you are up next four john barrasso. -- for john barrasso. john is up next.ler: you have been talking about a road tax reform, and i think that should end, because basically that is stealing from the people no matter how you look at it. -- talking about payroll tax reform. these people that are not paying in the fourth. two years now, you are stealing from them because they're not paying in the amount. the other thing i would like to talk about is 23 weeks you only work out of the year up there, and don edwards said you have so much to do, i think maybe you should start working 52 weeks out of the year at the amount of time that is spent playing golf or whatever. guest: i think we ought to be here and go home on weekends and listen to folks at home. home in wyoming yesterday. and the weekend before that it will be home again this weekend in wyoming and come back and bring the best ideas in my home state to washington. i think people ought to do that. it is the leadership, harry reid, he wants to end this thing pretty soon. that has been is up for this year. h

then, wyoming senator john barrasso gives the republican address. he talks about the economy and recent employment reports >> this week, we mark the 11th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. it's time to remember that nearly 3000 innocent men, will and children we lost, and the families that they left behind. it's a chance to honor the courage of the speurs respond -- first responders who risked their lives on that day and every day since. and it's an opportunity to give thanks for our men and women in uniform who have served and sacrificed sometimes far from home to keep our country safe. this anniversary is about them. it's also a time to reflect on just how far we've come as a nation these past 11 years. on that clear september morning, as america watched the towers fall and the pentagon burn, and the wreckage smoldering in a pennsylvania field, we were filled with questions. where had the attacks come from, and how would america respond. would they fundamentally weaken the country we love, would they change who we are. the last decade has

here with us now, republican senator from wyoming, senator john barrasso and democratic senator fromator chris coons, both member of the senate foreign relations committee. a lot to talk about this morning especially as the united nations general assembly kicks off this week. you have a piece, senator barrasso, in politico about the middle east and how the president really needs to explain what he plans to do to provide leadership. i'm assuming you think he hasn't. >> well, absolutely. take a look at what he said four years ago and where we are now. he said that he was going to negotiate with iran. iran is now a lot closer to a nuclear weapon than they've ever been before. he said he was going to hit the reset with russia. russia has absolutely been blocking us step by step especially with regards to what's happening now in a number of places around the world. he said that the relationship with the islamic world was going to be very different. >> let's go back to iran. what would you be doing differently right now? what hasn't been done with iran specifically, especially in the form

that is republican jon barrasso of wyoming. he joins me when we come back 4g lte has the fastest speeds. so let's talk about coverage. based on this chart, who would you choose ? wow. you guys take a minute. zon, hands down. i'm going to show you guys another chart. pretty obvious. i don't think color matters. pretty obvious. what'sretty obvious about it ? that verizon has the coverage. verin. verizon. we're going to go to another chart. it doesn't really matter how you present it. it doesn't matter how you present it. verizon. more 4g lte coverage than all other networks combined. gerri: it is rhetoric versus reality. it's according to her next guest was fighting back against the president's claim that we are better off now than we were four years ago. republican senator jon barrasso joins us now. great to have you. you say it should be reality over rhetoric. what is the reality and rhetoric? >> we just saw the new unemployment numbers on friday. unemployment rates are still over 80%. forty-three straight months now. what we s

senator jon barrasso coming up. stay with us. ♪ gerri: it's time to call cold blue on president obama's promise not to raise taxes on middle-class. why? to get the new report that shows the majority of americans will now have to pay the obamacare tax. middle-class. with more on the republican senator john barasso. what is your reaction to this news from the cbs that it will not be 4 million people who will have to pay this tax, but 6 million? >> is says to me that this is another broken obama promise. the supreme court said it is. the congressional budget office's main effect for million people. the end of it -- elevated that to 6 million people. really talking about the middle-class will get stuck with this. a huge fee annually because of this mandate of the health care law that they have to buy health insurance. gerri: afford -- according to some folks as would cost 12 million per year. the government will collect 7- 8000000000. how ironic is this that the government passes legislation because they think they can

that is republican jon barrasso of wyoming. he joins me when we come back gerri: it is rhetoric versus reality. it's according to her next guest was fighting back against the president's claim that we are better off now than we were four years ago. republican senator jon barrasso joins us now. great to have you. you say it should be reality over rhetoric. what is the reality and rhetoric? >> we just saw the new unemployment numbers on friday. unemployment rates are still over 80%. forty-three straight months now. what we see is that for every one person that found a job, for people gave us looking for work. that is the only reason that the unemployment rates haven't gone up higher. we have 23 million americans who are either unemployed or underemployed. that is not the right prescription for a healthy economy. gerri: senator, is that true, and that is the facts, and it is grim, a new gallup poll shows the president leading mitt romney 50 to 44%. how can that be when the economic news is so bleak? >> well, the new "washington po

john barrasso saying there was a cover-up on benghazi. other republicans are not going that far. but they are still putting pressure on this white house by suggesting the president is not showing enough leadership. take a listen. >> the president has demonstrated that there really isn't a central rudder, full, to our foreign policy coming out of the white house. and i think most americans are looking at it want to go see more leadership, want to go see america lead again. >> tonight republican senator john mccain and two of his gop colleagues fired off a tough letter to ambassador susan rice demanding to know why she gave different answers from other officials about whether or not this was a spontaneous attack, a terrorist attack. the bottom line, the white house is insisting this charge of a cover-up is not true. >> shep: if any of this is getting to the white house or any of his campaign team, you can't tell it. >> you can't tell from the president. he was calm in new york, even after he finished up his u.n. speech. he ran into a security guard whom he amendment so to recognize

john barrasso, thank you for your time. martha. >> thanks. martha: president obama and the iranian president speaking on the situation in israel over this weekend and both of those leaders used one word to describe the situation. why that word is angering some folks today. bill: also governor romney on the offense. why he says the president is trying to fool american voters. what's that about? [ male announcer ] with a driving range of more than 550 miles you'll inevitably find yourself on a desolate highway in your jeep gra cherokee. and when you do, you'll be grateful for the adaptive cruise control that automatically adjusts your speed when approaching slower traffic. andor the blind-spot monitor... [ beeping ] ...that helps remind you that the highway might not be as desolate... as you thought. ♪ since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them. helping millions of americans over the ce

to figure out what message he sending, senator john barrasso. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> there are three things the president need to do when he addresses the united nations these things. what are those? >> i wrote an article in "politico" today. it specifically says the president has to acknowledge there is still a war on terror after you see what happened in the past couple weeks when 9/11, with our embassy, with the loss of life of our ambassador. that is number one. number two the president needs to talk about the relationship between the united states and israel. when he says that israel, that the united states always has their back on all issues what does that specifically mean? i think, three, the president owes it to the people of this country to know what his foreign policy is. the president in 2008 laid out a foreign policy that he would hit reset button with russia. i believe that has failed. melissa: yeah. >> he said he would have negotiations with iran. that has clearly failed. iran is closer to nuclear weapo

we're going to be talking with mitt romney supporter senator john barrasso about what he says are the three things president obama needs to do in his speech today. first john berman has got a look at some of the other stories making news. >> good morning. >>> iran's president is trying to clarify what he meant when he said israel should be wiped off the map. an exclusive interview with cnn's piers morgan mahmoud ahmadinejad insists the literal interpretation of his comment is not what he meant. >> when we say to be wiped, we say for occupation to be wiped off from this world. for war-seeking to be wiped off and eradicated. the killing of women and children to be eradicated. and we propose the way, we propose the path. the path is to recognize the right of the palestinians to self-governance. >> ahmadinejad is scheduled to speak before the u.n. general assembly tomorrow on the jewish high holy day of yom kippur. this has many new yorkers outraged. there's even a house resolution circulating in congress condemning the timing of the address. >>> after president obama's u.n. speech you'll

and republican senators kornyn, and barrasso and burr are alarmed by this and say it's a clear violationf that 2009 law. in a letter to defense secretary leon panetta, they write, dod, that's the department of defense's implementtation of the voter on base system has been at best a hollow exercise. many of the based assistance offices that do exist are grossly inadequate and at least half of them are either closed or completely unstaffed. the pentagon says there's a simple explanation for this. the contact information that the inspector general was use to go contact the bases was out of date. >> we have joint bases that we have, other kinds of things that happen so that in any military environment, whether the subject be voting or anything else, phone numbers change and e-mail addresses change. >> secretary panetta has the not responded publicly to the senator's larry, but a spokesperson sells the washington times they will respond to the senators directly. jamie. >> polly, thank you so much. back here in new york now, a fox news extreme weather alert. maria molina, our meteorologist was

new senators, senator barrasso, senator moran, others. george -- president george herbert walker bush, the first president bush has been an active supporter of the crpd. his white house counsel, boyden gray, his attorney general, dick thornburgh have been enthusiastic and active supporters of us ratifying, the senate ratifying the crpd. and by ratifying this convention the united states will be reaffirming our commitment to our citizens with disabilities are. as i said earlier, americans with disabilities including disabled veterans should be able to live, travel, study, work abroad with the same freedoms and access that they enjoy here in the united states. and as the state parties, as these different countries come together to grapple with the best ways to make progress and remove barriers, we, america, should be at the table with them. helping them learn from our experience. as i said, the administration as submitted what they call reservations, understandings, and declarations that make clear that u.s. ratification of the crpd will no

barrasso: thank you, mr. president. i'd like to associate myself with the remarks of the senator from south dakota who speaks so eloquently on the major issues facing our nation, concerns for people all around the country: the quality of life, cost of energy, cost of their health care, the impacts of government regulations and rules that make it harder and more expensive for small businesses to add workers to their rolls. i come to the floor today as a physician, a doctor who has practiced medicine in wyoming taking care of families there for about a quarter of a century, to do as i've done week after week since the health care law was passed, to give a doctor's second opinion about the health care law. because one of the reasons i got involved in politics was as a doctor, i was concerned for my patients, worried that they weren't getting the care they need from the doctor they want at lower cost, realizing the impacts of costs on the availability of care, the quality of care. and so when the health care law was passed,

senator barrasso, a republican from wyoming, yesterday said on fox news business -- fox business newscially suspicious. >> i sit on the foreign relations committee, we had a top secret briefing on what happened in libya. i think they're either stonewalling, but to me it seems like there's a cover up going on, that they don't want the american people to really know what happened there. megyn: joining me now, monica crowley and kirsten powers, both are fox news contributors. so that's a strong and charged term, "cover up." i mean, that's going pretty far out there on a limb to say that there's an active cover up by this administration to keep the truth from us. does he go too far, month can? >> well, i think there are many members of congress and a lot of the american people who are extremely frustrated, megyn, that we have essentially been lied to for a week after these attacks which happened on nerve -- megyn: but why do you go to the lying place as opposed to the incompetent place? >> well, look, it's either gross incompetence or, in fact, they are lying, and what we now know there a

republican senator john barrasso of wyoming who sits on the foreign relations committee says the administration'ssing response either a cover-up or incompetence in gathering the facts. >> this was a 9/11, this was a coordinated. i believe it was premeditated planned. i don't know if it was weeks or months in advance but it was aimed a the united states on the anniversary of september 11th. >> reporter: republican congressman mike archer chairman of the house intelligence committee says americans deserve the truth and the facts. he adds the president needs to make it clear the united states will not tolerate a u.s. ambassador treated badly, let alone killed. jon? jon: kelly wright in washington for us. kelly, thank you. patti ann: for more on the white house response to the terror attack in libya i'm joined by democratic senator from dell wear -- delaware chris coons a member of the senate foreign relation committee. >> good morn. patti ann: he said they were not misleading after the killing of ambassador stevens was an attack was spontaneous response to this video and not a preplanned terror atta

we're going to talk this morning to senator john barrasso and former congressman robert wexler about on "laverne and shirley." i sit down with actress and director penny marshall. she's got a new memoir out called "my mother was nuts." and he is the king of the gridiron, victor cruz will join us. he's going to talk about the call and the replacement refs. how he thinks it's affecting the game. and also talk about all the other things he's doing in his life. he's got a very cute commercial for campbell's. you know you've made it big when campbell's puts your mom on the commercial with you. >> very interested to hear what he has to say about the refs. >> it will be very interesting. >> this morning the guys downstairs were beyond themselves knowing that he's going to walk into the building. they're staying in order to meet him. >> i almost took my son out of school. at the last minute i go, it would be terrible parenting. >> all right. with that parenting note here, coming up on "early start," a search for the truth. amid sadness. a mysterious death of the young panda cub. the chief ve

bill: just to be more direct here, senator barrasso from way open i think on our network last evening suggested there was a cover-up through the state department and perhaps beyond. do you agree with that? >> well, all i can say is the initial response out of the white house after the assassination of our ambassador was less than i think acceptable to say the very least and this notion that somehow we saw the white house deploy not only ambassador rice but others on the networks throughout that last sunday and with imparting knowledge or a view that frankly did not match with reality i think raises a lot of questions, a lot of questions where the administration stands, why the security wasn't there, in the aftermath of the death. where was the security that existed? why were other networks allowed access and the diary uncovered by the ambassador as well? all these are questions left unanswered by the administration and think reflect again a real concern that americans should have about the commitment to leadership on the part of this white house. bill: understood, to put a fine point

and sun are barrasso when i first got here, which was five and a half years ago roughly for him, we werealking about the hydrocarbon discussion at that time. i remember interact running back and forth trying to work out some hydrocarbon law at that time. still nothing is happening. there is no constitution. i think it does state the question that we have a situation where our national interest in syria and syria different than what iraq is allowing to happen. i would like for you to point to some of the things that our involvement there has called them to do that is in our national interest and that her continuing role should be in iraq. >> well, thank you are a match. one particular example, iraq recently passed for 3 million barrels per day threshold production of oil. this is certainly something getting more oil in the market. 2.5 million barrels are exported. the rest is used drastically. this is something that is in our interest. >> in the world centris kennett shyness, everybody's interests. >> that's correct. for sanctions on iran and iran's production has decreased an increase in

when senator barrasso and i first got here, which was five and a half years ago roughly, five years ago for him, we were talking about the hydrocarbon at that time and i remember sitting in iraq as he was running back and forth try to work out some type of hydrocarbon law that time, still nothing is happened and there is no constitution. so i think it does beg the question if we have a situation where obviously our national interest in syria is very different than what iraq is allowing to happen. i would like for you to point to some of the things that our involvement there has caused them to do that is in our national interest and what our continuing role should be in iraq? >> let me point to -- thank you very much. one particular example. iraq recently passed a 3 million barrels-per-day threshold production of oil. this is certainly something getting more about oil and the market 2.5 million barrels are exported. the rest is used to -- domestically. this is something that is in our interest and in the world's interest. >> in china's interest in everybody's interest, right? >> that's c

barrasso: mr. president, just yesterday, the white house went out and applauded the fact that saudi arabia is creating more, producing more oil. the president goes to brazil and he tells the president of brazil, we want to be your number-one customer. this is at the same time that this white house is blocking american energy projects and american energy jobs. held hostage by environmental extremists, this president continues to block and cause people to lose jobs in the united states. earlier this week, the number-three coal producer in the country announced the layoff of 1,200 workers. so not only are americans who are working in energy losing their jobs, the president's policies continue to block new jobs from being created. the president continues to stand in blockade of the keystone x.l. pipeline which would bring about thousands of family-paying wage jobs, yet the president says no. and then harry reid, the majority leader, stands at that desk and he blocks over a dozen bills passed by the hou

barrasso: thank you, madam president. i'd like to take a few minutes today to talk about our nation's economy. this speech is not about the economy that we wish we had. this speech is not about the economy that we used to have. this is about the economy that we have today. by now, americans are all too familiar with the bad economic news. front page of today's "wall street journal" provides little respite from that bad news. it reads -- and here's the headline, front page -- "household income sinks" -- sinks -- "to 1995 level." say that again. "household income sinks to 1995 level." the president talks about moving forward but the reality is that the american paychecks are moving backward. the article goes on to describe a report from the census bureau, a report that illustrates what millions of americans already know -- we're not better off than we were last year, or the year before, or the year before that. in fact, the census bureau data shows that household incomes in 2011 fell for the fourth consecutive year. hardwor

barrasso: mr. president, just yesterday, the white house went out and applauded the fact that saudi arabia is creating more, producing more oil. the president goes to brazil and he tells the president of brazil, we want to be your number-one customer. this is at the same time that this white house is blocking american energy projects and american energy jobs. held hostage by environmental extremists, this president continues to block and cause people to lose jobs in the united states. earlier this week, the number-three coal producer in the country announced the layoff of 1,200 workers. so not only are americans who are working in energy losing their jobs, the president's policies continue to block new jobs from being created. the president continues to stand in blockade of the keystone x.l. pipeline which would bring about thousands of family-paying wage jobs, yet the president says no. and then harry reid, the majority leader, stands at that desk and he blocks over a dozen bills passed by the hou