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here are the headlines. two weeks after dominique strauss-khan was arrested, another shocking arrest to tell you about. police busted another former international bank executive for allegedly sexually assaulting a maid inside his luxury hotel room here in new york city. he is the former head of egypt's bank of alexandria. he's accused of attacking the maid when she delivered a box of tissues to his room at the pierre hotel. >> 74. >> heavy fighting across yemen after a brief cease-fire collapses. government forces attacked the home of a tribal leader. they struck back. it comes after 20 protesters were shot and killed in a southern city. people across the country are feeling hot, hot, hot, national weather service issuing another heat advisory today. people in new jersey where the temperatures are in the high 80's headed to the beach for some relief. the unseasonably warm weather reaching the upper 80's in chicago. eight people had to be treated for sun related illnesses. come on, people. endeavor is getting set to make its landing in florida. they are testing what sgieded it to the landing and practicing by using a landing simulation. the shuttle expected to land at cape canaveral 2:35 a.m. eastern on wednesday. those are the headlines this morning. >> you know, the space shuttle is kind much like a flying bus and speaking of buses, sarah palin is in a bus for a big part of this next summer. she's got something that she's calling the one nation tour and what is she doing exactly? >> that's what every journalist wants to know. they can't find her! >> huffington post calls it a wild goose chase. what she is doing is a test run to find out if she can execute on "a decidely unconventional campaign game plan." her husband todd is leaning towards running as she is. the whole idea is whether or not it is logistically possible for a big family to run for president. >> last night, she was on the bus with our own greta van suster susteren. >> let's take a listen. >> this isn't a campaign tour except to campaign on our constitution, charters about liberty. this is not about me. want a publicity seeking tour. it's about highlighting the great things about america. >> you can't have a huge bus painted with a logo on it and go to all the historic sites and knowing in a matter of weeks we're going to find out if you're going to be in or out of this presidential race. >> why not? >> she's still up in the air. a family vacation could easily be done in a sedan or chevy van. not a bus! >> and look at the size of that bus! >> yes? >> when you went on vacation, you went in the family winnebago, right? >> yes, i did. >> look at the size of this bus. >> to me, this is so sarah palin. it's unconventional. she does everything in a different fashion and different way. she drives a lot of people crazy by doing it that way. this is yet another thing that's just not like the norm. normally if you're running for president, you want as many people as possible at an event so you send out your press people everywhere and you say we're going to be there at 10:00 a.m. on sunday morning and in this case, she's doing it just the opposite so now you have all these people in gettysburg over the weekend camping out for seven hours because of a rumor she might be there and she never even shows up at one particular -- >> she went to fort mchenry. she wanted to find out about the star spangled banner and what happened. we needed the british to shoot at us, cannonballs but they wouldn't cooperate. she held a 40-pound cannonball in her hand and it's going to be interesting to see if her next stop is indeed iowa. >> that will be the key thing. if that bus goes to iowa, i think we pretty much know what her plans are. according to real politics, that bus will go to iowa. >> will she be in it? >> thank you. yesterday, she went to mount vernon, the home of the first president of the united states. meanwhile, here's greta asking her on the bus that's not a campaign bus whether or not she could beat the guy who is currently president of the united states. >> do you think you can beat president obama in 2012, sarah? >> i think that any republican candidate is very, very electable. i think americans are ready for true change, change to get our country back on the right track. >> you're interested in running. are you going to run? >> you know, we're still trying to concentrate on that. >> i couldn't believe that. >> that's the reply she gave all weekend and at rolling thunder as well when anybody somebody would ask, are you you going to run for president? she'd say i'm thinking about it. >> another woman saying the same thing although she's been hinting more that she actually might run is congresswoman michelle bachmann from minnesota. she was in new hampshire. we'll see what you think when you listen. is she running? >> i think the country needs to have a new president undoubtedly and we need to have a strong, bold constitutional conservative, someone who is committed to repealing the government takeover of health care. i am committed to that effort but i'm also committed to american-made jobs. that will be my focus. >> and the congresswoman also visited with the family of a fallen soldier. she went to a house party right in the area and she also ripped the president's libya operations saying what the heck are we doing there? we should be focused on iran. >> interesting thing is sarah palin was campaigning for michelle bachmann last year. it will be interesting if they both decide to get in the race because they pretty much appeal to, i think, the same group of peel. >> at one point in new hampshire, one of the people at the particular house party that the reporter that quoted -- made a lot of quotations of what she said, somebody said, why are you running for president rather than trying to challenge al franken in your home state of minnesota? she said, we need somebody to get rid of obama care. that's one of the tenets she's working out. >> you can't kick out al franken. he has to do the six years. >> congresswoman bachmann will be on our show live on "fox & friends." in the meantime, the talk continues about chris christie, the governor of new jersey. even though he's said he's not running for president in 2012, a lot of people are trying to convince him otherwise. now a group of businessmen influential from iowa are coming to new jersey to have dinner at the governor's mansion to get him yet to change his mind. >> could you imagine flying in and saying have dinner for me. did we tape any of his response? >> we have 16 seconds worth. would you like to see them? >> do we have time? >> let me push the button. >> i'm not going to be the republican candidate for president or vice president in 2012. that's something they'll have to put in the circular file once the nominees are selected. >> what do i have to do short of suicide to convince people i'm not running? apparently i actually have to commit suicide. >> pretty serious that he is not. but as we said before on this show, his endorsement will be key. i mean, whomever chris christie decides to endorse, that's going to be huge. that's why all the candidates have been coming to the governor's mansion in new jersey to try to get that endorse many. >> here's the things about new jersey, the legislative session wraps up at the end of june and there are some who say that by that time, some real pressure could come to bear on mr. christie to, perhaps, dip his toe into the race. steve forbes on iowa says "i think there will be others in the race." does he mean chris christie? even though they don't know it today, looking at an incomplete field. >> i don't know how he gets around those statements, though, of saying he's not -- he's not going to do it. you know, i mean, he's been pretty emphatic. i don't know, maybe he could come up with a really great reason why he decided to change his mind but those are pretty emphatic statements when he says he's not going to do it. >> here are the other republicans trapsing across iowa who have not committed yet. we know that mitt romney is going to get in. rick santorum is going to run, going through iowa. tim pawlenty is in and herman cain is going through. his star is rising. and congressman ron paul has that niche audience. >> sure. in the meantime, what do you think? do you think chris christie should get in or do you take him at his word that he's not going to run for president this time around? e-mail us, friends at "fox & friends" or twitter us at "fox & friends." >> economists are predicting another bad week on the job front but stuart varney says you can expect, well, i'm not sure exactly what he's going to talk about. he's going to talk about jobs and president obama. >> the white house seems to be in denial about that. then it's no joke. a multimillion dollar scandal that involves steve martin, my childhood idol. he was scammed. >> the new phone book's here. new phone book's here! thanks to the venture card from capital one, we get double miles on every purchase, so me and my lads earned arip to san francisco twice as fast! we get double miles every time we use our card... i'll take these two... ...no matter what wee buying. ...and all of those. and since double miles add up fast, we can bring the whole gang! it's hard to beat double mes! whoa dude [ male announcer ] gethe venture card from capital one, money magazine's stewards card if you aim to rack up airline miles. what's in yr wallet? if you aim to rack up airline miles. vegetables have important vitamins and minerals that can really help protect you. and v8 juice gives you three of your five daily servings. powerful, right? v8. what's your number? jennifer hudson is our little cousin. jennifer shined a newight on everything. she really inspired me. i said to myself, "if she can do it, i can do it." weight watchers pointsplus makes you slow down and think about the things that you put in your body. on weight watchers, our family and friends have lost over a thousand pounds. i still can't believe it. ♪ and i'm feeling good ♪ and i'm feeling good go on, join for free. weight watchers new pointsplus. because it works. >> hey, the president returning from europe with a new commit many to bail out nations including a $20 million aid package for egypt and tunisia. >> with employment, employment slumping at home, some wondering if his priorities should get our economy up and moving again? stuart varney is here. >> the news is this tuesday morning as we come back from a long weekend and the president come back from an overseas trip, the news is the economy is heading south all over again. in a couple of key areas. in a couple of hours, we're going to get numbers on home prices. and it's going to be a bombshell. >> why? they're falling? >> down again. they keep on falling. home prices are still falling. they may now hit a new low. a post big recession panic low. that's bad news for middle america. most people are -- many people are underwater. if you bought a home between, say, 2004 and 2009, you probably lost your equity stake. you probably lost your down statement. that's not good news. >> that's scary because the housing market determines so much, doesn't it? >> overall, the economy is heading south. it should be on a steady move upwards getting more vigorous and growing rapidly. it's not. it's going the opposite direction. >> why? we heard the last year we're out of the recession now. everything is on the up tick. >> there's all kinds of reasons. i mean, the present stimulus program failed. the housing market is still going down. corporations are not hiring. they're still firing. you wrap it all up and you've just not got a pretty economic picture. i'm very sorry to be such a downer on a tuesday morning after a wonderful three-day weekend. but you got to tell it how it is. the president is coming back to an economic situation which is really very negative. >> well, the thing that really bothers you, too, in light of our local situation is that we're pledging and forgiving so much debt. we're forgiving all the egyptian debt and cutting checks to these countries who by the way, have not pledged any allegiance to us and none of their actions have been really encouraging. >> i think it's going to be a very difficult political sell for the president back home in america with a sinking economy here, 9% unemployment and we're about to lend egypt and tunisia another $20 billion. and the imf wants $160 billion for the arab spring countries over the next three years. that's an enormous amount of money. some of it american money going to foreigners who are hostile to us but we have a terrible situation at home. >> isn't it interesting that nobody seemed to ever question all that foreign aid before? now it's because of our own domestic dire straights? >> yes, that's exactly right. we are in dire straits and it's actually getting worse here in america. >> "new york times" says last year we're growing at 3.1% and now we're down to 1.8% and calling on the administration to do more. another stimulus package? >> out of the question. congress would never approve that. the president may want it. paul krugman in "the time" may really want it. it's not going to happen. what are the options the president has available? they are very, very narrow. very limited and i don't know what he can do in the immediate future to get this economy moving again. >> illuminate some regulation to allow businesses to flourish. >> that might work. yeah, that would all help. >> gas prices are still high, too. >> they are. >> not good for every american out there. >> all right, stu. we still think of you as good news and cheery and bright so have a fantastic show today. >> thank you very much indeed. i shall. >> who do we have? >> more on, i hate to say it, the doom and gloom. we have a big rally in the stock market today. go figure that one out. we got it. >> you should get a band. >> a what? >> get a band. >> varney & company and the band. you should get a band. >> there isn't a musical bone in my body, brian. >> ok, that's fine. >> all right. >> i'm just saying. when shots are fired outside this school, the kids hit the floor. listen. but the teacher kept them calm by singing a barney tune. and if sarah palin runs for president, what does that mean for the rest of the republicans in the race? our radio rumble will tell us their thoughts next. >> some quick headlines now for the first time in nearly three weeks, libyan leader muammar qaddafi appeared on state tv and met with the president of south africa who said qaddafi is open for a truce. houfr, five of qaddafi's top generals have defected and are surging the rest of libya's army to do the same. they held a press conference to urge everybody to defect and jelly fish put a sting in the memorial day weekend. 400 people were stung on the florida coast near coco beach where i dream of genie was shot. steve? >> it was shot in hollywood! thanks, brian. governor sarah palin is busy on her bus tour this week but refusing to admit a possible presidential run. >> in the mainstream media are looking for a conventional, a campaign type tour and i've said from the beginning, this isn't a campaign tour. except to campaign on our constitution. >> but if she does decide to run, what does that mean for the other g.o.p. candidates? right now, let's go to our radio rumbleers and joining us from washington, d.c., screen left, we've got amy holmes. from los angeles, circle -- the center square, leslie marshall and from las vegas, heidi harris. good morning, ladies. thanks for joining us. if she decides to run, what does that do to the other republican candidates? >> my first thought was poor tim pawlenty! he won't be able to catch a break from the media. nobody will cover his campaign. sarah palin will be kicking this into high gear and just expect the media mania surrounding sarah palin which will make it difficult for other g.o.p. contenders to get their message out! it will also make it more difficult for them to raise the money because they're not getting the attention. >> sure. >> so it will energize the g.o.p. but it will also, you know, make the other contenders really have to scramble. >> leslie, you would love to have governor sarah palin run. you as a liberal talk show host would have lots of material. >> oh, yes. i wouldn't have to work as hard. yeah, no, absolutely. i think -- i think it would do more than split the money and mitt romney has raised a lot so i don't agree with amy on the money. i do agree it would energize those democrats as we watch the tea party fragmented and we would watch the g.o.p. fragmented between the newt gingrich g.o.p.'s, the romney g.o.p.'s, the tea publicans, etc., i say the more the merrier and the more there are, the easier there is that president barack obama will be re-elected. >> heidi, i understand that you feel if she does get in, it will -- the entire mainstream media is going to focus on her and that could wind up affecting the balance of the g.o.p. pack. >> absolutely because everything she says, the press is going to hold against everybody in the g.o.p. see, they're all like that. see, they all believe that. i think that would be detrimental. i like sarah palin a lot. but i think any misstep she makes will, unfortunately, be, you know, bleed all over the g.o.p. pack sadly. >> let's take a look at the g.o.p. pack. there's a poll out there that shows that rudy is on top of the pack right now. 16%. romney, 15%. palin comes in at 13%. paul 12% and cain 10%. what do you think? is she going to get in? >> i have no idea if governor palin is going to get in. we know that sarah palin sells books and moves newsstands and the media will be covering every twitch, every family piece of gossip and i would also like to point out that the media will try to, you know, sort of frame her as the leader of the g.o.p. pack as the g.o.p. standard bearer even though sarah palin has consistently come in second or third in polling of g.o.p. voters. >> uh-huh. now, leslie, if she does get in, then members of the tea party are going to have to pick for their -- you know, who's their favorite. do they like rand paul? do they like michelle bachmann or do they like her? >> oh, no, absolutely. and you have to remember that the -- the tea party or teapublicans i like to call them, a lot of them favor themselves as civil libertarians. rand paul is a big civil libertarian and tim pawlenty sings some of their tune. i don't think she'll be standing on that platform. when push comes to shove, the polls show even republicans may love her and like her, but they don't want to vote for her necessarily. so i don't think she's going to be ahead of the pack for the g.o.p. she might be the head of the pack for the tea party portion of the g.o.p. >> heidi, i'll give you the final word. >> yeah, i don't know if she's going to run. i don't know if she's taking this bus tour so she can gauge her popularity. that would be my guess but ultimately when it comes down to it, i'm not sure she will. she has a few more months to decide and everybody is going to turn their eyes to somebody else in the g.o.p. if she doesn't jump in. >> stand by, everybody. let's see what happens. amy holmes and leslie marshall and also heidi harris, we thank you all for joining us coast to coast, ladies. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> have a great week. all right, coming up, critics say on the circus. should it be letting elephants do heavy lifting? clearing debris in the wake of joplin's killer tornado. and then cancel the prayer or the ceremony's off. should an entire school graduation be canceled because one person's complaining? we're going to report and you will decide. but first, happy birthday to clint eastwood, the hollywood legend turns 81. 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>> i spent the weekend at fort dix at a soccer tournament and spent monday, we were out on a series of boats. i was out on my friend's boats so we go in the water. >> look at this graphic evidence that you were out on location. >> right. those are my children and some very good friends of ours. that's julia stegna. we say listen, we're tired of the kids. put them on a small little boat. >> is that you? >> no, that's my son and a few of his friends. >> i thought it was vladimir putin. >> no, it wasn't. look at, you pitched a tent, too. >> when you go to a soccer field, you have no shelter so i bought a new tent. >> what are you talking about? >> it took six of my parents 35 minutes to put up a tent that said on the box, it says goes up in three minutes. >> why are you putting up a tent under a tree? >> ok, we're not that good at camping. all right. i mean, no one said we were perfect but that is -- that's -- >> i'm surprised that you -- >> i saw a lot of great military men and women, too. >> that's the important part. i'm surprised you provided those photos. usually when we get the request to provide photos, steve? >> listen, i thought i sent them. i didn't have any. >> you didn't have any? >> no, i took pictures. we -- we went down to florida. i played tennis in a tournament. >> did you really? >> we went to -- at turnberry. did ok. and then we went to a parade in our town yesterday and we had a cookout by the lake. >> so you were on tour now? you are in celebrity tennis tour? >> on the senior tour. who did you play? ivan lendl? >> some people who live down who are really good. >> here, our producer sent an e-mail saying send your photos. this is my daughter with my husband and this is yesterday just hanging out. >> you weren't at a baseball game yesterday? >> we were at a baseball game. this is kya and christian, the big debate yesterday at my house. i don't know if you can see close enough, my daughter has both of her front teeth missing. my son lost a tooth a couple of weeks ago when he ate a chicken nugget and he swallowed it. he had a second tooth loose, he said it was bleeding and going to come out in the pool. it didn't yet. it's hanging on. >> does he have a cell phone? we could track this. >> he's sleeping, i hope, right now. yes but i'll keep you posted. >> we hope you had a restful holiday weekend. let's talk about what's going on in joplin, missouri. no rest for the weary there. they continue to clean up. it's interesting, though, apparently the picadelly circus was to be in joplin to perform at a time when the tornado hit and then, apparently, what they decided to do is they decided, as you can see from the videotape here is to use some of the elephants to actually move some of the heavy equipment and this has caused some people in that town on both sides to say, that is inappropriate. it is dangerous for the elephants. it's exploitation. others say it's just dandy. it's great they could do it. look at that, the elephant actually helped move that suv right there. what do you think? here's some people in joplin. >> i think that the circus people generally want to help but i think this is a bad idea. i think it's a publicity stunt and this is a bad idea. >> this is no publicity stunt. they can throw up a big sign and banner for that. if you're unappreciative of the help and you're not affected and you don't live here, maybe you should go help somewhere elsewhere you're not going to sit here and complain. >> i don't know. couldn't some people argue that having elephants in a circus in general is violates them as well? i don't know. it seems silly to me. these pictures are amazing. to me, it's amazing that the -- that the elephants are doing that work. i don't see any pictures. >> i would like to do that work. >> i don't know. >> look at the size. >> i just don't have a problem with it. >> only danger would be if the elephant got hurt but obviously, they've got that harness. it looks like everything is just fine. what do you think? do you think it's appropriate that the picadelly circus would be using the elephants to help move the debris. >> elephants makes more sense to me than the guy showing up in the clown outfit helping. do you have to wear your costume when you're helping people in joplin, missouri? only outfit you travel with. >> maybe. not sure. >> here's another story that might get you upset this morning. a lawsuit has been filed against a texas school district to stop prayer during graduation. we all know growing up, you know, if you went through the graduation procedure, a lot of times they say a little prayer as you're walking up. well, what i found interesting about this story today is the family that's suing, apparently they're agnostic and they just don't believe in school sponsored prayer. >> they do believe in suing, though. >> they do believe in suing. here's what's interesting to me. they now say that their son might not attend his graduation if they don't eliminate the prayer during the ceremony. isn't that the way that all these things should be handled? it's always one or two people who disagree with what the majority want but it's the majority that end up suffering and having to make the changes so in this case, fine, if you don't like the way in which the graduation is being handled, then that one person should just not show up. >> go to the red lobster instead of going to your ceremony. >> it might not even happen. apparently there's going to be a hearing today, a federal lawsuit has been filed by the americans united for the separation of church and state vs. medina valley which is the high school down there. here are some of the graduating seniors, how they feel about this. >> we're supposed to be happy that we're graduating and we're getting out and going to do our own thing but now we're having to deal with this. >> it's unfair. we all want to do the prayer. that's what we usually do. >> and apparently, they were going to be -- it's currently scheduled, there is a student-led invocation and prayer in the program. it's not done by, you know, a school official. it is done by the students who are designated. >> you want to hear the other side. the public schools can't require students to take part in religious worship at the price of attending their graduation. this is settled law and the district needs to stop resisting it. there you go. >> let us know what you think about that. you can e-mail or twitter. let's do some headlines for your tuesday because a frantic search for a missing 12-year-old girl is on swept out to sea, apparently. rescue crews in new hampshire spent all night on the beach looking for her. at the same time, the coast guard spent the night on the water. girl and her 20-year-old brother were swept out to sea by a rip tide last night. her brother was found alive. >> meanwhile, cindy anthony expected to take the stand again when her daughter's murder trial resumes in florida. casy anthony is accused of killing her 2-year-old in 2008. her testimony will likely include the call she made to 911 to report her granddaughter missing. she told officers casey's car smelled like a dead corpse. >> steve martin reportedly swindled in what's believed to be germany's biggest art forgery scandal ever. a painting he bought for $850,000 now said to be a fake! >> what? >> it was reportedly made by a group of scammers arrested late last year. but before anyone figured out it was worthless, martin sold it. >> he would have paid $850,000 for the original of that? >> i guess so. look at -- wow, he got $250,000 less than what he bought it for. >> that was not a good trade. >> ok, this is not the sound that you want to hear outside of a kindergarten class. [gunshots] >> while the gun battle raged outside the classroom, the teacher in mexico sings to students. to calm them down. you can hear her singing the song from "barney." >> the teacher is now being hailed a hero for keeping her students safe and calm. five gang members were killed in the shootout. no one inside the school was hurt. >> that is some quick thinking. good for her! meanwhile, let's take a look at the weather ahead on this tuesday, it sure feels like a monday with the sports animation there. widely scattered thunderstorms as you can see right now moving through the kansas city, missouri, the st. joe area up through portions of southwestern iowa. going to be moving through des moines shortly and we have a line of thunderstorms in north central north dakota at this hour. the balance of the country is nice and dry on this tuesday and as you head out the door, if you're still going to school or heading to work and you're in raleigh, right now, you have 71 degrees. look at that. 74 already in new york and in cleveland as well. you scramble the numbers, you've got what caribou, maine has right now at 47. 70's along the gulf coast. it's almost 80 already in san antonio and 67 currently in kansas city. later on today, in k.c. they'll crank it up 10 degrees to 86. that will be the daytime high. 90's, approaching 100 in west texas. el paso clocking in at 97. look at that. phoenix almost cracking the century mark later on today. it should be 98 in raleigh-durham as well. 93 in atlanta. make that hotlanta and the northern plains, temperatures in the 60's and 70's. and that's your fox travelcast. now over to mr. sportscaster. >> by the way, no one complained who lived on the east coast, nobody complain about the hot in the summer. ok? please. we're learning more about the resignation of the ohio state football coach who stepped down amid a growing scandal involving an investigation on his program. the columbia dispatch reports the buck eyes athletic director encouraged him to step down in a meeting over the weekend. he is scheduled to go before the ncaa rules committee in all this over allegations he lied to him. he reportedly denied knowledge of any player violations. we found out that's incorrect. former ohio state lineman will be the interim head coach for the upcoming season. nba finals begin tonight in miami. compelling matchup as they take on dirk nowitski who claims to be germany and dallas mavericks. they held final practices yesterday. most of the attention will be on james to see if he can deliver a championship in the first year in miami and there's questions about dwayne wade's shoulder but they insist he'll be ready to go and that's a quick look at what's happening in the world of sports. coming up on the radio, jennifer will be upstairs for a whole hour. he wrote the book "war" and coming fresh off a situation libya where he lost his best friend in the firefight. >> that's right. all right. 19 minutes before the top of the hour on this tuesday, first it was medical supplies turning up short. now doctors admit they're delaying treatment. who or what is to blame? dr. marc siegel is reporting for duty next. >> and texas bans patdowns at the airports. the feds say they'll ban the flights in and out of texas. so can d.c. really shut down a state airport? judge napolitano is here with his thoughts. >> he loves the doors, by the way, judge napolitano. >> who doesn't? 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>> it's actually a form of rationing. it worries me. as i write in my book, you need one-on-one medical care in order to make people better and hospitals have a tremendous shortage of the most important medications, intravenous, antibiotics, chemotherapy, medications for cardiac arrest to bring people back. few reasons for that. number one, they're generic, they're not making a lot of money off this, the drug companies. number two, there's an arduous process to sterilize the drugs and number three, our military, rightly so, takes off the top, you know, the ones that are first and foremost. heparin, intravenous, antibiotics, they have to go overseas first. >> can anything be done to change the trend of having a shortage? >> i'm thinking that doctors need to play a strong role here. we're moving in the direction of government-controlled rationing and again, as i write, it has to be a patient by patient basis. in my book, i have patients that survive from comas, one because this family is saying this patient has to survive. in another case, it's the nurses and doctors that say so. i worry in the future if there's a shortage of medications patients like that will have the plug pulled on them. >> can the f.d.a. say listen, there's not enough of medicine x? we need to make more. can they mandate that? >> absolutely. that's more money flooding in from the government in order to subsidize that because the drug companies can't be forced to do it. another example of obama care cost you costing us a fortune. i have a cancer patient that lived with it for 10 years. chemotherapy is in the big shortages today because it doesn't make money for the drug companies. they spend a billion dollars in research and development in order to keep going, they have to keep the drugs they're pushing out front, the brand name drugs. >> what can physicians like yourself do in this whole battle? anything? >> one thing we're doing right now, we need to call attention to this. that basically it's got to be a better climate for generic drugs to stay in business. number two, we have to develop a reason, an ability to tell one patient from the next. who is going to survive? it's the art of medicine. who is not going to survive? who am i wasting this medication on and who am i not? patients themselves have to be up front about this and family members. is this someone we're putting medications in that we can help? we have to be able to save these medicines for people that we can help. >> if you want to hear about hope and times in which things go beyond science, read dr. siegel's book called "the inner pulse" on locking the secret code of sickness and health. thank you, dr. siegel for joining us. >> the art of medicine. thanks, brian, thanks, gretchen. >> thanks. congresswoman michelle bachmann is taking new hampshire by storm giving strong hints at a white house run. will she jump into the race? she's here live with us next hour to answer that question. >> hopefully a few more. the federal government taking on texas? threatened to cancel flights if texans ban tsa patdowns but can they really do that? we'll ask the judge and then he'll answer loudly. 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i don't kn i know what you're giggling about. the law of texas already prohibits the unconsented touching of someone's parts, that has the effect of degrading the -- >> what's going on there is -- >> what you're seeing there is absolutely lawful and the legislature and the governor of texas are not trying to stop the tsa from doing their job. they're not trying to stop them from the patdowns. they're only trying to stop them from patdowns that go too far which is already against texas law. >> uh-huh. so you say that it is already against texas law so why doesn't the governor just start arresting the tsa guys that cross the line? >> in my view, the governor could arrest them right now on the basis of already existing texas law. but to give these guys the tsa people and actually it's not the tsa people at the airport that are the target here, it's the people that tell them to do this. >> when you have this debate before, see, i feel sorry for the workers. >> i do as well. >> that need to bring a paycheck home and they're being told the way in which to do these kinds of checks. whose fault? if you're against it, who should you be going after? > >> you should be going to the head of the tsa. they are the ones that have authorized this sexual touching which the governor of texas could arrest people, any governor could arrest anyone for doing this. there's no exception in the statute for federal officials. >> what if a terrorist has a weapon in their crotch? >> well, then you have to find it by some means without touching private parts. >> what's that in your crotch? >> excuse me? >> no terrorist, no one has been stopped with a weapon in their body since they've been doing this. no one has been stopped with a razor blade in their body since they've been doing this. the governor of texas is not in favor and the legislature in texas are not in favor of people going through with weapons in them. they are opposed to the unconsented to touching of children. >> and i understand that part as a parent but let me -- let me get to this point. can the federal government now say we're not going to have any flights go in and out of texas if, in fact, you do not allow patdowns? >> no and anybody makes that kind of a threat should be arrested for extortion for threatening the people of the state. >> a lot of people are going to get arrested in texas. look, you have the right to travel. >> you have the right to travel under the constitution and the airlines have the right to offer you travel and the government has the right to make sure travel is safe. but it doesn't have the right to stop all the travel because they're not permitted to touch your private parts. >> "freedom watch" is coming up at what time? >> freedom watch is always on at 8:00 in the evening. you're probably already asleep! tonight, we are watching the debt ceiling vote and keeping republicans' feet to the fire who promised they'd vote against raising debt ceiling. >> thank you very much. >> i got to go>> you are in a rush now? >> no, joel is saying we have to go. did you know that a local bread could seriously harm your child? the safety mom is here with some surprise dangers that every parent needs to hear about. >> and her late husband fought in the korean war and vietnam. her brother was in the army. her nephew served in afghanistan and she herself served in the marines. why she being told to take down that flag? 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>> a political one-two punch. two female g.o.p. candidates considering running for president? how sarah palin and michelle bachmann could shake up the entire 2012 race. >> meanwhile, a pharmacist called a hero for fighting off two robbers so how did walgreens honor him? >> brian, you're fired! >> who knew his name was brian? >> i have no idea. >> "fox & friends" hour two for a tuesday starts right now. >> how come steve gets sound effects in his cold open? stuck with my voice. >> you're fired. >> no kidding. >> we worship you. >> between we worship you and you're fired, i can -- >> how about brian's song? >> can we do that? remember they run at the end. gale sayers and brian piccolo are running together. >> if we can have that. >> that's -- >> think about how soad a year that was. people cried in front of the tv. >> thanks for bringing down the room, brian. >> i don't know if i miss the lion or the running back. >> i'll take the running back on that one. hope you had a great holiday weekend. we're off and running with your headlines. two weeks after dominique strauss-khan is arrested, we have another shocking arrest to tell you about. while you were sleeping, police busted another former international bank exec for allegedly sexually assaulting a maid inside her luxury hotel room in new york city. he is the former head of egypt's bank of alexandria and accused of attacking the maid when they delivered a box of tissues to his room at the pierre hotel. you got to wonder how much of this stuff is going on. afghan president hamid karzai speaking out now condemning nato air strikes on home. this after a bungled air strike over the weekend killed at least nine civilians including women and children. >> if it is repeated, afghanistan has a lot of ways of stopping it. but we don't want to go there. we want to -- we want nato to stop on its own. >> nato says it will review its procedures now. it's also unclear if karzai has the power to order an end to the strikes since nato and u.s. forces are in afghanistan under a united nations mandate. people across the country feeling hot, hot, hot. the national weather service issuing another heat advisory today. people in new jersey where the temperatures hit the 80's headed to the beach for some relief. mercury reaching the upper 80's in chicago. of course, a police there shut down the beach after eight people had to be treated for sun-related illnesses. a woman in tampa, florida, says she's being told to take down her american flag. lilian delverchio comes from a military family. her husband served in korea and vietnam. her brother was in the army. now, she claims her home owners association won't allow her american flag to hang past memorial day. for a woman who once served as a marine secretary, she says something isn't right. >> they should be proud and able to fly this flag every single day. wa not just on holidays. >> the home owners association denies ever telling her to actually take down the flag. we reported on tons of those stories here on "fox & friends." it's happening across the country, folks. >> yep. all right, what's happening across the country this summer, sarah palin is in a bus. will she be coming to your town? don't know. we'll talk about her in a moment. but first, all eyes are now on that man, chris christie, in particular a group of businessmen from iowa because they've heard him say this so many times but they think they can change his mind. remember this? >> have a chance to use it because i won't be republican candidate for president or vice president in 2012. that's something they'll have tout approximato put in the circular file. >> what do i have to do short of suicide to convince people i'm not running? >> even though the governor says i'm not that interested, i'll have you over for dinner at the governor's mansion and we'll go over there. one of the people there is bruce rastetller, a prolific contributor to the g.o.p. campaign. he specializes in hogs and ethanol. who would think that in iowa? meanwhile, steve forbes on the iowa race. i think there will be others in the race even though they don't know it today. you're looking at an incomplete field. >> that's the case because there really is not a deadline set so far. i mean, you could argue that you need to put together your campaign relatively soon because all the good advisors will be taken up and the most important thing is you need to raise a lot of dough to be able to run for president. do you think that chris christie should run, would the democrats then look at him as the ultimate flip-flopper if he changes his mind? we asked you that question earlier and ginger from ohio says i think if he does run after saying he wouldn't do so many times he would lose his credibility before even starting. that would put fuel on the fire. >> meanwhile, deb in hi home state of kansas says i hope christie changes his mind about running. he could wait until october 2012 to jump in and still win. >> and mary says this only with a much higher voice. the perfect ticket would be huckabee-christie. unfortunately, neither are running. >> couple of tweets, would love to see christie run. he would definitely heat up the lukewarm g.o.p. field. >> thanks, linus. >> all the other people that have said they're considering running, it's a slam to them when there's so much pressure to get chris christie to run. really, if you're somebody like michelle bachmann, the congresswoman from minnesota coming up on our show 25 minutes from now or tim pawlenty, the former governor of minnesota or mitt romney or herman cain, you're saying, wait a minute, i'm special. there's this feeling out there that the g.o.p. is waiting for somebody else to get into the race. >> even though there are plenty of people who are completely qualified and you do hear a lot of -- some people on the mainstream media say that. i've talked to people on the street who say i like the candidates that are running on the republican side. >> if you keep talking to people on the streets, they are going to start walking away. can i walk down the street without doocy asking a question? listen, you want to know whether or not michelle bachmann is running for president. she sounded that way when she was in new hampshire yesterday. listen to this. >> country needs to have a new president undoubtedly and we need to have a strong, bold constitutional conservative. someone who is committed to repealing the government takeover of health care. i am committed to that effort. but i'm also committed to american made jobs. that will be my focus. >> she's in. she's going to be in. >> she's going to be in waterloo, iowa, the place where she was born in june and she says that's where she'll make her announcement, yea or nay but she's going to be on our show in 23 minutes from now. so we'll ask her that question and a bunch more. >> you know, we would get quite an exclusive if we could get her to declare this morning on the program. >> we would. >> i'll play the good cop and you play the bad cop. you don't want to announce now, steve. >> why would you want that? >> that's a great idea. >> a lot of people tried to do that with sarah palin over the weekend. sort of unannounced she went on this big bus tour that she says is to highlight the constitution and america and not to campaign for president but is it a test run? is it a test run to get out in front of the public and not have any scheduled events and create a lot of mystery and rumors and see exactly how the american people respond to her so then she makes a decision ultimately? >> well, real clear politics is saying just that. that it is a test run and she's trying to figure out whether or not a large family her size logistically could be out on the road running for president. also, whether or not she could execute "a decidely unconventional campaign game plan." look at the size of that bus. that's a big bus. >> cheryl partridge is jealous. >> nervous mother driving. nervous candidate driving? no, she says she's not a candidate and it's not a campaign bus. here she is with greta. >> i've said from the beginning, this isn't a campaign tour except to campaign on our constitution, our charters of liberty and it's not about me. it's not a publicity seeking tour. it's about highlighting the great things about america. >> that might be true but you cannot say this is not a publicity seeking tour when you have a bus that size, that flamboyant with a camera crew on board. >> she's not telling people ahead of time where she's going. she showed up in mount vernon and showed up at fort mchenry yesterday. >> that's quintessential palin to begin with. everything she's ever done in politics at least in the last four years is unconventional. >> if she wanted publicity, she said i'll be at gettysburg at 12:30. >> this gives her more publicity because the media goes into hysteria trying to figure out where she's going to be. you had a bunch of reporters waiting for her at a site for seven hours yesterday and she didn't come to that site. >> they said rudy giuliani is the most possible vote getter on the g.o.p. side and she's tied with mitt romney with 13% of the vote is governor palin. maybe that would convince her. >> as the governor was coming off her bus, everywhere she's gone, people have asked her whether or not she's going to run and can she defeat the current president in 2012? watch this. >> you think you can beat obama in 2012? >> sarah? >> oh, i think that any republican candidate is very, very electable. i think americans are ready for true change. change to get our country back on the right track. >> are you going to run? >> you know what, we're still kind of contemplating that. >> so she's still being coy on that. but let me -- let's just say this. if that bus goes to iowa, i think we're pretty clear that -->> it's a coincidence. >> it's beautiful this time of year. >> they got a very large gas tank. >> exactly. >> could be coming to your town. could be there today. we don't know where she's at. >> all right. she'll be on greta's show again tonight. catch that on the fox newschannel tonight at 10:00 a.m. >> what an exclusive for greta. they demanded an immediate vote to extend the nation's debt and republican congressman will help make that happen today. why? will their attempt work? congressman is here next. is it chavitz or chavitz? >> environmentalists are claiming victory forcing schools to ban that lesson on frog dissection. wait until you hear what kids will learn instead and how much it's going to cost. >> ribbitt. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where you don't back down from a challenge. this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. so, why would you let something like erectile dysfunction get in your way? 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>> well, i think it's important. president obama, secretary geitner, harry reid, house democrats have all said let's have a clean vote on the debt ceiling. great, let's have that clean vote. i think what we're going to find is there's broad bipartisan support for not raising debt ceiling without major systemic changes so in part, it's calling their bluff and saying let's vote it on that way. there's those of us that say we must make changes. >> here's what one of your colleagues said out of vermont. he's democrat. he said i'll support it but it's transparently a political maneuver. what his maneuver is about is playing politics with the debt limit. are you kind of saying that as well? >> no, i think what we are saying actually to the bond market, to people who buy our debt that u.s. national debt is that we are going to make some major changes. i think it's actually going to give them reassurance. it will say, hey, look, we're not going to keep adding to the debt without actually cutting spending. when they see us come back later without major systemic changes to the way we spend money, it will give them reassurance in the marketplace. it's what they ask for and we're giving it to them. >> you would agree to raising the debt limit if there's substantial cuts on the other side. you're somewhat frustrated by the lack of negotiating on both ends, correct? >> there haven't been many discussions. what we should be telling about is the balanced budget amend many. a lot of people believe that the congress has no desire over the course of time to actually make cuts and live within its means so balanced budget amendment, adoption of the republican budget would be a good start. there are other things we can do. without making those changes, why should we keep adding to the nation's credit card? we can't keep doing that. >> here's senator mitch mcconnell sunday over the weekend on what this would mean. >> we're going to discuss what ought to be done. i can assure you, david, to get my vote to raise the debt ceiling for whatever debt is worth, one vote, medicare will be a part of it. >> so there you go. that's something that has to be brought along. for you, too, congressman? >> well, i think i can tell you tackle entitlement reform and then you're not actually going to seriously curb back what we need to curb back so yes, we need to be talking about, that we ought to be talking about social security and we got to talk about a lot of different things and i think we are hopefully showing the american people that at least on the house republican side, we have the courage to actually talk about entitlement reform. >> congressman, do you get the sense that the president more willing to talk than the democratic led senate is? >> i hope so. we need everybody to come to the table in order to make this thing happen because we're paying more than $600 million a day just in interest on this debt. we can't keep doing this and there are a lot of us that believe this is one of the -- may be the single biggest threat to the united states as our financial instability and our inability to reign in spending. >> prediction on the number of votes we'll see? how is this going to break? >> well, i don't know. the vote will happen about 6:30 p.m. eastern tonight and i think what we will see is bipartisan support in opposition to unilaterally raising more than $2 trillion on the debt limit. i think that's the way it will go down. >> congressman jason chavitz, you talk, they listen. we'll see the vote. thank for joining us and giving us the inside story. >> thanks, brian. >> straight ahead be they're the dangers that you didn't see coming. how a child can get hurt by a loaf of bread. the safety mom is here next with big surprises and then michelle bachmann is taking the east coast by storm. will she run for president? 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why aren't they? when i was studying up for this and i saw visine, i said why would that be problematic? >> exactly. there's a couple of things, visine, baby oil, all items like that in your pantry and in the medicine cabinet, it's toxic. it reduces the capillaries. very dangerous. on top of which the cap, the cap is a choking hazard. baby oil, same thing. if they ingest, it goes in the lungs and that could cause them to die over a week. you're not even going to know. so really, you got to think of those cabinet things in the bathroom. hand sanitizer gel, all of those things, toxic to kids. >> he especially with the lids. how many people have peanut butter sandwich on white bread all the time? >> white bread will coagulate, that's what happens to kids. choking hazard. a lot of parents don't know that. give them whole wheat bread. much healthier anyhow. >> balloons we have the fear that the popping noise is going to scare our kids and we know the latex can cause suffocation. >> that's right. it's not just from popping but if they're trying to blow it up and they inhale, they can actually inhale the balloon and it will cover the esophagus and suffocation. get them out of the house. >> sure. so many parents have baby monitors because you want to keep an ear on junior. the problem is not the baby monitor but the cord. >> that's right. i talk about how you need to set up your nursery. keep the monitors away from the crib. keep it away from windows. all cords, they can reach up, grab the cords and choke themselves so make sure when you put your crib in the room, keep the monitors away and keep it away from windows with cord lines. >> quickly, speaking of sids, the parents should not have bumpers around their crib. >> bumpers are not needed. nothing should be in the crib. no stuffed animals, pillows. keep it out. >> there was a case here in the new york city area about a little kid drowning in a bucket of water. >> yeah, you know, most people say to me, how could they drown in water? toddlers can drown in less than 2 inches of water. if you're cleaning your house, cleaning your car, empty out that bucket immediately. 2 inches of water. that's why you need toilet locks on your toilets. i talk about that in my book, too. will they really climb in? yes, they will. >> drowning is silent. even if you're in the other room, you wouldn't hear it. >> that's right. if your child is missing for a moment, make sure you look if you have a pool. don't take a chance. >> all right. something else, parents should think about doing and that is first of all, you say a lot of parents have the idea i have to be perfect in each and every day. kick that idea to the curb. >> i wrote about a blog about the empty mother's day. i can't bake a cupcake to save my life. we're all great parents and we're all going to make mistakes. it's ok. exactly. my kids love the store bought cupcakes. they've gotten used to it. >> they like the sprinkles better in my family. makes me feel less guilty. alisyn rhodes, thanks so much for these much needed tips. some of these things we forget about. >> thank you. >> thanks, gretch. thanks, steve. meanwhile, he's brave and now unemployed. the hero pharmacist who fought off two robbers isn't getting rewards, he's getting fired. is that right? 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i can still smell it. >> right. >> frog surgeon. >> yeah, indeed. meanwhile, take a look. we got some widely scattered thunderstorms moving through the northern and central plains at this hour. moving into the des moines area and moving out of the kansas city area heading to the east. eastern third of the united states, a little rain currently in portions of northern california and also oregon and washington state. current temperatures as you step out the door on this tuesday, it's already room temperature. 72 in atlanta. it's warmer than that out at laguardia airport here in new york city. it's 74. warmer than that in cleveland, ohio. which has the same temperature currently as chicago. 70's also along much of texas and florida as well. later on today, we're going to get really close to cracking the century mark. it should hit 99 in phoenix. 98 in raleigh-durham in north carolina. also, mid to upper 90's across the gulf coast states. 94 in tampa. the chilly spot on this map is in the pacific northwest. seattle should clock in later this afternoon at 62 degrees. and that's your weather. >> our next guest spent memorial day in the all important political state of new hampshire. >> she has not officially tossed her hat into the ring yet for the 2012 presidential race but -- >> with us live from the granite state, congresswoman michelle bachmann. good morning to you. >> good morning, gretchen. >> i know in june, you're going to go back to the city or the town where you were born, waterloo, iowa, and making the big announcement. it's looking like you're heading in the direction this is going to be a go in running for president. >> we'll let you know next month officially but we had a wonderful response in new hampshire. we were here since sunday and i was yesterday in franklin, dover, in northampton. we had a wonderful time. i'll be in concord again today so the reception has been just astounding from people so we look forward to going back to iowa and south carolina as well. >> sure. we have a vast viewing audience right now. they're all wondering, you know, if she's going to run, why doesn't she just say it today? so if there's anything you'd like to say today,the floor is yours. >> thank you very much. i love to watch "fox & friends" and i think all of you do a wonderful job and i invite you all to watch me when i go to waterloo, iowa for the big announcement. >> so you will declare on that day. >> well, you'll know either way what the decision will be. >> right. >> you're very good, though. >> by the way, i thoroughly back up your proposal to endorse "fox & friends." it seems like a great show and it's enjoyable to watch and be on. let's talk about what happened over the weekend. what happened this past weekend, governor palin hopped on a bus and said i'm going to visit historic sites in american history but not going to tell the press where to go. what's your rakz by the fact that she's seriously considering running for president? >> well, i think it's great. i think the more candidates that are in the race, the better. i have no doubt that republicans will field a wide, well qualified bench to go against barack obama in 2012. we have to have a change. barack obama has to be a one term president. so i'm very excited. because the more we can we can talk about the issues and all that's been happening in our country, the more i think people will be excited and we'll be showing up at the polls so we can have a change. >> the interesting thing, congresswoman is there's sort of been this reaction in the last couple of weeks with those who look to be in the g.o.p. field including yourself some people keep saying we're waiting for somebody else to jump in. this is not going to be the final list and now u these wealthy people coming to pay a visit to governor chris christie in new jersey trying to convince him to get into the race. how do you feel as a potential candidate knowing that others continue to look elsewhere? >> well, i think that's very -- that's very reasonable that people will continue to look. i don't think that's unusual. i think governor chris christie is a very exciting candidate. i met him. i like him a lot. i can see people -- why people would do that. i think the more that they hear from the candidates that are running, at some point, people will make their decision. there's always a dream team. always a dream ticket so that certainly is understandable. >> congresswoman, what is it about former governor sarah palin that drives so many members of the mainstream media just bonkers? >> well, i don't know if you're asking the right person. i will tell you, i like sarah palin a lot. i consider her a friend. and i think it's great if she can garner attention on her bus tour especially if she's pointing to our early american fights, gettysburg and the sites she's going to. i think there's nothing wrong with that. that's all good. >> listen to the difference between you two. i know she campaigned for you when you were running for re-election, when you talk to her and you hung out away from the cameras, where do you differ? >> the real comparison that i make is with barack obama and myself, and i think that's a very positive comparison. i am completely different than president barack obama. i created and ran a successful business, i'm a federal tax litigation attorney. i've handled hundreds of cases. i've raised our five children together with my husband for 23 years, we have a wide birth of experience that i can bring to this and that's the comparison that i make because after all, that's what's going to count in 2012. who will be the candidate that will create american made jobs and who can turn the economy around. the president has fail much that's what i intend to do. >> the interesting thing, though, is a lot of people and maybe when it gets down to the debate, that's when members of the g.o.p. field will start being more critical of other people that are in their own party. i think the interesting thing is people see you and sarah palin as sort of appealing to the same group of voters. would you at least agree with that assessment? >> well, that could certainly be. and i would leave that to the pundits. all i know is that i've been concentrating on my work in washington, d.c. as the member of congress. especially in regard to the debt ceiling. this is a big issue and people that i'm talking to all across the country are telling me, michelle, do not raise the debt ceiling limit. and i think we need to listen to the people. we have to stop borrowing and then we have to prioritize our spending. we can't go along with this failed policy of fantasy economics anymore. not if we want to turn our country around and be the number one economy in the world. that's what we have to do and i think that's a very powerful discussion. >> are you somebody that's going to back off from paul ryan's plan to reform and preserve medicare and medicaid? because of what happened in new york in that race in buffalo where the upset happened because they claim, because of the ryan medicare and medicaid plan, his path to prosperity? >> i voted for paul ryan's plan. he's right, we have to save and keep solvent medicare. what's the alternative? it goes into bankruptcy. paul is exactly right. the asterisk i put on that level of support are two things. number one, i want everyone to know this is the 55 and under plan. no one 55 years of age or older will be touched in anyway. the only reforms affect people 55 and younger. other thing is in midst of all the talk about facts and figures and insurance policies, we can't forget humanity. i want to see us focus on finding cures as well. cures for alzheimer's, cures for diseases that particularly deal with senior citizens, diabetes, for instance, that's what we need to do. just like we were able to eradicate polio, that's make that same type of effort for cancer and alzheimer's. that's an important area for us to concentrate as well. >> all right, michelle bachmann joining us from the granite state of new hampshire. we know you have a busy day. thank you for joining us live and we'll be watching next month in waterloo, iowa. the big announcement. >> come to waterloo! >> ok. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> coming up on show, a pharmacist saves his co-worker's life when armed robbers storm into the store in honor of his heroism, he's being fired. is that legal? is it right? we debate it next. >> and football star shooting from the hip this morning. he is playing pool for a great cause. why he's trading the football field for that pool table. can't play football right now. he can't tackle. 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[ female announcer ] hurry, join for free today. weight watchers online. finally, losing weight clicks. to read through his literacy charity. justin tuck is here live in the plaza and bought in a very expensive pool table. jason, you're playing some pool. allowed to talk about it, you're in the middle of a lockout so you can't play. i know you're in great shape. you were in alabama visiting the tornado victims because you went there. >> yeah. >> first thing's first. you picked a cause. you want to get kids to read, why? >> we think, you know, it's been documented literacy is the number one stumbling block for healthy educational background. so me and my wife was very passionate about kids and education so we felt as though that's where we can have the most umpff in our program and it's been working out pretty well for us. >> you've done this for three straight years. you have your tournaments coming up on thursday, right? >> yep. >> you've raised over a million dollars for this. >> we'll go over a million this year. >> why pool? >> you know, i'm not that good at golf. and, you know, you have all these celebrities here. you shoot one hole and that's the end of it. in my event, you can rub shoulders with every guy. every guy is on the same level. no vip or anything like that. all the same people. >> all right so break. let's go. >> i got to beat you on national tv. >> we'll see how many balls we can sink by the time we're done. >> super bowl title. and we're playing eight ball, right? >> you already read the table, huh? >> ok. that wasn't good. >> i did have a pool table as a kid. now, jhow tough is the lockout n you? it must be strange not working out with the giants right now. >> it is strange. you get accustomed to doing something one way. this year, everything has been very different so you just adjust and you try to make sure that when the lockout is over, you're ready to go. >> what's the latest thing they're telling you? >> oh! >> this didn't go so well. >> latest thing they're telling me is actually nothing. it's very quiet right now. >> all right. by the way, you went to alabama. you went to alabama and you saw the victims of the tornadoes. what was that like? >> i mean, it was devastating for me. growing up and having the opportunity to go to a lot of games there knowing the layout of the land, i guess, everything is completely different. i mean, places that we know that was there is no longer there. and it was just tough. having to go and talk with the kids, having to talk to the schools and do stuff like that, i mean, kids have lost everything they have. kids lost their families. that was very tough for me to see. >> you had a big event coming up on thursday. how do we find out more information, justin? >> justintuck.com, just go there and click on the charity page and find out everything you need to find out about what we're doing and what we're trying to do. >> yeah, and we also like to thank black billiards for the pool table and i wouldn't be surprised if it's here for the rest of the summer. come out, if you're in new york city and try to play justin tuck. >> you can see i'm getting hot right here. >> absolutely. i'm seeing it. always great seeing you. congratulations on everything coming up here and you went to notre dame and hopefully be back to work soon thursday night, great cause ooc. >> i hope you're a better polo player than pool. >> it's not over yet. keep going. >> straight ahead on this telecast, a pharmacist called a hero for fighting off two robbers. how did walgreens honor him? by saying, you're fired! but is that legal? the debate straight ahead. >> first, on this day in history in 1859, big ben went into operation in london. in 1927, the last ford model t rolled off the assembly line. and in 1965, the number one song, "help me rhonda" by the beach boys. funny thing about vegetables... they fill you up without filling you out. yes! v8 juice gives you three of your five daily servings of vegetables. that's what i'm talking about! v8. what's your number? now there's another way to support skin from within. introducing one a day women's plus healthy skin support. a complete multivitamin plus lutein and other anti-oxidants... to help support skin moisture, elasticity and smoothness. new from one a day. 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[ male announcer ] half aays worth of fer. not that anyone has to know. fiber beyond recognition. fiber one. >> gretchen: good morning, everyone. hope you had a great holiday weekend. now today is tuesday, may 31. i'm gretchen carlson. if he won't go iowa, iowa will come to him. big-time donors are headed for a sit-down with governor christie. can they woo him into the presidential field? >> steve: two female gop candidates now flirting with a run for president. will michelle bachman and sarah palin reshape the 2012 race? laura ingraham is here to weigh in in a matter of moments. >> brian: hundreds of students may not walk the stage because one kid complained. should the majority cave to the minority? we report. you decide. by the way, my clock says "fox & friends" starts right now. >> steve: your clock or your debt clock? >> brian: i have both. i have a keep clock and regular clock. look at this. look at the debt clock. today the house of representatives will either vote to yea or nay on raising the debt limit without any budget cuts. i think i know the direction that's going. >> gretchen: steve is at the white house for us. steve, this is expected to fail, right? interestingly enough, the vote will be 6:30 p.m. tonight? >> yeah. it will be after the markets close because they don't want the markets to panic after they see that we have not voted to raise the debt ceiling. because this is a big bad failure. it's not going to go anywhere. it's the administration's original plan to raise the debt ceiling as we've done every year for the past 14 years, or 14 times since 1996 without any fanfare. this time, a lot of fanfare. republicans don't want to see it rise without any significant budget reductions or deficit reductions. and a lot of democrats are going along with it. this will be the starting point for negotiations. joe biden has been dealing with a bipartisan group of six in the house and the senate to try to work out a compromise. is this will be a starting point going forward on what kind of compromise can be reached on cutting trillion dollars or more from the budget as a foundation or groundwork or down payment for actually getting a yea vote on raising the debt ceiling. back to you. >> steve: steve, they'll have this vote tonight at 6:30. it's going to go down to defeat. so tomorrow when the president has all the republicans in the white house behind you, they can say, hey, mr. president, your plan failed. >> well, that's right. of course, the administration originally wanted this idea, but raising the debt ceiling automatically as we've done. now we know that's not going to happen. joe biden involved in negotiations. these republicans, before they come and sit down with the president tomorrow, do want to make that statement and have the vote on the record and that's what's going to happen tonight after the markets close. 240 house republicans will meet with the president tomorrow here at the white house. the first time the whole group has met with the president since the 2010 election in which, of course, they seized the house, control of the house of representatives and then on thursday, we'll have the house democrats meet with the president. all 192 of them. back to you. >> gretchen: you're good at your math. he has all the numbers. the rest of your headlines. fox news alert. live pictures coming right now in from virginia where a tour bus overturned on i-95. police confirming at least four people have died in this crash. multiple injuries being reported. it careened off the road and flipped over, trapping passengers inside. all northbound lanes of i-95 are shut down at this hour. we'll continue to keep you updated as we get more information. two weeks after dominique strauss-kahn was arrested, another shocking arrest to tell you about. while you were sleeping, police busted another former international bank executive for allegedly sexually assaulting a maid inside his luxury hotel room here in new york city. he is the former head of egypt's bank of alexandria. he's accused of attacking the maid when she delivered tissues to his room at the pierre hotel. u.n. says 50 people are dead killed in heavy fight not guilty yemen. a brief cease fire collapsed. government troops attacked the home of a rival tribal leader. his followers struck back. this is not the sound you want to hear outside of a kindergarten classroom. a battle raged outside and the teacher sings to students. you can hear her singing the song from barney. ♪ she's being hailed a hero for keeping the students safe and calm. five gang members were killed in the shootout right outside the school. luckily no one inside the school was hurt. now it's time to bring in laura ingraham as we do every week, although it's not always on this day is it? >> what's today? is it tuesday? yes, it is tuesday. come on! i feel really sad now. >> steve: it's our tuesday girl, laura ingraham. >> gretchen: i'm sorry. i thought that kept it fresh. >> wait. weren't you hosting on the weekend last time i checked? >> brian: oh, that hurts. >> gretchen: thank you very much, i love saturdays and sundays. >> brian: i know you'll be talking on the radio about sarah palin. no one has been talking about her a lot of late. we thought we had a field filled out and now she's on a noncampaign, campaign tour through historical american sites. what do you make of this? >> i think it's kind of the best of both worlds for sarah palin because she gets enormous amount of media attention, she looks fantastic in that harley helmet the other day. >> brian: i noticed that. >> she's raising a lot of money. she knows how important it will be in these senate races. there are a lot of senate seats up and republicans have a big shot at taking the senate i think in 2012. she could be a real king maker and she doesn't have to suffer the slings and arrows as she would if she got into the race. i have no idea whether she'll get into the race. i have no personal knowledge. but right now it's a pretty good situation for her to be in. i think she looks like she's having a blast. >> steve: the huffington post refers to this as a wild goose chase. where she goes out and takes a look at a bunch of stuff. yesterday she was at fort mchenry and she was at mount vernon. there she is get -- i think that's at the national archives yesterday as well. this is driving the main stream media just bonkers. >> yeah. there is nothing that's more offensive to the old dinosaur media than someone actually visiting patriotic sites and actually looking like he or she enjoys it. so look, if ariana afghanistanton got on the bus, maybe aol would have more subscribes. she's a friend of mine. >> gretchen: sarah palin is being very coy about whether or not she's running for president. she's not out on this bus tour to raise money for senate races, is she? >> sarah is raking in huge amounts of money. if she doesn't run for president what, is she going to do with the money? i imagine she'll help governors, senators, and representatives in tight races or districts that they need to hold or make in roads in. i think it puts her in a fantastic position and keeps people busy talking. they'll talk more about palin than they'll talk about the fact that we're using more value in our homes across the country. a big story today about that. i think it's a win-win for her all the way around. >> brian: stuart varney talked about the housing continues to fall. the president played the 12th round of golf this year on memorial day. a lot of people are surprised by this. mark knoller of cbs says he's play not guilty virginia. his 70th golf outing as president. 18th at that place. last monday about this time, he was on his way to ireland to raise enough money to his irish heritage. cbs seems to be off -- >> gretchen: he tweeted that. >> you know what happened after i commented on this last week, okay? so we know what happened then. >> steve: oh, yeah! let her rip. >> it's memorial day and a lot of people do a lot of things. but i think we hope that our commander in chief does the fitting tributes and i think the president did one at arlington cemetery and his wife is doing a lot of military events. some people say it's politically timed and convenient. all i'm going to say is this, i think it would serve the country well if we had a national tutorial on the importance of remembering our troops every day and we played a lot of golf. maybe we could play a different day. is it surprising? not at all. the country unfortunately is taking a mulligan because the economy is doing really poorly. >> steve: speaking of the economy and millions and millions of dollars, so there is this town in arizona, they built the border fence. right? unfortunately, they're in nogales. apparently you can't see through it. so they're going to take it down and they're going to build a see through replacement for $12 million. >> it's extreme makeover, border fence edition. this thing -- we could kick the border fence over, which is what a lot of people do. they walk their dog, they commute in and out of the border fence. now we just want to have it be transparent so we can see the horrors on the other side of the border fence. the whole thing is ridiculous. there is no reason for it. we are capable of defending and protecting our own border and we do it once in a while. we've done a little bit of a better job over it in recent years. but this drives people crazy! we're the united states of america and we're messing around with what type of fencing we're using? >> gretchen: in playing devil's advocate, i think the argument is that the border agents say they can see what's going on on the other side of the border better if it's a clear fence. i'm just putting it out there. >> well, okay, devil. the response is, we're supposed to have all these drones flying back and forth. didn't janet napolitano do a tour on horseback and by aircraft? she's like, i'm roller blading it, i'm walking it, i'm running it. she's been getting a lot of exercise. she says things are much better. there is an area of commerce along the border and i say, yes, there is an area of commerce on the other side of the border, selling backpacks and water jugs. >> gretchen: just being fair and balanced. not being a devil. >> i know. i'm teasing. >> brian: i thought we were making a moat with alligators. >> i forgot about that. that actually worked well, i think. >> brian: i'm pro-moat. >> have is a good week. >> steve: laura ingraham joining us from the dc bureau. straight ahead, after months of silence, casey anthony could be taking the stand. but is this the right move for the defense? the judge joins us next to talk about that. >> gretchen: texas bans pat-downs at the airport, washington, d.c. plans to fight back by canceling flights. can they do that? we're reading your e-mails and tweets. >> gretchen: welcome back. a case that has america rivetted. casey anthony on trial for murdering her two-year-old daughter in florida. after a week of gripping testimony, questions being raised over whether casey herself should take the stand. alex is a former florida criminal court judge and current host of judge alex and he's my guest this morning. good morning to you. >> hi, gretchen. >> gretchen: many people, legal experts, including you, do you agree with the fact that she'll have to take the stand after those amazing claims in opening statements that she was abused by her father and her brother growing up? >> yes and no. yes, in order to make that defense, i don't see how else you can do it unless she takes the stand. no, because the defendant never has to take the stand. so they can say all kind of things and then she can just decline and refuse to testify. the problem is that if she does that, i think the prosecution would be well within its rights to ask the judge to preclude them from arguing accidental death when there is not a shred of evidence in the record that that's what happened. so in order to make the defense, yeah. >> gretchen: also what the claim was last week in opening statements was that the young two-year-old accidentally drowned and casey's father helped to cover that up. right? >> yeah. from a strategic standpoint, if it didn't really happen that way and i seriously doubt it happened that way, because i think there is a lot of problems with that defense, having her father find the body, which is what she alleges, is an out. if the prosecution is able to prove she didn't drown, she can say, i'm not the one who found the body, my father said he did. you mean my father killed her? that gives her a back door. they've got a lot of problems. >> gretchen: when they came out with those claims and they were so stunning in the opening statements, does the defense have to tell the prosecution that that's what they're going to say, so the prosecution -- >> absolutely not. no. let's face reality here. if she really drowned, why are you hearing it for the first time in opening statements? you would think that she'd be going, i'm being held on a potential death charge. she drowned. here is the other problem, they want you to believe that the father loves his daughter so much that when he finds his granddaughter dead, he drove the body away like it's a piece of garbage instead of calling the police instead of saying it was accidental. but when his daughter gets falsely accused of murder, he doesn't come forward and say, it was an accidental death? he let's his daughter face the death chamber? that doesn't make sense. >> gretchen: i know she ultimately could get the death penalty if convicted. but you do not believe that this jury would do that. why? >> first of all, because jurors are very hesitant to send women to the death chamber unless they're like warnos who was a serial killer. they don't like to do it. it's very difficult to get them to do it, and especially with a young attractive woman. i don't see it happening. secondly, they don't have a lot of aggravators. they've got cold calculated and premeditated and the child is the -- the victim is less than 12 years of old. ccp is a big one. it's not heinous and atrocious because of the theory from the state. i don't see the death penalty. >> gretchen: all right. we're seeing her mother right now in the video. she will take the stand when the trial resumes. judge, always good to talk with you and people can check their local listings for what time your show airs in their area. see you again time soon. >> thanks. >> gretchen: next on the rundown, the man with the crystal ball, why larry sabato says president obama is poised for a major scandal? and move over, the driving cat. >> gretchen: coming up, the rapping cat. >> gretchen: jelly fish put a sting in a memorial day weekend. 40 people were stung along the florida coast around cocoa beach, but no one seriously hurt. e.coli outbreak link to do cucumbers in europe, leaving another person dead. the death toll now 15. it started in germany. the suspected organic cue cucumbers were grown in spain. >> brian: 22 minutes after the hour. he promised hope and change, but is president obama heading toward a presidential cannedcal. >> steve: did you say scandal? >> brian: i did. our next guest says since watergate, the longest any president has gone without a major scandal is 34 months and president obama is slowly approaching that point. >> steve: the director of the university of virginia center for politics joins us live. good morning to you, larry. >> good morning. >> steve: so i saw on your web site, center for politics.or web site, you've got this paper published by a smart guy at the university of virginia and he has looked at the statistics and it shows that statistically, president obama is due for a scandal? >> yes, that's right. this young scholar, who will be at dartmouth in a month, put together i think a fascinating suggestion which is that presidents since watergate regularly have a scandal. own president bush went longer. he went 34 months without a front page scandal. that's how you define scandal. does it hit the front pages of the major newspapers? >> brian: and you're saying he went because many people thought the 9-11 story and the attack overwhelmed everything else and had us looking elsewhere. worried about afghanistan and other terrorist attacks? >> yes. i think that's one of the factors that's protected president obama. think in the last 2 1/2 years, think about all the big news stories, all the things that happened, the economic dislocation and war and osama bin laden and even mother nature, all of these things crowd out scandal stories. scandal stories tend to happen during slow news periods. i always say beware not the ides of march, often the summer doll drums. that's the greatest danger for a president. >> steve: sure. in fact, presidents reagan and bill clinton both suffered significant first term scandals as well. but here is something a little different, perhaps this time, larry, that is the fact that wouldn't you agree that the main stream media has been so supportive of this president, they might be reluctant, perhaps, to report on a scandal? >> i think that's also an explanation for why it hasn't happened. look, there are plenty of conservative media outlet and i think they would jump on something if they had the information. it may come from congressman issa, that may end up being the source of this information if and when it comes out. look, don't forget, the major news organizations, main stream media have been cut back dramatically. they don't have the kind of staff, the kind of investigative units they once did. i think that also affects the fact that there haven't been more scandals. >> brian: so far the republican field, how would you rate it? >> the republican field? it's better than the popular evaluation of it and i think eventually one of those candidates that's either in now or shortly will get in will be the nominee and you know what? people will adjust to that person, that individual will look a lot better than he or she does today. >> steve: all right. dr. sabato joining us from the university of virginia. thank you very much. they had graduation last week and now larry will probably go on a bus tour. >> brian: everybody else is. good job, professor. coming up, tornado clean-up gone to the circus? people upset they're using elephants to help with the recovery. >> steve: texas under fire from the feds. if the lone star state bans tsa pat-downs like that thing right there, the government will ban the planes from going to texas. we're reading your e-mails and tweets on this one. >> brian: wild horses on our plaza, along with the top ball player in the world. he says even i can play. >> steve: you're going to really get on a horse? >> brian: i have to play polo and get on a horse. >> steve: i've got to see this. stick around. >> brian: at least i'm dressed right. >> brian: welcome back. >> gretchen: contemplating the fact we're about to go outside and play polo and brian will get on a horse. >> brian: no one wants to talk to me about this segment. move over, city. now there is rapping kitty. ♪ >> brian: it's the video everyone is talking about. milo the cat raps about being a cat. it's become one of the latest youtube sensations. for the longest time we thought we knew what they think. they rap and they have a lot of complaints. >> steve: from fity to kitty. >> gretchen: i expected more out of that kitty rapper, to be honest. did the dog rap, too? >> steve: it looks like a rap off. >> brian: i don't have the background like i should have for this segment. >> steve: let's talk a little bit about this, we talked to the judge napolitano about this and apparently -- >> brian: you talked to two judges today. >> steve: we did. we've had a couple of judges. we're waiting for judge judy if she'll take our call. down in texas, some lawmakers want to ban the inappropriate pat-downs where you see stuff like this where guys are grabbing all over the place. that is specified. if it is inappropriate now, the people in texas say, maybe we should arrest those guys who do it even though they are mandated by their job, to perform it. >> brian: that's what the judge said. governor perry could start arresting people who are grabbing you in suggestive ways to make sure you're not armed. >> gretchen: wait a minute, i have to say this. i feel sorry for the tsa worker in any situation. they're doing their job. i don't think they love grabbing people in those places. so it's not their fault. it's the people on top who need to figure out to sort this mess out so they're not putting their workers in this predicament. >> steve: we got a whole bunch of responses off the twitter machine. here is one, texas is right on this one. at some point the states have to say enough is enough with all of the federal overloading. >> gretchen: this tweet as well, a minority is implemented, tsa and programs like it must be stopped. >> brian: we talked to florida because of this very issue of inappropriate touching. texas lawmakers should press charges against the tsa. >> steve: meanwhile, a final twitter, i am driving to texas, parking my car, and flying from there so tsa won't grope me. thank you, texas. >> gretchen: this e-mail from daniel in michigan, if it's so good, why don't the israelis do it? the problem in this country is it is politically correct. if profiling was allowed, you wouldn't need the searches. >> steve: thanks for all the e-mail and tweets. >> brian: more stories making news. >> steve: yep. former democratic presidential candidate john edwards could be indicted as early as tomorrow. that's according to cbs news. he's accused of violating campaign finance laws to cover up his affair with a campaign staffer. rielle hunter. edwards is reportedly thinking about a plea deal before the indictment. stand by. >> gretchen: a frantic search underway for a missing 12-year-old girl swept out to sea in new hampshire. rescue crews spent all night on the beach looking for her. witnesses say a sudden rip tide could be to blame. >> she kept floating away and then they were screaming and they were, like, both in trouble to come back in. but they got him first. >> gretchen: the cost guard searched from the air with helicopters. the girl's 20-year-old brother also swept out to sea, but he was pulled out alive. >> brian: it's a case for the pink panther. >> good day. i am inspector jacque. >> brian: swindled in what's believed to be germany's biggest art forgery scandal ever. a painting sold for $850,000 said to be a fake. reported by a group of scammers arrested last year. before anyone figured out it was worthless, he sold it for less than what he bought it for. >> brian: i don't like the picture at all anyway, even if it was real. >> steve: controversy in the state of missouri. circus elephants are helping clean up the debris from that devastating tornado in joplin. residents there torn on whether using the elephants is a good idea. >> i think that the circus people generally want to help, but i think this is a bad idea. >> it's a publicity stunt. they can throw up a big stunt and banner for that. >> sad they would put an animal threw it. >> if you're not appreciative and you don't live here, maybe you should go help somewhere elsewhere you're not going to sit here and complain. >> steve: wow, look at that. pulling that suv. the elephants brought in to help because they can move so much debris so quickly because of their size and strength. meanwhile, let's look at the day on this tuesday that sure feels like a monday. it feels like it's a big rainy day through portions of the northern missouri and mississippi valley. as you can see, a line of thunderstorms right now extending all the way from southern portions of minnesota down through iowa. looks like it's gone through the des moines area. at least the heaviest stuff lingers there. moving to the east, trails down through portions of missouri. across the eastern third of the united states, nice and dry for the most part. the southern half is as well. we've got some shower activity in northern california, also oregon and washington state. current temperatures, look at that, out in the rockies, 30s and 40s along the intermountain region. 50s and 60s across portions of the northeast. look at that, right now it is warmer in cleveland, ohio than it is in tampa, florida. and the mid- to upper 70s from big northeastern corridor cities. take a look, 91 degrees in cleveland and dallas. looks like it will be 98 in el paso. and in raleigh-durham, and probably 99 in phoenix, arizona. now it's time to go out to the horse with roy and dale. >> gretchen: roy and dale? >> roy rogers, dale evans? >> gretchen: this time last year, prince harry was showing off his polo skills. but it's hard to imagine hitting a teeny ball from the top of a big horse, sometimes going 35 miles per hour. >> brian: you got to be a great athlete, like the guy next to me. ignacio figueras is here to show us the technique for the big polo this sunday. >> sunday, everyone is invited. it's free admission. you take the ferry, we're doing the charity this year for a foundation that was started when the earthquake occurred. we're very excited about it. >> brian: how do you start playing polo? don't you need 25 guys and horses? >> it's four against four. so you need a horse per chucker, which are the periods that we play. so maybe four or five horses per player, more when you play polo at a higher level. >> gretchen: you need more horses than guys? >> you need more horses than guys because one guy will use four, five, six horses in a game. that's when you play at a high level. it's not -- you need to find a place where you can get on a horse and start hitting the ball. it's a fun thing to do with family and friends. >> gretchen: the problem is you need to know how to ride a horse. we're going to put brian on a horse. how many times have you been on a horse? >> brian: one time. this will be great. are you afraid i'm going to hurt your sport if i have trouble as the demonstrator? >> i think you'll be a great example. hopefully thousands of people will show up this weekend after your wonderful demonstration, people will come. >> gretchen: help him mount behind. is it okay to walk behind a horse? i was always told not to. >> brian: he says it's okay. >> gretchen: just do whatever he says, brian. the other interesting thing is that you can only use the malet with the right hand. is that right? >> this leg here. then here. grab from there. >> gretchen: oh, my gosh. nice mounting, brian. >> brian: this is an easy sport. all i need is a mallett. you can only play polo with your right. >> gretchen: why is that? >> because there is a whole thing about lines. think about it like a highway where you have the right of way. so everyone is coming with the ball this way. you keep the ball with this -- you hit the ball with this. more like that. you look good actually. >> brian: thank you very much. the male model is also the best polo player. >> gretchen: you don't mind if i stand here? >> you're going to hit the ball with this. >> brian: can i travel around? >> you have to lean. >> gretchen: oh, my gosh. even over, brian. you won't fall off. >> there you go. >> brian: i love it! this game is so easy! can i go? >> gretchen: are you going to leave now? bye. >> brian: i like this game. >> gretchen: brian's second time on a horse. woo hoo! >> brian: i need my mallity -- malet and my ball. >> steve: that was fantastic. you can actually hit the ball as long as the guy puts it exactly there and tells you to hit it. very nicely done. all right. straight ahead on our show on this tuesday, cancel the prayer or graduation is off? hundreds of students may not walk the stage because of one complaint. should that be the case? we're going to report. you will decide next. and it's being compared to "it's a wonderful life" with a touch of country. john schneider here live with a sneak peek at his new movie. hey, john. you're coming up shortly right here on "fox & friends." >> gretchen: welcome back. a couple quick headlines. new video of the shuttle endeavor, two astronauts finishing up their space versus earth chess match. the endeavor will land tomorrow at the kennedy space center in florida in the middle of the night, around 2:35 a.m. eastern. and a real life robbery with similarities to the movie "the town." armed man and woman dressed as nuns rob add bank near chicago. the suspects are still on the loose: steve? >> steve: thanks. graduation is a time for pomp and circumstance, but what about prayer? a school in texas has yanked a prayer from its high school graduation because one student's family objected. many students in medina high school are frustrated. >> we're supposed to be happy we're graduating and we're getting out and going to go do our own thing. now we're having to deal with this. >> it's unfair because we all want to do the prayer. that's what we usually do. >> steve: fox news legal analyst peter johnson, jr. is here. so peter, later today they'll have a hearing because a lawsuit has been filed by an organization that says you can't have any prayer in your -- >> americans united for separation of church ask state say they don't want to be subject to the coercion, almost a psychological coercion as the united states supreme court put it back in the '90s, of a prayer at a public school graduation. and this seems to be kind of the refrain every year around this time that we get this onslaught of lawsuits from organizations like this and the aclu trying to shut down any kind of nonsectarian prayer at any kind of public proceeding, whether it's a graduation or some other kind of public event. and clearly, it's done to the consternation to a lot of people in this nation who say, i'm not going to be coerced by hearing a simple invocation or call to god during a school graduation. how is that the government endorsing one religion over another? >> steve: i've been looking at the e-mail machine and a lot of people say, let me get this straight, so this time honored tradition of having a prayer at the ceremony will not be allowed because one family complained? >> correct. and you say this time honored tradition, you're kind of invoking the words of justice kaliya and other opinions where he points to the relationship of a call to a deity and the formation of this country. there have been some united states supreme court decisions that would disappoint a lot of americans who believe that there should be an opportunity for people individually, not state endorsed, not school endorsed, not city endorsed, to get up and make some statement in a public proceeding with regard to some religious belief. so what the school is saying here is we print this statement that any statements that are made by any speaker at this graduation are their own, they're not endorsed by the school district or the school in any way. >> steve: that seems fair, doesn't it? >> it does seem fair, but at the same time there are some supreme court decisions that point otherwise. the area is murky in a lot of ways. there are decisions that say you can't have a student-led prayer before football games, going back to a decision in 2000. and so it's got to be decided on a fact by fact specific basis. the facts are going to come out. >> steve: it would seem to me that if your child is one of the kids who is top of the class or something like that, asks to speak, that you can say anything you want to as a child, and if the school says you can't say this or that, isn't that censorship? >> in some ways, there is this clash in terms of the first amendment. do we protect or lose our first amendment speech rights in this zeal to insure that the government is not establishing religion or coercing people to believe one thing or another? the truth is, a lot of americans are upset about this because it is a long-standing american tradition to have a call to a deity during a prayer. we'll see what happens in this case. >> steve: having a hearing today. >> it's disturbing. >> steve: see you back here tomorrow. now i see gretchen in the green room. >> gretchen: we recovered from our polo match. so we want to go on to stunts like these. how could you forget these? john schmudeer giving up the general lee for a bus ticket. he's here next to explain. first, let's check in with bill hemmer for what's on at the top of the hour. did you see kilmeade on the horse? >> i did. >> gretchen: grade like between a and f? >> he didn't look comfortable. >> gretchen: no, he thought he was really good though. >> i'm sure. gretchen, good morning. the big debt ceiling vote is in the house today. how many democrats will join republicans? how do you dig out of a $15 trillion in debt? a stunning video from inside a classroom with gun fire outside, five dead. wait until you see and hear how the teacher reacted. it's remarkable. and the latest in warfare, smaller and lighter and incredible. see you in ten minutes right here. >> brian: he's going from duke to doneby. swapping his car for a bus ticket to small town texas in his brand-new film. >> gretchen: john schneider joins us live from los angeles. good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you. did you have a good weekend? >> gretchen: a fabulous weekend. like everyone else, we're back to working today. so tell us about do you knowby. 'cause i know it's an independent film. >> yeah. you have to get the buzz out early with an independent film because you don't have the, for example, $100 million they spent to promote pirates part 17. they have to get the word out early and generate a buzz. dune bee is a psychological thriller. they're not crazy about it when i say this, but it's kind of like "it's a wonderful life" without the wonderful part. yeah. it's got some twists and turns. it's a little dark. i love it. i really do love it. it was written and directed by a brit. >> brian: what attracted you to this? what sold you that i got to do this movie? >> the fact that i read a lot of scripts. i write a lot. but i couldn't figure this one out. it takes you along a road and turns you inside out and you don't see the twist coming. >> gretchen: all right. >> i like that. i'm a twilight zone fan. remember those old episodes? >> steve: we've got a snippet from the upcoming movie. here is where dunebee ditches questions about where he is from 'cause everybody in the town wants to know. >> name's sam. >> hi, sam. >> i thought there was a lot of action around the bar tonight. >> give me a shot. >> coming up. >> this is tony. amazing singer and lover. >> great. thank you. where are you from? >> here and there, around about. >> where? >> south mostly. >> big place the south. >> yes, it is. >> come on, tony, quit grilling him. >> steve: you're dodging it like you're running for president. >> yes, that's right. >> steve: where are you from? >> here and there, around abouts. >> gretchen: let me ask you this, john, 'cause last time you were on the curvy couch, you were doing something on broadway and you said you had this love for driving rv's. are you still doing that? >> i still do. except my rv is out promoting dunebee right now. it's got a picture of me on the side. especially when i get it back. i enjoy that. i got that from when -- i grew up in where we used to drive down in a trailer to florida every year. so the motor home is out there. we're going to try to run some sort of promotion. if you see the motor home, you call in and win a t-shirt or something. >> brian: so if you want a good message as opposed to the "hangover part 2", this is the movie. >> yeah, you can find it on-line >> gretchen: more "fox & friends" two minutes away. >> why don't you give me a little hint. yao . >> gretchen: it's that time of year. we want to thank you for making us the number one news channel in america. our fox unanimous night is june 17. e-mail us with yourl

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