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good morning, i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning, did you have hey good weekend. martha: lovely, how about you? bill: in the rearview mirror. bad unemployment news, tough to shake off for the oval office, weighing heavily on the president's popularity, in poll after poll. martha: and poll numbers coming days ahead of the president's major address on creating jobs. karl rove, former senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to president bush and a fox news contributor, joins me now. good morning, karl. >> good morning, martha. martha: what do you make of these numbers? they have been heading in this direction, throughout the summer. if you look at this summer, you could very much call this the summer that president obama lost, you know, the -- most of his support. >> yes. these numbers are not good. they are confirming other numbers we have seen earlier. if you look inside the numbers you see for example among whites his job approval -- hispanics, dropped from 66%, when he was inaugurated, to 51 today, among women, from 56

martha: i'm martha maccallum. the associated press says the president's plan is weighed down in $130 million in new government fees that will hit pretty much every american. the fees will affect air travelers, federal workers, military retirees, welfare beneficiaries and people take out newport gauges. bill: the white house says these are not taxes, they are savings. >> reporter: all they want is four money, a tax, a fee, doesn't matter. they want your money. the millionaires tax, the buffet rule. that captured all the attention yesterday. now we are getting the details on the plan and we see these fees. almost everybody will see their fees they pay for various services go up. the list includes airline passengers, federal workers, military retirees, corporate jet owners, industrial fees. they are all going up. you have already seen this at state level. now it's come together federal level. they want your money. bill: if you put that out over 10 years, would that make a difference in cutting into our huge deficit?

good morning, i'm martha maccallum. the gloves are definitely off not only between shaq and brian but with the gop hopefuls, they drew the battle line between perry last night, key issues, jobs, taxes, a very hot back and forth on social security as well. watch this. >> congressman, you're from texas, does your governor deserve all that cred snit. >> not quite. i'm a taxpayer there. my taxes have gone up. our taxes have doubled since he's been in office, our spending has gone up, our debt has gone up nearly triple, so no, and 170,000 jobs were government jobs. so i would put a little damper on this, but i don't want to offend the governor because he might raise my taxes or something! >> we have innocent little 12-year-old girls be forced to have a government injection through an executive order is just flat out wrong. that should never be done. >> but the question is, do you still believe that social security should be ended as a federal program as you did six months ago when your book came out, and returned to the stat

we are very glad to have you with us on this friday morning, hey, everybody i'm martha maccallum. m bill hemmer. good morning to you, martha. martha: we've almost made it. martha: almost. bill: nicely done... that news in nevada now, the third consecutive month of rising unemployment, the silver state is not the only place where jobs are drying up. there are so many examples out there, already. martha: and sadly you have georgia, wisconsin, utah, and michigan. all ticked higher in their state unemployment rate last month, illinois rose sharply to 10% unemployment and gerri willis, host of "the willis report" on the fox business network. state by state, the story of so many individuals and lives. >> and to see the numbers tick higher after an august that was abysmal by any standards, zero jobs created. in the month of august, it is shocking, you mentioned nevada is a real problem there, continues to be housing and the number of homes, foreclosed on, in august, alone, some 57,000 homes, think about that. just in nevada. a dismal situation, for them there, you mentioned georgia, wisco

i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. are you all right. martha: i'm fine.s deeper and deeper. border agent brian terry was gunned down in mexico. martha: now local governments, law enforcement and civilians especially in border states like arizona are fuming at the feds for arming some of the world's most dangerous criminals. >> lo and behold, we now found out our own government has been facilitating and with the straw purchases of weapons, being placed into the hands of the most violent criminals in north america, mexican drug cartels. that is outrageous. martha: outrageous he says. william la jeunesse joins us live in los angeles. good morning, william. >> reporter: well, martha many would say it is bad enough to knowingly help sell guns to criminals or to knowingly to allow them to go across the border but the new documents shows the administration goes a step further, using tax money to buy guns, sell them to a known trafficker at a profit and then look the other way as they fuel violence in mexico. >> the purchase was being done by a criminal organizat

send me a tweet, martha maccallum, we're going to talk about that, coming up. martha: on a monday, here's what's developing in america's news raoplt, folks in indiana on high alert after police discovered five dead bodies inside two neighboring homes. investigators are still unsure whether the shooter is on the loose or is among the dead. >>> and with growing concerns over cyber warfare, the pentagon is now looking to protect some private sector networks here in the united states. department of homeland security, now reviewing the plan that would extend protections to power plants, electrical grids, and other critical infrastructure which certainly sounds like a good idea. >>> apparently she's a big bob beckel fan, she's going to be very upset that he hasn't heard of her, lead gaga attend ago fundraise forepresident obama over the weekend, apparently she bought a ticket, about $38,000 for the ticket, she wanted to talk to him about bullying but it's not clear whether or not they got to have that information. bill: i think bob and gaga would get along well. marth

good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. we have this latest round of economic news which is of course a big disappoint not just for the millions out of work in country, but it can't be going down too well at the white house. bill: stuart varney leads our coverage and good morning to you. first, take us inside the numbers, break it down. >> okay. there were no new jobs at all created in the month of august. zero. worse yet, you go back to july, and you look at the number of jobs created that month, and this new report cut that number in half. now, if you look at the rolling trend here, we've only created 40,000 new jobs per month over the last four-months. that's the average over four-months. that's terrible. it would take, what, 170 months to get -- that would be 14 years, to get back all the jobs that we lost in the recession. this was a terrible report. period. bill: wow. stuart, yesterday at this time, you said within 24 hours, we will know whether or not we're headed for another recession or whether or not we're in a re

martha: good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. this one is so -- even the decision over when the president would speak set off a huge battle in washington, everything seems to be coming with a fight these days, so you've got the new jobs this number this morning that shows a real struggle outside washington continues to be just getting a job and getting a paycheck every week in this country. the unemployment number, still above that 400,000 level, that's a critical mark, so that is bad news, and it is down from last week, almost 3 percent. bill: small consolation for the millions looking for work. stuart varney, fox business network. first the news on the jobs picture is what? >> okay, let me point something out here. over the next 24 hours we're going to get some very firm evidence as to whether or not we are in recession. recession, yes or no, we'll know within 24 hours. now, the news out this morning, literally, from half an hour ago was that 409,000 people registered for unemployment claims last week. that's a very, very high

martha maccallum playing for wallace krump from washington.f you'd like to sign up for someifty prizes go to billo'reilly.com. you're a southern lady, right? where are you from? >> virginia. mississippi, a little far south. you could be in the southern states. >> yeah. >> bill: you know off camera, she talks like this. >> yes, she talks like -- >> bill: yeah, talks like a jersey girl. question number one, john f. kennedy became a hero in world war ii when a boat he commandeered was sunk by a japanese destroyer. while he was in office, hollywood made a movie about the incident. what actor played j.f.k. in that movie? a, carrie grant. c, steve mcqueen. and the answer is roll tape. >> i'm sorry, i'm afraid i used all that to get down here. you negotiated your way out here? >> that's right. >> you could have fixed to go the wrong way? >> right. >> they're fighting out here! >> bill: the late chris robin n robinson, c is the answer. he passed away last week. question number 2, democrat president harry truman won re-election in 1948 in one of the mo

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here martha maccallum and steve doocy matching wits.ory i now maccallum interested in villains and bad people. she anchors with help her. what more can you say. here's question number one: one of al pacino's most favorite characters tony montana in scar face. >> you want to play rough, okay, say hello to my little friend. >> bill: that had to hurt. scar face is a fictional character, but scarface is a remake of a 1932 film of the same name. based on what real life gangster? cards up please. you are both wrong, al capone was scar fill face. that's the easiest one of the villain questions and you both blew it. everybody watching knew that. >> i should have call geraldo if it was al capone. >> bill: that's a cheap shot doocy, talk about a villain. watch out, geraldo doesn't like that stuff. >> number two, joseph mengele committed acrossties during world war ii. what actor portrayed la in the film the boys from brazil? >> i'm a scientist i have done my job. you are an executioner! do yours! >> bill: gregory peck was the correct answer. >> i

i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. sts romney, that he has a plan to reform it by raising the retirement age for all americans and reducing benefits for wealthier americans. martha: texas governor says it should be run by the states. listen. >> what would happen to the social security trust fund if you sent social security back to the states? how would they divide it? would it be florida's responsibility to meet the social security needs of everyone who comes to florida? how would you deal with with people moving all over the place? what happened if one of the states didn't have it? what happened if one of the states got in financial trouble and raided their fund? i believe in social security. there are tens of billions of americans who rely upon social security to meet their needs. i want to protect it. i want to save it. >> that's the old tactic that the democrats used back through the years to try to scare the senior citizens and that is irresponsible. if anyone on that stage, i mean, the that's a republican and want

we start a brand new hour of ""america's newsroom"", i'm martha maccallum. m bill hemmer, you look lovely, watching the background. >> martha: planned it that way! >> bill: congressman cliff stearns, requesting documents, saying there are questions about how they used three 50d million dollars in funds every year. martha: planned parenthood saying they provide a wide range of health services for women and they believe that federal funds are never directly used for abortions. let's bring in byron york of the washington examiner. why do you think we're hearing about this now? and you know, does this committee have the jurisdiction to really do anything about the funding for planned parenthood? >> this is the latest battle in a war that's been ongoing for a long time, planned parenthood is the nation's largest provider of abortionings and planned parenthood receives more than $300 million a year in taxpayer funds. for their part, democrats have said look, the federal funds that go to planned parenthood have been audit audited, medicare, medicaid -- medicaid is a

i'm martha maccallum. l hemmer, a massachusetts man, with a bachelor's degree from northwestern university said to be radicalized by watching jihad videos online. martha: prosecutors say he was convinced that america was evil. >> kept getting into troubles and that kind of stuff, more or less juvenile kind of things. i thought it was pranks and vandalism stuff, like what i heard, but nothing like this. >> it's shocking, it's certainly unusual, nothing you'd expect here but that's the scary part because you don't know where these things pop up. they're advise -- sruzry unprickeddable. martha: jennifer grif ip, live, do the feds think he was capable of causing serious damage? >> reporter: the federal authorities i've spoken to think he was a danger but didn't pose a threat to the public. they say the explosives they provided to the alleged attacker, that they always hold them on suspicion. fardu was arrested, had traveled in may to washington to take photographic surveillance of the pentagon and capitol. he p

i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm ibm hemmer, welcome, everyone, martha, good morning to you.bridges or tunnels in new york city or washington, d.c., but frankly, not a whole lot of information passed beyond that. martha: officials say leave it to the professionals. listen to this: >> we have known from information gathered there that al-qaeda, not surprisingly, has been focused on in a general way significant dates, and the ten-year anniversary of 911 is certainly one of them. >> maybe it's a rumor, maybe there's nothing to it, but if there's something to it, then we know, we know two, three days ahead of it and we can then take action as appropriate. martha: so capital -- catherine herridge joins us live from washington. catherine, what does specific, credible and unconfirmed, these are the words we're trying to read into this morning. >> reporter: martha, specific in this case means that the detail relates to new york city, washington, d.c., and a possible plot using a car bomb specifically targeting bridges and tunnels. credible based on my reporting means that the source

most pivotal speech of his presidency, welcome to a brand new hour, i'm heather chillers in for martha maccallumegg: i'm gregg jarrett in for bi . heather: he is likely to roll out some of the key job creating proposals just a few days after a new numbers report showed the economy did not grow at all, in august. the motor city, a major hub, of course for the unemployment express. and ed henry is live there. what is the president planning to do today? >> reporter: well, i guess it is appropriate i'm in a parking lot for the gm headquarters here in detroit. we're told by top aides the president will road test, if you will, the big speech to congress on thursday night and he'll do that a couple hours from now, right behind me, you can hear they are testing out the music, aretha franklin among the musicians who will be on hand and, what aides say, the president wants in this speech today, is to challenge republicans as well as democrats, on capitol hill, to get behind the new economic plan and what we have heard of the plan so far is not really very new. he wants to extend the payroll tax cut, for e

i'm martha maccallum. bill: how are you doing over there? martha: i'm doing good. doing over there? bill: i'm good. i'm bill hemmer. good morning. president bush woken re-election in florida. now four years later president obama took that state, once again a key stepping stone on the road to the white house. >> that's right. shannon bream joins us live. she's in orlando. of course, shannon, independent voters are very key in florida. so how are they feeling about the president in the sunshine state according to the latest numbers? >> reporter: good morning, martha. to give you a little bit perspective the exit polls in 2008, showed 52% of the independents broke with president obama. they were key to his win here in florida. but the latest polling numbers on independents how they feel how he is doing his job, not so positive. 33% of them approve of the job he is doing but 61% say they disapprove of what he's doing. he has a year to change that and win them over. and it will have to happen if he hopes to win here. he has got to get the independents. by the way in flo

great to have you with us, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. bill: plenty of material, right? ll hemmer. good morning, everybody. eight republican white house hopefuls, all trying to stand out as the best candidate to create jobs in america. martha: two of them, romney and perry, continually rows to the top of the field by all assessments last night. anita vogel from los angeles has some of the highlights for us. >> reporter: hey martha. there were several key moments, including testy exchanges over social security and of course, jobs and the economy. i watched the clock, the first 15-20 minutes of that debate was devoted to jobs and the economy. we saw texas governor rick perry coming out swinging against mitt romney, attacking his record of creating jobs when he was governor of massachusetts, and romney fired right back. take a listen to this exchange that took place early on in the debate: >> i know back and forth, michael dukakis created jobs three times faster than you did, myth. -- mitt. >> as a matter of fact, george bush and his predecessor created jobs at a faster rate

on the east coast, glad you are with us, i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning to you, martha. martha: good morning, bill. bill: that's correct. we have two corrects, jim webb, a democrat out of virginia said, "we should not increase taxes on ordinary income, there are other ways to get there." a democrat talking that way. martha: and talk about this: look at what mary landrieu is saying from louisiana, she's a democrat as well, of course and comes from the energy producing state of louisiana, where she's none too happy about the plan to help pay for the $447 billion bill by using basically -- relieving tax and oil subsidies from producers in those commodities in her state. and she says that is not the way to go. hers her quote: "that offset is not going to fly and he should know that. maybe it is just for his election, which i hope is not the case. those are pretty song words. bill: two of the lawmakers, too and we have a list of a dozen, a dozen senators on the senate side alone, 11 of whom are democrats and one independent, joe lieberman have diff

martha: good to see you, good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. last night's special election, it all started when congressman weiner resigned in june after that whole thing with the racy texts and message, we'd like to put that in the back of the memory bank, but it ended with turn -- turner taking away that democratic seat held since 1923, in a district where republicans are outnumbered 3-1. shocking. bill: it seems like the world is tilting on its head now. eric shawn, live, what happened here? >> reporter: it's seen as a stinging rejection of president obama and his polices. the improbable speckter of a conservative republican? trouncing his democratic in what is the most heavily democratic districts in the nation. bob turner is a retired 70-year-old businessman, he did even better than the pollsters predicted, he defeated his opponent by focusing his campaign on president obama, his handling of the economy and polices regarding israel. he defeated w-fpl eprin despite heavy union support, the associated press saying turner won by that margin o

good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. the white house is calling this the buffet rule, making thar that millionaires pay the same in taxes as the middle class, named for warren buffet who famously complained that he just doesn't pay enough, wants to pay more. bill: we're asking him to cut a check! paul ryan and other top republicans say this will do more harm than good. >> what it does, it adds further instability to our system, more uncertainty and punishes job creation and those people who create jobs. class warfare, chris, may make for good politics but it makes for rotten economics. >> i will pay for this plan and pay down our debt by following some basic principles, making sure we live within our means and asking everyone to pay their fair share. bill: here now, stu varney, working all weekend trying to figure this one out. good morning to you. on the politics side, this is campaign season but before we get to the politics, talk about the economics. what proposals are there? >> it raises all kinds of questions. if yo

i'm martha maccallum. you had nine candidates, great questions and really a new take on who's gaining momentum and who seems to be losing it a little bit. take a listen to some of this: >> i'm tempted to say that when all is said and done the two guys standing in the middle, romney and perry, aren't going to be around because they're going to bludgeon each other to death. >> let me fell you the title i want to hear about president pwr-pl -- president obama and that is former president barack obama. >> president obama has the lowest public approval rating of any president in modern time. he hasn't gone to the basement yet. it will be a lot lower than what it is now. >> he gave in a speech in 2001 where he talked about buying national health insurance between mexico and texas. i don't even think barack obama would buy national health insurance. >> have you ever even been to the border with mexico? i'm surprised if you have, but you weren't paying taken. unlike governor romney's plan, my plan throws out the o

good morning, on this monday morning, glad to have you with us, i'm martha maccallum. bill hemmer. we're about to figure out whether it will work, unemployment, hovering at 9%, or above, in august and it has been 9%, at a minimum, for 26 of the last 28 months. 9.1 now. martha: here's what it comes down to. the president is requesting $447 billion to juice the economy, is what he hopes happens if he gets to spend the money and ed harrishenry is live at the white house and a lot of people are waiting for details and nuts and bolts of this. what do we expect this morning. >> reporter: the last part is key. last thursday night the president laid out one side of the ledger, if you will, that he wants to spend $447 billion to try and create jobs, and extending the payroll tax cuts, and more infrastructurespent i-- spending and the other side of the ledger the president has not laid out how he wants to pay for that and republicans who have had a relatively open mind about the jobs bill and, people like aeric cantor and john boehner, said, look, we want to know how you will pa

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to have you with us today, i'm bill hemmer, martha is helping out with the kids, as they go back to school. >> good for her. bill: bic week for the maccallums. alisyn: i'm alisyn camarota. less than 30 miles from the state capitol of austin texas, here are pictures, firefighters hoping calmer winds will help them gain the upper hand. bill tpwh*eul is in the midst of the worst drought they've seen since the 1930s, kris gutierrez is near the town of bastrop, texas. >> reporter: the good news is this fire is now 30 percent contained but we already know it has proven to be the most devastating in texas history. take a look behind me, we are outside of bastrop where you can see this is what's left of one family's two vehicles and if you pan to the left, you can see what's left of their home over here. this family i'm told according to neighbors was out of town over the labor day weekend and when they returned, this is what they found. neighbors tell me they tried to help out as much as they could. listen here: >> i kind of ran from the back yard, i had some hoses hooked up there, and started spraying on this side of the floor, we really saw the