is a fox news phenomenon essentially.they came about through some very sophisticated astroturf thing on the part of these groups like freedom mark bomb -- like freedom works. these are very wealthy sponsors. they come from the top down any have a bottom-up phenomenon that by fox days and talk radio. when the mainstream media first saw this, i think was very confusing to them. they saw a bunch of white, a wage people like me showing up at town hall meetings, coming to rally is wearing costumes and waving flags bets they don't tread oo mee packing heat. it's pretty irresistible television. for a lot of them, they cannot understand what this phenomenon was. in their minds, protesters are young people with long hair screaming "hell no, we won't know." said they had no basis of understanding thiss it was interesting. over time, it became clear that it was not an ordinary group of americans coming down to the town hall meetings and expressing their opinions. these are very angry people. the fox news sponsorship became apparent.

i see fox doing this all of the time. they are looking -- mocking and bill and rising those in the media that actually do a decent job -- villanize the media that actually do a decent job. it is time for us to stand up and define what it means to be a journalist in this country. we need to call out fox for what it is. it is not a news organization but a political hit organization. we are working on making some progress in that regard. [applause] do we have time for one more question? we are done. please, a round of applause for a been tested panel. thank you so much. -- for a fantastic panel. thank you so much. [applause] [unintelligible] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [unintelligible] >> up next, massachusetts congressman barney frank and a number of others talk about a new report on defense spending. following that, nato secretary- general talks about the handover of security in afghan forces. and remarks by the u.s. defense secretary robe

they're not just at fox news. they're at fox, at the "new york times" and everywhere else. >> certainly you can silo yourself but i don't think that's ever been untrue. so , know, what effect is it having overall? i don't think we really know yet. i believe it's really more, you know, as micah was saying that people go to certain sites. maybe you're right. they go to the opposing site just to see what those idiots are saying. >> and to say things to those idiots. >> but then that's not siloing anymore, right? it may be a different problem but it's not siloing. >> you're right. this chicago study is one study that suggested that perhaps people aren't siloing themselves. there have been others that suggested that maybe the ... maybe people who read blogs are siloing themselves. there was a study about four years ago, three or four years ago that suggested that blogs on the right were linking mainly to other right wing blogs and vice versa with the left. even if people aren't siloing themselvess on line, what we're s

that is what i see fox doing all the time. there lumping everyone in the mainstream media together and there vulcanizing themm all the while they are gaining market share in getting people in the mediiddle to listen to t. and i think it is time to demand that we call outfox for what it is i get rather impatient about this. we're working on making progress in that regard. [applause] do we have time for one more question? i think we're done. a round of applause for the fantastic panee. phank you very much. in [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> this afternoon, c-span 3 will have live coverage as conservatives discussed leadership. michele bachmann will be awarded with the 2010 concerted -- conservative leadership award. congress will be in session on c-spaa and c-span2 this afternoon. phere will be general speeches at 2:00 eastern. debate on extending tax breaks. the house debates four resolutionss to cushion the federal communications com

six weeks after president obama took office, fox newsal held their first g g.o.p. tea party. now judging yelena inside its publication. she's known for her keen intellect and her ability to reach across the aisle. are they enough to confirm her as the next supreme court justice? around another, kagan is unqualified to sit on the supreme court. republican lawmakers saying kagan has never been a judge or seen the the courtroom from a bench or had a judge's possibility? any point of law. she's never tried a criminal or civil or even traffic case and not even decided one constitutional issue. by the way we have set up a site where you can keep track of the nomination hearings or begin tomorrow. you can watch the hearings in high-quality wide screen on demand any time and as part of the c-span video library. you can get real-time updateses and also if there are questions as -- related to what is being discussed and you can follow what also is being said on our twitter page. espn.org/kagan. >> george is joining us from mcmurray pennsylvania. democrats line. good morning. caller: th

laughter] can he give a guarantee that, whoever ends up owning bskyb, it will not be allowed to turn into foxs, and that there is no room here for shouty, reactionary propaganda passing itself off as fair and balanced news? >> the very idea of shouty, reactionary propaganda being passed in the house of commons is such an appalling thought. as i am sure we all recognize, these are matters for my right honorable friend the business secretary, who will be looking at them very closely. >> matthew hancock. >> can the prime minister tell us that, until yesterday's budget, the benefits for some of the poorest in society were to be increased at a rate less than inflation, and therefore cut in real terms? >> my honorable friend makes an excellent point. the labour government's plans were to increase benefits by less than consumer price inflation next year. they left a -- they do not know this, the dupes behind the front bench. >> [unintelligible] >> i think dupes is an accurate description of what i am looking at. there was a 300 million pound black hole, and you do not have to be a "star trek" fan to

the definition they want to use on fox news and elsewhere, but the fact of the matter is it's coming out of treasury. treasury deoff the oversight w that madam chair, i yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from virginia, mr. connolly. the chair: without objection, the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. connolly: thank you, madam chairwoman. i thank my colleague from ohio for his leadership and my friend from illinois for the kind words. the small business lending fund act will expand opportunities for small businesses to access critically needed capital today. our amendment ensures that the program works as intended. that america's small businesses receive access to that capital and that taxpayers' loans are repaid. the lending facility encouragings small business loans to creditworthy companies with the repaid funds and interest payments going to reduce the deficit that our %% friends on the other side say they are concerned about. small businesses will lead private sector job growth if they obtain the capital. the office of small business lending fund program oversigh

i turn on fox yesterday and i think his name is carl hammer -- host: charles krauthammer. caller: they were blaming, they call them the peaceniks, saying they were trying to cause trouble, instead of having any kind of and the fate or compassion for the deaths of those people and focusing on why that flotilla was headed toward the gaza. do you know that israel has not played by the rules, the roles they want others to play by, that they continued to expand illegal settlements since the oslo accord and our media and the gold stowed report, judge goldstone, who is jewish and a total supporter of israel based on the 1967 borders, total supporter anyway, he did that report on what went on in the gaza and our congress people and the israeli lobby shut the goldstone report down. this guy is internationally recognized and honored, judge goldstone, and our congress people would not even read the goldstone report. host: american troops leaving haiti. the bulk of u.s. military forces will depart haiti today, leaving the u.n. forces and civilian groups to help the country rebuild its

and he recently told people, came out and was critical of fox news channel. he said glenn beck was a divisive force in american politics. all of those types of things i think resonated with the conservative wing of the party that came out strongly last night. host: one of the viewers of our twitter page was asking how joe wilson did. he had a challenger but he came out ahead with 80 percent -- 83%. guest: joe wilson was looking pretty strong going into this primary. host: chicago, doris on the democratic line. you are on with john mercurio. caller: one of the problems i have with the media only one, with your guest, the same thing. he zeroed in on the amount of money that the unions put into the campaign. it didn't even mention the amount of corporate money that blanche lincoln got. and from the lead coming from of the clinton people the white house, i'm a liberal democrat and i feel just like a moderate democrats did before, the democratic party has no room for an african-american liberal democrat. have to look at other options like the green party. i voted

. >> he used the n word on television on fox news in 2001. with the word white before it. but i'm glad it wasn't me. >> i hadn't seen that. maybe the day he died is not the appropriate time -- >> i don't think so. i was just giving information. >> i think there was -- there was context. he had a voting record and everything else. go ahead. >> larry: james, what is west virginia going to do, do you think? >> you know what, larry, i have never tried to figure out what west virginia was going to do about anything and if somebody can figure out winch let me know. i'm having a hard enough time in louisiana. i don't know. as i understand it qualifying his past for primaries and then you have this conflict law. i suspect that they have a supreme court and they'll decide something there. i just don't know. i'm not that familiar with it to be honest with you. >> larry: all right. do you think it will affect the kagan nomination? >> you know, it could. it depends on as you say how much of this is just a show this kagan thing or how much they're really serious. to me she's very centr

. >> both of you were network fired and you showed in the film, fox dropped you. >> like a hot cake.rry: looking back in retrospect, big mistake to take that job? >> big mistake for them to fire me. >> larry: they must have had a reason. >> it was personal. >> larry: they didn't get much into the reason in the show why they fired you. >> they gave me a choice, you can stay, but your husband has to go. and i go to my husband, and it was thursday to friday, over and out. >> larry: now, carson. he put you on, you were the guest host. why did he get so mad? >> i still don't know. and you knew him better than i. >> he should have been proud. >> he should have been proud. i finally, after my contract was up, done, i took another job. everybody did, cosby did, david brenner did, we all did. we all went on. i think because i was a woman, he never thought i would leave, or maybe he liked me better, but the minute i became competition, it became out to kill me. out to kill me. and that's what came down. forever. never spoke to me again. >> larry: and there are great scenes in the movie, by the

plans to you have any recommendations the you could offer now or anything you could share as to the foxhe department may have in this area? and let me ask the admiral if he has anything on this. i would tell you that i am not aware of the status of this report and am not in a position to provide any recommendations frankly because i just don't know but i am happy to find out why this report is overdue and see if we can to bring it to conclusion. >> i'm less concerned with the june 1st date than on again with the idea that we all love is an interim report by the end of the fiscal year and this committee is going to have to take action before the end of the fiscal year because it may very well be that the defense appropriations bill becomes the only one that escapes the omnibus and pass this on its own. i know the chairman hopes is not the case, and i hope it is not the case with it. but there is always that possibility. >> what i can commit to this to try and get this report and its recommendations to use and you can make some timely decisions. >> okay. >> senator, i don't have any more

have been taking cues from fox after their incessant mention of the tea party. we saw a shift when there were caught yelling on tape homophobic, racist slurs and spitting on a number of congress members. d you think that had an effect on how legitimate news media has covered the tea parties? how effective will the deportees be in the political landscape this year? >> one of the things about fox news is in that it really has a fair amount of power on the right, but it does not have a great amount of power without the help of the mainstream media. they perform as an amplifier. most of the time, they do not know that they're doing it. during the early part of the decade, when rush limbaugh was asked to come and do commentary on election night, people were stunned in the news media that people like me were complaining and screaming and jumping up and down at the idea that someone like rush limbaugh would be on a major network talking about election coverage, as if he were just another analyst. he is a major right-wing propagandists. part of it is that they just did

here at a high-tech complex on the 20th century fox lot, on the very spot where marilyn monroe proclaimedat gentlemen prefer blondes, jim cameron works down to the wire, supervising the final tweaks to "avatar". >> cameron: we're going to have to push that smoke element back. >> safer: his fantasy creatures are based on performances by the real actors. cameras record dots on their faces. computers then analyze their expressions and bring the blue people to life... >> do not attack! >> safer: ... characters both otherworldly, yet strangely like ourselves. >> i think we just have to push the layer of smoke in front of him. >> safer: on a satellite link are experts at a special effects studio a world away in new zealand. it's there the final images are processed. >> cameron: we're going through and we're analyzing every last detail within the shot to make sure that it's up to snuff. we can make the grass greener or yellower, we can make the sky bluer, all those things. >> safer: and you can now just do what you want electronically? >> cameron: sure. even when we were doing "titanic" 12 years

fox news opinion dynamic question. do you approve or disapprove of how the obama administration is dealing with the oil spill in the gulf coast and how do you feel about how b.p. is. the president was 40-50, 40% favorable, 50% unfavourable. b.p.s with 13% favorable, 79% unfavourable. 6 to 1 unfavourable. but among republican voters, republican voters, they thought b.p. was better than the-- now i means that's just-- if you want to see polarization and blind partisanship at a time in 2010 those are your numbers right there. >> there is also a poll speaking of polls that showed that like 70% of the american people are following the b.p. oil spill story and care about it deeply, and at the way bottom of the list now with 3% care deeply about health care. it's at the bottom of a long list of about 15 issues. >> and actually an extremely unpopular bill an one of the spill overs of this is the president really wanted to spend a lot of time this month selling the health-care bill and he's not allowed to do that because of tes

the eagles beat, they won 1-0 behind senior racialle fox's 10 strikeouts. -- rachel fox's 10 strikeouts. the coach coached her team four years to the championship. mr. olson: the eagles have exemplified those traits in spades. the fort ben baptist eagles have proven role models for their school and community. through hard work and dedication, they have achieved the goals they set for themselves at the beginning of the season. mr. speaker, i congratulate the fort ben baptist eagles on their back to back championship titles of the i thank them for representing their community and their school with pride. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leaves of absence requested for mr. carter of texas for today, ms. kilpatrick of michigan for today and the balance of the week, ms. richardson of california for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the request ares granted. -- requests are granted. mr. poe: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any specialereders her

i turn on fox yesterday and i think his name is carl hammer -- host: charles krauthammer. caller: they were blaming, they call them the peaceniks, saying they were trying to cause

killed, including american shot four times and had -- and you are becoming as fair and balanced as fox and we need more like helen thomas because there is something wrong with our foreign policy when we are not even allowed to discuss the issue of what an ally did or is doing to it as a people. host: we appreciate your views but to let you know, if you were not watching last week, we did several segments, including one with windy sherman. cleveland, ohio, wahid and the democrats line. caller: i tell you what, i agree with helen thomas. they have been over there for 60 years. i agree with her -- they were not in the middle east. not right there. helen was right. host: if you take that to the logical conclusion, if you ask the israelis in israel to go back to poland and germany, could other people applied that to people in this country and ask people to go back to the countries they come from? caller: we should all go back to where we came from, including the white folks who took the country from the indians. they should go back to where they came from. host: wahid from cleveland, ohio.

measures for the motion picture association, paramount pictures, sony pictures entertainment, 20s century fox film corp., universal studios, walt disney studios, and warner brothers entertainment warn 8, . tom kubic is to my right. prior to joining psi, he had experience as federal law enforcement specialist, an fbi director, and criminal investigative positions. as a group, we decided there's a lot of expertise here and we want you to take full advantage of their expertise and their knowledge. >> i want everybody to be interactive and ask good, accounting questions. -- and ask good questions. a small video to start with. >> brian asked me to do a quick introduction to the panel. if you think john talks funny, get a load of this accent from new york. [laughter] i want to briefly touch on three investigations i was involved with when i was with the recording industry. the first is a video that you just saw, which was a joint investigation with the nypd. it was involved in the manufacturing facility that was producing music and movies. they were selling this to consumers around the tristate are

i really enjoyed the "o'reilly show" on fox but i heard him say what's wrong with a c.e.o. having the attorney general there who has already announced he is investigatinn and what he wants to charge them with a crime, have him sitting there for no other reason obviously other than to intimidate the c.e.o. of british petroleum and get them to fork up a $20 billion fund. there's a reason. but not one man in this country is supposed to have that. bill o'reilly thought it was fine and he would go with a machine gun and force them to give up that kind of money. and i hope and pray he got carried away when he made that comment and really doesn't believe that, because what that would be saying is, that when someone does something hideous as what bitish petroleum has done here, taking lives, destroying landscape, destroying vast areas, it's ok if you become a criminal if they have been so very negligent. it's not ok to have someone's negligence force you to become a criminal. we have to be above those things and we have to follow the law. and there are laws that say you cannot abus

caller: i was watching tv and listening to the news on fox network. host: ok. so people on the left, democrats are saying that this is an issue being stirred up by fox news, by the right. how do you respond to that? caller: how can we stir something up? there's a big mess in the gulf of mexico. there's rightly so, people were outraged that the chairman of bp went yachting yesterday. where was our president? where was he? he was out on a golf course. now, can you tell me that this is better to go out and play golf and not know what's going on or to be on a boat and not know what's going on? host: what about his comments related to the jones act? guest: let me p be perfectly clear. nobody wants to clean up this oil more than the u.s. merchant fleet. nobody has more of a vested interest. when the oil is cleaned up and hopefully it will be sooner than i think it will take, we will still be here. will those foreign flag ships still be here? will our tax money have gone and our wages have gone offshore? we have never objected to a specific waiver for any vessels in t

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fox we are stuck, because we are not policy folks. -- eli >> we are stuck because we are not policy folks. >> mr. quigley, you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have been here 14 months, now and this is the kind of work the committee should be about. i applaud your efforts and your staffs efforts. and jim, put yourself in our place. i understand your lack of awareness of what was taking place, but what concerns us is that it took the committee and staff to ask these questions. you call them allegations. they are called findings, here. either way, at least they were asking the right questions. were we aware if any of these questions were asked by your command? >> sir, i will start and what my teammates to join in. under host nation trekking, i was not aware of the kind of allegations that are being made. i have to say that we take them seriously, just as you and this committee have taken them seriously. when the allegations are present, we need to research them and determine what the facts and the evidence are and take heart action in some kind of way and event

caller: it was all over fox news and everything else. when he was other did into congress in illinois, he wanted to put his hand on the koran. he is a -- host: we are going to let that one go. this is a discussion on policy. name-calling has no place here. leave that at home. . .. caller: yes, i did vote for obama, but i did have dual mind knows when i voted for him. view is going to do this for the working class and he was going to do that her -- e was going -pto do this for the working cls and he was calling to do that, but when it comes to the corporations, he pulls his punches. hi of red blood that you have talked about -- i have read a lot that you have talked about. i read a lot about teddy roosevelt. he was a republican. he was actually for the working lives. host: we will let you go and hear from our guest. guest: that is true, by and large, he is known most famously for the sherman antitrust act. the parties were lined in different ways in daud -- those days. there were a lot of liberal republicans and conservative democrats in

caller: i was watching tv and listening to the news on fox network. host: ok.ople on the left, democra are saying that this is an issue by fox news, by the right. respond tohat? caller: how can we stir something up? there's a big mess in the gulf of mexico. there's rightly so, people were outraged that the chairman of bp went yachting yesterday. where was our predent? where was he? he was out on a golf course. now, can you tell me that this is better to go out and play golf and not know what's going on or to be on a boat and not know what's going on? host: what about his comments related to the jones act? guest: let me p be perfectly clear. clean up this oil more than the u.s. merchant fleet. vested as more of a interest. and he oil is cleaned up hopefully it will be sooner than will take, we will be here. will those foreign flag ships still be here? will our tax money have gone and our wages have gone offshore? we have never objected to a specific waiver for any vessels in this case or others when ere was a lack of u.s. capability. that mean you have objected

fox: i yield another minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. price: or you could vote to terminate taxpayers' subsidized political party conventions. that's right that's right, mr. speaker, we spend tens of millions of dollars paying for democrat and republican party conventions. that's crazy. or you could vote to require collection of unpaid taxes from federal employees, $1 billion we could save there. or terminate the funding for the ndic, $440 million. mr. speaker, this debate is not just about whether or not we are acting spobsably here. it's -- responsibly here. it's what we are doing with the hard-earned taxpayer money. we are talking about money here and this bill that you are talking about spends an extra $33 billion that we do not have. in fact, there's money appropriated aaready through the tarp program. over $500 billion of money available. you could use some of that if you wanted to be fiscally responsible. but, mr. speaker, we haven't seen that kind of leadership out of the majority party. mr. speaker, the youcut program allows the

i want to talk about in this review process, the pentagon is setting up a confidential fox said that gay and lesbian service members can put forth their views on the repeal process. we are worried in net because it is a confidential system, the possibility is high. the family members are not giving the ability to give a fourth of their views as well. can you speak to -- does the pentagon go through a hurdle going through this review process? >> part of what i think is very important in the totality of this issue is responsible leadership from everybody. i have tried to do that from my position. i have talked to irresponsible leaders on both sides of this issue. that is really important. i was here in 1993. i was in the military during that time. that does not mean that there will not be extreme views which are out there. responsible leaders throughout this are really important. in order to allow us to get this. there is internal to the process that we have very significant focus on this issue and trying to make sure that we have an opportunity to understand the views of those that ar

back-and-forth about the guyfact that general mcchrystal was a democrat and voted for president obama and had foxews turned off in his headquarters. ironic. i think general petraeus and any general officer is interested in serving the best interests of the country, and regardless of who was in charge. we had a lesson and that last week about civilian control of the military. that is clear in that principle has been reaffirmed. . . >> he will soon be in kabul. and he will provide the strong leadership required to meet the challenges ahead. and in the interim, the british would tunnel nick parker is the acting commander -- the british lt. nick parker is the acting commander of isaf. >host: not miss a beat, but thee will be a style difference between general mcchrystal and general patraeus, correct guest? guest: yes, but not the perceptible. general patraeus was one of the shapers of afghan policy, been mcchrystal's of superior, after all. it is not like he is going to have to come in and get up to speed. he is up to speed on a daily basis. if it would not surprise me if he is there by the weekend,

fox. the gentleman from florida, mr. mack. the gentleman from arizona, mr. fraaks. under the speaker's annouuced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from georgia, mr. gingrey, is recognized for six minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. gingrey: mr. speaker, i thank you, and i thank my leadership on the republican side, leader boehner and our leadership team to give me the opportunity this evening before this packed house chamber. of course, mr. speaker, with the exception of those few names that you just read off. but on this occasion of the three-month anniversary, if you will, the three-month anniversary of the signage into law of the health care reform bill better known as patient protection and affordaale care act of 2010, sometimes referred to with no disrespect as obama care. not unlike hilary care of 1993, which never became law. mr. speaker, indeed when i say obama care, i do not mean any disrespect, although i consistently, along with my colleagues on this side of the aisle, voted against the passage of that legislation. i would hope -- m

guest of the president fox himself in. he needs to decide what is worth fighting for. he has been willing to fight for certain things and not for others. a few moments ago we heard about how the campaign to send more troops to afghanistan. he has broken a good campaign promises. i think that the president is in excess of apologist. he can fight on capitol hill. he could fight for a general libertarian to go the supreme court but instead he nominated someone who, best evidence, is not a strong backer of civil liberties. it is possible the face down the senate. many presidents have done it. i am regretful that this president has chosen not to throw down the column -- throw down the gauntlet for civil liberties. host: our conversation this morning is with norman solomon. jim is joining us from tampa, florida. caller: wishing you both a good morning.3 while, i apologize if i ask something that was similar to someone else. host: the floor is yours. go ahead. caller: i am a republican. first of all, in may it american. i am intendinn to go -- i am a american. i am intending

it is, of course, promoted by fox news. anything to get the blame on to obama. i am sure we would not have a $20 billion trust fund if obama was not in office. if bush was, it would try to be covered up and under the carpet. host: here is another tweet. if was referring to the congressional hearings. our next call comes from the gulf coast. mobile, alabama, debbie on the republican line. please go ahead. caller: i would love for everyone to quit talking about the money, who is going to get the money. we need to get that leak stopped. i spent my vacation over there last week and we enjoyed it. i know everyone is blaming bp, and it is their problem, but there is this just like the rest of them. -- they are a business just like the rest of them. host: debbie, what did you think about representative joe barton's comments? caller: which one are you talking about? host: where he said -- he called it a $20 billion shake down and then later apologized to bp. caller: i'm not sure our would take that. -- how i would take that. i do not know why he would say that and then

fox foundation, of course. he has become the leading advocate for parkinson's.his foundation spends its money on experimental research, not on lobbying, which is fairly unusual. the other one -- i think it is the northwest parkinsons association. i do not remember the exact name, but i think if you put in the keywords you'll get it. they do very good work. i would say those two would be a good place to start. host: the next phone call, from brooklyn. caller: i must say that i missed you on cnn. i watched you for years. i cannot agree with you more with what you were saying about the advent of the tea party movement and sarah palin as a leader. i like to ask, where do see the movement of some of the going? guest: i will predict something. that i see t fading away. the story after the midterm elections will be that the tea party does not do as well as expected. it is because, for several reasons -- the cardinal rule is that this story must change. secondly, the tea party benefits from enormous publicity now just because it is sort of a good story. it is almost sur

now, arizona law, let's just say arizona, fox news today ran a story, they started last night about the spotters down in arizona that occupy the mountaintops along the transportation routes coming up through arizona. excuse me. now, what's going on is, drug smugglers, people smugglers, contraband smugglers occupy these locations on top of the mountains of arizona. some is volcanic. they are shaped like volcanos and come to a point and on top, whether it's a ridge, there is a pickup spot where they can see a intersection coming from two or three different directions and the employees, these are paramilitary armed personnel that are organized as a military force taking positions, strategic positions on top of mountaintops in arizona and take the stones and stack them around like a gunner placement and hunker down and will watch the tratching and they have communications equipment with scram blers so they can talk to their people. we know the free quensies. i have listened to the excited chatter as we fly towards those mountaintops to pick the people off. you can hear the chatter intensify

host: in the past season of the series on fox, "24," they were using grounds to follow the good and baduys on new york city. they would get information back like the lettering on license plates or what color jacket the person was wearing, shoes, very detailed kind of things. how much of this is based in fact and how much is total fiction? guest: there are some unmanned aircraft that can fly 60,000 feet and had the capability of identifying objects the size of a milk carton from that height. [laughter] you can do a lot with them. host: 1, oklahoma. go ahead. -- lawton, okla. caller: what i am worried about is the imaging. is any of the cancer causing? does this have anything to do with with the sec tried to open the bandwidth for? that high range of band width does cause cancer. military equipment has never meant to be friendly to whoever it is being used against. it just makes me think of an issue of profiling here. it is not ok for law enforcement, but the military is already doing that. that belongs somewhere else. not here. guest: i understand the privacy concerns. i am not aware of

like when the bus drove by with the tea party and somebody through an egg at it, the comments out of fox 5, a person from a large labor union that through an egg at the bus. it just seems that they don't miss an opportunity to paint them in a bad light. it is not that way. just regular people like you and me trying to make a living. basically all is to live. host: we will move on to tom on the republican line from michigan. you are on the air. caller: good morning. thanks to the unions in michigan -- the labor unions have ruined michigan. you gotta have unions, don't get me wrong. but you have to have it for health and safety, to watch out for the individual. i know for a fact like the uaw, they got good pensions. but union is big business. they can automatically take money out of your check for union dues without your say so or not, you have to join the unions. the bigwigs in the unions, all for one and one for all in the union, but in their contracts, or what they give themselves -- they got -- is that fair? tell me unions are good. they are not. they are actually you're ruining the un

i think the way it has been reported through the media, say, from the right wing, fox news, i watched both channels and have taken notes. there is a feeling from the general point of view, he was disgruntled, not receiving the troops he wanted or the support or his plan put into place. but he wanted to stay in the country for another decade. he wanted 170,000 troops. the british, the russians, and the united states before have not conquered afghanistan. everyone knows this. pakistan more so than afghanistan. what took place this week when "rolling stone" released the article was something -- i can't believe a west point general for starr and his staff conducted themselves in this manner. "rolling stone" is not at fault. the reporter is not at fault. they will do their job, whether of left-wing or right-wing or what ever. but a general and his staff leadership and then having it come out in the manner it did, tantamount to almost mutiny if you were in the navy. it was told disrespect for the command structure. so, president obama was backed into the corner. i would like to thank the am

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>> fox business. >> thanks for doing this, admiral.you know, eric holder, the attorney general, was there yesterday and had his team of local u.s. attorney's and stayed .e ag's as part of your work there, are you at all involved in helping these attorneys gathered evidence that they might need later on? >> our focus is on the response in dealing with the oil in the water. there is an independent marine board of investigation that has been convened under the joint auspices of the department of the interior and the department of homeland security and that has been panel in new orleans and they have several weeks of testimony. the facts it generated from the marine board of investigation will likely provide some basis for further action, but that is separate from the response. >> your next question comes from the "houston chronicle." >> just a quick question -- is there a possibility of bringing in the second saw -- is there a second saw on the location that could be delayed? did you say that you would install the cap today? >> as soon as

fox this is a -- >> he has been all over the map in terms of trying to test the whole spectrum of potentialeforms in libya that i think he would like the country to go in. the constitution, as far as i know, has been worked on for the past several years. they started with scholars from the united states and europe. as far as i know, the came to a document -- they came to a document that seemed almost ready for prime time. i expect that as the makes the decision as to how he will either take this new position or not taking it, that we will again see talked and hopefully action towards putting the constitution in place as well as other reforms. >> i would ask you to go back to a question that you did not say very much about. it is concerning the counter terrorist program and the steps the country has made. the whole aspect of what is going on in the country. perhaps you can get into the discussion. >> this was basically an initiative to try to rehabilitate members of the libyan is like fighting group who had gone off to afghanistan and have come back and have begun, as a group, to seek the ov

and plans to you have any recommendations the u could offer now or anything you could share as to the foxhe department may have in this area? and let me ask the admiral if he has anything on this. i would tell you that i am not aware of the status of this report and am not in a position to provide any recommendations frankly because i just don't know but i am happy to find out why this report is overdue and see if we can to bring it to conclusion. >> i'm less concerned with the june 1st date than on again with the idea that we all love is an interim report by the end of the fiscal year and this committee is going to have to take action before the end of the fiscal ye because it may very well be that the defense appropriations bill becomes the only one that escapes the omnibus and pass this on its own. i know the chairn hopes is not thca, anhope it is not the case with it. but there is always that possibility. >> what i can commit to this to try and get this report and its recommendations to use and you can make some timely decisions. >> okay. >> senator, i don't have any more background a

fox foundation, of course. he has bbcome the leading advocate for parkinson's. his foundation spends its money on experimental research, not on lobbying, which is fairly unusual. the other one -- i think it is the northwest parkinsons association. i do not remember the exact name, but i think if you put in the keywords you'll get it. they do very good work. i would say those two would be a good place to start. host: the nt one call, from brooklyn. caller: i must say that i missed you on cnn. i watched you for years. i cannot agree with you more with what you were saying about the advent of the tea party movement and sarah palin as a leader. i like to ask, where do see the movement of some of the going? guest: i will predict something. that i see t fading away. the story after the midterm elections will be that the tea party does not do well as expected. it is because, for several reasons -- the cardinal rule is that this story must change. secondly, the tea party benefits from enormous publicity now just because it is sort of a good story. it is almost surely tr

one person came close to ridiculing fox news. i thought he was a conservative republican senator from oklahoma. perhaps he has a safe seat. do any of the things that wasn't random acts of kindness? was there some design going on in terms of moderating the party? >> bipartisanship in both questions. >> i think it was a tactical move. people were saying no one is really watching this. the audience was really congress. we want to demonstrate certain things. we had a narrow tactical purpose. i think there are some republicans -- there was a particular set of circumstances. i think cockburn is a fascinating guy who collaborated with senator obama. they had different objectives. it surprises me. whittstock but how ferocious it is, but there are still relationships that form. you can disagree, but it does not make them a contemptible person. an appealing person cannot be in the slightest.emptibl republicans are saying that we want to work with the president's. nancy pelosi and the president of getting in our way. that has changed. these