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[captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- steve: a casual friday so that could explain why eric bolling is not wearing a necktie. actually never wear as necktie. he is in for brian kilmeade starting the weekend early. >> i never wear a tie, steve. if i did, i would definitely wear that tie. gretchen: sucking up already. steve: going to be a good three hours. gretchen: start the morning off with a fox news alert because overnight u.s. marines launched an all-out assault to take down the taliban in afghanistan. it's called operation angry cobra, the first major offensive since president obama announced his new strategy. 300 marines were dropped into what the military is calling a central strategically important area in helmand province. u.s. commanders say they are trying to cut off enemy supply and communication lines to the north. this as nato warns that sending more troops to afghanistan was no silver bullet. should prepare for a lengthy struggle. a taliban detainee claiming osama bin laden is alive. he saw him apparently in afghanistan. according to the bbc, the detain knee says he met bin laden numerous times. he also claims bin laden was seen crossing the border from pakistan in january or february. the al qaeda leader is allegedly hiding out in an area with a strong taliban presence. and at this very moment an italian jury deliberating the fate of an american student accused of killing her british roommate. a stipulation in the amman do knox case could come in the next few hours. pleading her case to an italian court saying she is afraid she will be branded a murderer. she and her boyfriend are accused of murder kircher. another person has already been convicted. the officers were supposed to be manning checkpoints for the state dinner that tareq and michaele salahi attended without invitation. a mistake was made letting the couple into the event. president obama says he still has 100% confidence in the agency. the salahis were not at the hearing. lawmakers say they may still subpoena the couple. more later in the hour with judge andrew napolitano. the earn andrews peephole saga deepens as search warrants are served at the headquarters of yahoo and google. investigators want to know if the man accused of stalking the sideline reporter also posted another video on flicker account. it belongs to michael barrett who is a suspect in the andrews case. steve: yesterday at this time we told you that -- yesterday afternoon there was scheduled a press conference at 2:30 in the afternoon. this rachel uchitel. she is the one that got everything started. apparently was going to dish on the relationship between her and tiger woods. and now the confer of the "new york post" today has got a story about how why at the last minute did they pull the plug on that particular press conference. well, to this story details how aparnghtly the night before she and tiger talked on the phone. also her agents and i should say her attorney, gloria al red and his agents and his lawyers and came to a deal. and she was going to apparently according to this get a lot of money to be quiet. gretchen: tichina he probably does not want to have any more stories coming out. steve: he is buying her off according to this. gretchen: i guess so. i want to ask the judge about this white house the white house crasher party. because he has an interesting article on fox news.com. what's the difference between bribery and this? and he says that there is a distinct difference in the sense that it's not extortion in this case but why? because it's an obvious payoff -- eric: gretchen at this point who cares. two other granted. probably -- gloria al red came out in the post i never spoke to tiger before. tiger flew her over to australia during a golf tournament. if i'm tiger, out. i have her, i have her, i have her. get it over with. move on. steve: i made a whole bunch of mistakes but i'm in constant -- now aapparently there is a report out that he is in marriage counseling. there is somebody who is at his house a couple times a day now where they are doing that. on the flip side of he is buying her silence story. there is a brand new story this morning on tmz that says she is not taking any money. she walked away from it and apparently she just wants to disappear for a little while. she says it has to do with fear and secrets. she knows a lot of secrets about his marriage, about other women. at the same time, they say that she is scared for her safety, sources do, because she knows specifics. she doesn't fear tiger. she fears all the other people caught in a very large net. that goes to your point. eric: there may be more. she may be one -- there is tiger. there is the guy from bones. there is a few others. she may be at the center -- gretchen: other disturbing story other reports out now that he is in negotiations with his wife to stay in the marriage by paying her millions of dollars. to me that's the most sexist thing i have ever hard in my life. first of all i don't even believe it's true. she would walked away with gazillion ifs she divorced him. why would she accept $5 million to stay in the marriage two more years? it's a sexist play. steve: i don't know about that apparently there are people who do these reupnups. she is being offered 5-million-dollar resigning bonus. she has a reit's nup with him. gretchen: that's worse than what happened to her in this marriage, to me. steve: if you are her,. gretchen: she already h. has can a zillions. brian. eric: she could have 1506789 michael jordan situation $160 million. bottom line it's all about the money. gretchen: i would say in that situation, you know what? let's work on our marriage, forget the money. let's work on our marriage and see if we can work this thing out. money muddies the whole thing. steve: gretch, she is obviously really mad at him. gretchen: money is not going to change what he did. steve: maybe -- absolutely not. it's going to keep her around, maybe. eric: if she stays will you agree it's all about the money? gretchen: it's true. i'm saying that's what is troubling to me today that i think it's sexist. and i think that this whole thing has nothing to do with money. eric: but if she stays it's not sexist, agreed? gretchen: probably. let's take a look what the neighbor is saying because this story is going on and on. apparently the neighbor is saying that tiger was sleeping? >> was he conscious? unconscious? >> at that point he was snoring. >> he was snoring? >> he was actually snoring. >> did she say anything now. >> no. i mean at this point she was actually very quiet and kind of in shock. >> you can describe any injuries that you saw? >> just the lacerations that were on his lip. >> upper lip or bottom lip? >> i couldn't -- >> you couldn't tell. >> between the two. >> between the two? was there a lot of blood? >> not a lot, not a lot. no. >> would be like if abloody nose or something like that. >> maybe if you might have bitten your lip or something like that. nothing on his shirt. nothing on his hands. i was holding him still at one point and i didn't get any blood on me whatsoever. steve: then he goes on to say that he was absolutely snoring in the middle of the road. and also apparently we're learning that tiger's mother and mother-in-law were in the house at the time that he decided to go for that 2:30 this the -- in the morning drive. gretchen: it's all messy. let's talk about something else that is happening today two. planes around thanksgiving time approaching denver november 23, 7:00 a.m. almost collided in the air. it looked as if they had collided. one was a united express plane. one a frontier airlines plane. and what the heck happened to make this situation get this close to having that many people potentially die? steve: they were within 200 feet separation plus about a mile away from each other. but that's just a couple of section. and so apparently what happened was air traffic controllers put then from tier jet into the same route as united express to line them up for landing. and suddenly because the air traffic controllers had given frontier pilots the wrong heading they were forcing them to make a u-turn putting them in the path of the united express. when that kind of thing happens suddenly all these bells and whistles go off in the cockpit. both pilots immediately took evasive action and steered themselves out of each other's way. eric: you have to wonder how many times this happens. this came out and air traffic controller said it's human air. nothing we can do about it. i have to think it happens every single day in major hubs. i have seen planes that look 1.7 miles away. they will cut underneath small planes. especially with the proliferation of small air. private planes. steve: there is no indication that anybody on board, aside from the pilots knew what happened. none the less the f.a.a. is doing an investigation. off to richmond, virginia, and a fellow has moved into a new house in the last year. 90-year-old retired colonel. he is amazing. there he is right there. 90 years old. he fought in three wars. world war ii, the korean conflict and vietnam. he also has a medal of honor. ever since he got out of the military, every morning he has raised an american flag in front of his house and at sun set he has brought it down. the problem was he has moved into this new neighborhood with one of those homeowners association covenants and rules and all sorts of stuff. and now he has got some problems. gretchen: complex of town houses. so apparently he applied for whatever kind of -- whatever he had to apply for to put up an american flag which on its face seems ridiculous last june. and then the board denied his q he says there has never been a day in my life or a place i have lived in my life that you couldn't fly the american flag. good point except now we live in 2009, almost 2010 where the american flag in america is under assault. eric: these ordinances are met to keep the aesthetic bought. one thing exempt from that should be the flag. steve: before he moved in, he said, look, i would like continue to stall a 21-foot flag pole in front of my house. and the homeowner's association came back and said we have got rules against that you cannot install the flag pole. we have no problem with the flag, they say. but we have a problem with the pole. he put it up none the less. he is a fighter. and now what he really needs is he needs them to grant a provision where he can keep the flag pole. eric: i think he needs judge napolitano. gretchen: we may get him on the case. the homeowner's association says: steve: i have got a message to the homeowner's association down there grant this american hero an exemption. he is a medal of honor winner. he is a special american. he has earned a flag pole in his front yard. eric: i would say he has earned it. i agree 100%. steve: i feel the same way. email us at [email protected]. gretchen: is the earth getting warmer? a scientist at the center of it all next. eric: guests on "fox & friends" ripping up aarp cards for month because they support the president's health care reform. now senator john mccain wants in on the action. we will explain. steve: it is being called climate gate controversy over leaked email that critics say the science behind global warming may have been exaggerated. next guest says these email are just the tip of the iceberg. eric: author of climate of extremes global warming science they don't want you to know and senior fellow of environmental studies at the cato institute. thanks for joining us. what exactly -- we heard about the stolen emails. >> the hacked. eric: the hacked emails. pretty telling, right, pat? >> it's very bad stuff. the stuff that's really bad is them trying to control what goes into the scientific literature. it's the cannon of science it would be somebody like say mark, john, luke. you can't put that in the bible otherwise we are not going to buy any bibles. steve: in the last 10 years we have heard through the mainstream media there are all these scientists who say that it is man that is causing this global warming. now there are these hacked emailings that show wait a minute some of these scientists who have been saying this all along have been behind the scenes do lewding to put that message out and maybe even doctoring some of the evidence. >> not even some of the scientists. some the big-name scientists were involved in trying to keep people out of the scientific literature. they would talk about if there is ever a freedom of information act request, if they ever find out that's true, i think i will destroy the file, meaning the data file that put together these global warming records. and they talk about all kinds of different things about how anybody's research who they don't agree with is not going to go into the literature. very, very bad stuff. eric: talk about what is at stake tens of billions if not hundreds of billions of dollars especially if we get a cap and trade bill down the road in the next couple of months or so. what is really at stake moneywise. >> the cap and trade is going to cost trillions and trillions of dollars. and, you know, i don't know how much this climate gate is going to influence it, but it's certainly going to probably sway a couple of people on capitol hill and the vote that would come out would be very, very close. steve: this has implications for every person on the planet. >> yes, it does. steve: extraordinarily yesterday barbara boxer is not concerned about what's in those hacked emails. she is just concerned that somebody stole them. she said you call it climate gate. i call it email theft gate. she wants the focus on finding who got the stuff. the whistle blower. >> that would be like somebody going after the person who leaked the pentagon papers. excuse me, it doesn't work that way. the information is out there. it's public. and it's very, very bad. eric: you know, when you think about a crime lab you think about contamination. a medical lab worried about contamination. going into copenhagen next week should we worry about contaminated data? >> well, the whole thing started because wouldn't let loose the climate data that made up these long-term weather records. people had been looking at them. i wrote a book about this. it looks to me that these records are being played with in a funny way. then you find email let's raise temperature 1500 dreadths of a degree to get rid of the blip cooling in the record. we going to do science that way. global policy that will effect everyone's life that way? i don't think so. steve: this is such a big story. >> it's huge. steve: you see nobody really talking about it on the mainstream media aside from fox and internet and talk radio. from the cato institute today, pat michaels we thank you so much for joining us with this very important story. >> you have seen it on "fox & friends." people ripping up their aarp card because the group supports the president's health care reform. now senator john mccain wants in on the action and president obama kicks off his jobs tour this morning in the heart of coal mining country in pennsylvania. up next, two men who know the area very well, congressman joe sestak and pat tombe steve: this is a fox news alert. you are about to look at live pictures of roman polanski's house. there it is right there. it's his shah lay on a hill where is he expected to arrive any minute. the famed film director expected to be moved to his house and he will then be under house arrest. the 76-year-old polanski has been fighting extradition to the united states ever since he admitted to having sex with a 13-year-old girl 0 years ago. none the less, they are going to let him out of jail and he is going to serve time for a little while until they figure out what to do at his house. meanwhile, the president's number two man at the department of justice quitting and some say it's over tensions with boss eric holder. deputy attorney general david ogden announced is he resigning after 10 months on the job. no official comment from justice officials and no word of a replacement. gretch? gretchen: thank you, steve. president obama kicking off white house to main street jobs tour. today in allen town, pennsylvania. what will he need to do to get people oback to work? joining us now, two candidates for pennsylvania senate seat former chairman of the club for growth pat toomey joins us from philadelphia and joining us from washington is congressman joe sestak. good morning, gentlemen. >> good morning, gretchen is this a good thing for you in pennsylvania that president obama is coming there first. >> absolutely. any time you can have the president of the united states come to your state it's a good thing. i hope what he does is make sure that everybody knows that the great recession this past quarter with 3.5% g.d.p. growth has ended. is it still intense out there? absolutely. where do i want his focus? on small businesses. in the last recession, under george bush, 80% of all jobs were created by small business. so i hope he talks about tax incentives, tax cuts for small businesses. i hope he recognizes that in the past eight years under president bush the small business administration's budget was slashed 40%. let's get the small business administration's loans increased. at affordable rates. let's guarantee them up to 98% and 90% there is a lot to be done. gretchen congressman, you are sounding like a republican with tax cuts. pat too maniy, i'm kind of surprised to hear congressman sestak saying that here is what president obama said yesterday, productivity up, markets up, but businesses are skiddish to hire. why do you think they are skiddish to hire? >> there are a number of reasons. first i'm delighted that the president is coming to allen town, pennsylvania. i hope this marks a real shift in the focus of his administration to job growth because it should be item number one. i'm glad to hear joe talk about lowering the tax burden. the problem is that much of the agenda that joe is voting for and that president obama and nancy pelosi and harry reid are promoting raises taxes. the health care bill that they have voted for and is working its way through the senate imposes direct new taxes on workers. this cap and trade legislation dramatically raises the cost of all energy use. they are proposing tax increases on income on wages on capital, on business. this is no way to go. if this is a shift and they are going to come around and realize that we shouldn't impose these new costs. we shouldn't impose new taxes we have got to get spending under control because that's really driving -- ultimately it drives all these increases. hopefully we can make progress. i hope the president will be open. gretchen: do you know about a shift in the obama administration? they are going to stop the spending programs and listen to you? >> well, this is very interesting. because pat, who i have great respect for, sounds almost like appose at a time. back in 2002. he actually let the pay as you go rules go out the window and he, with his vote, let the national debt increase from $4.5 trillion to almost $10 trillion. gretchen: let's keep it about what is happening today which is 10.2 unemployment rate. >> absolutely. without a question. 10.2. if we had not done the economic stimulus bill, and we had not done tarp, we would have been at 12% unemployment. so what we do want to do is do those tax incentives. >> there is no way to back that up, joe. >> just a moment, pat. >> what we also have to do is recognize that we have 17 million -- excuse me, 27 million americans who are under employed or unemployed. and so the state budgets this year have fallen 9% in terms of revenues. so we also want to prob