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now: >> >> steve: live from studio e from midtown. hope you had a fantastic weekend. >> don't remind everybody. it is depressing . >> brian: i feel like we are ready and ready to greet the fall ready to start raking. >> steve: you are ready to send the kids to school. i have two starting college today. >> brian: soccer starts today. >> my kid's summer ended because school work had to be done over the weekend because momma was going away. >> brian: summer reading time is a good day. >> book report on scooby do. another u.s. nato service member was shot and killed by an afghan police officer in a latest of insider attacks. kelly wright is live with us with the latest on this story. >> it is a disturbing trepped -- trend in afghanistan. general dempsey is in afghanistan and looking into why afghans are turning on the u.s. troops and killing them. hamid karzai and lou paneta discussed the progress made in the war but also discussed insider attacks. in a statement president karzai said he is calming on elders. if you have done this cruelty you will be accountable to the afghan people. if you are not done behind it is done in your name. general martin dempsey said karzai's statement is important in dealing with this issue. >> i would expect to see that would be echoed down to the lowest levels. unless they speak about it. i mean, we speak about it and taking measure to mitigate the risk. but the more they are concerned about it as we are, the better off we'll all be. >> brian: so the general went on to say what is going on right now. u.s. military uses an eight of had step vetting process of afghan people with the secretary forces in the wake of the attacks however. they will review the vetting and the military has two crisis action teams looking in the process and how to deal forward with the tribal leaders. secretary paneta encouraged karzai to work closely with the commanders on the ground there and further strengthen the isaf to encounter the insider threats that are going on. back to you. >> we have other head liancehead -- head lines. a race car accident in the missouri state fair. five people were hurt, a car crashed through the fence. the missouri highway patrol is investigating how that happened. hollywood heavy weight who directed top gun has died. tony scott plunged 185 feet to his death. his car was found parked on the bridge and a suicide note found in his office. tony scott was 68 years old. >> a maul plane goes down in the neighborhood. hitting a tree and narrowly missing the home. people used garden hoses to put out the planes. the pilot and passenger died. another passenger is in critical condition. investigators are looking into what caused the plane to crash. it was a race against the clark. this is coast guard responders rushed to rescue people from a sight seeing boat. there were only reports was minor injuries. ther investigating how this accident happened. and those are your head lines. >> i was shocked to see news week is desperate to get head lines and redders. and romney had the win factor. now here is the cover of the news week on the stands. hit the road barak. you have an author and columnist at news week. i didn't vote for you the first time. i supported mccane. you have let everybody down. >> twitter newsweek. barak obama broke his promises it is clear that the republican's ticket pass to the prosperity is our own hope. this is extraordinary for a lefty organization like news week that had to be sold for a dollar under the guidance of tina brown or tina frawn for her to put that up on the site. thethesis of the article. has president obama delivered on his promises? and the conclusion circle is no. but the other interesting thing. ferg uson met paul rhine two years ago. and that day he said some day he will be president of the united states. part of the article is about him. here is a quote from newsweek. i acknowledge opponent's remarkable qualitiys and cool hard to ruffle temperament and campaign. but the question is, not who was the better candidate it is whether the winner delivered on his promises . he has not. >> he is a conservative columnist and he said look, he quote ron's book that was well researched. one time larry summers. peter we are home alone. no one dealt a on the economy. they felt they were getting no leadership in the oval office. >> steve: would news week put out a 3200 word column indorsing mitt romney? they have done so much to the left and maybe a dose of conserve tump. >> he called it super power retreat. and not obama care but pelosi care. >> and the dodd-frank financial reform came from dodd-frank and not the president. >> let's ask our view ares why newsweek would do >> steve: they are trying to sell. >> number one reason. but why would they put this particular artucle on the cover of the magazine. in the mean time a new book by malory factor. he claim that is obama care decuned to unionize 21 million health care workers and backed it up with research that tock place in the whute white and other members of the administration and seiu. it will be call would shadow bosses and claims it is part of the master plan. >> steve: when they try tod figure out what the supportive care act would look like. okay how can we turn all 21 mullion mirn health care workers in government union employees? that was the plan. it had to do with power and according for every one mullion union employees, unions take in a billion dollars awe year. >> brian: big labor believe they would be federal, state and health care employees. >> steve: he looked at canada's health care system. suct percent of all health care workers are in unions x. extraordinary 80 percent of all nurses in canada are in unions which is quadruple the number here. >> brian: are my sleeves too long or shirt sleeves too long. i found them and and pulling them down. >> steve: you have more cuff. >> brian: do you blame the shurt or suit. >> you think you grew . >> brian: suddenly i have plaxco burris. >> get it fixed before we go to the convention. >> brian: i promise i will. >> in denver, the city city, is it true to scrap awe plan -- a plan because that company opposes obama care and the man date in there that requires christian companies need to buy birth control . >> steve: the company is call would her cullez and been in business of heating and air conditioning parts. >> brian: there you see. >> steve: the family had a business for 50 years and so they got the city city - council to say we are going to have a resolution for them on july 27th. u.s. court judge halted the obama man date where you have to provide contraception . and the judge said it violates their right in accord to the catholic values. but the council said we will not give it to you . but the house republicans said we'll give you the resolution and this past thursday, they had the speaker of the house recognize them in the state house. >> brian: don't know how that. >> steve: it was a edited local story and then -- >> they had raised money and funds for victims and fighters in those western recent wildfires. >> brian: your assignment why did newsweek go with this cover a couple of weeks after romney, the win factor dus counting the chance of president. >> steve: you want people to type in off the cuff. >> brian: my cuff. growth spirt or what. >> monday morning like brian where he's not complootly focused. let us know. >> brian: i can do multiapproximately things >> chris: this guy arrested for shooting up the christian head quarters and the mainstream media barely touched the story, tony perkins stopped by. >> ceo mark zuckerberg to take his hoody and hut the road. that's next. >> brian: i have nothing to read on the tease. >> you have the next segment. music: "make someone happy" music: "make someone happy" ♪it's so important to make someone happy.♪ ♪'s so important to make meone happy.♪ ♪make just one someone happy ♪and you will be happy too. you can't argue with nutrition you can see. great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole. see the seam? 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[ male announcer ] ...forbusiness.com. ♪ ha ha! >> steve: facebook stock hit an all-time low leading investors to oner if mark zuckerberg taking it seriously? >> brian: some suggesting he needs to step down from the tech giant including this man. charles, what led to your belief that zuckerberg has to go? >> giving him the slim benefit of the but he treated it like a joke. it was beneath mark zuckerberg. you have 900,000 andand he lost the public trust when he got greedy. they talked about an ipo and this stock went public at 25 and goes to 45 and closes that day at 40. people are excited and happy. and when it dips people buy it on weakness. some say he did what you do. zuck every kernel and i think he lost with respect to public relation and the image of facebook is one of a loser, not only in wall street but main street as well. >> steve: look at the stunning fall from grace. starting at 38 and now 19. >> some are in there at 45 bucks they went public. 57 percent of the stock didn't come from the company's coffers it came from people who invested. the guy who did the mural. this last week another 200 mullion shares. twoon now and november 1.4 bullion and the insiders are selling. why are they selling? >> brian: why is it best he goes when he was creator of this. >> being able to create something is than managing something. yahoo, the people who got involved there were able to create something but couldn't run it on the other hand steve jobs was able to create something and they kicked him out and they got him back and he was fantastic. zuckerberg has the conference call to step up his game. talk off the hoodie and put on a suit and treat this thing seriously because my man, you are in trouble. your company is in trouble >> steve: i have news for you. he's not putting on a suit. there will be a turn ah round in facebook. >> brian: we'll watch you on "fox and friends". >> i am stuart varney. >> brian: i think you are somehow related . major salmonella scare. >> steve: the president capitalized on the fears of the romney-ryan mediscare. is that his own choice. that's next . at usaa, we believe honor is not exclusive to the military, and commitment is not limited to one's military oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military are the ones we used to build usaa bank. with our award winning apps that allow you to transfer funds, pay bills or manage your finances anywhere, anytime. so that wherever your duty takes you, usaa bank goes with you. visit us online to learn what makes our bank so different. >> brian: a j.f.k. flight diverts to denver because of an unruly passenger . we do not know what he was doing and no word on what happened to the flier. and the race is on to stop a deadly salmonella outbreak after being linked to contaminated cantaloupe . two people have died in kentucky. gretch? >> gretchen: thank you, brian. president obama capitalizing on fear over mitt romney and paul ryan's plan for medicare. >> medicare upon to turn medicare in a voucher system congressman ryan wants a vouch are system. i havened medicare . we made reforps that extended the life of the program and saved millions of seniors with medicare and happens of dollars on the prescription drugs>> gretchen: is this paving the president's road to the white house. here to debate it white house senior advisor eddy mills and editor of black chick crystal right. good morning. >> good morning. >> gretchen: the president said he strengthened medicare and yet in october under obama care 716 billion will be talken away from medicare to help fund obama care. is that strengthen medicare. >> one thing you have right. americans are terrified of the romney-rhine budget and plan. because they know what they are planning to do is pillage the middle class. that is devastating for americans. americans should be afraid and we should have this conversation beyond what the president's record . >> gretchen: that was not my question . the president is going on the stump and said he'sen medicare. but the facts are starting in october 716 billion will be taken away from medicare to pay for obama care. your response. >> that's not true at all. last week romney and ryan twisted themselves in a pretzel and trying to explain the fact that ryan's budget has similar medicare savings and bankrupts medicare over time. the president's budget keeps it solvent. that is not true at all. >> gretchen: crystal. >> i don't know how she can stand with a straight face. the truth is president obama is trying to end medicare as he knows it. excuse me let me finish. three and half years unemployment has been above 8 percent. gretchin, you are right. president wants gut 716 billion by cutting costs to providers and reduce reimbursement and double count that money and reduce the cost of 2.3 trillion in obama care. so the reality is, ryan and romney are presidential and vice presidential candidate are trying to save medicare from utter destruction and the president said in 2009, if we don't do something to reform medicare it will go bust in eight or nine years. the american people are terrified and the rass rass poll that came out last week. more americans by 48 percent are terrified of the president's inaction and trying to gut it 700 billion dollars. here's excuse me. the more ryan hits the road and talks about how he and mitt romney are going to save medicare. the american people say hit the road president obama. you are worst thing that happened to america. you are not only try to end bum medicare and the country. >> gretchen: we'll talk about medicare and usually something that politicians to shy away from something . do you agree with isha or crystal. occupy wall street has gone bust and protestors have something else to keep them busy. we'll show next. and making dreams come true . the surprise of a life time for "fox and friends" viewers . meet the first family getting a exterior home make over. 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>> the department of the defense is not enforcing the ballots to be mailed out. 15 states missed the dead line. and five that requested waivers. illinois and new york missed the dead line and it was not out three weeks before the election and out of that in new york . many were discarded because they were not returned on time. 4.2 percent of eligibility military voters in 2010. were able . >> brian: military people are patriotic and fighting on a daily basis to make sure we vote. >> department. justice did not enforce the federal law. and alsolet department of defense is held accountable. i was on active duty. and i was only asked to vote one time. people are moving around every two or three years and not able to register to vote, they will not get registered on time every two years. >> brian: is there enough time if they are tuned in at this moment and time to this? >> the law went in affect for 2009. hopefully the states will be in order and having the ballots out on time. and the postal service has the monopoly of the mail delivery. we need to open that up so that all mail carriiers have an opportunity to get them back on time. having only 4.2 percent of the active military participating out of the two million voters is ridiculous. >> brian: they could tip the scales more this year than i could remember. that's thanks for your service. >> thank you, briain. >> brian: and the president of the family research council knows do well his was attacked. >> steve: the shooting last week by a same-sex activist shocked everyone who heard about temperature the story was largely ignored by the main stream media. >> gretchen: imagine this same thing had happened in a planned part hood . so what does the fam familiar research council think. tony perkins is here. >> good morning, how are you and steve this morning? >> gretchen: i understand last week was hect ic and didn't have a chance to look how the media handle would the story. >> let me express my thanks for those who showed concern. leo is doing well. we didn't have much time to focus on the media. we were focused on our team that was attacked. in tampa i looked through a report. most of the coverage reports were from fox. let others ignored it. it doesn't fit the store tore line. conservatives are supposed to be angry and filled with hate. i told mike huckabee, i talked to leo, he was clear and that is he took the gun away from this man who shot him. and he took it away and the thought came to him to shoot but the lord told him not to do that. the man left and not harmed in some form or fashion. >> >> steve: tony, i watched the net work and i saw a little mention here and there. you would have thought somebody came in and no big deal. but the southern poverty law center referred to your group as a hate group could have been the spark? >> steve, i don't think there is any question about it two years ago when they start tod label christian organizations as hate that stand for christian marriage, that that sparked temperature the man came in with 50 rounds of ammunition and 15 chick-fil-a sandwiches. and we know the controversy there. and he had a couple of other on the hit list. and at least one of them i don't know about the third. about you one of the other two was put on the list. clearly they are inciting the behavior against religious organizations. it is going beyond the rhetoric and passing of words to almost taking the lives of individuals. >> gretchen: we are almost out of time. i know hostility toward religion in america . the report is just out. >> it is it alarming. when you look at a cat log of over 600 cases pertaining to religious liberty. our first amendment is a last priority for the cowers. it is an alarming report. >> steve: tony perkins, thank you for joining us live from tampa. 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does he stay? >> gretchen: maybe sang a tune before he left. >> steve: the white house is singing a tune examine that is we're standing by our man and our man is joe biden. this after last week's gaffe where joe biden said, you know, mitt romney is going to put y'all back in chains. in washington, they say a gaffe is when you accidentally say what you really feel. yesterday on the sunday chat shows, everybody was talking about joe biden. peggy noonan said if joe biden were a republican, the meet the press topic would be, how stupid is this person? rudy guiliani last week questioned his stability and what not and he was on face the nation yesterday. plus you'll hear from robert gibbs. >> i she sarah palin actual israeli operating at a level quite a bit above joe biden. this is one joke after another. you can't escape that. i mean, last week, wrong state. last week, wrong century. last week, that was an absolutely blatant appeal to racism. it was -- they're going to put you back in chains. emphasized the word back. it was on a teleprompter. that's disgusting and somebody in the democratic party, in addition to governor wilder who had the guts to do it, should be able to stand up and say, joe, i'm not going too far. joe biden is going too far. >> is joe biden a drag on the ticket? >> absolutely not. i'm happy to have joe biden out campaigning, telling his story to the american people. putting in front of people the choice that's going to happen in this election. i'm happy and proud of joe biden and i'm happy and proud to have him out on the trail every day. >> brian: the story in one of those books written about the obama administration that when joe biden was up speaking, president obama looked at his aide next to him and said, shoot me now. >> steve: kill me now. >> brian: yeah. he tends to ramble on. >> gretchen: the other problem is, according to robert gibbs, he's out campaigning, but he's really not. he went back home to delaware. he may have some scheduled events coming up. but you would think 80 days before the election that you would have everyone out campaigning as much as possible. >> brian: among the people calling for an apology, the boss continue globe editorial page, along with rick santorum also weighed in over the weekend and rudy guiliani probable will he hit everybody the hardest. >> steve: so many people, particularly on the right, have said, look, he's an embarrassment. you ought to drop him. in the "new york post," one wrote, for those who say changing running mates in midstream would smack of desperation, there would be a ready answer, franklin dell know roosevelt. he ran with three different vice presidential presidents. so roosevelt had three vice presidents over four elections. >> gretchen: let's talk about this with obamacare still unpopular in the american people's minds, there is going to be a new book that comes out talking about the role of unions and obamacare, written by mallory factor, a politics government professor, as well as a writer and columnist for forbes and such. and in his book, he's talking about the importance of unions and obamacare. why? because his argument is that the unions would gain so much more power through this law because many of the healthcare workers would end up joining unions and in dues collected by these unions because of that, as much as $1 billion in dues. >> steve: for every million employees. so according to mr. pacter, and he'll on our show, apparently as they were trying to figure out the affordable care act, they were figuring out, is there any way we could make all these health care workers government employees and then in turn, eventually unionize them? essentially that was the original idea, eventually treating the health care workers as government employees so not only would they have more power, but the unions who have more dough as well. >> brian: meanwhile, speaking of union, there is a big story out today that one of these union bosses has his objectives transparent and caught on tape. it wasn't to reform unions or make them more applicable to the 21st century. it was to convert them and convert the country into a communist society. >> steve: he was at an occupy dc event, i believe over the weekend. here is mikeash. >> labor is a revolutionary communist organization. its objective is to make revolutions in the united states, overthree theroux the system -- >> brian: even the communists don't want to be communists. >> gretchen: he's the former head of the amalgamated transit union, a public transit bus driver, and now guess what organization he's part of. occupy. so that will show you where some of those viewpoints are coming from from the unions, to the occupy protests. >> brian: maybe we'll come across him in the free speech zone in tampa. always good to see a communist, especially if they wear red. another big story breaking, hollywood community mourning the loss of a movie legend. tony scott has died. now the details. >> good morning. a tragic turn for hollywo heavyweight. cops say tony scott, the director of the movie "top gun," he died after apparently jumping off a los angeles area bridge. he plunged 185 feet to his death around noon yesterday. scott was known in the industry for producing huge hits "beverly hills cop 2" and others. at the time of his death, he was working on a movie nor the national geographic channel called "killing lincoln." that's based on the book written by ou own bill o'reilly. cops say the bystanders saw him park his car and investigators say a note was later found in his office. cops say there is no reason to believe that this was anything but a suicide. he was 68 years old. hollywood mourning the death of tony scott. >> gretchen: thanks very much, heather, for that update. very sad. coming up on "fox & friends," president spent the weekend capitalizing on the fears of the romney-ryan medicare plan. is that his ohm option because his own record is too unpopular? former democratic senator evan bayh is here to weigh in on that. >> brian: he was almost number two. how does he feel about joe biden? and a former navy seal launching a campaign against the president over leaks. he will join us live. >> steve: what about diane sawyer? is she coming? >> brian: i'm not sure. i'll call her. this is the plan that revolves around you. introducing share everything. unlimited talk. unlimited text. tap into a single pool of shareable data and add up to 10 different devices, including smartphones and tablets. the first plan of its kind. share everything. only from verizon. get $100 off select motorola 4g lte smartphones like the droid razr. marie callender's gives you a way to make any day a special occasion. new mini cream pies for one. real whip cream and a cookie-crumb crust. marie callender's. it's time to savor. >> steve: president obama's campaign surrogates were out in full force this weekend trying to shift the debate to medicare. >> we found $716 billion in efficiency and savings, primarily by reducing the subsidy that the government was paying to medicare advantage through private insurance companies, something that was costing medicare not saving medicare money as it was originally designed to do, but in fact, costing medicare about 16% more than traditional medicare. >> steve: so are they trying to pivot because the president is having trouble running on the rest of his record, which we really haven't heard much about? let's talk to former democratic senator and fox news contributor, evan bayh, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: what do you think? >> from the beginning, the strategy of the obama campaign is to make this not a referendum on the last four years because the economy has been so tough, the deficit has gone up, et cetera, but to instead make it a choice between two individuals and to really discredit governor romney in a way that would make him an unacceptable alternative so this is a continuation of that theme. >> steve: and it has been a distraction. let's see some tax records, mr. romney. okay. you won't give us ten, how about five years? when, in fact, john mccain only revealed two years, which is i think ron reagan had one year. jimmy carter had one year. john kerry's wife didn't reveal any of her money back in the day. >> the ryan choice for vice president was an attempt to try and elevate the debate away from all that stuff, bain capital, tax returns, all that, and instead put him on a plateau about what about the fiscal future of the company, energize the republican base. i think they have a chance to do this. this whole medicare debate ultimately may be fault fought to a draw because romney and ryan are going on the offense. however, ultimately people tend to trust democrats a little bit more on that issue because after all, we like to spend money on entitlements. if they can fight it to a draw, that's a lot better than historically better than republicans have done on that issue. >> steve: i think this time, for the low information voter, they may not quite understand everythings that going o. if you look at the poll last week between given the choice between obamacare and medicare, they prefer medicare. and the republicans were saying the president raided $716 billion to pay for obamacare and seniors are going, i don't like that. >> it's a great way for the romney campaign to frame the choice. but you steve, raised the critical issue and you said high information or low information voter. the key question here is, are the american people ready for a debate about this? serious debate about this, or not paying attention so much? so if this is another ross perot typo moment in 1992, remember when he got out his chalk board and said the program is unsustainable, if the american people are ready for that, the romney approach might work. if the people are disengaged and listen to the sound bites, maybe not so much. >> steve: if it is -- i've heard some suggest that okay, the romney camp is going to continue to push the president on medicare this week right up to the convention, and then afterwards they're going to pitch rot and talk about the president's performance on jobs. that's a winner for the republicans, isn't it? >> the economy and jobs ultimately has to be the winner for the republican party because the economy has not performed well. if you look at the figures people are unhappy about the direction of the country. so if this is a pivot back to that, that may be a winning strategy. if they continue to get bogged down in entitlement reforms, that's a harder row for them. ultimately, my guess is this election is about the economy, jobs and where we go from here. >> steve: what do you think about turnout? i saw a poll this morning that said like 40% of the country not even going to show up. >> that's unfortunate, but that's what you get when you have a largely negative campaign. people in the middle say, i don't like any of these people. i'm going to vote with my feet examine not participate -- and not participate. that makes the turnout of the two bases even more important. the bottom line is this kind of election makes governing real hard at the end because you have -- you've alienated your opponents and have no mandate is all did you was tear down your opponents. >> steve: and so many things need fixing. evan bayh, down in washington we'd and cake up i would imagine on the train. >> needed some fresh air. >> steve: may i suggest new jersey. maybe not. thank you, sir. >> be well. >> steve: thank you. new jersey has great air. i'm just kidding. you've seen this documentary, navy seals who say the president is putting their lives in danger. >> killing bin laden had been a goal for years. but the politicians turned that victory into an intelligence disaster. >> what about the people who -- >> steve: now some on the left calling them gutless, the seals. the seal behind this ad here to respond next. and she's the olympian attacked by the "new york times" and she's firing back. lolo jones in the house. she's coming up live. good morning to you with the fidelity stock screener, you can try strategies from independent experts and see wh criteria they use. such as a 5% yield on dividend-paying stocks. then you can customize the strategies and narrow down to exactly those stocks you want to follow. i'm mark allen of fidelity investments. the expert strategies feature is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. music: "make someone happy" music: "make someone happy" ♪it's so important to make someone happy.♪ it's so important to make meone happy.♪ ♪make just one someone happy ♪and you will be happy too. 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>> well, i think overt past couple of years, just like you had the big frustrations from democratic and republican lawmakers, it's certainly angered those who have been on the front lines and those who have their peers serving on the front lines. i'm just one of many. i'm a big group of delta force, c.i.a., marines and ex navy seals who have had enough and figured we need to do do something to make sure this administration clamps down on leaks that could hinder future operations or get our friends killed. >> brian: give us an example of some leaks that could endanger your guys. >> the bin laden raid, the virus in iran, the yemeni double agent bomber as well that exposed that the fact that there was a joint british and saudi and american plan which gives a trust deficit for our allies and hurts us in recruiting proceed tension sources from years to come. numerous leaks out there and widely reported on networks of all leanings. >> brian: i want you to hear a little of the ad in case you haven't gone on-line and heard it. let's look. >> been a goal for years, but the politicians turned that victory into an intelligence disaster. >> what about the people who put their lives on the line to help us eliminate osama bin laden? what happened when the administration made it public? who was on our side? >> brian: so a lot of people saying, look at that ad. it's very powerful. you guys are very credible. are you guys going to bat for the republican party? are you guys just anti-democrat or anti-president obama? >> absolutely not. in fact, among our ranks, we have folks who donated to obama and voted for obama. i think democrat senator -- my democratic senator of virginia john warner said it best -- i'm sorry, mark warner, sorry. he said it best when he said democrats should be outraged, republicans should be outraged and americans should be outraged. >> brian: when it comes to the bin laden raid itself, you know admiral mccraven, special forces military commander, he said the end of the day, make no moss stake, the president of the united states, he's the shoulder who made the hard decision that was instrumental in the planning process because i pitched him a different plan every day. what's your reaction to that so when people get upset that the president is taking too much credit, mccraven is giving him credit. >> i think the president is entitled to some credit, absolutely. any president that presides over this type of operation would. what people -- they played that quote from admiral craven, someone who i deeply respect. but what he also said in that same interview was that if these leaks are not clamped down upon, that lives will be lost. future operation also be hindered. that's exactly what we're saying. >> brian: you're also saying that the president should be just as angry about the leaks as you guys? >> absolutely. the buck stops with the president. we respect the president. we respect the office of the president. but ultimately, it is the commander in chief who is responsible for clamping down on these leaks. >> brian: i want to you hear from this clown who from media matters: quote, it's kind of lame, former navy seals don't have the guts to admit they're running a gop anti-obama campaign. your reaction? >> well, like i said on bill o'reilly, wolves usually don't wear what sheep think, but i seriously doubt he would walk into a bar and tell any official operator they were gutless. >> brian: are you a republican? >> yeah. i'm a republican. it doesn't take a lot of investigative journalism to figure that out, but i'm an american first. it's an american issue. folks from all sides of the aisle have spoken out publicly about these leaks, as well as news stations have talked about s. from both leaning this is an american issue and we believe in what we're saying. we're highly organized. it's a group of very competent men and women and we're here to stay. >> brian: we're here to stay, too. i think everybody should be focused on trying to save the 500 billion that could be coming out of the defense department and from benefits to you guys and growing you guys in this country. >> that's another conversation. i would love to have it. >> brian: we'll have you back. scott, thanks so much. thanks for your service, too. >> thank you, brian. >> brian: meanwhile, coming up, donald trump up next. and he'll respond to the attack from the president's advisor. listen. >> this is a guy who has flown all over the country saying he is not sure whether the president believes in america. we're auction auctioning off dinnerrers with donald trump who still questions -- >> brian: there you go. then the president is standing by joe biden's comments about putting people back in chains. herman cain will respond to that new slogan and how he feels that should be portrayed and should an apology be coming out of the white house for those statements. herman cain live hello? 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[ cheers and applause ] i fought for that bill because i cared. because i cared about the 6 1/2 million young people who can now get insurance by staying on their parents' plan. [ cheers and applause ] their plan makes seniors pay more, so they can give another tax cut to rich folks who don't need a tax cut. >> steve: he wasn't divisive until the very end, and then he had to throw that in. >> well, it's been very divisive. it's a campaign, if you really think about it, it's based on hatred, it's based on anger. the anger is unbelievable. and it's something that nobody haseay seen before to this extent. hillary was bad. they really went after hillary. this is much worse. and it's going to get i think even nastier. >> brian: i remember when you were on the show and paul ryan put out his budget. you said hey, i'm not going to talk about the worthiness of but politically, this could be very damaging. now he's on the ticket. have you changed how you feel about paul ryan's budget? >> i will say this, the republicans are energized. they like him a l. they think he's terrific. he want to save medicare, as you know, obama stole $716 billion out of medicare and he put it into obamacare and that seems to be the consensus. i watched a lot over the weekend. the consensus seems to be that that's what happened. everybody fights it. they're fighting it. but he stole $716 billion right from medicare. i really think that it's very interesting what is happening. there is a great energy in the republican party and the polls are not look bad, i must tell you. >> gretchen: what do you think about the fact that robert gibbs now an advisor to obama's reelection campaign, did you hear what he said about you yesterday on fox news sunday? listen to this. >> this is a guy who has flown all over the country saying he is not sure whether the president believes in america. we're auctioning off dinners with the birther in chief, right wing nut job, donald trump, who still questions whether or not the president was born in the united states of america. >> gretchen: right wing nut job, is that you, donald? >> you know i went to the wharton school of finance and i built a great, great company. it's an amazingompany. i've employed tens of thousands of people. tens of thousands. and i have to hear this kind of stuff. it's really a shame. again, it's a campaign built on just tremendous anger and hatred and it's very, very sad. and i have been asking him lots of questions. i've been saying, why aren't you letting go of your passport applications? why aren't you giving your college applications and your college records? why wouldn't you do it? many presidents have done it in running. why is spending millions and millions of dollars in legal fees to try and not have to release these kind of things? i do ask those questions and i guess they don't like them. i think it's hitting very, very close to home. >> brian: does it bother you personally when people say stuff like that or people call you up and say, they just mentioned you on this show and listen to what they said? >> i guess i have to consider it an honor, if you really think about it. what else can you say? it's really sad. do you a good job. i've employed thousandses and thousands of people. i pay -- you talk about medicare examine medicaid, health benefits, thousands and thousands of people have been taken care of, education for their families. they love donald trump. they work for donald trump. it's sad when you hear statements like that and it's really based on tremendous ager and hatred. that's what his campaign is all about. >> gretchen: we're going to see you down at the republican national convention a week from today. i understand you're going to have some sort of a surprise role? >> it's a thing happening. i cannot tell you, but it's going to be very interesting. i think your listeners will like it a lot. >> steve: can you give a hint? >> brian: don't tell cavuto. tell us. >> gretchen: you'll be on our show first. >> i will be on your show first, that day. so we'll have some fun. >> steve: excellent. donald trump, see you in tampa. >> so long. >> steve: straight ahead, turns out marriage does drive spouses to drink more. i told you, brian. but which one -- >> gretchen: wait a minute. >> steve: men or women? the answer is coming up. we'll find out who drinks more. >> brian: plus, she's the olympian attacked by the "new york times" and she's miraculously talented, overcome so much in her life and now firing back. lolo jones here live. >> gretchen: first the aflac trivia question of the day. born in 1974, this actress' break through role in "june bug" earned an academy award nomination. who is she? e-mail us with the correct answer and we'll see -- show it. >> brian: "june bug"? is it better than "expendables"? >> steve: lots better [ male announcer ] when a major hospital wanted to provide better employee benefits while balancing the company's bottom line, their very first word was... 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>> it was a tenth of a second. that was a big world, for track world, it's not so close burks it's close. you can't time it. >> brian: it's so close that i couldn't even figure it out because it had been so long since i had been fractions. >> steve: you were so close. let me ask you this, did the stuff that the "new york times" write about you, which even the "new york times" says it was off the chart, did that affect you? it had to, right? >> i don't know, i always try to use any negative or positive energy, just for energy to get down the track. so i only knew bits and piece of it. i didn't know the full outlash. >> steve: let's read part. it says jones received far greater publicity than any other american track and field athlete competing in the london games. this was based not on achievement, but on her exotic beauty and on a sad and cynical marketing campaign. essentially jones has decided she will be whatever anyone wants her to be, sixen, virgin, victim, to draw attention to herself and the many products she endorses. wow. that would take it out of you. >> i know. it was devastating to read that. frustrating, to be honest, because i partnered with sponsors that we're trying to get the message out of never quit. get over all your hurdles in your life, on the track, off the track. not like some crazy marketing ploy. >> steve: they make it sound like you're just a pretty girl who made the team. >> i fought hard to get that last spot on the team. i came through spinal cord injury, two hamstring injuries. there were times i was devastated on the floor in my house wondering if i could make the olympic team. they're like oh, she got it on beauty. then why did i have to fight for? >> brian: if there is any sport that is pure merit back, it's track. either you won or didn't. second or not. what you overcame is nothing compared what you overcame as a childhood. it's reality. six schools in six years. what you dealt with living in the church basement because you guy high school no money. single mom situation. six kids. this is real life. >> five kids. definitely wasn't a marketing ploy. for me, i was there has got to be other kids struggling with -- maybe they don't have the same stories. maybe they have tough situations and they're wondering if they can get out of it themselves. every time i opened up about my story, i was hoping to reach somebody out there and it's kind of crazy that i would get backlash for that. >> steve: it is crazy. tell us about hurdles of hope. >> right now i want to put all my energies into my foundation that i just started and it will be hurdles for hope, it helps kids who have parents incarcerated. my dad was in jail when i was raised and i want to help them kids and give back. i have a lot of free time. so i'm looking forward to that. >> brian: you're going back to train not guilty about a month. how do we find out more about it? >> we're still in the beginning stages. look op my web site. we'll be doing a function in october. i think it's going to be fun. it will be great. >> brian: you got to come back. >> thank you. >> brian: congratulations. you have another olympics in you, right? >> another olympics. i look forward to i guess there is whole media stuff again. >> steve: lolo, where did that come from? >> my mom and dad always called me baby lo. >> steve: thank you very much. >> brian: coming up on this show, move over, hope and change. herman cain has a new slogan for the president and he's thanking joe biden for the idea. herman cain up next. >> steve: first on this date back in 1980, "magic "by olivia newton john, number one [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? yeah, maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. v8. what's your number? >> brian: aflac trivia answer is -- the winner is amy davis. amy adams. the winner is karen -- wait a second. amy adams is the answer. i don't know her. but i'll tell you, the winner is karen in sarasota. i guess wre not getting the sound bite. >> romney did she he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks write their own rules. unchained wall street. they're gonna put y'all back in chains. >> brian: wow. the president still standing by joe biden after those controversial comments to predominantly african-american audience. former presidential candidate herman cain has a response and an idea about this and joins us live. when you heard that, welcome back, by the way. what were you thinking? what do you think he was thinking? >> i believe that vice president biden thought it was funny. it was not funny and it backfired. and once again, this administration has no positive record to run on, so they're trying to scare people. they are trying to ignore the despair that's out there. he was simply trying to be funny in front of an african-american audience and it didn't work. you don't make a cross the line statement like that in front of any kind of audience. this ought to be about the truth and the facts and they're trying to talk about everything other than the truth and the facts. >> brian: we also know that in hick, in -- in this case and there has been more focus on mitt romney's tax returns. that shows you there is a different focus this time around. but the big focus should be on jobs. you had 44 states have unemployment tick up. that should be the focus. what do you think -- what are you doing about it? >> what i'm doing about it is trying to get the truth out to three groups with the truth tour that is going to appeal to people of faith, business leaders, and encourage them to share information with their employees and college students. here is a startling statistic, brian. 43% of voters under the age of 30, they think favorably of socialism. why? they haven't been taught about the benefits of the free enterprise system. so bernie marcus and i teamed up to put together this truth team called 3033. we're going to hit 30 cities in 30 days and have three events today because when the youth and employees have the right information, they'll make the right decision. now, these states that you mentioned where the unemployment rate has gone up, that's consistent with the fact that 23.5 million people are either unmode or underemployed. so whenever you hear the labor department numbers about, well, 160,000 new jobs were creteed, that doesn't even move the did he say mal point, brian. that is not big news in that case. it ought to be about jobs, how do we boost this economy, and how do we strengthen free enterprise. that's what mitt romney was talking about in dealing with wall street. vice president biden totally took that statement out of context. >> brian: thanks so much. herman cain never idle. got this new despair and change is the new name. he has a new tour going out to get jobs in your town. thanks so much. >> yes. thanks a lot, brian. >> brian: coming up, he disagrees with paul ryan or just about every issue, including medicare. chris van hollen live next it'sacked with 21 vitamins and minerals and protein so kids get the nutrition they need to start the day right. carnation breakfast essentials. good nutrition from the start. this is the plan that revolves around you. introducing share everything. unlimited talk. unlimited text. and a single pool of sharable data that powers up to 10 devices. the first pl of it's kind. share everything. only from verizon. add a smartphone for just $40 monthly access. to find you a great deal, even if it's not with us. 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"fox & friends" starts right now. >> this is herman cain and you are watching "fox & friends". >> gretchen: that was herman cain who we just had on the show talking to brian. hope you had a fantastic weekend. now we're off to one week before the convention starts. >> brian: we'll be there live in a matter of moments. dana perino, but first, the headlines. >> gretchen: fox news alert. new video in. race car accident, missouri state fair. at least five people were hurt after a car crashed through a fence right into a small crowd gathered in the center of the track. the missouri highway patrol is investigating the accident. there were also reports of a crash during an earlier race yesterday, injuring at least one person. the hollywood heavyweight who directed "top gun" has been found dead. police say tony scott, the brother of ridley scott, jumped off of a bridge in los angeles, california, plunging 185 feet to his death. his car was parked on the bridge. investigators recovered a suicide note that he left behind. scott was one of the first directors to make the transition from commercials to features. in addition to "top gun," he produced "beverly hills cops 2" and others. he was 68 years old. afghanistan where another u.s. nato service member has been shot and killed by an afghan police officer. the american is now the 40th coalition troop member killed in an insider attack this year. this number is nearly double last year's total of 21. u.s. and nato troops are being order to carry loaded weapons at all times to defend themselves against afghan attacks. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, is in afghanistan right now. he's3zy] óóí1nezj screening their military and police recruits. a race against the clock last night. this is alaska's glacier bay. this is coast guard responders rushed to rescue at least 76 people from a sightseeing boat. it hit a rock and started taking on water. the coast guard says there were only reports of minor injuries. they're now investigating how this could have happened. those are your headlines for a monday morning. >> steve: with just one week from the republican national convention and two weeks from the dnc, both sides are now turning their attention to medicare, or ed henry at the white house, should we say, medi scare? >> good morning, steve. that's what the republican ticket thinks that the obama campaign is doing. advisors were hitting the sunday talk shows yesterday and hitting the republican ticket hard on that medicare issue. certainly the republican ticket believes they're trying to scare senior citizens in key battle ground states like florida. what we saw this weekend is that paul ryan, the republican vice presidential candidate, is trying to fight fire with fire, but also by pushing back on the numbers, but also rolling out his own mom who is a senior citizen in florida, bring a little softer, more personal human touch to this debate. and in addition to noting that his plan would not affect anyone over 55 years old, paul ryan mentioned his own mom, but went after the president's healthcare plan. take a listen. >> when i think about medicare, it's not just a program, it's not just a bunch of numbers. it's what my mom relies on. the president raids $716 billion from the medicare program to pay for the obamacare program. (booing). >> the obama campaign insists that those savings in medicare were just through waste and other changes that did not affect beneficiaries. they note that those changes in the president's healthcare law will extend the life of medicare by eight years and they say if the romney-ryan ticket is successful and they take that over $700 billion and take it again, then essentially you will see medicare lose four years of life. here is robert gibbs, senior advisor to the campaign. >> well, i think if he wants to protect medicare for his mother, then he should thank, first of all, president obama for what he's done in the past few years to extend the life of the medicare trust fund. to help seniors with their prescription drug costs, to help seniors get free preventive care. >> the president is going to continue pressing that case this week in key battle ground states starting tomorrow. he'll be in ohio, goes on to nevada. so obviously a lot of senior citizens out in nevada, in addition to the state of florida where paul ryan was this weekend. and this morning, we are going to see the republican ticket back together for the first time in several days. the romney-ryan ticket in new hampshire this morning pushing back on all this. >> steve: we've got a live camera in new hampshire. we'll see that promptly. edward, thank you very much for a live report from the white house. >> gretchen: time to bring in dana perino who is from "the five" and joins us on monday morning. what do you make of this news week cover? it's obviously for attention, but seems to be a little bit askew from what the political leanings usually of news week. it says, hit the road, with rack. >> do you remember three weeks ago when they ran the cover about romney being a wimp? a throw back to the george h.w. bush cover? newsweek is not what it used to be when i was growing up and i used to get my newsweek and time and get ready for my speech and debate tournaments. i think it's hard to say whether this cover, which is with an article that's an opinion piece written by nile ferguson, whether it was planned ahead of time, or if newsweek felt so much blowback from that wimp factor cover about romney that they felt they need to do do it. i'm not sure what they're tying to do there. remember, newsweek was sold for a dollar less than two years ago. they're trying to make it work. the new world of -- >> brian: this is a conservative guy. >> yeah. >> brian: he is covertive. so they gave him the cover. so that's significant. >> right. and if you are an obama supporter, this article opinion piece will make you furious. if you are against obama, this enyou find a lot in inn there that makes it think it works. >> steve: for people who have not gone on-line and canceled their subscription years ago. here is a piece. despite having been a advisor to john mccain, i acknowledged his opponent's capabilities, hard, cool temper amount and near faultless campaign organization. yet the question confronting the question nearly four years later is not who is the better candidate four years ago. it is whether the winner has delivered on his promises and the sad truth is that he has not. >> brian: he went on for 25 pages after that. what bothers me about that sound bite a little bit, the piece we pulled out? he's saying he recognized the strengths of obama based on all of the things now that we think back and go, wait a minute. what did he believe? what were the policies he was going to put forward? what was he going to do with the country? it was about his oratory and his ability to run a faultless campaign? that was why everybody was looking to fours years ago. now they're going, oh, that was not very satisfying. >> gretchen: the hope and change really didn't play ought without for so many people. starkly 8.2 unemployment rate we're sitting at on. let's move to the media coverage of president obama and the interviews he is choose to go do because he has not done any sort of a press -- whatever you call it. with the white house cover for eight weeks. he's doing people magazine and entertainment tonight. >> i agree they are important ways to reach a certain amount of people. every time i hear about jay leno, one of the two of them is on jay leno. i know president bush didn't do any of those while he was president. the white house press corp. is set up traditionally for a reason. our tri country is founded on the fact that the government will be held account to its people and one of the ways they do that is representatives from the press. the thing is, they god goth to feed the -- the thing is they have to feed the beast every once in a while the thing is are they that confident in that? >> brian: one of the questions they got from a local radio station was, if you were a super hero, what super powers do you think you would have? he said he would choose to speak languages. >> another one asked him what his favorite chili was in new mexico. good questions. the other thing that happens is if you don't give the white house press corp. a chance to ask a question every now and then, the pressure is going to build up so much and then you're going to have negative feelings. the thing that's amazing is despite all of this mistreatment by the obama team, they still get amazing press coverage. >> steve: they absolutely do. >> gretchen: this past week he did not want all the questions of joe biden and the gaffes and whether hillary clinton -- >> i think it's a bad strategy for them as well. people who are paying attention in this race who might be inclined either to think they might go out and vote for him but aren't enthusiastic or looking for detail, they're left with this -- entertainment tonight is just as important type of you guys response from the campaign. i think it hurts them. i think president obama would -- he could thrive in a situation when he answers questions from them. you just need to hit it a couple of times. if they're that worried about talking about their record and rather talk to people magazine or entertainment tonight, you are not going to get the same kinds of questions you would get from reuters or associated press or yahoo news or any of the other reporters who are in the room covering them. >> steve: the people who cover them day by day, white house press corp., people like us, the campaign didn't want to talk about joe biden and didn't want to talk about the high unemployment. so what do they do? at the end of the week, they throw in that hey, mitt romney, we got a deal. rather than ten years worth of taxes, five years. suddenly we're back on -- >> the deal was this: if you give us five years of tax returns, we will never talk about it again. [ laughter ] who is going to take that deal? you called him a murderer last week. >> brian: that was the super pac. not them. >> he's a businessman. he knows how to negotiate. >> brian: he brought it up and said, i checked my records and it's 13%. i don't know how wise that was. coming back and bringing that up. do you? >> what a lot of people wanted them o do was say back is that sure, i'll give you the five years of tax returns if you give us your college transcripts. >> steve: is that fair? >> no, it's ridiculous. in the meantime, nobody is talk being 8.2 unemployment and debt and deficit. >> gretchen: when are we going to discuss the issues in this political process? >> next week, i think when the convention starts and you actual lea have someone put meat on the bones of some of the policies and from the republican side that they would try to do things, that will be interesting. i'm actually very interested to see how the democrats handle their convention because aside from raising taxes on the 1%, i cover this stuff every day. i couldn't tell i couldn't they actually want to have a second term, except to say that they won. >> brian: i thought it was another stick in the eye to the romney campaign, the fact that the president will continue to campaign during the convention, where tradition has it, a sitting president does not do that. >> is there a single tradition that they have not wiped away? it's basically -- campaigning will never be the same. the traditions that our country enjoyed for a long time about there were certain things did you not do. you did not say, that's gone. >> steve: it's a tradition at our house, we watch "the five" at 5 with five week. we'll be watching. >> gutfeld is back, that will be fun. although we enjoyed having you, brian. >> brian: i enjoyed it. >> we ran him through his paces pretty well. >> gretchen: thanks. coming up next, he's been tapped to play paul ryan to prep joe biden for the debate. chris van hollen here live next. >> steve: then a major nascar star involved in a scary crash. what went wrong? we'll talk about what happened to the car that is on fire there seems they haven't been moving much lately. but things are starting to turn around because of business people like you. and regions is here to help. with the experience and service to keep things rolling. from business loans to cash management, we want to be your partner moving forward. so switch to regions. and let's get going. together. 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>> gretchen: doing just fine. what does it feel like to be the one tapped to do this prep work for the debate? >> well, listen, paul ryan and i get along personally, but anyone who has seen the budget committee debates know we have deep differences on these policy issues. so my job will be to sort of synthesize that, but i also know how paul ryan presents his case. i'm looking forward to the campaign. i'm looking forward to the debates. i hope we can focus on the big issues because there are huge policy contrasts could be drawn between the way mitt romney and paul ryan would like to take the we country and the way the president and vice president would. that's what the debate will be about. >> gretchen: medicare will be front and center. i think the american people, once and for all, really want to get to the heart of this debate. let's look at what the ryan-romney plan encompasses. it's complicated, but these are the basic points. provide subsidies, let's plans compete against each other, citizens 55 and older grandfathered in. eligibility at 67 after 2023. and it cuts medicare spending by $750 billion over the next ten years. why do the democrats and you specifically, congressman, have a problem with this whole idea of letting the free market get involved where seniors would have the opportunity to stay on medicare under the romney-ryan plan, or go to a private company >> because the way this works fundamentally is to say the way we're going to deal with rising medicare health care costs is simply to shift those costs on to senior citizens. we already have a private option under the medicare plan. it's called part c. called medicare advantage. in fact, if you look at the history of that, it's actually cost the medicare program more and, in fact, one of the things we did under the affordable care act under obamacare is to say we're going to ends the overpayments to the private insurers within medicare. we're going to use some of those savings instead to strengthen other benefits. so for example, for seniors with high prescription drug costs, we've closed the doughnut hole. we improved the approach to preventive health care. and in the ryan budget, even though they're now criticizing the president for those savings, they adopted every penny of those savings. they did not plow any of that money back to strengthening benefits. they reduced benefits compared to the affordable care act and they will pass the bill on to seniors in the form of vouchers. >> gretchen: what about the idea that under obamacare, that it's actual will he the president -- actually the president is cutting medicare by $716 billion in order to pay for obamacare? >> actually the president doesn't cut one penny in benefits. what the president did was end some of these overpayments to the private insurance companies in medicare. so for example, they were being paid at 114% compared to the regular program, the fee for service program. again, the ryan budget, the republican budget, they understood this was one of the sensible things to do, which is why they adopted all those savings in their budget. >> gretchen: doesn't that bring us to the basic point, though, of what a lot of seniors are very concerned about, which is the quality of care that they will get and whether or not physicians will be able to still take medicare patients? because it's already starting that many physicians do not, because of the reimbursement, won't obamacare make that worse for seniors? >> no. here is why, in addition to getting rid of the overpayments to the private insurance companies, which obviously doesn't hurt seniors' health care. just means that these private insurers don't get this huge windfall that they were before. what that proposal does is to change some of the incentives for reimbursements in medicare. for example, hospitals. hospitals now won't get paid every single time a patient gets readmitted to the hospital based on the same condition. instead, they're going to be -- well, they're going to be paid to coordinate the care for the patient so they have an interest in following up with the patient after the patient leaves the hospital. >> gretchen: congressman, i'm up against a hard break. but this is proof how complicated the issue is. we will revisit again with you sometime very soon. thank you so much. 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fishing? >> brian: i hope not. >> gretchen: not that we're expert fishers. >> brian: so far we have prison to be experts -- proven to be experts. don't you get animal planet at your house? >> steve: absolutely. night crawlers and we used to go -- >> brian: you were in landlocked kansas. >> steve: no, we would fish in iowa. enough about our fishing habits. after hitting the campaign trail low for a couple of days, mitt romney and paul ryan are teaming up. molly line is awaiting their arrival in new hampshire. good morning to you. >> good morning. we are here and folks have been here for hours lining up. it's another two hours away. they're just beginning to let the good people of new hampshire into the event, town hall event. this is a major milestone for the romney campaign. the 100th town hall event and a chance for him to reunite with paul ryan and for the granite state voters which could ask tough questions out here on the trail to possibly make news today. you never know what the new hampshire voters are going to ask. there has been a lot of controversy out on the trail lately. some of those hot button issues will be touched on. medicare, welfare. the romney campaign released a new ad today regarding welfare reform, hitting president obama, saying that obama for what views as the quiet gutting of welfare reform. they believe that president obama's plan changes welfare reform from what it was intended to be with the bipartisan agreement that was made in the '90s. so they may be getting a lot of questions on those issues like medicare, welfare reform, taxes. generally new hampshire's political scene is the hottest in the run up to the primary. but because these four electoral votes are still outstanding and this is a swing state in the election in a very tight election, new hampshire is getting more attention than it usually does at this time of year. over the weekend, president obama made his own stop here in the granite state. over 2,000 people attending to listen to what he had to say in his third visit of the year. and he makes the argument that this election is about a clear choice between two fundamentally different views on growing the economy, creating jobs, and paying down the debt. he went after ryan's economic plan and made the argument that if ryan's plan were to go through, that romney's tax rate would be just 1% over the weekend. the romney camp saying that is just yet another false attack. this is really just the beginning. over the weekend, both the president and mitt romney had a chance to relax, spend time with their families h a chance to go to church v a nice family day. today it gets back to the campaign trail and the real potential for news to be made because of the new hampshire voters and the tough questions they are always known to ask. back to you. >> steve: bark some out. molly line, mighty fine, thank you. >> brian: they are not going to be together that much. but they get along so well and do so well, they're starting to pair up again. the headlines begin like this, zoo cat knee park didn't work out. so the occupy movement heading south. squatters will be heading to tampa bay. for the republican and democratic conventions. they'll be met by thousands of cops who will try to persevere through the horrible smell and rein them in. police adding additional 3,000 officers from around florida to their 1,000 member force. in charlotte, clashes are expected. they were banned from camping in the parks. >> gretchen: jose baez has reportedly been hired by the mother of "dark knight rises" shooting victim rebecca wingo. her mother reportedly feels the movie theater is partially to blame for the tragedy that happened there, claiming there should have been more alarms or more security guards by the emergency exits. no word if the families of the other 11 victims plan to join this case. the massacre happened exactly one month ago today. >> steve: meanwhile, a rare and incredible sight over lake michigan. the captain of a freighter who is also an avid storm chaser and photographer, grabbed his camera and recorded five separate water spouts occurring at the same time. it was about 45 miles to the east of milwaukee when it happened. the captain says the water spouts are technically dangerous, but he says no match for his nearly 700-foot long ship. he says he probably could take a direct hit and all he would do is get wet. but he's not going to try. >> brian: close call to start the nascar spring cup race over the weekend. watch. mark martin had an early lead, but during lap 64, there is is a spin out. basically he tailed on the wall. the car then caught on fire. martin luckily walked away from the crash unharmed. he did not return to the race. >> steve: wow. meanwhile, she's just like every other miss america. she's super smart, absolutely gorgeous, and she works her tail off. there is one thing that makes her very different from the other winners and it's something she's had a hard time talking about until now. talking about her father. joining us o is laura kepler. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: it's great to have you. a lot of people don't know that your dad once upon a time was in jail. >> that's right. i really viewed miss america as a way to raise national awareness for children who have a parent in prison, obviously stemming from my personal experience. i have been very proud of the work that i've been able to do throughout the course of the year, working with a lot of different nonprofits and mentoring programs. but today specifically big brothers, big sisters. >> gretchen: let's talk about what happened first to your dad so people can understand he was in prison for 18 months for what? >> he committed white collar crime. spent some time in federal prison. looking back, that was a time that i was embarrassed and isolated and ashamed of something that i didn't even do. that's the same stigma that every other child who has a parent in prison faces as well. so stemming from that experience, i had mentors come into my life that truly made a difference that i wouldn't be the woman who i am today, but most certainly wouldn't be miss america. >> brian: from outside your family? >> yeah. >> brian: they stepped up and saw a gap. is that how you see big brothers and big sisters? >> through my experience with mentors and that positive experience of knowing that one difference that you could make in a child's life because i had had happen to me. we thought it would be really great for me to partner with big brothers and big sisters because it's so fit to go my platform and about 25% of those kids in the big brothers, big sisters program has a parent in prison. >> steve: you mentioned that you were embarrassed when your dad was in prison, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. i mean, i would imagine you wouldn't want to talk to anybody because you're afraid they're going to bring it up. they know. everybody is look at me. >> right. especially when it was a prominent scandal in my community. not many of my friends at school would understa like to visit him on the weekends and then go back to school. >> steve: did you want to stop going to school? >> no, i didn't. but it was very embarrassing and shameful. >> gretchen: the amazing thing about being miss america is it gave you this platform to turn the entire story around to be a positive for other kids. now in being with big brother, big sisters, you can help these other kids. i was amazed at the fact that when kids get involved in this program, more likely to improve in school, avoid risky behavior and have higher self-esteem. what are you going to do at lincoln electric. >> we're going to kick off my psa i did for big sisters, big brothers. i'm going to spend time with them. and it will be a great afternoon possible a spokesperson for them. one of the statistic, not having self ex steam, i found that through the miss america system because of what happened to me really held a damper over what i thought my possibilities were and what my future would be or what would amount to. so i'm a proud spokesperson for this not only because i've seen the power of mentoring, but it's a lot of what i've been trying to do this year as well. >> steve: very nice. laura, congratulations. >> thank you. >> steve: thank you very much for dropping by the curvy couch and have a great day. >> thank you for having me. >> steve: talking big brothers and big sisters. >> gretchen: coming up next, he voted for president obama in 2008, but michael goodwin says a major transformation in the race is happening right now before our eyes. he's going to explain coming up next. >> steve: the moment is almost here, alisyn camerota, what do you have cooking in new york? >> we have a lot going on here. i'm here with the peak family for the gaf homeliest home makeover. this is what their house looked like before. you can see it needed a little tender loving care. wait until you see 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