heather: welcome back to fox & friends first. the mayor wants to give $1,000 a month to residents identified by law enforcement as most likely to shoot someone. is this the best option? here to debate it is chris and democratic strategist susan johnson cook. thank you both for joining us this morning. we really appreciate it? good morning. susan, i will start with you. let s take a look at the facts by the anybody s so to speak. this would be $1,000 a month as we said that would go to people dubbed most likely to commit murder or be a shooter. $1 million fundraising goal over the next four years for this program called the advance peace program. we should point out none of of that money is coming from taxpayers either at this point. do you think this is a good idea, susan. i think it s a great idea. sounds outrageous. it s certainly controversial. but i think that those who
we re picking up new information and he s also getting a nut ew endorse. . i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. he s not just the new republican presidential front-runner, newt gingrich is leading the republican pack by double digits in several brand-new polls. a gallop national survey of registered republicans shows him 15 points ahead of mitt romney. 37% to 22%. less than a month away from the iowa caucuses. a new cbs new york times poll has gingrich 14 points ahead of romney. as former front-runners know, top status meepz extra scrutiny and he was grilled about some of his past positions by conservatives. this is happening as we re meeting right now. jim acosta is watching all of this for us. what s the very latest? he s getting tough questions. his poll numbers have been good but it has been said his own worst enemy is newt gingrich. the two may have come face to face. glenn beck turns up the tea party heat on newt gingrich rubbing his nose in his past su
some of the spin back now. say well, yeah, they were worried about the politics but they were doing it anyway which means it wasn t politically motivated. it was done for the purpose of innovation. you look at the loan programs in the department of energy and you see, i looked at five of them totally $9 billion. the government says for that $9 billion, they will create 206 permanent jobs investing $9 billion. what senator murkowski calculated yesterday and we calculated was she said $5 million a job. i calculated about $4.7 million a job so we re about $300,000 off. so what they ve done is create jobs at the rate of $4.7 million per job. yes. but even if that sounds outrageous, the problem is those jobs don t exist anymore because companies like solyndra have gone under so those 1100 jobs that were created are now gone.
that controls the weather. sounds outrageous, right? this is what the ensphe saying about us. who s winning the war of words? cofounder and codirector of the counter terror extremism group is joining us now. ed, when it comes down to the war of words, who s winning that war? i think on the cultural front, the u.s. is winning, but from a political tprorpbgts as you rightly point out, extremists are winning because of the compelling nature of the narrative. on the cultural front, the west is winning simply because of the fact that mcdonald s, starbucks, hollywood, american clothes, jeans and so on, the desire is migrate to america, remains vibrant, across muslim countries. there s no american embassy that isn t swamped with applications to enter the united states. and the entire country, ph bg manager, drinking coffee at starbucks is
wife $225,000 a month in temporary support as well as $400,000 for the monthly mortgage charges on seven homes and a bigger decision is to come. one that dodgers fans will want to pay attention to. we ll move on from that. let s go to nbc legal analyst lisa green who s analyzing this. happy mother s day. happy mother s day to you. let s look at the check. over $600,000 a month. sounds outrageous. sounds like an episode of dynasty but here s the legal analysis. if you re applying for temporary support the standard isn t what does a normal person need to live on. surely that would not be a quarter of a million a month. it is, shouldn t i be kept in the manner to which i have become accustomed? and the mccourts lived lavishly,