gretchen: he is very old, gretchen. that's when gretchen realized is he old enough. favre connects there with sydney rice. favre and the vikings defense was too much as their offense would do just enough. aaron rodgers was good but not good enough. vikings win 30-23. favre becomes the first quarterback to beat all 32 teams in one night. three matches november 1st in green bay. now ugly news in sports. we are hearing the dramatic 911 tapes africa brother a fought his wife in drunken range. it happened sunday after he returned home after night of drinking with his friends. he apparently had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit when thinks -- his wife called 311. brian: are questions whether he was still drunk when he took the field later that night. he bombed at the plate. 0-4. cabrera expected to play today as the tigers take on the twins. they are playing an extra game for that ugly, ugly, ugly. 25 minutes before the top of the hour. steve: let's go down to our nation's capitol. our old buddy karl rove is sitting in the chair. he joins us live. good morn

gretchen.hen: i find this a fascinating story we heard throughout the summer when we were watching all these town halls happen on health care reform, we heard people criticizing health care reform being deemed racist, part of the mob, they were manufacturing their anger. explain why you got involved? >> well, as you mentioned, gretchen, i work in health care since i got out of college. and i also, in 2002 was diagnosed with the tumor and had multiple surgeries. spent six weeks in radiation. have mris freakly. and what i saw was unfolding was there were some real concerns i had. as not just a health care person but as a patient. and as a mom and as an american. and i just felt that our country could be doing better with the knowledge i had. and i really wanted to start talking to my friends and family and really helping to educate them because i thought we were missing a huge opportunity to really dialogue about what great health care reform could look like. gretchen: what you did was come up wi

gretchen: it took a lot of tact for harry connick jr.ward during what kind coo have been a live tv show. bill: he had to do it. >> he gives them a zero. >> he should have been stronger. he said it's not about making black people look like boo fines. this is about treating people respectfully across the world not just in the united states. bill: i don't have any beef with connick. i think he did the right thing. he gave them a zero. he spoke his mind. you don't have to get hysterical. i would have been angrier. >> you have got to get hysterical. bill: plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. wanda sycks at it again. this time promoting obama care. we will hear what she has to say. glenn beck on the swine flu vaccine. will the beckster take it? bill: unresolved problem segment tonight. it seems the health care debate will never end. 10 years ago we will still be talking about public options. driving me crazy. americans will argue about government-run health care. liberals including comedian wanda sycks like it? >> reform i

gretchen: good morning, everyone. tuesday, october 6, 2009. thanks for sharing your time today.was chosen by the president to lead the war in afghanistan but today general mcchrystal's strategy is under attack by military experts like nancy pelosi? steve: general pelosi? meanwhile, david letterman take two. >> i'll be honest with you, folks. right now i would give anything to be hiking on the appalachian trail. [laughing] steve: letterman apologizing last night again. this time to his wife. and out of nowhere, to governor sarah palin. it's not what you think. stick around for that. brian: she has a number one book in the country right now and it ha

gretchen says -- thank you. thank you, all of you for writing in and calling us. the question we're asking today is should health insurance companies have the right to make any business decisions that affect their bottom line or is this just a heartless move on the part of guardian insurance? there's the phone number. call us. 877-tell-hln. send us an e-mail at cnn.com/hln. text us with the word views and don't forget your name and comments and send that to hlntv. standard text rates do apply. >>> in boston federal authorities say they uncovered a terrorist plot. a 24-year-old massachusetts man arrested last year in connection with this very probe now faces even more serious charges. his name is tarek mehanna accused of conspireing to kill, kidnap, maim or injure people in foreign countries that includes u.s. military personnel in iraq. prosecutors say the plot didn't get very far thankfully. >> alleged following the events of september 11, 2001, this group believed that carrying out attacks in areas like pakistan was not feasible for them and travel there had bec

. >> and gretchen peters spent ate years ago and one of those i talked about with colonel david hunt.g 40dz a yard for the poppy field instead of 40 cents from wheat or other crops, it's hard to tell a farmer not to make poppy. >> absolutely. >> sure, more on this, you can read the full article, interesting step by step strategy in the new york times op-ed today. >> are you guys doing more-- attempt to go get fit from the video again? >> i think so. last year, when nintendo rolled out the wii fit, right, this sort of changed video game interaction because for the first time you can actually work out instead of sitting on your couch like a slob and playing video games, you can actually be interactive with it and play it so i decided last year, much to-- dave tried to throw me off the track with food and all kind of stuff. >> donuts were big. >> donuts. i did the 30-day wii fit challenge when i did 30 days, a walk down memory lane, take a look. my second week in my wii fit nets challenge and i got a little thrown off course this past week and blame dave briggs for that. he tried to get