been romney's best stump speech ever. on tuesday you write, seemed to have found his voice. what do you mean? >> well, the voice, there is a saying in golf, megyn, grip is and rip it. you get up to the ball, you decide you know what, i'm not going to try to shape this shot, i'm not going to try to make it delicate, i'm going to grab a hold of this thing and smack it as far as i can. and romney talking about business, having the president attacking him on romney's central resume point, which is his success and experience as a businessman, romney seemed to enjoy it. he seemed to be engaged in this. and ready to go after the president. it wasn't just that part that you showed there, but he went on on made a very clear, very bold statement of principles about free markets, private enterprise, all of those things, he did it passionately, bluntly, he did it directly and we were reminded of a romney that we saw a flash of back in south carolina and florida when he was dealing with newt gingrich and

trying to fend him off, and it was fierce and feisty and it's a good sign for romney. he's going to need a lot of that in his tank to get through in november. megyn: one reason newt gingrich got ahead in the primary for a while is he was able to articulate certain principles very eloquent lee and forcefully and without apology and we saw the surge behind him at a couple of debates when he did that, chris. one of the complaints about romney is, he hasn't been able to do that. he hasn't been able to inspire people and give voice to conservative principles in the way we saw gingrich do. was jed such yesterday such a moment? >> it was definitely such a moment. the reason why romney worked so hard to stay on the economy, private enterprise, free market, those issues, that's where he likes to be, he is very comfortable talking about that stuff. doesn't have to grope around for the words, he understands it an knows it. when he talks about the function of government and says that the president, yes of course government is important, but

guess what we pay for that, that's what our taxes do. you're not doing us a favor, that's what our taxes do, that's what we expect our taxes to do. to your point about gingrich i call it the krauthammer principle. conservatives love him because he reflects an intellectual version of what they believe in their hearts, he gives voice to those words. if romney is going to do what he wants to do and win the presidency he's going to have to do what gingrich did and what krauthammer does ever night and make conservatives stronger about their own views and repeat them. megyn: he took it to a more big-picture level and went on the offense against the president about who the president is and what his ideology is about america and what the future of america will be. we heard mitt romney talk about barack obama's version of america, but it's been more along the lines of platitudes. yesterday he took it to this is a change election, a critical-type election where you'll determine what kind of america we live n. is that the

more successful line for governor romney? >> it's got to be. this is not going to be an election -- if this is an election that comes down to nuisance and subtlety he has already lost. this has to be a big stakes election to throw out an incumbent. you have uncertainty, allows key economy, all this unemployment. if people aren't ready to make a big change they won't take mitt romney. the other thing so information for romney, it could hardly be more crucial is that when he prosecutes the case against barack obama he has to do it directly, and the president has made it possible for him in these four months of incredibly negative attacks, personal attacks, character attacks on romney. romney certainly can be excused for punching back pret pretty hard because of the $100 million that the president and his campaign board out on the former governor's head. megyn: thank you so much. we will take a closer look at

this idea that things just don't get done without the government. president obama was not the first leading democrat to remark on how small business owners need to charlotte government for their success in large measure. a closer look at the history of that argument in moments and how this might play out with voters in the coming weeks. fox news alert now some reports that the syrian government could be on the brink of collapse. state department sources telling our own james rosen that the flurry of twitter messages pouring out of syria indicate something big in damascus could happen, including potentially the fall of the government within the next 36 hours. the situation there reminding them a lot of libya a year ago, same thing there was all this buzz on twitter about what was about to happen and then indeed it did. the stunning turn of events comes as syrian rebels managed to kill at least two of the country's top security officials

in a suicide bombing. one of them was the defense minister. his assassination the harshest blow to the government's inner circle since the syrian uprising began some 16 months ago. now there is a real question about whether bashar al-assad will retain power, and if he doesn't what does that mean for the oo united states? ambassador john bolton and ralph peters are here with us to give their perspectives next hour. meantime we turn to the persian gulf where the u.s. has a stern warning for iran. defense secretary leon panetta saying the u.s. will hold teheran directly responsible for any attempt to block shipping and that the united states will defeat any iranian attempt to disrupt the oil markets. the strong words come as a floating military base the u.s.s. ponce is steaming its way into the gulf ahead after 20

ship mine sweeping exercise. some 20% of the world's oil passes through the strait of hormuz. we have the latest live from the pentagon, jennifer griffin, here she is. >> reporter: just moments ago secretary panetta did reiterate that he thinks that things are spiraling out of control in syria. he also told iran to think twice about closing the strait of hormuz. he spoke one day after the pentagon announced war games of an unprecedented scale in the persian gulf starting in september. his warning to iran came after meeting with british defense chief phillip hammond at the pentagon today. they discussed recent

developments in the middle east. >> the iranians need to understand that the united states and the international community are going to hold them directly responsible for any disruption of shipping in that region, by iran, or for that matter by its sur gather. >> reporter: iran held a series of war games in recent weeks in which is forces practiced attacking foreign bases in the region, firing ballistic missiles as iranian parliament members threat toned attack any ships that crossed through the strait of hormuz from countries that you supporting a new oil embargo against iran. the military has been practicing mining exercises in the persian gulf since 2006. iranian divers shown here are seen placing miness underwater as part of those practice exercises. the last time prior to this week that a u.s. navy ship fired shots in the persian gulf near the strait of hormuz was in 1988

after what was presumed to be an iranian mine targeted a u.s. ship. those tanker wars in the 1980s sent oil prices sky high. >> the united states is fully prepared for all contingencies here. we've invested in capabilities to insure that the iranian attempt to close down shipping in the gulf is something that we are going to be able to defeat if they make that decision to do that. >> reporter: the aircraft carrier the u.s.s. john c. stinis will be heading to the persian gulf four months early we are told this week. it will be arriving later this summer. megyn: thank you. continuing coverage of the showdown now with iran, and new reports as well are available to you on our website, foxnews.com. there you can get updates on the united states beefing up its presence in the persian gulf. again foxnews.com.

check it out especially during the upcoming break. in the meantime the mother of a missing iowa girl is now pleading for help, saying her daughter and the girl opens cousin were likely kidnapped. a former f.b.i. investigator joins us shortly on the increasingly desperate search and why some now have serious questions about how someone could have got even these two girls from the location in which their bicycles were found. and big news in the battle against obesity, we'll show you the new pill that some doctors are calling the most effective option out of a slew of diet drugs. and president obama was not the first leading democrat to remark on how small business owners need to credit the government in large part for their success. in two minutes a closer look at the history of that idea, that government is at least equal, and perhaps even more important than the efforts of its people. >> there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own,

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megyn: fox news alert as international tension w-s iran may have taken a turn for the worst. we just got this video from israeli tv. israel's prime minister moments ago blamed iran directly for a deadly bombing on a bus carrying israeli tourists in an area near the black sea. at least three of those tourists were killed in the blast, and now prime minister benjamin netanyahu says, quote, all signs point to iran, and promise that his country will react strongly. more on this breaking news as it comes n in. we'll bring it to you right here.

some say it was a gaffe made in the absence of his tell louisiana prompter, others say it was evidence of president obama's actual philosophy about america and his business owners but the president continued to take heat for his remarks suggesting that entrepreneurs in this country did not really build their operations but instead have government to thank. that belief is not uncommon among some on the leaf as we compare what the president said with recent remarks by democratic senate candidate liz waerpb, among others. >> there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own, nobody. you built a factory out there, good for you. but i want to be clear, you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. >> somebody helped to create

this unbelievable american system that we had that allowed you to drive. somebody invested in roads and bridges. if you got a business, you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen. the internet didn't get invented on its own. government research created the internet so that all the companies could make money off the internet. megyn: guy benson is a radio talk show host and political editor for town hall.com. guy, welcome back. there's been so much debate now about whether this is no big deal, as some on the left would have us believe, of course the government helps a small business in certain ways, and that's all he was trying to say or whether this is a very big deal and offers a stark contrast ideologically between the two candidates. >> yeah, it's a very big deal, megyn. and there is a couple of things to say here. first of all i think it's interesting that elizabeth warren has for years pretended to be a native-american, when she has no interest in even pretending to be a capitalist.

i think that even the people of massachusetts might have a problem with that juxtaposition. secondly, these are increasingly brazen attacks against individual merit and individual achievement. they have it exactly backwards, i'm talking about the president and elizabeth warren and others like them. they seem to think that no private achievement is possible without the government, when in fact directly the opposite is the case. without the private sector, without the ingenuity and productivity of people in the private sector, the vast majority of americans, government literally could not exist. if i may, here is an example i want to give using your show and you, megyn. this is what the president seems to think. you, megyn kelly are not really hosting your show on your own today, and unfortunately he's not talking about your terrific staff of producers and bookers and engineers and the rest who help build the show every day, he's talking about the government, because you, megyn kelly, could not have got even to fox news today if not for

government roads. and you, megyn maybe couldn't read the tell louisiana prompter because you'd be i wilee literate without government schools. you yourself have paid taxes toward those services as has fox news through corporate taxes. these are things we all agree upon as a society in order to have a civil society where government does the basic necessity to make sure that individuals can prosper and drive, and the president believes the opposite, which is totally in my view the total opposite of the american system. megyn: he wants me to pay more to stay with your analogy. i went to public school, right, so that is -- >> me too. megyn: that is government sponsored. i went to public school. now i have an obligation to pay more than i'm paying right now in taxes because i achieved success. even somebody who went to the same public school system i did,

who didn't achieve this level of success, i owe more than that person did because it happened to workout for me. >> you already pay more megyn. let's be honest you've been very successful in your career because you're smart and hard-working two things that the president explicitly mocked in that speech. he said with a sneer and a laugh, oh i love these people who think they're smart and hard-working and that's why they've got even ahead. actually yes, some people are smarter than otherrers and work harder than others and when that manifests itself in material success good. that's the whole reason this country exists on an economic level to celebrate that kind of thing. people in the top income brackets, i think you probably make that category, megyn, i don't yet -- skwraoeu didn't when i was your age, guy. >> that's the point. it's something to aspire to and folks who are in that top bracket already pay more. the top 10% of income earners

paid over 07% of all income taxes a couple of years ago and the last year this data was available. the top 1% pays nearly 40% of all income taxes. we have a big imbalance there. the president wants to make that imbalance even worse, and to get to that point he wants to run down people who have done well by chuckling and pretending that they didn't really earn it themselves and i think that is so insulting to anyone who works hard in this country. megyn: guy benson, thank you so much. >> thanks, megyn. megyn: a murder suspect on the run manages to get behind the wheel of a 50-seat commercial jet, then start it up, then crash it. despite what is supposed to be improved security at our nation's airports. trace, tracking the uncomfortable questions that are now popping up in this story. what would make a highly successful doctor allegedly hire a hitman to knock off another

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megyn: new questions today about a colorado pilot wanted in connection with his girlfriend's death, who tried to steal a commercial plane before taking his own life. police say 40-year-old brian hedglin made it past security at this utah airport where he somehow managed to steal an empty 50-passenger jet and drive it off the runway, raising a number of safety concerns about the nation's airports. trace gallagher has an update live from l.a., trace. >> reporter: the same airport has six miles of perimeter and

only one police officer actually going around checking that perimeter. luckily that officer noticed a motorcycle parked by the gate at 1:00 in the morning on tuesday, and the engine was still warm so he began searching the area. but by that time brian hedglin managed to use a blanket and leather gloves to scale a barbed wire fence. he jumped in a regional jet and fired it up and pulled it away from the jet bridge. when he pushed forward that's when he slipped the left wing on the jet bridge, then scraped along the terminal and drove that plane directly through a security gate into the parking lot where he crashed into a bunch of cars. now tsa does not require airports to have full-time surveillance around the perimeter fences, right? that's up to local airports. some experts say most airports in this country do not fully observe their perimeters. as for the passenger jets, there's no locks on the doors, no keys in the ignition, right? you just get in there and if you

know what you're doing you can start it up. here is the st. george city spokesperson talking about that. listen. >> i think in these odd circumstances when somebody is hell bent on doing whatever it is he was trying to do, a number of security measures in place probably wouldn't have, you know, wouldn't have kept this from happening. >> reporter: ahh, but is that the case? because consider this. had he got even that plane airborne he likely was not going for a joyride, right? this thing carries 4,400 pounds of fuel and travels at 500-plus miles per hour. that is a very fast-moving bomb. now had he got even airborne the experts say that nulles air force base which is a short distance away likely would have been notified and maybe authorized to at least trail and likely shoot that plane down if there was any bad intent. but a huge security question

being asked at airports around the country today, megyn, have anybody just pop over a fence and jump inside a plane and take off? megyn: right, good questions. trace, thank you. >> reporter: okay. megyn: democrats today taking new heat for threatening to take the economy over a cliff in a move that would raise taxes on every american, and that includes a new warning from federal reserve chair ben bernanke. a fair & balanced debate about that, next. plus new masked thugs try to hold up an internet cafe in florida and then they meet their match, a 71-year-old customer pulls out his gun and starts shooting. and their abandoned bikes were found by a lake by their iowa home. hear what their family says may have happened to their little girls. >> please, please contact us, bring our little girls home, please. >> our prayers are for god to protect them, to be with them, to keep them safe, to keep them comforted. when you have diabetes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight.

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in the capitol that killed the country's defense minister and the brother-in-law of the president, it appears that diplomatic efforts here at the united nation toss resolv to resolve this crisis could be deadlocked. a vote on a british sponsored resolution backed by the united states is supposed to be vote owned this afternoon. that has now been postponed at least until tomorrow morning. it called for sanctions against syria. russia said it would votto any resolution calling for sanctions. kofi annan met with the russian president yesterday. russia is moving forward calling for its own resolution to be voted on, a resolution that does not call for sanctions against syria. china has also threatened to veto the british resolution if and when it does come to a vote, and complicating matters the massive arsenal of chemical weapons that the syrian regime has at its disposal. many fear that if the regime is

backed into a corner anything is possible. megyn. megyn: thank you. we should tell our viewers that ambassador bolton and ralph peters will be here in a moment to talk about a serious situation. we have this bit of news for you first in washington democrats are taking new heat today for their threat to let the country go over what is being called the fiscal cliff. some democrats in the senate warning that is exactly what is going to happen if the g.o.p. does not vote to raise taxes on those who make around $200,000 or above. but it is not just republicans who are raising alarm bells, here is the fed chair ben bernanke. >> the cbo hassess matted that if the full range of tax increases and spending cuts were allowed to take effect a scenario widely referred to as the fiscal cliff, a shallow recession would occur early next year and one and a quarter million fewer jobs would be create ned 2013. megyn: he was saying more than a

million jobs could be lost and another recession could be in the cards if a combo of tax hikes and deep spending cuts kick in at the end of the year. and guess what, they are scheduled to do that. joining me now, monica crowley a radio talk show host and fox news contributor. and imogine lloyd webber, author of single girl always guide. although this is scheduled to happen at the end of the year after the election when the pressure is off they'll reach some sort of a deal. you tell me, is this the height of irresponsibility? >> totally. >> that we can't have a deal, we don't have a deal on taxes, on spending, on debts, nothing, we have no deal. >> we are all giggling here, this is a really deadly situation. we are in an increasingly weak economy, megyn the idea that we're still playing with tax policy with the american people, with small businesses as pawns in this back and forth is outrageous. the fact that weary litigating tax policy every six months or

every year this is no way to run a super power. the united states should not be run this way. you're going to have these political games because it is an election year. both sides are going to play this game, they are going to play the game of chicken up until the very end. after election day you'll have to see if president obama is reelected you'll get another struggle over tax policies. megyn: we'll talk about the election. this is just -- it's been going on for years. it's not like this just happened and it just so happens that november is not so far away -- they could have taken care of this a year-plus ago but there is no courage in washington, right? they can't agree on anything. the ideological divide is so deep now. are we now in a situation where nothing ever will get done when it comes to budget, taxes, deficit, spending until we are after the november election in an election year? >> i think the scary thing to me at the moment is washington is a greater danger to the american economy than europe. and i'm teulg, i'm european,

europe is very, very scary right now. this is a ridiculous situation. it should never have got even this bad. there is a culture in wong at the moment which is an absolute disgrace. i think we will see a backlash from voters. certainly next year they will have to move forward, have a proper discussion about tax reform and so forth, because it has got to be dealt with. that deficit has got to be dealt with. megyn: yet you talk to some of the republicans who don't want to see tax hikes and they are applauding, you know, what they see in the house and then other democrats who back like patti murray, and don't want to see taxes -- the current tax rates extended for the so-called rich, and they are applauding the democrats, that's why both sides are so entrenched at least on the tax cuts that they don't talk, they won't bargain. what are the odds here? >> what is really interesting is that you're seeing a lot of divisions on the democrat side. you have a number of high profile democrats, including tphabgsee pelosi, saying i want

the rates to expire just on those making a million dollars or more. president obama wants it at the $250,000 mark. then just today senator richard blumenthal, democrat of connecticut came out said we should keep awful the tax rates in place at least until the economy gets back on track. there is a real schism in the democratic party that is not being covered. megyn: okay granted it would help some. but the amount that they would get from those tax rights is a teaspoon in the ocean. >> it's ludicrous. and you don't raise taxes on the job creators especially in a week economy. >> everything has to be on the table for discussion, the nor questions policy as it were of trying to get republicans sign up over taxes and saying we know tax increases are actual. most americans and economists say you need to have a comprehensive program of spending cuts, yes of course and revenue increased somehow in tax

reform or whatever to hit that deficit, to cut that deficit. so what is going on at the moment is congress is just ridiculous, it's crazy. megyn: o'reilly made a point the other night saying, the tax hikes if he believed they were going to go to the deficit that would be one thing, they are intended to go for more government spending. >> every time you raise taxes and we've seen the empirical evidence of this over many decades, any time tax hikes go into place what happens, you don't actually get shrinkage in the size of government or deficit reduction, it's feeding the rav virginia news beast of government. when you look at the latest rasmussen poll two-thirds of the american people say they oppose tax hikes in any form. when we talk about the tax rates we're talking about marginal income tax rates, that is one discussion. but keep in mind there are 21 new taxes coming january 1st, and obamacare. megyn: we are getting more already. >> absolutely. when you think about the rise of the tea party. the american people have had

enough taxes. what they want to see is a real reduction in the size of government. megyn: patti murray said it will be different after november, the republicans will be more free to vote for tax hikes that they now feel they can't vote for. is that true? even though we are now going to be in november after an election, there is always another election that is always going to be held out there. >> glass half full, we have to hope for the best. this needs to be sorted out. at some point congress is going to have to work together if america is going to remain top dog, number one country in the world. megyn: i hate to quote dan rat rather, but courage. >> it's not by raising taxes it's getting the economy growing again. megyn: everybody is in favor of that. thank you both. a pleasure. what is the name of the block. >> what the bleep just happened, thank you for asking. megyn: and it's a huge best seller. megyn: after you read 50 shades of gray you have to read

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megyn: we wanted to give you an update on a big interest new that sean hannity had today. he was in florida and held the first interview with george zimmerman since the shooting death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. it will air as an hour-long exclusive on hannity tonight at 9:00pm eastern time. zimmerman will discuss what happened on the night of martin's death. we may have a preview for you before this broadcast is done as hannity is on his way to the studios right now. so if he gets back before the end of the broadcast we will bring you a sneak peak. an f.b.i. child abduction team is on the scene in iowa right now. investigators are desperately trying to find two young cousins who went missing last week.

they went out together as usual on friday for a bike ride, and have not been seen since. their bikes and one of the girl's purse were found near a local lake, and police say bloodhounds got a hit on the girl's scents, and their family believes that these girls were kidnapped. they are now begging for their safe return. >> please, please contact us. bring our little girls home, please. >> the nighttime i think is probably the hardest when it starts to get dark. >> i won't be able to function if i was to sit there and think about what could be going on and what happened. >> our prayers are to protect them, to be with them, to keep them safe, to keep hem comforted. you know, if they are alive that god is present with them. >> my daughter swims, it's not a river, there's no current. i don't think that they are in the lake. not at all. it is just like a dead-end as far as we know so far. megyn: bill daley is a former f.b.i. agent and senior vice

president at control risks group. bill, now we're being told a couple of things, that reportedly the family was brought in, given polygraphs and they passed. we haven't independently confirmed that, but that is the report. that the girls were having a normal day, there was no indication of depression, or, you know, unhappiness at home, that they were just going out for a bike ride when they left their grandma's house, and that now we find out that the area where their bikes were found was a long distance, some considerable distance, at least ten minutes maybe from the area where you could have a car. if somebody object deducted them he or she, or they would have had to force the girls or carry the girls a ten, 15 minute walk with nobody seeing anything? how likely is that? >> well, you know, megyn this is an extremely disturbing case, these girls went out as you said for a normal day's activity, they often bicycle around. i think the father said one of the children often would go off on these type of trips. you know what if the scent was

picked up by bloodhounds at the lakeside which suggests the girls were there. it wasn't like their bikes were left there, their purse was left there. they were there, there was a scent there, which is leading the investigators to rule out the possibility that they drowned. what they are trying to do now is both drain part of the lake and f.b.i. divers will go into areas where they can't drain and look for the deeper pockets. this is ruling out that that's the case. i think more and more this appears to be a case where these girls have vanished but people don't just vanish, megyn, they are sometimes taken by people and people with ill intent. megyn: as a former f.b.i. guy, bill, tell me how do you start? i just want to set the scene for the viewers. we're told that the girls rode their bikes, the bikes were found on a path in the woods. it was a ten, 15 minute walk away from the nearest area where you could have a car and there was a fence separating the bikes from the outside world. but we heard that there was a hole in the fence, maybe somebody could have squeezed through. how as an f.b.i. guy who gets called to the scene to find two missing girls, eight and ten

years old do you start? where do you start? >> first off preserving that crime scene, everything from where their bikes were to fingerprints in the sand literally, they are going to want to preserve. these are all indications of what may or may not happened. how many people were there, how fresh the footprints were if there were any around. there was indication that one of the girls had a small phone that may be used for games. unfortunately that will not provide any pinging. megyn because it. megyn: because it wasn't activated as a phone. >> as i said additional fingerprints, how the bikes were left, where they were last seen, maybe by neighbors or others. what other people may have been in the parking lot. were there other people who may have even seen these girls go into the area, all that will play into it and it may actually help the fact that peopleould have seen them. megyn: the tpwap the game lee believes that they were abducted. the fact is that the girl was

left behind with the phone in it, not activated, but a phone that a child might have with games on it, does that suggest to you that this is not a couple of girls who ran away? would a normal eight or ten-year-old girl have taken her purse with her known. >> i think if you're talking about children running away i think they would have wanted something of their own rather than anythin thinking ahead of leaving it behind. if they were planning to do it ahead of time they wouldn't have done that. i think you would have taken something personal with you. maybe there was money in there, they would have held onto that. i don't think that personal item is something you leave behind. that's where you get into either they were distracted or unfortunately they were abducted. megyn: a desperate search is still on. bill daley, thank you, sir. coming up a story that has gun rights advocates saying, we told you so. two robbers meet their match from a senior citizen packing heat. that's in three minutes. the stunning turn of events in syria today. there are reports that we could

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megyn: a senior citizen in florida exercising his second amendment rights and successfully stopping an attempted hold up. take a look at the surveillance tape. you can see two would be robbers scrambling to be away. the person after him? that is 71-year-old licensed gun owner samuel williams. trace gallagher has his story. >> reporter: at a time the palms internet cafe in central florida was pretty busy. without the 71-year-old hero this thing could have got even bloody fast. play there thing. you'll see two guys walk into

the internet cafe, one of them walks in with a baseball bat, the other with a gun. you see the baseball bat guy is smashing things up. as you look over this thing you'll notice in the back is a guy right there. let's freeze this video. see the guy in the back he's sitting, that is sam williams, 71 years old. he waits for the gunman to turn around, his back is to him and now roll this. sam williams gets up and man he is direct, no messing around, he starts firing. he opens fire, starts walking towards the door. you see both the suspects start heading toward the door n fact watch this. they fall over each other trying to get ou. here comes sam he keeps shooting at them. he hit them both with bullets, they were not life-threatening injuries, those suspects did manage to get away, but they were captured a short time later. look at sam running after them. and then the police showed up, sam williams not facing any charges at all, in fact the people inside that cafe are saying sam williams deserves a whole bunch of free coffee and a lot of internet time free as

well. big round of applause for sam williams, because that is quick thinking. megyn: i don't know. >> reporter: megyn. megyn: i don't know. i'm not sure. you know, you could get in trouble for shooting to stop something where -- if it's not like deadly force that is being used. the guys had their gun drawn, so that's a problem for them. but we'll see. trace, thank you. >> reporter: we'll see it in "kelly's court." megyn: fox news alert now a major story developing in the mideast this hour. a suicide bomber hits a bus full of israeli tourists in bulgaria a couple of hours ago. the israeli prime minister just blamed iran for this attack, and israel is threatening to respond against iran. ambassador bolton is here in moments. plus what would lead one powerful, successful doctor to allegedly contract a hired killer to takeout another very powerful and equally successful doctor? "kelly's court" takes up the case. >> did you see any kind of like

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megyn: a fox news alert on two big stories developing in the middle east. first a suicide bomber hits a bus full of israeli tourists in bulgaria. just a couple of hours ago. the israeli prime minister just blamed iran for the attack, and is threatening a response. the white house moments ago saying president bashar al-assad in syria is losing control of that country. as civil war engulf the nation. welcome to a brand-new our of "america live." i am megyn kelly. we are going to speak with john bolton about israel and iran at the moment. it comes after rebels take

responsibility for the assassination of two people. a current and former defense minister and president bashar al-assad's brothers operate in the boldest attack we have seen yet on the regime's inner circle which directed the brutal crackdown on a 17 month long uprising that has led to the death of anywhere from 10 to 17,000 syrian people. dominick joins us with the breaking news. reporter: abelow by the rebels at the very heart of the regime. the defense minister, the brother-in-law of president bashar al-assad himself. killed in that attack. state tv announcing the death of the minister and the casualty come in describing it as a terror attack by the bodyguard

of a sad inner circle. a spokesman for the rebels telling the associated press that it was a planted bomb in the meeting room where the government officials and the head of the security have details of the regime, where they were meeting. we were told it is about 500 meters from the u.s. embassy, which is in the very center of the capital itself. there were celebrations by the rebel supporters in the north of the country. hundreds turned out because they knew what this meant to the regime. we do understand there has been a four-day campaign of what the rebels are describing a final battle. the government is very concerned by this. the presidential palace is now surrounded by heavy artillery and the defense. bombings like this can take place, getting key targets in the city as well. the presidential palace is certainly very vulnerable. on top of that overnight we saw

barracks, which house the presidential palaces personal security detail, was blown by incoming as well. the tempo is very much rising in the past 24 hours. we are looking at messages coming out of the united states through. the kind of social media, twitter, which we saw in qaddafi and libya last year. the pressure definitively boring. it is interesting to see how this will turn out. megyn: thank you so much. the other breaking story from the midis involves tension with iran, possibly taking a serious turn for the worse. again, we just got this video in the last hour from israeli tv. it is of a deadly bombing of a bus carrying israeli tourists in bulgaria. at least four people were killed and israel's prime minister now

says all signs point to iran in this attack. he is warning that his country will have a strong response. israel will react strongly to iran's terror. that is appropriate in the words of our guests, it could be setting the table for a major showdown now between iran in israel. ambassador john bolton is here with us now. he is the former u.s. ambassador to the united nation's. ambassador bolton, this is israel claiming an iranian terrorist attack on bulgarian soil because israelis are dead. what evidence is there that iran was pulling the strings? >> i think you have to believe that the israeli prime minister was choosing his words very carefully, and that he spoke only after his government have gotten what they believed to be conclusive evidence that iran was responsible for this attack. there have been other attacks on israelis around the world. thailand, india in recent months have also been blamed on iran.

they have not had this devastating effect on innocent civilians. i think when the prime minister says it is iran and not has glaucoma and we will respond strongly, there is every indication it could mean an israeli attack on iran directly. megyn: is this related at all to the nuclear facility? is this going to be parlayed into a strike? a justification for a strike on iran's nuclear facility? >> i think that you israel should've done something on the nuclear facilities long ago. it does not sound at this moment that that is what he has in mind. if he had said hezbollah, that modern fiber retaliation by israel. he did not. that is why his words have considerable meaning. because if there is an israeli strike against even simply revolutionary guards facilities, but not the nuclear program, then you can have a direct response by iran against israel, and we could really be into it. megyn: put that into historical perspective for us. >> israel has a clear policy

going back decades that it does not allow terrorist attacks go unanswered. in fact, with this response by the prime minister, he is saying that they are not just going to respond proportionately to what the terrorist attacks in bulgaria work, but it could go beyond that after several facilities of the revolutionary guard. you really have to understand this twice. this is a very major development in the region. it will honestly impact the united states of all the forces we have been building up in the persian gulf. i would think that they would be put on alert very quickly. megyn: there are two things that you mentioned that iran or hezbollah has been guilty of other attacks against israeli citizens and other nations. this is according to, i think the associated press, saying that all the indications pointed towards hezbollah or iran, and

the rest of the hezbollah operatives, and he was suspected of preparing a similar attack. at least you have, benjamin netanyahu saying iran directly, if there is this tit for tat that goes on between israel, from today forward, is that war? what is it and what we do? >> i think that israel takes the position legitimately been attacks on its innocent civilians, whether in bulgaria or israel or anywhere else. it is an act of war. they would say that their retaliation is self-defense, and i think that is right. hezbollah is a surrogate for a wrong anyway. even if it were a hezbollah attack, it was instigated by iran. that is why benjamin netanyahu saying iran rather than hezbollah removes the ambiguity and points that some israeli action is taking place against iran directly. megyn: eating very brief

information that jay carney says we stand with israel in today's briefing. but not much more than that. we will try to get more details for you on exactly what the white house is saying about this. again, this is from the prime minister of israel. this is an iranian terror attack that is spreading across the world. israel will react strongly to iran's chair. ambassador bolton, thank you, sir. ambassador bolton rejoin us in a moment. he is going to rejoin us in a moment, when we talk about the situation in syria. we would like to go to the campaign trail where we are waiting for governor romney to hold a town hall meeting in bowling green, ohio. ohio is a key battleground states up for grabs in november. mitt romney finishing up a rally yesterday in pennsylvania. he went after president obama's you did not build that comment about the role of government and business creation. the governor called that comment insulting to every entrepreneur, every innovator in america.

mr. mitt romney expected to keep up that line of attack today. you can watch this event at fox news.com. that is streaming live now. while we wait for those remarks, bill hemmer, host of "america's newsroom" just returned from talking to voters in mexico, how are you doing? >> we have been canvassing the country come as you know, trying to find critical areas of the country to tell a larger story about what is happening in america. there is so much talk about jobs and the economy and rightfully so. it is issue number one. education is critical. education matters, especially with suburban women in america. in new mexico, the public school system rates at or near the bottom of nearly every category. we talked to dozens of people this past week and you are about to meet the hassan family could have a four year old daughter, emma, and they are concerned about her future. they say four years ago and the

economy went to the tank common schools went right with it. have a listen. >> we have kids they can't read, kids that cannot write. i think it is time to get back to the basics with reading and writing and arithmetic. >> america, they tell us that it is the best country out there. and it probably is. i don't see anything better. but we are getting away from what it is supposed to be. reporter: what is striking about that couple is that they say mitt romney has yet to win their votes. why new mexico? why does it matter? president obama swept the state four years ago. he beat john mccain by 15 points. in 2004, president bush beat john kerry by only 6000 votes. it was the slimmest of margins based on vote count in the entire country. in the year 2000, president bush beat al gore by about 370 votes.

so you wonder whether or not new mexico will figure president obama, but given the challenges, it has had when you think and see things like the economy, and jobs in the educational system -- those five electoral votes might swing back. although it will be a very tough fight for the mitt romney team. megyn: five little votes for camelot. bill hemmer, thank you. more coming up on our top story in moments. the white house warning that leaders in syria have lost control, as civil war sweeps the country. what should the united states do here? what are the risks to us remarked that there is a power vacuum there, is this possibly a good thing when it lieutenant colonel ralph peters joins us after the break. ambassador john bolton joins us next. and new health dangers in japan's nuclear meltdown last year. serious new concerns about what is in the water ahead. and why would a powerful, wealthy, successful doctor put out a hit on another powerful,

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she won a dramatic turn of events in syria. a fourth straight day of fighting within the capital. the white house saying that bashar al-assad is losing control of his country and the government may be on the verge of collapse. this news precipitated by the assassination of two top defense officials this morning in a suicide bombing in damascus. among those killed, president

assad's brother-in-law and another top official. now, the white house is bracing for a potential collapse in damascus, possibly the speculation is within the next 36 hours. twitter chatter is being monitored by the state department. similar to what we saw coming out of libya in the days before we saw the fall of qadhafi. the death toll at syria is more than 17,000 people, including women and children. this little girl amidst the rubble has become the face of this conflict. the numbers between 10 and 17,000 since the beginning of this conflict 17 months ago. if syria's government is about to collapse, where does that leave the united states? joining me now is ambassador john bolton, former ambassador to the u.n. and at fox news contributor. and colonel ralph peters, author and contributor. welcome and thank you both. let me start with you, ralph.

we have a report days ago which we talking about about the syrian government and chemical weapons around. we didn't know they were trying to move them away as opposition forces moved in or move them into be used against opposition forces. to put it all in perspective, in light of the news today. >> as far as chemical weapons go, if assad needs to use them, there will be a chance uses them now. there will be brutal retaliatory consequences on civilians now. this was the decisive day in the syrian uprising. we cannot predict how fast the regime will fall. sometimes it does very quickly. it could be over in days or it could drag on for months. today, this bombing, it appears it was a pre-planted bomb in a suicide bomb. it wiped out not just the defense minister, not just the deputy defense minister and brother-in-law of assad, who was a real power player, it was the

head of intelligence, killing the interior minister, he killed the deputy vice president. this wiped out not only the guys who knew where the bodies were buried, dislike of the guys who buried the bodies. so the regime can name people to replace these guys that nobody can replace them. besides inner circle is gone. it is done, is now a matter of time. it is still going to be really ugly. megyn: what people want to know is this a good thing for us? do we want this, ambassador bolton? >> i think that if assad has any chance to stay in power he does need to respond with force immediately. i think ralph is right on that point. if chemical weapons are going to be used, we are going to see it quickly. the russians have said that this marks the beginning of a decisive battle for syria. i think that implies that they think assad is going down and it is entirely possible when you have seen the security penetrated like this the

collapse could come very quickly. to me, that immediately raises the prospect in a matter of hours, what happens to syria and its chemical weapons and biological weapons, and what happens if there are joint syrian iranian nuclear activity that remains. i think this is something that we need to be prepared to take action on them not to intervene militarily between assad, but to do something to make sure that those weapons of mass destruction and materials associated with them don't fall under the wrong hands. that may well mean considering special operations forces. megyn: before we get to that point, if assad falls and he falls, is not what we wanted? this is a man who goes around killing babies and children. according to the reports by the thousands. door to door, point-blank range while their parents watch and then they tell the parents or vice versa makes everybody wanted to his forces. it is not a good thing that this guy is about to lapse? his government is about to

collapse? >> he is also responsible for a lot of american deaths in iraq. he sheltered al qaeda terrorist, even though now he is saying that al qaeda is on the other side. it is not a good and bad. what's happening in syria is inevitable. in light of the arab spring. our task, and ambassador bolton knows that the diplomats and to the military extent, is to do weekend playing on the margins make sure that this does not rebound against us. but again, there are many worries that are that the russians are in a panic because they are about to lose their last their client state and because the insurgency. -- they are very worried about a new syrian government having a chip on the shoulder against russia because it supported assad and harboring chechen terrorists and support for there is going to be a lot of turmoil after the regime for a country

goes. it will not be pretty. but i will tell you this. the rebels and the insurgents now fighting in the streets of damascus, attacking the fourth division headquarters, penetrating the security perimeter and killing the inner circle, security men today, it is a matter of time before a assad goes. after a assad, it is going to continue to be ugly in different ways. unfortunately, you probably will see a lot of sectarian killings after the regime falls. megyn: ambassador bolton, how are we to do the things that you outlined a moment ago that we need worry about doing? to i think it is very difficult. our intelligence is far from perfect. we have a vital interest in making sure that things like chemical weapons don't fall into the hands of terrorists who are associated with the opposition forces, that they are not used by regimes and regime officials. this is something that ought to be the focus of our attention,

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megyn: a new concern that contaminated ocean water from japan's nuclear meltdown is now headed straight for our shores. an alarming new study from u.s. government scientists say that dangerous levels of radiation are on a collision coast with the west coast. that contamination of those waves could be worse than what was seen in fukushima, japan. trace gallagher has the west bureau report. >> as you know, the national

oceanic atmospheric agency, the right headline is those toxic waste coming this way could be worse than fukushima. before you sell the malibu beach house, we have to do there is a lot of information that no one is willingly admitting. they don't really have. here's the deal. they took the water currents and they did some measuring and calculating, and you take a look at this. they figure in one year that radioactive water will have spread through much of the western pacific. what is in red is the radioactive stuff. then you jump ahead to five years, and that is where they say all of this toxic contaminated water will hit the west coast. now, keep in mind, this noaa admits could be worse or better than what they say, but they don't have a clue. because they don't really know how much radioactive material was actually released from fukushima. here is the big fear. what happens is they think that all that radioactive water collects in these pools and concentrates in certain areas. as they head west, the water may

not be that contaminated. then you have these big waves, that have a lot of toxic contamination. the bottom line here is that noaa believes this toxic water is coming towards the west coast. they just don't know exactly what the radioactive waves will be once it hits. now you can sell the beach house. megyn: wow. now, okay, that's disturbing. i am way over here in new york, but i do care about my california friends. >> thank you, we appreciate it, megyn. megyn: trace gallagher, see you soon. coming up are two known doctors. one is dead. prosecutors say it was a murder for hire. why? we will go to the dramatic details of the case in "kelly's court." and governor mitt romney and his powerful new attack against president obama, as the fallout grows and the president's remark about small businesses. is he becoming the guy defending

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president obama. he is speaking at a town hall meeting in bowling green, ohio. yesterday, or this one coming you heard chris stirewalt said that the governor had found his voice. let's listen for a moment to see. >> the government to pay for it and somebody come if they came here across the border and brought their family seeking a better life, their success is not due to them. no, they didn't build it, the government gets credit for that. and if a person and their job says i'm going to work hard and get more skills and i got a promotion -- oh, by the way, that's not yours. that is the governments. that is where this leads. when you attach success like this president has, you will see less success -- i will celebrate success, reward success, encourage and help it with our kids and families, and we will be more successful and a prosperous nation with more jobs and rising income. that is the direction for america. not this denigration of success and achievement in america.

[applause] [applause] [applause] >> you know, when i get this campaign going, so this will be an election about the soul of america. a lot of people wondered about that. was i overstating it. i don't think we are overstating it at all. because, you see, go back to the soul of america having been established clearly the voices of the founders when they wrote the declaration of independence, they did not give credit for our rights to the government. but instead of the creator where it belongs. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> and among the rights given to us not by government but by our

creator, right to life, and those liberty and the right to the pursuit of happiness. we are free to pursue happiness as we choose. we are not limited by the circumstances. this idea of criticizing and attacking success, of demonizing those in all walks of life, it is something which is so foreign to us, we simply cannot understand it. i was with marco rubio the other day at a rally like this. [applause] [applause] and he said, you know, he grew up in a pretty modest home in the miami area and he said there were some spectacular homes. are you successful people, he said never once did he hear his parents say why won't those people give us some of what they have? instead what they say -- megyn: if you want to watch the rest of the remarks come and they are streaming live on fox

news.com. we would like to talk about this shift in message with our panel. we have christopher hahn and david webb. host of the david webb show on sirius xm's patriot show and tea party 365 cofounder. there you have it. he has found his message. we talked about it. he clearly thinks he is onto something. let's talk with you, chris come, on that point. he thinks he's onto something. >> he does. he is distorting what the president said. the president was off message, but what the president is trying to think that you just don't succeed overnight buy or sell. you succeed because there is an environment for success. roads, bridges, schools, educated workforce, and our court system and security that our taxpayers provide for businesses to grow. mitt romney wants everybody to be able to pursue happiness come in for him, that has been taking a $77,000 a year tax reduction. you know, that is the kind of

thing we are talking about. >> you know what i love about chris, here's what the president said that if you are successful, somebody along the wine gave you some help, a great teacher somewhere in your life, someone in the american system that we have allowed you to drive. if you have a business he did not build it. well, this is the chicken and egg. here's the political chicken and egg. it takes taxpayer money. government doesn't have it then. henry ford built a business. he pay taxes. all of our taxes paid by us by the system. the obama collectivist approach is that you need government to do this. where is the american success story is, you have an idea. someone has -- let me finish -- someone has a particular skill and they are able to build and development develop something which funds the government. yes, there is government involvement to a degree, but it is not government completely remap the government is better to provide the background and

the support committee of the structure to let these businesses thrive. we agree on that. >> what is the background and? >> what are you talking about? [talking over each other] [talking over each other] >> businesses just don't pop up overnight. it is not because henry ford would have been henry ford if there had not been roads and an environment of stability that the government created. [talking over each other] [talking over each other] [talking over each other] megyn: this is all the president's justification for raising taxes on the so-called wealthy. if you are an individual over $200,000, a family over $250,000. here is what i don't understand. if i take risk and create a business and it succeeds in a make over $250,000 year, and he wants me to pay more taxes. if i build a business and doesn't succeed, then i get to stay in the same way. but both people in this

hypothetical scenario use the same infrastructure, create the same business, one has to pay more because he or she was successful. >> it is the opposite of solyndra. what they did was they socialize the risk and they privatize the game. now the president wants to put it and he wants to socialize this by taking away from americans. megyn: i think my point was better. no, but this was my question -- seriously come help, how to get to the bottom of this. why? what is the justification for the two people who take risks, build businesses can use the same infrastructure and same government and roads and bridges and everything. one happens to succeed in the other one does not. why should the one who succeeds he even want? >> theoretically if you succeed coming you are using more of government services and you are benefiting more from them. what separates us from uganda is we have a functioning government that provides things for our citizens, specifically civility. i have heard conservatives

crying. crying for three years about stability. what we have with our government is certainty. a government that is protected in a court system that will protect us day and night as they go to use our government. >> going back to reality, instead of what chris pushes here -- megyn: i'm saying that the person who fails and the person who succeeds both take advantage of the cost and the firefighters in the securities and the cops and the roads and so on. the difference is one succeeds and one does not. one is steve jobs and had an amazing idea and one does not. one falls flat. the president says the one who succeeds should pay more in the question is why? mitt romney saying it is because he is attacking or demonizing people who become successful. if that is not what he is doing,

then why? what is the justification? >> personal, this is not a gaffe by the president. he believes in the european socialist democracy and its system. he believes in big centralized government. rather than uganda, the fact facts are that most people don't end up in court. somebody has to invest that and manufacture that good. someone has to provide that service. they pay taxes because they are successful. the ones that are not as successful or not being penalized. megyn: the tax rate is already there. [talking over each other] [talking over each other] >> the president is asking for a 3% increase in marginal rates, bringing stock to where we were when clinton was president. and conservatives call him a socialist. [talking over each other] [talking over each other] [talking over each other] [talking over each other] [talking over each other] megyn: hold on. a separate debate about a hike he is proposing. i'm talking about the reasoning

offered by the president there. >> the real reason we need this hike is because our economy is sneaking up on her debt is rising out of control. the textbooks that demonstration gave comment at the time, the tax rates could be justified them. >> the facts are the private sector, private wealth and capital is what built this country. government gets its money from the people. we fund the policeman and the firefighters. [talking over each other] [talking over each other] >> let's get rid of the taxes. we might. [talking over each other] [talking over each other] [talking over each other] megyn: i am saying goodbye. we are going to leave it at that. see you soon, it is a pleasure. coming up, a murder for hire plot with a classic love triangle. police say they've never seen anything like it before. one high-profile doctor accused

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megyn: "kelly's court" is back in session. a love triangle. murder for hire involving a trio of doctors. doctor joseph sonnier was found shot and stabbed inside his texas home. police say the gunman was a man known as david shepard. but they say the alleged mastermind behind the whole crime was this man. a well-known plastic surgeon, doctor thomas michael dixon. police say that doctor thomas michael dixon paid david shepard with $9000 worth of silver to do the job. they claim the motive was a woman. doctor joseph sonnier, the victim was apparently dating doctor thomas michael dixon's ex-cop. police say they have never seen anything like it. take a listen to the 911 call

from the day the victim was found. >> 911, with emergency? >> i need somebody at this address. somebody is there. somebody broke a window and the doctor has not shown up for work today. there is a bullet, it was laying on the ground. >> wasn't an actual bullet or had already been fired? >> i don't know. someone else went in. i'm not -- i'm not going in there. megyn: joining me now is former prosecutor arthur aidala and former defense attorney joanna spilbor. council arthur aidala come how did they get to this point of believing that this doctor thomas michael dixon hired a hitman to commit this crime? >> threw a concussion. many people have been convicted

the remains of the shooter, mr. david shepard come he comes out and he gives a tip. and he says wesson, a couple of days ago, my roommate tried to kill himself. and i'm the one who treated him from his injuries. and when i asked him, what is going on in your brain and he told me this story that he had been following this and he had been in the backyard come he text messaged the doctor that is now his codefendant, and this is crazy -- he paid him in three silver bars with about $9000. to kill him. in fact come he killed him. he was in such a state of distress that he tried to kill himself. that is when the authorities knew about it. megyn: doctor dixon is denying that he had anything to do with this. it looks like that shepherd, the alleged shooter, if he confessed to anybody, he confessed to a roommate. it is the roommates were that

were basing this on. it looks like mr. shepherd has not actually confessed to the police? >> this whole arrest warrant -- when you are dealing with arrest warrants come you can charge somebody because of hearsay, but you can't necessarily convict them because it is based solely on hearsay. they are going to have a real problem connecting on this evidence. megyn: are they really? the guy paying him in gold bars, allegedly -- somebody agreed to commit a murder. nine grand. and then you take it to the pawn shop. it's. it's not hard for the police to put two and two together. >> i believe you are correct. as joanna spilbor knows, we have both handled cases. now, unless he is the shooter, the roommate that was convicted and who he confessed to, he knows the details and knows the

window was broken and where he went. >> maybe he robbed the place or stole the silver bars. anything could happen. megyn: the text messages could do doctor dixon. according to his roommate, he said his friend sheppard was texting with doctor dixon from the backyard. about committing the crime. well, the police in this case seem they are doing an excellent job, very thorough job. and i'm sure they have ruled out the roommate is the one who performed us. even though the prosecutors cannot prove it, there is a strong motive and a love triangle. they were both involved, they were in love with the same woman. and she is saying that she has been totally clear of having any involvement in this, but that is the reason -- you have motives and means. megyn: right now, doctor dixon

has been charged with first-degree murder and the shooter, doctor shepherd has been charged with first degree murder. the cops are talking about this becoming a capital crime. is a race to see who is going to talk first? >> it most likely is. it happened the way the police say, it is a premed content premeditated thing. yeah, someone is going to point the finger. the doctor is going to point the finger at the shooter were someone else. because there is so much at stake. again, i think right now the evidence is not that big a mistake and put the silver bars into doctor dixon's possession. >> it also comes down to the credibility of the roommate. we couldn't figure out -- is he a junkie or a heroin addict or priest? megyn: mr. shepherd has a history of checks that are bad but no history that we know of

that is murder. >> that gives you that much more reason why he would then let his wrist. because he realized he did something horrific and he wanted to end it himself. megyn: the defendants are denying all allegations. panel, thank you. get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defend against digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. hit me! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'.

megyn: fox news alert and a quick update with the two stories from the middle east. a suicide bomber hit a bus full of israeli tourists in bulgaria. a couple of hours ago. the israeli prime minister is blaming iran, specifically for this attack. they are threatening a strong response. the death toll rising to six people. experts say this could be setting the stage for a serious showdown. more on that as we get it. and just last hour from the white house said that president

bashir matt is losing control of syria as a civil war engulf the country. it comes after rebels take responsibility for assassinations of a current and former defense minister and president bashir matt's brother today. studio bee has more on these stories in just a moment. >> also wanting to bring you this update. one of the american heroes we introduced you to on july 4. joseph wilkinson just outside of albany, new york. his home is being funded by donations collected by the jerry keats foundation. he took the helm of the excavator to knock down the first tree on his lot. he said ernie has plans for the home that will give him the personal freedom to live like the americans. he so bravely swore to protect. >> i think when they started

clearing it, they have a nice area reduction taken out by the stream. megyn: amen to that. sergeant wilkinson is still about 30% shy of the amount needed to complete the home. there others like him who need their homes. you can help. logon to tunnels to towers.org or gary sinise.org. the story of so many other deserving veterans are featured on a website. you can come out to new york's tunnels to towers run on september 30. here is some of our "america live" team with a children's charity run in new jersey. all of these gals, yours truly, and others from our show are going to enjoy the tunnels to towers run this september. it all goes for a great cause. we hope you will join us. come on out. i will run. i'm just not a runner. if i can do it, you can do it with me. right?

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