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And the white house wanting republicans to accept higher taxes as part of a longterm debt deal. How is that going to go down . Good morning. Hope you had a great weekend everybody. Im bill hemmer. Welcome here to americas newsroom. Martha it just keeps going. Good morning, bill. Good morning, everybody at home. Im martha maccallum. The republicans are demanding spending cuts instead. Watch this from the weekend. We would promise the American People we would do this yearandahalf ago. Here we are already talk walking away from spending reductions we promised to make without tax increases the president signed just a year and a half ago. So i think the American People need to know that we have a spending addiction in washington. Were exploding our spending. Weve added 6 trillion in the National Debt in just four years. Bill wow . Martha this as new reports show that the tax bill for one group of americans is at a 30year high right now already. Bill starting that coverage now, stu varney, host of varney company, fox business network. Good morning to you, stuart. Good morning bill. Bill what is the story there. That is from a Tax Policy Center Research Group in washington. They say that upper income people are paying a bigger proportion of their income in federal tax now that at any time in 30 years. Ill break it down for you. That top 20 , this year, will pay a 27 tax rate. They will lose 27 of their income to the federal government. The middle 20 , they earn roughly 46,000 a year. That middle 20 will pay 13 to the feds and the bottom 20 , will pay nothing at all. If you look at this overa period of time, upper income people this year will be paying a higher proportion than at any time in 30 years and the middle class and the poor will be paying less. Bill many would argue they are the job creators here. Now the rich pay a bigger share because theyre taking a bigger share of the income. Isnt that reasonable explanation . That is and at least a chunk of the truth here but now follow this through, bill. If you continue to tax them more heavily, then you will hurt the economy because that, and that will hurt the middle class and the poor. Look what weve done. We have raised taxes as of january the 1st on everybody and upper income people. And the economy has slowed noticeably. Were on the edge of recession. Raise taxes on upper income people even more, and they account for a big chunk of the spending in this country, you raise taxes some more, and you will hurt the middle class and the poor even more. Bill you know over the last three days, john boehner was emphatic on and so is Mitch Mcconnell as we just heard. They say theyre going to hold their ground. Do you expect that . I think it is fair to say that taxes, the tax issue is now become central to this budgetcutting, these budget debates. The republicans say they will not raise taxes anymore. The president is insisting just that. Bill just to drill down just one more point on this, what the president said over the weekend was tax rates wont change. Right. Bill which, Pay Attention to that. That phrasing there. However, you bo after the loopholes, whether it is, Interest Rate deduction, whether Charity Deductions will stay on the table or not. Do you see any of that being mixed into this current debate . Yes it is, very much is in the debate but if you cut deductions, the president calls them loopholes, if you cut deductions those deductions are used primarily by upper income people. They will in the end pay a lot more money in tax. That is form of tax increase. And then you have this tax rate question. If we get the buffett rule, which the president is pushing for, that would be a change in the top tax rate as well as a closing of loopholes and deductions. Bill well see how they negotiate in the coming months or month. Thank you, sir. See you at 9 20 on fbn. Martha. Martha how much exactly do the top 10 of american households pay in taxes . According to the Tax Foundation the top 1 pay about 37. 38 of the total tax burden renn in this country. More than a third, close to 40 . The top 1 earn around 370,000 or more. So that is who falls into that big group. Bill were in sequester land right now. Martha we are. How do you like it so far . Bill im doing okay. The sun came up. Martha so far, so good. Bill House Speaker john boehner says do not blame him for failure to avert across the board spending cuts. He went allout to find Common Ground before with the white house before sequestration kicked in. Listen to this from nbc. There is no one who tried harder to come to an agreement with the president to deal with the longterm spending problem, no one. It is unfortunate and we have not been able to come to an agreement. Bill and we do not know when they will meet again. Friday was the first time congressional leaders and the president talked facetoface on this. Mr. Boehner also saying he is focus on getting runaway spending under control. Martha. Martha well those sweeping across the board budget jet cuts taking effect topping the agenda at white house. In a few hours the president obama will hold a Cabinet Meeting what to do next from here. Wendell goler live reporting from the white house. Wendell, what do we expect he will tell them . Reporter well, martha, it is not clear because it appear cabinet secretaries and agency heads dont have as much flexibility in the budgets as they did in the 1980s when the grammrudman hollings budget cutting bill went into effect. That was the model for the sequester. The white house is warning workers here and at the capitol would be furloughed. The architect at the capitol says that is not the case. But the president s Economic Advisor says they will still feel a pinch. Well, first of all, those capitol january norse january, to will not get as much overtime. Taking less pay home does hurt. I think the real issue this is as the president said, a slow grind. Reporter Gene Sperling says the sequester could cost 3 4 of a million jobs. The white house is counting on public pressure from the pain of the sequester to push republicans to compromise on a deficit cutting bill. Martha a matter who blinks first, wepd dole . Reporter republicans agree to use tax revenue to reduce the deficit or the president agreeing to all cuts in government spend. Mr. Obama said that would put a burden on the poor and middle class. House Speaker John Boehner says he has already gotten his tax hike. Ive been here 22 years. I watched president s from both parties, leaders from both parties, kick the can down the road and kick it down the road and kick the down the road. Were out of road to kick the can down. Reporter there is another deadline looming at the end. Month, when the two sides, republicans and democrats have to agree on a spending plan to avoid a government shutdown. Be prepared for that. Martha that is one beat up can. Wendell thank you. Bill find it on google maps. Were awaiting a big announcement from president obama today, expected to tap Sylvia Matthews burr well, i think i said that right. She is currently president of the walmart foundation. She worked in the Clinton White house as the Deputy Director of the office of management and budget. If confirmed by the senate, she would be the only second woman to hold the budget director post. Well see how that goes down in washington. Martha were Getting Started on this monday morning as we get things rolling along here in americas newsroom. Secretary of state john kerry announcing over the weekend a hefty Financial Aid package for egypt. Think about that in the context of this sequester, right . Is that smart money to be spending right now . Bill a good question. A big chunk of that exclusive Chris Wallace had with mitt romney and his wife ann. How he is weighing in now on the current tax debate. So, how would president romney at this moment be handling your opposition in congress, the Congressional Democrats . Well, first of all, i can go back to my experience as a governor, that is, you dont attack the opposition when you need to sit down and work with them. E new griddlemelts to your usual breakfast sandwich. A lot more flavor. [ anouncer ] ihops new griddle melts. Made fresh and hot hand crafted just for you. Its like a sexy sandwich. [ anouncer ] compare new griddle melts yourself. Just 4. Its like a sexy sandwich. Its an epic breakfast sandwich. Your Financial Advisor should focus on your longterm goals, not their shortterm agenda. [ male announcer ] join the nearly 7 million investors who think like you do. Face time and think time make a difference. At edward jones, its how we make sense of investing. 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Secretary of state john kerry meeting with egyptian president morz morse morse promising to restore millions in aid. Between the 1948 and 2012 the u. S. Gave egypt 7 billion in foreign aid. That is the 1. 3 billion in military aid from today to present day. Michael singh, National Security affairs and Washington Institute for near east policy and good morning to you. Welcome, bill. Bill 250 million at a time when sequestration just kicks in. I think a lot of people are shaking their head on this. Is this smart money, michael . Well, no, bill. It is absolutely not. I think that this is a symbolic gesture by the United States. In fact, egypts needs, the egypts external financing needs number tens of billions of dollars. In order to get that kind of money they need to make a deal with the imf the imf will not make a deal with the muslim bother hood government until they show a commitment to economic reform. This is meant to show as a friend to egypt. Frankly allies with egypt and egyptian opposition think weve been too supportive of this Muslim Brotherhood government and therefore this type of gesture isnt needed. Bill keep in mind we dont know how they will govern. That story has not played out just yet. Ultimately the risk there, john kerry said over the weekend, he said i expect a lot from you when talking to the Egyptian Defense minister. Are they listening to us . Well, remember, bill, this government now has been in power for a while. So we do have some indication how theyre going to govern. They havent yet shown that theyre able to move, the Muslim Brotherhood im talking about here, from act movement, to Islamist Movement to being a real Political Party to govern egypt. They havent shown they can make the tough calls on economic rerecall to. They havent shown, for example, they can reconcile with other Political Parties and govern by consensus rather than by imposing their own will. That is why this sort of money goes straight into the budget, straight into the coffers of the government there is simply not at good investment at this time of American Foreign aid. Bill you wonder where egypt would be without this money. 1. 3 billion to the military aid. M 1a tanks and f15 fighters. Is this smart to do this now or should we a freeze on it . Put a freeze on it to see how they act and conduct themselves . Because the ultimate fear the Egyptian Government takes our military hardware and uses it against israel either as a threat or in a war and secondly against us . Well i think thats right, bill. It is important to remember, first of all, this money is different, the 1. 3 billion in military is different that it is spent in the United States on u. S. Defense contractors. At least it is staying in the american economy. I think the question about it though is, number one, can we really trust this sort of unstable government with this kind of military assistance . And second, is it the right military assistance . Remember the types of threats egypt faces now are the smuggling of arms through the sinai, terrorists in the sinai and along the Sudanese Border and frankly tanks and jets dont help to counter those threats. Those are used against armies. I dont think theyre a big threat to israel or other u. S. Allies in the region because our allies like israel have much better equipment, frankly. But the fact they dont do much to accomplish our interests or egypts interests. Bill this goes back to 1979. You have to understand the history and we brokered and helped buy peace between the egyptians and israelis. Do you see any of that policy changing now . I do not, do you . Well, you know, i dont see any of that changing right now. In part because look, theres a lot of inertia behind this military assistance. Theyre very sort of strong interests here in the United States that support this aid. There are strong interests in egypt and the in the region that support this aid. There are big obstacles to doing anything to change this. But i think look, over time we need to seriously look at least reorienting aid, to take on the counterterrorism threats and the arms smuggling threats which are the real threats in this region today. Bill when you think about the budget battles that are on the front page of every website and newspaper in america, this is really in the National Conscience now, to think about how much money were spending s this the type of thing that should be given a fair review . You know there is a certain irony, bill, i was going to egypt and pressing them for Economic Reforms and political consensus but look, i think that foreign aid is going to remain important to u. S. National security. Woe may need to like in every other area look where we can cut and where it is being spent wisely and where it is not. That is the question about egypt. No is foreign aid a good idea but what are we getting for the foreign aid . Is this a smart investment . I think that is something at that thats awfully difficult to show visavis egypt. Bill that is smart point at the end. Michael singh out of washington. Thank you, bill. Bill martha . Martha winter is still howling out there. There is another big winter storm right now. Gosh, every single week weve had another one and a wallop is coming at us again. Well show you where it is headed. Bill winter is coming. President obamas home state is making to look it tougher to get a gun. If it breaks you cant give it to a gun smith even to fix it. You cant hand it to your son to use. It is all, it is all now outlawed because of 2012, the bill governor hickenlooper said he is going to sign. Dentures are very different to real teeth. Theyre about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can multiply. Polident kills 99. 99 of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains. 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So it is like 1 100 of a second. Martha that is beautiful. Just gets off his fingertips. He will not forget that moment, nor anybody that whole stadium. Bill see an inbounds pass and heat it up and guy makes it. Go from one pass to another and back again. Martha 6061. Congratulations new rochelle. Back to this now issue of gun control which is front and center in president obamas home state of illinois. Mike tobin is live in chicago. Mike, what are they doing with the gun laws where they have had so much gun violence over the past couple years . Reporter you know, martha, what theyre going after now is mandatory minimum sentencing. What is interesting the focus with this latest push is really on the illegal weapons. With gun violence part of almost every night in chicago, the mayor, police superintendent, district attorney, want to increase the penalty for illegal gun possession to 3 1 2 years. They also are pushing for truth in sentencing, to guaranty that a convict does not do just a fraction of his time. When you commit a serious gun offense you should serve the time. The victims deserve it, the public demands it, and the criminal Justice System should deliver it. Report or the now highprofile Community Activity father Michael Flager is in sync with city leaders and he says unabashedly that they are seizing on the emotion of little Haditha Pendleton the girl killed after performing at at president s inauguration and sandy hook elementary to further an agenda that was preexisting. Rahm emanuel has had a tough tenure there. Since newtown we know they have some of the toughest gun laws in the country. Now that they moved to this sentencing strategy and truth in sentencing is the feeling is that that is going to work . Reporter you really hit the nail right on the head because the prisons are down state in illinois. The prisons are already overcrowded. So you may get some pushback, if you make the sentences stiffer, ultimately you will have more convicts in more prison beds. And the rest of illinois has to foot the bill. So you may get the pushback from lawmakers down state. Unfunded mandate and you know the state of illinois is in a budget problem of course. Were trying to cut corners and do everything we can to balance the budget. Reporter now the governor of illinois recently decided to close two prisons. Theyre so overcrowded, in six different prisons you have prisoners bunking in the gyms. You may not have a lot of sympathy for them but the Prison Guards are saying they are at risk because theyre so badly outnumbered. Martha what a mess. Well see where that guys. Mike, thank you. Bill talk about this and another dangerous storm is heading east. Which cities are on watch for this one . A lot of snow is packed in there too. Martha part of the exclusive Chris Wallace romney interview that you did not see over the weekend. What the former president ial nominee is saying about taxes. Well, two things. He won but a majority of republicans were elected to the house, the peoples chamber. So they also won. They ran on a platform of saying not to raise taxes. Michael, tell us why you used priceline express deals to book this fabulous hotel. Well, you can see if the hotel is pet friendly before you book it. And i got a great deal without bidding. And wheres your furry friend . Oh, i dont have a cat. Priceline savings without bidding. You dont decide when vegetables reach the peak of perfection. The vegetables do. At green giant, we pk vegetables only when theyre perfect. Then freeze them fast so theyre are as nutritious as fresh. [ green giant ] ho ho ho. Green giant bill you can put the thoughts of spring on hold. Another major storm is crossing the u. S. It is packing snow levels that rival anything we have seen this winter. Meteorologist maria molina live in the fox extreme weather center. How much . Bill, does not look too good. Depends where you live. In minneapolis you could look at amounts just shy of a foot. Chicago this could be the biggest snowstorm so far this entire season. You could pick up well over six inches of snow. Washington, d. C. As we head into wednesday you need to watch the system very closely. Were under a winter storm watch because you could pick up five inches of snow. Were in a snow deficit acrosssections of the midatlantic including you in d. C. And baltimore and philadelphia. We do actually need a little bit of snow. The area of low pressure is centered across the state of montana. Well ahead of system were picking up snow in north dakota, minnesota and parts of wisconsin, all the way down into illinois. Were starting to see some of that snow coming down. Winner storm warnings in effect from minneapolis all the way into the city of chicago. It is not just how much snow were going to get is an issue. It is also the winds that will be gusting 20 to 30 miles an hour at time. It will produce blowing snow, whiteout conditions and dangerous traveling conditions. It is not recommended in portions of minnesota and down through portions of illinois especially when we head into tomorrow when the storm starts to intensify. By wednesday we expect it acrosssections of the midatlantic. Still unearned where the exact center of storm will go. These are snow totals for particular cities. D. C. You could see over five inches of snow. Some rain will mix n. Parts of west virgina, bill, higher he will is cans elevations could see the ten inches of snow. Bill that is the march line. Good for ski others. Bill thats true. Thank you, maria. Martha former president ial nominee mitt romney weighing in on the tax debate gripping the country. Anchor of Fox News Sunday Chris Wallace talked to mr. Romney and his wife ann in interview we saw most of it over the weekend. He joins us with what you didnt see on sunday. Good morning chris. That is exactly right, martha. We ran a lost interview but he had more things to say. One. Key issues was the ski questionster and the mandate that the president got with his victory over romney in november. Take a look. The president said he won a mandate to raise taxes on wealthy. On tuesday night we found out that the majority of americans agree with my approach. Do you agree voters sent that missage, gave him that mandate . Two things. He won but a majority of republicans were elected to the house, the peoples chamber. So they also won. They ran on a platform of saying not to raise taxes. But the president won. And he got what he wanted. Now he is saying i want to do it again, i want to do more. I dont think that is the right course because that will hurt the economy, make it more difficult for jobs to be created for the people that need those jobs. So how would president romney, at this moment, be handling your opposition in congress, the Congressional Democrats . Well, first of all i can go back to my experience as a governor, and that is you dont attack the opposition when you need to sit down and work with them. Number two, you show trust. You dont change the deal. You dont move the goalposts. Bob woodward said the president has moved the goalposts on sequestration. The currency in politics is trust. Number three, you have to spend time with them. Instead of being out with campaigning which causes people to retrench. I think republicans feel that the president may be more interested in getting nothing done in these next two years and trying to replace republicans in the house so he can have it all democrat house and senate and then be able to run the field. And he really doesnt want to get the job done. I think there is growing feeling that may be the case. Of course if youre a republican youre going to say, whoa, we better, we better be careful here and so the interests of the American People are being held hostage by politics. During the campaign the obama team hammered you for having investments in the Cayman Islands. Out of touch. A prospect of a president with a Swiss Bank Account and a retirement investments in the Cayman Islands . It now turns out that the new secretary of the treasury, jack lew, had investments in the Cayman Islands. So did the president. The president had investments in the Cayman Islands. Now this is a normal structure for investing in private equity and venture capitalism. By the way people pay full u. S. Taxes whether they have that vehicle or not. But look, the president s campaign was not one of laying out fairness. They tried to attack me and demonize me. That is the nature of a campaign. They couldnt talk about the president s record on the economy so they went after me personally and did it effectively. What do you think of the eight republican governors, including people like Chris Christie and john kasich, who opposed obamacare but now decided to accept federal funding to expand medicaid in their states . Are they making a mistake . I think each governor has to assess what is right for his or her respective state and im not going to secondguess them state by state. If i were governor of massachusetts, i would have to look at what our citizens needed, what was best for them. It may hurt them politically, i dont know but i think that those governors are doing what they think is right for the people of their state. That is what they were elect to do. More than 80 republican leaders, including some of your former top advisors and donors have now signed a legal brief calling for a constitutional right to marriage for samesex couples when the issue comes up before the supreme court. Has your position on that evolved at all . No. I believe that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman and that is because i believe the ideal setting for raising a child is where there is a mother and a father in the home. Other people have differing views and i respect that, whether that is in my party or in the Democratic Party but these are very personal matters. My hope is that when we discuss things of this nature, we show respect for people who have differing views. You know, i want to pick up, martha, on one thing that romney said earlier in that interview when he suggested that perhaps obama doesnt want a deal. That he wants to make this a Campaign Issue for 2014 so that he can end his time in the presidency with a democratic majority in the house and senate the way he began it with a victory, with a majority of the house and senate. That is growing feeling among republicans that you heard mitt romney express in our interview. Martha it certainly is. It was very interesting to hear how he answered your question, chris, what he would be doing. How he would approach it as a leader which he is clearly think the president is not doing. He said number one, dont attack. Number two, show trust. And number three spend time with your opposition. Those are three things clearly the president really has not been doing, right . I couldnt agree with you more. I thought that was just fascinating and you know i think that is the thing that frustrated him most as he said in the interview we ran on Fox News Sunday. It kills him to think could be a Golden Moment to make a big deal to solve the countrys physical problems. To be wasted on politics. Owe think is the president all about campaigning and not doing hard work as a leader which is to get the guys together in private rooms, no attacks, no politics and just work and work and work to make a deal and he said if youre out campaigning and bashing these guys, you cant then play the inside game as well because it destroys any trust. Yeah. Its a big gamble really when you look at it that way for president obama, whether or not the legacy helping to usher in democrats to have a Democratic Congress in the last part of his presidency will outweigh what he would have gained if he had as mitt romney suggests, shown leadership and been able to pull people together that is political gamble. I do want to ask you about this other thing i thought was really interesting when you asked him about samesex marriage because i think about the next president ial election and what will will hear from a possible gop candidate because clearly mitt romney did not resonate with a lot of groups out there, with hispanics, with people in favor of same zacks sex marriage. He was seen out of touch on a number about those fronts and he seems to be sort of sticking to the way that he presented himself then. Well, thats right. So interesting, because in the interview he talks about the fact that we didnt communicate with people. He talks particularly about minorities. You have a lot of issues that are of greatest importance to minorities like, in the case of hispanics, illegal immigration. Whether there should be a path to citizenship. Obamacare, a program very important to people that dont have health care and also in this case about samesex marriage for another constituency. He is not changing his views. So the question is, well, if you want to reach out to these people but youre not going to change your views, how do you have anymore success than you had in november of 2012 . Martha yeah. And the other thing is, how successful the Obama Campaign was in portraying him as out of touch, and you know, you spent a great deal of time with them. A number of people spent time with them over the course of the campaign as well. They come across in a different way than they were portrayed. We saw that joe biden thought. They were very successful looking back at pinning him that way, werent they . Well, interestingly enough, one of the things, one of the keys to the election was that between april, when he became in effect the nominee in august, he was out of money and that is when the Obama Campaign really bashed him both on tax returns, and also bain capital. And i asked him about that. I said i know you didnt have money but couldnt you have done more to blunt that . You know, we tried and we did have a money problem, we did try to do it but it never moved the meter when we would do things like that. The only thing that would move meter in our polling when we, the romneys attacked obama on his programs so, you know on the one hand i think he feels badly bit but im not sure he think it is would have made a difference in the election. Martha so interesting to see somebody who has been through this process and who is licking their wounds from the things that went right and things that went wrong and what they do next. Chris, thank you so much. Fascinating interview. Thank you, martha we were talking on friday just previewing that for the show on sunday. It has been four months since we heard from him. Fascinating now to look back not just over the campaign but also how he views the way washington is working. Martha if you dont go right back in, senator mccain went right back in as a senator. He always said he would be perfectly happy to return to that role. He loves being in the senate but it is very tough for folks in mitt romneys position to figure out how you go on, what you are going to do next. Bill good point. There is a new report out, martha, about Irans Nuclear desire and what this move means for that regimes program now. Well tell you about that in a moment. Martha this is an awful story. A nursing homeworker refuses to help a woman, who is dying at that nursing home. The shocking 911 call. What happened here . Hand the phone to the passerby. Anybody there can do cpr. Give them the phone please. I understand if your facility is not willing to do that. Give the phone to that passerby, that stranger. I need, this woman is not breathing enough. She will die if we dont get this started. Martha well horrific multicar crash in kentucky leaves six people dead. It happened on interstate 65 just south of louisville. Two crashes took place within minutes of each other in the same spot. Six people were killed in the first accident when a tractortrailer rearended an suv in the second wreck, among the five people hurt, greg loman. Drummer for Country Music star kellie pickler. He remains in serious condition. Well keep you posted on that and update you when it comes in. Bill there is troubling news out of iran. That countrys media suggesting it is closer than ever to going nuclear. Iran claiming that it produces more than 3,000 advanced centrifuges used to make iran why iran yum. Kt mark far lapped, former deputy of secretary of defense in the reagan administration. Good morning. Bill the number,000, is that important, is that significant . Is that a hoed line . It is not significant in itself but significant what happened last two or three weeks with iran. There are a indications they decided they made the decision theyre going for it and nothing is going to stop them. What are those indications . These new centrifuge. A centrifuge is basically like the spin cycle in the washing machine. You spin it a little bit you get the clothes a little dry. That is the uranium you use for medical research. Bill faster you spin the higher the quality . Got it. You spin then you get enricheduranium. Bill last week on foxnews. Com, it was reporting a leading Nuclear Scientist from iran traveled to north korea to watch its latest nuclear test. Now is there any doubt these two countries are working together in your mind. No. That is not the first time that happened. The North Koreans tested missiles for example. They call them the taepodong missile. They cast it and sell it to iran. All of sudden the iranians get it. They paint the side of it. They call it a shahab business missile. I think they were working in conjunction. Why is that significant . Iran says, north korea, that pipsqueak after country, nobody stopped their Nuclear Program. They tested missiles. They tested nuclear devices. They talked about nuking new york. Nobody stopped them. Were a much more bigger and powerful country. Bill theyre taking cues on reaction and so far the reaction has been very little . Yeah. Bill if iran were to announce it was nuclear tomorrow or a week from now, what would change . Well, i think the whole world changes and thats why they will be very reluctant to stop their Nuclear Program at this point. First of all, what happens, iran becomes a dominant country in that is right. World, in the persian gulf, 40 of the worlds exported oil comes from. Secondly, they have Nuclear Weapons to threaten israel. Now they talk about doing it all the time. Maybe they dont want to go nuke tel aviv but the fact they talk about it, if youre israel, you can not take that idlely and lightly. You think somebody who talks about incinerating your people and has the ability to do so has to be taken seriously. Then the third thing, the one i think affects us there is Nuclear Arms Race in that part of the world, the most dangerous, unstable part of the world that has the worlds oil. Bill now you mentioned israel. There is lot of talk, parlor talk or perhaps it is real about striking iran first. Yes. Bill short of bombing iran, what are the three things the United States could do . Okay. I never wanted to be in this position where you either let iran get the bomb or bomb iran. I think that there is still not much time but there is still a little bit of time. I would do three things. One, get our own oil. Build that keystone pipeline. Develop u. S. Oil resources in north america. To the point where we are independent then. We dont need to rely on the middle east oil. We dont need to be pulled into every middle east conflict. Bill sounds logical. Sounds logical. Cyber weapons. Weve seen the Cyber Attacks that stuxnet worm, flame, the ones that we think weve not admitted it but we think the United States probably and israel have done against iranians. They were very effective. Bill setting the program back. Dont stop it. But set it back. So you buy a little bit of time. I think third thing we failed it do and reagan did to such effect talk directly to the iranian people. Tell them we want you to be a great power. We dont mind you have Nuclear Weapons. We mind this iran, this leadership. They talk about threating the world and nuking throughout the region. Bill you would speak directly to the iranian people. Absolutely. Bill didnt a top leader reject a request from joe biden to talk directly . Thats why you talk directly to them because the Supreme Leader of iran, youre so smart to point this out, he is the guy that really makes the decision. He just rebuffed Vice President bidens request for direct negotiations. What the United States should do, our leaders, go over the head of the iranian government directly to the iranian people. Let them have the arab spring one more time. Bill wow, appreciate your input. Thank you, kt talk to you later in the week. Thank you. Bill kt macfarland here. 12 minutes before the hour. Martha . Martha back here at home a financial meltdown in a major u. S. City. Why unions could be part of the problem. Also breaking news just moments ago out of london, on Queen Elizabeth. Well be right back after this. Thyou eat less. Ing weiyou lose weight. Et. Its a great plan. Until you get hungry. Thats the time to take slimful. One tasty 90calorie slimful and a glass of water satisfies hunger for hours making it easier to eat smaller meals, and resist snacking. Your friends might think you found the secret to losing weight. But its no secret. Its slimful. Eating less is a beautiful thing. Bill so the dark night rises in england. Literally. Check it out a real life batman. A potbelly caped crusader dragged a burglar into the station. He is trying anyway, right . Martha boy. Bill never revealed his identity, telling officers, quote, ive got this one for. Awesome. Bill before vanishing into that dark night. Martha all right. From one hero to another. Brand new video showing Queen Elizabeth the ii, leaving the hospital. Look how good she looks. She is walking down the steps in her nice red dress. She is fine as evidenced by video. She was in the hospital after overnight. I am mow between lloyd webber is a entertainment reporter. She joins me now and wellschooled. Good to have you here. As we anticipated she is tough, she is fine, right. Absolutely. She is infamous for robust help, even news of boeing into the hospital. She is 86 years old. Only been in the hospital five times in her entire life. Martha how many of those were for babies . First time since 1982. And then of course, she just been hospitalized but is out and doing absolutely fine. Yeah. Martha it is fascinating to watch here. She is 86 years old. Yeah. Martha i think a lot of people talked to jubilee whether or not she would be able to exceed queen victoria, the longest reign in british history which is 64 years. You know, certainly good genes run in her family, right . Her mother lived to 101. She will certainly be hanging on. She hasnt been in the hospital for ten years. She is opening a lot of hospitals but hasnt been in one. That has to be a question mark though. She did 425 official engagements in 2012. She is 86 years old. Her husband is 92. There has to come a point perhaps were asking a little bit too much of them. She is not the bionic woman. Maybe well see the younger royals stepping up even more. I think only a matter of time before a Prince William become as fulltime working royal. Martha feels like they started to move in that direction. To bring them in more. The birth of their child will be happening over the summer. That will be important as well. There is always so much discussion, lets pull up a quote if we could from when Queen Elizabeth was 21, when she took on the job. You have the pope stepping down, unprecedented. First time in 600 years. This is a picture it of Queen Elizabeth on her 21st birthday, when she was about to become queen. She said we must giving noing less than the whole of ourselves. There is a notory which has been borne by many of my ancestors, a noble motto. I serve and declare before you and all, my whole life whether shall be long or short will be devoted to the service and service of our Great Imperial family which we all belong. She doesnt believe in stepping down. She absolutely doesnt. She is figurehead to 2 billion people. What happens to her affect as third of the world population. This is why it is news when she goes into the hospital. She made an oath to god. She wont be stepping down but younger members will step up more. Weve screen younger royals doing overseas tours a bit more. But long may she reign. Martha there was a, some of the web sites, sort of popping up pictures of charles as the next king and raising the question again, would she overstep charles and want william to exceed her, also highly unlike. That wouldnt happen. William wouldnt allow it. His father will probably have a very short reign. Take over in his 80s and then it goes to william. The queen will not be stepping down. Prince charles will inherit the throne and william and baby bump. Martha the baby will be auld talked about in july. Yes. Martha boy or girl, it will be next in line. Absolutely. It is, we know women make great monarchs. Queen victoria, Queen Elizabeth the i and Queen Elizabeth ii. Martha were glad she is out of the hospital. She looked great. Always good to see you too. Bill she is not retiring . Martha no. Bill she is staying on the job. For life. Martha for life. Bill cardinals from around the world getting ready to pick the new pope. What they are deciding in a critical meeting today. Well tell you about that. Martha emdid legs going on right now where a sinkhole swallowed an entire bedroom of a house and killed a man. This is an unbelievable story at the end of last week. The threat of experts now say this sinkhole is causing to the entire neighborhood. My fathers retired navy. He spent 20 plus years and, we were afraid that a lot of his memorabilia from being in the service was lost. I mean i know i could replace it. It is just not the same as the original. 4nyn9s÷xq [ male announcer ] help brazil reduce its overall reliance on foreign imports with the launch of the countrys largest petrochemical operation. When emerson takes up the challenge, its never been done before simply bemes consider it solved. Emerson. Martha all eyes are on rome this morning where the cardinals from around the world are gathering for their first round of talks. They will decide when theyll decide about the next pope. Welcome to a brandnew hour on this monday morning in americas newsroom. Great to see you, everybody, im martha maccallum. Im bill hemmer. They have to make a decision soon. Todays meetings will help identify the top candidates to lead the worlds 1. 2 billion candidates, a field that remains wide open from candidates from every corning are corner of the globe. Martha faces will look very familiar to everybody soon. Amy kellogg joins us live in room. What more do we know about the exciting happenings there today, amy . Reporter i have to say, martha the scenes outside of st. Peters square today were not really consistent with the solemn undertaking that was about to begin. It was actually crazy with paparazzi getting their camera lenses into the faces of the cardinals as they made their way to the hall, the reporters absolutely mobbing every cardinal as he made his way to his meeting. It was reminiscent of a skaep scene outside of a courtroom. They took it well, they smiled, but they revealed absolutely nothing. The meeting got underway today and they had an afternoon break. We had a briefing from some of the u. S. Cardinals who said so far its been about logistics and nothing more. They have taken the solemn oath to keep the proceedings of the conclave secret once that begins. We spoke to cardinal whirl about what he hopes will be achieved here in rome. The call is to see someone who sees the work of the church today is to get the gospel out there, to invite people to experience god all over again, to invite people into that wonderful relationship with god all over again. We have too many people that i believe havent really had that invitation, people who may feel they know what the church has to say, and it doesnt have much meaning to them. We need a pope who keeps reminding us there is such a beautiful, spiritual side to life and we need to share it with people. Cardinal george from chicago cited saint thomas aquinos today and said they hope they will be quick in miking their decision. Martha how does the conclave actually work, amy. The meeting now, the kapbg tkpwaeugs i congregation is a chance for people to say what is on your mind. People over 80 can give their insight. It is appraiser full, martha they have to take an oath before they cast each vote each time. I believe that is in latin. What is understanding about this is they have to disguise their handwriting as best they can when they cast the secret ballots because they want this to be completely confidential. Martha so understanding, amy it will be fascinating to watch this process. There are so much high hopes i think in terms of the selection. We will be watching you all the time, amy. Thanks so much from the vatican. Bill they call in the sweet sistine, the sweet sixteen, the top 16 candidates, who might be the next pope. The conclave date not set but expected to be decided once all the cardinals ae arrive in rome. Benedict the 16 r xvi will not take part in it. Martha bigger numbers of americans than ever in this process of electing the pope. Eleven american electors will be in the conclave, all under the age of 80. You may recognize tim dolan the cardinal from the new york area. Cardinal wirl, cardinal from the d. C. Area. They were both elevated in 2012. You wonder if they will vote as a block, if they will sort of get together and decide who they want to support. Its going to be really interesting. I think there is so much hope for somebody bill oftentimes i like even it to a fraternity. When you socialize you try and influence toward one person perhaps away from another or maybe even be on your own behalf. All this is possible now as they get together and decide the next leader. Do you like sweet sistine. Martha or the animal house reference better as to what is happening in rome. Bill four minutes past the hour. Potentially groundbreaking medical achievement. Doctors claiming they have, quote, cured a baby born with hiv. Jaime colby live here now with more. What do we know about the baby,. Jamie knee. Its exciting news to say the least, bill, but her hiv mom didnt have proper prenatal care and didnt even know she was hiv positive. In this case not wanting to wait for test results the babys doctor decided to use an aggressive course of treatment, more than normal for hiv infected inc infants. Two and a half years later the doctors have said the disease is undetectable, and said she is cured. She didnt return for childcare, and the mom had stopped the testing. Upon retesting the virus was gone. She went back and looked at the tests when the preventative treatment began and they were all positive for hiv. My first thought was to panic. I thought, oh my goodness, i have been treating a child not actually infected. There is one other reported case of an hiv patient learning their virus had been turned. It was an hiv positive San Francisco man who had leukemia and a bone marrow transplant. Bill what can this mean in the worlds fight against pea at trick aid and that issue. Reporter an estimated 300 to 400,000 infants born globally each year with the infection. 90 of them are in resourcepoor countries in africa. In the u. S. We are seeing dramatically fewer hiv births. Scientists will do more research. They need to see if the what the doctor prescribed for her infant will work. What makes this case, bill, even more unique is you may know hiv patients undergo treatment for the rest of their lives. This baby had stopped, no virus. Bill incredible. A huge breakthrough if it holds. Reporter we are happy to hear it. Martha Casey Anthony is heading back to court today, the florida mom acquitted in the 2011 killing of her two waoerld daughteyearold daughter caylee. Steve harrigan joins us live as she is back in the news again. Good morning, back in the news. Its not clear whether or not we will stul here se actually see the 26yearold as she enters or leaves the bankruptcy court. It gets started at 1 30. There are no cameras allowed in the courtroom. Casey anthony has largely been in hiding since her 2011 acquit alon the charges of murdering her 2yearold daughter kale leave. She has been ranked among the most hated people in the united state. People will know where she is in tampa this afternoon. Martha we are looking at pictures of the acquittal that was a shock being moment. How has she survived over the couple of years and no job and claims to have only had a thousand dollars in that time period. There is going to be close questioning of her finances by the bankruptcy judge. She claims to have a thousand dollars in assets, no employment and 792,000 in debt, mostly to her attorney, jose bias. One poe tepbg alsna potential snag could be if she has a book deal o or a potential book deal. The judge might look into that in the proceedings today. Bill an American City buried in huge amounts of debt and high unmoment, now at risk of a state take over. How the republican governor is planning to turn things around there. Well take you there. Martha how weird is this. Former nba star Dennis Rodman speaking about his bizarre visit and what he calls his new friend, in north korea. Bill a nursing home under fire for refusin a nurse not performing cpr on a patient there. Is there anybody there that is willing to help this lady and not help her die . [ loud party sounds ] hi, im ensure clear. Clear, huh . Im not juice or fancy water. Ive gotine grams of protein. Thats three times more than me [ female announcer ] ensure clear. Nine grams protein. Zero fat. In blueberry pomegranate and peach. Bill at the moment president obama about to name Sylvia Matthews burwell as the new white house budget khaoefrbgs the woman who would be the director of the office of management and budget known as the omb. Currently the head of the walmart foundation. Its confirmed by the senate she would be the second woman to hold this post. All this streaming live right now at foxnews. Com. You can check it out online now. A california nursing home is now defending a nurse who refused to perform cpr on an 8 sevenyearold patient. Shear is the 911 call. You can hear the operator practically begging the nurse to step in and begin cpr for this elderly woman. Listen to this. Yeah, we cant do cpr hand the phone to the the passerby, anybody there can do cpr. Give them the phone, please. I understand if your facility is not willing to do that, give the phone to that passerby, that stranger to have it then. This woman is not breathing enough she is going to die if we dont get this started. I dont know where he is, but shes yelling at me and saying we have to have one of our other residents perform cpr and so instruct, and im not going to do that. Youre going to let this lady die . Thats why we are calling the 11, im sorry. We cant wait, its a human being. Is there anybody there willing to help this lady and not let her die . Not at this time. Martha not at this time. I mean that is a stunning moment to witness on that tape. That patient ended up tkoeu dying at the hospital. Im joined by dr. Marc siegl, professor at langon medical center. Seth barronstein is louisiana aur, you can beat there are legal issues that prompted this for sure. What is your reaction to that. Im shocked about that. Delay is the issue. It is so absurd to be calling 911 to get emergency medical personnel into a facility that in my opinion always should have that. The nurse that is there should be trained in cpr. The idea of a passerby doing it, what about the nurse . All facilities like that should have crash carts, emergency carts or at least defib r defibrillators that they can used if the heart stops bleeding. If you delay until the ambulance arrives your chances are of survival are less than a . If you use cpr and a defibrillator if needed you can go up to a success rate of up to 75 . That is really the issue. They shouldnt be making a decision by the way of who is going to want to be resuscitated and who isnt. If they dont have a dnr order there they should resus state everyone. Martha the legal side of this is what this is all about. This is what their policy is according to the executive director. In the event of a Health Emergency at this independent Living Community our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait for the individual wait with that individual needing attention until such personnel arrives and that is the protocol that we followed. Its also worth mentions that this is the homes independent Living Community. They also have two other facilities, they have an adjacent assisted living facility, and a Skilled Nursing facility. They say the policies are different in those two. When they sign up to live independently they know this is the policy. Lets go to our lawyer, what do you think . I think the situation is obviously outrageous. This is the perfect storm of bad judgment. This facility made a bad decision by apparently telling their nurses, who are clearly nor by and within the zone of assistance that not only should they not immediately provide assistance but that they are disqualified and they should have handsoff. That is an absolutely outrageous application of the policy. This nurse had terrible judgment. She stood there and apparently watched this woman gradually die. This is the perfect form of bad decision and at the end of the day legally although a company, an employer has broad latitude and discretion to provide policies they cant do it in way that puts their clients and customers at clear reus be. Risk. Even summer lifeguards know how to apply cpr. She abandoned her training. There is no justification with regard to either the facility or nurse in my opinion. Martha, this is an independent living facility. Plenty of people have medical problems here and by report she supposedly still had some breathing at the beginning. The idea is people are going to be prone to this kind of thing and they need to have a policy, medically, legally where they have to intervene in a situation like this because there could be a possibility to save this woman. Martha its just stunning to listen to this woman standby. I wonder what it says about our society. Because shes standing there and shes saying this is our policy. Shes saying this woman on the phone is telling me i have to do something or we have to grab one of the other people who lives here to do something. I feel like we have in some places in society become exempt from human feeling and the need to forget all that and jump in and help out. You cant stand on legal ceremony while a person is in front of you dying. I think that this nurse did constitute Trained Medical personnel. If she didnt fall within the policy, then what she was doing there and why was the facility telling her that she was prohibited from applying lifesaving medical care. Absolutely outrageous, no factual or legal reason for this. This is really very disturbing. The policy of the place needs to be changed immediately. Martha gentlemen, thank you. I guess this is a warning for anyone who has a loved one in this kind of place to check out what the policy is and make sure youre very familiar witness and you understand the circumstances because this is a very unfortunate situation and very sad. Thank you very much, gentlemen. Bill that operator tried and of oftentimes we report on stories where the operator dropped the ball. Not in this case. Martha she said just grab anybody. Even a little bit of pressure on that heart in that situation might have got even her the time she needed until they got there. Bill a man pulled to his death by a sinkhole. We have brandnew reaction now from the mans family. Why they say more could have been done. I love my mom and dad with all my heart, and i just want my mom and dad to know that i love you and i tried to save your son, i tried my hardest. Thyou eat less. Ing weiyou lose weight. Et. Its a great plan. Until you get hungry. Thats the time to take slimful. One tasty 90calorie slimful and a glass of water satisfies hunger for hours making it easier to eat smaller meals, and resist snacking. Your friends might think you found the secret to losing weight. But its no secret. Its slimful. Eating less is a beautiful thing. The first woman allowed to come both at an nfl regional combine. Lauren silvermans big moment was short. She lasted only 19 yards. She blamed it on a quad injury she was suffering. While prepping for her try out this. I wanted to work through it and i certainly tried to, but she couldnt do it today. I know i can do a lot more. Its too bad that this happened. But i had to do what is right for my body, so i did the right thing so i can come out and keep kicking in the future. Martha here that, dont count her out. 28yearold silberman is not done yet. As to the questions of whether or not it was a publicity stunt the nfl says she was invited for her athletic ability. Shy did play club sock tpher college. Bill she won a kicking contest too. Martha she didnt win one that day. Bill correct. Martha keep hanging in there. Bill staunch opposition, lawmakers in two states say they are considering extending the kind of instate tuition benefits that are typically reserved for legal residents, and extending those benefits to Illegal Immigrants. Dan springer is in our Seattle Bureau on this. Are republicans changing their position on this story . Reporter well, bill, its a big question, but in general it seems that there is an effort to move the party to a softer stance on what to do with people who are in the country illegally. Youve got the marco rubio task force looking for a path to citizenship and two states who have long opposed tuition states for illegals are poised to pass them. It will mean undocumented students who have been in oregon and colorado and five years and graduated from a high school there will be able to pay instate tuition, and its a huge savings, 21,000 a year difference in oregon between instate and out of state tuition. For carla who is a High School Junior in portland and an illegal immigrant who came here from mexico at 4 years old it means a legitimate shot at a college degree. Republicans this both states helped put the bills overthetop. Its been too easy to cast republicans aside and say they dont care about this. I think we are showing that we do share similarities with the Hispanic Community and our values are very closely aligned. Reporter the democratic governors in both states say they will sign the tuition equity bills into law. Bill not everyone, id imagine is happy about this shift. Explain that, dan. Reporter well, no, we interviewed a College Student at Oregon State University who is paying out of state tuition because she grew up in california. She cant understand why someone who is in the country illegally is getting what amounts to a great state subsidy and she is paying north of 22 grand a year. 13 states already allow illegal to pay instate tuition rates. Opponents call it pandering by republicans that will not help come election time. You should stand on what is right. To give special benefits to people who are illegally in the country, to the detriment of citizens is flat out wrong. Reporter but others argue the g. O. P. Has to do better with hispanics at election time. Governor romney as you know got just 27 of the hispanic vote in the 2012 election and republicans say they cannot survive in the changing demographics with that type of number. Bill well see what comes with this. Thank you, dan. Dan springer live in seattle, the Pacific North wets. Martha northwest. Martha former congresswomans Gabrielle Giffords husband is taking his fight to a new state. Bill former nba start Dennis Rodman talking about his visit to north korea. Why he says the leader, kim jong un wants president obama to do one thing, only one thing he said. Martha the husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords expected to testify in support of a key gun control measure in colorado. A lee alicialicia acuna live from denver. What are they looking at today. They are actually debating seven different gun control measures today. Four of them have already been approved by the Colorado State house. Former shuttle commander mark kelly will be in denver to testify in support of one those measures which calls for mandatory background checks on all private gun sales and transfers. Kelly testified before Congress Earlier this year youll remember and the woman who tackled the tucson gunman who shot kellys wife, congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will also testify in support of another bill that will ban high capacity magazines of more than 15 rounds. Im a republican and i want to see these bills passed, because they are the right thing to do. We are allowing politics to take away the safety of our community, because people are afraid of the nra. Its ridiculous. Nothing gets done, i tell you, these legislators are going to be responsible for what happens beyond here. Reporter and we are being told the debate will probably go well into the night if you can imagine. Martha its become quite heated in colorado. Its a real battleground for this debate isnt it . Reporter it rao el i is. At times the vitriol has become pap pabl. Both houses of the Colorado Legislature are controlled by democrats, on the senate side its tighter. Things are quite personal when it comes to gun control in the state of colorado, in particular there is one representative, rhonda fields who lost her son, she is a democrat, she lost her son to gun violence. Shes been in a heated battle with gun rights advocates. She also represents the district of ahh roa auroia. One ban has passed the house. It could bana shotgun. The governor says hes going to sign it. They are coming after the standard shotgun. Hrupbs ohundreds of thousands of pheasant minute hunters will be carrying around a gun they wont be able to replace after july of this year. Others testifying this week in the state of colorado are those affected by the columbine shooting. The aurora theater shooting and the sandy hook shooting. Martha. Martha thank you very much. Bill the white house appears to be dialing back the doom and gloom ple predictions but they are not backing down on whose fault this is, that would be house republicans. Near is senior white house adviser Jean Sperling on that. Nobody suggested which this harmful sequester which the speaker himself would be devastating to National Security would have all its impact in the first few days. It is a slow grind. Make no mistake about it, you cant cut 42 billion from defense in seven months ab not hurt jobs, veterans, veterans are often those who work in civilian military jobs. Youre going to hurt a lot of people. Bill the phrase there was a slow grind. Tony sakes, and kirstin powers, both fox news contribute ers contributors, how are you doing . The president on friday was predicting that job cuts would come immediately on capitol hill and that did not appear to be the case just yet, tony. Was sperling talking with the same tongue that the president was or not . Even the New York Times last week warned the president not to be the president who cried wolf. He had obviously taken to the stage to create the impression that shes cuts were going to be so drier and drastic it was almost a doomsday scenario. Arne duncan came out, and said teachers were being furniture load in a West Virginia county. The president the day of his meeting with congressional leaders said janitors on capitol hill were going to be having their hours cut. That was proven falls. Bill they said that will not be the case. Youre starting to see these articles written about a credibility issue for the president. If it doesnt happen, what is your view of that and how that affects him . You know, i dont really understand why they are making up stories about people losing their jobs bike the janitors, when in fact people are going to lose their jobs. The reality is its not necessarily going to be an apocalypse but its going to be bad. If cbo says it could be 700, 750,000 people losing their jobs in a very fragile economy. That is not a minor thing. And so by exaggerating it it actually detracts from the message which is that this is actually serous. Bill that whole point about layoffs, you wonder why it has to be that way. Because were spending all this money, 3. 5 trillion this year, i mean somewhere you can go in there and save extense spencess. Tkrbg roy murdoch wrote this over the weekend. Imagine that your boss nicked your pay 2. 4 . Would you dodge next months rent, skip your insulin purchases or unplug your refrigerator. Youd most likely untphrug your refrigerator to lower your power bill. President obama would make premium cable over paying his landlords. The most inexplicable thing to me is that okay, we got to the sequester, blame to be shared as we always say in washington. There are structural problems with the kay things are getting done. But the republicans a week ago decided to give the president tyd these drastic bad cuts and select what he would replace the cuts with in the sequester. Remember, the president wanted this exact power to avoid a debt ceiling showdown back in september. When the republicans gave him the chance and said okay lets not cut money toys aeubld kids, military families, poor children, first responders. Bill he said he did not want that. Keurs teen, whkirsten why would he not wont that . I dont know. The only real explanation is that he want withed the sequester to take effect in the way its been structured, which will be the most damaging. Both parties supported the sequester, you know, the republicans voted for it. I guess now they are trying to fix the problem, and the president should agree to this. I mean, they should give the flexibility to the departments to make the cuts where they need to be made. Bill hes not going with it so far. I suspect hes going to come around on it, because its not there is no defense for it really, that i can think of. Bill one more point to make on this. For five years americans outside of government, i mean theyve been rearranging their lives in make ends meet, and the first of the year he had Social Security tax go up 2 . For the first time the federal government is starting to feel what the rest of america has gone through. I have 20 second left for both of you. Tony, take that. Bill, this is the exact poi point. Republicans are compromising. We dont want defense cuts, its been sacrosanct for republicans not to put the pentagon. We under in order to get our deficit and debt under control we have to give in on something and we gave in on defense cuts for the president. Its a good sign of compromise and he should take that good faith and compromise himself. Bill i dont think the republicans are acting in good faith at all. The argument about moving the goal post is completely skwhrufpbl. Juvenile. There is no reason why they cant give a little on closing loopholes, something they say they have supported in the mast and mid a real deal with the president. Bill youre in washington, youll see how the city changes or not. Youll be our eyes and ears on the ground, all right, powers . We are on it. Martha former nba star Dennis Rodman speaking out about his bizarre visit to north korea last week and his meeting with its leader, kim jong un. He spoke to George Stephanopoulos and he says he doesnt want to make any excuses for the man that he describes as, quote, a friend now. And he says kim is open to building a relationship with the United States. This is so weird, listen to this. You called them great leaders, do you really believe that . I saw in that country, i saw in that country, and i saw people respect him, and his family, thats what i mean about that. Arent they forced to . Well, i say no, because i think hes going to change something, hes just a different view. I sat with him for two days and the one thing he asked me to give obama something to say and do one thing. He want obama to do one thing, call him. Martha im sure hes going to jump right on that advice, right. Bill i doubt it. Martha if i had known he wanted me to call him i would have called him a loaning time ago. Bill you know what i was thinking after i was watching sir dennis here. We should wear sunglasses in the studio because the lights are really bright. Welcome home dennis, home you had a great trip over there. Martha a nice guy. Bill the motor city is in need of a state take over, is that what is about to happen in michigan . Are unions the reason for the big meltdown . Well look at that fair balanced. Martha that you can about being in the right place at the right time. The amazing story of a construction worker who saved the day for that little boy. I saw women crying, and they were shocked. 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Bill a california Maintenance Worker is a hero, saving a toddler who had a seizure and stopped breathing. This man is joe thomas. He says he was on his way home from work when he saw two women crying and waving for help on the side of the road. Thats when joe thomas pulled over and went into action. Here he is. The white stuff that was on his face, and i started doing my compressions on his chest, and his back. Bill wow, it worked. Five minutes later the little boy started making gasping noises and breathing on his own. Doctors say the seizure was probably brought on by a fever that that little guy had been fighting. Hes okay, though. Martha so financiallystrapped detroit, michigan is now one step closer to being taken over by the state after the governor declared a National Emergency in the motor city. Latest Unemployment Rate in detroit, look at that, 18. 2 . It has averaged that number for the last year. 36 of people in detroit live under the poverty level, and they have lost one quarter of their population, dropping to 707,000 rest den. Joined now by two gentlemen that will take a look at this with us. Steven moore a senior writer, and matt mccall. President of penn. This is a big American City that has fallen on incredible tough times, steve. You mentioned the population down a third in the last decade, its down by more than half over the last 25, 30 years. This was once one of the five biggest seattles in america. I would make the case for you martha, remember this is what happened to new york city back in the 1970s when it couldnt pay its bills. This might be the right solution. What is really bang rupgt the city right now is those outrageous lee inflated pension and Healthcare Benefits to retired workers from the city that arent even working any more, rant providing city services. Martha theres about 50 unions that have hold over various parts of the economy in detroit, and a lot of people are pointing at that as one of the biggest problems, matt, because they have promised way more than they can ever afford to pay. That is the basic math of it, isnt it . Absolutely. You come up with one reason why detroit is in and, its the unions. Its clear and similar tell. The unions are destroying detroit and many other industries. This ties into the autoindustry. What was the problem mr. , the unions. You have 48 unions they have to deal with. Billions in dollars in unfunded pensions and health costs. Where is the money going to come from . The politicians in detroit now arent going to do that. You have to bring in somebody from the outside to take care of that. Martha you bring somebody in what power does that manager have to fix those Union Contracts . Is that possible . The reason a lot of these major cities, you know, a lot of cities in california that are also facing bankruptcy, are looking at either a receivership or the bankruptcy option, is this may be the only way, martha, to get out from under those enormous contracts and those obligations, because once they file for bankruptcy then all the contracts are null and void and they can be renegotiated. Thats what a lot of city managers are looking at doing right now, because if they stay on the path they are on right now, martha, one out of every three tax dollars collected from a shrinking tax base would go not for services, schools and roads and parks and emergency services, but to pay for pensions of people who are retired. You just cant run a city that way. Martha you know, mat matt back to the election and president obama talking about saving detroit and how the car industry was one of the great victories of the first term of president obama. How does that play into what were talking about here, or does it . If it was a great victory youd have a lot of people wanting to move to detroit for an expanding Auto Industry. Unfortunately our Auto Industry is not expanding. The only reason gm and ford are doing see sent is because of overseas sales. There is nothing to do with domestically right now. Taking a look at detroit, the economy is based on the autoindependent straoerbgs lets get real. The fact that the Auto Industry is not doing well means detroit is not doing well. Its a failure. The top five largest cities in our country is about to go bankrupt, he didnt say anything, the Auto Industry or detroit. The Auto Industry actually is doing pretty well, its just not in michigan any more. Its not in detroit. Exactly. The motor city isnt the motor city any more. Its states like tennessee, texas and alabama that are making the cars. Martha what drove them away . Its because they didnt have to deal with the unions in those states. Exactly and righttowork laws. Michigan should become a righttowork law, that would bring some of the jobs back. Martha here is the list, the u. S. Cities going broke. Stockton, california. Detroit, michigan, pontiac michigan, central falls, rhode island, the story of manufacturing tha. Bill what is happening jon scott standing by. Jon there are new warnings out there of a massive cyber attack if you use online banking. Well tell you what you need to know, plus a patient collapses at a retirement home and a nursery fuses to give cpr. Now the woman is deed and the facility is defending the nurses actions. Well discuss the legal fallout sure to come. March coming in like a lion, forget spring. Another winter wallop is on the way. Well tell you where all on happening now. See you in about 11 minutes. Bill see you in 1 minutes. 11 minutes. There was tragedy for the family of a florida man, swallowed whole by a sin sing sinkhole. My twoyearold daughter keeps asking, where is jeff . 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When i take a picture of this check, it goes straight to the bank. Oh. Oh look the lion is out no mommy no dont worry honey, it only works on checks. Deposit checks from your smartphone with chase quickdeposit. Just snap a picture, hit send and done. Take a step forward and chase what matters. You might ask yourself, who is that with all that huge number of photographers around, that is Casey Anthony as she went into a tampa courtroom, her head covered, the paparazzi all surrounding this young lady who was acquitted of murdering her 2yearold child in a case that gripped the nation. Shes been pretty much in hiding, nobody sees much of Casey Anthony. Today she is back out and that is the situation that greeted her. She is in bankruptcy proceedings trying to prove to the court that she has no money, so that she can file bankruptcy. Bill who knew, right . Also in florida, demolition resumes this morning at the home of the florida man swallowed alive by a sinkhole. Fox tampa and April Kellogg has this story. Demolition crews are now back on scene at this home in eastern hillsborough county, the plan today to bring down this house. Thats when engineers should be able to determine exactly how large this sinkhole is, how stable or unstable the ground is and if its safe for some of the residents to move back into their homes. In the meantime family members trying to salvage any sort blankses they can from this house, that is coming down piece by piece. Think built, it is their family house for nearly 40 years for some of these residents, now the calls are coming down. The search was called off over the weekend for their loved one jeffery bush e. He was the man sucked into the ground when the sinkhole opened up underneath his bedroom thursday night. The goal yesterday was to open up the front of the house from a safe distance so that the bush family could retrieve as many values as possible, pictures, a family bible, were told, whatever wasnt destroyed. Today it is about getting this house down so we can learn more about the sinkhole. Once the house is gone thats when they can probably look into filling up the whole and determining whether its safe for residents to come back into their houses. There were two families evacuated and staying at hotels and getting assistance from red cross. We should be getting a lot more answers as the day goes on. April kellogg, fox news. Bill thank you for that. Absolutely bizarre they have not been able to find his body in that earth. Martha crazy story that is. So sad, you can just see that family going through the heartache of what has happened there. And also there is this growing controversy over the number of Illegal Immigrants who were set free. What the department of Homeland Security is saying about this now. Well be right back. Americas news room