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. >> i am ainsley earhardt. it is november 12th. thank you for watching "fox & friends first". >> new details about the affair which led to the resignation of david petraeus. we know the target of the threatening e-mail that is prompted the investigation. there are concerns about whether the mistress knew state secrets. >> the fallout of the cia director david petraeus sent shock waves through out washington. he tendered his resignation after an investigation revealed he had an affair with paula broadwell. we know the fbi was aware of the affair for months part of an investigation ghan with threatening e-mails ladies and gentlemenedly sent by broadwell tol a petraeus family friend joe kelly a woman who is not romantically link to do petraeus. some are questioning why the president accepted the resignation. >> are you going to investigate why the fbi didn't know ynotify before? >> yes. this is something that could have had an effect on national security. i think we should have been told there is a way to do it that is just to inform

. >> from america's news headquarters, i'm ainsley earhardt.he federal government starting the 2013 budget year with a $120 billion deficit. the treasury department saying it rose 22% last month, compared to october of last year. analysts say it's an indication that the country could see a fifth straight year of a $1 trillion-plus deficit. the headave massachusetts company linked to a meningitis outbreak, pleading the fifth. he is expected to appear but not testify at the hearing before the energy and commerce committee. tainted shots produced by the company are blamed for 32 deaths. a plane crashed into a home in a jackson, mississippi, neighborhood. take a look at this video-- the impact set the house on fire and killed three people on board. one person in the house managed to escape and is in the hospital in good condition. i'm ainsley earhardt. now back to "on the record" with greta. thanks for watching. >> is the obama administration more concerned about a sex scandal than benghazi. >> the f.b.i. sent more time in broadwell's house four ho

i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather nauert. it is tuesday november the 13th. thank you for watching "fox & friends first". >> it is time now for the top 5@5:00. in just a few hours a lame duck congress returns to washington and the clock is ticking. they have 7 weeks to reach a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. without a compromise billions of dollars of tax increases and spending cuts go into effect on january 1st. it could trigger a double dip recession. republicans say it is not the time for tax hikes. he was held in contempt of congress for failing to turn over documents on the fox fast and furious. it is holding on to attorney general eric holder. they report today the president has asked holder to stay on for a second term. holder has agreed. holder facing criticism for reportedly knowing for months. the cia director david petraeus was involved in an fbi investigation. holder did not tell the president. investigators are trying to pinpoint the cause of the deadly explosion in indianapolis. the ex-husband of the woman whose house is believed it be

ainsley earhardt looking at the congressional races.ing kelly. >> after the victory president obama had a con sill tory tone. he is saying he learned from those who supported him and those that opposed him. because of that he will return to washington more determined and more inspired. they celebrate add victory he reached out to all americans. >> i believe we can build on the progress we made he will continue to fight for new jobs and new opportunities and security for the middle class. >> the president gave his agenda changes in tax codes and immigration and working with congress to develop a new fiscal plan that avoids a fiscal cliff that would cause massive cuts in defense cut domestic programs and shorten across the board tax increases. >>> i believe we can see a future together. we are not as divided we are not as cynical as they believe. we are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions. we were named more of a collection of red states and blue states. we forever will be the united states of america. >>> the president ackno

i'm ainsley earhardt.ack to "on the record" with greta. >> greta: obamacare may be the law of the land but that is not stopping many republican governors. they are still keeping up their fight. mary fanlon is not giving up the fight. the governor joins us. nice to see you? >> nice to see you. >> greta: tell me why don't you want to set up a stated exchange and defer to the default one? >> well, basically oklahoma said thanks but no thanks. we have a disagreement where the obama administration and the affordable healthcare act and in the state of oklahoma, they voted by a large margin, almost 65% we oppose many portions of the affordable health care act. it was put into our constitution and, of course, we've had a decision to make. we'd had a deadline in which we were to decide upon which course of the action we were going to take. we feel like if we would have set up a stated based exchange, it would have been a state based exchange in name only because i am hearing from other governors who have tried to s

i am patti ann browne. >> i am ainsley earhardt. it is thursday november 22nd. we have a great show lined up for you including dr. ab low answering e-mails. how to properly carve that curbing key. >> it is not a thanksgiving without this tradition in central park the floats are standing by and the balloons are inflated. that means the 86th annual macy's thanksgiving parade is ready to role. we are live on the upper west sited. >> good morning patti ann and ainsley. right in front of the museum of natural history on the one side. other side is the park. a ton of trees were knocked down here. obviously a community hit so hard by sajd de. they are giving bleacher tickets to those hit by hurricane sandy. they have cleaned up the area nicely. this is tom the turkey part of the food network flow which i think is pretty good and fitting. the balloons always rotate they retire a few and bring out the new ones. there are three new balloons one of them is a hello kitty balloon one of them is an elf on a shelf. you have the kids. maybe you can explain to us lart the elf on

ainsley earhardt live in our new york headquarters tracking battle ground states.e plans in ohio and pennsylvania. >> we start with kelly wright on president obama's final stops in the campaign trails. >>> good morning to you. even though the president was criticized for the handling of benghazi and the economy his final closing argument is focusing on trusting him for four more years. he heyed the last campaign stops he needs in order to get elected. the president accompanied rock star bruce springsteen said he wants to move the country forward he has more work to do to deliver the hope and change he campaigned on 4 years ago. >>> we didn't know what challenges would come. we didn't know how deep the crisis would turnout but we knew we would get through those. >> president obama says it is his last campaign. if he loses to mitt romney the president says he will not rudge again in 2016. so his last day of campaigning spoke to the polls he had an heair of nostalgia. he made no attacks but stuck to expressing his general principals about his vision for america. >> wh

i'm ainsley earhardt. thanks for watching fox.the " >> greta: alarms are going off among some conservatives in president obama's second term, his liberal supporters are calling for income redistribution. who's doing that and how do they hope to make that happen and can they? byron york just wrote about that, along with the rest of our political panel. byron, you wrote the article. >> there's been a lot of talk during the campaign that president obama didn't have much of a second term agenda, that he just wanted to raise taxes, didn't have a lot else he wanted to do other than protect the accomplishments of the first administration. but his liberal supporters do have a second term agenda they would like to see accomplished, and there's a whole bunch of things. first they want obamacare to be turned into a federal sing pair system. tom harkin, liberal democratic senator, called obamacare a, quote, starter home. they want to expand it, make it bigger. they want to increase the earned income tax credit. some would like to see the old

. >> i'm ainsley earhardt. more than two weeks after super storm sandra battered the northeast some 180,000 homes remain without power. some homes are too damaged to have the lights turned back on. they still have 76,000 outages in long island. they expect to prepare 11,000 homes lie tuesday night. >> israeli say they stray shell landed near an israeli military post in the golan heights. israeli fired a warning shot. they are threatening tougher retaliation if shots continue to stray across the border. i'm ainsley earhardt. now back to greta. guests coming to town. he invited them. the ceos of major corporations heading to the white house as the country races toward the fiscal cliff. but will that meeting be a tad business awkward? you will remember during the campaign president obama making some business leaders mad with with comments like you didn't build that. joining us our political panel, the washington post, ed keith and lin sweet and chief political correspondent, byron. byron, your thoughts on meeting.

. >> from america's news headquarters, i'm ainsley earhardt. tehere square in cairo, demanding the egyptian president, muhammad morsi revoke the new, sweeping powers he gave himself last week. they accuse him of trying to become a dictator like his predecessor, hosni mubarak. eight days of protests toppled mubarak's three-decades-old regime. people snatching up latry -- lottery tickets with the jackpot a whopping $500 million. the second largest one in lottery history. only mind the $656 million mega-millions prize back in march, you might remember. i'm ainsley earhardt. now back to "on the record." thanks for waffing fox. to "on h ingredienta. >> greta: 2016, it's time to start watching potential candidates. there are the predictables, but there might be surprises. who might the surprises be? we're back with our political panel. rick, surprises in 2016, your thoughts? >> i have 2013 on the mind right now a little bit. chris christie is clearly in the top ranks of contenders. he got a 70% approval rating in new jersey. the national numbers are

i'm ainsley earhardt. now back to "on the record" with greta.re the first election day voters will cast their votes for president. with time now running out, which can date will win the battleground states in joining us with our political panel in new york, stotterd and michael crawly and chief political correspondence byron. yoyou mentioned the fool's gold remark about pennsylvania so i will go to you. what's the story on pennsylvania? >> i can go back on that now, can i? >> we have tape of everything now. >> the republicans think there's a real possibility there. mitt romney is going there on the election day after going there yesterday. they clearly think something is going on in pennsylvania, but i think i'm going to stick with my analysis. pennsylvania is a state that republicans get excited about at the end after campaign and then is goes democrat. >> maybe in a short time new hampshire starts up. they will start voting in two nice little tiny towns in new hampshire. who gets new hampshire some. >> i this in a tie it goes to mitt romney. i

. >> i am ainsley earhardt. it is thursday november the 8th. thank you for watching fox and friends first. mother nature playing another truly trick on the thousands of folks living in this area still realing from sandy. a nor' easter blustered into new york and new jersey are wayne, sleet and record setting snow. >> the winds causing 100,000 new power outages. that brings the total number still in the freezing cold from 714,000. it could be days before the lights are turned back on. >> it is insane. i have been 10-days now and now i am struggling snow. >> and you still don't have power? >> no. no power. no gas, no nothing. >> heartbreaking. >> heartbreaking. let's head over to janice dean with a look at the forecast. >> it is amazing 10-days ago we were talking a hurricane and now we are talking about a winter storm. there are no words. look at the snow total in connecticut. a foot of snow. monroe 9 inches. parts of new york seeing 6, 7 inches. rich field new jersey. i had somebody say to me yesterday there's no way we are getting over 2 inche

. >> i am ainsley earhardt. thank you for watching fox and friends first. it's time now for the 5@5:00. against president morsi's power grab. oo clashes continued overnight after morsi refused to reverse his decrees. he met with egypt's top judges and told them the powers are meant to be temporary. they had a mass froes but canceled them to avoid any clashes. two men are arrested for their roles in the fast and furious operation. he was sentenced to 3 and a half years behind bars and shawn stewart sentenced to nine years. both men illegally purchased weapons and smuggled them into mexico in order to give to members of drug cartels there. fast and furious was -- two were found at the shooting of border patrol agent brian perry. >>> an ohio mother is under rays after her 3-year-old son's body was found in a treatment plant. his mother called 911 claiming he disappeared from a park. >> i am at a park and my son is missing. i was looking every where. >> police say the story started changing as she failed a polygraph test. one of the other children was pointing

. >> i am ainsley earhardt. it is wednesday november the 14th. thank you for watching "fox & friends first". >> top stories at this hour. incredible new video coming out of jackson, mississippi this morning. take a look at this. a massive ball of fire engulfing this home late last night after a small plane crashes into this hoys. all three people on board that plane were killed. it is a single engine plane had just taken off from the airport. the pilot requested to go back to the airport was of some sort of emergency taking place on board. they saw the aircraft sputtering from the sky and they heard a loud bang. two people inside the house at the time one of them in good condition. >>> president obama will sit down with ceo's from major u.s. companies to discuss the so-called fiscal cliff. so much for compromising the white house says president obama would fall for a $1.6 trillion tax hike. >> the president is clear. he will not extend. he will not sign a bill that extends the bush era tax cuts to the wealthiest americans because it's not good po

i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am patti ann browne. thank you for watching "fox & friends first". >> time for the 5@5:00. with the election in the rearview mirror president obama will have to address the looming fiscal cliff before it is too late. he will talk about his plan to avoid the economic crisis. if congress fails to reach a deal on handful of issues by the end of the year. those issues include tax breaks set to expire and 800 billion in sequestration cuts. they want those owning 250,000 a year to pay more in taxes. house speaker john boehner says tax cuts are unacceptable. >> i remain optimistic we will be able to find common ground, find a way to work together. the leblgs is over. we have to get to work. >>> the congressional budgity office issuing a warning. if a compromise is not reached by the end of the year the economy could slip back into a recession. >>> law americas might not get the answers they are looking for after all about the deadly benghazi terror attacks. congressional hearings will be closed to the public. fo

. >> ainsley earhardt joins us now with why police now say this explosion has become a murder investigationood morning. >> good morning. the story has changed authorities holding a press conference last night announcing while the cause of the blast is still being investigated a parallel investigation is also been going on to determine if any one is responsible. they say the case has been turned into a criminal one. it is now being investigated as a homicide. the announcement came within hours of the funeral which was held for the couple killed in the blast. john and jennifer longworth they live next door to the house where police think this blast originated. >> the people who lived in that house were out of town their daughter was at a friend's house and the pet was boarded at the time of the explosion. there's no word if the cops have any sues respects and no arrests have been made. >>> details of the investigation cannot be shared at this time we urge any one with information about this matter to contact crime stoppers. specifically if any one has information about a white van we urge you

. >> i am ainsley earhardt. it is 5:30 on the dot here on the east coast. time for the top 5@5:30.o keep american troops in afghanistan after the handover to afghan security in 2014679 final -- 2014. final decisions have not been made. one option calls for 10,000 americans and 7,000 nonamerican nato troops. there are 67,000 american troops in afghanistan along with 37,000 coalition troops. >> listen to this one. brand new bombshell evidence that could have changed the outcome in the casey anthony murder trial. sheriff officials confirm someone in the anthony household searched for this term full proof suffocation on the same day caylee was last season alive. they never found that clue even though the department had possession of the familiar lace computer. >> no flu shot? well you are buyers. that's what 150 health employees were told when they didn't get their flu shot by the deadline. notices arrived the day before thanksgiving. t tri health is one of the largest employers. flu shots are free and all plies are required to get the shots. workers can appeal the pink slip once they

i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather nauert. it is wednesday november the 28th. thanks so much for watching "fox & friends first". it is time now for your 5@5. the top five stories making news at this hour. lawyers at a justice department and house over site mranl now trying to settle a lawsuit over fast and furious themselves a new negotiation. the committed three by duff. they want the attorney general to hand over critical documents related to the botched gun running operation. two guns used in the operation were found at the scene of the 2010 fatal shooting of border patrol asht brian perry. >>> bob dole is expected to be released from the hospital today. he was admitted to walter reed medical center yesterday for what is being described as a routine procedure. the 1996 republican presidential nominee and the 1996 republican vice presidential nominee has been hospitalized multiple times in recent years including for a leg infection in 2009. >>> fighting for rights for u.s. servicewomen to end the ban on women serving in direct combat position. there are no cl

. ♪ >> i'm ainsley earhardt.terrific tuesday for online merchabs. analysts predict it will be the biggest online shopping day ever. consumers expected to spend $1.5 billion, up from last year. online sales are growing as customers are more comfortable with the idea and the deals they are finding when logging on. palestinian officials report the remains of yasser arafat have been exhumed. earlier this year, a lethal radioactive substance was found on clothing said to be his. palestinian officials have claimed that he was poisoned by israel. a charge the israeli government denies. i'm apse, now back to "on the record" with greta. thanks for watching. agreeing the election may be over, but the fight against obamacare is not. teed the supreme court orderingly an appeals court to consider liberty universities' objection to the healthcare law, arguing it violates their religious freedom. does the supreme court decision breathe new life into the healthcare battle? joining us rick klein, a.b. sad studdard, and john mccor

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