thanks, gretchen.let's hear it for the guys! >> yes, absolutely. i think there's about 35 of us this year. and actually, more men on this team than women. >> now, you are just not a regular old cheerleading squad. you have won some big titles. what were they? >> yes, ma'am. two national championships in 2003 and 2007. we're looking to take home one more this year. >> wow. what does it take for a team to win a national championship? >> lot of hard work and dedication. we not only support our university but we also work really hard practicing almost every day doing everything we can. >> i can't imagine what time you had to get up to be here this morning. is the only redeeming thing that you don't have to go to class or still fit it in today? >> we still have class today definitely. >> all right. what do you have to do to make it on this team in case brian, steve or myself would like to audition? >> well, you know, you have to certainly work on your tumbling skills. that's one thing. >> we have to know ho

i'm gretchen carlson.ter more than two hours behind bars in an iranian prison, those two american hikers could be headed home. stay right here for the very latest. >> all right. just minutes ago, they were burning an american flag and now the palestinians will ask the u.n. to recognize them as a country. so where will the president stand on this? governor perry has already chosen his side. >> as an american and as a christian, i'm going to stand with israel. >> more on that straight ahead. >> plus we all know the story, lassie comes to the rescue! [barking] >> but sometimes, life imitates art. real life lassie and the woman she saved. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> what's happening? this is nathan. >> this is shawn. >> and we're boys ii men and you're watching "fox & friends." >> we had boys ii men on yesterday to close the show. very relaxed and happy -- it was good. for a group that's together for a long time, they get along quite well. >> i just noticed eric is tieless again today. >> i'm tieless.

you're right, gretchen.s press conferences -- >> brian: take a bow? >> you're right. >> steve: 200,000 maybe. but you're still on the vernal of 400,000. >> you look at the four-week moving average to get an indication of what will happen on the big number, unemployment number that comes up the first friday of every month, a week from tomorrow, it's still running in excess of 400. it will be 410,000, which means in a week and day, we'll probably still see elevated unemployment rate above 9.1, which is extremely elevated. >> gretchen: let's talk about something that the former office of management and budget director has written in the new republic. basically saying that he thinks we need less democracy, not more than that. >> brian: here is the quote, to solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying on policies and decommissioning commissions. in other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by

i never -- >> gretchen: you mean on the show? >> yes. >> gretchen: what else did you want to do?his way, as a friend of mine who does this on stage, a standup, he's like, listen, he's an architect, you got six kids. can someone design another room or extension on that house? >> how about another bathroom? >> brian: one bathroom. >> steve: and one of the other things people wondered about you, you and barry williams? >> no. absolutely not. >> steve: never happened? >> sweetest. >> steve: not then. maybe now? >> well, it could be. as a matter of fact, we had dinner last night with barry and his son and you should have him -- i know he's been on your show, but with his little boy, he looks exactly like barry when barry started the show. it's amazing. he's the smartest little kid and absolutely loves the brady bunch and asking me, you know, details about -- which i couldn't remember. it was very sweet. but no. >> brian: it just bugs me that charlie sheen is getting $25 million or $100 million for that show, "two and a half men," we're watching the brady bunch all the time and you got

good morning to you. >> hi, gretchen. how are you doing. >> gretchen: just great. you talked about lease option to buy. i am concerned about the nonrefundable option money. what if i don't qualify for a new loan? will i lose that money? also any other concerns you have? an open ended question for you, bob. >> for sure. the lease option we talked about, when you put money down, you basically are saying to the owner of the property they want to take it off the market. that's the deal with lease options. if you want to buy something and exercise an option to buy in two years, that money goes to that seller homeowner nonrefundable. the other concern i have is there are so many properties under water, when you exercise a lease option, what you decide to do that, it's going to be on present value at the time. if the house is under water, the question is going to be how is that seller homeowner ever going to be able to allow you to exercise the option? so you got to get good legal advice before you do it. >> gretchen: let's go to michigan. i'm so upset with these lenders

>> gretchen: plenty. >> almost never. >> gretchen: that was the response. >> steve: we immediately weresaid she does not represent the florida. great job holding her feet to the fire. she's an embarrassment. >> brian: she's just eliminated herself from ever commenting on the discourse among the political debate. she is disqualified. >> steve: the white house hasn't weighed in on it. >> brian: an e-mail from chuck says miss schultz and others from washington are like an addict to the washington life tile and are fighting tooth and nail to keep the spending in place. >> gretchen: and a tweet, dws, i didn't know if we were calling her, dws's nervous laugh and attempt to avoid the question proves the dnc machine hasn't prepared their response yet. well done. i would think that 24 hours or almost 24 hours, after that event that she would have had a prepared remark about it. >> steve: ron from alabama e-mailed us, debbie wasserman schultz's interview focused on the party line instead of facing reality. god help us. you got to wonder why did hoffa bring it up in the first place? we were talkin

gretchen. >> gretchen: all right. william lajeunesse, great reporting.s what? there is an elephant in our living room! parents, stick around. the elephant teaming up with krista gingrich. that's newt gingrich's life, to teach your kids something about american history. then steve and brian have abandoned me. there's a good reason, though. guess who they're with. elizabeth hurley, she's a super model. >> steve: she's taking over the show. >> gretchen: i can't compete. who can with her? new stride whitemint is a hit but it lasts too long. how do we get people to chew another piece? i got this one. oh hey. [ male announcer ] spit it out. or ti will find you. [ grunts ] like him. thanks ryan. [ male announcer ] new stride whitemint. the ridiculously long lasting gum. i've got to tell susie ! the vending machine on elm is almost empty. i'm on it, boss. new pony sorry ! we are open for business. let's reroute greg to fresno. growing businesses use machine-to-machine technology from verizon wireless. susie ! the nding machine... already filled. cool bike. becau

gretchen, back to you. >> gretchen: wow.ing out of texas. let's go over to brian now. >> brian: the reshaping of ground zero has been years in the making. now nearly a decade later, we are days away from the memorial's public unveiling. here is a behind the scenes look at the new world trade in the documentary "engineering ground zero." >> there are so many things that i suspect will hit people when they come here. the humanity that was lost and humanity that came forward, not just for the family members alone. i mean, this is done for the world as an expression of how we respond to an event like this. >> brian: that premieres at 9:00 o'clock tonight. the lead architect is here, david. >> thank you. >> brian: you must feel gratified. can you first bring me back to that day? you were asked by mr. silverstein, he bought the world trade center, he said i want to upgrade the facade. will you help me with that? >> he wanted to clean up that plaza. you will remember, that's the most desolate, wind swept place. nobody liked it. and

i'm gretchen carlson.aring your time. the president losing the showdown with the speaker of the house over his jobs speech but does speech really warrant this particular speech, a joint session of congress. we will report, and you can decide. >> and the labor department agreeing to protect illegal workers but what about creating jobs for millions muof american who are unemployed? >> oh, yeah, that's right. meanwhile, remember that solar power company touted by president obama as a shining example of green innovation? well, it went bankrupt. >> is going green really the best way to create jobs? not in this case. we'll talk about that and so much more, hour two of "fox and friends" for a thursday starts right now. >> good morning, everyone. brian is not here today. dave briggs is filling in for him. >> brian is doing ok, though. he's doing all right. playing some golf. we hope he has the better of it. >> this is one of those programs where we have a split personality because not only are we live from the big

>> gretchen: i love that part.u in real life went to somebody that unqualified, you would have left? >> i like to think so. if someone brings me the wrong food at a restaurant, i will not say anything and i will just eat what they brought me. so i might do that. i think that's what he does. he's the kind of guy who wouldn't send food back. >> steve: is george clooney a guy who wants to get along with everybody? >> i don't know if he would send back food. but he was an incredibly kind person. i feel really lucky to have worked with the people that i have. >> brian: you don't think he's past his prime? >> you're going to get me in trouble. >> gretchen: on a side note, people also know you from "twilight," which we should mention. a new season coming up soon? >> the next film is released in november. >> gretchen: okay. "50/50" opens friday across the nation. good luck. >> thank you very much. >> steve: good job. >> brian: you could be our therapist. we have the couch already. >> steve: straight ahead, the democratic n

i'm gretchen carlson.ie to enter the presidential race have reached a fever pitch. >> i really implore you as a citizen of this country to please, sir, to reconsider. >> wonder what he feels like when people say that to him. anyway, christie answers the plea. >> and maybe christie's indecision is keeping his door open for sarah palin. could the former vice presidential candidate still be in the mix? we have the scoop. steve? >> eric, plus they were the president's big donors back in 2008 but now many of those uber wealthy democratic supporters are jumping ship. why have they turned on their guy? they have details straight ahead, "fox & friends" hour two for a wednesday starts right now. >> welcome aboard, folks. live from rockefeller center, today brian taking a day off. in his place eric bowl, bowl, bolling. >> pretty soon you'll have your butt kicked outside. >> bring it, d. wade. bring it. >> you're going to be doing b ball. >> better be a three point line. that's all i have to say. >> you'll be rolling

i'm with gretchen.t perry and romney. >> the e-mail machine is called a computer. >> really? >> thanks. >> from north carolina says this, i think rick santorum, newt gingrich and herman cain were the winners. it would be nice if they had more questions. >> who won last night? the democrats. stop fighting yourselves! i know a lot of people feel that way with every party. you got to actually, to get the nomination, you got to rip the other guy or other woman apart. that's what happened. >> especially if they're the frontrunner. i just tweeted a few minutes ago, what was the surprise shocker that came out of the debate last night from herman cain? you're about to find out right now. you may have known he had stage 4 colon cancer. here's what he said had happened to him if that had happened under president obama. listen to this. >> the reason i said that i would be dead under obama care is because my cancer was detected in march of 2006 and from march 2006 all the way to the end of 2006, for that number of

gretchen carlson was the only person to bring it up.er to use an on-court meltdown as an excuse to pander to her right wing audience on entitlements and imaginary racial undertones is ugly "psycho talk." >>> house republicans say at least a half of president obama's jobs bill is dead in the water. but the president is fighting back against the republican strategy to sink his bill. >>> and later, more debate highlights. and heidi harris and joe madison are here tonight. michele bachmann basically accused rick perry of corruption. stay tuned. to be more environmentally aware, we are now printing on the back sides of used paper. and we switched to fedex 'cause a lot of their packaging contains recycled materials. tell them what else fedex does. well we're now using more electric trucks and lower emission planes. we even offer a reusable envelope. now, can't we at least print on the back sides of used paper? what's the executive compensation list...? [ male announcer ] sustainable solutions. fedex. solutions that matter. two of the most imp

good morning to you, tom. >> hey, gretchen, how are you?llars in stimulus money that went to this project so arguably, the project wouldn't have even happened if it wasn't for the initial federal outlay and it's in a real expensive part of the washington, d.c. area, bethesda, maryland, average housing price is a lot higher than $172,000. but you know this is just the beginning. this is an ongoing operation. so initially, they'll be helping 12 and maybe more but going to require more and more money and, you know, when you look behind the agency that started this in montgomery county, maryland, they received $4.7 million in stimulus money. and, you know, we all want to help the homeless but there has to be more efficient ways to do this. where are the jobs that come from this? this is why the stimulus is such a destructive force. this is not a jobs creating activity. >> so this apparent facility, six studio one bedroom apartments as well as a gym and computer center. i guess what you're saying here, again, we're not against trying to provide

gretchen carlson was the only person to bring it up.n-court meltdown as an excuse to pander to her right wing audience on entitlements and imaginary racial undertones is ugly "psycho talk." >>> house republicans say at least a half of president obama's jobs bill is dead in the water. but the president is fighting back against the republican strategy to sink his bill. >>> and later, more debate highlights. and heidi harris and joe madison are here tonight. michele bachmann basically accused rick perry of corruption. stay tuned. [ female announcer ] secret scent expressions combines great odor protection with a coco butter scent. amazing microcapsules absorb and neutralize odor releasing scent anytime you need it. all day long. secret scent expressions deodorant/antiperspirant. also in body splashes. and i was a pack-a-day smoker for 25 years. i do remember sitting down with my boys, and i'm like, "oh, promise mommy you'll never ever pick up a cigarette." i had to quit. ♪ my doctor gave me a prescription for chantix, a medication i could

i think, i think gretchen's spot on. you know, it also created this, this opportunity, frankly, for the spanks to compete -- for the banks to compete with the gses when it came to the mortgage can world, right? so fannie and freddie had certain benefits including the fact that their mortgage-backed securities had very low risk weightings. and can we saw the because el committee of the view that the gses should be a lower weighting really at the behest of the banks and lobbying. and once they did and all of a sudden the notion was that all mortgage-backed securities should have the equal risk weighing, you ended up seeing the banks that had branches become very aggressive in pushing mortgages through their own pipeline, but the investment banks had to figure out another angle, and that was vertically integrating in many cases their lending channels, it was using third party, um, originations and then buying servicing and starting to build all of the information in advantage including the relationships which we haven't tal

gretchen?, yet, test scores remain flat across this country. now john stossel is telling us some exciting things are happening in the classrooms. watch this. >> but school is boring! >> no, it's not! >> yes, it is. i know. i went to school. grade school was boring. so was high school. so was princeton. except for the party parts. but fourth grade? you have to learn reading and writing. that's work. >> reading is work! but it's rocking awesome! >> rocking awesome? and these kids say school is fun? >> yes! >> how is it fun to learn? >> it's not actually boring. they just teach us in a fun way. >> so you guys look forward to going to school in the morning? >> yes! >> joining us now is the anchor of "stossel" john stossel. wow, that is impressive. gretchen said wow, i agree with that. wow. >> it's so refreshing and they go to school until 5:00. finally the government monopoly is starting to break a little and there are experiments like this and we look at a bunch of schools. they use different meth

>> thank you, gretchen. time. >> if you think our economy and country are on the wrong track, don't worry, our next guest says it can be fixed and there's a simple solution no matter who is president. jimmy kimmel, over to you. >> president obama is on the road. he was in ohio yesterday and north carolina today. there to get support for his american jobs act. obama is extremely determined to help the unemployed because it's looking increasingly likely in a year or so he's going to be one of them. even though i'm a great driver, and he's... not so much. well, for a driver like you, i would recommend our new snapshot discount. this little baby keeps track of your great driving habits, so you can save money. [sighs] amazing. it's like an extra bonus savings. [ cackling ] he's my ride home. how much can the snapshot discount save you? call or click today. i've got to tell susie ! the vending machine on elm is almost empty. i'm on it, boss. new pony ? sorry ! we are open for business. let's reroute greg to fresno

back to you, gretchen. >> thanks so much.w are so different from what we've seen in the past orchestrated like on a massive scale as opposed to just one homicide bomber so we will keep you posted on what happened. >> when you train unencumbered for five years in pakistan, you get coordinated. let's talk about last night's debate in florida, a vital state. there was eight people on stage. all talented candidates and many of which had -- maybe their caidacy on the line. michelle bachmann, you can think herman cain, rick santorum all had to make headway yesterday on rick perry and mitt romney, didn't they? >> that's an interesting question and they started out, as you can see right there with a flag and the national anthem. it's interesting, "the washington post" today says the beginning of it, it often felt like a pay-per-view event or wrestling match because it was very dramatic, the camera moving all over the place and then they go the businessman! the libertarian. >> they all had intros. >> they all did. of course, all eyes

gretchen, is it a leadership crisis?king about how when he did in the campaign and he needs to do what he did then, that's campaign. we don't need a campaign. we need a leader. we need this nation to move forward. we need leaders on the republican and democrat side to sit at the table, with the president and to negotiate what is best for this . that's what we need. we need real policies, bold policies. we dn't need to do more of the same. >> eric: we'll see if that begins to happen. more word on the president's plan tomorrow. alexis and gretchen, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> jamie: putting a quick end to last night's face off between ortiz and may we third -- and mayweather. some questioning if mayweather's victory was legit. we'll tell you . >> plus, reverse mortgage nearly cost this 101-year-old woman her home. what you need to know to avoid that fate, straight ahead. >> jamie: imagine you make it to 101 and get evicted from your home that happened to a woman this week. she had a reverse mortgage. she learne

>> i -- gretchen is right.ust call the president idiotic and had to apologize. people like mcconnell my goal to get him not to be reelected. that kind of partisanship should go away. demint saying i don't want him to give a speech. if he didn't they will say why is he not communicate the american public. he will have a plan and hopefully they will get something done. >> kelly: i hate this say this on sunday morning it is like damned if you do and damned if you don't. what is the president supposed to do? >> exactly. the president has to do something. he has to show leadership. people are tired of more of the same. they want to see a bold leader come out. they want to see a bold proposal that is going to put american people back to work. what they are more than likely to see is more of the same. but, here in america we need to have a healthy debate about where this nation is heading and the proposals. >> kelly: tkpwefp chen has decided it is more of the same -- >> i didn't say that. >> kelly: you just said it is

>> nothing is wrong with that time. >> gretchen has left.y memorable telecast, many say it was the best question of the debate a couple of nights ago. >> my question is out of every dollar that i earn, how much do you think that i deserve to keep. >> so what did that young guy think of the candidate's answer. you're about to find out. he's on our show. >> then she's gone country. >> actress, singer, nice person? kristen chenowith is here to perform live. listen to yourself. that's you performing in the background. [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. [ male announcer ] get five dollars in money-saving coupons at v8juice.com. i've got to tell susie ! the vending machine on elm is almost empty. i'm on it, boss. new pony ? sorry ! we are open for business. let's reroute greg to fresno. growing businesses use machine-to-mhine technology from verizon wireless. susie ! the vending m

to analyze, margaret hoover, in austin, texas and gretchen carlson here in new york city.hy did the guy beat him up? >> because he's a horrible parent and a moron. that's all i can say about this guy. allegedly this other kid came to the house to have a staged fight with this guy's son, which did happen. and then the father says to this other boy, hold on one second. you want to get knocked out by me, boy? apparently the boy says yes, i would like to see that. at which point this father decks him to the ground and continues to punch him when he's in a fetal position. i hope he goes to jail for a long time. >> bill: explain to me, though, about the fight that was staged. there had to be something that lit the fuse here. so this kid who got beat up goes to the house, the johnson house, with the intent of doing what? >> to have it out with this guy's son, of which the father said that's okay. they're both teen-agers. the father says that's fine. >> bill: we're going to have a fight. >> and he says i'll watch it. >> bill: was there a fight? >> yes. so you can see the boy's fac

fudge napolitan-to- gretchen hot carlson and of course steve doocy. (applause) lav (laughter) laugh steve doocy. >> anyway, that was very unprofessional, around son pooper. (laughter) munch ma quchi, we'll be right back. >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight was once the world's most wanted hacker. he'll never get my password it's-- (laughter) please welcome kevin mitnick. (applause) >> thanks for coming on. great to meet you. >> great to meet you too. >> you sir were once considered the world's most famous hacker. the most wanted man in computer crime. correct? >> yes. >> okay. you are a consultant now but at one time you were let's see, you bypassed the security systems of motorola sun microsystems and pacific bell. >> yes, i did. >> you served jail time for this. how much. >> five years. >> five years. >> and a year in solitary confinement. >> why a year in solitary confinement. you don't look like a dangerous guy. >> i'm very dangerous. >> the prosecutor has told a judge during a bail hearing that i could pick up the telephone and

i'm gretchen carlson. the solyndra scandal is growing.he white house was worried about the company defaulting and what it would mean for their campaign season. coming up. >> swho >> we showed you this amazing rescue. good samaritans lift this burning car off a trapped motorcyclist. that motorcyclist speaking out. >> i wanted to thank all the heroes that put their lives on the line to save mine. >> so what was it like being stuck under a burning car? he tells us. that's coming up. brian? >> the nfl taking the term contact sport straight to the fans. now, demanding full body patdowns for anyone who wants to get into the stadium! is that ok with you? we'll examine. and personally pat you down, each one of you individually. all coming up and by the way, eric is in for steve. this is "fox & friends." >> this is dean cain. you are watching "fox & friends" in the morning and so am i. >> if i get a patdown from the two of you -- >> no, no. >> brian will pat down me and i'll pat down you. >> i'm the bigo

gretchen carlson was so upset she left her prom early to report on this! that is not right! deny the party. of course you can say it's odd that the tea party and the right have suddenly developed an allergic reaction to violent rhetoric since they've spent the past couple of years talking like this. >> get your musket to fix your bayonet and the charge is to the right. >> jon: to be fair, he was keynoting the broken bayonet association of america. but two wrongs don't make a right, thus points out the inherent difficulty in the president's call to tone down political rhetoric at rallies, where there is always a fine line to spur people to go volunteer to go door to door and pass out political pamphlets and revving them up where they believe the only option is the rip off the heads and (bleep) down the necks of those who disagree with them on trade policy issues. the truth is, most rally techniques are lame. without hyperbolic metaphorical incitements to violence you're left with a few options. >> tonight we say help is on the way and help is on the way! and help is on the wa

we're in for brian, gretchen and steve. he have gotten the money? >> no. i would buy him something, but i may not even buy him something. >> a starbucks gift card. >> juliet: he didn't play for two months. it wasn't like he was home sick fort day. he hadn't played for two months. but we'll discuss it later. a fox news alert first, a serious story. dangerous explosives have gone missing from the phoenix airport and now the hunt is on to find them. here is what happened. police were conducting a training exercise. they had police dogs and so forth when somebody took this blue cooler. inside the cooler were two half pound tubes of cast booster explosives. these are the same kind of explosives that you use when you are mining, for instance. police believe whoever took them left the airport with them. the explosives cannot be detonated without other equipment, but they are products for explosions. so be careful. >>> a scary ride for passengers on board a united express flight traveling from chicago to canada. terrified flyers sc

i'm gretchen carlson. thank you so much for sharing your time with us today.came out swinging as g.o.p. frontrunner rick perry made his debated debut. >> michael dukakis

from all of us here the spotlight will be back with more comments on what's going in and out for gretchen and to lend a party and take this. but you also already is a media vowed to provide free men to mark c. but people say they're afraid any criticism of the new government will be met with severe punishment. france and germany stand down calls for greece to be kicked out of the eurozone as the third anniversary of the two thousand and eight financial crash brings concern and others close at hand. and r.t. travels to norway's pittsburgh an archipelago an area that used to be the northern front in the cold war but is now becoming a base for russia's advance into the arctic. in the russian capital you're watching r t with marina josh welcome to the program the leaders of france and britain traveled to tripoli today in a show of support for the regime there warplanes helped put in power on the eve of their visit to have a national transitional council asked for more weapons to fight pockets of colonel gadhafi loyalists still and their strongholds of rebel government thinks the ousted dictat

. >> steve, gretchen and brian are off friday. clayton and juliet. >> wear that seersucker suit. first, we have the headlines this morning with juliet. >> thank you for that segue. we start with a severe weather alert. not even a week after hurricane irene slammed the east coast, a new tropical depression churns closer to the u.s. this time, forecasters say it could bring as much as 20 inches of rain to the gulf coast. governor bobby jindahl declaring a state of emergency in the state of louisiana. there's a chance this depression could turn into a tropical storm by the end of the day, the name will be tropical storm lee. huge fire at a mcdonald's near san diego is believed to be caused by a natural gas explosion. they started evacuating workers after they smelled gas. one worker suffered a minor injury. it took 50 firefighters from several towns to get the fire under control. libyan rebels are gathering outside of muammar qaddafi's hometown where they've been given qaddafi's loyalists one more week, another week to surrender befo

martha: i spoke to gretchen this morning. stuart, thank you so much. stuart varney, the fox business network. bill: one of the questions we'll have in the coming weeks is if new spending creates more jobs and drives unemployment down. critics say this is what the stimulus did not deliver on. it cost $840 billion. 85 per of that has been out. according to the congressional budget office. the impact peaked in the first half of 2010. martha: we may be getting a preview of the president's rallying call for 2012. you can bet he will blame congress. there are reports tonight's speech will be followed by a campaign to put congressional republicans on the hot seat to take that argument out to america. we'll ask texas governor john cornyn about that. plus the fallout on what is not happening tonight after the president's speech tonight. that is an official gop response. the gop says they haven't gotten enough information about what is in it to prepare a response. should the republicans do a response after tonight's speech? weigh in. bill: kick off 8:25 for the

i'm gretchen carlson. they needed the rain, not the wind.ns of tropical storm lee fueling major wildfires now. 500 homes already wiped out and now many more in the line of fire. >> oh, boy.

. >> gretchen: and mississippi governor haley barber and brian's wrestling star, triple h. >> brian: he might declare his presidency. >> steve: what's his jobs plan look like? >> brian: labor day is over. put away the white stuff. >> gretchen: log on to our web site. we'll see you tomorrow. thanks guys. as we roll on, a massive fire burning out of control in texas. there are 500 homes in one town that are now gone. leveled. singed. thousands forced away from their homes, dry weather and high winds fanning those flames, a very dry summer as we start a new season. welcome, everybody, on a tuesday, hope you had a great labor day weekend. time to get back at it, i'm bill hemmer. martha: i'm martha maccallum. it's a devastating scene across central texas, according to officials, fires are burning everywhere, thousands are forced into shelters, waiting to see if they have anything to come home to. >> i know i was outside working on my car and i happened to look up and i saw the flames -- not the flames but the smoke so i grabbed my family and started gathering my personal belongings. >> we

i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your time today.hris christie, the governor of new jersey sounding very presidential at the president reagan library. >> we watched a president who once talked about the courage of his convictions but yet still has found the courage to lead. what happened to state senator obama? when did he decide to become a one of the divideers? >> so did the governor leave the door open for a presidential run? we'll report, you can decide. >> meanwhile, michael jackson's manslaughter trial starts with a voice from michael himself. >> that voice from the grave so chilling, even the man accused of manslaughter can't help but cry. >> talk about a rough commute. hundreds of cars tied up for hours on the interstate because of

i'm gretchen carlson. thank you so much for sharing your time today.he stage is all set for tonight's big debate on fox news and the top two candidates in the statistical tie now so that means game on. >> we don't need to nominate obama light. we don't need to -- >> we have a full preview of what's gearing up to be a presidential fight night. >> meanwhile, some are calling it the poster child for crony capitalism. playing favorites with your tax dollars and now we're learning more about one of the investors in light squared, that mobile broadband company. wait until you see how these pieces fit together. >> and look out below, it's finally gonna happen. skylab missed you but not this time. a satellite the size of a bus is on its way down but thankfully it's empty. it's ready to smash into the united states where you're listening right now. how you can prepare for the falling sky that could be coming to a head near you or house near you. "fox & friends" starts right now.

i'm gretchen carlson. hope you'll have a fantastic day. big upset for the democrats this morning.irst time in 80 years a republican wins the congressional seat that once belonged to congressman anthony weiner in new york. that's sending a message to washington loud and clear.

i'm gretchen carlson. they're ganging up on front runner, rick perry at least last night. >> you wer

i'm gretchen carlson. fox news alert for you right now. bail reportedly approved for two american hikers. we've heard this before. remember the two hikers in iran? this morning, shane bower and josh fatal could be hours away from freedom. we will have a live report. >> and the president insists his tax hikes are not class warfare but this morning, he's changing his tune and says he's ready to be a warrior. brian? >> thanks for the cold open toss, eric. a mom gives birth mid flight half way between the philippines and the u.s. the quandary -- is the baby an american citizen? the debate is on. "fox & friends" starts right about now. >> good morning, everyone. eric bolling is for steve today. we need to start with the fox news alert because as we were just mentioning a few moments ago, we're getting brand new reports that two american hikers jailed in iran

. >> bill: here to analyze, the culture analyze, o'clock gretchen carlson and margaret hoover.y attempt to cut the benefits of senior citizens, are you? >> no. but was that ad put out by the aarp or dyn? >> bill: aarp. >> more and more they seem to be an arm of the democratic party. >> bill: no doubt about it. >> it's disingenuous on its face because even any republican plan to talk about cutting entitlements or medicare does not talk about it for current senior citizens or people even approaching that age. i think in our generation, we pretty much have been programmed to believe that we may never see social security, so we're pretty en to the age going up. things like that. >> bill: that's going to happen. >> this is not -- be disingenuous. >> bill: why do you think, hoover, that the aarp spends good money to run an ad like that when, what carlson says, absolutely true, there is no movement to cut any benefits, senior citizens now, why do they do it? >> because they have a vested interest in making sure entitlement reforms don't take place. so they're running these arguments a

i'm gretchen carlson. thank you so much for sharing your time with us today.resident obama's eagerness to spend stimulus money lead to wasting half a billion dollars in taxpayer money? that's what a lot of people are asking this morning but no one seems to want to answer that question.

here now to explain the culture wars, margaret hoover and gretchen carlson.on, why is the doctor losing her license? >> because in order to perform these late term abortions according to the law in 2003, you need a second opinion. she may have used mental health as a diagnosis that maybe wasn't a true diagnosis for these girls who were age -- >> bill: tiller was doing that. she had to back it up. >> she had to back it up. >> bill: correct me if i'm wrong on any of these facts, please. she was paid $300 per patient, correct? >> uh-huh. >> bill: to look at tiller's reasons for providing the late term abortions, the third trimester stuff, ok, vital baby. and some of them she said ok this is case number three for neuhaus to diagnose a 15-year-old girl who said she had mental depression because she couldn't bear not to be able to continue riding in a rodeo. >> that's the allegation. >> bill: that hasn't been disputed, has it? >> it hasn't been disputed but the bottom line is that according to the law in 2003, you could view mental health. you could not longer view