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what is it? or who is it? see for yourself in just minutes. but first, here's rush limbaugh. >> in february of 2009, in august, they had a half year -- stimulus is in force for a half year. they issued their forecast. and they credited the stimulus. yet, this stimulus going to bail everybody out. it's going to get 4.3% economic growth. we are at 2.2. half of what obama forecast in 200 9. in the 2010 forecast, the white house said it was looking for 3.5% gdp growth in 2012, followed by 4.4% next and 4.3% in 2014. again, we are at 2.2% economic
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growth. in its 2011 economic forecast, the white house predicted 3.1% growth that year. 4% growth this year and 4 1/2% growth in 2013. in its most recent forecast, the white house predicted 3% growth this year and next and back to 4% after that. every one of obama administration forecasts has been way wrong. they have been predicting that a boom is right around the corner. they make their predictions after such things as the stimulus or other obama legislation, like the american jobs act, the health care bill, after much -- then they come out with a forecast. this is going to cause a boom. and all it's doing is destroying the u.s. economy. >> greta: so what will it take
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to turn the economy around? businessman extraordinaire, donald trump joins us by phone. grim news, the gpd, 2.2%, we hoped it would be faster, expected it would be greater, rather. your thoughts on the 2.2% gdp report? >> rush is 100% right. the report is very bad. the economy's not doing well. china's probably going to be close to 10%, the real number. others are way, way up there. a lot of that is at our expense because they are taking our jobs and they are manufacturing our products. so, you know, how can we have a good report when things are made for us in other countries? >> greta: give me a four- or five-point policy change you would make as president to accelerate the gdp. what would be the four or five things you dolled? >> we have to have an energy policy that makes sense. we have to drill because we have
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much more under our feet than we ever thought possible. we have to get away from the grip of opec because opec is destroying us. they are a worse abuser than china, if that's possible. have you to make deals with china, where either they stop with the manipulation of their currency and make it impossible for our companies to compete. they are making it impossible. very intelligently for them, but not for us. unless do you something about that. you do, you say, in it doesn't stop immediately, we are dropping a 25% tax on your product. this is nothing to do with free trade or fair trade. this is all to do with common sense. you have to stop china from systematically taking us apart. so many of the problems that we are talking about in this country including social security and including medicare and medicaid and all of the costs that we can't afford, you can afford them easily, if the economy turned around. the economy solves all the problems. >> greta: you say that these are
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common-sense ideas. if they are common-sense ideas, chayour theory that the president isn't doing this? he has a different plan, different ideology? what is your sponse to take what you say is common sense? >> i have no theory because it's impossible to figure. it's absolutely impossible. it's so simple when you look at what is happening from outside and how other countries are just absolutely taking -- every country that does business with us takes advantage of us. we are like the big patsy that doesn't know how to d.d it's so often that you see where a country like, as an example, columbia, the country of columbia, a small, they call them trading partner. they are going to make $4 billion. so often that you see this. nobody does anything about this. it used to be in the old days when we really had a country that knew what they were doing, we were the big, mart one. now we are like the dumb bully. and it's very, very sad. >> greta: all right. dumb bully, now. as a frame of reference, what
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was the old day when is we were doing so well? do you have a time -- >> you don't have to go back too far. you can go back to reagan when we were respected. you look at the reagan years and how he really did turn things around and taxes were very high and they brought them down substantially and really got them down. i would think that the country, during that period of time was highly respected and that seems to be a zenith, relatively speaking in the modern age. i guess you would call that the modern age. >> greta: all right. now you have a huge business empire, not as big as the federal government. but if i worked within your huge business empire, is there a way i could have slipped past you spending $820,000 on a lavish party? or are there accounting and auditing done so this $820,000 spend by the gsa is so irresponsible by the government. could i slip it past you, if i worked for you?
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>> the gsa -- we have had some experience with the gsa. we found them to be very, very responsible and very professional, to be honest. when we cut a ribbon in toronto and in hawaii, you cut ribbons for buildings. people do go to those things and they do have parties. so i am not looking to be the defend -- the -- come to the defense of anybody, but you do on occasion have to go and travel. if gsa has property or if their top people have property and they are responsible for it, people do go and cut ribbons and spend monoparties like that. >> greta: you know what? i don't have a problem with you spending your private dime at the party and to do the ribbon cutting or in the case of the case where the gsa went to hawaii and took a wheel week to cut a ribbon that took an hour. they could have outsourced that to a member of congress, making a trip home anyway, who could be the stand-in for the gsa.
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so i totally disagree with ow this. this is the most extravagant waste of taxpayer money. >> i know nothing about t. i know when i do open buildings and when i build a building, we do have openings and parties and we celebrate the success of a job and all. that does happen. we have to be fair to all sides. and that does happen. >> greta: that's you spenning your dime. like i said, i am all for yuspending your dime and maybe i will get invited. >> i would love to do that. you will have a good time. >> greta: let me go to your twitter account. your tweets today. one is that admiral mcgraven had full operational control of the osama bin laden mission, barack obama gave vague directions. what are you tweeting about? >> look, when a decision is made when a group of very, very talented generals or whoever it may be says, listen, we have --
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we have osama bin laden. we have him. one of two -- one of three things is going to happen -- leave him alone, go with a missile or go in and get him. i think almost anybody would have made the decision to go in and get him or go in with a missile, both of which would have been acceptable. so that was basically an article that was written. i think a lot of credit is being given -- credit should be given to a certain extent, but anybody sitting in that office would have, i believe, made the same decision, meaning, one of those two things. >> are you saying that the president doesn't get the nod from the american people for making that decision or he's getting too much credit? or you don't like that it's being used as politics as we approach the election? >> i think anybody that was the president of the united states when they are called by the generals or whoever happened to call say we have this man, he's in this wonderful, beautiful eye wouldn't say so beautiful -- but he's sitting in pakistan, with our so-called allies where they
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are not telling us because they knew all about it and in fact, you could go and make the case, how are you president and you were paying billions and billions and billions of dollars a year to pack tan and they don't tell us about it. but regardless of that, i think anybody sitting in the white house and they're approached by the generals that we have osama bin laden, we have him, he's there. that's it. anybody would have made that decision. i mean, who would have said, let's leave him alone, i don't think too many people would have done it. >> greta: another tweet which i found intriguing is this one. i have never been a fan of john edwards, former senator john edwards, but it's time for the government to focus on more important things. are you becoming chairman of the john edwards defense committee? >> not at all. i am not a fan at all. i never liked him, never trusted him. i always thought he was a sleaze-bag, frankly. but with all that is going on in this country, this is a very, very tough trial to start off with. a lot of people are saying that
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it's not a trial that the government's going to win. but with everything going on, with the money that is being just billions and trillions of dollars being thrown out the window, i really think we had better things to do. frankly, a lot of people say and a lot of very good lawyers have told me that the government doesn't have a good case. they are spending months and years on this case. and i am, again, not a fan, don't believe him at all. but i hate to see resources wasted to this extent. his life is destroyed anyway, regardless. i hate to see this kind ever money and effort. we could put money and effort into something more productive. >> greta: i am not a fan of seashts john edwards. i am a fan of keeping the integrity of the system. i am somewhat curious since he is such an unlikeable guy, cheating on his wife who is dying of cancer and lying about a baby. i do wonder if it's humanly possible for jurors to look only at the evidence, knowing in the back of their mind that he is such a cad.
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i wonder if it's a personal opinion is so poisoned us -- away from looking coldly and dispassionately at the evidence and fairly. >> well, i think desmite what the lawyers are saying, it is not a good case from the government. he may lose because of what you just said. people are not thrilled with him. they tended to like him. i had a lot of respect for her. i met her once or twice and hithis respect for her. i thought she was very strong, very solid. you know, he was a bad guy in a lot of different ways. he could take a case that really shouldn't be one and -- won and make them win. it but with all that is happening in this world and this country, i think they have better things to do. >> greta: got any idea on the secret service? any thought? >> i think it shows great disrespect for the president. i think it's really very sad. it's hard to believe that this hasn't been going on for years and years. but it does show a great disrespect for the president of the united states.
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>> greta: donald, as you always, thank you. >> thank you very much, greta. >> greta: the obama campaign has a new weapon. and they are using it to slam governor mitt romney on national security. so what is the new weapon? or should we say -- who is it? it's president bill clinton. >> gone in and it hasn't been osama bin laden. suppose they had been captured or killed. the downside would have been horrible for him. he took the harder and the more honorable path. and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. that's what you hire a president to do. you hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it. >> how effective do you think former president bill clinton is? byron york is here. i have one thought that the mood
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music that goes with it is an interesting touch. can anyway, you -- your thoughts on president clinon? >> i think that was an exempt that he did from the 17-minute campaign documentary that the obama campaign released a while back. bill clinton is very popular with the democrats, pretty popular with independents and this is, i mean, it's become a parted san issue. but if there is any issue that people agree with on more than almost anything else, it was a good thing to kill osama bin laden. >> greta: i guess it's fair to say, had the plan gone south that president obama would have been blamed for it so he deserves, certainly deserves credit for having it go in the right direction? >> i was thinking about that, would it have been that terrible if he tried and failed to get osama bin laden? i guess if it was just a disaster or not. but i think that americans supported, clearly, they supported going after osama bin laden. but they are launching a full-court press now with this -- on this issue because,
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you know, vice-president biden said it in a speech, pretty much came out and said that mitt romney wouldn't have had the guts and they released a new web ad with romney from 2007 saying it wasn't worth moving heaven and earth to go after one guy and instead, he wanted to go after the al qaeda organization. the obama campaign is trying to capitalize on this. and the president has done an interview in the situation room which just usually isn't done. >> greta: it's sort of -- you have to be careful with this one. you know what? this is a very important event for all of us that bin laden is gone, out of it. and you know, the president certainly does deserve credit for making the right call. but if you go too far, gloateg, that's a very -- he has to walk that line. >> right. he dis. you know, the campaign -- before has been using this -- i guess i don't know, slogan, which is, barack
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obama, general motors is alive and osama bin laden is deads. re-elect me. they have been using it and they will tuse more. this is around the first anniversary of this happening am. so they are going to use it more. but you are right. they can't just put it on buttons everywhere. >> greta: g.m. is clever because governor romney was opposed to the bailout. so that's a doibl hit. >> right. they have -- they have pinned this new york times headline, let detroit go bankrupt on governor romney. that was the headline that the times put on an op-ed he wrote, suggesting a managed bankruptcy for general motors, similar to what happen in the end. >> greta: that's what nobody understands, bankruptcy is a trustee taking over and handling your business. it is not profoundly different. it isn't that much different. but politically, it's different. >> romney was saying that general motors had to get out from the crippling legacy costs that were bringing it down. that's sort what have happened
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in the end. >> greta: karl rove has a map on the web. it shows president obama winning 220-93, the tossup, 82. that looks like a grim picture for governor romney. do you -- what is your thought? we are putting it occupant map? >> there is no doubt that romney has a big challenge. if you look at the states that barack obama won and subtract those who can afford to lose this time and still be re-elected, it's a big task for romney. but it is not impossible at all. romney has to win 2 of the 3 of the big 3 swing states -- pennsylvania, ohio, florida. he has to pick up some of the other swing states -- iowa, new mexico. but, you know, it's entirely possible. it's a long time off and the race seems to be about even right now. >> greta: what matters more today? the economy with the gdp at 2.2% growth or the bin laden anniversary and the president
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bill clinton? >> oh i think by a factor of a hundred, it's the economy. there is no doubt that that's the main issue. if the election were today twould be the main issue that they make their decision on. >> greta: so why not -- why not play up that one big, even from the -- the numbers that the obama administration can hang their hat on, that are good trends? >> i mean, the killing of osama bin laden is a nice, uncomplicated good thing for the president. i got this done. suggesting that republicans wouldn't have the guts to do it could be going too far. but i mean, this is something the president can take credit for. while the issue is without a doubt the economy right now, we do know that foreign crisis have a way of taking over everything. so if something were to happen in the summertime or in the fall fisrael were to attack iran, if something big were to happen, it could change. a lot of focus of the campaignful but right now, there is no doubt, it's on the economy. >> that would be a double wham
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wean international crisis with israel and iran and you have the gas prices going up with it? >> you have to have a president seen as handling it well. it's an opportunity for the president and it's an opportunity to mess up. >> greta: byron, thank you. >> thank you, straight ahead, congressman wefts is accusing the president of leveling tax weapons of mass destruction on the taxpayers. what does he mean? congressman west is here. >> if you thought you lost your money in vegas, see where the gsa is really wasting your tax dollars. that extravaganza is about to look like chump change. who could forget this guy isn't police car performance of bohemian rhapsody, but now he has competition. it is not sean hannity. don't miss this. greetings from the windy city of chicago. people here sure are friendly
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>> greta: congressman west says that president obama is aiming tax weapons of weapons of mass destruction at americans. what does he mean by that? congressman west joins us. good evening. >> how are you, greta? >> greta: very well. tax weapons of mass destruction. what do you mean by that, sir?
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>> well, greta, i think it's self-explanatory. when you look at using it is tax code to truly destroy our economy. we have seen in the last year, one.0, 1.3 and 3%, and 2.2% gdp for scwn through march. but what you continue to hear about, we are going to allow the bush/obama tax rates to expire, which means our small business ors will see an increase in their taxes, they operate as subchapterrer "s" and llcs. we hear about the buffett rule that takes capital gains tax from 15% to 30%, but automatically, you will have a raise in the capital gains tax. ure have dividend taxes going up. you have the death tax. the exemption, the minimal exemption will drop from $5 million to $1 million and the rate gallon from 35 to 55%. we have the highest corporate
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business tax in the world. so this is what the cbo said a week ago, the fiscal year 2013, obama budget plan for 10 yearsville an adverse effect on the economy. it will be a destructive nature upon our economy. >> greta: but there is another aspect of it. look, i suspect, if i am so bold to spiel for the -- speak for the american people, they are feeling gamed by the tax code. it's incomprehensible. there are 3300 earmarks in the tax code, things that are put in the tax code because of special interest. if you look at the wealthy people in the country, what they are paying, i picked the obamas, they paid 23%. the romneys paid 15% and the bidens paid 30%. in the upper 1%. but they are paying vastly different rates because of the board game of the tax code. then you have the fact that the president has the house, the senate and the white house and there was no change -- >> and did nothing.
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did absolutely nothing. >> greta: no effort to reform t. the nation had a chance -- democrat or a republican, there was a chance there. >> you are absolutely right. that's one of the things when you look at the gop bill, we talked about reform and going away from the six tax brackets, to two, 25% and 10%. we are in the process of looking at the exemptions to simplify the tax code and go to minimal deductions and taking the compt tax rate to 25% and possibly eliminate the dividends tax to keep the capital gains tax where it is or reduce it or eliminate it completely because that's important for investment in this country. but that's not something you hear from this administration. definitely not something you hear from the senate. we are talking about how we can reform the 67,000-page tax code because you are right. when you look at the exemptions and the deductions, it is counter productive. but we don't need to talk about
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these exhorbitant tax raises, which will be the largest tax increase the american people have ever seen come january 2013. >> greta: i think the american people -- if anyone gets tom coburn's book, which comes out next week, the debt bomb, i think the american people will be disturbed. it talks about more than the tax code. but all the missed opportunities that the fact that the people are more interested in their careers here in washington than they are really in doing the right thing. and doing something about this tax code so people can begin to understand or would be a real first start. but it is so enormously compidateicated -- complicated that i imagine you are frustrated by it. >> i am very frustrated by t. today, after we finished, i gave a floor speech for 40-45 minutes about our history of taxation in america, and the fact we are heading in the wrong direction. returning the tax code is one of the important parts to restoring
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economic security here in the united states of america. but that's not something that we have a willing partner to confront in the senate side and definitely from the administration. >> greta: congressman, thank you, sir. >> always a pleasure, greta. >> greta: coming up, was the gsa's vegas convention just the tip of the iceberg isn't government spending on something else that is really costing you big time. what is it? well, congressman john mica will show you. you probably department see this one coming. a wisconsin supreme court justice accused of choking another justice, that's weird, right? it just got so much weirder. the latest chapter in the most dysfunctional state supreme court, wisconsin state supreme court, coming up. [ male announcer ] want your weeds to hit the road? hit 'em, with roundup extended control. one application kills weeds, and stops new ones for up to four months. roundup extended control.
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>> greta: it took something outrageous like clown, mind readers and a guy in a hot tub to get the fft's attention. but the gsa is wasting monosomething else. it's costing you billions, yes billions. here's griff jenkins with congressman mica. >> reporter: with nearly 900,000 properties and 3 billion square feet, many properties are under-utilized, mismanaged or sitting empty, costing the
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taxpayers billions of dollars. we are just blocks from the u.s. capitol, where this building, opened by the gsa has been sitting empty over five years. congressman john mica of the transportation and infrastructure committee wants something done about it. >> congressman, where are we? >> well, we near an empty federal building that has been vacant for five years, costing the taxpayer a lot of money. as you can see, there is nobody here. >> reporter: and in this particular building, you said, it has been empty five years, whose building is it? why is it empty? how much is it costing? >> the people's building. itit is under the control of gsa and it's costing, again, not just this building, but across the country, we are losing probably a billion dollars a year, plus in assets that are sitting idle like this property. >> reporter: and what you want done with this -- why don't they
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sell this building? >> i did a little report. and we looked at some of the wasteful spending and the title of the report is the federal government must stop sitting on its assets. we are one of the assets that we are sitting o. but if you look at this building and there are -- believe this or not -- 14,000 properties across the country that the federal government controls that are either vacant or under utilized. that's a lot of bucks. >> reporter: gsa told me they manage in the capitol area here a hundred million square feet. in fairness to them, it is difficult it's not like they can walk out front and put a for sale sign up. there is bureaucracy. >> there is politics. people -- there are people who want to keep things as they are. and some people benefit by this and that. so there is the politics of it, too. that's why we set up working with mr. denham, my chair of the
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government building subcommittee. we set up a brack-type commission, which is kind of like we have done with excess military property or, again, as we change operations with the military, doing away with some of theirs, because the military can make decisions what have to do with the property. >> reporter: you are trying to streamline the process? >> absolutely. have you to do that. so it's two-fold. there are some things we can get the bureaucrats to move. but also congress may have to act to -- to make everything move. >> reporter: now this, building, known as the cotton annex, 90,000 square feet, a block from the international mall. >> this is 90,000 square feet. but it's on one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the united states. it goes almost to the mall in the nation's capitol and it's under utilized. it's been vacant for years.
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>> reporter: why isn't it being used? >> people making decisions, sometimes congress gets in the mix. but this is repeated over and over. and it has to stop. when we have $17 trillion in deficit and we have assets that are valuable, sitting here, congress has to take steps, gsa has to take steps and the american people have to demand that these valuable assets be put to positive use and help us get rid of that debt. >> reporter: you mentioned gsa, this is a gsa building. but it is not just the gsa. >> oh, no! we have 900,000 square feet in a few blocks from here that was leased by the securities and exchange commission with no tenant. unbelievable. but this is the tip of the iceberg. we have 400,000 square foot old post office with an annex netnext to t. we dragged the bureaucrats in. it was freezing outside, 38
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degrees in. we held a hearing there that. annex building has been vacant for 15 years. i know it's unbelievable. but it's true. >> reporter: how big of a problem is this -- >> it's really big. you know, people got upset with the guy in the hot tub in -- las vegas, at that outrageous convention. but that is the tip of the iceburg. this is where the meat and potates -- potatoes, nobody in washington has a business approach. would you or any of your viewers turn their property to the federal government to manage? i don't think so. >> reporter: when we talk about the cost to the taxpayers with the buildings like this, what could actually be realistically recouped? is it hundreds of millions? >> billions. we're talking about billions. this isn't just here. you can go to miami, empty federal building. we are building a courthouse in
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los angeles for which we have another building with no tenant. we have 30,000 square feet in a renovated building in my area, down in florida that -- again is under utilized. but across the country, you have properties. we are the biggest property and landlord in the world, the federal government is and the people of america, who own that. their assets are sitting idle. >> greta: gsa for a comment. they referred us to the office of management and budget. now, omb claims they are taking steps to get vacant and underutilized properties off their books. they say in part, we have aggressively cut excess real estate costs and are on track to exceed the president's directive to save $3 billion by the end of the year. my turn -- what's taking so long? how did it get so out of control? you heard the years that this congressman's talking about. coming up, news in the bizarre
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>> greta: just when you thought you had seen it all, you will probably remember this guy, a drunk man in the back of a police car, singing the entire queen's song, bohemian rhapsody, now there is another video. a georgia man, tired of listening to kids' music, started playing bohemian rhapsody on the way to school. it looks like it caught on with the kids. [all singing together]
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foreign nationals are banned from secret service hotel rooms and limit the amount of agents can consume while off duty. two senior supervisors will supervise the trips. this comes two weeks after a prostitution scalpeddal erupted in cartagena, columbia. now back to "on the record" with greta van susteren. >> greta: a wisconsin supreme court justice accused in choking a justice. there is a big problem with several of the witnesses, whoa are also justices. we have a reporter from the wisconsin state journal here. tell me, what's the problem with this going forward, to having a full ethics hearing for justice processer, accused of putting his hands around the neck of
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another justice? >> reporter: well, the wisconsin has a state law that prohibits judges from ruling in cases in which they are witness or participant or they have a stake in the case. and in this case, six of the seven supreme court justices were actually in the room when this happened. the incident occurred between two justices, with four others watching -- nearby. and so the state law appears to be pretty clear on this, that they should recuse themselves. so that's what's happening right now, justice processer has filed a series of motions, one by one, asking each of the other justices to recuse him or herself. >> greta: as i understand it, there has been a complaint against justice processer that that has been referred to the supreme court to appoint somebody to overhear the judges, but the judges can't participate in the appointment of someone to hear this because they may be witnesses themselves or they are
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witnesses themselves. is that another way to say it? >> reporter: sort of. the last story i did talked about this being sort of an impasse because there is a dispute as to whether the supreme court can take any action at all. the next step in this case would normally be for this to go to the court of appeals. there would be three court of appeals judges toappointed to hear the evidence in the disciplinary case. and they would come back to the state supreme court with a recommendation. the problem is that justice processer's attorneys believe and he believes that the court really can't even do that, that they really shouldn't participate in any way at this moment or at all. >> greta: you know, you couldn't write this. nobody would believe this if it were a movie, besides the fact that one justice is accused of putting his hands on another justice and they are leaking emails, one calls the other one a bich. horrible things going back and forth in this court. to you about add to it i would say, one of the justice's first
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names is patience, an unusual name, based on the fact that there is a shortness of patience in the group and one justice is named crooks. if it weren't so serious, we would be all be, i don't know, it would be a movie, right? >> reporter: yeah. it is really, you know, justice bradley, the person against whom justice processer placed his hands on her neck, she really hasn't said much about the case since it came out, publicly, anyway. she has talked to the police because the police did investigate and a decision was made to issue no charges. but it's such a sad incident and she regrets that this happened. it's just so strange now. we are just at a stalemate in terms of whether the court can think about, can do anything toward disciplining or even for that matter dismissing the case against justice processer. >> greta: imagine being a wisconsin citizen with a real serious problem and you want it to be decided by the supreme
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court and you look up and you see what -- appears quite dysfunctional. anyway, if an impasse is broken, let us know, dee. thank you. we will be watching. thank you. >> reporter: all right. thanks a lot, greta. >> greta: straight ahead, put on your helmets, you won't believe what is falling from the sky in one college town. he won six championships with the chicago bulls, how can the words michael jordan and loser be in the same sentence? we'll show you. [ tires squeal, engine revs ] ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] not everything powerful has to guzzle fuel. the 2012 e-class bluetec from mercedes-benz. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services.
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>> greta: you have seen our top stories, but here's the best of the rest. you might get carded -- not for alcohol, but to get into a lady gagaconcert. she got an r-rating, and anyone under 18 was ban from the concert. she is kicking off her concert, a world tour in seoul. why did the south korean government set an age restriction? they blame her lyrics, her unusual outfits and sexualized performance. some religious groups wanted the concert canceled and protested outside the concert. take a look at this. yes, that's a piano, falling from the sky -- or at least from the roof. students at the massachusetts institute of technology dropped a piano from the roof of their dorm. the piano was sent crashing down
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onto another piano on the ground. that makes for a bigger smash. why would m.i.t. students drop the piano from the roof? it's an annual tradition, celebrating the last day students can drop classes without appearing on the college transcript. he's one of the greatest basketball players of all time. but tonight, michael jordan holds another title. it is not a good one. jordan is the owner of the worst team in nba history with a loss to the new york knicks, the charlotte bobcats clinched the dubious distinction of worst winning percentage. they ended the season with a 23-game losing streak. ironically, 23 is the number that jordan wore in better days, when he played for the chicago bulls. what does jordan have to say? he says he knew this was going to be a tough year. but he didn't expect it to be this bad. this isn't a sight you see every day. the space shuttle enterprise flying over new york city. the retired shuttle making the trip on the back of a 747 jet.
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the shuttle was being kept at the smithsonian institution in washington. but its new home will be new york's intrepid sea and air space museum, flying low over city landmarks, including the statue of liberty. it gallon to jfk airport before it goes on display at the intrepid. the shuttle was named after star trek's fictional starship enterprise, a close second was the name song bird. okay, here's a test. if you get that reference, go to gretawire, tell us. that's a joke. but song bird, you know the reference? that's a test. that's the best of the rest. coming up, a french bulldog meets his match. wait until you see who else is in the car with this guy. stay tuned. i'm really going to miss you.
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putting on makeup, something else is giving new meaning to distracted driving. here is jay leno. >> have you seen that video of the dog freaking out over the windshield wiper? i love that. here, take a look. look at that dog. how distracting is that for a driver? show the driver. can we show the driver? >> greta: that is your last call. lights are blinking and we're closing down shop. we'll see you again monday night. make sure you go to greta wire.com. there is an open thread up. keep it here on fox news channel, the most powerful name in news, we'll see you on greta wire.com all weekend. go there. prime time on fnc. >> bill: the o'reilly factor is on. tonight. >> illegal -- racial episode. a way of legitimizing violence against a particular group of people because of what they're.