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Steve the texas tenors just did that great song god bless the usa. What about lee greenwood, has he ever talked to you about that . Were friends with lee. We had dinner with him last week. Hes excited about us being on the show. He endorses our song and he loves it. Peter i think he would love that version. You were fantastic. Especially on this day. Steve thank you. Thank you. Steve stick around for the after the show show cause we want to talk about how much you guys do for the vets because we know thats been great. Peter god bless the usa. Steve god bless all of you for joining us today. Gretchen and brian will be back, anna and peter, thank you very much. Also tomorrow, Laura Ingraham joins us and we hope you do, too. So long, everybody. Anna bye. Bill Country Music world is mourning one of its troubled stars. Mindy mccready whose rise to fame was sidetracked by personal problems apparently taking her own life. She was only 37 years old. Good morning im bill hemmer. Welcome on a monday edition. President s day of a americas newsroom. Good to be here. She may have been young but leaves behind a legacy. Im in for martha today. Police are saying that mindy shot herself on the very same porch where her boyfriend had taken his own life. After rocketing to fame in the late 90s mccready was in and out of trouble for a decade, arrested multiple times. Doing stints in rehab for drugs and alcohol bill she told abc news back in 2011 that she was trying to get back on the road to redemption. I have vigorously gone out and tried to learn from my mistakes and tried to better myself every way possible. There is nobody that wants to be better at being me than me. Bill casey stiegel is live for us this morning. She had a lot of struggles at the end of her life, casey. Reporter bill, she did, struggles that really started and came to a head back in 2004 when she pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining the powerful prescription meld sin oxycontin. She was put on probation. She violated her probation after being arrested for drunk driving in florida. After being put on probation, her boyfriend severely beat her so badly she he was charged with attempted criminal homicide. She tried to take her life in 2005 and 2008. Mindy mccready was hospitalized in 2010 for a drug overdose. She did a stint on celebrity rehab with the dr. Drew, the tv show. She made apologies to her fans and judges throughout the years. Just want to say thanks for the continued support. My fans are unbelievable. They have sent me letters of encouragement that have truly been touching and just one more step getting all this over with so i can go back to being a singer and a mom and concentrating on things that are good for my life. Im sorry that i have to keep seeing all of you guys in court. I hope in the future i get to see you guys elsewhere performing or Something Like that. Reporter she took her own life in kleburn county, arkansas where she had been living. Coroner said she died from a single gunshot wound to her head. Disever coulded on the front porch of her home where her boyfriend died last month. Bill she had a public custody battle over her two children, casey. Reporter she did. In 2011 she took her oldest son away from her mother. Her mother was the boys legal guardian and fled with him to arkansas. Authorities took the boy back there. Last month her father told a judge that mccready was no longer taking care of herself or her two boys because of her substance abuse. And at that time, the two boys were taken away from her all together. And they were put into foster care and bill, obviously with two little oneses this tears your heart out even more. Bill indeed it does. Casey stiegel leading coverage from dallas. Casey. Jamie mccready shot to flame very quickly and sadly burned just as quick lift after arriving in nashville as a teenager in 1994 earning a recording contract just on strength of her karaoke tapes. In 1996 the single, 10,000 angels went double platinum. There were four top singles, including the number one hit, guys do it all the time. That was the same year mccready was nominated as top new female vocalist at the Country Music awards. News spread quickly on twitter with many country stars expressing condolences. Care reunderwood dweets, i grew up listening to Mindy Mccready. So sad for the family. Many prayers go out to them. John rich from big and rich. When i was in lone star she was our label mate and we were friends. A tragic end to a talented life. Leann rimes, my heart goes out to Mindy Mccreadys family. I knew her well. It is a horrible tragedy. May peace be with her sons. Especially the children after a troubled young life. Jamie she is with the angels she sung about. Meantime, fox news alert. There were thousands of protesters that flooded the National Mall and they are demanding that president obama reject the Keystone Xl Oil pipeline. Listen. What . Jamie organizer are saying this particular protest to remind the president of the pledge he made in his inaugural address to act on climate change. But the pipeline backers, they say it would create jobs and could bring down gas prices by transporting hundreds of thousands of fall license of oil per day from canada to refineries in texas. The protests come as aaa reports the price of a gallon of regular unleaded is now 3. 73, a 43 cent jump from just a month ago. Stuart varney is the host of Varney Company on the fox business network. Stu, good morning. How does the pipeline debate link in with those rising gas prices . Thats a very good question, jamie. Heres the story. The price of gas is going straight up. That slows the economy. That makes the job market worse. We need jobs obviously. If the president says yes, go ahead and build the pipeline, you do get jobs. So thats the connection between the pipeline debate, rising gas prices and jobs. Its not that building a pipeline would necessarily bring the price of gas down in the near term. It almost certainly would not. That if you build the pipeline you create jobs that make up for the slowing economy because of high gas prices. Circular argument but thats the way it is. Jamie the pushback clearly is in his campaign and inaugural speech he promised clean energy and greenfriendly jobs and this could potentially stop him from doing the pipeline. Well, i dont know about that but, you got to ask, why are gas prices going up right now . The answer has nothing to do with the pipeline. The answer is refineries with very tight supplies of gasoline coming onto the market, refineries are closing for maintenance and closing so that they can switch over to the summer blend of gasoline which we start using in a couple of weeks, a couple of months. That takes gas out of the system. That raises the price of gas. So the real question here is, is this gas price spike going to continue . And the answer is, in the near term yes it is because were changing our refinery runs. That is whats happening. It really hits folks in the pocketbook at a time of year, but unexpected to rise this much early in the year, isnt it . It is very different. Yes, a 43 cent rise at this time of year is very unusual because you dont normally get gas prices rising sharply until the spring and early summer. It has come early this time around and come big. Never before with very paid 3. 73 for a gallon of regular in midfebruary. By the average price of regular in california, 4. 16 a gallon right now and rising. Jamie that is huge. Yep. Not so much driving. Stu, have a great show. Thanks for joining us. Thank you, jamie. 4 clin 15 in suffolk county, new york, and it is climbing. Hawaii is seeing some of the highest price, averaging 4. 26 a gallon followed by california as stuart mentioned there. Some of the cheapest gas is found in montana and wyoming where a gallon of unleaded averages only 3. 18. Huge stuff. Jamie another fox news alert. There is an Al Qaeda Affiliated terror group that is claiming responsibility for a string of car bomb attacks weve seen in baghdad. Coordinated bombings killing at least 37 people and injuring many others. According to statements they posted online, the attack was retaliation against a shiiteled government for alleged crimes against sunni muslims. More than 100 people hurt in the homicide blasts. Bill we have a jampacked hour straight ahead. The white house leaking the plan for Immigration Reform. Why marco rubio says it is doa, it is dead on arrival and it does not help. Well debate that in a moment. Jamie . Jamie it also lit up the sky, sent a city into a panic. Check this out. Scientists say they have recovered the first fragments of the meteor that crashed into the planet but is that really what it was . Bill outrage high in the sky when a Airline Passenger is accused of slapping his toddler that wasnt even his own. Now the little boys mother is telling us why. His mouth was in my ear and he said it again, but even more hateful and he was in my face, so i pushed him away. That is when he slapped john. [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents are awesome. But when i cook up some beef, ketchup, relish and cheese, cover it with crescent dough and pow cheeseburger crescent casserole. Double awesome. Pillsbury crescents. Let the making begin. A body at rest tends to stay at rest. 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If actually proposed the president s bill would be dead on arrival in Congress Leaving Us with unsecured borders and a broken Legal Immigration system for years to come. What about this . Kirsten powers, columnist for the daily beast, Fox News Contributor. Tony sayegh is former press aide to vie president ial nominee jack kemp and. Good morning to both of you. Who is your favorite president . Well save it for later. Tony what is it going on here . Was it intentional leak . Is anything unintentional in washington. This is a intentional, bill. The president is outlyer in this debate where there is ton of bipartisan consensus in capitol hill at a time we dont have consensus on much. Comprehensive Immigration Reform is for a opportunity to score. I fear he is snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory. Marco rubio has a very tough job to sell a plan being endorsed as you saw in the press conference, senator menendez, senator schumer, among the most liberal. For the president , while senator rubio is trying to make the case to more conservative colleagues in the house, president float as parallel bill that frankly stops short of amnesty, if not is total amnesty does not help the effort to really pass bipartisan reform. It undermines it. It makes it difficult for Senate Democrats will have more liberal members saying wait a minute, the president s plan is much more appealing to us than yours, why should we compromise . I dont know why the president saw fit to really kind of confuse the situation when there is really bipartisan concensus. Bill let me bring in kirsten. I will get details why rubio will oppose it. Tony says youre snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Did you say it was like amnesty, the president s plan . The president s plan follows kennedy, mccain plan of 2007 which was amnesty. I thought i misheard you because it is not, saying it will take eight years to become a citizen is the about the fartherest thing i can think from amnesty. I support amnesty. There is nothing about this of amnesty in my mind. There wasnt amnesty in the kennedy bill either. I think the president gets criticized when he doesnt have a plan for health care. Now he gets criticized for having a backup plan for immigration. I dont think this is something that, not something he submitted or released or anything like that. I think it is good they have a plan in case it comes to that. Bill well the white house is saying that it is an incomplete draft. Obviously. Bill cbs news is reporting that it was not anmaed leak. Why compete. Bill i dont know about what unplanned leak is out there. Rubios problem says the idea on its face does not secure the borders number one. Which leads to a multitude of problems down the road and it creates a pathway for those who came here illegally first of all to jump ahead in the line who are awaiting legally from overseas. Tony. It runs potential someone here in undocumented fashion getting a green card quicker than someone who goes through the Legal Immigration process. Number one. Number two, the absolute nonnegative goshable variable for republicans is border security. President makes unsesfied promise he will dedicate resources to border security. This is 1954mile long border. It is very finite. It is a solveable problem. Republicans say lets secure the border so we dont have future ilLegal Immigration issues and solve the issue of current undocumented people in america right now by having a bipartisan bill. Why would we do it, why would the president s plan be necessary if we already have people agreeing . Bill does rubio have a point, kirsten . You have to secure the border first to prevent issues from coming back on you years down the road . Yeah. Obama done a pretty good job securing the border. I dont really, i dont really think that is the most important thing. I think it is more important to bring the people out of the shadows. I dont think it should take eight years for them to become a citizen. Bill when does he do it . Im for amnesty. I would do exactly what Ronald Reagan. Bill right now . Yeah. I would do exactly what Ronald Reagan did. What reagan did, didnt fix the problem. I dont, honestly understand what the complaint is here by republicans that the president is putting together a plan on the off chance that congress cant get something done. Congress has shown that theyre actually pretty bad at getting things done. So i think it is smart for the president to have something to, have a plan. This is not the final plan. So it is a draft plan. And i think it is a responsible thing for them to be doing. Bill first review was not favorable. I have to go. Thanks for coming in on a holiday. Doa was the operative acronym out of rubio and think that is the way this one is headed. More to come, tony, thank you, kirsten as well. 18 past the hour. Jamie has a bit more now. Jamie meanwhile senator rubios infamous waterdrinking moment to the republican response for state of the union it has become a unique opportunity for him, since taking that sip, senator rubio has sold 3,000 branded Water Bottles and raised one 100,000. They are available on line for anyone making a 25 donation to his Political Action committee. Bill that must be tasty water. Great placement. There is new details now on the murder charges against the blade runner. Why police are said to be reportedly want the sprinter to undergo blood tests for steroids. Also theres this. Oh . [sirens] jamie scientists found pieces of meteor that crashed into earth. Now there are people, as you can imagine, who are trying to cash in. 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The Scientists Say the rocks are a mix of iron, sulfite and other materials and theyre searching for bigger pieces of it. They will find it eventually. People are trying to sell what they claim are fragments on ebay, imagine that. 1200 people were injured when the meteor hit. Mostly from broken glass. Jamie pictures are incredible. There are some new twists and turns in a stunning murder case against South African sprinter oscar pistorius. Theres word now that the 26yearold olympic athlete will reportedly be tested for steroids after the banned substance was found at the house where he is accused of killing his girlfriend, here she is. Police say the 29 model was shot four times through, he claims, the bathroom door. Mark fuhrman is a former l. A. P. D. Homicide detective. Mark, great to see you this morning. Good morning. Thank you, jamie. Jamie mark, first of all, there had to be security cameras there. So say theres video that shows exactly what happens, what can you read into that to tell whether or not he thought it was a prowler or he knew his girlfriend was in there . Well, jamie in, i mean just on face value, and were not there to look at this, you have a very affluent neighborhood, a very rich resident that has admittedly Security Systems. He claims a burglar came in. There is no forced entry. I suspect there is no evidence of anybody outside the residence coming in on the Security System. Then he claims a burglar, he startles a burglar and the burglar hides in the bathroom. I have got some bad news for the suspect in this case. Burglars dont hide in the bathroom. When they are startled they get out of the house. Then he shoots through the door. It is ludicrous at best. Jamie also when you look at the evidence in the case, and we know she was shot many times, there was also a bloodied cricket stick. So the question is, how badly was she injured . Is it relevant when he called for help or didnt . Well, its very relevant. Now you can call for help and, its going to be very hard to bracket when the incident occurred and when he called for help. I mean it could have been immediately or it could have been 15, 20 minutes later because she was pronounced dead at the scene. You look at a bloodied cricket bat. She also had a fractured skull. Lets try to pace ourselves through this incident. Two or three hours before the police arrived, domestic disturbance. Everybody is drinking. That continues because the neighbors report that they hear voices and yelling coming from the residence. Then theres shots. Well, so what happens in the residence . We have a argument that escalates. Cricket bat is used. She is hit in the head. She has a fractured skull. She tries to hide in the bathroom. He shoots through the door. Jamie let me bring up they found steroids in the house and he is being tested it is being reported. If it is roid rage, lets say plays a role, how does that work for a prosecutor, how does that work for a defense . It doesnt work for a defense at all. It is not a diminished capacity because he is taking illegal drugs. If thats the case, they should have done a bloodalcohol because he was probably also drunk because there was heavy drinking going on. It is not a defense. You remember that theyre considering this a premeditated murder. Now premeditation can form in split seconds, but once he strikes her with the cricket bat, and then she leaves, now he forms that opinion of, im going to kill her by getting the gun and shooting through the door. So there is your premeditation. I think the defense will be hardpress to do anything except for keep him out of jail for the rest of his life. Jamie thats a big deal, if they up it to premeditation. So well keep an eye on it, mark. Great to have your wisdom on this with so many investigations under your belt. Thanks, mark. Thank you, jamie. Jamie bill . Bill there will be more headlines out of this tomorrow because he is back in court. Jamie he may make a statement as well. Bill yeah. So the White House Press corps is none too happy. They were shut out president obamas vacation and his golf game with tiger woods. This morning they are asking, the reporters who cover the man, what happened to the pledge of transparency . Jamie how about this, bill . This is so huge. History in the making at daytona. Danica patrick winning the top slot in the race, the first time for a woman. What does it mean for the support . [ slap ] [ male announcer ] your Favorite Foods fighting you . Fight back fast with tums. Calciumrich tums starts working so fast youll forget you h heartburn. Tum tum tum tum tums thats a good thing, but it doesnt cover everything. Only about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. So consider an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. 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There are reports of comments said to be made by Chuck Hague El adding to the controversy about his plan to become defense secretary. The latest is from a speech he gave at rutgers in university in 2007. That speech apparently not recorded but is reported as having said that the u. S. State department has become an adjunct of the Israeli Foreign ministry office. It was reported by george ajan. A former new Jersey Republican candidate and an international consultant. This morning he told fox news he attended the lecture and thinks hagel is expressing frustration with u. S. Mideast policy. I think at the time the comments reflect his frustration with the way the American Foreign policy was conducted in the middle east and i dont think they indicate some kind of unsuitability to be secretary of defense. I think he would have been is wiser to state it as he did on other occasions saying he could have good relations with israel and at the same time good relations with other countries but stay true and look out for americas interests first. Reporter ajyan blogged about the comments at the time but despite he supports hagels nomination. Bill what is the reaction were getting on capitol hill . Reporter senator Lindsey Graham opposes hagels nomination. He heard about the comments and wrote a letter to hagel on Fox News Sunday yesterday. Hagel responded but he does not remember making the remarks but he now disavows them. Gram has concerns about that and other comments. If the second statement were true he said that the secretary of States Office under the control of Israeli Foreign ministers. Those two together would show an edge and view of the israeliu. S. Relationship way out of the mainstream. Reporter graham said he will take hagel at his word. Bill . Bill eric sean, with news that is breaking this morning. Jamie . Jamie bill, thanks. New questions about transparency within the Obama Administration as the White House Press corps expressing frustration after being barred from the president s weekend bofl trip to florida. By an administration that once promise, you will recall, complete availablility to the American People. Heres the president in 2009. The way to make government responsible is to hold it accountable. And the way to make government accountable to make it transparent so that the American People can no exactly what decisions are being aid made, how theyre being made, and whether their interests are being wellserved. Let me say it as simply as i can. Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency. Jamie Jonah Goldberg is editoratlarge at the national review, a Fox News Contributor as well. Jonah, great to see you. Great to be here. Jamie what about it . Its a long holiday weekend. The president is on one vacation. The mrs. Obama and the girls are on another. We dont see a picture or hear much about what is going on . Im off reservation on this one. I dont really care where the president goes on vacation and all of that. And i think that, if he didnt have the issues of hypocrisy and double standards involved, i really, i couldnt care less about obama going off or even going on separate vacations from his wife or even going off and playing golf with tiger woods a week after he talked in the state of the union being how important it is to be a good father. So, i mean all those double standards and stuff are important. What bothers me i guess, here you have the press corps, including ed henry who does a great job of for fox, complaining about not getting a photoop with tiger woods. I would rarity them complain about lack of answers on benghazi or earth issues. Jamie this is what ed henry said on behalf of the white house correspondents association. I can say a broad crosssection of our members, from print, radio, online and tv today expressed extreme frustration to me about having absolutely no access to the president of the United States this entire weekend. Theres a very simple but important principle we will continue to fight for today and in the days ahead, transparency. That from ed henry. The question is, what if we want the as press to ask questions on benghazi or anything else and didnt have access to the president for the entire weekend by the administration not allowing it . Yeah. You know, i guess still my problem is, is that this strikes me more of the fact that it is such, sort of a Entertainment Television exciting thing that the guy was off playing golf with tiger woods. There are a lot, i think president s should be allowed to have the vacations they want to have. I think barack obama take as remarkably large number of vacations, far more than the press likes to talk about. I think the fact that, george w. Bush basically had to give up golf because of the appearance of impropriety, and the first president george bush was harassed constantly for golfing during a bad economy while barack obama is treated as if he is entirely entitled to go off and have these kinds of vacations. That doublestandard really bothers me. Jamie you said it yourself president should be able to go on a vacation. Jamie put the golf aside for a second. Sure. Jamie even if he were at camp david, you said yourself it is hip pock chris aand doublestandard. Right. Jamie what about we played one clip about transparency but there were many . I think barack obama set the standard for transparency in the same way bill clinton entered office say he would have the most Ethical Administration in history and he lived to regret saying that. I think it is ebb tirely fair to hold barack obama for the standards he set for himself. Setting a standard that doesnt let you take a threeday weekend to go on vacation when youre president of the United States is silly but if that is the standard he sets, that im in favor of. There is lot of opportunities to shout questions at United States. With the exception of fox news and couple other outlets it is questions they dont get it showed to him that bother me more than letting him have a week off. Jamie i want to ask you a question about what about the company a president keeps . What do you think . I think its pretty embarrassing. I remember, there is Republican Convention some guys on msnbc thought that senator Mitch Mcconnell was racist in attacking president obama for playing golf because the republicans were quote, according to Lawrence Odonnell trying to associate the president of with the United States with the lifestyle of tiger woods that is outrageous. Here is the president of the United States sharing his lifestyle with tiger woods and no one remembers any of that kind of stuff. The hypocrisy and double standards from the left are ridiculous. This is guy who had almost a bacnalian relationship with porn stars i dont know the president of the United States should be spending a golf weekend with him. Jamie thank you, jonah. Bill maybe that last point, you dont want a picture giving that history. Jamie good point, bill. Bill questions still not answered in the benghazi attack and why john mccain was all fired up about this did you hear . Confusion . Do you care, david . Im asking you do you care . Im asking you do you care whether four americans died . Jamie plus the passengers are back on try land and theyre relieved. So what are they doing now . Here come the lawsuits . Do they have a case . Well speak to one of the passengers and his attorney next. Something you just cant even put into words. 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Susan, wait a minute said there was a lot of confusion. Do you dare, care, david . Im asking you, do you care, im asking you do you care whether four americans died . The reasons for that . And shouldnt people be held accountable for the fact that four americans you said there is coverup. A coverup of what . Im asking you a coverup of what is it. Of the information concerning the deathings of four brave americans. Bill it was hot. That was senator john mccain clearly with meet the press Host David Gregory over the weekend. Kt mcfarland, Fox News National security analyst and former secretary of defense during the reagan administration. General jack keane is a retired fourstar general, former vice chief of staff from the army and fox military analyst. Good morning to both of you. Ladies first, what is up, kt. Of course it was a massive con coverup. They were blind, they were deaf and dumb, will fully deaf to the repeated calls from the security chief and the ambassador this was a dangerous place to be. They were will fully blind when the attack was going on because they were dumb. We topple addict tate tore without any idea what would come afterwards. What came after resurgent al qaeda and a failed libyan policy. Why did they cover it up . There was an election . What couldnt interfee with an election . A little reality. Bill september 11th. Youre two months before the election. What do you make of the back and forth and the point mccain was trying to make there. I talked to senator mccain a number of times on benghazi and other leaders like him. Their frustration five months after benghazi we still do not have an accounting and accepting of responsibility. I think the story would go away if the white house and the state department admitted now they had the story wrong initially. Given the fact that is the cia, department of defense and their own embassy knew there were a terrorist attack and telling another story far too long. Number two if the state department would admit they did not have appropriate security there despite a deteriorating security situation and that, they were responsible for the lack of protection there. And finally, even the dod, bill, the fact is, that the dod understands threats. They knew that situation was deteriorating. They were much aware of it. The ambassador himself said they couldnt sustain an attack. The do do. D could have dod could repositions forces and put forces on alert. Call the state department. Heres what we got. We understand what our forces can do and cant do, can we help . None of that was done. I dont think it is sufficient to stay the state department never asked. If that kind of accountability was out there, i think the story goes away. Bill kt, what do you make of that . How much does it bother you that we still do not have a full accounting what the president did that night . We know he had a meeting that ended at 5 30. We know that he had a telephone conversation for about an hour with benjamin netanyahu. In my experience when the president of the United States decides he is not interested in something or doesnt want to take an action, he goes, he goes silent. Thats what happened. When they had the briefing of from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and secretary of defense while the attack was going on, the president said, you guys handle it. Get back to me later. What signal does that send . The secretary of defense, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff will not commit American Forces to any kind of a rescue mission. They will not do anything unless the president specifically tells them it is okay to do it. That conversation never happened. So while that attack was going on, nobody knew if it was going to be two hours, four hours, two days, two months, hostage rescue mission. Nobody knew when it was started. But when the president said dont bother me, in effect, what he really said whatever happens, and were not getting involved. And i think that is the serious thing that has come out in the last two weeks. The president wasnt there. Bill what do you think about that, general . Well, i actually agree with what kt is saying. The fact of the matter is, the reaction that we had, the lack of forces on alert, the fact that forces were not available, to get there in time certainly put a whole spotlight initially on the policy as kt mentioned was wrong but also on africoms role and the amount of resources it should have. I believe the department of defense is about fixing that. This is a volatile part of the world and they have been on a diet since they were create ad number of years ago. They have got to get appropriate resources to deal with that part of the world. Bill you know Lindsey Graham and others say this is the reason why they wont approve chuck hagel about. You wonder as the days go by as to whether or not that nomination is in danger . Mccain says eventually he will go through. That is the point he with David Gregory yesterday. Yes or no kt, does he . Yes he does but he is a very weak secretary of defense which will not be the guy the president needs to cut defense, deal with military and deal with capitol hill. Bill so that is yes. General, you say too or not . I dont get involved in the nomination process. It is political and i stay away from it. Bill youre probably pretty smart about that. Maybe some others can learn a lesson. General, thank you, kt thank you as well. All right. Bill 12 minutes before the hour. Jamie. Jamie bill, thanks. It is an unthinkable act when a grown man slaps a 2yearold in the face . Criminal charges are not the only problem for the suspect in this case. Bill also Danica Patrick making nascar history. All the drivers in next weeks daytona 500, they are all men and they trail her. Well explain why. It has never happened like this before. Im proud of all the hard work that goes into making a poll car. It is not just turning left. It is so many other things. It is all attention to detail these guys put in over the winter. Hendrik gave me a great engine and this is a fast chevy. Delicious progresso soups at 100 calories or less, there are plenty of reasons people are saying progressoh share your progressoh story on facebook. Its delicious another angrysatisfied customer. You dont need toppings and that is why were fixing this. Hey earth stop topping triscuit [ male announcer ] 100 whole grain woven for an untoppable taste. Bill there is more fallout for apAirline Passenger accused of slapping a toddler and the toddler did not belong to him. Police say 2yearold jonah was crying on board that flight as he and his mother were getting ready for landing. That is when they say the passenger sitting next to them, joe, ricky hunley, slapped jonahs face and using a racial slur and telling jonahs mother to shut him up. Heres the mother. He looked at me and really hateful way and he said [bleep]. I said, what did you say . Because i couldnt believe that he was say that. He fell on to my face and his ear, or his mouth was in my ear and he said it again. But even more hateful. And he was on my face so i pushed him away. Bill bennet says that hunley appeared drunk and reeked of alcohol. He has been charged with assault and is already lost his job. Jamie Danica Patrick made auto racing history in daytona. It doesnt get more exciting than this. The first woman to qualify with the top spot in a major nascar race. She did it for the daytona 500. That is one of the biggest racing events of the year. Bill is so excited it is coming up and it means all the drivers get into the position at the starting line next week lining up behind danica. She says thats when the action will really begin. There is lot more left. The race is where it is really at to get to the end and to have a fast car and be in the right place at the right time but this speaks volume about stuart haas racing. It shows what a Great Organization it is and when you put a good group of people together what can happen. Jamie wow lucky number ten. Joining me on the phone, clara lang, hope of sirius xms nascar radio. She actually interviewed danica after taking the pole position. Great to have you here, claire. What did she say . Well, ill tell you danica was ecstatic of course. She talked about nice to hear families talk about the fact that a little girl might say, but, mommy, daddy, theres a girl out there. They could have a conversation with your kid and you can do anything you want and be different. Allow you to follow your dreams if youre different. I would love to thing think that conversation happens in House Holdings because what im doing. Jamie the last woman to be a highprofile in a race was janet guthrie. Why has it taken so long . Do men have the advantage. It is difficult. Women are getting into the feeder ranks leading up to get to the experience where danica is and she is indeed in great equipment. Janet guthrie head held the record for a top starting position for a female nascar driver twice, 1977. Started 9th at talladega in august 77 and Bristol Motor Speedway never august of 77. So youre right. I is a huge mark. I was down on the grid for sirius xm after drivers came after qualifying. As she stepped from the car and laid down the lap of 196. 44, there was such a sense her lap would be hard to beat. Mark martin and dale, jr. , and jeff gordon got out of the cars at qualifying laps, they were saying history would be made today. It gives major exposure to nascar and the running of the daytona 500. Im really proud to be out there covering it the moment it happens. Jamie not that they dont have an incredible fan base already. How will she do next week . It is hard to tell. They have a very fast car. Everybody in the ga raj has been talking about that. There is a lot of pressure on her. Last year she has said was her worst race weekend ever. It was on the list of the worst ever. She crashed in the dual races. She crashed in the 500. But this boosts her confidence. She is feeling much more this year. Jamie love it. More racing under her belt. Much more ready to go i think. She is in very, very good equipment that has been really fast in daytona. Hard to tell with the daytona 500 who might pull it off. Certainly doesnt hurt to stop from the top of the pack. Jamie im excited as you are. Well be watching. Thanks so much. A pleasure. Thank you. Bill she will be driving the chevrolet all fired up. How many times has a person on the pole win the race . If we can get that answer, send me a tweet billhemmer. Get that on the air. Jamie good question. Bill see what im saying . Know what im talking about . Ten days to go until a series of budget cuts take effect but congress is on vacation, well, the president s plan, he is playing golf in florida with tiger woods. Are both sides throwing in the towel . The best and worst Case Scenarios with karl rove. He is next guest life new honey bunches of oats greek yogurt and whole grain. Here we go. Honey cornflakes and chunks of greek yogurt. Im tasting both the yogurt and the honey at the same time. Im like digging this yogurt thing. I feel healthy. New honey bunches of oats greek. Karl, good morning to you. Seems like there is no you are again sir, right . Seems like some, maybe many in washington want this to happen. Do they . I think everybody wants it not to happen. The question how do you avoid it happening . The only actors who laid for the a proposal and voted on it is the house of representatives. The house has twice passed a bill called the spending reduction act that would replace these the 85 billion in acrosstheboard cuts with 300 billion plus of smart cuts spread over several years and the house has passed this. The senate has never taken it up. As wendell said, Wendell Goler said the democrats in the senate, the Senate Leadership is offering a proposal but left town without bringing it up for a vote. It is unclear whether it could pass the senate. Interestingly enough the man at the center of all this, the guy whose idea it was to have a sequester, these across the board haircut, the president , has never even bothered to offer a proposal. Last week there was an interesting colloquy between senator roger wicker of mississippi and the congressional budget director, Douglas Elmendorf in which wicker said, how much is the president s proposal to be costed out by you . Elmendorf reaffirmed, we never received a proposal from the white house. We cant score a speech. The president has no proposal he laid out there and time is running out. We had eight teen months. Were down basically the last two weeks of business. Bill so if that is the case youre looking at ten days on the calendar. Yeah. Bill what happens on the 1st of march . What are the anticipated effects of these cuts do you believe . Well theres 42 1 2 billion in cuts in the Defense Budget and there is 42. 5 billion in Discretionary Spending the big one, the program problemtic is the Defense Budget because the Defense Budget is into into a number of accounts. Without congressional approval you cant move money from one account to another account. You have a ship building account. The spend out is next five years and maintenance and operations which is it your current activity you cant move from the long spending account to the short spending account would you explicit congressional authority. This causes enormous ramifications. The lack of flexibility on the domestic side has similar consequences. You cant move things from less important things in order to make certain essential tasks are taken care of. There are others, this is just a drop in the bucket. Sure it is. Yeah, now, remember the sequester affects 85 billion worth of spending. We have a federal budget this year will be 3. 5 trillion. That is over 3500 billions of dollars. Now the problem is this falls in the discretionary side of the budget which is, you know, a very small fraction of the budget. Most of the budget is on mandatory, autofy lot. Congress didnt revisit every year. There are set formulas that dictate how much will be spent. We have a overall spending problem and a flexibility problem. This is a small amount compared to the total budget because it comes out of the discretionary part of the budget it will hurt that flexibility and hurt badly. Bill is there a point of comparison for this story once it goes into effect . Is this like 1995, republican shutdown, republicans democrats going at it or is this truly uncharted territory . It is uncharted territory but i doubt it will be a Government Shutdown because were talking about 2. 4 of the governments budget. It is being cut in the last seven months of the budget year. That causes real problems. Particularly again, i repeat, if you dont have discretion, if you dont have flexibility, the interesting thing the House Republicans are willing to give the democratic president flexibility to decide where these cuts will be by giving him Greater Authority at least on the defense side to move stuff from one account to another but, its going to be complicated. The fact, look the Defense Department last week admitted they had not planned for this contingency. It has been on the books for 18 months. They hadnt planned for what happens with congress. Bill ralph peters is coming up in 25 minutes. Wait until you hear what he says. It will surprise you. President s day, your favorite least recognized president in history is whom . I like james k. Polk. Think he is underrated and ulysses s. Grant. Bill he was onetermer and he said i would serve one term and did. Stuck to his word. Thank you, karl. You bet. And admitted texas to the union. Bill go on. See you later, lone star, karl rove in washington. Thank you, sir. Jamie. Jamie the white house is facing new accusations of a lack of urgency, chief of staff dennis mcdone now faces tough questions from cbss bob schiefer over the death of four americans in benghazi and whether the president at the time was aware the u. S. Consulate was under attack. Was keeping him informed throughout the night . Absolutely. You were . Not only briefing him and convening the United States government, deputys committee and National Security council we worked this throughout the night. Secretary of defense, chairman of the joint chiefs and vice chairman of the joint chiefs worked this throughout the night. Jamie mcdonough said the white house had a quote, robust reaction which h he attributed to the president s direction the night of that attack, bill . Bill he spent the last 15 years of solitary confinement. The convicted faster mind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing is now suing, demand he be allowed to live a regular prison life. Ramzi yousef is serving a life sentence and serving four years at the Supermax Prison in colorado. The attorney claimed the lack of human contact is taking a psychological toll. Officials disagree saying he is still a threat. Jamie a Major Development to tell you about in a nearly twoyear civil war as the European Union agrees to extend sanctions on oil, money and arms to the syrian government. All this as a troubling u. N. Report suggests that both sides in the Syrian Revolution are guilty of war crimes, including murder and torture. Conor powell is live in jerusalem covering this. Conor, does the report accuse specific leaders of war crimes . Reporter jamey, no. The report actually stops short of that. The actual list of violators remain as secret. The report only concludes that syrians in leadership positions are likely responsible for war crimes. But it did say both sides are violating international law. Investigators accuse syrians of murder, torture, rape and hostage taking. Though the report says rebels are responsible to a lesser extent but it did blame the rebels as well but it also warned that the bloody civil war is spiraling downwards at a rapid pace as the violence becomes sectarian and fighters on both sides more radicalized. The overall message, jamie, the fighting is bad and getting worse. Jamie keep us posted. Thank you so much, conor. Bill there is a new perspective in washingtons fight over military cuts. Well ask a former colonel who says it is time to let some of the cuts kick in right now. Well explain why. Jamie interesting. Terror at 300 miles an hour. How a driver whose engine exploded managed to walk away. Bill this was a matter of time. After price of a horrific cruise, comped for 500 bucks for all the trouble, passengers on board triumph are lining up with a lawsuit. Why their case may be tough to prove we hear. If somebody came to me and said, i was on that ship and i want to sue carnival for this, will you take my case, my answer would be no. [ male announcer ] to many men, shaving can be a sensitive issue. But take comfort. It may not be you; it may be your razor. Upgrade to gillette fusion proglide. Microthin blades are thinner than a surgeons scalpel to put less stress on your skin by gliding through hair. Switch to fusion proglide. Number one dermatologist recommended on sensitive skin. 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Four days they were stranded on a crippled cruise ship with overflowing toilets, stifling heat and lines for food that had already gone bad, they say. Several passengers are suing Carnival Cruise lines for that trip. While the trip was certainly a nightmare do the passengers really have a case . Joining me now is one of the passengers suing carnival and hes brought along his attorney mike winkleman. Great to see you gentlemen, great to have you here. Thanks for having us. Matt, how are you doing today . Im doing s okay. My wife is still feeling sick from being on the cruise. She had food prisoning twice while she was there. Jamie i understand how difficult this trip was. Ill save the viewers things like why it was a human petri dish as some people have said, but if i could have you, mike, many attorneys say that especially under maritime law, which is your expertise, that when you buy the cruise ticket and you sign whatever paperwork you do, you agree if there is any problem on the ship you accept a refund and thats all you get. Why are you filing suit, then . Well that is not what the consider says. Im surprised to hear a lot of lawyers that. Perhaps they are not as young or high working as i and my firm are. We take a lot of pride in doing the right thing for people like matt and his wife and the thousands of people on that cruise that were really taken advantage of by carnival. They are tough cases and unique cases but im looking forward to the fight and i think we should be able to make a positive recovery, certainly a lot better than the measly 500 that carnival is offering to all these passengers. Jamie did your client accept the 500 . Of course not, no. Jamie you were already on the case, you advised him not to . Well, i mean i cant tell you what i did or didnt advise my client i would advise everyone on that ship to not take the 500. I would point out that the people on the Costa Concordia over a year ago even if you were uninjured just being on the cruise ship they offered you 14,000. How do you go from 14,000 to five days of a living nightmare. Jamie there is even a patients bill of rights for airlines if they keep you on the tarmac they have to pay fines and you might be able to recover, but in this particular case, let me put my lawyer hat on, this is not my area of expertise, maritime, you need to prove intentional negligence especially for a recovery of Emotional Distress in this case. Yes or no and how will you do that . Youre mixing concepts. There are two different theories, one is intentional infliction of Emotional Distress the other is negligent infliction of Emotional Distress. To point the intention tphalt it would be that carnival knew what was going on, they were 150 miles off the coast of mexico and instead of just turning around and going to mexico they intentionally decided to drag them across the gulf of mexico about 500 miles because it was more beneficial to them. Why didnt they take them to galveston, texas where i are which is where the cruise started. Why did they force them to be on the ship for seven days and on a bus for five hours they are distinct concepts under the law and the suit that was about to be filed will seek damages for both of those remedies. Jamie i understand youre going to try to certify your client and others as a class and bring a class action. Let me ask you, matt at this point, when you were on that ship, and im sure, mike, that the cruise line will bring this up in defense, did you feel that they were doing everything they could to try to help you get through this . We we tried to to as much as we could just to manage through it. You know, they the things the two things that really concerned me are the unrefrigerated food that they were serving, which my wife got food prisoning twice for the lobster, like i said before they served, it was decayed. I didnt eat it, as soon as they served it to me i just left it on a plate but i know, i saw plenty of other people eating it because thats the only thing they had. And then when we were down into the medical area the conditions down there werent very sanitary as well. Thats something that hasnt been mentioned before, not using gloves, not using gloves to do ivs. I saw a bloodstain on a clean sheet that shouldnt have been there, clearly. Jamie i under, and i under your wife needed two ivs for hydration, and the situation was definitely horrible. The question is whether or not its actionable and you can recover. Your lawyer seems to have everything under control. We are going to follow the case, mike and matt, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Jamie there will be more of these. Bill 4,229 on board . There will be a few more. There is growing concern about the president s healthcare law. Why we are learning that some believe a new tax is rev srapblging part of thravaging part of the medical industry. Jamie a car explodes into a massive fireball, well have the drivers amazing, yes, survival story. [ male announcer ] in blind taste tests, even ragu users chose prego. Jamie it almost feels like a salute is in order, bill. It is president s day today, and you might be surprised to know its still officially named for our first president. Washingtons birthday is what the feds call it having been originally established on George Washingtons actual birthday of february 22nd. Then it became a federal holiday long after his death in 1799 and was later moved to a monday to make for more threeday weekends. Why is it called president s day then . Basically its all margareting. Abraham lincolns birthday comes before the holiday on february 12th, president washingtons just after. Bill a new tax could be having a big impact on american business. This is the max. Its part of obama care and there are growing concerns that it could result in some big layoffs. Steve brown is on that story in chicago. Medical device tax, 2. 3 , what is the effect of that 2. 3 , steve . Reporter well no medical device makers, bill, really like this tax. For the bigger ones they can can weather it but for the smaller ones its real trouble. There are places like orthoopeadrics that say this tax being collected this year is going to all but wipe out this companys bulge stair reitem for research and development. For us to stump up the money to pay for it weve got to cut everywhere. We cant take it all out of product development. We wont be doing much product development. What is tragic about that is that it impacts patients, the impacts the kids. Kids like brye. He has satisfactory raoebl pau satisfactory raoebcerebral palsy, but he can walk thanks to these implants. Its these kind of implants 0 that do these innovations that may suffer. Bill. Bill the independent tkraoe has been up in arms over this for the past three years. Is there anyway Something Like this could be repealed . Is there an effort to do that . Reporter there have been continuous effort to try and repeal it last year and this year. You may recall even before obama care was passed both minnesota senators were up in arms about this. But both voted for this. Show did joe donnelly the new democratic senator from the state of indiana who voted again for obama care. No bill is perfect, but we were able to obtain healthcare for thousands and thousands o thousands of hoosers. And we were able to accomplish seeing the growth of the medical Device Industry in our state and see them continue to flourish and grow. Reporter donnelly its leading an effort in the senate to try and repeal that portion of the tabgts. He say tax. He says in discussions with the white house that the white house is new listening. The president says its a trade off the tax for the medical Device Manufacturers but they get access to 30 million more potential customers. Device managers say its not that simple. The tax is now the added benefit of more people in the insurance pool that comes later and that is more bottom line pressures for them. Bill they are not happy. Steve brown on that story out of chicago today. Thank you. Jaime. Jamie an interesting transition to talk about bourbon and bourbon drinkers out there, youve revolted. And guess what makers mark is listening. The backlash that you caused will have them change their mind. Well pell you why. Bill an opinion you wont hear often. Lieutenant ralph peters here to say why he thinks slashing 50 billion in the Defense Department could actually be a good thing. 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I think. Bill you think what . I think fox viewers know that im a hawk on defense but i want taxpayers and our troops to get a fair deal. Bill i tell you what, you are a talk on defense and that has been your reputation. That is the way you talk every time you come on tv, however in this piece you write the following, the last straw came earlier this month when our navy as you tan day shus lee cancelled the deemployer of a carrier in the persian gulf yelling poverty. You write its a terrible idea and im for it. Now explain. I was absolutely stunned when the chief of Naval Operations, with the approval of the chairman of the joint tphaoefs abruptly canceled the deployment of the super carrier u. S. S. Harry s. Truman to the persian gulf for the sole purpose of pressuring congress in the sequestration. He undercut our National Strategy visa see iran. Telling iran we are too poor to fight. They are saying we dont have gas money. Think how low weve sung when the chief of Naval Operations pulled a stunt like that. In 1943 after pearl harbor the pride of our fleet was at the bottom of the ocean in pearl harbor. Those tin can skippers in the destroyers said we cant fight the japanese until we have more money. They would have gone to tokyo bay to fight the japanese if they had to row. Now we have a chief of Naval Operations, undercuts our National Strategy to try to Bully Congress to give him more money. Its got to stop. Bill the way you talk is almost as if you say this is a wake up call. Well it is. Thats why i am reluctantly foresee questions tracing. Its going to cut muscle and bone along with the fat. But the generals and admirals wont stand up and cut the real fat. And Congress Gets its share of the blame because congress, boy, those guys love to pose with the troops for photo ops. When it comes time to vote they dont vote to keep the troops in uniform theyll cut 20,000 troops to keep 20. Bill the House Republicans voted twice to avoid the sequestration and eventually we are back to the core, that is his argument. Bob woodward was making the case yesterday that the president came up with the idea he proposed it to harry reid and off it went. In the end all the fingerprints of washington are on this deal in the end. Youre saying in fact our navy is too pau small, you want a bigger one, buy bigger, cheaper, faster ships. This is a wake up call for the Defense Department. How do they learn from this. Ralph . Well, i hope they feel some real pain. I dont want our troops to feel pain. I dont want any honest federal worker to be furniture load. But my god, bill, the waste in the Defense Budget is enormous, and there is no lemon law when contractors sell us junk. Generals and admirals dont say boo about weapons that dont work because they get out and go to work for the Defense Industry for lucrative salaries, and congress, again, theyll vote to preserve 20 bad jobs in their home district even if it cost us 20 troops. Youre absolutely right, everybodys fingerprint is on it and my line to the republican is if sequestration is so bad, why do you guys vote for it . Why do you have the guts to stand up back then . I say a playing on bot plague on both their houses stphao. Bill the military need to make hard choices but refuses. You conclude your piece saying sequestration will do serious heart. You talk about cutting out millions, fat and bone but our corrupt system has already done far worse. Its time for a reckoning. Honest working people are seeing their paychecks go down. The Defense Department cannot still say we need everything. I truly believe as a defense talk that if congress would do its part and stop voting selfishly in every dog gone issue we could have a stronger defense and better defense for less money. Sequestration is the wrong way, but right now its the only way. We need defense reform now. Bill ralph peters thank you. Well talk about. Lieutenant great to see you. Jamie a Surprise Homecoming for haoug an hugo chavez returning to caracas after Cancer Treatment in cuba. There were thousands of people in the street celebrating his homecoming fueling hopes that he could return to active rule. Steve harrigan live in miami for us. What do we know about his condition at this point and his return. Reporter a lot that we know about the condition and still even more that we dont know. We do know that hes back in venezuela, really after dropping out of sight for ten weeks in cuba. He arrived at 2 30 in the morning, immediately taken to a military hospital. Its not clear whether chavez is able to speak. He does have a breathing tube. After a year and a half of treatment, four cancer operations in cuba its still not Public Knowledge what kind of cancer hes suffering from, jaime. Jamie do you think he could actually ever return to actively running the country if. Reporter that is the hope of the supporters but its not clear he will be able to. He whats elected in october for six more years. He told the voters he was healthy then but its not clear hell be able to really manage the government. So far hes been unable to attend his own inauguration. And right now there are many analysts who think that chavez has returned not to rule again but to try to manage a transition, a transition to his handpicked Vice President , a man who is a former bus driver, jaime. Jamie Steve Harrigan live in miami. Stay on it for us, steve. Stpho youre on facebook, right . Jamie new jersey are huge. Bill huge. Jamiehuge, ive got so many friends. Why are you asking . Facebook must be hitting the like button over there. The social media giant raked in more than a billion dollars in profit but yet paid zero in federal and state taxes. How in the world does that happen. Jamie ive got to get the answer to that one. And also makers mark. You drink bourbon bill . Maybe you spoke up. Youre not drinking these days. Anyway having a new coke moment admitting it has big plans. The ones it had was not such a good idea. The customers, well they spoke up. One scotch, one bourbon one beer. A commitment to the gulf. And every day since, weve worked hard to keep it. Bp has paid over twentythree billion dollars to help people and businesses who were affected, and to cover cleanup costs. Today, the beaches and gulf are open for everyone to enjoy and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. Weve shared what weve learned with governments and across the industry so we can all produce energy more safely. 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The pwaou pwraoub rr pwraourb bon category for many years was slow and no growth for decades has become a shining star within all of spirits. We didnt see that, we missed it. What we heard back was a very humbling, very clear feedback from our customers, and what they told us was that they would rather this the occasional shortage moving forward than in anyway change makers mark. Bill its free publicity, isnt it . Turns out bourbon makes up 70 of the 1. 1 billion in americas yearly exports. The number that could double experts say could double in several years. Jamie well get to that in a second. First we have this stunning report on one of the most famous u. S. Businesses as we learn that facebook is raking in the cash and paying almost no taxes. Ill explain. The Group Citizens for tax justice says the company is reporting more than a billion in pretax profits, while likely paying zero in federal or state taxes, and i hear its not illegal or wrong. Apparently they may even get a tax refund of some 429 million bucks. Senior economic writer with the wall street juror steve moore and president of Penn Financial group matt mccall, gentlemen, great to see you. We are going to talk about makers mark quickly at end. This is pretty serious. Steve, how does this happen . Well, look, everyone knows that our Corporate Income tax system, jaime is a k colossal failure. We have the highest tax rates in the world and it doesnt collect much revenue. In the case of facebook what happened was that facebook gave away it has a huge amount of the compensation that it gives to its workers and executives is through these Stock Options. I happen to think Stock Options are a form of compensation that should be expunged and essentially what they did is they loaded up on Stock Options and the Stock Options reduced their Tax Liability to zero. Jamie when you exercise those options, matt, they could be if you sell them after you get them the equivalent of cash. When are they taxable. To the employees that receive them once they sell them and they have a realized gain on that they feel out what the cost basis was, then that employee will have to pay taxes on that compensation. As steve said its just something in lieu of actually paying out cash to the employees. I like this as well because it gives the incentive to that employee to work harder. The harder they work the more that company is worked the higher the share price and its better for everybody. Im a shareholder of facebook just to put that out there. I think this is a great plan. What bothers me is reading up on research this morning 90 of people are bashing facebook. Why are they bashing facebook, bash the u. S. Government for having a bad tax code if you dont like this. Jamie is it time to rewrite it, matt. This tax code needs to be redown. Obama is going after the wealthy people saying they need to pay more at the tame time there are so many loopholes for the large corporations. Go after these loopholes if you want to fix the tax code. Its just not matt and i and you saying this. Its president obama has had three commissions and blue ribbon panels that he has appointed that have all came to the same conclusion. Paul volker the former chairman of the Federal Reserve said that our Corporate Tax system is chasing jobs out of america, that the rates are that high, its making america uncompetitive. Its almost unpatriotic and i use that word intentionally to support this tax system that is sending jobs abroad. Jamie at the same time i appreciate you giving me the credit for saying it. I asked the question. Im not saying anything about it, i only asked the question. I do have a comment on makers mark. 90 proof, 90 proof, and the customers of the pwaour bourbon said dont do that to me. Is this a case of a company abiding by the principle the customer is always right or do you think its an intentional marketing ploy. I think its a of both. When you had that interview on there he said things are so good, why would you change things if they are so good . It could be a marketing ploy. What is the difference 90 proof or 86 proof, do you really know the difference . But hey the customers know what they want. Jamie i dont think i could take cough syrup that strong. Youre giving free advertising today, so its worth it. Jamie just a little, you know. No, we are not. Im really curious about it. Maybe more companies that want to make sure they retain their revenue are going to start to pay close taepbg. When this hit that they werent going to make the change, speaking of facebook they got 20,000 lives and comments were thanks nor listening to the customer for a change. Good move, steve . Definitely. This is one of our major exports, actually lick or, bourbon and whiskey are two of our greatest products that we produce in the south so i think this is going to increase their markets. I think it was a good marketing ploy. Weve been spending the last five or six minutes talking about this. It is free advertising for the company. Jamie youre right, enough. Thanks for coming, bye. See you guys. Have a great week. Bill jon scott standing by hospitals rolls your way. Happy president s day to you, jon. Jon happy president s day to you as well. Bill who is your favorite least consequential president , least recognized president. Jon id have to go with karl rove, grant. Bill grant has two in his column. Rove took two, polk and grant. Jamie good one, jon than. Jon and hes buried in northern manhattan. Country star Mindy Mccready is dead. Gruesome details on the death of oscar pistorious. Danica patrick makes history. And president obama gloves with tiger woods. Some are not too happy about this. Fox news takes on mccain plus David Gregory, and bret baier joins us on the immigration debate. We have a full couple of hours. Bill see you in 12 minutes. Okay. Saying no thanks to a free lunch, School District backing out of a new federal lunch program, why they say its not helping the kid waistline or the bottom line. Jamie and terror at the track. A drag racer turns into a 300mile per hour fireball. More of this amazing video and what happened to the man who was behind the wheel, next. Oh progressoh [ female announcer ] with 40 delicious progresso soups at 100 calories or less, there are plenty of reasons people are saying progressoh share your progressoh story on facebook. Helps provide many with, day and night relief people are saying progressoh of heartburn symptoms caused by acid reflux disea. There is risk of bone fracture, and low magnesium levels. Side effects may include headache, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. 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Several School District now backing out of the federal Free School Lunch program saying that the rules, which require more fruits and fewer calories are costing them money and the kids dont like the food anyway. What are the biggest complaints about these guidelines. Reporter opponents say the portions are too small. One slice of deli meat on a sandwich, half a slice of pizza. They are forced to serve food to kids that they dont like or eat. Students are bringing their own or buying elsewhere. Fooled is wasted and budgets blown. The federal guidelines requiring larger portions of fruits and vegetables and less junk is part of an act aimed at reducing childhood obesity. Breesville new york was the first state to opt out. We dont have a child obesity problem. Our kid are very active. I was concerned with the changes they would scarf up a big bag of potato ships because they are hungry. Id rather have them have an opportunity to have a good lunch with us. Reporter they are going to give kids more of what they want mike meat. Bill some cant opt out. Reporter they require on subsidies to pay for the lunches. The less kids are getting free subsidized meals the less they can opt out. A vast majority of schools continue to follow the federal guidelines. The u. S. Department of agriculture released this statement. Saying, goat, u. S. A. D. Continues to apply flexibility and technical supervision to schools. Usda encourages the fuel skwrabl School District that have chosen not to participate in the national School Lunch Program to take steps to insure this all children will still have access to healthy affordable meals during the school day under the federal guidelines there are no Peanut Butter and jelly sandwiches. Jamie peanut allergies . Reporter possibly that is one reason. The jelly is probably a problem too. Bill thank you, rick. Jamie we started the twohour show talking about the tragic end of the life of of a troubled country sthar. We have the latest on Mindy Mccreadys shocking suicide. The eerie similarities it shares with the recent death of her longtime boyfriend. New honey bunches of oats greek yogurt and whole grain. Here we go. Honey cornflakes and chunks of greek yogurt. Im tasting both the yogurt and the honey at the same time. Im like digging this yogurt thing. I feel healthy. New honey bunches of oats greek. S. Bill amazing piece of video. Take a look at this. Socalled super pod of dolphins, said to be some 7,000 swimming together off the coast of san diego, remarkable sight. There is a tourist boat captain saying the super pod was miles wide. Followed the boat for nearly seven miles. Do we know where theyre going . Bill why does it happen like t