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>> neil: this is a fox news alert. >> eric: severe weather in dallas, texas. three twisters struck the city of dallas. go to meteorologist gary england monitoring the twisters in the storm. what is the latest? >> calmed down a bit. mere moments ago we had report that tornado hit school northeast of the dallas area, five to ten minutes ago. that report is step sketchy. dallas/forth worth, five large ones and other ones. they have calmed down a little bit in the dallas/forth worth mote replex, moved northeast. we had indication east report of cools hit. right now they are tornado from the northeast of texas. northeast of texas to northeast texas. it looks like it should calm down. but sometimes they do not. a line of storms to southern, oklahoma, east of dallas, all the way down.
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almost to san antonio. line of storm. we only have three tornado warnings at this time. earlier there were several tornado warnings, what appeared to be a huge tornado on the ground. you have can't tell the strength by looking at a tornado. you have to look at the damage later. >> eric: a lot of people in the area, dallas/forth worth. 6-7 million people in the metro plex. are they out of danger or should they stay in hiding and stay out of the way of these things? >> the far eastern section of dallas. far eastern metro, danger. dallas is i think improving. fort worth is no problem at all. shortly it's a small quadrant of northeast texas. >> bob: why is it you can't follow where a tornado is going? hurricane you know where they'll hit.
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these things jump around, right? >> they don't jump too much. they seem like they do. with the report you think they are jumping but they don't. there is a process that goes through. the storm forms, proper conditions. then the conditions are ideal. sit down large tornado. it may weaken, go away. then another one will reform. a little northeast of the other one. sometimes it will go for several miles. in a week and another one will form. it appears they are jumping but they're not jumping around too much. difficult to keep track of. complex business. >> dana: i want to ask how technology changed. the forecast of this seemed to, it came up quickly. but you had an idea it was coming for a while. how has that changed over the years? >> gosh, i could only warn you years ago because it blew houses away first. it's improved dramatically.
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>> dana: that is a big house. >> eric: you can't see it on the screen, but we are talking about the report of golfball sized hail. there were reports of baseball size hail. do people in front of the storm have to worry about that? >> i don't think the hail is quite as large. northeast texas, look out for large hail. might be baseball. maybe golfball size hail. you know, briefly, dallas/fort worth airport has hundreds of planes on the ground they were hit. they are closed. >> andrea: this is andrea. when do you expect the storm system to pass? when can people of texas breathe a sigh of relief. tough to predict? >> no. now there is a line of sorm. main threat is northeast of dallas. northeast texas. another line of thunderstorms moving east. dallas area, clearing out. quickly.
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the fort worth area is fine. no threat to fort worth. far east dallas, consider 60 miles east of dallas area. there are still storms. but the cloud activity is far in to northeast texas. >> eric: quickly, >> the pictures of 18-wheelers flung throughout the area. it's a rarity occurrence that we see them in the air like this. but pictures of that. the point i'm trying to make is people need the know it might be a warning going into the hurricane, tornado and hurricane season. the way to be safe is what? >> people need, they have to take responsibility for what is going on. be weather aware. listen and the risks and weather aware. if you're hurricane or tornado area, know your safety precautions. so if you hear a warning you know what to do and where to go.
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take proper precautions. >> eric: thank you. >> you bet. >> eric: live to janice dean in the weather center. give us the latest. >> eric, we are still watching the threat for severe weather throughout the evening and the overnight. the dallas area, cities east of dallas, north of dallas need to still keep on alert. tornado watch in effect until 8:00 p.m. local time for the dallas, texas, region. east of that, another tornado watch in effect until 10:00 p.m. local time. tornado watches meaning that the conditions are favorable for tornadoes. you can see the line, the squall line east of dallas but now through waco. we are seeing the potential for large hail. damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. let's zoom in to the latest warnings that we are seeing strong rotation on doppler radar or trained weather spotters on the ground that have seen a funnel cloud or tornado on the ground. hawkins, east central delta and titus in texas are the
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latest warnings. in the polygon with the red shaded, tornado warning. severe thunderstorm in yellow. at any time we can see the rotation with that. we can see the tornado warnings pop up fairly quic quickly. if you live in the tornado watch area, listen to the weather radios and the forecasters. the severe weather threat continues ongoing throughout the evening and the overnight hours for eastern part of texas. to oklahoma. arkansas, louisiana an mississippi. slight risk to ohio river valley. the worst is over for dallas area. cities east of that keeping on alert for the potential of large hail and damaging winds. isolated tornado. there is a severe weather threat tomorrow. this storm is a slow mover. we have elevated risk or isolated tornado tomorrow, parts of louisiana, new orleans, mississippi, alabama and parts of tennessee and
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kentucky. as we head to thursday and friday, that elevated risk for the potential of severe weather. the april proppability. this is tornado alley. this time of year we see conditions favorable for tornadoes. dallas certainly, oklahoma city to wichita. to see several tornadoes moving through the dallas-fort worth area is a rarity. cooler air behind the system. an ingredient we need. record-setting temperatures across the gulf coast. a lot of abundant moisture from the gulf of mexico. that is a main reason we see violent storms. the threat continues. if you have a weather radio make sure it's on. >> eric: now to go chief meteorologist, weather welcome com. if the storm size is unusual,
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is it unusual for this time of year? anything to do with the warm winter we've had? >> no. i don't think it's warm winter. it's just the weather pattern right now. we made a big deal that this tornado season will not be as bad as last tornado season. this is a typical break. but what folks don't understand any one given spot in the entire tornado alley, has about an equal chance of getting hit. this outbreak began to organize itself around the dallas fort worth. in the several hours, byron, college station to tyler texas looks like we may see a line of thunderstorms regenerate. the fact of the matter is, in itself, we will find it's not going to compete in total number from last year and the april outbreaks.
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the lower mississippi valley. be aware tomorrow. including where they play the masters thursday. augusta. they may watch out for that. this is typical. in the wake of the hyper tornado season last season, this tornado season is close toward the seasonal averages. >> bob: this is bob beckel i'm flying to fargo, north dakota, the alley doesn't go that far north, does it? >> not right now. as long as you behave when you talk to sean, i'll make sure it stays to the south. >> bob: that is helpful. i appreciate that. in all seriousness, the situation now is more typical of what we see. you don't normally see the super outbreaks we had last year. this is a weather pattern. springtime. la nina is backing off.
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more active than normal because of gulf of mexico is warmer than normal, it won't be as many as we had last year. trying to look for a word. sometimes that's tough for me, which is weird. >> andrea: joe, it's andrea. there has been a lot of i think bad weather this year. flooding in the midwest. or something going on or is this average? weather seems to be fiercer this year. reason for that? >> the average is a misnomer. people think average weather is the product of the swings back and forth. sometimes wings aren't so great. sometimes we see extremes. check out last year, people yelling and screaming about the hurricane season. we had six storms in the 130s, '40s and '50s
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worse than irene. the swings make up the average. normal to have tornadic activity in southern plains this time of year. >> eric: leave it there. >> enjoy the weather. >> eric: stay with us. we'll bring you any new developments from the devastation in dallas. in the meantime, coming up, we are going go another storm brewing in washington, d.c. judicial branch strikes back at the obama administration. after remarks yesterday about obamacare decision. this is $100,000. we asked total strangers to watch it for us.
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>> bob: this is a fox news alert. we're keeping an eye on texas. several torrents have come down in tornado sending tractor trailers in the air. we will keep you updated on new events throughout the hour. president obama had a few things to say about the supreme court. some argued that there are unprecedented comments by a president. i don't think so. but let's hear what he had to say. let me tell you what he said. he thought it was unusual for the supreme court to overturn by an unelected supreme court to overturn the elected officials in the congress who
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passed the law. like it or not, it was passed. the president was trying to send a message to the supreme court that he wants it to be clearly clear it should be done on the merit, not done on politics which some of us think will be the case unless the justices decide to be justices. okay, now, i remember, eric, i know you're big on this, i remember every time there was a democratic supreme court and liberal supreme court, the republicans would scream about the legislating from the bench, overturning what congress said they want to do. yada, yada, yada. now they are crying because the democrats are doing the same thing. >> eric: bowerying the lead here, beckel -- burying the lead, beckel. president made harrial
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comments. the appeals court fired back at the obama administration in the last few minutes. it says the order by three judge panel of the u.s. court of appeals for the fifth circuit appears to be responding,ing can the obama administration to respond to what he meant about the shot he took at the supreme court. this is the court saying this is the way government is supposed to work in america. three branchs. judicial branch and let's leave it that way. >> bob: you are talking something that is unique to obama. it's unique to every president that don't have a court on their side. dana? >> dana: i find the administration's position completely bewildering. they did not do well last week when they made the argument. which they tried to make on the merit. they had questions that made it seem like it wasn't going to stand up. the president, who is a constitutional lawyer. taught in an elite university to suggest that the supreme court is unelected, that's by
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design. the fifth circuit, separation of powers, three branchs of government. the job is not to decide if the law has merit but to decide whether it's constitutional. that doesn't mean people don't want healthcare reform, because they do. but they are apt to argue on one point. the president made a bewildering, stunning comment. taunting the court is not attractive. >> andrea: exactly. not just from a president, but from an attorney to taunt judges. there are limits of what an attorney and lawyer can say to judges. the constitution is put in place to limit the expansion of government. that's how the founding fathers did it. three horses. constitution designed that the judicial branch should be the horse that pulls in the other direction. marbury versus madison was
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specifically put in place to make sure rules passed by congress don't impede the constitution. i think the president doesn't have a leg to stand on. he knows it. he is welcoming a full line-up from the court. the only thing standing between university healthcare and the american people are bush appointees. that the direction it will go in. >> bob: first, greg, let me ask you a question. i remember back here in the campaign, about the campaign finance. republican circuit judges and court of appeals screamed about what was going on when the supreme court ruled in their favor. this is an obama issue. republicans are wining for years and now it's a big deal. >> greg: this is what the left will do. relativism. look how william buckley
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describes relativism. if you see a guy pushing woman in front of a bus. you see a guy pushing woman out of the way of a bus, but it's pushing women around. this is lady justice. they're practicing judicial restraint, not activism. the left says it's the same thing. it's all relative. it's not relative. their job as andrea said is prevent unconstitutional law from taking place. according to president obama the definition of constitutional law is if it gets passed by congress. if congress passes a law that said everybody must wear a greg is sexy shorty robe, that is constitutional. i own three of them. >> bob: let me ask you something, you know, they say about the mandate. they are so upset about the mandate, judicial interventionism. assume after that, the next thing that goes is mandate to keep the water clean, keep the air clean. >> andrea: what if it's not? mandate something else. that's why it's the most important decision of the
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lifetime. >> dana: the clean air act is established as constitutional. this is the question of the commerce clause and regulation of commerce and changing the relationship of the citizen with the government. >> eric: in your intro, you said that the court has done it before. the u.s. supreme court has turned over laws that congress has passed. i get back to the point the mandate idea began with the republicans, introduced by the republicans. passed by republicans and they don't like it. >> greg: the mandate wasn't comprehensive. it was catastrophic. a huge difference. >> dana: judicial activism -- >> greg: catastrophic doesn't include birth control pills or whether you get your
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nails polished. >> bob: the counties have to keep their water level at a certain level. >> andrea: that's not the same. >> bob: why isn't there? >> andrea: that is why we have the tenth amendment in place as well. go to medicaid. the states have to supply medicaid. for people that the governor shares with them. >> the president thinks he is fdr and it won't work this time. >> eric: stay with us. latest on the dallas tornadoes. >> bob: devastation coming up, and devastation in the supreme court over the campaign of president obama in 2008. hit the trail again this year. the answer might surprise you. back with this. have two car in we're going to have you taste.
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a ceo of a city as a state, of oil and gas regulator up against any of the other potential g.o.p. vice presidential nominees the last go-around. >> andrea: interesting he is would get that question. he is probably anticipated it coming to her from matt lauer. the president was inexperienced state lawyer and inexperienced president. >> greg: i didn't know that was matt lauer. i thought it was a baby eaglette. >> dana: no. >> greg: i love watching people who host talk show to ask people about their experience. what kind of experience do you need to host the "today show"? i'm saying for me because i have no acertainable skills. i can barely dress myself. palin being the host of "today show" shows you don't need broadcasting experience to do the show well. all you need alarm clock, hair
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gel and maybe xanax. >> eric: on this show, you know, you need -- >> greg: three years of fitness editor for "prevention" to do this show. >> andrea: what did you think of the answer? >> dana: she is right. i think she should have taken in a different direction and say whatever do you mean? we're hosting this together i'm in the the interviewee, what other experience do you think i would have needed? i thought she did well. it will have big ratings tomorrow. >> andrea: ratings is the real -- here at the five, we know that, ratings are some of the most important thing. i know we're not supposed to care but we do. tomorrow ratings come out -- >> eric: we are kicking butt in the ratings. thought you should know that. >> andrea: i'm sure she will kick butt tomorrow. >> eric: this thing was katie couric was going on abc, gma and nbc brought her up. she did a fantastic job. a lot of people thought it would be ambush. nbc threw a few at her but
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they played nice. she did fantastic. the best line, talking about oprah. what would save oprah's network. obviously, having more conservatives on there. she did a great job. >> andrea: speaking of the former queen of daytime talk, that is not palin. oprah said she is not going to be out there as much as she was in the 2008 election. >> i am not going to be out there. i am 100% behind our president. i actually love our president. i have the utmost respect for him and the office and what it takes to be there. i will not be out because i'm trying to fix the network. >> andrea: oprah loves the president. that's news. >> bob: that is a fairly honest statement. she does have trouble with the network. trying to fix it. she did a good job, a very good job co-hosting the
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"today" show. she may have found a niche for herself. the description of her capabilities to be vice president was not quite home run to say the least. i think she sets a precedent for what people avoid in the vice president selection next time around. fairly or unfairly. she found her place. a good tv personality. >> andrea: getting back to oprah, oprah fired 20% of the workforce, what she had to invest $312 million. her network scrapped. do you think she took a business hit because of the decision to endorse president obama? remember when she did, a lot of people out there didn't like oprah politicized. they like her talking about which is the healthiest yoga position. >> dana: i love the oprah show. it had good experiences with her when president and mrs. bush did their interviews. this is what i admire about her. the show when she endorsed
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president obama, then senator was already at the tail end of its life. she was starting a new network. she prioritized. she laid off people, how businesses is supposed to work. last week, she signed a deal with comcast that i read about to get her network on a lot more televisions across america. she is doing the right thing. she is right not to get on the campaign trail. she doesn't have to. >> bob: the other thing is wouldn't you think that opra oprah's shtick as it were, highly successful not made the run and run its course? too much dr. phil and self-help? >> dana: i don't know. it was pretty popular. >> eric: spinoffs are doing great. >> andrea: what about sarah palin? i wrote a column when sarah palin, when she wasn't the vice presidential candidate anymore. i said why doesn't she become the conservative alternative to oprah? i think palin is excellent talking about children's issues and she could talk
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about bullying and issues from a cultural perspective of a conservative? what do you think, greg, eric? >> greg: if only the network would hire her. oh, wait. okay, if i was oprah. i admire her. i would take my money. buy an island. populate it with man servants and booga dancers and try to bring woolly mammoths back to life. >> dana: a shorty greg gutfeld robe in every cabin. >> greg: there would be. >> andrea: would you leave and go work with sarah palin on a talk show? would you leave us? do you love her? >> eric: maybe we could squeeze her in right here. >> bob: there is an idea. you'd go to work for her, for free. >> eric: good friends. she will be first and then i'll be up later in the hour. >> dana: i'll be on, too. >> andrea: i'll be on tomorrow. coming up, tax dollars at work. obama administration spent
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call to report any suspected fraud. we're cracking down on medicare fraud. let's make medicare stronger for all of us. i'm bret baier in washington. the big story here is legal showdown about what president obama said about the supreme court. we have breaking news about what is happening in the dallas area after tornadoes sent texans scrambling for cover this afternoon. now a federal appeals court is demanding answers whether president president believes the supreme court has the right to strike down his healthcare law. shannon bream will have the latest in a live report.
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president obama called out of the presidential candidates by name. we get live reaction from the press secretary jay carney and analysis from brit hume. voters here from washington, d.c., wisconsin, heading to the poll in presidential primaries. we give you a first look at the exit poll data. "special report" from washington starts at 6:00 eastern. a lot of politics and legal issues. now back to new york and five five. ♪ ♪ >> greg: am i like 14 years old? seriously, people. all right. so the head of the general service administration resigned monday. after it was reported they spent nearly a $1 million on your dough at a conference in
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las vegas. it had a mind reader, comedian and a clown. now we know where bob was when he got that speaking gig. the g.s.a., a glorified office closet spent $75,000 on a training exercise to build a bicycle. which i guess qualifies as obama's first successful green job. yeah. making fun of this is like shooting bat fish in a tiny barrel. but remember, it was president obama who told us to hold off on the vacations to las vegas. it's different if you go on someone else's dime. ie, yours. this comes delightfully at tax time. here is a fact. according to the tax foundation, my favorite foundation, you will spend more in taxes this year than on food, clothing and housing combined. i'd repeat that fact, but i figure i may jump out of a window and take danwash me. we made a pact. you spent 70 days per year working to pay that off. that is only a few less than obama played golf this year. so how awesome is it to know
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that that money went to clowns, mind readers and comedians? it should be the title of the obama administration director, by the way. it could be worse. gsa instead of screwing around could have done real work. only thing worse than government spending is getting what you pay for. can you, dana, can you explain to me -- the look on your face of abject fear. is it the clowns? are you scared by clowns? >> dana: no, it doesn't bother me. >> greg: gsa, what is the gsa? >> dana: general services administration. lord if i know. i don't know. they do all sort of things. they're like the office supply closet. the person that when you go only allow you to buy bic pens? that is what the gsa is supposed to be. what is funny, they had to be caught on that later on. no one in the chain of command along the way would brainstorm the meeting they put together held up and put up their hand
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and said stop, mind reader? you're going to be fired. >> greg: fair point. mind reader should have seen it coming. terrible joke. >> eric: pretty good joke. can i point out forget the $850,000 it's bad enough. this gsa, their budget is $20 billion. >> dana: they're in charge of all the buildings. >> eric: 12,500 employees. if that doesn't epitomize government waste itself. >> andrea: no one caught it. >> bob: this is a meeting of the gsa people around the country. the clown and rest of those cost $300. of course, we're going to -- >> dana: is that what your fee is? >> greg: dana! >> bob: why are we focusing on this when the air force is paying hundreds of millions of dollars for a jet engine they don't need? or the defense department is paying billions of dollars for things they don't need. we don't talk about those things. >> dana: you should be taking credit. the white house fired her when they found out about this. >> bob: they should be fired so people in the defense department who are spending our money, your money, your money -- >> andrea: isn't that a good
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question? >> bob: more of your money is wasted on the defense department than all -- >> andrea: isn't that a good question. if there is so much government waste why are we wasting money in the defense department? why haven't barack obama rooted it out? more importantly, why would we play importantly for clown in a town where we have hundreds of clowns on capitol hill we can get for free? we're already paying clowns. >> greg: we have to take a break. coming up, a new documentary sheds light on a trend some call a national crisis. if you leave now, i won't let you read my james vanerbeeke fan fiction. ♪ ♪
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someone so uncomfortable. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> say in the beginning, you can tell when -- [ inaudible ] i think he got to the point
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where enough was enough. >> a tragic situation. >> perkins boy, 11 years old believed to have been desperate enough to take his own life. >> the kids take from me. >> he is not safe on that bus. >> i've been on that bus. >> they are just as good as gold. >> dana: that's a clip from a documentary called "bully." i saw governor huckabee's program a week or so ago where he talked about the documentary coming out. the motion picture association rated it with an "r" rating so kids have to get permission from their parents to see. it it is getting buzz for good reason. 13 million american kids they estimate are victims of bullying a year. chronic bullying like you saw there. the school district should be commended, because when -- on
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the bus, the kids thought it was a still camera. they didn't realize there would be video. at what point do you intervene when you see this? the film director decided it was getting so bad for the little boy they decided to do that. >> bob: i do give the school district credit but most school districts i damn because it's going on for a long time. i'll tell you a personal story, one i'm not necessarily proud of. i had a woman friend of mine whose husband left her. she had a single son who was bullied every day at school. she didn't know what to do. i went to the principal with her. nothing got done. in my experience, most bullies in schoolyards, fathers are bullies. i went over with her to see the guy's father and i said your kid has to stop it and stop it now. he made the mistake of pushing me and telling me it was none of my business. and i threw him down the steps and he cracked his head open. i'm not proud of that, but the kid never bullied again.
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sometimes all the touchy feely filmous can have and the touchy-feely programs, the fact is the punks don't know anything else but physical retribution. when i was in high school we had a bully group that went around picking on bullies. i tell you, sometimes you got to take the old man and kick the hell out of them. >> dana: there have been laws changed in your home state of new jersey, across the river here. just recently. you have a middle age school son. is this a documentary you think they should all see? >> eric: they are all talking about it. my son is 13. i'll relate a personal story. here is the issue. a lot of parents don't know their kids are being bullied or more importantly, parents don't like to hear this, are the ones doing the bullying. it's like they put the blinders up. my son happened to be in a group that fairly tough group. one day, he is looking at a video on his phone. i said can i watch. he lets me watch. they are literally fighting
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and beating the living daylight out of each other, the boys. you know, what do you do? but the point is, i sat down with him and i said you can't the this. someone will get hurt. you have to get involved as a parent. know what they are doing. know what they are up to. you have to talk to them. you have to tell them on both sides, it can go both ways. >> dana: not just boys, girls, too. >> bob: andrea said something about girls. she was bullied. girls, too. >> andrea: not just social outcast. my friend and i, i jumped in once to defend a friend that got bullied that made me the target, because i was standing up for my friend. but this group of girls, it was a big group of them. they were larger than my friends and i. they were unrelenting. a tough group of girls. and the administration did nothing about it. we have went to the principal. it warned them. it will escalate. my parents felt helpless. guess what happened? a huge fight broke out. clumps of hair, heads lamming
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into lockers. my friends and i should have not lad to go through that physical abuse. >> bob: the parents let the kids bully people. they're terrorized and ought to be terrorized. >> dana: the school did apologize. greg? >> greg: it's -- yeah, bullying is bad. everybody claims to be bullied, but miraculously, no one claims to be the bully. there is a bully gap going on here, once you become an adult, you shrekively forget that maybe you were a bully. and bullied. my feeling is when you take the normal life span, it's possible for you to have been a bully and been bullied. i think i was. i don't think the examples in that movie were the case. but it's possible that you might have in a pecking order of your class room, everybody did a little -- >> bob: it probably does run that way. >> dana: we do have one more thing. it's up next. ♪ ♪
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♪ ♪ >> eric: time for one more thing. this sound bite explains itself. go ahead, guys. >> i think the general rule is
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i want to make sure i retire a champion. you know? i'm not going to go out like some of those folks who overstay their welcome. >> well said. well said. i would have relished one chance, one chance -- >> maybe in the sec term. when your needs are worse. >> that will certainly be the case. >> eric: no second term. greg? >> in the storm coverage, i was just wondering and asking dana, who decides the sports metaphor sizes for hail? like it's either going to be golfball size or baby. but no racquet ball or cricket ball. i want to know. >> andrea: basketball. >> greg: write to me. those would murder you. but write to greg interested in hail.org. >> eric: dana? >> dana: that domain was taken. former vice president dick cheney came home today from
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the hospital after a heart plant surgery. ten days after heart plant surgery -- transplant surgery, excuse me. hopefully he is watching today and we wish him well. >> eric: yes, sir. feel better. bob? >> bob: i was out yesterday. if you wondered where i was by the right wing, they kept me held in solitary confinement because we didn't cover that president obama covered romney -- >> dana: we did cover that. "b" block. >> bob: obama beats romney big in the 12 battleground states. >> dana: we did that. >> bob: does well among women. did we talk about the unemployment lower than any time in obama's term in office? for profit higher than in 2007. 227,000 more manufacturing jobs. welcome to the obama recovery. an mitt, you have nothing to say. you don't have nothing to say anyway. >> eric: we got to go. >> andrea: carney should watch his back. you might take his job.
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>> bob: we have a minute left. >> andrea: i had the privilege and honor to walk from scotland with love, dress to kilt event. that's me on the runway. with amanda from cnbc. that is me with two wounded warriors, the event benefits the wounded warriors. american heros that walk the runway in kilts. a lot of celebrities and warriors. i did wear a kilt. purple mini kilt. picture of me in my kilt. the wool jacket was warm. but you know what? they invited bob to walk with me. next year, bob, the invitation stands. you and i in kilts. be there or be square. >> bob: oh, no. >> eric: thank you. >> andrea: so much. >> bob: i got to find fargo, north dakota. >> eric: we have to leave it there. texas tournament throughout the fox coverage tonight and later tonight. hannity, watch for governor sarah palin. good night. >> dana: and me.

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