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libya will continue to fight and eventually, libya will win the fight. also, fest snag in the no-fly zone. a u.s. jet fighter, f-15 crashed due to technical reasons just outside of the rebel stronghold of benghazi. it crashed in the feel. both crew members able to eject. both crew members safely out of the country. right now, qaddafi forces are dug in and according to the admiral in charge of coalition forces, they are attacking civilians that violates the u.n. security council resolution. this will be the first major test in an urban environment of how air power can help remove dug in government forces. in tripoli, libya, steve harrigan, fox news. >> thanks very much. just touched on the most important thing right now and that is the guys are driving around and killing people on the street. that people in tripoli say what we really need here is a no drive zone. >> that's what senator john mccain asked for. you have to ask yourself this. the minute we said there's going to be some action and we're going to do it to protect the libyan people. we find out that the libyan forces went right into the second biggest city that the rebels held so they start wiping them out with tanks and snipers immediately. how can you stop that from the sky. i don't know if you can. >> well, and it's not clear, we were talking about the mixed messages earlier. it's amazing to me in some ways, just having been at the white house for a while that the white house seems almost offended that anybody is asking questions. yesterday, they had to clarify their clarification and if you're doing that, you have a few problems. >> you have a few problems. for example, everyone says immediately right after that is how can you help the libyan people and leave muammar qaddafi actually in power? we have other ways to get him out of power. really? we're not saying we're going to do that. british, i'm a little mad at you saying assassinatiing qaddafi i on the table. that's secretary of defense to their secretary over in britain. it's getting a little hairy. >> our allies are in disarray. there's been argument over who is going to run this thing? apparently, they've worked out some sort of compromise where they're going to use nato command and control assets but it's not really going to be a nato operation. >> it's a hybrid. >> it's for political purposes so our allies aren't on the same page. the white house, dana, you were talking not on the same page. listen to the difference of what the president was saying and the secretary of state is saying. it's a mixed message. >> you are absolutely right that, you know, qaddafi may try to hunker down and wait it out even in the face a no-fly zone. even though his forces have been degraded. >> we've heard that. we've heard about other people close to him reaching out to people they know around the world. africa, the middle east, north america, europe beyond saying what do we do? how do we get out of this? what happens next? a lot of it is just the way he behaves. it's somewhat unpredictable. but some of it we think is exploring, you know, what are my options? where could i go? what could i do? we would encourage that. >> messaging wise. >> typically you want your secretary of state and president to be on the same page. that's a good rule of thumb and they're not in the same place, you know, logistically so maybe there's a little bit of an inability to communicate. >> but we did see muammar qaddafi hours ago sitting a few hundred yards from where we had a missile strike saying bring it on, essentially. i'm not going anywhere. you see me here. he's defiant. at the same time, the secretary of state saying indications are not directly to her but from other sources he's looking for a way out along with his higher ups that would be preferable and that is a huge story but in the big picture, keeping the coalition together, finding the objectives, hearing the french come out and say by the way, if he abiedz by the cease-fire, you can stop immediately, you got to wonder in american history, have we ever had a coalition put together so quick with so many different objectives. >> the question former secretary rumsfeld asked last night on greta is what is the objective. we have a bite from him. >> i've always believed that the mission determines the coalition. and the coalition ought not to determine the mission. go back to the gulf war. the reason we didn't go for regime change, president george herbert walker bush said after defeating the iraqi army is the coalition hadn't agreed on that. i don't know what the coalition here has agreed on. i don't think they have agreed on a mission. and the mission should have been decided before the coalition. i suspect one of the reasons that the administration didn't go to congress is they didn't know what to ask for. >> you've got the coalition in disarray, this on the heels of the arab league that initially had signed on and now they're absolutely appalled that during a no-fly zone, they would take out the airplanes and the command and control. >> how outrageous is for the arab league? they were the lynch pin to go forward and as soon as we start enforcesing a no-fly zone, they're not into this. that's what the wikileaks revealed. they say one thing behind closed doors and they do something polar opposite. >> and makes us have a situation yesterday where the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing in the coalition. nato was going to take over and they weren't. and there was going to be some other coalition and no one is on the same page and the united states is the reluctant leader which i sort of think is an oxymoron. >> guess who else is on board, germans are on board. give me back my awacs. the russians were never on board. at least they abstained. china says this whole thing about human rights is rubbing me the wong way so you have other people and turkey, of course, saying we're not with this. so it can't be a nato operation if all 28 members aren't on board. the answer is no. they had to form this hybrid coalition. >> speaking of hybrids, is the obama doctrine a hybrid of the bush doctrine. senator barack obama certainly did criticize the president of the united states, george w. bush and the bush doctrine back in 2009 when he was president. listen to this where he refers to and talks about democracy. >> the message i hope to deliver is that democracy rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, those are not simply principles of the west to be hoisted on these countries but rather, what i believe to be universal principles, that they can embrace and affirm as part of their national identity. now, the danger, i think is when the united states or any country thinks that we can simply impose these values on another country with a different history and a different culture. >> there's a wonderful line in mrs. bush's book that came out last year called "spoken from the heart" in which at the end of it, she says there were times in the campaign if she wondered if president obama would want to amend his words that he made during the campaign and right now everybody is wondering and looking back saying what was the bush doctrine and in his book called "decision points" that came out last year, there were some very clear points. first of all, remember in the state of the union address, this caused all sorts of clarity to be -- to come to the situation which was, he makes no distinction between the terrorists and the nations that harbor them. they both had to be held to account. that was one of the key ones and the other one was we're not going to wait to be attacked. you'll take the fight to the enemy. and then confront those threats before they fully materialize and then the most important thing which i think the key we all agree on, left, right, center, obama, bush, whatever it might be, to advance liberty and hope as a deterrent to islamic radicalism. >> we are looking to put democratic principles in place that go beyond the u.n. mandate. according to a source that talked to "the washington examiner" yesterday. >> the u.s. mandate is to protect the people on the streets of libya and right now they're getting shot. now what do we do? you can't do it from a hairier. >> we don't want regime change. we think he lost legitimacy but we're not going to enforce it. a lot going on. >> very confusing. >> nevertheless, we have the news. >> we do. for the latest developments out of japan where the situation is changing every moment. right now, work is once again on hold. the plant was just evacuated after black smoke was seen rising from one of the reactors. and radiation continues to spread. officials say the level of radioactive iodine in tokyo's tap water now two times the safety limit for babies and here at home, the f.d.a. is not allowing any dairy product, the produce from the area to be sold in the united states. a shootout in athens, georgia, leaves a police officer dead and another cop is wounded and right now, there's a nationwide hunt for the gunman who is a convicted felon. officer elmer christiansen tried to stop the suspect after a carjacking several miles from the university of georgia. he was killed. the suspect, 33-year-old jamie hood was released from prison in 2009 after serving 11 years for armed robbery. president obama heads back to the united states this morning hours after breaking bread at a dinner in el salvador. he's cutting his visit there short by several hours. couple of hours. he's going to cancel a tour of the mayan ruins and says he's going to hold a conference call with his national security team. the president and first lady were in latin america for five days. after trashing his dressing room and smashing a window with a chair at abc, chris brown went on the town partying as if nothing had happened. take a look at this picture. brown posted from his twitter account this picture the musician was dressed up and hit webster hall in new york city with his entourage in tow celebrating the release of his new album "fame." earlier on tuesday, brown reportedly threw a temper tantrum following an interview involving a question about his 2009 domestic violence arrest. >> probably the worst series of anger management classes i've heard about. they need billy crystal. that's what's he's in the midst of after beating up rhianna. he didn't want a question about it. >> the tv show said we're going to ask you a question about it and then he went ballistic. >> when you asked me those questions, he ripped my shirt off as well. i cannot condemn him. >> maybe it's all for show. we're giving him all the attention and talking about his album. >> the big question is whether people be prompted to buy "f-a-m-e"? probably n-o-p-e. >> not me. >> count all three of us out. they say qaddafi isn't the military target. should we let him know that? dick morris, former advisor to president clinton is here next. >> and the national organization for women now is supposed to defend women but apparently not all women. what about sarah palin? that story coming up next. 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what do you think about that? , dick? >> like the story about the guy you meet on the staircase who can't tell if he's going up or down. reagan and clinton were on their way up. the recessions were long behind them. they were in the middle of a robust economic recovery and clinton a strategic move to the center. obama is in the middle of going down. the economy is getting worse. we're headed towards a double dip recession. got his foreign policy totally mixed up and he's back on his heels defending against a republican congress that is rapidly pushing him to spending cuts. so i don't think so. i think in my book "revolt" i really lay out the basic concept which is that you cannot let obama move to the center. and the way to stop that from happening is to challenge him, challenge him, challenge him on spending cuts, on the debt limit. on defunding his programs. on cutting the size of the federal deficit, and just keeping back on his heels while you push him with a conservative agenda and that's just what's happening. in fact, i think they maybe even read the book. >> one of the things i wonder about, at this point in the presidency, reagan and clinton had similar poll numbers. at that point, they had an opponent to run against, someone emerged and was the nominee. do you see that happening towards the end of this year? >> that depends on who you nominate and what the deal is. i think that obama -- i think that when you look at what's going on with the economy, the double dip recession coming in my view, even if the gdp officially isn't negative, the unemployment rate is a point and a half higher. gallup found in january, consumer confidence, 15 points lower than january according to rasmussen. when you look at the inflation that's coming and likely to continue and you look at the instability in the oil situation, it's just going to get worse. yemen, bahrain and soon saudi arabia. this guy is a one term president. >> listen, everything you say is correct. and i hope you're wrong about the double dip recession but let's say everything you say is correct. is it possible the american people just like him as a person and that is why he's still got 48% approval rating? and most other presidents would be around high 30's? >> i think that's certainly a factor. i think the other factor is that he is the president and we've got a very tough situation and you don't want to turn on him in the middle of a really rough situation. but when you ask who's the best person for the economy, he gets like 32%. who's better on national security? he's in the 20's. who's better on the deficit spending, he's in the high 20's so if he's at 48% approval, you're right. it's his personal popularity holding him up but that's a slender read. that doesn't -- doesn't carry you through elections. >> right. dick morris, always a pleasure. thank you very much for joining us down in sunny florida. check out his new book called "revolt." >> right. >> which is no shock, it's selling extremely well. next on the rundown, his jet crashed in the middle of a rebel stronghold. instead of being attacked, the american pilot created as a hero. >> and the president's oil policy is loud and clear. drill, baby, drill but only if you're in brazil? what he's pledging to help brazil when we need jobs here. stuart varney will talk about that next. >> that's outrageous. >> the national organization of women is supposed to stand up for women. what about sarah palin? that story straight ahead. brian's hero growing up. >> you'll be number one with me even though on this day you turned 58. nice hair. ok guys, how's the family gonna use less? 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>> thank you. you're outraged for me. brazil has 30 billion barrels of oil off shore. they want to go get it. the president says go get it. we'll lend you $3 billion to help you go get it. when you get it, you can sell it to us. but we cannot go and drill off shore of the united states, in the gulf, no. we can't do that. in other words, what are we saying to the brazilians? it's ok if you go and foul at the beach, that's ok. we'll still buy your oil but we're not going to do that here. >> explore their oil reserves. why can't we fully explore our oil reserves? how can he do that with a straight face? >> if i can answer your question, i would and i cannot answer your question. there is absolute outrage about this. especially in louisiana which is -- the latest count is it's lost 9,000 jobs because we cannot drill in the gulf as we used to. >> how many times have we heard this president say we want to cut our reliance on foreign oil. according to my calculations, brazil is a foreign country. >> yes. you're asking the question again and again and i don't have an answer for you. except there is a sense of drift, a sense that we're -- some policy areas are just flat out out of control. >> you think? >> and the president is not leading on these areas, he is following and is in complete disarray. i think this is the classic example of that. why on earth should we lend $3 billion to the brazilians to go and develop their off-shore oil reserves when we absolutely are proce prohibited from doing that here. >> it's a state-run oil company here. it's not like it's a robust private sector. >> in fairness, we should say this $3 billion, export/import bank credit is going to the company that you're talking about and they will probably use it to buy technology from us. ok. but we're still asking them to develop their reserves. >> technology that is difficult to use here. >> we would rather deal with brazil than saudi arabia, then venezuela even though -- >> today, we're about -- >> the dewould rather deal with louisiana, wouldn't you? sorry. >> it's absolutely incredible. >> it is. >> we're also going to help them build the world cup infrastructure because they stopped screwing things in. >> meanwhile, i got to tell you, you're very excited about your show coming up at 9:20, varney & company. >> have you heard of john jones? he's on the show. >> can you believe that? >> the fighting guy, ok? why is he on a financial show? i'm going to ask him how much he makes. >> then you're the fighting guy. >> it will be that, yeah. >> thanks, stuart. >> thank you very much. one and all. >> meanwhile, headlines for you on this wednesday morning, an american pilot welcomed as a hero by libyan rebels after his jet crashed into a town. two pilots bailed from the jet after mechanical failure. one landed in a town where the villagers gave him water and lined up the bank and even hugged him. villagers who rushed to greet the second pilot were met by gunfire with marine search and rescue teams until the marines realized those villagers are on our side. they're friendly. >> and a stunning confession, the conductor of a miniature train ride that flipped over this week admits he was going too fast. the horrifying accident happened at an amusement park in south carolina. 6-year-old benjamin easeler died in the crash. late last night, 600 people turned out for a candlelight vigil to remember benjamin. chaos in springfield, massachusetts courtroom after a drug defendant went berserk after his bail was revoked. court officers wrestled him to the floor after he leapt the defense table and tried to tackle the judge. additional charges are expected. >> funny you bring this up. this has to be the worst wedding video ever. bride barely in focus. ground shots and even shots of some people who aren't at the wedding. a couple from england played the videographer to capture the big day. they took him to court and a judge ordered him to pay him about $1 is,000. they have pictures of the priceless moments. >> how many times has that happened to you? you pushed the button and you think it's rolling but you pushed it twice and you're stopped. >> not if you were hired to do it. >> come on. don't make excuses for the english photographer, steve. >> he missed the moment. >> he did. but he has a lot of really interesting outtakes. >> right. some good news, get divorced and get married again and get a real videographer. >> it has been one year since barack obama's health care bill became law and problems just continue to pile up. but that's not stopping supporters from touting its success. so where exactly does health care stand one year later? peter doocy has more from the d.c. bureau. peter? >> good morning. like you said, the 2,073 affordable care act known by some opponents as obama care turns 1 today and even though a big chunk of its provisions haven't even taken effect yet, some of them have. for example, kids can now stay on their mom and dad's health insurance plans until they're 26 years old. companies can no longer deny insurance coverage to kids with pre-existing conditions and older americans on medicare are now getting help with expensive prescriptions in the form of $250 rebate checks and this health care law was passed last year with the help of then speaker of the house nancy pelosi who is just the minority leader now but she's still very excited about this first birthday. she put out a statement that says "we enacted legislation that extends health care coverage to 32 million more americans and lowers health care costs while creating jobs, strengthening the middle class and helping the budget." a left leaning think tank says pelosi is wrong, at least in her argument that the health care creates jobs. the urban institute put out a report that they sum up all this by saying "the basic conclusion is that the aca, affordable care act, will not have a noticeable effect on net levels of employment. so they're saying it's not job creating. it is not job destroying. when it comes to jobs, the health care law is not a factor so it seems that after a year, there's still a lot of confusion about what exactly the health care law does and what it doesn't do and when it comes to public opinion, 79% of democrats say it's good the law was passed. 74% of republicans say that it is not. and that's from a gallup poll that came out on monday. back to you. >> all right, peter, thank you very much for the live report. >> well. >> now is the national organization for women, they stand up for women when they're disrespected or as the kids call it dissed. >> they do say that. and people were saying where is n.o.w. denouncing bill maher, so his friday night telecast, he used an awful word or two to describe sarah palin so people immediately turned to n.o.w., the national organization for women and said when are you going to call him out? they did kind of yesterday. >> reluctantly. we should have a point from lisa bennett where she said, it would be nice to think you suddenly discovered sexism and interested in joining us in the struggle for full equality. this smacks of hypocrisy, trying to discredit those who have been working for decades on the issue. ridiculous. >> they're responding to the fact this they never responded to the fact that now -- >> this they were being called out and that they were being called out for not responding to it and it's interesting to me how some on the left and i include bill maher in that decide she's fair game, that you know, he can say anything about her and they don't defend her until they're pushed to do so and asked to do so and i think that's pretty terrible. >> they never defended the woman who was almost miss america. >> when sarah palin was running for vice president, did they come out and say we should be supporting her? no, national organization for progressive women is really it. >> so their goal was to say those people who are yelling at us, who are not defending her, we don't believe you're sincere. >> uh-huh. >> all right. now what? >> now the weather, thank you very much. national organization of weather takes a look at butler, new jersey. >> no defending that! >> you know what? it's spring! and it's snowing. just about 35 miles outside of new york city, you can see these live pictures and for you folks at home right now, this is what we went through to get to work today. not only when we came in was it sdmo snowing but it was simultaneously raining as well. >> i hate the wintry mix. >> put a shirt on! >> that's right, chris brown, put a shirt on. thank you. who is chris johnson? >> i'm not sure. >> meanwhile, take a look. you should be wearing a shirt all the way from new england down through the mid atlantic. by the way, this storm system right here that's moving through the northeast, this is the same thing that dropped all that rain on california a number of days ago and caused the mudslides and everything else. meanwhile, the middle part of the country is nice and dry right now as is dixieland. as you head out the door in atlanta right now, 63. you have 60's along the gulf coast and you have 50's in the central plains but behind that storm system, temperatures in the 30's. 31 today in minneapolis. later on today, it's going to be 84 glorious degrees in raleigh. and durham area. 79 in atlanta and tampa and if you're out in texas, 70's and 80's. on this wednesday. meanwhile, in san francisco, 54. >> things are getting heated out there. second day of testimony in the barry bonds perjury trial that could land the home run guy in jail. bonds' personal trainer refused to testify against his long time friend. he was sent to jail but the juicy testimony comes from bonds' ex-girlfriend kimberly bill. she will take the stand and testify under oath she witnessed anderson inject hgh into bonds' abdomen and part of the defense is saying anderson injected bonds with steroids unknowingly so going to jail for a guy that's accusing him of lying. meanwhile, speaking at the nfl owners meeting in new orleans, roger goodell is hopeful there will be a 2011 season. rumors have been swirling about the teams using replacement players. the commissioner spoke out. >> we have not had any discussions or considerations of replacing players. that hasn't been discussed, hasn't been considered and not in our plans. >> so therefore, there won't be a movie. meanwhile, goodell said the league's final proposal when talks broke off on march 11th was still on the table for now. meanwhile, coming up on radio, "kilmeade & friends" we have military guy arthur herman will be joining us for three hours of libya, yemen, saudi arabia, syria and all those fun places where turmoil reigns. >> all right. speaking of turmoil, nato is spefd to be leading the charge in libya but germany just bailed out on us! and luxembourg turned its back and turned its fighter jets around in mid flight. what is next? 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"fox & friends" hour two for a wednesday starts right now. >> live from studio e, welcome aboard, folks. dana perino in today for gretchen. >> good to be herement thanks for having me. >> we call dana in. especially today, it's going to be great. you talk about the challenges from first-hand experience of getting the message out during wartime. the right message out and getting the administration on the same page, it's not easy clearly. >> sometimes you have to wait a little bit to make sure everybody is on the same page before you say something because cleaning up a communications misstep can be more difficult. >> get the dust buster. they have plenty to clean up. in the meantime, coalition air strikes are being launched on libya's third largest city. and fighting continues across the country between rebels and qaddafi's forces in cities like benghazi. rick leventhal has been covering the story since it broke and joins us now from benghazi. rick? >> and steve, the purpose of the no-fly zone and the nato jet strikes was to stop qaddafi's army from killing civilians and so far, it doesn't appear to be working. we mentioned we're hearing about dozens of civilian casualties dead and wounded continuing battles there in the city. they are welcoming no doubt these nato air strikes to try to neutralize qaddafi's forces but they have been getting pounded there and again, the air strikes don't seem to be so far stopping qaddafi's forces from carrying out these attacks. now, we know that they're also on the eastern part of libya, south of us, we know that qaddafi's tanks and troops are down there. they've in effect sealed off that city. as far as we know from local reports, there are no more residents or very few residents there, they may not be threatened there but they can't get home so this is an issue and we want to show you now some cell phone video that we got from rebel forces who tell us that this cell phone belonged to a qaddafi soldier who was shooting his own videotaping his own guys firing rockets on, apparently on them. it goes on for roughly 30 seconds, these rockets being fired from these launchers apparently from qaddafi's army. and scary bit of fire power there, if you will, that's being aimed, they say, at residents and certainly at rebel positions. guys? >> wow. rick, when it comes -- when it's all said and done, you show some footage of burnt out tanks and damage from our air strikes and you always interviewed last night some very happy rebels that guys like you were there. >> absolutely. they appreciate the american support. they appreciate the international support. and they certainly appreciate the job that the jet fighters have done on qaddafi's tanks that were between benghazi and they took out dozens of tanks and rocket launchers and heavy artillery and other military vehicles. they're littering the highway between here but again, qaddafi's forces still have tanks and heavy weapons in ajdabiya itself. we heard from some rebel opposition spokespeople last night that told us they're welcoming nato strikes on these targets but apparently, because they're in a town, because they're close to civilian buildings, that may be preventing the jets at least so far from firing on them. >> that's right. all right, rick leventhal, thanks very much. "the washington post" says this morning that the no-fly zone means nothing to libyans because qaddafi only had a few planes really when you think about it and they weren't doing anything. they say we need a no drive zone because it's the tanks and it's the snipers that are killing us and then we just saw that amazing cell phone video that shows that's how he's killing people. qaddafi is killing people on the ground although remember, we're not going on the ground. we're staying up in the sky according it our president. >> not only that but it seems that the coalition as it is, whether it be nato or whoever else wants to be involved, you saw today germany wants to turn back, luxembourg turns its planes around and president obama said we're going to turn things over. to whom is the question. >> let's talk about the mixed messages that could be coming out of the white house if you have the same conclusion that we do. you have the secretary of state saying it looks like qaddafi is ready to leave and the president saying what happens if we -- what happens if he hunkers down? let's listen. >> you are absolutely right that, you know, qaddafi may try to hunker down and wait it out even in the face of the no-fly zone. even though his forces have been degraded. >> we've heard that. we've heard about other people close to him. reaching out to people that they know around the world, africa, the middle east, europe, north america, beyond. you know, saying what do we do? how do we get out of this? what happens next? a lot of it is just the way he behaves. it's somewhat unpredictable. but some of it we think is exploring, you know, what are my options? where could i go? what do we do? we would encourage that. >> you would say that's unfortunate. you have the two leading faces and this administration on this war that's not a war saying the different thing. >> they are interviewed about the same time and said two different things. both things could be true. qaddafi could be sending out two messages, right, that he is willing to leave but also saying he's going to hunker down. that can happen. but it is confusing and it just adds -- it's like rubbing a spot on the wall when you make things worse a little bit. one of the things that i recognized last night when charles krauthammer was on bret baier's panel, he said america is the reluctant leader here and in some ways, president obama, it did say he's reluctant. nobody wanted the situation to happen in the first place. when you're the leader of the free world, that's the position that you're in and a leadership position is what you have to take. >> he knows -- the president was extremely critical of president bush because president bush had -- was the bush doctrine, he wanted to give people the opportunity to have a democracy and have rights and say in their futures. he said that's naive when it comes to the middle east. you cannot force your values on another nation and he really changed his opinion as it is now. remember the president in 2009 talking about democracy and how it evolves. >> the message i hope to deliver is that democracy rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, those are simply not principles of the west to be hoisted on these countries but rather, what i believe to be universal principles that they can embrace and affirm as part of their national identity. now, the danger, i think, is when the united states or any country thinks that we can simply impose these values on another country with a different history and a different culture. >> is that what we're doing right now. so if you're waking up and wondering who is running things, the president of the united states for political reasons would like to get out from under this as quickly as possible. he doesn't think it's helpful to him. so what about our allies? well, as dana just mentioned and as brian mentioned, they're bailing out on us. what it sounds like now is they've come up with a compromise where it -- they will use nato assets, command and control. planes, items like that. and yet, it won't be a nato mission. so for the war that's not a war, it's going to be a nato operation that's not a nato operation. >> and for all of his -- >> now are you confused? >> all this gnashing of teeth to figure out what we're going to call it is worse than that. it seems from a policy perspective, there really is confusion. you would have thought four days ago before they launched this, they would have i don't know who is going to be in charge and who is going to be with us. >> four days ago before they launched this. it doesn't seem like many thought it out. a lot going on especially in japan. >> latest developments out of japan where the situation is changing every moment. right now, work at the nuclear site is once again on hold. the plant was just evacuated after black smoke was seen rising from one of the reactors and radiation continues to spread. officials say the level of radioactive iodine in tokyo's tap water now two times the safety limit for babies. >> that's not good. >> here at home, the f.d.a. is not allowing any dairy products or produce from the area to be sold in the united states. a shootout in athens, georgia, leaves a police officer dead. another cop is wounded. and right now, there's a nationwide man hunt for the gunman who is a convicted felon. officer elmer christian tried to stop the suspect after a carjacking several miles from the university of georgia. he was killed. the suspect, 33-year-old jamie hood was released from prison in 2009 after serving 11 years for armed robbery. a grand jury indicts a washington man accused of planting a bomb at the martin luther king jr. parade in spokane, washington. he is scheduled to appear in court today. he's charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. prosecutors say he has ties to white supremacist groups. police found the bomb in a backpack and it disabled before it could explode. a town hall meeting turns into a town brawl where in florida, the mayor gets knocked unconscious. that's the mayor right there, gary brune. he's on the floor. the attacker, the town manager's husband who is angry that he was trying to fire his wife. he punched the mayor's wife off and made some accusation about him at the meeting. >> how many times do the cops bring you home for drunk driving? 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e-mail us right now, friends at foxnews.com. do you like what the judge is doing down in tampa? president obama is not the first president to meet face to face with colonel qaddafi. >> this mad dog of the middle east has a goal of a world revolution, muslim fundamentalist revolution. >> but president ronald reagan's son says his father would have done things differently than what's happening right now. michael reagan is here next. then calls for president obama to be stripped of his nobel peace prize, they say dropping bombs on libya is all the evidence they need. we're going to report, you're gonna decide. the motorola xoom tablet. the first tablet powered by android 3.0, with a 3-d interface and a widescreen hd display. grab it and it grabs you. only at verizon. the two trains and a bus rider. the "i'll sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspireby you. and we've been honored to walk with you to help you get where u want to be. ♪ because your moment is now. let nothing stand in your way. ♪ >> how about numbers in the news? first up, one as in one year. that's how long it's been since president obama signed his health care reform into law. next, $1.2 billion. that is how much it costs the federal government every year to house federal inmates. that's over 100,000 dollars per day for each inmate. and five. that's how many cans of beer keith gruber had with him when he arrived for a drunk driving hearing in a new york court. one can was opened when he got in trouble. >> over to you. >> in 1986, president ronald reagan carried out an air strike against colonel qaddafi after the tyrant was implicated in a berlin nightclub bombing that killed two u.s. servicemen. this is what the president said at the time. >> when our citizens are abused or attacked anywhere in the world on the direct orders of a hostile regime, we will respond so long as i'm in this oval office. self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty. >> well, now that president obama is launching a similar air strike in libya, we're in our fourth day, should he sound more like president reagan in 1986? and joining us right now from studio city, california is the son of president ronald reagan, political consultant and author of "the new reagan revolution" michael reagan. >> great to have you here today. we wanted to get your perspective, take us back in time and why do you think it would have been different had your dad been president today? >> first of all, ronald reagan didn't go to the u.n. to get permission to do exactly what he did. as acting as the president of the united states of america and you might remember he had a great effect on muammar qaddafi and kept his head down for over 20 years because the president of the united states acted as a leader as president. president of the united states today isn't acting as a leader or as anything else. he's letting other people lead this. he's a follower on this. and he's announcing to muammar qaddafi what he's going to do before he even does it and my great worry is he really has two options. you either got to kill him or exile him because if you leave him alive, he's got enough money in the bank and enough oil underground to in fact once again start funding terrorist activities around the world and where is he going to start? the united states of america. italians, the french and those who have been involved in this little get together he's having in libya. >> so his tactics are very -- it shows he has tremendous guile. why are we in there? humanitarian mission, to stop the killing, the killing of libyans. what is he doing? he's putting snipers and tankers into cities and killing innocent civilians showing america and their coalition you can't stop me from the sky. >> because we've announced exactly what we're going to do, we've announced when we're going to leave. we've announced when other people are going to be put in charge of this whole event and whole series that's going on. the docketed rin that president obama has put out there, if that's the doctrine, there's a whole lot of places in the world that we should be right now. what is the in fact, obama doctrine. the doctrine i see is not good for anybody on the planet today and i speak from a different position also because, you know, when my father pulled off that 1986 attack on tripoli and on muammar qaddafi, you know, you might remember that qaddafi said he killed his adopted daughter so muammar qaddafi actually threatened my life after that happened. secret service came in close to me for a few months after that so there's a different perspective for me but, you know, what we have here is truly a lack of leadership with the president of the united states of america and because of the lack of leadership, the world now is in turmoil. >> what do you think it means for other leaders, you know, dictators around the world. what kind of message do you think the recent -- the last four days is sending to them? >> you know, like my father said, that, you know, during his lifetime, there were four wars. none of which were started because america was too strong. and when you have a weak president and you don't look strong, this is when all these things break free. and of course, you remember. i mean, during the bush administration, george bush actually went to the congress of the united states to get their permission. they were for before they were against it. that's when he went into afghanistan and what have you. this president didn't even think about doing that. instead, there's some group out there, some international coalition of what, two or three people that in fact he is listening to. that's why you see the people on the left even outraged by all of this. >> we know the allied powers are run by a steering committee. and that's exactly being sarcastic. that's exactly what we have right now, a steering committee so we'll use the control headquarters of nato. michael, i'm worried about it and i think you outlined the reasons why very well. thank you so much for joining us and the book is excellent, the new reagan revolution. >> thanks a lot. appreciate it. >> bye-bye. >> steve? 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the 28-year-old bride, angela from arizona arrested after she allegedly kicked a police officer. but the cops gave her a break, they didn't keep her locked up on her wedding night. the cause of the ruckus, some guys were dirty dancing with the groom and -- >> with the bride. >> the groom went ballistic. oh, my! that would have been -- >> that would have been an even better story. >> that would be -- >> have to be accurate. >> i read on twitter that barack obama has fired more cruise missiles than all other nobel peace prize winners combined. >> really? >> that's saying something. >> never had any or easily beaten that record, did we get that back before he died? >> no, we didn't. we told you about how michael moore was calling for the president of the united states to give back his nobel peace prize. now, at least one world leader is calling on the nobel peace committee to revoke it! >> not eva morales of bolivia. he says, you know, we should get that back because he feels as though the president has not lived up to the ideals. let me see if this makes sense. he also says he doesn't see him demonstrating the colonial policy with one goal, to establish control of the libya oil and makes the whole awarding of the nobel peace prize hypocritical. that's right. we're in there for libya's oil like we took iraq's soil. >> according to the president, we would have to get the oil from an airplane. we won't wind up on the ground. >> we're busy financing brazil's drilling of their oil. we have enough to do. >> one thing that i was thinking of, if michael moore is calling for the nobel peace prize to be revoked, that helps president obama get re-elected. >> as you know, vladimir who is a high ranking russian political leader that leads to the liberal side. he also wants it back. >> so much for pressing the reset button. >> so weird to see the russian sit like that with the lips like that. that's how you portray a russian in the movies. that's what a russian should look like. that's why he's russian. there you go. >> thank you very much, brian and you called for this music? >> actually it was dana's choice. good move. when the housing market came crashing down, many pointed to arms, adjustable rate mortgages at one of the villians. this year, an estimated 10% of borrowers are expected to go with an adjustable rate mortgage. >> personal finance expert dave ramsey is here to break it all down. what does this all mean for consumers? >> well, you know, when you think 10% of americans are thinking about getting a mortgage that adjusts, when we're at the lowest rate since 1960, crud, you can get a 4 1/4% fixed rate today with one point and you have 10% of the people out there want a mortgage that can adjust. this means people didn't graduate from the sixth grade. unbelievable. >> they're not thinking about the long temperaturm. they're thinking get me in as low as i can. he wrote this, my wife and i have the chance to get in on a house sooner rather than later if we go with the 5/1 arm. not sure we're going to stay in this house for more than five years anyway. it seems like a good deal. what do you think, dave ramsey? >> that's right, rob, you'll be moving when they foreclose on you. don't buy a house, son, you obviously have house fever. you have no money and you are totally rationalizing this. take a cold shower. rent for another year. get you some money. unbelievable! there's no way you can afford this house. all the symptoms are in this e-mail. all your buddies are saying get a house. get a house. hey, when broke people get a house, they become broker. that's why we call them real estate brokers. >> that's why? you're funny. here are some of -- you say some of the dangers, first of all, the cons of getting an adjustable rate. you avoid interest only payments, may qualify for more home than you can afford. if your job is lost, payments can become too much to handle as well. >> of course, we would add to that to see if they adjust from the bottom, where are they going to adjust? up. where is it going to go from 4 1/4. they're not going to pay you to get a house. it's going to adjust up. this is not rocket science. >> let's do one more from debbie from tennessee. she says our 7-1 arm is coming due in the next two years. is now the time to refinance to a conventional note? >> yes. let's just reiterate one more time, if you currently have an adjustable rate and a balloon mortgage, if you have an interest rate above 5% or 6%, somewhere in there and you plan to stay in the home, you need to refinance today. your payment might actually go up, in very, very few circumstances but at least you've stablized your life and you're not riding the wave of interest rate changes that are bound to come with these great rates. >> i'm refinancing. i got a rate less -- like 3 1/2. it's great. >> we're going to look at your personal finance report next hour. got you that great loan. >> thank you very much. have a great day and a great week. >> thanks. >> he was shot down over the no-fly zone over bosnia in 1995 and has something to say about what's happening in libya. 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>> my instance, americraft, exploded around me. i was being burned before i could even eject and i ejected about 7,000 feet at 500 miles per hour up to nearly a half-hour coming down over enemy territory. death squads were immediately there to try to capture me. i hit in three different locations and evaded over the course of two different nights and finally was able to make radio contact. the united states marines, a marine expeditionary unit came in to pull me out and under hostile fire, we were able to return home safely. >> one of the things that i said in the opening is that a no-fly zone and the enforcement of it is not risk free. can you tell us a little bit about what those pilots might be going through as they try to help the libyans over the last few days? >> well, one of the things we have to do if you're going to enforce a no-fly zone is to suppress all the air defense systems. you need to take out their command and control sites, their communication, their radar sites, their airports and their surface to air missile sites and anti-aircraft artillery so you can then have an ownership of the skies over the territory that you're trying to control. but even still, if you have a mechanical failure, or a reason to eject such as mine being hit by a surface to air missile, you'll come down over enemy territory and at that point, your survival training comes into play and thankfully we're highly trained by the best instructors in the world. >> seems to have been some debate over what to call this operation. is there any other way to describe it except the word war? >> well, i would -- i don't know how else you classify it. we have engaged in military conflict there. we've taken out enemy targets. how you want to define that would necessarily be a decision of how the leadership of our country wants to define it. but i will say that i think that our overall mission objectives there are a little ambiguous. >> some people calling on there being a no drive zone and john mccain talked about that. president obama indicated that's not going to happen and i don't see any other countries coming forward with that. do you think a no-fly zone is enough to accomplish even an ambitious mission? >> i'd have to have more details as to what exactly is happening on the ground there which i don't have and i'll have to leave that up to our military leadership and commander in chief to determine that. >> captain, i can't tell you how important it was for us to have your perspective this morning and i appreciate it so much. >> thank you. >> when it comes to knowing your country, some americans need to brush up on their history. >> who is the current u.s. speaker of the house? >> should know this one. >> come here. >> i have no idea. >> couldn't tell you. >> well, who is the u.s. vice president? >> they should know that one, right? we'll examine the many reasons why so many americans can't cut it. and on this day in history in 1998, will smith has the number one hit "getting jiggy with it." can getting enough vegetables make you feel good? oh, yeah. v8 juice gives you 3 of your 5 daily servings of vegetables. v8. what's your number? >> well, according to a test in the new issue of "newsweek", 73% of americans can't say why we fought the cold war which sounds bad. until you realize, no one in the white house can explain to us why we're fighting the libyan war. ok? i wouldn't blame the american people too much. >> funny but true. that's right. and get this, nearly 30% of americans have no idea who our current vice president is. and it only gets worse from there. listen to these people on the streets. >> how many justices serve on the u.s. supreme court? >> might be 12. i'm not certain. >> i know it's an odd number. i think 7. >> nine. >> who is the current speaker of the house? >> the guy that cries and i don't know his name. >> nancy pelosi? >> boehner. >> how many years do senators get elected for? >> two. >> six years? >> who is susan b. anthony? >> susan b. anthony? she's on a dollar bill that never quite made it. >> she was a writer, wasn't she? >> suffrage, voting. >> there you go. he got it. what's going on with america? is the government too complicated or are u.s. schools just that bad these days. with us right now is the president of the eagle academy foundation, david banks. we were laughing at those people on the street. there's nothing to laugh at really. >> it really isn't. it's an indictment really of our educational system and i think in a larger way, it's an indictment of the culture. we as americans, i think, have become really spoiled. we don't read. we don't inquire, we don't think critically about things. we're only concerned about current events that entertain us so we're much more concerned about what snooki is doing on "the jersey shore" than about who the vice president of the united states is. >> ultimately if you ask some young people, that's more interesting. why would i be interested in history, david? if i need to know a facts, i can always just google it. i don't have to know it. >> yeah, yeah. the reality is having a deeper understanding connects you to what's happening in this country and what's happening around the world and far too many of our young people are not interested. >> you said around the world, we have a graphic that shows where we -- we spend the most money, it seems like on our education and when it comes to math, we rank 31st. when it comes to reading, 17th. and when it comes to science, 23rd. look at that, particularly, david, the science -- the 23rd. if we are going to continue to be the beacon of innovation, we can't if our young scientists are in 23rd place around the planet. >> america is becoming a second tier nation and that's no laughing matter. the reality is we have to get very serious about what's happening in our educational system because if we do not, we're continuing to slip and that's going to have tremendous implications for our country. >> a lot of people have been complaining about the education system and the teachers unions and stuff like that. you see that as a component for the problem. it's bigger than that. >> i'm not an anti-union person. unions have their role to play in contracts and protect the rights of its workers but i think far too many of our unions are unions on steroids. they're running things where they should not be and we need to make sure we're staying on course. >> we have a lot of parents watching right now. what can a parent do today to help their child? >> they need to first of all make sure that their child is doing their homework and need to engage them in conversation about what they're learning. not enough to come home and say how did you do today? everything is great. you need to continue to push it and have them explain to you what it is they're learning and it would be good for the parent as well as the young person. >> absolutely. if you ask a lot of parents who are the people who wrote the federalist papers, they'd go i don't know. >> you got that right. >> family can learn together. >> absolutely. great opportunity. >> it's not too late. >> it's certainly not too late and can't be too late. we have to be in this together. >> david banks, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> great perspective. thank you, sir. >> all right, coming up at the top of the hour in a couple of minutes, he's setting the ultimate example for his students. meet the principal who is going to war. he'll be here live with the reasons why. plus maybe these lawmakers need go to the principal's office. the mayor ends up unconscious on the floor. who done it? 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"fox & friends" starts right now. >> dana: that wedding picture, that happened to somebody else, mrs. laura bush. at her wedding, the president, george w. bush, her mother was in charge of taking all the photographs, but she describes in her book that her mother didn't have great eyesight, was using her glasses and all the pictures turned out blurry and they got the pictures of somebody's arm and up in of the actual wedding. there is not a lot of wedding photos from that one either. >> brian: great. now those can go to the smithsonian. >> dana: i just don't want these people in england to feel they're all alone. >> steve: we take lousy pictures here, too. talk to anybody who works at photo mat. >> brian: the three people is that still go use them. we got to tell you what's going on in libya. major cities in libya are under siege. you got rebel fighters struggling to hold back gadhafi's forces. you're looking at brand-new cell phone video from the ground. rick leventhal has been covering this story since it broke. he joins us from benghazi, the scene of another major battle. rick, how did you get that video >> brian, we were on the road between benghazi and another town. we stopped at tanks that were destroyed by nato fighter jets and other people were stopping, including residents of the one of them came up to us with this cell phone that he says was dropped by a gadhafi soldier and that soldier, he said, had recorded these images of these rocket launchers firing a barrage of rockets. these guys thought they were fired on their town. it's not clear where this event occurred. we can't verify the authenticity of the video. it's a demonstration of the fire power gadhafi has, if in fact, this is the phone belong to go a soldier who dropped it outside of the city. >> brian: rick, is their sense amongst the rebels that although the allies are helping them out, or the coalition is there helping them out, they're not going to be able to stop the violence from the air? >> yeah. they know that, brian. they know that they can't just rely on international support from the skies. they know that these air strikes can't alone stop gadhafi's army. that's why they say they're organizing now and they're trying to get better at battling him on the ground. again, they don't want, they say, international troops to come and help them out on the ground. they want to handle this fight themselves and they're trying to do that. they are undermanned and underequiped, undertrained, i should say. they do have the numbers. they have a tremendous number of people, they say. many of them without military training who want to step up and join the fight. we've seen them trying to win back the city to our south where gadhafi's forces entrenched themselves. many of the residents fled the city. some continue to try and get back in and there have been reports of civilian casualtyies there. misrata under attack. these folks are struggling to beat back the heavy armor. when the air strikes take out some tanks, what's left of those tanks, the opposition forces rescue those vehicles. they grab the tanks for themselves and do have some of their own armor. they're trying to get better at this and trying to use that armor against gadhafi's forces. this is obviously going to take some time. >> brian: thanks so much. >> dana: i wonder if the rebels are looking for clarity from the united states, they're not going to get it soon because we have very mixed messages. >> brian: they need more defections. they need more of gadhafi's forces to say he's a loser. >> dana: why would you do that if you were in their military? if you know that the united states aim is apparently not regime change -- >> steve: it's just to protect the people who are being shot on the streets. >> brian: it's a humanitarian mission. it's not a war. >> steve: but dana just touched on this. the arab league are suddenly no longer behind it. they're horrified by it. then you got the allies. now you got france and united kingdom and turkey and italy saying, okay, we're not going to run this. now it sounds like it will be operated with nato assets, but it's not going to be a nato-flagged mission. then you've got the white house. yesterday, i know the president is traveling, but they got a phone. you think he could have coordinated his message with the secretary of state because they said two different things. listen. >> you are absolutely right that gadhafi may try to hunker down and wait it out even in the face of a no-fly zone. even though his forces have been degraded. >> we've heard that, we've heard about other people close to him reaching out to people that they know around the world, africa, the middle east, europe, north america, beyond, you know, saying, what do we do? how do we get out of this? what happens next? a lot of it is just the way he behaves. it's somewhat unpredictable. but some of it we think is exploring, what are my options? where could i go? what could i do? we would encourage that. >> brian: operation odyssey dawned. the worse name for any battle ever. so that is -- that would be great. no one will remember this chaos or the objectives or the president in brazil if gadhafi is gone. they'll just remember, wow, he achieved his objective. but the french foreign minister really put a monkey wrench into things when he said, by the way, if gadhafi respects the cease fire, this fighting could stop immediately. so that would leave him in power and people wondering what trust would maintain itself? donald rumsfeld yesterday knows how to put together a coalition, knows how tough it can be. >> put yourself in the shoes of the rebels who are trying to recruit people and to get people to assist and how can they do that if the people outside, the united states and the nato and the other countries, have not agreed that the regime should change? the rebels' circumstance is very difficult, it strikes me. >> steve: yeah. they should have figured out what the mission was before they actually went over there. >> dana: you would have thought. >> steve: it's great we've got dana here today because she was part of the bush administration. while obama and the left -- president obama and the left have criticized the bush doctrine, it sounds like a lot of what they are doing is what you were doing. >> dana: there are elements of that. but it's worth seeing what president obama said in 2009 about democracy. >> i hope to deliver the message that democracy, rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, those are not simply principles of the west, to be hoisted on these countries. >> dana: there are lots of questions when i was press secretary. remember towards the end, people said what exactly is the bush doctrine. in addition points, they're basically four main areas. one is you make no distinction between the terrorists and the nations that harbor them. gadhafi fall noose that category. you take the fight overseas before they attack us here. you do something that president obama was just talking about, which is advance liberty and hope as the alternative to the enemy's ideology of repression and fear. >> steve: that's right. and earlier when i had set up the sound bites with president obama and also the secretary of state, i said they're saying two different things. you say from a messaging point of view, when you're in the white house, you want everybody to be on the same page, saying the same stuff. >> dana: it certainly makes things easier. but what they said, both things can be true. gadhafi could be signaling he's going to hunker down while at the same time talking about how can i get out gracefully. but when you have the president and the secretary of state at almost the exact same time giving interview, you think they would be on the same page. >> brian: secretary of defense is reprimanding great britain. turkey is mad at nato, at the same time germany wants out. crazy. >> steve: at the same time, there is news out of japan. >> dana: amazing of this story. it continues. developments out of japan that work at the fukushima nuclear site is once again on hold. the plant was evacuated after black smoke was seen rising from one of the reactors and radiation continues to spread. officials say the level of radioactive iodine in tokyo's tap water is two times the safety limit for babies. plus, japanese officials now estimating this month's earthquake and tsunami will cost up to $309 billion in damages. a shootout? athens, georgia leaves a police officer dead. another cop is wounded and right now, there is a nationwide manhunt for the gunman who is a convicted felon. officer he will mere christian tried to stop the suspect after a carjacking several miles from the university of georgia. he was killed. the suspect is 33-year-old jamie hood. released from prison in 2009 after serving 11 years for armed robbery. president obama heads back to the united states this morning hours after breaking bread at a state dinner in el salvador. he's cutting short his visit there by a couple of hours, canceling a sightseeing tour of the mayan ruins and going to hold a conference call with his national security team. the president and first lady were in latin america for five days. this has to be the worst wedding video ever. the bride barely in focus and what can you see? shots of guests' feet. they didn't even have great shoes. a couple from england paid $500 to capture their big day. they took him to court and the judge ordered him to pay the couple about $1,000. those are your headlines. >> steve: so how do you think the couple felt when they got home and they realized that that is all they've got memory ways of their wedding? we'll find out tomorrow because the gram will be joining us live. >> brian: we'll recognize him by his torso. whatever happened to using words to persuade people? in one city, lawmakers are using their fists. that's the mayor on the floor. >> steve: president obama's oil policy is loud and clear, drill, web, drill, but only in brazil, which rhymes. shouldn't the president be worried about creating job here's instead? our political panel is entering studio e. they're coming up after the break. come on in, folks. 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>> i think he can make a similar visit to the gulf and alaska and talk about drilling offshore there as opposed to going to brazil. >> brian: we're going to help them with our technology, fully realize their resource. in fact, listen to the american people say and then i'll talk to you, colonel, and robert. here is what they said. are you for an increase of offshore drilling here in america? favor, 60%. oppose drilling, 37%. the president off message here? >> the president is truly showing leadership on this issue. the reality is, we have domestic oil drilling. we consume 25% of the world's oil and we only have 2% of the reserves in our own country. so either we're going to depend upon people like saudi arabia or venezuela or form alliances with strong democracies like brazil. it's not whether we're oil dependent. the real issue is whether the right wing will get over their hypocrisy of advocating energy and oil independence but doing everything they can to keep us relying on oil as our only resource. >> brian: there are 55 platforms work ago year ago. now only 25 are back, even bill clinton has said it is shameful that we're not drilling. 9,000 people out of work in the gulf, and the president is invest not guilty brazil. >> the president is talking to three different audiences at the same time. he's talking to the american public saying we have energy problem, we need to -- we have labor problems, we have economy problems. that's the big message to all americans. at the same time he's pandering to the base on the left and to the environmentalists saying, but i'm not going to let us do anything within our own country to develop oil and he's talking to the foreigners by saying, we love you. >> brian: the real issue is that we can not allow ourselves to have an oil only energy strategy. and the republican congress has cut funding for every alternative source except for oil. in fact, now they're trying to dismantle the environmental protection agency so at that they're trying prohibit them from testing for greenhouse gas emission or testing for clean water standards. >> brian: they're doing wildcatting of their own at the epa. i think the house is trying to rein them in. right? >> what i'm confused about this is why he proclaims that it's okay to drill in brazil and that it's environmental degradation in the entire world, but it's not okay in the u.s. i don't understand why -- >> that's not what he's saying. we have drilling high in seven years. we're only 2% of the reserves. >> brian: robert, if we maximize our own oil use, we wouldn't need anybody else has oil. too many environmental regulations, we can't move forward with it. >> protecting the environment is not the enemy hee. >> brian: the caribou don't mind. they love the pipelines. bill cowan, elise, robert, stay right here because we're talking a little bit about not the war in libya, but the humanitarian effort in libya. we'll be talk being that when we come back right here on "fox & friends." ♪ one, two, three, four ♪ ♪ you say ♪ flip it over and replay ♪ we'll make everything okay ♪ walk together the right way ♪ do, do, do, do goals for the future... what if they were stolen from you? by alzheimer's. this cruel disease is the sixth leading cause of death, and affects more than 5 million americans. the alzheimer's association is taking action, and has been a part of every major advancement. but we won't rest until we have a cure. you have dreams... help the alzheimer's association protect them. act now, go to alz.org. >> dana: some quick headlines. 30 day emergency law now in effect in yemen. the constitution there has been suspended and now protests are banned. security forces have expanded power and general censorship is in effect. a brawl breaks out in the town hall in wyndham airport, leaving the mayor unconscious on the floor. the city manager's husband started throwing punches after learning the mayor was going to fire his wife. the mayor will be okay. >> brian: we think. back in 2009, president obama sounded as if he was against intervening in the middle east. >> the message i hope to deliver is that democracy, rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, those are not simply principles of the west to be hoisted on these countries. >> brian: but after air strikes in libya and calls for democratic system there, has president obama become the reluctant commander in chief who made it clear he does not want to lead this operation, although we started it? we're back with our political panel. colonel cowan, is that a good message to send, the one we're getting from the president, that he doesn't want to take out the leader. he just wants to make sure the libyan people aren't anilated. >> we've got u.s. forces engaged in combat. anybody in the military likes to see a clear, concise end game. they want to know what to do. you don't go to war to halfway win. go to war to win. right now we're in the halfway win mode and the president saying he wants gadhafi out. chairman joint chief saying he can envision gadhafi still being there. it makes it difficult for the military. >> brian: elise, on top of that, senator kerry said it's not even a war. don't even call it a war. it's a limited action. >> it's a war and we don't need to kid ourselves otherwise. you look at the amount of money we're spending. we had pilots shot down yesterday. >> brian: not shot down, but mechanical failure. >> i'm sorry. and i mean, there is no way with this kind of military might and effort that we're exerting, i don't see how we can call ourselves otherwise. >> if i may, we were fortunate to get those pilots back because if they had fallen into the hands of the enemy, we'd be dealing with an entirely different scenario today. >> brian: yeah. robert, so far we started bombing on saturday. it is now wednesday. where are we at? >> first of all, look, there is no question this is a difficult but i think critical humanitarian mission. certainly the plans that gadhafi announced to really create complete mass murder in benghazi has stopped. in fact, we were running the risk of losing 100,000 lives in benghazi. but through our military's work and the coalition that's been established, in fact, gadhafi abandoned that plan. secondly, the momentum shifted. the rebels have a significant role and significant opportunity to show what they're cable of. >> brian: i think here is the concern, you're the military guy. because from the fly in the air from the no-fly zone, we can't stop the snipers and tanks from walking into towns and just killing people and destroying things. >> we can't and we won't. this battle will be won on lost on the ground and i say battle not just in the context of getting him out, but in providing the humanitarian assistance and relief that the u.n. mandate calls for. it's going to require at some level, some kind of friendly presence. >> brian: on the ground? >> on the ground. particularly if it goes to humanitarian effort with all the casualties, destruction, what have you, in some of these towns, ultimately humanitarian means you're coming in with relief supplies, you're bringing people in to help stabilize the situation. at some point there will be some foreign entity whether it be military or nongovernmental organizations or whatever, on the ground helping stabilize that situation. the murkiness of it continues on. >> there have been calls for a no dry zone now. that's what's going to be much more difficult and what i'm concerned about, because we have two wars going on right now in iraq and afghanistan, and how, i just don't see, i feel like we're so stretched already. >> brian: we know we support the president. we want everything to come out good and we have no doubt our military will complete any mission they're given to and hopefully we have a good news story to talk all three of us are together. great job. all right. let's go to steve and dana who are someplace safe. >> steve: we are. thanks. >> dana: we've been talking about the national organization for women which is supposed to defend women, but what if that woman is sarah palin? 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>> good morning, yes. more problems at that crippled nuclear plant. smoke rising again from it and they understand it's coming from number 3 unit, which is the plutonium reactor, the much more dangerous one, if there is any kind of meltdown at the plant. also fresh radiation scare in tokyo today. they detected radioactive iodine in the tap water in the japanese capital twice the safety level for infants. parents of toddlers have been told to stop using tap water and i've been told tap water is still safe to drink. u.s. defense secretary robert gates says he's concerned about radioactive fallout affecting the u.s. 55,000 troops they have in and around japan now, many of them are helping with the relief effort for those victims of the quake and tsunami. and the u.s. is also the first nation to block food imports. the u.s. food and drug administration said it was stopping imports of milk, vegetable and fruit from four prefectures in japan's crisis hit northeast. and south korea may well be taking the u.s.'s lead in the next few hours. back to you. >> steve: david piper live with the latest. thank you. >> dana: here is a look at some of your other headlines. a live look at wild fires rage not guilty golden, colorado. high winds reaching 75 miles per hour, grounding fire fighting air crews trying to battle the fires. more than two square miles of land has been destroyed. so far no up with has been injured and no buildings have been destroyed. police believe that the fire was started by someone, but unintentionally. >> steve: oops. >> brian: something to go on. stunning confession, the conductor of a miniature train ride that flipped this week admits he was going too fast. it happened in south carolina. six-year-old boy died in the crash. late last night, nearly 600 people turned out for a candlelight vigil to remember him. >> steve: meanwhile, a victim of internet bullying speaking out after being added to a smut list in this video. >> the first slut you see on this list will be victoria corona. >> steve: oh, boy. 16-year-old victoria corona, right there, says the list ranks girls at her new york high school. she says she's been bullied since the video was posted on facebook. >> i want to get through high school and stop being bullied, so i can go out with friends and not worry about trusting people. >> steve: her mom says the school has done nothing to help, but the superintendent says he's looking into the situation. that's terrible. >> dana: pita's latest stunt, making a mess in hollywood. typical shower show claims by giving up meat, each and every american can save more than 2,000 gallons of water. only problem? police had to be called after the shirtless ladies distracted a nearby driver who plowed into the cars in front of him. >> steve: nobody is hurt. right? >> brian: that's the down side of shower not guilty -- showering in public. >> steve: we told you yesterday about how, because of mechanical failure, an f-15 went down 25 miles from benghazi. we were worried about the pilots. as it turns out, they were able to eject safely. but now we know some of the back story. so one of the guys ejects, because the marines knew they were going down, they launched a search and rescue mission and they saw a bunch of villagers out there and they started shooting at them and i think six of them were shot. none fatally, i believe. but i saw an interview with one of the guys in the hospital bed last night and he said, we're so glad they came. this was an accident. >> brian: they were greeted as heros. they said you're among friends. when they went down, they had no idea if they were in enemy territory. the rebels were helpful and nice. when the marines visited, they y wanted to make sure everybody got away from the pilot because he was actually being taken care of. >> steve: the pilot was taken, after the hero's welcome. >> they -- >> they put him up in a suite and then he got on the phone and called the base and said, i'm over at this hotel and they -- >> dana: they had lined up as a receiving line in order to thank him. earlier in the show, we had an exclusive on fox news with captain o'grady. he was shot down -- actually as part of a no-fly zone operation in bosnia. he talked to us earlier about the mission in libya. >> there seems to have been some debate over what to call this operation. is there any other way to describe it, except for the word war? >> i don't know how else you classify it. we have engaged in military conflict there. we've taken out enemy targets. how you want to define that would necessarily be a decision of how the leadership of our country wants to define it. i will say that i think that our overall mission objectives there are a little ambiguous. >> steve: a little? >> dana: i think what's interesting and for all of us to remember is that while a no-fly zone sounds good, it is not risk free. thankfully those two pilots were okay and welcomed as heros. that may not necessarily be the case. >> steve: with the no-fly zone in libya, how many airplanes did he really have to start with? did that really impact the people because a lot of people, as brian and you, as well mentioned a number of times, john mccain said you need a no drive zone. >> brian: when you ask now to step up and defend a woman, you didn't think you would have to do that. but when you did, you didn't think you would get a sarcastic refrain back at you and that's what happened. bill maher doesn't like sarah palin. i had no idea for this. even for hbo he used a word that's even over the top for that channel. it was so -- >> steve: distasteful. >> brian: a lot of diss words, you can fill it in, you wonder where n.o.w. was to defend this attack on sarah palin. they finally stepped up and kind of defended her. >> steve: yeah. they told supposedly progressive men stop degrading women, but they said that the denouncement of bill maher's remarks toward sarah palin not an endorsement of her or her politics as well. then they went on. >> dana: they went on a little step further. now spokesperson said it would be nice to think you've suddenly discovered men are interested in joining us in the equality. i wonder what issue they're actually talking about. >> steve: what they're doing is taking a shot at conservatives. they say you never cared about women's issues until sarah palin came along. >> dana: or that they didn't care about women. and they're sort of an advancement of women, which is one of the things george bush didn't get enough credit for which is how many women were in his administration at the senior levels and as well as advancing those causes, especially when it comes to the freedom agenda and the bush doctrine that, had a lot to do with freedom for women. >> steve: i got a feeling they weren't so much behind the women in the administration because they were conservative. >> dana: that's right. >> brian: we don't know. >> dana: she knows. >> brian: as we move ahead, 21 minutes before the top of the hour, left leaning attempt to discredit critics of obamacare just backfired. they wound up debunking nancy pelosi instead. the senator who saw this coming long ago. senator orrin hatch here next. >> steve: talk about a principal who is leading by example, he's teaching his students about love for country by leading the classroom and heading to the battlefield for a year. the principal and a couple of his students here live. 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[ male announcer ] a world you can't predict... demands a car you can trust. the e-class. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. >> steve: "fox & friends" and headlines. these are u.s. marines on patrol in taliban infested southern afghanistan. these are not. they're 13 illegal immigrants busted in san diego wearing marine uniforms and driving a van with a stolen u.s. government license plate. oh, man. and a year old dog named lola rising from the ashes. she was found in her owner's home 26 days after a fire nearly burned it to the ground. incredible! she's now recovering at an animal medical center near boston. dana, over to you. >> dana: that's a good story. it's been a year since president obama signed the affordable care act, or obamacare. before it passed, nancy pelosi promised it would create jobs. >> this bill is not only about the health security of america, it's about jobs. in its life, it will create 4 million jobs, 400,000 jobs, almost immediately. >> dana: but it will have no significant impact on employment. joining us now is a man who saw all of this coming. utah senator orrin hatch. senator, thank you for joining us this morning. >> nice to be with you. >> dana: one of the things i noticed is that there is a kaiser poll out, asking people do you have enough information about the health care law. one year later, to know how it will affect you? and still, 52% of the people say no. does that surprise you, sir is this. >> not at all. when kathleen sebelius, secretary of hhs appeared before our committee, i asked her, 67% of republican requests about this bill have not been answered. she didn't have any real good answer and i said, will you answer them within the next 30 days? i gave her 30 more days. she would not commit to that. in fact, 85% of almost everything they've done is nontransparent. so much for transparency. they said it would be. interestingly enough, some of the leading democrats who actually supported president obama like howard schultz, i believe it is, who owns starbucks, he now has come out and said this is very harmful, the obamacare will be harmful to small businesses because of mandates they put on small business. of course, we're now in court with 26 states showing that these mandates are unconstitutional. i believe they'll be held unconstitutional by the supreme court in the end. >> dana: one of the things that speaker pelosi was also famous for saying was that we had to pass the bill in order to find out what was in the bill. a year later after it was signed, what do you think americans are still surprised to be finding out about this legislation? >> they're surprised that they're -- they've lost 800,000 jobs. they not only have not created jobs, they've lost 800,000. they've also seen $113 billion more put on the backs of the states that are already $175 billion in the hole. they've seen there is $2,100 in additional premium costs when they were told that this would bend the cost curve and the premium costs would go down. they actually, like i say, have just about -- they come up with a program here that was so partisan to begin with, not one republican was even asked to participate in the end, and now they're stuck with this dog and they don't know what to do with if. so they keep saying things that aren't true about it when we put the facts out and our facts are backed up by the authorities. >> dana: so for those who don't support it, are they also stuck with it or give me a little insight into the republican plan going forward in order to replace it or repeal and replace, that was the mantra of last fall's election. where does that stand now on march 23, a year after the bill was signed? >> we don't have enough votes in the senate. we've got to turn this around in the next election in 2012. there are 25 democrats left and ten republicans. hopefully we'll get the majority. but we've got to replace this bill. we've got to change it and make it so that it's something that the american people can afford. it's running us into bankruptcy. my gosh, everybody admits now, it's at least $2.6 trillion over ten years. we have no way of paying for that. they're taking $529 billion out of medicare, if you can believe it! that's a program that is $38 trillion in unfunded liability as we sit here. then you add that unconstitutional employee mandate that i believe will be held unconstitutional, and then i believe that the employer mandate, which the small business people are complaining about, that employer mandate, i believe that's unconstitutional, too. but it's a job killing mandate as we can see. >> dana: there is no doubt, senator, you've got your hands full and i appreciate you getting up early and coming on with us. >> glad to do it. >> dana: we talk a lot about the trouble with our schools. but up next, what's right with our schools? like a principal who is teaching his students a life or death lesson in patriotism by heading overseas to war. that story is live next. first, i'm going to get a chance to talk to bill hemmer on this side of the camera for what's on at the top of the hour. >> nice to see you this morning. good morning to you. we have breaking news out of libya. we helped start this war. can the coalition now stay together to finish it? it is a big question today. also the stunning cost of health care which turns one year old today. developments on reactor number 3 in japan. is this a reversal in progress? we are live in japan on that. we have a terrific line - up this morning. all that coming up in 11 minutes when martha and i join you on "america's news room." see you then. once we werereamers. adventurers set out to discover new lands. new people. new ways. on we were great explorers. in search of hidden treasure. secret hideouts. magic lands. the treasure is still here. and waiting to inspire a new generation of dreamers. come uncover the riches and bounty of pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. >> steve: from the hallways to the battlefield, brian schroeder is leading by example. he is the principal at dundee high school in michigan, but also a captain in the army reserves and he is about to deploy to afghanistan. captain brian schroeder and his students join us live from toledo. good morning to all of you. brian, i know that friday is your last day. when are you shipping out? >> right around the end of the month i'm going to go to fort dix, new jersey for some lead-up training and then somewhere in the early part of june i'll fly over to afghanistan. >> steve: when you get to afghanistan, what's your mission , sir? >> i'm part of a nato training force. our job is going to be to train the engineer officers in the afghan army to help them be able to sustain and take over so the nato forces and our self can come home to our families. >> steve: okay. grace, tell me a little bit about when you found out that your principal, mr. schroeder, was going to be shipping off, why did you decide to do something for him, because there are a lot of kids who don't really know their principal well or, yeah, i got a principal. you guys actually stepped up and did some nice stuff for him. >> yeah, well, i'm not gog lie, when i first found out, i was a little like, really? i'm graduating soon, i'm a senior, i really want him to be at my graduation. i've gotten to know him a lot through our community service group called interact. he started it and it's given students like the chance to give back to the community. we've done so many community service projects. and i got to know him a lot through there and it's like, i've learned like what a community man he is and, like, i was just kind of, like, it's like a two-way deal. i'm kind of like, i don't want him to leave, but i'm so proud what he's doing. the bigger community he's serving, our country. so me and taylor both when we first heard, like we knew, like, how important he is in our lives and how having an assembly, making t-shirts, we knew we were going to do something along those lines and show him how proud we are. >> steve: speaking of the t-shirts, taylor, i know you initially expected 15 kids to be wearing these t-shirts and you came up with this. your principal may be strong, my principal is army strong. that is awesome! >> thank you. >> steve: how many kids wound up wearing those around the halls there of your high school? >> we sold about 200. so it was around that. >> steve: that's awesome. bryan, you've got to be overwhelmed with the reaction from your kids. >> oh, it's so gratifying to see the young people that are leading our community, that are stepping up and being so great and supportive for my family, for myself, and more than willing to step up to anything that's going to be needed in the school in my absence. so i've just been overwhelmed and humbled with the whole reaction of the community and my students. it's been very rewarding for me personally. >> steve: absolutely. we have got the picture right there and i believe that's your wife and your children as well there in the gym. grace, tell me why you admire that guy behind you. >> well, one thing i definitely learned from mr. schroeder is giving back. i think that's the number one thing i've ever learned from him. he's so involved in the community and just like doesn't surprise me how he's giving back to his country, and just how important giving back is, that's something i definitely learned from him. that's very important. >> steve: absolutely. all right. he's going to be shipping off very shortly. his last day in the school is on friday. grace, you're going to have to start planning the homecoming party one year from now. >> i know. i know. i'm graduating this year, but i'm going to come home from college and i'm going to be here to see him when he comes back. i'll be very excited. >> steve: you're a couple of good kids. grace and taylor, we thank you very much, and bryan schroeder, thank you very much for your service to those kids and to your country. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> steve: you bet. all right. isn't that a great story? 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