exposure to bacteria, not building immune system, they re not sure yet. eric: the difference between a runny nose and asthma is massive; right? that is true. one of it is a real cold. one of them is the effect of the immune system on your body. absolutely. what we re learning tpwr this is the kids who consume a lot of fruits and vegetables didn t have as many reactions. whether this is affecting your bowels and the micro flora, what they re finding is interesting. vitamin c, was really low. eric: there is no vitamin c in fast food? it lowered caused more anti-inflammatory stuff. we know vitamin c prevents a lot of people from getting asthma, a good antioxidant. the big lesson to a lot of parents is cut down on the amount of fast food you feed your children and add more fruits and vegetables.
we ve given you $16 trillion. can t you live within your means? brit hume was with bill o reilly last night and said the president used his cagey approach blaming the republicans, and why wouldn t he? because so far it worked. i think he thinks in each case if republicans resist him and he doesn t get a bill, he gets an issue to use against them. we re less than two years away from a mid term election in which i think he thinks it s possible for him to win control of the house for his party and then it would be katie bar the door. eric: if he had a democratic congress with house and senate, he would wind up with the situation he had the first two years. although thr-fps a lot of there was a lost stuff the first two years they could have gotten done like immigration reform. gretchen: let s call a spade a spade. we did an interview yesterday with frank lutz who has written books about words and messages. in the interview yesterday
we can t forgive what you did, but this is a great first step. eric: let me throw something out as well. i have a personal story. i lost a mother and a sister to cancer and while they were fighting it, they looked to lance armstrong for hope for some sort of hey, i can fight this. i can live a little longer and i can have a little quality life while i fight it. doesn t he deserve some credit for that? absolutely. i think what lance has done is he changed the attitude of the cancer somebody afflicted with cancer. before it was, you have a death sentence. you have cancer. you don t know what to do. what lance did is he brought the aggressive nature that they took to cycling and brought it to fighting cancer. he was able to say, screw it. i m going to do the research. i m going to get throughout and figure out what i can do to get over this and get past this. and he did. that motivated so many other people. i think if five years ago, lance had come out and said, the sport of cycling
gretchen: 45 minutes after the top of the hour. a developing story for you now overnight. italy suspending activity at its consulate in benghazi, pulling its staff out. the move comes after gunmen opened fire on the italian consul s car over the weekend. he was not hurt. and a half court missed. another story to see. oh, my! gretchen: that s in. the ball gets stuck on the back of the rip. $1,000 prize, hanging in the balance. the ball never moved. the they decided, atlanta hawks decided to give him the prize money anyway. eric: they should have given double. steve: absolutely. speaking of basketball players and football players, need find a new house in less than 48 hours? if you re a pro athlete, our next guest will help you find one anywhere in these united
late. the national debt now. he said the republicans essentially want our country to default on the debt, which is you got to understand this, so many people have been misusing this term. we can only default if the u.s. treasury says we re going to stop paying the interest on the debt. nobody is suggesting that. in fact, pat toomey will plan to prioritize things where first thing we do in a situation like this is meet our obligation, pay off our debt service and then pay social security, medicaid, medicare, and write down the priority chain. eric: there was six questa press questions. two on guns, four on the debt. both occasions, both times the president indicated he was more than willing to go around congress and use executive order to get whatever he wanted on both of them if he needed to. gretchen: good thing we have stuart varney coming up in ten minutes to expound upon that topic. now a developing story, a