>> eric: how about these guys here from west point? ime? >> yeah. >> eric: dana, are you over there still? no, back sitting down. you know what i'm going to do, i'll take it to the band. >> dana: better choice than what i've got. >> eric: guys, do you have something prepared? you ready? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ gleanings >> coming up, we're -- >> eric: coming up, we're going to wing it. see which one of us can eat the most wings that jeff cooked up. still to come, one of the five goes in the dunk tank. who is it going to be? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ male spirit present.trong it's the priceline negotiator. >>what? >>sorry. he wants you to know about priceline's new express deals. it's a faster way to get a great hotel deal without bidding. pick one with a pool, a gym, a great guest rating. >>and save big. >>thanks negotiator. wherever you are. ya, no. he's over here. >>in the refrigerator? now back to five in new york. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> dana: welcome back to "the five," everybody. in a few minutes, one of us is going in the dunk tanks. stay with us to find out who

>> eric: how about these guys here from west point? . >> eric: dana, are you over there still? no, back sitting down. you know what i'm going to do, i'll take it to the band. >> dana: better choice than what i've got. >> eric: guys, do you have something prepared? you ready? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ gleanings >> coming up, we're -- >> eric: coming up, we're going to wing it. see which one of us can eat the most wings that jeff cooked up. still to come, one of the five goes in the dunk tank. who is it going to be? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> happy independence day. i'm john roberts in for bret baier in washington. the big story here is the fourth of july celebrations. tonight on "special report" we go to the national mall and maybe your hometown. to brim you the sight and sounds of america's birthday. a lot of cities and towns are not celebrating with fireworks because it's too dry, especially with the western wildfires or because there's no money in the budget. it seems almost unthinkable; particularly, on days like today, but it's actually legal now to lie

i'm eric howes governor and director at maine yankee. we and our fellow sites that comprise the decommissioning plant coalition worked closely with the blue ribbon commission to ensure it understood the unique impacts that our three sites d the six other permanently shut down reactor sites face. the yankee companies and others in the dpc especially endorse those brc recommendations concerning permanently shut down plants that are most directly achievable. the prompt establishment of a voluntary program that would lead to the lin licensing of a consolidated interim storage facility or facilities. the establishment of a first in line priority for the movement of spent fuel and other material being stored at permanently shut down reactor sites to those licensed consolidated storm warning sites and the prompt initiation of programs to coordinate federal, state and local efforts to plan for the transportation of this material to consolidated storage and disposal facilities. the blue ribbon commission noted the success that we enjoy with our c

interested in the celebrity environmentalists than getting jobs for america. >> kimberly: true. >> eric: how about this? 8.2%, the longest period above 8% unemployment since 1948. 12.5 million people out of work. >> bob: our largest market in the world, europe, in a terrible position. >> eric: there is a lot of blame to go around. >> greg: europe is in dire straits so we are adopting their game plan. like we hired the worst -- >> bob: how are we adopting them? it's inherited. inherited social security. >> greg: this created investment for entitlement. to help support the entitlement. >> kimberly: he is in trouble with his base. women, african-americans, latinos all hardest hit by this, by the economy and the jobs number. if he is going to have to recon with that. >> eric: 780,000 fewer women employed today than when president obama took office. >> bob: when he took office, there was $660 billion of defense spending. now there is $720 billion. >> greg: he is planning to make cuts. >> bob: oh, i see. you're saying it's cuts? >> greg: long-term look at europe, they made cut to support entitleme

it's okay to make a change. >> eric, how damaging is it for the president? >> terrible. 1 1/2 gdp growth is not only subpar, it will raise the price of the stimulus package because a lot of it was based on 3% growth. the cbo next year and the year after and the year after will come back and score obamacare 'cause the cost of obamacare will skyrocket. let's talk about $15 trillion, a couple things. if you take one dollar bills, check out this deck. here is a stack. here is $500. if you stacked one dollar bills this way, $15 trillion would be 1.07 million miles to the sky or to -- wait a minute. or to the moon and back twice. another way to look at it. president obama, let's talk about all the debt up 'til president obama, president obama. you can hold president obama's debt. >> give it -- redistribute it. >> here is obama's debt. per year, okay. hold it up. every single year president obama has had that much money to the national deficit, national debt, and all the presidents combined in the last 100 years, per year annual is this much. >> do we have finger p

>> no. >> eric: how do you feel about it? >> i think they ought to do something about it and fix it to where they can't sell. >> eric: more than 20 public officials and others have been convicted in widespread vote-buying schemes to steal elections. moore testified for the prosecution that he sold his vete to michael sawiers, running for magistrate. >> when it comes to vote buying tseems like it's just an everyday thing. >> eric: sawiers met with voters here in the back room of this store in jackson, kentucky. he would send them to the courthouse to cast their ballots. when they returned, he would hand over the cash. >> the sellers in this situation, they would come to me and how much i was paying for votes and asked me if i was buying votes. i told them, the most i can pay is $25. they would go in to the machine, cast their vote. i have one gentleman telling me, he said, i have four votes. i gave him $100. $25 a vote. >> eric: in another county, the cost was much higher. did drug money buy votes? >> yes, we believe that drug

eric: dr. siegel is every community in our nation prepared for this? how do you know there is this type of level-one trauma center to go to where you live. >> that is a great question and the key area is triage and david has been describing what triage is about and from the moment an emergency responder sees you, they think, triage, how bad are you and where is the best medical center and i work at bellview, in the e.r., a number one trauma center and in colorado, where they are, that is one of the top trauma centers and they are thinking, do they need university of colorado, swedish hospital, another one and can they be treated locally and they get them to the top center and triage them, in terms of who is the sickest? who needs intravenous lines right away? who needs blood? and who needs to go to the or? and if they have gunshot wounds, the wound has to be debrided and you have to get the dead tissue out of there and the wound cleaned up and you have to get them on antibiotics. the biggest risk is infection and sometimes you have to relief the pressure i

it's okay to make a change. >> eric, how damaging is it for the president?ar, it will raise the price of the stimulus package because a lot of it was based on 3% growth. the cbo next year and the year after and the year after will come back and score obamacare 'cause the cost of obamacare will skyrocket. let's talk about $15 trillion, a couple things. if you take one dollar bills, check out this deck. hes

like -- want to get fiber from your vegetables, it is not just carbs, it is what kind of carbs. >> eric: how do you know, if you have the test? what does it say on the sheet. >> a-1-c j you have to -- hemoglobin a-1-c. >> the point here is, that we are born with a certain number of receptors for insulin. our pancreas is like a motor, churning out insulin and the fatter we get the less of those receptors we have and the less we have, the more likely we get by dietz and we get resistance on the receptors, another great point, a problem with the metabolism and you have to lose weight, as you lose weight your chances go down and you can actually reverse it. you have diabetes one day and in the the next. >> jamie: next show, all four of us on treadmills! i can't wait for you guys to see that! ten people suffering from vertigo, you shouldn't be on a treadmill, can you find relief on youtube? yep, we have the results of a surprising new research study. >> eric: and summer is here and for some people you know what it could mean? lyme disease. can it affect the brain? new details and sunday house cal

it's changing the whole dynamic of reverse mortgages. >> eric: how about the people who may be underater if you have mortgage problems? >> if you default on the loan, the fact that you mentioned -- hud actually oversees, if you would, or regulates this 9.4% are defaulting. that number is rising. let's start there first. when they default, they will simply lose that house completely and that asset goes back to that bank that took the original risk. >> eric: they lose everything? >> they lose everything. realize what they're really getting is expensive money. so they're getting dollars, but there is so much in fee, 10, 15, 20,000 is the norm. so you're paying this expensive dollars. you're getting the money. then if you don't maintain the property, if you don't keep your payments up, you very easily can default and they get the house, which is what they ultimately want. >> eric: there are benefits. what are some of the benefits? what should and ho should not take advantage of a reverse mortgage? >> someone that has to qualify has to be at least age 62 and own the house outright. what's

it's okay to make a change. >> eric, how damaging is it for the president?p growth is not only subpar, it will raise the price of the stimulus package because a lot of it was based on 3% growth. the cbo next year and the year after and the year after will come back and score obamacare 'cause the cost of obamacare will skyrocket. let's talk about $15 trillion, a couple things. if you take one dollar bills, check out this deck. here is a stack.

10,000 years and all tin gredients they couldn't make one taco. >> bob: thanks, greg. >> eric: quickly, you know what? howis 17. >> eric: who sales 17? >> eric: come back. come back to republicans. >> bob: two more one more thing. i want to thank greta van susteren who sent us a nice note about the fact that this show, "the five," was the number one and what we call the demo yesterday in all of cable news. we're happy about that. we thank you for watching. number one. number two -- no, number one in the demo. that's right. now, then, the other thing is i want to thank the fellow outside of fox today who was protesting somebody. take a look at the tape. >> he is liar, he is the punk, he is the hypocrite. bob beckel! i'm waiting for bob beckel! do you know bob beckel? he is on "the five" at 5:00 on this network. he is soiling my network. [ laughter ] >> bob: i don't mean the steal your network, pal. but steal another shirt. listen, thank you for the protest. i get protested all the time. >> kimberly: he wantous in the dunk can. >> greg: did he say you are soiling the network? >> bob: yes. i soiled a

>> good for the thumbs. >> thanks for reminding folks. >> eric: how much is too much, have you heardmarine who is trying to actually attempt one million push-ups in one year. >> jamie: what a show off. >> eric: one million push-ups, that means he has to do. my math 2739 push-ups a day, and over 18 hours, he gets 6 hours of sleep, that means 152 push-ups an hour. >> if you can do it, why can't he do it? he has a resolution and he wants to really bring attention an awareness about the warriors in afghanistan and iraq and i commend that. i think his main focus is to bring the ptsd to the surface. and a lot of the soldiers who come back, there is no transition period to go from all of that emotional stress, to a normal life. so, i commend him for that concept. but to do a million push-ups, sit-ups a day is not healthy. it will affect your joints and your heart and it will affect your joints. he has to -- as i'm, he has to do 2700 a day? i don't think it's a good idea. half-hour a day, three times a week is more than enough. >> having ridden with the wounded warriors i commend this becaus

also a neighbor saw something suspicious this morning and called police how it all started. >> eric: this police activity is taking place around the area of south pastoria avenue and evelyn avenue. >> kristen: you are looking breaking news in vallejo where they are investigating a house fire. this is sea wind drive. they woke people up when the fire broke out. we're told by 4:30, firefighters had the fire under control. this video from the scene shows big flames shooting from the house. firefighters now say they have it under control once again, but they do say wind has fanned the flames causing it to spread quickly. >> talk about those winds, right. >> eric: weather-wise, are the winds but also some fog and low clouds to go with it. lisa argen is in for mike this morning. >> the bay bridge and mist and drizzle along the coast in the north bay and breezy winds. live doppler 7-hd showing some of low cloudiness across the bay but we have clear skies, concord and livermore and in the south bay, but it's going to be a cool day. winds are transporting the cool air our way and it's going t

er er eric howes. and the senior professional staff. dr. metly great to see you. is it mr. or doctor? mr. it is. mr. andrew is it oral. with the emphasis on the first or second syllable. like oral surgery? we'll alternate then. doctor andrew oral director of nuclear energy and fuel cycle programs. again, hold your statements to about five minutes. we're glad you're here. appreciate your participation and preparation. there you go. turn that mic on. >> i thank the chairman and the ranking member for inviting nrdc to share the crews on the potential outcomes of the president's blue ribbon commission. i submitted written testimony for the record and i'll focus briefly on two points. point one, in new legislation we urged congress to require screening for the final form before any disposal sites are concerned. >> i was pleased to hear dr. peterson reiterate that call. the same for protection standards. the brk was correct that it should be generic. that is applicable to all sites. but with respect we're very pleased that they were explicit today that such standards must be in f

. >> bob: how do you comment on that? >> eric: those are his influences.l alinsky is community organizing background. he a mitts to. that bill ayers, one of his best friend. >> bob: you said it was his foreign policy. >> eric: that is where he gets his foreign policy. >> bob: does he talk to him at night on the phone? >> kimberly: his roots. >> eric: a socialist ideology. a redistributor of wealth. >> bob: you said he was a marxist. let me make sure i got it straight. he is a marxist. bill ayers is the one, not hillary clinton, who is running our foreign policy. >> eric: his politics are alinsky-like. his foreign policy is ayers like. >> bob: that is crazy. >> eric: i thought you weren't going to talk. >> dana: let's get kimberly in here and talk about the politics of it. following a lot of the conservative commentators, on twitter today, they loved romney's reaction. i saw a couple of them say, i was holding my breath until the moment. he finally, that is what i'm looking for in the candidate. >> kimberly: i love it. i thought the same thing. seeing him o

eric holder yesterday calling voter i.d. laws poll taxes. it's a lot like-- >> greg: i have a joke. howic holders does it take to screw in a lightbulb? none. basic lightbulb maintenance is designed to keep minorities down. message is minorities can't make their way to the dmv. soft racism of lower expectations. he really doesn't think minorities can get i.d. sad. tie it to healthcare reform and say if you want free healthcare get an i.d. and solve the problem? why not do that? >> eric: to get to the eric holder speech, media hod to show legal federal i.d. just to listen to the speech. >> bob: that is true about any convention you go to. you have to have a press pass for good reason. who could trust the press without i.d.? i agree with eric holder. talking about the texas law. in texas, the dmv for example, many counties over for hispanics. no doubt at all they do it to keep down the hispanic vote, period. >> eric: they offer people who didn't have i.d. they would send forms out. >> andrea: you want to care about hispanics? hundreds of hispanics were killed because you let guns walk. how

so i know how important that is. >>ericformation how the solyndra bankruptcy will work out for taxpayers. diane macedo has the latest. >>diane: we got court documents filed on friday showing private equity firms that invested will get back half of their investment but not so much for the taxpayers because in this case the government actually gave up their spot as the first investor paid to two private equity firms. the court pains show of $143 billion the government loaned to the company they will recover zero to $24 million. of the second payment, $382 million, it will recover zero plus, depend on outcome of liquidation. you can imagine because of the number of solar companies that have gone under, particularly those with government funds behind them, the market is not so great for liquidating the companies so the outcome does not look good. >>eric: zero, plus. >>diane: so $24 million of half a billion. >>eric: mitt romney rallies for support there and these two hitting the trail if him here. senator problem portman in pen

>>eric: how can you tell that? >>doug: you have history, experience, and judgment. he "wall street journal" is projecting suggest that the electorate is more democratic than they were in 2008. eric, common sense tells us, that is just not the case. john: last week, that poll dominated the political scene. everyone assumed those numbers were accurate. we believe the rasmussen numbers, which are likely voters, they have romney ahead. you are putting that on the screen. romney is a couple of points up. you take the others and the undecided, we think romney will get three quarters of them. romney will win this election if he does the things we have talked about. >>doug: but it is an "if." >>eric: and the gallup poll shows at 46-46. what is your gut feeling? you are the pros. >>doug: the electorate likes obama but disappointed with the performance. they are not comfortable with governor romney. he has not told us what he will do or what his vision is but we think he is a better economic manager. both sides have formidable challenges. >>eric: israel is part of the campaign

. >>> i'm eric thomas. >> how much did facebook's rocky ipo affect the company's bottom line. we may get the answer today when the company releases first earning statement since it went public. terry mcsweeney is live at facebook's headquarters. >> reporter: this a chance for facebook to prove continue investigators it can take its 900 million plus users and turn that into profits, big profits, one step at a time. this is the company as you mentioned it had a rough time during the initial public offering last month. it wants to show it can turn popularity into profits but not in a hurry. facebook says it is not going to be happening in a big hurry. in a filing last week the company says its mobile users continue out-pace the number of ads on its mobile platform and ads provide most of facebook's revenue. the number of mobile users is rising. analysts are expecting earnings of 12 cents per share on revenue of over a s -- over a billion dollars. facebook public may 18th. things didn't go well it started at 38 now down 24%. nasdaq had trouble contributing to the mess with a numbe

how is this going to work for the american people,eric?s he have any facts and figures to back this up. >> eric: go back to what this is. in 2008, october, he said i'm going to fund machine tally change america -- fundamentally change america. we said that's interesting because we're not sure we want fundamental change. we like capitalism and free markets. but he perceived over the last four years he tried to change america. he usurped the constitution, applied taxes without using congress. and this. this statement right there, the most important thing he has ever said. you are not successful, because you work hard, because you risk your own capital because you hire people because you have innovation. cooperation, you are successful because the government has helped you. that man is a sadist. he believes the only reason that america is where we are because of government. he's flat-out wrong. >> kimberly: bob, the rhetoric sounds like he is running for president of venezuela. >> bob: put it in context. it didn't hear him say one thing in go

eric: if you heard the word again. the rich pay their fair share. it is class ware fare. howper 10 percent say steve stove pay all it >> eric: 43 percent of the american households don't pay any at all . we know that tax cuts and lower taxes spark growth. president obama said we can't raise taxes in a recession . guess what? we are still in one. this is not the time to raise taxes. >> gretchin: we haven't had two quarters consectively. >> eric: right. talk to the 25 million people who are unemployed or under employed. >> gretchin: in the senate they have not decide tod take up the vote on the president's tax plan for the middle class, why? there are a certain number of democrats who don't agree with it height eitherer. stove steve fiscal cliff is looming after the election . >> eric: we need to point out cbo said when all of the tax cuts expire and spending cuts go into affect. the fiscal cliff will throw us back in technical recession even though we are not in the technical recession . let america go -- i am getting technical. >> gretchin: we'll do a couple of head lines. we

but next way in a college fund. >> eric: you are making a lot of money, too. how00. >> show makes about $300 a week rightt now. >> eric: megan, are your friends doing the same thing, what are they doing this summer? >> hang around with their friends. i still get to hang out with them. >> eric: are they jealous of you? >> my friend comos the boat sometimes, but not like every time we go on >> eric: dad, you must be pretty proud she has a grasp of the business of harwork and good way to start a future, right. >> yeah, show's out there and working it and she's understanding the value of money. she can really, she is doing really well out there. she knows what she is doing. >> eric: what do you want to be. >> i want to be a person who designs houses and where the furniture goes and bedrooms and bathrooms. >> eric: somehow, i think you will make that work. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> eric: coming up next. a dad refuse to talk to his son after his son decides to stay at home and be mr. mom. is the dad normal or not. first on this day in 1982, eye of the tiger

what's kind of baffled me throughout this whole thing is still how eric holder has his job. [laughter] >> i don't know. >> the president's david axle rod, these are great guys, politically savvy guys. i mean, is it -- alberto gonzalez was crucified for a scandal much, much less serious. do you just think it's because the media perception is lukewarm? the stuff is being coveredded, can you offer insight into how and why eric holder is still our attorney yen? >> you know, that's a question that i get confused about a lot. i mean, i think that the obama administration but specifically the justice department, and i would encourage you to read a book by jay christian adams called injustice because it also details the way the justice department and this administration works extensively. this is when you transplant chicago-style politics into washington d.c. i really do think, you know, trying to add on as to exactly your question for months and months and months, the media's a part of it, but i also think this administration doesn't think they're ever accountable to what they tell

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. >> eric: you point this out yesterday, at what point is a tax cut, how long do they last before it's tax base is, but 10, 11 years, right? >> dana: right. the dreaded bush tax cuts as they were branded at the time. one thing that the democrats said every day until yesterday the bush tax cut only benefited the rich. but now, president obama wants credit for giving a tax credit and extending the taxes to the middle class because it was helpful to them. perhaps they are conceding that the tax cuts help everybody. maybe not. >> greg: this is the logic. it has more holes than dunkin' donuts. if tax cuts are bad for economy why keep 98%? if they are good for economy why cut out 2%? only one reason. he is clinging to class warfare like gun to religion. >> andrea: dana's point, joe biden talks about it benefiting the middle class over and over and over in 2009, calling at it jolt. president obama said he wanted to extend the tax cut, over and over he said it's the right thing to do, right thing for economy. speaking of small businesses, not only is the tax with small businesses we got throug