they did and they don t know whether some of the 12 may be on rescue rafts in the ocean and they are looking for them, you know, fast and furious, and we ll let you know, when we get more information on that. this may be the hottest story of the day. there are calls to block what is about to be the toughest immigration mandate in america. arizona s attorney general says the governor should veto a controversial new crack down on border crossings, one that makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally, and also loosens the laws regarding how you can stop someone or ask them for their papers and the state s top prosecutor claims the bill won t help, and it will not improve security, instead, he s urging president obama to get the feds to step up, their enforcement, because this is an untenable situation on the border between mexico and arizona and that is how we start a new hour of america s newsroom. good morning, i m martha maccallum. gregg: i m gregg jarrett in for
hears overwhelming evidence of guilt, but based on what they know about the defendants and what great individuals they are and their absolute lack of sympathy for the terrorist thug abed, they say okay, we understand what went on here but we re still not convicting. that is probably one of the things the defense is looking for as for what happened in fallujah. gregg: we re going to nullify the law. there s no law that says you have to follow the law if you re sitting on a jury, even in a court marshal. look, all of this could have been avoided if the seems had agreed to an article 15. what is that? often called an admiral s mask or captain s mask, it s akin to a disciplinary hearing that a school teacher or police officer might face. gregg: a slap on the wrist, but the navy seals didn t want to do that, why? well, they re heroes. it just shows you what men of character they are. there is a tremendous amount
case that has gained widespread attention here in the united states, three navy seals are accused of mistreating an iraqi detainee who says he was punched in the stomach, it s a little unclear, but while in custody, the debtie is the alleged mastermind of the horrific murder and mutilation of four american contractors six years ago, and today a court marshal got underway for one of the three seals involved in the case, 28-year-old julio vuertas, he faces up to a year in opinion. tom kenneth is a criminal defense attorney, former jag, thanks for being with us. thanks for having me. gregg: all right, huertes isn t the one who punched the terrorist. right. gregg: he is charged with standing by and letting it happen, but his defense would appear to be a pretty good one, hey, i didn t anticipate this, and it happened so fast, i couldn t have stopped it. that s a pretty good defense, isn t it? it s a great defense.
gregg: you might want to step away from the tanning bed. there is a study out which suggests that may be such a thing as a tan-aholic. folks who get hooked on tanning like people do on drugs or alcohol, apparently the uv light is shown to put people in a good mood. perhaps, by releasing pleasure chemicals. in the brain. some people may even require an intervention, and more research is needed to confirm the findings. and indoor tanning has been linked to an increased risk for skin cancer and the latest study published in the archives of dermatology. didn t you know? martha: you know what is not a good thing, being closed up in that box, i m too claustrophobic. no. no. no. and fox news is on the job hunt and right now, in this country,
saying wait a minute, we re not going to buy all this debt that, means to get people to buy the debt the interest rates have to rise and you re exactly right, what that could cause is another financial crisis in the united states. it would be mortgages would be more expensive, that makes it harder to get out of this real estate crisis. but it goes back to your first question about the debt commission, how do we get out of this. how about cutting some government spending? we ve seen such a massive increase in government spending over the last couple of years, it s time to maybe have across the board cuts in all of these agencies. gregg: but stephen, the problem is this administration, together with congress, have shown no appetite for cutting spending, rather, they ve increased it and increased it substantially, which means the only other alternative, really, is to increase taxes. doesn t that invariably deter consumer spending, which is the engine, roughly 70 percent of economic growth