me and ryan lochte. >> what is the word today? >> i believe it is accord. like on wheel of fortune. what are you doing in the show. >> we'll get breakfast. >> brian have a great show. "fox and friends" starts now. ♪ >> gretchen: good morning, everyone. it is tuesday, august 21st. and i am gretchen carlson. thank you for sharing part of your day today. top general in afghanistan comes under attack. we are live in washington to tell you about the very latest over this. >> steve: commander-in-chief obama dismissing critics. saying we shouldn't take the seals too seriously. really? >> brian: he was high on the

short list to be mitt romney's vp and my pick as gretchen knows, how did mitt romney break the news to chris christie. the governor tells all. "fox and friends" starts now. ♪ >> gretchen: we start with a fox news alert. in afghanistan chap nel hitting the plane of the joint chief chair. he was not hurt. >> gretchen, the strike occurred after midnight forcing the air base in a lock down mode for an hour. base personnel were ordered in l bunkers. militants fired two rockets from a remote timer and the sharp nel hit the plane and

forcing martin dempsey to wait for another plane. he was in his quarter: two americans from the base were slightly injured. the general was in afghanistan to examine the state of the war and u.s. attacks. he said the taliban was trying to interrupt the development of th afghan security forces. >> in every level they failed. it is violence and not in a measure of control and that's actually in the in the lead. if that progress that we have seep that kind of progress is out in the next 28 months we'll see something that is sustainable. >> that interview before the attack. general dempsy pressed a

telephone call to hamid karzai before leaving afghanistan to reiterate and urging karzai to prevent such attacks. the general is back in the air on a replacement plane. back to you. >> gretchen: thank you very much. this comes after a series of attacks after the afghan sold yerse. the americans had given them ghuns. you never hear a lot. >> brian: the president never comes out and expresses outrage or calls a press conference or calls out karzai for allowing it to happen or where is his apology to the troops six killed in 24 hours and 40 killed this year. it is predictable. we told them we are leave they have a survival gene.

they picked up and left in a matter of week in iraq. how will we survive after the u.s. leaves. that is a lot to do with what we are seeing now. >> steve: how many times people in the military said you can't put a time table out there and can't tell them when you are going to why is it happening right now? the taliban may be infiltrating the military and the afghans simply don't like us. ralph peters was on with bill o'reilly and he had these observations. >> these assassinations of u.s. troops and nato troops, and the military is making an argument that bewilders me. don't worry they are not taliban guys. we are in deep -- as an old sergeant used to say. that means the average afghans are turning.

it is an absolute mess and the military doesn't know what to do. afghanistan is a worthless piece of dirth but there is a lot of military egoes tide up there. it gets us nothing. iraq matter obama threw it away. >> steve: at this point we have 130,000 u.s. led forces in afghanistan. >> brian: people are not worth pieces was dirt? maybe not the fertile land. but how great to have an ally right next to pakistan and iran and there is a strategic interest there. there is enough time put in the country to walk away . not have relations with them anymore. >> gretchen: the president came out and had a talk with the press corp and he took a question about the navy seals. in the last couple of days,.

we told you about the special operation education fund that is upset about the intelligence leaks that many say is coming to the president. the president doesn't take the seal who is disgree with him. one denies i was born here despite evidence of a contrary and another was a tea party candidate. >> brian: i understand he has to play that politically. it is true that are a-political and democrats that came out. it is not so much who they are but what they are saying. what about the message that you are spiking the football and that you are taking a bow and credit. >> gretchen: and leaking. >> brian: leaking is the main theme. >> steve: he went on to tell the virge - on virginia pilot

newspaper this pops up before election time. you have to expect this stuff. are they not entitled to their opinion? >> brian: there is a book about the leaks and he will be on with us. >> steve: one of the most extraordinary headlines out of that book, the president takes a victory lap, military details how it was not the president who pushed us in there. it was hillary clinton who repeatedly had to get the president to do it. >> brian: and secretary panetta pushes. >> gretchen: we have a fox news alert. you are looking live at a scene where a freight train derailed in maryland killing two people. that is west of the baltimore. the cars hit several parked cars. family members said one of the victims was going to junior here in james madison university. tony scott's family shooting

down the report that he jumped because was brain cancer. an autopsy was started on the 68 year old director and coroner will look at all of scott's medical h. he had contact numbers in the suicide numbers . climbed a 18 foot fence and dropped the bridge. in an eerie consequence he shoot scenes from the unstoppables two years ago there. >> casey anthony will be a free woman. there are security concerns. she served out a year probation for check fraud and her lawyers said she is the target of death threats over the past few years. she was the mother of caylee anthony and acquitted of her murder . >> don't tell the first lady this secret. the winner of the lunchtime

salad said fave rut food is good old red meat. he had a state dinner in the white house. on the menu. cabbage and sloppy joes and baked zukinny fries. no steak. those are the headlines it is good but the cabbage on sloppy joes? >> brian: after the experiment i will not try. soon as paul ryan was named what was it like for those on the short list to get the call and thinking maybe this is the call that i am number two. and instead a call came from chris christie from mitt romney. i will call him when i land. he's not the number two pick. but there is good news in the tail end of that. >> steve: so how did mr. christie get the word?

here he is recounting that number. >> governor romney sent me an e-mail friday night as i was flying back from montana saying he needed to speak to me when i got on the ground and when i landed i called him and he told me he had decided to go in a different direction for vice-president. and anded if i would do the key note. >> steve: you are not vice-president but how would you like to stay up 10 time tim 30 for the night of the rnc and give the big speech. which he is preparing to do. >> i am not nervous. i am excited. hardest thing for me on tuesday, it is not until 10 time tim 30. first draft of my schedule. we'll keep you down on tuesday all day. down all day. i have to sit around 16 hours

waiting to give the speech. i don't think so. >> gretchen: they know what they are buying when they anded me to do this. this is the most important spot before ryan and mitt romney. he will bring in ratings . chris christy will not give personal etc.omy before he gets up there. he will be himself. >> steve: that will be great. >> brian: i hope they have no hecklers because they will be carried off. get off of the beach in tampa. and he was saying for a while. i can't be number two. clearly these guys wanted to be number two and blows me away. he had a great shot to be number one. >> gretchen: interesting how time changes perspective. >> steve: 11 minutes after the hour. thanks for joining us on tuesday . do business do better.

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>> about there in terms of scarcity and abudance. sill cob valley you have freedom to fail or succeed. and you see it with the break up of the old at&t. we broke up the government monone on they and a cell phones. look at fda government controls and we have severe drug shortages because of massive regulation telling companies about how much drugs they can put out. >> steve: there is a story about detroit is broken and big labor has such a lock on that town, they have a horse shower on the staff and because he is part of the union deal they can't get rid of him because they don't have horses. >> that bring to mind another anatomy of a horse. >> steve: do americans want

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freedom market sup. put in affective safety nets and we have abundance of food, why not health care? >> steve: you talk about under this president the government has gone on a biggest spending he spent more than all presidents combined. >> we have a worst recovery. you have a sharp down turn and then you have a sharp up turn. in this case we are punk recover. we are supposed to be going cent and we are barely going 20. >> steve: go to barnes and nobble and get his book. free markets are moral and big government isn't. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> steve: straight ahead. how would you like half off of your kid's college tuition. the deal is yours. i am not in the country illegally and so i don't

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shakers. the chain will reduce sodium levels by twen percent in the rotisserie exten mac and cheese and mashed poto itos. gretch over to you. yet another deadly salmonella outbreak. the link to contaminated cantaloupe grown in doin dine. why -- indiana. why does this keep happening? >> good morning. >> gretchen: melons seem to be problematic, why? >> every year we have this issue. every year people getting salmonella and justt the nature of cantaloupe. look at the covering it is different from watermelon it is easy and smooth skin. but the bacteria can grow in cantaloupe x. when you cut the

cantaloupe, bacteria could enter the cantaloupe. it is grown in the ground and there is a lot of bacteria and animal feces that is contaminate whole farming hygiene. and so this bacteria can get on cantaloupes and we have had this problem in the last decade. people get sick and die. >> gretchen: look at the outbreak investigation. it is different food ground beef and eggs and peanut butter and dry pet food and veggie booty and tomatoes. so what are people supposed to do in l homes. >> steve: pay attention to all of the announcements that are coming. if it is coming from kentucky. and if you bought it from there don't touch it people who are suscept able is the

older population and lower immune and make sure you done give it to them. they are susceptible to this. eggs and meet cook it well and always refrigerate your food. cantaloupe shouldn't be out more than two hours f. you are not eating it, refrage trait it. >> you suggest that not to eat it >> if you are afraid and there are so many other fruits and fedgerables. washing hand and hand sanitizer is the key. if you are cutting chicken or beef make sure that area is sanitize so the bacteria goes from one place to the other and cut down on the bacteria. >> people are dying from this. >> recognize that it can get in your system and sick and if

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can >> fox news alert. plain with the charp nel and plane was on the ground though joints chief-of-staff martin dempsey was in his quarters and not hurt. this comes after a series of insider attacks of the troops in afghanistan. it is a four star general

edward rice. when you hear that what do you think? >> i think it indicates we are at war. and it is important that american people understand that we are at war x. young men and women in harm's way every day. it has happened before as we know of with a top and plane there with an open target. should american people feel uneasy? >> i don't think so. we have good and strong security but that is a war zone and these things can happen. afghan cop 40 killed our guys over the last few year 12 over the last couple of weeks. why is it happening? what does sources tell you. >> that is not an area i am familiar with. we are working hard to transition the situation there

to the afghans. we have had more success than we have had failure and we'll work hard over the comings. >> brian: we understand if they cut a dole and sequester happens . what does that to the air force. >> we would like to avoid sequestration at any cost. it would be difficult for us to operate in the way we will need to to defend the country. >> brian: does it anger you that you are used as a political pawn. >> i wouldn't say i am angry about it. we are hopeful to get to a point to get it resolved in a fairly quick manner. >> >> brian: do you think the military is in voting. >> we vote in higher numbers than the average american citizen does. we have voting officers. >> brian: you think it we

could do a better job? >> i don't think so. we know how to do so. it is connecting the men and women to the voting sites. we have expert to do that. >> brian: here is air force week. i hear the recruiting numbers are very strong? >> they are very strong . but we want to connect the air force to the american people. we think that is very important. i observed a lot of people don't understand what we offer and how we are different than the other services and this provides us with another mean to connect with the american people that is important. >> brian: general, what do you guys offer that i wouldn't get in the army or marines. >> it is a way of life. each service has a culture. some want to go in the arm yesome navy and some want to come in the air force.

in terms of specific jobs. they are very similar jobs. if you want to be an engineer be an engineer and mechanic be a mechanic . go in the medical field and all of the services and there are sght job differences. they join for a culture. >> brian: and your dad let it be done it was a good thing to do. >> my father in a air force. >> brian: you have accomplished a lot general. >> thank you for having me today. >> brian: thanks for all you do for our country. >> good luck. >> steve: general, thank you for your service. police in st. louis hoping that surveillance video can give them clues in the murder of a former college volleyball star 23 year old megan was on the way to play in a game when she was shot and killed in her car.

cops believe it was a random attack and investigating it as an attempted robbery. friends say she was known for her contagious laugh and their lives will not be the same withouter had. >> i am so thankful i got to see her and spend time with her and hear her laugh. >> steve: police have no solid leads. and a $10,000 reward is offered leading to arrest. >> gretchen: a nurse hailed a hero in the wake of the colorado shooting. has tragically died. she was vacations and went for late night swim and never returned. she worked in the intensive care unit and carried for many

of the patients from the colorado massacre. she leaves behind a husband and five year old son. >> steve: undocumented students in the metropolitan college in denver. they will pay half of the price tunes would pay. a lot of people are opposed to the treatment illegals are getting. they plan to file a lawsuit on behalf of colorado taxpayers. >> it is an illegal act and another thing to do to reward people who come here illegally. >> people come here for opportunities and it is a great opportunity. >> steve: meanwhile colorado state attorney general said it is up to lawmakers whether to provide discount to illegals. >> a high school valedictorian is denied her diploma when

used the word hell. show said how the hell do i know. the crowd laughed it off but the principal was not happy. he said me and you have a problem. i have your diploma and you are not getting it. >> the school said she will not get the diploma. until he writes an apology. she has no intention of writing the apology. in the script it said what the heck . she was just ad libbing. >> steve: north texas and portions of southern oklahoma and portions of new england had rain . the florida panhandle. and current temperatures as well. 50s and 60s and it is 77 in dallas and 75 in san antonio.

where later today, san antonio along the river walk will be 20 degrees above where it is now. meanwhile dallas cooler at 76. and el paso 96. and here in the eastern half of the in the united states. 70s 80s. 84 in the big town of new york city. and caribou, maine 77 . 86 in tampa where we will be camped out next week. how about a okay at sport. >> brian: are we in tents or hotel. >> steve: i think you are in the car. >> brian: good. >> gretchen: he hasn't rented the car yet. i will bring the tent just in case. >> brian: it is a pup tent hopefully. roger clemens can't stay away from baseball. two weeks after being acquitted of lng to congress. the rocket is joining the minor league team in texas

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inflation . and pope benedict xvi will bless harley davidson motorcycles in the vatican next june. the motorcycle company celebrates the 110th anniversary as they roll in vatican city. philis diller passed away in her sleep and she had a smile on her face. >> before she broke the glass ceiling for women she was making them laugh. she started in a porand unhappy housewife making other women forget the troubles. mother of five getting in the show business at the age of 37 and within a few yearrs audiences grew to love her.

not to mention her wardrobe. >> this this knob here you can twist it all night and the picture doesn't get better. >> you are sure you are a marriage counselor. >> your face has my sympathy. what makes you a authority. >> i have a ph.d in marital realm and lld in sociology and married 29 times. [laughing] that laugh makes you laugh. she always said her famous laugh was genuine and as a dad her dad called her a laughing hyena. she was a regular on the tonight show. >> show was fabulous. never competition. i would steal her jokes knowing her and lived her life

that's how she would have wanted to left. >> gretchen: she visited us here in fox news when johnnie carson passed away. >> we are all sad and miss johnnie carson but what do you think it means he's gone. >> it means he's dead, john. >> i know that philis. >> even in death she can make us laugh . >> she was 95 years old and i heard that her husband, they didn't have money and her husband said try comedy and she did. >> and her husband's name was not fang. >> no. >> steve: just a joke. >> sure. >> steve: what a life. >> new signs say the monday blus don't stop on monday.

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>> brian: larry somers said there is no way to shrink the government. it needs to get bigger. >> gretchen: is that true? that was my genuine reaction. what? isn't it all ideological lines. >> yes. he is former secretary of the treasury and economicy. >> brian: he can't hold a job. >> he can't, good brian. from his point of view. if the government provides entitlements as today he is right, you can't shrink temperature for those under 55 they should have a free market alternative . then the government's debt by the end of the next president's term being be 20 trillion dollars. that is unsustainable. the interest on the debt would be a trillion a year.

the government only collects two and half trillion a year in taxes. more than a third of that is going to debt service. that doesn't leave enough money to lend to the government. >> steve: soulary somers who helped the president with the stimulus. >> brian: he was frustrated. >> steve: he is saying it is unshrinkable and sets up what it is all about. paul ryan wants to save things and we might make big government more affective. >> i talked to my wonderful mother. she and my father are at an advantage they are taking care of medicare . she said ma, you are no where old are than 55. ryan proposal only aplice to

those 55 and under. when social security and medicare were challenged in the supreme court, the supreme court said they are optional. the government doesn't have to pay it. it is not holding the money. congress can spend it or not. >> steve: we paid into it and expectation. >> it is a moral deal but not a legal obligation on the part of the congress. and so republicans say let's offer a younger genation another option one that allows them to save their own money. >> gretchen: where is the messaging going wrong. is it easier to say granny over the cliff. >> it was horrific and blurred the message and scared decent people in to fearing that the government saving money will ke it away. >> brian: that is a play of

throw mom from the train. philis diller understood this. [laughing] >> gretchen: i was going to saya how wonderful your parents are with you. >> they are thin and athlete and i can watching now. >> steve: i am sure they are. one side that said with the republicans, they will throw grandma off of the cliff. but the democrats want to throw your grand kids under the bus. the way it is going it will not be there. >> correct. the government would collapse or default. larry somers agree. >> brian: thank you very much, judge. >> i am out of here. >> gretchen: be careful on the way out. remember when suitcases had to

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90 calorie brownie. >> gretchen: good morning, everyone. today is tuesday, august 21, i'm gretchen carlson. fox news alert. the plane belonging to america's top general in afghanistan under attack. we are live in washington with the very latest details. >> brian: the president comes out of hiding to tell the press he's not running a dirty

campaign. >> i feel very comfortable with the fact that when you look at the campaign we're running, we are focused on the issues and the differences that matter to working families all across america. >> brian: right. like mitt romney's taxes, which every family is talking about. the facts may tell a different story. we report. you decide. >> steve: meanwhile, remember the good old days when people actually listened to music on the radio? believe it or not, college kids don't. what else they don't know is going to make you feel a little old. "fox & friends" hour two for tuesday starts right now. >> steve: good morning, everyone. -- >> gretchen: fox news alert. overnight, shrapnel from two rockets hit the plane of joint chiefs chair martin dempsey in afghanistan. he was not hurt. the attack coming after a series of insider attacks against u.s.

troops. joining us from washington, d.c. with the breaking details, kelly wright of the good morning again, kelly. >> good morning. the strike occurred shortly after midnight in afghanistan forcing bagram air base into lock down mode for more than an hour. base personnel were ordered into their bunkers. u.s. military officials say militants fired two rockets from a remote timer. shrapnel struck the chairman of the joint chiefs c-17 plane forcing general martin dempsey to wait for replacement plane to leave afghanistan. aides say he was in his quarters during the attack. he was not in any danger. but two americans from the base were slightly injured. general dempsey was in afghanistan to examine the state of the war, as well as insider attacks against u.s. and other nato troops in an interview with fox news, he said the taliban was trying to interrupt the development of the afghan security forces. >> on every level they failed. there is violence. it's isolated.

it's not a measure of control. so that's actually -- if that kind of progress that we've seen over this year can be extrapolated out to the next 28 months, i think we're going to see something that's actually sustainable. >> general dempsey speaking with jennifer griffin prior to that attack that took place this morning. he placed a telephone call to president karzai tuesday morning before leaving afghanistan to reiterate u.s. concerns about the space of insider attacks on u.s. and nato troops, urging president karzai to do more to prevent the attacks. the general is back in the air on a replacement plane to the united states. back to you, gretchen. >> gretchen: kelly wright live in d.c thanks for the update. another developing story overnight. new video in of a freight train carrying coal derailed. two pedestrians died in this accident. it happened in maryland. 14 miles west of baltimore. at least 23 of the 80 cars

flipped over and fell from a bridge, crushing several parked cars. family members say one of the victims was about to start her junior year at james madison university. tony scott's family shooting down a report that he jumped to his death because he had terminal brain cancer. his brother, ridley scott, looking upset. reportedly boarding a plane for l.a an autopsy was started on the 68-year-old and the coroner says he will look at all of scott's medical history. scott left behind two separate suicide notes with contact numbers in them. he climbed an 18-foot fence and jumped 185 feet off a bridge in l.a. on sunday. in an erie coincidence, he shot scenes for the movie "unstoppable" under the bridge exactly two years ago. casey anthony will be a free woman this week, but exactly when she's going to be released from state supervision still a mystery because of security concerns. the 26-year-old has been serving out a year probation somewhere in florida for check fraud and her lawyers said she's been the

target of death threats. she was acquitted for her daughter's murder last year. ever get a case of the mondays? then you probably have a case of the tuesdays, wednesday, thursdays, too. maybe not friday. a new study finds the idea that people hate mondays is just a myth. we actually hate all the weekdays equally. except friday and surprise, surprise, researchers found people were happier and less stressed on friday, saturday and sunday than the rest of the week. those are your headlines. although i would add, sunday night always gave me the blues going up because it was that anxiety about the week starting again, school work. >> steve: with the carpenters, it was always rainy days and mondays. >> brian: right. the other thing on sundays was the disney shows. >> steve: with walt disney. that's right. >> brian: they always had some type of sad ending. >> steve: the wonderful world of disney. >> brian: then we had to go right to bed. >> steve: yesterday when you got up, we were talking about how

some in washington said hey, whatever happened to the president of the united states? he used to talk to the white house press corps. apparently he heard the complaints and did a pop-up news conference. people said look, he's only talking to entertainment tonight and local morning zoo powers. >> brian: ask him what super powers he wants. >> steve: me. i'd like to fly. eventually up with of the reporters did get around to asking about the state of the campaign and the president said he's running an absolutely, totally honest campaign. here is the president. >> the truth of the matter is, you can't just make stuff up. that's one things you learn as president of the united states. you get called into account. and i feel very comfortable with the fact that when you look at the campaign we're running, we are focused on the issues and the differences that matter to working families all across america and that's exactly the kind of debate the american people deserve. >> gretchen: i think that's a

little bit a freudian slip. you can't make things up? some people might have an argument against that, like i'm just thinking of calling candidate mitt romney a possible felon. was that made up? what about the fact that the woman died of cancer and that was mitt romney's fault. was that made up? there is a slew of other things you could probably find something on the other side of the fence. but it seemed that was a bit of a freudian slip at the top of that quote. >> brian: he also says you have to lead your life as an open book. there are so many questions about his background, from his high school transcripts and colleges on down. but also he says it's time for you to open up and give people your taxes. he complied with the law. why is he precontinueding, the president knows there is serious issues and times. why is he precontinueding that the american people have a dying interest to findity what mitt romney has done five, ten or 15 years ago? >> gretchen: because the media also agrees with him for the most part and continues to print and talk about that story. >> steve: because it's part of

the diversion. and as we heard from mark halprin, media pretty much does whatever the white house wants them to do. it's interesting, yesterday we told you how newsweek had on its cover the headline, hit the road, about rack. why we need a new president, written by nile ferguson. he phoned in to greta last night and said the president can say everything is on the up and up and he's being honest. but he has not answered the questions that people really worry about. here is nile. >> i don't really hear the right questions being asked of the president about his record over the past four years. and despite all the furious annunciations i'm receiving from the likes of paul upman. they are not addressing the key issues that i raised. number one, is the president an effective leader in washington? has he led effectively on the domestic policies of the day? , is he an effective commander in chief? if you put aside all the nitpicking arguments about this

and that, cost of medicare and obamacare and knuckle down and ask those key questions, has he delivered as a leader? has he led effectively, i don't think the answer can be yes. >> brian: the president has delegated a lot of his authority from wall street reform to obamacare, is really pelosi and reid care. >> steve: and faulty legislation, he says. >> brian: for the most part it's not his plan and when things got tough examine when he lost the majority in the house and major majority now a slim majority in the senate, he stopped dealing supplier with congress. >> steve: it was also written of his performance, it was remarkly ineffective performance, which the white house must hope very few people watched. she writes, maybe he should stop hiding from the press and get practice before the three critical debates. remember, mitt romney has been out there answering a lot of questions, doing the town halls. if the president doesn't get practice in front of the real press, he could have some tough

sledding on those three debates. >> gretchen: i think one of the disappointments for people who voted for president obama in 2008 and really believed in that hope and change was this there was going to be some of this reaching across the aisle, working together between democrats and republicans, maybe a little bit like bill clinton did with the house when newt gingrich was there. and now sure enough, the study comes out about independents. independents we all know decide all the elections in states, in counties, in the presidential election. so what do they want most? what do independents want most? exactly that. they favor cooperation. they're most dissatisfied with the political. seven out of ten say compromise is the most important thing. it's interesting because we're in one of the most fractured debates ever and most bitter probably this presidential cycle and yet, they're both going after those independent voters, but maybe are they doing it in the wrong way with all these negative ads and this

bitterness? apparently. >> beth: they say that 49% of those who are undecided right now also can change their minds. will change their minds. if you have republicans or democrats, it's how passionate they actually are and motivated to get to the polls. independents are a toss-up. >> steve: let's talk about college. i had two college kids start new terms yesterday. as has been the case out at beloit college in wisconsin, for years they've come out with the mindset list to remind professors, okay, you got a new freshman class coming in. remember, they don't have the same point of view as you do. so these are reminders of what the kids who were born in most cases back in 1994, what their point of view. >> gretchen: they've never seen an airline ticket. remember the ones that actually had the carbon paper on them, where you would write your -- did she your travel agent would write in pen and you would have several copies of it? those don't exist anymore. the actual ticket itself hardly

exists anymore. >> brian: they don't listen to the radio. they've never seen the ticket as you saw. they watch television everywhere but on television. i don't buy that yet. i don't see a lot of kids scrambling to their laptop to watch regular television. i see them watch youtube. >> steve: they watch it on their phone and devices. and they never listen to music on the car radio. they listen to kilmeade and friends. and generally they don't have any radio. 75 reminders on the list. this is interesting, what do you think american royalty is family wise? kids consider what family royalty in the united states? >> brian: kardashians. >> steve: pretty close. a lot of people watching right now would say, back in the day, it was kennedy. now it's michael jackson family is considered. >> brian: even the michael jackson family doesn't consider themselves royalty. >> steve: robert deniro is not thought of as -- is thought of as greg fokker's father-in-law.

not from the godfather. >> brian: the myth of the blond dumb woman has given way to the dumb male. every new series that comes out make men seem like detached -- >> gretchen: get over it. get over it. >> brian: i don't watch "everyone loves raymond." >> steve: that's off the air. >> brian: it's the same thing. the guy gets everything wrong and the woman screams at him all the show. am i right? >> gretchen: why are those popular? >> brian: mr. braidy was respected by florence henderson. >> gretchen: that was the '60s. by the way,. >> brian: that was the '70s. shirley jones never had a husband. >> gretchen: you had a bone to pick with mrs. henderson when she was here to begin with. you said alice should have done all the work. >> steve: that's true. >> brian: right. she did not do enough. i felt she could a done a lot more. i thought alice had a lot.

plus she had the butcher. >> steve: what do you think the young people, just starting college need to know about that they don't have any perspective on? e-mail us. >> gretchen: is that what we were talking about? >> brian: yeah. >> gretchen: two young boys flying alone terrified when engine trouble hits. so what does the flight attendant do? scolds them. that story. look at that cute hair cut. that story straight ahead. >> steve: you heard the president say, you have to pay your fair share. so who do you think is paying more of the shares to charity? republicans or democrats? stuart varney has the answer in that folder in his hand. he is next

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most charitable states in the country and the numbers overwhelmingly show republican leans states are the most generous. here to break down the numbers, stuart varney. i didn't know you were a mathematician as well. >> i had to too math to be on this couch. >> steve: political thing. >> i am indeed. there is a breck down here. republican leaning, religiously oriented people give more. secular, democrat leaning, high income people give less. >> steve: really? >> that's what you can define from a break down of the numbers from 2008. >> steve: let's put up the map and find out who the givers are. number one is ultimatity at 10%. -- utah at 10%. strict of columbia. mississippi, alabama and tennessee. >> all of those are republican leaning states, except for d.c all republican leaning.

they're all rather religious states. utah, mississippi, alabama, tennessee tend to be religiously observant states. >> gretchen: with utah, most of the population is mormon and in that religion, they're tithing of 10%. >> there is something going on of the but beneath the surface. i think that religious people and right leaning people regard charity as a personal duty, a personal individual responsibility. left leaning, high income people, democrat leaning states regard it as the government's job. i pay my taxes. now the government redistributes it and organizes for the poor. it's a public responsibility taking -- taken care of by the government as' posed to a moral responsibility. that's how i would break it down. >> steve: with half the country on entitlements, it looks like that philosophy seems to be at the forefront. >> one half is essentially going through the government to get give to the other half. >> brian: i like to see the percentage of what you have in

terms of income. so if you make $25,000 a year, what percentage are you giving as opposed to you don't feel it if you give away million and worth 200 million. how does the romney-obama head to head break up? >> president obama gave 14% his discretionary income. that's the money you got left over after you paid taxes, housing and food. discretionary income. the year 2010. governor remain knee gave 13.7. so in that year, they were close. in 2011, governor romney's giving went up to 20% of his discretionary income. i don't have the absolute dollars, but it's in the millions of dollars. >> steve: i see joe biden, his rate giving was about 1.4%. >> yes. i'm not gog comment on that -- going to comment on that. one tenth of president obama's giving. >> gretchen: interesting discussion. we'll see you at 9:20? >> precisely. >> gretchen: okay. on the "fox business" network. catholic business owner was

honored, he was about to be honored. then his award was revoked because he wanted a waiver from obamacare. he's here to tell us about that next. >> brian: then the secretary of transportation very proud of how the stimulus money was spent. >> spent 48 billion and we put 65,000 people to work in 15,000 projects in two years with no problems. i'm very proud of that. >> brian: it appears he forgot to do the long division. how much each job cost will be coming your way. that's why we brought stuart in. he can do long division. at usaa, we believe honor is not exclusive to the military, and commitment is not limited to one's military oath.

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>> brian: time for news by the numbers. first, $200 million, that's how much a federal report found in questionable billing at medicare outpatient facilities. the top three offending states, florida, louisiana, and texas. thanks. $738,000. that's the cost of each job created for the transportation department with stimulus money. stuart varney did the long division and transportation secretary ray lahood says he's proud of that. huh? finally, $10 million. that's how much more president obama's campaign spent last month compared to how much he took in. spending more than we have. sound familiar? don't answer, gretchen. >> gretchen: i won't, brian. a family owned company instead in denver no longer getting the honor it deserves because they decided to oppose the president's contraception mandate. a denver city council woman was going to give the family an award of recognition for

employing hundreds of people at its manufacturing plant, but the council woman had a change of heart saying the family's opposition to the mandate is, quote, too controversial. joining me is the president and ceo of hercules industries and greg barrel. good morning. >> good morning. >> gretchen: so bill, you've been in business, i guess 50 years and this council woman wanted to honor you with a city proclamation and then what happened? >> hercules industries has been in business for 50 years. it's been owned and operated by my family, my brothers and my sister for those five decades. and we have a history of success that's been guided by our values and beliefs that's rooted in our catholic faith. the city council was going to

acknowledge that success through a public proclamation and they decided to rescind it when they found out about our position on the religious freedom and the healcare mandate. >> gretchen: so you had asked for a waiver. you we want to court for that because you didn't believe in having to be mandated to offer birth control and such things like that. why would that matter, in your mind? why would that matter about the proclamation? >> the proclamation was exciting to my family, to all the employees of hercules industries. we're human beings and we enjoy recognition for our success. but we decided that regardless of the proclamation, we're going to continue to operate our business as we always have, by providing jobs, reinvesting in our business, about utilizing the facilities that are listed on the national historic register in denver for use and

production of our products, and we're going to continue operating the same way we always have, including providing a generous healthcare package for our employees. >> gretchen: greg, you're the attorney in this situation. bill and his family stood up for what they believed in from a religious point of view. what was wrong with that? why did this city council woman not want to honor them? >> we all agree politicians shouldn't use someone's faith or standards for the recognition that they provided something good for their community. it's sad that politician like this is punishing a family like the newlands for living out the very values that make them good citizens and make them worthy of the sort of recognition that the city council is poised to bestow upon them. it really is unfortunate that politics and ideology inserted themselves into a situation where they really didn't belong. >> gretchen: so here is the statement from that council

woman: i opted not to submit a ceremonial proclamation on hercules manufacturing in avoidance of a food fight. the hunger for red meat is high and i regret this has taken on so much interest. bill, what do you make of that statement? >> the power of politicians should not be used for partisan retribution. the merits of her key lease stand on their own and this proclamation acknowledging our success should have gone forward, but it didn't for their personal reasons. and their own personal beliefs. >> gretchen: luckily somebody picked up the ball and did give you your own sort of proclamation, maybe it didn't come from the city, but it came from the colorado house. very interesting story. bill and greg, thanks for your time this morning. >> good to be with you. >> thank you.

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>> our invention will connect with people across america and around the world right here, from this stage through speakers and these incredible screens behind me. >> gretchen: okay, that's your shot of the morning. reince previn unveiling the giant stage at the republican national convention. features 13 giant led screens and took a year and a half to design and build. the convention kicks off monday in tampa. we'll be broadcasting live from there live all week. i think i saw -- maybe i shouldn't say what the theme of the convention is. can we say? >> brian: winning. >> gretchen: no. i think it was something about building it based off of we built this. based off of president obama's infamous line a couple of weeks

ago. now the republicans are going to capitalize on that and make that the theme of the republican national convention. >> brian: if you have a good idea for what we should be doing when we're not on the air, write us. >> steve: remember, our coverage starts on sunday and then we're going to fly down and we're going to be there. we're done at 9:00 o'clock every morning. so we got a lot of time, lot of down time, if you got ideas on what we should be doing. >> gretchen: you're auctioning us off? i actually have a problem with that. >> steve: from noon on, our afternoons are free, what should we be covering down there at the rnc? same thing for the dnc. >> brian: also weigh in who has got it worse today in public perception, blonds or men? because on e-mail -- >> gretchen: all i'm going to say is equal opportunity and blondes have had it their entire existent. i don't have a problem with it, okay? don't write me and say, where are you so uptight about it? i don't have a problem with it,

but let's just takes face it, when you're blond and someone tells you a joke about being a bimbo, you heard it before. >> brian: and has perception changed. >> steve: hollywood these days, they don't make so many ditty blond woman jokes. they have the dumb examine dumber guys. >> brian: every guy is dumb. now your headlines. we start with a fox news alert. america's top general escaping injury before leaving afghanistan for iraq. the plane of joint chief staffs martin dempsey being hit by shrapnel from militants at the bagram air base. aides say he was in his quarters at the time and never in danger. right now we know two americans on the ground were hurt. the attack follows after assevers insider attack against american troops. we'll have a live report by the white house next half hour. >> gretchen: police in st. louis hoping surveillance videos will provide clues in the murder of a former volleyball star. she was on her way to play in a volleyball game at st. louis university when she was shot

dead in her car. police believe it was a random attack and, of course, her friends heart broken. >> so thankful, so thankful that i did get to see her these last few days and spend time with her, hear her laugh. >> gretchen: unfortunately, police don't have any solid leads right now. a $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest. >> steve: rosie o'donnell nearly died last week from a heart attack. news coming out. she didn't know she was having a heart attack. she says she was having chest pains and got sick, but never called 911. the next day, a doctor found her coronary artery 99% blocked. she later had surgery to put a stent in it. >> brian: two young brothers were flying alone on united jet to boston when they lend their jet had engine problems. they had to make an emergency landing. so what would any terrified child do?

they texted their mom. when they landed safely, they were approached bay flight attendant and the pilot. >> they, like, grabbed us by the arm, like walking down the jetway and they were like, oh, you boys are in so much trouble. >> he doesn't deserve that. he was in a vulnerable situation and he need to talk to his mom. that's all. >> brian: incredible. the boys were reportedly told that because of the incident, they might not be able to fly again. their mom wants an apology from united, but has yet to hear back. what is with these people? >> steve: kirk cameron, actor, director and all around nice guy, joins us live on the curvy couch today. good morning to you. >> love the curvy couch. >> steve: love to have you. we know you watch a lot of news. you watch a lot of fox news channel and you know what's going on. isn't this interesting, brand-new gallup poll shows that particularly in swing states and with independents, people in this country are no better off today than they were four years ago. look at that. not better off in the swing states. 56%. people cost to coast not better

off by majority of 55%. what's going on there? >> well, not a political analyst as such, but i can tell you that. >> steve: you were here four years ago. >> gretchen: you're an american citizen. >> i feel the same way. that's why i set out on a two-year journey to discover what is the secret sauce that made america the richest, freest, most prosperous and secure nation in the world, because i want a great future for my kids. not a bad future for my kids. this film "monumental, in search of america's national treasure," has been a real passion project for me. >> brian: as you set off to find out what made america great. >> steve: the secret sauce? >> brian: colonel sanders. the secret batter in his case. >> steve: those were the seven spices. >> brian: the spice marco polo got from china. what did you find? >> what i found was that our forefather, the pilgrim, were not these little religious fuddy

duddies are tall black hats running around with turkey guns like we imagine them in school. but these were the radicals, the geniuses, the free thinkers who saw their culture collapsing on them and they got off the defense, made a plan and came and laid the foundation for a brand-new nation and they left us the reset button in the form of the largest granite monument in america sitting on top of a hill in massachusetts spelling out the strategy for how to build and maintain a free and just society. and i take you on this journey, show you the reset button, how to get back to america's original factory settings that produced liberty and freedom for all in the film. just come out on dvd. >> gretchen: let's take a look at it. >> for the pilgrims to be able to meet and hold their worship services, they had o do it underground and there was this castle, a manor at a police

called scruvy surrounded by a moat for protection. they met this way for four years in secret. >> steve: how come they've got this gigantic reset button in the form of this monument up in massachusetts and nobody heard of it? >> nobody heard of it. it's called the national monument to the forefathers. 180-tons of granite and it's hidden behind a forest of trees in a residential area and i believe it's the most important monument in our country. i never heard about it. >> gretchen: they were meeting underground and there was this oppression feeling at the time. it's interesting 'cause come forward to 2012 and this study came out about hostility toward religion in america. it shows that it's on the upswing. what do you make of that? i know you're a religious person. >> i'm a man of faith and of course i want to teach my children to love god and serve other people. when those freedoms are threatened, good people need to stand up for what's right. if you do the right thing over the long haul, i believe god will bless that and that was the

strategy of our forefathers which is what drove them to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their children knowing that they may not see the fruit of their labor, but their kids and grandkids would. and it was worth it. >> brian: there is two other things that happened that people say god definitely blessed this country that stand out. in 1812, the british plundered washington, d.c they're about to wipe it out and out of nowhere, a tornado hits and the british get basically blown right out of the city. we had no army left. then you have in george washington, has a choice, do i stay and fight the british in new york city or do i get out? the question is he had to get out. how does dee it? out of nowhere, a fog rolls in allowing all our soldiers to get out and saves the day to fight. >> for seven years they would fight on the outskirts because these miraculous. >> gretchen: brian could have been your side kick. >> you could have been the go to guy for new york. >> brian: i could have been your ed mcmahon in the movie!

>> where were you? >> brian: i had no idea. it looks great. >> thank you. i'm really excited about it. just came out on dvd. we had a unique live event release in movie theaters across the country. now you can watch it in your house, which is great. just before school starts, watch it with your kids. give them a true picture of american history before they get indoctrinated with this sort of -- our founders were a bunch of atheists who wanted god out of government. not true. >> steve: kirk cameron, always a pleasure. thank you. >> take care. >> gretchen: next up, blowing the lid off bin laden and the raid, the man who says he has the proof that hillary clinton was the one pulling the strings. he's here next. >> brian: then the car thieves love to target which car? is it yours? stick around. find out. hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios

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>> gretchen: quick headlines. the most stolen car in america is the 1994 hon at that accord -- honda accord. it's among the easiest to break into. west virginia university reclaiming its title as the nation's number one party school, according to the princeton review. west virginia hasn't held the spot since 2007. brian? >> brian: thank you very much. a bombshell new book is blowing the lid off the osama bin laden kill mission. new information that the secretary of state hillary clinton pushed president obama big time to send in the seals after he canceled the operation, get this, three times, dare i say four times? joining us is investigative reporter, best selling author. his newest book out today called "leading from behind." richard what, did you find out? you wrote "losing bin bin," so you know more about this guy than almost anyone in america. tell me about the kill mission. what was the delay with the president and this attack? >> one of the big surprises i found is how essential hillary

clinton and leon panetta were for driving the administration forward. there was a lot of hesitancy, mostly on valerie jarrett who thought it could be a disaster like mission one in the carter years. not a success. and they were concerned about the political ramifications and the arab world and how that would be perceived a mission to kill bin laden. that led to paralysis on the inside. hillary clinton who started off a very rough relationship with president obama was a contentious primary in 2008. she won him over through dogged hard work. she's the only cabinet member with a weekly meeting with the president. usually thursday mornings. she used that regular meeting that direct contact to build trust and to drive the agenda. bin laden got away on clinton's watch and -- >> brian: she knew bill clinton paid a political price for letting him get away. you write in january, february and march, there was delay, delay, delay, to take him out. why was the president, because it is a big decision.

you explored this whole book to find out about the president's decision making. what was the reason for the delay? >> there were different reasons given. what filtered down to the career people who were working on the planning when the planning stopped, the planning on the bin laden mission stopped in january, again in february, the third time in march, 2011, was the valerie jared had gotten cold feet. remember, the president meets on a daily basis with valerie jarrett. he told the "new york times" he never makes an important decision without talking to valerie jarrett. >> brian: she's a chicago political operative. she's deciding on international relations on the war on terror? >> she has a voice in everything. she's his mentor. she's also the mentor for the first lady, which is an unusual sition. no one has ever been the mentor of the first lady and president, certainly not at the same time. she's been guiding the careers of both obamas since 1991. >> brian: enough of that. let's talk about the leaks and what it meant. the ramifications to the president going forward with details of an operation, many of which were wrong. why is that a big deal?

>> there is no greater advantage in war than surprise. after bin laden was killed, it wasn't necessarily a kill mission, but it turned out that way. there were hours and days, maybe a week, in which that information gathered in that castle could have been used to find other high level al-qaeda. you could swoop in and surprise them. that's the kind of thing that the commando teams like the seals specialize in. with weather you go on world wide television and announce his death, everyone in al-qaeda scatters. >> brian: the navy seals have come forward and said exactly kind of what you wrote, that by coming out and giving up our secrets, you hurt our mission. how do you feel about that? >> they have to device new tactics, they have to change their training, but more important, put a bull's eye on the back of every person in the armed forces because the taliban and al-qaeda want revenge. >> brian: panetta deserves a lot of credit? >> he does. >> brian: there is so much more in this book, including gates telling friends he had to leave

because he couldn't work for an indecisive president. >> that's right. he wanted to retire early and he did. >> brian: most of the people you interviewed are friends or insiders, not republicans, for this? >> very few republicans. only about the budget stuff. >> brian: leading from behind, the name of the book, certain to be a best seller. i'll see you on radio. congratulations. coming up, if you're looking for work, look no further. cheryl casone up next with the five companies hiring right now. but first on this day in history, 1965 "i got you babe" by sonny and cher was the number within song. somewhere sonny is still singing it. ♪ they say our love won't say ♪ [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? yeah, maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit.

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>> steve: millions of americans need jobs. cheryl casone has five companies hiring today. good morning to you. >> good morning. yeah. we're seeing a big change when it comes to staffing companies. the staffing companies are reaching out to "fox & friends" examine telling us they are seeing a bit of a growth in this area. so it's not permanent jobs, but it could be a gateway, express employment professional. >> steve: they helped 335,000 people get jobs last year. >> there is a regional story. i want to bring this up. they're seeing growth in the northeast, 5% as far as staffing requests. 13%. about 50% of those that sign on with this company do end up in full time positions. 585 offices, u.s., canada, and even in south africa. >> steve: they're looking for about 19,000 people right now? >> exactly. >> steve: let's talk about why yr sea world wide, salary 50,000. >> transportation services. they're publicly traded on the public market. they have been going through a bit of a reorganization. they got different brands.

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>> gretchen: good morning. today is tuesday, august 21. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for spending part of your day with us today. fox news alert, the plane belonging to america's top general in afghanistan under attack by rockets overnight. we're live outside the white house with the very latest details. >> steve: meanwhile, he was high on the short list to become mitt romney's vice president. so how did mitt break the news to chris, the governor of new jersey? the governor telling us how that moment went down. >> brian: that's when i lost my bet to gretchen. are you smarter than a fifth grader? who cares?

jeff foxworthy putting people to the test on the bible and we're the first contestants. "fox & friends" starts now. >> steve: holy cow. >> gretchen: we start with a of course news alert this morning. rockets fired by afghan militants hitting the plane for the joint chiefs chair at bagram air base in afghanistan. general martin dempsey not in the plane at the time. wendell goler live at the white house with the latest. that's a new piece of information. what else can you tell us? >> as you say, the general wasn't in the c-17 when it was hit by shrapnel in a rocket attack last night. he wasn't hurt. but a couple of american ground personnel were injured. dempsey had to wait for a replacement plane to leave bagram air base. the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and they claim to know precisely where the plane was parked at bagram.

a nato spokesman was skeptical. he said it was more likely the taliban just got lucky in one of the random attacks they mount every couple of weeks. dempsey was in afghanistan to press hot karzai on the spite of attacks on u.s. and navy troops by afghan soldiers, or people dressed like them. more than 40 americans and nato troops have been killed since the beginning of the year. ten in the past week. president obama planned to call karzai about the attacks. he addressed them at a brief news conference yesterday. >> part of what's taking place is we are transitioning to afghan security and for us to train them effectively, we are much closer contact, our troops are in much closer contact with troops on an ongoing basis and part of what we got to do is to make sure that this model works, but it doesn't make our guys more vulnerable. >> defense secretary leon panetta placed his own call to

karzai to pressure him to do more about the attacks. the pressure from the commander in chief and military advisor social security unusual and is a measure of how seriously they take the matter. gretchen? >> gretchen: wendell goler, thanks very much. this comes on the heels of a lot of these attacks that have been happening in afghanistan, there is not a lot of coverage on this. not in the forefront as we go to the polls coming up in november as much as some people argue maybe it should be. why is this happening? why is it happening that we're arming and training these afghan police officers and then they're turning on americans? sometimes imminently after receiving the weapon. >> steve: that's the problem. we're working so closely with the afghans right now, mentoring them, we're right next to them. in some cases as we heard last week, as soon as they gave the afghan guy the gun, he they turned it on the american. >> brian: there is a 21-year-old marine killed by a 15-year-old that he just trained a short time ago. he gets killed by an ak 47. we had lieutenant colonel rob

peters in the building yesterday. he was on the o'reilley factor factor and he said there is a few scenarios none of them good. listen. >> these assassinations of u.s. troops and nato troops, the military is making an argument that bewilders me. don't worry, they're not all taliban guys. well, they're not all taliban guys, we are in real deep stuff because if they're not all taliban guys, that means the average afghans are turning. this is an absolute mess. the military doesn't know ma what to do. afghanistan is a worthless piece of dirt. a problem we have in the military even is a lot of egos are tied up in it now. even if afghanistan works perfectly, doesn't matter. gets us nothing. iraq mattered. obama threw it away. >> steve: we are in deep timpshe. we're going it continue, the president said, to continue to train the folks, mentor the afghans. so far there have been 32

incidents this year. 40 dead people. >> brian: the training has not gone well. there has been too much of a rush to build up forces too quickly and thankfully, the rules of engagement which has been basically criminal for our men and women fighting in the field, now they are at least saying everyone carry a gun at all times. >> steve: to protect yourself. >> gretchen: even in a secure environment. >> brian: keep in mind, these guys can't go on missions to get them at night. they need permission from the kabul government in order to go at night and the afghans, special forces, have to lead. then the people that they're training and taking shots at them, how would you feel in theater right now? >> you're welcome. >> gretchen: seems to be a bit of a mess right now. one thing the president made clear yesterday is that he doesn't seem to care too much about some of these navy seals who disagree with him about these leaks that have been coming out of washington. the intelligence leaks. keep in mind, it's been did --

democrats, republicans and independents have been upset with the leaks because they have wondered were they for political gain for the president to high five himself before the election? did they break any rules in doing so? this new navy seal organization has put out these ads and the president yesterday responded to it saying that he didn't care that much about it. >> steve: he was talking to the virginiaan pilot newspaper. what he said is, quote, i don't take these folks too seriously. one of their member social security a birther who denies i was born here despite evidence to the contrary. but for the president to say, you know, these navy seals and special ops guys, i don't take them seriously, that's got some people, i was looking at fox nation, there are many, many comments. people are going, why aren't you taking them seriously? they're americans. they're entitled to their opinion. >> brian: and they did say yes, some are republicans, some run on the tea party ticket. >> steve: some are democrats. >> brian: some are democrats and some have no political affiliation, but they're outraged about the job, the way it's being taken advantage of. that's a point of view.

>> gretchen: another developing story overnight, brand-new video just in. a freight train carrying coal that derailed, leaving two people dead. in happened in maryland 14 miles west of baltimore. at least 23 of the 80 cars flipped over, fell from a bridge, crushing several parked cars. family members say one of the victims was about to start her junior year at james madison university. sickening story, three female employees at a daycare center in delaware under arrest, accused of running a toddler fight club. they're accused of encouraging the kids to beat each other up. police say one of the incidents was caught on cell phone. you can hear the kids crying and yelling, he's pinching me. one of the workers responds, quote, no pinching. only punching. great. tony scott's family shooting down a report that he jumped to his death because he had terminal brain cancer of the his brother, ridley scott, was spotted at the airport. he looked distraught. an autopsy was started on the

68-year-old director and the coroner said he will look at all of scott's medical history. scott left behind two separate suicide notes with contact numbers in them. he climbed an 18-foot fence and jumped 185 feet off a bridge in l.a this happened on sunday. in an erie coincidence, he shot scenes for the movie "unstoppable" under that same bridge exactly two years ago. the queen of one liners, comedienne phyllis diller died. her son saying she passed away in her sleep with a smile on her face. >> what makes you such an authority? >> i've got a ph.d. in marital relations. i have got an lld in sociology. and i've been married 29 times. [ laughter ] >> gretchen: phyllis diller has always said that famous laugh of hers was genuine. as a kid, her dad called her the laughing highy in a. she first started her stand up act in the 1950s at the age of

37. before that, she was a housewife and mother of five. her good friend, florence henderson, remembered their first days in show business. >> she was fabulous, never competition. oh, my lord, no. i would steal some her jokes, knowing her and how she lived her life, that's how she would have wanted to have left. >> gretchen: phyllis diller was 95 years old. and those are your headlines. >> steve: all right. now back to our fox news alert. rocket shrapnel hitting the plane for the joint chiefs chairman at bagram air force base. general martin dempsey. fox news jennifer griffin heard the explosions and now joins us on the phone from baghdad where she's just landed. good afternoon to you. >> hi, steve. we have been traveling for the last few days with general martin dempsey and we were awake last night, about to do our report for special report and it

was late after midnight, afghan time. we heard two loud explosions and the whole base at bagram went into lock down mode. it was a few hours later that we learned that it was likely a 107-millimeter rocket that there was two of them fired. some of the shrapnel from the rocket hit around the door to the plane, the c-17 plane that we had been traveling on with general dempsey. general dempsey was asleep at the time. i'm told that actually he told us that he woke up. his aides told us he woke up with the first rocket. then went back to sleep and slept through the second air raid siren and second incoming. but he was never in any danger. it was far from where general dempsey was sleeping at the time. but again, two loud rockets sort of shattered the nighttime operations at bagram last night.

we're told this happens about twice a month, that these are sometimes rockets that are set on a timer and that they are lobbed into the base. but this was -- it's hard to say whether this was a lucky shot or whether there was any method behind it. but it did delay our departure from afghanistan today. >> brian: i saw you talking with the general yesterday. so you're on the same plane. the plane i guess was inoperable because you took a different plain? i heard a chopper got hit? >> that's right. not only that, there was two ground personnel, american ground personnel at bagram base who were injured with some light injuries. they're being treated now protectively for possible traumatic brain injury. they do this as a protective measure. any time you're near a loud explosion. but they have light -- they were struck by the shrapnel as well. so two american ground personnel were injured and are being treated now for that rocket strike. >> gretchen: before you go, what

is the sentiment mood over there right now, because it seems almost on a daily basis right now that we're reporting on this violence that's going on between americans and afghans that they've just trained. >> i think it's very, very tense in the sense that the americans and the nato personnel on the ground are feeling that this rise in afghan insider attacks, attacks by afghans who have been given permission to come inside bases, who are being trained by the u.s. and nato forces, it's a real sense of betrayal. it's a real sense of nervousness. general allen has order all personnel to carry their weapons loaded at all times. i mean, they are on a very tense situation, high alert, prepared to essentially kill the person next to them if they sense that there is dings dangerous. so that is adding a layer of stress to the 68,000 plus american troops who are serving in afghanistan. what's interests interesting is we've just landed in baghdad.

this is an historic trip here. it's been eight months since the closing ceremonies that the last u.s. troops and u.s. officially left iraq. this is the first time a senior u.s. military personnel has come back to iraq. general dempsey will be meeting with the general. it's a tense time between the u.s. and iraq, particularly with those reports that iraq may be helping iran break sanctions. >> steve: jennifer griffin just landing in baghdad. we thank you very much. straight ahead. >> brian: she'll be joining me on radio a little later to talk about the trip. we found out what that rocket looks like. straight ahead? >> steve: how do you tell somebody they're not going to be your vice president? we now know how new jersey governor chris christie revealed how that moment happened to him when he got the call from mitt. >> gretchen: how honest are you? would you really pay for a bottle of tea if no one was looking? one company put americans to the

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>> gretchen: how honest are your neighbors? how about all americans? well, the makers of honest tea tried to find out by conducting a social experiment. they set up unmanned tea dispensers across the country asking people to take a bottle of tea, but pay a buck. then they set up cameras, actually they just had good old-fashioned americans watching. and see whether or not people had a conscious. how honest are we? joining me is the ceo of honest tea. good to see you. >> good to be here. >> gretchen: i love this experiment. it fits so well in with the brand. >> it does. >> gretchen: honest tea. how did you come up with the idea?

>> we seek to have this honest and transparent relationship with our ingredients. we want to see how our consumers embody those values. most people were honest. >> gretchen: you set up a display and say pay here, one dollar. >> honor system. >> gretchen: one dollar per bottle. >> but there is no cashier, no uniformed personnel. so we saw tons of people who would look around, is anybody watching? >> gretchen: did they put the money? let's find out. here are the top five most honest cities in america. oakland, california. 100% honest? salt lake city, 100% honest? bolder, san francisco, carry side heights, new jersey, all in the high 90%. were you shocked? >> i was impressed. you think about it, you feel like there is always someone who will sort of try to sneak something. but no. what we heard was a lot of times there was peer pressure. someone would be watching and say, put that in. of course, there were some other

funny ones. in philadelphia, someone tried to pay with a mayonnaise packet. >> gretchen: that's not worth a buck. >> we didn't count that. >> gretchen: top five least honest locations. atlantic terminal, brooklyn, new york. boo. 61%. venice beach, california, chelsea piers, new york city. also 16th street mall, denver, colorado. south side chicago, all in the 70 and 80 percentile. >> in brooklyn, someone asked -- they didn't ask, they tried to walk away with some of our duct tape. >> gretchen: they wanted a twofer. all right. let's take a look at men and women. people might be surprised who is more honest. men? 91%. women, 95%. >> yeah. people weren't that surprised by this one. when we asked, what did you think, they goesed it was going to be women. >> gretchen: still both pretty high. which business districts are the most honest?

madison avenue, new york city. 98%. wall street, 97%. that will be a shocker to shop. capitol hill, 93%. silicon valley, 93%. hollywood, 88%. what do you make of that? >> here, too, people said, capitol hill will be the worst. we actual lea did see a postal worker take a bottle without paying. but overall, once again, i think it is encouraging results. >> gretchen: i love the experiment. you give all the money to charity? >> that's right. it's all going to city air, which we're -- this is a test of community trust. that's an organization focused on helping communities around the country. >> gretchen: hopefully you'll come back next year with your results. seth, great to see you. >> thank you. >> gretchen: how would you like half off your kids' college tuition? good news, right? the deal is yours if you're here illegally. then, face-to-face with osama bin laden. find out how you can take down the world's most notorious terrorist all over again?

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released in los angeles a few years ago. >> gretchen: let's not go there. shall we stay away from that story? >> brian: i wish we did then. >> steve: meanwhile a day after stumping together in new hampshire, mitt romney and paul ryan are going their separate ways again. mitt romney -- >> brian: they had a great time together yesterday. >> steve: they did. they were great. romney is going to iowa. paul ryan will make his first appearance in pennsylvania. joining us from carnegie, pen enis our own mike emmanuel, sans jet pack. >> good morning. how are you? >> steve: good. what can we expect to hear from paul ryan today? >> it's interesting 'cause here in southwestern pennsylvania, democrats outnumber republicans in some cases to to one. but the republicans here will tell you that a lot of reagan democrats have been voting republican in be recent elections since they feel this part of the state will be huge for them.

we expect congressman ryan to come in examine talk about what a romney-ryan administration would do for small businesses, what it would do for the energy sector with coal being huge in this part of the state. adds for other themes, we'll hear congressman ryan. >> i am proud to stand next to a man who created jobs, tens of thousands of which made more prosperity and more opportunity for working americans and i'm proud to stand with a man who from experience knows that if you have a small business, you did build that! [ cheers and applause ] >> today the small business will be beaver steel outside of pittsburgh, pennsylvania, carnegie, pennsylvania. we expect to hear similar themes talking about small business and what they would do if elected to help small business boom and create more jobs, guys. >> brian: mike, i have not seen a poll of pennsylvania that had the republican ticket in front. is there a sense that ryan could make up the ground on the president for mitt romney?

>> they do believe he can have a big impact here. he's going to two key areas here in southwestern pennsylvania, also to philadelphia suburb later in the day to talk about the impact of those defense cuts, the half trillion dollars in defense cuts looming out there. they do believe he could have an impact. they believe this is fertile country for them and as for this small business he is visiting, the owner told me earlier today that he was shocked when they got the call that they were going to use this as a backdrop. they have never a vip political person here before. here is more from the president of the small business. >> i think it will be received very well. small business is the back tone of this country. beaver steel is just a small part of that. i think we're a good representation of what small business is about. >> so bottom line, we do expect to hear plenty about energy, coal country is huge.

the energy aspect is huge. so there are a lot of people in this part of the state, this part of the country who believe the obama administration's regulations have been an overreach. so you can expect congressman ryan to talk about that. and also what they would do obviously for small business. guys, back to you. >> steve: leave it to beaver steel, that's going to be the site today. mike emmanuel, thank you. >> gretchen: the rest of the headlines. police in st. louis hoping surveillance video will provide clues in the murder of a college volleyball star. she was on her way to play in an alumni game at st. louis university when she was shot dead in her car and horribly police believe it was just a random attack. >> so thankful, so thankful that i did get to see her these last few days. spent time with her, hear her laugh. >> gretchen: police don't have any solid leads now. a $10,000 reward is being offered for any information leading to an arrest.

>> brian: new jersey governor chris christie on the really short list to become mitt romney's vp. so how did mitt break the news that it wasn't going to be him? here is the governor. >> i called him and he told me that he had decided to go in a different direction for vice president. asked me if i'd be willing to do the keynote address. i told him i would be. i'm not nervous. no. i'm excited. the hardest thing for me will be on tuesday. it's not 'til 10:30. my staff said, we'll keep you down on tuesday all day. down all day? i'm going to sit around for 16 hours waiting to give the speech? i don't think o. keep me busy. >> brian: i sense he'll be hanging out with us. >> steve: why not? we have nothing to do. >> brian: we have something to do. that's not the selling point. will he tone it down tuesday? he says not a chance. quote, they know what they're buying. >> steve: meanwhile, transportation secretary ray lahood pleased with spending billions of taxpayer dollars on

the stimulus. listen. >> spent 48 billion and we put 65,000 people to work in 15,000 projects in two years with no problems. i'm very proud of that. >> steve: that sounds good burks we did the math. that amounts to about $738,000 per job. i bet he'd like a do over. >> gretchen: a high school valedictorian is being denied her diemployee in a because she used the word hell in her speech. she used the word when describing what she says when people asked what she wants to do with her life. she said, how the hell do i know? she meant to say, heck. and even wrote heck down in the actual speech, but she slipped. >> he looks at her examine said me and you have a problem. i have your diploma right here, but you ain't getting it. a slam in the face pretty much. >> gretchen: she can't get the diemployee in a -- she can get it, but she has to write a letter of apology. she says she has no intention of writing that letter.

we asked you what do you think. kevin says, with all the young people we have dropping out of school, i would like to think this slip of the tongue prosecute this young lady surely should not be made an example of. this is america, freedom of speech. dan said, it's ironic she's being punished for telling the truth. >> steve: meanwhile, was it murder or just an accident? that question at the center of the drew peterson trial today, brian. >> brian: yep. judge jeanine pirro has been at the trial every day, there from the very beginning, joining us from chicago. what can we expect today? >> we begin week four in this murder case and remember, last week didn't end too well for the prosecution. a witness was barred from testifying because the judge felt his testimony was unreliable and, of course, he was a key witness who would say that drew peterson forced his fourth wife to provide an alibi for the night that the third wife for whom he's on trial, was murdered. and today, though, hopefully

we'll begin on a better note for the prosecution with dr. mary case, one of the top neurologists in the country, board certified in three areas. she will testify that the one inch cut on the back of kathleen savio's head was not enough to cause her to go unconscious and then fall and drown in the tub. and that the bruises and abrasions on kathleen's body were not the result of a fall. she will be key testimony. her testimony will be key in the jury decide building this was a homicide or an accident. and of course, there is talk that the judge will decide today whether or not the offer by drew peterson to a friend of $25,000 to kill his third wife, kathleen, will come into evidence. you may recall that that was not allowed in on the first day of trial. the prosecution being given another opportunity to prove to the court why it is relevant. and the attorney for kathleen

savio, harry smith, is scheduled to testify that kathleen told him that drew was going to kill her and that in the end, she would never see a settlement from the divorce. >> steve: a lot of stuff the jury ought to hear. judge jeanine pirro out in chicago, thank you. see you tomorrow. >> thank you. >> gretchen: coming up, the president's planning to cut $600 billion from medicare. but seniors are not the only ones in trouble. why health care for all americans may be in critical condition. >> brian: plus, are you smarter than a fifth grader? who cares anymore unless you're a fourth grader. jeff foxworthy putting people to the test on the bible. we're the first contestants. >> steve: great. >> brian: can i phone a friend? >> each correct answer is worth 25 points. remember, if you're wrongs you lose the point and the other teams can buzz mornings aren't alwayserfect.

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undocumented students at the metropolitan state college of denver. those who qualify will pay about half the price that legal u.s. students pay. congressman is filing a lawsuit against the preferential treatment. boston market pulling salt shakers of the they will reduce sodium levels by 20% in rotissiere chicken and other items. bring your own if you want it. steve? >> steve: meanwhile, more than 20% of hospitals in the united states are operating currently in the red. part of that reason, when medicare patients come in for treatment. the government only covers a portion of the bill. so will the problem get worse if the president does indeed cut $716 billion from medicare? we're putting that to peter johnson, jr. who joins us. >> the cuts are in the law. the cuts are happening. i think it's not political. it's proven to say less resources equal more deaths. so we had a big talk of death

panel when is obamacare was being put into effect. this is the real death panel. people will die. there is a study that shows as a result of the balanced budget act back in the '90s, that medicare reductions caused a rise in deaths in people who suffered a heart attack. in hospitals. it didn't happen immediately burks took place over time because of staffing reductions. but in my view, the quality of healthcare will suffer and it will spill over from the medicare population into the general population. >> steve: sure. >> so what you will see -- let's look at at the mortality number. they show that people, in fact, will die as a result of heart attacks. who is going to pay the price of these medicare cuts? these medicare cuts are going to be paid for by everyone. >> steve: right. >> there is something called the spillover effect. we see the spillover effect in the largest cuts, more people died in hospitals in the past.

my belief is, and the doctors in the study believe that will have the same effect going forward in america now. hospitals are at the cusp in america. 49% of hospitals spend more caring for patients than they receive. so when you cut $716 billion in medicare resources, not only will nursing be cut out for medicare patients, they will be cut out across the board and people will, in fact, suffer as a result of those reduced resources. >> steve: and peter, the democrats famously have tried to use mediscare against paul ryan over the last couple of years. but the last mortality graph, that's scary. >> they said the scare tactic was the biggest lie of 2011. it has been proven that teaching hospitals will suffer. those hospitals associated with universities. >> steve: it just makes sense, if you take $716 billion out of a program, there is going to be less program.

>> the poorest will suffer. and all americans will suffer in the end, i believe. >> steve: all right. second day in a row taking a look at the numbers. peter johnson, jr., excellent job. >> thank you. >> steve: up next, jeff foxworthy is back! >> get ready. tonight we're going to give away more than $25,000. i'm jeff foxworthy and this is the american bible challenge. >> steve: well, that's a new game show. yep. he left the fifth graders behind for bible trivia and we are the first contestants. let's hope we're jumping up and down by the end of it. in the meantime t ten minutes from now, that man takes over. >> how are you doing? good morning to you. we've got more on this breaking news on the plane attack in afghanistan. a plane carrying the head of the u.s. armed forces. money, money, money, republicans have a whole lot of it. but what's the best way to spend it over these next 80 some odd days? the president denies his campaign is negative. is that the case? bob and andrea on that. we now know one of the themes of the convention for republicans in tampa.

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>> you remember, first he asked you, are you smarter than a fifth grader? now jeff foxworthy is challenging viewers in a battle of biblical proportions. take a look. >> all right. our first category is called, what do you know of about the ark? we're going to be easing you into some multiple choice questions about a story you already know about. >> gretchen: joining us now, the host of the american bible challenge, jeff foxworthy. good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you? >> gretchen: doing great. i know you're going to test us out as the first contestants, so to speak.

brian is a little nervous about this. >> brian: right. i got to ask you, what made you think this was a great idea? >> you know what? i guess they considered me as a host because of smarter than a fifth grader and when they first threw the idea out there, a game show about the bible, i'm like, boy, i don't know about that. here is what sold me on it. everybody that plays on the show, nobody is playing for themselves. everybody takes whatever money they win and they're loving on somebody in their community, whether it's a food bank or sick kid or something like that. >> steve: that's a great component to it. i think it's a great idea. my wife when she used to teach ccd, the most popular thing was something called jesus jeopardy. that's her version of what you're about to do. go ahead. put some questions out there and let's see if we know any of the answers. >> all right. here we go, guys. question number one -- >> brian: by the way, can we help each other. >> who got swallowed by a whale? >> gretchen: jonah? >> you're a team. john, abraham, josiah or yoon.

>> gretchen: sorry, i said it. >> brian: jonah. >> gretchen: you knew that. >> jonah is right. you're off to a good start. question number 2, what did adam and eve use to cover themselves after the first sin? was it animal skin, palm branches, fig leaves or linen? >> gretchen: brian? >> brian: i imagine fig leaves. >> steve: you're right. >> fig leaves is absolutely right. you guys are off to a great start. >> steve: these are a little on the easy side. >> they are, but we're trying to make look good. it's early in the morning. what did god use to create adam? was it clay, dust, sand or water? >> gretchen: steve? >> steve: clay. >> clay is absolutely incorrect! >> brian: 'cause i'm with you, steve. like you can mold a person in

the clay. >> steve: sure. dust? >> ashes to ashes, dust to dust. it was dust. >> gretchen: and the man behind camera number 3 had the answer to that. maybe our floor crew should be playing. one more question. >> the last one. what does babel from the tower of babel mean? confusion, heaven, harmony, or divinity? >> brian: i would take confusion for 100. >> steve: that's right. >> you don't get to pick how much money. confusion is absolutely right. when we talk about somebody babbling on, that's where it comes from,. >> brian: jeff, i got bad news. you have to stick around. is that all right? >> that's good. >> brian: it is god's will that you stay for the break. >> steve: we'll be back in two minutes.

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