>> well, don, it's really hard to tell, because rick warren wouldn't agree to an interview request todayain his decision, and the campaigns, they don't want to talk about it. this is such a delicate matter. but what warren told the orange county register was that there's been so much uncivility, lack of civility in this campaign, that it would be silly to pretend to sit down for a couple of hours and for both presidential candidates to be civil, temporarily. but, you know, it's important to remember that going back to 2008, rick warren was somebody who, you know, supported the prop 8 campaign for gay marriage there and at the same time, was very weary about coming across as being political. and here's a situation where he's canceling this civil forum, and he's been very critical toward president obama on the issue of religious liberty. he said that the obama administration has been threatening religious liberty. and so we have all these situations with rick warren, where he's on the one hand trying to stay above the political fray, and on the other hand, he has this habit of sort of maki

ricfrom rick warren? nobody committed to going.e don it with parties and i sent out invitations and i don't get any. you know that party i was planning, turns out i'm going to be out of town. i'm too embarrassed. >> dana: i've been thinking about that, too. rick warren is a person that could have a venue where there is discussion. disappointing that you said not to have it. >> andrea: when he did it in 2008 it was really fascinating forum. a lot of information came out of it. all right, eric, i want to ask you, as i mentioned before. >> eric: sean was right. [ laughter ] >> andrea: statistical -- juan is sitting next to you. >> juan: that's fine. sean was right. kerry wasn't swift voting in 2004 and obama wasn't a terrorist in 2008. >> eric: i said this year on the show, juan, the most egregious swift voting i've seen many my life is the cancer ad that priorities usa put up. that was swift voting. >> greg: wait. you are confusing me, i think swift voting is a good thing. >> juan: you do? >> greg: tells the truth. if swift voting te

now, neither the obama campaign nor the romney campaign have final as ad plans to appear at rick warren's saddleback church this week. warren says the goal was to promote civility and respect but calls the current presidential campaign uncivil. >>> there is a new boat coming out about the raid that killed osama bin laden. it is written by one of the navy seals who participated in that raid. the author of no easy day did not use his real name and the point gone says nobody cheered the book. it is set to be released on september 11th. that should be a fascinating read. >> it will get a lot of buzz. -- and the pentagon says nobody cleared the book. >>> a big change to cut down on the number of power outages. >> tropical storm isaac is gaining strength and could change plans for the upcoming republican national convention. tucker has an update on the storm's track when we come back. [ harry umlaut ] the five stages of muller. suspicion: it's yogurt, how good can it be? revision. "actually, this ain't bad"? surprise! "look at this cool corner thingy!" desolation. "it's gone." anticipation "hey

. >>> pastor rick warren has canceled plans for a civil forum featuring the presidential candidates at his california church because their campaign is so uncivil. warren said the goal was to promote civility and personal respect between people with major differences, but that's not been the climate of the 2012 presidential campaign. >>> republican paul ryan has been asked by dee snider of twisted sister to stop using their song "we're not going to take it" at campaign events. and ryan's spokesman responded, quote, hey, we're not going to play it anymore. take that. >>> mitt romney has been criticized in obama campaign ads for his foreign bank accounts in switzerland, bermuda, cayman islands and the potential for hiding money from u.s. taxes. now the government of swilts zerland has objected to the obama campaign because the ads give the impression that simply having a swiss bank account means the account holder is trying to hide money from the irs. >>> and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> and now here's your first look at how wall street will kick off the day. the d

chicken sandwich sales went through the roof according to megachurch pastor rick warren who apparently new role counting chickens and sandwiches who wrote in a tweet that cathy called him to say chick-fil-a has already set a world record today and that was with seven more hours to go in the west. while close mindedness may have been good for business at chick-fil-a yesterday tomorrow is slated to be same sex kissing day at chick-fil-a. you can be sure the restaurant chain is looking forward to that. supporters of same-sex marriage have a more important step forward to celebrate with the news that the democratic party plans to include a plank supporting marriage equality among other pro lgbt positions in its platform. joining me now to refuse the legal issues of civil rights is richard socarides who served as an advisor on lgbt issues to president clinton and served as the president of equality matters. richard, thank you for joining us. you know, it is easy to make -- light of the whole chick-fil-a thing. >> it keeps on giving. >> eliot: i don't know where to stop with this. it is a re

the campaign is out of control rick warren who had the best forum for candidates four years agoannounced he is cancelling the forum this time because he thought the tenor and tone and rancor of the campaigns were so beyond anything imaginable that it wouldn't work to have a civil conversation. next thing new york times columnist had this to say about the romney/ryan. they have a weak foreign policy between them weak frame frankly. i have been on conference programs with tom freed man and on this, i have to say if you think that the foreign policy record and resume of romney/ryan is thin. excuse mr. freedman. did you look at bark obama's foreign policy before he ran? did you look at any part of his resume and what about business and governing? andine running a lemonade stand would have provided a understanding of the free market system. transportation secretary ray lahood believes that the stimulus package was great for america . >> we put 65,000 to work and 15,000 projects in two years with no problems. i am proud of that. >> you may be the only man proud of the stim tim package. 862 buc

megyn: rick warren canceled the solidback forum. was quick to point out they never agreed to participate in this. there was a question about whether there was a forum to take place. but pastor warren tries to get the candidates together to have a civil discussion. he says it's not going to happe this year. i think a lot of folks felt sad that we are at the point where this guy doesn't feel the two can sit across from each other and have a discussion that will he elevate the debate. >> i think they can sit down in a forum together. but i agree with jay that this country is at an ideological crossroads. you have one-half of the country that wants to go towards more after socialist system and the other half wants a capitalist system. you are not forced to listen anymore. if you are on facebook you can block your friends who don't hair your point of view. megyn: last time air was very polarized. >> the ironic part of it all is the people want progress. if you look at statistics and look at the polls. congress' rating is 12% or less. loo

pastor rick warren tweeted ceo dan cathy called me.today with seven more hours to go in the west. #outofchicken. the company released today, had this quote, "while we don't release exact sales numbers it was unprecedented day." apparently a counter event is set for tomorrow. gay rights supporters are planning national same-sex kiss day at chick-fil-a. to protest the company support of traditional marriage. finally, president obama called turkish prime minister monday to discuss the situation in syria. the call itself was not unusual in the crisis there. but the picture of the president holding a baseball bat in that call raised some questions. >> you know, didn't get it from a major league player or is a back story about the foreign policy approach? he was holding a baseball bat. >> what can i tell you? >> bret: the bat was a gift from hall-of-famer hank aaron. the legacy of hurricane katrina has become a money-draining eyesore for large part of new orleans. tens of thousands of the abandon properties are waiting to be fixed or sold. c

. >> rick warren is canceling planned forum because of uncivil discord. he said i have never seen more irresponsible personal attack, mean spirited slappeder and dishonest attack ads. i don't expect it to change before the election. obama and romney campaign point out they never agreed to participate in the forum. we reached out the pastor warren but have not heard back. a local artist thought she was doing a good deed for the church when she decided to touch a century old painting of christ deteriorating in her small spanish town. but many say the artnist her 80s did more harm than good. the image on the left is the painting before. with her so-called improvement, the one on the right is the restoration. some compare the new painting to a monkey. at the time, house speaker nancy pelosi said congress must first pass the healthcare bill before the american people can find out what is in it. that appears to be the case as patients and hospitals continue to learn what obamacare means for them. correspondent jonathan serrie explains. >> you might be surprised

rick warren is canceling his presidential forum that he hoped would feature barack obama and mitt romney. he cited the incivility of the election season as the reason for the cancellation. i havnow, sadly pastor warren s right because today there are new examples of just how low the left will sink in order to win in november. california, yesterday, senator barbara boxily said both mitt romney and paul ryan are poised to become the quote top generals in a war on women. she went on to say "i'm not kidding. maybe they don't like their moms or first wives, i don't know what it is. "and then there is the left wing columnist maureen dowd who colded anybody for daring to call paul ryan hip or part of a new generation because according to dowd he is just a fresh face on a taliban creed. unfortunately for the president and his friends the hateful rhetoric is not resonating with voters and this ad is proof. watch this and i will tell you why. watch this. >> what does it say about a president's character when his campaign tries to use the tragedy of a woman's death for political gain? what does it

a presidential forum planned pie high profile pastor rick warren has now been cancelled. evening only to have the name-calling return the next day, joining me is fox news religion contributor father jonathan morris with his thoughts. good morning. >> full disclosure, i'm a friend of pastor rick warren, he's a very good man, i think and i think it is great he has come out and said, clearly, that this is not about me, it is very easy to imagine a pastor holding a presidential forum and that is a big, high profile thing and he said, actually, it is not about me, it is about bringing together these candidates, just as he did with john mccain and president obama. >> gretchen: i remember it. >> made big news there but he said it was all about civility and dialoguing about important values and issues and if they are going at each other so hard, he didn't say who it was that was doing that necessarily but, such negative campaigning to come together and pretend like they are being civil and go back the next day and beat each other up that badly, he wasn't interested. >> gretchen:

reverend rick warren tweeted yesterday that dan cathy, just talk to him. called me, and he said already set a world record today with seven more hours to go in the west. >> let's listen to some people who decided to turn out to chick-fil-a yesterday to make a statement. >> it's sad that freedom of speech only applies when you say what you want to here and not other people. if other people have believes i don't believe in," i'm not going to condemn you because of it. >> there's kind of a culture war going on and people aren't respecting each other and difference of opinion. there's no dialogue really taking place to get to the heart of like what we believe as a nation and what is truth. >> i believe what the bible said so i came out here to support chick-fil-a and the movement. >> they didn't want blacks coming to their restaurant, we didn't want us staying in their hotels and now they are saying because we take that position, they don't want us in their cities. we won't take it. >> i think i have to give credit to mayor bloomberg. he said don't include me

he apparently told pastor rick warren it set records. will you do the same? >> absolutely. mr. huckabee did. >> how many people have responded to your effort? >> well, on facebook, we have this morning when i checked we had just a little over 13,500. but then we also have, you know, friends that are coming, as well, people on twitter, and other different events on facebook, as well. so we're hoping to see somewhere in the vicinity of 15,000 people show up today. >> and that's all across the country, right? >> correct. chick-fil-a has over 1,600 locations across the u.s. and we're hoping to have someone at every single location today. >> so you're staging this kiss-in, provocative, some say that's just pushing buttons that will turn some people off. so why stage a kiss-in? why not just protest with signs the traditional way? >> yes, definitely. a lot of people have been saying, voicing their opinions about this kiss-in. and we have been -- we have been emphasizing that it's not just a kiss-in. someone can go to hug, hold hands, but we want to show our love. we want to show t

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rick. >> steve, is china our economic model. >> no, thanks to elizabeth warren and her kind we don't have the money china is trying to catch up with us if we want to spend money on the private in42 structure and how about the highway trust fund instead of light rail let it go for highways. remove obstacles that she put in the way for. >> morgan, we don't have to look abroad to china, we have to get back to our old roots. >> she's not necessarily saying we need to spend nine percent of gdp. >> sounds like she said we have to be more like china. >> no, countless reports it doesn't matter if you are democrat and republican, our country is in a staste disrepair. we have power grid that threatens black outs roads and bridges in disrepair it is not a story of infrastructure alone, it is about jobs. that's the point she is trying to get tomp construction industry lost five million jobs. >> we have to work it around. emac, i want to get to you it is a question of infrastructure and how much we can afford andective it is. >> elizabeth warren is talking about raising taxes to cut the deficit one tr

rick. >> steve, is china our economic model. >> no, thanks to elizabeth warren and her kind we don't haveying to catch up with us if we want to spend money on the private in42 structure and how about the highway trust fund instead of light rail let it go for highways. remove obstacles that she put in the way for. >> morgan, we don't have to look abroad to china, we have to get back to our old roots. >> she's not necessarily saying we need to spend nine percent of gdp. >> sounds like she said we have to be more like china. >> no, countless reports it doesn't matter if you are democrat and republican, our country is in a staste disrepair. we have power grid that threatens black outs roads and bridges in disrepair it is not a story of infrastructure alone, it is about jobs. that's the point she is trying to get tomp construction industry lost five million jobs. >> we have to work it around. emac, i want to get to you it is a question of infrastructure and how much we

rick: molly, what is the response from the warren campaign. >> the warren campaign says this is law in place over 20 years. it was passed with bipartisan support. here is what warren herself had to say. >> no one likes to see attacks on their family but this is about a law that has been in place for 20 years. and this organization was working on enforcement of this law before amelia ever even joined it. and the organization was working with several states around the country including massachusetts and that was happening before i ever got involved in the race. >> reporter: massachusetts gop officials say that state's response was unprecedent. and other states didn't get involved in these mass mailings. but state officials defend the mailings say other states have in fact actually paid out bigger financial penalties when faced with the same sort of suits and settlements. rick? rick: molly line in boston. molly, thank you. >>> congratulations to the women's u.s. soccer team, winning the gold in london. >> a goal. wonderfully crafted by the united states and abby woman back. -- wombach. ri

rick unger, should we be more or less like china? >> it is not about that. china companies off of a bridge. >> that's what elizabeth warren said. >> we are reacting to elizabeth warren. >> she's right we need infrastructure investment and you are agreeing with that. we don't think the government is doing that greatest a job. there is no getting around the fact that our infrastructure is falling apart. and will turn us in a third world counselries. would we not all agree we can't afford not to make an investment if we have business in the future. >> the question is whether we should become more like a third world country like china that is spending so much gdp on infrastructure. >> china's policy is fail spending money on infrastructure where no one lives. japan tried this and it also fail would. if there is a counselry to emuate is estonia. their gdp is growing a 10 percent compared to 1.5 percent for the united states. >> i want to emulate the united states. victoria. the fact is, what emac said is true. a lot of states out of china. and the more we hear about the high speed rail program that is pushed by president obama