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lost $232 million, that the price of solar panels at that time had dropped 50%, and that the price of solar-grade silicone had plummeted. but solyndra wasn't using silicone, the chinese were, which made it almost impossible for them to compete. now, a woman who claims that she works for the firm that built the solyndra plant called in to the mark levin show. levin says she was vetted, she's legitimate, and here's what she said. play it. >> while we were out there, while we were building it -- because it is a half a billion dollar plant -- everyone already knew that china had developed a more inexpensive way to manufacture these solar panels. everyone knew that the plant wouldn't work, but they still did it, they still built it, and, um, basically, they stole that money. obama flew out and did an appearance out there and, actually, they're filing bankruptcy next week. >> reporter: a man who was just laid off by solyndra sold the "san jose mercury news" that solyndra was tossing out faulty solar panels every day. he said this, and i'm quoting: at least $100,000 a day was thrown away. if they're wasting 100,000 a day, how much is that a month or a year? of course that's going to lead to bankruptcy. now, remember, independent auditors also raised the red flag. e-mails from inside the white house, inside the energy department also questioned whether this was a bad deal, yet instead of being scrutinized, the president showed up, he touted this company, the loan was fast tracked, and today during a department of energy hearing wyoming senator john barrasso had this to say. >> i don't think we should be blaming china or the markets or previous administrations. the perfect storm appears to be a fed that was, a federal policy rushed decisions and demands of a pending public relations campaign by the administration. >> reporter: the administration maintains the changing markets could have changed the fate of solyndra and, apparently, they have a lot of people supporting them because aside from the federal loan, more than a billion dollars of private investment money was also poured into this solar panel maker back in 2007, 2008. megyn: and now the fbi wants to know whether solyndra misrepresented the status of its business to us, to private investors, to whom else? we'll find out. trace, thank you. >> reporter: okay. megyn: we are keeping an eye on the daily white house press briefing where we expect a tough round of questions on the scandal. more and more news organizations are covering it. last night brian ross actually spoke to our own bill o'reilly about the information emerging -- investigation emerging regarding the solyndra scandal and how he expects the story to get increasingly uncomfortable for the administration. >> i think they believed in it in a way, and this was going to be the model, this was the future -- >> but how can you believe in it if your own guys are telling you, hey, the company's going down? it looks to me like they don't care. >> they don't want to hear that. the loan was put on hold by the bush administration on january 9th of 2009, and six days after the new administration took office, it was back on a fast track and was approved very quickly. now, the questions today were not answered very well by the people from the administration. how did that happen? >> nobody knows. we weren't here, we don't know. megyn: interesting. that full interview, i think, is posted on foxnews.com right now, so check it out if you'd like. and now the money given to solyndra, part of a $38 billion green technology program. the president promised that it would create or save some 65,000 jobs. a new report finds nearly half of that money has already been spent, and just over 3500 new permanent jobs have been created. but the white house is now challenging that report. stu varney, anchor of "varney & company" on the fox business network. stu, let me just ask you this, put this in perspective for our viewers who have not been following this that closely. the between jobs program which has been a priority of the obama administration, it's never been more scrutinized than it is right now in part because of what we've seen happen with the taxpayers' $535 million, basically, down the drain on solyndra. >> reporter: that's true. it is solyndra which has brought to the fore the shortcomings of the green jobs program. this is a program that is really not going well at all. we've spent or committed, i should say, half of the $38 billion put aside for the program, and as you pointed out, megyn, we've only created 3,545 new, permanent green jobs. now, the report that appears in "the washington post" today, that's what all this fuss is about, the report goes on to say the administration is claiming 33,000 grebe jobs -- green jobs have been saved at the ford motor company, just that one company alone, 33,000 jobs saved. but when you look into it deeply, it appears that ford got $5.9 billion worth of loan guarantees in order to redo a couple of factories to make fuel efficient cars. and all the people that work in those factories are considered to have had their jobs saved by the green jobs program. it is not a program that is working well at all. megyn: so we've got just, you know, to do the math, we have a program that costs $38 billion, it was supposed to save 65,000 jobs. what we have now is half of the money spent and 3500 jobs. the administration pushing back and saying, well, you've got to count all these jobs, 33,000 jobs at ford. and i guess a couple of others. you reject the jobs saved at ford why? >> reporter: because, well, that's a stretch, isn't it? to say that you have saved 33,000 green jobs because you do a makeover of some factories so that they no longer produce suvs, they produce more fuel efficient cars. you're calling that green jobs and that they've been saved? i think that is a stretch to credit that to the green jobs program. but let's break it down a little bit more. if the admission met its entire target which, by the way, is downgraded to 60,000 groan jobs -- green jobs, it would still mean that we are committing $640,000 for each and every one of those jobs from the taxpayer. that is a very expensive green job, period. megyn: wow. that is a big number. stuart, thank you. >> reporter: sure. megyn: check out "varney & company" on fbn every morning, monday through friday. the treasury department has now joined the fbi and congress into their probes into this loan given to solyndra. to learn more about that and the e-mails that the white house sent about solyndra, we brought some of them to you yesterday including this deal is not ready for prime time, you can go to foxnews.com. this story, you're going to be hearing more about it over the coming days. we're happy to keep you updated, foxnews.com, if you like. fox news alert, house speaker john boehner addressing jobs and the economy at an event in washington. let's take a quick listen to the speaker. >> until we as a government act. and the responsibility for fixing this toxic environment for job creation is a bipartisan one. the situation was created by washington's inability to let our economy work. it was created by government intrusion and micromanagement, and i think we've got a responsibility to work together in the coming months to remove these barriers and to liberate our economy. this is what the american people are demanding of us. everything we do in the weeks and months to come needs to start with asking this question: are we addressing these problems, or are we making them worse? the budget control act of 2011 signed into law just last month establishes a joint select committee of congress for the purpose of identifying $1.5 trillion of deficit reduction. many have expressed their doubts about the joint committee's chances of success. now, listen, i understand the skepticism, you know, a joint committee, after all, is no substitute for the president who controls most of the arms of government. but i think the select committee has a huge opportunity. it has. megyn: has a huge opportunity and a huge responsibility. if you want to hear the rest of mr. john boehner's remarks, check it out at foxnews.com where we will be streaming those remarks live. an alert coming in, incredible any video in of a deadly cruise ship fire. watch this. you can see a thick cloud of smoke. wow, look at that. look at that. you don't see that every day. billowing from the ship. we're told at least two people are dead, nine others injured. some people escaping the flames on lifeboats. the ship was traveling off the coast of norway when it caught fire and limped into harbor. laura ingle's life in our newsroom with the details. >> reporter: police in norway are saying they expect an explosion in the engine room sparked the fire that has been described as big and intense by fire crews. let's take a look at that video again, that big, black cloud pouring out of the ms innordless cruise ship, dangerously close to portions of the ship's decks where passengers evacuated from. all passengers and crew members have been accounted for, and the fire is under control. no passengers are injured. there are still six crew members being treated in the hospital for bushes and smoke inhalation. the fire started just before the ship arrived northwest of oslo. more than 100 passengers were evacuated into lifeboats before the smoldering ship reached the port. the other were able to get off the ship when they got in there. the norwegian operator of the ship confirms the two who died were crew members down below. while it's not clear what caused the possible explosion in the engine room, the chief of the fire by gate say -- brigade said they are looking into reports that the electricity was knocked out. they tell us that passengers can still salvage their seven-day vacation if they want to. the company is now offering those who abandoned ship to jump aboard one of their other cruise ships in that area, they operate several. if passengers want to go home, they will be given a credit for another trip in the future. investigation underway. megyn. megyn: laura, thank you. new questions for president obama's re-election campaign. does he need to change his strategy to deal with unhappy jewish voters? 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's heart-healthier than butter. with omega-3s. 64% less saturated fat. andlinically proven to help support healthy cholesterol. ♪ put a little love in your heart ♪ megyn: well, new concerns for president obama and his party in 2012. the stunning victory by republican bob turner in a heavily democratic and jewish new york city district raising questions now over whether jewish support for the president is eroding. jewish voters make up a large population in some key battleground states including florida and pennsylvania. so does the president need to change his campaign approach to secure the jewish vote? the white house, apparently, thinks it may. joining me now, sally kohn, founder of movement vision.org, and matthew brooks, executive director of the republican jewish coalition. all right, panel, thank you so much for being here. >> nice to see you. megyn: you've got this one election down in d.c., i mean, new york, we had bob turner on the show yesterday. the white house may be saying, hmm, how did he lose that district, but it appears they themselves may be a little nervous, sally, because they've hired a jewish outreach director, and they've sent david axlerod and debbie wasserman schultz out to reassure donors, so that tells me the white house may, indeed, be worried about the i screw vote. what do you think? >> i think they're doing that in part to counter some of the rhetoric which is trying to drive a wedge between him and the jewish community. in the ninth district of new york, voters -- first of all, there's two realities. one is the majority of the jewish voters in that district are orthodox jewish voters who don't represent the majority of jewish voters across the country -- megyn: but his opponent was an orthodox jew. >> not that that necessarily correlates to jewish concern over president obama who remain very favorable toward president obama. the second point, though, is that 7% in that election even with that high orthodox jew turnout, 7% said attitudes or policies about israel were their number one concern. voters are concerned about a number of things, not obama's politics which, incidentally, has been quite capable to past presidents. megyn: there's a piece in "the wall street journal" today that suggests the numbers are a little different than sally cited down in new york in this district. he said that a public policy poll that was taken days before this election showed that a plurality of voters said israel was very important in determining their votes, and among those voters they voted 71-22% for the republican. do you think that that is a harbinger of something to come for president obama when it comes to the jewish vote? >> oh, it's absolutely the case, megyn. look, nobody can look at this race in the new york nine district and see that obama doesn't have a problem in the jewish community. i mean, you see all this sort of tortured kind of spin on the part of democrats to spin this away, but the results out of new york nine are absolutely crystal clear, and it's what we've been saying for over a year now. he doesn't have a messaging problem, he has a policy problem in the jewish community. and i think that in many ways the new york nine race is a canary in the coal mine which i think should send shock waves through the democrats as we head into 20 the, and i think you're correct, megyn, in places like pennsylvania, ohio and in florida in particular the jewish community is going to be very important, and i believe is going to continue to send a message to this administration that they are really concerned about his policies. megyn: here in new york there's a high jewish population as well, but there's, you know, no chance that new york is going to go red in the next -- >> yeah, i know. new york is not going to be a battleground. megyn: yeah. so the white house is going to be focused on states where it could swing the votes. sally, separate and apart from whether you believe there's erosion in the jewish support, how important do you think the jewish vote is to the democratic party in general and president obama's re-election? >> historically, it's very important. no more, perhaps, or less than any other community in the united states though. and i think that the larger issue here is twofold. one, i do think the president has a messaging problem, as he has had with a number of other positive things that he's done in his presidency where he's failed to sell those things as fully as he could to the american public. what he's done on israel has been as solid and as supportive of israel as every past american president and, frankly, past and current leaders in israel. he needs to do a better job talking about that. but the larger thing that's going to bring jewish voters along as well as all voters is what he can do on the economy, and that's about getting his jobs plan passed. megyn: dan, it's been said that president obama's built the most one-sided argument existence israel -- against israel. do you agree with that? >> there's no question that this administration has been openly hostile in many ways, and to try and compare him to past administrations, i think, this administration compares very, very unfavorably. this administration has used the strongest diplomatic terms to condemn israel's building in it own capital of jerusalem. it has put tremendous international pressure on israel to not build in be settlement communities, natural growth in areas within the west bank, and more importantly it is starting to dictate terms, calling on israel and the peace process to return back to '67 borders with land swaps which a lot of people in israel and elsewhere, rightly so, believe is going to put israel at -- megyn: i'm up against a hard break, so i've got to run -- >> that's a misconstrual of his perspectives. megyn: thank you both for being here. before we get to break, we've got some dramatic video this week of these good samaritans lifting a burning car off of a trapped motorcycle riders. that rider is now speaking from the hospital bed right now. we'll have that for you shortly. call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. if you have painful, swollen joints, i've been in your shoes. one day i'm on p of the world... the next i'm saying... i have this thing called psoriatic arthritis. i had some intense pain. it progressively got worse. my rheumatologist told me about enbrel. i'm surprid how quickly my symoms have beemanaged. 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>> this is one of those things when you look at unemployment above 9% and you see the president fighting for jobs. you see you have democrats that are willing to back unions that say we'll force to you close down in one state as a company and move back to another state. as long as jobs are in america, i don't care where they are. it's the same people that are going after boeing that are saying too many companies are sending their jobs overseas. well, you know what? boeing is not going to mess with us next time. they won't deal with the lawsuits. they will move to any other country so they don't have to deal with this legal jargon that temperature ruining jobs. this administration better get behind this and say we want you in america. we want you to stay in this country. we won't let this stuff happen. but too many liberals are saying we are union guys. well, guess what? then you will have no one with jobs. megyn: what happened was boeing had a plant in state. there was. >> sort of work dispute. it wound up opening up another plant in south carolina. that it spent a billion dollars on, to build this super airliner. and now the union back in washington state objected and said you are trying to punish us by moving jobs there. boeing said no, we are not. we are going to bring a thousand new jobs to south carolina and add another 5,000 union jobs to state. so what is the concern about. jobs everywhere. everybody wins. >> the nlrb, an independent arm of the government, it's not something controlled by the president other congress disagrees with boeing on this one. that's why we are having this debate. megyn: the president put them on there including becker by a recess appointment so they are tied to the white house. >> the labor movement believes the nlrb has been controlled by republicans the last 30 years. and it's not like this is something that has been seen to be friendly to the labor movement for a long time. it's not like it's some part of the democratic establishment. just to be clear. there is a big debate. the republicans disagree with the nlrb decision. this is the way our democracy works. listen to what the president said. he said he doesn't think that government should be telling companies where to put jobs. that's what he said. what he not sure about is whether -- he didn't say -- what he didn't do -- he didn't get involved in this. he said the courts will have to figure this thing out. i think the president is recognizing he has limited capacity to influence this. i agree with the president. i don't think it should be unto independent agencies for nlrb to determine. megyn: but start, it sounds like simon may be agreeing with you. you don't think it should be up to independent agencies like the nlrb to determine where boeing should open its plant. >> i agree with the president. it has to be special circumstances. the president said he doesn't think it' the job of government to dictate to company whereas to puts their workers. clearly there will be is a dismight. >> actions speak louder than words. he's being an apologist for this white house and barak obama who put these people in charge who are going after boeing. i hold the president responsible not for his words but for his actions. it's the people he has a minds seth with, an ideological mindset, in a recess appointment, that where going after boeing. he can say what he wants to. but he it those people in charge. they are moving forward. don't think they are not talking behind the scenes. you have to be extremely naive to think the president of the united states of america isn't saying if he wants them to lay off on this issue they won't lay off. the president gave them that job in a recent appointment. look at what he does, not what he says. megyn: craig becker on the nlrb. he was not able to gets confirmation by the senate. he is infamous for the following quotes. employers should be stripped of any legally con nicable ninlt their employees' elections representatives. he has a myopic view of what an employer's rights are and union work or. this is the guy on the board making the decisions. >> what i reject in this debate and some of the segments earlier is somehow this hug huge conspiy by the white house. the economy -- wages went down. the economy started to slow. the recession began. the financial collapse, the housing collapse. all when george bush was president. so the point is, this notion that we are hearing today from republican leader that somehow we have some liberate the economy from these onerous regulations. it's a bunch of hooey. megyn: you could be right on the granted scale, i don't know. but in this specific instance, how is it not true? boeing is saying i have got 1,000 jobs for you in washington states -- 5,000 in washington and another 1,000 in south carolina. >> i think this is a very specific case. i don't think this speaks to a broad strategy of the administration to go after job creators and businesses. that's a bridge too far. at is clear, though, is there is a dispute, boeing be smart to work hard to resolve this as quickly as possible. >> boeing would be smart the next time they are look at where they are going to on a facility of moving outside the u.s. they are having to deal with an administration that appoints people to a position that attack them when they move to a right to work state. the's the underlying theme. i understand it's an inconvenient truth you don't want to get out there, and the obama administration don't wants to get out there. the president's leadership at choosing individuals who are speanlding their time attacking companies that are trying to create jobs. megyn: if.bring this up for a vote in the senate and it passes, we'll see how president obama feels about it. >> it's a great debate to have. megyn: congresswoman michele bachmann claims governor rick perry signed an executive order to require vaccines for 12-year-olds because of cronyism. we go behind this story which you may not have heard at the top of the hour. breaking news in the search for this missing mother. police search teams have gone back out after a possible big finds. what they are looking for now. this is just now happening, three minutes away. >> at this point we don't want to jump to conclusions and say we made a positive identification because we have not. but they are confirmed absolutely that they are human remains'. we're cracking down on medicare fraud. the healthcare law gives us powerful tools to fight it... to investigate it... ...prosecute it... and stop criminals. our senior medicare patrol volunteers... are teaching seniors across the country... ...to stop, spot, and report fraud. you can help. guard your medicare card. don't give out your card number over the phone. call to report any suspected fraud. we're cracking down on medicare fraud. let's make medicare stronger for all of us. megyn: police are in the desert of utah look at human remains found yesterday. they were searching for the remains of susan powell. possibly. she has not been confirmed dead. she disappeared in 2009. they cannot be moved so forensic experts have traveled to the scene. mark fuhrman is a former lapd detective and a fox news contributor. what do you think led to the search in this location today? >> it's obvious where the husband joshua powell went camping was ridiculous. so that was probably the nucleus. megyn: his claim was the night she went missing he went out in the middle of the night camping with his two young boys in the middle of winter. >> that's absolutely ridiculous. everybody that knows the family says she never would have allowed that. at the home there are two fans going on a damp place on the carpet when law enforcement makes a wellness check. something he never planned. the suspect never planned. that suspect would be joshua powell. megyn: he didn't know they were going to show up and he had two fans blowing on the carpet. >> he said i have my two sons, i have gone camping, i have an alibi. >> the possible remains of susan powell is just two miles from where he has gone rock hunting before. if he reports her missing he don't have those fans blog on that spot on the carpet when law enforcement does arrive, they are put away. megyn: might they have a clue as they are doing this search that it is her. >> absolutely. first you can get dna from the bones and they will know if it's a male or female. the anthropologist will if he gets there. then you could have trace evidence and fibers like the clothes she was wearing the night she went missing. if those fbiers are present in the grave and possibly suspect fbiers from his clothes or his hair is there. but you also have now a chain that goes from the family van back to the house. how would her pajamas or whatever clothes she was in that night get from that house, that van, into this gravesite. well, the answer is there was only one person in control. megyn: is it too late to determine how she might have died if it is her? >> not necessarily. if she was manually strangled or asphyxiated. the horseshoe shaped bone in the neck sometimes is broken or fractured in some way. of course, you have got any kinds of sharp or blunt force or bullet is going to make a mark or could make a mark on some kind of bone or tissue. then there is also, you know, the possibility that there is dismemberment. and in a shallow grave there is no chance of natural causes when those -- any of that evidence is present. megyn: it will be interesting to find the results. they found remains before they thought might be hers and did not prove to be. this could be that way. in any event we'll continue to watch it. mark fuhrman, thank you, sir. just ahead. a true american hero gets the medal of honor live. his unbelievable story. please watch this. top of the hour. 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the white house by president obama. he achieved this honor in a firefight in afghanistan two years ago and saved the lives of 36 people. just yesterday afternoon, this young man, the marine corps rall dakota meyer sat down with the president for a beer at the white house. he requested the one-on-one meeting so the two sat together on an outdoor patio. we weren't told what they talked about but we do know meyer's remarkable story. he was 21 when he and his fellow marines acomed an afghan unit. as they were going in for a predawn meeting with elder. they were ambushed. taliban firing rocket propelled grenades, mortars and machine guns. he wanted to go in and get the men out who were trapped. with his fellow marine juan rodriguez, he took off down the road. he made five trips and rescues 13 americans and 23 afghans. meyer says those marines were his brothers an was determined to go in and help or die trying. >> i night was right that we needed to get in there. they needed that truck in there with that heavy gun. and that's wait goes back to, knowing what's right and doing it. definitely i'm not a hero. that's the furthest thing from the truth. >> reporter: he says he cause a failure because there were four members of that unit who he was not able to save. the president disagrees about that. the president disagrees about that and will be giving him the medal of honor in just a few minutes. megyn: it is an incredible storey. we'll have more details on it for you shortly. thank you so much. you need to get to know corporal dakota meyer. he's not on recent recipient of this award. army staff sergeant leroy petrie receiving the medal of honor in july. he lost his hand protecting fellow soldiers from a grenade after being hit by gunfire in both legs. back in may, a posthumous award was given. same day private henley silvea was awarded the medal posthumously for korea. he says said to have taken out scores of enemy fighters before jumping on a grenade. last year the was salvador gunta, solely responsible for protecting his entire platoon against enemy fire in afghanistan. then rushing to save a wounded soldier being carried off by insurgents. a month before that, army staff sergeant robert miller charged right into an enemy am burg drawing a hail of gunfire away from the rest of his regiment so they could reach cover. he was eventually shot and killed. >> the president is absolutely committed to the idea that the united states must compete in the cutting edge technologies of the 21st century. megyn: that was jay carney at the white house. bear with us for a minute. this alert is on our top story from last hour. the white house moments ago took some new questions on why the government loaned a half billion dollars to a solar company that just went bankrupt. memos surfaced showing the white house has warnings about that companies future in the weeks and months before the loan was made. there were reports all over the mainstream media talking about those emails and how closely connected the white house was to this deal. here is jay carney a short time ago. >> the president is absolutely committed to the idea that the united states must compete in the cutting-edge technologies of the 21st century. we have a choice to make as a nation because we'll be buying renewable energy products, you know, whether it's wind, biofuel, solar. whether advanced battery technology. we'll be buying that stuff. do we want to buy it with a stamp on it that says made in america or will we buy it from the chinese or other countries. we have to be aggressive in competing in the global economy. >> special report with bret baier is going have a lot more on the solyndra issue on "special report" 6:00 p.m. eastern time. texas governor rick perry taking new heat on the campaign trail over his executive order years ago ordering hpv vaccinations for young girls in texas. 11 and 12-year-old girls had to take it and the legislature reversed him on that. the issue brought to light in the gop debate this week. >> the drug company gave thousands of dollars to the governor. >> it was a $5,000 contribution i received from them. i raised $30 million. if you are saying i can be bought for $5,000, i'm offended. >> i'm offended for all the little girls and the parents that didn't have a choice. that's what i'm offended for. megyn: michele bachmann was suggesting it was crony capitalism that led perry to issue that executive order because his former chief staff went to work for the drug company that makes the vaccine. merck. today we are learning more about where perry stands on this issue. heather bush muchman is the woman you see in this photo. this cause taken before the young woman died of cervical cancer. she spent the last years of her life insuring young women get the hpv vaccine that she says could have prevented her death. >> i think it's so important parents get children this vaccination, because they will be able to live their lives without having to worry about getting cervical cancer. which is one of the most awful things to have. it's so incredibly painful. it's -- if i could help one child take this cancer away from one child, it would mean the world to me. megyn: my next guest, craig and lisa wilson were friends of heather. thank you so much for coming on. i know that tough for you to watch. heather has since died. but she fought a heroic battle and became friends with the texas governor in the course of it. craig, how did that happen? >> after he signed the executive order and the news media picked up on the hpv, at the time it was simply just they tea ashed it to cervical cancer with women and we all heard the story, and heather was living proof of what he was trying to do. had she had this shot when she was young, and the proceeding shots she would have never caught cervical cancer and she would not have died of such a horrific cancer. we approached the governor's office, she wanted to do it. just to let them know that if he ever thought that she could be helpful about getting the word out on hpv, she would be more willing to do it. this was at the end of her life. she was weak. but she had great day dozen and bad days. -- she had great days and bad days. he called her up, and we went to austin and she testified in front of the committee that was deciding whether this should be one of the many required shots in this texas school system. megyn: the two of them formed a friendship. they formed a personal friendship of sorts. tell us how that happened. >> my husband's family has known rick perry for years. and when heather moved in with us, it was about the same time that he was pushing this vaccination. and we just -- we intree diewsd them. she was unable to testify for him, but he became a friend. he genuinely cared about heather. we saw that. i was shocked. i have grown up around politicians. i have just never met a man that was able to maintain that -- to have that sort of time to spend with anyone, to be able to care that much. megyn: i know he took her out on his motorcycle. she greatly enjoyed that. she wanted to go hunting. he brought her hunting. he was also there in her final days. i understand. without any press attention or limelight. >> megyn, to put it in perspective, he did all this with her after the controversy was over. there was no reason for him to do anything with her. but because of who he is as a human being and treating her like a human being, he called her all the time. she had his cell phone number. she called him, he picked up the phone. he would call her, they talked. he came down to houston, i called the office and let them know she probably only had a few days left. he jumped in a car with one constable, drove three hours to her, i met him there. we sat there for three, probably four hours. he sat next to her and held her hand and talked to her and had a conversation with her about everything. he stayed there so long as she could handle it. she was very weak. eventually she started getting too tired, and that's when it ended and he shook my hand and got in the car and he went back. he had no reason to be in houston. he had no other convenient reasons -- there wasn't a fundraiser in town or anything like that. he did this out of his own heart. megyn: i know that he met heather after he signed the executive order. so it wasn't this friendship that led him to sign that executive order. but what do you make of it? michele bachmann on thers suggested the reason he signed that order was because he was trying to scratch the back of his former chief of staff to went on to work for merck. >> based on what we saw this man do, based on the measure of his actions and not his words, and how he treated her with such dignity and respect and how he genuinely honestly cared for her. he could have taken her all over the state and made a production out of this, but he didn't. it was very private and personal. he really cared about her. because we saw that -- we know politicians and not all of them do this. we saw that this person -- he's actually a genuine human being that actually cared about somebody. there is more than just heather. there are other stories of people in his life. there are pictures on his desk of people that aren't politicians that aren't famous that he developed a relationship with for some circumstance and he still is connecting with th. it's just a great measure after man. megyn: craig and lisa, you are friends of the governor's, and we appreciate your perspective and all you did for heather. >> we are close to heather and her family. and it took a village. it wasn't just us. megyn: you are kind to come on. thank you both so much. we'll be right back. just one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defends against occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating. with the strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. megyn: "kelly's court" is back in session. on the docket, an apple a day keeping the celebrity doctor away. >> are our nation's kids in danger? how can i be standing here in america talking about arsenic in apple juice? >> the most shocking investigation in dr. oz show history. >> what is going on? >> think the brands you trust are safe in the results are in. i want everybody to at moment to know what these brands are. megyn: tv's dr. oz going public with what he calls the most shocking investigation his show has ever done saying there are dangerous levels of arsenic in apple juice. but there are two kinds of arsenic, one that occurs naturally and is said to be harmless and one that's toxic. apparently the doctor only tested for the total contents of arsenic in apple news and now he's public enemy number one with the juice industry and the fda. the feds calling his investigation irresponsible and misleading. does he face some legal exposure for this report which has a lot of parents concerned? let's ask our panel. defense attorney mark eiglarsh and cohost of the fife kimberly guilfoyle. what parent doesn't giver her kid apple juice. he's talking about the fact that arsenic is in the apple juice and that's bad for your kid over the long haul. mark, might he face legal exposure and if so, w? >> i don't there will be a successful lawsuits. but some people thank you threaten to sue him. i'll tell you why he will prevail. the first amendment. i'm not suggesting his findings are accurate. what he's doing is according to him trying to raise awareness, maybe apple juice may be harmful. but more significantly what we eat there may be things in there that are harmful. at the end of the day his message is, i still give my children apple juice in spite of what i learned. so again was it responsible? i don't know. could he have done it in a better way? maybe. but is it lawful under the first amendment? the answer is yes. megyn: is it, kimberly? you have doctors saying this was irresponsible. there was no foundation for it. he created a national scare now and really potentially damaged the juice makers sitting there saying what the heck. how did we get targeted and could very well hurt their bottom line. >> i drink apple juice every day, i giver to it my little boy. parents will be concerned. but you have to look at the larger picture here. we like the fact that he's doing an investigation and beings a consumer advocate. however, the fact that he did his testing in an irresponsible and unreliable fashion is what i take issue with. he tested inorganic and organic. what you need to know as you mentioned in your piece. organic arsenic is harmless. it's the inorganic. the fda went this year, september 10 and 11 and tested the same lot dr. oz did and found it did not exeet exceed their regulations and limits and also tested other products from that lot. they did the responsible thing. they have posted this on the web sites to let the public know. it is irresponsible and financially could have an impact on the dr. oz show. megyn: even if you think dr. oz is just offering his opinion, can opinion be actionable where it is not backed up fully by the science? >> it can be. and i'm eager to see what he does on his show. i hope and expect he posts the letter from the fda which clearly spells out. him all see saying his own children still drink apple juice. megyn: by also says that organic arsenic isn't necessarily safe. and he goes on to say over the long haul it could be dangerous. he's saying his kids are drinking apple juice like mark, but over the long haul it could be dangerous. if i'm making the apple juice you are holding there, i don't like that statement. listen -- >> i agree with you. i'm going to bring in dr. manny who is going to act as an actual doctor and expert witness after the break. we'll be right back. or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. - i amp because it's completely invisible. - i amp because it's designed to help me hear better. - i amp because it's for active people like me. male announcer: introducing amp, a new kind of hearing aid. so tiny, it's invisible. - amp is comfortable to wear. - and easily removable. announcer: and at $1,500 a pair, amp is affordable. - amp: the hearing aid for people who aren't ready for a hearing aid. - i amp. do you? announcer: call toll-free 1-888-379-1405 to find an amp hearing professional near you. at only $1,500 a pair, you can't afford to wait. that's 1-888-379-1405. call today. so i took my heartburn pill and some antacids. we're having mexican tonight, so another pill then? unless we eat later, then pill later? if i get a snack now, pill now? skip the snack, pill later... late dinner, pill now? aghh i've got heartburn in my head. [ male announcer ] stop the madness of treating frequent heartburn. it's simple th prilosec otc. one pill a day. twenty-four hours. zero heartburn. no heartburn in the first place. great. megyn: we are back with our panel to pick up on this discussion. northern us are doctors. so we brought in an actual medical doctor to find out what he thinks. as we would in a real courtroom. dr. manny alvarez. now, full disclosure, he's an o.b. but dr. oz is not like some specialist when it comes to juice. we are going to start with you, mark. you would be defending dr. oz and his position. what would you like to ask our expert witness. >> i would like to tender him as an expert on behalf of the defense. he has rendered an expert in numerous courtrooms on this very subject matters. not orange juice, but apple juice. megyn: the court already so recognize. >> isn't it a fact that the claims made by dr. oz are supported within the scientific communities, dr. manny? >> i think on the data presented sir the total concentration according to his independent research which was done by an university and accredited lab does show the arsenic levels in that apple juice superseded total concentrations of arsenic, yes. megyn: let the judge jump in. are you saying we do need to be concerned about what's in apple juice? >> i think what dr. oz is bringing attention to, total concentration, organic, inorganic arsenic makes a difference. he's telling you the total concentration is elevated. this goes to the point of food safety. this is the message of the story. it's not if you should take the apple juice at this paints points in time. food safety in america is relatively broken. now we see trace elements which are problematic. we also see unexplained diseases like autism and cognitive disorders in children. i deliver babies for a living. this brings a globalization according to the reports, a lot of the apple juice is being brought from china. what are the check and balances there? we don't know. >> dr. manny you mentioned earlier this study dealt with the total of inorganic and organic. the fda's regulations are if it is 23 parts per billion they isolate for the inorganic arsenic which is potential le toxic. it's harmful to humans. but in the study. >> objection meg overruled. >> she is too lovely, i can't listen to her. >> they went back and tested the same lot, fda, and got different results from dr. oz because he didn't use the fda approved testing. isn't that true? >> i don't have all the details of the testing. but if the total concentration which is a combination of inorganic and organic and now you are telling me it's only the organic in high leferls, i think from a scientific points of view one has to question how much arsenic is safe for human consumption. these levels are sometimes not necessarily based on hard facts. maybe the fda has to go back and say, you know what? dr. oz found total concentrations he will grade. it was inorganic at the end of the day, and is that still safer. that's the question the government has to answer. look at your books and tell the american public we'll look into this and we'll get back to you. >> he didn't do the right test, that's the problem. megyn: i have got to go back to the panelists. i want to say because dr. oz has been accused of manufacturing a crisis here, and scaring a lot of parents, he compared the arsenic in apple juice to the amounts per miss nibble water. we drink a lot more water than apple juice. so you can't put as much --th can't be as much arsenic in water. so it's comparing andals to oranges. >> that's why we see there is a problem. >> the fda ruled based on regulations its is safer for consumption. if dr. manny and everyone else wants to lower the regulations and the amount put forth a study that shows its's' harmful to humans. and you chug your apple juice. i think you misunderstood your assignment. >> i'm defending the constitution. he can say what he wants. i'm drinking apple juice and so are my kids. megyn: yours and my kids will continue to drink apple juice. one final ward for our viewers. dr. oz is offering his opinion. he is entitled to do that. he also offered thed the responses of the fda and juice manufacturers. that will all greatly help him in in fact he gets sued. even dr. oz said his kids drink am juice. by says he's worried weather long term. he saved 36 lives during a taliban ambush in afghanistan. now retired marine dakota meyer is moments away from receiving the medal of honor from president obama. unemployment is up this week, foreclosures were up last month. but there is one sets of number ofs that might be the biggest concern yet for the president. michael reagan with that coming up. plus police track down reality star mikala salahi after her husband thought she was kidnapped. she is safe within sound and having a good time in the home of her new rock star boyfriend. who is he? 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this man's story you will be moved in ways i personally have not been moved in a longtime, folks. he is the model of american courage and bravery and you will meet him here in moments. we are getting new poll numbers that could be the toughest yet for president obama's re-election bid. a new field poll showing 46% of californians approve of the job he's doing. that is an 8-point drop for the president there in just the last three months. it is happening in a reliably democratic state. joining me now michael reagan, chairman of the reagan group. michael, the field poll, all right 46% that is actually higher than his national average right now, but it's california, it is california, and it's not just that. in california when when he captured 68% of the vot votes it is now 26 per. only who% approve of the way he's handling the economy down from 61% in march of 09. 45% of independent voters approve of his job performance, down from 58% in june. these numbers in the bluest of blue states have got to be causing some concern at the white house. >> i imagine they are causing some concern, but the concern should also be, is the other side, the republican party going to be able to come up with a candidate that is going to be able to wrestle away the state of california? many people say, wait a minute, you know, still 46% of the people in this state still support the president of the united states, and they are trying -- they find it hard to believe that that many people still support him and the worry is that in fact he will still win the state of california in 2012. i look at what is going on in america today, and i think all of us are appalled that the president of the united states keeps on doubling down, doesn't matter what is going on, whether nevada, new york, wherever he is hurting, wherever he's losing congressional members it doesn't seem to stop him from moving forward, to want to raise taxes, to want to cut charitable giving down from those who make over $250,000 a year. i was saying someone earlier today he's making jimmy carter look like ronald reagan. my god this man needs to turn around and get a grip. the direction he's going is wong for america and california. megyn: he is trying. the tax hikes you mentioned, i'm sure the white house will tell you you can't sit there and complain about soaring deficits and debt and then complain about raising taxes. i know that the republicans don't believe that we have a income problem, we have a spending problem, but, you know, there are two different philosophies there. my question to you is how much can he control what is happening in the country right now? the news just this week, unemployment benefit requests jumped to 428,000. that is up considerably over what they expected it to be. the four-week average is up for the fourth straight week in a row. mortgage default warnings surged in august up 33% in august from july. that's a nine-month high for mortgage default notices, people being warned that they are going to get kicked out of their homes and so on. what can he do at this point? >> you start talking up america instead of talking down america. he never, ever, ever says anything positive about america, about american business. megyn: he did in the last speech. >> about who we are as a country. he never does that. to go out yesterday and mention, what was it three times, if you love me you'll pass this jobs bill, this stimulus package, is so childish and so insane that he would say that to anybody. i think the republicans will find things in his bill that they can take out and pass, i think that is great. there are some things in there that are very good. but the whole package itself to play it on the shoulders of a small group of people in congress and ask those of us making over $250,000 to pay even more. listen, we can go back historically and look at every time the democrats have promised $3 in spending cuts for every dollar in new taxes, they've never given the spending cuts. my dad has been gone since 2004 he still hasn't got even the spending cuts promised to him by a democratic congress back in the 1980s. it is a spending time and every time we have lowered taxes, taken regulatn off the backs of corporate america, whether it's john f. kennedy in the 60s, ronald reagan in the 80s. the economy has flourished and more money has gone into the coffers of washington d.c., not less money. megyn: do you think that we are seeing something happen here in new york and california as we saw this special election for congressman anthony weiner's seat go to a republican in nevada. we saw a special election go to a republican by a considerable margin. now in california we get these poll numbers which show eroding support for the president. >> the right candidate, you know, is going to get the job done. go back, when was the last time a republican won new york? ronald reagan, 1984. you said earlier today on the show you were talking to someone and said ahh, new york will stay in the democratic hands, not if you have the right candidate and not if the republican party is together in november of 2012. if they are split all over the building in 2012 because their special guy didn't win the nomination barack obama will win in 2012. if this party is together as they were in 1984, 19888, 1992, maybe not 1992 but when they hang together their candidates do win. new york, the jewish community is saying wait a minute we are not on your team at this point this time you need to do something to bring us back. the white house is trying to do that. what is going on in libya, what is going on in egypt, with the camp david accords out the window basically. we are in turmoil not only in the united states of america but interest nationally and this president is in way over his head. megyn: michael reagan, thank you, sir. >> thank you. megyn: fox news alert to the white house now where we are seconds away from a young marine being awarded the highest honor an american can receive. 23-year-old sergeant dakota mier set to accept the congressional medal of honor from president obama. repeatedly rushing into a hail of fire in the battlefield in afghanistan pulling u.s. and afghan comrades to safety one by one and he returned to rush in after he had saved the lives of so many repeatedly, over and over and over and over again. mike tobin is live with this young man's story in chicago. and then we go to the white house to see him live. mike. >> reporter: you know, megyn, dakota meyer understands the magnitude of receiving the congressional medal of honor. he does not care for all this attention. he says he can only celebrate this recognition if every member of this team had survived that ambush. from the battle fields of afghanistan one marine's courage under fire earned him the nation's highest military honor, recognition dakota meyer does not feel he deserves. >> i'm definitely not a hero that is the furthest thing from the troop. >> reporter: he was ambushed. corporal meyer requested by radio to go help them. he was ordered to stay back and disobeyed orders. >> we were going to go in there or die trying. that's how it is. it's your brothers in there. >> reporter: meyer and rodriguez chavez rescued u.s. and afghan troops and provided cover allowing dozens to escape. they returned to the valley five times searching for members of meyer's own team. when he found them they were all dead. >> that is the worst feeling ever. i went in there to bring the guys out alive that was my mission. i didn't bring them out alive, so i failed. >> reporter: now the bravery of staff sergeant juan rodriguez kh chavez has not been forgotten. he has been awarded the navy cross. onto the business of coat ta having a beer with the president yesterday. he's 23 years old, unintimidated and unimpressed by everyone, all the handlers approached him and said while you are in d.c. is there anything you'd like. he said with great frankness, i'd like to have a beer with the president. request granted. they tipped back suds in the rose garden last night. an interesting experience meeting this brave young man who seems to be separate from all of this. he doesn't like the recognition he wants to true attention to the buddies of his that didn't come back from afghanistan. megyn: there is a little asterisk to some of this. there have been two investigations force dereliction of duty and two letters of severe reprimand to others who refused to help and left dakota meyer in the position of having to do this with the help of so few. that is the dark side of this story but it is worth telling because it underscores his heroism. he had almost no help when he went back to rescue these scores of people. >> reporter: he was in a bad situation. he was somewhat to the rear when this ambush took place. he requested three times over the radio to the forward operating base that he be allowed to go in and help his buddies who were pinned down with this fire. by the way he said it was very skilled and well equipped fire coming from the taliban insurgents who had attacked them. megyn: just so our viewers know, they were going to go in and help repair this mosque in this afghan village and it was all a set up. there were 60 jihaddists from pakistan hiding in the trail along the route to the mosque that they were going to help repair and they opened fire on our troops and on the afghans helping us, go ahead. >> reporter: he made his request three times and was denied three times. that's when he started talking with staff sergeant chavez and they decided whatever the case we are going to go ahead and disobey orders and help the guys out. and they were not very well equipped for running into a hail of gunfire. what they had on top of the gun truck was a mark 19 grenade launcher. if you want to go in and try to combat, fixed fire to that extent you don't necessarily want a grenade launcher. eventually he got a 50cal on top of the truck and you know the rest of the story now. megyn: and would not be denied in the quest to save lives. >> accompanied by medal of honor percipient, sergeant dakota meyer. ♪ [music playing] >> if you would, please pray with me. almighty god, we pause to acknowledge your grace which has brought us to this momentous day. we confirm by this ceremony that in accordance with your devine guidance our forbearers established a nation rooted in the ideals of courage and virtue. we now yield to your direction for this country even as wiebe stow its highest honors on sergeant dakota meyer who himself sacrificed to defend its most cherished values. god, hear our gratitude for your honing sergeant merers character through the loving support of his family as well as countless mentors and friends. know of our thankfulness for epl bolding this marine's spirit so when called upo he exemplified his valor. the courage revealed that day in k u.n. ar province, for that this nation is exceedingly grateful. we ask you touch his humble spirit, that he would know that as the nation's highest award is draped around his neck, you encircle him with the depth of your love acknowledging not only him but those marines and sailors who were so much a part of his actions on that fateful day. assure him that as his actions are honored you equally recognize those who demonstrated their willingness to sacrifice everything in order to uphold the ideals we honor this day. with that in mind we pray your abiding grace on the families and friends of the marines, sailors, soldiers, airman and coast guards men who have given their lives and service to this country. and we lift up in prayer all those who remain in harm's way throughout the globe. now bee tow your wisdom on those who lead this nation and shape her eve endeavors. guide them and each of us by the exexample of these our heroes who love country more than self, mercy more than life. god, bless america. in your holy name we pray, amen. >> thank you everybody, please be seated. thank you chaplin kibbin. good afternoon, everyone. on behalf of michelle and myself welcome to the white house. it's been said that where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor. today we pay tribute to an american who placed himself in the thick of the fight. again, and again, and again. in so doing he has earned our nation's highest military decoration, the medal of honor, and we are extraordinarily proud of sergeant dakota meyer. today is only the third time during the wars in afghanistan and iraq that a recipient of the medal of honor has been able to accept it in person. we are honored to be joined by one of the other two recipients, sergeant first class leroy petre who is here. i would point out something else, of all the medal of honor recipients in recent decades dakota is also one of the youngest. he's 23 years old, and he performed the extraordinary actions for which he is being recognized today when he was just 21 years old. despite all this i have to say dakota is one of the most down to earth guys that you will ever meet. in fact when my staff first tried to arrange the phone call so i could tell him that i had approved his metal dakota was at wo at his new civilian job on a construction site. he felt he couldn't take the call right then, because he said if i don't work i don't get paid. [laughter] >> we aeu ranged to mak arranged to make sure he got the call during his lunch break. i told him the news, then he went right back to work. that's the kind of guy he is. he also asked to have a beer with me, which we were able to execute yesterday. dakota is the kind of guy who gets the job done. and i do appreciate dakota you taking my call. [laughter] >> the medal of honor reflects the gratitude of the entire nation, so we're joined here by members of congress, including somebody from your home state, the republican leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell. we are joined mere by leaders from across my administration including secretary of veterans affairs, and navy secretary ray mavis and leaders from across our armed forces including the commandant of the marine corps general james amos. we are honored to welcome dako dakota's father mike, who is here, his extraordinary grandparents and more than 120 of dakota's family and friends, many from his home state of kentucky. i want to welcome dakota's comrades from the marine embedded team 28 and we are humbled by the presence of the members of the medal of honor society. i understand the last two years have not been easy for you, retelling the story and standing here today. you're a very modest man. you say you do it for a reason, to retell the story and honor those who didn't come home and remind of the people that are fighting over there every day. that's why we do this today. it's fitting that we do so this week having marked the 10th anniversary of the attacks that took our nation to war, because in sergeant dakota meyer we see the best of a generation that has served with distinction through a decade of war. let me tell the story. i want you to imagine. it's september 8th, 2009 just before dawn. patrol of afghan forces and their american trainers is on foot making their way up a narrow valley heading into a village to meet with elders. and suddenly all over the village the lights go out. that's when it happens. about a mile away dakota, who has been a corporal and staff sergeant juan rodriguez chavez could hear the ambush over the radio. it was as if the whole valley was exploding. taliban fighters were unleashing fire from houses, even from the school. soon they were pinned down taking ferocious fire from three sides. men were being wounded and killed, and four americans, dakota's friends were surrounded. four times dakota and juan asked permission to go in. four times they were denied. it was they were told too dangerous. but one of the teachers in his high school once said, when you tell dakota he can't do something, he's going to do it. and as dakota said of his trapped teammates, those were my brothers, and i couldn't just sit back and watch. the story of what dakota did next will be told for generations. he told juan they were going in. juan jumped into a humvee and took the wheel. data climbed into the turrit and manned the gun. they were defying orders but they were doing what they thought was right. so they drove straight into a killing zone, dakota's upper body and head exposed from a blizzard of fire from ak-47s and machine guns, from mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. coming upon wounded afghan soldiers dakota jumped out and loaded each of the wounded into the humvee, each time exposing himself to all that enemy fire. they turned around and drove those wounded back to safety. those who were there called it the most intense combat they'd ever seen. dakota and juan would have been forgiven for not going back in. but as dakota says you don't believe anybody behind. for a second time they went back, back into the inferno. juan at the wheel swerving to avoid explosions all around him, dakota up in the turret when one gun jammed grabbing another, going through gun after gun, again they came across wounded afghans, again dakota jumped out, loaded them up and brought them back to safety. for a third time they went back, insurgents running right up to the humvee, dakota fighting them off. up ahead a group of americans, some wounded, were desperately trying to escape the bullets range down. juan wedged the humvee right into the line of fire using the vehicle as a shield. and with dakota on the guns they helped those americans back to safety as well. for a fourth time they went back, dakota was now wounded in the arm. their vehicle was riddled with bullets and shrapnel, dakota later confessed i didn't think i was going to die, i knew i was. still they pushed on, finding the wounded, delivering them to safety. and then for a fifth time they went back into the furry of that village under fire that seemed to come from every window, every doorway, every alley. when they finally got to those trapped americans dakota jumped out and he ran toward them, throwing all those enemy guns on himself, bullets kicking up the dirt all around him. he kept going until he came upon those four americans laying where they fell, together as one team. dakota and the others who had joined him knelt down, picked up their comrades and through all the bullets, all the smoke, all the chaos carried them out one by one, because as dakota says, that's what you do for a brother. dakota says he'll accept this metal in their name. today we remember the husband who loved the outdoors, lieutenant michael johnson, the husband and father they called g u.n. ny j. gunnery sergeant edwin johnson. the determined marine who fought to get on that team. staff sergeant aaron kenafit. the medic who gave his life tending to his teammates, hospital man third class james leyton. a soldier wounded in that battle who never recovered, sergeant first class kenneth westbrook. dakota i know that you've grappled with the grief of that day, that you've said that your efforts were somehow a failure because your teammates didn't come home. but as your commander and chief, and on behalf of everyone here today and all americans i want you to know it's quite the opposite. you did your duty above and beyond, and you kept the faith with the highest traditions of the marine corps that you love. because of your honor 36 men are alive today, because of your courage four fallen american heroes came home, and in the words of jane leyton's mom they could lay their sons to rest with dignity. because of your commitment in the thick of the fight hour after hour a former marine who read about your story said that you showed how in the most desperate final hours our brothers and god will not for sake us. and because of your humble example our kids, especially back in columbia, kentucky and in small towns all across america, they'll know no matter who you are or where you come from you can do great things as a citizen and as a member of the american family. there in lies the greatest thing in that day in the valley and the truth that our men and women in uniform live out every day. i was part of something bigger dakota has said, part of a team that worked together, lifting each other up and working toward a common goal. every member of our team was as important as the other. so in keeping with dakota's wishes for this day i want to conclude by asking now gunnery sergeant rodriguez chavez and all those who served with dakota, the marines, army, navy, to stand and accept the thanks of a grateful nation. 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