cole and i want to welcome you, lee perry, here this morning and thank you for all you've done and supporting your husband and his marvelous career. thank you, ms. perry. (applause) >> our speaker this morning, the former secretary of defense william perry, i first met when he was the deputy secretary of defense, and he and mrs. perry came to korea where i was the c5j5 and i was assigned to escort them around. and i had a lot of those kinds of duties while i was assigned to korea. but it was the most pleasant experience i had and i say that honestly, to get to know these two people. and he then became our secretary of defense. and many of us that have served thought that he was one of the best secretary of defenses we've ever had. he's currently a senior fellow at the hoover institute and a freeman foley institute of international studies. he is the michael and barbara bavarian professor at stanford university and serves as co-director of the nuclear risk reduction initiative and preventive defense project. please help me welcome our speaker this morning, former secretary of defense william p

cole and i want to welcome you, lee perry, here this morning and thank you for all you've done and supporting your husband and his marvelous career. thank you, ms. perry. (applause) >> our speaker this morning, the former secretary of defense william perry, i first met when he was the deputy secretary of defense, and he and mrs. perry came to korea where i was the c5j5 and i was assigned to escort them around.

melissa: tonight on "money," congressman lee perry joins me to discuss the keystone pipeline and that major hurdle. how to protect infrastructure like this in light of the attack from the boston bombing that is tonight here on fox business. lori: the federal reserve releases the latest beige book. we're chock-full of news. stocks are selling off. the fear index is soaring. the report could have a big impact on the remainder of today's trading. you want to keep it here for tracy byrnes and ashley webster making their way in. they will be here at the top of the hour. you can't afford to miss it this is america. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and thenreats day afr day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] e pill eachmorning. 24 hours. zero heartbur tracy: hi, i'm tracy byrnes here with. adam:. we have breaking news an arrest has been made in the boston bombings adam: this individual will be in court in next hour or two hours. the reports say t

perry. also mitch congressman pete hoekstra, raul labrador, utah senator mike lee.rizona senator jeff flake, all saying we should get rid of voting for senators. we should get rid of the 17th amendment as if what's wrong with democracy is that there's too much of it. too much voting. in this last election, the national story of the functionality of our democracy, the way our election system works was long lines, right? our long lines for voting were a national scandal. what's wrong with our democracy was how much extreme time and effort people had to put in in order to participate in it. seven-hour lines? in the weeks after that november debacle, the nation demanded to know why our voting system in practice looked like something out of the third world. turns out that kind of thinking was so december. because since january, republicans in the states have kept on keeping on with making voting harder, working diligently wherever they are in control to make voting still harder than it was even in november. 55 bills in 30 states and counting, all to put down more barrier

ted cruz last year, primary in texas, ran against rick perry's candidate, favorite of the establishment, and won. mike leerm incumbent at a convention and in utah in 2010. and tim scott, he's -- he was just appointed to the senate but he was -- appointed to replace jim demint. jim demint wanted him to get the appointment and he was a guy that was and still is actively involved in stirring up these primary challenges. you know, the way i look at it is to the extent there is a lot of pressure on the rank and file members, this is where it is coming from. >> right. i think that -- i mean, i will just say -- i think scott is a place holder. and he will do the bidding of demint and whoever else is pulling strings there. and the inning thing about cruz is that in that exchange where -- dianne feinstein and how -- you know, they went at it in the debate and sort of -- sort of berating her on her knowledge of the constitution which i thought was just ridiculous. but i think you are right. the rank and file is also very fearful about what is coming and -- paul's ready for a president. so -- that's the platform he

lee. >> caller: hi, steph, how you doing? hypocrisy without good governor perry over there.xas all of a sudden. >> oh, yeah. something happens in his state he wants the money! sandy? no. we have to offset it. it is altogether changed. >> stephanie: he is governing that libertarian paradise where you can have as much fertilizer and explosives as you like. >> he was telling chris christie to tighten his belt? >> oh, stop it now! >> stephanie: the fertilizer plant that exploded, we mentioned this last hour, it had been storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate. >> what could possibly go wrong? >> stephanie: let the states decide. it was 3,000 feet from a school? something like that. yeah. >> even closer to the nursing home. >> stephanie: jill in ithaca, you're on "the stephanie miller show." on the poor ricin guy what's a guy got to do to get attention? what's an elvis impersonator gotta do? >> caller: how did he get ricin? how did that happen? >> the boston story was so big. >> was it gluten free ricin? >> caller: takes me back to the anthrax. when that was sent, that