not true, is it? >> in fact, all these complaints, they can not cite one violation of law, nor have they produced one person who incredibly alleges my civil rights were violated. this is all kind of a scare tactic from the people who don't like the police, some of which -- i name the "new york times" editorial board. >> peter: ed koch denounce that had as dangerous. >> then you have some of the professional muslim groups who seem to be wanting to use our rights to push back law enforcement from doing its job. >> gretchen: what about the attorney general, eric holder last week, saying that he thought it the surveillance program was troubling and that they might now investigate it? >> eric holder seems to be following the political winds, every time he makes a comment.

it's okay to assassinate american citizens abroad, but we can't water board enemy combatants. now he seems to be suggesting the police are wrong. i hope that was just a stray comment that was uninformed and i'm confident that when he looks into it, his justice department will find the new york city police have done nothing wrong. >> gretchen: michael goodwin, always great to get your thoughts to kick off our week. have a good one. >> my pleasure. >> peter: great american columnist. >> gretchen: more "fox & friends" works minutes away no matter what small business you are in, managing expenses seems to... get in the way. not anymore. ink, the small business card from chase introduces jot an on-the-go expense app made exclusively for ink customers. custom categorize your expenses anywhere. save time and get back to what you love. the latest innovation. only for ink customers. learn more at chase.com/ink

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