doocy is totally out of it check the tie out on doocy today.ay about it. >> steve: i get dressed in the dark. you're lucky i'm wearing pants march that are thank -- >> thank god. >> bill: frank sinatra died in 1998. what song title is engraved as epitaph on frank sin not -- sinatra's tombstone? ♪ the best is yet to come, come the day that you are mine. >> bill: i never saw elvis but i saw sinatra. he is just as good. just his stage presence the whole thing. you got that right. >> he got it right. but i'm not sure it's accurate. >> bill: tie with two to go. >> steve: it's a tie, wink. >> bill: question number four, aretha franklin queen of soul drew a lot of attention inauguration odd choice of head wear. what song did aretha sing that day? there is the head wear. the answer is, roll the tape again ♪ my country tis of thee ♪ sweet land of liberty all right so you both got that wrong, right? >> yes. apparently. >> bill: still a tie with one to go and i have the tie breaker in my mind. judi garland shot to fame after her starring role in the wizar

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peter doocy joins us live from new town with more. peter?er, president obama came to newtown just after they experienced the initial shock of what happened on friday. just before they must start dealing with the fact here starting today they will need to bury 20 child sized coffins. >> i am very mindful that mere words cannot match the depths of your sorrow. nor can they heel your wounded hearts. i can only hope it helps for you to know that you are not alone in your grief. that our world, too, has been torn apart. all across this land of ours we have wept with you. we hold our children tight. >> perior to giving that nationl address president obama met with the families of those who were killed friday. dawn moch sprung's daughter tweeted my mom would be so proud to see president obama holding her granddaughter but not as proud as i am of her. >> 6-year-old emilie parker's family posted a few pictures with president obama as well. some are somber but somehow the devastated family managed to smile. >> adam lanza fired hundreds of rounds insid

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one school worker doocy reported was wounded.sident obama has played consoler in past struggled this time to contain his emotions of the news. spoke of the landmarks in life. birthdays, childbirth that the victims and their families were robbed of along with the innocence taken too early from those who survived. we have endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years he said and each time i learn the news i react not as a president but as anybody else would as a parent. the president also spoke of the need for the quote unquote meaningful action to address these kinds of incidents but he offered no specifics. flags at the white house and the capitol building are flying at half-staff across and at every level of the sports world, moments of silence was observed. it is and will be a bitter hanukkah and christmas for america this 2012. patti ann and heather. >> so sad. james rosen live in washington. thank you. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back with our continuing coverage of the school tragedy in connecticut. >> coming

peter doocy is live with brand new poll numbers. >> hi heather. we have been hearing so much about what the principal negotiators think about the way around the fiscal cliff. the latest is that president obama is troubled by speaker boehner's suggestion that tax cuts to the wealthy should be permanent while speaker boehner says the president moved the goal post and wants too much in revenue. something we don't hear about is public opinion. most registered voters 57 percent feel the best way to deal with the budget problems is with cuts in spending. 20 percent think tax increases are a better solution and a little less 18 percent favor a balanced approach of cuts and tax hikes. and when asked if raising taxes on the wealthy is enough to solve the country's budget problems, 33 percent of registered voters said yes. but man fee more, 61 percent said spending cuts are necessary as well. this comes as three quarters of registered voters say all americans every single person should be kwierped to pay some amount of federal income tax so they are investe

fox's peter doocy looks at what it could mean. >> reporter: senator lindsey graham told me this morning his phone rang saturday night and was the defense secretary calling saying he was told the bill to avoid the fiscal cliff will not avoid anything for sequestration. so he'll need to write 800 layoff notices to contractors. >> if the president doesn't deal with this, he's a lousy commander-in-chief. if there's a deal done that doesn't set aside the defense cuts, we've already cut out of the it was department, then i'm disappointed in the president as commander-in-chief and the republican party for allowing this possible a party. >> reporter: sequestration is designed to be painful. it was imposed by congress on itself when the super committee didn't work it out. president obama said today the cuts can be offset by raising taxes on the rich. >> we have raised revenue by the wealthy paying a little bit more, then that would be sufficient to turn off the automatic spending cuts, and that also would have a better outcome for our economy long- term. >> reporter: senator graham told me he th

peter doocy is live with us. >> good morning, patti ann. that chemical weapon is saren gas. president basharal assad has 60 days to use it before it expires and needs to be used. it suffocates victims by paralyzing the muscles around their lungs and is 500 times more toxic than cyanide. the military source tells us the gas in syria is believed to be in aerosol form which means it is in canisters that can be dropped from airplanes. we are told by middle eastern diplomatic sources that middle eastern countries are trying to find a place to give assad asylum. the u.s. military is making contingency plans in case assad leaves. if he leaves suddenly a top international priority would be getting the gas. >> we are at risk not only chemical weapons will be used in the conflict in syria but terrorist elements within the opposition get their hands on the agent or the weapon they could go out of the country and be used by terrorists worldwide. that is a real danger. >> a senior u.s. navy official told my colleague jennifer griffin no nave sal -- navel aspect has been passed at this po

peter doocy is live in washington with more on the rescue. >> the rescue went down last night.ration that general john allen, commander of united states forces in afghanistan, ordered when intelligence reveal dilip joseph was in imminent danger of injury or death. he says it exemplifies our commitment to defeating the taliban. i'm proud of the american and afghan forces that conducted this operation. thanks to them dr. joseph will rejoin his family and loved ones. afghan and coalitions forces were able to track down dr. joseph in mountains 50 miles from the pakistan border. dr. joseph had been held there since wednesday, the 5th of this month, when he was kidnapped by armed taliban insurgence after a visit to a rural medical clinic in eastern kabul, where he worked as a doctor with the morning star development. we dug up this morning a video taken a few months ago where dr. joseph, who makes frequent trips to afghanistan, describes why he makes those trips. >> in doing community development we hope we can instill hope into a country that's been dealing with conflict the last 30

. >> peter doocy is like for us with the latest developments. good morning, peter. >>peter: good morning. very sad to report that the medical examiner on this has been working throughout the night inside sandy hook elementary school. the last update last night is that authorities hope to possibly identify all of the bodies inside by today. six adults and 20 children were killed when a 20-year-old mass murders, adam lanza showed up after 9:30 and perhaps hired 100 shots in two police toll -- pistols into two classrooms. students did their best to shield their students' i didn'ts and we heard how devastating the human toll was on the first 9-1-1 call. many students heard chromes through the intercom system before they were evacuated to a nearby firehouse. the firehouse is where most parents were instructed to show up yesterday to find out if their child had survived. last night, at a church vigil in the downtown area, not far from here, we talked to parents would said how hard it was not knowing but they expressed to us they felt truly pleased and everyone we spoke to

. >>> peter doocy, live in new town, connecticut. thank you. >> it is time now for a look at who is talking. this morning we are hearing from more witnesses of the sandy hook elementary massacre. >> sherry burton is a teacher's assistant and called 911 moenlts after hearing -- moments after the gun shots. >> i called 911 they said they had calls to come through. they asked me to describe what i was hearing. at that time all i was hearing is pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. it wasn't stopping. he said do you think it is gun shots? i said i think it's gun shots. at that time i did not realize our teacher couldn't lock her door. she saw the custodian our door won't lock. he shoed her in our room he closed our door. all i could think of was my co-workers and friends, and children. i didn't know. >> the shooting lasted about 20 minutes. police eventually showed up to escort her and all of the students out of the building. >> overnight a scathing report released on the benghazi terror attack that left four americans dead. confirmed there was no pr

jay carney also said the boehner plan is quote pagic beans and fair redust. >>> peter doocy, live in washington. thank you. >>> chaos in cairo. egyptian president mohammed morsi returning to the presidential palace overnight. he left amid clashes between police and 100,000 protestors. look at that. they are outraged over her recent power grab. it shows there should be great concern about morsi. >> people have said the muslim brotherhood is moderate, it is responsible, it will not be a problem if it takes power has been proven wrong i think beyond a shadow of a doubt. this man is in power through whatever means he can get it. >> steve harrigan has more from cairo on the clashes. >> real escalation by the opposition protestors. in cairo square they are on the move moving toward egypt's presidential palace. they cut through bashed wire. in the end the protestors had tear gas at the wall of the complex. h mohammed morsi was in the compound. he left not to flee but at the end of a normal workday. he does not reside in that palace. the demonstration shows the agenda is a referendum decembe

secretary of state says clinton will appear before the foreign relations committee in january. >> peter doocy, thank you. >> lisa jackson is stepping down after four years on the job. the tenure marked by the high-profile brawls over air pollution, keystone x.l. pipeline. and new controls on coal fired plants. they claim a recent decision by justice department to release thousands of the e-mails next month may have contributed to the resignatio resignation. leland vittert is following all the action. >> russia foreign minister warned today of a bloody chaos in syria if there wasn't a political solution. many believe the country sectarian civil war long passed that grim mark. they flew over the stronghold at suburb and an amateur photographer captured the bomb drop and explode nearby. still outdone, the rebels remain undeterred, even drafting tractors to service to tow the heavy artillery. the rebels clearly with momentum on their side refuse to discuss a plan allowing assad to stay in power in the transition period. wounded fighter explained the rebel mentality. "we will keep going until we r

>> heather: peter doocy reporting, thanks.>> gregg: egypt is sure to get the attention of the next secretary of state, and there is new political turmoil there today. egypt's vice president shown in th this picture on the left resigned and read a statement on state television saying political differences with mohamed morsi, the resignation comes as egyptians still go to the polls, voting in the second and final round of a constitutional refer rent dem, critics accusing him of rushing the constitution through, and many senior advisors have esigned over the past month. >> heather: italy facing a shakeup, the president dis solving parliament but when the prime minister's resignation on friday, he was appointed just 13 months ago, to steer the country away from a greek-style debt crisis and his governing coalition lost support after former prime minister silvio berlusconi's party with their support setting the stage for new general election in february. ♪ >> gregg: well, look out, from weather, leaving few areas of the country unt

peter doocy live in washington with more. peter, tell us first, speaker boehner -- the big problem right now with the white house proposal that was just presented. >> jamie, speaker boehner says he was flabbergasted when the treasury secretary geithner came to capitol hill and told him what the president wants. and this is why. >> the president is asking for $1.6 trillion worth of new revenue in ten years. twice as much as he has been asking for in public. he had stimulus spending in here that exceeded the amount of new cuts he was willing to consider. it was not a serious offer. >> reporter: secretary geithner says the white house $4 trillion plan has 2 to 1 ratio of cuts to spending increases. but everything we heard from speaker boehner suggests the $1.6 trillion in new revenue the white house wants is too much. especially since boehner does not want to increase tax rate at all. he wants the revenue from the closed loopholes and limited deduction. >> put a new deal on the table but tim geithner, does he say specifically wh

peter doocy live with details. >> kelly, new york governor. rather new jersey governor chris christie and andrew cuomo initially asked washington for about 79 billion dollars to rebuild their states and they are now thanking the president for his 60.4 billion dollars commitment and the white house wrote a letter to congress yesterday that says these are funds necessary to finance a needed recovery effort and to help the the region prepare for future challenges, including future severe storms and coastal flooding, swells impacts associated with a changing climate. but, amid the debt debate in d.c., there are questions how easy it will be to get congress to write such a big check and speaker boehner's spokesman says we will review it and al rogers says it's up to congress to help those hurt by sandy, but also our responsibility during these tight budget times to make sure that the victims of this storm are getting the most of every single recovery dollar, and to ensure that the disaster funds are timed and targeted in the most efficient and appr

fox's peter doocy has details. >> reporter: taliban insurgents held american dr. captive in the mountains of afghanistan about 50 miles from the pakistan border more than three days. dr. joseph was kidnapped in broad daylight wednesday about 3:30 in the afternoon afghan time following a visit to a rural clinic where he worked for a nonprofit called morning star development. two others also taken captive were released two hours before dr. joseph's rescue which general john allen commander of american forces in afghanistan says he ordered when intelligence showed dr. joseph was in imminent danger of injury or death. general allen also said today's mission exemplifies our unwavering commitment to defeating the taliban. i'm proud of the american and afghan forces that planned, rehearsed and successfully conducted this operation. thanks to them dr. joseph will soon be rejoining his family and loved ones. dr. joseph should be back home in colorado springs in the next few days. he was taken to bagram airfield after his rescue and is undergoing evaluation today. dr. josep

joining us with more from newtown is peter doocy. >> good morning.ys ago, six educators and 20 first graders were getting ready for school like always. by last night, the president of the united states was here at a very painful memorial service reading their names one at a time. >> i am very mindful that mere words cannot match the depths of your sorrow, nor can they heal your wounded hearts. i can only hope it helps for you to know that you're not alone in your grief. our world, too, has been torn apart. >> before his national address, president obama met privately with families of the innocent children and adults who lost their lives on friday. principal dawn hochsprung's daughter tweet add photo with a caption that said, my mom would be so proud to see president obama holding her granddaughter but not as proud as i am of her. the heart broken family of emily parker posted photos. others showing smiles. after the private meeting, president obama took the stage to promise action. >> in the coming weeks, i'll use whatever power this office holds to

our peter doocy has been following the story and live from washington.hat are the details of the nominee? >> kelly, back in 2004, senator kerry let then state senator barack obama speak at his nomination, and it was a road to the white house. and yesterday at the white house president obama nominated kerry to be secretary of state in his second term. >> in a sense, john's entire life has prepared him for this role. as a son of a foreign service officer, he has a deep respect for the men and women of the the state department, the role they play in advancing our interests and values, the risks that they undertake and the sacrifice that is they make along with their families. >> issues with iran, syria and north korea are the most pressing senator kerry will face if he's confirmed. yesterday, a long time colleague of his, senator john mccain congratulated him on his nomination and will consider that nomination, but he did not promise to support it. >> my view on whether secretary kerry should be-- or senator kerry should be secretary will not be based on di

peter doocy was at the press conference and we learned a little bit about where we are at in the investigation, peter. >> jenny, you and john talk being the big question among everybody who is heart broken. class mates andco workers and why. why did a twen year old go in an elementary school and shoot 20 students and six adults. it sounds like police have a lot of the evidence and they want to know what caused this and the move ive and there is a lot of evidence inside of the school, the weapons were recovered not to far away from the gunman's deceased body after he shot himself. and a lot of evidence outside. every car is park are the crime scene and there is a lot of evidence in the secondary location which is where this gunman shot his mother and we have a bite from the chief of police. >> our investigators in the crime scene and secondary crime scene where the female was located deceased did produce very good evidence in this investigation and our investigators will be use in paping the complete picture as to how and more personly why this occurred. and something else they said gena is goi

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peter doocy is live in washington with the latest on the question of guns and guards in is schools. >> the consultant leading the nra's effort to secure the schools is asa hutchinson, a former republican congressman from arkansas who said he didn't think new laws and prohibition is the right way to respond to what happened in sandy hook and compared the nra plan to put a trained guard in every american school to the federal air marshal program put in place after 9/11. >> more sensitive that be airplanes. people resisted having weapons on airplanes but i oversaw the federal air marshals and it's a deterrent, no one sees that weapon but they're protected on the airplane and it's a positive impact on safety. schools are a sensitive environment as well. you could provide safety and security with armed, trained, personnel without putting fear in everyone. >> he argued since timothy mcveigh used fertilizer to kill men, women and children in oklahoma city, restricting firearms will not make children safer but many lawmakers are skeptical about the nra plan. >> we have armed officers in many

peter doocy is live in newtown, connecticut with the very latest. hello, peter. >> eric, i spoke to one of adam lanza's classmates who told me adam was shy and the type of kid you could say hi to in the hall and he would say hi back but that was all the talking he would do. federal investigators will come here today visit gun stores and shooting ranges, searching for a hint about what led to this mass murder that took the lives of 26 people inside an elementary school, including 30-year-old lauren rousseau who got the permanent substituted teaching job she strived for. 16 victims were born in 1996, four in 1995 and every detail about what happened on friday seems to be harder who hear than the last. >> there were in cute kid stuff. they're first graders wearing cute kid stuff, you know. it's the kind of stuff you would send your kids or your are grandkids out the door to first grade in. >> flowers and candles and vigils popped up all over newtown. neighbors want to know how this happened. the aunt says the reason so many guns were in adam lanza's ho

peter doocy has details this morning on the latest developments from washington.ood morning, peter. >> good morning, eric. spieger boehner said negotiations are nowhere, period and he called treasury secretary tim geithner's presentation of the white house proposal to avoid the fiscal cliff earlier in week "nonserious." >> i was flabbergasted. i lookedded a him like you can't be serious. i've just never seen anything like it. you know we have seven weeks between election day and the end of the year. three of those weeks have been wasted with this nonsense. >> reporter: here is what has the speaker flabbergasted. the white house would like to raise tax rates on top earners to where they were in the clinton administration, 39.6%. they would also like to raise $1.6 trillion with new taxes over the next decade, while cutting about $400 billion through entitlement reform. although, those cuts are not specific and not guaranteed. but the treasury secretary says the administration's plan is fiscally responsible and would prevent taxes from going up on 98% of americans. >

and a merry christmas to you, doocy. >> thanks very much. >> bill o'reilly, thank you very much. >> anyry christmas. >> brian: same character in the hallway or office. >> steve: usually at 9:00 eastern time. ali over to you. >> alisyn: voices of rise into the heavens these teenagers are keeping the tradition of gospel music alive. we are joined gospel for teens and program director. it's great to have all of you here today. >> thank you. >> alisyn: thanks so much for being with us. >> it's so exciting. >> alisyn: wait until everyone hears your beautiful voices we will get to that in a second. i want to talk to you about the program. you stated that the goal is to bring gospel into the lives of kids who have been raised on hip hop. why is that important? >> we tell our kids you don't have to be hip hop. >> we enjoy hip hop. we enjoy all types of music. we have to know where the root of the music came from which is the gospel. >> alisyn: it was your momma who started this. >> my momma via higg beginson she is our leader and inpier ration. she is the engine that keeps us going. >> without

. >> that is great, doocy. whatever you want. get on with it, will you? on a tree, opening presents, waiting for invention of television, or, sitting around a table hitting the sauce. >> i would say they are, number two, b, what was b again. >> opening presents. >> opening presents. that's wrong. >> okay. >> i'm sorry. >> what were they doing? waiting for you to come on "fox and friends". >> sitting around the table drinking. >> okay. >> here is historical question. >> how many more are there. >> hold on. i got antlers, you don't want to get gored which president immediately ordered a christmas treef to be decorated 26 days after roosevelt, franklin, ronald reagan and jimmy carter. >> sew after -- >> after christmas. >> after christmas wanted tree deck it kraed on the 26th. i have no clue you but i will say wilson. he was nutty. >> he was nutty and it was ronald reagan. he had a good reason. american hostages turned home. >> that makes sense. okay. i'm 0-3 doing well. this is great and a lot of fun. >> 'tis the season. have little bells on there. can you

peter doocy live in washington with the details. good morning, peter. >> good morning.oing to be able to squeeze in one more day of vacation in hawaii before he leaves his wife and daughters behind and boards air force one for dc at about 10:00 p.m. in honolulu. 3:00 a.m. eastern time. that should get him back to the white house sometime tomorrow morning on the back end of a break he said he hoped would help lawmakers get on the same page. >> everybody can cool off. everybody can drink some egg nog, have some christmas cookies, sing some christmas carols, enjoy the company of loved ones, and then i'd ask every member of congress while they're back home to think about that. think about the obligations we have to the people who sent us here. >> speaker of the house, john boehner, is expected to come back to washington at any time as well. before he within back to ohio and president obama went to hawaii, they were about $400 billion apart in spending cuts and tax increases. speaker boehner even had to withdraw the so-called plan b measure in the house that would have raise

>> jon, peter doocy has been on the ground this morning as well and reporting on this story and peter, we're trying to piece together the best we can, the facts of what happened yesterday. what have you learned so far? >> jen, again, we've been waiting for the news conference more than two hours now, but the last update we got from the local police here is, as of about 7:30, 7:40 this morning is that at that time, there were still some bodies that remained inside the school building. and some bodies had been removed and had been i.d. 'd, but some bodies remained in there and again, the last update we got was not on camera, but it was from the local authorities who also told us that they have plenty of evidence inside and outside and that some of the inside evidence includes weapons, in addition to the three that we knew about yesterday. we knew yesterday that he had a glock and anotherpi pistol inside his car and there were vehicles outside, including the suspect's vehicle they want to look at. something else that was brand new, the last update we got from the authorities. they say it

peter doocy has more on that. >> uma, muhammad abdull amad is suspected of being head of the terroristd out attack in september in benghazi that kim would four americans. he is captured in the past week. officials have not said how or where he was cot. even with the dead lineup getting closer. john boehner accuses the white house of waisting another week and failing to resphond to a gop offer . house respects are blocking a bill that would prevent a middle class tax increase. the supreme court will said they'll take up two cases that involve same-sex merge. they'll look at the california ban on gay marriage and another case that legally married gay couples can be deprived of federal benefits. hanukkah starts at sun down. jews will be lighting the first candle of the menora as they velbrate the frest val of lights. uma, back to you. >> peter, thank you very much. >> the egyptian military is warning of consequences if the crisis is not resolved soon. they have taken their demands to the gates of the presidential palace . here is more from jerusalem with the latest on that situation. >> i

peter dosy jo peter doocy joins us live. >> last night moving trucks complete with their own police he courts were taking furniture out of the sandy hook elementary school. they were driving down past the firehouse which is where students were lucky enough to get out. including some 26 christmas trees to the fallen students. they were taking that furniture to nearby chalk hills middle school an unoccupied school building in monroe. it is unoccupied because of low enrollment. that is the building where sandy hook students will go back to class when the students decide it is the right time. the reason they are bringing all of that furniture and artwork from the school which is the site from a terrible crime is when classes start again the transition won't be as agracive. >> the sandy hook studio will be down because of waij height and age appropriate. it is an enormous process. the healing and back to normalcy feeling that will come from it hopefully is worth every effort. >>> as for the latest in the investigation we learn that the two adults who survived the shooting have gun shot woun

peter doocy explains minimum wage is a hot topic. >> nearly 1 million people across america get raiseyore's day. not reward for job well done but they live in step states raising the minimum wage next week with increases ranging from modest dime an hour in missouri to 35 cents an hour in rhode island. supporters say right now income guarantee is important since some unions are weakening. >> the increase in the minimum wage does give workers the kind of safety net that businesses themselves and some governments frankly are taking away little by little. >> some experts think that assessment is antiquated. >> union and advocacy groups don't realize is the battle is no longer with management. it's with technology. if you go in the local target or something like that, you check your own price, automatic price checker instead of people on the floor to help you out. we have been through a period where we have seen the impact of higher minimum wage. it forces businesses to cut back. >> federal minimum wage is $7.25. cities and states can set their own wages higher. like san francisco. which w

>> peter doocy has been live covering the story. we're trying to piece together the facts of what happened yesterday. what have you learned so far? >> we've been waiting for this news conference for more than two hours. the last update we got from the local police here is as of about 7:30, 7:40 this morning is that at that time there were still some bodies that remained inside the school building. some bodies had been removed and had been i.d.'d but some bodies remained in there. at this last update we got, was not on camera but from the local authorities who also told us they have plenty of evidence inside and outside and that some of the inside evidence includes weapons in addition to the three that we knew about yesterday. we knew yesterday that he had a glock and another pistol and a rifle that they found in his car. they said there are more firearms inside. they also said there are some vehicles outside, including the suspect's vehicle, that they want to look at. and something else that was brand-new, the last update we got fro

peter doocy explains minimum wage is a hot topic. >> nearly 1 million people across america get raise's day. not reward for job well done but they live in step states raising the minimum wage next week with increases ranging from modest dime an hour in missouri to 35 cents an hour in rhode island. supporters say right now income guarantee is important since some unions are weakening. >> the increase in the minimum wage does give workers the kind of safety net that businesses themselves and some governments frankly are taking away little by little. >> some experts think that assessment is antiquated. >> union and advocacy groups don't realize is the battle is no longer with management. it's with technology. if you go in the local target or something like that, you check your own price, automatic price checker instead of people on the floor to help you out. we have been through a period where we have seen the impact of higher minimum wage. it forces businesses to cut back. >> federal minimum wage is $7.25. cities and states can set their own wages higher. like san francisco. which will

peter doocy is live in washington with more.i, peter. >> today's unemployment effort will be the first since super storm sandy hit the east. any jobs that were lost economists are expecting a lousy report as a result of the storm. but regardless of what the number is, we are still one day closer to the fiscal cliff. even though speaker of the house john boehner's office says the lines of communication on both sides are open we know one thing is not being discussed by democrats and that one thing is extending the busheir raw tax cuts for top earners. >> oo i am not going to sign any package that prevents the top to go up but i am going to get something that is good for this fm l and good for the american economy. >> in the senate mitch mcconnell proposed a vote on the part of the president's proposal that would allow the white house and not congress to control on its own without their input. but majority leader harry reid said that is not. >> if the president's proposal is made in good faith our friends should be eager to vote fo

peter doocy is live with us. >> workers in michigan can no longer be force to do pay union dues if they don't want to because michigan's legislature passed two bills and the governor signed the two bills into law to make michigan's america's 24th right to work state. and the governor rick snyder says it was not a politically driven decision. >> this legislation is about freedom to choose for workers. this isn't about a relationship between employers and at all. this is about the relation sip between unions and workers. >> union leaders lost a lot of power in michigan yesterday. while state bau americas were in the process of passing the right to work law union leaders and thousands of union workers protested outside of the capital building. it is a state that has been heavily influenced the uaw for decades but the cloud cries had no effect. >> it is official the governor of michigan is one greedy nerd and one weak geek. he when satisfied to giving thousands of jobs to china when he was on the board of gateway commuter. >> a small counter protest by the pro rights to work group americans

check with steve doocy to see what's coming up. >> thank you very much. minutes before fox and friends kicks off. who says there's no such thing as a free lunch. whoever said that has to dine with uncle sam. millions of dollars of tax payer money feeding children for free. before they need it or not. donald trump will be here along with oliver north and free big athletes. snowboarder tony hawk gold olympic medalist gabby douglas the tallest guy in the studio in the last year. shaquille o'neal. join us 12 minutes from now fox and friends. >> good morning to you. it is 10 minutes before the hour. listen to this one. police had to use mace to break up an unruly crowd applying for subsidized apartments in columbus, ohio. 2,000 people showed up then they started fighting in order to get applications. that complex had to turn everyone away. several people were treated for minor injuries but no one was arrested. >> it is all pray and no play. it turns out the controversial combround zai ground zero mosque was supposed to be a cultural center is an empty space wi

steve doocy has more. >> reporter: a week after u.n.ambassador susan rice says not to nominate her for secretary of state because the nomination process may be too tough, divisive. >> in a sense, john's entire life has prepared him for his role. as a son of a foreign service officer, he has a deep respect for of the men and women of the state department. the role they play in advancing our interests and values, the risks that they undertake and the sacrifices that they make along with their families. >> senator john mccain congratulated kerry on his nomination and the republican from arizona says he looks forward to considering him for secretary of state but he did not promise his support. >> my view on weather secretary kerry should be -- senator kerry should be secretary kerry will not be base the on differing views. we have had differences in opinion when he said that desert storm would fail. >> secretary clinton was not able to make it to the white house at all. she is still recovering from the same connell cuss that is preventing h

. >> beater doocy, thank you. >> if you didn't go over board on the christmas shopping you are not alone. sales would not be as good as originally expected. the other business headlines is lauren simonetti. >> good morning patti ann. the frantic start to the hole sdooin ended pretty fast. holiday sales would rise that's down from the forecast of 3.3. super storm sandy and heavily discounted merchandise for their estimate. analysts say the saturday two-days from now a huge shopping day and they can get good deals then, too. >> gift cards usually it's something that you can spend right away but there's a new kind of gift card. there be savings plans for college. shoppers have the perfect gift for the holidays. some people think it's a better way for money to be put to the intended purpose. writing a check to say put this away for college but they end up spending it. >> mcdonalds might be pushing franchises. >> they are encouraging them to stay open on the holiday that according to an internal memo. it could be an $85 million sales day for the fast food giant boosted december sales the same

peter doocy joins us now live with what he's learned.n. we're learning more now about the exact moment the parents of at least 18 young victim high school their hearts broken on friday. it happened about five hours after the shooting in the firehouse not too far away from the school when the governor of connecticut came in and told those parents that if their first grader hadn't yet emerged from the school alive, they never would. >> it was evident to me that there was a reluctance to tell parents and loved ones in that e person they were waiting for was not going to return and that had gonen for a period of time. i made the decision that -- to have that go on any longer was wrong of the i did it. >> authorities say before friday, they never had any contact with mass murderer adam lanza, but that two adult survivors of his rampage are recovering from gunshot wounds to their lower extremities. each of the hundreds of rounds of ammunition from multiple cartridges recovered at the scene are going to be anded individually and connecticut sta

peter doocy live with the latest. >> good morning.n did bury, connecticut news times that says a few years ago, adam lanza really wanted to join the marines, but his mom, nancy, shot him down when she reminded him he didn't like to be touched and at the got hurt, a medic or doctor would have to touch him to help him to make him better. now, this is coming as authorities are telling us they really might not have that much of a digital foot print to follow in this case. the hartford current is reporting adam lanza made few, if any calls from his cell phones and destroyed his computer in a way that will make it hard to get anything off it so they may never know about any potential warning on-line or what he was looking at on his computer before friday. authorities right now are looking for scammers, some criminal set up a phony charity and first grade victim noah pozner's name and illegitimately profiting off people's goodwill. this comes as funeral services for students and educators continue, including a service today for 52-ye marie m

peter doocy joins us live from newtown with this fox news exclusive. peter? >> good morning.he was mad that his mother was trying to have him committed to a psychiatric facility. that's according to a 25-year-old u.s. marine who talked to fox news.com. this marine grew up in the area and senior law enforcement official confirmed to foxnews.com that anger about future mental health treatment is being considered as a possible motive in this case. that marine also told foxnews.com, quote, from what i've been told, adam was aware of her petitioning the court for conservatorship and her plans to have him committed. adam was apparently upset about this. he thought she just wanted to send him away. from what i understand, he was really, really angry. adam killed his mother in her bed in the $1.6 million house where he had been living in the windowless basement. a place he spent hours, according to the "new york post," playing violent video games, including "call of duty," a first person shooter game. he was always in the basement surrounded by posters of military equipment and other