brian is taking a little time off and peter johnson jr. is sitting in his seat. good to have you with us. peter: nice to be here. gretchen: maybe you checked out the news over the weekend. maybe you paid attention to this one. taxes are coming to everyone's way now? could it be true? after obama pledged that everyone who made under $250,000 would not feel the tax hike. timothy geithner on the talk show says middle class, you may be hit. >> the president has said the taxes won't go up for any americans earning under $250,000. doesn't appear is he going to be able to keep that promise to bring the deficits counsel down. >> we can't make those judgments what it's going to take and how it's going to be there. what it's going to take no one cares about this for more than people of the united states. people have to understand we don't have a choice as a country. steve: we don't have a choice because we are spending like crazy. the problem is when you spend a nation into oblivion. sure you can increase the taxes on the most successful. eventually they can't pay because t

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brian: fox legal analyst peter johnson is here.alth care reform plan. he has actually read it. welcome back, peter. >> hi. steve: we are going to run something that the president said at the town hall two days ago. listen. >> i have not said that i was a single pair supporter because, frankly, we historically have had an employer-based system in this country with private insurers and for us to transition to a system like that, i believe, would be too disruptive. so i'm not promoting a single pair plan. steve: so he just said i have not said i was a single pair supporter or promoter of it. peter: i think the facts are really important in this debate. so let's be objective and dispassionate and go to the facts and let's see what he said on the campaign trail. he said: steve: maybe he has changed his mind. >> i don't think he has said he changed his mind. he made a statement and two years ago and now we have the statement now in terms of a single pair system. and a single pair system means government-run health care. that, over time,

gretchen: super star sitting in for steve is peter johnson jr. want to talk about cash for clunkers today. guess what? it turns out that the biggest clunker in the cash for clunkers program may be the program itself. shutting down on monday. a lot of car dealers are worried they will be left in the lurch. all right, malini, this program was supposed to go through labor day on second extension of $2 billion making the total of 3 billion. what happened? >> it's going to end monday 8:00 p.m. eastern. that's when they predict the 3 billion-dollar budget will be used up. it is calling the program wildly successful. >> be a part of jump starting the economy. jump starting the car manufacturers, putting sales men back to work in show rooms. helping scrap yards finally get some business. >> now, of course, cash for clunkers started out as 1 billion-dollar program in late july but nearly ran out of money in a week. so then congress tripled its budget. deals on the books worth $2 billion. it's given auto dealers a boost at least for the short-term. g.m. pl

peter johnson, jr. is here with the prescription for truth.rs because of this health-care plan. >> under the proposed obama care, there will be provisions by which the health choices commissioner -- whenever that is -- will be able to get information readily from the irs about you. dave: why did they need that? >> in order to decide whether you qualify for subsidies for government health care, for almost a universal health-care coverage in this country. on one side, if there are going to be subsidies, the government needs to know what level of income you are. the law has no penalties for divulging such information to other parties. according to at least one expert, it's a potential violation of the privacy act. that means this. if the government wants information from you about your taxes, your assets, and your money, then they get it from you. this is a situation where agencies are sharing financial information about americans. it has led some people to be very concerned. if there envoy to be subsidies, the government needs to know how much y

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peter johnson has a prescription for truth. i have to say, it is a very big day for peter johnson.ppreciate it. thank you. adam: young people in this country make up the biggest chunk of the uninsured. and what might happen if this reform plan gets passed? >> it is called the individual mandate, government ordering you and everyone else in your family to buy health insurance. if you do not buy it, you will be charged 2.5% in a fine of your gross income. people are not really understanding that up until this point. we have talked about the public option, the death panels, and these other nonexistent issues. is it individual mandate, government ordering you to buy insurance? about one-third of the uninsured in america are people from age 19 into their 20's. those people very often do not have the money to buy health insurance, have great health, and are not interested in buying health insurance. under the obama clan, they will be forced to buy health insurance. if they cannot afford it, it will be subsidized. the government will make them recipients of a government subsidy plan. they

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peter johnson is sitting in for brian kilmeade today.rprise visit to north korea. mike emanuel joins us live from the white house with the latest details. the white house has no comment on this right now. it was a sanctioned trip by the white house, was it not? >> you are right. good morning. the white house and the obama administration has been tight- lipped about the whole thing. press secretary robert gibbs released a statement. while the solely private mission to secure the release of two americans is on the ground, we will have no comment. we do not want to jeopardize the success of former president clinton's mission. the former president was greeted by a handshake. a deal has essentially been worked out. he is going to put the final touches on it. state media reports the former president's arrive fall eight hours ago. it is not clear how long he will be there. the two american journalists have been held since march 18. they were sentenced to hard labor back in june for illegally entering north korea and engaging in hostile acts. re

gretchen: and peter johnson sitting in for brian johnson.and euna lee will ariff in california -- will arrive in california in a few minutes. >> we're inside a private hanger, private hanger 25, as it is known. this is where known commercial aircraft goes. this is where bill clinton's plane carrying two american journalists will be coming in in half an hour. the platform with stairs that has been set up with welcome home sign, that will be rolled out to the middle of the hanger here when the plane comes in and knows are the stairs which the journalists will use to come down and touch american soil for the first time in a long time. and what an ordeal it has been for these two women, locked behind bars in north korea for the last four months. and then yesterday we had the surprise news about their surprise visit by president clinton. it was characterized as a humanitarian mission to secure the release of those two journalists. it certainly was successful. we haven't had an opportunity to hear from these two women for about four months, althou

fox legal analyst peter johnson jr. is here.is your specialty, of course. and. peter: been spending a tremendous amount of time. we have read the entire bill and picking it apart. alisyn: one of the things that the president has been explicit about is if you like your health care you get to keep it fact or fiction? peter: he said it i will tell you exactly what he said. >> under the reform we are proposing. if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. steve. alisyn: all right, peter is that true? this is the most radical revolutionary reform restructuring of health care in world history. and i don't believe that it is true based on the law that is now being looked at in washington. alisyn: what concerns you? >> the concerns are this: that we're really, i think, moving towards a single pair system. moving towards a system by which the government runs all health care. and under these various bills, the federal government is going to mandate how private in

peter johnson jr. is in today for brian. peter: thank you for having me. gretchen: very nice to have you all week. peter: i appreciate it my honor. gretchen: huge news coming out of the other side of the world. the commander of the taliban confirming the top terror leader has been killed in pakistan. sources say a c.i.a. missile strike killed baitullah mehsud, the leader of the pakistani taliban. he's considered pakistan's public enemy number one. his sources are believed to be behind a number of terror attacks, including the assassination of former prime minister benazir bhutto. a new prediction about when u.s. troops will leave afghanistan. the man said to become the senior advisor predicts the u.s. will be fighting in the country for two more years. at that point he says troops will either turn power over to an improved afghan force or, quote, lose and go home. meantime, a report on the war is due out in eye few weeks which may -- a few weeks which may lead to a request for additional u.s. forces. an accused killer in his own words. we warn you. this vi

kilmeade still on vacation, living it up somewhere, we hope; and in his place, we have wall street's peter johnson i thought you grpg to say legal eagle. steve: he has an office down on wall street at one of america's most prestigious law firms and somehow you ended up on the curvy couch. peter: america should know these people are fantastic. they really are. steve: there is something fishy you just said. peter: are you going to turn me in? where? the white house? gretchen: new address you can do that. steve: that's right. a couple of days ago on the drudge report, drudge had this thing that had a bunch of sound bites of president obama talking about over the last number of years what he would like to do with health care. well, then because the white house felt that that -- it was taken out of context, it was a miss mash and it was deceptive. they have now asked all of us if we see deceptive, fishy stuff, essentially to nark on your neighbor. a directive went out on august 4th. if you get an email or see something on the web -- you hear that drudge -- about health insurance reform that seems fishy

peter johnson, jr. that somehow government should create competition for private industry and the message has not changed. the problem is there's a tremendous amount of cynicism, distrust, skepticism, and anxiety on behalf of maybe 75% of americans in a bunch of polls. it says, we are concerned about rising prices. we are concerned about not having our own doctor. we are concerned about law lines. we are concerned about access. steve: and 85% say that the insurance policy they have, they like. here is a gallup poll. the president is now at his lowest approval rating purity is also at the highest disapproval rating. -- the president is now at his lowest approval rating. he is also at his highest disapproval rating. americans say, this is not the change i voted for. >> a lot of people say, i voted for the president. i'm an independent. i'm even a republican. i've voted for the president and i thought this was going to happen. i did not believe that my doctor, in treating me, would care more about a collec

trying to answer some of those questions but are the answers fact or fiction, fox legal analyst peter johnsond i mean, reading the bill and i'm picking it apart. >> alisyn: one of the things the president has been explicit about is if you like your health care you get to keep it. fact or fiction. >> i'll tell you what he said. >> president barack obama: under this reform we are proposing, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. >> peter is that true. >> this is the most radical revolutionary reform, restructuring of health care in world history. and i don't believe that it is true. based on the law and -- that is now being looked at in washington. >> alisyn: why? what concerns you. >> the concerns are this: we are really, i think, moving towards a single payor system. moving towards a system by which the government runs all health care. and, under these various bills, the federal government will mandate how private insurance is run. so, under the bills that we are looking at right now, if you are in a big self-i

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