vacation on your dime. where's the hot tub time machine and brian's computer sounds when you need one? >> yeah. you've got mail! >> i guess so! >> meanwhile, the romneys have a message for the first family. >> what would each of you say to president and mrs. obama? >> start packing. >> he's honest and this morning, three new polls out so do they show for the first time the obamas should start thinking about buying some moving boxes? we got details. there he is at a red sox game. >> what do warren buffet and lindsay lohan have in common? apparently, they don't pay their taxes. they're not the only ones. we're unveiling celebrity tax cheats. "fox & friends" starts now.

>> yep. we ran the cash register because somebody just bought brian a brand new tie. >> right. yeah. >> with the tag still on it. >> i took the tag off. auto if it's any consolation, yesterday the jacket had gold buttons go up. another mom said what's that on your button? i had forgotten to take off all the protectors on the button. i wore it the entire show and you did not wear it. >> the button protector? >> they were little plastic shields that goes over buttons. >> i thought that was fashion. >> no, and luckily this other mom was very perceptive and she saw it. >> yep. >> let's check. anything -- we got any -- >> i have no idea. >> i've been a little preoccupied but other than that, i forgot to take off the button shield. oh, well. let's get to your headlines this morning. the norway massacre suspect taking the stand in court this morning reading from a prepared statement. he's claiming his rampage was the most spectacular attack by a nationalist militant since world

war ii. and is boasting he'd do it again. great! also today, one of the judges was kicked off the case for saying that he deserves the death penalty. he admitted to killing 77 people but has tweeted not guilty claiming he was acting in self-defense. a major blow now to president obama, the senate rejecting the so-called buffet rule aimed at raising taxes on millionaires but the debate is far from over. >> nobody is even claiming this thing creates jobs. it's all about the president's idea of fairness. >> times are tough for many middle-class american families. but millionaires and billionaires aren't sharing the pain or the sacrifices, not one bit. >> while republicans called the buffet rule a political gimmick, democrats are planning to use the vote against them leading up to the election. there's more fallout from the alleged secret service prostitution scandal in colombia. 11 agents are on paid administrative leave and have been stripped of their security

clearances. we also now know among the 11 men involved, two were supervisors. three were members of the elite counter assault team that protects the presidential motorcade. the pentagon is looking to broadening its own investigation into the "embarrassing incident." talk about running from uncle sam. according to the i.r. s., 1800 americans renounced their u.s. citizenship last year or handed in their green cards to get out of paying taxes, highest number in 1998. renouncing your citizenship is the only legal way to escape uncle sam. those are your headlines. >> as gretchen mentioned, the buffet rule got voted down. did not get the 60 votes. there were some grilling going down and some real intrigue acrosses the way and that's with the g.s.a., a wave of hearings has finally begun and it gets more embarrassing by the day and more aggravating as well. >> it does and we're going to show you how mr. neely, jeff neely tried to answer some of

the questions. his answer was the same every time. now, that is right there, that's a picture that somebody found, i believe "the daily" found on his wife's google plus page. and that is -- >> between that and his daughter's facebook page, he got himself in a lot of trouble. >> you have to be careful what you do with stuff. this is a picture of him with a couple of cocktails in the background at the m resort in las vegas. that's on his wife's page. his daughter carly, you have to be careful about when you put something on your facebook. his daughter carly put 38 pictures from family vacations on her web site. problem was, oh, for instance, we're having a great time in maui. that perfectly synced up with a g.s.a. trip to maui with her father. he took the whole family on these things. >> jeff neely was the commissioner of the pacific rim region for the general services administration, the government agency known as the g.s.a., very

top ranking official. this may anger you more as well. he's currently administrative leave and he receives pay and also received his bonus, a performance award after it was learned that this kind of activity was going on. more and more of these vacations are coming to light. remember in the last couple of days, we were telling you about this 10-day vacation to hawaii where he worked allegedly one hour at a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new building there. now, it's turning out that where are these other stats? over 43 months between march of 2007 and september 2, 6010, neely took 131 trips including nine trips to hawaii, g.s.a. travel records show. allegedly, a lot of those were for business but how many extra days were added on? add to that his wife is accused of impersonating a federal employee so she could join him at private sector conferences. >> martha johnson at least to her credit resigned right away. she was the chief earlier this month and did not take the fifth. but it looks like this guy took the fifth over and over again.

he's got to be embarrassed and humiliated. let's listen. >> in one e-mail, mr. neely invited personal friends to the conference writing and i quote, and this is simply incredible. "we'll get you guys a room near us. we'll pick up the room tab. could be a blast." he then wrote, then went on and wrote this. "i know i'm bad but as deb and i often say, why not enjoy it while we have it and while we can. ain't gonna last forever." well, mr. neely, it stops now. >> mr. neely, did you approve the funding for the 2010 western regional conference? >> mr. chairman, on the advice of my counsel, i respectfully decline to answer based upon my fifth amendment constitutional privilege. >> the tribes of israel

september 12th scouts into the promised land before they decided to invade and g.s.a. has to send 15 to las vegas to check out a hotel. do you not see the outrage in that? mr. robertson? do you see it? >> he kept taking the fifth. if they really wanted some answers, maybe they should have hired a mind reader. they already did that. >> there were eight scouting trips. eight scouting and off site preconference meetings to prepare for that october of 2010 conference, $130,000, your dollars, paid for those eight scouting trips to determine whether or not they should hold that convention at the m hotel. >> by the way, darrell issa will be joining us. he sent out 23 other letters to federal agencies to examine the need behind these conferences period. do you really need to go away, hire a mind reader, get black jack vests for $6,000 in order to build a team attitude or bond? but the traveling industry is

pushing back. their lobbyists are saying hey, congress, don't overreact. this could be very beneficial. >> this is not -- we want to make sure that we're careful to say don't go to las vegas, you know, because they got the bum rap before. we're not saying that -- i just want to bring up the point that i think this is a much bigger issue than just this one little federal agency. i mean, i think it brings us sort of to a big point in the election come november which is, you know, the difference between the two parties. do you want one that believes in big government and, you know, creating more taxes and that they might go and be spent in this way or do you want a different approach which is to cut spending? i think this will become central in the election right now based on what could be a culture of corruption and this is not the only agency that it could be going on in. >> here's the thing. why did -- you know, there are thousands of people that work for the g.s.a., why didn't anybody speak up and say jeff neely is blowing a lot of dough in vegas and other places.

one employee said anybody that did question the spending was squashed like a bug. if you wonder why he answered with the fifth a number of times, according to the inspector general and this was brought up in some of the testimony, they got evidence that apparently he may -- the organizers may have tipped off one of the contractors about a competitor's bid and that sounds criminal. >> and by the way, they got swag like every other place and most of the stuff was manufactured in other countries like china and el salvador. do you remember -- >> look at that. >> yeah, look at that. >> do you remember "rocky 3" when mr. t -- where mr. t was taking on sylvester stallone and he said i have a lot of mo. he kept forging straight ahead. that is really how the romneys must feel right now because they are able to consolidate the party because everyone is dropping out. legitimate contender like senator santorum and suddenly they have the momentum and it's showing up in the polls. >> they got mo, that's right. three new polls came out, mitt

romney wins, beats barack obama in two of the three. the first and the big one is the gallup tracking poll and what that shows is that mitt wins 47-45. but what's interesting is that he wins with independents by six points. this early -- at least six months out, that's extraordinary. >> so the romneys sat down with abc's diane sawyer. here's part of that. >> in this moment, as it begins toward november, what would each of you say to president and mrs. obama? >> well, start packing. that's what i'd like to say. obviously, we have a very different view. the president, i'm sure, wants another four years but the first years didn't go so well. >> by the way, the president by the way is still, believe it or not, earning tremendous amount of money in march. he made $53 million to push back

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>> all right. glad you're up. so far, the fast & furious investigation has been focused on eric holder and the department of justice. what about the other people in charge of the border like secretary of homeland security janet napolitano? >> for the record, you were unfamiliar with operation fast and furious while the operation was under way? >> that is correct -- >> while weapons were -- >> but our next guest says she believes that's a lie. and the entire obama administration is engaged in one of the worst cover-ups in american history? author of the new book "fast & furious" joins us to explain. >> auto good morning. >> that's an explosive charge. you believe this is a calculated scheme that goes all the way to the top, to the white house, why? >> absolutely. you know, you look at all the evidence in operation fast & furious and if viewers don't know, the justice department we're sending guns into mexico into the hands of mexican drug

cartels. now this operation has been sold as botched as an operation that spun out of control. but if you look at the evidence and the e-mails that we actually have in the book, it was used as a way to push more gun regulation and blame american gun shops for cartel violence in mexico. the reason they're covering that up, if more people knew about this and the obama administration using humans as collateral damage to push an agenda, it would be fatal for the re-election campaign. >> we'll send them to drug cartels and track the guns and find out who is using them. there's a problem, there's no tracking devices on any of these guns. >> right. they claimed they were going to track these guns into mexico, right? the problem is out of 2500 weapons that they allewd these cartel members to get their hands on, they put two tracking devices with 40 hour battery life on them. the claim was we're going to track the guns into mexico. all they're trying to prove is that guns from american gun shops are ending up at murder

scenes in mexico. obama administration has to regulate these gun shops and the violence they're causing through their businesses in mexico. >> so far with all the hearings that have happened on capitol hill, members of congress, their main accusation is that eric holder may have known about this before and not that he was behind to inventing this time of scheme. have you spoken to members of congress? >> i have done more interviews with whistle blowers on the ground involved with fast & furious and really seeing it from a ground level and then being in contact with people in the white house, people in the d.o.j. headquarters and homeland security. janet napolitano, according to my sources, was absolutely informed about this program, saying she hasn't talked to eric holder or knew about this program while she was going. on my sources say otherwise and so we think she was lying. >> meanwhile, border patrol agent brian terry is dead. the ice agent jerry sapada is

dead and a lot of people are in total denial. the overarching theme, this program was set up to get momentum back against those who were in support of the second amendment, to let the american people know that we have no choice. guns are out of control. they have to be reigned in. >> look, in my book, i go back through -- we haven't seen who these are. who are the people behind operation fast & furious? what are their backgrounds? a lot of them have ties going back to the clinton administration. dennis burke, u.s. attorney for arizona resigned. he worked as janet napolitano chief of staff for years as governor, he was her homeland security advisor and helped craft the clinton assault rifle ban legislation with rahm emanuel. where did raun emanuel serve? as barack obama's chief of staff in the white house. i dig into what these people's backgrounds were. and barack obama surrounded himself with a lot of people that have very anti-second amendment sentiments because personnel is policy. >> wow, an explosive book called "fast & furious" which is the name of the botched gun program. katie pavloich was the author.

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central chile rocked by a 6.7 magnitude earthquake forcing hundreds of people to flee in panic. luckily, there's no reports of any deaths or damage and the trial of an accused terrorist continues in new york today. he is accused of plotting a september 11th style attack on the city's subway system. prosecutors say he and two of his high school friends also targeted times square, grand central terminal and the new york stock exchange as well as several movie theaters. steve? >> thank you, brian. while millions of americans struggle to find work, more workers are suing their employers over unpaid overtime. on monday, the u.s. supreme court heard arguments from pharmaceutical sales reps claiming they deserve extra cash for extra work. shouldn't they just be happy to have a job? joining us for a fair and balanced debate, we have a former prosecutor faith jenkins and author of the employee rights handbook steven sacks. good morning to both of you. >> hi, how are you?

>> say that these people in this case, the court heard about these glaxo employees, sales guys who say, look, we're working all the time and we deserve overtime and you think they should get it. >> absolutely. >> why? >> first of all, you know, the pharmaceutical industry has to follow the rules like everybody else. and the key here is that overtime laws are strictly construed when workers are exempt and the fact that workers are not entitled to it doesn't make any sense to me. people are working all the time, steve. they're, you know, being forced to answer their phones and do texting and e-mails after hours. i mean, where does it stop? >> a lot of these guys get fantastic perks as well. faith, you say, come on. you shouldn't be getting paid for all that extra time. >> right. we're in a tough economy right now. jobs growth is slow. our country is racking up massive debt. and if your choice is you have a job, you're a salaried employee

making $70,000 to $80,000 a year and answer being the phone a little bit, you know, at night or answering e-mails on your blackberry after hours vs. not working, you should be happy to have a job. this is why we're losing so many jobs overseas because more and more employers, employees are suing their employers and it's becoming a real problem since we started a recession in 2008, we're seeing more and more of these lawsuits. >> steve, the -- now, what could happen is, you know, if glaxo loses this, they could do what i.b.m. did a number of years ago and that's take these guys who had been salaried and pay them by the hour but ultimately, what they do is they reduce their per hour rate by about 15% because they know they're going to have to built build in some more. >> the whole key is people should be paid for their time. so many companies requiring workers to come in for four hours, to log in or check stuff before they start. shouldn't they get paid with that? i don't agree with faith a

couple of things here and there after hours. so many workers on vacation or even, you know, on the eve of their wedding nights are asked to call in or respond to companies and respond to their e-mails and texts and i think it's wrong not to get paid for their time. >> the problem is the person who is on vacation and not asked to turn on their blackberry and they look at it and next thing you know, they answer all sorts of stuff and they count that. >> these employees are getting compensated for bonuses. it's not just their salaries, they're getting these performance incentive bonuses and they're getting paid very well. these are salary workers and these are not hourly wage earners. >> but the companies can easily cut corners and convert them into hourly wages and reduce their, you know, their wages. it works that way. >> their salaries are going to be decreased significantly sxing it's going to hurt them more than it helps them. >> the bottom line is workers have rights and they should enforce them. pharmaceutical industry should not get a free pass. overtime restrictions -- >> it should work to these

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to work the treadmill. he said if i can only do my back legs, i don't have to be so exhausted all day. >> first of all, little dog information since i'm now a proud dog owner. i believe that that was a pug and a beagle. >> that's right. >> and also -- >> poodle. >> it could be a -- >> i think it's a pug/beagle. >> couldn't it be a pug and a -- >> poodle? >> it didn't have the hair of a -- >> but here's the other problem, dogs don't sweat. >> by the way, dogs don't sweat. >> they pant. >> i would prefer that. >> dogs not panting. >> i wish we would pant instead of sweating, we'd smell better. >> really? >> there's also a labradoodle that has nothing to do with this conversation. >> we could go on and on with all these mixes of dogs. >> call in with your favorite mutt mix. tell me what's working for you. >> really? we had a shelty growing up. i liked that dog. shelter collie mix. >> of what? >> a german shepherd collie

mix. >> how do i digress? >> we were talking dogs doing the shot of the morning. it's a talk show! >> we got to get to taxes and we have to get to stu varney. >> no, we don't. we have 2 1/2 hours. >> tell me more about the dog. >> oh, my gosh! >> i got nothing. >> if you forgot, you better get busy because today is april 17th. it's tax day and you have a few hours to file your return before midnight. >> and of course, everyone has questions about their returns so we brought in our own personal finance expert, vera gibbons is here all morning answering your e-mails. all right, vera, let's start with the number one question -- what is the one biggest tip that you can give to people today? >> file today, right? >> lick the stamp! >> so many people wait until the umpteenth hour. 20% of taxpayers wait until the last two weeks and a large portion of them wait until today and they end up filing an extension. there are two things in life that are certain. death and taxes. get it together. go on line. e file. it's easy. it's convenient. probably the best way to go at

this late in the game and just do it! >> all right. if you've got a question, you have a last minute question for vera and it's easy to file these days via computer. you can -- they can have it -- >> turbotax. >> absolutely. and a bunch of different companies. e-mail her, friends at foxnews.com. and we'll have her try to answer your question live on the air. >> stand by. >> it's my wife's birthday today. remind me to shop and get something. >> oh, my gosh. >> something rick springfield related. >> usually by the time i come up to do radio, you'll be breaking out in a sweat. speaking of sweat -- >> yes, i will. >> or i'll be panting. >> all right. let's talk a little bit about this. do you think all celebrities automatically pay their taxes? nope, you know about wesley snipes. he's serving a three year prison sentence for tax evasion. he's not the only celebrity that had a little mind funk and forgot to pay. >> funk. >> you heard the n! >> lionel richie has gone country. he needs to come up with $1.1 million.

>> last month, he said i recently was made aware of the situation by my new team and it's being handled immediately. and he owes uncle sam $1.1. next on to pamela anderson, she owns half a million dollars in back federal taxes. ah-ha! >> she is, by the way, a lot of people are calling her a tax boob. >> she's taking full responsibility. "i was in a construction lawsuit and i'm still in that lawsuit and that was a little snowball effect last year. i'm working on it." >> if every one of her videos were down loaded she'd be a millionaire. >> sounds like you've done that, too. lindsay lohan is in a little bit of trouble. it's only $200,000. she was completely unaware of the problem and apparently the issue will be handled immediately. >> i blame the d.j. she lived with. >> how about the fact that we've got celebrity tax cheat music? >> fantastic. >> by the way, the biggest celebrity in washington, biggest name yesterday was warren buffet. warren buffet's berkshire hathaway owes about a billion dollars in back federal taxes.

he's fighting it tooth and nail. those were a couple of tax cheats, celebrity and what not. we'll have more a little bit later on on here on tax day. >> if you want to turn yourself in, come to the studio. >> anybody of the studio crew interested? >> amnesty for the next 30 seconds. >> gretchen can only give that. the space shuttle discovery making its final flight, heading to its new home at the smithsonian. joining us from cape canaveral, phil keating. phil, another nail in the coffin. >> absolutely. and one of a bit sadness here especially along the space coast. after all, hundreds of thousands of people have depended upon the nasa space shuttle program over the years for their economic viability but the pride of nasa's, onitier fleet, the discovery, the oldest and most accomplished of the shuttle orbiters, 39 trips into space, three hubble missions and unlimited ferrying of processing and supplies up to help build the international space station,

right now on the southern end of the runway here at 6:45, it's going to taxi this direction to the north end and then at 7:06 is the word we're getting from nasa, it's going to take off at first sunrise and then it's going to fly over the space coast. over the weekend, it was stacked on top of a 747 modified 747 also known as the s.c.a., the shuttle carrying aircraft and that's how it will be fur yesterday for its final journey not into space but relatively safe low altitude. and it will fly around the national mall. yesterday the final crew that came -- that came out here and flew on the orbiter, on sts 133 came out and visited, walked around the shuttle and their remarks were that seeing discovery go off to the smithsonian, a little melancholy and sad. >> i hope people appreciate the workmanship and the craftmanship

and the expertise that went into making that work over and over again. and that's part of what we don't have, well captured when it goes to a museum. >> now, in washington, d.c., at around 10:00 to 10:40, go outside and take a coffee break. you will have a fantastic opportunity over many national landmarks in the d.c. area to see the orbiter discovery on top of that 747 doing a low altitude fly over, about 1500 feet on its way to the smithsonian museum at dulles and a big weekend there is planned for the unveiling of the ship and tourists will begin to be able to go see it. take your family, take your kids out there beginning on a friday. >> thank you very much for the live update from the space coast. >> thanks. e-mailers are telling us that dogs sweat out of their paws. >> that's true. >> really? again, i prefer that. >> ok. more stories making headlines today. death toll reaches six after those devastating tornadoes

ripping through kansas, oklahoma, iowa and minnesota over the weekend. while many are picking up the pieces after these destructive storms, a story of survival out of can. the davenports were inside their home when the tornado hit. during the chaos, they lost their cat who had just given birth to kittens. eventually, mama and the babies were found safe. >> meanwhile, republican governor nathan deal of georgia approving a deal that requires people applying for welfare to pass a drug test if they want the money. while opponents are getting ready to file a lawsuit against law, it's due to go into effect on the 1st of july. two dozen states have proposed similar laws this past year. brian? >> talking about a very generous donation, this beautiful engagement ring given to good will of atlanta. apparently done by accident. 31-year-old josh miller has been hiding the ring in the pocket of an older winter coat waiting for just the right moment to pop the question. well, he went back to find it and realized he had put that coat in a box for donation.

a little late, though, as the coat cannot be located. the couple has decided to continue planning the wedding. and hopes whoever has the jacket has the heart to return the ring. this sounds so much like something i would do. >> a lot of those clothes they ship overseas. >> right. >> jackpot! >> fantastic. >> meanwhile, mitt romney drawing fire for floating an idea of perhaps eliminating the home mortgage deduction of second homes of wealthy americans. >> it shows mitt is serious about jump-starting the economy. what? because he's actually going to take on tax reform? >> look, president obama wants to tax the rich. mitt romney wants to take more money from the rich, not by higher tax rates but by closing loopholes. that's a contrast in tax policy that's at the very center of debate over economic policy for the election. mitt romney wants to do away with the loophole of the mortgage interest deduction on second homes for rich people and do away with the deduction for

state income and property taxes for rich people. do away with those loopholes. and get more money from rich people. that's a stark contrast with president obama who would just raise tax rates on the rich, take more money off them that way. romney a very different policy. >> this is something that was overheard by reporters at a fundraiser. >> it was. >> and the romney people say that was just one of those things you talked about regarding things he heard on the trail and it's not policy at this point. but he is thinking about it. >> it's not official policy but he has in the past said he would reduce tax rates 20% across the board and he's talked about endorsing tax reform and tax reform is cutting loopholes and lowering rates to get more money from rich people. maybe this is a trial balloon when he's talking about the mortgage and interest deduction and the state and property income taxes but that's the way he's thinking. more money from the rich. >> president reagan talked about closing loopholes and he actually did close loopholes on the part of tax reform.

paul ryan and dave camp could be working on that this week. >> he increased the amount of money coming to the federal treasury, that was reagan's policy, maybe that's romney's policy. >> would this anger conservatives because it looks like he might be moving to the middle on some of these issues? >> i don't know about angering conservatives but it's economic policy and it's a plan to deal with the deficit as opposed to punishment of the rich. that's what it is. >> if you're looking -- if the i.r.s. is looking for stuart varney, they can find him at 9:20 every weekday. >> if you're in trouble with the i.r.s., i'm not coming. >> you offered amnesty, i understand. >> picture of a hot tub. >> can you imagine going under the knife without anesthesia? i'm looking at the gurney. the medical a team is on the case! dr. sumadi up next. that's him. >> plus the president promised to clamp down on government surveillance but shhh, guess what? obama is spying.

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>> fox news alert for you right now. live look as the space shuttle discovery gets ready to take off from cape canaveral. it's hitching the ride on the back of a 747 as you can see. it's going to fly down the cape canaveral beach for everyone to see and over to washington, d.c. before it heads to its new home, smithsonian in virginia. what a beautiful picture that is. it's going down the taxiway and we'll bring it to you live when it takes off. in the meantime -- imagine losing a loved one during surgery because the doctors didn't have enough anesthesia. that's exactly what an anesthesiologists say caused the death of seven patients last year in a survey and that's the tip of the iceberg.

dr. sumadi joins me now to explain more. is this a crisis? >> i think this is the news that we already have known for the last seven years. really the first time this came on the surface was in 2005, gretchen, where about 61 drugs were shortage of these medications. over the last seven years, we've gone from 61 to almost 178 drugs that are shortage. so it is a real crisis. but we're not just talking about the anesthesia medications but also antibiotics. we heard recently that there are issues with cancer medications, and also psychiatric meds and cardiovascular. this is becoming a real problem for hospitals, for doctors and especially this story for anesthesiologists. >> the big question is why -- >> there are multifactorials. most of these drugs are produced by limited manufacturers out there. when one isn't producing to speed, it puts burden on others. there's recently been a lot of contaminations when inspectors

are looking at some of these factories, they find glasses and fungal infections that we've seen in some of these medications. part of the big issue is really there's a disconnect between the government and the f.d.a. and a lot of times the f.d.a. may not know there's a shortage of these medications so hospitals and doctors can be blindsided by this. so now there's a new act, something called preserving access to life saving medication act which would protect the f.d.a. and these manufacturers have to report that there's a shortage coming up. so we won't get caught as a surprise. so that's part of it. >> it doesn't seem to make business sense to me. especially in a down economy, if there's demand for these drugs to be used, why are companies not making them? >> part of it is also a lot of these medications are going generic and there's not a lot of profit in it. they're not going to spend billions of dollars in creating it and not make that kind of profit so it's all, you know, part of this and i think what's happening right now, a lot of anesthesiologists, you have to

dilute down some of the medications or they have to substitute other medications and some of the side effects and issues is what we have to deal with. so we're not seeing it first hand but i think behind the scenes, there's a lot of work that's going on to be able to prepare these medications for hospitals and doctors. that's a major problem. >> that's very scary for a lot of people because it's nerve-racking enough so know you're going to have surgery and then to know that you might not be getting the right drug is a problem. >> what the f.d.a. has done, that's true, what they have done is opened the door to a lot of overseas countries to bring these medications. that's opened up a whole gray market where the cost of the medications have gone on but i think with this communication between the government, the f.d.a. and the hospitals, hopefully we can get our act together and make sure these kinds of issues won't happen. >> hopefully so, part of the fox medical a team. have a good weekend. >> have a good week. >> how the money has fallen. john edwards trading in his $500 haircut for a cheap new do. we'll show you the pictures and see if it made any difference. and the president promised to clamp down on government

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>> candidate obama promised to clamp down on government surveillance but under his watch, spying has spiked. judge andrew napolitano says it's only going to get worse from here. how bad is it now? >> it's very bad now. if the government inadvertently discovers private information about you, in the bush administration, it destroyed that information. in the obama administration, it keeps that information for five years and makes it available to other governmental agencies. brian, the bottom line is the

government does not respect privacy. the government does not respect the fourth amendment and the government is in the business of gathering enormous amounts of private information without going to judges and getting search warrants and it's doing 95% of it by technology. >> so how the government is watching you, for example, you put together this list. n.s.a. collects e-mails, texts and calls just for people who potentially could be terrorist? > >> no, the n.s.a.'s software allows you to sweep in an e-mail from you to me about when we're going to a yankee game. what interest could they possibly have in that? it would give them access to other e-mails that you and i have written. it would give them access to -- to private information that we may store on our computers. why would the n.s.a. want that? they're not targeting you. they're not targeting me. that's the problem. they're gathering information without probable cause and without a reason about the person from whom they're taking this information. >> private cell phone calls as well, right? they're tracking that. >> these cell phones which we

all carry around can be utilized by the n.s.a. to overhear our conversations when they're innocently in our pockets and when we think they're not on. >> fingerprints on file. i have not been arrested or convicted of anything, you're saying my fingerprints are on file? >> my own fingerprints are on file. when i took an oath to become judge, i had to give them the fingerprints. i don't know why. at the time, i blindfully agreed to it. a lot of people's fingerprints are on file for noncriminal reasons. that's also a gateway to other information. d.n.a. that's on record. >> the argument might be hey, impersonating. i want to make sure that judge napolitano is not being impersonated. >> the government is not interested in preventing someone from impersonating me. the government is interested in finding out as much government as they can. government's argument is this is benign. we are not harming anyone. the more information we have about the public, the better we are at keeping the public safe. the question is do we want a government that can find out everything about us? or do we want a government that

will respect our rights? that's a great debate, that probably will go on in this presidential campaign because president obama promised one thing, on privacy and is doing the opposite. >> judge, right now, always great to see you. judge napolitano on surveillance in what's happening with maybe people spying in our homeland. a fox news alert at this moment. looking right now at the space shuttle discovery. it's not flying under its own power. it's flying from cape canaveral on top of a 747. it will fly down the cape for everyone to see. and it's going to be sad. because we have no space program as this one leaves. and it will be heading to washington, d.c. where it will make its new home in the smithsonian. keep the garage open. it's coming to town! and that, of course, is in virginia. >> it's going to do the whole flight piggy backing, i guess. >> it is. >> remember they used to do this when it first landed? they used to transport it on a 747. >> what would happen is if they landed out at edwards air force base in california, they would have to transport it back to

florida and that's how they would do that on the retrofitted 747. by the way, the six astronauts who flew discovery's final space trip a year ago are on hand to discovery to say good-bye. >> here it is. let's watch nasa-tv take over.

>> there goes the discovery. >> discovery is gone. space shuttle program is through

and it's official, it's going to a museum and it's being retired and not leaving on its own power. good morning, everyone. if you're just joining us, you're in the middle of "fox & friends" as we're watching beautiful live pictures from down in cape canaveral, florida, where that shuttle is going to be coming up to the smithsonian in virginia. that's going to be its new home. bittersweet day because that means it's the end of the space program. there it is right there as it took off, what a beautiful, beautiful sight. i don't know if i've ever seen that even though it's happened on many occasions before. it's really an incredible sight. >> i find it incredibly depressing, though, because it's the end of the space program. we're paying russians to get to space as we bring that one to a museum. >> i was in wichita, kansas, once at boeing where they landed that thing. they had to refuel it on the trip from california back to florida. it was, you know, that's how many tons does that space shuttle weigh on top of the 747? how many tons does that weigh? it was a big landing and big takeoff. it took quite a while. if you're in the washington,

d.c. area, around the lunch hour, you can check on line to find exactly what time it will be going over the national monuments. they're going to do a low flyover. >> look at the cameras we have. >> this is amazing. this took off about four minutes ago and these are still live pictures right now that you're watching of that 747 with a huge shuttle as a piggyback. i wonder what the baggage fee is for that shuttle. now we have to pay for our bags. wonder what that charge. >> you mentioned last hour, the six astronauts that flew discovery's final space trip a year ago on hand to say good-bye to discovery. so many jobs also leave as symbolically discovery leaves the space coast. and they really need a direction from here on in. so far the direction of the space shuttle is to the smithsonian. >> and the list of achievements for the discovery, it delivered the hubble space telescope into orbit and carried the first russian cosmonaut to a spaceship. performed the first rendezvous with the first female shuttle pilot in the cockpit and

returning mercury astronaut john glenn to orbit and bringing shuttle flights back to life after the challenger and columbia accidents. it was a nice day down in florida for the takeoff. usually that thing takes off vertically. today, more on the horizontal side. >> all right. fabulous, beautiful shot there. live down in cape canaveral, florida. >> going over the space coast right up the coast heading to washington. it's going to be parked down around dulles forever. >> if you're down there and happened to be captured some photos, e-mail them to us and we'll show them here on "fox & friends." in the meantime, let's get to some of the other stories making news on your tuesday. outrageous testimony from norway, anders braivik boasting he would do it all again and it was the most spectacular attack since world war ii. one of the judges was kicked off the case for saying that he deserves the death penalty.

he was admitted to killing 77 people but pleaded not guilty claiming he was acting in some sort of self-defense. is it a major blow to president obama? the senate rejecting the so-called buffet rule aimed at raising taxes on millionaires but the debate will rage on. >> nobody is even claiming this thing creates jobs. it's all about the president's idea of fairness. >> times are tough for many middle class american families. millionaires and billionaires aren't sharing the pain or the sacrifices, not one bit. >> while republicans called the buffet rule a political gimmick, democrats are planning to use the vote against them leading up to the election. there's more fallout now from the alleged secret service prostitution scandal in colombia. 11 agents on paid administrative leave and have been stripped of their security clearance. of the 11 men involved, two were supervisors and three were members of the elite counter assault team that protects the

presidential motorcade. the president says it's looking at broadening its own investigation into the "embarrassing incident" and mirror, mirror on the wall. who is the least liked congressional leader of them all? according to rasmussen, it's house minority leader nancy pelosi. 60% giving her a thumbs down. the most liked congressional leader? speaker john boehner and those are your headlines. >> all right. let's talk a little bit about this if you're watching the channel yesterday, you saw what was, you know, they called him in front of congress, that guy right there is jeff neely. he's the guy who lined up all those wing dings for the g.s.a. that is him in a hot tub in las vegas and we got this picture from his wife's google plus account and now thanks to his daughter carly's facebook account, we know that apparently the family wound up tagging along on a number of government trips to places like hawaii. >> he's been suspended with pay. he makes about $172,000 but didn't stop him from making 131

trips in 43 months. how necessary were those trips? how productive were they? >> he's working hard there. >> one of those trips was to hawaii. nine of those trips were to hawaii which was part of his district as pacific rim manager but on some of those trips, for one example, he stayed 10 days when he had run hour of work at the ribbon cutting ceremony. that's the allegation. there's an allegation now that his wife may have impersonated a federal employee so that she could join in some of these private sector conferences. you got to wonder, there's a lot more going on than that hot tub and those two glasses of sangria there. a lot of taxpayer dough like this. eight scouting trips. eight scouting trips to figure out how to plan that las vegas convention in october of 2010. that cost the taxpayers $130,000 just for those scouting trips. >> yeah, but -- >> plus yesterday, one of the -- part of the testimony is it sounds like he was trying to take some of his friends, not just his family. we've seen his wife there and seen that his daughter carly

apparently went to hawaii as well but he offered to pay for personal friends to come and "have a blast on the government's dime." >> right. and when it was time for him to talk, wasn't saying a word. using the constitution to lean on, here's a little of what you missed yesterday. >> mr. neely, are you prepared to answer any questions here today about your participation in the 2010 western regional conference? >> mr. chairman, i respectfully decline to answer any questions here today based on my fifth amendment constitutional privilege. >> you as an administrator say they were entitled to it. that's where there's frustration beaming out of our ears. it's totally unacceptable and for the president of the united states to look the american people in the eye and say we got a pay freeze in place while you're getting bonuses and going on trips is totally unacceptable. >> mr. neely and his wife believe they were some sort of agency royalty. who used taxpayer funds to

bankroll their lavish lifestyle. they disregarded one of the most basic tenets of government service. it's not your money! it's the taxpayers' money. >> this is interesting because this is bipartisan. you've got democrats and republicans who are upset at this amazing waste! but will this be part of the election dialogue coming up now? because the republicans will be able to argue that the democrats want more big government. and i think a lot of people wouldn't mind paying more taxes if they thought the money wasn't going to be wasted in such outrageous ways as we're seeing now from the g.s.a. so do you really believe if you are charged more taxes that it's going to actually go to help people or it's going to be buying more sangria and hot tubbing? >> they are pretty good at wasting the dough, other people's dough and that was charles krauthammer's point reacting to elijah cummings last night on "special report. "on>> what representative

cummings said was quite interesting, he said it's a basic tenet of government that it's not your money but the taxpayers' money. he's missing the point. it's a basic tenet of human nature that if you're spending other people's money, you'll be less careful than you will of your own. that's the central argument against the government. the obama administration isn't responsible for what happened in 2010. this undoubtedly happened in the bush year and every other year but it's intrinsic. however, obama and the democrats are the party of government. who believe in expanding it, have expanded it and want it to continue to expand. the republicans are the party of smaller government and as a result, when government does crazy things that are offensive to the people who support it, it's going to hurt the party of government and hurt obama. >> here's the one good thing that can come out of this, every agent -- you think this is the only agency abusing this? absolutely not. but every agency is actually tightening their belts right

now, may be covering their tracks but also tightening their belt saying now those days are over. >> do you really think that? >> i think that they're worried about the humiliation. >> no, but you -- you would have thought that during a recession, and during focus on the national deficit, that they would have done that before the 2010 convention. >> they are now caught and yesterday -- >> i think it's naive to think that everybody is deciding to suddenly not waste our taxpayer dollars. >> there's evidence and yesterday, the g.s.a. canceled 35 conferences that had been on the docket, not going to do them anymore. >> not going to make the travel industry happy and they're upset and worried. hey, by the way, the president of the united states knows who he's going to be going against to retain that job for the next four years. it's going to be mitt romney all but formally done and he's going to be set up, doing much better in the polls right now. it makes you wonder what are they doing about the number two on the ticket? they named the vice president to give him a hand on the road. >> they've actually named now long time advisor beth myers,

his chief of staff, romney's when he was governor of massachusetts. she's in charge of the v.p. vetting process and ann romney herself said for the first time over the weekend, she and mitt actually discussed some of the possible names and she said there were a lot of great candidates out there that they would consider. >> when the name marco rubio was brought up, mr. romney says he's a terrific leader but it's way too early to narrow down the vice presidential nominees. but they are starting the process. >> right. >> somebody who wanted to be president or even vice president was john edwards on the democratic side. he's had a few problems that erupted -- >> could send him to prison for 30 years. >> could. >> remember back -- this is several -- >> ♪ i feel pretty >> he was doing a video and didn't know that he was being captured on camera. this was back in the days when he was spending $300 to $500 on haircut with a fancy stylist. apparently things have changed now. >> yeah. he had been going to beverly hills stylist for a while. well, now, here's the update. john edwards who is on trial,

there you can see a $500 haircut screen left and there screen right is the haircut he got at super cuts in raleigh, north carolina, for $12.95. nice clip job. >> let me tell you something, 2012 looks better than 2004. i don't know what he was spending that on. on the shampoo girls who wanted to rake him over the coals? $12.95. >> is this colombia? >> no, i'm not saying it's colombia but you get shampoo girls when it goes to a salon>> you are a big tipper of the shampoo girls. >> i give her $3. >> wait. ok. >> shampoo girls? >> right. >> you don't get your hair washed before you get your haircut? >> i go to a barber shop. >> they don't wash your hair. >> no, they've got water in squirty bottle. >> wow. $22? >> i feel like i'm being coddled. >> all right. >> i'm going to get out of this

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hour. the romney campaign capitalizing on controversial comments from the left last week and it appears to be now in hyperspeed. could this kind of quick response be a preview of what's to come in the presidential race? joining me now with her reaction is democratic strategist and fox news contributor jimu green. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> it looks like it's obama-romney so everything will be quick response. we had the hillary rosen comments about ann romney never working a day in her life, you believe the romney campaign acted swiftly and effectively by putting ann romney out there immediately. >> they definitely acted swiftly. i don't think it was effective. and i think both sides are guilty of this in some way, shape or form where they think the american people are stupid where you have this hyperspeed partisan parsing of words and a complete disregard for what the intent was from the person who was saying it. whether it's david axelrod or hillary rosen or governor romney when he said, you know, he

wanted to -- he likes firing people. the democrats kind of did the exact same thing to him. i think we have to remember that most people, most independents, in particular, don't pay attention to this like political junkies. they're not hooked on it. and we're doing a really big disservice to the problems this country is facing by not having a more substantive dialogue instead of partisan parsing of words. >> you were an advisor to hillary clinton's campaign so you would know a lot -- you would know a lot about this whole women issue, though, even if people aren't paying attention to every detail, don't you think they're hearing drips and drabs about maybe this was said about moms who stay at home? don't you think it might have some effect -- don't you think ann romney was effective in the sense that she sort of had a jovial attitude about it and said yes, i raised five sons and it was a lot of work. >> i don't think it would bother a lot of people what she said it

was happy she made this comment. it was like an early birthday present. that's celebrating a stance where you're putting stay-at-home moms vs., you know, working mothers and that's not something that moves this country forward. first of all, i've known hillary rosen for many years. i actually worked for her for almost five years and there's no mother that can look at another mother of two children and think that she meant that a mom, a st stay-at-home mom doesn't work. a woman can see through that b.s. and does the entire political process a disservice. >> i want to listen to david axelrod on the sunday tv shows. i was driving when i heard this, did he endorse mitt romney when he said this? >> the choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead and an economy that continues down the road we're on.

>> an economy that continues down the road we're on. it sounds like david axelrod is not a fan of the economy that his guy, barack obama, has created. >> well, clearly obama has had some challenges with congress not willing to put forward a lot of his initiatives but at the end of the day, is anyone going to sit there and think that david axelrod, the man who really was behind the campaigns that mobilized more people than ever before, that he was endorsing governor romney? that's just ludicrous. >> back to the point that the romney campaign had hyperspeed in immediately putting out an ad that used that particular piece of sound from david axelrod. is that effective? >> it shows the power of social media. and i think what we are in store for in the next few months is seeing videos that are turned around the next morning, you know, having really strong responses on the social media front from both candidates for every single word that is said.

that doesn't get at what your vision is for america. that doesn't show the contrast between these two candidates. that shows that sometimes when you're talking, you slip up and you make a mistake. and your intent is more important than those few small words you might have messed up on. we are all guilty of that. >> maybe we'll all wait for debt bates. always great to see you. thanks so much. >> thanks, gretchen. >> today is tax day, of course. before you send in those last minute returns, we have a personal finance expert standing by to answer all of your tax questions and from "the sopranos" to nurse jackie, edie falco is here live next. ♪[music plays]

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>> time for your news by the numbers. that's how many people never showed up for the boston marathon due to the hot heat that sent over 100 people into the hospital. there you go. the guy that won. number one, that's where columbia, missouri, ranks in a new survey naming columbia, missouri, the hardest working town in the country. the survey measures unemployment rates, long work days and the number of homes with dual incomes. congratulations. and finally, 6 1/2 hours a day. that's reportedly how long the 2011 democrat-controlled senate was in session per day. they also produced less legislation than any other senate since 1992 earning the embarrassing distinction as the laziest senate in decades. congratulations. >> on showtime's "nurse jackie" edie falco plays a recovering

addict that leaves therapy early against advice. >> you've been in an incubator here, you get out and the air will hurt your skin. >> my skin is pretty thick. >> not anymore it's not. most people end up back here or dead. >> what if i'm ready? isn't that possible? >> yeah, you're extraordinary, you and the other seven million addicts in america. >> golden globe winning actress edie falco is here, the legend. welcome back to the couch. >> happy to be here. >> first off, this series another runaway hit from one hit to another, how does it feel? >> crazy. lucky. great. >> when you say hit with "the sopranos" that's something else completely. >> yeah. >> in this particular series on showtime, you're a pill popper. >> indeed. >> and a bed hopper. how did you get -- how did you -- >> how did you get hooked on the -- explain how you got hooked on the pills because it does make sense. >> yeah, you know, early pain either physical or emotional and you take a little something and it feels a little better and you

take a little more something and it feels a lot better and the next thing you know you're off to the races. >> they're out right there. >> it's very topical that whole idea because america right now in an epidemic for prescription drug use. >> absolutely. very troubling. >> the other thing that you speak passionately about, you are a breast cancer survivor. >> i am. >> one of the things that came out in this new poll that i find fascinating it shows that emotional support impacts breast cancer patients and survivors. how? >> well, i think personally having been through it, that i wish i had known about this organization called why me where they provide emotional support for people going through it. you can talk to your family and your friends and everyone, you know, offers advice and kindness but unless they've actually been through it, nobody can really quite relate. >> and we watched you go through it but we didn't know it. >> ah-ha! >> during the filming of "the sopranos" that's when you were struck. >> i needed to keep it close to the vest, that's the way i am.

had i known about why me, i would have taken advantage of it. it's an anonymous phone line that you can call, speak to a survivor 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365, can provide emotional support and practical advice and so much going on in the breast cancer world and you feel very alone. >> and let me ask you something, how do you feel now? >> totally great. i'm one of the very, very lucky ones. >> yeah, i'm hlty and great. >> so access to this 24/7 hotline where you can get that support 95% in this poll consider that important. 73% think this is extremely or very important. do you by any chance -- are you ever on the other end of the line? >> not yet! we'll see how this whole acting thing works out. >> but only 15% of people even knew such a thing existed. i myself am one that didn't. >> edie, what is it like -- the struggling actress as opposed to the successful actress. do you feel different besides the money -->> i treat everybody to dinner. >> you pay all the time. >> everybody. >> how about lunch? there's a nice place across the

street. >> i didn't say lunch. >> ok. >> and i get reservations at good restaurants. >> i bet you do. >> yeah. but i don't eat out. it doesn't matter. and i get to work -- i get to take care of my kids and i don't know, i have a ridiculously good life. >> you're 60 miles, less than that of where you grew up. >> that's right. >> because you're a breast cancer survivor, it's all that much sweeter. >> that's it. it's like in oz when she lands and everything is in color. >> what's it like? >> everything is new and fresh and happy because everywhere there are people who aren't quite so lucky. no joke. >> do you hang out with any of your mobster friends? >> right now? >> yeah, do you hang out with any of them? >> maybe. maybe i do. >> maybe you do. >> i plead the fifth. >> fine. >> sound like you're on capitol hill. >> on showtime, fourth season. edie falco, thank you very much. >> my pleasure. >> good luck to you. >> thank you. >> next on the rundown, the battle of the sexes have been raging forever. this morning, we have a winner.

up next, who is more moral? women or men? >> ok. biggest scandal to hit the secret service and he broke the story. that man joins us coming up. wake up!

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>> ♪ i'm a rocket man ♪ rocket man >> couldn't even say moments ago. it's now officially retired, it's calling it quits. it's going to go in the smithsonian and let you climb around it, climb in it. check the engine out and sending it out to pasture. it's stapled on top of the 747 and told go north! >> as it flies up the space coast, it's headed for the washington, d.c. area. during the lunch hour, there's going to be a fly over on the national monument. >> i think 1500 yards. 1500 feet above the washington monument. that would be quite a sight. >> brian is very depressed today because he thinks it's emblematic of the space program coming to an end. >> what space program? we have nothing coming up the pike! >> i know it. >> let us know what you think about that. you can twitter us or e-mail us. >> according to gretchen who is my source and i'm about to go on e-mail now.

we're getting a lot of reabreed. we asked people for their mixes. we have puggle and labradoodle. >> a lot of e-mails of people that are concerned with you because you wanted to breed a pug with a poodle. >> sometimes love is blind. >> what did i call it? pagoodle as opposed to a pagoda. >> i don't know how expensive they would be. >> we have a busy 90 minimum straight ahead and now we have an extreme weather alert. the death toll reaches six after devastating tornadoes ripped through kansas, nebraska and oklahoma and iowa and minnesota as well over the weekend. and while many are still picking up the pieces, look at these pictures after the storms. a story of survival out of kansas. the davenport family inside their home in wichita when the twister hit. during the chaos, they lost their cat who had just given birth to kittens. but eventually, the mom and the

babies were all found safe. >> pippa middleton could be jailed after being photographed next to a gun pointing driver in paris. this picture, you see right there? making the cover of "the sun" newspaper. the driver pulling out the gun after a photographer tried to snap pictures of pippa. under france's strict gun laws, brandishing a weapon in public even if it's fake like that one is is punishable by up to two years in jail for everybody in the car! >> peter johnson jr. will talk about that, i think, in the next hour. and check out this incredible video, solar flare erupting on the surface of the sun. holy cow. you can see the super hot plasma blasting into space. nasa registered it as a moderate 1.7 on the scale of solar storms. wasn't the biggest storm this year but it sure was spectacular and we've got video. >> the battle of the sexes is over at least when it comes to who is more moral? a new study revealing women over

30 are the more moral sex making choices based on others' needs while men tend to focus on themselves. hmmm. what a shock. no, just kidding. that's another way to say they're selfish. that's what the teleprompter says. the study looked at 60,000 volunteers in 200 countries. >> let me fix that. let me bang that -- there you go. try reading it again. a little bit more -- >> you think it's going to change the end result? >> that's immoral and that's what she's talking about. >> worked on my flat screen. >> this survey was done by volunteers. so you have to wonder -- >> female volunteers. >> speaking of volunteers, vera gibbons is volunteering to be on our program today. she's a personal finance director. >> write it off. >> men are selfish. >> that is -- >> definitely. >> that's not -- >> that's not taxes. >> you're not dr. laura, ok? >> vera, we've had a whole

bunch of people e-mail with questions. today is april 17th, it's tax day. here's a question from maria. my husband is 68. i am 57. can we put money into an i.r.a. today to avert any taxes we have to pay? our tax bill is $3,000. all right. what can she do? >> that tax bill is not too much. the maximum contribution limits for tax season 2011 are $5,000 in their case because they're 50 and older, they can do $6,000 into an i.r.a. today is the deadline for that and today is the deadline to take money out of the retirement accounts if you overfunded them. my accountant said i have to take money out of my s.e.p. because i had put too much money in there. >> too much money in retirement? >> i hadn't heard of that. he said i need to spend more. >> he's frugal. >> that's on page like 3,423 of the tax code. >> yeah, of the tax code which is, what, 70,000 pages plus? >> it's ridiculous. here's an e-mail from deborah in albuquerque, new mexico. i refinanced my home.

what part of the closing costs that i paid can i deduct this year? >> well, as you very well know, there's a laundry lists of costs that go into the closing. appraisal fees, and title fees, and closing costs have been on the rise because of the regulation, up 9% this year than last year. they're definitely up even though home values are going down, we're looking for ways to save. unfortunately, most of these costs are not deductible beyond the basic ones, points, prepaid interest and the like. >> here's room for terese, can i write off the home use of cell phone charges and wireless router for a portion that i use for business. i don't have a designated area for work but i heavily use these for work outside of normal working hours. >> probably sdenlt have a designated home office. that raises a red flag with the i.r.s. often does end up in an audit, unfortunately, yes. here's the thing. if he's a contractor worker or freelancer as so many of us are, he's using the internet for his business, he can write off a portion of those expenses. you just don't want to go

overboard. a lot of people who are self-employed tend to get a little aggressive here taking too many deductions, more they're entitled to or they merge their personal and business expenses, that raises a red flag to the i.r.s. you can take a portion of the writeoff. don't go crazy here. >> talk to your expert to figure out what the portion is. vera is going to be here all morning long. if you've got some questions for her, just e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com. or you could twitter us at "fox & friends." >> speaking of taxes, let's talk to you about some celebrities who have tried to cheat the system allegedly. wesley snipes actually convicted for that currently severing a three year sentence. he's not the only tax cheat. what about al pacino? >> doesn't he have enough money? he owes $188,000. he could write that off on his direct deposit. >> he's paying a monster in a bunch of movies and a guy that's made a lot of monster movies is martin scorsese, the director. look at this.

he owes $2.25 million apparently owed for federal tax liens. >> and you have nicolas cage, owes a whopping $7 million. >> he's got to find some real american treasure. >> yeah. didn't -- didn't he lose all of his money anyway? >> right. >> i don't know. >> i think that his daughter. >> because today is tax day at maggie moo's they have this thing every year called the yo bait and what they're doing is they're giving away free frozen yogurt at their locations between 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. tonight. gretch, what flavor are you eating? >> blueberry. >> how is it? >> delicious. brian, you're not -- >> brian, you already ate. >> i ate mine! i got caught up in the moment. i thought they were giving us snacks. i didn't know it was for the show. >> my gosh! >> i guess we weren't giving enough interviews. he had time to eat. >> it's unbelievable. >> what flavor do you have? >> birthday cake. i could have got that for dawn. let me give that to her for the birthday. i'll get her a new spoon. >> she's not watching.

>> use your spoon. >> happy birthday. >> brian, you're fired. >> happy birthday. >> you know what, brian? just go to maggie moos.com and find the closest location. free tonight between 4:00 and 7:00. >> on birthday, is it good to bring your wife to a special with a coupon? >> early bird. >> pack up, 4:30, we got to eat! >> we got a coupon, honey, happy birthday. >> two for one. >> i'll cut it out, it's your birthday. >> i understand. >> straight ahead on the rundown, no, give it to her. tell her it's from me. >> it is the biggest scandal to hit the secret service in history. and the guy who broke the story is going to join us with brand new details that you won't hear any place else. he's next. >> then the c.e.o. of starbucks says the best coffee is not made at starbucks? >> wow. >> what? what about your pumpkin latte? >> it's from my green room. >> the pumpkin spice latte so good for you. dad, why are you getting that? is there a prize in there?

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top of the hour. it's being called the biggest scandal to hit the secret service since they began protecting our president over a century ago. now, at least 11 secret service agents have been suspended and their security clearances revoked for allegedly hiring hookers ahead of the president's colombia visit last weekend. joining us is the guy that broke the story, chief washington correspondent for newsmax.com and author of "in the president's secret service" ron kessler. good morning to you, ron. >> good morning. >> you say the main thing, it's a gigantic scandal and worst thing that's happened in the history of the agency but you say this is all endemic of cost cutting. explain that. >> cost cutting, corner cutting, lacksness by secret service management under the director mark sullivan. he presided over not only this but the intrusion by the salahis and a third intruder, carlos allen which i also broke. and dozens of examples in my book in the president's secret

service of, for example, letting people into events without magnometers screening. when joe biden threw the first pitch at the orioles game, they had no magnometers screening. other examples, they don't require physical fitness test or firearms training on a regular basis and then they cover it up by asking agents to fill out their own test scores. so this -- this culture, of course, filters down to the agents and that's why i was not really shocked when i broke this story about the -- the hookers in colombia. >> yeah, revelation today is there's been an accusation that some of the prostitutes may have been underage. they're looking into that right now. but the problem, one of the problems and you write about is the fact that, you know, i think all these guys are married. and they could have easily been black mailed. >> exactly. you know, the prostitutes could

have cooperated with terrorists who give access for assassination. could have cooperated with the russian foreign intelligence service to give access for bugging devices and other secrets. but, you know, the answer is not congressional hearings and a lot of hot air out of congress but the answer is replacing mark sullivan. but he's a very nice guy, and, you know, obama schmoozes with him and he has his nice agents around him who seem so impressed. they are. they'll take a bullet for the president. >> if they have a budget crunch there, the next person that takes over facing the same problem? >> well, you know, what sullivan needs to do is say to obama, we need twice the budget. but he's so spineless and he has this culture of attitude of we make due with less that he will not make that move. you know, obama on sundays said if these allegations in the press turn out to be true, i'll

be angry. that was his response. well, we know that the secret service itself has already said in a statement they gave me when i broke this story that misconduct was involved. that's why they're recalling the agents so obama is a little bit behind the news and secondly to say i'll be angry, that's not the way to fix an agency and he really is risking his own life the way john f. kennedy did when he refused to let agents ride on the rear running board of his limousine in dallas. by not replacing the director with someone who will shape up this agency. >> let me ask you this. you touched on how you broke the story. can i ask you without giving a name, was it somebody inside the administration or somebody inside the service? >> somebody inside the secret service developed as a result of writing this book in the president's secret service and one of many agency believe that an assassination is very, very possible.

in fact, it's a miracle there has not been one given this corner cutting that i document. >> whistle blower in hopes that it will improve safety. all right, ronald kessler, check out his book. it's terrific called "in the pre's secret service, behind the scenes of the agents in the line of fire and the president they protect." thank you very much. >> thank you, steve. >> it is now 10 minutes before the top of the hour. looking for a new job? help is on the way. five companies hiring right now. get out a pencil and paper. first on this date in 1983 "come on eileen" number one in america. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. i

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along with the warmer weather, of course, consumer spending is also on the rise. up nearly 1% in march. according to the commerce department. that's good news but how does this impact the u.s. job market? cheryl casone from the fox business network is here to break it all down with us, for the top companies hiring this week. welcome back. >> hey, yeah! i mean, look, we are seeing some signs of the economy improving and once and a while, we get a little bit of an update and we're tracking some mixed data right now. i will admit we're always finding companies that are hiring. i look for companies that are growing and expanding on the business side as well as on the hiring side. had the co-c.e.o. bill mcdermott come on the show last week. this is cloud computing, they're a software computing and it's business to business but they're changing the way that companies deal with each other. they're software and they need a lot of engineers and need sales people and developers but at the same time, he said look, there's a lot of positions and here's what they're looking for. >> our people, whether they're in sales, they're in research & development, or they're simply

in services helping the customer make this change where the jobs are and we moved 3,000 jobs forward in the first quarter this year. >> hiring volume up 10% for the year. thousands of jobs. >> that's great. now, meanwhile, dollar general is looking to hire 6,000 new people? >> yeah, i mean, look, you can apply on line. you can apply at a store. they have 6,000 new jobs much it's going to be retail store positions for the most part. they're opening up a new distribution center, though, in labeck, california, that's where a lot of the jobs are for right now if you're interested in that. that's the back end side of the business so you're not dealing with customers if you're not a people person. they're one of the 100 military friendly employers and they look to the military because of values and sense of service. a lot of companies lately have been trying to recruit the nation's military members. >> air freight is looking for -- it has 120 openings but i want to focus on rent-a-center and an american public furniture and electronics rent to own company.

>> you want to move on to rent-a-center, they have 401k, they have medical, dental, vision, and about 500 openings at rent-a-center. they're actively, again, recruiting returning military members. they're headquartered in plano, texas, 3,000 companies and stores across the country. they're in canada and mexico and we're seeing this trend with the economy. people don't own. they rent. sometimes they need temporary furniture for that. >> chesapeake energy which is, of course, natural gas, second largest producer of natural gas. >> yes, 3,000 employees will be needed additionally by the end of the year. they've already been hiring. headquartered in oklahoma city. you can make $35,000 to $120,000 annually. >> thank you so much. >> uh-huh. >> coming up straight ahead as we move to the final hour, don't forget to watch "power to prosper." remember how barack obama promised banks would never get too big to fail? that's not true. they've flopped. laura ingraham here top of the hour. ♪

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day even though it's tax day. i'm gretchen carlson. from top tub hero to zero. the man at the center of the gsa scandal not only took taxpayer force a ride, but some of his family. new details out this morning whether or not he liked that san goo rei can't still up for debate. >> steve: who else was in there? the president hosting a big event today for nascar driver tony stewart. big honor or big campaign ploy? laura ingraham on those comments in moments. >> brian: i'm taking the fifth 'cause it was done so much yesterday. the coolest pictures you will see all day, the shuttle discovery hitching the ride on the back of a 747. they never told the pilot. we are live in florida. "fox & friends" starts right now >> gretchen: had a bit of a problem on the set now.

we had yogurt here because it's national yogurt day, i think. >> steve: it's yobay day. >> gretchen: we had birthday cake one of the flavors and brian was going to bring that home for his wife today because it's her birthday. >> brian: right. we didn't get her a present yet. >> gretchen: it spilled all over our table now. there is the remnants. so i tweeted to get people suggestions to what to buy her. we're going to reveal many of them at 8:30 a.m. >> brian: i'm feeling the sarcasm. coming in 30 minutes. gifts i should get. >> steve: we need a clean-up, aisle 1. clean-up, aisle 1. >> gretchen: actually cleaned it up in 15 seconds. it was very good, joel. good job. we got to get to headlines now. we start with a fox news alert. most traveled shuttle discovery taking off for the last time. it left kennedy space center earlier this morning on top of a 747 bound for virginia where it's going to become part of a smithsonian exhibit. it's the first of the three

retired space shuttles to head to a museum. we'll have a live report from florida 30 minutes away. norway massacre suspect anders behring breivik taking the stand in court this morning, reading from a prepared statement. he's claiming that his rampage was the motorcycles quote, spectacular attack by a nationalist militant since world war ii and he's boasting he would do it all again. also today one of the judges was kicked off the case for saying that he deserves the death penalty. he admitted to killing 77 people, but he's pleaded not guilty, claiming somehow he acted in self-defense. more gsa officials in hot water as a picture of one of them is in a hot tub. it's going national now. there are brand-new details about the government's spending spree scandal. jeff neily, the guy in the hot tub who organized an $822,000 junket to las vegas at taxpayers' expense. the daily.com reports he took not only his wife, but entire

family on government-funded trips o hawaii and las vegas. talk about a very generous donation, this beautiful engagement ring given to goodwill by accident in atlanta. 31-year-old josh miller had been hiding the ring in the pocket of an old winter coat waiting for the right moment to pop the question and then that coat was donated to goodwill. miller went back when he realized what happened, but now it can't be located. the couple continues to plan the we hadding and they hope whoever has the jacket has the heart to return the ring. keep the jacket. bring back the bling. >> brian: that looked like cubic zirconium. >> steve: if you found jacket, there would be a wife to give your wife today. >> brian: that could be fantastic. remind me to go to the thrift shop. >> gretchen: maybe laura ingraham has ideas. >> brian: hour would we know that? >> steve: she's got a lot of ideas. how are you? >> i think a good gift certificate to mcdonald's, something like that, wouldn't that be a nice gift for your

wife? remember those 50-cent little coupons that you would get as kid? it brings you back. a little birthday party in the birthday room. >> steve: speak of parties, later today at the white house, the president of the united states is going to welcome in nascar driver tony stewart, salute his accomplishments and stuff like that. is that because the president is a big lover of nascar where they really need to start driving hybrids or is there something more cynical going on here, do you think? >> yeah, we're trying bring the green jobs ageneral at that to nascar perhaps. green the entire industry of nascar. >> brian: slow it down a little. >> yeah, right. it's an election year. so nascar, dad, i guess we used to call them nascar dads aren't fans of president obama. i don't expect to see him at many nascar convenience this year. but look, you got to do what you can do to get yourself in the presence of a nascar great who might just give you some

reflective electoral glory. it doesn't surprise me, but it would be like my inviting susan sarandon over for tea. it doesn't make a lot of sense. >> steve: go to mcdonald's. >> brian: we looked at two or three major polls. cnn has obama by 9. but rasmussen and gallup have romney up. does that surprise you? >> no. i think this was bound to happen with the primary basically over, even though gingrich is still in the race and ron paul. things will tighten. that's what happens. from now until the election, there are going to be these flash points. they will have some of these side issues like the war on women, but then i hope we'll have a real debate about what's happening to this country, namely if we don't turn things around, china is going to continue to make inroads in places like brazil and africa and the middle east and we're not going to really do much about it. i hope we have those conversations. >> gretchen: remember the banks that the president promised would never again get too big to

fail. now they're apparently even bigger. what do you make of that? >> yeah, well, the five biggest banks are bigger than they were ten years ago and when you look at their market capitalization, i believe the wealth they control is in the multiple trillions. i think it's like 15 trillion money that they control. so if you're barak obama and you believe your record should count, then you're grant standing against too big to fail, we should at least examine it and talk about it. what didn't work in this ground breaking series of acts that president obama took in the wake of the financial crisis? we were told too big to fail was going to be one of the mantra's of this administration, teetering on the brink of insolvency and bringing down the entire financial system if they did go down. now it turns out they're bigger than ever. so what does the president have to say about it? what will the media say?

>> steve: we did get dodd frank and curiously enough, barney frank came out yesterday and said, you know, the president blew it on healthcare. he should have listened to me and worked on financial reform instead. >> in the end, isn't barney frank pretty much always right? really. he is the oracle. hindsight is 20/20. so you can say now that the whole thing is going down the tube, oh, i told you we should never have done this. i don't recall barney frank or all these middle of the road democrats in the senate, all of them had a chance to stand up against obamacare. none of them did. >> brian: it's amazing. doesn't anyone go down with the ship anymore? >> no! of course not. >> brian: no one says no, i still back my move. >> steve: i'm sorry. >> i'm glad you brought up the titanic analogy because we can name our top five senators who would push the women out of the way and jump in the life boat. >> gretchen: that's your next book. >> yeah, exactly.

we'll figure it out. get the names. >> gretchen: let's talk about the buffet rule because even though the senate rejected it and everyone knew they were going to reject it, it's still going to be a hot campaign topic, right? >> yeah. and gretchen, remember it was last year, i believe, that the ap fact check totally debunked the premise behind the buffet rule, this idea that all these millionaires are skirting tax, they're not paying taxes. it turns out the average of tax rate of millionaires, people making a million and above is between 25 and 28.9%, something like that. and the people in the middle quinntile, 20% of taxpayers pay about 13.3% in taxes and a lot of people, as we talked about last week pay nothing. so the idea that the rich pay nothing, they pay more of a percentage in taxes with a very small exception, 10% of the so-called wealthy pay less than their, quote, secretaries. but the rich pay more as a percentage in taxes and they carry the lion share of the tax burden. that was totally undercut, yet

obama continues, like in so many of these issues, continues to use it as a battering ram. >> gretchen: but he also used it -- originally the excuse for wanting it was because it was going to cut into our deficit. >> that's gone. >> gretchen: then we found out that it only would cover 17 days of the deficit. >> 17 days, 17 hours. >> steve: how do the republicans respond to that? >> it's not serious. it's an unserious approach to yet another serious problem facing our government. crushing debt and crushing deficit will not be dented by any revenue collected by the buffet rule and the administration itself has basically admitted that they're not going to use any of this money for deficit reduction anyway. when government gets the money, they blow it in vegas. that's what we know. go to vegas and have big parties. >> gretchen: i believe that will actually be a huge part of the campaign discussion moving forward now that this gsa scandal has come to light

because it will be a decision for people whether or not they want to pay more taxes and see what happens to that tax money, or have a more limited government. but does it also mean that maybe mitt romney should get on the band wagon of talking about tax reform? >> well, i think he can talk about tax simpleification and making it easier for every person to pay taxes and for everyone to have skin in the game and again, mitt romney cannot be sucked into a defensive posture on this issue of taxes. these are immature and adolescent approaches to devastatingly serious problems facing this country. obama is not a serious man in facing these issues. he's a perpetual campaigner. romney needs to be the adult in the room, lose the blue jeans, lose the i'm the regular guy thing. he's not a regular guy, he's really rich and he should try to help other people become really rich, too. >> brian: that's what i tell steve. lose the jeans. admit you're unbelievably rich. >> i like steve. >> brian: that's true. >> gretchen: i don't believe

i've ever seen him if jeans. >> he wears the toughskins or giraffe. >> steve: the garanimals 'cause then i know what shirt to wear. >> exactly. >> steve: laura, always a pleasure. we know you're doing your radio show. check it out. >> gretchen: coming up, a controversial law about to go into effect, get a drug test if you want welfare. is that a good idea? we'll report and you can decide. >> brian: the man at the center of the gsa scandal not only bilked taxpayers for a ride, but took his family with them. >> steve: i wonder if he's getting pruney in the hot tub. >> brian: now he's refusing to answer questions. the man running the hearing, darryl issa next

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>> steve: more trouble with schools, this time let's go to milwaukee, wisconsin. a newly released report shows the milwaukee school district spent nearly $12 million on substitute teachers over the course of one year. it sounds like a lot. wait. that's only because teachers there took off a whopping 92,000 days last year. the founder of the education action group, kyle olson, joins us live. good morning to you. >> thanks for having me. >> steve: so 92,000 days taken off by teachers. 5200 teachers. that seems like a lot. >> it is a lot. the contract requires or allows 12 1/2 days, but the average teacher took 17 days, which is nearly 10% of the work year. >> steve: doesn't somebody have to okay that or are they sick days where they're i'm at home? >> they're sick days, they're convention days. basically any excuse to take a day off.

>> steve: what else did you find in your investigation? >> what we want to do do, let's back up. what we want to do do is show taxpayers where the dollars are going in these contracts because 80 to 85% of every dollar that's spent is contained in these contracts. and so what is the ramification for awful these days taken off? about $12 million spent on substitutes. >> steve: that could be spent someplace else. they had o lay off a whole bunch of teachers, didn't they? >> that's right. what we're saying is look at these number, consider these facts as your politician, elected officials, state leaders are coming to you and say, we need to raise your taxes because schools don't have enough money. >> steve: let's look at some of the other union expenses built into the 85% you're talking about. they spent 3% or 10.4 million on lump sum raises. 128 million on free health insurance. free health insurance. 28 million on the teachers' share of the state pension contribution. 15 million early retirement fund. 2.9 million teachers monitoring

lunchroom and boarding buses. i think back in the old days when i was going to school, i think that was just part of the assignment. i don't think they got paid extra for being out in the playground. >> that's just it. here is an opportunity for teachers to say we understand times are tough. we'll each take a day, maybe one day per month and do this and do something for the school without being compensated for it. but the interesting point about the health insurance and the retirement is that scott walker's budget reform changed that for a lot of school districts. but in milwaukee, they extended their contract so walker's reforms don't apply, so teachers today continue to receive those things and they're not paying anything towards them. >> steve: we contacted the milwaukee teacher education association. here is what they said: the report does not include a number of bold and critically important steps by the milwaukee board of school directors to insure long-term financial stability of the district, including steps

tied to employee costs. what are they saying there? >> well, our point is that these costs are not sustainable and what we'll see when they can take effect -- when the act 10 reforms take effect in 2013, we'll see if these types of provision goes away because they have gone away in many other districts because they're not sustainable. >> steve: you know, we talk about the high cost of education and we know that it's expensive because we want the best for our kids. but then when you see the numbers, it's jaw dropping. had they take off 92,000 days and they're not allowed that. >> that's right. these types of raises. so the lump sum raise is just a 3% raise for everyone, regardless of performance. these step raises which we talk about, again, are based on how long you've been there and not what type of positive impact that you're having on students. so i think everyone agrees, highly performing, highly effective teachers should be paid more. >> steve: you've got a lot of

really good teachers. >> that's right. but the trouble is, everyone is paid the same based on their number of years. so there is no incentive to improve and have a positive impact on kids. >> steve: all right. let's see if there are any changes. kyle olson, thanks for coming. >> good to be here. >> steve: all right. 19 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, kate middleton's sister, pippa, in a bit of trouble because of that picture. could she really spend two years behind bars for something somebody else did? peter johnson, jr. weighs in coming up. and how the mighty have fallen. john edwards, remember thrill on the campaign trail? that $500 hair cut? now he's going to a much cheaper clip joint.

>> gretchen: 23 minutes after the top of the hour. quick headlines. fox news alert. moments ago, al-qaeda cleric arrested at his home in london where he was under house arrest. he's now facing deportation to jordan. he's known as osama bin laden's right hand man in europe. he was released from prison earlier this year after the european court ruled evidence against him was obtained through torture. and the third and final winner of last month's record $656 million lottery will be revealed tomorrow in illinois. the two other tickets sold in maryland and kansas were claimed anonymously. brian? >> brian: it's not that woman at wendy's. remember pip pipa middleton, captured showing off her curves at the royal wedding. now she's in hot water for other

photos. over the weekend, she was pictured ride not guilty a car in paris as a male companion pointed a gun at a photographer. the picture seen here at the top of this magazine shows pippa laughing and smiling as paparrazzi snapped away. it's being dubbed gun gate, but will she face charges? i'm being serious now. peter johnson, jr. is here with analysis. could this be true, french gun laws say -- >> there is no second amendment north texas right to a hand gun or any kind of gun in france and brandishing a gun seven years for everybody involved, fake gun, two years. thankfully you took my advice and you didn't go to this round of parties last weekend where all this took place. focusly, potentially she's in a lot of trouble. she is the sister to perhaps the once and future queen of england and obviously it's a matter of embarrassment for the royal family at this point. some fellow in that car pointing

a gun allegedly at a paparrazzi that were following. we all know the tragic saga of diana back in the '90s in which the chase and drunkenness of her chauffeur led to her death. >> brian: is this a situation where you're trying get some attention by saying you'll be facing a year in prison and prosecuting this? do you think this will be a situation where royalty gets away? >> the use of a gun in france is a particularly sensitive issue now based on the seven deaths by a terrorist in france. there were arrests over the weekend with regard to four murders by gun in france. so they are particularly sensitive to it. obviously paparrazzi are really annoying to the royal family and their in-laws. but obviously you can not be pointing guns at folks that are merely taking photos. >> brian: we know it wasn't a real gun. >> we don't know for sure. >> brian: the allegation is it wasn't a real gun.

>> there is no collective liability. if someone is hold ago gun, they're responsible for that gun. if they're part of some other felony, say a bank robbery, then they would all be responsible. but merely brandishing a gun does not impose liability on everybody else in the car. >> brian: you would still be in trouble here in the u.s. for brandishing? >> yes. if it's an illegal gun or you're acting in a way that's causing tumult or some public concern. >> brian: so again, the pippa watch continues. we'll follow this story even if it brings us through the weekend. >> it was a big weekend in france where champagne was flowing and they were cavorting with dwarfs in a dimly lit room before that. >> brian: that was on the invitation, come cavort with dwarfs. thank you. >> thank you. >> brian: wonder where your hard earned money is going? how about study shrimp on a

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>> brian: time for your shot of the morning. who needs an alarm clock when you can have this cat? awesome! that's fantastic. >> gretchen: you know what? they make them where they don't move like that. >> brian: cats? >> steve: luckily that family doesn't have that. >> gretchen: i know. it's a bummer. >> brian: maybe he's trying to give a signal to the people they're being robbed. >> steve: brian, that is boo and he's figured a way to wake up his owner. what he does is he does that, which means time to get mikells and bits. he does it every morning at 5:00 a.m. >> brian: that is weird. i just got sidetracked. i should have been reading all that. >> gretchen: that happens frequently on this show. you know that we were trying to to --

>> steve: can you imagine if you're the owner of that cat, though? >> brian: i'd be annoyed to death. >> steve: well, if you want to get up at 5:00 o'clock, it's great. but if you don't, i'd get the thing that gretchen was talking about, the immobile thing, the nonspringy one so he can't do that. >> brian: or cat cuffs until you wake up. >> gretchen: today is brian's wife's birthday. there was one e-mail who said, i didn't know brian was married. but other than that -- >> brian: that's good to hear. he thought i was scott free. [ laughter ] but there was some suggestions of gifts that he could possibly get. thank you for all the tweets and e-mails. is not the gift of brian enough? >> brian: see there, you go. >> gretchen: day off from the kids. >> brian: i think she likes the kids. >> gretchen: okay. extended weekend trip to rome? >> brian: without me or with me? >> gretchen: i don't know. a gift card from home depot for a vacuum. >> brian: that's grounds for divorce. >> gretchen: brian should consider an art toss patient a 36 by 48 picture of himself to hang over the mantle.

>> steve: to go with that four by five one that you had commissioned last year. >> brian: i know. >> gretchen: here is the best one, a shampoo guy. that's an inside joke. >> brian: because -- >> steve: off shampoo girl who gets $3 of your dough every time go for a trim. >> gretchen: for the first time ever, brian has actually bought the gift already. >> steve: i know. he had family assistance. but we shouldn't go into it because his wife could be watching. >> brian: right. this is the half hour she watches usually. >> steve: you can't pretend, yeah i got to go out and buy you stuff. what time does pep boys close? >> brian: this last one said i got my ex wives an ironing board and iron. so i'm probably not going to take his advice. >> gretchen: i like how his wives, plural. now i'm supposed to read real news. did you see this last hour? space shuttle discovery on the back of a 747 taking off from cape canaveral on its way to its

new home in the smithsonian. joining us live from cape canaveral, phil keating, he witnessed the historic final flight in person. good morning, phil. >> good morning. discovery flying 39 missions into space now has left florida air space for good. it's about 90 minutes away from entering the air space around washington, d.c. for some more spectacular low altitude flyovers and joining us live right here is the commander of the final discovery mission, steve lindsey. you mentioned over the past couple of days this is just quite melancholy for you, a bit sad, bittersweet. why? >> i didn't think i was going to react this morning when discovery took off, but i was really surprised as soon as it lifted up off the ground, knowing she's going up to dc and not coming back, it was sad. it's sad for a couple of reasons. obviously the space shuttle program is over. i had the privilege of being part of a huge space shuttle team across the country that flew the vehicle for 30 years

through a lot of triumph and some tragedy as well. and that represented the end of the program and knowing that this great team of folks across the country that's worked on this vehicle for so many years was coming to an end and i probably will never see anything like this again. >> for families in philadelphia and new york and l.a. and here at kennedy space center who will have opportunities at museums to see the shuttles up close and personal, what do you think will be the most fulfilling thrill for them? >> well, i'm hopeful. obviously seeing the vehicles themselves will be a thrill, but i'm hopeful in each museum they represent the vehicles not just as vehicles themselves burks as the team that i mentioned earlier because it was really a team of people across the country that did this and i'm hoping they get to see discovery through our eyes. not just through the astronauts' eye, but also through the focus that worked on the vehicle here at kennedy space center, the

engineers, the support crew on the ground, the mission control folks that did the operations and i'm hoping that each place represents the entire process of what the shuttle was. >> thank you very much, commander. great job over the years. of course, the replacement for the shuttle program is going to be the orion and nasa announcing they're hoping to have its first test flight in the year 2014. so that's looking ahead. more immediately, in the dc area, right between the hour of 10:00 o'clock and 10:30, if you go outside for a coffee break, you might have the opportunity to see a very low altitude flyover of the discovery on top of that 747 as it flies over the national mall, the national harbor, and makes its way to dulles airport and then a big four-day weekend planned out there at dulles airport at the smithsonian as the public will now have an opportunity to see a space shuttle that's been to space 39 times up close. >> gretchen: amazing. phil keating, thanks so much for that live report.

>> steve: end of an era. 11 agents involved in the secret service prostitution scandal in colombia have been stripped of their security clearances. earlier on "fox & friends," i spoke to the reporter who broke the story about his sources. without giving it a name, was it somebody inside the administration or somebody inside the service? >> somebody inside the secret service developed as a result of readiness book and the president's secret service and one of many agents believed an assassination is very, very possible. in fact, it's miracle there has not been one given this document. >> steve: critics say the biggest issue with this scandal is that it leaves a hole in the protection of the president. he needs more protection. >> gretchen: georgia's governor approving a deal for people to pass drug test orgeat welfare.

it's due to go into effect july 1. at least two dozen states have proposed similar laws this year. >> brian: you could call it penguin versus politician. newt gingrich getting up close and personal with a penguin at a st. louis zoo. he loves the zoo. maybe too close. turns out one bit his finger while he was on the behind the scenes tour. he is said to be wearing a bandage. >> gretchen: really? >> brian: i will not say any more. >> gretchen: wow. >> steve: traumatic. >> brian: thanks for that, steve. >> steve: now the might mighty have fallen. remember when disgraced now on trial former presidential candidate john edwards spent three, four, 500 bucks on his hairdos? now he trusts his locks to the folks at super cuts in raleigh-durham, north carolina. check him out. this hair cut just cost him 12.95. you know with a? take a look at the two side by side hair cuts and by the way, good news for mr. edwards, if things don't go his way at

trial, haircuts are free in federal prison where he could spend up to a maximum of 30 years if he is found guilty of violating campaign finance laws. >> brian: and in prison, no shampoo girls. >> gretchen: did you know that there is a new book out called "the pig book"? it has something to do with the pork, the waste that some think is happening on capitol hill. so what are the worsingers? here we go. citizens against government waste 2012 listed these. congress still pigging out on earmarks. i believe the house outlawed them in 2010. the senate followed suit in 2011. but a lot of pork is still able to get through. >> brian: you got $255 million to upgrade the m 1 abrams tank. that sounds like it might be necessary. >> steve: the pentagon wants to stop it, though. but congress put that money in there to upgrade the tanks

anyway. >> gretchen: 120 million for alternative energy research within the air force, army, and navy. and 5.87 million for the east-west center. not sure what that is. >> steve: yep. and look at this, 3.3 million on national fish hatchery system service system. and 3 million for an aquatic plant control program. by the way, according to tom, who i think will be with us tomorrow, he's with citizens against government waste and has joined us every year since the '90s on this program, this is the smallest amount of earmarks that they have had since 1992. so that's a step in the right direction. but still, if you're going to give -- what was it -- $255 million on the abram, which they don't want, that does seem like waste, doesn't it? >> gretchen: especially since they're cut ago huge other portion of the pentagon in areas that the pentagon doesn't want to cut. >> brian: like people. 19 minutes before the top of the hour. if you still want to send in your taxes after seeing the

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tax dollars to send his family on vacation is expected to take the fifth again today. >> gretchen: joining us now this morning from california, could goman and chair of the house oversight committee, darryl issa. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: it must have been frustrating yesterday as people, other members of congress, yourself included, asking questions and you continually got that answer that he's going to take the fifth and not tell you anything. what are you going to glean from him again today if he's going to say that? >> they may excuse him now that he has taken the fifth. let's understand, gretchen, he was part of what has become sort of a common occurrence in government, stimulus money came in. it created great opportunities for them to spend. they decided this was a year for an over the top event, very different than previous years, although i would tell think conference was probably never justified even when it cost less than half as much. >> steve: congressman, on the cover of the new york post today is a picture of mr. neily in a hot tub.

i know you've seen it. a couple of -- >> that's the only one you can print. >> steve: oh, really? that's kind of scary. i know you got that from his wife's google plus page and his daughter apparently, according to the daily, apparently he took his daughter, carly, with him to hawaii because she posted 38 pictures of the family in hawaii when he simultaneously was in hawaii on official government business. >> he was there for a ribbon cutting. however, he was there for five days and these ribbon cuttings don't take that long. this is an example, just the tip of the iceberg. you don't need to fly people for ribbon cuttings. you don't need to have that kind of thing at a time in which we're borrowing nearly a trillion dollars. but this is part of the problem. the gsa is the best example because they're the ones that are supposed to set the gold standard for saving the government money. very clearly, this is where the

new administrator will have to get down and do what wasn't done for the previous three years. >> brian: i understand you're sending out 23 more letters. what else do you need to know? what are you learning from this research that makes you want to expand this? >> the other 23 letters are to the major agencies, independent agencies and cabinet positions that we want to look into all of their conferences. our suspicion is very quickly, they're going to tell us about canceled conferences and telecommuting and other ways of saving money. in the case of this particular conference, what's interesting is the so-called western region was the only region to have these conferences. that begs the question is, if they are the only one to have it, why is it they needed it at all and why do they need las vegas or oklahoma or new orleans? if you're going to go somewhere for a conference, do it in your own district. in this case, two out of the three weren't in their own district. >> gretchen: congressman, i hate to be cynical, but i'm going to be. >> go for it. >> gretchen: you claim this is just the tip of the iceberg.

you're not just talk being the gsa, are you? >> oh, not at all. that's why we sent it to 23 other agencies. gsa is one of those areas where we've had rampant problems, certainly the disposal of federal property, the hearing that's being held today is a major problem. the american people could save billions of dollars by simply shuttering and getting rid of property that they're maintaining but not using or underusing. but no. we know that from nasa to the national zoo, there is an opportunity for savings. >> brian: congressman, are we going to see this money again? are these guys seeing and these women seeing prison time? could they be legally liable for this money they wasted of ours? >> the money has been requested back, but sadly the money they stole officially is in a couple of thousand dollars. the money they misused is over a couple million dollars, we're unlikely to see back. but mr. neily may be facing prison time. i believe that's the reason he

chose to plead the fifth. because of questions of his personal conduct that he doesn't want to take a chance on being asked. >> steve: okay. and we just saw the now famous video of the smoking clown. >> brian: which, by the way, is he in trouble, the smoking clown? >> no, he isn't in trouble. some of the other contractors, the i.g. yesterday under questioning related to us that there is bribes and kickbacks that he's investigating. >> steve: that's good news for the clown industry. congressman darryl issa, thank you. >> thank you. >> gretchen: if only it were all so funny 'cause it's really serious. >> brian: and also smoking is not something we endorse. >> steve: good message. >> gretchen: coming up, it's tax day. before you send in those last minute returns, your e-mails have been pouring in. vera gibbons will answer your questions next. >> steve: let's check in with gregg jarrett. did you do your taxes? >> i already have my refund, steve. so way ahead of you. we're going to have more on the angry clash happening right now on capitol hill. congress ripping into gsa

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>> gretchen: tax day. >> steve: it is tax day. personal finance expert has been with us and fielding e-mails. you ready to answer some more? >> i guess i'm ready. >> gretchen: this is from nans. i heard there was a $6,500 deduction for homeowners and

their homes for two plus years for 2008 if they didn't get the 8,000 purchased deduction. is this true? if so, how can i file an amendment for 08? i believe this will be the last year to do so. >> she's right on a couple of fronts. first of all, the $6,500 credit, and i believe it's for homeowners who -- existing homeowners who lived in their home for a minimum of five. so i'm not entire leisure she qualifies. she is right today is the last day to file an amended return. that has to be done today and taking the irs eight to 12 weeks to process thesele this comes from jane. that jane. you require the company giving you the 1099 to list it in box 3? we are having a hard time figuring out the correct forms to file. >> okay. box 3 is for money you got that

you didn't work for. that would be lottery money, prize money, all of that money you didn't have to work for. box 7 is for services rendered. whether that's yard work or a music lesson as is the case with her son, that is for services rendered. that is work and that require has schedule c. generally what comes along with that is the self-employment tax, which is 13.3%, quarterly payments, estimated payments. the upside, because we like to leave on a positive note. her sop can take all sorts of deductions, music appreciation, depreciation for the musical instrument, sheet music. so he does want to maximize those deductions. again, it is going to be a little late for this. hopefully he's been a good record keeper. >> steve: real quickly, i'm employed full time and telecommute 100% of the time and work as an independent contractor on the side from my apartment. since i am a renter, can i take the home office deduction?

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cording to the signs,thie. ford is having some sort of big tire event. i just want to confirm a few things with fiona. how would you describe the event? it's big. no,i mean in terms of savings how would you sum it up? big in your own words, with respect to selection, what would you say? big okay, let's talk rebates mike, they're big they're big get $100 rebate, plus the low price tire guarantee during the big tire event. so, in other words, we can agree that ford's tire event is a good size? big big

. . >> steve: tomorrow on the fox friends program, dr. keith ablow will be joining us for what is becoming one of our favorite segments. he's going to figure out whether you're normal or if you're nuts. >> gretchen: okay. and vanessa lechay will be here, as well as jenny garth. we look forward to that. >> brian: if you have to run from the tv, run to the radio, see you tomorrow. >> steve: so long, everybody. martha: thank you guys. great show this morning.