cheerios are those great-tting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholesterperhero? kinda. ♪ cjc penny buying a stake in start cone in three holiday shopppers say that's it. sales are dropping after the record kick off to the cruciall shopping season. steve, you don't mean to be a grinch but you think it is a bad sign for the overall economy. >> there is relief. the president is going on vaication in middecember. he hit the campaign traill and sales went down. now he will be in the hawaii hopefullyy there will be a final surge. >> we had a boom in black friday sales and a huge drop off. is that a problem. >> i have a message for the gringes out there. sales fall off it is a statistically ineffability. it is not a forecast of consumer sentiment. chris mag will be -christmas will be better. gasoline prices are going down and jobs. threat of being laid off. that riskk is going down and when you get in the storings, you decide to heck with cutting back. i want to get my little girl. >> bill, to emphasize dennis' point. sales on line have been zooming up. on line

cheerios are those great-tting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholesterperhero? kinda. ♪ >> jamie: welcome back, everybody, there are serious new warnings for folks who take over-the-counter diet products, especially if it contains hcg hormone, the fda is taking steps to take them off the shelves, and saying the pills may pose serious health risks. doctors, how about that? >> it is a serious issue, because we always look for a quick fix in america, and we want something magical about this. and, hcg is a hormone known for pregnancy, and what they are doing is combining the hormone with a very lo-calorie diet which is 500 calories a day and normally we take 1500 to 2000 and you will lose the wlait with that kind of calories and it is -- weight with that kind of calories and you also need to be on the loca-calorie diet and yo need it under the sups vision of doctors and you can be malnourished and, you can die from it, and, with placebo tests it doesn't work and, it is only used for infertility and that what is the fda approved it for, nothing else. be caref

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cheerios are those great-tting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholesterrhero? kinda. ♪ martha: calls for the assistant attorney general of the united states to resign over the botched gun running sting known as "operation fast & furious." the attorney general facing a firestorm over an operation that put weapons into the hands of mexican drug lords. charles grassley took to the floor and called for the assistant attorney general lanny breuer to get the boot. i'm joined by the arizona republican on the house government fan oversight committee. talk to me about what is your reaction to what grassley called for this morning? >> i think it's an appropriate response when we saw the dump of documents last friday and we see the outright lie to congress. there has got to be -- we have to showed bureaucrats to the law. lie to congress, you have got to go. martha: what were the contradictions on what he knew and didn't know. >> they were hearing lanny breuer talking about he didn't know about documents. then in the document dump it shows he downloaded copies this e

cheerios are those great-tting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholester it a superhero? kinda. ♪ jenna: there is mounting pressure in the republican race for 2012. you can just sense it, right? it's out there. jon: it's getting a little pressure cooker out there. jenna: hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee, we are glad you are with us. jon: i'm jon scott. newt gingrich and mitt romney are eyeing each other as they try to plot strategy to win the gop nomination. jenna: there are reports that suggest romney supporters want him to start hitting gingrich harder in order to close the deal with voters. we have the managing editor of cq weekly. you had a big article on newt gingrich and his past few decades in politics. you're a great person to ask about this. the reason for wanting romney to get more aggressive according to these reports, the why is interesting. the reports suggest that gingrich is mitt romney's first serious competitor. do you agree with that? >> well, no, he is the current, remaining competitor. there have been serious competitors every week a you kn

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cheerios are those great-tting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholester. is it a superhero? kinda. ♪ >>shepard: the country singer who violated a court order by running off with her five-year-old son is back if court today three days after cops found the two of them hiding in a closet of an empty house in arkansas. the singer reportedly took her son's zander away from her father's florida home last week. police and u.s. marshals found them in the closet of her boyfriend's summer home 50 miles outside of little rock arkansas on friday night. officials say that zander is in foster care where he is safe and healthy. now her half brother tells abc news that she has not been completely honest. >> don't understand that she gets away with telling all lies and she does something like that and i don't understand how she can get away with it. >>shepard: she has faced domestic abuse and drug charges since topping the charts in the 1990's. and it is my understanding that a judge now will make a decision on what happens to the child? >> he will probably send the boy b

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cheerios are those great-tting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholesterich isn't backing down. the former house speaker is defending himself over controversial comments he made about palestinians. the bottom of the hour. peter is standing by with your top stories. hi, pete. >>> in an interview with the jewish channel that aired on friday gingrich said the palestinians are an invented people and in saturday night's debate the former speaker showed no signs of backing off that claim. he called the palestinian people terrorists and said it is time someone has the courage to tell the truth about the middle east. >>> things looking up for president obama despite a gallup poll which shows his approval rating in the low 40s a survey of democratic activists across the country shows a growing optimism about the president's prospects in 2012. supporters say the confidence comes from mr. obama's more populust tone and what they view as a chaotic primary fight among republicans. >> last night's basketball game was called with just 9 seconds left on the clock after th

cheerios are those great-tting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholestero? kinda. ♪ bill: at 23 minutes past the hour. some top stories here. vice president joe biden throwing america's support behind greece. he says the u.s. is prepared to help that country in any way as greece negotiates its second massive bailout in two years. a former u miss usa faces charges of drunk driving. rima fakih pulled over outside detroit. reverend billy graham was hospitalled last week suffering from pneumonia. the 93-year-old is resting and doing just fine. when we say he needs our prayers he has a direct line. if anything, it's him. martha: we wish him well. let's get to this one. arkansas judge is expected to decide this morning whether the son of country singer mindy mccready can return home to florida. mccready took her 5-year-old son, zander, she claims her boy's grandmother, who is the legal guardian is abusing him. they were both found over the weekend hiding in a closet in a vacant home. this was quite a scene. julie banderas following the story from the new york ne

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cheerios are those great-tting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholester. ♪ jamie: "happening now," vice president joe biden reaching out to iraq's prime minister offering moral support following some of the worst violence seen in iraq in months, right after the last american troops left the country. let me tell you about the latest. a homicide bomber today in baghdad killing seven people at a check-point leading to the interior ministry. major general bob scales, fox news military analyst joins me now. thank you for coming in. >> hi, jaime. jamie: violence seems to bess ka hraeugt at this point. thtoto bess ka hraeugt. wtobess ka hraeugt. >> our quick withdrawal from iraq left a power void, a vacuum in the country that is being killed by the chaos that you see going on right now, jaime. the administration has done a good job by trying to patch the holes by sending generals back to act as sort of a group of senior mentors with nouri al-maliki, a little diplomacy with a military bent to it to heal the wounds. we are not going back. it's up to the iraqis. as

cheerios are those great-tting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholestert a superhero? kinda. ♪ >> welcome back. the department of justice blocking a south carolina law that would require people to show photo i.d. in order to vote. they claim the law discriminates against minorities but the critics say the doj's decision is motivated solely by politics. for a fair and balanced debate this morning, we're joined by boris epstein, a republican strategist and a former federal prosecutor that sides with the department of justice. kendall, how is this discrimination requiring a simple photo i.d. to vote? >> well, it's actually sort of a statistical analysis. it's not alleging that there is an intention to discriminate. what they're saying is you add an extra burden to voting and we could all question in the first place at a time when people are so disillusioned about government and why are we making it harder to vote, why are we making it harder for people to complain about what's going on in government by exercising their franchise? but the narrow issue is does

cheerios are those great-tting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholester everybody, nice to see you all this morning and boy, are you guys fired up on twitter and e-mail this morning about this story. because as juliet mentioned earlier. throw the picture up on the surface when you see that that must be, that looks like the 9/11 attacks and looks like the twin towers, but upon further reflections it's not. it's an architectural rendering from the group mvrdv for a new tower built in korea. >> they said it's not our intention to resemble the attack attacks-- it's a patronizing thing to say by the way. that picture. nobody on the planet that looks at that picture and doesn't think of 9/11, i mean. >> what's the thing in the middle? like an architectural cloud design where the two buildings are connected and walk across them by the foot bridge, but the way it's designed looks like a cloud of smoke. >> dave: the only thing missing is an airplane and despite the apology. the design is moving forward and expect them to be completed by 2015 and add to the story.