everyone. today is monday, may 7th. it's brian's birthday! he's 29 again. i'm gretchen carlson. a secret u.s. program revealed this morning we've been setting afghan detainees free in exchange for a promise of peace? what? is this a promise we can trust? we report, you decide. >> and the proud mastermind of the september 11th attacks making a complete joke of our justice system while the victims' families are forced to watch. and the defense wants all women in court to dress like her! >> hey, france gives socialism a big thumbs up. and kicks its current president out of office. what does that mean for us in the united states? president obama already extending the new guy an invite to the big house, the white house. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> we worship you!

>> yes, indeed. >> i have yet to see that movie, by the way. >> happy birthday, brian kilmeade and my friend todd who celebrates today. >> and maureen in make-up. >> by the way, i have one question for you guys -- what is black and white and lies all the time? >> what? >> a panda on weight watchers. >> oh, yeah! >> i just thought of this joke and i just wanted to share. >> yeah, i think the third time is the charm. >> on "saturday night live." yeah, we've made it. >> we opened up the show on "saturday night live." >> it's so weird. we leave on friday morning, next thing you know we see our couch on tv on another show. >> actually i like their couch better. let's be honest. >> i'll tell you, it's weird. i'm in a restaurant and my wife is looking over my shoulder and starts saying, she goes uh-oh. >> you were out that late? >> i'm allowed to on weekends. >> it's his birthday weekend. >> i guess that's where you get fat, the guy that plays you. by monday, you slim down.

>> i'm glad that you pick that out. there's a weight difference between the guy trying to be john candy. >> we can poke fun at the characters they're playing. i called snl. everybody wanted to see eli manning. who is the guy from snl that we call that we had on the show? >> daryl hammond. he says to me if you call, they'll give you tickets. will there be tickets? no, there's no tickets. i said next season if you write, you can get tickets. fine, we open up the show and we still can't get tickets as parodies. >> you should go on a -- >> that's a problem when the person they're making fun of is in the audience. >> that's why. >> i don't know. >> will the real brian kilmeade please stand up and then they would notice the differences which are stark. >> if you can join me, until we can see their show, they're not allowed to our show. >> just like that. >> that sounds like -- >> ok, let's go to the stories making headlines today besides that one and we begin with the fox news alert. while you were sleeping, al-qaida released a new video showing american hostage warren

weinstein. in the video, he pleads with president obama to accept the demands. if you accept the demands, i live. if you don't accept the demands, i die. he works for a firm advising pakistani businesses and government departments. an autopsy expected today on the man found murdered at churchill downs. officials saying the 48-year-old worked for a horse trainer. and appears to have been involved in some kind of a fight. his body was discovered a few hours after the derby in a barn near the one housing the winner, i'll have another. investigators do not believe his death is connected to the race at all. the presumptive republican nominee mitt romney heading to the key swing state of ohio today. he's expected to meet with voters and talk about his plans to create jobs. it will mark romney's third trip to ohio in three weeks. recent polls show him in a statistical tie with president obama in that very important state. the actor known best for his role as goober pyle on the andy

griffith show has passed away. george lindsay said to have died yesterday in nashville, tennessee after a brief illness. he spent almost 30 years appearing on tv classics like "gunsmoke". andy griffith releasing the statement saying the two had remained extremely close through the years. he was 83 years old. those are the headlines today. >> 4 minutes after the top of the hour. the antics of the so-called mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and his cohorts continue to insult americans with their delay tactics. kelly wright live in washington with more. because this is just the beginning, kelly. >> you're right. one family member actually called it -- said they were having jihad in the courtroom. speak of khali shaikh mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 terror plot and our other guantanamo bay detainees. they're facing 2,976 counts of murder and terrorism in the 2001

attack that sent hijacked jetliners into the world trade center and the pentagon. the charges carry the death penalty and the behavior of the defendants outraged relatives of 9/11 victims who watched the proceedings on closed circuit tv from military installations around the united states. the arraignment hearing should have taken just a couple of hours. instead, it lasted for 13 hours. the defendants appeared to make a concerted effort to disrupt or stall the proceedings. at times, they knelt in prayer, ignored the judge and refused to listen to arabic translations over their headsets and they took meal breaks. pentagon defense counsel created a stir over decision to wear traditional muslim garb in the courtroom. she defended her decision telling the court it's the appropriate clothing for the proceedings. meantime, a noted defense attorney said a tentative trial date has been set for may 2013.

>> actually, i suppose we could say it went smoother than some people had anticipated. we got through the whole arraignment process and everybody has counsel now and things are set to progress. >> chief prosecutor army brigadier general mark martin says it's going to take time before the case actually goes to trial. he has hundreds of motions to prepare. martin's added everyone is frustrated by this delay. he noted the civilian trial of the convicted september 11th co-conspirator zacarias moussaoui took four years and he pleaded guilty in 2006 before being sentenced to life in prison. >> he pleaded guilty and took four years and these guys won't say anything and the antics they're doing in the courtroom are outrageous. >> important thing about that is that trial were stopped after ksm had admitted everything because president obama did not want to have these trials at gitmo and he wanted to shut down gitmo so now we're fast forwarding to this point in time

and it appears that the defense's tactics have completely changed. this thing will go on for years, folks. for years. >> for a decade probably. it would have been great if the prosecution would have stood up and said, where were we? you took complete credit for it. we're talking about a defense lawyer by the name of cheryl broman, a washington, d.c. based attorney and as it turns out, she showed up in garb that we weren't expecting. >> she was in a full burka, a full black robe and covering her face as well. do we have the sketch that shows what she looked like? obviously, we don't have video from inside the courtroom. i saw a sketch earlier. we don't have it. you can depict what she would look like. she said that -- there it is. can you imagine? she actually said that the other attorneys present on the prosecution decide who happened

to be female should adhere to the dress that she decided to do in honor of her clients' religion. what do you think about that? do you think in this trial where all the americans died in 9/11 that the other lawyers prosecuting those 9/11 terrorists should dress in the religious garb to honor the defendants? >> i actually think it's worse than that. they want everyone in the courtroom to dress in the full muslim regala. i think it's a good idea. makes perfect sense. fantastic. here's the genius right now. >> never seen me dress like this. it's out of respect for his cultural and religious beliefs and i dress like that in court because that is what is required of me. >> it's not required of her. >> i don't understand that. it's not required of her to suddenly become a muslim just because the guy that she's defending is a muslim.

i mean, come on. if in our country people started dressing like the people they were defending, it would be a circus act. exactly what this is turning into. >> you know what her client also did, made a paper airplane and made believe he was throwing it at the families of the victims. we'll be talking to the family members of the victims that lost their lives that day, many are in the courtroom and some are watching on satellite feeds. it's all available. i think it's a really good thing that they're doing. >> let's talk now a little bit about the ongoing violence in afghanistan. and as it turns out, this is a secret program we're about to tell you about that nobody had really known about where certain portions of afghanistan are in such dire straits, where it's so unsafe. apparently, what they'll do is the nato people will go in and they'll go, ok, listen, taliban or other terrorists out there. we need your help. we will release some of the people we are holding, some surgeons at the parwan detention

center, the only prison run by the united states in afghanistan. we will use those people as bargaining chips where we'll give them back to you provided they promise they're going to get out of the terror business, if you simply will keep the area safe. and apparently, they're doing it. >> you're forgetting, steve, they have to promise to not do anything violent against us. so as long as these -- and by the way, these are the worst of the worst. terrorists in afghanistan. you can't bring them back to gitmo. what's worse with them staying in afghanistan and turning them over to the afghan government? letting them go. >> there's two interesting points. how many people go back to actually doing the business of terror? take a look at this. the recidivism rate is 29.9% which is approximately 1 out of 4 ex-detainees go back to terror once they've been released. that stat isn't so hot. the biggest thing is this does

not require congressional approval so if you were going to do this out of gitmo and release somebody, it's my understanding that you would to have congressional approval in order to do that. when you're doing this out in these other countries, then you don't need to have congressional approval and i guess that's why it was secret. whether or not it's working is going object a different thing. you have people on both sides of the fence are saying they have a problem with the taliban getting more power right now and maybe this isn't such a hot idea. >> meanwhile, you can scratch another name off the list of bad guys. we had been looking for him ins of since -- >> remember back in 2004 and brian, we were on this program doing the show when we learned that guy right there who is one of the guys behind the cole had escaped from prison. you got to be kidding me. they had this gigantic jailbreak-in and he was one of them. >> they tunnelled out. >> he was taken out. he was droned in yemen. he's gone. >> missile killed him.

it's amazing that we have the technology to blow them up in the rubble of that no man's region, that region where it's ungoverned but you wonder if it was possible to capture him what we can learn. we just don't capture any of these guys. it's great to know that he's dead. >> i saw something in one of the papers this morning, of the c.i.a. drone hits in 2011, they did 75 hits with drones and killed 655 people. 126 civilians may have been involved but the rest of them for the most part they think are bad guys, according to an outfit in the united kingdom. >> coming up on "fox & friends", france kicking out their cutback president and giving socialism now a shot. so what does this mean for the united states? stuart varney says a lot. he's here next to explain. >> and they already got more than $20 billion from you, the american taxpayer! >> so? >> why is freddie mac making another big demand for cash? i'm really going to miss you.

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>> all right. a fox business update right now. upheaval in france and upheaval in greece as voters reject the austerity measures and the people who pushed for them now out. >> it looks like france president nicolas sarkozy voted out of office in favor of a socialist who wants to raise taxes on social classes and the rich. what does it mean for the united states economy? stuart varney is here to explain. >> it's not good news. they are saying no more of these cuts, please. no more of this austerity. the greeks say we're finished with this bailout. we can't handle this bailout and the french, as you just pointed out, they want to tax the rich. they think that they can grow by

more government spending even though they've got no money. even though they have to borrow a ton more money, they think that borrow it and spend it that the government will get them out of trouble. it's exactly the same in america. that's what we think here. >> the mentality of the voter that they just don't -- they vaebt haven't had to put up with these kinds of cuts or austerities as you call it. they don't want to too it. they think somebody else will pay for it. >> they think the rich will pay or just print money. have the european central bank pay money. pay for it when somebody else can pay. same thing in america. >> this is what's unbelievable. this man ran on putting the retirement age back to 60. they clearly don't understand the money is running out. sarkozy raised it to 62 that crazy man. they want to tax 70% of their income. in france, you can do that and you can leave and you don't get taxed. they're all going to leave. >> tell me the difference between ilan's policy and the new policies going through europe and president obama's

policy. president obama wants to tax the rich to pay for the goodies spread around the population. >> this guy has disdain for the rich. >> but president obama wants another stimulus program. more government spending to get the economy going because the danger signal is the writing on the wall. we're going the same way europe is going. >> stuart, all the studies have shown if you tax the millionaires in the united states 100% it doesn't begin to put a dent in the deficit and start to pay for the entitlement programs? >> has that sunk in on either side of the atlantic? i agree with you. you can confiscate every dime and you bring in $980 billion in one year. that means you've still got a deficit of a third of a trillion. you can't do it. >> i think this is what's important, this is not your opinion, my opinion or gretchen's opinion, the world markets are speaking. they hate this election. everything is down around the world. >> they hate the election because they can see another debt crisis coming in europe

that will ripple around everywhere. all stock markets around the world are down. wall street included. stock market takes another hit. >> we'll watch you on varney & company. >> thank you. >> president obama joked about his second term at the white house correspondents dinner. >> let me just say something to all my conspiracy oriented friends on the right who think i'm planning to unleash some secret agenda. you're absolutely right. >> so joking aside, what will president obama do if he gets a second term? our washington insiders here for a fair and balanced debate next. >> then good news, hillary clinton has the solution to global warming. what is it? millions of dollars on cooking. all energy development comes with some risk,

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>> quick headlines now. new video in this morning of vladimir putin being sworn in once again as russia's president. he's pleaded for people to knight as he talks about economic tensions and woes. hundreds of demonstrators protesting his return to power arrested. here we go again. mortgage giant freddie mac wants another $19 million from you, yes, you the taxpayer. that's in addition to the $146 million already got last year. you may remember taxpayers have spent roughly $170 billion to rescue freddie mac and fannie mae. the costliest bailout of the 2008 financial crisis. steve? >> if i do win a second term as

president, let me just say something to all the -- let me just say something to all of my conspiracy oriented friends on the right who think i'm planning to unleash some secret agenda. you're absolutely right. >> there, president obama joking about a second term at the white house correspondents dinner. but all kidding aside, what are his plans for another four years in office? let's turn to our washington insiders on this monday morning. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> all right, matt, let's start with you. fast forward to next january. he's just won a second term. what does the president of the united states, barack obama, do? >> well, certainly, i hope that doesn't happen but i think we're going to get a lot more of the same than we've seen from him in the first four years. this guy doesn't know a problem that doesn't have a solution through a tax increase. doesn't know how to cut spending. he doesn't know how to make tough decisions. i think you're going to see a big fight between him and

congress, i do think republicans will control congress even if he is re-elected and he'll have a lot more of the same and a lot of tough times. >> matt, i understand you feel he will usher in the biggest tax hike in history. >> well, he's already promised that. he's not going to take the bush tax cuts and continue them so as soon as that happens, taxes go up on everyone. every income earner in america and he's already promised that. >> ok. margie, what does the president of the united states do if he gets round two? >> i hope, as matt said, is more of the same. we've had 26 months straight of private sector job growth. >> yeah, things are really great, aren't they? >> it's an improvement from where things began in 2008, the problem that he inherited and the sales policies where if you look at mitt romney, he said he wants to do everything opposite of president obama. he wants to do the opposite of 26 months of private sector job growth and tax breaks for 95% of americans. those are the things that have happened in the president's

administration and i think he'll continue to work to turn the economy around as he has before. comprehensive immigration reform, i think, is something that's on the table for a lot of folks. it's something that democrats worked with former president bush on last time around. education is another issue that democrats and president bush worked on together last time around. what i think remains to be seen is whether republicans, whether they have control of the house and/or the senate. either way, i think the president would like to continue to work with the republicans. they're the ones who have turned down grand bargains to cut spending and reform entitlements. we'll see if their attitudes change after the election. >> matt and margie, here's some of the things that the president did mention. march 30th in a speech, he said -- and margie just touched on this, he would try to do something about immigration reform, also energy independence, climate change, unemployment, housing, education reform transitioning out of afghanistan which we are heading to but matt, you know, margie

just touched on the job picture. what did they add last month? 115,000 jobs. i think julia needs a job, that fictional character. it's going to come back to the economy and jobs and it's just not taken off. >> i love the julia thing i think is really backfiring on them. but for small businesses and businesses in america, hope and change has really become, i hope i have time to change my shorts if this guy is re-elected because of how bad his policies have been to the job creators in america. people in the private sector are not feeling the positive things that julia is talking about in her ad commercial. right now, the president has a big problem and i think it's going to cost him this election is that most americans don't feel like the last four years have been good for them. and they look into the future and they see the next four years is the same type of policies and they don't want them. >> and margie, going forward, though, if the president had a republican congress, how is he

going to get anything done in four years that he couldn't get done in the last two years? >> well, i mean, i think the american middle class has gotten the message from republicans. they're just not into us. they consistently have been against things that enjoy widespread support. there have been 4.25 million private sector jobs created under obama. 95% of americans have had a tax break. yet, you have republicans willing to walk the plank risking our financial health over corporate tax debt. >> you're going down the wrong road. >> look, clearly the pace of recovery is not as fast as people would like. but really, do we want to go back to how things were in 2008? i mean, that's such a clear difference in policy to go forward and mitt romney is firmly in that camp. >> dave, we are out of time. >> the president himself asked us to judge him on four years. if he wasn't successful, he shouldn't get a second term. we should listen to the president. >> matt and margie, thank you very much for joining us today from d.c. >> thanks, steve.

>> thank you. >> you bet. coming up on this monday morning, a brand new way to cut down on the illegals entering the country but some say the tactic goes way too far. just not fair. we'll tell you what it is straight ahead. then an update to the investigation into the m.f. global scandal. the man leading the charge, new york congressman michael grim is here live. but first, happy birthday to not only brian kilmeade but the city of new orleans. the home of the mardi gras which was founded on this date in 1718. that makes new orleans 294. [ male announcer ] what's in your energy drink? ♪ wer surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea energy... new v8 v-fusion plus energy. could've had a v8. and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. [ woman ] lower cholesterol.

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scattered severe storms are possible all the way from the eastern great lakes and ohio valley southward to texas. damaging winds and large hail are the primary threats. however, we can't rule out the chance of a tornado as this storm system builds throughout the day. meanwhile, the current temperature readings as you head out the door on this monday, here in new york city, 55. the double nickel. you got 33, the triple threat. in caribou. meanwhile, you got 70's along the gulf coast. portions of dixie land are in the 60's right now and later on today, things are going to warm up. should be 88 in memphis and in new orleans, which is going to be -- >> don't we usually have music with this? >> what happened? >> i don't know. >> it's monday. >> are you happy? >> 91 is going to be the daytime high. >> now you have nothing else to say. >> and in massapequa, new york, 63 should be the high. reason i mention massapequa, that happens to be the home of

the birthday boy, brian kilmeade. >> we're celebrating early. >> we are. >> what was that music? >> that's all you get. that's all you get. >> what was that music? >> wow. that's very nice. look at this, brian. look at that! >> wow. >> that looks like cupcake -- >> this looks like great news for the crew, am i right? anyone in the crew like cupcakes? >> who doesn't? >> besides chris chulo? >> look at this. very nice. this is great. what made this? look at this. >> don't let it slide. this is -- does anyone need a plug on this? >> i don't think so. i think we actually paid -- >> carousel? >> carousel cakes, i imagine. fantastic. thank you very much. >> if anybody wants to come over and lick the cake, come on over. >> i'm sure we'll be putting ice

on it. >> what are you doing for your birthday? >> it depends on what suzanne somers wants to do, she's coming on later. >> this is the hour that dawn doesn't watch. >> she doesn't mind. we have no plans for my birthday. my birthday, i want to get through it. >> once you hit 40 something. >> 29. >> you no longer get the pony. >> that's true. >> that is so true. >> maybe some could come to the show tomorrow. >> miniature horse. >> thank you. >> hello! >> thank you, mr. ed. >> let's get to some headlines now. there are signs an army nurse that suddenly collapsed while skyping with his wife from afghanistan might have been shot? the family of captain bruce kevin clark says there was a bullet hole in the closet behind him. his wife says he showed no signs of discomfort before he collapsed. skype video link continued for about two hours as clark's family tried to get help.

pentagon only saying the death is under investigation. he leaves behind his wife and two daughters. >> terrible story. meanwhile, the details in the search for a big time tv executive missing without a trace. gavin smith was last seen driving his black mercedes away from a friend's home in california on tuesday. his car has not been seen since. smith's family spent the weekend spreading the word about his disappearance. the 57-year-old worked in 20th century fox's movie distribution department for almost 18 years. >> campaign to combat global warming has some explaining to do now. the campaign touted by secretary of state hillary clinton is pushing the production of clean stoves. it claims that smoke from traditional stoves is killing millions of people. according to a random study, there's little evidence of reduced air pollution from the clean stoves. >> british royalty paying a visit to wounded warriors in

washington, d.c. later today. prince harry meeting with wounded u.k. service personnel taking part in a warriors game tournament. he'll also participate and yesterday, he'll be presented with an award at the ritz carlton for recognizing his and his brother's humanitarian work. very nice. brian, over to you. and a very special guest. >> yep. they're being called the gitmo five. accused masterminds behind the 9/11 attacks on trial at gitmo. but the court proceedings not going as planned. who would have thought? it appears the accused terrorists are putting on a show while the victims' families are forced to watch via satellite and in person. here with his thoughts is the new york congressman. congressman, could this have been avoided? >> possibly. at this point, it's a complete circus and for me, it's a very visceral issue. i had a friend that was down there, won the lottery. lost his sister in 9/11 and he's one of the guys that the terrorists gave the thumbs up, too. look, the world is seeing that these are just animals, thugs, low life criminals that are born

of humanity and they don't have a real cause at all and anyone out there that would try to give them any legitimacy after seeing this knows what they are. i just hope, though, that the judge does start to rein it in now and not allow these victims to have to go through anymore of this crap. that's what it is. >> the tosh guy came in and was fully restrained and promised to be calm and then made a little airplane and pretended it was hitting a building. and laughing at the victims. >> exactly. >> and then they also break into prayer. why are we surprised? we saw the zacarias moussaoui trial. he pleaded not guilty to the sentencing phase took four years. >> here's another interesting thing that no one has really spoken about. these guys are trying to say they were terrorized and there was torture and all of these things. i can tell you something. the psychological make-up of someone that was just tortured isn't someone that's coming out and doing these types of things. if you've just been tortured for as long as they say they've been

tortured, they'd be very demure, very meek, very mild mannered. you could see here what this is. these are disgusting animals that have no regard for anything whatsoever and the world is seeing that, unfortunately, at a great cost for these families and for america as a whole. >> here's the thing, congressman grimm. we think that. of course we think that. we're a civilized people who have a brain in our heads. people that follow them are getting motivated by hearing this and seeing this. >> and that's the thing that i think is a very difficult balance. how do we show the world that we have a court system that we are above what these animals have done and what they continue to do and at the same time, though, balance that we don't make this a propaganda. >> it's too late. we're at 2013 now and plus, there's more of this. meanwhile, i want to talk about something else that means a lot to you and should mean a lot to america, the m.f. global scandal and jon corzine's role possibly behind it. do you think he's gth -- getting a pass? why are we more interested in

this? >> that's why i'm calling on the independent counsel to get in here. after the way that eric holder handled the entire debacle of fast & furious, the american people have lost confidence in this administration and rightfully so. we should have an independent counsel here. this is a travesty. this is one brought in by m.f. global because of his relationships. he has a very strong relationship with genslar who is in charge of the cftc, so here you have the head of the cftc, the lead regulator. >> cftc is? >> they're a lead regulator for m.f. global so that's all people need to know. here you have the number one regulating agency having a one-on-one relationship, they work together. there's a long history there. so these -- everyone felt from the very beginning going back years ago when he first started that m.f. global was getting preferential treatment that no one else would have gotten but for those relationships. >> it ends up three years after 2008 when we become, all of us, more street smart of what's happening on that level, we see

this happen with private funds being put into -- >> which is, just so you know, on wall street, private segregated funds is sacrasanct. this whole thing is a travesty. people want answers and they deserve it. this administration hasn't given it to them. >> thank you so much. look forward to checking with you again. >> next on this rundown, brand new way to cut down on illegals entering the country and it is working but some say the tactic goes way too far. we'll report, you decide. then he spent 16 years on the run, the man who helped take whitey bulger now talking. up next, he'll reveal exactly why it took so long to catch one of the nation's most notorious mobsters. k9 advantix ii.

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♪ >> got some quick monday morning headlines for you. overnight, blind chinese dissident speaking out. he says he expects beijing to let him and his family travel to the united states but he's unsure how long it's going to take for that to happen. chen is still in the hospital undergoing checks at this hour. and hundreds paying tribute to former nfl linebacker junior seau. friends, family and fans paddling into the ocean in front of his house in oceanside, california. the late san diego charger loved to surf. tribute to him. gretch, brian? >> thank you, steve. the department of homeland security says 41% of illegal immigrants tried to re-enter the united states after they've been deported and now u.s. customs and border patrol reports it's cutting down on that number by trying something new now. >> ok. but some immigration rights

advocates saying the tactic goes too far. fox news correspondent casey stegall reports from los angeles. >> after a person is caught trying to enter the country illegally they go through a fairly detailed process. they're fingerprinted. their identity is checked and then they're put into a data base. but once officials determine they do not have a criminal background, oftentimes, they're taken right back across the border into mexico where they started. trouble is according to u.s. customs and border protection, roughly 41% of them are caught trying to come back into the united states at a later time. but in tucson, arizona, one of the busiest border patrol sectors, agents put some illegal immigrants on buses. and transport them back to mexico by way of california and texas. hundreds of miles away from their original point of entry. the concept is known as lateral repatriation and the department of homeland security says it takes the recidivism rates from

roughly 41% down to 27%. while it's seen as a success for cbp, immigration rights groups argue it puts those people in serious danger. >> they may not know where a shelter would be or they may not know where the local municipal office of the mexican government, for example, would be where they could get help, they wouldn't know the area, it would be like being dropped in new york city where you've never been and having to navigate. >> there's a protocol in place where they get inspected by mexican officials so they are not just dropped off at a port of entry and just cast out. there's an official agreed upon process with the government of mexico and the united states that -- to make sure we ensure that process is followed. >> u.s. border patrol contends this actually helps people because it separates them from those human smugglers near arizona that are characterized at stopping at nothing to get their cargo into the united states. even if it means putting their clients or the mexican nationals

in danger. in los angeles, casey stegall, fox news. >> and we hope to have a debate on that coming up later on in the show. >> all right, 11 minutes now before the top of the hour. 16-year-old -- 16-year chased from america's most wanted finally over. the man who helped take down whitey bulger is spilling all the details in his brand new book, if you've never heard him before, he's coming your way. >> forget overtime. new study says you should start cutting back on your hours at the office and start spending more time at home. it will make you more productive. >> right. let's pretape the whole last hour. >> fantastic. wake up!

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>> boston's notorious mob chief whitey bulger spent 16 years on the run. now the man who helped take him down is talking. former superintendent of the massachusetts state police thomas foley revealing details of his brand new book, there it is "most wanted, pursuing whitey bulger." tom, welcome back. >> thank you. >> first off, why was it so difficult? >> well, because over the years, whitey bulger was an informant for the f.b.i. so it was unbeknownst at the time that we initially started the investigation into him but as we started to get deeper and deeper into his activities, we were learned that he was being protected by the bureau. >> that went very helpful to you and then at the same time you're working for the state of massachusetts and whitey bulger's brother was the head of the state senate? >> he was the president of the senate, probably the most powerful politician in

massachusetts at the time. >> how did he try to slow down the investigation? >> well, there was some bills that almost passed that were going to make some detectives on the state police retire early. that was one of them. and we also had to be concerned about some of the budget issues that the department would have faced. >> you're talking he was an f.b.i. informant before he went on the lam. >> yes. >> talk about pulling out these six bodies in 2000 and how it helped you find them. >> it kind of culminated everything we were doing. we were constantly getting compromised in our investigation. we were getting tipped off, like i said, for probably about 10 years during the early parts of the investigation. and we just kept persevering as a group and, you know, eventually we found the bodies of some of the victims that they had killed and, you know, after that, it was hard to deny what the -- what we were trying to tell people out there. >> sure. he was really bad guy. killed a bunch of people and

ruined a lot of lives. fast forward to just a year ago, june, and there's this really nice guy who lived in this apartment in santa monica, california, turns out it's him and his girlfriend. on the lam for years. >> if you look at the way he killed people, he tortured them. he was a vicious, vicious murderer out there. it's not like he had the robin hood image they were trying to portray him to be. it's the exact opposite. >> he's caught, captured and right now he's in a, what, cushy prison? >> no, he's waiting -- he's in solitary, waiting for trial in november. >> if you want to read all about it, it is a great book that details the whole thing because you were there from the beginning. thomas foley's new book is called "most wanted, pursuing whitey bulger, the murderous mob chief that the f.b.i. secretly protected." all right. thank you very much for sharing your story. >> thank you, appreciate. it --

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>> good morning, everyone. today is monday, may 7th. i hope you're going to have a great day. thanks for spending part of your day with us. what's happening in france? they give socialism a big thumbs up kicking the current president out of office. what does that mean for the united states? it's already taken a toll today on wall street. >> and vice president joe biden in the hot seat. >> you told this president don't do it. don't do it now is what you said. yet, you're saying governor

romney should be questioned when that was your judgment at the time? > >> backed those comments. under way at the white house. and other comments. >> that's right. he was busy. plus putting in a 60-hour work week may look really impressive to your boss but it's actually hurting the company. we will explain as "fox & friends" hour two for brian's birthday starts right now. >> it's his birthday. that's all we can afford. >> boy, is she done singing quickly? >> it's all you need! it's all you need. i tweeted happy birthday to brian. he's 29 again and some people actually tweeted back, he's not really 29. >> as if -- as if everything you say is factual and other things -- and other people are

writing, you've lost so much weight since saturday. it's between those two things are dominating my e-mail and facebook page. >> so happy birthday. we're glad that you spent three hours of your big birthday with us today. >> you owe me a favor. i think i have to. very nice of you to get that cake, by the way. >> or our people. >> you ok'd it. >> just tell the truth. >> that's all. it's about 2 minutes after the top of the hour on this monday morning. france had this big presidential election and it is reverberating around the world. it could make for a very long day on wall street today. doug luzader is live in washington with a preview of what could happen on the street of dreams. doug? >> good morning, guys. maybe, yeah, another rough day for u.s. markets after what happened in france. it's more evidence of this big shift to the left in europe and we're likely to feel the impact here at home. in france, over the weekend, supporters of socialist francois holland are celebrating after he defeated the french president

nicholas sarkozy. he campaigned against the big spending cuts they are backing. more spending cuts and a return to french socialist rule and you couple that with the parliamentary elections in greece over the weekend, it signals this growing european rejection of austerity measures that have entrenched workers for one. it's not clear what this new government is going to look like in greece. they wasted little time responding. upping pressure on promises to revive france's economy. >> the last thing he needs is a situation where he hasn't even taken office yet and all of a sudden, the markets are voting no on hollande and his presidency by running up interest rates and by speculating against the euro and speculating against france. >> and beyond the impact on u.s. markets today, hollande assension means president obama

is going to have to forge new relations with france. hollande has already been invited to the white house. one consequence of all this uncertainty both in europe and here at home, oil prices are falling now below $100 a barrel. you know, on its face, that's good news and helps drive gas prices down but the reasons behind it are kind of disturbing. back to you guys. >> that's a good point. thank you very much. asian markets down close to 3%. the ftse down close to 2% and the dow jones industrial futures are pointing down as well. >> how disturbing is it that a guy comes out of nowhere to run for president of france who, by the way, we've been enjoying good relationships with france maybe in my lifetime between sarkozy and our two leaders, president obama and bush. how disturbing is it that the guy that won promised to tax the rich 75%? 75%. >> he's a socialist. that's what they do! >> i don't think it's that surprising. >> i'm stunned by this. >> his wife, well ex-wife now

or not together -->> the rottweiler? >> now, that's the girlfriend, i think. >> that's his wife. >> the friend -- >> hollande's wife is referred to as the rottweiler. >> i thought they didn't get married. whatever. it doesn't really matter. the bottom line is his ex-wife, i think, ran as a socialist the last time around and did not win. and now, he -- i'm not that surprised that he would win. come on, the european countries are not used to having all these benefits taken away. until they got to a crisis situation. and sarkozy was trying to put them back on the right footing like raising the retirement age from 60 to 62 which isn't that much. people wanted to go back to get the handouts. this does not surprise me at all. what we should be concerned about in this country is whether or not that's the direction that this country is eventually moving in. >> when that fails miserably, that will be the example, they'll end up backing out of it. right now, every rich person is

buying a piece of samsonite luggage and heading into the airport. good-bye! >> the reason that sarkozy is gone is because the austerity measures that the germans said look, you're spending too much money. you'll have to cut back. that's what the germans had suggested. >> you know what the french had said? the germans work too hard. >> that's what they do say. but the problem is going to be if germany, which along with france really runs the e.u., the european union, if they go you got to cut back and then you've got france saying we're going to just tax everybody to death. there's going to be trouble there before there's trouble here. >> let's switch gears to something that vice president joe biden said on the talk shows yesterday. was this a slip because it's in disagreement with how president obama feels about gay marriage. remember, president obama is in favor of civil unions but not in favor of gay marriage so vice president joe biden says suddenly he was in favor of gay marriage yesterday. was that a slip?

or was it pandering to the base before the election? you be the judge. >> look, i just think that the good news is that as more and more americans come to understand what this is all about as a super proposition. who do you love? who do you love? and will you be loyal to the person you love? that's what people are finding out, what all marriages at their root are about. whether they're marriages of lesbians or gay men or heterosexuals. >> is that what you believe now? >> that's what i believe. >> you're comfortable with same sex marriage now. >> look, i am vice president of the united states of america. the president sets the policy. i am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men and women are entitled the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the

civil liberties and quite frankly i don't see much of a distinction beyond that. >> ok, after he said that, and was it a gaffe or trial balloon, perhaps, the vice president's office said that the interview -- those comments were not an endorsement of gay marriage but a reaffirmation of his beliefs that same sex couples deserve equal rights. even though it sure sounded like a lot like he was talking about marriage. >> it's interesting because president obama really has not had a lot of discussion about his views on same sex marriage. >> he says they're evolving. >> which, by the way, is the same as mitt romney's views on same sex marriage. they're in favor of civil unions but president obama does not get a lot of attention for having the same view as his republican opponent so did joe biden say that on purpose? >> here's the thing, regardless of where you stand on it. regardless. if you look at pure politics which i don't know if you can tell but the administration seems to be driven by that.

>> johe biden was asked yesterday on meet the press, why is it you said mitt romney wouldn't order that hit on bin laden. everybody would have done that, right? >> here's posing the question

about the hypocrisy. >> given the h hour of d-day at this operation, you told this president, don't do it. don't do it now is what you said. and yet, you're saying governor romney should be questioned when that was your judgment at the time. >> that's a valid point. i don't know -- i didn't say he wouldn't. >> the implication was he would not pull the trigger. we don't know that he would. >> well, i don't know that he would either. we don't know. you don't know until you're in that position. >> that sounded a little different. >> i wonder if joe biden would have been in favor of that ad that came out that said president obama pulled the trigger, what would mitt romney have done? i mean, joe biden wouldn't have been able to cut that ad. he apparently didn't want to pull the trigger. then to say the other candidate wouldn't want to is a little disingenuous. >> recording one of the speeches he made where he said bin laden is dead and gm is alive and indicated mitt romney wouldn't have been for that. >> now to some of the other headlines for this monday. another fox news alert. in the video, he pleads with president obama to answer

al-qaida's demands and save him. he says if you accept the demands, i live. a new cure for. the 13-year-old came up with locally hops that she says will make you stop hiccupping, the

middle schooler and c.e.o. is about to launch her lollipops many she invented them in her kitchen after suffering a severe bouts of hiccups. key ingredients, apple cider vinegar and sugar. they stop hiccups by overstimulating the nerves in your throat. those are your headlines. wow. >> how many people work really hard because they figure, you know, if i'm a workaholic, you know, the boss is going to recognize that and i'm going to do really good. well, as it turns out, a number of studies have been done and they figured out that the sweet spot for productivity seems to be around 40 hours. ford motor company actually did productivity tests back in the early 1900's where they added another 20 hours and as it turns out, there was a minor increase in productivity that only lasted about three or four weeks and then it actually turned negative. so you should not work like a crazy person. >> why? because they say that you get burnt out, number one. number two, you sacrifice family relationships that also hurts productivity in the long run and they say it -- it hurts you

working for a longer period of time. so 40 hours gives you more years as opposed to 60 hours burning out. >> good luck changing the culture of america where everything is fast paced and the philosophy is the more you work, the better you get. anyway, here's the quote from jeffrey james of the business journalist. in every case, i've observed the long hours result in work that must be scrapped or redone. so his theory is even if you work those extra 20 hours a week, a lot of that work because you're not in a good state of mind, you have to go back and redo anything. >> look at the countries who have banned 50 hour work weeks and see how they're doing. finland, german, holland and the u.k. have banned that 50-hour work week. >> interestingly enough, one of the biggest companies that everybody is talking about right now is facebook. and the chief operating officer of facebook, a woman by the name of cheryl sandberg, she leaves the office every day at 5:30 to be with her kids. so she's not one of those people who just goes crazy and works until midnight every night. she has made a conscious decision, i'm going to leave at

5:30 because i know i need to be with my kids plus it's more productive. >> plus she kept that under wraps until this study came out that made her feel more comfortable to be able to say that. ksm making a mockery of justice. the victims' family members aren't laughing. a man who lost his firefighter son here next. >> she drowned in a river, went to heaven and came back. coming up, that incredible story. you have to hear to believe. the woman that it happened to didn't even believe it herself. [ male announcer ] what's in your energy drink? ♪ wer surge, let it blow your mind.

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riches lost his firefighter son jimmy in the world trade center attack in 2001 and he's my guest this morning. good morning to you. >> good morning, gretchen. >> i know you had the chance -- you've been there in 2009 when ksm was originally being tried and that trial was shut down and now you're watching it on closed circuit here in new york. what did you make of what some people are calling a circus act on saturday with this arraignment? >> it was a circumstance out act. they pulled their earphones out and didn't listen to the judge. they didn't answer the judge. they wanted to assign them an attorney and asked their plea. they were like they weren't there. it's not the same. he was saying he did it. he was proud he did it. glad he did it. he was going to plead guilty but now it's a different story and i think the judges need to take more control. tell these people -- they were standing up and praying whenever they want. the court stopped and then they sit down again. >> in the united states, if a defendant acts like that or

frankly anyone else in the courtroom, the judge will hold them in contempt, is that correct? >> that's correct. i can't understand why they're not doing it. there was one that was restrained because he didn't want to come in. they eventually let him go and let him out of the chair when he told his attorney he would behave but they were making paper airplanes, putting them on the microphone. they were doing things like that. totally disrespectful to the court. to the united states of america. and i think it's sad day. i think these guys may end up dying of old age before we get any justice, it's sad, sad to see what's going on in that courtroom. >> because this is just the arraignment and then they'll be back in court on june 12th. they'll be hearing motions. this trial may not start for a year. as a family member, do you have the time to watch this play out for that long? >> i mean, my son died and he's not going to walk back in that door. he's not here for christmas or any holidays. we miss him terribly, i mean, and for this courtroom to be

like this, it hurts all the families. i mean, you can hear it in the theater. the people were moaning, groaning, complaining, what's going on here? is this a courtroom in the united states of america? take charge, make these men sit down, if they don't want to answer, they don't answer, they plead guilty. they're assigned an attorney. keep this trial going. it's disrespectful what's happening. >> what do you make of the defense attorney, one of them dressing in complete muslim garb with a burka and not only that, requiring other people or asking of them to dress the same way. >> she can dress any way she wants. we have an american justice system, they'll see it's fair. she can't be telling everybody else what to wear. everybody was in business attire. she wants the military personnel to wear the head garb and everything else. this is our courtroom and an american court. it will be tried our way and i think the judge should take control now. let's move this forward and get enough of the nonsense with these people telling jokes to

each other and everything else and they're not talking to the judge. fine if they don't want to talk and don't want to participate, let's move this trial forward and get it going. right now, it seems like two years is going to be a long trial. >> all right. jim riches lost his son on 9/11. we'll talk to you again as this trial moves forward. thanks so much. >> thanks, gretchen. >> coming up, the queen of talk in a heap of trouble. oprah's network could be yanked off the air now and this kayaker drowned in a river, went to heaven and came back. his doctor didn't believe what happened to her own body. she joins uz with her incredible story. she's here, she's alive next. does your phone give you all day battery life ?

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>> your news by the numbers. first $330 million, that's how

much oprah's struggling cable channel own has lost since its launch. industry insiders say they doubt it will last another year. the national average for a regular gallon of gas according to triple a, gas prices have dropped $0.07 over the last two weeks and $200 million. that's how much "the avengers" raked in for the record-breaking debut weekend shooting past the previous record in the debut of last year's harry potter finale. guys? >> all right. to heaven and back, that's the incredible story of our next guest who drowned, was trapped underwater for 14 minutes. it's more like 25 minutes. she says she witnessed her soul leaving her body. >> she miraculously lived and is here to tell the story. joining us right now is dr. mary neil, author of the brand new book "to heaven and back." you were in the river and wound up in the water and you drowned. >> i did. >> in a kayak. >> i did and i had a great time

doing it. >> really? so you drowned? you were underwater. you felt the -- you didn't feel any of the pain but you knew one of your legs was breaking. >> i did. i was in the kayak and the water had so much force, it was pressing me against the deck of the boat. and then as the current sucked my body out of the boat, my knees bent back on themselves and i could feel them breaking and tearing. as a surgeon, i thought gosh, that's interesting. not a good idea. >> right. >> tell us -- so you go from i'm in a lot of pain to i'm in no pain to i'm just drowned and then what happened? >> well, i never had pain. >> you were in shock. >> i actually was struggling and working to pull the spray skirt off and get myself out of the boat. and when it became clear that that wasn't going to happen of my own doing, i really did give my spirit over to god and asked that god's will be done. >> what did you experience?

>> i immediately experienced complete and absolute peace, calm, i had no pain. i felt great. and i was being held and comforted and reassured as then my body was sucked out of the boat and my spirit peeled away from my body. >> what were you aware of? you know, we always hear there's a bright light. walk toward the light! >> i was joyously greeted by this host of other people or spirits, whatever you want to call them. >> that you knew? >> i had known them for an eternity and they had knew me. and they were so happy and they did take me along this path to not a bright light but this brilliant, beautiful hall of sorts. like a big domed entrance hall. >> was that heaven? >> i think it was. it was joyous and this not only the people who are guiding me

but this hall was brilliantly exploding with such intense love. and it was god's love. >> how did you -- how did you get the signal to go back? >> well, i could hardly wait to get there. and then at a certain point, the people who had been guiding me told me that it wasn't my time. that i had more work to do on earth and i had to come back. >> and your feelings now about that? >> well, i won't say that i would hasten it but i can hardly wait to go back. >> that's really my -- >> dying is not a scary thing to you. >> absolutely not. i am not only not afraid to die but i know there really is life after death and god really does love us, have a plan for us, and works in our lives which means that every day really does matter. when you know that there is something else, you better make the most of every day and get

about the business of following your plan. >> what's your mission? >> i was sent back with a number of mandates. one of which was to share my story. so that -- >> check that one off. >> exactly. >> and in sharing that story, it really brings god to each person's life. >> right. we understand one of the other tasks was protect your husband's health. >> yes. and then also really provide the ability of support for not only our community but people across the country when my oldest son was killed. which turned out to be this -- i mean, certainly very sad. and that part of the grief doesn't go away. but turned out to be this magnificent inspirational event for many people across the country to really make a difference in their own communities. >> so now you know you'll some day see him again. >> absolutely. and i know he didn't have pain and he was joyously greeted and i'm very sure that he didn't

want to come back either. because i certainly didn't. >> wow. >> dr. mary neil, you've written the book "to heaven and back" and i know we had -- >> what a story. >> great story. look forward to talking to you again and i'm sure there will be a bestseller. >> well, thank you very much. pleasure. >> all right. when is the next time you're going to kayak? >> i kayak all the time. i love boating. >> amazing. >> that's -- what a story. thank you, doctor. >> you're welcome. >> all right. it's about half past the top of the hour. straight ahead, "saturday night live" cooks up some laughs over the mom accused of taking her kid to the tanning salon. >> the point is, seth, anyone can look like me. it's not just the tanning. it's also the right beauty products. >> really? because you look like a baseball glove. >> wait until you hear what the real tanning mom has to say about that one. >> right, i love the open of that show. then brand new ads painting mitt romney as rich and out of touch businessman.

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>> ♪ baby ♪ let's whip it right >> whipped cream. i get it. >> brian's birthday today. >> all right! >> and that's a beautiful cake and you guys, i can't imagine how we have to stay up to finish that thing off. air brushing is the really tricky part. you're very good. >> a beautiful -- a beautiful cake. hey, donald trump joins us right now as he does every monday. donald, you're a guy who money is of no object. what is a great gift for you that maybe we could give to brian that costs less than $25? >> first of all, happy birthday, brian. what i'm going to do immediately after this call is go down to macy's and buy the fragrance success by trump. >> i knew you were going to say that. >> and you're going to give it to me? >> it won't help you too much. your ratings are already great. >> right. >> so it's success, it's going to make you successful but you're so successful, how much better can you be? that's a great point. >> you know what, donald?

the fact of the matter is these two guys rarely put on any sort of a smell in the morning. >> or put off some type of smell. >> i didn't say that. >> but i would encourage you to go down to macy's and pick up some of that success. >> thank you. >> i think i'm going to do it, i think i'm going to do it. your ratings are good but you're going to see them soar anyway. >> by the way, just real quick, you were parodied on "saturday night live" before. how should we handle it? how should we take it? >> the one that gets hurt the most is brian. that guy bears no relationship to brian. it is disgraceful. i hosted "saturday night live" and , you know, like those people over there. but they have not got you right, brian. that's not you. so don't be depressed on saturday night when you see what you look like. >> it's always jarring to see it happen and realize it's going to be hard to shake that off. >> we shouldn't be depressed, donald. come on. >> no, it's a great honor. >> absolutely. >> no, you know what? i agree, it's a great honor but they really have brian wrong! >> thank you. >> red alert, that's a fox news

alert. let's talk a little bit about the gitmo trial, khali shaikh mohammed and, you know, a total of five of those terrorists down there for all the world to watch and so far what we've seen it looks like a circus! >> well, what you've seen is gridlock and it's legal gridlock and it's disgraceful and they ought to pass a law where terrorists go quickly. you know, in china, it takes 24 hours and then the bullet and then you pay for the bullet. the family pays for the bullet. it takes 24 hours. you see what happens over there. they catch somebody and it's like they're gone. they don't even know what happened to them. they're gone and i mean they're killed, they're not just put into prison. >> yeah, but even, donald, in a normal courtroom in the united states, most judges wouldn't put up with these antics. >> well, these antics are horrible and they're laughing at everybody. and they think we're all a bunch of jerks and frankly we have to speed up the system for one thing and they have to get tough. they have to get a lot tougher. >> sure, i'm just wondering, donald, and i'm not burdened with a law degree. i'm wondering if they change the

rules because they were on the fast track three years ago with another administration. now, this administration seems to be playing this out. hey, we're not -- we don't get what we wanted which was a new york trial but we'll bring the circus and bring it to cuba. do you think that's a possibility? >> well, these people killed thousands of people and they're laughing at their relatives right now and something has to be done. and speed has to also take place. it's not only the decorum which is terrible. it's the speed! i mean, you're talking about years and years just to learn when the trial is going to begin. >> sure. >> the speed has to change and i think they maybe just pass a law. they should give special. when somebody is a terrorist, i think you have to give a special little bit of that because it's not -- i'll tell you what, it's not working. >> right. and we had some of the family members down at gitmo, one guy who -- eddie bracken i think is his name from staten island, he lost his sister and one of the guys gave him a thumbs up. another guy threw a paper

airplane, the symbolism not lost on the families, you know, they're just ready to speed it up as well. >> yeah, it's a very sad thing and we have to do something about it. >> let's talk about the economy back here at home, you've endorsed mitt romney for president and today he's campaigning in ohio. apparently, going to answer president obama on the economy. what do you think mitt romney needs to do? >> well, i think he just has to be himself. he's an amazing guy. he's a great guy. he's got actually a great personality. and he just has to be himself. he's very knowledgeable. he's a natural business person which is what we need. he's very knowledgeable and i think he's going to do very well in ohio, by the way. >> there's a new politico, george washington university battlefield poll out this morning that shows that mitt romney is at 48. barack obama is at 47. but romney is ahead with independents by 10 points. that's how you win an election. >> i'm not surprised because independents when you have an incumbent president and they're independent especially when they

haven't made up their mind, i imagine they go to the other person. i think mitt is doing really well. i predicted a long time ago, he was going to be a great campaigner. he's going to be and i think he's going to win this election. >> i know he really values your support. i want you to react because you know the romney campaign well and mitt romney to what joe biden says about mitt romney and his lack of plan. >> i mean, what is he talking about? is he talking about -- how is he going to create jobs? he talks about another $2 trillion in tax cuts for the very wealthy? going to create jobs? is that how he's going to do it? is he going to create jobs by continuing to undercut getting people to college and helping them get there by undercutting education? is he going to continue to create jobs by eliminating investments in research & development. i mean, what's the plan? >> you've seen this movie before. >> we've seen this movie before. it is about jobs at the end. day, isn't it? >> it is about jobs and if the jobs continue to go as badly as

they're going and that last report was ridiculous plus the actual jobs shrunk and yet they try to come out with better numbers. i don't know who is doing this but wall street is not getting it because, you know, they look at the numbers and they consider the numbers to be very bad but the job numbers are terrible and they're not going up and how are we going to create jobs when other countries are making our product? >> look who is talking. two people on your show lost jobs last night. >> that's true. they did. absolutely. >> it's a reality show. let's take a look at who got the boot. >> don't throw me under the bus i'm back you up and hit you with it. >> what did you contribute to the team? >> i was part of the creative process. >> really? you didn't come up with the slogan. what did you come up with? you didn't put the presentation together. >> i put my part of the presentation together and my part of my presentation was successful. i made it my own because i know who i am. >> that's fine. you made it your own. i wanted to give them the facts and i also gave them a little bit about myself. >> and arsenio survived and lisa

lampanelli does not. neither do theresa. >> teresa. >> she had a hard night. she was really beaten up. i mean, she did not have a good night last night. but she was terrific. and she did a good job and the show has been amazing and we're getting down to the finals and we're going to actually have a live finale on may 20th live from new york. it will be two hours. >> what happened to lisa lampanelli? >> she got the boot. >> they both did? >> she got the boot and teresa got the boot also. >> john rich was good as he came back the winner. >> did you see him? he was doing the interviews. he was tough. >> were you expecting teresa to flip the board room table like she did on new housewives of new jersey. >> i would. it weighs a couple thousand pounds. it would have been tough. she did a good job and took a hard night and did a very good job over the course of the show. >> all right, donald trump also joins us on monday at this time. >> happy birthday. see you next week.

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tanning getting burned over the weekend. >> are you ready? >> piece of bread. put it between my thigh. >> the real patricia crensal dubbed as the tanning mom has nothing but good things to say about the sketch. she says kristen wiig's impersonation was well done and hysterical. she is due in court on child endangerment charges. >> we have come too far to abandon the change we fought for these past few years. we have to move forward! so the future we imagined in 2008, where everyone gets a fair shot and everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same rules, that's the choice in this election and that's why i'm running for a second term as president of the united states.

>> moving forward. over the weekend, president obama officially kicked off his campaign for re-election at a rally in columbus, ohio. already, some of his campaign tactics could be backfiring. should he change the course? let's talk to jacques degraff. >> good morning, great to be here oochlt let's talk about the usama bin laden ad the obama campaign put out last week where it was suggested that we're not sure that mitt romney would have done the same thing. you know, a lot of people have said that just went over the line. >> it backfired. >> i think it's appropriate for the president to point out the success to mark the anniversary. >> absolutely. when you then attack romney, you kind of diminish the moment. >> right. >> if you will and distract from your very real record in that area. >> sure. >> he's increased troop strength, authorized the drone missiles and decimated the leadership of al-qaida and you take a gratuity shot at mitt

romney and give the g.o.p. something legitimate to talk about. >> it sounds like you've been advising him on that, you'd say let's not do that. not a good idea. >> i'd say let's stay in our line and celebrate our moment. there's enough time to do the attack thing down the road but i think americans want to celebrate and feel good about our accomplishment than we all did together. >> valid point. what about this fictional character on the internet now, her name is julia. and there's a timeline and it traces how barack obama would help her all the way from cradle right up to grave. and i saw the republican party said something about with the economy adding only 15,000 jobs the last reporting measurement, julia needs a job. that's what it's about. it's not about pell grants and head start and things like that. >> well, you know, we need a discussion in america about where we're going to go starting in november of this year. at the end of this year, the automatic spending cuts kick in

since they weren't able to reach a decision on the debt ceiling negotiations. >> right. >> as a result of that, there are going to be cuts and that's a legitimate subject for concern. >> and taxes are going to go up as well. >> there are going to be a lot of things that are fairly draconian if they're left as they are. it's a legitimate conversation. when you look at julia and the depiction of her -- >> she's been widely ridiculed. this particular campaign tactic has been widely ridiculed. >> i mean, i think it hits the target audience, though, i don't think the ad changes one vote. i think, you know, it kind of speaks to the base of the democratic party about the spending cuts. >> you make it sound like big government is going to take care of you through your whole life. >> on the other hand, those are legitimate programs that people support and the question is whether they'll be cut and if not what should be cut. >> ok. great. all right, jacques degraff, democratic strategist and fox news contributor, thanks very much for joining us live. >> thanks for being here.

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>> immigration officials have finally found a way to stop illegals from re-entering the u.s. instead of just dropping them across the border, they're sending them to remote towns far away. it's working but some say it's cruel and unfair. here to debate, immigration attorney francisco hernandez. good morning to you, gentlemen. >> good morning. thank you. >> let me start with you, mr. melman, is this a fair way to deport people who are here in the united states to begin with illegally? >> absolutely. it is our interest as the united states to keep people from trying to come back to the united states illegally but even if you are an advocate for the

illegal aliens, it ought to be in your interest as well, the best way to keep people from dying out there in the desert is to make sure they don't go out there in the desert in the first place but, you know, when it comes to the advocates for the illegal aliens the last thing that they really want is anybody to be prevented from coming into the united states illegally. they want to ensure that people who try to come here illegally get into the country illegally and as far as dealing with the people who have been repatriated to remote places in mexico that's the responsibility of the mexican government. they ought to take an interest in their own citizens. if they actually were taking an interest in their own citizens, maybe you wouldn't have so many people coming here illegally in the first place. >> mr. hernandez, when they are dropped at the border, 41% come back. when they're dropped at a remote location, 27% come back to the u.s. so it appears to be working when they're dropped in the more remote area. why are you against it? >> well, that's not that anybody is for or against it. i want to know who is taking

those study? anybody interviewing the people that were deported. the same person that did this study was the same person that said we had weapons of mass destruction in iraq. it's all about jobs. if there's jobs here, they're going to come. if there's no jobs here, they're not going to come. let's go out and figure out a legal way. nobody advocates for illegal immigration. we're talking about work permits. you don't have to have amnesty or any sort of forgiveness. just work permits so people can come in an orderly way and we know who is coming over. sending them to different parts of the country doesn't do anything other than take them longer to get back to their families and routes they've already established. >> how do you respond? >> better still. why don't we enforce laws against the employment of illegal immigrants and that way, they will make the decision not to come in the first place. there will be more jobs for americans who need them right now. the fact that people aren't coming because there's no jobs is proof we can control this phenomenon because illegal aliens respond rationally. if there's no jobs, they don't

come. doesn't matter whether it's become the economy tanked or the government is enforcing laws, if there's no jobs, they respond rationally. >> i agree with him that with the proper law in place, it can be enforced and it can be controlled properly. absolutely. nobody is for illegal immigration. the problem is we've got immigration system that's broken. and this article is a perfect example to let the presidential politics begin. neither party is interested in putting this issue to rest. they want to continue and continue without doing anything at the federal government. >> that's actually very true. we'll have to see if anything happens after the election. thank you so much for your time today. >> thank you. >> right back with more "fox & friends" right after this. s... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually se arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief

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>> brian: why not? >> steve: vice president joe biden puts his foot in his mouth again. the scramble to walk back his comments about gay marriage. how he's right behind it. >> brian: is he the city -- you see the stunning mistake from the metropolitan museum of art? this young man did on a field trip examine giving them a lesson in history. you'll meet him shortly. "fox & friends" starts right now >> brian, you're fired. >> steve: hey, hey, you can't fire him today. it's his birthday. >> have a wonderful day. >> gretchen: the reason i'm sethcal is because some people and some dumb would have us presenting ourselves as being stupid. >> brian: right. if you read between the line, i think that's what they were trying to get across.

>> gretchen: exactly. >> steve: maybe. >> gretchen: have a fantastic day on your birthday. >> brian: let's keep in touch. >> steve: big news this morning. the whole idea is we're going to be getting out of afghanistan because the afghannies will be able to take care of the taliban themselves. right? no. there is a report out that shows the taliban is getting even stronger. we've got some people from capitol hill, both sides commenting on that right here. listen. >> i think we both say that what we found is the taliban is stronger. president karzai believes that the taliban will not come back. i'm not so sure. the taliban has a shadow system of governors in many of problemses. they've gone north, to the east, attacks are up. >> this is a huge problem. what we have found is maybe the policies of the announced date of withdrawal, the negotiations with the taliban have worked against what our end game is

here and we ought to have a hard discussion about saying listen, one side is one side winning and one losing. >> brian: we're pulling a lot of troops out. there is 80,000 in country ask that's going to change. but we're getting a different story. i was shocked to see that because our military leaders say the taliban has been severely damaged and this is just indicative of the fighting season beginning. >> gretchen: what i thought was interesting was that you had a republican and democrat agreeing on this. saying that the taliban is getting stronger, that, to me, is about one of the only things that democrats and republicans, at least those two, seem to be agreeing on. shear what they say needs to happen of the you need to designate the haqqani network as a terrorist group which hasn't been done. at the same time, here is what's happening. there is some deal making going on with the taliban and the american government. in other words, they're releasing some these insurgents who have been captured in afghanistan in exchange for possible peace with the taliban. is that actually good strategy?

number one, can you trust they won't go back to terrorism? if you look at the facts and the figure, a lot of them do. >> steve: it sounds like some of our men and women over in afghanistan at the higher levels and in the nato command, they're absolutely frustrated. there are some parts of the country that they're so lawless they're saying, look, if you stop shooting at us, we'll let your cousin out because they hold a whole bunch of terrorists and insurgents at the detention center. now there is a story out that apparently the u.s. government and nato had this program where they use these insurgents as bargaining chips. stop shooting at us and we'll let them go. >> brian: american run prisons. they've been doing it for years. they don't give us a number would has been let out and how many are now free. i think one of the keys to this is this is all stemming from the fact we really have no policy of detainment with these guys. we're in the army manual and realize we don't have anywhere

to put them. >> gretchen: you don't need congressional approval to release them like you would for those at get moment so it's another way in which you can kind of skirt congress to be able to do what you feel is the best over in these countries. >> steve: there is a recidivism rate of people released from gitmo, go back into the terror business. we don't know how many are get back into the terror business once they've been reloosed. if it's not releasing, how long ago was it we hard about guys with aluminum suitcases filled with cash? here is a bunch of money. stop shooting at us. >> brian: five minutes after the top of the hour. >> steve: the white house once again back pedaling on comments made by vice president joe biden. the focus this time? gay marriage. >> gretchen: wendell goler is live at the white house with more on this story. good morning to you. >> good morning. the president said his position on gay marriage is evolving and though he won't go beyond that, vice president biden has.

doesn't commit the administration to support gay marriage, but biden says gay couples should have the same rights as heterosexual couples. his comments came on "meet the press". >> look, i am vice president of the united states of america. the president sets the policy. i am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men and women all are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties and quite frankly, i don't see much of a distinction. >> a written statement, his off walked it back a bit saying, quote, the vice president was saying what the president has said previously, that committed and loving, same sex couples deserve the same rights and protections enjoyed by all americans and that we oppose any effort to roll back those rights. biden is a devout catholic. his comments came in the wake of last week's resignation of mitt romney's openly gay foreign policy spokesman who stepped

down, sources say, after he was basically sidelined because of complaints by religious conservatives. the obama administration, proud of its relegal of don't ask, don't tell, but some gay rights activists believe he fell short of his commitment to gay couples. >> gretchen: thanks so much. your other headlines. american hostage warren weinstein making a plea to president obama. while you were sleeping, al-qaeda release ago new video showing him. in the video, he tells president obama, quote, if you accept the demands, i live. if you don't accept the demands, then i die. weinstein was abducted last august in pakistan while advising pakinstani businesses and government departments. surprise attack by al-qaeda at an army base in yemen leaving 20 yemeni soldiers dead. it's not clear if the attack was in retaliation for the u.s. air strike that killed one of the top terror leaders in the world.

two were killed in a drone strike. al kuso was on the most wanted list for his bombing of the uss cole. autopsy expected on the man found murder at churchill downs. officials say 38-year-old man worked for horse trainer keysle burrell, the brother of veteran jockey calvin burrell. he appears to have been involved in some kind of fight before he died. his body was discovered a few hours after the derby in a barn near the one housing the winning horse. investigators do not believe his death is connected to the race. secretary of state hillary clinton making a bold prediction. mrs. clinton says she's confident she'll see a female president in her lifetime. she made the comments at a town hall in india, despite all the talk of a presidential run in 2016. mrs. clinton quick to say, she will not be that woman. the secretary of state saying, quote, i just want to get back to taking deep breath, feeling

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>> gretchen: welcome back. they're making a joke of our justice system. acting up during the court proceedings at gitmo, and his victim had to watch it all. >> they're determined to make a mockery of our court system examine we bend over backwards to accommodate them. why? i don't know. we've seen many cases where a defendant is not cooperating. the judge would either gag them, sometimes remove them from the courtroom and the proceedings continue. we don't do this. >> gretchen: so what can we do to get these proceedings back on track? fox news legal analyst peter johnson, jr. joins me live with his thoughts. good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you? in a cloakial sense, you say, sit down, shut up, behave or we're going to put you out. i know that sounds harsh, but under the military commissions

act, if someone, an accused, is interrupting the proceedings or is disrupting the proceedings, they may be excluded under the military commission's act, meaning that they can be put out of the room, put into another room, they can watch the proceedings on video, have a telephone there to speak to their lawyer and the proceedings can go forward without this so-called circus. >> gretchen: in any court in the united states, they would not have allowed this to go on for 13 hours. why didn't this judge set the precedent early on that he was not going to tolerate this? >> i don't think the judge will tolerate it going forward. i think that they have an opportunity to act consistent with the military commission. and to act with the dignity of any defendant. but when you have people making paper airplanes and taunting family members. when you have them standing up, when you have them passing around magazines and reading magazines, when you have them feigning sleep and refuse to go answer questions, then there is

a point at which it stops and you say, the united states military commission system is not going to be made a mockery of. >> gretchen: again, this went on for 13 hours. could anyone conclude from this that they didn't want to offend the muslim in the room? >> i think there is probably sensitivity because the world is watching. when you have one of the defense counsel outrageously demanding that the other women in the courtroom wear muslim attire so as not to offend the defendants in this case, i find that to be absolutely incredible. >> gretchen: seems to be the united states out of control on at least the first day. i want to read the military commission's act statute. the accused may be excluded from attending portions of the proceeding if the military judge determines that the accused persists in disruptive or dangerous conduct. what do they have to do to convince the judge that they're being disruptive? >> i believe that at the next hearing in june, if there is this same type of disruptive

conduct, that they will either be gagged in some way, which is appropriate, literally gagged, that they will be restrained in some way. one of the defendants was restrained for a time, but if it persists, then they will be put into another room and allowed to watch it on video. that's the only appropriate thing that should be done. that should be done. we can't put up with this nonsense. >> gretchen: i agree. but i bet there is no way they'll gag these people for the rest of the world to see. maybe a separate room. >> straight room. we don't need these thank and our victims don't need this. >> gretchen: have a great day. a mystery unraveling in hollywood. a big time movie exec missing without a trace now? up next, new details on that case. and take a close look at your tv screen. do you see the stunning mistake on this map from the famed metropolitan museum of art? that 13-year-old saw it. he pointed it out and they

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>> steve: quick monday morning headlines. jury selection starts today for the florida real estate developer accused of murdering his wife. investigators claim adam kaufman strangled eleanor kaufman back in 2007. but his attorneys say she died after a violent reaction to spray tanning. new details in the search for a missing tv executive.

gavin smith was last season driving his black mercedes away from his california home on tuesday. the 57-year-old worked in 20th century fox's movie distribution department for almost 18 years. now he's missing. all right. brian, over to you and somebody smart. >> brian: you have to make that distinction. 13-year-old hoping to learn a thing or it about history wound up giving historians a lesson of their own. benjamin cody pointed out a major error at new york's famed metropolitan museum of art. he's here right now to show us what he saw and how we got it right on this map. congratulations. you're in 7th grade, 123 years old. >> yes -- 13 years old. >> brian: you go to the museum and what did you see? >> i saw the map, but did not include this part of spain right and morocco. >> brian: so first off, the whole byzantine period extends

from? >> stems from 476 to 1453. >> brian: and everybody knows that. i was going over it for steve and gretchen. good. so you're not seeing this area outlined or this area of africa outlined. so what do you do? >> i went to a docent who direct medicine to the front desk and they told me to fill out like a complaint form and i did and i thought that's the end of it. i probably got it wrong. they actually -- my mom, they called her and they said you were right and i said what? >> brian: five months later, they e-mailed your mom. >> i understand why it took five months, because they were setting up a whole new exhibit and they were actually getting artifacts from russia, syria, and jordan. and that's probably pretty stressful to set autopsy whole new area. >> brian: you have empathy for the people at the museum. >> yeah. >> brian: so you point out this and then did they bring you back

in? >> yes. they have brought me back in and i had a discussion with the medieval curator for like an hour. >> brian: you did? >> yeah. she said that, like i could bring in, like, everybody in my class. >> brian: and did you? >> no. i haven't done it yet. >> brian: but you will? >> yeah. >> brian: this is what the curator said you are correct about the boundaries. you are the first person to recognize the mistake and we thank you for bringing it to our attention. how does that feel to be recognized like this at the age of 13? >> it feels really, really good. >> brian: what a tribute to your teachers. who is your social studies teacher? >> mrs. robins. in sixth grade, mr. cranson who expanded it more. this year, mr. kay. >> brian: by the way, what do you want to do when you grow up?

>> i want to own an exotic car dealership in greenwich, connecticut. okay, fine. we can make that happen. we'll see about that. i would like to be one of your customers or maybe be your salesperson. congratulations and as a parting gift, being we have the map made, this is the correct map for you, benjamin. i don't know if it travels way, but at least it will go in your house. >> thank you. >> brian: give us hope for the next generation. thank you very much. good job. now you sadly have to go back to school now. >> yeah. >> brian: thanks lot. coming up straight ahead, his lazy days in the dominican republic may be numbered, and charlie rangel can thank his pals in congress. we're going to explain why they're not supporting him and actress suzanne somers revealing medical secrets to keep you looking young, by injecting yourself with white blood cells. your own. look at that dress. benjamin, look away wake up!

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>> steve: what flavor? >> brian: i'm not sure. whatever flavor is on the inside, more information on carousel cakes, nationwide options available. and cup cakes by carousel.com, which are over there. chris, hand me the cup cakes. to keep the crew to the end of the show, we're going to promise them cake in the after the show show. if we don't promise something to eat, they don't stick around. >> gretchen: i did take a peek at the receipt for the cake. it's vanilla are fudge. >> brian: vanilla with fudge. >> steve: our favorite. >> gretchen: on the inside. >> brian: how they let you go down there and make that cake, that was really nice of them. >> gretchen: steve and i? >> brian: yeah. >> gretchen: we made it all day. >> steve: in the easy bake oven. that was done with a light bulb. >> gretchen: that's our story. >> brian: we will be eating that cake in the final ten minutes of the show. >> steve: okay. >> brian: weight pull all the cameras on row botts.

>> steve: we need a big knife and saucer. >> brian: we got that. >> gretchen: first we have to do a couple headlines and a couple more pieces of news. >> brian: then suzanne somers is in the on deck circle. a fox news alert, three nato servicemen reportedly dead after a bomb not guilty eastern afghanistan. nato has not released the nationality of the soldiers. this comes as one nato soldier was killed in afghanistan yesterday by a gunman in an afghan uniform. we'll continue to follow this developing story and bring details as we get them. >> gretchen: manhunt underway from tennessee to fellow there and as far west as arizona for this man, adam mays. he is likely armed and extremely dangerous. he's wanted for allegedly abducting tennessee mom joanne bain and her three daughters. the girls, eight, 12 and 14, hayes reportedly knows joanne's husband. the f.b.i. announcing two bodies were found in a mississippi home linked to mays. those bodies have not been identified. >> steve: an army nurse who

suddenly collapsed while skyping with his wife from afghanistan might have been shot. the family of captain bruce kevin clark says there was a bullet hole in the closet behind him they saw on skype. his wife says he showed no sign of discomfort before he collapsed. the skype stayed open for two hours as clark's family tried to get him help. the pentagon only saying the death is under investigation. clark leaves behind his wife and two daughters who now would like answers. >> brian: the party may be over for charlie rangel. he's getting stiffed by his own party just five of his pals in the house have contributed to his reconnection bid giving him $3,000. compare that to 3.8 million bucks he got over 14 years. he was censored for 11 ethics violations. >> gretchen: there goes the bride. forget saying, i do. a new poll finds more british women would rather travel the world than get hitched.

we've been getting feedback from you all morning on this one. one wrote from indonesia saying, yes, struck it all, marriage and travel. got married when i was 40 and traveled with my husband ever since. and in budapest, london, dallas, now jakarta. what's next? and carol says true marriage is love forever. traveling is fun for a short time. i know i am a widow who has known forever, love for more on traveling and husbands, here is suzanne somers. she traveled with her husband. >> we go to santa monica. >> steve: we go to the pier. i get the funnel cake. >> brian: you're also excited about your book "bombshell." >> they're all good, but this one, i highly urge you all to read 'cause you're the perfect ages for it. i have turned 65 this year and i woke up and i thought, when i was a kid, i thought people who were 65 either retired or died. and i thought i'm so nowhere

near that. it has to be the way i'm approaching my health. out came another book. >> gretchen: i can't believe it. i was just saying in the commercial break, seems like you were just here with your last boom the subtitle is explosive medical secrets to redefine aging. >> right. >> gretchen: so you have done all these experimental things. you were the first woman to have stem cells put into yourself to recreate a breast. right? >> i went after that. took me three years. there was a doctor in japan -- when i had cancer 11 years ago, all they could offer me was implants, 'cause they said you have to get them both even or the transflap, which they cut from hip to hip and take a muscle and move it up here. so i said, sew me up and something better will come along. and i heard about this doctor in japan who successfully has done this on 400 japanese women who had lost their breast to cancer. so i got hold of him, brought him here, put him with an l.a. surgeon. got something called an irb,

which qualified me for a clinical trial. took three years. this august we did it and they took fat from my stomach, boo hoo, oh, you have to -- and this is suzanne, they whip out my stem cell, separated them, cleaned them, discarded the weak one, took the strongest ones and a small of that fat rich with my strong stem cells and for lack of a better term, with a turkey baster, injected in this breast. poof, i have an internet talk show and you can see on the first episode i show the procedure. i think it's like, to me, the biggest advancement in breast cancer in a long time. it's nice to have -- i'm whole and it's unscarred and has feeling and it's nice. the first two weeks i was showing everybody, my husband says suzanne, you've got to stop showing people. >> steve: it was fine with family members.

but the guy at the car wash? >> right, and i would have. >> steve: no kidding. >> brian: let's talk about something else. using testosterone for prostate cancer? >> right. so if i were a man examine diagnosed with prostate cancer, i would want to see this doctor out of harvard. he's on the faculty of harvard. i sat next to him at a dinner party and we became friends and he called me earlier this year and he said, i just completed a small but very important study. we find that when we are now giving men with active -- this is huge -- active prostate cancer who have not been treated yet. that's the big separator -- we give them testosterone and their prostate cancer is regressing. this is huge. this is not suzanne somers saying this. is this thank is a doctor on the faculty of harvard. i always knew this because a european doctor has been doing

this. prostate is like a breast. we women have ducts and that's where we make milk. your prostate in your ducts, that's where testosterone makes food for the sperm. so when you're making a loft testosterone, it's nice and small. as he explained to me, when you lose the building block, as you decline in testosterone from stress or toxicity or aging, that prostate opens up looking for its building block. his theory was i put it back, what is misting and the prostate goes down. this is so huge for men because men have been -- it's awful what happens to men with prostate cancer. >> gretchen: so many men are diagnosed with it. let's talk again about the reverse signs of aging. now there is this enzyme supplement, what is it? >> this is called ta 65. three nobel prize winners, elizabeth blackburn, carol grader and jack soziak, discovered that in every cell in our body, our 50 trillion cells, we make something that keeps --

every cell has a tail on it. every time it replicate, that tail gets shorter. so this regrowth of that and people report having better hair, less wrinkling, better skin, more energy, more youthful. my interest in health is all about keeping the insides young. that's what i'm out there for. >> brian: ta 65. >> a little pricey. some of these things are not pricey. what kills us is heart disease. women, we die of heart disease. so do men. usually as get older, like from my age on, you get hardening of the arteries, atherosclerosis. if you take vitamin k every day fort rest of your life, it keeps the arteries soft and pliable. this book is loaded with it, including the hormone that one doctor told me about, again not me that, makes women have better

orgasms and men have better erections. >> gretchen: you saved the best for last? excuse me! what page is that on? >> that's dr. prudence hall. >> brian: it's all in your book. they all become best sellers. >> i'm always proud of all my books. this one sort of came together in a way that i went wow. >> steve: you got something for everybody in this book. >> i too. all ages. i looked at how we're aging and i don't like it. i don't like it's sick, usually ending up in a nursing home. >> steve: so do something about it! >> that's exactly it. if you don't want that what, are you doing about it? this book will tell you how. >> gretchen: one more thing about the white blood cells because a lot of people face cancer in their lives. >> right. one doctor out of his clinic in florida was working with a man at mit and he said you have to

interview that doctor. that's how i network. he has been doing this in the lab. there are cancer resistant rats and they have found there are cancer resistant human beings. and he's been taking -- now, he finished the lab study. now he's finished the human study where he takes the white blood cells of somebody who is cancer resistant -- i say, who is the lucky karma that gets that -- injects it into the cancer person and the cancer is regressing. there are big changes happening and these are orthodox doctors doing this. so i'm proud to pass their information around. >> steve: so if you would like the book, it is called "bombshell." >> why not. happy birthday. >> brian: thank you very much. >> you look good. you do look 25. >> brian: really? >> gretchen: good luck with the book. >> thank you very much. >> gretchen: coming up on "fox & friends," september 11 mastermind, ksm making a mockery of our justice department. our next guest, a retired firefighter who lost 14 of his

colleagues is more outraged by the lawyers than the terrorists themselves. >> steve: and socialism a big thumbs up and it's about to take a toll right here on wall street when the street opens in 51 minutes. we are live with the market check as we roll on live from new york city. i'm really going to miss you.

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>> brian: 45 minutes away from the opening bell at wall street. opening futures fall not guilty response to france's presidential election. putting a socialist in office has ramification, it seems. doug now in washington with more. doug? >> brian, good morning. yeah, all kinds of ramifications here. a lot of uncertainty out there. let's start with what happened in france over the weekend.

sarkozy was defeated for the presidency of france. this is a big deal. this guy is a socialist. this represents the return to power for the socialist party in that country. he won the runoff election and he's not a fan of the austerity measures that have been put in place to bring budgets in line there. so we may see big changes. markets aren't thrilled about that. now let's move over to greece. parliamentary elections in that country we all know that greece is in a lot of trouble right now in terms of its amount of spending over the years. and this again is going to throw into question what they're going to do as far as austerity measures are concerned. the markets do not like your honor certainty. we got all kinds of uncertainty because in both of these thing, we don't know which direction the entire continent will head in. the white house interested to forge new ties with france. we may get a better feel for what direction he's going to head in. but we have a pretty good idea, less austerity, more spending as he tries to get the french

economy back on its feet. we'll see. back to you. >> brian: tax rates up 75% now. steve, take it away. >> steve: thank you very much. accused september 11 terrorist khalid sheikh mohammed making a mock year of our justice system over the weekend by dragging his feet and playing games in court. not the only one. the victim's families have no choice but to watch. our next guest watched the arraignment saturday from brooklyn, new york. fire department of new york firefighter richard reeg who watched the towers fall on september 11 joins us live. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve, thank you for having us. >> steve: why did you go watch this on saturday? >> 9-11 families had a long and frustrating quest for justice and we were very pleased to see the arraignment start, to fine gillette the wheels of justice turning. i wanted to be there not only to see the arraignment, but to show my support for the other 9-11 families who lost loved ones in

the attack. >> steve: we've only read accounts. you actually saw it with your own two eyes. we heard one guy, one of the terrorists made a paper airplane and flew that and then another one gave a thumbs up to one of the brothers of a girl who was killed on september 11. are they out of control? >> they were insewent as they could be, even to the point where they refused to don the ear phones so they could receive simultaneous translation. and that resulted in a translatear having to translate everything as they said it. delays. >> steve: some of them absolutely speak english. i know that one of the attorneys, david nevin, who is work with khalid sheikh mohammed, at one point he said, with all that mr. mohammed has been through, that really bothers you, with all that he has been through. >> yes. i found that particularly vexing

and especially sitting there with the families and knowing that the pain that they've been through these past ten years and brought me back to that day when my company 44 and many members of the 10th battalion we were at a staging area directly opposite the tower where numerous people were trapped on the upper floors, flames, seering heat, that black smoke. and think of the anguish they were in. they had a choice, burn, suffocate or jump. and if i'm up in a sky scraper and look out the window, it's scary. and to make the decision to have to do that to escape the horrible conditions inside -- >> steve: with all mr. mohammed has been through. even though he confessed a couple years ago. >> those people i submit to you had more air on the way down than khalid sheikh mohammed when

they water boarded him. many young firefighters, this being their first fire they went to, it was horrible and a score on them forever. >> steve: we understand and we thank you very much being an eyewitness to actually seeing it. we appreciate your account. >> thank you. >> steve: robert reed who retired in 2003 proudly from the fire department of new york. thank you for your service. >> reluctantly. >> steve: thank you. all right. straight ahead, 12 minutes before the top of the hour with his reelection campaign in full swing, will president obama end up pulling a few lines from the godfather? >> it's not personal. it's strictly business. >> steve: strictly business. our next guest says yes and joe biden already shut out of important meetings? we'll tell but that. let's check in with bill hemmer. >> good morning to you. we fire up a whole new week here in "america's newsroom." we're not there yet. that's the rally cry from the obama team. karl rove is here today to react to that.

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>> gretchen: quick head lines. brand-new video of boeing 787 dream liner arriving at dulles airport in washington, d.c. this morning. later it heads to reagan national airport and that's turning some heads. that's because no u.s. carrier has the boeing 787 yet and no wide body jets can serve reagan national. oprah's struggling cable channel may not be around much longer. it lost as much as $330 million

since its launch. if it fails, discovery communication also also lose 600 million invested in the channel. brian? >> brian: with his reelection campaign if full swing fish will he reopened, will president obama pull a few lines from his favorite movie? >> it's strictly business. >> brian: yep. strictly business. will godfather style politics send the vice president packing and hillary in? michael goodwin is a columnist and fox news contributor is here. michael, do you think this is a possibility? >> i do. joe biden is clearly the fredo of the obama family. and i wouldn't be surprised to see him sent out on a fishing boat one early morning. look, biden does not help the reelection effort. he goes off message all the time. he's a real liability when it comes to pulling in a new, exciting part of the base. hillary clinton, if president obama were to make that switch,

would enlisten the ticket. and i believe, i continue to believe despite what the white house says, that if it comes close in the summer, if the polls show obama trailing, he will make the switch. that hillary clinton will be on the ticket and joe biden will be sleeping with the fishes. >> brian: right. he laugh that had off yesterday. says everything says obama-biden. meanwhile, he was questioned extensively by david gregory over his accusation from the stump that mitt romney wouldn't have made the same call that president obama did when it came to taking out bin laden. let's listen. >> in this particular area, you said bin laden is dead. gm is alive. could you say that o slogan in reverse for romney and it's striking, given that at the hour of d-day for this operation, you told this president don't do it. don't do it now, is what you said. and yet you're saying, governor romney should be questioned when that was your judgment at the time? >> that's a valid point.

i didn't say he wouldn't. >> the implication was he would not pull the trigger. we don't know that he would. >> i don't know that he would either. we don't know. you don't know 'til you're in that position. >> brian: wow. so he was really on his heel there is and you understand that he's being left out of key meetings. that was his rereconvey sick to becoming number two. >> he's not invited to the weekly campaign strategy meetings. this shows he's not taken seriously within the administration. we were talking before, even osama bin laden in those letters said how biden is woefully unproposed to be president. so the question is why is he still on the ticket? what is he doing as a vice president -- he's been wrong fundamentally on every major issue historically. he's been in the senate forever. he brings nothing to the ticket now. so i believe that if the president is in trouble, the president -- look, i don't think the president wants to get him offment it would be a sign of weakness. but would he rather look weak or would he rather lose with biden on the ticket?

>> brian: this sounds very familiar with bush and quayle. >> and even bush 43 with dick cheney. and he won cesspit cheney. >> brian: right. but no one ever questioned his competence. >> that's right. >> brian: that might not be the case here. >> that's right. >> brian: i'll see you on later. and we're back with you in two minutes careful, pringles are bursting with more flavor.

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>> gretchen: that's what brian will be doing all night, rocking a club on his birthday. he'll be celebrating and putting down some beers. >> brian: remind me around 12:00 o'clock to knock it off. >> steve: let's get ready for mother's day. if you're will being for something cool for mom --

>> brian: what about my cake? >> gretchen: carouselcakes.com. >> steve: for the other moms, go to our web site and down at the bottom, there is a button you can buy all sorts of stuff. how about a lovely fox news blouse for mom? >> brian: thank you. this is fantastic. >> steve: how about an umbrella? did you know you could get a fox news umbrella? >> brian: nothing says i love you, mom, like an umbrella. >> steve: how about a insulated container for mom's 12 pack? look at that! right there, for the beer. >> gretchen: brian, for all your beer. log on for our after the show show. >> brian: thank you, everybody. bill: good morning. chilling words from an american being held hostage by al qaeda. he