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>> someone told her to go hang herself. and i don't really know who that was but she was getting bullied by some people because there were people talking about her and i guess she just didn't like being hated. >> who would? >> the district attorney in the case says the girl was stalked and harassed for four months and that school officials knew about it. we'll talk more about that story coming up on the show. >> take a look at what's going on in the extreme weather. total darkness outside our studios. we have some video coming up to show you from cranston, rhode island. and look at that, rising floodwaters forced people to evacuate by boat last night. north east is getting another dose of heavy rain, all the way from 5 to 7 inches could fall in some areas. that has residents worried about more flooding. many towns throughout the northeast and the mid atlantic are still recovering from the floods from several weeks ago. and that is a look at your fox travelcast and your headlines as well. all right. >> let's talk a little bit about what's going on in afghanistan. the president was there over the weekend for that surprise visit and as you know, a couple weeks ago, we were telling you about this first major offensive since the surge there in the city of marjah and there was heavy battles going on there. the next one now being released. in june, there will be a major offensesive in kandahar. >> what? >> some people are wondering why that information would be released. doesn't it give the bad guys enough time to get out of dodge sf> ? >> exactly right, gretchen. the element of surprise in warfare is very potent and so far nato to be blabbing months in advance, yeah, we'll roll into kandahar with a surge coming up in june, that seems counterproductive. >> kandahar is considered for some the spiritual heartland of the taliban. but i think from what we're understanding is there's a secondary goal, to prevent collateral damage, to prevent civilian injury or death. and so to give innocent civilians in the area an opportunity to leave that area knowing that the americans are going to be showing up in june with the allied forces in response to the taliban strong hold. so it seems to be a very well thought out process to not only wipe out as many taliban forces as you can but at the same time, win hearts and minds of afghanis and prevent civilian damage and death. >> let's listen to the chief of staff for the national security council, his explanation. >> the bottom line of our effort is to stop the momentum, break the momentum, that the taliban has enjoyed now over the course of the last couple of years. we're bound and determined to not let that continue and i think that's what you'll see. that's what you've seen in marjah and that's what you've seen in kandahar. >> maybe they're leaking this information out so there's had not the collateral damage, so the people will leave. i read one report that said they are not encouraging people to evacuate. maybe it's to signal hey, bad guys, we're coming to town and have them get out of dodge before we roll in in june but, unfortunately, that would, perhaps, embolden some of the bad guys. they go, ok, they're coming. let's set a trap. >> something we've tried in the past and it's had some limited success and if we can avoid civilian casualties, i think that's one of the important emphasis. >> plus our military, you know, our military personnel, we want to protect as well. any time there's a leak in advance of a military operation, you always have to wonder what's that about? >> hopefully it's strategically. >> let's talk a little bit about people who come to college campuss and give speeches. we've talked about possibly conservative speakers who get all kinds of protests lobbied against them. sometimes they can't even finish these speeches when they're at these colleges. now the other side of the fence. hillary clinton, the secretary of state has apparently signed off on a ban against what some people call a terrorist or at least believing in terrorist views, a guy named adam habib who is going to be granted a visa to come back into the country to speak at harvard law school tomorrow. he's accused of funding radical islamic terrorist groups, the terrorist group hamas you're familiar with. keep in mind, ann coulter was not allowed to speak in canada but we'll allow a guy who funds islamic terrorists groups like hamas to come to harvard university. >> not just one, it's two guys. you have adam habib from the university of johannesburg and you have another writing in this week's "newsweek" about how the barack obama administration has caved to pressure from the aclu. the aclu pressed the case. come on. you got to let these guys speak. they're all about telling their side of the story, even though according to our own department of state that these guys have connections to terrorists. >> and according to the associated press, mr. habib, the professor was banned previously because he's engaged in terrorist activities and mr. ramadan was allegedly involved with ties to funding hamas. another terrorist organization. it's interesting that we've had this dramatic shift in american policy. i think we'll also remember, i think, back in february that the president appointed the special envoy to the islamic conference who it later turned out admitted to ahave cuesed the united states in engaging in this with regard to the prosecution in the state of florida. the white house first denied they had made those statements and then later admitted that those statements were in fact true but taken out of contest so there seems to be a dramatic if not c change in the way that we are allowing this type of debate and discourse that seems on its face to be decidedly anti-american. there's a first amendment but does the first amendment apply to hate speech and certainly hate speech of foreign nationals who allegedly have ties to terrorist organizations. >> there seems to be a double standard, does it not with the aclu. you would think if they would support the first amendment rights of alleged terrorists, they would assert the rights of college. >> indeed. speaking of political correctness run amok, beautiful town of davenport, iowa, i've been to many times since i was born in iowa. >> you're not supposed to lie during holy week. >> 42, 43 in dog years. anyway, city apparently -- their city administrator, a fella by the name of craig mallick sent out a memo saying look, coming up on our municipal schedule, we're not going to use the word -- the expression good friday. instead, what we're going to do is we're going to describe it as the spring holiday because we don't want to bother anybody and in fact, here's a quote from him. city of davenport will be observing good friday as a city holiday on april 2nd renaming it as spring holiday was a recommendation of the davenport civil rights commission at that time, the city council did not vote on the change and the name of the holiday never officially changed by vote of the city council. and so what happened was this administrator said we're going to call it a spring holiday and there was such outrage, they wound up having to issue that statement yesterday. >> if anybody had a blood pressure cuff, bring that out to me. i'm about ready to expire. where are we going on this country? who is going to stand up for the majority of the country and say this is crazy? this is absolutely crazy. a couple of ministers said in the article that i read, why the heck would you celebrate easter if you get rid of good friday? that's the entire meaning of easter. >> and, you know, it's even more than crazy. it's really offensive on its face to say that we're going to take a religious day which happens to be the most solemn day of the christian year commemorating the crucifixion of christ and then say, well, we're going to call it spring holiday or spring break as some movie title or something like that. in this country, we don't take people's religious observances whether it's good friday or passover and say, well, we're going to give it another name. that becomes kind of a double speak. >> i thought celebrating spring was march 21st. is the first day of spring march 21st? >> indeed it is. all right. why can't we celebrate spring on that day? >> and they've reversed course now. >> they have. they've seen the wisdom and there was a firestorm of protests from the good people of davenport of iowa and even the union members whose contract mandated that they got the day off. they said what the hell are you thinking? and they changed it. job well done. >> all right. coming up on the show, some students at trinity college in texas are fired up because their diplomas have the words "our lord" on it. sorry. we report, you decide. >> and businesses speaking out about the hit they will take from the new health care plan. so what's congress doing? telling them to shut up? seriously? we're with you when you're saving for your dreams. when you want a bank that travels with you. with you when you're ready for the next move. 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i'm 250 feet from a subway rail line right here. should people in new york and washington, d.c. worry? >> i think it's got to be in your mind, of course. the one bomb exploded right under the equivalent of the russian c.i.a. yesterday. and american security on subways is not as it is at airports and it shouldn't be. but the reality is that this stuff is coming toward the united states and sooner or later, i think it's only a matter of time before we start to have these attacks in our country. >> yeah. unfortunately, in one of the newspapers i read this morning, they essentially give the bad guys a road map of where there are vulnerabilities in the new york city subway system. and the transit system as well. it's crazy. i want to touch on something else we started the program with, michael, and that is apparently senior officials are releasing information, leaking information that there's going to be a major offensive in june in kandahar. now, if they're leaking this months out, what's that about? why are they doing that? >> well, it could be deception. maybe they're going to try to surprise them. they will fall back and get out of the way. the army and marines will go in there. there won't be a lot of fighting and casualties and it will look very good in a runup to the elections but it's a little bit like dwight eisenhower calling rahmo and saying hey, it's february. we're going to invade you in june. it's a little -- i've always thought that you needed surprise whether it's an intelligence operation or a military operation but this may be new age warfare. i'm not sure what it is there. >> or could it be the injection of politics into it? >> oh, i think it plays definitely. obama has to have a tough guy look until the 2010 midterms. afterwards, he needs the base of his party which is pasifist. he'll pull out of afghanistan and iraq. clearly, he's playing politics with the u.s. military and the american people. >> all right. it's always great to get your perspective, sir. thanks for joining us today from washington. >> thank you, sir. >> all right. 27 minutes after top of the hour on this soggy tuesday in new york city. coming up, 2,000 bucks spent at a strip club, not a fireable offense unless you work for the r.n.c., republican national committee. the latest on the voyeur controversy coming up next. and then the congressional budget office admitting a huge error on the stimulus package. so if they got it wrong with the stimulus, can we trust them on health care? 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i'm curious. >> come on, man. no, come on. have you been to that club? >> let's go tonight. we'll go to the club. >> no, man. no! no! >> there you go. karl rove who is promoting his great book on the jay leno show last night and jay leno asked him about this controversy that bubbled up mid morning yesterday where there was an item on the daily caller web site that talked about how apparently a bunch of r.n.c. guests wound up going to this place that is frequented in west hollywood by a number of celebrities and stuff like that, turns out it's kind of a bondage place where people run around half naked and suddenly people are going why is the r.n.c. taking donors there? >> that's a really good question. >> according to one published report, it's kind of got an eyes wide shut motif. >> right. >> eyes wide shut. >> no photos. >> creepy things and so i guess it's kind of creepy scenes. >> anything named voyeur might be something that you don't want to frequent. anyway, here was the r.n.c. backing chairman michael steel with this quote. the chairman was never at the location in question. he had no knowledge of the expenditure nor does he find the use of committee funds at such a location at all acceptable. now, apparently, these funds will be reimbursed to the donor, about $2,000. and apparently, the person who took these young eagles who were young republicans to this club, apparently he has been fired. >> yeah, that guy who is not named in the press reports today, he's the guy who talked to a fella by the name of eric brown who is an orange county direct mail firm owner and he said look, eric, can you pay for the bill and the bill was about $2,000 and this guy who is described as a straight arrow didn't like the fact that they had brought these so-called young eagles or potential big donors to this joint in the first place. he begrudgingly, all right, i'll pay for it with the caveat that the r.n.c. would reimburse him. the r.n.c. did reimburse him and then it hit the fan. >> yeah, such a slippery slope. once you start getting to eagles, you don't want to start summoning others. a few i can think of off the bat. >> the young eagles. >> just -- >> ok, sorry. >> sorry, mr. perkins. >> all right. let's get some headlines to get us out of this mess. president obama meets with french president nicholas sarcozi at the white house today. they'll held a press conference and have some dinner. on agenda, afghanistan, the dme and health care, too. he waded into health care debate yesterday during his speech at columbia university in new york. praising president obama for his approach. >> come to france and something happened to you, i don't know, on the sidewalk, we're not going to be asking for your credit card before you're rushed to the hospital. >> president sarkozy's wife will be joining him at the white house. they appeared to be a very happy couple in new york yesterday despite recent reports of marriage problems. >> and a philadelphia man is charged with threatening to kill virginia republican congressman eric can'tor and his family. prosecutors say he made the threat in a you tube video and now will undergo a mental evaluation. he's believed to be the first person arrested since the health care bill was passed. meanwhile, another high speed chase in california. but this time, the bullets fly. the suspect refused to stop after officers spotted him speeding. at one point, it looks like he's boxed in but look at that, he pulls out and a cop opened fire shooting out the guy's window. the suspect finally got out of his car and tried to run and an officer shot him. the suspect is wanted in indiana on an attempted murder charge. hence, that explains the chase. >> and college students are fighting to get the words "our lord" taken off of their diplomas. a group of trinity university students want the words removed because they directly refer to jesus christ and not everyone believes in him. but reaction is mixed. >> so i don't think it would be any big deal having it there. >> it would be a common platform and allow for all students to be included on this diploma and it would be accepting of the diversity on campus and it would definitely be a step in the right direction. >> the board of trustees is expected to vote on the issue next month. >> they're at a school called trinity. how much sense does that make? >> founded by presbyterians but let's just forget that little fact. >> wild video from florida. a gas station surveillance camera catches a possible tornado in broward county. look at that. you can see the car's trunk flipping up and down. so far, the tornadoes have not been confirmed by doppler. no injuries but the storm did cause some damage as well. meanwhile, let's take a look at the old maps and find out where it's raining and after a rainy start yesterday through the mid atlantic and florida today, it's nice and dry down there. thankfully after the wild weather they have. through the northeast, continued rain showers this morning and will continue sputtering throughout the day. widely scattered showers back to the big sky country. currently, readings are in the 50's across the central plain states. 30's and 40's throughout the northeast. 50's in the mid atlantic. you have a couple of 60's right now down in florida. it's 61 currently in tampa. eventually later on today, tampa will break it up to 70. 70's along the gulf coast. the orange zone, indicates the 80's from southern portions of texas through the panhandle and west kansas as well. 44 today in caribou, maine, we should top out at 50 today in new york city. >> coalition troops start preparing for a major offensive in kandahar, in afghanistan in june. colonel oliver north and a cameraman are embedded with u.s. marines in afghanistan and colonel, give us a picture of what's happening there. but more importantly, i want you to talk about this news report that's out this morning that says that this june offensesive will happen in kandahar. why telegraph a picture for the rest of the world? >> because it's asymmetric warfare. it's not the main front on the eastern -- on the western front of world war ii or the pacific theater of world war ii. this is a counterinsurgency, what you have, gretchen, is literally thousands of afghan troops here from the basic training, getting trained further by u.s. and coalition forces that have then partnered with them and moving out to take the offensesive against the taliban all over southern afghanistan. the key to this war, winning it, is kandahar province and where i am right now, in helman province and stopping this harvest coming up in a matter of days is an important ingredient to all of that. what you now have is u.s. forces, allied forces, british and dane primarily who are partnered up with these units that are going to go out and take it on with the taliban. you don't want to have a major gun fight in an urban area and if you can convince those who are armed and waiting as it were, to leave before they get there, all to the good because ultimately, restoring the faith of the people in the government of afghanistan. >> interesting analysis. all right, when they went into marjah, did they also give prior warning? i don't recall, do you? >> yes indeed, they did. in fact, they gave many weeks of prior, what they call clearing the battle space or preparing the battle space. and what they did is they telegraphed the punch vividly. it was not the kind of gunfire that everybody expected. whole hospital wings were prepared for that. they didn't need them thankfully even though last month has been the bloodiest month of this war, it still has been remarkably low casualties for the increased operation tempo we see taking place. >> we're fortunate to have you on the ground there to give us full analysis. lieutenant colonel oliver north, we'll touch base with you throughout the show. thanks so much. >> the so-called nonpartisan congressional budget office estimated that 1.5 million jobs were saved by the president's economic stimulus but it turns out that they didn't actually stop and check on those numbers. >> evidence about the effects of past policies comes from more detailed studies done often several years later about the behavior of particular households that got tax rebates sooner or later or what have you. we don't think you can learn much from that and therefore, we fall back on repeating the sort of analysis that we did before. that's essentially repeating the same exercise that we did rather than an independent check on it. >> what does that mean? stuart varney joins us right now. i heard parts of that address where he answered those questions. it sounded as if they didn't actually count the numbers. it sounded kind of like they thought, ok, if this happens, we will project that 1.5 million jobs will be saved. >> you got it right. don't actually go out in the field and count the number of jobs created in various localities. they're not on the ground actually doing the counting. they are theoretical people so they come up with an economic theory, they input some dollar numbers and say if we spend this amount of money, in this economy, we will create this number of jobs. that's the theory and that's the assumption that they came up with, 1 1/2 million jobs. both theoretical, you see. >> the problem is that 1.5 million jobs number has been presented as a hard fact. >> yes, correct. there's a difference between the reality and the economic assumption based on the theory. you know, when you look around, the two principal policy initiatives of this administration have both been based very firmly on c.b.o. projections. >> exactly. >> you've got the stimulus plan. they got it wrong. now you have the health care plan, the c.b.o. says it's going to cut the deficit by $138 billion in the next 10 years. maybe they got that one wrong, too. >> the interesting thing is so many members of congress said they weren't going to make up their minds of how they would vote on health care until they heard the number and keep in mind that doug elmendorf met with the president and that's not going to supposed to happen that way if you're nonpartisan. >> the indication is there's some pressure applied to him because he met personally with the president i believe it was on a weekend in the white house. >> saturday afternoon. >> saturday afternoon, correct. >> when you talk about, you know, when you watch the tape and it's almost like saying we fell back on it. falling back on the numbers means repeating the same numbers without any verification at all. >> wait a minute, i'm not chucking any blame at him. i'm simply saying that it's a theoretical organization. they look at theory. they make assumptions based on that theory and they can only work with the numbers that congress gives them to work with. >> so are we anticipating too much from them? are we expecting too much from them? >> yes. >> should we expect they be nonpartisan? >> they are nonpartisan? >> it depends on the question, though. just like who conducts a poll? you can conduct a republican poll and conduct a democrat poll. it depends on who is asking the question and the information you're giving the c.b.o. >> is this "fox & friends" or a new show called "ambush? "what is it here? >> i am not defending him. i am defending what he has to work with. congress gives him the numbers. he comes up with the assumption and the theory. >> we're looking for too much in these people. when they say something, it's not gospel. >> we have to know it's a theory. thanks for dropping by. >> my pleasure. >> straight ahead, remember larry platt on "american idol" singing this. >> ♪ pants on the ground looking like a fool with your pants on the ground ♪ >> well, larry is getting some support from a state senator who is spending thousands of dollars to tell kids to buy a belt. get those pants off the ground. talk to the senator coming up next. >> a bill signed by president bill clinton is being used to settle a score? we'll explain. now back to the sauce. add a little bit of seasoning, just a little bit of seasong. rachel. 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do you trust your lawmakers? do you think politicians have your best interest at heart? chances are you answered no to if not one, perhaps all of those questions. >> throughout history, governments lie, cheat and steal to achieve their goals? i think i should attribute that statement to some guy. judge andrew napolitano's new book is exactly that "lies the government told you." why so positive, judge? >> you know, the -- when i told our colleagues i was writing this book about government lies, i'd say it is 4,000 pages long. everybody would chuckle and say is that enough pages to get the lies in? don't worry, i stopped at 320. we expect government lying. i mean, you had a wonderful segment with stuart varney showing how the government can fenagle numbers and tax figures and things that affect our lives in order to lull us into a false sense of security that it's ok to add these additional taxes because we're going to save money by getting taxed. >> i've seen the nicolas cage movie "national treasurer" i know in the library congress there's a big book of presidential secrets. >> ok. it's just a movie, judge, don't look at me like that. >> i thought i had to write another book. >> i know there are secrets. what is the big lie? what is the number one biggest lie you think that the government is telling us? >> that it follows the constitution. very few people in government take the constitution seriously. brian and i on "brian & the judge" interviewed congressman james clyburn. it's been played thousands of times all over the world. a simple question, congressman, where in the constitution is the government authorized to give health care. judge, most of what we do in washington is not authorized by the constitution. they don't take that oath seriously. in this book "lies the government told you" myths, power and deception in american history. i catalog 17 lies started with all men created equal and coming up to the present day that we can control the federal reserve and point out the lies, how people accepted the lies. how government policy was made on the basis of those lies and how policy and our lives would be different had we known the truth. >> do you need to put an addendum now because one of the things that's going to happen is these attorneys general are suing the federal government potentially for health care. they're saying it's not constitutional. do you agree with them? >> i do. i was with glenn beck this weekend and we spoke to 10,000 people in orlando, florida and a couple of them were members of the florida legislature who said do you know that this legislature just added a billion dollars to our budget. meaning we have to come up with a billion that we don't want to tax and we don't want to spend, the feds have ordered us to do it. guess what? the supreme court says the congress can't order the state legislatures to raise taxes and spend state money. if the congress wants to spend the money, it has to come up with it. >> lies the government told you, myth, power and deception in american history by the great judge andrew napolitano. judge, thank you very much and congratulations on another "new york times" bestseller. >> pleasure. >> coming up on the show, latest on the case of bullying that was so bad a 15-year-old girl took her own life. did teachers drop the ball in this incredibly disturbing case? >> and then a disturbing new report, children in pakistan as young as 7 years old being trained as homicide bombers. and that's not all. their story straight ahead on this tuesday, "fox & friends." twin-turbocharging, 365-horsepower-generating, ecoboost engine in the taurus sho from ford. that has the thirst of a v6 with the thrust of a v8. the most innovative full- size sedan in america: the taurus sho, from ford. drive one. imagine that kind of vitality... in your skin. aveeno introduces ageless vitality. as skin ages, elasn fibers break down. this exclusive biomineral concentrate system... has active naturals ingredients shown to multiply... elastin's elements. i'm impressed. the study showed improved firmness, texture, wrinkles, or spots in 100% of women. how uplifting is that? new ageless vitality. save $15 at aveeno.com. that's the beauty of nature and science. >> very good tuesday morning to you. march 30, 2010. thanks for sharing your time with us today. u.s. officials announcing they are preparing now an assault on kandahar, afghanistan. but why are we giving the taliban a head start? is it all part of a very important strategy? >> and a fox news exclusive, massachusetts senator scott brown says the president's health care bill is causing businesses to flat line. he's going to join us live. >> and watch out on the set! we were just talking about this. we've got a live bear on the set. what is she doing here? we're going to talk to a man who eats and sleeps with bear today on the program. meanwhile, our slogan this hour comes from scott in michigan. it's a happy day when i start with fox news. if i can't get my fix, i'll be singing the blues. >> isn't that "hungry for the wolves" not the bear. >> ♪ i'm hungry like a wolf yeah, it's from our ample collection of music. it's the best we can do. >> duran duran. >> lions and tigers and bear. barely relevant. >> you know that little baby, that cute little thing right there is 3 years old. >> and is 100 pounds. >> 3 years? >> it could rip us all to shreds if it gets out of that cage. >> stay tuned for that. >> that's right. >> brian is off today. i think he's down in -- >> unfortunate. >> he's down in oklahoma city, oklahoma with his family. >> brian is on vacation. >> he's not in oklahoma city. >> he's not? where is he? >> i don't think he's in oklahoma city. >> maybe it is. brian, if anybody has seen the whereabouts, knows the whereabouts of brian, e-mail us, yes indeed. >> all right. let's give a couple of quick headlines. nice member of that christian militia group accused of trying to wage from government under arrest. late last night, joshua matthew stone surrendered to authorities in michigan. also under arrest, his dad, david stone who is the alleged ringleader of this group. prosecutors say members plotted to murder a police officer and then bomb his funeral in the hopes of starting an uprising against the government. meantime, a day of mourning in russia as the death toll from the subway homicide bombings in moscow rises now to 39 people. the two female bombers are believed to have been having connections to the rebels. here at home, subway systems in new york, washington, d.c. and other major cities, of course, everyone is on high alert. police say the prominent arizona rancher who was shot to death was most likely killed by an illegal immigrant. robert krantz seen here in a 2005 interview was outside checking a water line and fencing on the land when he came upon a person, the person then shot him. police say there's no evidence to suggest there was any confrontation that led to the shooting. they say he was heard telling his brother illegal alien on the radio before he lost contact. >> let's take a look at knew video from connecticut. residents brace for heavy rains throughout the day today and leading to mr flooding. as you can see, it's already flooding there. it could be worse. up to 5 to 7 inches could fall across the northeast and the mid atlantic. keep in mind, the ground is already absolutely saturated and many towns are still recovering from the floods from a couple of weeks ago. meanwhile, out west, wind is the big problem. the winds were so strong in northern nevada that they flipped over, that is what is left of a small airplane out in the carson city area. showbiz news. >> only at week two and it looks like there's tension between kate gosselin and her partner on "dancing with the stars". >> please don't make arguments where there's none. >> i don't get it. how can you make tony upset? he is the best dancer and best guy on the show. anyway, that was my personal opinion. their dance, i guess, was disasterous. i didn't see it. judges gave them 15 out of 30 and another rough night for former astronaut, i did see this one, buzz aldrin tried to dance his way to the moon but the judges only gave him 12 points. >> looks good to me. >> there was some good performances including pamela anderson, the former "baywatch" babe scoring, 22. tonight, we'll find out the first person to go home from this. those are your headlines. >> let's talk a little bit about some serious stuff and in fact, you know that the element of surprise when you're planning a military operation is always important so why are senior officials leaking information that apparently in the months of june, there will be a massive, a massive military operation in the city of kandahar. could it be to essentially telegraph to the bad guys, hey we're coming and get out of town. could it be people live in the town, get out. if you don't want to wind up as collateral damage. here's the chief of staff, dennis mcdunne. >> bottom line of our effort is to stop the mommy up, break the momentum that the taliban has enjoyed now over the course of the last couple of years. we're bound and determined to not let that continue. and i think that's what you'll see, that's what you've seen in marjah and that's what you'll see in kandahar. >> so the administration is using as a military strategy leaking to the press? >> lieutenant colonel oliver north is retired and the fox news analyst was on earlier and he made an excellent point that the war in afghanistan is what's called an asymmetric war. it's not typical of a world war ii pacifica european front war and we've used this tactic in the past with some success. reduced collateral damage to civilians and kind of given the words to the bad guys, get out of town. >> while you still can. >> doesn't want to have a major firefight in a very highly populated city similar to marjah which you recall was the first offensive when the first began in afghanistan. michael schoerer who used to head up the c.i.a. was on the show earlier and had a different take on the situation. >> obama has to have a tough guy look until the 2010 midterms. afterwards, he needs the base of his party which is pacifist so he'll pull out of afghanistan and iraq and clearly, he's playing politics with the u.s. military and the american people. >> all right. he waen the hesn't the head of . he was head of the bin laden unit and a c.i.a. operative. >> all right. let's talk about what's going to happen later on today. the president of the united states is going to cross the potomac over to northern virginia community college and he'll sign the reconciliation bill, the so-called fixes bill to the big health care bill he sund a while back, too, which was much ballyhooed. this is going to fix some stuff from the earlier bill. until today, the cornhusker kickback had actually been in effect. and a whole host of other things that this new bill is going to target and try to fix. >> and now there's an associated press analysis that they could rise 17% for young people because they'll be socked with the cost of older americans and they're talking about $42 a month increase for some americans, associated press analysis. >> he's not going to talk about that today, though, at the college. i don't think he'll make that admission. >> this will cost you more. >> so all the young people that he's going to be talking about in a favorable way that it will be much easier now according to the president to get a student loan. here's what he says that part of this -- which came as a surprise quite frankly to a lot of people that you would tuck in a student loan program into health care reform. but he says these kinds of loan payments will make college more affordable for students with unmanageable debt. historically, kids in black colleges, hispanics serving institutions and other minority serving institutions and all for additional costs to taxpayers. >> i think it's really interesting given what stuart varney told us about 45 minutes ago when you really can't trust the c.b.o.'s numbers and instead, we are this morning discussing an associated press analysis. the associated press tried to look with a blind eye, whether or not premiums would rise. and what they have found is that the group that currently thinks they need health care the list, kids right out of high school or college, and they don't want to buy it, they're saying hey, according to our calculations, not only do you have to buy it, according to government band-aid going forward or you'll have to pay a fine of $700 but your premiums are going to go up. wasn't this whole idea the premiums would go down? >> this is one of the things that we talked about over the summer and the fall on "prescription for truth" about premiums going up not only for younger americans but for older americans as well. and there were studies back and forth discounting and approving them. it's also interesting even after all this ballyhoo and after this campaign of concerted celebration after this bill has been signed, under the latest poll, 54% of americans want it repealed. 54%. >> good news for democrats. >> even democrats, prominent ones like dick durbin admitted on the senate floor that premiums would go up and when the republicans tried to introduce an amendment last up before health care actually passed to make everyone sign off on the fact that premiums would not go up, the democrats would not go along with that. maybe this is why. >> all right. >> let's talk about a really disturbing case now about this young girl who comes over from ireland, only 15 years old. she moves to massachusetts. her name is phoebe prince and for some unknown reason, a group of kids at her high school did not like her. and they started bullying her. they threw redbull cans at her on her way home from school. they made fun at her at school. they wrote about her on facebook and other social media sites and eventually this young girl took her own life and now, finally, after a long period of time, a group of teenagers have been indicted for her death. >> yeah, i think we do know why they didn't like her initially and that was shortly after this young girl arrived with her family from ireland, she apparently started dating a very popular freshman -- she was a freshman. she started dating a very popular senior on the football team. and then it started, you know, the little gossip starts and next thing you know, it snowballs and at one point, she told friends she felt like the whole school was out to get her and in fact, when you look at the evidence and peter, you're an attorney and this is important to talk about. yesterday, the d.a. announced indictments against seven of the so-called mean girls, these girls who bullied her and two young men, both teenagers have been charged with statutory rape but apparently, a number of teachers and administrators at her school not only saw her being bullied but knew about it and did nothing. and the d.a. said we don't think it rises to the point of being -- where they would be charged but it's troubling. >> it's one of the most horrific stories i've heard in a really long time. and it's almost steven king's "carrey" meets shirley jackson's "the lottery" where someone was stoned. we have nine people, teenagers, charged with statutory rape, harassment, certain crimes as juveniles as well, but there's some in that community, according to published reports who are so concerned that in spite of people, adults who did step in and try and stop this, why didn't more adults step in and try and stop this? and based on the district attorney's statements, there will be no charges brought against administrators or other adults who potentially might have been aware of what happened but there is a disquiet in that and there is a concern and it's a concern that every community we should have -- i mean, we hear about bullying. >> it happens everywhere. >> there's not always a bully in the class but to get to a point where young woman on january 14th goes home and hangs herself, it's so terribly tragic. >> indeed. >> and now, the criminal justice system is involved. >> everyone should be watching this story. you would have no idea what's going on with your kid at school half the time and this breaks my heart. >> you got to talk to them. >> coming up on the show, they could be the future faces of terror. a new report details how taliban is training young recruits and i'm not talking like even 18-year-olds. i'm talking 10-year-olds. the lesson plans are disturbing. >> and how will the president's health care plan affect the bottom line for american businesses? we're going to ask in an exclusive "fox & friends" interview, senator scott brown of massachusetts. coming up. senator scott brown. 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as in yoga. >> come on. then it would be doga? >> well, it's yoga class for dogs. studio's owner brenda brian says the goal is to bring the soothing spiritual benefits of yoga to our pooches of all breeds. the dogs like it. they get stretched and massaged. people like it because they are spending quality time with their animals. they learn to have their legs stretched or handled. that can really be beneficial for grooming. >> doga isn't just catching on in seattle. there are studios opening in new york and san francisco. >> i can't wait. >> isn't one of the main moves the downward dog? someone did the downward dog and said we should have our dogs come to yoga and that's how it went. >> i don't know. >> a simple stretch. you can do it. >> for dogs or human? >> the dogs can do it, too. they can do -- >> dogs do it every morning when they get up and stretch. >> it's called the downward dog? so the dogs will do the downward human. >> i'll show you after the show, show. >> maybe you will. >> good reason to stick around. meanwhile, 25 minutes before the top of the hour. the president's massive health care reform law will not only cost taxpayers billions of dollars, it may also cost americans jobs. white house advisor valerie jarrett doesn't seem to think that's going to be a problem. >> what they are going to have to write off is nothing compared to the enormous financial benefits to those very same companies by health insurance reform. we're taking a number of measures that will dramatically reduce the cost of business or imbalanced, businesses will come out way ahead. >> businesses will come out way ahead. talk to two guests in boston. joining me is the chairman and c.e.o. of a medical corporation which manufactures heart defibrillators and the guy screen left, familiar to many people, massachusetts senator scott brown. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning, steve. >> senator, let's start out with you. valerie jarrett over the weekend said that ultimately, businesses are going to come out way ahead. do you agree with that? >> no, i don't. any time you're going to raise taxes on businesses, especially what we're talking about today, medical device companies in massachusetts, we're going to lose jobs. and while it's easier to talk about all the good things which many of us agree with, they're not talking about reality, about the things that are really going to hurt businesses and jobs in massachusetts and throughout the country and i think we should start focusing on fixing what's wrong with this bill. >> let's talk to richard. he runs a big medical device corporation, you've taken a look at this new tax that the president's health care reform bill is going to place on your devices. and in particular on your company. what kind of numbers are we talking about? how hard is it going to hit you? >> it's pretty scary, steve. our fair share of this tax on this year's revenue would be about 7 1/2 million dollars. to put that in context, our company last year for all of last year only made about $9 1/2 million. >> there goes that. >> that essentially moves our company -- essentially moves our company to a break even position. >> well, for the people who are going to have to pay those taxes on the devices, they're wheeling a bear in here. that's that noise right now. it's a variety news show. for the people who have to actually pay for that stuff, richard, how much is it per device? >> so on a $10,000 device, it's going to be $250, $300. some of the less expensive devices like you would see on the wall of your studio hopefully, an a.e.d., it would be $450 if we're able to pass that through. >> ultimately they pass it on to all of us or for the businesses, like richard's business, they're going to wind up having to, perhaps, lay people off or not hire people in the future. >> well, actually, that's true. when i was running, i actually visited his corporation and was very impressed by what they do certainly but they made it very clear that if this tax passes, it will put a lot of people out of work and put them at a competitive disadvantage. and as i said, there are many things that people like about this bill. but the president and the administration is taking the victory lap and not talking about the bad things. they're not talking about the reduction in medicare. they're not talking about the increase in taxes, the medical device company tax is another example. there's so many things that need to be looked at and spoken about in plain english and try to solve the very real problems with this bill, our businesses and people are going to be hurting for many years to come. >> yeah. in fact, senator, you sponsored a motion to kill the medical device tax. but ultimately, it was voted down. that's got to be disappointing. >> well, it's unfortunate because once again, if we're going to have a bill, and it appears that obviously we do. then let's make it a good one. right now, the medical device company tax is one example. there are a whole host of other tax increases and cost increases and, you know, i've asked the president and the administration and all the people that are pushing this, you know, to do it better. let's do it right. let's do it better. and then stop taking the victory laps and stop with the rhetoric and let's get back down to business. >> how many jobs do you think this will cost your company? >> it's really hard to say, steve. hopefully none. i mean, we are very resilient and hard working company. and that's obviously our last choice. but at the very least, it's going to mean fewer jobs that we can create. so it is a major problem for us. >> well, this morning on another network, president obama was on and he had this to say about the brouhaha over health care reform. >> this is what happens in washington when you have a big debate. suddenly, the passage of this bill is armageddon. and as i pointed out the next day after i signed it and i looked around and no asteroids had hit the planet and no cracks had appeared in the earth. this is a bill that's going to help a lot of people and help to lower cost of health care but it's not a radical departure from what we've done in the past. >> there you've got the president of the united states recycling a joke he made a couple of days ago about armageddon. senator brown, do you think that's funny? >> no, i think the rhetoric needs to stop and the president needs to get back to basics and look at this bill with open eyes and fix the things that are wrong with it because right now, as you heard from richard and many other companies, they're going to be hurting. seniors are going to be hurting. a lot of -- a lot of parts of this bill will increase taxs and what about doctors? do we have the doctors in play that are going to provide all these services for people? so we need to stop talking about armageddon and all that stuff and stop being cute and start to focus on solving the real problems with this bill. >> i know, senator, you're going to take a tour of richard's facility today. but because of the flooding, you're not going to be able to do that, right? >> well, i've taken the tour. it's a great facility and i encourage others -- i encourage the president to come down and take a tour. but yes, we're going to be going out and obviously, seeing what we can do to help people in massachusetts with this flood and make sure they get the funds and resources, individuals and businesses, to get back on their feet. >> right. i know you were going to have a press event there later on today but that's been scuttled. and one more thing, senator, before you go. i know that when you were campaigning in massachusetts, you were campaigning as i will be the 41st vote against health care. ultimately, you were not able to stop it. how do you feel about that? >> well, i'm the 41st vote still on a whole host of other things, financial reform, talking about illegal immigration, anything. what they did is obviously, they did everything they could to ram this thing through against the will of the people. and, you know, that's a result of my election. otherwise, they would have had a more ownerist bill. they had to deal with what they were given because i got there. i'm excited to continue to solve the problems and be the independent voter and thinker i've always been regardless of numbers. sometimes i'm going to be the 60th vote and other times i'll be the 41st vote. so we'll see what happens on each and every bill. i'm going to look at it independently. >> lrlt. brand new senator, scott brown, thank you very much for joining us from boston area along with richard packard, the c.e.o. of the medical corporation. thanks very much. >> thanks, steve. >> all right. it's 17 minutes before the top of the hour. it's noisy in the studio. >> and smelly. why? 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>> yes, we did, gretchen. and he's right. the fact is, that all those afghan national army troops out there do need to have a good government behind them. the corruption the consequence of narcotics principlely opium has got to stop. one of those guys that's been out here working with them for a long time is the commander officer of task force raider, third reconnaissance battalion. give our viewers a sense for what you see with the afghan national security forces you've been working with >> i can only speak for our a and a. they bring a lot of capability, very motivated, and we've only got good things to say about it. if that's indicative of their future, i think there is a future here in afghanistan, sir >> that's why making sure they've got a good government in kabul and in each one of these 14 provinces, particularly down here, it makes such a big difference, gretchen. >> steve: thank you very much, colonel >> gretchen: thanks a lot. >> steve: all right. let's dial in our old buddy, laura ingram who joins us from our nation's capitol. good morning to you >> hey. you have two of my favorite things on "fox & friends" this morning. you have oliver north in afghanistan. that is hot. and you have the little bear. i wish i was on set with you. that's so cool >> steve: that would be great >> gretchen: no you don't, 'cause the bear didn't smell so hot >> that's all right. i would have still hugged him. he's adorable >> steve: as a public service. let's talk a little about this, we just had on the ceo of an outfit of the boston area, zoll medical, a medical device manufacturer. it sounds like last year they had profits of 9 million. but because of this tax on medical devices, they're going to be socked with between 5 and $10 million worth of new taxes. then you've got the news that at & t will be hit with a billion dollars worth of additional costs. and caterpillar, $100 million worth of new costs. then some democrats threatening to haul some of the ceo's of these companies into a hearing room on capitol hill because they provided this damning information to the public that the health care does have a big cost! >> yeah. how dare american corporations actually stand up for the free market and stand up for profitability. what i find really amazing about this is that the president is very serious, right, about keeping jobs in the united states and we need jobs here, we -- i'm going to pivot to jobs. as far as i can tell, what we've pivoted to is an even more difficult economic climate for our businesses here to operate in. so i don't know how we can expect american corporations to stay within american borders if this is how they're going to be treated and these are the types of expenses that are going to be heaped on their shoulders. it's really unconscionable and that's what we predicted would happen with the health care bill and all these predictions sadly are coming true >> gretchen: it only took a couple of days. friday at & t said as a result of this legislation, including the additional tax burden, at & t will be evaluating prospective changes to the active and retiree health care benefits offered by the company. so that's what inspired waxman to call these hearings. what's going to come when they -- happen when they come to capitol hill? >> this is my message to all these companies. do what the u.s. chamber of commerce is doing. stand up for profits and prosperity and wealth creation in the united states of america. stand up for american business. henry waxman is always wagging his finger at companies that actually do something called employ people. all right? so he's always hauling people up to try to shame them. i think the finger should be wagging in the other direction and shaming congress for doing this to american business. so it's going to be fireworks on april 21, i can promise you that >> steve: -- >> we were watching your interview with matt lauer on the "today" show. what gives over there, did you get fair and balanced over there? what did you get? >> well, i give the today show an enormous amount of credit. they keep inviting me back. matt lauer is usually extremely kind and nice to me. i heard this report that they had just aired from this reporter, george lewis, which mentioned palin speaking and asked whether she was riling people up too much. and then mentioned the death threats and all the things that were happening to congress people. obviously the intent of this report was to tie palin to the death threats and vandalism. i basically called them out on it. i didn't say good morning. that's my great regret. i did not say good morning to him >> let's take a look at it >> condemning violence, condemning vandalism, absolutely. we all do. but to say that sarah palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the american people and dissatisfaction with this health care >> look at george's script in a second, and see if he actually said just that. i'm not sure that's exactly what he said. >> that was the import of it. we're smart here, matt. we know what's going on >> steve: and then shortly after that, you took aim at their cable division and here is a snip of that >> we have people on frankly, your cable channel saying hateful things about conservative politicians and commentators. no vandalism, no threats and, look, we got people riled up because there are big issues being decided >> those hateful words go both ways >> but you guys don't report on them unless they're being made from the supposed right. >> steve: that is such is a good point. >> well, you know. i used to work in that old network, the old nbc network when it just started off the ground. for people on nbc to be oh, we're shocked at these tea party people are so upset. why don't you flip to your cable channel on any given night and see what horrible, rotten nights are said about people like michelle malkin, forget about me . but they're domestic terrorists and facilitating murder. i don't even want to report what they said about malkin. this stuff is school room taunts and i say more speech, not less. so it doesn't bother me. but the hypocrisy is absurd >> steve: they always have cheery things to say about the fox people on this network >> they love us >> gretchen: let's talk about this, because it is holy week. as usual, now it appears easter will be under attack like christmas has been under attack for the last several years. there's a town in iowa, davenport, that apparently wanted to change good friday, the title of it, to celebrating spring. should we be shocked at these types of things anymore in the society we live in? >> you're right. this is par for the course. i let out a collective yawn every time i hear one of these stories. the good thing about this is good people with common sense and great values stand up and say, enough is enough. this whole pc culture has become -- it's ruly become really boring and it's threatening to make our lives really boring. we can't say certain things, we can't use certain language when we are doing our political speech as sarah palin found out. now you can't even celebrate the christian holiday during holy week without offending this or that atheist or agnostic. it's tedious >> is it more than pc when you have a government entity saying that you can't call a christian holy day a certain day? >> steve: call it spring holiday instead >> exactly. we're going to change the entire story of the resurrection just to make sure that they're happy. no, of course it is. it's kind of bullying and intimidating, but look, we christians have been through a lot worse than this little iowa town trying to stamp out good friday. i have a feeling we'll persevere through this holy week. we're all waiting for easter. it's been a long lent for a lot of us >> gretchen: i think the fear is a lot of people are concerned that people will stop speaking up and eventually it will become the law of the land that everything -- if you will, stick around for this one. president bush banned these men from the u.s. because he believed that they had ties to terror. but now they're back in the u.s. talking to our students >> then the cbo, congressional budget office, admitting a huge error on the stimulus package numbers. if they got it so wrong with the stimulus, can we trust them on the health care numbers? >> steve: an exclusive look at two brand-new porsches. you will be surprised to see what is under that hood. that's the new one supposed to be debuted later today. you're going to see them here today on "fox & friends." >> gretchen: president bush banned these men from the u.s. because they allegedly funded terrorist group hamas. now secretary of state hillary clinton has reverse that had decision, cave to go demands by the aclu so they can speak at harvard university tomorrow. we're back with radio talk show host laura ingram for her thoughts. president bush denied the visas for these two men to come to this country and now they're getting access to not only our country, but to the minds of our kids on college campuses. right or wrong? >> i thought about this when i was looking at the story, gretchen, and here is what probably the truth is about this. these professors are probably less objectionable in what they say at harvard than a lot of the harvard professors at this point, okay? so you go through the list of the people who actually speak at harvard university, then you look at these two characters. they're kind of middle of the road. i don't think we all should lose a lot of sleep over this. they've been teaching at oxford for years and speak all around the world. i'll have to see what they say. the title of the address, they're going to stay pretty moderate >> gretchen: denied access to a university in canada last week. i didn't see the aclu speak up for her >> fox not, because they're total hypocrites on these issues. they don't operate in canada. right? it doesn't surprise me that they're hypocritical. i'm saying is given the plethora of radical views on college campus, this doesn't surprise me and it probably won't be as incendiary as some of the things that are regularly said at harvard. i don't think it's that big of a deal >> aren't we lowering the standards? senator moynihan used to talk about defining deaf yensy down. when the president appoints a special envoy to the islamic conference who said that in the past, america has engaged in politically motivated persecutions of alleged terrorists, i mean, isn't katy bar the door at that point, isn't anything open when our own government officials have engaged in that sort of language? >> of course. the list from van jones down to anita dunn, down to any of the czars who have crazy views, harry knox, the list goes on and on. president obama is left wing and he's populated his administration with people who tilt to the left or left wing radicals. that's just what we're working with right now. that's what we have, so we shouldn't be surprised that any of the decisions were made. what we should be surprised about is this, i saw the raw feet of that bear. if you look closely, you can see the zipper, guess who popped out? it's brian kilmeade in the bear costume >> steve: here we thought he was in the ozarks >> he's a kodiak >> he's sick of the couch >> steve: laura ingram, you hear her on the radio show, it starts in about 40 minutes. always a pleasure. >> great to see you >> gretchen: father of a marine lost his son, then had to endure picketers at his funeral. the latest insult is beyond shocking >> and she went under the knife 15 times. the surgeries completely transformed her face. she is here next to warn women not to do what she did to her face. >> some quick headlines at 23 minutes after the hour. the nonpartisan congressional budget office estimated that 1.5 million jobs were saved by the president's economic stimulus. but it turns out the cbo never actually examined the stimulus bill's effect on the economy. and the post office will submit an official proposal today to eliminate saturday delivery. not good. the move could save $3 billion a year, but about 40,000 people could lose their jobs. but if you have a post office box, you'll still be able to get mail on saturday. gretchen >> gretchen: will we still have a wait in line at the post office? for over ten years, laura was on an impossible quest for perfection. from the age of 25 to 35, she had 15 plastic surgeries, leaving her scared and forever altering her facial appearance. now she's on a mission to share a cautionary tale of plastic surgery gone wrong >> steve: she talks about her journey in her book. she joins us today from the boston area. good morning to you, laura >> good morning >> steve: let's start at the beginning. when you were 25, you thought i don't think i look so good in the mirror. i'm going to go in for an eye job, have a little something done. you go in there, the doctor does it and says, you got to fix your chin, too. and that just led you down that road to trying to remake your entire face. >> exactly. i was very gullible and i believed any doctor's opinion of me. i believed they were the experts, they were the beauty doctors and i wouldn't listen to anybody but those doctors >> gretchen: something must have been going on inside yourself, laura, because who needs any plastic surgery at age 25? >> a good question. that would have been an indicator of psychological danger. i was really searching to manipulate my face, to build a self. i felt very lonely as a child. i lacked emotional security. i was searching to build that >> steve: let's take a look at the list of things that you have had, operations offhad performed. an upper eye lift, your lower eyes lifted, you had a chain implant, you removed a nose -- you had a nose job, removed a nose job, lip injunction, cortex plant implants, two mini face lifts, major face lift, collagen injection, laser skin resurfacingsurfacing and a lip w and chin advancement as well. after every time you would have surgery, laura, did you feel like i'm a little better, or did you feel this is not working the way i wanted it to work? >> i never felt better. it only strengthened my quest to fix myself. i was working from desperation, emotional desperation to save myself. >> gretchen: i understand you spent over $60,000 on these procedures, which actually sounds less than i thought it was going to be. what is your warning to women and men, for that matter, about plastic surgery and was anyone there in your life to tell you to stop? >> nobody was there in my life to tell me to stop and if they had, i would not have listened to them because nobody wore my face. nobody shared my internal loneliness >> steve: if you had to do it all over again, laura, would you have any surgery done? >> i would not have any surgeries done at all. i would have gone for psychological therapy >> steve: interesting. >> gretchen: laura, the author of "chasing beauty." thank you for stark honesty and we wish you the best >> thank you so much >> steve: 27 minutes after the top of the hour on this tuesday. coming up, a case of bullying that was so bad, a 15-year-old girl took her own life. nine students are now facing charges this morning. but not the school officials who apparently knew about the problem. that story straight ahead >> gretchen: suspect who refuses to give up even when police fire right at him. we'll show you how this one ends >> steve: an exclusive look at two brand-new porsches and wait until you see what is under the hood. maybe i should say what's not under the hood. after this. >> by now, president obama made a surprise visit to afghanistan this past weekend. i guess the last 14 months in washington, he wanted to go someplace where there was less fighting. pretty quick trip. it happened so fast, joe biden didn't have a chance to say something stupid about it. he was back before that >> gretchen: i just give him a few more days. just kidding >> steve: in a couple hours, president obama will head from the white house across the potomac to sign the amended, so call picks bill to the health care reform law. it will also include major changes to student loans. kelly wright is live at the white house with the very latest. so kelly, a little later on the president is going to head out in his motorcade over to nova, isn't he? >> yeah. you're right, steve. that's exactly what he's planning on doing. he will sign that historic piece of legislation into law today, the health care and education reconciliation act of 2010. he'll do, scheduled for 11:00 o'clock or 11:0 a. accompanying him will be dr. jo biden, the wife of joe biden. she will formally introduce the president as he prepares to sign that legislation into law at the northern virginia community college, just across the river. dr. bide sun a life long teacher and current instructor at the college. the president's actions on health care today comes one week after he signed the bulk of health care reform into law. today's bill is a reconciliation bill with all of the fixes that have been promised. under this bill, however, more sweeping changes to more than just health care overhaul. it will make provisions for education, totally changing the way student loans for colleges are given. the government will now be the primary lend tore students seeking loans. it strips banks of that power. this will be the largest rewrite of federal college assistance programs in four decade, providing pell grants to students who are in need of financial help to attend college. the president's health care reform is drawing criticism from large companies that claim the new law will cost them billions of dollars. steven moore of the "wall street journal" suggests the new health care could be stressful for corporations. >> to cover 30 million people, it has to cost somebody. what we're discovering now is a lot of companies are going to bear brunt and those are the very companies that we want to be hiring workers with 50 million americans out of work. >> and, of course, after he signs today's bill into law, the president will get back out on the stump floor and go to maine. he's scheduled to do that on thursday. and maine has two moderate republicans. the president will be reaching out to republicans to see if he can get some of them on board in supporting this new legislation that is now law. obviously he's getting some resistance from republicans who remain opposed to it. steven >> steve: all right. kelly, thank you very much for the live report from the white house. it's kind of unusual he's out campaigning for it 'cause it already passed. >> the campaign continues >> steve: it does >> on that issue. and 54% of americans think it should be repealed >> gretchen: he has to campaign for those midterm elections coming up for fellow democrats because by many accounts, some will maybe not be voted back into office as a result of that bill >> steve: steven moore from the "wall street journal" was talk being how some businesses are going to find out that they've got a lot of new costs because of this health care reform bill and, in fact, scott brown was scheduled to appear at a medical device facility, manufacturing facility in the boston area today and they, according to their calculations, will be hit probably with a new charge of between 5 and $10 million. this particular company had a $9 million profit last year. so that's going to impact them >> with regard to scott brown, you conducted an exclusive interview with him and he talked about what the president had said >> steve: in fact, the president was talking about the heated rhetoric moving on up to the voting on health care on another network. so we put the two sound bites together in this. watch >> this is what happens in washington when you have a big debate. suddenly the passage of this bill is armageddon. and as i pointed out the next day, after i signed it, i looked around and no asteroids hit the planet and no cracks had appeared in the earth. this is a bill that is going to help a lot of people and help to lower cost of health care, but it's not a radical departure from what we've done in the past. >> i've asked the president and the administration and all the people that are pushing this to do it better. let's do it right, let's do it better, and stop taking the victory laps, stop with the rhetoric and let's get back down to business. a lot of parts of this bill are going to increase taxes. what about doctors? do we have the doctors in play that are going to provide all these services for people? so we need to start talking about armageddon and all that stuff and really stop being cute and start to focus on solving the real problems with this bill. >> gretchen: coming up on april 21 to some of those big companies like at & t and verizon and others will have to come to capitol hill now to testify during hearings as to why they are claiming that this new health insurance reform will affect their companies in a negative way. >> and senator brown is obviously driving the straight talk express train there because you don't often hear u.s. senators tell the president to stop getting cute, as he said. so some people are getting worn out by this armageddon analogy. there may not be asteroids coming down, but we're seeing higher tax, higher premiums, children's insurance not there as claimed for preexisting conditions, caterpillar, at & t, verizon all complaining about the taxes and the costs that will be imposed on them >> steve: the debate continues >> gretchen: let's bring you a couple headlines for your tuesday. you're looking at five of the nine teens charged in connection with the death of a classmate. prosecutors say they all bullied the girl so brutally that she ended up killing herself. she had recently moved to massachusetts from ireland, hung herself. one member of the community echoing the shock and anger felt by so many. >> i think they need to be punished for their part in that. she definitely was abused and nobody did anything about it, so i really think that's good >> gretchen: the district attorney in the case says the girl was stalked and harassed for four months. school officials did nothing about it. ironically, no school officials are charged. it's the kids who have been indicted >> and president obama will ask french president sarkozy for helping in afghanistan when he visits the white house today. mr. obama is hoping to persuade sarkozy to buck european sentiment and send more troops to the country. the two will have lunch and hold a press conference just before 5 p.m yesterday sarkozy gave a speech in new york at columbia university. he and his wife were also seen smiling around the big apple despite some past reports of marital problems. >> steve: meanwhile, in other news, another high-speed chase out in the golden state of california. this time the bullets fly. watch the picture as the suspect refused to stop after officers spotted him speeding. at one point, it looked like he was boxed in, but then he pulled away and a cop opened fire, shooting out the guy's window. the suspect finally got out of his car eventually and there you can see he started to run. why do they do that? in this case, an officer shot him. the suspect is wanted in indiana on an attempted murder charge which explains why he was trying to run away >> thank you, steve. the father of a marine killed in iraq who sued a church group for protesting at his son's funeral is now being ordered to pay legal fees for that group. protesters picketed his funeral back in 2006 and his father, albert snyder, sued them. he won, but the decision was overthrown. the judge said the protesters were protected by the first amendment. now the court says snyder needs to pay $16,000 to the leader of the westborough baptist church which organized the protest. the case will now go to the u.s. supreme court. in my opinion, it should. >> gretchen: we've been showing you these porsches all morning. what's so special about them? there they are. jeff flock outside with the answer. hey, jeff >> wish you were here, gretchen. you can come out, feel free to come out any time. it's beautiful weather. i'll show you what's so special about these. come on down, take a look. that's what's special. it's a hybrid. you're looking at these for the first time. the coo of porsche u.s. >> good morning >> good morning. nice and wet. what is so special about this porsche? >> this is the debut of porsche's entry into the electric hybrid market >> the first time it's ever been seen here in the u.s. and right here on the fox news channel. >> that's correct. the new york motor show >> how much will this cost? >> somewhere between middle 65 to 70,000. we haven't released it yet >> i got to take you over and show you also, talk being hybrids, hybrids, you know, you think you're making this sacrifice because you're trying to save the environment. i've got a race car driver here. does it seem like it's raining harder? >> raining pretty hard right now >> no kidding. open the door for me and show me this. this is a hybrid race car. maybe ted can get in with the camera. come on, spin around with me. what are we looking at in there? >> we're looking tetronal fly we'll inside. the storage for the electrical energy. braking we save energy. we can take the electric power for another boost >> what's the horsepower on this thing? >> we have 4 and some in the rear >> faster or slower than a regular race car? >> it's faster because we have an extra 160-horsepower in the front. >> this is faster than like dale earnhardt a junior, would get beat by this if you were a racer? >> on the straight line, it could probably beat it >> i'm going to ask you to get in the car, jump in there. get behind the wheel. we're going to race this new york cabby or something. i've got some fox viewers over here. these fox viewers are out. you going to buy porsche? >> actually today is my husband's 50th birthday and, honey, there it is. happy birthday. >> thank you so much. ted, look at this guy, just got a present >> yeah. >> 50th birthday. >> it's the best i could do >> i love it. you actually might be better suited to this one. this is the one that's going to hit the market, michael. how big a market do you expect for this? my suv could beat your suv if i buy this one. right? >> absolutely. this car is our top selling model. we've been selling in the previous model about 10 to 15,000 a year. we don't know where it will come out. but the nice thing about this car is it's the next era of automotive technology. intelligent performance and somebody wants an suv and a hybrid and not be a boring person, this is the car >> he got it in. wonderful. this is technology, gretchen, that was pioneered by porsche back in the 18 90s. problem is, electric cars just didn't catch on back then. maybe now. >> gretchen: all right. just bring the set of keys in to me. okay? >> oh, yeah. it's ready for you >> gretchen: all right. >> can we get a ride? >> gretchen: i'll think about it. how many people does it fit? >> steve: i think the guy celebrating his 50th birthday will drive it. straight ahead on this tuesday, their husband sacrificed everything to protect us, but the pentagon is freezing a program designed to help military spouses. we're going to talk to a woman who says she is being short changed by the department of defense >> two stay at home moms were not -- were tired of not having their voices heard, so they are speaking up, launching their own clothing line. these two are really cool conservatives. >> steve: welcome back. the pentagon will not be accepting any new applications for the military spouse career advancements accounts program. this is leaving many spouses upset and our next guest enrolled in the program and is receiving her money in full, but still speaking out against the halting of the program because she feels it's a benefit all active military spouses should be able to collect upon >> her husband is currently stationed in afghanistan and she joins us now. good morning. how are you? >> good morning. i'm fine >> thank you for you and your husband's service. so you're going to be a beneficiary of this $6,000 program from the department of defense and the army, but there are a lot of other wives and husbands, spouses under this program who will not. you're upset about that >> i am. i don't think it's fair that i was able to enroll in the program and i've gotten the benefit of the program and at this point, they are not taking new applications and we are not sure when and if they're going to bring the program back up on-line for all military spouses >> steve: it's been going for a while and it's been very popular. but the problem was, in february, they had so many spouses applying for the money, you were already in the pipeline, you were already enrolled, but this is really indicative of the economy we're in right now. so many people are hurting economically. they say i'm going to go back to college and i would like the $6,000 that i'm entitled to. are you of the opinion that the pentagon simply misjudged the number of people who would take part of in and has run out of cash? >> i think that is totally the problem is they misidentified how many spouses would take part in this. military spouses are unemployed probably three times the rate of the regular population >> steve: good point. >> has this benefited you? >> absolutely. i enrolled at the university of washington, tacoma, for fall quarter of 2009 and i had my tuition covered for the first two quarters of my junior year and now half of my third quarter. so it has covered almost my entire tuition for this year >> julia, thank you. safety to your good husband and educational success and health for you and your family >> thank you. and i just hope that the pentagon listens, that military spouses need this program >> steve: that's right and, in fact, we've got a statement from them that says they're going to do their best to try to reinstitute it for everybody. all right. julia, we thank you for joining us today from seattle >> thanks >> if you're a democrat, there is plenty of merchandise to show your support, like mugs and t-shirts saying, hope and change, or conserve the earth. but not so much if you're a conservative, until now >> let's check in with bill hemmer has what's coming up in ten minute >> good morning to both of you. bullied to death, several teen-agers face felony charges in this awful story. there are developments this morning on that. another arrest in the midwest militia. what they're learning about this group. a hiker stranded at 14,000 feet. can he be rescued in time? we're on that and more with martha and me at the top of the hour.  >> gretchen: two stay at home moms launched a web site that sells merchandise with a cool, conservative slogan. this after they attended the big tea party march in washington last year and felt the voices of conservative women ignored. interestingly, recent polls showed the voice of the tea party movement is actually women. lucky for them they can now represent in style. we're joined by betsy and sheila, co-founders of cool conservative gear.com. good morning, ladies. >> hi. >> gretchen: and i should say you're from my home state of minnesota and you came up with this idea, bedsy. you go to the tea party and you thought, what should i wear? >> yeah. i had never protested before, so after we booked our plane tickets, i called sheila and said, what does one wear to a protest? i had never done that before. we really searched hard on the internet to find something that reflected who we were and could find nothing. >> gretchen: so you also started talking about it, right, and determined that when you go to the mall, that if you happen to be more on the liberal side of things, you can find gear. right? >> yeah. i was just at the mall the other day shopping for my daughters and every major retailer at the mall had anti--war peace signs, the hope, the change, obama's image, you can get that anywhere. you can't find anything if you're a conservative woman to reflect your world view. that's why we started the company >> gretchen: so on the first day, is it correct you sold 100 t-shirts? >> yeah. maybe more than that. >> it was at betsy's house. she hosted this wonderful home party. we had fox news on in the background, some conservative books and magazines lying around and it was great >> our friends came and they shopped >> gretchen: you realized you may be on to something? >> yeah. we did >> and we've been working hard ever since and selling at a lot of local events and we figure if we can do well in the land of al franken, then we have a good idea >> gretchen: the anti---al franken might be sarah palin. and it's my understanding that you waited in a line for a very long time to give her one of your shirts >> we did. we had red shirts made up in honor of sarah and we stood outside in the freezing cold of minnesota and waited to meet her and handed her our shirts and we'd love for her to wear them >> we gave one to michelle bachman >> gretchen: from the state of minnesota. what do you think this whole thing means, that the tea parties have started and now you have started a company. is there a resurgence for women specifically in our country? politically? >> i think with the tea party movement, why women are so drawn to it is because we control the pocket books. we run our budgets, we make a lot of the purchasing decisions in our home, whether it's to buy a new car or where to send our kids to school and how to save money. so when women of america see and whether it's working women or stay at home moms like us, they see the government making no such hard choices in their spending, so that's why we are getting involved >> gretchen: thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks >> gretchen: more "fox & friends," two minutes away. >> steve: peter johnson, junior, thank you very much for joining us today >> thank you >> steve: it was so much fun, can you come back later this week? >> absolutely. log on to

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