Stamey wanted a representative look at American Life so i need politics, business, entertainment and food, finance art. I also was interested in this recurring pattern which you see with gingrich and you see with oprah and you see with jc and sam walton. People who really begin in very humble places and are not unlike the main characters but to sort of reinvent themselves as something new and find a new language and a new idea that is riveting to americans. Through that they build an empire and they cant stop doling it. Its almost like an imperative with the corporation. You have to keep growing even as a person. As a brand you have to keep growing but eventually sort of decadence that then where the language becomes a parody in itself and they no longer seem to produce something good. They just continue to produce. Gingrich just keeps writing book after book. Oprah was on the cover of every issue of her magazine and so they become the celebrities that we are now familiar with who are
Louisiana senator mary landrieu, wwe wrestler, producer Ricky Schroeder and country star leann rimes, theyre supporters of the National Guard Youth Challenge Foundation Last night here in d. C. I had the privilege of emceeing the gala and celebrating the foundations 20th year and to keep kids from dropping out from high school and if they already dropped out, its a huge problem in this country. One in four kids drops out before graduating. That hurts their employability, their income and also hurts the country. 115,000 graduates so far, 20 of them on stage last night sharing amazing stories. Hats out to you supporters. And more information on the happening now blog. And scott is with the celebrities where he belongs, i might add. Looks like a fun night. A great event. And theyre all great people. Thank you for joining you gos, america live starts right now. Byebye. Megyn fox news alert. The president s advocacy group, organizing for action, goes on the defense after calls for it to be
To rain on the parade. And you have to wonder if this relentdless Debbie Downer number of theirs isnt without a purpose, that being to discourage the consumer from spending, encourage Business Leaders to hoard their cash, put off investing, sit on the money they had already to invest if mitt romney had won, but you dont have to wonder how loudly the republicans would be celebrate had they held these bragging rights over numbers like these, a solid drop in the unemployme unemployment, well more than a quarter million new jobs in just a month, the highest ever point in the history of the stock market. What do you think raines priebus, john boehner and eric cantor would be saying about those apples. Would be doing the republican equivalent of highfiving each other, whatever that is and doing cartwheels on fox and telling sean hannity they were, in fact, in heaven. Anyway. M msnbc. When everything is turning up roses Reince Priebus and i just love this name. Were talking republican. Maybe
0 extremists would come back to them at the podium. we ll give you some of that ahead. brian: a stroller with a baby strapped inside, falls on to the path of a train. what the mom does next will have you holding your breath. don t exhale yet. fox & friends starts now. gretchen: it s may 16, not the 15. breaking news, they were sleeping peacefully when mother nature rocked them awake. three monster twisters tearing through texas, one of them a mile wide. joining us with details is ainsley earhardt. good morning. it all happened in a matter of minutes. i mean our neighborhood is gone. [inaudible] gone. we made it, but, you know, there s people missing still. there s a lot of hurt people out there. i heard this it didn t sound like a train to me, but, any way, i told my daughter we were in the bath tub covered up with a few ton mattress futon mattress, we were praying and god took good care of us. a deadly outbreak of twisters, one about a mile wide, whipping through a gra
coming up, newsmakers with tom vilsack. then, geithner speaks at a budget hearing chaired by paul ryan. after that, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke. joining us is the agriculture secretary tom vilsack. he joins us from nebraska. the question is about the drought and what is going on with food supply. we have two reporters. thank you for being here. let us start with the first question. good afternoon. i wanted to start off by asking about this disaster relief for livestock producers. they did not get a farm bill done. disaster relief for livestock producers expired in the 2008 farm bill. i would like to get an idea of what is being done to address this. first and foremost, we are trying to use as many tools as are available to the usda to provide help and assistance until congress gets back to work. hopefully they will pass a farm bill and we will include in that comprehensive disaster assistance for livestock operators and specialty car producers. specialty