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the white house admits this is not just a bump in the old american road. >> we are in a crisis. we're trying to get some people to understand that this is a real crisis. and the ways in which things happen in this town have got to be jump started based upon the difficulty we're in. >> it's my hope that we're just barely through a quarter of president obama's presidency, which means that i hope we're just a quarter of the way through the new ideas we will do. bill: hopefully it will not be a long hot summer but it's shaping up to be justna that, right? stuart varney, good morning. >> i got to say, this is a june swoon, all the economic indicators have been bad this month. the debt is exploding, your home continues to lose value, and no today, we've got these, again, very bad jobless numbers. i'll repeat the number, 429,000 new faces on the unemployment line last week alone. that means virtually every week for three months, we have seen more than 400,000 new claims. that in itself is a very, very high number. it says that the jobless picture, the unemployment picture in america, is actually getting worse. not better. it's getting worse. bill: the president saying this is a bump in the road. is that opinion shared by others? >> no it's not, sir. right after the last job numbers, about two weeks ago, when we only created 54,000 new jobs in the month, the president said it is a blip, it is a bump in the road, temporary it's a temporary thing. yesterday, ben bernanke o'clock the big money man himself, came right out there and said huh-uh, it is a trend, this is a trend towards a weakening economy. bill: you just heard from the white house saying they're only a quarter of the way through their ideas for what they want to do. now, what are the other big idea? >> okay. that's what we all want to know. what is the policy? if the economy has hit a brick wall and it has, how do we move forward and make it expand? late yesterday senators durbin and reid came out and said they want more spending, more government spending, specifically on infrastructure. the morning at the white house there is a meeting between president obama, ms. pelosi and vice president biden again looking at more spending, so the administration and the democrats' answer to this economic problem is double down. spend more money. go back to more infrastructure spending. >> a closer look at cbo report, it says our nation's debt has exploded from 40 percent of our economy to 70 percent and that by the year 2021 the debt will exceed the entire size of the u.s. economy. that is not good. that is unless congress acts now on a deal to bring down our $14 trillion debt. the world's richest country will go into default on its loans if that does not happen. we'll talk to a congressman inside that house hearing today for a full report. >> heather: tornadoes tearing through kentucky's churchill downs horse track. here is one witness nearby. >> that could be one on the ground there, in the middle. oh my god! go! look, it's on the ground. >> where? >> right there! >> we were watching it from up above, then a storm from the bottom up started tearing roofs off of everything. it started right -- just on the other side of that hill, started tearing stuff up. >> heather: can you imagine that coming towards your home? the storm damaging barns, a chapel, and workers' apartments at the home of the kentucky derby, up to 400 horses displaced. janice dean is live in the fox weather center. >> reporter: the video coming out of kentucky is quite astounding. the national weather service hasn't determined yet if that was a tornado moving to the louisville area, but they will be out assessing the damage, and there's some of the video. taking a look, it does look like a funnel cloud, and whether or not that touched down is what they're going to assess later on today and we'll bring you the very latest. but a trac spokesperson said it was miraculous no one was hurt or injured -- was injured. we'll keep you up to date on that but man, we are so thankful no one was injured or killed in this tornado -- possible tornado. just want to show you the line of thunderstorms over the last 24 hours. the first line goes around through 7:00 eastern time, the second one goes through around 8:00, so both of those lines is what we're looking at as well to see if there was indeed rotation with some of these cells. it could be straight line wind damage as we'll well. we'll keep you up to date on that. we have the potential for severe weather across the eastern seaboard, towards the gulf coast and across the great lakes as this cold front continues to move slowly eastward. there is a very -- severe weather threat over a wide area, mem ins, kansas city and the northwest as well. don't see we're going to see a severe weather outbreak but certainly could see tornadoes. we'll keep you updated from the fox weather center. >> if you have images at home, e-mail them to us at the address on your screen, you report, foxnews.com, give us your name, location, and a brief description of what we're looking at. bill: it's iconic in louisville, too, when that happens. heather: meanwhile, there is a new report this morning that the 22-year-old marine reservist arrested after a bomb scare at the pentagon last week, word he may be linked to several mysterious shootings, targeting military buildings, and ballistics evidence may inc. malafu to shots fired at the marine corps museum at the pentagon last year. federal officials have not filed charges in the shootings or the bomb scare. bill: so the jowl going flato commander general david petraeus on the hill today. petraeus will be in front of a senate committee hearing to head up the cia. we could hear his recommendations about the troop withdrawal, and last night, the president offering the withdraw of 10,000 troops from the ten-year-old war this year with the remainer of the 33,000 on the surge back home by the end of next summer. peter doocy is live in washington. what else did the president say? >> reporter: you just mentioned he said at the white house last night he's going to bring home 33,000 troops by the end of next summer, which is two months before he's up for reelection, and he also said it's time to reclaim the american dream by nation building here at home. >> over the last decade we have spent a trillion dollars on war, at a time of rising debt and hard economic times. now, we must invest in america's greatest resource. our people. we must unleash innovation that creates new jobs and industries while living within our means, we must rebuild our infrastructure and find new, clean sources of energy. >> to get that done the president also says he wants everyone to feel the same sense of shared purpose we did after the 9/11 attacks. bill: what are you hearing from military leaders about this speech? >> outgoing secretary of defense robert gates backed up his boss' plan, he says, quote, i support the president's decision because it provides our commanders with enough resources, time, and perhaps most importantly, flexibility to bring the surge to a successful clean, but not everyone is sold. republican senator john mccain thinks it's all happening too fast. >> we made great gains, sean, they are fragile, and if we pull out too soon, i think the consequences will be unfortunately the unnecessary sacrifice of american blood. and even with all this, bill there, will still be 68,000 troops in afghanistan at the end of next summer. bill: thank you for that. it was a big story last night, it continues to be a big story rattling around washington, thank you. a few of the stories there that we're watching on "america's newsroom". in a moment, the defense saying casey anthony drowned or caylee anthony drowned, but have they proved that? >> heather: are you familiar with whitey bulger? arrested after 16 years on the run. we'll tell you how his frequent girlfriend's trip to the salon led to the crime boss. phillip: and -- bill: and a new study, showing americans working on the weekend. you're working instead of chilling out, americans! chilling out. >> ♪ >> ♪ heather: a new call to ground all planes like the one in the deadly russian crash that happened earlier this week. forty-five people were killed in the crash a. fiery one that happened in eastern russia on monday. seven, though, survived this. the 41-year-old plane crashed in heavy fog just moments before landing. the president of russia saying that pilot error appears to be the cause of the crash, but still, he has ordered all of those planes are retired. bill: we've got about 14 minutes past the hour, and casey anthony's defense team back at work at the moment, the defense has been working hard to try and poke holes in the prosecution's case, but they have not entered any new evidence proving that casey's daughter drowned in the family pool. so how's the defense doing now? kimberly guilfoil, and joey jackson, criminal defense attorney, welcome to both of you. it's hard for me to tell, what's happening in there, and whether or not they're really getting to the jurors. i mean, kil berly, you start. is there anything new that the defense is providing that is raising a level of doubt or suspicion based on the prosecution's case? >> yeah, there's a level of doubt as to what exactly they're doing because they're not accomplishing much if anything. the prosecutor has been able to effectively on cross-examination refute much of the forensics that they are trying to rebutt. this is a big problem for the defense. because in the opening statement, jose baez promised he was going to show this jury that, in fact, casey anthony did not murder, intend to kill, her little girl, but it was an accidental drowning that was covered up by her father who's a sexual abuser, and then the -- >> bill: so the defense has not been able to prove that just yet, which would indicate that they're not making money inroads in the state's case. you believe that, right? >> i dobl that. that's why i think she should have to take the stand. bill: let me get to that in a moment. joey, what do you think about that, is the defense doing anything? >> i think they are. listen, when you get to the science, it is inherently inexact and it favors the defense, why, because inexactness results reasonable doubt. what am i talking about? there were a number of tests performed, tests performed on her sneakers, shoes, it determined the soil did not match the area where the body was found, there was an air sample test done and what did the air sample test show, that it was inconclusive for human de compings, the test of the hair, no chloroform found on it, as it relates to the prosecution t. suggested it was used in her death, samples, it wasn't on the car, the steering wheel, the seat. all they have to do is establish this doubt and i think this is fertile ground when you get to the forensic evidence to establish that doubt and that's exactly what they're doing. bill: if you're a -- if i'm a juror and buying your argument, the dwents has done its job. >> i think certainly they're attempting to attack it. kimberly raise as point, which is a good one, about the cross-examination of the protion and in cross-examination that's where you discredit the defense, so it depends upon who does the jury believe, are they going to believe the expert testimony as it's presented or are they going to more side with ashton, who is cross-examining them to attempt to discredit them, to show that what they're doing and saying does not amount to the doubt we should believe in this situation. bill: it's hard to read a juror. listen, lawyers do it in every single trial across the country. but what we're hearing is that a lot of these jurors are frankly bored, not taking notes, falling asleep in many cases. >> what does that tell new. >> bill: they're flustered -- but get to the big point, kimberly. that is whether or not you put this woman on the stand. if you are her defense attorney, as things stand right now, do you take that chance? >> i really don't think you have any other choice but to put her on the stand. that defense attorney got up and said this was an accidental drowning. they haven't been able to put on any kind of medical expert or forensic pathologist to say she did in fact drown because of the level of decomposition. you can't prove that. so he's going to have to put on someone, either casey anthony her or call george to the stand, her father, to say yes, i was there, the child -- but that's not going to happen because george already denied that and the sexual allegations against him when he was on the stand in the prosecution case. she has to get up and tell the story because so far, they're knit picking at some of the for sentics, it isn't going to move the ball forward. bill: you would -- bill: you would put her on the stand. joey, would you? >> i would not and here's why. in these cases, you attempt to look for surrogates. in politics, the president doesn't come on a talk show, the people who know the president come on the show. same thing in the trial, you attempt to find someone who can establish the evidence you need without putting the client on the stand, why, because she's going to be ravaged. shs already been determined to be a liar, pathological, and as a resultor that, the cross-examination is going to be devastating to her. it's a risky business, bill. bill: that is the big decision that everyone i waitg on in this trial. joey, thank you for coming in, kimberly, thanks to you as well, the prosecution, the defense, later today, watcall the action in the casey anthony trial as it unfolds, studio b with shepard smith, covering all the breaking details. also, wall to wall coverage a bit later, 3:00 eastern time. if you want to watch it right now, it's online, foxnews.com, while we're on the air right here. so you can put it into your computer, keep your tv on at the same time! heather:multi tasking. bill: apparently we're doing that on the weekend. we'll find out about that a bit later, too. heather: nine men and one woman all in the running for the 2012 ticket. one of them joins us here about why they should be on the ticket against president obama. bill:sy a long suspected gangster, one of the fbi's ten most wanted, captured after 16 years in hiding. and guess where he was hiding? and how was he finally nabbed? >> been here about a week and wow! whitey's caught? you got to be kidding me. no way. we had to come down, check it out. >> you have so many stories where he's dead or alive, and whether he's out of the country or not, and here in southern california, it's pretty interesting and wild. heather: he was on the fbi's most wanted list and he spent 16 years in hiding, but now james whitey bulger is in federal custody. we're awaiting his arrival at a federal court in california. adam housley has more for us from the federal courthouse in los angeles. adam, how did the feds finally catch up to him? >> reporter: well, first of all, he's already here, in the holds facility behind me, the courthouse and holds facility for -- holding facility, and bulger is inside, he was taken there last night, after 16 years on the run. they found him in santa monica on third street. for those who have not been to santa monica before, third street is kind of significant because just down the street from where he's found is an outdoor pedestrian mall, the third street promenade and he was only three blocks from the pacific ocean. according to authorities i've spoken to, they believe he had been in this apartment on the third floor for a number of years. there have been sightings over the years that he may have been in u gay, may have been in italy, but they believe now after getting a tip that he was in this apartment and had been there for some time with his girlfriend katharine grieg: heather: a lot of rumors about where he was. what happens next? >> what happens next, he'll be arraigned today. the time hasn't been officially set. we'll know when that arraignment takes place. most believe it will be at the elest noon but more likely 1:00, 2:00 locally in the afternoon. what's interesting, also, is there was a $2 million reward because he was a top ten fugitive for the fbi, no word on whether someone will get that but his arrest comes after a week long media blitz by the fbi and boston authorities in that region aiming at his girlfriend, thinking people would be able to find her which would lead them to him and apparently that's what happened, heather. heather: thank you very much, adam, we appreciate it. bill: that guy wasn't hiding! he was going to the beach. heather: ocean front apartment, not too bad. bill: santa monica. a new report says we're headed for an explosion so big we may not be able to recover as a nation. what will they say and conclude? we'll talk to a congressman about that. heather: michelle bachmann kicks off a white house bid in iowa. how will she do? we'll ask former new york within george pataki. heather: a key hearing on the new long term budget report set to get underway on capitol hill, lawmakers taking a closer look at the grim new report on america's financial future. that's raising a lot of doubts about america's economic recovery. ohio congressman jim jordan joins us live, he is the republican study committee chairman. thank you very much for joining us. >> good to be with you heather. heather: this report that came out talking about the national debt has exploded from 40 percent to 70 percent and by 2021, the debt will exceed the size of the entire u.s. economy. that sounds pretty scary. should we panic? >> well, we should change what we're doing, that's for sure. and even -- you know, long term, it's talking about the debt held by the private sector exceeding our gdp. now, if you count public debt, we're already comparable to what our gdp is. so in the situation in some ways, it could be even worse than what the cbo report indicated yesterday. look, here's the bottom line. we've got to change our course. we've got to cut spending. we've got a plan out there, we've cut cap and balance, cut spending, cap it as a percentage of gdp, and for the first time in american history, let's actually get through the house, get through the senate a balanced budget amendment to the constitution and force politicians to do what we should have been doing all along, only take in what we spend, the cbo report underscores it and says the sooner we cut spending the sooner we're going to get economic growth and that's the bottom line. heather: and that all sounds great and we would definitely love for that to be able to happen, and you're actually taking a step forward in that direction, you have this cut, cap, balance pledge? >> yes, and we had a -- yesterday we launched this online, conservative groups from across the country are supporting it, we've got dozens of members of congress signing it and sit eans across the country. it's the bold action we have to take in the context of this debate. this is the leverage we have to fundamentally change america, to put in place those polices that will put us on a sustainable fiscal path, which is what the cbo talked about, guess on a sustainable path. right now we're on an unsustainable path. we have the cap, cut and balance pledge, and we need to get it done in the context of this debt ceiling debate. heather: let's go back to that cbo report, they talked about two different scenarios: the first scenario, and tell me if i'm correct in reading this, if congress did nothing at all, the decifit problems would mostly be solved, but that would have painful consequences, right? >> well, that's assuming that we would let the tax cuts expire and things like that, which actually it would harm our economy. we don't want to do that. we want to cut spending. americans understand this, it's not a revenue problem, it's a spending problem. we need to put in the broad policy changes that force us in the future to do what we have to do to hold spending down, that being the balanced budget amendment. these numbers, which i think is so critical, the numbers the cbo put out yesterday are comparable to the numbers in those countries we've been reading about for the past couple of years, and greece, that we're currently reading about on the front page each day. we've got to get a handle on this, balanced budget to the constitution is a long term thing that will actually fix the problem. heather: some of the growth numbers we mentioned, between 2011 and 2035, medicare grows by 3 percent of the gdp, social security grows by 1.3%, the growth of federal programs not being the only issue. also talking about interest payments and the cost of interest, which could actually be the largest federal expense? >> >> y yes, and within about ten years' time, our interest payments go from 200 billion, where they're currently at, to more than we will spend -- than we currently spend on national defense. if you're spending more to service a debt than you are in defending the country, that's a bad place to be and frankly, it's place you can't sustain. once again, underscoring that we've got to take this opportunity in the context of the debt ceiling debate to put in place the bold dramatic changes that will fix the nation. heather: thank you very much, congressman jordan, we appreciate you joining us and some of those ideas may be painful, but it has to be done. thank you. >> thank you. bill: then there's ten. ten candidates officially contending for the republican nomination, one of them with me now. former new mexico governor gary johnson. governor, good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. >> bill: we had bleak numbers on the job market last hour, we're looking for good news and trying to find the silver lining and frankly, it's tough. if you were to be the nominee, what's your plan for the economy? >> well, balance the budget, first and foremost. so gary johnson would submit a balanced budget for the year 2013, i would eliminate the federal corporate income tax, reestablish this country as the only place to grow business, nurture business, and then regarding our own taxes, eliminate the income tax, eliminate the irs, replace it with a consumption-based fair tax, which by all reckoning from free market economists would actually be just that, fair, it would -- >> bill: you're cutting across the board when it comes to taxes, about every area. now, when you were governor of new mexico, did you cut taxes? >> you know, cut taxes, but not as significantly as i think they should have been cut. what i did provide in new mexico was certainty, and that's another component when it comes to the federal government. provide certainty to business. right now, we're not building coal-fired electrical generation facilities because of the uncertainty regarding cap and trade, environmentally. how much is it going to actually cost to build these new coal-fired plants? because of that, i think there's an example of potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs that could be brought online, removing that uncertainty. bill: back on the tax issue, how much, or by what percentage, did you cut taxes in your home state? >> well, i would argue, not nearly enough. when i talk about fair tax -- >> bill: [inaudible] >> i think $114 million. more significantly was the fact that i would have veto ed 750 pieces of legislation. i would have had thousands of line item vetoes that really gave certainty to business, and that it wasn't going to get worse, and because i ran state government, because i ran the agencies, there was really certainty that actually things were better. bill: i sthaw on your record, also saw you cut 1000 state jobs. why was that necessary? >> well, just managed attrition, that was all. the notion that government could be more efficient. and i think that cutting 1200 state jobs over an eight-year period, that had never happened before, i think that spoke volumes to state government employees doing a better job with fewer people. bill: one more thing, here. you're running for the republican nomination, and this next topic is tender, as you know. how do you rationize the -- rationalize the legalization of marijuana? >> first of all, i'm opposed to the drug war, a-z, but from strictly a conservative standpoint, half of what we spend on law enforcement, the courts and the prisons is drug-related, about $70 billion a year. what are we getting for that? we're arresting 1.8 million people. we now have 2.3 million people behind bars in this country. the majority of them are there because they've sold small amounts of drugs on numerous occasions, and have been caught. bill: and legalization brings that number down you argue. >> potentially by half. communist china, four times the population, 1.5 million prisoners. aren't they the communist authoritarian dictatorship, aren't we the country of liberty and freedom and personal responsibility that goes along with that? except for marijuana, of course. well, it shouldn't include marijuana. bill: governor, thank you for coming on. we'll talk again. former governor of new mexico, gary johnson. thanks. heather: in all, there are ten official candidates in the race for the 2012 republican nomination, and they include former governors like gary johnson, former and current members of congress, an a former speaker of the house. and there are still some possible contenders, no doubt you've heard about those, who have not announced just yet. they have all hinted at a possible run but they haven't made any official announcements. and for the latest election news, head to foxnews.com, your front row seat to politics. just click on aehq for the very latest in the 2012 headlines. bill: this is not a good number. if you want to turn away now, you can! stocks are headed lower, considerably. off about 142, 143 points in about seven minutes of trading, the jobs number came out last hour, it was not good. now we're hearing about 28 countries around the world, including the united states, set to release millions of barrels of crude oil to try and relieve some of the pressure on the market, part of this brought on by libya. why they're doing it now and not before is anybody's guess. we'll see whether or not we can hang in there throughout the show. heather: not good economic news from every angle. bill: haven't had it in a while. heather: the parents of a missing college student, making a desperate plea to her friends. do they know something, anything, that could help lead police to their daughter? bill: my next -- will the economy help president obama -- hurt president obama's rgances in 2012?d rgances in 2012?d my next guest will make the case, yes or no. karl rove, on deck. heather: developing news in "america's newsroom", some much needed rain helping firefighters gain the upper hand on a wildfire burning in southeast texas. the flames are now 75 percent contained but people still waiting to be allowed to go back home. an update on a baseball fan you may remember brutally beaten outside dodgers stadium, brian stow's condition upgraded from critical to serious, he was beaten at the dodgers stadium in march. actress lindsey lohan headed back to court for a probation hearing, reports saying she failed a court-ordered alcohol test. bill: she knows the hallways there by now, right? >> heather: probably. bill: president obama will likely not be reelected in 2012. that is the headline in the "wall street journal" piece today from karl rove. he cites four factors that could drag down the president. a weak economy, number one. rove also argues several key voter groups are not happy with the president, people who backed him two years ago. also the president has backed unpopular polices not loved by the majority of american people and some of the strategic decisions that have been made, all that to be explained \dollars/{^ed} right now. karl rove was george bush's senior adviser and deputy chief of staff and also a fox news contributor. how you doing karl? >> thank you, bill, good to see you. >> let's start with the elephant in the room. make your case on the economy. >> unemployment at 9.1%, president obama sold us on the stimulus bill by saying that unemployment would top out at 8 percent by the end of the summer of 2009 and be about 6.8% today, that's not come to pass. and the president has treated this in a jocular fashion. i think he did himself harm when he said i guess we didn't have as many shovel ready jobs that were shovel ready. no president has been elected since 1936 with 7.2% unemployment or more, the federal reserve suggests employment is going to be about 8 percent next year. the only guy who survived 7.2% unemployment was ronald reagan and he had the economy going and growing in '83 and '84 at rates far above where they're projected. bill: what was the unemployment rate when reagan swept? >> 7.2%, but the economic growth was far more robust. we're likely to have economic growth less than 3 percent and slightly better than 3 percent next year, but we're going to have, as a result, unemployment sky high, and remember, with unemployment with nearly 14 million people out of works, almost half of those people have been out of work for six months or more, that's worse than at the height of the great depression. bill: i think this is such a telling number. bloomberg came out with a survey a few days ago, are you better off or worse than than the beginning of 2009, that's that tried and true question, are you better off now than four years ago with ronald reagan. now you're asking yourself are you better off than two years ago and 44 percent say they're worse off. that shapes the economy. what are the issues with his base, karl? >> it's not just his base. you do have problems, for example, with jewish voters and you do have problem, we saw the let wing bloggers at net roots, but i took in my article and looked at the decline in the approval rating from 67 percent at the time of the president's inauguration to 45 percent this week -- this week and looked at the groups whose decline was bigger than the average and it's like independents and whites. interestingly enough, younger voters, 22-point drop, senior voters who were not good to start with. so my point is, there was a whole series of groups, white, southerners, middle class voters, westerners, all of whom have moved away from this president in dramatic fashion in the last 2 1/2 years. bill: is that because of the economy? or is it another factor in. >> the economy is the dominant factor but the third point i make, one of the reasons why they've moved away, they like the presidents in some respects personally did you they dislike his polices. they're down on him on the economy, 37 percent approval, another poll had a 27 percent approval on the decifit, and the affordable care act, president obama's health care bill, is less popular today than when it passed, and it was unpopular at the time that it was passed. and all that's created a toxic stew for the president among the key voter groups, so bad polices is the third reason that he's got real problems. bill: you're right, he's at the mercy of polices and esents he's set in motion, that's number three. number four is this you believe he is making a strategy blunder by running for reelection now in the white house as opposed to acting like a president. is that the case you make? >> yeah, looks, we understand that the president has got to raise money and get a campaign to organize, but the president could have made a decision, said you know what, i've got until next march or april, during which i can be president and the republicans will be out there choosing their nominee, then next march or april, i can turn and become a candidate, and instead, the president said i'm going to become a candidate now, he's spending way too much time on the campaign trail, today he's going to new york for a series of fund-raisers, he's had nearly 40 some odd fund-raisers this year, and more important that, he's adopted a tone of a campaigner in chief, calling out his republican opponents, deny grading their proposals, demagoguing them, basically taking the great strength he has as incumbent president of the unions and discarding it and becoming another political candidate. bill: you know as well as anybody that 18 or 19 months, whatever it is, i mean, that is like glacier years in politics. >> that's when i -- that's what i put in my piece. look, two things. one is yes, that's right, he does have the time and i'm going to write in a future article what could happen that could put him back in the game, but the problem is -- >> bill: what is that? >> you're going to have to wait for my nextwell journal column on that! but some things don't change. the economy is not likely to change. his polices of spending and decifit, debt, health care, the attitudes about him are not going to change. if anything, they're going to get worse. they certainly have gotten worse on health care. the concerns of these groups which are driven by the economy and driven by his polices are going to be difficult to rejigger, so sometimes, things stay the way they are in politics and that may be the problem for president obama. bill: if it goes to option b, he stands a very good chance of being reelected, as you point out. karl, thank you. karl rove, we'll look for your next piece next week, okay? we'll speak again. heather. heather: developments in the cold blooded father's day massacre. right now we're awaiting a news conference in the deadly shooting that killed four people. we'll take to you that live when it happens. >> there was no reason to shoot them. there was no reason. it was four lives. he took away a young girl, he took away my daughter, who has two girls, and she was just going to get married. she was happy. there's no reason for this. bill: one of the first lessons you learn in this business is watch your mouth when you're wearing a microphone. it seems there's a pilot with southwest airlines that prably could have learned that lesson. he went off on a very inprop practical tirade about flight attendants d others. just listen: the chicago cews, 11 out of 12tre are 12 flig attendants, ndividuals, never the same flight attendants, 11, over the top homosexuals, and a granny. eleven! i thought i was in cicago which was partyland. >> 11 is transmitting, bill, watch what you're saying. bill: watch what you say. after that warning, he apparently did not get the message. heather: you've never been caught doing that, right? >> i'm back in houston, which is easily one of the ugliest bases. it's all the old dudes and grannies and maybe a handful of cute chicks. >> someone is telling us about their endeavors. we don't need to hear that. >>ou wonder why southwest airlines has a bad reputation. bill: southwest airlines suspended him, sent him to sensitivity training. what's that you do these days! he apologized to the controllers and tothe mayor of houston, texas. we love houston, by the way. heather: and you've never been caught doing that, right, on a mic! bill: not yet! >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ ain't no cure for the summertime blues. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ it may be summer, but fewer people, maybe including that flight attendant, may not be enjoying it. a new report showing more and more americans, they are working instead of taking time off. they're working on the the weekends, at home, for example. the study finding 24 percent of americans worked at home. dr. jeff gardere is a clinical psychologist and joins us now to talk more about that. thank you for joining us. >> it's always a pleasure, thank you. heather: so is it always bad thing to work more? >> i don't think it's a bad thing to work more. i just think we need to work smarter. and this new poll is saying that americans are working harder, especially women. men are working about ten minutes less, versus last year. women are working about ten minutes more. and that's because they have so many things that they need to do. but i think work is a good thing in that it gives us self-discipline, number one, and number two, if we're working more hours on the weekend, as the study shows, well, that should be enjoyable work, and in fact, the study does show it's not just about taking care of work from the workplace, but also, taking care of work at home, doing laundry, cleaning, and social interaction. heather: so all that's included in these statistics, right? >> yes, absolutely. heather: but i have to ask you about one thing that was referred to as a work-related activity. and that is golf. i don't know if i necessarily agree with that! it sounds like somebody from president obama's administration maybe came up with that. but golf a work-related activity? do you agree? >> what they're saying is that essentially work takes place in different venues and the networking that's needed or the wining and dining, and of course, part of that ends up on the golf core, is something that is legitimate. but what happens here is it does take away from the family. and that's my concern as a psychologist. that it's okay to work more hours on the weekend, if you make it enjoyable, but yet, at the same time, don't compromise the time away from family, because that's when they count on you the most as a parent. heather: that's definitely a good lesson to take from this. thank you very much, very appreciate you joining us and appreciate your insight. >> my pleasure. bull bill technology allows us to work, too, you got that blackberry. >> the blackberry, cell phone, the ipad! bill: there is no escape! and there's no escape from this, either. there's a key hearing stoat get underway on the hill, house lay makers looking for answers on a grim new report on america's economic future and that future is bleak. we're live in d.c. on what we can expect behind the numbers, heather. heather: plus major flooding fears as a river now rising, putting thousands of people at risk. >> they were like you have to evacuate immediately. i'm like oh no, i got me and my boys and my baby here, and i couldn't take nothing with me but clothes and documents. i had to leave everything. thatk of a heart attack or stroke. plavix helps protect people with acs against heart attack or stroke: people like you. it's one of the most researched prescription medicines. goes beyond what they do alone by helping to keep blood plelets from sticking and forming dangerous clots. plavix. protection against heart attack or stroke in people with acs. 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i'm telling you, price are going to be higher. bill: okay. all right, duly noted. by the way, i'm not the one that is -- follow the money every night, on fbn, thanks for coming in. what is the spr? strategic petroleum reserve in quick look now, for starters, the world's largest supplier of crude oil, and, 30 million barrels, and that amount will be released, and makes up 4%, of the entire reserve for the u.s. and, america's also invested about $22 billion, in its strategic petroleum reserve, over the years. and, so now the news is out. heather? >> and a "fox news alert," sizing up a frightening new report, on the debt crisis. right now. and as the director of the congressional budget office, set to testify on the cbo's new long term budget report, during a house budget committee hearing. the report says at the current pace our federal debt will reach roughly 70% of our total gdp this year, jim angle is live in washington with more on this. hi, jim. >> reporter: good morning, guys. well, you know, this is so urgent, president obama and vice president biden are meeting at the white house, today, with two democratic leaders and two negotiators, in the debt talks, now, vice president biden and others have made clear they need to finish before july 4th, before july 4th, about ten days from now, in order to get any of the -- deal written into legislation and analyzed by budget experts and to bring it to a vote before august 2nd. when the administration says it will reach the debt limit and the urgency of doing something, was made real yesterday by the debt projections you mentioned. from the nonpartisan congressional budget office, which are stunning. the cbo said first, under current law the debt will be 70% of the total economy by the end of the year and the highest since just after world war ii. but, the cbo also says, it is actually worse than that. it offers an alternative scenario, based on what congress is likely to do. one most analysts believe is more realistic, current law has doctors treating seniors in medicare, scheduled to take a 30% cut in fees, that is not going to happen. that is the so-called doctor fix and current law would also raise taxes on the middle class, in two different ways and the expiration of the bush tax cuts and the alternative minimum tax, no way is congress going to do that, either. and, when the cbo factored in what is likely, the results are stunning. there is a chart showing the debt soaring, and exceeding 100% of the total economy, by 2021 and ballooning to nearly 190% of gdp, by 2035. and, that puts us on a trajectory, where we don't have the... you should listen to what people say about that. here we go. >> that puts us on a trajectory where we don't have the cushion, if anything bad goes wrong... >> the cbo is one more indicator of why we ned to come together in a bay partner way, and work on the deficit reduction. >> reporter: van hollen is at the white house meeting today and meanwhile, democrats yesterday were asking that we in -- include more spending in the deficit talks, to create jobs, something president obama said didn't work well the first time around. heather. >> thank you so much, we appreciate the numbers are staggering and scary. bill: the stark numbers about the economy, 6 million americans were unemployed for 6 months or longer. about 25% of mortgage holders nationwide are now under water. owing more money than the home is worth. and, consumer prices for all goods have increased, each month, since june of 2010. that means inflation. >> and concerns about the economy, that brings us to our web question of the day. is the economy affecting your family directly? go to foxnews.com/"america's newsroom," to cast your vote. are you feeling the pain? is it somewhat noticeable? or does it just make no difference at all? we'll bring you the latest results, later in the show. bill: a "fox news alert." right now. this is an absolutely horrific crime, committed to -- outside of new york city on sunday morning. a man walked into a pharmacy around 10:30 a.m., sunday morning. and shot execution-style four different people inside the pharmacy, two were working there. and two were customers, and, when he left, he stuffed prescription medication into a backpack and fled. calmly. methodically, wearing a white baseball cap. and a hoody. with a backpack strapped around those shoulders, he has not been seen or heard from since. until late yesterday, when police picked him up, on long island, near med ford, new york, where the pharmacy was located and in a moment we'll get a news conference, not only has he been arrested but his wife has been picked up, also. a horrific crime, we are trying to get answers, as to why, and, in the end, there is no why. we'll get to that in a moment, as it breaks. moments away here, on "america's newsroom." >> a lot of people are asking the question, why, in this case, the casey anthony murder trial, a live look inside the courtroom, where and fbi hair and fiber expert is testifying right now. the questioning about the hair strand found in casey's trunk and prosecutors say the hair was caylee's, phil keating is live outside the courthouse, and, phil, this morning we are back to caylee's hair? >> reporter: yes, specifically, the one strand of caylee's hair that was taken out of the trunk of her mother's car which, this fbi analyst and his team of hair and fiber analysts, determined was from and all ready dead person. caylee was already dead according to the prosecution team, before she was placed in that trunk, and, the science involved here, is looking at root banding on a single hair from a person. but, what the lead attorney for casey is trying do here is raise doubt about whether the science is reliable at all. because he's having this fbi agent explain to the jury that as his team tries to test, you know, different strands of hair, from dead people, from live people, whether it would calls still have the statement air banding and he's showing some of the analysts did mistake some hair banding which came from living people at the time. >> and what about the gatorade bottle and syringe shown in court this morning? >> well, this was presented as evidence in the court this morning, a single gatorade bottle with a reddish fluid liquid in it and within the bottle was a syringe with compounds of testosterone and found 7 inches away from caylee's skull and there was one hair on that bottle that had no dna match. so, trying to raise reasonable doubt. >> phil keating reporting live for us, thank you very much, we'll check in as things develop and by the way, you can watch all the courtroom drama, streaming live on foxnews.com, at the top of the home page, click on the "watch live" link, foxnews.com, your other news source. bill: all right, some are arguing that she is the freshest face on the campaign trail. minnesota congresswoman michelle bachmann making a splash with republicans and what primary voters in the the key swing state of iowa think, george pataki who was there, might be in the race, in the end, anyway. >> we'll ask him, and, president obama is speaking live, last night, on the war in afghanistan. what he said that made it sound like the official start of his re-election campaign, we'll have a panel debating that. bill: also, there is this... when the sirens sound you better brace for the worst. as so many now know. >> i have four little boys, i'm a single father and i am scared out of my mind. if this house is ruined, i -- it doesn't sound like the landlord will fix it. i have no idea what my family will do. just don't feel like they used to. are you one of them? 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does she have a real chance? >> anyone has a chance at this point. i think it comes down to ideas and record and, what you are proposing for the american people. i think there is a broad consensus, that the country is headed in the wrong direction under president obama, and we need change, we need to focus on getting rid of the deficit and jobs, and, if the congresswoman has a sound message on this and connects with the american people, anything can happen. bill: prior to the new hampshire debate you said that you didn't want to hear platitudes about earmarks and other forms of wasteful spending. >> exactly. bill: now that it is complete, what is your take on that and did you hear anything that you wanted to hear from any of the potential candidates? >> well, i think it fines but i didn't hear the specifics we need on the deficit and we are headed the way of greece if we don't get our act together and the president is ignoring solutions and, ignored his own commission, $4 trillion in solutions an demonized paul ryan's proposed solution but have yet to hear a candidate who says, here's how to take 4, 5, $6 trillion out of the deficit over the next decade and we have to do that and the american people are waiting for that type of leadership and i hope we provide it. bill: you think, what steps should be taken first? the first step. >> the first step, should be, i think a comprehensive plan. it does two things, one, reduces the deficit, dramatically and reduces government spending and reduce the size of the governments workforce and repeals obamacare, and, reforms entitlements, like block granting medicaid and at the same time you have to grow the economy, the private sector economy. that is what i like about bowles simpson, they lower the marginal tax rate from 36 to 23% and lower the corporate tax rate. and that is what we need to do to create jobs and, at the same time, reduce the deficit by having and expanding economy where people have confidence, instead of today where you are worried about your job and the value of your home, and you are worried about inflation. when the government continues to spend trillions more than it has. bill: and your group, no american debt, is what it is called, is trying to incorporate all of those? >> we want to hold the president accountable, massive spending increases an entitlement expansions and has not created the jobs, and, you know, this is a great country. but we have never engaged in generational theft the way we are right now. we are stealing from our children, our future, to live beyond our means. and, reward interest groups today. that is not america. and if we don't change this -- the america ten years from now, it will not be the america that we love today. so, i think it is important that a republican candidate have a solid, strong message on how they will do that. it is great if they have a record. and, if so, i think, we can have a new president. bill: and you also think it is important they go to iowa, i'll throw a quote back at you, in reference to jon huntsman, who said he's not going to go -- he said, anybody who is looking to be the republican nominee should compete in iowa, a state where you can engage with people, across the table in small groups and now, you have been to iowa and the question is, does it mean that you are running? >> well, i'm not running at this point. i'm disappointed that mitch daniels decided not to run. he's got a great record in deficit reduction as governor of indiana. and, he would have made it a focus of his campaign. i hope someone comes out there who is going to have a solid plan, who we can get behind, and, unite and beat the president. but, if not, you know, i'm certainly taking a look and i like those retail politics. where you sit down with four, five people engage in a dialogue and instead of the 30 second sound bite tv commercial and that is how american people can best understand who they are voting for. bill: if you decide to run, when will you make the announcement. >> i don't timeframe, we'll see what others do, as you said, michelle bachmann will be announcing and others are considering it and we'll see what happens, as events unfold. bill: thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate it. >> nice being with you. bill: governor pataki, thank you. bill: we'll watch your schedule and look for clues, okay? >> thank you, bill. bill: thank you, governor, good luck. at the moment, defense attorneys for casey anthony are trying to create doubt in the state's case but are there signs the jury is tuning out? judge jeanine pirro is here live to tell us about that and taking out the trash when a truck takes you out? oh! heather: ouch. >> we say reaching her through family and cell phone contacts and hope she uses common sense and turns herself in. 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depending on who is in, who is out right now. and, how they reach some sort of path forward. to reduce what is on your screen now. not that, that is eric cantor, the gang of 7, but the $14.4 trillion in debt. the u.s. government carries today. eric cantor withdraws now from meetings and we'll wait for the statement from him on camera, or also, hope to get him on our air, live, this morning. here on "america's newsroom." breaking news, now, on the hill. heather: muammar qaddafi defiant as ever. the libyan leader accusing nato of cold-blooded murder. following an airstrike on a compound. rick leventhal is streaming live from rebel-held misurata. rick? rick: and heather, muammar qaddafi has been making the claims repeatedly, and sunday they actually proved true, nato admitting an errant strike hit a residential building, killing 12 civilians and wounding 18 more, but nato says now is the time to actually step up the bombing campaign, to increase the pressure on qaddafi and his troops. and, the fighting on the ground remains extremely fierce, if not more so, in a town of davniya, the front, most closest to misurata and that is where we are seeing the most casualties, 50 rebels reported wounded, today alone and we are hearing as many as 200 taken out of the fight the past ten days and 50 fighters killed. qaddafi's government not releasing numbers on its troops but they are in for a long and difficult battle, west of misurata and, earlier today we got a close-up, rare look at the russian-made rocket launcher built in the 1970s, used by qaddafi's troops and some of the opposition fighters gained control of these rocket launchers and today we saw for ourselves what it looks like when those rockets are fired. we should tell you, heather, these they'are the same rocketsd into misurata by qaddafi troops east of the city and have seen more of them land here today. heather: thank you very much, rick leventhal streaming live from misurata, libya. thank you. bill: the war continues, breaking news on it, eric cantor's withdrawal, what it means for the debt talks and the economy struggling to turn around and in his address last night the president said now is time to focus on building our nation. is this the start of his re-election campaign? we have a terrific panel on deck, fair and balanced debate on that, only three minutes away. heather: looking forward to that. and the search for the missing college student, as leads sizzle and clues diminish. her parents are refusing to give up. who they believe has information on her daughter's disappearance. >> people have left and are not available to help with the search.   heather: a news conference going on right now on long island in the father's day massacre. four people shot and killed. police saying the wife of the 33-year-old suspect drove the get away car, and like him is a pill addict. the suspect david laper set to appear in a new york courtroom. david lee miller is live in the newnewsroom with how the cops gt their guy. how was he tphapd. >> reporter: he was anything but a criminal mastermind. from a news conference taking place right now, we learned in great measure he was nabbed because they received so many tips from people who recognized him from the surveillance video that was inside the pharmacy where the quad drum homicide took place. they received 400 tips, heather. he was recognized despite the fact that when he allegedly kph*euted the crime he wore a hat, fake beard and sunglasses. those who knew him say he bora striking resemblance to the individual who entered that store and killed four people. now, in addition to the identification from tips authorities also say that slugs found at the scene apparently snatched a 45 caliber gun that lafer had in his possession and it was legally registered. they say there were fingerprints inside of the -- at least one fingerprint inside of the pharmacy, and there is a report also that a witness was able to pull him out of a line up, and to identify him. as he left the police station in the early morning hours lafer was asked by reporters if he was a drug user, he supplied no but he did have a reputation as a pill-popper. we heard from the county executive and he made a point of saying that anyone who is considering this kind of copy-cat crime should think about it twice. here is some of which he had to say. >> this is an important message, the quick apprehension of this suspect. anyone else who would think about going to a pharmacy and copying this type of robbery, which led to a murder has to know, you're going to get caught. the videos are there. people are going to come forward to identify you. the evidence will be there. you will not be able to hide. >> reporter: according to authorities david laffer is not cooperating with police, he's showing no remorse. it's expected he will be in court later today for his arraignment. heather: you are going to get caught. bill: he has black eyes. as to the politics of war and the speech on afghanistan last night. president obama emphasized this. >> we must rebuild our infrastructure and find new and clean sources of energy. and when our union is strong no hill is too steep, no horizon is behind our reach. america, it is time to focus on nation-building here at home. bill: some of these troops will be coming homenly months before america votes in 2012. is this the start of the president's re-election campaign? steve haze senior writer for the weekly standard. a great panel here, good morning to both of you. 30 fund-raisers so far and more expected in new york city. this is the aets room of the white house, a prime-time address, a focus on the home front at a time when the economy continues to batter people right and left. is this the beginning of the campaign for 2012? >> i think his campaign began quite a longtime ago. this might be the most decisive foreign policy speech he's given leading into the campaign. this was something that he had promised his base when he gave the speech december 1st 2009 when he surged troops into afghanistan. when he announced he would be withdrawing some of the troops in july of 2011 many of us thought it would cause problems on the ground for our troops in afghanistan, for our diplomats, intelligence officers, because they had trouble getting cooperation from afghans, from people on the ground that could provide them intelligence. the president made a decision way back then that politics mattered then, he was going to begin to withdraw and he followed through on that last night. bill: the whole phrase of focus here on home, i think a lot of people might want to hear that, maria. >> absolutely. bill: based on policies are they buying it? >> i think so. and your point, bill, this was not the start of his re-election campaign. i agree with steve that that actually had started quite some time ago. in terms of the economics of this. this is not the first time the president has focused on the economy. in fact it was his focus when he first careful into office when we were losing almost 800,000 jobs a month. he has been a stead-fast economist in terms of insuring that we do everything we can to get our economy going. what he did last night is layout what has been done in afghanistan from the time that he announced the troop surge to now, and the fact that we have actually met the objectives, in terms of reversing the taliban momentum, reversing al-qaida's power. we've killed 20 of 30 leaders, including osama bin laden and training the afghan security forces. he has made that commitment. bill: you know what i thought was fascinating, the range of reaction from last night's speech. whether it was on the left or on the right whether it was some of these presidential candidates on the republican side, steve, whether it was admiral mike mullen. petraeus was not mentioned in the speech last night. what did you make of of the reaction? >> we know that david petraeus offered a range of options. the president's advisers have said this. this is not what david petraeus wanted. this is not what general allen who is coming to replace david petraeus wanted. it's not what any commander's on the ground wanted. we found out this morning that it is not what mike mullen wanted. i was actually a little surprised to hear mike mullen say that the president chose the most aggressive, or a more aggressive and risky venture than he was originally prepared to accept. those are strong, strong words from the president's top uniformed military advisers. bill: his exact quote, more aggressive and incurred more risks than i was originally prepared to accept. now he has to, maria. >> he he also said that he does support what the president said last night. let's be clear about that. in addition to that the range of the options that petraeus gave to him, what the president announced las last night falls within that range. yes, the city certainly made a decision based on what his commitment was when he announced the surge. he has a bigger -- he needs to look at this from a broader standpoint than just what is going on on the ground. yes, he listened to his commander's but he's got to take a much broader view about what our commitments are worldwide. heather: i have some breaking news. i apologize. >> the president said when he announced the decision to surge troops he would pay attention to conditions on the ground. his commander's are telling him that the conditions are not right for this kind of a dramatic withdrawal. bill: i wish i had more time, i apologize, great panel. maria thank you. steve thank you. heather. heather: here is that breaking news, a news conference underway right now in boston. federal authorities now giving details on the capture of whitey bulger. he is an accused mobster on the run for the last 15 years but no more. the f.b.i., the u.s. attorney's office, the dea and massachusetts state police all taking part in what has been a multiagency effort to catch him. eventually found at an apartment on the beach in california. you can watch this entire news conference by going to foxnews.com and click on the streaming live link. bill: probably walking down the street every morning to get his latte, hiding in plain site in santa monica, california. life could be worse. ten ways to save the economy. a look at a corporate tax rate here which is the second highest among industrialized and emerging nations. it collects $191 billion in 2010. also in 2010 it counted for slightly less than 9% of federal government revenues. doug mcelway is live in d.c. what is the gripe on the corporate tax in the u.s. >> reporter: complexity. this week i interviewed the head of an immensely successful and respected construction firm in washington who demonstrated the problem for us in terms that anybody can understand. breath mcmanis the vp of a construction firm which has built over a thousand hirise buildings up and down the east coast since its inception in 1947. he used to monitor the corporate tax code. listen to what he says about it. >> we had the entire thing in paper, it was 38,000 pages long, and every week i would get a new 15 pages to put in and replace something else. what's the expression it's 38,000 pages and full of loopholes. constitution, four pages and covers everything. [laughter] >> it's idiotic. you just can't run a railroad like that. >> reporter: many economists we talked to this week agree with that assessment. >> the more decisions people make that are based on tax policy, the worse those decisions are likely to be for the economy in general. you want people to make decisions, good decisions that are based on good economics, not, you know, what loophole can i find in the tax code. >> reporter: indeed many corporations employ armys of lawyers to comply with tax codes and seek out the loopholes. one of the reasons that many american companies are shifting your operations overseas stphaoeut is a massive debate and it's on going today. thank you, doug. doug mcelway in washington. heather what is next. heather: new developments continue to pour out of casey anthony's murder trial. are the jury losing interest in the defense team case? we have incite on their behavior. judge jeanine piro has been inside watching the trial and she joins us next. bill: this surveillance video hurts just to watch us, a warning. all that guy was doing was taking out the trash. heather: i'm in shock. i've never been through anything like this in my entire life. i was in total shock. losing your chex mix too easily? 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judge jeanine piro is live for us in orlando. she has been inside the courtroom watching all of this unfold. so, do you agree with that, or are the jurors just tired, and who benefits from that, one side over the other? >> reporter: i think what the jury is seeing and this thing interpreted as their being tired or board is simply because we are in the ninth day of the defense case and it's nothing more than retreads. primarily every witness they've brought on is a witness that the prosecution has already called. it's like a rethread. they keep going to the same tire store and buying the same old tire, and jeff ashton the prosecutor cross-examines and reinforces the prosecution's case. this could be, heather because of the fact that when they put on their own creative experts they implode. maybe the dog buried the bones in the woods or maybe it was coyotes. even this guy from the netherlands. why do we need a guy from the netherlands to be brought on by the defense, when these people live in florida, they know what the environment and the heat is, so. the jury has heard it all before. i'm ready to do my own study on root banding. the jury gets how important it is, they will stand up to the fact that they have a woman's life in their hands. heather: it does look like everything has been thrown into this case, everything but the kitchen sink, in fact including the kitchen sink. you mentioned the hair analysis. that was something that they were dealing with today, right? >> reporter: right they came back with an expert on hair analysis. both sides tried to get up and say, look, postmortem banding, that one hair they found in the truck that exhibited post mortem banding whose dna is consistent with casey, caylee and cindy, and by the way the only one postmortem is the victim, caylee, is not as easily interpreted, according to the defense as the prosecution wants you to believe. so they are taking hairs that were in the water with, in different temperatures. bottom line it's all hogwash. this jury is going to determine whether or not they believe one expert or the other, because they've gone round and round, and at the end of the day the prosecution expert still comes through and says, even if he's cross-examined by the defense, this one hair post mortem banding came from a dead person, and it is caylee's hair, based on the fact that neither casey nor her mother cindy are dead. heather: judge, i want to ask you this. do you think that casey should take the stand, or will take the stand? >> reporter: you know, that is the $64,000 question, heather. will she take the stand? we all know and as a judge i would charge a jury, you cannot in any way use it against her if she chooses not to. but remember, she is a pathological liar, and everybody knows that. she says her daughter is missing when she knows her daughter is dead and she has half the country looking for her. whether or not this jury will decide to believe her based upon her behavior, based upon her getting a tattoo that says a beautiful life after her daughter she admits is gone. i don't think they'll buy into it. i think the question, heather is are they going to come off the murder one and come down to something else. i think that is where baez is going here. still to be seen. heather: we appreciate your incite always. watch justice with judge jeanine. saturday at 9pm on the fox news channel. bill: in a moment jenna lee is coming up with jon scott on "happening now." what you got cooking. jenna: we have a lot cooking. have you seen the markets today? it's incredible. part of the reason is a bombshell from the white house this morning. the department of energy will release 30 million barrels of oil. why month now? we'll take a closer look at that. more on the infamous mobster busted in l.a. two important hearings happening on capitol hill about our war in afghanistan. we'll talk with the security adviser and two sendses about this. we'll see you at the top of the hour, bill, it's a busy day already. bill: we'll see you in ten minutes. breaking news on a u.s. marine. was he trying to cause harm at the pentagon, and now he's been accused of earlier attacks on military buildings in washington d.c. was this one an american the enemy within? that's next. heather: a desperate plea from the parents of a college student missing for nearly three weeks now. lauren spierer's mother begging her daughter's friends to come forward with any information. >> i am extremely disappointed by the fact that only one of lauren's friends have called the police department, the bloomington police department with any information. i'm extremely disappointed, and my question to all of you is why. because, as i've said before i guarantee you lauren would have been the first to call. heather: there are reports that only one of them, unless that's changed, has come forward so far. cops completed a round of interviews with so-called secondary witnesses. lauren was seen partying with friends on thursday june 2nd and left barefooted never to be seen again. bill: what a mystery that is. i feel for the parents too. breaking news out of washington. there are reports the marine reservist arrested might be linked to several shootings targeting military buildings in washington d.c. this is who that man is 22-year-old malekau. we have a covert operations officer. he is 22, joined the military 3 years ago i believe. he is muslim. they have tied him based on ballistics to several shootings like the marine museum in washington d.c. you start to wonder what 4 this man's intentions were and why. i don't think we can answer that just yet but is this the case of the enemy living within. >> in a sense. as you pointed out the investigation is on going. part of this is speculation. what we do know is that through solid investigative work, primarily through ballistics and a search of his home after he was picked up last friday morning after-hours in arlington cemetery they linked him to the shootings you referred to. those took place bass year, basically within a 35, 40-mile area of each other, all directed toward marine corps institution. an abandoned or empty recruiting facility, the marine corps museum. and after-hours as well. the indications were that there was not an attempt to injure or kill anyone during those shootings. but they've linked them now to this. i think the important part of this is the type of individual that we're looking at. and whether or not, you know, he had any links to al-qaida, and at this point it doesn't appear as if he was being tasked or directed. but the investigation is on going. bill: just to interject a little bit, this is the type of person that al-qaida would love to influence, whether directly or in directly, a guy who is clean, an american passport, a member of the military. that is the gold ep ticket. >> absolutely. that is. you've got a young, disaffected, troubled, unstable, however you want to refer to him individual, as you pointed out muslim, he's in the military. military access to facilities, installations, and ability to travel because he's a u.s. citizen or naturalized u.s. citizen that is exactly the type of person that al-qaida recruiters are searching for and looking for. they are doing a forensic review, obviously of his online activity to try to determine -- bill: maybe that will reveal something too. mike, thank you. thanks for hustling on this story. in a moment why is eric cantor no longer part ever the debt talks in washington. we'll find out after this. custom orthotic inserts. we can't afford that. yes, we can. dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic center. foot-care scientists are behind it. 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