were attacked. tonight hear from them and see their lacerations and bruises. they will tell you about the violent and chaotic streets where they were attacked to their rescue. see what country came to their aid first. no, it want the united states. main street was a total war zone many smoke, rocks thrown, molotov cocktails, flame, live fire. i got grabbed and i thought, that moment i thought okay i m really now in trouble. it was immediately for the four or five people grabbing hold of you. people are all over him within 30 seconds, people are all over us. that s when our life or death struggle began. it is the most dangerous situation i ve been in for fox news and i ve been here 15 years. moments where you do not think you are going to get out of it. you think this is your last
start. but we ll see whether or not politically this kind of thing can happen. steve moore, always good to talk to you. one last point, $500 billion is a lot to cut but let s for the forget, we have a $1.5 trillion decifit. so this is just a first step to get back to it balanced budget. rick: good reminder, steve. thank you very much. be sure to watch america s newsroom because senator rand paul will join us live and of course we ll have more questions for him about his plan and where congress goes next in the big spending battle. that s tomorrow. martha: celebrating what would have been ronald reagan s 100th birthday, his wife nancy reagan said she can t believe that he would have been 100, it s hard for her to fast only that. she s remembering him in a very special moment. we re going to take you there, more than six years now after his death. the main street was a total war zone, there was smoke, rocks being thrown, molotov cocktails, it was flames, it was live fire. i got gra
two fox news employees were injuried. senior national correspondent john roberts in london gets a first-hand account of what happened. the main street was a total war zone. there was smoke, rocks being thrown, molotov cocktails. it was flames. it was live fire. i got grabbed. i thought that moment i thought okay, i m really now in trouble. you know, it was immediately sort of four or five people grabbing hold of you. the whole time you re pummeled with open hand, with fists, with sticks, with we re told rocks. don t think metal bars. principally going for the head again and again and again. the head was the target. i ve got two really good size lacerations op the back of my head. smaller one at the front and stab wound in my leg. according to the doctors i have lacerations to the scalp, five of them. pretty deep. one came close to an artery and that caused a lot of the blood. i was bleeding all over.
were in came under seeing they were forced to move into the streets in the middle of a pro mubarak mob. they were severely beaten to the point they had to be hospitalized. the main street was a total war zone there were molotov cocktails flames, large fire. i got grabbed i thought at that moment i am really now in trouble. it was immediately four or five people grabbing hold of you. people are all over him within about 30 seconds people are all over us and that s when our life or death struggle began. i thought surely i can talk some reason into somebody surely that is not they are not going to kill us lig right here. the more they hit you the more you realized actually they probably could right now. the whole time you are getting pummeled?
the story. gregg palkot and olaf wiig were beaten. now they are sharing their story with our joan joh with our on roberts. reporter: they were among a couple dozen journalists sets upon by the pro-mubarak forces. they say it s the worse thing that ever happened to them. these are guys who are veterans going to every terrible place the world has seen. olaf wiig was held hostage in gaza for 13 days. it s clear they were deeply affected by their ordeal. the main street was a total war zone. there was smoke, molotov cocktails, flames, live fire. i got grabbed and i thought that moment i thought okay i m really now in trouble. and, you know, it was immediately for the four or five people grabbing hold of you. people are all over him.