what's the deal here represent a republican jack kingston kingston defended the cuts eighty seven million dollars from the f.d.a. thirty five million dollars in u.s.d.a. go specifically for food safety jack kingston said kingston said do we believe that mcdonald's and kentucky fried chicken and safeway and kraft food and any brand name that you can think of that these people are concerned about food safety food safety america is very safe because the private sector self policing and you know i would think by and large that there's a strong incentive for that but isn't self policing you know doesn't this prove that waiting until after the harm is done is stupid because the word stupid is relying on the government to do the executed properly we've been so busy time and time again the thirty six million pounds of poison throat he got through we have to assume that at thirty six million pounds the government got all got a hold of some of it looked at it and said oh on the off there's a lot of this is about a one inspector for about every seven thousand food processing facilities going to so h

many years, if you think back the first writer who was read in terms of asian american was maxine kingston. i read her in high school and was greatly affected by reading about the woman warrior. before her there were few. there were some but didn't make that economic splash. they were never read in a large way. maxine was the first one we read her in school we knew of her. she was not out there like anny tan was when she wrote the joy luck club. so much of it is timing. it meant all the history and the voices before then had been silent. my generation of writers came in and we heard stories of women and men and the family of a different generation. a lot of us had been writing about that because they were silenced for so long. i am involved with the book prize. it's a pacific rim book prize in which books come from asia and all over the pacific rim. in the last 11 years it's been a prize we read so many books that have come from voices of new writers. i'm always amazed and they are writing different storers i wrote when i started. all the people have come through now. if you look at the li

to discuss the busy day in politics and what we can expect from the jobs from this week is steve kingston did we learn more about what the president is likely to say on thursday? >> we learned this campaign season already. do not believe anyone from the white house who says otherwise. that is in terms of the way he is framing the debate about jobs. he is talking about democrats standing up for the middle class and republicans defending the entrenched forces. he was to show he has the stomach and spine for a fight. he said he was not scared of tough times. he mentioned a bunch of measures seek has already talked about before by extending the payroll tax cuts, passing trade deals, spending money on roads and railways and bridges, infrastructure projects that will create construction jobs. there is nothing new there. we did get a sense of wherhow he will phrase it on thursday. he said he would put it in front of congress. the only thing that stands between the proposals and jobs being created is a republican- controlled house. he is claiming that way because he knows the only people less pop

>> people like gabe saporta of cobra starship, cassadee pope of hey monday, sean kingston, and jason >> i really, really encourage anyone to lend a hand how you can. because it's really, really important. >> when you're here and you don't have time to think of, like, i'm a sick kid. you know, you're hearing, oh my god, it's jason derulo. and you're meeting new people, and it is really cool. >> also adding his voice to the cause, "american idol" kris allen. >> i want people to be aware of what is going on with cancer and just, you can help yourself, you can help others, and you can do stuff like raise money and i feel there is going to be a cure figured out. that just takes money and time. >> the ultimate goal, is for generation "y" to turn out scientists who will find that cure. it's something these performers are waiting for, even while they dance. >> i relapsed a couple weeks ago, so i'll be at roswell again. it's actually really good that i got to come do this before my surgeries and stuff. >> it's a good way to, like, show it. it's not all, like, sad and, you know, upsetting. ♪ h

kingston. the uri, you didn't go to uri, though, you went to wellesley. and then you went on from there to where? >> oxford. university. >> how many years were you there? >> one. >> what did you study? >> theology. >> then where did you go? >> i went to new jersey. >> and what did you study there? >> at princeton i studiedhe origins and history of ancient christianity. >> you taught in a number of institutions. would you list those for us? >> i taught at princeton briefly, i taught at u.c. berkeley, university of pittsburgh, for a year i was at the hebrew university at jerusalem and currently at boston unive >> you have? >> yes, indeed. >> i got my degree in '79. >> you're the professor of the appreciation of scripture, you've been doing that for what? >> since '90. >> for nine years. three books to your credit? >> that's true. >> i notice that you retreated from some of your statements from your first book, "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews." what changed in the 11 years between the publication of these two books. >> my first book was "from jesus to c

dismissal of the case you know but what about i mean what about what's going on now you're up in kingston new york or london on what's going on on the streets of new york city the streets of l.a. the streets of chicago and denver people protesting identies big banks do you think that this is going to have any effect on changing the system that you say is grand . not right away it's the beginning and by the way i don't know why people are so outraged at the behavior of the police in a lawless street and that's what they do everywhere to see the gz why they made ings when they had as of body armor to work walk through the battle of the bulge was a beating up coeds this is what the police do the police in the united states have become nothing more than an forces for the crime bosses that's all it is i love this talk about how around nine eleven they kept talking about they hate our freedom and liberty and that's why they attacked us what freedom and liberty this is what the police do they use access for us to quell the people you can't riot in this country so you're going to see different ki

>> yes, friday night in kingston, new york. saturday in morris town, new jersey jie. where in morris town? >> some big arena. >> great promotion work there. >> go to jim's website. it is better than my site. >> pathetic. >> i would encourage everyone to show up after the opening act. >> jim is hilarious. >> are you having fun with monica crowellly this weekend? >> yes, i am joining her on her radio show. she is fabulous. people should follow me on twitter and we will post the times. we will have a great time. >> should people follow you on twitter as well? >> absolutely. tim runs his mouth. or jim's website. >> so it is at tim runs his mouth. >> yes, at tim runs his mouth. >> what kind of tweets could we look for from you? >> horrifying things. i say the most terrifying things that come to my minds. >> back to you, greg. >> back to me. >> special thanks to jedediah tom, bill -- that is the strangest face ever. tom, you scare me. >> bret: good evening. i'm bret baier. this is a fox news alert. the latest fox news poll on the 2012 republican nomat

we're in kingston, one of the lucky communities in this whole thing.y have the good fortune of having a great big steel barricade that's holding back the river. it's over the market street bridge, this is an old, historical bridge built in 1929, and this is what's causing so much trouble, the the big monster of this flooding event. many, many towns along the edge of this river that do not have the good fortune of having dikes or a barricade have been flooded. people returning to flooded-out homes, and hopefully they'll be able to do that soon because this water is, fortunately, receding. we have watched it come down a foot and a half to two feet since we've been here this morning. they're going to have to check the integrity of bridges like this one. megyn? megyn: molly, thank you. in -- the president wasting no time taking his new jobs plan announced last night on the road. mr. obama telling an audience in virginia just a short while ago that his plan will quickly jump-start the economy pointing out that the $450 billion plan contains measures that re

molly line is live in kingston, pennsylvania with more. >> reporter: we are in kingston, one of the communities that looks like a ghost town like so many other communities that have been evacuated. a hundred thousand people along this river. we are one of the steel barricade that is holding back the river. you can see the water seeping through. the engineers have told authorities here that that is actually okay and this should hold. if you come up onto the other side of the steel barricade you can see just how high the water is. this is over a bridge that was built in 1929, a beautiful gothic historical structure underwater. it goes all the way to the other side of the river to wilkesbury. this was devastated by another hurricane, hurricane ago niece. that's when these measures were put in place. thus far they are holding strong. the water in this particular area is actually starting to recede. you can see on the other side of the river there is a white line and we've been watching the water start to go down, but some of the communities that didn't have these sort of precautions put in place, t

kingston, and all the way up the river. about how the other side, the other side of the river that is not protected. the wall protects half of the riverside, but doesn't protect the other side. here is con flewance point and bingington, and the wall. hurricane agnes, this is what it did in 1972. waters have never been this high in some spots. >> thank you. >>> it's the mother of all texas wildfires. it's 1400 homes burning to the ground. it's 30% contained. we will have a live report from that problem after this. transitions adapt to changing light so you see your whole day comfortably and conveniently while protecting your eyes from the sun. ask your eyecare professional which transitions lenses are right for you. female announcer: are you a vsp member? your satisfaction with transitions lenses is guaranteed. visit specialoffers.vsp.com/ transitions or ask your vsp doctor. is best absorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. new citracal slow release... continuously release

kingston,s go to georgia. axa, we have time for several more. -- actually, we have time for several more. guest: good morning. my question is to mr. james. i'm a veteran of 26.5 years. i want to know how clinton created 22 million jobs during his time and he raised taxes. bush reduces taxes and he lost 8 million jobs. did you answer that question? you're talking out of both sides of your mouth. guest: first of all, thank you for your service. president clinton took office when the economy was recovering. president bush takes office at the peak of the tech bubble collapsing. at the same time, you have a slowing down of the labor force growth. not as many people entered the workforce. in 2007 it was very low. the issue was recently did not have as many workers entered the workforce. that is laid to the sea as many jobs being created heated under president clinton. host: speaker boehner talking about tax credit. >> government has two other components. one is the tax code which and destroys investments and reward

those people from kingston all the way down to the river, all the way down to somewheresville and maneco, the waters are going to flood and there's nothing they can do about it because there's no wall for them. >> yikes. as you're watching those levels rise for people along that river. >> yes. >> there's a whole other occasion that is nate. where is nate? >> nate is in the gump of mexico, bay of campeche, not that far from the peninsula from can koon. it could put more rain on top of places that have already had enough rainfall. if nate does not do as forecast, which is forecast right now to move into mexico and rain here, some of the new computer models, and i think we'll have a much better chance of where it's going to go tomorrow, but here are the computer models that i'm worried about. in the only do these computer models bring it up into a very warm gulf of mexico, at this point in time that warm water will make nate a very big hurricane. now, if it does move into mexico, it won't have a lot of time in the water. probably won't get that big, but if it does this and makes a run at ne

. >> host: kingston, georgia, we have time for several more calls, not just a few. johnny one of them on the independent line. hey, johnny. are you there, johnny? >> caller: good morning. >> host: good morning. >> caller: yes. my question is, to the guy, mr. james, i'm a veteran, 26 1/2 years in the military. i want to know how clinton created 22 million jobs during his time and he raised taxes. bush reduces taxes and he lost $8 million jobs. could you answer that question? you were talking about both sides of your mouth. >> host: james sherk of heritage. >> first of all i would like to thank you for your service to our country. whatever political disagreements, thank you for that. in terms of the president clinton, he took office basically as the economy was recovering from the 90-91 recession. this was a time when you had far faster growth in the population in the labor force. president bush takes office at the peak of the tech bubble just as it is collapsing obviously you have all the job losses occurring start of his watch. at the same time you've got a slowing