thought from the folks who oversee those programs. so what is the administration going to do about it? >> support the proposals that sow the seeds of their destruction. >> the man that is supposed to have the ideas has none? now what? we report, you decide. >> meanwhile, remember her? brian does. that hot russian spy who tried to steal -- >> who we let go without doing anything? >> she had reason -- >> what did you want to do? anna chapman was also stealing something else. vladimir putin from his wife? details straight ahead. >> bring back brezhnev, we could count on him and his eyebrows. you know we can't stop father time. one man is slowing it down. dan marino here to tell us how to fight getting old. completing passes at any age. "fox & friends" starts right now.

>> brian, you have an eye for talent. anna chapman, the soviet spy, the russian spy is a gift that keeps on giving. >> i love how we read the line that she is responsible for breaking up putin's marriage. does putin have any responsibility in that affair? just asking. >> she might have used chloroform. >> he blames the woman. or the woman. this is just to get the record straight on anna chapman, i'm blown away that we allowed the russians to leave and made a joke of it. that's my stand against her. >> we did a story about 10 days ago that apparently she was getting too close to somebody in the administration so they figured -- >> what happened to that story? >> she figured before that happens, we should cart them all off. >> this could be pre-putin. preputty pug. >> are you sure you weren't under surveillance?

>> i'm never sure. some of my best work is on surveillance video. >> tloof us under surveillance for the next three hours, i believe. >> we have to start with your headlines. mitt romney will be looking to go 5-5 today in g.o.p. primaries awful eyes will be on pennsylvania, one of five states holding primaries today. how he performs there could be crucial. connecticut, delaware, new york and rhode island holding primaries today. newt gingrich who has spent a lot of time in delaware is hinting he may finally exit the race if he does poorly there. romney will be in new hampshire tonight while gingrich will be in north carolina as the results come in. police returning to a tucson landfill this morning as they ramp up the search for that missing arizona little girl. the parents of isabelle say they last saw their 6-year-old friday night in her bedroom. yesterday, investigators asked her parents to leave their home after dogs picked up something inside the home. police not saying exactly what they may have found. >> detectives are still conducting their investigation here at the scene. they are continuing their

service with a search warrant that was begun earlier today. that has been an exhaustive process. >> the case being labelled a possible abduction. an anonymous donor offering reward for her safe return. the amount is unknown. he tried to get out but he was pulled back in. the sanford, florida, city commission rejecting the resignation of the police chief criticized for his handling of the trayvon martin case. you may remember bill lee temporarily stepped down last month after not pressing charges against george zimmerman. from russian spy to president's mistress? new rumors to vladimir putin had an affair with the 30-year-old russian. it doesn't help that he's been seen twice with his wife in the last two years. chapman landed there after kicked on of the united states. she became a lingerie model and was involved in politics. that goes hand in hand.

most people that are former spies go into being lingerie models after. >> the spy that loved me. i'm not saying me. i'm saying that was a movie. >> we might see that the whole next hour. let's talk about social security while it's there. it turns out it will be drying out by the year 2033. for the longest time, we had money for a rainy day in this account. we're getting older as a country and done nothing to stop the bleeding in social security. >> look at the top line, social security disability running on empty out of money by 2016. that's two years earlier than we thought. remember it wasn't so long ago that the president of the united states was saying look, we really need this payroll tax credit for people so that they don't have to pay so much. >> tax holiday. >> but the problem is where did that money come from? it came from social security. and so the treasury had to make that up some place else. now we see we're running low.

>> remember talking about that extensively on this show because one of the questions that i had about that tax holiday was does it create any jobs? you know, it's one thing to deplete social security more and more and more if you can actually prove that that kind of a tax holiday was helping to lower unemployment rate. but no one could ever say that it actually did. so now, now we're in this situation, and love how these trustees of this report say that they're urging congress to take steps to shore up these programs. and then the next line says yeah, congress ain't going to do nothing until after the november elections. this is pure politics, folks and people better start to pay attention to this whole situation or our kids won't have anything to look forward to. >> did you spell that? it makes no sense. timothy geithner instead of weighing in with his own proposal, he decides to criticize in a very political way the -- those who would work against to solve the problems of entitlements.

listen. >> we will not support proposals that sow the seeds of their destruction in the name of reform or shift the cost of health care to seniors in order to sustain tax cuts for the most fortunate americans. >> electric speaker by the way. >> he's great. we have more news about him. >> political speaker by the way recently. >> shouldn't be. >> that's right. because his -- his name literally is on the money. what he's talking about there is mitt romney's stance on social security where he would gradually raise the retirement age and slow the benefit inflation for wealthier americans and in other words, if you're doing pretty well in your retirement, you should get the same benefits and pay a little more. that's mitt romney's plan. our president hasn't talked about his plan in public and that's one of the things that really has infuriated charles kra krauthammer. here he is railing on the president. >> the speaker of the treasury speaking to members of the

opposition, we will not support any proposals. his president in the office. he's the one that proposed it. he's proposed nothing in one term when everybody understands as ryan said it's the most predictable physical catastrophe in american history and they haven't lifted a finger. >> out of all the entitlement problems, social security is easy to fix. everybody is too afraid politically to do that. >> that drives people crazy right now. i mean, come on, it's easy math to look at this and figure out that we're running out of money. i just don't understand why people don't demand more of their politicians to actually do something about this once and for all. i just don't get it! i mean, come on. we're looking at this now in 2016, disability -- you know how many years that is from now? 3 1/2 years from now, we're not going to have it anymore. it's so frustrating that nobody wants to stand up in front of everybody else and say i'm willing to take this on other than paul ryan. >> how about speaking very loudly in a restaurant? >> at a communal table. >> yeah. >> not smart! >> my hunch is it happened at

easter when he got this information. now everybody knows about it. evidently, reportedly, because of the father -- timothy geithner's father-in-law talking loudly about his son-in-law's plans. >> on page 6 in "the new york post" today it talks about how tim geithner's father-in-law, a fellow who is a food critic was speaking very loudly at this communal table with his dining partner and these other people around it were taking notes and revealed things to "the new york post." for instance, according to the father-in-law, the reason barack obama has dominated to the world bank the president of dartmouth was that so timothy geithner could take over. >> he would take over dartmouth and the guy that gets the job at the world bank. >> yeah but he's changed his mind. >> apparently tim geithner does not want to take over the top post at dartmouth. they were saying there was somebody more qualified to take

over the world bank but maybe that didn't work out with the scenario of leaving that dartmouth post open. >> and that person is me but i'm here for the next 2 1/2 hours. >> we love it. >> meantime, marco rubio, remember the other day -- >> can we add one more thing? his wife hates d.c. because she has to entertain republicans. >> those darn republicans especially john boehner. >> marco rubio, the senator from florida, many people have said maybe he would be the voice for vice president. the other day he had a little bit of a slip, some said it was freudian here it was. >> five, six or seven years from now if i do a good job as vice president. i'm sorry. >> you all got that, right? >> if i do a good job as a senator instead of a vice president, i'll have a chance to do all sorts of things. >> all right. ok, so what happened? he was with mr. hannity last

night. here he is doing some explaining about the slip-up. >> what you said was a slip of the tongue but when you get asked so many times, stuff starts floating in your head. >> let's keep in mind, he'll be giving tomorrow a major speech on foreign policy. so if he's lining himself up to be the right candidate. at the same time, dick cheney giving a speech saying the number one quality to look for in a vice president, somebody who could be president. >> i'll tell you what, though, if it was an audition yesterday with marco rubio along with mitt romney where he played second fiddle at that town hall in philadelphia, marco rubio certainly passed the audition. >> what's going to happen when marco rubio introduces his republican version of the dream act because the thirst for hispanic voters amongst republicans is great. and i'm wondering if mitt romney is going to turn around and say that's a version i can pick up and therefore pick up some hispanic votes. >> right now, when it comes to immigration, the man pictured right has a different opinion in

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>> as we've been discussing this morning, social security on the brink of disaster. earlier than we thought. according to a new report, the program's trust fund will be depleted by 2033. that's three years earlier than first predicted. >> so what does that mean for all of us? stuart varney of the fox

business network joins us live here. stuart, this is bad not only for people approaching retirement but people who are paying in, young people, every day and they're thinking at the end of the road, i'm not going to have anything, am i? >> i'll go further than that. it's really bad for all of us now. the social security organization and medicare are shelling out a lot more than is coming in. in other words, we're running at a huge deficit on a daily basis. more goes out, less comes in. the gap has to be borrowed. we have to borrow that money, hundreds of billions of dollars a year now. ok, so the future is coming closer to us. but the future actually is now because this is adding massively to our deficit. >> you could also add that it's part of a culture and a way of thinking because disability claims which, by the way, will run out in 2016 are way up under this administration. >> yes, in the obama administration, there's been an explosion in disability claims.

three million more people are now on disability, social security disability. >> why do you think that is? >> well, it could be that a lot of people who cannot find a job because of the recession are claiming disability and taking that route towards a degree of security. that could be it. >> you cannot say -- >> in the system? >> you cannot say there's been an explosion in the number of people injured on the job or incapable of taking a job because of some form of disability. because of medical reasons, you can't say that. you have to say that this explosion of disability is because people are taking that route. they are able to take that route and to some degree, maybe they are encouraged to take that route. it's not good news. 1/4 of all of our debt that we've accumulated over the last 10 years, 1/4 of it is directly the result of this hemorrhaging of money in social security and medicare. >> let me ask you one question about it. when we run out of social

security money, what happens? >> we could continue to borrow it. >> that's it? >> we're borrowing it now. >> keep on keeping on. >> keep on keeping on. you could do that, yes. >> let's talk about this medicare advantage situation and then eight -- what's being called an $8 billion trick. what is it? >> ok, what medicare advantage is going to be phased out under obamacare to phase it out gracefully, the administration came up with an $8 billion bonus pool. this would be awarded to insurance companies that offered quality care as the advantage system was phased out. a report says that $8 billion was wasted. didn't go to companies offering quality care. just wasted money. so you're wasting, according to the government, $8 billion at a time when medicare is shelling out more than it's bringing in and going bankrupt in the process. >> and the headline on this was the fact that unless they did use the money from this $8 billion slush fund effectively to prop up medicare advantage,

it was going to become an election year issue. people -- i think it was going to vanish october 15th or something like that, right in the -- right before people went to vote and so the administration says, we don't want that. we want to keep everybody happy until after the election. >> it was a payoff to get obamacare through. a way of raising its passage through but i want to know where is the plan? where is the administration's plan to fix social security or medicare? or to even deal with it? where is that plan? it's not there. >> they're not going to come up with a plan before november. >> the administration sends out tim geithner, the treasury secretary to attack the only plan that's on the table. which is paul ryan's plan. >> sure. >> when paul ryan's plan came out, there has been two of them, what did they do? they demagogued it to death with granny being thrown off a cliff. >> i was going to say we're going to see more of the commercials of granny going over in the wheelchair. all right! >> not good enough. >> always a pleasure to see you in the morning. see you again at 9:20 on the fox

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>> 23 minutes after the top of the hour. a couple of quick headlines for you now. john edwards' former aide who once claimed he was the father of edwards' daughter with rielle hunter back on the stand today. he testified that a wealthy

campaign donor prom toyed to get edwards elected president. edwards' lawyer say the nearly $1 million from that donor was a private gicht and not a campaign contribution. edwards accused of illegally using donations to cover up an affair. and stand back, a close call for firefighters. watch that. see that explosion? rocked the manhole they were working on. one firefighter was knocked out but expected to be ok. >> ever since the attacks of 9/11, our next guest, a u.s. navy seal still active has fought for our country in some of the most dangerous areas in the world in missions he can't talk about. now he's taking on a new mission. despite facing pushback from the navy for voicing his opinion, he's speaking out to let everyone know why this country is on the wrong track. joining us right now, the man of action. the author of this book "battle on the home front, a patriot's mission to save the american dream." welcome to "fox & friends." >> good morning. first off, i want to state before i get started here that

i'm here as carl higby, private citizen and not a representative of the d.o.d. or anything and the views here are mine and don't represent anything from the seal community. >> understood. 9/11 happens, you're an outstanding wrestler in greenwich, connecticut and you say that's it, i've seen the towers burn and i'm taking action. i join the navy seals. what did you see there that had you worried about the country? >> well, you know, like i said, the book is about america, freedom and the constitution and about defending it and overseas, we fought for things like that, you know, for the home front and now i'm here back in america and i want to fight for that still. >> what's wrong? what's wrong with this country that has you so concerned to write a book? >> well, there's a lot of things wrong that need to be fixed. first and foremost, i think we need to get our out of control spending under control. we have mindless bailouts for companies. right now, our government is also putting politics in front of we the people. so if they can start getting their act together as far as who the priority here rather than politics, that would be a great thing and the last thing is

american exceptionalism is being destroyed. i mean, we're being indoctrinated to settle for mediocrity and settle it's ok to be 10th place in gym class, little johnny is too fat to play football, instead of bringing him up to the level of competition, we're forced to dumb it down to his level and play badmitton. >> is this something in this country that's been started recently? >> it's started to slip away. we were found on the mortar of being the best, biggest, strongest, fastest, everything. i feel today that's getting away from us and we're being settling for less. >> and as you look around, you think the tone of the country is changing. so what do you hope to do? what's your plan of action to change things as you see them right now in the country you grew up in? >> most importantly, we need to instill accountability in america again. that's the biggest problem is there's no accountability and we need to bring america back to

the greatest country that the world has ever known. that's what our forefathers intended when they signed the constitution. we can do that if we stick to our constitutional values and original founding principles. >> you have a few things that stood out in the book, out of control spending, addiction to foreign oil and indoctrinating our children into mediocrity. let's go back to spending. spending is out of control the defense has paid a price. in your mind, we sacrificing our national security because of out of control spending on things like entitlements? >> absolutely. i mean, if you have another country that owns the majority of -- or a large portion of your debt. >> china. >> then what happens if -- >> exactly. what happens if they want their money back? that puts us in a pretty bad spot. >> now, carl higby, you're still active and you're going to be in for a while now. for, i guess, another six months. as you do that, what did you learn in the navy seals that put you in front of the camera today and got you on that typewriter to put this book together? >> well, it wasn't so much of

my experience as a seal because the book and being a seal are completely separate. but it's, you know, if one thing i have learned throughout the military and the military has done a great job of, you know, teaching its service members leadership, honor, commitment and things like that and those are things that i'm learning here to take the fight to who it needs to be brought to. >> you see politics next for you? >> possibly. you know, i hope so. right now, i'm, you know, obviously still active and i have the book and i'm a small business owner. i own tarzan tree service in virginia beach. if you buy my book and hire us to do your job, we'll come out and sign the book. but i'd like to go that route. >> all right. battle on the home front is the name of the book. thanks so much for your service, carl and good luck the rest of the way and when you get out. >> right. you can get it on amazon and on nook and kindle and battle on the home front.com. >> great job. >> thank you. >> check this out, scary stuff. a group of kids jump into a car to escape two big angry dogs.

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your not going to run out are you? no. >> iran claims that they are in the process of reverse engineering that american spy drone that went down in their territory last year. they say they built an exact copy of our spy drone. i don't think we have anything to worry about. take a look here. roll the video. look at this. you can see. see, i think -- yeah. that's not -- >> the hand behind it. why don't our spy drones have one of those self-destruct mechanisms like in "mission impossible" back in the day right after they played the tape, it would go -- >> we're good at destroying things. we should have been able -- you knew we had a shot at that drone. we didn't want to risk it

because it's inside of iranian borders. >> we have to get to your headlines now at 6:30 on the east coast. usama bin laden believes coordinated attacks by shoe bombers on u.s.-bound planes were the best way to decimate our economy. that confession coming from the british shoe bomber. he was convicted in a 2001 plot to down an american airlines flight from paris to miami. he testified that bin laden said the american economy was just like a chain and breaking one link could take down the whole economy. >> meanwhile, james murdoch testifying in a london courtroom this morning over the phone hacking scandal at the news of the world newspaper. he said he had no reason to suspect any wrongdoing. >> it's self-evident that in hindsight, in knowing what we know now, whatever controls were in place failed to create sufficient transparency around those issues and the risks around it. however, there were senior legal managers who, you know, had a lot of experience who were working closely with the editors

and with the -- and with the newsrooms and at the time, i didn't have a view that those were insufficient or not. >> the newspaper owned by his father, rupert murdoch, he's the chairman and c.e.o. of news corporation, the parent company of fox news. >> ok, you got a vicious dog attack caught on camera and a warning, the video is flat out terrifying. you have two gigantic dogs chasing a group of boys in washington, d.c. the kids are forced to jump on top of a car just to escape. >> it was scary. i thought i was going to die. i was scared. >> wow, one man saw what was happening and rushed out to his home to help out but the dogs bit his arm, pinned him to the ground. that's when another neighbor came out with a baseball bat. right now, animal control officers cannot find the dogs or their owner. > >> cujo. >> maybe it's not so bad being green. that's a real life kermit the frog sitting on a park bench

just like a human. he looks like he's just taking a break, perhaps, been a rough couple of days on the lily pad. look at that! very cute. >> ribbitt. >> you ask that question every time we show a very cute animal video. i know you're envious because you're worried that your sportscast won't top the sitting frog. >> write us, tell me if what about i'm to do -- >> brian, you would need something. that was a really cute frog. you would need something cuter than that frog. >> i happened to see something in the studio. >> we'll see if that comes up later in the sportscast. >> ok. >> first, let's talk about this. another ugly turn in football talking about what's happening off the field. deion sanders' divorce. listen to this. his estranged wife who you see right there has been arrested for domestic violence. deion sanders claims she attacked him in front of their two sons. he posted this photo on twitter. you can see him filling out a police report and he showed his sons filling out a report as

well. >> and the hits keep on coming for the saints. now we're hearing that general manager mickey loomis eavesdropped on opposing coaches. reports say that he had an electronic device in his suite at the super dome that let him secretly spy for most of the 2002 season. he denies the allegations and as you know, the saints recently running a -- having a series of fines and suspensions because of their pay for pain bounty pool. joining us now for instant analysis is super bowl quarterback and hall of famer. >> too he remember -- early in the morning to -- >> what is your reaction to this? if they were able to spy in the other team's locker room, is that a problem? >> that's a real problem. when you look at the saints, they've had a very good football team the last few years. it's a shame what's happening to them. when things go bad, they go bad. >> i have to see what happened now. they fine and suspended him.

>> they dropped the super bowl talk now. >> i will. >> don't bring it up. >> good morning, mr. marino. welcome to the curvy couch again. >> talk about the draft. it's coming up and there's two dynamite quarterbacks who could go one and two or two and one? >> i think andrew luck is probably going to be in indianapolis and rg 3, i met them both, they came on our set on "nfl today" and they're good looking young kids and i think they'll be very successful without a doubt. >> rg 3 will be on in two hours, he'll be here. >> you got to ask him. he always wears funky socks. >> really? >> thanks for the inside tip. >> yeah, yeah. >> tell me about rg 3, in terms of his grades and terms of his charisma and athletic ability, what does he bring? >> he's a special player because of hifz ability to move around and make plays. from what i understand, i've never seen him throw in person. from people that i have, he can make all the throws and he can throw it deep and throws a great

deep ball and the other thing is he can move around and make plays outside of the pocket. he's a player that can make a difference and change a team and changes a franchise for a long period of time and that's probably why washington traded up to get him. it looks like that's where he's going to go. >> indianapolis let peyton manning go away because they're looking at andrew luck for their future. >> his dad played football in college, i played against him, he has that pedigree luck. he's taking over for a legend, peyton manning. leaving going to denver, a little more pressure on him because of that and they're rebuilding. >> what's left of peyton? >> you know what? he's a competitor. i mean, he's peyton manning because of what he's accomplished and, you know, i've talked to him and he said that he's pretty darn healthy. as long as he's healthy and he feels like he can get out and compete at a high level, he's going to be tough. >> mr. marino, there are three things in life you can count on. death and taxes and about a

week before your 50th birthday you'll get something in the mail from aarp. >> did you get something? >> i did. >> did you open it? >> i did open it. i haven't signed on yet. >> right. >> i know you're a new ambassador. >> you know, i'm for men's life, i'm the men's life ambassador. we're going to have a web site, contribute on some articles and videos for men's health and wellness and i actually went out to los angeles last year for a national convention. i thought i was going out to give james brown, you know, my colleague on "nfl today" an award and he flipped it on me and gave me my card for my birthday. so here, you got a little film on it right there. >> that's my card. >> you must have a big wallet. because that's a big card. >> i do! >> big wallet. >> have to have a big wallet. >> has a lot of money to put in there. let's look at some of the discounts that you now get. you don't have to cut coupons anymore. you're basically out of money. >> what is the discount? >> get a free donut with an extra large coffee at dunkin

donuts and 10% off at bubba gump shrimp. >> there's one close to me at fort lauderdale, i don't know that. >> up to 25% on geek squad tech support and you save up to 49% on popcorn and soda at riegle -- why isn't it 50%? >> but the good thing about this is yes, you get all these discounts but on the web site as we go to aarp.org and you go to that and there's a lot of information especially on my site, there will be a lot of things on men's health. forget the donuts! >> ok. so that's an important message but i think athletes can handle retirement so much easier than a guy like steve doocy because you were told you were too old when you were in your 30's. 35, 36. 38. >> 38. yeah. >> you're like 71 and you look fantastic! >> can the female on the couch -- >> you're killing me today, right? you're telling me i'm 71. >> i'll give you a compliment. the female on the couch can say there's no way this guy looks 50, number one. and number twosh, i can't thinkf

a better person to be ambassador for aarp than this guy who looks like this. >> men's life. thank you, guys. >> what's the comparison to what you might tell dan marino at 25. >> i hope i look like this when i'm 50. >> how many surgeries later, dan? >> you know what? actually, i told you earlier off the air, i tore my cartilage last week messing around on the beach. >> with your kid. >> with the kids playing football day before easter and i had to get that fixed. eight or nine surgeries on my knees. >> 15 years ago, that would be international headlines. but now they're like can he talk for a living? >> now they're bringing you coffee and donuts. >> that's right. >> thanks. >> always a pleasure. >> thank you for having me. >> great to see you, dan. all right. >> coming up next on "fox & friends", simon cowell worked with these women but he hates one and wanted to get really friendly with another. he's exposing his secrets next. >> let's guess. and you know the photo, g.s.a.

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prosecutors say that he dressed up in his mom's favorite red dress and then tried to cash in her social security checks. classy. >> you wonder why we're going broke. anyway, new report out this morning, we're now hearing there may be a white house link to the colombian prostitution scandal allegedly involving 12 members of the secret service and members of the military. reports say the person being investigated is an employee of the white house communications agency. florida congressman john mica is the chair of the house transportation and infrastructure committee and my guest right now. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> this is in "the new york post" this morning, a member of the white house communications agency being investigated in the secret service prostitution scandal. what do you know about it? >> well, right now, we have investigative staff. i serve also on government reform and oversight, the chief investigative committee of congress and, you know, we're sort of jumping from scandal to scandal, g.s.a. last week, this week, the white house possible involvement in some of the

prostitution activities and that would be very unfortunate especially if it's somebody at that high level and also it may be where the president was located and that's also troubling and that's the hilton hotel down there. >> right. because the others were located at another hotel that is not where the president was going to be staying. but didn't jay carney, the spokesperson for the president come out and say after looking into this over the weekend there was no association between anyone who works at the white house and this scandal. >> well, the white house also sat for almost a year on the g.s.a. information they were briefed on. they're not exactly ready to tell all. they've been embarrassed both by g.s.a. and now by this scandal so our job is is to investigate it. if someone did wrong there, too, and was close to the president, and part of the communications team, it's totally improper. we've now had the military involved, unfortunately, we've had secret service which is, you know, some of our highest

professionals in the land. >> i need to move on to what you were alluding to, the g.s.a. situation. you're going to be writing to them tomorrow to call for whose immediate dismissal? >> well, mr. neely, we've seen him in the hot tub thumbing his nose at the public and the government and even the white house and this guy is still on the payroll and i want him off the public dole. and i'm trying to do everything i can to make certain he doesn't get another day of federal pay. >> so while we're doing all these hearings and investigation and more and more information uncovered, let me take the flip side of the question which is are all these hearings at taxpayer expense worth the taxpayer dollars to get to the bottom of the taxpayer ways? >> absolutely. i always say the g.s.a. scandal is only the tip of the iceberg. i think i revealed here in october of 2010, i came on this show, this report, the federal government must stop sitting on its assets and who is the biggest -- who is the biggest

offender? it was g.s.a. and it took this kind of scandal to actually show people that -- that the biggest property holder, landowner and landlord for the government is sitting on 14,000 vacant or partially vacant buildings and properties costing us billions a year, not just millions in waste. >> now we know so much more about what else is going on at the g.s.a. congressman john mica, keep us posted. >> good to be with you, thank you. the government cracking down on free speech making it a crime to protest near the secret service. what happened to free speech? judge napolitano said there's even something scarier in the fine print. then one woman really clinging to her boyfriend. wait until you see how this police chase ends up.

>> welcome back. congress can't agree on a long term budget plan but have agreed on one thing. it should be illegal to protest near the president or the secret service. is that an assault on free speech? let's talk to fox senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. good morning to you, judge. >> good morning, steve and the answer to the question is yes, it is an assault on free speech. you have the right to make your opinions known in such a way you're not blocking traffic and you're not blocking pedestrians or the president's car goes by and you can say hey, mr. president, we love you and we hope you get re-elected or start packing. >> sure. you know, everybody wants to make sure that our president is safe. but the secret service not only providing security in this instance but essentially you're

saying they're checking the content of signs and what not. >> this is a very dangerous piece of legislation. there were no committee hearings on it. there was no debate on it and the president signed it in secret. it was passed unanimously by the senate and only three members of the house of representatives voted against it. it basically lets the secret service decide who gets near whoever they're protecting, not just the president. it could be hillary clinton, it could be the vice president. >> romney, newt. >> it could be mrs. obama, exactly. and the secret service can make that decision on the basis of the content of your speech. if you have signs that say start packing, mr. president, the secret service can whisk you away. if you have signs that say, we love you, mr. president. the secret service will let you stay or has the authority to let you stay. that is using governmental power to discriminate on the basis of your opinions. the content of your speech. that's what the first amendment was written to prevent the government from doing. >> even though most americans haven't heard about this, you

have to look at some of the penalties if you are charged, fine and prison term up to one year or up to 10 years, if firearm is used or serious injury is caused as well. what are they trying to do here? >> i think they're trying to insulate people and the government from the opinions of the rest of us. >> they're building a wall! >> right. this statute doesn't say there's a bubble around the president. this statute says there's a bubble wherever the secret service wants the bubble. it's letting the secret service, we know some of them are great and some are not so great, deciding where we can stand when we protest. that is a profound violation of the first amendment. the government doesn't seem to care about our civil liberties anymore and the american public needs to know that. fox received e-mails from a family in milwaukee, wisconsin. the president's motorcade was coming down our street. we were standing in our front yard with our infant children, and the secret service made us get out of our front yard and go into our house. they didn't want the president to see us. >> oh, my goodness. >> that's not america. >> that is unusual. all right. i'm sure they had a good reason.

right? >> they didn't give one. >> ok. >> and they shouldn't have that authority. you should be able to stand on your own property. >> just to wave. the president doesn't drive by every day. >> right. >> unless you live at 1700 pennsylvania. >> steve, we're watching these things. >> you are. all right, judge andrew napolitano, thank you very much. >> pleasure. >> all right. what do you think about that? e-mail us. coming up, did you know that food stamps are up 135%? more proof we are an entitlement society. but why? bill o'reilly has a theory. then remember this goodie? oh, the judge loves that. the vice president at it again. you will hear his latest top of the hour. this is delicious okay... is this where we're at now? we just eat whatever tastes good? like these sweet honey clusters... actually there's a half a day's worth of fiber in every ... why stop at cereal? bring on the pork chops and the hot fudge. fantastic. are you done sweetie? yea

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day with us. voters go to the poll in several states and one state is a key testing ground for mitt romney come november and now we're getting word of a major announcement coming from newt gingrich? >> wow. who needs the supreme court when you can just go around them? first was health care. now democrats planning to bypass the justices on immigration? is that how our government is supposed to work? >> i don't think so. meanwhile, so much for standing by your man. a suspect's girlfriend going to great lengths to get the heck away from him! look at that. by trying to climb out of the speeding van. and in come the police. it never ends. >> using the luggage rack. >> why not? "fox & friends" hour two for tuesday starting right now. >> good morning, everyone. hope you're going to have a great tuesday. still a little chilly here on the east coast. going back to the winter time a little bit. >> it was freezing yesterday. i think i know what the two of

you are going to be doing later today. >> i don't know what he's talking about. >> your radio show, i know that. >> no. >> 9:20 eastern time. >> that's not it. >> playing sock sncsoccer? >> no. you're going to vote. today is primary day in both of your states. >> i can't. i'm a registered independent. >> and also illegal immigrant. she escaped here from norway. >> i thought you get to choose the ballot. >> not in connecticut. you have to be democrat or republican and i'm not. >> oh! >> yeah. i've gone to the polling place to try before on primary day with my kids to try to teach them a good lesson. nope. shot out! >> i know one thing for sure, we'll be playing football with rg 3 a little bit later and hope he doesn't get hurt like kramer hurt mickey mantle in "seinfeld". >> or dan marino getting hurt on the beach with his kids. >> we don't want any of that. that will be fun. >> go into the coffee truck and see if you can catch another pass like you did before. >> that's a good idea.

>> let's go to your headlines while you're thinking about that. police are returning to a tucson landfill in three hours as they ramp up the search of a missing girl. they last saw their 6-year-old friday night in their bedroom. yesterday, investigators asked them to leave their home after dogs picked up something inside the house. police not saying exactly what they may have found. >> detectives are still conducting their investigation here at the scene. they are continuing their service of the search warrant that was begun earlier today. that's been a rather ex -- exhaustive search. an anonymous donor offering return for her reward. that amount unknown. sanford city leaders rejected bill lee's resignation say they want to wait for the results of a federal investigation. that's when they'll decide if they'll accept his resignation. it could take months before they

have the information that they need. lee temporarily stepped down last month. zimmerman awaiting trial for shooting the unarmed teen and he says it was in self-defense. another day, another gaffe for vice president joe biden. >> back in 28 when it was built, they didn't realize that they created a dam through half of the everglades cutting off the water supply. >> what did he say? >> ebel gators. >> he was combining everglades with alligators. he was there to talk about the obama administration everglades restoration efforts. the rnc chair reince priebus says the taxpayer funded trip shows president obama is worried about his chances in florida in november. talk about a wild ride in california. a woman on the side of a minivan being driven by a suspected bank robber on the run from the cops. she manages to cling on the side of the van as it weaves in and out of traffic. the cops did catch up arresting the driver and the woman.

she's believed to be the guy's girlfriend. watch as -- i think the dog actually takes the person -- watch this, the dog -- yep, right on his hind end. yep. >> usually in the james bond movies, once the person is up on the top of the vehicle with the luggage rack -- >> they do cut away close-ups. >> that's when the helicopter comes in and picks them up and whisks them off to the waiting troler. >> that's pretty incredible. that's one determined woman. >> no kidding, she had to get out. meanwhile, mitt romney is now the likely presidential nominee for the republican party and today's primaries in pennsylvania has major implications for romney as he looks forward to november. >> molly lyon is live in philadelphia right now with more on why that is so important. hi, molly. >> good morning, guys. that's right, of course, pennsylvania is a major swing state as we head towards the general election so all eyes will be here today. of course, as you guys mentioned earlier, connecticut, new york, delaware, rhode island also voting but the eyes are on pennsylvania.

former senator rick santorum here from pennsylvania pulled out of the race making things from some perspective a little less interesting but at the same time, the frontrunner, former massachusetts governor mitt romney will still be facing off against the former speaker of the house newt gingrich and against texas senator ron paul. ron paul growing up in greentree, pennsylvania. so a little bit of a hometown competition going on here today. romney's campaign believes a victory here clearly important but this is about an expectations game as well. this is politics so it's not so much if you win but by how much. what that means for the margins and the effect they could have down the road as we get closer to the november elections. we had a chance to speak to some voters here. we stopped by the famous steak place where you can get a little cheese whiz on your meat and enjoy a classic philly treat and had a chance to speak with voters on both sides of the aisle about how they think

november will go. take a listen. >> romney is pulling in a lot of delegates from everywhere. so i think we're going to -- i think the republicans are going to pull it out. >> i think obama is going to win by a landslide. nationally or here in pennsylvania? >> i think both here in pennsylvania and nationally. >> certainly very tough competition. president obama beat out then senator mccain in the run in 2008 by a decent margin, about 10 points wide so it is going to be a tough competition here. that's the expectation from the experts that we had a chance to speak with here on the ground. another thing happening in pennsylvania, big test for the voter i.d. law happening this morning. as of november, voters will have to show their i.d. to vote here at the polls. today, poll workers will be asking people to show their i.d. to kind of help the pennsylvania voters get ready for that critical election in november. guys, back to you. >> all right. interesting tidbit. >> one other thing, it's a little breezy in the philadelphia area today, isn't it? >> i know, what happened to the toasty weather we had?

now all of a sudden, we have all this cold weather! >> it's a coming. hang on. >> you're tough, molly. you can tackle all that. >> stick it out! stick it out! >> she was making me hungry. >> let's talk about newt gingrich. remember, he's still in the race even though not much has made about that in recent weeks. remember he said he was going to all the way to the convention at the end of august and early september. there are some reports based on the five primaries that will happen today, if newt does not do well specifically in delaware where he's spent considerable time. he may look at tonight's results and then decide to bow out of the race. >> there's the key. he's got some debt. he has $1.2 million on hand and fox has learned he's about $4 million -- he's about $4 million in debt. $4.3 million to be exact. the super pac has $5 million. i have no idea how that works out. can the super pac pay off their debt? does he have any leverage to go into mitt romney and say listen, if i drop out now, can you satisfy some of this debt? >> sure. >> that's what hillary and

barack obama did. >> can you do some fundraisers for me? this might be a key time for him. >> stand by for an announcement as early as tomorrow. there's a big announcement from washington, d.c. for those of you on social security or rely on it in the future. if you're on social security disability, that fund will run out of money they estimate now by 2016. that is two years earlier than previously thought. the general social security fund out of money by 2033. that, too, is a number of years ahead of time. >> here's the thing, it was only -- those predictions were only last year, folks. so just in one year's time, you've lost two more years off disability and three off social security. why? because we have no plan in this country to actually take on entitlement reform. we have no plan. and we're racing on this train and it's about to crash. disability is 3 1/2 years away, folks, before that is out. out of money. >> it doesn't help -- it doesn't help, too, that the baby boomers

are getting old, i don't know whose idea that was to let the baby boomers get old but they're retiring and there's less people working. >> i'll tell you what, the republicans have a plan to fix it and paul ryan has had a plan but the president of the united states does not put anything on -- >> president bush had a plan, it's all part of their -- i think o'reilly said last night on his show, something like 150 million americans. >> why would you bring up the o'reilly show? >> he's making the point that that many americans are getting some sort of benefit from the government. he was taking a look at how we become a bit of an entitlement society in this 57 second quote. listen. >> there's no question that both the fed and the state have loosened standards. since president obama has been in office, federal welfare spending is up about 41%. food stamps up about 135%. since 2007. from $30 billion to $72 billion a year. disability payments, up 116%

from a decade ago. more than three million american workers have signed up for disability since president obama took office. so you can see. the president's liberal spending policies and overall belief that the feds should provide is costing the nation an enormous amount of money with no end in sight. are you telling me that all of a sudden americans need more disabilities? no. it's because claiming a disability is worth the shot. in the current political climate. >> very interesting analysis there. so we'll continue to discuss this throughout the remainder of our show. in the meantime, when you thought the supreme court would be taking up the arizona immigration law tomorrow, could it be that congress at least democrats in the senate are going to try an end around play. so let's say that the supreme court decides to uphold the law in arizona, the democrats are apparently going to take a floor vote to try and say, well, not so fast. we don't agree with that.

it's all political theater, by the way, it's all about getting the latino vote come november. >> it's called pullback legislation. it's not going to have enough votes to pass the senate, what it will do is schumer will lead the charge, senator chuck schumer from new york and what he's going to do at the end of the day is say look, the republicans as gretchen mentioned, the republicans have no interest in the hispanic community. this is of chief interest and make the democrats look like the good guys in this where the people of arizona have already spoken. the law seems to be popular and it doesn't on its face discriminate against hispanics. all they want to do is say hey, when we pull you over, we have to be able to ask for proof of citizenship. that you belong here or didn't sneak in. >> sure. so this particular bit of legislation which is going to be introduced by chuck schumer, where they essentially say, don't listen to the supreme court comes on the heels of the president of the united states slamming the supreme court. there's also one other interesting bit of news, the research people have come out

with a new survey that shows fewer people are coming across our border from mexico into the united states. more are leaving than coming in. and the reason? our economy. they can't find jobs here. so they're staying at home. >> all right. we'll let them sneak in and let them sneak out. straight ahead, remember candidate obama promised to restore our civil liberties. so far, he has not and his own colleague not happy. he has a brand new book and here live. >> take a look at this. extremely close call caught on camera. this woman nearly hit by an ambulance. she doesn't even flinch. ♪

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>> when president obama took office, he vowed to shut down gitmo and run an open and transparent government. but his critics say instead of following through on a promise to restore civil liberties, the president hasn't done enough. >> in some ways, president obama has gone farther than president bush has to reduce the civil liberties of americans for example by saying that the due process clause applies to american systems shot out abroad by the drones, somehow they have increased protections for the terrorists at the same time reducing them for the rest of us law abiding citizens in the united states. >> joining us is former wisconsin senator russ feingold, author of the new book "while america sleeps" and a co-chair on the president's re-election campaign. what do you make of that? i know you have been pushing the president of the united states to do more to restore civil liberties as well.

>> i have. i disagree with him in some areas. he's made pushes since the bush years, the idea that john yew would be saying this is almost bizarre. here's the guy that wrote the memos that justified torture and illegal wiretapping of innocent american citizens so he's pretty much the last guy in america that should be saying that this president is not moving us in the right direction. >> but you feel yourself that this president could move further along. >> i do. but the idea that somehow he's moving us in a worst direction than last president, that's pretty absurd and judge napolitano is your guy in here that agrees with me on that. >> something else you do not agree with the president on is the super pac, you know, you don't like the whole idea, there is so much money out there floating around right now, i think we got a graphic, the president has been having a bunch of fundraisers, it seems like hollywood is mobilizing to make him a boat load of dough.

why is he wrong on super pacs? >> the president doesn't support super pacs which i disagree participating with this campaign. this citizen united decision is wrong, this citizen united decision is destroying, i think, the basis of our democracy and i predict -- >> but he did a 180 on it. he said i don't want the money from the super pacs and then out of nowhere, he said i'll have to catch up with the other guys. >> unfortunately, about everybody is doing. it it's not the right thing to do. i've been open about that. he's the one guy when he's re-elected who i think is going to help us turn this around. it's another reason in the end where he's clearly somebody to be preferred over mitt romney on this issue. doesn't question it at all. >> i know you're co-chair. but you're confident that the president is going to be re-elected? >> i think the president is going to be re-elected. i'm glad he's going to take it seriously. reince priebus said he's afraid because he's on florida. we'll run scared on this thing. this is a tough year. we have tough times in this country and we want president obama re-elected. we won't take it for granted.

>> we were talking about how social security is going to run out of money and disability is going to run out of money in 2016, four years from right now. where's the president's plan? he should be leading on this. we don't know what his plan is. >> social security will not go insolvent. i think those reports are sort of exaggerated and i tell you one thing -- >> you would agree something has to be done. >> yes, and specifically i can't believe people keep ignoring this. there's great support for the idea of raising that fica tax to a higher level. right now it cuts off at $110,000, where's his plan? >> i think his plan. >> let's hear it. don't you agree? >> i think you will be hearing a lot about it during the presidential debate. >> we have heard some of mitt romney's plan and it would be nice to hear the president's plan. you're one of his co-chairs. you can make that happen! >> it will happen. >> very good. russ feingold, once again, his new book is called "while america sleeps, wake-up call for the post 9/11 era." thank you, sir for joining us live. real pleasure. all right. good news, the state department says the war on terror is over.

really? what the heck makes them say that? we have details. and you paid your taxes but should you do -- what should you do with your refund? vera gibbons has the best bets for $500, $1,000 or $1500 refunds. she's coming up next. she's turning right into studio e. good morning, vera. follow the wings.

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>> time now for your news by the numbers. first $3,000. that's how much the average american household income has dropped since president obama took office. that's not good. then $30 million. that's the size of the two year

deal ryan seacrest just signed with the hit show of "american idol" on fox. that's good. he's been with the show for all 11 seasons. and now he's really rich. and two, that's how many times one virginia woman won the powerball lottery in the same day. she's now $2 million richer. all right? brian, gretch. >> also the kardashian money, right? he's the producer of that, right? >> he's loaded. >> are you expecting a tax return in the mail any day now or direct deposited in your account? whether it's a large or small amount, we have tips on how to invest that money. >> you shouldn't go out and spend it? >> that's an option or this is an option. >> good thing we have personal finance expert vera gibbons here to explain that you shouldn't go out and blow it. we'll start with the lowest amount that you may have received and then we'll go up so we can help people make some more money. $25 to $50, what should they do? >> you can invest in savings bonds for that little amount. go to treasurydirect.gov.

you have to get them on line. there's no more paper bonds but these bonds are exempt from state and local taxes. you avoid paying federal until you cash them and you may not have to pay any federal tax if you use them for qualified education expenses and if you make under a certain amount in terms of your adjusted gross. >> what kind of percentage do you get on that? >> right now on the ibond, the fixed is zero but the variable component is i think is.53%. not much but you'll get better than you'll get in a money market account. >> let's say you have $50 to $100. let's talk about a mutual fund. can you do that? >> you can get in there. most mutual funds will stay the minimum investment is $2500 but some like t.rowe price will get you in there for as little as $50 or $100 if you have the money directly taken out of that account. >> $250 to $500. the 529 college savings plan, i know my husband and i do this and it's a great way to prepare for college tax free. right? >> you're smart, gretchen. you're ahead of the pack on this one, yes.

the minimum lump sum investment for these plans is $250. you just make that amount and then you can have automatically arrange to have, you know, as low as $10 a month put into these accounts, the more you save, the less you'll have to borrow and that's really important. this year's class is graduating with about $30,000 in education loans. we surpassed the trillion dollar mark. just phenomenal. the more you save, the less you'll have to borrow later. >> let's talk about people that have $1,000 or more. considering opening up a brokerage account. >> you could open up a brokerage account. schwabb, for example, they have $1,000 minimum deposit but they waive that, again, if you make the minimum investments of just $100 a month. and you can get into something like exchange traded funds that mirror the index and trade like stocks. that's an entry level way to get into the stock market. >> and does schwabb still not charge you if you want to make individual buys? and sells? >> i think they have -- i think they get you on that. there's always a gotcha. yeah. >> ok. that's really great advice. so i didn't see anywhere on the list, brian, to spend it.

>> no, that's -- we don't have time for that segment. there's a whole segment on spending, stuff to throw in the street. >> we're trying to help folks make some money. thanks so much for your advice. >> ok, and you have a big heart. >> yes, i do! >> well, was it a slip of the tongue or was it a sneak peek? >> three, four, five, six, seven years from now if i do a good job as vice president. i'm sorry. >> you guys all got that, right? >> as a senator. >> senator marco rubio setting the record straight last night on the fox newschannel. you have to hear what he said. >> and come take a look at this. a woman nearly hit by an ambulance and she doesn't even flinch. with the capital one cash rewards card

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you don't often find these things in one place. maybe in vegas, if you know where to look. and us. so come on, give us a whirl. ♪ >> as you know, a member of the secret service advance team was in colombia ahead of president obama. he got in an argument with an escort over how much he owed her for her services. she said it was $800. he offered her $30.

finally, somebody in washington willing to cut spending and they fire him! the one guy -- the one guy! >> is it too soon to kid? >> no. >> what do you mean? >> i'm talking about, i mean, you have six people dismissed already. no, that was funny. it was funny. >> we don't know how big that whole thing is going to get. >> nope. it could be bigger than we thought. that brings us to our first headline. is there a white house link to the secret service prostitution scandal in colombia? the white house press secretary jay carney shooting down reports a member of the white house communications agency is involved or that any member of the white house staff committed misconduct but florida congressman john mica says such quick denials are not surprising. >> the white house also sat for almost a year on the g.s.a. information they were briefed on. they're not exactly, you know, ready to tell all, they've been embarrassed both by g.s.a. and now by this scandal. so our job is to investigate

it, if someone did wrong there, too, and was close to the president and part of the communications team, it's totally improper. >> six members of the secret service have already been let go for their roles in that scandal. >> meanwhile, stunning video out of japan this morning. two explosions rock a chemical plant leaving one worker dead and 22 others hurt. it happened in the western part of the country. it took crews hours to put out the fire. no word yet on what caused that explosion. >> all right. talk about a close call in russia, take a look at this. >> whoa! >> unflappable. >> you can see a woman just keep walking across the street when an ambulance suddenly swerves, stopping just inches away. almost amazing, the woman seems barely phased by the near death experience and just starts walking again. actually has the highest accident mortality rate in all of europe. i guess she's seen it all. >> really? what's the worse that can happen to me?

i can hit by an ambulance. >> at least i can get in the back and go right to the hospital. >> what if it's -- >> move over. >> a lot of times those gurneys are double beds, they pull out. >> there's actually more news. >> oh. >> trouble starlet lindsay lohan going back to work. the 25-year-old scored a gig playing elizabeth taylor in a new lifetime movie "liz & dick" is about taylor's rocky romance with actor richard burton. her last leading role speaking of lindsay was in 2009. i guess she looks a little like her with her dark hair. as of late, we've seen lindsay lohan with her platinum hair and a little facial work. >> she needs violet eyes. >> let's take a look at where the violets and the other flowers will be sprouting. certainly not there. take a look. several inches of heavy snow blanketed the area around johnstown, pennsylvania, where schools were closed. thousands of powerless homes in that region.

and the spring storm made for a messy commute as far south as maryland, a number of inches fell in garrett county, maryland. they've seen images right there. real quickly, as you can see, you can see the swirl of the nor'easter, the remnants of it through portions of new england around the great lake states as well. also, some spotty showers across the northern plains back to the pacific northwest. current temperatures and look at the 30's plunges low south as raleigh durham, 36 there. it's warmer in caribou, maine at 52 than it is in pittsburgh. meanwhile, behind that front, you can see temperatures in the 40's and the 50's currently. later on today, things are going to warm up. it's going to be 96 in el paso. 94 in phoenix. a little cooler than yesterday. meanwhile, almost 60 all the way from new england down through the big northeastern corridor cities. mid 60's across the mid atlantic and 70's across the central mississippi valley on this tuesday. >> did you guys know that the

war on terror is over? >> pop the champagne! >> yeah, i mean, all of those sort of efforts here in new york city alone to have a war on terror here, 10 plots, i think, that have been stopped by the nypd here. apparently all for not because the war on terror, according to one state department official is technically over. here's the quote. "now that we have killed most of al-qaida, now that people have come to see legitimate means of expression, people who once might have gone into al-qaida see an opportunity for a legitimate islamism." >> so fantastic. in other words, they're saying those islamic extremists that had to live in caves, now they can be president. that's the magic of arab spring and how it's turning, our hands are off the bicycle seat. how disturbing is this the state department feels the sentiment and at the same time, you have court cases going on talking about blowing up the railroad and the subway bomber that was going to blow up six or seven lines at the same time and more americans going to pakistan to train. what are they training for? >> maybe it shouldn't be

surprising. how long does this administration go before they call them terrorist? >> we don't pick up terrorists anymore so we're not talking to anybody. we're letting our al-qaida guys play soccer at gitmo, how do we know if the war is over? >> you remember that term -- what was that terminology instead of calling it the war on terror. >> it was oversees contingency operations. >> something like that. >> i learned it and then it's now escaped from my head. >> well -- >> something that hasn't escaped marco rubio is this particular little slip that he had with regard to being vice president. here it is. >> three, four, five, six, seven years from now if i do a good job as vice president -- i'm sorry. >> you guys all got that, right? >> as a senator. >> you all got that, right? >> if i do a good job as a senator, instead of a vice president, i'll have a chance to do all sorts of things. >> so what exactly was going on in his head when -- just before he was about to commit that

slip-up? he was sitting down with sean hannity last night and explained. >> it was a slip of the tongue but i mean, you get asked so many times and stuff starts floating in your head. >> and he says he will not answer anymore questions about the process running or not running. >> to respect the process. >> but you know, they campaigned together yesterday and they were over in philadelphia. >> yeah. >> so they had a few meetings and a lot of people talk about immigration and i'll be very curious to see if marco rubio's new dream act, his version of the dream act is something that mitt romney will embrace in an attempt to win over the hispanic community. finishing touches have not been released yet. mitt romney says he hasn't decided yet. >> mitt romney is in trouble with the hispanic community. there was new nbc poll that came out yesterday that i think showed the president 40 points ahead of him in that community. >> right. arizona has almost a dead heat because of that. >> marco rubio may not be talking about being v.p. potentially anymore but giving a major speech tomorrow on foreign policy. so that is also raising the red

flag amongst people who are saying he's putting himself out there in more international types of issues, maybe it's because he's trying to become the actual person that mitt romney will pick for v.p. >> all right. coming up straight ahead in this show, it's been 17 years since the oklahoma city bombing. this morning, there are brand new details in the case believe it or not and the accusations that the f.b.i. screwed it up. >> 17 years. unbelievable. and looking for a new job, cheryl casone has five companies hiring right now. she's got the list. get out your paper and pencil, jobs a plenty coming up next. >> she's doing the barney stroll. ♪ ♪

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>> time for some quick headlines for you. jennifer hudson takes the stand as the first witness in the trial of the man accused of murdering her family. she broke down in tears several times. her sister's estranged husband, william balfour is accused in the shooting death of hudson's mother, brother and nephew. nasa put together its best time lapse photography, the stunning images set to their own soundtrack. the photos were taken by the international space station crew. nice job, guys! gretch? >> the oklahoma city bombing was one of the deadliest terror attacks on american soil before 9/11 happened. but 17 years later now, the bombing that claimed 168 lives and injured hundreds more still has many questions unanswered. today, a new book gives a complete account of what happened on that day and what was missed by the f.b.i. during that investigation. andrew gumbel is the co-author

of a new book "oklahoma city" and joins us right now. what is the main thing that the f.b.i. missed in its investigation? >> essentially, the f.b.i. failed to go after the radical far right as a broader movement after the bombing. and they also failed to talk about what it was that they had done and not done in terms of tracking those people before the bombing. and very deliberate decision was made to go after the suspects that they had in custody from the very beginning tim mcveigh andy terry nichols and a number of tantalizing leads that pointed to specific people in radical far right that had associations with mcveigh were suspected of foreknowledge of the bombing were completely let go and most were not questioned in the investigation, and we're talking about an investigation that really said they left no stone unturned and they did the most extraordinary amount of work, it was extraordinary numbers of men, agencies, the huge task force and yet, some of these leads seem like the most obvious places to go look were left dangling. >> why? >> for two reasons, i think. first of all, because it was

very important to the government to make the case stick against mcveigh. and the cases were largely circumstantial. they knew he'd done it. that they had a great deal of difficulty proving certain parts of the case. for example, whether or not he rented the ryder truck in which the bomb was delivered. they never managed to prove that. there was no trace to the rental agency, etc., etc. they wanted to make sure they were going to get him and there was a tremendous amount of pressure both on the f.b.i. and on the prosecutors from the justice department whose job it was to make sure it was convicted not to dilute the case and not to give mcveigh's defense team ammunition to say there was other people, you're missing the big picture. >> i think it's fascinating because the american public, what they saw on the surface was an immediate arrest of tim mcveigh. i remember covering this story. he was driving away. they got him on the highway. >> that's right. >> it was so quick. they actually put this guy to death quickly by american standards. but what you're saying now is that there may be other people walking free 17 years later. >> i think there's a very

strong possibility of that. i mean, they certainly did not follow it and some of the people that should have been questioned were not questioned. i think a lot of the avenues in the investigation were closed down so it becomes very hard, even after now and all this time to say these are the people who most likely to have done it. >> why does that matter in 20121234>> i think this matters because this country with the last two events that happened, both oklahoma city and 9/11 have a track record of not anticipating threats adequately. you had agents in both cases who were very experienced and knew what they were talking about, screaming out from the rafters. you have to watch out for people training in flight schools and watch out for the radical far right, they've declared war on the government. those warnings were ignored. we need as a country to be very careful to make sure that the next threat that comes along is anticipated. and i think now we have a time specifically as regards to the radical far right where we have a massive rise in radical hate groups, we have a tremendous atmosphere in this country of anti-establishment feeling which for the most part is legitimate. for the most part, you know,

finds expression on the left and on the right in ways that are entirely legal but there's inevitably going to be a fringe of people that are racist and anti-government people that want to commit violence and have talked about doing so and the open question of whether the people in law enforcement who know the subjects, who know these people are the ones who have been assigned to keep an eye on them. a lot of experienced agents were switched after 9/11 to international work. >> speaking of that, it's interesting that we did a story on the state department saying the war on terror is over. it fits into this whole discussion that maybe not so much. andrew gumbel is the co-author of" oklahoma city, what the investigation missed and why it still matters" the book is out today. looking for a job? guess what? we have help. it's on the way. cheryl casone is here with the five companies that are hiring right now. i'll twitter them as well. "heart of glass" by blondie was the number one song. [ male announcer ] what can you do with plain white rice?

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>> bad news for college grads this morning. a new report out says that 1 in 2 new college graduates are jobless or underemployed but "fox & friends" wants to help and ease your worries. that's why cheryl casone without any worries, put your worries aside. she's here from the fox business network here with the top 10 companies or the top five companies hiring this week. >> i got jobs. i got jobs. and i interviewed the ceo last week of manpower, publicly traded company, man is their ticker but they're a staffing company. they mostly do temporary staffing for companies across the country and also have another company under manpower group so it's engineers, finance, i.t., administrative. they're looking to fill in particular over 1,000 jobs in their group but i talked to

jeffrey jarris, the ceo of manpower and i said give me some advice for viewers looking for work. here's what he said. >> stay flexible, make sure you continue to learn, increase your resume even if you're out of a job. while you're in a job, keep learning and be that curiousity because companies are looking for the ability for the person to change as their companies change because change is happening very rapidly. >> and they are hiring hundreds of people? >> yeah, they are hiring -- they themselves but really, they provide thousands of temporary staffing jobs. they're all over the country. they're all over the world. so if you see manpower group in your area, go into that local office and see what kind of temp work they can throw your way. >> if we see nordstrom's stores, should we go in and say i'm here, can i get an application? >> absolutely. nordstrom's and nordstrom's rack are hiring right now. now, they hired or promoted from within 41,000 people last year. this is a company that is growing and a big retail name, you probably shop there. do you want to work there? do you want to do sales?

do you want to work with people? do you want to work on the back end, do you want to be administrative? do you want to work on the web site? they also have benefits. and i think that's important. a lot of you college kids out there, look, go to nordstrom's. you'll get a discount on suits that you can then wear to interviews. you know, you get a 30% discount a lot of times if you're working at nordstrom's. you have to think of these things when you've got nothing. you have to come up with something. >> absolutely. >> yeah, i know, yeah. i did, too, like 20 minutes ago. they do web sites for the government and they're the back end provider of services for web sites, most of these web sites are government web sites, usps.com is one of their web sites. usa.gov. and they need people that can actually work, again, it's going to be 50 jobs, all going to be web site. they may be opening and expanding more in maryland and virginia over this year. they're not sure yet. they're working on it. >> let's talk about car max. it's u.s.'s largest used car

retailer. i didn't know that. >> they are number one. they'll be opening up 10 more stores, when you say stores, they're massive lots full of cars. you know car max. they need associates and they need mechanics. so if you've got any type of -- if you know your way around a vehicle, you can be a mechanic at a car max. a sales associate, whatever. pennsylvania, california, tennessee, florida, iowa, colorado is where they'll be hiring. >> and i do know my way around a vehicle. it's when i open the hood it's my problem. cordell university in ithaca, you can actually get there. >> cornell university, i will say cornell reached out to us to "fox & friends", 250 job openings across the campuses. ithaca and then they've got the cornell nyc tech campus and they have the big medical facility here in manhattan on the upper east side. they offer benefits. they offer, obviously, tuition reimbursement. think about it. but they reached out to us as did the other company, they e-mailed us. >> that's a beautiful area. thanks so much. i want you to check today's "post" on casoneexchange.com

called "want fries with that"? that's your column. you can catch cheryl at noon on the fox business network. >> and right us at fsjobhunt, if you're looking for a job or company that wants to be featured on the show. >> lot of interaction? >> competitive companies. >> good news. maybe unemployment will be down to 2 soon. >> working on it. >> cheryl casone, thanks so much. good luck on your show this afternoon. meanwhile, coming up straight ahead, the same school of teachers that got plastic surgery on the taxpayers dime about to blow millions more so they can avoid being evaluated. it's unreal but true and remember this. the president says his new health care law wouldn't cost you a dime. well, hold that thought. a new tax being considered, every time you go to the doctor or pharmacy. laura ingraham top of the hour. that's what she looks like. so who ordered the cereal that can help lower olesterol

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see the difference at avivausa.com. >> gretchen: good morning, everyone. it's tuesday, april 24. i'm gretchen carlson. i hope you have a great day today. call it the committee to reelect president obama, a secret slush fund made up of billions in taxpayer dollars that might just help the president score a second term. huh? laura ingraham will weigh in on that. >> steve: meanwhile, who needs the supreme court when you can just bypass them? first it was health care. now democrats in the senate planning to bypass the justices on immigration. is that how dc does it now? >> brian: and wake up, mikhail gorbachev caught snoozing. is he alive? he looks out of it. sean pub was there, too. >> gretchen: you know why. he's sleeping. >> steve: sean penn put him to sleep. >> brian: we'll explain as soon as i wrap this up. if i keep staring, they'll roll

the animation, watch. >> gretchen: that rooster is supposed to wake you up. >> brian: i know. i grew up on a farm, we didn't have any electricity. we depended on the livestock to wake us up and tell when to get up. >> gretchen: that was our upbringing, more so than yours. you are so efficient today. organizational skills on this set must be rubbing off on brian. >> brian: i can never find a stapler at fox news. the hardest thing to find is a stapler. >> gretchen: here is brian, all of a sudden during one of the interview, he took this out of his coat pocket. i was like what is he taking out of his coat pocket? a lizard? no. a miniature stapler. >> brian: you know what this is. >> steve: progress. >> brian: an overt play for an assistant. somebody to carry my office supplies. >> steve: why would you need one

if you can carry it in your pocket? >> gretchen: wait a minute. he's trying get one. >> steve: good luck. you know what? also coming up in this hour, i think i have seen the tastiest football player future in the world. rg 3. >> brian: in the green room. >> steve: there is a sandwich that looks just like him. it's made out of sandwich meat. it's beautiful. >> gretchen: a sandwich? >> steve: yeah. >> brian: he will be the next personality in the nfl. >> gretchen: why don't you do some tapening. police are turning to a tucson landfill as they ramp up the search for a missing arizona girl. the parents say they last saw their six-year-old friday night in her bedroom. yesterday investigators asked them to leave their home after dogs picked up something inside. police not saying exactly what they may have found. >> detectives are still conducting their investigation here at the scene. they are continuing their

service of a search warrant that was begun earlier today. that's been an exhaustive process. >> gretchen: the case being label add possible abduction. an anonymous donor offering a a reward. the army private accused of handing over thousands of secret u.s. military documents to wikileaks will ask a military judge to dismiss the case. bradley manning back in a military court in maryland this morning of the he's attorney also argue that the charges should be dropped because prosecutors refused to give him access to dozens of key documents. they will claim it's easier to assist the case than go over all the evidence again. george zimmerman is free on bail. police chief criticized for not pursuing charges right away. still under fire, look at this meeting. looks like it was kind of angry. sanford city leaders rejected his resignation, saying they want to wait for the results of

the federal investigation. that could take months. zimmerman awaiting trial for shooting trayvon martin. he says it was self-defense. caught catching shut eye. former russian leader gorbachev nodded off. worn out after chatting with sean penn? >> steve: that will do it. >> gretchen: they were talking while visiting the school together. hopefully he's getting rest as the summit lasted for three days and this was only on the first day. >> brian: let me tell you the sad news. sean penn is back with petra. >> gretchen: i saw that! >> brian: and you were hiding it from me. >> gretchen: brian, in his next life, would like to marry petra nemkova. i'm trying save him from his marriage right now. >> brian: she's an extremely nice super model. i used to like heidi klum.

>> you're watching "fox & friends." >> brian: there is something about a super model who calls herself a super model that i find attractive. >> steve: i think she was following our instructions. >> gretchen: then you didn't like her because she dated spean. let's bring in laura ingraham for commentary on that and so much more. >> i want to go back to the stapler. are you trying to make the staple that "fox & friends" a staple of morning television? >> brian: thank you very much. >> gretchen: i will staple to that! >> exactly. don't we all sleep when sean penn speaks? gorbachev needs a pass on that, or was he trying to get other super model names because russia has among the most beautiful women in the world. >> brian: we gave the one back, anna chapman. >> steve: she's off the list. our top story is one thing they're not talking about on the democratic side is how we're going to fix social security and the government came out yesterday and said, yep. it's running out of money faster than we had thought. disability, social security,

disability will be out of dough by 2016. now, you're going to tell us more about the medicare advantage program, which is very popular, there is an election year trick the administration is about to pull to try to win the election. >> yeah. they're a cynical government moves and then the mother of all. this is in the ladder category. there is an $8 billion fund in the health and human services department that it's supposed to be used for something called demonstration projects. these are experiments that the hhs can embark upon that are supposed to bring more efficiency to health care services in the united states. but they're supposed to be true experiments in how to make the system better. the obama administration is using this money to simply delay what is going to be inevitable under obamacare, meaning medicare advantage, very popular program, is going to be alive for another year and under obamacare, it's going to have its reimbursement slashed.

in other words, a lot of seniors will end up on the traditional old regular government-run medicare program, which a lot of seniors aren't satisfied with. it doesn't fill in a lot of the gaps and coverage. so it's just a cynical move. i think it's actually -- you could make the argument it's illegal and we're going to see if the gao's recommendation that this be investigated by congress actually happens. it seems to me that it's a derelict of duty. >> steve: if the money was set aside specifically for experiments, this is not an experiment. >> no. it's absolutely not. it's cynical move so that senior also not know that this is going to kick in with obamacare as it would normally have done were it not for this hhs $8 billion -- some are calling it a slush fund. >> gretchen: some argue without that, it will cost more for seniors to get medical care. more importantly, they won't be able to get some services that they currently can because doctors are not going to take medicare.

>> they can't. the reimbursements are already so ridiculously low for so many doctors and so many services being provided and this is just one more anvil on the back of the medical providers in this country. and this is what we warned was going to happen when obamacare was passed and now it's all coming to fruition. they're trying to push it down the road more during an election year to get the seniors to vote in florida and ohio and pennsylvania. it's all for the election year. >> brian: this concept was brought up to marco rubio last night with sean hannity. listen. >> everything is political with this administration. everything is designed around the election and increasingly so you're starting to see that with things like what you're highlighting and the bigger problem with medicare is this president doesn't have a plan to save it. if there was real leadership from the white house, there would be a sense of urgency about saving medicare and instead of saving it, they want to play politics with it. >> gretchen: let's move to another topic which is that the institute of medicine, now proposing 2% tax on people who have health care and nearly all

everyday health practices, from going to your doctor to paying for your prescriptions. i guess the argument being that they believe that they have to tax people 2% to be able to give that money to other people who don't have health care? is that your understanding of it? >> yeah. it's exactly right. i'm going to talk to orrin hatch in a few moments on my radio show. he's been all over this issue. the institutes of medicine gave a lot of coverage to obamacare. a lot of people have been writing about this, believe this quote, institute, has become wildly political. and for them to come forward and say we need yet another tax -- that's on top of all the other surcharges that are already in obamacare. remember the 3.8% surcharge that's going to be levied. this is another attempt to redistribute the wealth. it's not about making healthcare more efficient. it's not really about prehave nottive services. this is about expanding the pool of money that is necessary in

order to provide adequate, quote, coverage to all americans. we're all being taxed to death. you add it all up, we're all getting taxed to death. this is just one more ridiculous burden being put on the american healthcare consumers. >> gretchen: the other day when we did this story, we showed a map of the states that receive the least amount of public health money and they receive the least money. >> what we need is more market-based reforms that make health care more efficient. this just, again, piles on a more levies on people who are already feeling the burden of high gas prices, the burden of high food prices and all the other hidden taxes that are now being levied on services and items that we buy and i think the american consumer is at a breaking point. the american family is at a breaking point. this is just one more life that daily life will become ridiculously expensive for most people.

>> steve: we have to pass the thing to see what's in it. >> not enough money. >> brian: i wonder what it will be like to halfway have it. if the states say it doesn't work, it's got to be worse than ever. >> the 2%, brian, is going to go up to 3%, 4%, then different levels of income that are going to get taxed at a higher rate. that's just the beginning, the opening salvo. it will go way up than 2%. >> steve: all right. one of the things right across the street from where you're sitting is the u.s. supreme court and they are going to start to hear oral arguments about the arizona immigration law. apparently chuck schumer has got this great idea. you know what? if they uphold the arizona law, we need to come up with our own line in the sand that shows that we are behind, what, the illegal s? >> this is another show vote. it's a show vote approach to legislation. so we have a serious problem in this country with our finances,

with our border enforcement. so their idea in an election year is not both parties to get together for some compromises or actual solutions to these problems. instead, it's the show vote congress. they're going to do buffet rule vote, anti-arizona immigration law vote. they're going to do a vote to keep the rates on youth college loans at a lower rate. these are all show votes. none of this is serious. and i think people watching "fox & friends" right now should make embark upon their own show vote in november. get serious. >> brian: i tell you what, democrats might be saying hey, this is working because according to the latest poll out n arizona in particular, it's virtual dead heat. in a traditional republican state, it could have a lot to do with this law. >> well, it might be. it might have a lot to do with the fact that i think governor romney on this particular issue,

has not articulated a clear delineation of the way to make sure that small businesses that are latino owned can grow and prosper, moving beyond the immigration argument. i think there are a loft factors involved here. i don't think it's just about comprehensive immigration reform. >> gretchen: 'cause this vote is obviously to get the latino vote. >> it's another, check the box, check the box. >> gretchen: we got to wrap it up. you got a radio show and we got to go to a break. thank you. >> brian: up next, new trouble for the president on his own side of the aisle. prominent democrats say they would not vote for him in november. what does that mean? a former pollster for president clinton takes closer look. >> steve: as voters go to the polls in five primary states, could we be expecting a big announcement from newt gingrich? the former speaker's plans for the future straight ahead

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>> gretchen: more prominent democrats distancing themselves from president obama on everything from healthcare to his policies on the economy. the support dwindling inside his own party. >> really a clear path to reelection? joining me from pollster to president clinton as well as a fox news contributor, doug schoen who has a brand-new book out. let's talk about senator joe manchin in west virginia. when he was elected, he was against obamacare and cap and trade, was he not? >> he was. >> gretchen: looks like he's going to go down that same path now? not agree with president obama. in fact, he's on the record as saying he doesn't know if he'll

vote for president obama. >> right. he criticized both president obama and governor romney. he's made it clear that west virginiaans are independents and that he sees issues and problems very differently from the president. >> gretchen: what about the other democrats now? two who are not running for election have come out and said, you know, maybe this whole obamacare thing was not the right thing for america at this time and place. is that because they're retiring and politicians can finally tell the true when they're not running for office again? >> there is certainly some of that, gretchen. but bottom line, the healthcare bill cost the democrats the house two years ago and brad miller from north carolina, dennis cars dona from california are recognizing reality that had there been fiscal reforms strengthening the economy rather than healthcare, the democrats may still hold the house. >> gretchen: is this bad news for president obama or does he still have enough support within his own party? >> he's got a lot of support in his own party, about 90%. there are a lot of democrats on the conservative wing who are

defecting, but there are fewer and fewer of them. the problem he has is independents. there are a dwindling number of swing voters, more independent, but fewer swing voters. those swing voters have been moving away from him this year as he gangs in class warfare. >> gretchen: the title of the book "hopelessly divided" is something that really bugged me the last year as well because it just seems like compromise is not even an option anymore. >> it isn't, gretchen. we have a hopelessly divided system. we have two parties that won't cooperate on the debt or the deficit. elections are controlled by super pacs. redistricting is controlled by party leaders. and special interests dominate the party. ordinary people have less and less say. >> gretchen: how do you turn that around? do you see hope look down the road for future? >> the title, a couple of ideas. first redistricting reform. we have need to do campaign finance reform. we have to rein in the super pacs. we have to get rid of the

filibuster rules so 51 rather than 60 votes can control legislation in the senate. we most of all have to break the interest of big money and the special interest so that our politics is controlled by you and i. not by big money. >> gretchen: you say if president obama is reelected, it will be more polarizing than it is right now and more divisive? >> i think so. i've obviously been a critic of president obama because he's engaged in things like class war affection which divides, to blame bankers, financial interests and there is plenty of blame to go around. but that's not how you reason an election. you've got to govern after you win and both he and i dare say governor remain knee haven't put together centrist programs to deal with our debt, deficit, stimulating economic growth and job creation. >> gretchen: the book is "hopelessly divided, the new crisis in american politics." thanks so much. >> thank you. >> gretchen: the same teachers caught cashing in on taxpayer funded plastic surgery now accused of holding millions of dollars hostage because they

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>> gretchen: couple headlines. james murdoch testifying this morning in a london courtroom about what he knew in regards to the phone hacking at the news of the world newspaper. he says he had no reason to suspect any wrongdoing. >> were senior legal managers who had a lot of experience who

were working closely with the editors and with the news rooms and at the time i didn't have a view that those were insufficient or not. >> gretchen: that papered owned by his father, rupert murr dork. close call for california firefighters. watch what happens. the explosion rocks the manhole they're working on. one firefighter was knocked out, but expected to be okay. back upstairs to steve. >> steve: thanks, gretch. in new york state, teacher evaluations are required in every single district. but a teachers union in buffalo is pushing back against that evaluation system by refusing to change it. they're holding up more than $5 million in much needed funding for struggling schools in buffalo. >> brian: kyle olson is the founder of education action group and joins us live from madison, wisconsin. this is an ultimate stand-off. where is this going to fall and

what's at stake if they don't get an agreement on evaluations? >> well, there is money at stake, but what is happening is you've got democratic lawmakers, you've got parents, you've got clergy putting pressure on the union, putting pressure on the board to come to some sort of resolution. you've got organizations like parent groups and those sorts of organizations putting pressure because that is what's necessary because it's interesting, because had a lot of people don't realize is the vast majority of teachers around the country don't have a meaningful evaluation process. what does that mean? when you don't have evaluations, you don't have real accountability and you don't have real consequences for teacher performance. so that's what they're trying to do in new york state and specifically in buffalo. >> steve: specifically in new york state, kyle, there is a state law that all districts must have teacher evaluation plans. what's hanging in the balance is $5.6 million in money right now and i understand the fight has ramifications for existing

funding of 20 million for school improvement next year and the other thing that is extraordinary about buffalo is there is a democratic party assembly woman who says this: it is very disconcerting to be at the point where we have adults who say they are not going to follow the rules when a law is created, everyone has to follow it. and i believe that law maker says that the state should take over. >> right. that's what's incredible is now you have democratic lawmakers in effect standing up to the union. this is a major development because they're looking at school districts like buffalo, like chicago, many other districts around the country that are poorly performing, are not meeting the needs of kids and they're saying, we can't accept this and this is not tolerable. they're pushing back against the union. burr what we're seeing is the union is fighting for the adult interests and so what's got to happen is these lawmakers, these parents have got to fight back and so that's finally what is starting to happen and that's

what's going to make the difference. >> brian: shear what the buffalo teachers representative says: he says the teachers voted overwhelmingly not to accept the latest document that the district has provided us. we're going to go to court and sue the state. >> that's right. that's what they do is they want to go to the courts to get their way. and as you said at the beginning, this is the same school district which last year spent $9 million on plastic surgery for teachers because it's in the collective bargaining agreement. things are out of control in this district and clearly the adults' interests are coming first and so parents and lawmakers are standing up and saying, that's got to change. >> steve: all right. kyle olson, founder and publisher of eag news.org, thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. >> thank you. >> brian: a democratic governor leading the charge on this, governor cuomo. next up, polls are open in five states, one of them a key testing ground for mitt romney come november. and now we're getting word of an announcement from newt gingrich.

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>> president obama is proposing to keep student loans cheap as a way to appeal to college students. [ cheers and applause ] yeah. and if that doesn't work, he's going to switch to his second proposal, hey, everybody, free pizza in my room. >> steve: it turns out, i read in the paper this morning, mitt romney also behind the idea of keeping those student rates low? >> gretchen: they're both going after the college vote that went overwhelm league for obama last time around. speaking of politics. >> brian: we're not talking about the primaryies. but five states are hold

primaries. for mitt romney, the outcome in p.a. could be crucial. molly line is live from massachusetts to philadelphia. hi, molly. >> hi. that's right. good morning. pittsburgh, philadelphia, all these big city, as well as the entire state of pen opinion will be a very -- pen opinion will be a very -- pennsylvania will be a very critical place, especially as get close it november. here in pennsylvania, rick santorum pulled out of the race, although his name is still on the ballot. and that means mitt romney needs to defeat ron paul and newt gingrich to claim victory in pennsylvania. but the big challenge for mitt romney's campaign may not be so much about winning, but about the expectations game, about how well they do here, by the margin of victory and the momentum they can gain as they head into further contests down the road and specifically heading into november when he'll face off against president obama who did defeat senator john mccain about 55 percentage points to 44 in 2008. we had a chance to speak with

professor terry madonna about what those expectations are and what they could mean for mitt romney and the contest between president obama down the road. take a listen. >> they don't want the lead story to be, romney wins narrowly in a state after santorum suspended his campaign, or to hear still having difficulty with evangelicals and tea party activists and those voters who call themselves true conservatives, or those voters who live in rural parts of pennsylvania. >> the romney camp will be hoping for a voter turnout, gop voter turnout of at least 20%. that would be in keeping with norms of prior contests here if pennsylvania. also something to keep an eye on here is the voter i.d. law is getting a sort of test run here. voters heading to the polls will be asked to show their i.d.s. in november, it will be an actual requirement to have some sort of photo identification on you. we've been chatting with voters here this morning and found at least one voter who said he doesn't mind showing his i.d. and that's something that's

legal in many states around the country as well, but has been controversial all over the country as well. gretchen, steve, brian, back to you. >> steve: molly line, we thank you very much. right next to pennsylvania is delaware and it could all come down to joe biden's crib for newt gingrich. he has spent i think the last three weeks pretty much camped out in delaware and according to sources, if he doesn't do well in delaware where they've got a winner take all thing, he might pack up his bag. >> brian: i think it has lot to do with money. he owes $4.2 million. he let one company he left to run go under. if you want mitt romney to help with that deficit, wouldn't you think that now is the time to say, mitt, if you want to save the rest of the money? do you want me to step aside? it will cost you. >> gretchen: if he still thinks he is a threat. i don't know if romney would actually feel like he foods pay off gingrich's debt at this point. >> brian: great point. >> gretchen: we'll keep you

posted on what happens at that. other stories making headlines, john edwards' former aide who once claimed he was the father of edwards' daughter with rielle hunter back on the stand today. andrew young testified a wealthy campaign donor promised to do everything possible to put edwards in the oval office, but edwards' defense claims the nearly $1 million from the donor was not a campaign contribution and was never used to cover up edwards' affair with hunter for political reasons. young getting immunity in exchange for his testimony. john edwards facing up to 30 years behind bars if he is convicted. >> steve: the senate could kill the messenger today. lawmakers are voting on a bunch of amendments today affecting the u.s. postal service. one could deliver a final blow to saturday mail delivery two years from now. closing 3,000 local post offices. the agency wants to get rid of them to save big dough. they're facing annual losses of $18 billion in just three years.

>> steve: treasury secretary tim geithner may want to have a talk with his father-in-law about keeping secrets. according to today's new york post, albert was overheard telling people at a manhattan restaurant that geithner had an agreed upon exit from his spot as the country's top money man. he says president obama nominated a dartmouth college doctor to head the world bank as part of a plan to then let geithner take that post at dartmouth. >> steve: take a look, there may be a spring storm along the east coast, but look at the view from space. nasa putting together its best time lapse photography of light displays and weather systems. so cool. the photos were taken by the crew on the international space station. busy up there. look at that. >> gretchen: beautiful. brian went outside and he's so psyched because he's got a special guest. >> brian: robert griffith iii is here, rg 3 is with us right now. he will be the number one or number two pick in thursday's

draft. a round of applause for the nfl's next superstar, heisman trophy win. [ applause ] tomorrow it looks like the redskins will take you. they moved up to take you. they're talking to you. you didn't work out for the colts. how surprised will you be if you're not with the washington redskins by thursday night? >> i think everybody will be pretty surprised. i think it's safe to say i'll be a redskin. >> brian: i was fascinated to find out that you came very close to actually being on the same team with andrew luck at stanford. you had great grades in high school, a 4.0 average. you go with jim harbaugh and he thought he had you convinced to be two great quarterbacks would be together. >> he thought he had us both. i thought it was in our best interest that we didn't go to the same school. i chose baylor. >> brian: first houston and baylor. something else important people should know about you, the reason why you're so disciplined and driven is probable will he because of your military background. your dad was in iraq. you grew up on military bases. what kind of life was that?

>> it's crazy because we moved a lot and at a young age, but we had a chance to settle when i was seven and it was great. >> brian: okay. now something that's really important 'cause not only do you need money for your career, but the right sponsorship. we have the up veiling of a subway sculpture like i've never seen before. the robert griffith iii, it's the edible version. look at this! is this bread here? >> yep, that's bread. peppers. >> brian: could we get a side by side? >> oh, yeah. >> brian: squat down next to it. that is very, very close. not bad. robert, there is no doubt about it, we have a electric here, when top picks come to visit, we like to see what kind of arm you have. i don't have time to bring you through the combine, let's toss it around a little bit and see what you got. first off, are you nervous about throwing the ball around?

>> no. >> brian: did you stretch out this morning? >> i don't want to hurt you. [ laughter ] >> brian: you don't want to hurt me. first off, can you hurt me? oh, it's subway today! >> i love it. >> brian: do you realize you can't hurt me? i could have went pro for a while. that's the only difference. >> you got nice hands. [ laughter ] i shouldn't have said that. >> brian: robert, you ready for the challenge? what i want to do, now that you're warmed up, if you would go back there, send me into motion and see if you can hit me in the back of that truck. can you do it? >> i think i can. >> brian: it's for subway. they're sponsoring this. >> he's going to the truck. here we go.

is he ready? >> brian: i'm open! i dropped it. >> brian, you're fired. >> we'll do it again. >> steve: he had the ball there! there he is. >> brian: i should have it. >> it's all good. >> brian: listen, when you become a big star, important thing is, is to always come back to "fox & friends," a little tranquility. if you're in washington, d.c., get used to the political world. >> you got it. >> brian: congratulations to you, robert. good luck tomorrow. >> thank you. >> all right. >> brian: say back inside. >> back inside to you guys. >> gretchen: next time you come back, i'll go deep for you. okay? >> steve: good arm and -- >> brian: i can't believe i dropped it. >> gretchen: back in january, the president created a mortgage fraud task force but a month later they don't have phones or

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and no official director. what went hay wire? let's talk to adam levin, the chairman of credit.com and former director of the new jersey agency of homeowner affairs. you would think if the president gets up on the house of the floor of the u.s. house talk being this great plan to have this task force, next day things would be going. but now fast forward 90 days, nothing. >> nothing, again n washington, you never know. silence could be that there is an investigation that's ongoing, the subpoenas have been issued and they're operating quietly in order to gather the information, or it could be that it fell off the radar and fell through the cracks, you're not sure. >> steve: yeah. although there was that report that they haven't hire add staff, they don't have phones, probably not an office either. >> and as a result, actually of that, that was really an op ed, as a result of that, what happened is some information has now come out where 11 state attorneys general, eight offices of the united states attorney and 55 attorneys in the department of justice are now in

the process of gathering information and working on this. >> steve: right. in a perfect world what, would this task force do? >> this task force has to do is basically three measure things. first, is they really got to chronicle what truly happened during this disaster, especially with securitization. the second thing is that they have to determine if they can get even a better settlement for all of the victims of this. the third thing is they have to set guidelines for the future in order to figure out how this shouldn't happen again. and what they really need to do more than anything is criminal indictments because a lot of criminal wrongdoing. >> steve: that's exactly right. hundreds of thousands of people lost their houses and they're angry and they would like to see somebody go to prison. >> no, they want to see that. what they've seen so far has been restrict to do robo signs and this was a compromise, the creation of this work group with attorney general snyderman and some of the other attorneys general who said the settlement

doesn't go far enough and the reason why there is a settlement now is because somebody wanted something now where we really need to uncover all the facts. >> steve: let's see if anything actually happens. adam, thank you for joining us live. >> thank you. >> steve: all right. meanwhile, 12 minutes before the top of the hour. last week president obama talked about not being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. that was interpreted as a big dig at mitt romney. when i was interviewing governor romney on this show, i asked him about it. however, i did some paraphrasing and seemed to misquote the president. so to be clear, the president's exact quote was, i wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. and i hope that clears up any confusion. meanwhile, what happens when a dog, volleyball champ and brian kilmeade get together? who the heck knows, but we're about to find out. he's misty may trainer outside. first let's check if with martha mccallum for a preview of what happens in 11 minutes. >> the white house says they looked into the secret service mess and found no wrongdoing in

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>> gretchen: she's a two-time olympic gold medalist, winning more volleyball tournaments than any other female player. now professional volleyball player and thet enthusiast, misty may trainer, trying to get pets and owners back in shape. good morning. >> good morning. >> gretchen: brian's dog is out of control. >> brian is chasing the dog with the cone.

>> steve: why is that? >> brian: it's good because it's good for the scene. we got to get dogs in action. [ laughter ] >> i think the personalities are the same. >> steve: i think they're the same critter. is the idea to exercise the dog or exercise dog owners? >> oh, gosh, it's going to happen. the main thing is exercise the pet 'cause i'm part of purina's pet slim down, about pet obesity, getting people aware of that. so when you exercise your pets, you're going to exercise yourself. >> gretchen: that's great idea. so you're going to put the dog truce some sort of obstacle course, right? >> this is a way that when you're home, if you don't have a lot of time or you have minimal area, set something up at home that you can run your dog truce and it will give them the exercise they need to be healthier. >> steve: we've got two dogs. two teams. do you want to be on brian's team or misty's team? >> gretchen: can i be the ref?

>> steve: sure. >> brian: we want to do a relay, you take off your shoes? >> gretchen: excuse me, it's 30 degrees out here today. >> steve: we'll just do you versus misty. >> gretchen: i'll be on your team to help because your dog seems feisty. >> brian: we have this dog owner is who is a rookie, better known as a puppy. >> it's a bulldog and a saint bernard. >> steve: so ladies and gentlemen, start your dogs and action! go! much like -- gretchen, wait! come back! they're going to give you the dog in a minute. come on back! brian, you're going to get chewed up! >> steve: wait a minute. they all want to play. >> brian: i killed you. >> gretchen: no, brian, you're like pulling the dog's neck up above the ground. it's called running the dogs. not dragging the dog.

>> exactly. >> gretchen: they both got their exercise for the day, though. >> we both got our exercise. >> steve: you brought up something earlier that i think is important and that is if you walk your dog the same route every day, it will be familiar, it won't be quite as exciting as it is for the dog. >> no, correct. and it's very important, too, that just like us, with any exercise program, when your dog is overweight, to really get together with a veterinarian. >> steve: absolutely. we'll have more with misty and the dogs in just a minute, live from new york. >> thank you. >> steve: brian, are you taking that dog to the hydrant again? >> brian: the dog needs bribery. >> gretchen: we'll be right back [ male announcer ] when this hotel added aflac

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>> gretchen: misty may trainer, a dog lover, she happens to be an olympian in volleyball. so the message here is that we need to keep our dogs fit. >> yeah. dogs are like us, they're part of the family. so when they're in shape, they're healthier and happier and that's what the purina slim down initiative is all about. >> gretchen: i have a poop bag in my pocket. my new accessory. >> steve: she's going to stick around for the after the show show. we thank you very much. >> thank you. >> steve: thank you for joining us. >> brian: we'll see you tomorrow on "fox & friends." i believe it will be wednesday. >> steve: it's a date! >> brian: "america's newsroom" next. good morning. fox news alert starts our day. new exclusive interview with speaker of the house john boehner.