wait until you hear what she has to say. big developments in the international crisis sparked by a blind chinese dissident. but right now, our government is way, way, way out of control. the countless disregard of taxpayer money is staggering. the gsa hiring clowns and noaa tried to hire a magician before they got caught. and the sec lawyers downloaded porn on your time and your dime. yes, you're all paying for it, you are paying for it, billions of taxpayer dollars every day in the city. the country faces a huge debt, growing wildly every second of every hour. what is wrong with our government isn't person who knows, how thor of the new book, no, they can't. dressed up just for the "on the record" viewers. we are all so flattered -- that you got dressed up for us. >> i thought it was a requirement for "on the record."

>> greta: it is. i told the viewers, you are going to tell us, what's wrong? >> they take our money and our freedom. and they're power mad. we need limited government. look at there -- this is the declaration of independence and the constitution. together -- >> greta: i thought it was your passport. >> it looks like a passport. for 150 years, we grew the fastest wlrks lifespans increased. this is the basic part. but now they add a new thousand pages of rules every -- every week. and frankly, if they're in the hottub, listening to magicians, i am happy because they wake up, they waste our money, but they are doing less damage when they are goofing off than when they were regulated. >> greta: the bathtub, which my executive producer loves that and they have matching wine glasses. >> well, good. >> greta: anyway -- on a serious

note, you know, i used to think it was leadership. then i thought it was congress because they lacked oversight. they are supposed to be responsible for being the stewards of our economy and running these -- doing oversight for these administrations. then we find out that they are doing insider trading and they have to pass a law to tell them they are not supposed to do it. while the rest of us know it. now we find that the civil servants that the people who work just have no sense of decency and they spend our money wildly on magicians, porn, wine -- parties. >> some have a sense of decency. many don't. >> greta: that's right. some do. >> but they are no different from anybody else. the problem with government and thomas jefferson understood this, it's the natural progress of things for government to grow and liberty to yield. when they founded the country, they understood the problem. it will always grow bigger and acquire more power for themselves. the alternative, the free market, impersonal market

forces, the invisible hand, people don't get. it's the invisible hand is invisible. >> greta: what -- are we going to fix this. >> sean: i mean, do you see anything in the future, whether you are a republican, democrat, libertarian, anyone -- it almost seems hopeless. it almost seems like a game? >> well, we libertarians will fix it, if we had a chance and we could really do t. but do you wonder why did japan and germany do so well after world war ii? their economies boomed in the 50s and 60s. sadly, i think it's because we bombed them to smithereens and they had to start over and you can get rid of the government sclerosis -- >> greta: i don't recommend that. >> maybe we will learn from greece or when spain blows up or japan or california, or illinois. but we are not taking the steps now -- >> greta: do you like ron paul? >> i do. >> greta: he's the man you

support for president. >> gary johnson, ron paul, absolutely. >> greta: he's never going to win, you agree? >> next week, he's going to catch on. i think the ideas of limited government make sense that hadt has to catch on sometime. today's friday, so i have to pick next week. >> greta: do you think the republicans are telling the truth when they say they are for limited government? >> i really want to believe it. but i get frustrated with mitt romney. he says, i'm going to cut the workforce by 10% -- by atrittion. >> greta: you government? >> he said that. great burks why does he add by atrittion? jack welch, when he ran g.e. as a big growth company, rather than now they feed off the government, he says, it's the job of a leader to identify the bottom 10%, give them a chance to improve, get rid of them if they don't and bring in new blood. if you get rid of people by atrittion, the bad people stay and the good ones leave.

that's not management. this is the so-called hard-core businessman, romney? >> greta: i am so disappointed in these agencies, like they have training sessions to teach people how it talk to others. i think to myself, really? you know, we are paying for that? i mean, the stuff that we pay for -- >> that's government. >> greta: the magicians and the porn and the -- the tub and all of that stuff. what is -- it's even more disturbing is that we are paying for conferences where people are learning how it talk to each other and learn to do their job. why don't we hire them after they know how to do their job? >> that would be good. but look, we are fighting what you are imprinted to believe. i break it down into what intuition led me to believe. here's what reality has taught me. intuition says we need central planning. i can't get my brain on how to design a sewage treatment plant myself, so obama, he went to harvard, he will apoint the

right people and top-down, they can plan life. but economists tell you, frederick heist says it's the job of economics to explain how little we know about what we imagine we can design. that doesn't work. the free market works. it is not intutive. >> greta: i can tell the viewers the rotten thing you did to me. you said you were at a dinner, someone was there who went to high school with me and i said, who was it? you couldn't remember. i mean, really? you have no idea who it was? >> no idea. >> greta: is that rotten? why do you tell me that? >> i will find out later. we won't do it on the air. >> greta: now i wonder. anyway, you look very handsome in your tuxedo. thanks for joining us. hope you come back. >> thanks. >> greta: tonight, news in the secret service scandal. we are hearing directly from the woman who said she was the prostitute at the center of it all. homeland security chair, one secret service agent has failed

a polygraph test. jonathan strong is here. glad to have out story tonight. so what is it that this woman who claims to be at the center of it, what does she say happened? >> she offered the most detailed account yet of this incident. we learned a number of things. but i think that most interesting thing in terms of the issue, she bragged that she would have been able to look at privileged documents or details that were in the room because the agent was fast asleep for five hours. she got up and talked on this radio interview about what an idiot this agent was and laughed about, kind of how sloppy he was with the security details that he had in his possession. >> greta: i thought when i heard the first story, the secret service agent saying they had fallen asleep and nothing happened, i assumed that was just cover for a wife. i mean, so at least, it is now corroborated that this secret service agent did fall asleep -- and leave the security stuff about the president in the room. >> another interesting thing

that we learned is that one of the other women who was part of this group, according to this woman, the prostitute at the center of it, went willingly with another agent, in other words one woman who was with this group was not engagedin prostitution, she was apparently just spending the night on her own time. >> greta: all right. well, her parents must be watching or something, for that one. i don't know. maybe shew was. has the secret service spoken to all of these women? >> no. peter king has expressed his alarm today that the media seems to be able to find these women, but the investigators who are looking into this for the u.s. government haven't been able to locate them, seemingly because they haven't interviewed either of the women -- either of the two women at the center of this. >> greta: we have heard of alleged incidents with secret service agents on a trip with former president clinton to argentina. i am curious, has there been any more information to suggest that

this is an epidemic? >> well, there is a number of alarming things that have come out in the wake of this scandal. one of the interesting things that i saw was a report that the secret service agents are closing ranks, that they have been slamming doors on reporters who try to interview them and happening up. it seems as though the cult culturure at the secret service is banding together and they are trying to ward off that drip, drip, drip of this scandal -- >> greta: which make its worse. if the whole point is honor and protecting the first family in this particular job fthey are now so busy trying to cover for each other and look the other way, that's the whole problem. no one steps up to the lait and says, this is going on and this should be the happen. >> right. i will say at the same time, that all of the lawmakers who are involved in investigating this continue to express confidence in the director of the secret service. >> greta: he's not -- he wasn't there, either. that's an important paint to

make. >> he wasn't. but they seem to, from their experience, interacting with the investigation, they are saying he's being responsive. >> greta: being responsible to the incident. was he responsible in that he was unaware of the culture that some think exist in the secret service. >> that's the question that you -- i mean, that's the question that everyone has. but so far, all of the officials, you know, all the lawmakers have said that they don't blame mark sullivan. >> greta: thank you. >> thank you. >> greta: you have heard the jobs numbers. but now here's what have you not heard. the shrinking job market means trouble for social security and medicare -- big trouble. the noon hour of markets now on fox news network, a brand-new show. nice to see you, dennis. >> good to see you, greta. >> greta: all right. so while some people are all celebrating the 8.1%, a lot of people are saying -- put the brakes on why? >> unemployment is down from 9.1

to 8.1? but 80% of that decline is not because more jobs are created. it's because more people are dropping out of looking, giving up and going home and stopping. we are at a 30-year low in the percentage of adult americans ages 16 to 65 who are willing to work or are working. it is down to 63.6% and that's the low nest 30 years. what is happening? where are the people going? that's the big mystery. >> greta: the other sort of -- there are two problems. one is that they are going to be on unemployment, some of them who are eligible. but the other problem is that when we have a lower workforce, it means less people are paying into social security and hed -- medicare to offset future expenses. i read senator tom coburn's book, there are 15 people working for every recipient in 1950 and now we are down to about 3. >> yeah,. >> greta: so if the workforce

shrinks, we are in deep trouble. >> that's a big problem because the fact is we are down to 3 or less workers now. if you think that you pay in $3- or $4,00 a year to social security and we have close to 14 million unemployed and another 10 or 11 million underemployed, you get a financial crisis there. and in terms what have to do about it, congress figures, you have to raise tax rates to bring in more revenue. we have collected over decades, 18% gdp is tax revenue. in the last couple of years, 14%. what can you do to get the tax revenue for the social security and the general fund? some people say have you to cut tax rates. which way do you go? do you really think, gret apeople who are depressed, looking for aion, well, i am going to starve and not eat? i find that hard to believe. something else is going on here. >> greta: well, if we are -- also, if people are dropping out of the workforce or don't have

jobs, they raise the taxes all they want, they won't raise it on those people. so the people who are working have a big are problem. why is the economy so sluggish? is it a wait-and-see atitute, to see what happens come november? what's the drag on the program? >> you know, i am sure that the outlook and the confidence is low and the policy problems. i think our government, especially the obama white house has a lot of very anti-business policies. no sooner do we vey boom going on that they want to look at what is wloos wrong, gas at a wonderful boom, let's regulate it. hollywood's doing big deals with china on filmmaking. let's investigate. they are constantly knocking on your door to find out what you are doing wrong. and there is more economic things. it's a digital economy from a manufacturing economy. we have been making that transition for 20 or 30 years and it's coming home to roost.

more early retirements, people in their 50s and early 60s who take the money and run and they stop paying social security taxes. overall, those are one thing. congress used to prove that social security tax cut and payroll tax cut comes to billions a year. that has hurt the social security fund, they are cutting the taxes of the people who are paying into the fund. >> greta: dennis, thank you. reminder that brand-new show dennis has on the fox news business network. nice to see you. >> thanks a lot. >> greta: okay. straight ahead, the keystone pipeline. it is hot, again, it's very hot. what just happened to relight the fuse of this one? senator barrasso goes "on the record." and ambassor john bolton is calling the blind dissident in china amateur hour. why's that? and spirit airlines refusal to give a dying veteran a refund.

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>> greta: an election-year controversy reignited and it

could mean an inferno. why is the war on the keystone pipeline project starting all over again? >> thanks for having me, greta. >> greta: so it looks like this has started. a new application by transcanada to build this pipeline. tell me where we stand on this? >> well, american people want to get back to work. and american people are concerned about the high cost of gasoline. what i am trying to do is get people back to work and find a secure source of energy for america. the keystone pipeline delivers both of those things. it's many thousands of jobs for hards-working american who is want to get back to work. these are good-paying jobs. it would give us more energy security with our closest neighbor, canada, instead of doing what the president wants to do is go hat in hand to saudi arabia. so the buck is supposed to stop with the president and the president ought to say yes and approve the keystone pipeline. >> greta: what i find particularly disturbing about this whole project is this. under the law -- correct me if i

am wrong -- with the proposal, because it's across interstate lines, from canada to the united states, this must get permission from the president of the united states and there has to be an environmental impact statement to make sure it wouldn't have an adverse impact on the environment. everybody's in favor of that. republicans, democrats. no one want wants to hurt the environment. so in the great wisdom, i say very sarcastically of our government, the state department has sent it to transcanada, the environmental impact statement. they hire a company that they routinely do business that has every reason to curry favor and be light on the environmental impact statement so the proposal goes forward. it's sending the fox to guard the chicken coop. none of that was revealed second quarter when it came back, plane people were suspicious of it. to me, it's like, who is the -- who is the fool who thought that was a good idea to get an environmental impact statement from a company with a business

relationship with the one who is want to build it? >> well, greta, you know, everyone wants energy to be as clean as it can be made, as fast as it can be made in ways that don't raise costs for american families. american families, their quality of life is being -- a major impact, based on the high cost of gasoline and our northern neighbors say we have this incredible supply. we want to sell it to the united states and the president continues, actively to block this to the point wherey he is lobbying the senate to vote against it -- >> greta: but he -- >> over three years. >> greta: but if hee we had a decent environmental impact statement that wasn't challenged because people are wondering whether the fix is in, for a lack of a better way to describe it -- the president would have had no option because it would have had great authority, whether it was good for the environment or not. but the environmentam impact statement is what started this problem. so now we have a war between the

parties. the project is delayed two or three years, all of these jobs, if it's a good project is put off. is it because someone didn't get a good environmental impact statement from a group who didn't have a financial interest in the outcome. >> it appears to me that the exriermental -- environmental extremists will always find an excuse, an argument, a way to slow down or delay the use of fossil fuels. that's what they are doing in this case as well. this has been studied many years. it's felt to be safe. any of the concerns about conflict of interest have been resolved. we need to go ahead and approve this. the president to me, has run out of excuses. it is time for the president to say, yes, i want to put people back to work, instead of just paying too much attention and being held hostage by the environmental extremists who continue to be the people who he needs for his re-election efforts. >> greta: now that they have rerouted it, so it's a whole

other consideration. i am hung up on the environmental impact statement done by a particular organization because now, the president can now drag his feet and this is going to happen after the election. so this is like this whole -- any real good solid decision will be made after the election, so the american people who don't have any sort of chance to vote on whether or not they agree with the president or not. so it's always sort of the playing politics that hurts the american people. because this should have been decided by now. >> absolutely. the president -- it's all politics for the president on just about everything that you see happening between now and six months from now on election day. it's all politics and the president is putting politics ahead of the economy and the american people. he ought to be focused on jobs and the cost of gasoline at the pump and the way he can deal with both of those is that the president ought to approve the keystone excel pipeline. the prime minister of canada

says we are going to use this energy one way or another, and he went to china to talk about selling the energy from can do dato china because president obama has said no. he will delay and do everything he canp to push the decision after the election so he doesn't alienate the environmental base. and at the same time, he is doing significant damage to the economy. we are 39 months in a row with the unemployment rate over 8% and the only reason that it's dropped a little bit today is not because there are new jobs, it's because people have stopped looking for work. they have given up under the obama economy. >> greta: that's indeed, you know, it's really tragic, how this hurts the american people because, you know, if this were done right to the begin with, right decisions would be made. and we wouldn't have another sort of round of delays and fights and everything else. but it was -- it was slop freinception. but anyway, senator, i am taking the last word on that. enjoy austin, texas.

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>> caller: former u.n. ambassador john bolton is calling it amateur hour, sparking an ongoing diplomatic crisis between the united states and china. today, news that the blind act dissident may be closer to moving to america. but he has been called a tool of u.s. leaders. ambassador bolt oneon is here. let's start with amateur hour. that is your quote, right? >> right, what do you mean? >> after three days of bungling this and i really think, causing considerable damage to the dissident who is remain inside china, today were greeted with the happy news that there is a deal to bring chen out of china to the united states. now, i don't know anybody has any more faith in this deal than the first deal that lasted less than 24 hours because the terms under which the chinese have agreed to it are very loose, to say the least. they have not agreed that chen

can leave the country. they have agreed he can apply to leave the country, like all other chinese citizens, 1.2 billion. >> greta: i was distress is ited by the u.s. state department, with the government indicating they will accept mr. chen's applications for appropriate travel, accept their application -- that in no way means they are going to let him go. no way at all. >> we have known through 7,000 years of recorded chinese left that the bureaucracy is lightning fast. but there is more to tas well. remember when chen was originally released from the embassy, the official chinese news agency quoting the foreign ministry, demanded an apology of the united states and demanded that the united states not take the steps that they obviously took to get chen into the embassy. we don't know whether the u.s. has apologized yet. it does appear to have come close, through earlier public statements to committing not to bring other dissidents in. we don't know the full cost of

the deal. >> greta: why does china want him at this point? i mean, isn't it just vindictive, why not get rid of him? he has been sitting there, causing trouble. i think, let him go. >> i think it is not clear at this point whether they want cokeep him and intimidate him or let him go. i think this campaign that we have seen in the chinese press to demonize him and call him a tool of the united states is consistent with either hopoth sis. but here's an penitentiary point. if he's allowed to leave, he won't be allowed to leave under terms where he will ever get back into china. he has been criticized for treason. if he gets to go to nyu law school, he better hope he can pass the bar because he's want going back to china. >> greta: is he the accidental dissident in the sense there are so many dissidents, why this one, not another one? there are so many. was it timing? why him? >> i don't think it's entirely accidental since he escaped 20

months of house arrest -- climbed a wall -- got 400 miles to beijing. >> greta: if someone assisted him, why this guy? >> it is not clear that we assisted him before he got to beijing. was he motivated by secretary clinton's trip to beijing? we don't know. there are a lot of questions that are unanswered and make it very hard to elf the second deal or understand the real implications for u.s./chinese relations irk this is probably a horrible question to ask, but who won? >> i don't think we know at this point. i valid to say that on points, china is ahead. i think its repressive system has worked. i think they have isolated the virus that chen represents. they have taken a terrible pounding in international media because of the one child per family policy, but i don't think that's going to slow the policy down. >> greta: i don't mean to demean it, it shouldn't be a game of winners and losers, but i am thinking, this has been such a debacle. i mean -- so much attention that

i can't figure out -- >> i think it's been so badly handled by the state department that it will bring encouragement to other who is think they can push us around. i think that's bad news for our dealings with china. i think it's bad news for other dissidents inside chine aircrafts you think the chinese are bitter? or will they get over it fast? >> i think there is bitterness here because they have been humiliated internationally because of the subject of forced sterilization and forced abortion, the one child per family policy and the fact that one of their citizens sought refuge in the american embassy. it doesn't matter how it comes out. they have to explain to their citizens and to the world why anybody would flee into that embassy. >> greta: you think he will be released? >> betting at this point, i am not sure that even if he does get out that he will get his wife and two children with him. they could make the conditions of his release to the united states so oenerrous that he rejects them the ball is in

china's court. secretary hillary is wheels up, back to washington. >> greta: thank you. >> thank you. >> greta: kir stin powers tracking the dealings between the united states and china. your thoughts on this continuing tension and dispute? >> well i think so much depends on what happens next. do we see china renege on the deal as they did on the previous deal, assuming what we were told about that deal was even true? or do they -- did they actually allow him to apply for asylum and is it processed and he is able to leave? but it is not just him, as you were discussing, it's his family and other people who aided his escape who were put under house arrest afterwards, one has been released. but who are going to remain in danger. >> greta: if -- i mean, if the united states leaves -- i think it's symbolic that the secretary of treasureet and secretary of state was there, those are big things. if they are wheels up and they have left him behind under the

idea that this is some sorts of deal that he can apply to leave and they don't let him leave, have we hung him out to die a bit? >> yes. i think it's tential. what should have been negotiated is that he has a family and the people who assisted him. it was a few people who, were able to leave if they wanted to leave. the question is, of course, he does want to be able to go back to china. as you were saying, why do they want him? i feel the same way. he's very effective. he has given them a very hard time. he's a self-taught lawyer and has use aid law degree to challenge the government on things. they are probably happy to get rid of him. i think he wants to go back to continue to challenge the chinese government. >> greta: and if his family gets out, friend, relatives. >> exactly. >> greta: why this man? as i look around the world, we were quite proactive in this? we got him in the car. he didn't show up at the gate. that's a big difference to me. there are other places where we don't interfere. my cause these days is sudan and

the horrible genocide there. we don't go there because we don't go into other people's countries. why this man and not others? >> china is different because we do have this stronger relationship with them. you have the subject secretary meeting with them. 3 we do have more leverage there and more relationship. but why him? he -- i understand, he's not a christian. he is connected to christian groups, specifically in the united states, who are very connected to the underground churches in china. they have a real network set up. and through that, that's how he got connected. those were the people who really helped him. he has a lot of connections in the united states, through those connections. and it's a very, very strong relationship, the christian community in the united states and the underground christian community and china. >> greta: was this -- is this a stink bomb, almost the negotiations that were supposed to go on between the secretary of treasureet and secretary of state and the chinese? this was not the agenda?

>> this is not the agenda. which i think people feel that he was pressured by the embassy to leave and the reason people think he was pressured, they were hoping that the problem would go away and not interfere with the meetings -- >> greta: but once he's in the u.s. embassy, you have laid down your cards. >> right, exactly. i mean, look -- what is so problematic about this is that at this time united states has to stand for freedom and has to stand for human rights. if somebody goes to the type of escape this man, this blind man goes through, this miraculous escape and gets to the u.s. embassy, that has to be a safe place. >> greta: who in his right mind would have allowed that without getting his wife and children? i mean, this is what i don't understand. i think -- everyone think it's executed so well because he got out because he's baseline. but who in the world didn't think this true -- through and thought what about his mother, wife and children? >> the wife and children are under house arrest also. there is no way to get them all

out. the hope is that he would get there and they would negotiate them being reunited because that happened under the first george bush with the tienanmen square leader which they new yorked with henry kissinger, negotiated to get the family together and out. >> greta: thank you. >> thank you. >> greta: coming up, first a reporter found beaten and strangled in her own bathroom. now two photojournalists found dismembered and murdered and another one found murdered with his girlfriend. the grotesque and vicious murders of journalist, up next. and remembering a music star, the career and music of a beastie boy, coming up in 2 minutes. is the pain reliever orthopedic doctors recommend most for arthritis pain, think again. and take aleve. it's the one doctors recommend most for arthritis pain. two pills can last all day. ♪

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>> greta: the latest in 60 seconds, but let's go to the newsroom, where we have the headlines. >> hello, greta. a sad story to tell you. a u.s. army nurse stationed in afghanistan died videochatting with his wife.

a statement from the family says 43-year-old captain bruce kevin clark died on monday. his wife witnessed the incident on skype. she had hoped for a rescue but learned that her husband had passed away. the u.s. military is looking into the cause of death. he was a new york resident and father of two. the first commercial cargo run into the international sfaition space station is scheduled to lift off in two weeks. space exploration technology corporation says it's aiming for a may 19 launch of the falcon 9 rocket. nasa has given it a thumbs up. since it was retired last summer. nasa has been paying russia to ferry astronauts to the space station. >> dismembered brdz and plastic bags in a canal isn't victims were journalists, it's all happening right next door to us

in mexico and it's almost nonstop. three photojournalists murdered less than a week after a reporter was murdered in her own home. we go to mexico city. james, tell me about the four people who have been found murdered, the journalists? >> reporter: three of them were photojournalists, greta. what had happened was, two of them were still working. one had tried to give up and had become a welder. they had fled the state to vera cruz and had come back. the other victim was the girlfriend of one of them, they just disappeared and were found, sadly and paradoxically on world press freedom day. they were found and the police who dragged the bags out of the canal said they had been tortured, murdered and dismembered. it's a message from the drug cartel, that the drug cartels are telling the press in this area, we don't want you reporting on us, and if you do,

this is what's going to happen to you. >> greta: aren't you and other journalists, terrified? you know, we read this night after night. this is a woman who was strangled and beaten in her own bathroom a week ago. you know, i mean, are you not getting the main from the cartel? i mean, what makes you keep doing this? >> reporter: well, so far -- and i stress so far, the cartels have targeted mexican, or so to speak, home-grown journalists. but it could happen to any person, any journalist. so people have to be aware of this. the people at most risk are in places like vera cruz. last september, 35 bodies were found on the street near vera cruz and obviously, things were going badly wrong with the police n. december, 800 -- 800 police officers in vera cruz were fired. 300 administrative personnel were also fired and replaced by

marines. obviously, that strategy's not working. >> greta: i have been very critical of president calderone and president obama because they rebuked secretary of state hillary clinton with said that mexico is like columbia of 20 years ago. do you see any improvement in mexico, in terms of decline of violence, any decline of influence by the cartel? >> reporter: no, it's getting even worse. we have gotten news, also of 9 bodies hung off a bridge, which was in sight of laredo and texas and several hours later, 14 decapitated bodies in a vehicle and the heads in ice chests by the mayor's office. i mean, this is -- this is -- you know madness in the drug war. most of the people involved in this are one drug cartel. and it has spread from north into the southern borders of mexico. the drug war, in answer to your

question, is getting worse and worse all the time. as far as that, the government, the attorney general's office, has not supplied us any figures about how many people have been killed. in january, they said 47,515 people had been killed. that's in 6 years in december 2006 until september 2011. no figures have been supplied. now it's anybody's guess, is if 50,000, 60-? 70? >> greta: thank you. we told you about spirit airlines' treatment of a dying veteran. you said that you were outraged. now they have done something, did they make it better or worse? [ man ] hmm. a lot can happen in two hundred thousand miles...

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>> greta: you have seen our top stories, but now here's's the best of the rest. spiritile airs refused to give a dying veteran a refund for a $197. his doctor told him because he is dying, he could no longer fly. he asked spirit airlines for a refund. and they said, too bad, no refund. that's our policy. that went over like a lead balloon with and you others. but the ceo is offering to personally refund the dying veteran the $197.

now, to push back from some really lousy p.r., the spirit airline is saying it will make a $5,000 to the wounded warrior project. the spirit boss called him personally and admitted he made a mistake. but the veteran says he feels that the ceo is feeling pressure from the company. we think it's your outrage that did it. professional hockey players day goes to the dogs -- literally. the washington capitals defenseman, carl elsner was having a tough time after a 2-1, triple overtime loss to the rangers. a heartbreaker. but it got worse for the caps player, when he got home, he opened his door to a mess, courtesy of two dogs who had ripped apart his house. but the hockey player took it all in stride and tweeted the picture with the capt. caption, dogs not happy about the loss either. and man's best friend, the labrador winning the mostitallented pet contest.

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>> greta: 11:00 is almost here, flash studio lights it's time for last call. here is jimmy fal on. >> president obama hosted an early cinco de mayo party at the white house sh he thought it was weird when he made all of the guests climb over the fence to get in. weird thing. what a way to kick off a party. >> greta: make sure go to greta wire.com. i have all of your pets you've tweeted to me. we'll see you again monday night. gretawire.com. we'll see you there. >> laura: the o'reilly factor is on. tonight. >> you got to protect your neighborhood. they shouldn't have been out here is my whole standpoint. >> two reporters assaulted by a mob of african american m