pick up your gun, jay-z we have company coming over.you take him at his word he got white house clearance? >> no, it is a song, for the love of god. i love how they take rap so literally. every song is exactly what they said. you hear "wind beneath my wings" nobody really thinks you are the wind beneath anybody's wings. white people can get away with anything. >> that's right. when elvis was alive, he wasn't really a hound dog. why do we have to take rap literally? that's the only word i can think of. >> bragadocious. they brag, but everything is thought true. it is not a documentary. >> buck, welcome to the show. may i call you buck? >> please do. >> is this just a song or should obama be impeached and be beyonce sent to gitmo? >> just a song. i think jay carney missed an excellent opportunity to engage in a rap battle. >> they could say nothing rhymes are treasury. >> and he could say oh ya -- if rap lyrics were true there would be a bunch of people spending time in jail for shooting a lot of folks. >> and a lot of them did shoot a lo

. ♪ and jay z.efends his recent trip to communist cuba with a new song, if you can call it that ♪ obama said kill you going to get me impeached, you don't need this [ bleep ] anyway, chill with me on the beach ♪ >> greg: did president obama really give them the nod? we will get to the bottom of the controversy if there is one. caution, you are are about to enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. >> greg: i'm greg gutfeld in for bill o'reilly. jane fonda telling veterans and other critics threatening to boycott the new movie to "get a life." the far left fonda is playing nancy regan in the film "the butler" due out in october. many americans are objecting to the casting of who they still call hanoi jane. she was photographed seated on an antiaircraft gun. the factor caught up with fonda few years ago at an antiwar rally in d.c. >> we just wanted to follow up on the question about the people who died -- after people deed in vietnam what do you think might happen to the iraqis? will you

which is how jay-z and beyonce got there.ery to this. >> no, rev, there's no mystery to this. there's also cultural exchanges. that's clearly what this is. the fact that another news network chooses to say that the president is behind some overall big push and conspiracy to get jay-z and beyonce to cuba is ridiculous. i'm sorry. i think the president is busy addressing real issues. the last time i checked, he was pushing gun control heavily in communities that matter and have been so severely impacted by this crisis. nobody cares where these folks go to travel. we wish them the best but we definitely think this is a waste of news time. >> and i think, jonathan, that angela's right when she talks about the distraction. because they don't want to deal with why they're going against 90% of the american public on background checks. they don't want to explain a lot of things that they are elected to the senate and congress to deal with. they want to worry about some pop hip-hop stars going to cuba legally, if all that is reported

if you ask me, at the inauguration, jay-z and beyonce were the stars. >> jay-z for president. >> jay-z be able to run for president because the right side would probably tear him down but -- >> why do you say that? >> did i say that? was that my outside voice? >> i think republicans would love jay-z. let me just say. >> let me tell you why he has the potential to make billions and billions and billions. i had a partner at the ad agency, russell simmons, what that allowed me to do, called budweis budweiser, because jay-z the superstar, he will continue to partner with tech companies, what not, he will end up with billions and billions. he will be one of the great business leaders of our time. >> to me, i think the story is in the symbolism, you have this modern american dream come to fruition. the question is, is he america's greatest new age businessman? >> no. come on, guys. let's -- he's not. >> you just built him up, now you're tearing him down. >> he's brilliant at what he does, but i don't think he will go down as america's greatest business -- >> he's certainly pop culture's grea

everybody knows him as jay-z. buyer is but beyonce is a one-wd celebrity, like cher. 's hard to say i didn't know it was that beyonce. >> greta: jay carney said the president didn't have a conversation with jay-z about this trip. did they have a discussion about another time or something. they say not over this trip. then you go to the lyrics, and in the lyrics he says he got white house clearance. he may have taken artistic license with it, sort of making that up, but he does in his song says he gets white house clearance. maybe these confused between what the white house and treasury is. people may be confused. certainly looks like a field trip as nor marco rubio describes it. >> yeah, absolutely. this song fascinates me, too, greta, because on one hand he's claiming to be the victim, that he's being persecuted in the united states, being criticized because he went over and used their -- the carter dollars to basically pay this oppressive regime, and, on the other hand, bragging about his close relationship with the administration, he has access, he can go there and

the president did not talk to jay-z.ke of the fact that so many lawmakers, we just talked to harvey levin of tmz saying they were waiting if there was any kind of fallout here if in fact it was true what jay-z rapped about he had talked to the president about his trip. it's pretty odd, don't you think, so mitch attention being paid over this relationship between the president and jay-z? >> and beyonce for that matter. i guess people are very interested, obviously, in jay-z and beyonce and their trip to cuba which we now know did have approval from the u.s. treasury department which is to approve nonjournalistic if you will visits to cuba. in this case they did. there are a lot of american tourists who go and have this opportunity for a cultural exchange if you will. so what they really did was not all that extraordinary. a lot of americans visit cuba nowadays. and the obama administration as you well know, suzanne, they've made it clear they'd like to improve this dialogue, this openness if you will between cuba and the

jay z. took to the mike today releasing a title "open letter" in which he was questioned the legality of his recent trip to cuba. he also says he had a conversation about the trip with the president of the united states. >> after that song was released, the white house was very quick to distance itself suddenly from jay z's trip. >> i guess nothing surrounds treasury. because treasury offers and gives licenses for travel as you know and the white house has nothing to do with it. >> so are you saying he did not, the president did not have a conversation with jay z? >> i'm absolutely saying the white house to the president on down had anybody to do with anybody's travel to cuba. that is something that treasury handles. >> there is something about the look on jay's face that is priceless there. >>> "outfront" tonight, ari fleisher, can you imagine how jay felt? you're like oh, please. elsie kranderson also joins us. this made a top story. the headline is jay z raps about cuba trip. these two gu

then later on a fun story, jay-z versus jc as in jay corny. >> you don't need this on the beach. >> i guess nothing rhymes with treasurer. >> cenk: and more on the drama between mitch mcconnell and ashashley judd. >> she's emotionally unbalanced. >> cenk: we know who made the tapes. we know. we're going to share it with you. it's go time. cenk: all right, welcome to "the young turks." now, boy the gun control advocates did such an amazing vigil last night into this morning. they brought family members of victims of gun shootings and they had them read the 3300 names of people who have been killed since newtown. now, it took all night. it was called filibuster the filibuster to counter the filibuster the republicans were doing on gun control legislation. we got to the sister of elementary school vicky soto. this is what happened. >> grace mcdonald, age seven. december 14, 2012, newtown connecticut. >> victoria soto, age 27, december 14, 2012, newtown connecticut. rachel davino, age 29, december 14, 2012, newtown connecticut. lauren russo age 30, december 14, 2012, newtown connecticut..

jay-z couldn't come up with a better rhyme. who do you believe? jay-z or jay carney?"fox & friends" hour two for a friday starts now, baby! ♪ ♪ >> announcer: you're watching "fox & friends," the number one morning cable news show in america. [ roosting crowing ] >> gretchen: we have a lot of stuff to talk about today. let's get to the headlines. powerful spring storms now to blame for three deaths from the midwest to the southeast. this twister caught on camera in mississippi, the storm damaging mobile homes, toppling trees and flipping over an 18-wheeler. in kemper county, mississippi, one person was killed and several others injured after a reported tornado hit a business. that is all is left is metal. debris scattered through the woods across the street. >>> shades of the benghazi terror attack all over again? the obama administration changing the story on the homicide attack that killed american diplomat and four others in afghanistan. the state department now says they were walking on foot at the time of the attack. the family members were initially told they wer

. >>> beyonce and her husband jay-z take a vacation to cuba. why that has caused such a big stir with lawmakers on capitol hill. good evening, i'm ken. >> and i'm elizabeth cook. he was passed out at a party when three claz mates allegedly took advantage of her, but her family said it's what happened next that led the south bay teen to take her own life. kpix 5 tells us the tragedy may be a kons kwen of a cruel new social media trend. kit. >> well, liz, this investigation took a total of seven months. detectives confiscated cell phones and computers and conducted several dozen interviews. more information is coming to light. the details are said to be sickening. >> audrie pott got drunk on hard liquor mixed with gay toreade at a house party last september, went upstairs and passed out. three boys went into bedroom armed with cell phone cameras. >> there were photographs taken op the sexual assault and those photographs were distributed in some manner. we were able to recover photographs from during our forensic search of computers and cell phon

and beyonce and jay-z's cuba trip sparked outrage. other celebrities have done it, so what's the big deal? >> for years, the debate in this town has raged between reducing our deficits at all costs and making investments that start to grow our economy. this budget answers that argument because we can do both. >> welcome to "the journal editorial report," i'm stuart varney if this week for paul gigot. at long last, president obama released his budget for 2014 this week, calling it a fiscally responsible blueprint for middle class jobs and growth. and pitching it as a peace offering to republicans. but after looking at the details, shouldn't we be hoping for gridlock? dan henninger, james freeman and kim strassel. dan, hoping for gridlock? you don't like this? >> it sounds good for me based on what i heard president obama say, so, on the one hand he says, in the past we've been trying to reduce deficits at all costs. that means cutting spending, as opposed to making some of the investments we need which means increasing spending and he

this i think we are making a lot of jay-z and beyonce going there.ve probably done things that no one else can do. but it's time to open the lines. it's time to allow free travel back and forth and free transactions. it's just time. >> what about the explanation here, greg, from the administration saying that the treasury department told politico on wednesday while the department approved the trip's organizers to travel to cuba as part of this cultural learning experience, they didn't know they were going to be there. that jay-z and beyonce was going to go. >> yeah. another really transparent answer. you would get straighter answers from lombard street. you are not from san francisco. [ laughter ] >> i lost that one completely. >> couldn't celebrities please -- it's not about going on the trip. i think going on the trip is okay. it's what you do when you get there. do a little bit of homework about where you are going. i mean, i think beyonce probably thinks the merrill boat lift is a cosmetic procedure. they go there and follow the propaganda path a

jay-z was harsh, about critics like you, saying what's wrong? he's not a criminal for going down to cuba. what's your message back to jay-z? you can rap it, if you want. he rapped his message to you. >> i won't rap it. but jay-z needs to get informed. one of his heroes was che guevara. che gu var ra was a racist. he spoke about the superior of white europeans over people of african decent. secondly, if jay-z was truly interested in the state of affairs in cuba, he would have met people being oppressed, including a hip-hop artist in cuba, who is being persecuted and undergoing a hunger strike because of his political lyrics. and i think he missed an opportunity. but that's jay-z's issue. the biggest point is the travel policies. the travel policies are being abused. these are tourist trips. they're providing hard currency and funding to a tyrannical regime can maintain its grip on the island of cuba. and i think that's wrong. >> senator rubio, thank you for joining us on "this week." >> thank you. >>> we're joined, now, by another member of the g

. >> the controversy between jay-z and beyonce trip to cuba after he released a song about the visit. >> it was a rap song he used it to say he received white house clearance for the trip. elizabeth prann is here to talk to us about it. something gate. j gate. >> it was released on-line. he is responding to criticism about the purpose and legality about his trip to cuba. in the latest title called open letter he says he was singled out because of his relationship with the president. he mimicked republicans who talked about the treasury. he talked about restriction of trade with cuba. here's a little of the song. ♪ >> despite the numerous white house references jay carney says in no way shape or form was the president involved in the couple's 5 year celebration. >> i would say a couple of things. decisions made about cultural travel and academic travel are made by the treasury department and i would refer you to specific cases to the treasury department it has been the case that under this administration we have eased the ability to travel to cuba for those purposes. but the decision t

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and he weighed in. >> -- to beyonce and jay-z, jay-z released a rap today.e other day you said treasury was the one that clears those trips. he suggested that he got white house clearance and that he personally spoke with the president. i'll just quote "i turned havana into atlanta, boy from the hood i got white house clearance obama said "chill you're going to get me impeached" you don't need this explative anyway chill with me on the beach. >> i guess nothing rhymes with treasury. because treasury offers and gives licenses for travel, as you know. and the white house has nothing to do with it. >> so are you saying that he did not -- the president did not have a conversation with jay-z? >> i'm absolutely saying that the white house and the president on down had nothing to do with anybody's personal -- anybody's travel to cuba. that is something treasury handles. these are tough words to rhyme. it's a song, donovan, the president did not communicate with jay-z over this trip. >> that's the first time in all my years following the white house anybody has quot

jay z and beyonce is under fire to cub a.omeone here said we should all be allowed to go there. >> eric: jay z versusus jay carny. the treasury and not the white house gave the green light for jay z and wife beyonce to travel to cuba. regardless of that he is rapping. snolt ♪ ♪ boys from the hood white house clamor. (bleep) to me except lie to me and distort history. ♪ >> eric: johnathon you don't think they are criminal but free market capitalist. >> i don't think they are particularly good musician either. but unlike cuba we protect individual rights and that is the right to travel. cuba is not a imminent threat but i believe americans should have the right to travel to cube a. they should denounce them as a slave society and people should be careful in traveling to places that don't invest in human rights. so you play with a lot of risks when you travel and invest in countries that don't invest in human rights. >> eric: is it time to open up trade. >> i think trade helps you cut a nation off. look at the problem with north

. >> jay-z and beyonce celebrated their fifth. they decided to go to castro's cuba to commemorate the moment. hollywood's ambivalence towards evil when we come back. ♪ kim jong un keeps killing our fun putting missiles on launchers and bite size bandit. ask your yankee about it and he will shrug. world inundated the fat prince is a nobler version of kardashian. on the list of perceived evil plastic bags are way more harmful than a mad dictator frac willing and words like illegal. thank god the a.p. took a stand ton that they are so graf. so we have lost the ability to procedure advertise evil where evangelicals are as bad as hamas. during army reserve training brief on extremism evangelical christianity and catholicism were listed as examples of extremism next to al qaeda. must be all those hymns. yeah, today receive relative if becomes hurtful if you apply it to anything outside of america or even within our own prison system. this is why sean penn sobbed over hugo chavez. bobby red ford weather underground. angela davis and jay-

. >> jay-z spilled the beans. he says that he got the okay from the administration from the white house. ♪ boy from the hood sororial, i don'sorry ♪ >> the president didn't have anything to do with anybody's travel to cuba. >> to question the literal accuracy of jay-z's lyric is to overlook the fact that the treasury really answers to the white house. >> more than 14% of recent college grads are having trouble landing a job. >> how long have you been looking for a job? >> a year now. >> i'm having so much trouble finding a job. >> i'm sending out resumes. 0-40 a day. >> felt like i went to school for nothing. >> i want to be clear that north korea has not demonstrated the capabilities to deploy a nuclear armed missile. >> it is inaccurate to suggest that the dprk has fully tested, developed or demonstrated capabilities. >> obviously the north koreans have is tested nuclear weapons. obviously the north koreans have tested nuclear weapons. >> the regime has publicly announce thaded that the north has nukes and the r

hip-hop power couple, jay-z and beyonce vacation in cuba. and msnbc runs a controversial promo claiming kids belong to the community, not parents. and a hollywood reporter names its 35 most powerful people in the media. who made the list? find out now on fox news watch. on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor judy miller, richard grinnell, for the ambassador of the united nations. jim pinkerton, editor to conservative magazine and ellen radner. i'm jon scot i'm in for jon scott, fox news watch. >> i've heard some in the washington press, what happens to gun violence in legislation in congress this week will either be a political victory or defeat for me. connecticut, this is not about me. this is mott about politics. this is about doing the right thing for all the families who are here that have been torn apart by gun violence. it's about them and all the families going forward so we can prevent this from happening again. that's what it's about. the law enforcement officials putting their lives at risk, that's what it's about

if you are critical of beyonce and jay-z, you are called racist by a few people.e have always been critical of celebrities with their dalliance with communist. hugo chavez cavorting with him and i wish jay-z and beyonce would have read up on their history of cuban leaders and blacks and how they look at blacks. >> they could have made a difference. they could have done one radio interview with a free media. do something that at least incentive. basically stop publicity for a lark and now they have the administration in hot water. i don't think the floaters washington you should not let the administration off the hook. somebody needs to answer who at the treasury department approved it and why didn't they tell the state department so that they could -- >> can i send out one more message. gregory don't talk about this stuff anymore. >> i didn't even know who that was. a guy with two first names i don't like. >> you have a problem with first two names. >> he has been a liberal comedian for a long long time. >> he hasn't been a comedian. >> i know. >> like bill maher.

what's the big deal with beyonce and jay-z.his can test mott a good idea of rodman meeting with the dick state tore. there's lou and we have to follow you are we are a country. the reason why that law exists it is a regime that murderings his own people. harbo f terrorists huge tives from american law. and there's a reason why we do not want to do things in that me. did they follow the law? did they get a license? if they did did they fol and requirements of a law of that license. and if they didn't why not? we wrote a letter asking for information. we got a letter back that explained what the lplan is. remember my brother lincoln was the one wasn't wrote the law. it is very strange you that you now from the white house spokesman they are dancing all over the place without giving us ! -- straight answer. that leads me to believe something was not kosher. >> the safety of america may be in peril. >> we have a regime that jayrdered hostages. they hide terrorists living the high life in cuba. we have policy to stop u.s. dollars fr

say jay z. under fire right now so many pictures of the superstar couple marking their fifth wedding anniversary and how law now an investigation is being launched into. whether they broke the law it was their fifth wedding anniversary they did not speak to reporters so we do not know why they chose to go to cuba and chances are they will never tell us that power couple took a trip to havana last week to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but legally you can't just take a vacation to cuba at least you and i can't. yet cheezy and beyonce traveling to the beautiful caribbean island of cuba apparently the most important news story happening in the country right now and i have to hand it to our friends at fox news because absurdly blown out proportion as this story already is folks always manages to take it one step further take a look. why. go to cuba who are notoriously racist towards blacks also want to know whose idea was this initially did they did it did anyone in the administration thi

jay-z and beyonce's trip to cuba presents us with a crime. committed a crime by going there or it is a crime that they get to go there legally and you can't. but the biggest crime of all is the single stupidest piece, the embargo with trade with cuba. of course, beyonce and jay-z and anyone else should be able to go for a vacation to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary as it was originally reported in their case. now that the couple's lawyers are controlling the message, the trip is described as a legal cultural exchange with cuba. but they did bring body guards with them who would not fit under our government's definition of who would be allowed to participate in a legal cultural exchange trip to cuba, they also brought their mothers, beyonce and jay-z's mother came along for the ride. if their trip was legal, they got very special treatment from the obama administration, specifically the treasury department, which authorizes such trips. the couple's lawyers refuse to disclose any detail of the trip, but all indications at this stage a

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. >>> later this hour, beyonce and jay-z in cuba for a wedding anniversary vacation. the question is are they actually breaking u.s. law by being there? again, we begin with the breaking news that could drastically affect president obama's big push on gun control legislation. bipartisan talks tonight on background checks. if you look at the polls, extending background checks to cover all gun buyers is popular, very popular among democrats, republicans, gun owners, even some members of the national rifle association. yet dana bash reporting tonight that congress which came back today from a two-week recess shows little sign of doing what as many as 90% of americans say they want in that regard. so tonight, after speaking in hartford, connecticut, president obama brought a number of newtown families back to washington on air force one to spend the next few days speaking with lawmakers, telling their stories, trying to make it personal. this is just minutes ago, you see the families arriving. nicole hockley lost her son dylan at sandy hook elementary. she introduced the

he also said that one of jay-z's heroes said he was a racist and jay-z needs to get informinform >> all of those things that marco rubio said are true. google chez and see the writings on racism and race when he was alive in the diaries and had some very ugly things to say, demeaning things to say about the african race and yes. there is a rapper in cuba who is in jail for rapping anti-government lyrics. if an artist in cuba rapped what jay-z did about the american politicians, that would be grounds for being in jail. in cuba, don, it is illegal, for example, to play the lyrics of gloria esteban. they had to escape the island to be able to play and exercise their freedom. sandoval. you know, people like cruz died without ever being to go back to the island. look. if they want to go to cuba. they want to thumb their nose at the laws that are in the books, you know, do it, that's fine. everybody can do that. but let's not pretend that cuba is cancun or that cuba is the bahamas. it's a 54-year-old dictatorship and people live under oppression and those of us familiar with the situation and

not happy about jay-z and beyonce's recent trip to cuba. rubio is cuban-american and he says americans traveling to cuba are just propping up an oppressive dictator. >> it's not the last word on this. another prominent cuban-american from south florida has something to say. and he's saying it in rhyme. we're talking about the hip hop artist pit bull defending jay-z and beyonce in a new rap. >> rafael romo joins us for all things, rapping and the controversy continues though. everybody's weighing in on this. you can't ask anybody they've got an opinion. >> i'm going to write the screen play for the movie, politicians versus the rappers. anyway, this is just incredible. the bottom line is that rubio represents the cuban exile in miami. and he says that of all the places that they could have gone to the world they chose wrong, they chose cuba, they chose to support an oppressive regime and that they shouldn't have gone there. now, we had him on our "state of the union" show with candy crowley. listen to what he had to say. >> there's a rapper

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jay-z released that rap song in response.carney, responded to those lyrics earlier today. >> i guess nothing rhymes with treachery. it's a song, donovan. the president did not communicate with jay-z over this trip. >> let's discuss what's going on in our strategy session. joining us or cnn contributors, democratic strategist paul begala and anna navarrnavarro. what's going on here? >> as you know, wolf, in pop culture, nothing crosses my radar unless they do a diet with the great willy nelson. but i'm into snoop. jay-z has yet to do that. so i had to go to twitter. deann suggested i say the country has 99 problems, but jay-z isn't one. we have a cultural exchange there. it's good for artists to go to cuba. and good for cuban artists to come here. i think the right wing attacking jay-z for this is silly. >> and the treasury department has to sign off on these visits. a lot of americans go as tourists to cuba. do you have a problem with any of this? >> i frankly have a problem with the way he's reacted to it. look, wolf, havana