mostly howie. it wasn't that. i was just saying hello to howie.sed a lot. >> jimmy: we talked about you saying hello to howie in a different way just moments ago. >> oh, yes. the greeting. shaking hands. yes. >> jimmy: how's everything going this summer? are your kids still in the house? are they -- >> no, no, they're in the backyard right now. no, they're grown. they're grown. i'm an empty nester. >> jimmy: oh, really? >> weryes, the house is empty. they've grown and gone on to their own lives. >> jimmy: you like that? >> no, it's empty. it is. my kids are funny and i enjoyed having them around. my son is actually the funniest of -- he used to -- even when he was a little kid, he like had comedy in him. just naturally was comedic. i have two girls and a boy. one of the little girl's goldfish tied. i tried to, you know, make a little -- not a celebration, a -- >> jimmy: a memorial? >> a memorial around the toilet because you -- why's that funny? don't other people flush? we were going to flush it. she said good-bye. tears were coming down her chee

>> i think it did both, howie. i think the coverage was exhaustive and exhausting, frankly. there was the familiar tendency to take an economic story and turn it into a political story and to assign blame, who is up, who's down, et cetera. i have to say you're doing some of that yourself right now in this segment. it's a big story. i would say the media failed to anticipate the consequences, the s&p downgrade, the market swoon, all the problems that are still coming. so this story is still going on, and i really argue that it's too soon to assign blame and maybe that's a fruitless exercise anyway. media always very quick to assign blame. we'll get to the economic impact in our next segment. joan, dennis referred to some of the language being used. "much of the country has watched in horror has the tea party republicans have waged jihad on the american people." don't liberals usually complain about inflammatory -- >> he wrote another segment and apologized. >> he did apologized. you talk about tea party crazies. >> i've said it was a hostage taking. i believe it was a hostage

in the fourth, the white sox alex rios makes a great throw from center field but the angels howie kendrickslides under the tag. angels rally past chicago 5-4. >>> game two of a double header against the mariners, jack hanahan stretches over the dugout railing to make, look at this, a sensational grab but seattle wracks up the hits and topples the indians 12-7, cleveland wins the first game 7-5. >>> nascar driver kyle busch won't be behind the wheel any time soon on the streets. he got busted for speeding in south carolina and lost his license for 45 days. police say in may he was doing almost 130 miles an hour in a 45-mile-per-hour zone, but the nascar points leader doesn't need a license to race in competition. >>> and a stunning announcement from basketball coach pat summitt. she has early onset dementia. summitt coaches the university of tennessee and lady vols and has more wins than any other coach, male or female, in basketball college history. despite the diagnosis, the 59-year-old coach says she plans to continue coaching. >>> when we return, another look at this morning's top storie

thanks, howie. you smell horrible. i showered three times, and i can't get mrs.ell's stink off me. (sniffs) it's in my hair. where have you two been? nowhere. nowhere. nowhere. we weren't anywhere. what smells? i'm going to go take a bath in tomato juice. look at that. they have no idea what's ahead of them. you know, i never answered your question earlier about whether you and i would always be doctors. you will. hmm. you have this amazing ability to find joy in everything you do... thank you. whether it's, like, an operation you've done a hundred times... or even teaching. all right, derek, the trick to this is to get the needle right between the ribs, okay? watch like so. ♪ it's not enough, it's just not enough ♪ nice. like so. you want to get it for me? but as for me... i know you think it was a big victory figuring out what was wrong with robyn. but those moments are kind of like eating a piece of chocolate. (elevator bell dings) (elliot) i enjoy the satisfaction for about ten seconds, and then it's gone. see, the thing that sticks with me is the anguish on

he is witty, smart and unafraid, but enough about howie mandell. we have joe devito instead. and here is a fun fact, toilet seat covers were meant to protect the toilet seat from him. it is bill shultz. and she knows international affairs like i know ingrown hairs. sitting next to me, kc mcfar lond -- mcfarland, the host of fox news .com death con3. and he like a wall street journal without all of the subscriber baggage. it is our "new york times" correspondent. >> melissa counts the ways to cook an eggplant. this vie vaishs vegetable can be roasted, fried, grilled, mixed into salads, mashed into dips, stossed with pasta. > what is wrong with you? >> i want to look away. >> to the greg-alogue. it is a grape of goodness in a jello mold of malice. >> so they tweeted about a research paper linking budget cuts to social unrest in europe. once you cut an expenditure, instability increases rapidly, especially in terms of riots and demonstrations. the conclusion, governments fear uh stair tee programs for this reason. meaning riot, bloodshed, looting, so on, which is a sad and scary

general mcinerney, i remember howie lated we all were, we had defeated the armed forces of sadam husseinhdad and we started hearing some unlawlessness and looting and ali babas and turns out it was a full-fledged 4,000 deaths later they are still killing people there in iraq. >> we all want to be ue fore rick. we have to watch very closely. this could be baghdad all over again in tripoli. if we start seeing lawlessness and looters and all that going on captain nash pointed outrightly so we have a humanitarian effort you have the western tribes fundamentally took over tripoli. what is the relationship with the eastern tribes going to be? we are going to have power struggles there. the international community to include the muslim league, the u.n., nato. what role were they going to play to get a country working again and functioning. there are so many unknowns there and so many challenges. let's be ue fore rick tonight and we have huge challenges in front of us. >> i couldn't have said it better. general thank you. i want everyone to know that fox news is going to stay with this story all

next week on the show, james franco, jeremy piven, howie mandel, hank azaria, jim sturgess, denise richardsd up comedy from todd glass, and music from gavin degraw and coldplay. that's right, coldplay -- we have a big deal planned for them too. so please join us next week. without our first guest tonight, there would probably be no america. he is one of the biggest movie stars ever. on friday, you can see him saddle up alongside daniel craig in the new movie "cowboys and aliens." please say hello to harrison ford. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how are you? [ cheers and applause ] they're a little excited tonight. >> thank you. >> jimmy: good to see you. >> very nice of you to say that. about america. >> jimmy: it's true. it really is. i was on vacation two weeks ago and i decided to go to jackson, wyoming, where i know you have a place. and a friend of mine who is in show business, said, hey, you should call harrison ford. and i thought, w wl -- why? because i thought maybe he knew something that, like, you'd requested my presence. i said, why would i do that? and he said, i don't know,

the outgoing cnn executive, on with howie kurtz sees too much balance on cnn and msnbc.nce there. roll this tape. >> isn't there already a liberal -- liberal commentary network? do you see curran taking viewers? >> i see us taking viewers from them both. we see at msnbc and even at cnn as well. there's almost this false equivalency where everything is a minute on this opinion and then a minute counter opinion. by default it is like the program we had here crossfire. too much yelling and shouting for the appearance of balance. >> sean: huh? >> he went on to say, there's a lot of time on radio and television and on the web that actually goes to conservative points of view. there's not a lot of time for the left on television this is a man who has again from cnn to currant tv. -- to current tv. these people are living in a different world in a different universe. they are not seeing the world for what it is. that's why they are in last place. >> sean: well said. brent bozell, appreciate you being here. >> let not your heart be troubled. our great, great, great american pane

. >> thanks, howie, pleasure. >>> i also spoke to friedman about the recent turmoil in eej israel andf the miami football team getting gifts and the coaches being accused of looking the other way. ♪ and we'll have a real good time ♪ [ male announcer ] the new hp touchpad starting at $399.99. ♪ [ male announcer ] they'll see you...before you see them. cops are cracking down on drinking and riding. drive sober, or get pulled over. [ martin luther king jr. ] i still have a dream that one day on the red hills of georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. i have a dream today! [ male announcer ] chevrolet is honored to celebrate the unveiling of the washington, d.c., martin luther king jr. memorial. take your seat at the table on august 28th. energy is being produced to power our lives. while energy developement comes with some risk, north america's natural gas producers are committed to safely and responsibly providing decades of cleaner burning energy for our country, drilling thousands of feet bel

you have a plan up there, i talked to howie in boston where the super rich could contribute and extrat and something like one tenth of one percent did it. you have all this noise from these big rich folks. let them send checks and set an example instead of writing up ads. >> okay. there have you it. reasonable proposal. put your money where your mouth. >> let's also keep in mind that warren buffet has given away billions and billions of dollars, essentially giving away his fortune and not passing it on to the next generation. >> here is the man to do it, steve pearlsteen, one of the smartest writers today. he said what started as a reasonable attempt at political reabout rebalancing turned into a jihad against all regulation, all taxes and all government waged by right wing zel ots that want to privatize schools that educate worksers, cut back on basic research on which products are based, shut down regulatory agency foes from skrupless competitors and tore them. thisust attacking a government, this is the holy war and one that's out of your control. i agree. all of my live life i hav

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how identi howied yachtic is that?wo days they were going to put that type of regulation in place, and you are the united states senator sitting at the table said that is right, and i said what were they thinking, senator? he said, they weren't. there is rick perry speaking to the crowd in iowa. an iowa targeted conversation, talking about tractors and roads and commercial licenses. we will continue to monitor and if he says anything you should know about. >>> can we believe what politicians are saying, and it's time to bring our guests. they have been putting the politician comments to the truth-o-meter tests and joins us with the results. bill that was interesting. i think we need to have a political chat on what he just said there. >> yeah, and we're already working on it. perry said that yesterday, and our colleagues pointed it out. so we will be putting that one to the truth-o-meter. >> let's get what we have on the truth-o-meter now. michele bachmann said when standard & poor's dropped our credit rating what they