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♪ every morning there is a halo hanging from my four post bed bed. brian: that is mark mcgratify and that is sugar ray and they are here and it's all part of our friday extravaganza the all american summer series. gretchen: right now it looks like 3:00 p.m. outside sunshine. wake up, everyone. >> it's actually 6:00 a.m. we will be partying all morning long. judge: why is he wearing sunglasses at this hour? brian: that's part of the thing we don't have. he is cool. judge: when we do radio together we are cooling. brian: we are not cool. judge: when i fill in for doocy i am cool. gretchen: nothing cooler than a man in the robe. brian: she is not talking tear cloth. gretchen: absolutely not i'm talk about that black thing. the a.i.g. situation is getting a little more interesting now. so, will the new compensation czar, one of 34 czars that president obama has anointed in the last couple of months, will he be the final say on whether or not these bonuses go out to more a.i.g. apparently they don't need his approval. they are asking for it because they want the government to say yes this is ok so they don't get the backlash they had the first time around. judge: these are bonuses like the last time they were negotiated for when a.i.g. was a private company and still making money and riding high on the hog and producing enough business for a.i.g. to justify these bonuses. but since then the government has acquired 77% of a.i.g. the government has put in the board of directors. the government has put in management. so it will be the government that will basically say yes or no on these bonuses. brian: they asked. listen, czar can i speak with the czar, please? gretchen: you have to speak russian. steve: he is a new yorker. brian: he is very well respected. 3,235,000,000 in retention bonus going to. according to the "wall street journal" they are the ones that ran the unit, ran a.i.g. into the side of a mountain. judge: he has the following problems. he has political problems because it's basically federal money and people are not going to like the fact that federal money in this magnitude is going to individuals who essentially ruined the corporation. he has legal problems because these are valid contracts which the folks have with a.i.g. that the government shouldn't interfere with. gretchen: if they earned this money then do they deserve it? a lot of people would argue maybe they were behaving in not such good way when they did earn this money as well. there is that side of the argument too why did they get themselves into the difficulty that they did. it will be interesting to see how this plays out. they don't need the government's approval to hand out the bonuses for the jacket reasons you pointed out. judge: they don't need it. brian: i didn't believe these bonuses being handed out. judge: if brian kilmeade were made the pay czar what would you do. brian: i would give it to them. they were supposed to get their bonuses. that's why they got into this business. it's going to be hard for us to take as taxpayers is that these people are the ones that came up with the financial products that really destroyed a.i.g. in particular and, by the way, in the "wall street journal" says today there is a 70% chance that anybody who is a shareholder in a.i.g. will actually get nothing nothing. gretchen: just like a shareholder in general motors. judge: a.i.g. lost a 5-million-dollar lawsuit brought his bye his chair. they are not doing too well. gretchen: anybody in america should be nervous with this quote. we want the government to be comfortable with what we are cooking. if you say somebody would say that a year ago with a private corporation you would never say it in a million years. now light of the bailout. this is going to be the quote of the fewer. we will have to go to the government first to determine whether or not they're ok with the way we do business. brian: we gave them 180 billion judge: as a result of that taxpayers own 7'% of a.i.g. gretchen: not really. we don't have a say. judge: tim geithner chose who runs on that board. gretchen: the government is running that company. judge: i'm assuming the government represents the tax taxpayer. gretchen: that's what i was getting at. brian: next talking point we have to carry the judge through. sotomayor. judge: sonia? gretchen: he knows her on a first name. judge: her confirmation hearings begin on monday. fox news will be covering it live. a lot of us participated in a documentary that we are doing on sunday night, in order to prepare for which i had to read about 900 to a thousand pages of her opinions and her speeches and we all sort of summarized that in the document. gretchen: imagine that you would take the time to read all documents. members of congress don't even do that. judge: that we know. gretchen: now some critics saying she pays too much attention to detail. usually a judge at her level didn't usually need to read all the case study behind the cases coming before her. i'm interested in knowing your opinion on it. she is known as a very thorough judge. is that a good thick or possibly bad thing. judge: politics aside it's a terrific thing if a judge is thorough. it is a terrific thing if a judge reads more than expected. a lot of judges rely on law clerks to do the reading for them and summarize the important points the judges need to know. any judge that will take the time to actually look -- remember, she is appellate judge. she looks at the transcript of the trial. the documents admitted at trial. when a judge looks at that herself that's a classy, intelligent person concerned with the detaflts case. brian: we don't need the closed caption over your shoulder. you talked out the talking points with your hands and that's the italian in you. judge: that's the italian in you. brian: if i was all italian i would use two hands: 17 years as a federal judge. do you conclude that she is a very liberal judge or not? judge: she is clearly a very liberal judge. her judicial rulings are within the mainstream of american legal thinking but on the liberal side. it is her speeches that have people worried that are not within the mainstream of legal thinking. there is a very interesting person, bribe, that you and i know that is on the witness list. judge: david cone the former announcer for the new york yankees is a witness. gretchen: he was a player rep back during the strike, one of them. and sotomayor had a hand in what many claim that she saved baseball by ending the strike. judge: here is what she did, she brought the player representatives and management into her jury room and they all sat around the table what do you want? what can i get you? what can i get you? trying to settings the case. everybody was very impressed. she eventually couldn't settle it had to rule for the players. david cone was the lead player representative. he was happy with the ruling. he is going to testify on monday to her demeanor and her grasp of the case. brian: pro labor. judge: very pro labor, absolutely. she and he. gretchen: other person on the witness list is frank ricci. he is being called by the republicans as a witness. i would be interested in your take on this, judge. after he came on the show when that ruling came down he refused to get into the scheme of sotomayor's ruling on that case and the fact that the supreme court reversed that ruling. he didn't want to get into the politics. wife would they call him as a witness. judge: she ruled against him. she was reversed. he had a great cancase. he had emotional case most folks could understand. here is the job, take the test, pass the test, you get the job. he took the test, he passed it, and they didn't give him the job. it took the supreme court to do that. gretchen: sound like he wasn't going to say anything negative about her. judge: i think he is. brian: if the judge ever goes before the supreme court as a nominee. what would howard stern -- who would he be testifying for? pro or against judge napolitano. gretchen: insider information this morning. brian: would he be before or against judge napolitano. gretchen: let me give you inside information, ladies, about men. check out this photo. judge: who is the lady, do we know? gretchen: 17-year-old g-8 intern, right? brian: she is from rio de janeiro. judge: she is not a friend of the prime minister? gretchen: this is a location? >> i'm going to stare at my shoes. judge: no one of prime minister's interns. brian: we know he is having some issues. gretchen: look at the headline. brian: tail to the chief? brian: i'm reading what it says if you are listening on radio. they are meeting parallel to the other meeting so they have to be selected there. the world's next leaders, perhaps. she is from rio. she just happened to be walking by there and i guess this is moments before the group shot. and sarkozy is sitting there. i gets for a moment they stopped talking. judge: how do these photographers get these shots? gretchen: they just happened to capture. gretchen: i would say as a woman i would take a sneak peek at that too. she is beautiful. beautiful hair. beautiful hair. and beautiful color of the dress. i mean, i don't know, i think that's just a natural reaction. is it not, guys? judge: yes. it surely is that's why there are so many pictures. brian: almost like when you put your leg like this and they pop your knee you can't help but have your knee jerk forward. gretchen: let me tie your shoe for you. sorry. oh my gosh. judge: put your shoe up there so the gretchen can tie your shoe lace? gretchen: why not i did his makeup and hair, too. judge: do you see what i go through three hours a day windowless room in a radio booth with him? gretchen: i know fully well. speaking of the g-8 summit. president obama and world leaders at the summit have agreed on a 15 billion-dollar initiative to tackle world hucker. the money will be used to help farmers. 3 billion of that money would come from the u.s. president obama has a busy day in front of him. he will hold face-to-face talks with south africa's president before heading off to the vatican for first meeting with the pope. is he going to fly to guana for day long visit before flying back to washington. letting americans buy prescription drugs from canada it's been talked about for years. the senate taking action on this. it's been voted to let buy cheaper drugs on the internet it could expose people to unsafe drugs. it was tacked on to a homeland security funding bill. not sure what the relationship is there. but anyway the legislation face uncertain future in the house. well, plans for his final resting place is being worked out. we are learning that michael jack some's body is being held in a crypt at the forest lawn cemetery. the crypt belongs to motown mogul berry gordy. detectives are looking at jackson's prescription drug history and are trying to talk to his doctors. bratton says they are waiting on the coroner's report before ruling out any options or possibility. the report would explain jackson's cause of death and the role prescription drugs played in his death. they have been subpoenaed, including his dermatologist dr. arnold klein. under pressure to quit almost from the start. illinois senator roland burris will not seek a second term. he was appointed by disgraced governor rod blagojevich. all tainted by pay for pay -- play charges. gretchen: swim club denies a bunch of campers. those campers all black. is the club discriminating snornt we will report and you decide it. judge: nancy pelosi said the cia was misleading coming. was she right? looks like the agency's director might be changing his tune. we will talk to a former cia agent next. brian: michael michael scheuer. having to go in the middle of traffic and just starting and stopping. having to go in the middle of a ballgame and then not being able to go once i got there. and going at night. i thought i had a going problem. my doctor said i had a growing problem. it wasn't my bladder. my prostate was growing. i had an enlarging prostate that was causing my urinary symptoms. my doctor prescribed avodart. 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(announcer) avodart is for men only. women should not take or handle avodart due to risk of a specific birth defect. do not donate blood until 6 months after stopping avodart. tell your doctor if you have liver disease. rarely sexual side effects, swelling or tenderness of the breasts can occur. only your health care provider can tell if symptoms are from an enlarged prostate and not a more serious condition like prostate cancer. so have regular exams. call your doctor today. avodart. help take care of your growing problem judge: house speaker nancy pelosi had harsh words for the cia in a press briefing back in may. you will remember. this take a look. >> so, yes, i am saying that they are misleading, that the cia was misleading the congress. brian: cia director leon panetta quickly defended his agency in an email saying. quote: now he is changing his tune though saying the cia had mislead congress on multiple occasions. judge: michael scheuer is head of the cia bin laden unit. he is here to straighten this mess out. welcome here. >> thank you, sir. judge: do you think it is more likely than not that cia director panetta went behind closed doors and told the house select committee on intelligence hey, guys, the cia has been lying to you from 2001 up to the present week? >> it doesn't sound correct to me. i think we have to wait to see what mr. panetta said. i saw one of the congressman yesterday say he was in the meeting and didn't hear anything resembling that so i think only mr. panetta can settle this. if somebody was lying to the congress, then there will have to be an investigation and punishment, if it's appropriate. but i don't think that the case is closed yet. brian: cia had a program that evidently was hatched in 2001 that congressional leaders, intelligence committee leaders were not briefed on. now william panetta finds out about it in june. he stops it and then comes to those conclusions. democrats penned a letter and write to panetta and now come forward and say the cia does lie. this letter was never supposed to be public. >> no. it's -- you know, we're talking about here is the democrats releasing information that the director gave them behind closed doors and was intended to keep secret. they are using it for political purposes. i'm not quite sure what attacks on the intelligence services at this time when we are involved in two wars helps anyone in terms of defending america, but it's pretty typical for the democrats to do this. judge: michael, we all know that people watching an event can see it and can recall it differently. but let me ask you this: does the cia give different evaluations to different members of congress or do they talk to the whole committee at the same time? because we have a case here where the same people -- some people are saying i didn't hear that some are saying i heard him say it. >> judge, it really depends on how the committee wants to work. very often when you are called down to brief a committee, the members don't bother to show up. they send their staffers so that later they can say we didn't hear that briefing. we were never told. a lot of times when you are briefing congress, they're working on something else and not paying attention to what you say. it's a situation where, yes, you can have two people having too different impressions of what was said. brian: william panetta does no, ma'am cut and this situation out. judge: video is disturbing. a man dying in the streets and drivers go out of their way not to help can they be charged? brian: 100 new words added to the dictionary words like frenemy and staycation. are they real words and why can't i pronounce the second word? judge: and what do they mean? taking its rightful place in a long line of amazing performance machines. this is the new e-coupe. this is mercedes-benz. you hungry? yeah. me too. 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[ laughter ] gretchen: uh-oh. this that was a bit of a bite. judge: it was. brian: let's talk about what's going on right now. the administration is putting together volumes of material and programs that only judge napolitano can read with his entire staff. thousands of pages of things to do and programs to revamp. social security, immigration, financial reform, all on the table. judge: 1300 pages. hundred pages added at 3:00 in the morning. brian. gretchen: nobody read it wasn't it steny hoyer who laughed the other dave when somebody asked him if he thought that members and senators of congress would actually read health care reform? judge: these people work for us. would you hire people their job is to read documents and instead of reading documents they laughed for you? brian: it's disturbing. it's got john boehner beside him himself lebaneses have consequences. let me tell you there is other things getting done. judge: important things? briewj briewj you tell me, judge. the recreational both community and industry to the continuing prosperity of the united states, is that a resolution we need done? judge: sponsored by herb kohl june 222009 and passed. it's the law. they adopted it. they have time to read that kind of stuff? gretchen: boating. i'm not sure they should be spending their time. house concurrent resolution 155. concurrent resolution supporting the goals and ideals of complaint-free wednesday. [cheers and applause] gretchen: introduced june 17, 2009. all right, judge. take away the next one. judge: house resolution 567, a resolution congratulating the university of california-irvine's men's volleyball team winning the championship. john campbell, republican of california, introduced june 19th, 2009. brian: that's a wonderful accomplishment. i also noticed barack obama is honoring the mls champions this year. judge: doesn't the federal government have more important things to do? brian: volleyball is a good game. house resolution 122. a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the congress that the parthenon marbles should be rushed to greece. judge: a congressman from newark, new jersey is causing the congress to debate whether the partenon marble should be rushed to grease. gretchen: what set that off is somebody wanted a resolution about michael jackson being deemed the most important person ever. that started this discussion about all the business that seems to be getting done on capitol hill but is it really business? brian: john boehner has had it and he talked about it and talked about the stimulus bill that nobody actually red but we are all pay for it. >> 1100 pages. not one member of this body has read. not one. there may be some staffer over at the appropriations committee that read all of this last night. i don't know how you could read 1100 pages between midnight and now. not one member has read this. what happened to the promise that we're going to let the american people see what's in this bill for 48 hours? but, nope. we don't have time to do that. brian: you could tell boehner was a football player because he held those 1100 pages like they were three. judge: he went to moeller? brian: yeah. gretchen: carol brown everywhere son the obama administration's climate bill task force if you will and whether or not she read cap and trade. 1200 pages. steve: carroll, before you go, i know the bill is over 1,000 pages long. have you read it? >> oh, i'm very familiar with this bill. we have. steve: you have read it. >> we have been watching this for a very long time. steve: i'm sure have you got an idea of it. but have you read it. >> i have read page positions of it, appear shootly. steve: the answer is no you haven't read it but you read a big chunk of it. >> that's not fair. steve: i'm scpg -- asking you if you have read the 1,000 pages. >> i read vast portions of it. judge: what great cross-examination. anybody watching that q and a she didn't read and it she was afraid to admit she didn't read it. brian: steve in the 80's was a star paper chase. judge: i didn't know that. brian: do you remember that series? twitter gretchen and tell her what paper chase is. judge: whatever you want the answer is. no. judge: i have no idea. why you guys discuss paper chase. i'm going to read the headlines. still no on prisoner abuse pictures. the u.s. senate voted again to authorize the senate to withhold any photographs agoing to show military prisoner abuse. this vote is seen as a way to short circuit any attempt by the aclu to get a court order to produce the pictures. the vote pushed hard by south carolina republican lindsey graham independent joe lieberman. judge? judge: bristol palin's exthinks personal finances made governor palin call it quits. levi johnston lived with the palins earlier this year and claims to have overheard conversations with the governor about lucrative deals including her reality tv show and a book. he says governor palin was offered millions for a book. jonathan says he is speaking out now because alaskans want to know why their governor resigned. johnston is pursuing his own book and movie deal. mr. kilmeade. brian: he also wants to be an actor. brian: denies accusations of racism. the club says it did not kick out the summer campers because they were black. they claim they kicked them out because there was no space yet. >> the kids are not buying it. >> there was a lady she was like what are all these black kids doing? she is like i'm scared they might do something to my child. brian: what do you think? coming up next hour the program's director and three kids told they can't swim in the club. they are join us live. gretchen: a worker in new jersey, watch closely here, stumbles into the street after being shot and as you can see on your screen, driver after driver go out of their way not to help. you can even see a school bus swerve to the other side of the street jumping the curb to avoid the guy. the worker wound up in the street after being shot by two robbers. there is good news about the story. the man identified only as victor just came out of a comb matchett police are looking for the people who attacked him as he headed to work at a jersey city auto body shop. and how many times, judge, have we talked about these stories where people for whatever reap do not feel compelled to help others. judge: it's a very, very difficult issue. morally irreprehensible to leave somebody like that suffering in the street. there is no legal obligation to do so. the people the police are looking for the guys who shot him that caused him to go in the street not those cowards that swerved around him. gretchen: brian, i guess we are going to do sports and start off with the running of the bulls? brian: gretchen while i'm reading this would you get the judge an otto man, his hands back on the couch and kick back. brian: one person gored to death at the annual running of the bowl bulls. it's the first death in the event since 1995. three others hurt. thousands from around the world that are in pamplona. i will never do that gold cup match, panama, mexico. on the ball but mexico's coach javier gary steps in and tries to kick phillips. phillips not happy with that he shoves him. he gets a red car. phillips gets escorted off the field. the game ends in 1-1 draw. undefeated in the gold cup. i think we will win it we beat grenada. gretchen: somebody told me what paper chase was a movie about law school at harvard. thank you. let's talk about new words in case you want to sound really smart at the next cocktail party you go to. words now in the webster's official dictionary like this one which i have actually heard before friend one who pretends to be a friend but is actually an enemy. judge: do we know anybody like that? gretchen: we wouldn't mention. judge: staycation a vacation spent home or close to home. brian: i have never heard of that but everybody in the control room has. i guess i have to get out more. sock puppet. judge: this sounds terrible. brian: a false online identity used for deceptive purposes. i do this to entertain the masses because i always have one. up. gretchen: other weird words blogs and episodes and somebody who eats foods grown locally. speaking of green there is a lot of talk about green jobs. president obama plans to create tons of them. he even has a green job czar. what the heck is a green job anyway? and will they help fix the economy? luckily we have somebody who is going to help us out on this. ♪ ♪ ♪ when morning comes in the middle of the night... rooster crow. ...it affects your entire day. to get a good night's sleep, try 2-layer ambien cr. the first layer dissolves quickly to help you fall asleep. and unlike other sleep aids, a second dissolves slowly to help you stay asleep. when taking ambien cr, don't drive or operate machinery. sleepwalking, and eating or driving while not fully awake with memory loss for the event as well as abnormal behaviors such as being more outgoing or aggressive than normal, confusion, agitation and halluciations may occur. don't take it with alcohol as it may increase these behaviors. allergic reactions such as shortness of breath, swelling of your tongue or throat may occur and in rare cases may be fatal. side effects may include next-day drowsiness, dizziness, and headache. in patients with depression, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide may occur. if you experience any of these behaviors or reactions contact your doctor immediately. wake up ready for your day-ask your healthcare provider for 2-layer ambien cr. you're ready for the mid-morning rush thanks to a good breakfast. one coffee with room, one large mocha latte. medium macchiato, light hot chocolate hold the whip, and two espressos. make one a double. she's fiber focused! i have two cappuccinos, one coffee with room, one large mocha latte, a medium macchiato, a light hot chocolate, hold the whip, and two espressos, one with a double shot. gonna take more than coffee to stay this focused. stay full and focused through the morning... with a breakfast of kellogg's® frosted mini-wheats® cereal; an excellent source of fiber that helps you avoid... the distraction of mid-morning hunger. no thanks, i'm good. judge: a direct challenge to president obama's vision of a two-state solution in the middle east. pal citizennians are preparing to clash with israeli soldiers right now in a village in the west bank. that's where reena ninan is what's the latest? >> hi, guys. this is a clash right now. they are setting up what appears to be tear gas. these are israeli military clashing what what are israeli and palestinianian peace activists. they are protesting what is known as the separation barrier. take a look just behind me. the barrier has stopped quite a few suicide bombings. it's been one of the biggest successes here in israel. the problem is this cuts right through palestinianian territory. palestinianian land for the possibility of a future palestinianian state which the white house is very determined to achieve a state one day. these activists show up here every week. at any moment now live we expect more tear gas to erupt. you can see the struggling right at the fence of these peace activists egging on the israeli army to take some action here as they possibly try to scale this fence, guys. judge: thanks very much. you can see the tear gas coming out right now exploding. guys, we expect in the next 20 minutes for this to really heat up. we hope to bring it to you live. judge: how long is this going to go on. >> this will likely for the next hour be on and off. they are opening up the gate. gaining, they are trying to push up to this fence to gain access to possibly cross over to where these israeli soldiers are this is a very contentious issue here this barrier, this separation barrier that in many instances it has definitely stopped suicide bombings into israel but, like i say, it's a huge inconvenience on the lives of palestinianians. cuts right through some of their farms and their land has been taken up to the supreme court level even where the supreme court has ruled that some of these barriers that come down this land is not where it should be. down borders that people think might be the future of a palestinianian state, guys. judge: very serious stuff. another friday in the west bank. gretchen over to you. gretchen: thanks very much. we will keep our eyes on that situation over there. president obama in the meantime creating a whole bunch of green johns. he has a green job czar. arches new clean energy economy that will begin to reduce our expend dense on foreign oil will cut our carbon 20% by 2050. gretchen: what is a green job and can they do anything to off set the massive job losses? brian: joining us now to talk about that from america's prosperity phil. what is a green job? how would you define it? >> i think it's a different -- it's different things to different people but the basic definition is any job that comes out of an environmentally, politically correct field whether that's wind or solar or weatherization of houses. things like that. basically the politically desirable jobs in the energy sector or related sectors. they are called green jobs. gretchen: a lot of people want to know whether or not in fact first of all a lot of green jobs are going to be created if we pass cap and trade number one. and, number two, whether or not it's actually going to work to make the air that we breathe cleaner. because, when you look at spain as a model, you don't see that it worked there. >> no. it's been a total failure in spain. look, you can create a lot of green jobs. you can possibly create millions of them if you are willing to spend trillions of dollars which is what the cap and trade bill contemplates. those jobs come at an enormous cost. low wage, low value jobs. vast majority of them is people with caulking guns trying to weather rise houses. these jobs destroy much better, higher wage, higher productivity jobs and many more jobs. they destroy manufacturing jobs. jobs in the energy sector that currently exists. in spain they found for evergreen job created 2.2 other jobs were destroyed. they have not gotten 18.7% unemployment rate. i don't think that's a model that we need to follow. i think that's a cautionary tale we need to avoid. brian: phil, we have a job. a green job czar van jones. he has got a deep history in communism. >> he does. he has a very checkered past. this is somebody who was involved in radical politics out in san francisco, california. he was arrested during a demonstration slash riot there fog the rodney king verdict. and he said himself that he was radicalized in jail that he found communism and an arckism and then he started a pretty radical kind of communist socialist group that was supposed to end all racism through central planning. he decide the real path the progressive nirvana was this green jobs idea. i think it is pretty instructive what his path is i'm not trying to smear the guy. the philosophy the idea that government ought to be reordering society in accordance with utopian vision it will fail with this green jobs idea. top down vision. gretchen: more importantly for america, phil. is the fact we have an energy secretary who by the way had to go through congress to be approved. the reason these czars you don't know anything about them is they don't have to go through that process. i have got to wrap it up right now and there is a climate czar, too. i can't keep track of all of them. phil, great to speak with you this morning. thanks for educating us. >> my flesh. brian: meanwhile straight ahead. do you know we always have -- turn away. we also have a recovery czar. is he charged with tracking the stimulus money and spending 18 million more dollars to overhaul the web site of recovery.org. do we need to spend that much money on a web site? gretchen: not so sure. meet omar bin laden. osama bin laden's son and what he has to say about his dad. guess what? it's not very nice. sweet! sweet! if you love sweet things, you'll really love them when they're made... with splenda® no calorie sweetener. sweet! splenda® starts with sugar. it tastes like sugar. but it's not sugar. and that's... sweet! splenda®. imagine life sweeter®. look for splenda® sweetener with fiber. great sweet taste with one gram... of fiber per packet. sweet! judge: ties to steny hoyer just got a whopper of a contract. smart electronics will get $1 million to fix up recovery.gov. gretchen: why do they need all that money. jerry is the co-creator of stimulus watch.org. glad to know that you are out there, jerry. an organization that's watching over the stimulus money because by all accounts our administration in washington doesn't know where the money has gone. are you surprised? >> i'm not sure that they don't know where the money has gone i just think that at this point they haven't released the data. brian: this is a lot of money to overhaul a web site that should have been up and running and ready to go. >> i think you are right that the web site should have been hopefully sooner than it has been. really you probably only need about a million dollars to build a web site like this. it's really $9.5 million in the next six months to build this web site. that has been a shocking figure. but the problem is though right now we haven't seen the contract so we don't know what we are getting for this money thootion are that's important. judge: who decides? does it have anything to do with politics? could politics possibly be playing a role? >> i don't know about politics but can i tell you this. this is a contract that was offered by gsa only to its aline contract members. right? there are 59 companies in the country that are eligible it bid on this contract. of those 59, it seems that only 2 or 3 actually bid on this contract when you have such a small pool of eligible bidders, you are probably going to see a higher price tag. gretchen: wouldn't the administration have better pr if they said hey, we are going to hardly spend a dime on this web site because, by the way, what we are reporting to you is all the money that beer spending that's yours? i mean, wouldn't a pr firm look at this and say you should spend as little money as possible to send out a really great message to the taxpayer that we are looking out for every dollar that we are taking from you? >> i think this is definitely a pr nightmare so far for two reasons. number one, this is a web site that's supposed to be about transparency. and they have been very non-transparent about how they have chosen the contractor, what we are getting for the $9.5 million. possibly 18 million. we don't know any of this. very opaque. the other thick is that you probably could have gotten this web site almost for free because all you have to do is make the data available in a raw format. make all the data available third party like stimulus watch.org. fox news. take this data and build their own web site there are lots out that want the status to they can build presentations where the money is being spent. have a union take the data and show where the money is being spent over where employment is or have some folks find fraud, waste and abuse. gretchen: stimulus watch.org. co-creator. thanks very much for keeping a watch on some of this stuff for us. >> thank you. brian: meanwhile, straight ahead, four people accused of digging up bodies and putting new ones in their graves. the scheme all to make money off the dead. how they got away with it. judge: you won't believe what a.i.g. is doing now. are you ready for this? they are dolling out more bonuses for top executives. about $235 million worth. that's federal money. can they do this? 4l gretchen: happy friday to you. july 10, 2009. thank you for sharing your time today. accused of digging up bodies and putting new ones in the graves all to make a buck. how do they get away with this sickening crime. judge? judge: swim club takes back manipulates from budget campers. those campers are all black. is the club discriminating or not? hear from one of the families. we report, you decide. brian: you probably have seen the deals before. 2 dollars for one-way plane ticket. why can't you ever find those deals when you go online to get them when you need them? we'll show you where the real deals are. meanwhile our slogan this hour comes to us from john bricen of florida. he says up in the morning i go to the den to watch "fox & friends," two roosters and a hen. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- [ laughter ] gretchen: why not wake up to a rooster on friday. last alarm of the week. judge sitting in for steve. let's move on to major garrett because president obama overseas still. is he going to meet with the pope. right now is he wrapping up the last day of the g-8 summit. you are still in l'quila, italy, right? >> yes. good morning, judge, brian, and gretchen. you know, i'm a substance guy. we can talk about global warming, international trade, international currency. development aid, all topics here. first, i want to start off with a juicy, angry little dispute. it's not going to change the world it's certainly going to change the tone of this final day of the g-8 conference. the president is supposed to have a press conference. he will in a couple of hours. it was supposed to be at the ornate g-8 conference center. the white house and italians have been having enormous dispute over access for us. the white house travelling press corps. this dispute is now completely blown up. the press conference will be held in a small white house only press file on the edge of the g-8 compound for u.s. reporters only. no foreign press allowed. which, of course, has aggravated to the foreign press to no end. they want to talk to and ask questions of the new president of the united states. whenever we go on the road overseas, the foreign press always so eager to talk to the president. they are not going to get a chance to. it's because of this simmering now exploding dispute over access and elbow room and space for us here at the g-8 conference. a lot of it is about photo ops and a couple of pictures this morning. angela merkel arrived near electric car so did egyptian president. the president himself walked in as did prime minister gordon brown and yesterday, kind of an interesting photo on as well. moammar kadafi dictator here as chairman of the african-american union. they were invited to the last day here at the g-8 conference. shook hands with the president last night. a picture you don't often see. so, guys, if you want to get to substance, i'm already for you. i wanted to get that juicy stuff off the top. brian: g-8 summit. what is solved? what is signed, what is delivered? have we handled the issue of global warming yet? >> well, the g-8 conference is historically famous for statement upon statement upon statement. lots of talking. but historically not so much follow-up. now, the obama administration argues that this g-8 conference is different and will be different on the topic of global warming because for the first time all the member nations have agreed to long-range specific targets to reduce co 2, carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere cut by 2050. the problem is that's 40 years ago. all committing to it will not be in office and some will not be alive. the developing nations like india and china are not going to sign on to anything until nations like the united states, great britain, france, and others sign on to much more specific and much hard tore reach co 2 emission reductions sooner like 2020. the united states can't do that. neither can some of these other industrialized nations. that dispute lingers. a lot has been talked about global warming but in the end we still have yet to see the details of the follow through. brian: all right, major. collect receipts. remember the expense tab will be large as you go from the pope to guana and then home. >> that's right. brian: four minutes after the hour. what else is happening? gretchen: move over to iran where protests are reigniting there. pouring into the streets defying government orders. police swinging batons and firlg tear gas into the crowd. protesters were out in the crowd to mark the anniversary of the student massacre. the streets have been largely quiet for the last 11 days. they are accused of digging up bodies and putting new ones in their graves all to make a buck. three grave diggers and a cemetery manager now facing charges of digging up more than 300 corpses at the burr oak cemetery in illinois. police say the bodies were dumped in the back of the cemetery. hundreds of people who have lost loved ones are grieving for a second time this morning. >> my brother and i got a picture of my daughter, too. my fear is that they are in that mass grave because they are way in the back. gretchen: the fbi says it's not sure how long this scheme was going on it will take months for them to sort through the evidence and identify all of the bodies. gretchen: a pardon may be their only hope for freedom. lisa ling who used to co-host "the view" sister's laura made a call to say she and fellow journalists had broken north korean law. let's move on to bernie madoff because his former office is available forever rent in landmark building. bankruptcy court has authorize the the cancellation of madoff's lease. it isn't known what he paid in rent. the disgrace to financier is saving 150 year sentence out of conning investors out of billions of bucks. a shocking fall is all caught on camera. the st. paul firefighter fell two floors when his ladder collapses during a suspected arson job on wednesday. luckily he was not seriously injured. no one else was hurt. fire investigators trying to figure out who actually set that fire. those are your evidence lines this morning. let's talk a little bit about osama bin laden. not specifically about osama bin laden but about his son. judge: one of his many sons. gretchen: what he feels about his dad which is not anything good. brian: here he is. he is writing this book and he wrote it with his mom. that's the bin laden's first wife. first name he says he remembers giving up life for star life of terror and that he realized that his dad hated his enemies more than he loved his family when he took his two puppies and used them and killed them because he was gassing them in a chemical experiment to see about using these chemicals. we have seen some video of him killing dogs in afghanistan. but bin laden used his dogs as a chemical experiment. judge: very interesting and at least to me curious as to why he would be coming out now and revealing what all of us already know about the father that the father is a monster. brian: judge, we don't have this perspective. the perspective of the son. to me this is very telling. judge: absolutely telling. i'm wondering why the son is doofing this now. commend him for his candor. this is devastating stuff. gretchen: apparently what you are saying, judge, you would liked to have had him come out in 1998 for example when he was tipped off about terrorist activity. specifically talking about the 198 bombings of u.s. embassies in east africa where 224 people died. many of them americans. this son now 28 is saying that he knew about that. of course, at the time, you can imagine the fear. he probably would have been killed if he would have said anything. here to me was the most important point about what is he saying now. his son eventually concludes that bin laden hated his enemies more than he loved his family. so that that's why -- that's what this son -- maybe that's what he has to think in his mind that his own father treated him. brian: right. he has tons of wives. the other thing is he was also tipped off -- remember bill clinton had that turned out to be aspirin factory. tipped off two hours before the bombing took place. according to the son he was there. judge: one of the plotters in that bombing is right here in new york city having been moved up from gitmo to stand trial for it. gretchen: very interesting connection there. judge: it is an interesting connection. gretchen: let's move on to a.i.g. i know it's one of your favorite topics. millions of dollars in bonuses. keep in mind these were bonuses earned back in 2008 before the crumble of a.i.g. and the huge amount of taxpayer money that went into make this company stay afloat. but, will they now hand out these bonuses? and do they have to have the government's approval before they do so? remember we have a czar now of this as well. ken fineberg is the compensation czar. judge, i turn to the legal mind on the panel. do they need kenneth fineberg's permission before they hand out millions of dollars in bonuses? >> legally. no politically yes. if he says ok, then the heat is off of them. the recipients of money. off of a.i.g. management and oen to the government. fey says no. that money is legally owed. here is my prediction. you won't see nearly the uproar at this time that you did last time. giving away federal dollars, whether it's deserved or not is so commonplace today. brian: i think it won't be as big a deal. i t. ended up boomeranging as people took busses to those people's houses and some of those people had nothing to do with the collapse of a.i.g. $235 million. about 40 different executives. and in it it goes to some the people that were heading up the financial products unit that destroyed the company. so, it's just so bizarre that they would feel good about getting retention bonuses. knowing that a lot of their plots and plans destroyed the lives of so many and cost taxpayers 1 $0 billion. judge: last two weeks since june 29th, a.i.g. stock down. 1/3 of the total cost 35%. brian: by the way. it's also estimated that that stock will be worth nothing to shareholders by the time a.i.g. has paid the government back. gretchen: taxpayers 74% we own that company but as we have been talking about all morning, do we really have a say? do we really have a say or is it the government that has a say for us. gretchen: let's move on to something more light hearted like wardrobe. michelle obama has been an advocate of being financially savvy in the way she addresses her children and herself for that matter. but there have been a few items that are showing up now that are very, very expensive and nobody seems to be pointing them out. or should they be pointing them out like this clutch bag right here. now, guys, i know you are not going to be able to relate to this. judge judge why should she be criticized for that handbag? brian: 875 bucks. gretchen: i'm not a purse gavel so i would never comprehend spending that money on a little tiny clutch. apparently that's how much that one cost. brian: manila clutch. the shoes, ms. obama wore $540 sneakers. what does she have there? is that a shoe store? gretchen: the whole problem before the sneakers is when she went to a food pantry. dr. . judge: $540 for sneakers? gretchen: what the boint is is that maybe you should wear a cheaper variety of sneaker when you are doing volunteer work at a food fan tri. that's what the critics are saying gretchen. judge: if nancy pelosi or -- gretchen: she donated all of it after the fact. just some interesting tidbits as you keep your eye on the important women in politics. coming up on the show, they voted for change. now they are not so sure president obama is bringing about the right kind of change. we're going to talk to a panel of voters. they voted for them back in november but now would they do it again? 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gretchen: your vote for stimulus 2 would be? >> i think -- again, the devil is in the details. if barack obama gets up there and says look, i'm going to do this because it's going to be best tort country and generate jobs not all about the next election and reelecting democrats of course i'm going to support it i'm not going to support anything about political patron thank or paying off political interest. gretchen: let me get savona on here. >> i would hold on the second stimulus. the first stimulus is bureaucracy. we need to reform our bureaucracy so that the money can get to people quickly. i think that's the problem before we spend any more money and not see what's coming out of the first pot of money. that's what i would like to see. gretchen: as a small business owner. >> we are not getting any of that money. we are told you can get technical assistance. that doesn't pay the bills. i'm going told i have to get a bridge loan if i win a grant. did i win a grant. no bank is going to give a bridge loan reimbursement for the award i won. that's a bad system. give me the award directly so i get assistance. move things along and get things done. that is the problem is the bureaucracy. really kind of tiered because each state does it differently. there should be something across the board that can help people more quickly. gretchen: thank you very much to the panel. let me know when you finish reading the cap and trade bill. >> i will be done tonight. last 200 pages. i don't know if anyone has read that. gretchen: have a great weekend. fox news alert dramatic video of a west bank village under attack right now. look at the tear gas. we will tell you what's going on when we come back. they say there is no crying in baseball but there sure is in the courtroom. why a former major league super star breaks down into tears. and excuse me, mr. president. what are you looking at? 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judge: it was supposed to take months, major hearings, a lot of objections, and now it's a done deal. joining us now from detroit is jeff flock from the fox business network. jeff, what's going to happen today? >> well, i know you were a big supporter of this bankruptcy, judge. i know you supported it all the way. thought it was actually moving too slow, i think, didn't you? judge: don't be a wise guy. >> 40 days and 40 nights and by god today they emerge from the desert. this is the g.m. world headquarters here. renaissance center in detroit. and about in an hour and a half fritz hernandez the ceo will -- fritz henderson. they will meet the press and tell everybody how the new g.m. is going to make it work when the old g.m. couldn't judge judge how will the new g.m. be different than the old g.m., jeff? >> it's a good question. clearly the same -- a lot of the same management is in place. a lot of the same cars. obviously the same cars are still there it's a good question. will it be a greener company? we talked yesterday about the fact that they are going to maybe turn the blue logo from blue to green that's on top of the building. it will be a greener company, meaning they will maybe make some more fuel efficient cars. will that gain traction in the u.s.? at this point we don't know. gretchen: the problem though is this is not over for general motors. the terminated dealers will be on capitol hill next week. and they are pushing house bill 2743 which more than 200 members of the house have now signed on to to reinstate those delearships. this fight is far from over. >> it's got a lot of traction on capitol hill. you are absolutely right, gretchen. these dealers are not going away quietly. although a lot of them are going away. a a lot of them have taken the deal. even if that gets traction. a lot of these dealers are gone for good. it's probably a healthy thing as hard as it's been. this company needs to be leaner and meaner. we got 50 billion of our dollars riding on it we will see how it goes. brian: we will never see that again. jeff flock, thanks. the new g.m. is upon us. judge: yes it is. gretchen: all right. let's get on to the rest of your friday headlines. a challenge from president obama's two states in the mideast tear gas in the air as palestinians try to cross the border fence into israeli territory in the west bank village. neither show any interested in side by side states. each want each gone quite frankly. palestinian state under the current u.s. plan but israel is so far refusing to give it up. israelis and palestinians fight each other at this spot every friday. judge? judge: most california state offices are closed today. no surprise. it's the start of governor schwarzenegger's plan to save cash due to the state's 26.3 billion-dollar crisis. he has ordered state workers to take three days off every month without pay. it's a 14% cut in pay for them. but the governor says it will save the state close to half a billion a year. brian? brian: yeah, judge. judge: i'm sorry? i'm so used to tossing to bribe? brian: can we talk in the break? gretchen: let me tell you what you are watching right now on video. you see that guy just throw that statue down? that guy was throwing down a virgin mary statue. judge: oh, come on. gretchen: he picks it back up and does more damage to it he may need to say a dozen hail maries. judge: at least. gretchen: decide to steal what's left of it statue worth $3,000. police still looking at the guy. it's not the value. it's the desis he creation that probably has people hot under the collar this morning. >> absolutely. hottest new video online roller skating babies of nearly 5 million hits on youtube. it's all part of a global television and web campaign for evian water. how do they do that? gretchen: shake it, baby. look at that. judge: you go girl. gretchen: look at the flexibility. that is adorable. not sure if it sells more water but it's adorable video. look at. that is that you on states right there? brian: no. judge: now can i talk to brian? brian: without a unitard, thank you. nobody told jim leritz no crying in baseball. he broke down and sobbed in a florida courtroom when he found out he had to spend another weekend in jail. he was arrested last week after allegedly beating his ex-wife. he is also facing separate manslaughter charges from a drunk driving accident a couple of years ago. he propelled the yankees championship home run against braves played for a number of years. called this strike two for one former major leaguer. check out this police video taken arrest of a former padre's player. name is matt bush it all happened after he backed into another car in the parking lot while suspected of being drunk. this is the second time this year bush has been arrested. the 23-year-old is charged with dui. vandalism, driving on a suspended license and resisting arrest. by the way, we are going to be at major league all star game. fox has it dave briggs will be there in st. louis with reports from bush stadium. catch the all star game tuesday july 14th at 9:00 only on fox. now if geraldo rivera had chosen baseball, you would have been at that all star game. and you would have actually done anything you put your mind to. judge: already an all star. >> guess what position you never would. gretchen: catcher. >> how did you know that? gretchen: it was my esp working with me this morning. >> that's how close we are. brian: let's talk about the steve mcnair situation. loved the sport. out of the sport. >> had a great career. and then had to retire as they often do. having getting banged around. here he is in his mid 30's. is he flailing around, trying put a life together. trying to gain back self-esteem and adoration he had with the titans and other teams he played for with the rightful arm of his. how do we do it. many men at a certain age they seek out that reaffirmation of their masculinity and worth in serial affairs. he kept having affairs with younger and younger women. you know, he just -- he happened to meet one who is going down the tubes herself. who was increasing desperation. she was broke. she was selling her furniture on craigslist. gretchen: she found out he might have been having another relationship. >> found out that also found out he was having another affair. she gets stopped drunk driving. is he in the car. mcnair is in the car. so is another buddy of his. mcnair had previously gotten a dui himself from the same cop taylor who stopped the young lady here driving the car. mcnair didn't want anything to do with her. he was really angry at her for driving drunk. although he was too drunk to drive it was obvious. judge: sort of a local hero with a very popular restaurant before he was killed? judge: for sure. was his personal behavior generally known? >> i don't know. you know, once mcnair left the playing field, those of us outside nashville he fell off our radar screen. but in this situation, you can see how one thing led to another. but i believe that she intended killing him prior to the drunk driving stop. why do i believe that? because she is desperate for money. she selling all of her money on craigs list. she buys the gun. what is she going to use the gun for. women don't use guns to kill themselves generally they buy pills. brian: he was asked to go back and talk to the cop who arrested ironically steve mcnair in 2003. same one who pulled over this woman. back in the cop car if you want go talk to her. he walked out. >> blew her off. brian: called her up just to say don't tell them it was me. brian: speaker phone. she says i love you. he says nothing back. then you spend a great deal of time in jail. that anger builds. judge: she probably asked him for money and he said no. >> it was obvious that her lifeline, was cut. he she is a waitress when he meets her. now the waitress comes into steve mcnair's lavish lifestyle. is he throwing money around as men always do during the courtship. she gets hooked on that sense of security that false sense of security. then things start to unwind. mcnair hinting he has the girlfriend and others besides that mcnair not following through on his own promise stated leave his wife behind to take up with the 20-year-old. she sees desperation happening. then you get the drunk driving. that's the catalyst that sets off the timing. he goes to bed. as he sleeps, she comes up to him with the gun she has just bought bought at 20 years old. can't buy a gun from a gun dealer. she has to buy from a private source. 20 years old. stands over mcnair, the fabled nfl quarterback. pops him twice in the head. pops him twice in the chest. sits down here the body in a show of love and hate and puts the gun to her own temple and pulls the trigger and there you have the murder suicide. it is a classic scenario. if it weren't steve mcnair you could almost put the names in there this is the written large and often. gretchen: i'm sure you will be covering it on your show over the weekend. >> that and the michael jackson drug problems. brian. judge: bribe and the judge in an hour. >> i will be there. major feature aside from the "fox & friends" appearance on fridays. gretchen: thanks so much, geraldo. having a great weekend. are these deals for real? 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gabe is here senior travel traveler. all right, gabe, let's start with jetblue. could this be true? $29 flights between fort lauderdale and the bahamas? >> yeah, that's an international fair, believe it or not. 29 bucks on jetblue fort lauderdale to the bahamas. we are actually seeing one way domestic and even a couple of international affairs down to 29, 49 bucks. it will take from you san jose and long beach and southern california for just about 49 bucks. nyc to nantucket 74 bucks. the trick is check out the book by date. sometimes they are only 24 to 4 hours long. sooner you can jump on sales the better get advertised sales. brian: their goal is to say it's unfortunate we're sold out on them. we like to charge you $4,000 instead and. union nighted. let's talk about last minute domestic sales. right now we saw our staff $44 between denver and salt lake city. 54 between vegas and san francisco. and between new york city and d.c. now, tell me about these. got to travel bye bye july 14th. that's next week. >> well, that's the thing. this is an example of these very last-minute sales. this was released a couple days ago specifically for travel this weekend. today or tomorrow and have you got to return by monday or tuesday of next week. so, very short lived. very immediate type of sale but they are becoming indegreesingly more important. really tells just what the consumer -- these days consumers are waiting longer and longer and waiting for that very, you know, aggressive best price deals to actually jump on booking these flights. we are north seeing these long-term bookings as much anymore. more of these immediate last minute books. very short lived sales and short lead time sales are more popular and more prevalent these days. gretchen: i got so dissed when i thought i was planning in advance and now i'm looking at some of these sales saying that was really stupid. let's talk gog hawaii. you are smart if you are taking advantage of these deals. are you talking about $243 to get to may i -- maui. >> rates have dropped pretty dramatically throughout hawaii. that has led to hotel prices dropping and airlines followed suit. 243 between dallas and maui. 268 between los angeles and kona and 333 between boston and kauai. fairs as low as you will ever see them. paying one price and finding a lower price on a sale later. a lot of airlines will in fact give you back difference on that ticket. some like united won't charge you any money for it you have to be on top of what you paid and how these fares drop overtime to be able to cash in on some of these refrundz. brian: that explains why sometimes they are not there the restrictions are there in fine print. you need a fine glass or telescope to see them. >> when to actually look for these sales. you are seeing the best possible one-way fair advertised but the best are tuesdays, wednesdays and saturdays when you will find. early morning flights will be more expensive. look to mid to late morning flights early afternoon flights. you have got to be able to play around with your dates. the time of day you will be willing to flight. the more flexible you are the better odds lock in one of those fares? gretchen: you probably did say tuesday, wednesday and suffered a are the best days? >> indeed. gretchen: to book. all right. gabe, thanks so much for the insider information. hopefully lots of folks will go and have a good trip. brian: check you out. swim club takes back manipulates manipulates -- memberships from a bunch of campers. is the club discriminating or just full? first. gretchen: on this day in 1999 the u.s. women american soccer team shocked the world by winning the world cup. and after that brandy shocked the world by taking off her shirt. prince had the number one hit in 1984 "when doves cry" ♪ . . want to squeeze more out of the things you buy? bounty extra soft can help. pffft in this lab demo, e sheet out-scrubs... two sheets of the bargain brand. for value that works extra hard... and feels extra soft. bounty extra soft. yeah, so? it stinks in here! have you smelled this chair? or these curtains? you've gotta wash this whole room! are you kidding? wash it?! let's wash it with febreze! whoa! 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[ sniffs ] hey, it smells nice in here. i'm sorry. i can't hear you very well. announcer: does someone you know have trouble hearing on the phone? dad. dad, let me help you with that, okay? announcer: now, a free phone service shows captions of everything a caller says. i'd like to make an appointment to see the doctor. announcer: to learn more about captioned telephone, call 1-800-552-7724 or go to our website. i'll see you at 3:00! announcer: captioned telephone - enjoy the phone again! judge: a bunch of kids show up at the pool to swim. they're told they can't. 65 of them are all black, from an inner city day camp. city officials say racism is at the center. with us is the director of creative steps daycare and three of the students. althea, tell us what happened. >> around the early part of june were was searching for a place to take my children to swim at the camp because the frankfort y had lost their funding where we took the children last year. i found the valley swim club online, and i contacted them, i tried to register our membership online, but it wouldn't take, so i emailed the club directly to register the children, and i was contacted by the board chairman who told me the reason why it wouldn't take is because it was such a large group, however, he told me that he would have to get board approval in order for the campers to swim. in my proposal i stated the dates which i do have the emails with me, i stated the dates that we would need the children to be there, which is june 29 through august 10. judge: was anybody else kicked out besides your group? >> not to my knowledge. judge: why do you believe you were kicked out because everybody in your group is black? did you hear anything or learn anything about the feelings or opinions about the people that kicked you out? >> well, the group is a mixture of african-american and hispanic, and what happened, while we were at the pool, 30 to 35 minutes into it, the children came running down toward me saying "miss wright, the group of people are saying they don't want african-americans, what are the black people here, what's going to happen, what are they going to do to our kids?" the board chairman was there, and assured me he'd take care of it. judge: we did get a statement, and here is what they said. hey, marcus, how did you guys feel when they wouldn't let you go swimming? >> i felt very angry and upset that they would say something like that and they wouldn't let us in just because of the color of our skin. judge: had you guys been at that camp before with no problems? >> we've never attended there. that was our first and our last time, and as far as underestimating, the premises of the facility is ten acres, and they have i think a 10,000 -- it's a very huge pool, and i have the email stating that as well, and they knew that we were bringing 60 to 65 children. they had four lifeguards, and we had eight staff members. judge: have they let you back in since you pointed out to them that only african-americans and hispanics were kicked out? >> no, they have not responded to us at all. as a matter of fact, i have a voice mail with the board chairman called and said the membership said let the chips fall where they may. judge: oh, boy, i hope you do the right thing. there are very strong laws, as you know, that prevent any club, private or public, from treating you like this. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. judge: any moment now president obama will hold a news conference before heading off to meet the pope. we will bring that to you live as it happens. then she was struck by lightning in her own home. how can this happen? you're going to meet this mother and her son who saved her life. io won't believe what a.i.g. is doing all over again. they're doling out more bonuses for top executives. 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[captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- ♪ i always remember run-dmc ♪ and all of the good times that we had on the beach ♪ ♪ drinking out of paper cups and making out in the sand ♪ ♪ don't want to stop dreaming ♪ can you tell me ♪ do you remember the summers that lasted so long ♪ gretchen: he's talking about summertime, and it's the all-american summer concert series for friday on "fox & friends," that's mark mcgrath with sugar ray, a band that's been together for 20 years, and they just released a new album. brian: and the crowd is building as usual. we got word on this story. judge, you were surprised by this. the magic man is magic no more. judge: hard to believe. hard to believe he took the job. we're talking about senator rolon burris in illinois, bye-bye burris under pressure to quit from the start, are you ready for this, he'll announce shortly that he will not seek a full term. gretchen: we expect him to make that announcement sometime tomorrow, fox news confirming that he's already told democratic party leaders his intentions. burris was appointed by blago, the disgraced governor of illinois to take president obama's former seat, all of blago's appointments tainted by those pesky pay for play charges. bristol palin's ex thinks personal finances made governor sarah palin call it quits. levi johnston lived with the palins and claims to have overheard conversations about lucrative deals including a reality show and a book. he says palin was offered unless for the book. johnston is speaking out because alaskaians want to know why their governor presigns. johnston is also having his own book. two tv commercials billy mays recorded before his death will go on the air. his wipe deborah gave the ok. she said he liked nothing more than pitching his products. one is for mighty tape and mighty putty. investigators have found e. coli in nestle cookie dough, and investigators are baffled because the e. coli is different that the e. coli linked in the outbreak. their fiances are away at war, but these military wives to be are getting a special gift. a bridal shop in minnesota is giving away free dresses to dozens of brides. the owner says she's just trying to help people in need on their big day. >> they don't have a lot of money, they don't have a lot of money, and that's what you hear from, and it's like this is my calling to do this. gretchen: what a wonderful thing she's doing, the shop is holding a military extravaganza this sunday and plans on giving away tuxes and limo services, and thank you so much for honoring the troops and thinking about them. brian: 235 million, that's all the a.i.g. executives want for their bonuses. judge: that's almost the same number as last time when it was 280 million, when people threatened them and some of them had to lead their homes, led by the president. i bet there won't be a peep now, and this time we know it's cash from the feds. brian: and you're talking about the a.i.g. executives, 40 of them are eligible. gretchen: this is from 2008, before the big fall off the fence and over the cliff of a.i.g. as a corporation, and now 75% of it is owned by you, the taxpayer, kind of, the government technically owns it, but the bottom line is that this money was accrued and earned in 2008, so are these executives entitled to these bonuses if they rightfully earn them? the thing for me is whether or not they need approval from this new compensation czar kenneth fineburg. he's one of 34 czars. apparently not. judge: i think they need political cover which is why they're going to ask him for approval. gretchen: they don't need legal approval because. judge: they earned it before he came into existence and before the treasury department bought all the stock and becamed them out. gretchen: the interesting thing to me is this quote. we would want to feel comfortable with getting the government's approval, but the government is comfortable with what we're doing. can you imagine hearing this quote a year ago, hearing for a private firm that we need to make sure the government is comfortable with what we're doing? in is a new era, folks where companies are owned by the government, and you have to go to them first. brian: it doesn't look like we're going to get our money back here, $180 billion was poured into a.i.g., too big to fail was the term used. judge: a.i.g. is still being sold, down 35%, one-third of its value in the past two weeks. where's it going? brian: and they try to combine the stock to make it worth more money, now it's back down to 0. they say by the time a.i.g. pays off its bill, anybody who's a stockholder is going to have nothing. judge: to who would buy this stock that the taxpayers are stuck with? gretchen: let's move on to this new story. ohio was a key battleground state that clenched obama the nomination, but now citizens there speaking loud and clear about their disapproval of the white house. listen to this. >> there's a lot of spending happening and not much growth to show for it at this point. >> i'm going to keep pluggin' away and pluggin' away because i have to because there's nobody out here going to do it for me. gretchen: the numbers are showing it as well, president obama dropping to a 49% approval rating in ohio. he was at 62% in may. it's the first time the president's under the 50% mark in any state since he was elected. brian: that was a quinnipiac poll by ken blackwell, senior fellow at the family research council. why is ohio unique to the country? the country gives him a 56 approval rating. why does ohio seem to angry with him? >> well, ohio's economy is in the tank, and the president actually promised change, and he promised jobs, jobs, jobs, and as you know, nationally his jobs program has only created 150,000 jobs, and that's at a cost of $380,000 a job, and ohioans are feeling the brunt of that disappointment and poor performance on the economy front. so this is the president's economy now, and he's meeting up with some resistance to his rhetoric. people are saying all right, we want results, results, results, don't keep talking to us about change. we want to know change to what? change for the better? change for the worse? and right now it's status quo or change for the worse, and ronald reagan said it best, guys. he said status quo is latin for the mess that we're in, and that's what the president is starting to experience now. judge: so notwithstanding the unbelievable deal that the president got for the labor unions, many of whose members live in ohio and the chrysler and general motors bailout, you're telling us, ken, that people who voted for him in ohio which is a microcosm of the country have changed their mind, and they oppose him? >> they're in the process of changing their minds, and while people are of good will and wish him well, they're looking at his programs and saying look, what he's talking about now is nationalizing the banks, talking about nationalizing energy, nationalizing health care, and the story that we saw on the february edition of news week magazine we're all socialists now, the american people are saying okay, heck, no, no, we're not. gretchen: i can imagine from the role of a pollster it must be fascinating to watch this because so much was made about the president's popularity, and by all accounts many people like president obama, but it's his policies now that appear to be getting him into difficulty, and now the american public, some would say, waking up. >> look, and in our 233-year history, we have known historically as citizens that any time a government spends, spends, spends right around the corner is tax, tax, tax. brian: let's take a look at the unemployment rate in ohio, 10.8%, nationally 9.5%. we always hear -- there's two things you hear about ohio. lebron staying with the cavaliers and battleground state. but is it a bellwether where if ken blackwell was in the white house you'd say i know it's early, but in is really going to matter? >> absolutely. i would say to the president this is trending in the wrong direction, and that's not good. ohio so goes ohio, so goes the nation. gretchen: well, yeah, all eyes were on there, and by all accounts ohio gave president obama, it was a big piece of why he became president. you don't have to answer brian about lebron. brian: he's not answering yet. >> go buckeyes! brian: that we know. >> hey, brian, don't worry about it. brian: ken's referring to a dunk in a pickup game that nike demanded the tape back because this guy from xavier dunked over lebron james and made him look back, so nike came up and said give me your tape. and the young kid did it because he didn't know any better at the time, but we digress. brian: get that tape, you're ken blackwell, you can make it happen. >> junior, junior sky hook. judge: a mother struck by lightning inside her home. her son comes to the rescue. how can this 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manager facing charges of digging up 300 graves. the bodies were dumped into the back of the cemetery, hundreds of people who have lost loved ones are grieving for a second time this morning. >> i have a picture of my brother and my daughter. my fear is that they are in that mass grave because they are way in the back. brian: the fbi says it's not sure how long the scheme was going on, and it will take a few months for them to sort through the evidence and identify all the parties. judge: a worker in new jersey stumbles into the street after being shot. and as you can see on your screen, driver after driver after driver go out of their way not to help him. you can even see a school bus swerve to the other side of the street jumping the cush to avoid this guy. the worker wound up in the street after being shot by two robbers. there he is. there's some good news this morning. this man identified only as victor just came out of a coma. the police are looking for the people who attacked him as he headed to work at a jersey city, new jersey, auto body shop. brian: i guess one of the guys looks like that. gretchen: is the big one ready to hit california? scientists say they have detect add spike on underground rumblings on the san andreas fault. some scientists believe the deep tremors suggest underground stress may increase the risk. brian: the president is addressing the american press. >> before i discuss what we've achieved these past three days i'd like to take a moment to express my thanks to prime minister burlasconi, his staff, and the people of italy for their extraordinary hospitality and hard work in setting up this summit, and particularly i want to thank the people here for welcoming us to your home at this difficult time. we've seen how you've come together and taken care of each other, and we've been moved by your courage and your resilience, and your kindness. i'm confident that laquila will be rebuilt, its splendor will be restored, and it's people will serve as an example for all of us in how people can rise up from tragedy and begin anew, and we will keep this place and its people in our prayers and thoughts in the months and years ahead. we've come to laquila for a very simple reasons, the challenges of our time threaten the peace and prosperity of every single nation, and no one nation can meet these challenges alone. the threat of climate change can't be contained by borders on a map, and the theft of loose nuclear materials could lead to the extermination of any city on earth. reckless actions by a few have fueled a recession that spans the globe, and rising food prices means that 100 million of our fellow citizens are expected to fall into desperate poverty, so right now at this defining moment we face a choice. we can either shape our future or let events shape it for us. we can let the stale debates and old disagreements of the past divide us or we can recognize our shared interest and shared aspirations and work together to create a safer and cleaner and more prosperous world for future generations. i believe it's clear from our progress these past few days the path that we must choose. this gathering includes 25 nations as well as the u.n., imf, wto, and others. and after weeks of preparation and three days of candid and spirited discussions, we've agreed to take significant measures to address some of the most pressing threats facing our environment, our global economy, and our international security. let me outline what i believe had been most significant items that emerged from laquila. there was widespread consenseis that we must all continue our work to restore economic growth and reform or national and international financial regulatory systems. i'm pleased that the united states has taken the lead on this reform at home with a sweeping overhaul of our regulatory system, a transformation on a scale that we have not seen since the aftermath of the great depression, but while our markets are improving, and we appear to have averted global collapse, we know too many people are still struggling, so we agree that full recovery is a ways off, that it would be premature to be winding down our stimulus plans and we must sustain our support for those plans to lay the foundation for a strong and lasting recovery. we also agree that it's equally important that we return to fiscal sustainability in the midterm after the recovery is completed. second, we agree to historic measures that will help stop the spread of nuclear weapons and move us closer to the long-term goal of a world without nuclear weapons. in prague i laid out a comprehensive strategy to advance global security by pursuing that goal. in moscow president medvedev and i agreed to substantially reduce our warheads in a treaty that will be completed later this year, and this week the leaders of the g-8 nations embraced the strategy i outlined in prague which includes measures to strengthen the nonproliferation treaty, to encourage nations to meet their arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation agreements and to secure materials so they don't fall into the hands of terrorists. i also invited leaders from the broader group of nations here to attend a global nuclear summit that i will host in washington in march of next year where we will discuss steps we can take to secure loose nuclear materials, combat smuggling, and deter, detect, and disrupt attempts at nuclear terrorism. now we face a realtime challenge on nuclear proliferation in iraq. and at this summit the g-8 nations came together to issue a strong statement calling on iran to fulfill its responsibilities to the international community without further delay. we remain seriously concerned about the appalling events surrounding the presidential election, and we're deeply troubled by the proliferation risks iran's nuclear program poses to the world. we've offered iran a path toward assuming its rightful place in the world, but with that right comes responsibilities, and we hope iran will make the choice to fulfill them, and we will take stock of iran's progress when we see each other this september at the g-20 meeting. third, we took ground breaking steps forward to address the threat of climate change in our time. the g-8 nations agreed that by 2050 we'll reduce our emissions by 80%, and that we'll work with all nations to cut global emissions in half. and 17 of the world's leading economies made unprecedented commitments to reduce their emissions and made significant progress on finance, adaptation, and technology issues. in the united states we've already passed legislation in the house of representatives that puts us on track at meeting this 80% goal and we made historic clean energy commitments in our stimulus as well as setting new fuel efficiency standards to increase mileage and decrease pollution because we believe that the nation that can build a 21st century clean economy is the nation that will lead the 21st global economy. we did not reach agreement on every issue, but these achievements are highly meaningful, and they'll generate significant momentum as we head into the talks at copenhagen and beyond. finally we have committed to investing $20 million in agriculture programs to fight world hunger. this is in addition to the emergency humanitarian aid that we provide. coming into the meeting we agreed to 15 billion, and we exceeded that mark and obtained an additional $5 billion of hard commitments. we do not view this assistance as an end in itself, we believe that the purpose of aid must be to decrease the conditions where it's no longer needed to help people become self-sufficient, provide for their families, and lift their standards of living, and that's why i propose a new approach, one endorsed by all the leaders, a coordinated effort to support comprehensive plans created by the countries themselves along with significant and sustained financial commitments from our nations. i also want to speak briefly about additional one-on-one meetings i had with leaders here outside of the g-8 context. these meetings were tremendously valuable and productive. we spoke about how we can forge a strong coordinated response to nuclear proliferation threats from iran and north korea. we also discussed challenges we face in managing our economies, steps we can take together combatting climate change and other important matters, and i believe we laid a solid foundation on these issues. ultimately this summit and the work we've done here reflects a recognition that this defining problems of our time will not be solved without collective action. no one corner of the globe can wall itself off from the challenges of the 21st century or the needs and aspirations of fellow nations. the only way forward is through shared and persistent effort to combat threats to our peace, prosperity, and common humanity wherever they may exist. none of this will be easy. as we worked in week to find common ground, we have not solved all our problems, and we've not agreed on every point, but we've shown that it is possible to move forward and make real and unprecedented progress together, and i'm confident we'll continue to do so in the months and years ahead. so with that let me take a few questions. i've got a list that i'm working off of, and i'm going to start with peter baker. peter. >> thank you. >> i'm sorry, your mike didn't -- is not working there. >> hello. >> yeah. >> that's better. thanks, sir. mr. president, we were told that you made your appeal for the food security money during the meetings personal by citing your family experience in kenya, your cousin, and so forth. i wonder if you could relate what you said then and talk about what your family experience -- how that influences your policies and approach. >> well, what you heard is true, and i started with this fairly telling point that when my father traveled to the united states from kenya to study, at that time the per capita income and gross domestic product of kenya was higher than south korea's. today obviously south korea is a highly developed and relatively wealthy country and kenya is still struggling with deep poverty in much of the country, and the question i asked in the meeting was why is that? there had been some talk about the legacies of colonialism and other policies by wealthier nations, and without in any way diminishing that history, the point i made was that the south korean government working with the private sector and civil society was able to create a set of institutions that provided transparency and accountability and efficiency that allowed for extraordinary economic progress and that there was no reason why african countries could not do the same thing, and yet in many african countries if you want to start a business or a job, you still have to pay a bribe, that there remains too much -- there remains a lack of transparency, and the point that i was trying to underscore is that as we think about this issue of food security, which is of tremendous importance. we've got 100 million people who dropped into further dire poverty as a consequence of this recession. we estimate that a billion people are hungry around the globe, and so wealthier nations have a moral obligation as well as a national security interest in providing assistance. and we've got to meet those responsibilities. the flip side is that countries in africa and elsewhere in the world that are suffering from extreme poverty have an obligation to use the assistance that's available in a way that is transparent, accountable, and that builds on rule of law and other institutional reforms that will allow long-term improvement. there is no reason why africa cannot be self-sufficient when it comes to food. it has sufficient arable land. what's lacking is the right seeds, the right irrigation, but also the kinds of institutional mechanisms that ensure that a farmer is going to be able to grow crops, get them to market, get a fair price, and so all these things have to be part of a comprehensive plan. and that's what i was trying to underscore during the meeting today. what's that? well, the point i was making is -- my father traveled to the united states a hemere 50 years ago, and yet now i have family members who live in villages, they themselves are not going hungry, but live in villages where hunger is real, and so this is something that i understand in very personal terms, and if you talk to people on the ground in africa, certainly in kenya, they will say that part of the issue here is the institutions aren't working for ordinary people, and so governance is a vital concern that has to be addressed. i want to be very careful. africa is a continent and not a country, and so you can't extrapolate from the experience of one country, and there's a lot of good things happening. part of the reason that we're traveling to ghana is because you've got there a functioning democracy, a president who's serious about reducing corruption, and you've seen significant economic growth, so i don't want to overly generalize, but i do want to make the broader point that a government that is stable, that is not engaging in tribal conflicts, that can give people confidence and security that their work will be rewarded that is investing in its people and their skills and talents, those countries can succeed. all right. michael fletcher, "washington post". >> thank you, mr. president. now that you've pushed for an agreement to reduce nuclear stockpiles between russia and the u.s., part of your rationale has been that you want to have the moral authority to turn to north korea and iran to get them to suspend their programs. why will they listen to what the u.s. and russia have to say? what would it matter to them what we do? >> i don't think it matters so much necessarily that they will listen to the united states or russia individually, but it gives us the capacity as the two nuclear superpowers to make appeals to the broader world community in a consistent way about the dangers of nuclear proliferation and the need to reduce that danger and hopefully at some point in time eliminate it. so there are countries that have decided not to pursue nuclear weapons. brazil, south africa, lybia have all made a decision not to pursue nuclear weapons. part of the concept behind the nonproliferation treaty was countries could develop peaceful nuclear energy, they would not pursue nuclear weapons if they were signaturories y to the tre. part of the goal was to show that the u.s. and russia are going to be fulfilling their commitments so that other countries feel that this is an international effort, and it's not simply being imposed by the united states or russia or members of the nuclear club. and i am confident that we can rebuild a nonproliferation framework that works for all countries. and i think it's important for us to establish a set of international norms that can be verified, that can be enforced, and when we are speaking to iran or north korea it's not a member of singling them out, but rather a set of international norms and behavior that we're expecting everybody to abide by. paulo valentino. >> thank you, mr. president. it seems that yesterday morning you had a very spirited and lively discussion with the g-8 plus five plus one ignited by president lula's objection to the adequacy of the g-8 as a forum, and i would like to know what was your argument in this discussion on whether or not you had the feeling that the days of the g-8 are over, and a second question, but very light, after six months wheeling and dealing with these international forums, g-20, nato, and g-8, do you find it more complicated or less complicated to deal with that than with the american congress? >> well, on the second question, it's not even close. congress is always tougher, but in terms of the issue of the g's and what's the appropriate international structure and framework, i have to tell you in the discussions i listened more than i spoke, although what i said privately was the same thing that i've said publicly which is that there is no doubt that we have to update and refresh and renew the international institutions that were set up in a different time and place. some, the u.n., date back to post world war ii. others like the g-8 are 30 years old. and so there's no sense that those institutions can adequately capture the enormous changes that have taken place during those intervening decades. what exactly is the right format is a question that i think will be debated. one point i did make in the meeting is what i've noticed is everybody wants the smallest possible group, smallest possible organization that includes them, so if they're the 21st largest nation in the world, then they want the g-21. and they think it's highly unfair if they've been cut out. what's also true is that part of the challenge here is revitalizing the united nations because a lot of energy is going into these various summits and these organizations in part because there's the sense that when it comes to big, tough problems, the u.n. general assembly is not always working as effectively and rapidly as it needs to, so i'm a strong supporter of the u.n., and i said so in this meeting, but it has to be reformed and revitalized, and this is something i've said to the secretary general. one thing i think is absolutely true is that for us to think we can somehow deal with these global challenges in the absence of major powers like china, india, and brazil seems to me wrong-headed. so they are going to have to be included in these conversations. to have entire continents like africa or latin america not adequately represented in these major international forums and decision-making bodies is not going to work. so i think we're in the transition period. we're trying to find the right shape that combines the efficiency and capacity for action with inclusiveness, and my expectation is that over the next several years you'll see an evolution and we'll be able to find the right combination. the one thing i will be looking forward to is fewer summit meetings because as you've said, i've only been in office six months now, and there have been a lot of these, and i think that there's a possibility of streamlining them and making them more effective. the united states obviously is an absolutely committed partner to concerted international action, but we need to i think make sure that they're as productive as possible. hans nichols. >> hans had other obligations. roger renigan. we swapped. thank you for the question. i'd like to return to domestic issues, mr. president, health care. the momentum seems to have slowed a bit. the senate finance committee is still wrestling with the cost issue. the blue dog democrats, members of your own party, yesterday said they have strong reservations about what's developing so far. i just wonder when are you going to be jumping in really full force with this? do you have any sweeteners planned? what is your push before the august recess? >> well, we've jumped in with both feet. our team is working with members of congress every day on this issue, and it is my highest legislative priority over the next month, so i think it's important just to recognize we are closer to achieving serious health care reform that cuts costs, provides coverage to american families, allows them to keep their doctors, and plans that are working for them. we're closer to that significant reform than at any time in recent history. and that doesn't make it easy. it's hard. and we are having a whole series of constant negotiations. this is not simply a democratic versus republican issue. this is a house versus senate issue, this is different committees that have different priorities. my job is to make sure that i've set some clear parameters in terms of what i want to achieve. we have to fix the cost of health care, and there are very specific ways of doing that, game-changers that incentivize quality as opposed to quantity, that emphasize prevention, there are a whole host of things that i've put on the table that i want to see included. i've said that it's got to be budget neutral, it's got to be deficit neutral, and so whatever bill is produced has to be paid for, and that creates some difficulties because people would like to get the good stuff without paying for it, and so there are going to be some tough negotiations in the days and weeks to come, but i'm confident that we're going to get it done, and i think that appropriately all of you as reporters are reporting on the game. what i'm trying to keep focused on are the people out in states all across the country that are getting hammered by rising treatment yums, they're losing their jobs and suddenly losing their health care, they are going into debt, some are going into bankruptcy, small businesses and large businesses that are feeling enormous pressure, and i'm also looking at the federal budget. there's been a lot of talk about the deficit and the debt and from my republican colleagues why isn't obama doing something about this? ignoring the fact that we got into the worst recession since the great depression with a $1.3 billion deficit. fair enough. there is occurring on my watch. what cannot be denied is that the only way to get a handle on our medium and long-term budget deficits is if we corral and contain health care costs. nobody denies this. and so my hope is that everybody who is talking about deficit reduction gets serious about reducing the cost of health care and puts some serious proposals on the table, and i think it's going to get done. it is going to be hard, though, because as i said i think in one of the town hall meetings that i had, as dissatisfied as americans may be with the health care system, as concerned as they are about the prospects that they may lose their job or their premiums may keep on rising, they're also afraid of the unknown, and we have a long history in america of scaring people that they're going to lose their doctor, they're going to lose their health care plans, they're going to be stuck with some bureaucratic government system that's not responsive to their needs, and overcoming that fear, fear that is often actively promoted by special interests who profit from the existing system is a challenge, and so my biggest job even as my staff is working on the day-to-day negotiations with house and senate staffs, my biggest job is to explain to the american people why this is so important and give them confidence that we can do better than we're doing now. >> is it pretty much a do or die by the august recess? >> i never believe anything is do or die. but i really want to get it done by the august recess. christy parson, the hometown gal. >> christy is not here. >> i'm disappointing. do we have any members of the foreign press here? i'll use christy's spot. >> thank you very much. >> can somebody make sure the mike's working. >> it's on? >> yes. >> on this trip you've been talking about the state's sovereignty as cornerstone of international order. how do you reconcile that with the concept of responsibility to protect which used to be the cornerstone? >> how do i reconcile that with the responsibility to protect which used to be what? >> the cornerstone of hope for lots of people in post war context? >> if i understand your question correctly, on the one hand we think that respecting the sovereignties of nation states is important. we don't want stronger nations bullying weaker nations. on the other hand where you have nations that are oppressing their people, isn't there an international responsibility to intervene? it is one of the most difficult questions in international affairs, and i don't think that there is a clean formula. what i would say is that in general it's important for the sovereignty of nations to be respected and to resolve conflicts between nations through diplomacy and through international organizations in trying to set up international norms that countries want to meet. there are going to be exceptional circumstances in which i think the need for international intervention becomes a moral imperative. the most obvious example being in a situation like rwanda where genocide has occurred. gordon brown during the last session told an incredibly powerful story. and i may not be getting all the details perfectly right, but he said he had gone to rwanda, went to a -- some sort of museum or exhibition that commemorated the -- or marked the tragedy in rwanda, and there was a photograph of a 12-year-old boy and it gave his name and that he loved soccer, and he wanted to be a doctor and provided his biography, and the last line on this exhibit said that right before he and his mother were killed he turned to his mother and said don't worry, the united nations is going to come save us. and that voice has to be heard in international relations. the threshold at which the international intervention is appropriate i think has to be very high. there has to be a strong international outreach at what's taking place. it's not always going to be a neat decision. and there are going to be objections to just about any decision because there are some in the international community who believe that state sovereignty is sacrosanct and you never intervene under any circumstances in somebody's internal affairs. i think rather than focus on hypotheticals, what my administration wants to do is to build up international norms, put pressure, economic, diplomatic, et cetera, on nations that are not acting in in accordance with universal values towards their citizens, but not high poth size on particular circumstances, take each circumstance as it comes. richard wolffe. >> i guess i have to follow on that, mr. president. is iran in that category, and are you disappointed that while you came up with a statement of condemnation from the g-8, you did not come up with any kind of extra sanctions having to do with their crackdown on protesters? >> i have to say i read, peter, your article, and maybe some others. this notion that we were trying to get sanctions or that this was forum in which we could get sanctions is not accurate. what we wanted was exactly what we got, which is a statement of unity and strong condemnation about the appalling treatment of peaceful protesters post election in iran as well as some behavior that just violates basic international norms, swarming of embassies, arresting embassy personnel, restrictions on journalists. and so i think the real story here was consensus in that statement including russia. which doesn't make statements like that lightly. now, there is -- the other story there was the agreement that we will reevaluate iran's posture towards negotiating the cessation of a nuclear weapons policy, we'll evaluate that at the g-20 meeting in september, and i think what that does is it provides a time frame. the international community has said here's a door you can walk through that allows you to less intentions and more fully join the international community. if iran chooses not to walk through that door, then you have on record the g-8 to begin with, but i think potentially a lot of other countries that are going to say we need to take further steps, and that's been always our premise is that we provide that door, but we also say we're not going to just wait indefinitely and allow for the development of a nuclear weapon, the breach of international treaties, and wake up one day and find ourselves in a much worse situation and unable to act. so my hope is that the iranian leadership will look at the statement coming out of the g-8 and recognize that world opinion is clear. all right? thank you very much, everybody. judge: there you have it, the president wrapping up, talking about respecting the integrity of other countries, no matter how evil their government may be, climate change by 2050, and fewer of these summits. let's go outside to brian and gretchen with sugar ray. gretchen: all right. we've been waiting for this all morning long. we have a huge crowd here, and mark mcgrath, the head of sugar ray. >> the head of sugar ray. i'll take whatever you call me. gretchen: you guys have been together 20 years. >> 21 years, and it's been the same guys, too. the biggest testament that we're still together, we have awards, platinum records, been around the world, but we're still doing it. brian: you have a new cd out. what are you going to play? >> "boardwalk." brian: for guys that grew up in newport beach, you understand that well. if you're in newport, go by his house. >> come by my restaurant. brian: i didn't know you had a restaurant. >> come by. gretchen: we've been waiting all morning to hear it, so take it away, guys. brian: sugar ray! [ applause ] ♪ boardwalk ♪ what's up new york city ♪ good morning to you ♪ boardwalk ♪ when the summer is on and the heat is there ♪ ♪ i'll be waving goodbye while the girls are cryin' ♪ ♪ it was a vacation ♪ but it was really just nothing at all ♪ ♪ check it out ♪ had to start the morning ♪ roll out of bed with sand in my hair ♪ ♪ couple drinks and it always happens ♪ ♪ we end up right here ♪ last night we got caught up and swept away ♪ ♪ we both know it couldn't last forever ♪ ♪ now there's one thing left to say ♪ ♪ when the summer is done and the heat is dyin' ♪ ♪ i'll be waving goodbye while the girl's cryin' ♪ ♪ it was a vacation day ♪ and some may call it a play ♪ but it was really just nothing at all ♪ ♪ out on the boardwalk girls go by ♪ ♪ having a spark of conversation ♪ ♪ feelin' fine and she's lookin' my way ♪ ♪ and it drives me crazy ♪ gonna make her my baby ♪ and tomorrow we can do it again ♪ ♪ when the summer is done and the heat is dyin' ♪ ♪ i'll be waving goodbye while the girl's a cryin' ♪ ♪ it was a vacation ♪ and some may call it a play but it was really just nothing at all ♪ ♪ and i can't stay here for the rest of my life ♪ ♪ without a care in the world ♪ all my friends are making new memories ♪ ♪ the sun is down ♪ we're leavin' now ♪ looks like it's all been a dream ♪ come on, new york city, come on. ♪ when the summer is done and the heat is dyin' ♪ ♪ i'll be waving goodbye while the girl's cryin' ♪ ♪ it was a vacation ♪ and some may call it a play but it was really just nothing at all ♪ ♪ out on the boardwalk ♪ come on ♪ that's where we go ♪ out on the boardwalk ♪ no one will know ♪ boardwalk ♪ no one will know ♪ out on the boardwalk ♪ that's where we go thank you! [ cheers and applause ] brian: great job, sugar ray is back. in case you don't know, the same guy that's in "extra," you're in our business. >> i got out of your business because it's so hard to do. you guys do a great job. two things i don't do well, sing and host. go figure. we're going to stick around. gretchen: more songs in the after the show show log on to foxandfriends.com, go out and buy the new album, music for

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