with us is fox news anchor geraldo rivera.hen you are looking at this story, because you went through watergate, too, as did i. it's the same old story. why not say in the beginning it was a terror attack and we are trying to find out it was al qaeda. do you think americans would have cared one way or the other about it. >> well, it might have interrupted the president's narrative. remember, g.m. is alive. ben ladin is dead. >> bill: it's a minor, minor blip. but to send someone out like ambassador susan rice to blame it on a video which he clearly did and everybody saw it, knowing that your cia chief petraeus as we just heard wasn't comfortable with that, at all. that's just foley. that is stupid. >> it is never the crime. it is never the act itself. it is the coverup. >> bill: aren't you stunned how dumb that is? this deputy it for tactical election. they won the election. they succeeded as richard nixon succeeded in winning the election in 1972 by a landslide by dismissing the watergate investigation as minor and tangential

joining me now from our new york studio with more details is fox news anchor geraldo rivera. o, russian immigrant parents, told their child needed open heart surgery, a big operation. they wanted a second opinion. how did that end up resulting in the child being taken away from them? >> start there. start with the fact they are, laura, russian immigrants. they came to the united states to the land of freedom. little did they expect that the state, the totalitarian entity would crack down on them and take the little baby from their arms in their home without a warrant and place the child in protective custody. they were no allegations as far as i know that these were abusive parents. you mentioned the conflict, the rub that came down. so here is the child born with a heart murmur, a child that is chronically ill and cared for at the hospital which is a fine hospital by most account. the parents watch the child being care for begin worry. worry about the quality of care and the nurse for example, administering an antibiotic to the child, even though the parents thought the docto

cenk: noah, i was not on the show, but happened to be on geraldo rivera's radio show and he asked me this. i said anyone involved in this effort should be fired. they seem to have targeted conservatives for review and not liberals. if this some sort of global conspiracy by the administration and they targeted these guys and then approved all of them, and the guy who was the head of the i.r.s. at the time was douglas chuman, a bush appointee wouldn't that make it the world's worst conspiracy? >> it would but the amount -- let's go back slightly. the amount of omnipotence we are applying to the republican party, you would think they could win elections. they developed inappropriate criteria and asked onerous questions, questions that the government should not have interest, asked a religious group the content of their prayers, family members whether they planned to run for office. these are things that are not relevant to the application status. secondly, we understand today based on what jay carney said that the white house was aware of this, the deputy chief of staff was working with

the husband and wife team who claim to represent two state department whistleblowers told fox's geraldo rivera arb report is a cover up. >> the accountability review board that was conducted by admiral -- byam ambassador and admiral would be proven to have been a cover up one of the worst jobs ever done in the history of governmental reporting didn't even interview the secretary of state for their report. >> next week congress will begin hearings on benghazi with republicans hoping to hear from state department plies and ultimately survivors of the attack. >> one thing i would like to mention i am hearing from the families of these people these four brave americans who were killed. i can assure you they are not happy and they do deserve answers. >> the white house has long maintained the administration's response to benghazi was appropriate and no one as they say is being pressured to keep quiet. heather? >> doug luzader reporting live for us. thank you. >> it is time for your 5@5:30. top stories making news at this hour. we are learning a well respected pennsylvania doctor who collapsed in he

>>clayton: in our 8:00 hour, geraldo rivera will weigh in on the details as well. >>gretchen: here's a high school guy, parts of a relay team racing. they're trying to qualify to move on to another level. when he gets to the end of the race, he does a certain gesture which some people would think was doing something about god. he raises his hands. guess what happens as a result? apparently he was disqualified from the race. >>steve: it happens in columbus, texas. the guy shadowed is derrick heys, the anchor man in the race. it was their biggest win of the year. they won by over seven yards according to the superintendent. but what he did at the end -- and we don't have the exact image -- he put his hand up by his ear and pointed to the heavens. and his father says that he believes he was giving thanks to god for winning. they were disqualified because the superintendent says it's against the rules to raise your hand in any way. here's the dad. >> he put his hand by his ear and just pointed at the heavens. >> for something like that to happen to a team, to get to a

are of minority students with us now to discuss the matter fox news anchor geraldo rivera. in los angeles if the student goes after you, to the -- even worse, you know, the most vial language in front of the whole class he is not or she is not suspended from school. and the punishment is very, very light. and you say? >> well, they are north ejected from the building but they can be put into kind of a rubber room. the theory is if you send these kids out on the street during the school day, what are they going to do? >> they are going to go back to the gang. they will go back to the situation. there is no dads in the home anyway. you will have exacerbated situation once you suspend them for that willful defiance as be a knox shut as it is once you expel them from the safe confines of the building itself then they're out there. >> bill: better to keep them polluting the building walking around in the common areas disrespectenning the system. it's better to do that affect event the other students and have the teachers terrorized and in fear of them thean suspending them for a

. >> yeah, we find out that geraldo rivera tried to tell them he was doing it wrong and they turned hiss was going to be what they blew the -- you know -- i guess this was going to be the way they blew the hires out of the president's credibility on foreign policy. but it wasn't going to work even if they don't have anything, and they don't have anything. >> stephanie: i go on cnn and the topic is we're going to talk about the president's benghazi problem. and it's like he has a problem because lindsey graham has the vapors again? really? >> i don't think people in the country know what is going on either. they'll say they want answers, but i don't believe they know what they want answers to. >> they don't know what the question is. >> stephanie: yeah. it is election day in south carolina -- and you say -- the cogent point in your headlines, south carolina is still south carolina. obviously the latest poll had mark sanford ahead. >> yeah, and i'm -- i appreciate that it's the fact that it is that competitive is an amazing thing, but it's still south carolina at it's tribal and religious

. >> lauren, even when geraldo rivera calls him on it, he doubles in.s mean-spirited and so insensitive, lauren. >> it used to be that we had a journalistic tradition that said children of presidents are off limits. as we have moved forward, that journalistic tradition has gone by the wayside in many instances and it is on both sides that this does happen but in these instances, with the republican comme commentators are really doing what politicians politicianed for them. chelsea clinton was called ugly and now they have right-wing commentators saying the things that they know they can't say. >> joe, it's not just boling. look at the fact that the first daughters have been attacked for even going on vacation. listen to this. >> we've got the obamas now, if you include the spring break vacations, let's see, the girls got to go to the bahamas and all the way out to idaho to go skiing. >> you're upset that the girls went on vacation, the daughters went on vacation? >> we have to pay for the security, which is the right thing to do. but not one -- they wen

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. >> i'm geraldo rivera and jodi's widely debated statement is one chapter in the legal drama that for 67 days riveted much of the nation with sometimes lurid testimony of sex, lies and bloody murder. did she mean it that statement that she would rather die than live or was she just lying again in a by zahra tempt at reverse psychology? what's going on in the mind of the small, attractive woman who stabbed boyfriend travis alexander 27 times? also slitting his throat and shooting him in the head. tonight, you'll see the entire jailhouse interview beginning with her reaction to the verdict. >> just a couple of minutes ago, you heard the verdict from the jury. what are your thoughts? >> i think i just went blank. just, um -- i don't know. i just feel overwhelmed. i think i just need to take it a day at a time. >> was it unexpected you think this verdict? >> it was unexpected for me, yes. because there was no premeditation on my part. i can see how things look that way. but i didn't expect the premeditation. i could see the felony murder because of the way the law is written, but the whol

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i'm geraldo rivera reporting that despite the trio of scandals swirling around his white house, the president played golf again today for the 122nd time which the question is he too cool for school? or simply tone deaf? >> therefore, i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> geraldo: this is not watergate but it as troubling trifecta of controversies that threaten to cripple mr. obama's second term agenda. >> my question is who is going to jail over the scandal? >> geraldo: the targeting of the irs by the tea party and other conservatives. >> was the irs using inappropriate criteria in its review of organizations applying for tax exempt status? yes. was the irs delaying their applications? yes, and finally, did the irs ask unnecessary and inappropriate questions of applicants. again, yes. >> it was inadvertent. just some odd underlings out of cincinnati that did this and there was no political motive whatever involved. the question is how stupid do they think we are? >> geraldo: stupid or crafty, the second scandal plaguing the administration is still the spin the state dep

i'm geraldo rivera reporting that despite the trio of scandals swirling around his white house, the presidente question is he too cool for school? or simply tone deaf? >> therefore, i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> geraldo: this is not watergate but it as troubling trifecta of controversies that threaten to cripple mr. obama's second term agenda. >> my question is who is going to jail over the scandal? >> geraldo: the

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all that and so much more, including geraldo rivera who is offstage. >> gretchen: let's get to the headlinesgoing head of the irs will face a grilling on capitol hill over the agency's targeting of conservative groups and it comes on the heels of a troubling bombshell about obamacare. fox news confirming sarah hall ingram, the woman who headed the department that singled out the groups, is now in charge of the agency's major expansion into obamacare enforcement. republican congressman randy forbes is leading a push to make sure the irs has nothing to do with obamacare and taxpayer dollars. >> one of the things we realize, it's not a single individual. it's a culture that does this and the internal revenue service is the most intimidating agency in the united states of america. we realized back in 2010, the problem this was going to have. we introduced the legislation. we couldn't get people to pay attention to it. but now we got a lot of people copying it and saying, hey, it's time for us to get the irs out of our health care. >> gretchen: last night the house voted for the 37th time to repe

. >>> on that strip tomorrow i suggest it will be geraldo rivera and lone star separately. >> fantasticw show. have a great weekend, everybody. bill: let's start now with a fox news alert on this thursday morning. there are new questions of perjury for the attorney general eric holder. the head of the house judiciary committee calling for the ag to step down as he formally opens an investigation whether or not he lied under oath. that is heavy topic here on bill hemmer. welcome to "america's newsroom.". martha: good morning everybody. i'm martha maccallum. eric holder receiving a letter from bob goodlatte, the chairman of the house judiciary committee expressing his, quote, grave concerns that the attorney general may have perjured himself when he testified on the hill two weeks ago. bill: it was two weeks ago, martha. remember that's when holder said targeting journalists was something he had never been involved in.

imgeraldo rivera"geraldo at reporting that officials including jay carney as you just saw subbornly denied that anybody working for the state or defense departments was blocked from testifying about the tragic events in benghazi last september 11th. specifically mr. carney was dismissive of somebody called an attorney saying she represents somebody. earlier this week on thursday i exclusively interviewd that attorney. victoria tensing a high ranking official in the regan justice department. they represent two potential whistle blowers, both of them state department employees who hope to testify next wednesday before a congressional committee. we learned their identities. victoria's client is greg hicks. deputy chief of mission in libya the number two man and we think the last person to speak to ambassador chris stevens whose last words shouted into his cell phone were we're under attack. we're under attack. joe's client is mark thompson is former marine who is deputy coordinator for counter terrorism at the state department and both hicks and thompson believe the previous investigation don