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action, so is tripoli is once again a target. >> yeah, the administration has authorized the use of two drones, oh, boy, but apparently over -- overnight. >> more than their war. >> they need to do a lot more. overnight, nato hit qaddafi's compound, the place where he lives a lot of the time. a complex which is sprawling residential and military and office complex. couple of bombs went right in there and blew in the roof. >> they have a library. there's a little reception area for dignitaries probably, not anybody in the dignitary room. >> except -- and this is the crazy thing about what's going on in libya because it is his compound, at night, there are hundreds of these people, regular civilians who stand there as human shields to keep what happened from happening, what did happen. >> senator john mccain and lindsay graham both weighed in on the stepped-up action and believes as though the pressure has to be turned up on qaddafi himself. let's listen. >> this is a pretty bloody situation and it has the earmarks of being a stalemate. we're hoping that qaddafi crumbles from within. hopefully is not a strategy. >> if he stays, it's a nightmare for the world at large. you think gas prices now are high and unstable, let him survive and see what the mideast turns into. there's not deep support for qaddafi so my recommendation to nato and the administration is so cut the snake of the head off. >> bloody weekend there, a lot of the rebels were in the hospital there. they were pushed out of the hospital and the reports from the rebels are that some of these -- some of these guys are actually qaddafi's men are getting into sportswear and trying to sort of jump the fence. >> brian, didn't we get into this to prevent humanitarian catastrophe? >> yeah, and guess what's happened, it's continuing. on both sides. it looks like the rebels have taken some pounding. looks like you see the qaddafi forces taking a pounding and civilians are in the middle. brit hume weighed in on our strategy or lack thereoff. >> i think in terms of libya, he really kind of doesn't know what to do next and what i think -- what i hope he's learning is the indispenseability of american leadership but i don't think the president knows what to do and i think he's content here to have failure be an option. >> why is it the united states, the combined military fire power of the united states and 27 natured owe allies, we can't get rid of this guy. it was revealed, however, on thursday that apparently we have authorized boots on the ground over there. actual boots. no people in them. but part of some nonlethal assistance. we're going to send over some body armor, that is to say, but they need fire power. they need -- >> we've got the fire power. mean, if anybody, the united states has the fire power. >> absolutely. >> and i just love the fact those must have been nice boots because 25 million in all. 25 million in nonlethal aid. when asked where do we get the money from? it was from the surplus of pentagon budget. $25 million is a lot of nonlethal aid. >> here's a question. if we don't raise the debt ceiling, will it be armageddon or not armageddon according to blumenthal of connecticut, it sounds like it will be. and you talk to the other side and it says they won't be. he says the economic experts all of them are saying no, it's going to be a big problem. >> and this was one of the major topics on the sunday shows yesterday where we told you during this recess period, a lot of members of the gang of six, their staff has tried to come up with some sort of a compromise because the federal government will not be allowed to borrow anymore money past may 16th and what you heard yesterday on the sunday shows was the senators were talking about, you know, we really do have to ratchet back the amount of money that we spend. but going forward, will they vote to raise the debt limit? listen. >> the idea that we might say that this is catastrophic is wrong. what is catastrophic is continuing to spend money that we don't have on things we don't absolutely need and continue to mortgage our future. and not fix the very real problems that are in front of us. >> so he's alluding to what you tacked about, would be armageddon because there are a number of people in the administration and elsewhere saying unless the congress votes to raise the debt limit, everything is going to go haywire. >> senator kent conrad is what congressman paul ryan is on the house side, he weighed in not regretting that he did not vote for raising the debt limit when there was a republican in the white house and what is actually at stake now. >> i will not support any long-term extension of the debt without a plan or a proposal or a process in place to deal with the debt. and so i've voted for short-term extensions but i won't vote for a long-term extension and i won't do it now unless we have a plan to deal with this debt because at the end of the day, this represents a fundamental threat to the economic security>> you are a democrat. >> so that's big. by the way, a lot of pressure on the gang of six that they're going to be releasing when they get into session, what they say their bipartisan plan is going forward and at the same time, the debt ceiling is going to be raised or not raised so a lot of people will be looking at those two, both, i believe, saying that they're not going to run again. >> yeah, in fact, of those gang of six senators right there, none are up for re-election this cycle. keep you posted on that. in the meantime, we mentioned this at the outset. now for severe weather update, more devastating possible record-breaking storms on the horizon in the midwest. you're looking at new video of a funnel cloud that touched down in texas. fortunately, no one was killed. meanwhile, residents in bridgeston, missouri, still reeling. i know it. after weekend tornadoes ripped through the neighborhoods there, brian. >> that's where our chief meteorologist has been scrambled and he joins us live. rick, wherever you look, devastation. remember last weekend that 260 some tornadoes, none of them as high as f3 or strong. this one is an ef-4 as it hit this neighborhood here, obliterating everything. these are solid structured homes. take a little bit closer in. these are brick homes. these are homes with very solid foundations, the foundations on -- a lot of basements that is great news. talked to a number of people yesterday that were hiding in their basements. that saved so many people. you can take a look at these pictures. this home you're looking at was on sale. it was set to close on thursday. i talked to the woman who was set to buy this home on thursday. she now, obviously, has big questions in her life. her sister lives down the street. her father lives a block over so she was so happy to move in where this community is. all kinds of story of survival coming out of here and people with good attitudes, talked to a woman, mary ellen yesterday who had a lot to say about a lot of the important things she's found in the rubble. take a listen. >> my son called me and said, don't go home. we don't have a house. they lie to me all the time. besides that, you know, he's lying. we found a few miracles. we found my wedding ring and a necklace my daughter gave me. >> in all of this, you found your wedding ring. >> yes. >> yeah. really amazing. she also had been looking for the remote control for her ceiling fan for weeks. and she found it now. so she doesn't have to do anymore spring cleaning. people had a great sense of humor. it's almost all they could do. they have so much ahead of them, so much working against them. this tornado, guys, 22 miles long and almost 1/2 mile wide went through here. >> we'll be checking with you throughout the show as the sun comes up. this story is extremely disturbing. >> we're making headlines now. overnight, a huge prison break in afghanistan. more than 450 prisoners, most of them taliban fighters escaped a prison in kandahar. the taliban claims it built the 1,000 foot tunnel for the last five months right under the nose of government checkpoints. a man is in custody after this -- at this hour after putting a nail clipper to the throat of a flight attendant and demand the plane being diverted to libya. overpowered by flight attendants and passenger as it usually is at this point, on board an italia flight from paris to rome. the plane later made a safe landing in rome. no passengers were hurt luckily. but the flight attendant who was attacked did suffer minor injuries. search crews recover the body of a missing miner. they finished a day's work in the mine in idaho when its ceiling collapsed. his brother survived. the company that owns the lucky friday mine tried to figure out how and why this happened. gabby giffords getting the green light to attend her husband's launch on friday. mark kelly is the commander of the space shuttle endeavor and it's set to blast off from cape canaveral, florida, this friday. also on hand for the launch, one of giffords' wounded staff members and two of the doctors who helped save their lives. this launch will be the next to last shuttle for nasa. and those are your headlines. i can't believe it's the next to last shuttle for nasa. >> i know it. >> something waiting in the wings, it's a little embarrassing. hopefully people realize we have to start doing that. i have to tell you over in texas, again, they are leading the culture portion of our show because of what people aren't doing in the beginning of their school day. >> that's exactly right. sweeney, texas, a little town with the population of 3600 people. they've had this thing where they required students to at the beginning of the day when they all say the pledge of allegiance and they salute the u.s. flag and the texas flag, as required by law, they have to stand for that. >> that's what we've always done. >> pretty much. except and maybe it's just the season but there are a couple that said i don't want to stand. they took it to the aclu and the aclu intervened and sent the school board a letter and said, you got to do it. >> so e-mail us. tell us what you think right now. do you think it's right these two students stood up for what they believed in. got the aclu involved and now in texas for this school, over in sweeney, texas, the standing for the pledge of allegiance is old news. do you think that's ok? >> what the aclu said is you can't require them to stand and now the school has changed their policy. and the superintendent or rather the school board president is going to be joining us to talk a little bit about that. doesn't agree with that because of -- >> and it's a sign of the times. >> because of the threat of a big lawsuit, they're going to require students, you don't have to stand. you don't want to stand? you don't have to stand. you happy aclu? >> i don't think that's going to stand in texas. >> coming up 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"special report" anchor bret baier also along for the ride. steve? >> cool. thank you very much, juliet. president obama is meeting with some criticism from new york city's mayor for saying that he will let the bush era tax cuts expire. >> raise taxes on the wealthy. >> today, no, because i just think this economy nationwide is at a point where it could go either way. i don't think that we shouldn't -- i do think we should have to have taxes and i think people should pay their fair share and i think the majority of the money will come from the wealthy. that's where the money is. on the other hand, today is not the right ways to do it. >> now is not the time to raise the taxes on the wealthy. so what do our washington insiders think? here to debate it, we've got national republican national committee member dede bankie and democratic strategist david mercer both from d.c. good morning both of you. >> good morning, steve. good morning, didi. does>> does mayor bloomberg have it right? now is not the time to raise taxes on the wealthy? >> mayor bloomberg has it exactly right and it's definitely not time for the bush tax cuts to expire. president obama should be president globama because he is trying to take us into socialism european style economy and we don't want that. so mayor bloomberg is right. i mean, this is not the time to be putting stress on those who create jobs and job growth. >> david, when the president has been out, he's been talking about it would be ok to raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires but you and i both -- and didi, all three of us know it's not millionaires and billionaires. you're talking about people who make $200,000. he would like to increase the marginal federal tax rate on them. >> $250,000, i think, steve. but also millionaires and billionaires who have been receiving for the last 12 years $125,000 on every million that they earn. but let me put in context what the mayor said and i think the whole story and that is the mayor said that he would agree with tax raising when accompanied by spending cuts and that's the whole picture and we have to address as you do with any budget both revenue and spending. and if you remember back in the days, 20 years ago with ross perot and deficits then, bill clinton came into office, raised on top earners. we saw surplus the economy was strong, then what happened? 10 years ago, bush comes in with that surplus, gives away tax cuts. has two wars and we end up in deficits and the economy in debt. we know that taxes and spending have to be addressed in this. and we all know that ronald reagan raised taxes three times. >> he also lowered them to pretty much -- >> as has obama. >> and also has 52 weeks of job creation and job growth in the bush administration. and david, let's remember g.e. -- >> one at a time. >> g.e. didn't pay any taxes because g.e. is a friend of president obama's and if you're a friend of president obama's and on a board, you don't have to pay taxes. they made a lot of money. that's not cool! >> to give mayor bloomberg's comments some more context, he was talking about, you know, right now the economy could go either way. and it would be fool hardy to raise taxes on the people who do create the jobs. >> look, it's sort of a myth or a half truth because we've seen during the bush era those tax cuts were not a stimulative to the economy. president obama would not have entered into the fiscal crisis when he came into office to have to address that. obviously those tax cuts did not work. it might work and it would be nice in a surplus and years in a surplus but we're in record deficits. and giving that kind of money away. >> the tax cuts did work. and they should not expire. right now, the obama administration, the economy is a disaster. it is a disaster. and it's worse than it's ever been. >> they're going to expire. >> not only that, middle america -- >> insiders, insiders, can't we all just get along! >> we really need to make sure to be pro business and the obama administration is destroying business and the economy. >> corporate profits all time high! >> they're talking all at the same time. what a debate. perfect! all right, we thank you very much for joining us live today. >> pleasure to be with you both. >> thank you. >> what do you think? do you think now is the time to jack up taxes on the successful people who do create jobs? e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com. they've looted, committed fraud and even were involved in manslaughter. guess what? tenure is keeping convicted criminals teaching in some schoolroo schoolrooms. that story is coming up next. robert de niro taking a shot at donald trump saying he's hustling the american people and that's not all. but first, happy birthday to renee zelweger, she is 42 today. ok guys, how's the family gonna use less? i'm gonna use less honey. i'm gonna text less. well, i'm gonna use less bath tissue with charmin!!! 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>> no! that's a little bit tall for me. peter cottontail enjoying some time in the sunshine state. yes, the bunny threw out the first pitch at the marlins game in miami and, of course, the bulldog that was skateboarding on our verandah a week ago threw out the first pitch for the mets on saturday. >> how does a dog throw out the first pitch? >> puts it in hisouth and skates right to home plate, the bulldog. >> yeah, it was bark in the park. and they did it at shea -- at citi field in new york and i was set to bring my dog except for it was raining and i thought the moment if you have 110 pound dog hairy, wet, you got to bring him back and forth, i decided against it. >> is your rabbit still alive? >> my rabbit is alive. 3 years old. >> my rabbit was eaten by dogs. i don't want to talk about it. >> so much for the shot of the morning. >> gosh, you guys, chill out. i was just kidding. the easter bunny making a trip to the nation's capital and kicking out the annual easter roll at the white house. that's where we find kelly wright. hey, kell. >> good morning to you. look at this, this is the beautiful south lawn of the white house and the weather is going to improve today because we're going to have sunshine and i got to tell you, this place is going to be packed with about 30,000 people beginning at 10:15 a.m., the easter egg roll, the 133rd annual easter egg roll will begin and the theme this year is get up and go. that's in line with the first lady's "let's move" program. peter cottontail is somewhere around here. i've got better than that. i've got mama bunny. i've got papa bunny and i also have, well, they call him junior but junior is quite tall, as you can see. you guys do p-90x, let's see you stretch out a little bit. that's an extreme sport. they'll be working out here and show you how the first lady wants them to move. they'll have obstacle courses and we'll have the sensational pop soul singer and as they work out, the whole thing, steve, brian and juliet is for you to get off the couch and join with us and do some -- ok? let's do it, guys. one, two, three, four. one, two, three, four. so we'll keep moving and we'll be moving this way when you come back to us at 8:30. we'll get cobbie calliet coming back with us. >> are you serious? you're going to be talking with cobie? >> yeah, we'll work out with her. >> thank you very much. >> see you later. >> the most surprised rabbits on the lawn were the three rabbits behind kelly. they did not expect exercise this morning. >> that's what they're there for. meanwhile pretty nice day in washington but now the latest on the severe weather. take a look at the video out of bridgeton, missouri, a vivid picture of the massive path of destruction from the twisters over the weekend. right now, let's look at destruction from the ground level where we find our chief meteorologist rick. rick? >> i want to show you, standing on the foundation of this home. these are bricks and this is a big pile of them down here. these are not flimsy structures destroyed by the tornado. we have the threat today for some very significant weather across this area and points to the south. take a look at the weather maps, you can see the radar picture a little bit of rain to the southeast of st. louis. we had rain a lot of it last night and we'll see some more rain throughout the day today. as you back up here, you see a lot of showers and thunderstorms even where you see that yellow watch box, threat for severe weather but this story is going to develop this week in a very dangerous fashion. as you move forward and take a look at the severe threat for today, a big bull's eye of a moderate risk. it's a larger moderate risk today than we expected it to be. they've expanded it to include almost the entire state of arkansas. parts of kentucky, mississippi, and tennessee as well as parts of missouri. so that's where we'll likely see some pretty large and long lived and destructive tornadoes. move forward to tomorrow. it hardly budges. almost the exact same area. parts of arkansas moving more into mississippi and parts of louisiana with the moderate risk for severe weather and that's the biggest threat for tornadoes. anywhere you see the yellow, you can see some of those as well. you'll notice how that hardly moved. move forward to the next map, flooding is the other thing that will come out of this. we'll be talking about that flooding. in louisville along the ohio river, a lot of areas have seen 15 inches of rain this month and in the last couple of days, maybe another five or six. here you go. major flooding concerns anywhere you see that maroon, that's flash flooding that's going on right now. as you move forward to the last map, show you how much more rain we're going to get. some areas 4 to 8 inches of rain. we'll see isolated 10 inches. by the time we get later on in this week, we'll be talking about major flooding and the mississippi river south of memphis probably seeing record flooding. something they haven't seen since 1937 and probably break those records so a rough week ahead for so many. >> no kidding. all right, rick live in missouri on this monday morning. >> let's get to some other headlin headlines making news this morning. the death toll is rising after a massive house fire. they found four more bodies bringing the death toll to six. no word on a cause. neighbors report hearing a loud explosion shortly before the fire. federal officials are not ruling out arson. >> meanwhile, a possible breakthrough in the case of missing tennessee nursing student holly bobo. officials there say they have recovered new evidence significant enough to make them search again today. they won't reveal what that evidence is. it could jeopardize the investigation. the 20-year-old was last seen april 13th at her home. she was reportedly kidnapped by a manwari wearing camouflage. >> the f.b.i. identified a suspect at a failed bombing at a colorado shopping mall on the anniversary of the columbine shooting. this is 65-year-old earl albert moore. he just got out of federal prison two weeks ago. detectives think he's the man seen in this surveillance video planting the explosives. he was serving a sentence for robbing a bank but got out early for helping prosecutors on another case. >> and actor robert de niro has choice words for possible presidential candidate donald trump. de niro who campaigned for barack obama in 2008 was outraged at trump for questioning where president obama was born saying "don't go out there and say things unless you can back them up. how dare you. that's awful to do. to just go out and speak and say these terrible things." coming up at 8:30, we'll get donald trump's response. he'll be joining us live. >> cool. >> brian? >> that will be great. meanwhile, big games on sunday. i know you were experiencing easter, most of you but nba playoffs were in full swing. hornets trying to even their series against the lakers. of course the lakers would win. not this time. chris paul too good tearing the hornets on his back. pulled this out, another triple-double including 14 points in the fourth. hornets win 93-88. game five is in los angeles on tuesday. meanwhile, "the los angeles times" reports that the lakers forward was arrested on battery charges near the team's hotel in new orleans just a couple of hours ago. and there was a lot of hype for the new york knicks going into the post season. remember that? after they finished the year on a winning seven of the last nine. the celtics were slumping. that all came crashing down with the second straight lackluster performance at madison square garden. they had a brief surge late in the third into the fourth but the celtics would hold on. boston took control of the game and took the series. game four went 101-89 and they sweep the knicks. the big question is do the knicks keep their coach and keep their team president as they move on? just about everyone was hurt. they were going to ask some of the fans to play by the end of the game. >> all right. brian, and juliet, on the cover of "the new york post," you have the story about the knicks being knocked out and then you have this story. crooks and books. how felons are teaching our kids. and apparently, there are in the new york city schools, 500 convicted felons who are still -- >> felons! >> felons, at work because the system can't get rid of them because they are tenured. >> unless you're a sexual deviant, they can get rid of you. everybody else, no matter what you did, you're still employed. for example -- >> there are a lot of special ed teachers, apparently, that have gotten into trouble. mark is one of them. he's a special ed teacher and gets paid $45,500 a year. he was convicted of securities fraud. >> still getting paid. dora aviles is a special ed teacher and gets $64,000. she's convicted of tackling a student. apparently, she held down the student and when asked about what happened, she said i tripped. >> her fine was two months salary and she got back to the classroom. >> kim is a special ed teacher $81,000 she makes. she's convicted of felony manslaughter. i think not stopping her pitbulls from killing somebody. >> elderly neighbor. >> yes. >> monique wallace convicted of defrauding the department of housing and urban development. >> like to find out more about this story. she was fined $500. 500 teachers supposedly have felon convictions and they returned to the school. deborah watson, she's a school and payroll secretary, $47,500 a year, convicted of killing more than $100,000 from the department of social services. she was fined $1,000 and then she was returned to the same school. >> that's crazy. in a number of these cases, they would have an arbitrator look at all the facts and the arbitrator would say, well, for instance, in the case of the woman with the two pitbulls, there's no evidence suggesting that her inability to control her dogs, her killer dogs would have anything to do with the fact that she is a good teacher and can teach kids in the classroom. so, you know, she's still drawing the salary, extraordinarily. >> what do you think about that? 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"born free" i'm still weeping. >> it happens all the time in florida, people. >> i'd like for them to remain special. you know what's not special? the prices of things in america because americans are feeling the pinch at the pump. the national average is $3.86. that's causing the price of other things to spike as well. >> how will this impact our economy? stuart varney, don't call him stuie is here to tell us his thoughts. i always love having you. i took a picture in connecticut, the cost of gas there for premium, for instance, $4.55 a gallon. i put like $5 in. >> yeah, i mean, look, if you ask most people how are things going in the economy? they'll say really bad because the economy to most people is the price of gas, the price of food, the prices at the grocery store, that's the economy. and they could -- ben bernanke and the authorities can say up the wazoo we don't have inflation, that's not correct. we really have inflation. >> 70% of the country thinks we're headed in the wrong direction. here's why. you cite there are 17 major energy and food costs that have gone up over the past years. everyday items. >> that's correct. gas up 28%. now the everyday items. lettuce, bacon, beef, potatoes, tomatoes, coffee, pork, all of them up more than 11%. all fresh vegetables, up 10%. all fish and seafood up 8%. all energy up 16%. that's what you're paying for on a daily basis. that is inflation. now, a wednesday afternoon of this week, the guy in charge of capping inflation, keeping inflation under control a guy called ben bernanke is going to give his first ever q&a with reporters. this has never, ever happened before. it comes up this wednesday afternoon. he's going to be asked about it. >> what would you ask him? >> why do you tell us this inflation is only temporary? and that it's not really inflation that seeped into every aspect of our lives. tell me why, mr. bernanke that you don't think we've got an inflation problem. that's the question. >> honest answer might be i don't know. >> no. no. he'd give you a technical answer. because the price of housing is down. electronics are down. lots of prices are down. and when you factor them into the overall inflation picture, we've got only a 2.7% rate but that's not the real inflation that you and i feel. >> you know what's real? i'm going to be feeling your show at 9:20 eastern time on the fox business network and amongst the things we'll be talking about and listening to. >> editor of the "wall street journal"'s editorial page. how about those republicans. >> right, talk about the field. great. stuart varney, great to see you. >> say hello to your beautiful daughter, stu. >> i shall. >> why are you laughing at that? do you not talk to them? >> no, say hello to them. >> it was a prideful giggle. meanwhile, straight ahead -- >> please stand for the pledge of allegiance. that request is no longer a requirement for students at a school in texas. how the aclu fought for the right to remain seated and won. >> and they are as american as apple pie but some cities are tearing down the red, white and blue barber shop poles and waited untwait until you hear the reason why. ♪ proud to stand on our own ♪ proud to be homegrown ♪ a familiar face and a name you know ♪ ♪ come on ♪ we know you and we know your needs ♪ ♪ we know what being a neighbor means ♪ ♪ and got a reputation to uphold ♪ ♪ can you hear it? 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>> that's correct. >> so in your school, in addition to recite the pledge, you required kids to stand as well. so now you're not going to require them to stand. >> well, you know, what we're going to do is probably change the wording to match what is already established in united states code title 4. which is concerning the united states fact. chapter 1, section 4 talks about the pledge of allegiance from the matter of delivery and that statute states that it should be rendered while standing at attention facing the flag with your right hand over your heart. now, their wording is should be rendered and i don't see any reason why we can't use that wording. should be rendered. >> right. right. >> to me the definition of should be is kind of like an obligation or a duty. in fact, it actually is a privilege to salute the flag in such a way while you're reciting the pledge of allegiance. >> there are a lot of people that feel the same way, sammy. here's what the aclu of texas said in a statement. our bill of rights and american tradition protect the centers and the majority just the same. and the right to express disagreement is a patriotic value that all texans should fight for. any idea why these two senior kids called the aclu and said we don't want to stand? >> mercy, i have no idea. i mean, they've been doing it all their years in sweeney. doing it at high school all the way up until the last of march. i do not know what changed. perhaps we can bring them in sometime and ask them what changed their view. personally i have no idea. >> right. and then it is aclu got involved and now everything could be changing. >> yes, sir. >> all right, sammy -- >> i think all we're going to change is still the wording. we'll still require our students to stand but it's just not going to be able to punish students for not standing. >> gotcha. >> yeah. >> thank you very much for joining us today from texas to explain what's going on down there. >> i appreciate you having me. thank you so much. >> you bet. have a great day. >> all right. >> what do you think about that? e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com. they're as american as apple pie but some cities are tearing down the red, white and blue barber shop poles. wait until you hear the reason why. and dana perino, the former press secretary for president george w. bush here to weigh in on the latest wikileaks dump, the classified documents about gitmo. 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>> it's the whole rotation. >> there's a lot of extreme weather, absolutely. >> right. let's bring in dana perino now. she goes over the sunday shows when she's not on them and gives us insight of where we go from here. big news is, of course, the gitmo files are released. the washington times and "new york post" decided to take the wikileaks leaks and publish them much to the chagrin of our state department and others. where do things stick out for you? >> well, you know, i am against what wikileaks has done. i don't think it's helpful for all of those capitals around the world who want to sniger at the united states for how we dealt with terrorism right after 9/11, i asked them why they haven't been willing to take any of these detainees, one of the reasons that we continue to have it opened. we tried to get them taken by other countries. that didn't happen. i do think it's interesting that there's a small report in there that the administration, the new administration in january of 2009 was thinking about secretly bringing those detainees to the united states to avoid a political spectacle. it's probably worked in their favor that they did not do that because, as you saw, the american people weren't quite there and even ideas of floating the trial of khali shaikh mohammed in new york city were thwarted by a bipartisan margin and so in that way, you know, they're safe at guantanamo. guantanamo is run well. you talk to anybody who has been down there, republican or democrat, independents and they say that the prisoners there are treated very well. >> yeah. dana, i don't know if you were watching but about 45 minutes ago, broian was talking to lieutenant colonel who say the wikileaks are a good thing. it shows how bad these guys are. listen to this. >> i think that is very useful information for u.s. security people. i think it's also very interesting and it helps the american people understand how dangerous and how ruthless these people are. >> dana? >> i think what i've noticed is in "the new york times," what the general says is absolutely true. you look at the media, sometimes they want to pull out how innocent some of the people were. >> sure. >> and how they really weren't that bad and how they're being held there and it's so unfair. now, if they are being -- if they were caught up in a sweep and they weren't supposed to be there, then absolutely they should be returned and many of them have been. i think at the height of it, there was some -- well, well over 1,000 detainees at guantanamo bay. i think now it's down to 250. >> yeah, why aren't we going after this guy anymore? have we lost interest in getting assange? we just allow him to walk around free. there's no strategy to pick him up? >> not only that, he was also most recently you'll remember about two months ago, brian, when he was about to give a speech to a young presidents organization in colorado, that was the same day that president bush was going to be giving a speech there. when president bush found out that assange was on the docket, he decided to pull out of that speech at the last minute and i think that was the right thing to do. >> somebody's got principles. >> so dana, i know you got to take the metro down there in the washington area but a lot of folks are being -- are driving these days and president obama has really been attacking the oil companies, you know, we were driving around over the weekend, not brian and i weren't but i was driving around this weekend. $4.55 for premium gasoline in connecticut. he's pointed to the oil companies and he's really going on the attack. is he just in doing that? >> that's -- it's typical that any time gas prices go up, people do look to the oil companies because they're the ones who are producing and selling the oil. in his radio address on saturday, president obama said whenever gas prices go up, the politicians come out with waving a three point plan to lower gas prices by $2 a gallon and then the white house proceeded to release a three point plan. now, their three point plan would look into price gouging which is fair to look at. i will tell you that every president since richard nixon has looked into that. and it's never come up with something that is accurate. the one thing he said that could help us is increasing domestic drilling. >> of course. >> unfortunately, on the policy side of things, they have tried to make it harder to do that. they did take some precautionary measures after the b.p. oil spill, i think that the industry has largely addressed those and so they're still waiting and don't forget, regulations through the e.p.a. also put a chilling effect on bringing more supply into our own country. meanwhile, president obama told the brazilians that he'd love to have them do more off-shore oil drilling so we could buy it. so a lot goes into this. of course, the oil companies are going to get attacked. that's par for the course. unfortunately, it doesn't really get to the root cause of the problem and whether or not the politicians can come together on that remains to be seen. >> rightly or wrongly, they look at the president when the gas prices go up and look to see what he's going to do and saying oil subsidies are the issue might not suffice and certainly will affect everybody's plans. >> oil subsidies is something maybe that they could come to agreement on. right? it's $4 billion. thing is that's not going to change the price at the pump any time soon. >> nope. >> and it's also probably going to get passed right back to the consumer anyway. >> all right. dana, something else, down in your hometown newspaper, "the washington post." did it seem like their coverage of paul ryan's plan was pretty much a hatchet job in the last couple of days? >> well, yeah, exactly. that's a great way to put it. i was surprised in reading that yesterday when i finished up at "fox & friends" myself and i was in the car on the way back down reading that and i thought, why are they talking about somebody's concerns about social security benefits when it comes to the ryan plan because congressman ryan doesn't include social security benefits reform in his plan. yet, that's what the whole piece was about. so maybe it was the holiday weekend and, you know, the fact checkers and the editorial staff wasn't there to make sure. but to me, it was a hatchet job that specifically targeted congressman paul ryan because they were trying to sell newspapers. >> rye. i think it's going to be important if paul ryan is still confident in his plan, i'm sure he is, he has to come forward this week because the president has been pushing back against it and insulting his plan. in the facebook give and take, one of the questions was even though you, paul ryan's plan is comprehensive and you might not agree with it, he thinks -- to paraphrase what he thought, almost a mean spirited plan. >> not only that -- and one very important thing for your viewers to keep in mind, as this debate rages, paul ryan's budget is a 10-year budget. that's how budgets are usually done. when president obama gave his campaign speech a couple of weeks ago when he had paul ryan sitting in the front seat, bizarrely, he used a 12-year plan. those extra two years is where he's counting the savings that he's saying he's meeting with congressman ryan. so keep that in mind, the 10 vs. 12 years, two years makes a big difference. >> sure and, of course, the debate over the 2012 budget is going to be a big one and so is whether or not to raise the debt limit and we heard yesterday on the chat shows where, you know, people are going ok, we're going to have to make some changes. but the big question is, dana, and all the people on the left are saying if the republicans keep beating the drum that they might not raise it, that might be catastrophic. republicans are saying it wouldn't really be catastrophic. we don't know why they're saying that. >> both things are true except for one thing i would point out. out of speaker boehner's office, there's been nothing but -- they've been saying they're going to tie it to it. even more important, just last week, president obama said we are not going to be able to grow jobs in this country if we don't get a handle on our spending and on deficits. senator mitch mcconnell then said, well, sir, you'll have agreement here and we can start with the debt limit. so to me, the republicans actually have the leverage going in. i think that there is no way that this president who initially said we can't possibly deal with deficit spending in the middle of a recession. we have to spend more government money in order to stimulate the economy. well, that experiment failed. we tried that. and now everybody is on the bandwagon of cutting spending. now, on the debt limit, it's not -- it is a good leverage for the republicans, i think. barney frank today says he thinks they have the leverage. i don't think so. but i believe there will be some sort of tie to it and i don't think the republicans are going to cave. i just -- i'm not hearing that from any of them. >> especially when the $38 billion savings turned out to be $350 million. i think they're more dug in than ever before. dana, thanks so much for joining us. great job over the weekend. >> thanks, dana. >> ok, see you later. >> all right. straight ahead on our monday telecast, nato strikes qaddafi's compound where he sleeps. but did they miss the mark? 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>> that's awful. >> when we first started to take, greg, we can see the picture of the houses in the background devastated obviously but there was the american flag hanging. they obviously put it back there. >> thank you very much. he's going to be there all morning in missouri. >> wow. >> all righty, let's look at other stories making headlines this morning. a huge house fire in vancouver, washington, that left six people dead. there is no word yet on a cause but neighbors report hearing a loud explosion in the middle of the night. federal investigators are not ruling out arson. neighbors say that a family moved out several weeks ago but they've been coming back to the house every so often. >> all right. a possible breakthrough in the case of missing tennessee student holly bobo. officials say they recovered new evidence significant enough to make them search again today but they won't reveal what it is because it could jeopardize the entire investigation. the 20-year-old you may remember was last seen on april 13th at her house, she was reportedly kidnapped by a man wearing camouflage. >> the f.b.i. just identified a suspect in that failed bombing in a colorado shopping mall on the anniversary of the columbine shooting. this is 65-year-old earl albert moore. just got out of federal prison two weeks ago. detectives think he's the man seen in surveillance video planting explosives. moore was serving an 18-year sentence for robbing a bank but got out early for helping prosecutors on another case. >> former president george w. bush is ready to hit the road for a bike ride to honor wounded veterans of iraq and afghanistan. today, he and 14 service members start a 100 kilometer ride against texas. bret baier of "special report" fame is also along for the ride. would you be able to handle that? >> of course not. >> steven hayes will be doing that ride. it will be good. >> fantastic. we told you a little bit ago about how in the new york city schools apparently there are something like 500 teachers who have been convicted in the last five years and a number of them on felonies and they still extraordinarily have their jobs because of the way they arbitrate these cases with tenure. they are impossible, it seems, to get rid of. even though in one case, a woman was involved in manslaughter and she is still collecting the payments. >> she was fined three months salary and she went right back to the classroom. >> so unless you're nconvicted f a sexual crime, you keep your job. how do you feel about that? mike writes us and says if you're a convict felon, you can't be a hair stylist, barber or car salesman. >> can't vote. >> but they can teach our kids. sounds like he's outraged. no kidding ooch. >> scott says if they're convicted and did their punishment, what's your problem? >> if you have kids, would you feel comfortable to that? one woman tackled and pinned a fourth grade special ed student. she got to go right back to the classroom. >> and this tweet, read our tweet. >> this is from -- we'll show you here, what does this toll you about the power of teachers unions? i was going to say that. until we take schools held hostage from unions, no change. >> here's another one indeed. teachers should be accountable for performance, not hide behind tenure, felonies or not. >> that's the most intelligent thing that dog has said in a while. meanwhile, juliet, what else is happening? >> a colorado town, they're banning signs. you know those barber shop signs, red, white and blue. there you go. they rotate, obviously and this town is banning signs that rotate claiming mechanical sort of movement. claiming that they're too distracting to drivers. including in this ban are these iconic red, white and blue barber shop poles that have been around for years and years and that has our next guest outraged, of course. >> bob is the owner of the company, long time family business and the only company that still manufactures spinning barber poles. thanks for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> bob, i know this business has been in your family for a very long time. and now this place out in colorado won't allow a simple barber pole from going up because of the sign ordinance. what do you think about that? >> well, this is happening at different parts of the country. and, unfortunately, barber poles get wrapped up in the motion signs but many cities have exempted barber poles from the ruling because it's a piece of americana. it's one of the last symbols left of the industry. everybody knows what a barber pole means when they drive down the street. >> sure. >> i mean, it really is sort of a fading symbol of americana. i mean, talk about how, you know, it's faded, you know, sort of the pervasiveness of it. >> yes, it is. our largest year was 1967 when we sold 5100 barber poles at that time. and now we sell between 500 and 600 a year. >> why is that? >> well, there's -- there are fewer being used, there are many shopping centers that don't allow them, unfortunately. some of the chains of salons prefer not to use them. so we're counting on just the old time barber shops and there's now a resurgence of those happening throughout the country. >> right. i mean, it's unbelievable. if you think that's a distraction. go into the lincoln tunnel, they're like movies on the outside before you go into the tunnel. and you talk about distracted driving, what about texting? what about talking on the phone? it's not barber poles. >> that's right. that's right. we don't believe that barber poles should be part of that ordinance anywhere in the country. >> i've got a question for you. there's one of the spinning barber poles outside the barber shop where i get my haircut out in suburban new jersey at rosie's. >> i metro rosie, she cut my hair! >> what did the red, white and blue symbolize? >> well, really, the red symbolizes blood. hundreds of years ago, barbers were actually surgeons. and they did surgical procedures and they would clean up the blood with the towel. >> yeah. >> and hang it out to dry and it would spin in the wind and that's what created the barber pole. >> and see brian -- >> as far as the blue. >> that's why rosie tried to remove your appendix. >> it's true. i'll tell you what, she charges $5. if you're going to do surgery, it would be a little bit more. >> what's the blue stand for? >> the blue stands -- there are two theories. one is for veins and the other theory is it's a patriotic addition. >> i'll go for that one. the barber is not a guy or gal who cuts your hair. bob marvey, thanks very much for joining us talking about the disappearing barber pole. >> and the family business you've made shine. >> you guys will be getting free haircuts from rosie a couple of times. >> yeah. >> coming up, high gas prices, american drivers are fuming. not a lot of people out on the road i noticed while the president points the finger at big oil, is there nothing he can do? 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where does this leave us? joining us now is the former arizona congressman. first off, could the president be doing more or held hostage to the current oil market? >> well, by and large, both the president and politicians could be doing more when gas prices go up, politicians like to point the blame finger. in this case, they've chosen the oil companies. sometimes they choose speculators and all want to point the finger of blame. the cause of this in the short term is the trouble in the middle east, the war in libya. but in the long run, it's policies that do not encourage the production of the resources we have here in america which we could be producing. >> but it's the $4 billion in oil subsidies a valid point? >> well, i don't personally believe we ought to be subsidizing any business but we subsidize mass transit. we have subsidies going in every direction which quite frankly, none of them, i think, are justified. their manipulation of the free market system, i don't think we ought to be subsidizing either oil companies or high transit systems that can only be used by some fraction of the population. it's a valid point. >> ok, so the president says he is going to condemn oil companies because he's talking about ending the subsidies. he's talking about pursuing clean fuel technologies. that's not going to help us today or tomorrow but in the big picture, do you think there's an element in the administration that wants to see the prices go up. >> i don't think there's any question about that. the reality is high gas prices hurt the littlest guy the worst. it's that person that has an older car who has to drive further to work because they drove until they could qualify. they live further out, they drive an old car. it's inefficient. this administration indeed, secretary of energy has said we need higher gas prices and that's kind of the liberal mantra of this administration. if we have higher gas prices, that will encourage people to buy more efficient cars. but if you can't afford a more efficient car, high gas prices are just going to hurt you. what we should be doing in the short run is producing the energy we have here. we have tons of natural gas. we could be running lots of america's cars on natural gas and not be subject to the whims of oil prices alone. >> 50% of our oil comes from canada and mexico. friendly nations. not so friendly in the middle east. why can't we just up the amount we buy from nations that we can count on? >> well, we could. but we also -- there's a world market price but in this country, we have chosen, i would argue, for over the last three or four decades to leave our oil in the ground or to close off more and more areas where we could be producing. while in congress, i went to anwar and looked at the fact that there's lots of oil there we could be producing but we choose not to. almost every new production ground that we open saw environmental group sues and stops any production. >> it's very frustrating. thanks so much, congressman for joining us. it's 12 minutes before the top of the order. we'll change gears. >> good to talk to you. >> our next guest, our pilot going for the world record. did we mention he's only 9 years old? meet the youngest pilot to take to the air solo and then he's a busy man but too busy to vote. donald trump responds live on "fox & friends" to report that he hasn't been completing his civic duty. and this day in 1978, i found my dancing feet. yes, night fever by the beegees was the number one song and in my mind will never leave the top spot. ever wish vegetables didn't taste so vegetably? 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>> yep. >> are you nervous? tell us how you're feeling getting close to the big day. >> not nervous at all. i've had a lot of training and it's -- for me, it's just another flight except my dad won't be in the balloon this time. >> yeah, troy, you're kind of a hot air balloon guy, right? >> i am. i grew up ballooning like bobby has. my grandparents are balloonists so i soloed when i was 14. so it's been 3 it2 years i've b piloting balloons. >> when we say soloing, what does that mean? >> flying in a hot air balloon on my own without anyone else in there, i can talk to them on the radio. i'm going to have other balloonists all around me flying their balloons so if that's what it means. >> are you concerned, troy, that something could go wrong and you won't be there to help him? >> no. i mean, i'll be -- i'll be nervous but i'm nervous any time i solo any student. that's just part of being an instructor but i've signed off about 80 people to solo in hot air balloons over the years. >> yeah, but we're talking 9 years old here. a little different. >> exactly. no, but it -- and -- but most students are usually in the seven to eight hour range of flight time before they're soloed. bobby is over 25 and he'll be probably closer to 30 or 35 by the time he actually does the solo. so there's a confidence in his abilities. obviously, you're always worried about anything but it's a supervised solo where i'll be on the radio talking to him so it's just like i'm standing next to him in basket and if he has any issues, he's more than welcome to call. we'll be in constant communication but, you know, it's kind of a hand-eye coordination thing with flying the balloon. you heat the air and go up and cool and come down and understanding how that works and the ability for him to do it at the right timing is what he's got down. it's kind of like playing a video game, only in real life. he's excellent at it. >> i was going to say, you're a pro, you consider yourself a pro at this. you're ready to go. >> i'm not a pro yet. but hopefully i will be when i get older. my dad is the balloon pro. >> how long does it take? >> how long does what take? >> how long will you be flying? >> for 15 minutes to an hour. >> 15 minutes to an hour. what do your friends say? what do the kids at school say? >> they think it's really, really cool. >> will you be taking anybody up any time soon? perhaps an anchor in new york? >> maybe. >> hey! >> maybe sometime, bobby. maybe we can meet and i can take you up for a ride. all right, bobby. good luck to you. when is this happening? >> june 4th, hopefully, if the weathering does not affect that. >> if the weathering doesn't affect it. you have to make sure it's perfect weather. you usually have some pretty good weather in albuquerque, right? >> yeah. >> all right. >> bobby. great luck to you. troy, any last words for your son there? before he gets up there? >> you know, i think it's just exciting to see him, you know, he has the ability, like i said, he has the dream of doing this and we've been able to provide that opportunity. it's something i never would promote for other children. bobby is ready for it. >> we'll find out june 4th. thanks, guys, for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> good luck, bobby. all right, coming up in our next hour, terror secrets revealed. details on gitmo and the men locked up there including new information on the men who planned the 9/11 attacks. then when the teacher says "please rise", they said no thank you. should kids be allowed to sit in protest at the pledge of allegiance? 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[ female announcer ] hurry, join for free today. weight watchers online. finally, losing weight clicks. some say i'm bold. i say i'm free i wear what i love, because expression means everything. i wear the pants. and the tops. and the jewels. i grab life by the accessories. some say i've done it all. i say just getting started. ♪ too hot to trot ♪ baby i'm so chico's. >> juliet: good morning, everybody. it is monday, april 25. i'm juliet huddy in for gretchen carlson. they were supposed to work together, but the president's gang of six couldn't be further apart. >> this represents a fundamental threat to the economic security -- >> you're a democrat saying that. >> the idea that we might say that this is catastrophic is wrong. >> juliet: gridlock. but is it an option when our economy is on the line? >> steve: what you are looking at right about now, right there, that used to be a house. now it's just a pile of rubble and debris. we're live with the man who owns that home and how he survived the devastating damage from his basement. live in missouri. >> brian: why is robert deniro calling donald trump a liar? we'll ask the donald himself. he's weighing in on his voting record and what is it like being the man who is leading most of the polls in the republican nomination? those are some of the things we'll bring up when donald trump joins us, deniro won't, because this is "fox & friends." >> brian, you're fired. >> juliet: hard to believe. >> steve: we've got our own version of "raging bull." >> juliet: but he likes you, of course. >> brian: i haven't had a chance to been with him yet. >> steve: this is what juliet huddy twittered a little while ago. >> juliet: i don't know what you're talking about. >> brian: i love everything except "fox & friends" except brian. >> juliet: just kidding, everybody. thanks a lot, steve, you'll be next. you are on twitter and i haven't been given the secret password. >> steve: it's meatloaf. >> juliet: is he still on celebrity apprentice? don't tell me! >> brian: actually i don't know who god got -- got knocked off. >> juliet: a huge prison break in afghanistan. listen to this one. more than 450 prisoners, most of them taliban fighters, escaped a prison in kandahar through a long underground tunnel. the taliban claims it actually built the 1,000-foot tunnel for the last five months right under the nose of government checkpoints. we have new video in from rome where a man is in custody at this hour after putting a nail clipper to the throat of a flight attendant and demanding the plane be divert to do libya. the man seen here was reportedly overpowered by flight attendants and passengers on board the flight from paris to rome. the plane later made a safe landing in rome. no passengers were hurt. but the flight attendant attacked, that person about suffer some injuries. minor injuries. nine days after being trapped more than one mile underground, search crews recovered the body of a missing miner. larry make and his brother finished a day's work in a mine in idaho when the ceiling collapsed. the brother survived. the company that owns the lucky friday mine trying to figure out how and why this happened. congresswoman gabrielle giffords getting the green light to attend her husos launch on friday. mark kelly is the commander of the space shuttle endeavor. it's set to blast off from florida. also on hand will be one of her injured staff members and one of the doctors who helped save her life. this will be the last shuttle plan for now. those are your headlines. >> steve: let's talk about what happened overnight while you were sleeping. it looks like nato launched an attack at a complex in downtown tripoli. it happens to be one of the places where moammar gadhafi does on occasion live. he was not hurt. but there are reports that apparently a number of the people who stand around these places at night to provide essentially their bodies as human shields, they were injured. in the meantime, are we taking a shot at gadhafi himself? senators mccain and graham say that would be a good idea. >> this is a pretty bloody situation and it has the earmarks of being a stalemate. now, we hope that gadhafi will crumble from within, but hope is not a strategy. >> i can tell you what, if he stays, it's a nightmare for the world at large. if you think the gas prices are high, let him stay and see what the middle east turns into. there is not deep support for him. my recommendation is to cut the head of the snake off. >> brian: they're saying it's time to take action. mccain did it from benghazi. senator graham from channel 4, and senator lieberman said every day, we should target him in a way as where every day, he and his family get up, they should think to themselves, this could be our last. that will change his behavior. >> juliet: we were talking earlier about the attack on his compound there. it was basically what was hit was like a library, a reception area for dignitaries, but gadhafi himself it seems wasn't in the building at the time. >> steve: meanwhile, what is the president's strategy? remember he made it very clear what our interests were. we were there to try to protect the people of libya. yet, they are being slaughtered. here is brit hume on the president and the options. >> i think in terms of libya, he really kind of doesn't know what to do next and what i think and what i hope is learning is the indispensability of leadership. i think he doesn't know what to do and i think he has content to have failure as an option. >> brian: our best option seems to be defections because we never can get these rebels up to speed to take out a trained army. it doesn't seem we want to put boots on the ground. there is no sentiment in the u.k. or norway or here to do that. so our best hope is make him seem so hopeless that more and more people defect. if that's our strategy. >> steve: we don't really have a coherent strategy. maybe we should be arming the rebels. we did -- >> brian: that scares geraldo who met them. >> steve: $25 million worth of nonlethal aid was given to the rebels. why don't we give them some lethal aid to help them in their fight for freedom? >> brian: we were going to turn the country over to them. they're eventually going to get arms. why not get them there? >> steve: we're giving them boots instead. >> brian: six minutes after the top of the hour. the wild weather that's been slamming this nation, this is video of what's left after this weekend's powerful storms in bridgeton, missouri. that's where we find our chief meteorologist rick this morning who joins one man whose home is a pile of rubble. >> a pile of rubble. all kinds of stories of how people survived from the storm. this is ron who used to be police chief of this community. you rode out the storm in your house. how much warning did you have and what was that like? >> what i remember is two minutes. watching tv and you know how you meteorologists are, you interrupt the prime time tv and tell us about how you were tracking this storm. i do remember the gentleman on there saying two minutes and it will be about a block from here. 270 and 70. it seemed less than two minutes to me. but next thing i know, lights went out, the power in our house went out first and then the wind picking up and i grabbed my wife. we went over into the unfinished part of the basement, got down on the floor. i covered her up and then all hell broke loose. >> how long was it going on? >> i thought a couple minutes. my neighbor argued and said 32 seconds. it seemed forever. >> that moment goes by, 30, 45 seconds, and you think can i get out of here? >> you know what i was thinking -- i'm used to having control. i had no control over what was going to happen. i knew as long as there was noise that it was doing some devastation. then after that, just got very, very quiet and by then, the water was shooting everywhere, but the wind just stopped. it was very quiet. >> your wife is there the whole time. are you keeping her calm? >> she's saying what's going on? just trying to figure it out. little did we know outside of here of the devastation. >> yeah. complete devastation. you guys did make through. that's the amazing part. an f-4 tornado, and not any injuries or significant injuries. so a lot to be thankful for and yours is one. thank you for sharing with us today. >> sure. >> back to you. >> steve: thank you very much. the early morning does work. thank you. >> brian: let's talk about what we're facing now in terms of our budget deficit. getting a new one for 2012 and coming to an agreement on raising the debt ceiling or not. many of people looking at the gang of six to lead the way. those meeting in private with and without their staffs coming together with a bipartisan plan. but in terms of raising the debt, one side says it's cataclysmic if we don't, the other side says not so fast. >> the idea that we might say that this is catastrophic is wrong. >> what is catastrophic is continuing to spend money that we don't have on things we don't absolutely need and continue to mortgage our future and not fix the very real problems in front of us. >> i will not support any long-term extension of the debt without a plan or a proposal or a process in place to deal with the debt. and so i've voted for short-term extensions, but i won't vote for a long-term extension. i won't do it now unless we have a plan to deal with this debt because at the end of the day, this represents a fundamental threat to the economic security -- >> juliet: i read these e-mails and tweets from viewers and talking to regular people and it's so frustrating because you hear one person say one definitive answer and one say another definitive answer and they're completely clashing. it confuses americans who most of us aren't experts in economic and financial issues. >> steve: it's like when the president, then senator barak obama said when he was a senator, and george bush was in the white house, he voted not to raise the debt limit. now of course he's in the white house and says we've got to raise it. >> brian: harry reid also regrets not raising it, too. straight ahead, america's terror files opened up. what they say about gitmo and the men being held there and what peter johnson, jr. has to say about the "new york times" and the "washington post" who printed the stories. >> steve: why is bobby deniro calling donald trump a liar? 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>> i think she's not quite as tall as diana. diana was almost 5' 10. kate is also tall. william is very tall, i think 6' 4, something like that. this is a couple, she's as smart as he is and he's gotten the best grades of any royal ever in history. >> steve: really? >> yes. but when i look back at kate, i mean at diana and i looked at the pictures and thought, poor thing. nobody ever taught her how to dress and she got thrown into this world. then i went back and looked at the pictures of me covering the royal wedding. that's not me. in 1981, and then later -- >> steve: there you go. >> then later i was interviewing prince charles. >> juliet: look how cute! come on. that wasn't dorky! >> i looked at it and i said, who are you to say that diana was dorky? you dressed dorky. but it's interesting because when i started talking about this, you roll your eyes and you say, i'm so jealous. we all want to be a princess, ladies. especially if you're a brit you and live there and the prince is there. what if you met him? what if it happened? >> steve: sure. i know a lot of people are drawing parallels between kate middleton and diana and back when you were covering diana in the beginning, she was an 18-year-old kindergarten teacher and nobody was trying to help her get it right, whereas kate middleton, she's got all sorts of handlers. i think she she has a former dip map helping her did she diplomat helping her. they taught diana nothing. she got whisked off and stuck at clarence house with the queen mum. they didn't understand what was going to happen. they didn't see the train coming down the tracks and she really was thrown to the wolves. >> juliet: the think that's so mesmerizing is that kate middleton, she is a commoner. >> steve: are you going to talk in an accent? >> this is a -- >> juliet: this is a girl who achieve add fairy tale. >> the only similarity between, i think, kate and diana is that they both day dreamed about meeting the prince and supposedly they both had posters in their room. but that's not unusual if you're a young girl in britain, quite honestly. but right there that's where it stops because carol put kate in the best schools and in st. andrews, wanted her there because you never know. attendants of females went up 40% within three days of him announcing he was going to go to st. andrews. but now even since the engagement, people who are watching, the royal watchers, say she had her teeth straightened, whitened, that she all of a sudden was wearing stockings. like she's a young girl until her first appearance and she's in sensible heels instead of the stillettos. she has that clutch in front of her now. there's a royal thing that if the queen doesn't particularly like -- like it you're starting to bore her, she changes her ring and in case her guys didn't see that one, she changes her purse from the right to the left. >> steve: of course, we'll all be watching this friday when the royal wedding happens. gretchen is already in london and she will be starting our coverage on wednesday. thank you. all right. next on the run down, two kids didn't feel like standing for the pledge, so now they're changing the rules for all the kids in that school district. we asked you for your e-mails. we'll read some of them. >> juliet: then donald trump being attacked by bobby deniro, the donald joins us live to respond. >> steve: the annual white house easter egg roll happening right now at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. we'll take you live to the action when we come back. ♪ sun in the sky ♪ you know how i feel i'm loving weight watchers new pointsplus program and the edge it's giving me. ♪ freedom is mine ♪ and i know how i feel i never feel deprived. you know how freeing that is? 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[ male announcer ] ask your veterinarian about k9 advantix ii. forty years ago, he wasn't worried about retirement. he'd yet thear of mutual funds, iras, or annuities. back then, he had something more important to do. he wasn't focused on his future but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide retirement solutions for our military, veterans and their families. from investments... to life insurance... to health care options. learn more at usaa.com/retirement or call 877-242-usaa. ever wish vegetables didn't taste so vegetably? well, v8 v-fusion juice gives you a full serving of vegetables, plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. v8. what's your number? >> juliet: welcome back. we begin this half hour with new developments overnight. the death toll is rising after a massive house fire in vancouver, washington. investigators found four more bodies while combing through the debris, bringing the death toll now to six. neighbors report hearing a loud explosion shortly before the fire. federal officials are not ruling out arson. neighbors say a family had moved out several weeks ago. >> steve: meanwhile, the f.b.i. just identified a suspect in that failed bombing at a colorado shopping mall on the anniversary of the columbine shooting. this is 65-year-old earl moore. he just got out of prison, federal prison, two weeks ago. detectives think he's the guy seen in surveillance video planting explosives. moore was serving an 18-year sentence for bank robbery, but got out early for helping prosecutors on another case. >> brian: couple of people looking for a good time and started an avalanche. what? >> steve: oh, wow. >> brian: they each had parachutes. they chopped on the show to create this in the french alps. their helmet cameras picked up the whole thing. >> juliet: that looks fun. kidding. the sweeney, texas school district says students no longer have to stand for the pledge after two students complained to the aclu. we're not sure why that was. earlier we were joined by the school board president. listen to this. >> it looks looks we'll have no choice but to have to comply with the law that the requirement not be there, although i don't agree with that personally, i still think that we should be able to, in our district, we should be able to set a standard of behavior that we require for our students to show. part of that should be showing respect to the flag of our nation and our state. >> juliet: steve looks perplexed. what do you think about the option of sitting during the pledge? jenny brown writes: if that was my kid, i would whip their butt. they would publicly apologize to their classmate at their school. they would stand up and lead the pledge every morning. they'd be proud to do it. >> steve: then t.j. says seven years ago, my daughter was in middle school and refused to say the pledge. we subpoenaed her -- supported her and the school backed down. they stopped saying the pledge in the morning. apparently there were no subpoenas. >> brian: okay. easter is not over yet. check out these kids already getting started with the annual egg roll at the white house. that's where we rolled in kelly wright and a special guest. hey, kelly. >> yeah. thanks so much, brian. i've got a special guest. juliet, you know who this is. loftily colby, the malibu lady brought her southern charm and southern california charm and sunshine to the white house. you're going to grace us with the national anthem today. >> i am. i'm singing the national anthem at 10:00 o'clock this morning right next to the first family. i'm honored and overwhelmed with a million emotions right now. >> you know the first family very well. this is all about get up and go, which is in theme to the let's move campaign which first lady michelle obama started to get people up and moving, to stop obesity. you were on the cover of this month's "fitness" magazine. hot beach body now, singer colby's body confidence secrets. how do you stay in shape? >> i like to do cardio, so i run on the treadmill, i run outside. i'm also a vegetarian, so i don't eat meat and i like to be active. >> okay. by the way, she's going to be performing right there in times square this friday. >> yes, friday at -- i think it's 8:45 in the morning. i'm singing my song "i do" for the royal wedding. >> and the song is also the number one on itunes. always a pleasure to meet you and stay in touch with us here at "fox & friends." >> i will. >> back to you. >> juliet: you should have her perform in the summer. >> steve: all right. every monday on this program, donald trump has been joining us over the last couple of weeks and he joins us on the line right now. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: let's talk about what happened in the last week. president obama -- given the fact that in washington, d.c., gas is now $5 a gallon, about. the president attacking big oil companies. he's going to have an investigation and ask people to look into what's going on. what do you think about this strategy and do high gas prices translate into good news for the gop? >> well, i certainly think you could use it to your advantage. you don't want to have to do that. you want to see the country get strong and strong again and oil prices are out of control and frankly, i don't mind attacking oil companies, but why isn't he attacking opec, because opec, it all starts there. you look at opec and you look at what these guys are doing. there is never a word of criticism, including on your show, when people come on, consultant, politician, they never mention opec because they're lobbyists tells them don't mention opec because opec pay has fortune in washington. so it's wonderful to attack the oil companies and i'm all for it. i don't care. but why aren't they talking about opec? >> brian: do you have an opinion on the tracking and -- the drilling here? >> i think we should drill. this is crazy. i can't drill in the gulf. they can't drill in alaska. they can't drill anywhere and in the meantime, we're being held hostage by these foreign nations that are ripping us. i think we should open it up. i understand the environmental, i understand it probably better than any. i've received many, many environmental awards. but they are holding this country to a level that is impossible for us to do anything and if we're going to get back on track, we have to get oil down to 45, 50 or $60 a barrel and right now, it looks like it's going up to $150. so we can never come back if oil is at these levels. >> juliet: does it ever, man. driving around this weekend was a nightmare! it didn't seem like the streets are as crowded as usual. mr. trump, here is a question, you're getting criticism, flack about your voting record, specifically not voting in presidential primaries. what's your response? >> i'm in a very, very democratic state, unfortunately. but i'm in a very democratic state. sometimes you'll have to primary where a republican is even mentioned. where there is no republican or where he's expected to get 4% of the vote and i'll be in a foreign state or i'll be in a foreign country doing business and am i supposed to drive back when the republican is considered to get 3% of the vote or there is no republican even running? so a little bit of that. but in terms of the general election, my record is very good. i mean, generally speaking, i like to vote. i'm a believer in voting. i will tell you. but when they don't run a republican candidate or when the republican scheduled to get 6.2% of the vote, it's sort of pretty tough to travel 1,000 miles in order to vote. >> steve: sure. meanwhile, here in new york city over the weekend, they've been having the tribeca film festival. it sounds like robert deniro did call you out. he said a couple of days ago, quote, i won't mention names, but certain people in the news in the last couple of weeks just -- what are they doing? it's crazy, they're making statements about people that they don't even back up. go get the facts before you start saying things about people. apparently later he did reveal that he was in part talking about you. >> he's not the brightest bulb on the planet. i've been watching him over the years and i like his acting, but in terms of when i watch him doing interviews and various other things, we're not dealing with albert einstein. he can say what he wants, but the fact is that this guy has not revealed his birth certificate. a lot of people agree with me. i tell you what, with all that i do, what i do best is china, jobs, opec, all of this. that's what i do best. that's going to be my strength. it is my strength. i really understand it it. i know the people. but with all of that, i think i get more positive -- when i'm talking down the street, when i did -- recently i did a tea party event, they loved this issue! there are so many people that really want him to provide his birth certificate. now you have states going out and saying, in order to run for office, you have to be able to provide a birth certificate. there is a big lot of things going on with respect to the birth certificate. why is he spending millions of dollars to fight this issue instead of just providing his birth certificate? there are so many different elements here and i will say, it's a very frightening thing for this country. >> brian: there's a couple of people that backed you up. deniro is not in your corner. that's a loss. but david brooks, the "new york times," said nice things about you. and franklin graham, indicated he's leaning towards endorsing you for the republican nomination. >> well, i really appreciated david brooks' comments because i have a lot of remain for him. we are on the other side of things generally speaking, but i have a lot of respect for him and his intellect. and franklin graham, i watched him on sunday being interviewed and forgetting about what he said about me, which was lovely, it was so wonderful what he talked -- as he talked about the bible, as he talked about god, as he talked about so many different things, i thought it was one of the best interviews i've seen and i think it should almost be mandatory for people to watch it. i really respect franklin, i really respect billy graham. i used to sit and watch billy graham with my father for years and years. and franklin is the same. i mean, he was just absolutely great on that interview. not even including the fact that he said such nice things about me. but maybe that influenced. i may have been a little influenced. but seriously, i thought his interview was absolutely a brilliant interview. >> steve: all right. donald trump, who joins us here on "fox & friends" every monday morning at this time -- did she. >> juliet: you have to get rid of the miss universe stuff if you become president? >> i don't know. i certainly will put -- i don't think nbc would be too happy with me. but i took the pageant -- there is an example. they were dead, i brought them about 11 years ago. now they're hot, doing well. everybody likes them. they do a lot of good and a lot of women and a lot of people are into it. >> brian: steve and i will take it if you go to the white house. >> we'll make the two of you judges. >> juliet: what about me? >> even get rid -- either get rid of it or put it in trust. >> steve: the very latest on the pageant and so much more. thank you, donald. >> brian: again, my whole family watched "celebrity apprentice" last night. >> juliet: don't say who goss kicked off. >> brian: at five years old, he watched the twin towers fall. now this 14-year-old boy sharing his experiences on the silver screen. that young man here next. >> steve: then one of the most unique marriage proposals we've ever seen, the groom who popped the question where most people eat their popcorn. wait until you see this. it's fantastic. we make meeting times, lunch times and conference times. but wha'd rather making are t times. tee times are the official start of what we love to do. the time for shots we'd rather forget, and the ones we'll talk about forever. in michigan long days, relaxing weather and more than 800 pristine coursesmake for the perct tee time. because being able to play all day is pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. and all we need to do is change the way we're thinking about them. a couple decades ago, we didn't even realize just how much natural gas was trapped irocks thounds of feet below us. technology has made it possible to safely unlock this cleanly burning natural gas. this deposits can provide us with fuel for a hundred years, providing energy security and economic growth all across this country. it just takes somebody having thidea, and that's where the discovery comes from. so let's plant some perennials that'll turn up every year. trees and shrubs to give us depth. and fill it out with flowers placedn just the perfect place. let's spend less, but plant more. what do you say want a weekend, water it and watch a summer spring up? 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>> yes. canal street. i remember looking at the towers while they were falling and seeing people jump. >> brian: when the towers hit, you were in the classroom. then the word goes out to the parents, come get your kids? >> pretty much. it was either by seeing the towers and then running to get your child, knowing something was immediately wrong, or just the natural instinct. >> juliet: you decided to sort of -- i guess it's a cathartic thing. you're going to a school right now for writing. how has this helped you talking to these students and people, just like your age who were there that day? >> been a really therapeutic process. i mean, before i was very shut up about it and very withheld within it. and it got me being able to talk about it more and be more social about it. >> brian: the way you approached it, i understand, you talked to kids, not just kids in your classroom. from seven different schools about what they saw, what they experienced and how their life changed. that's what this film is about. >> i talked to children from pre-k to high school seeing their range of reactions and what they remembered. >> juliet: what are some of the stories that you've talked about or they've talked about in this film that have really, really affected you hearing them? >> some never talked about it at all, not even to their parents. one of the teachers at the school, one of the principals, her sister died in the towers, and she went to afghanistan and built a school. so it's very much of a range of reactions and differences. >> brian: you want to be a firefighter. the fire house is your whole life? >> i have. my mom volunteers and works with them for raising funds and different charity events. >> juliet: is that you? >> yeah, that's me. >> brian: we could see the tribeca family festival at 2:30, they'll show this, right? >> yes. a free screening at saturday, april 30. >> brian: it's coming up this saturday. >> juliet: this is a big theater, too. >> yeah, 913 seats. >> juliet: your connection to fire fighting is the fact that your mom was down there. did you know firefighters who were killed that day? >> i know many. it's a tragic loss. >> juliet: this is a wonderful film you're done and congratulations getting into the tribeca film festival is no small feat. >> there are so many people i had to thank and so many people helped me get here. my editors, guggenheim productions and the music. >> brian: at 14 years old, you're off to a heck of a start. brook peters, thank you for coming in. look forward to seeing the film. coming up straight ahead, we wrap up with this, a proposal so unique, it caught an entire crowd off guard. >> i have a question to ask you. >> brian: the future bride and groom are here to share their story. first let's check in with bill hemmer for what's on his show at the top of the hour. >> the movie theater. it's original, points for originality. breaking news out of colorado. who is this man the f.b.i. says is extremely dangerous? 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>> steve: here is a reason to never skip the previews at the movie theater. look. >> first day of forever. only in this theater right now. >> elizabeth, you are my treasure. i love you so much. i have a question to ask you. >> steve: how cool is that! todd cavanaugh create that had movie trailer proposal and shocked the heck out of his girlfriend who was sitting right next to him and she's sitting right next to him. todd cavanaugh and elizabeth join us from rochester. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> steve: congratulations. so todd, you took elizabeth to the movie. elizabeth, at what point did you realize, wait a minute, this is not a trailer for the new matt damon movie. that's my boyfriend? >> well, throughout the whole thing, it looked a little bit like him, so i kept staring and i kept waiting to see who it really was that looked so much like my boyfriend. and then towards the very, very end, his best friend, jesse, is on the screen and at that point, i definitely knew something was up. i looked over at him and said what, are you up to? >> steve: that's fantastic. now we're looking at some of the beginning stuff. todd, where did you get this idea, because to be honest, i think this proposal a little more creative than when william and kate made their proposal. >> i was laying on my friend dave's couch and i wanted to do something that would last. so i thought kind of a medium of video would be a good way to do that. so i just kind of came -- we both love movies, so why not try to fake her out with a preview before we watched the movie. >> steve: and it looks very professional and i know you worked with some guys who go to your church and enlisted local talent to be actors as well. what about the people who were in the movie theater at the time who had no idea what the heck they were watching? >> they didn't know what to expect. i think they were just as shocked as elizabeth was. but yeah, these guys from my church really helped me out, especially andrew manzano from the sound tank.com. i brain stormed with him and he donated a lot of his time and the quality, we just loved it. it came out so well. >> steve: it did. >> very talented friends. >> steve: it is a great trailer and what a great story. and here is the happy ending. you guys are getting married when? >> may 28. so just a little over a month away. we're really excited. >> steve: and for everybody watching, can we all come to your wedding? >> only you guys. >> yeah. >> steve: it's fantastic. very, very creative. you certainly get bonus points for creativity. todd and elizabeth, we thank you very much. you both live happy ever after. >> thank you. >> steve: that's great. more "fox & friends" in two minutes. we'll be right back. hey susie, why don't you use this ? it's got a calculator. thanks, dad. this is the neighborhood. you get elm street and you get main street. thank you. and that just the first quarter. so you want a slide in your office ? or monkey bars, either one. more small businesses choose verizon wireless than any other wireless carrier. where's susie ? is she expecting you ? because they know the small business with the best technology rules. with being fed on.ies, we are fed up we demand k9 advantix ii. it not only kills fleas and ticks, it repels most ticks before they can attach and snack on us. frontline plus kills but doesn't repel. any tick that isn't repelled or killed may attach and make a meal of us. so let's put our paws down in protest. no fetching, no friendship till we all get k9 advantix ii. join us at poochprotest.com. 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