but apparently to geraldo rivera, it is.photographic evidence to prove it. >> the fox news contributor tweeted this semi nude selfie claiming 70 is the new 50. >> he apparently is not ashamed of his build. he deleted the tweet within hours. >> of course, it never goes away. we know this much. for some of you, your local news is next. >>> for everyone else, the granny drummer finally revealed. we've got all the details coming up. and you weren't covered. oh, and your car is a time machine. [ beeping ] ♪ would you go back to when you got that less than amazing policy and go with esurance instead? well, they do have tools like coverage counselor to help you choose the coverage that fits you. it's like insurance from the future. actually, more like insurance for the modern world. thank you! esurance. now backed by allstate. click or call. but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can help make this a great block party. ♪ [ male announcer ] advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most

. >>> yesterday geraldo rivera did that selfie.e took a picture of himself practically naked with just a towel. >> i just don't get -- favre, i don't get these older guys taking pictures. he looks great from the neck down, i guess. what did you think? >> i thought he looked good for 70. >> that's what he wrote. he wrote 70 is the new 50. >> i know. >> then his wife came and tweeted something immediately after that was very, very apologetic for her husband's behavior. >> and he apologized. he said he shouldn't be tweeting after 1:00 in the morning. >> letterman had some fun with him. let's take a listen. >> naked pictures of geraldo rivera showing up on your doorstep. thoughts now going through their mind. number ten -- does this mean he's running for office. number nine -- at least he kept his mustache on. number eight, the mayans were only a year off. number two -- i'd tap that martha stewart only. and the number one thought goes to people's thoughts upon seeing this photo -- gerald-ewww! >> oh, my god. do you do selfies? >> no, n

fox news legal correspondent and inventor of the lip-hoodie, geraldo rivera. >> it's a dark night. a 6'2 "hoodie-wearing stranger is in the immediate housing complex. how would the ladies of that jury have reacted? i submit that if they were armed, they would have shot and killed trayvon martin a lot sooner than george zimmerman did. >> stephen: great analysis, and it proves this was a fair trial. as the bill of rights clearly states, the accused shall be tried by a jury of people who would have done... who would have done the murder faster. but, folks, even though justice was served that did not stop some americans from rudely accepting it back to the kitchen, taking to the streets to protest so-called racial inequality. knock it off! because yes, america had racial inequality but by my latest calculations, it's evidently... it is now a tie. [ cheers and applause ] stick with me. stick with me. here's how it breaks down. obviously zimmerman's acquittal is seen as a point for white people. (ding). then again, o.j.'s acquittal was one for black people. (ding). obama, with two black

for geraldo rivera? what?he is exploiting it in the sense that commercially using an effective high profile case to bring attention to the civil rights movement. >> bill: not for his own self-aggrandizement? >> no, i don't believe that. >> bill: you do not? >> i do not believe that. >> bill: his motives are pure. >> it is a much more difficult motive than black on black crime. i believe his motives are much more purer than you give him credit for. >> bill: you want me to sit here and believe that he wants to solve black-on-black crime? you really believe that. >> bill, please, i have been with him in his church telling young minute to pick up their pants up. >> bill: where is his church. >> harlem. he does his telling kids to pull their pants up. he wants fathers to be responsible for their children. there is more to this than you characterize -- caricature of him. >> bill: you believe that al sharpton's motives in the trayvon martin case are pure. >> his motives are as pure as "rolling stone" or anybody else

we're recovering from the nude geraldo rivera. >> i just think i'm gonna burst. >> you can see pubic hanie: he's looking through rose-colored glasses. >> he has colored glasses on. who does that? >> geraldo. >> stephanie: was he drunk or what? at 1:00 a.m., he decided america needs to see him in all of his -- >> stuff? >> stephanie: okay. >> all of his waxed glory. >> stephanie: yes. obviously, amazing stuff all weekend, trayvon martin, vigils and protests around the country and of course, geraldo rivera, pretty low bar there. he pretty much limboed under it. he said if you dress like a thug you get treated like one. kind of had it coming. >> wearing a hoody and it's raining. >> stephanie: i would much prefer geraldo wore several hoodies in that picture. however, he did not. >> way that cover up that mustache. >> stephanie: oh that one. his facial hair is what jim was referring to. all right. and then obviously everybody talking about that that was pretty extraordinary the president's speech on friday. and i was -- i literally -- you know, as you're watching it, you're like oh, the ri

yesterday 70-year-old fox news contributor, geraldo rivera tweeted a shirtless picture of himself.. yeah, don't look. [ audience gasps ] [ laughter ] not to be outdone, cnn's wolf blitzer hosted "the situation room" wearing some tassels. [ laughter ] and that was even hotter. but you know they had -- >> steve: what? >> jimmy: good ratings. oh, and we also have former new york governor, eliot spitzer, on the show tonight! [ cheers and applause ] and he'll only be here for about five minutes, but we're charging him for the full hour. [ laughter ] that's right. eliot spitzer's on the show. when he got here, i was like, "do you need someone to escort -- i mean, show you the room -- show you where --" [ laughter ] some huge movie news. it just was announced that superman and batman will actually be starring in their first movie together. [ scattered cheers ] yeah. oddly enough, the movie is "fifty shades of grey." [ laughter ] but still, i just think it's exciting. getting a lot of buzz. no, really. superman and batman really will appear on screen together for the first time ever. and a

, and her fellow journalists are remembering her with tributes, anecdotes, and in the case of geraldo rivera, by posting a naked selfie on twitter. though come to think of it, that might not have a tribute to helen. that might have been what killed her. man, he looks good. he looks really good. look how well defined down here these... i'm not sure. my people have no word for that muscle. same way to herebyians have no word for snow. the flying buttresses, i suppose. no surprise that geraldo is once again blazing trails here or, in the case of his happy trail, waxing it. and the trail he's blazing, folks, is for the sexy seniors out there. as geraldo wrote in his tweet, "70 is the new 50." exactly. and if there's one thing people want to see on their twitter feeds, it's naked 50-year-old men. [ cheers and applause ] i've got one year to get my [bleep] together. and as geraldo said in his tweet, "erica and family are going to be so pissed... but at my age..." yes, at his age, he has clearly lost all judgment. and also has fewer years to have to live this down. and it is great to see geraldo jo

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. >> and if you go to twitter, you can see geraldo rivera's, you know -- so these days guys are tweetingrything. anyway, but i think there's the political piece as well as the personal piece. and i think on the political level, yes, this was good for the campaign. it answered the question that everybody was going to ask. right? and that saved them from having another full day of stories about it. on the other hand, i have to say i'm glad for her that she got to say what she wanted to say on her terms because she really hasn't. i mean, she did sort of in the "people" magazine piece, i guess, but -- and i have to say my personal opinion on all this stuff is that it's their business. right? i think what is relevant to the race is the fact that although i'm not that surprised by this news because he said when he announced that there were like -- that there were other things out there. so we knew it was just a matter of time. and i think it's for the voters of new york to decide are they comfortable with that. are they comfortable that they may not know the whole story. >> sam stein, the atte

this one, geraldo rivera. >> all right. >> he happens to be 70 years old and he decided to post this little caption he said, 70 is the new 50. he also said he would probably be in a little hot water for showing his public body saying erica and family are going to be so peeved but at my age, dot, dot, dot. well, his wife erica took it all in good humor saying this is what happens when i fall asleep first. she tells e! news exclusively, thank god we have towels in the bathroom. i'm proud my husband looks so hot. >> that towel is a little low. >> it is. of the two selfies we just saw, i'll take heidi. >> yeah. >> i'll say this much, for 70 years old, he's in good shape. >>> all right, "modern family" star jesse tyler ferguson got married over the weekend. >> congratulations. >> to his longtime boyfriend. the actor and lawyer couple were joined in matrimony in a private ceremony saturday in soho manhattan. and sofia vergara had to tweet her congratulations. other great guests were there. julie bowen, ty burrell. so congratulations to them. >> yes, absolutely. beautiful couple. absolutely

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geraldo rivera posted that on twitter. i thought the half naked selfies got to go. it inspired another "way too early" caption contest. tweet us your moanswers. we'll put the best ones on the air at the end of the program. >>> still ahead, at one point in his career, some view phil mickelson as a choker. five majors later and a legendary performance yesterday. we'll hear from lefty after his incredibly clutch performance. >>> and the "man of steel" getting a new crime-fighting partner. the plan for superman to team up with another caped crusader. that story and a check on weather when "way too early" comes back. >>> in started in oslo when one bomb tore through the prime minister's office building blowing out windows and killing at least seven people. later in what police believe was a related attack, a lone gunman opened fire at a summer camp for teens. in your busy day, the last thing you need is white marks. ♪ secret outlast clear gel goes on clear with 48 hour odor protection. to outlast your day...any day. secret outlast clear gel. to gotta get that bacon!y day

whether people agree with geraldo rivera or not, you agree with the rule of law.ghazi is a phony scandal, when he says that irs is a phony scandal, what about the people who are supposed to investigate benghazi? we never brought those people to justice. i interviewed a woman this morning from the tea party who never had been spoken to by the f.b.i. even after she gave compelling testimony to congress. what signal is the president saying about whether this should be investigated or it should be rectified? >> you're talking about the difference between substance and pr. when a person says a scandal is phony and people say, well, nothing ever happened with that. nothing -- >> peter: that's a signal, though. >> he's being a clever, cynical politician and you have to divorce that from the legal issue. >> peter: but the question i'm asking is is he sending a signal to the government to stand down because i think this is phony? >> i don't know. probably. maybe. certainly is announcing to the people, let's move on to the next issue. and then the republicans look churlish,

and her fellow journalists are remembering her with tributes, anecdotes and, in the case of geraldo riveraposting a naked selfie on twitter. though come to think of it, come to think of it, that may not have been a tribute to helen. that may have been what killed her. the trail he's blazing, folks, is for the sexy seniors out there. as geraldo wrote in his tweet, 70 is the new 50. exactly! and if there's one thing people want to see on their twitter feeds, it's naked 50-year-old men. >>> americans, we all love our pets. but when faced with a wild animal threatening your dog, what would you do? it happened to kevin rose. he heard his dog whimpering outside when he found a raccoon attacking him. what does he do? the grabs the raccoon and tosses it down the stairs. i mean, it's a spur of the moment thing, right? toaster was okay aside from the small bites and scratches. he's getting flack from animal activists because it looks like he didn't have many options. if it was rabid, though, i think he'd be in trouble himself, so, again, as always, no natural segue from that particular story to you

. >> check out this picture of geraldo rivera.what people are going to be talking about at the low water cooler as this pope has gone viral. he twisted this photo of himself sunday morning to assure a more personal tweet, a new. saying that 70 is the new 50. adding that his wife and family are going to be upset with the follow. he has since taken a fall off of this winter account. >> here is a live look outside. here is live pictures from all sides of the hospital. we are waiting for the duchess of cambridge to have the baby. >> welcome back. we are watching wall street with our financial expert rob black. >> we were talking about a yahoo. >> 3 of the board members are resigning. when you buy a lot of shares, and you are entitled to be board of directors. they are healthy, he is a valuable investor. his next big battle is selling as far as getting them on board. >> he was an activist, so there was some sale if he sales of going on. his has gone 13 to 29. there is no problem with him rigging in cash. >> we have a big week for netfl

. >> joining me now with reaction from sanford, florida, fox news host geraldo rivera. geraldo, i can't wait to talk to you about this. because, you know, we started this whole saga last year, of course, when this case came to to the national spotlight. and race really was, for better or worse at the center of all of this in the beginning. where are we now in that discussion? >> well, i still, laura, think that it is a race case. i think both the victim and the alleged perpetrator or the perpetrator, the killer, george zimmerman, profiled each other. there is no doubt about it. i mean, you just showed rachel, her testimony there, calling george zimmerman, you know, quoting trayvon martin as calling george zimmerman a creepy ass white cracker. clearly, i think george zimmerman, the defendant in this case looked at trayvon martin and said another one of these f'ing punks. they always get away with it. i think both of them stereo typed. both of them racially profiled each other. race has been at the heart of the case right from the beginning. it wouldn't have been a case wo

geraldo rivera, some of the people at the newspapers in the 70s and 80s who won awards and just recently mother jones magazine won a polk award for doing nothing but disturbing this and he is a journalist and the guy who loved mitch mcconnell is considered a journalist and some reason the media doesn't consider us as a. >> we have been called activists instead, this is activism and not journalism, how do you distinguish between the two? >> i think it's something that you do in journalism is not something that you are. it is a means to an end and you're getting information out there. so we release full raw video and c-span is closest to releasing this because we have long segments. >> we actually don't have reporters there to clarify that. >> but you do have employees that do your segments and we pay our citizen reporters and we contract out when they are volunteers. but we release the full video to accompany this. i would argue that what we do is closer than anything else. a lot of these other journalists pay package stories and they manipulate headlines and they assume things and we can

we are all assembled and we've got geraldo rivera who is south of new york city. sanford florida. after that dinner break. >> it did. it was a surprise. we never, harris, resolved that whole question this jury had about the manslaughter statute, the manslaughter, the lesser and included offense that the judge allowed at the last minute. we heard that they had a question about the context of that statute, its import, its meaning. the question is thought to be o general. the judge sent the note back to the jury and said what do you really want to know? as far as we know, harris, the jury never came back and asked the specific question that they had. i surmise, and this is just supposition based on my following this case so closely for the last 16 months, that they have, i believe,said wait a second. does self defense apply in a manslaughter rap as it did obviously in murder 2. we know murder 2 is off the table. there's no way on god's green earth this man, george zimmerman, will be convicted now of murder. as it turns out in terms of manslaughter, we similarly believe it will be very

well, joining me from new york with reaction, fox news host geraldo rivera. >> hi. >> laura: geraldo,st his father comes out. snowden's father comes out o, defends him, defends his integrity. surprise is there? >> no. i find it very hard not to be sympathetic to the dad. the dad is doing what any father would do, i think, under the circumstances. my son is a computer nerd and i could see, you know, he and his friends are so behind edward snowden, i could see how there is, you know, kind of ethical or more ambiguity about what he did. look what happened in the congress of the united states yesterday you had 94 house republicans among the most conservative republicans voting for an amendment to the defense appropriations bill to end exactly the nsa snooping program that snow deb exposed. so, there is some moral ambiguity. yes, he did what he did in a way that was atrocious. he ran to our enemies. if he had gone to congress and been the whistleblower and exposed exactly what he did expose, it would have been a whole different situation. it's hard not to be sympathetic to that dad. >> lau

a sleepy blue ocean ♪you fill up my senses ♪come fill me again >>> live and at large, this is geraldo riveraith this endless parade of distractions and phoney scandal, washington has taken its eye off the ball, and i'm here to say it needs to stop. >> but how phoney is there a charge here. >> perhaps the cruellest most deceitful act of the administration have been perpetrated against the very ones fighting and dying to protect and defend it? >> how did their

♪come fill me again >>> live and at large, this is geraldo rivera putting the president's words to theest. >> with this endless parade of distractions and phoney scandal, washington has taken its eye off the ball, and i'm here to say it needs to stop. >> but how phoney is there a charge here. >> perhaps the cruellest most deceitful act of the administration have been perpetrated against the very ones fighting and dying to protect and defend it? >> how did their chopper get shot down? a lucky shot? were our warriors doomed by loose lips? >> they knew on this paperwork here that may 10th, 2011, that they were going to the valley with 100 taliban to shoot down the coalition force. they knew they were coming to kill my son. >> the most elite warriors in our nation's history, now unfortunately the not so secret s.e.a.l. team 6. >> and -- >> i was placed in the head lock and moved around as a rag doll while he whispered sexual comments in my ear. >> and he heads to rehab. a candidate confesses. >> 6 to 10, i suppose, but i can't tell you absolutely what somebody else is going to consider ina

. >> joining me now from florida fox news host geraldo rivera. ldo, i can't wait to talk about this, you know we started this whole saga last year of course when this case came to the national spotlight. and race was for better or worse at the center of all of it in the beginning. where are we now? in that discussion? >> well, i still, laura think that it is a race case. i think both the victim and the alleged perpetrator, the killer george zimmerman profiled each other there is no doubt bit. you showed racial testimony there. you know by quoting trayvon martin calling zimmerman a white cracker, clearly i think zimmerman looked in this case and said another one of these f-in punches they get away with it. i think they both racially profiled each other. it won't have been an arrest here but for the intervention of civil right activists so i think it's impossible to ignore. look at the way the country divided in this case. most black people you speak to, this isn't the reality. it's the opposite of the o.j. simpson case. most of the white people you

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. >> geraldo: you can treat me at geraldo rivera if i get some before the end of the program. what do you think of bringing federal charges in the case. now he. are angry. save the obscenities. we are not interested in that. if you have a meaningful opinion i will read them. arthur aidala, do you think there should be the department of justice getting involved here? >> no. i will echo your sentiments about ben crump. he is an advocate for the family. he was retired to be an advocate for the family. it could be said that he formed he created the momentum to bring this case. he created the political momentum. he cree heiated the media momentum and that is what he was retained to do for a mother and father that lost their 17-year-old. but if the feds get involved here, geraldo, i will shave your mustache because that is just not happening. >> geraldo: okay. i like that. i like that, it is a bold preediction there. i appreciate that. judge ferierie what to you think? >> i agree. rodney king was is acting under cover of law and that is why the feds were able to go after them. by th

i told geraldo rivera, i'll shave his mustache if the feds bring a charge. >> tell me geraldo took the>> you have to wrestle him to get his mustache off. >> ashleigh,he fbi over the course of the past year conducted interviews, 36 people. there are incidences as you look at the results of the inteiews. it looks like the fbi is actually trying to get a dierent kind of answer than they got. but the answer they got was there's no hatred, there was no racial bias whatsoever on the part of george zimmerman. why is the attorneyy general ac being like this -- he's referred to it as an ongoing investigation because it's been going onince last year. what is he even talking like that? why isn't he talking about the evidence thahis people have accumulated and is now the record? >> well, i think it's political pressure. the unfortunate thing is he's not following their own guidelines. the federal government has guidelines thathe u.s. attorney's office is supposed to follow when deciding whether or not to prosecute an individual under this statute. he's not following those. because they specificall

i'm geraldo rivera reporting that peaceful rallies in new york, l.a., atlanta, miami, and scores of other the country today honored trayvon martin. exactly one week after a florida jury found george zimmerman not guilty of killing the unarmed teenager. >> we cannot have a society where any one of our children can be taken down. they have the right to stand their ground. what about

geraldo rivera, he showed a picture saying how he feels about being 70.ealing. >> a bit revealing. >> we know about anthony weiner's troubles here in new york. this stuff lives forever, doesn't it? >> it does live forever. a lot of people aren't really understanding, one in five u.s. adults actually do this. this isn't something that's rare or something that only a few people are doing. a lot of people are doing it. the images are out there forever. and so it's one thing to do it between couples. but it's another thing when you start to share that beyond -- >> you lose contract -- sexting, you can lose control of those images. >> absolutely. those images can be used against them later. >> a cautionary tale. let's talk about cool gadgets. i read about this preparing for this interview segment, a way to find where you can find a movie. >> or a favorite tv show. it's called yidio. it's an apple app. as you saw, you can also watch it on the web. what this does, lester, it ag gates content through all these different network channels. whether it's on cable tv

happy birthday and hasn't geraldo rivera been exposing himself a little too much? oh not shocking. this is "viewpoint." [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> john: good evening, i'm john fugelsang. this is "viewpoint." thank you so much for joining us. america continues to grapple with issues of race in the after matthew of george zimmerman's acquittal for the murder of trayvon martin. and as legislators considered a host of bills to fix racial profiling laws, president obama unexpectedly weighed in on the case in very personal terms. >> trayvon martin could have been me. 35 years ago. when you think about why in the african-american community at least there's a lot of pain around what happened here, i think it's important to recognize that the african-american community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away. >> john: a wide variety of mostly peaceful marchs followed this weekend. thousands of protesters marched in solidarity across new york, atlanta, los angeles, and several other cities. our first guest tonight was a featured speaker in one of

we are all assembled and we've got geraldo rivera who is south of new york city. sanford florida. quickly after that dinner break. >> it did. it was a surprise. we never, harris, resolved that whole question this jury had about the manslaughter statute, the manslaughter, the lesser and included offense that the judge allowed at the last minute. we heard that they had a question about the context of that statute, its import, its meaning. the question is thought to be too general. the judge sent the note back to the jury and said what do you really want to know? as far as we know, harris, the jury never came back and asked the specific question that they had. i surmise, and this is just supposition based on my following this case so closely for the last 16 months, that they have, i believe, said wait a second. does self defense apply in a manslaughter rap as it did obviously in murder 2. we know murder 2 is off the table. there's no way on god's green earth this man, george zimmerman, will be convicted now of murder. as it turns out in terms of manslaughter, we similarly believe it w

. >> geraldo: you can treat me at geraldo rivera if i get some before the end of the program.hat do you think of bringing federal charges in the case. now he. are angry. save the obscenities. we are not interested in that. if you have a meaningful opinion i will read them. arthur aidala, do you think there should be the department of justice getting involved here? >> no. i will echo your sentiments about ben crump. he is an advocate for the family. he was retired to be an advocate for the family. it could be said that he formed he created the momentum to bring this case. he created the political momentum. he cree heiated the media momentum and that is what he was retained to do for a mother and father that lost their 17-year-old. but if the feds get involved here, geraldo, i will shave your mustache because that is just not happening. >> geraldo: okay. i like that. i like that, it is a bold preediction there. i appreciate that. judge ferierie what to you think? >> i agree. rodney king was is acting under cover of law and that is why the feds were able to go after them. by the

here now to analyze, attorney and fox news analyst geraldo rivera.o you do think it was a trick by the state? >> it was a trick. i thought it was a attempt to put something on the table that had not been argued. for example, bill, here they want to charge, you know, they want' to give the jury every possible opportunity to convict this man because they know they overcharged george zimmerman initially. it never should have been murder in the second degree it was never a depraved act based on ill will and hatred. it was just bizarre. it was driven by politics. they overcharged him it should have been, if anything, the manslaughter charge they ultimately came to, which is basically criminal negligence. but what this third option was, it was brilliant in a wicked way, what think were attempting to do is to establish a crime, child abuse, because, why? trayvon martin is under the age of 18. so they wouldn't have to prove the other elements of murder. they wouldn't have to prove the depravity the neglect. >> bill: the judge dismissed that. >> he did. but i

before we get to the first story we must address something that occurred with our good friend geraldo rivera celebrating his 70th birthday and decided to show how awesome you can look when you are 70 years old. we have a picture of it which we are blocking. anyway, he got a lot of grief for this, jim, but isn't it an unspeakable truth that he looks fabulous? >> it is amazing he sent out the exact opposite part of his body that i do. i go waist down only. >> that is so true. by the way, i love the fact that you have no shame when you are doing that. >> not at all. i even set up smaller things around it for siz enhancement. way to beat a good joke into the ground. >> i was going to say you go to a train store and buy a community. >> and i hit the train with it. >> barrett, what do you make -- he is fairly attractive, don't you find? >> when i first saw it i was like, bare down, jimmy rivers. he went to my college at the university of arizona. that's w said. >> and his original name was jerry rivers. >> poor jerry. >> he is a river of charm right now. joel, you were telling me in the green room

geraldo rivera reporting on the verdict of george zimmerman. the tragic florida youngster, that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. it was one of those awful tragedies in life, but not all tragedies are crimes. that is what happened here. they over charged george zimmerman, i believe, largely because of outside political pressure. political pressure from civil rights icons. political pressure, indeed from the white house itself. you recall the president of the united states suggesting that if he had a son, his son would look like trayvon martin. it is one of those awful confluences of politics and justice, and they do not mix. this is a case that the original officers remember, ladies and gentlemen, the original officers and the local prosecutor, decided not to bring against george zimmerman, remember the circumstances. here is george zimmerman the neighborhood watch captain in a beleigerred community, his retreat there, that had been burglarized and you know, robbed before by youngsters, who looked a lot like trayvon martin di