>>brian: another question: where do you find oprah's network on your cable dial? how do you make a tractor race more exciting? you grab your pig. "fox & friends" starts now. >>gretchen: oh, my goodness, is that somebody snoring? or somebody snorting? >>steve: it's the pig. >>gretchen: why are we playing that? >>brian: this reminds steve when you were brought up in the future farmers association. >>steve: brian's cold open was grab your pig. first let's be straight up with you. we this morning are on performance-enhancing coffee. we started early. at this hour you've got to do it. >>gretchen: i thought you were talking about the birthday party i was at last night where we were on performance-enhancing other things. but i'll take some of that. >>brian: i got permission to stay up late because it was a school night. i asked ahead of time. so i was able to watch oprah's network. >>steve: where is it? what channel is it? channel 1? >>brian: it was 180 on my dial. so i find it and oprah used the opportunity to plug every single show she ever thought about doing while in between she sat down with lance armstrong at which time she did let's get the yes and noes out on the top. did i? did you ever? how long? by the way, are you a cheater? would you have won had you not used performance-enhancing drugs? >>steve: oprah was absolutely prosecutor i al the way she presented the questions. you knew all these years lance armstrong has been a liar and a jerk. watch. >> you and i both know that fame just magnifies whoever you really are. so if you're a jerk, you're a bigger jerk. if you're a humanitarian, you're a bigger humanitarian. so what was going on with you during that time? and what did fame -- what did that do? >> i don't know if you pulled those two words out of the air: jerk and humanitarian. i'd say i was both. and we saw both. now we're seeing certainly more of the jerk part than the activist, humanitarian, philanthropist, leader of the foundation. we're seeing that now. i am flawed, deeply flawed. i think we all have our flaws. if the magnifying glass is normally this big, i made it this big because of my actions and because of my words and because of my attitude and my defiance. you watch that clip, that's an arrogant person. i go look at this arrogant person. >>gretchen: the thing is how long did he think he could live with this lie. it's kind of the o.j. simpson syndrome and what we're seeing in society today that people start believing the lie. can you imagine waking up every morning being that person, knowing that you have to continue to live that lie and the pressure you're under and the amount of people who know about it, that you have to go out and attack. you have to go out and attack. but what does it say about the culture that we live in now? that, to me, is the bigger question. >>steve: here's what he did. he rashallizes -- he wouldn't say because he doesn't want to point fingers that you cannot be successful in bike racing without cheating. therefore, i did what everyone else was doing. that's why i did that. he did not win a single race without cheating. he did it for the longest time. he did it before he had cancer. he did it after he beat cancer. he would have beat this entire thing after he not decided to come back after retiring. they unfreeze samples. it gets sophisticated. it blows up in his face. his $25 million fortune or whatever is left is about to explode as well. >>steve: the olympics even called back and said give us back that bronze medal, you big cheater. if it's possible -- i know he's trying to rehabilitate his image. but if it's possible in many respects he is less likable after the interview than before. >>brian: is that what you thought? >>steve: i read christine brennan in "usa today" and she felt the same way. >>gretchen: what about it? >>steve: he was unlikable, he was cold, he was smug. >>gretchen: if he cried, you would have said he was a cry baby. >>steve: if you watched the interview, he was smug. people whose lives he destroyed. there is an interview of betsy andrew. she and her husband -- her husband frankie, rode for the united states postal service team. years ago they were in a hospital room in indiana where they heard talking to the doctor and lance admitted to the doctor, yeah, i took everything -- >>brian: when he was in the hospital bed in 1999. >>gretchen: for years he said she lied and so did her husband because there was another person in the room who backed him up and apparently did so under oath. here is his response to people like betsy who had come out before and said they knew he was actually doping. here's what he had to say about it. >> she asked me and i asked her not to talk about the details of the call, the confidential personal conversation. it was 40 minutes long. i spoke to frankie as well. >> is it well with the two of you? have you made peace? >> no. >> okay. >> because -- because they have been hurt too badly. and a 40-minute conversation isn't enough. and -- >> yes, because you repeatedly characterized her as crazy, called her other horrible things. >> i did call her crazy. she would be okay with me saying this. but i'm going to take the liberty to say it, and i said i called you crazy, i called you [bleep], i called you all these things, but i never called you fat. >> that's one of the things -- >> i said you were [bleep]. i never said you were fat. >>gretchen: this is what's interesting to me. >> if a person is accusing you and they say three things that are true but one of them is out of order and not true, do you take that to mean the whole thing is not true? >> yeah. >> that's how you operate? >> well, because that's -- three to one wouldn't be accurate. that's a score. >> okay. okay. >> i know. >>steve: for him to focus on the fact he never said she was fat. you take these steroids, you risk getting cancer, holes forming in your heart. then lance armstrong got cancer, was able to come back and win these incredible races seven times. now we find out -- he won't say it because the woman there backed him up. there was also in this room -- wanted to make her look like a liar. so he's saying she was right. i did admit to the doctor. while i'm sitting on my back ridden with cancer, that i was taking all this crap. now the cancer isn't by chance more than likely. the races were all a fake, more than likely. and he's not even this superstar inspirational figure at any level at any time. there is nothing real about this guy and there's nothing contrite about this guy because the only reason he's coming forward is because the tests he took back in 2000 have been unfrozen and reexamined. >>gretchen: how many other people have we seen this happen to as of late. i'm thinking about mary ann jones. remember the amazing olympic runner who everyone said how could she beat everybody by so much in a 9-second race? because she was cheating. it would be interesting to go back and look, especially in baseball, tock to go back -- and football -- and look who's not cheating? there would be less people racing -- >>steve: he's raised $500 million for cancer and has been this icon, and everyone wants to -- it's not about the bike, the best-selling books, his name is armstrong, an american in this international race. i've never seen anything like it. did i mention the notre dame linebacker? not yet. >>gretchen: let's do a couple of other headlines. there were two fighter jets scrambled to escort a passenger plane after reports a hijacker had been on board. someone called the f.b.i. and said a hijacker was on board an alaska air flight. the f.b.i. says the man does not seem to be a threat. in fact, he reportedly slept through most of the flight. the feds are investigating if the call was a hoax. it could be a -- there went the coffee. it could be a big break in the murder of border patrol agent bryan terry. gustavo cruz, a mexican national says he shot terry. cruz says he t-rpbd himself. two guns were found at terry's murder scene. an embarrassing for president obama's jobs council. it has been one year since it held an official meeting. the council will expire at the end of the month unless the president extends it. no comments from the white house on why the council hasn't met in so long. manti te'o staying silent about the dead girlfriend hoax. he cruised by the cameras at the training facility in florida. notre dame says it learned it was a hoax december 6. two days later he was still talking about her death. meantime an unedited transcript of an interview he did shows te'o having a hard time answering simple questions like how they met. multiple reports identify the fake girlfriend as a 23-year-old marketing coordinator from california. >>brian: there is something sweeping the headlining. you know what tebowing is? this is called te'o-ing. >>brian: this other guy took a picture of him looking at an empty shower and says look at my girlfriend naked in the shower. >>gretchen: if it wasn't so sad, it would all be hysterical. >>brian: i don't know how sad it is. she's not dead because she never lived. >>steve: he was supposed to have a statement yesterday but then at the last minute canceled. >>brian: what do you say? oops? >>gretchen: we're going to have another sit-down oprah interview, another person saying it was made up. >>steve: 11 minutes after the top of the hour on this friday. the president says he'll do anything to stop the shooter like we saw at sandy hook but his past stance on guns paints a different story where he voted "present." >>gretchen: you need cash? before you use the a.t.m., listen up. the big banks are making the big banks are making some big changes. 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