senate, aren t you? i am. who are you running against? there s four candidates in the republican primary, and the primary isn t until august 14. so i m waiting to see who the republican primary electorate advances in that election. and you ve cleaned out the democratic field? i have cleaned out the democrat igfield. that a girl. i like it. just wiped them out. just full speed ahead. fantastic. so talk about the buffett rule. is it a political gimmick? no, it s not a political gimmick. people like jamie baldwin and i have for a long time supported something like that. we didn t call it the buffett rule but more tax fair business. you look at hedge fund managers in this city and other places are paying 15%, and there s not you know, capital gains is about risk. they are not even taking risk and they are paying 15%. when you see the last decade how the middle class has struggled, and, you know, not really gotten wage gains, and then they see the richest people in t
and boys club augusta national and new calls for women to wear the green jacket. will a ceo change the masters course? and play ball. opening day 2012 is here, new stadiums, new lineups and new chances. get your peanuts and crackerjacks grab a seat. the first pitch just hours away. but we begin in dallas. as many as 13 tornadoes danced around the city, tore through the suburbs. so far no fatalities but emergency crews are fanning out to see if anyone is trapped at the wreckage. today s dallas morning news describes the onslaught as fast and fierce. it show as twister surrounded by debris. and the star telegram shows rubble. in arlington texas, at least 150 homes were destroyed. good morning. good morning, carol. it s amazing how widespread this damage was. that s a bedroom if you can t make it out behind me. they are going through places like this to make sure no one is trapped or injured. look at that. oh, my god! violent weather whipping across north texas spawn
but i do think in everybody s mind they look what we ve been dealing with lately and they call these lilly pad bases which are sort of a small, tactical force that can go a lot of different places in the world to target militants and people who are in these kind of situations, somali pirates that kidnapped these two people. isn t that the way the world is sort of changing right now? that s what we need to meet? i think, decentralizing our special operations forces so our combatant commanders, those are the commanders that have regional responsibility around the world and have more access to special operations capabilities and that s what the admiral commander of the special operations command in tampa is recommending to the secretary. i think that is a great way to go dealing with the future. but in of itself doesn t deal with the rising china and military capabilities. certainly all the challenges we have in the middle east where we fought four wars in the last 20 years. martha: w
as well. but listen it s been an economic miracle. you look at states like north dakota with unemployment at 3.8%. bill: it s remarkable isn t it. martha: it is sad from a consumer point of view that gasoline this year, some time in the next couple of months, probably we hit the highs level ever in this country over a sustained period. we ve had spikes before but last year the average price of $3.52, that was a record, and this year we ll break that record. bill: you re saying if it goes to that market it stays there over time it could be considerable. we will walk that. charles payne in the house today. hemmer at fox news.com is the email. also on twitter at bill hemmer. terrific questions. keep them rolling in online right now. martha: tensions between the president and arizona governor tkpwa pb brewer. she claim jan brewer. she claims her book got him who the under the collar. i said you read my book. he said i red excerpts from it.
oh! gosh, don t mind if i do. who was the first to offer pet injury coverage? we were. and when did you know you wanted to sell insurance? i said i wouldn t cry. um. whee! it s flo time. now, that s progressive. call or click today. martha: heads up american taxpayers, the government still owes you nearly $133 billion according to a new report that just came out today from the woman who oversaw the 700 billion-dollar bail out. she says $132.9 billion went out to companies to help them out back in 2008. they still haven t paid that money back. and that isn t even the worst of the news. good morning, everybody, we have a brand-new hour of america s newsroom, that is the good part of the news. i m martha maccallum. bill: i m bill hemmer. special inspector general saying most of the money is likely gone forever.