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house came up with, the congress approved, and president obama then signed into law. after weeks of dramatic warnings about the fallout from these budget changes, president obama and congressional leadership today held their very first serious face-to-face meeting to head this off and wrapped up in less than an hour, with zero progress. then the president walked to the west wing podium and launched a fresh attack on the g.o.p. without acknowledging how this whole thing started or his role in it. here is the president moments ago in a little recent context from his own press secretary. >> but washington sure isn't making it easy. at a time when our businesses have finally begun to get some traction, hiring new workers, bringing jobs back to america, we shouldn't be making a series of arbitrary cuts to things that businesses depend on and workers depend on, like education, and research, and infrastructure, and defense. it's unnecessary, and at a time when too many americans are still looking for work, it's inexcusable. >> what i will concede is that we were looking and the republicans were looking for a trigger around which to build the mechanism to get us out of default possibility and a sequester was one of the ideas put forward yes, by the president's team. >> megyn: chris stirewalt is our digital politics editor and host of power play on foxnews.com live. >> indeed. >> megyn: what a juxtaposition. the cuts are dumb, arbitrary, unnecessary and inexcusable, cuts that jay carney, it was the white house's idea a different message we heard from the president. >> this was our dumb and inexcusable idea. to be fair, the president designed these cuts as a penalty for not coming up with a grand bargain for the so-called supercommittee to come up with a grand bargain. but, yes, this was as has been thoroughly hashed over for several weeks, the brainchild of the president and his new treasury secretary jack lew and it's their baby and now the president says it's going to make your life very terrible for the next decade as it goes into effect. >> megyn: and both parties took a risk. they both signed-- welsh the president signed it into law, but the republicans passed it in the house and the democrats in the senate so it passed, but thanks to both parties. both parties thinking that it probably would never stay the law because this had' reach a deal that led to better, smarter spending, not cuts. they're not cuts, it's a decrease to the increase in spending we're going to see. that's what they thought and tried and they failed. they tried again and failed. and republicans produced bills out of the house and those failed to go anywhere. late in the day the democrats said, well, why don't we-- >> no, both sides, it just didn't work out. they couldn't agree when they first struck the deal, and somehow deluded themselves into believing maybe woe'll get along better down the line and that's how it worked out. >> that's the legal term, i believe that's the legal term for that. it's raspberry. no, look, the president also da anything bad happens in the shorter version and anything bad happens in the the economy, in the next month or next six months. >> megyn: stand by. >> the fault of the republicans. >> megyn: let's let them hear president obama in his own words on that point. >> every time that we get a piece of economic news over the next month, next two months, next six months, as long as the sequester is in place, we'll know that that economic news could have been better if congress had into the failed to act. >> megyn: go ahead. >> right, it's not the fault, by the way of everybody's taxes going up 3%, from the end of the payroll tax holiday. it's not the fault of high gas prices, it's not the fault of the other weaknesses of the economy and it's the fault of the economy, i'm talking to you, john boehner. the other thing that the president had to do today which was significant was admit, admit, not a big deal, not a big deal right now he had to basically say this could eventually be a big deal. after weeks, oh, my gosh, weeks and weeks and weeks of the worst, these cataclysmic scenarios, it's really not about this, it's a fight over spending levels the end of march, have a good weekend. >> megyn: we saw the first responders behind him. these people are going to lose their jobs and houses are going to burn. and illegals let out of prison, wait, that happened. (laughter) >> whoops. >> megyn: all of these things are going to happen and people losing their jobs, bah, bah, bah, we'll get through it, it won't be an apocalypse, dumb. >> what it reveals to us all is these weeks, these weeks of these apocalyptic scenarios laid out have been a prelude to the negotiations that are going to take place what we here in town call the continuing resolution, what congress passes when it hasn't. >> megyn: can i stop you and just ask you to walk ut through that. so, the government needs money to operate and congress has to approve some, generally, the numbers for that. and so, what's happening? why? why are we about to go into a negotiation over additional spending for the government? >> because the-- in the absence of a budget, you need a bill that says everything we were doing before keep doing it. that's why they call it a continuing resolution. just, it's a budget. it's tacking more months, more weeks, more years, more dollars, on to the back end of the last budget that was completed. >> megyn: and, and-- >> the paper trail on this goes for back years. >> megyn: and the reason we don't have a budget. >> people are not good at what they do. >> megyn: okay. so our lawmakers are not doing what we are a paying them to do no budget for four years, imagine running your family without looking at income and outgoing, but that's happening in washington. okay, all we can do is keep saying for four years now, continue the resolution. continue doing the way we were doing it, continue, continue, continue, and finally that's about to stop. right, they've punted it several times and it's the last six months punt expires on the 27th of march and the republicans are going to next week come out and say, here is our plan for the six months take it until the end of september. here is what we want to do and they're going to memorialize the reductions, the rate reductions in the sequestration, these automatic decrease-- >> decreases to the ought mat tuck increases. >> the changes and the president said that he'll sign it and republicans are going to pass it, so i hope everybody enjoyed their sequestration february, now we're on to continuing resolution march. >> megyn: it makes me want to watch judge judy rerun. >> never, no, no, no. (laughter) . >> megyn: okay, chris, thank you. >> have a great weekend. >> megyn: my hero. we've heard a warning from cabinet officials about the the impact of these budget changes, but california maxine waters really scared workers with this prediction. >> we don't need to be having something like sequestration that's going to cause these job losses, over 117 million jobs that could be lost. >> megyn: oh, my gosh! 170 million jobs lost? that would be a real problem considering that's more than the entire american work force. she misspoke. her spokesman later clarified telling the daily caller she obviously misspoke, 170,000 jobs not 170 million so there's a little levity for you in the sequester. and one more bit of possible budget fallout being forecast now. air force 2 may be grounded, at least on the weekend. we're hearing that vice-president joe biden will once again travel by rail when he goes home to delaware just as he did when he was a senator for all of those years. each plane trip to delaware costs tens of thousands of dollars. the vice-president says he actually initiated the change himself and he's happy about it. and how much he laughs amtrak, saying the secret service made him travel by air and fearing too many people would be able, they were fearing too many people would be able to interact with him on the train and now we hear that president obama's actually he no longer going to use air force one he's going to tool around in a honda. no, that's not right. >> when calls for congressional investigation into the death of an american manage working in singapore. all right, now, follow this. this american shane todd was found dead in his home overseas last june. officials in singapore called it a suicide, produced a note that had been written on a computer. his family says this was murder. they say their son was living in fear, worried that his employers in singapore were using him to help china get its hands on some very sensitive spying information. trace gallagher has the story live from l.a., trace? >> reporter: and there really are, megyn, so many pieces of this puzzle missing. shane todd without question was brilliant, athletic, a devout christian, in singapore working for singaporen government company and his project included something called gal yum nitrate. it means nothing to you and me, but apparently stronger than silicon, better military technology, high powered radar, electronic warfare, even weapons. shane todd found out that the singapore company he was working with, was working with a chinese telecom giant that the the u.s. house intelligence committee accused of spying, he became uncomfortable, felt he was in danger and even told his parents what to do if he turned up missing. listen. >> as the weeks went on, he got increasingly more agitated and distressed and would say things to me like mom, i'm afraid i'm never going to see you again. >> reporter: shane todd quit his job and decided to come back to the states. a few days later his body was found hanging in his apartment bathroom. his family was told he drilled holes in the wall and built this elaborate pully system he hanged himself with. they never found any signs of that at all and then found suicide ropes. >> i handed that back and said my son might have killed himself, but he never wrote this note. from then on i knew he had been murdered. before i thought he could have hung himself, but thought he was forced it. >> and also found the hard drive from his work computer, they had it analyzed and found the night her son left his company three o'clock in the morning someone broke into the hard drive looking for data. the parents are now looking for answers. listen. >> we do not want somebody else's son and daughter to be put in a compromising situation where now they feel like they have to betray their country and-- >> or lose their life. >> or lose their life. >> reporter: they're now meeting with senators in montana and d.c. to get this investigation rolling, megyn. >> megyn: unbelievable story. trace, thank you. and we'll have much more on it a little later this hour when shane's parents will join us live. we'll talk to them about their son, this investigation, and their next step as they search for answers into their son's, chene's premature death. well, days after we heard that hundreds, perhaps thousands of illegal immigrants would be released from jail because of spending changes that have not even happened yet, it's still not completely clear who authorized this or why since the list of people denying responsibility grows by the day. we'll dig a little deeper in three minutes and a well-known supreme court justice, a popul popular supreme court justice is under attack from the left after suggesting voting laws may be forming a racial entitlement. and we'll look at antonin scalia's comments and some are calling him a troll. and students are in hot water with the feds. ♪ [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. 100% vegetable juice, with three of your daily vegetable servings in every little bottle. hi, i'm ensure clear... clear, huh? 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of course. >> megyn: michael cutler, a former senior special agent for ins now known as ice, known for rounding up illegal immigrants and putting them through the system. ice is saying they did it and they answer to her and she says she didn't know anything about it. the white house says they don't know anything about it. do you find that plausible? >> no, it's as plausible as fast and furious. and nobody seems to know anything when it hits the fan of and everybody finds out about it. known as homeland surrender. thousands of illegal aliens have been released and criminal histories. and this is an administration that says we're only going to arrest the criminals. at what point do we take them at their word. truth is not an evolutionary process. >> megyn: that's the question, who is in these jails and who is let out? we're told that in our assessment they were low risk. what crimes had they committed? because they're not arresting illegal immigrants whose only crime is they're here illegally. they're going after people who have committed additional acts. >> realize that's a serious enough problem by itself. illegal immigration law is supposed to keep out aliens, who have communicable disease, mental health, working illegally and jobs not an inconsequential issue, these folks are harmful to america. no home owner would open their door to a stranger without looking at the people. and we like company, but not someone climbing through the window at three in the morning. >> megyn: and even under the administration's approach toward illegal immigration, they say we're going to arrest the folks we think are dangerous to you and not bother the people who are here illegally, but working and raising their families. who is in the jails when the hundreds of folks were let out. we thought it was 50 and now hearing more and potentially thousands. who was it? is anyone tracking them? is there a way to find them. they claim yes, but should we believe that? >> we have a problem with credibility. when aliens violate the immigration laws, and look the at the terrorists and talking about sleeper cells and sleeper agents, come here, keep a low profile until your phone rings. this is why we have immigration laws and to it suddenly release people who have criminal history and we know they do because that's all they've been locking up. who is making a decision whether somebody poses a threat to the safety. and they've politicized this whole program and the people suffering ever the are the american people. >> megyn: let's take the white house and janet napolitano at their word that they did not know that ice was going to do this and release the illegal immigrants arrested, into the general population, what does that say? what does that say if that's the system where this can happen. >> who is in charge. >> megyn: without anybody like our homeland security secretary or someone at the white house signing off on it. >> it will be interesting to see if anyone gets punished for it, which means that someone acted outside the scope of their authority and exceeded it. >> megyn: she didn't sound outraged when she gave an interview to abc news. >> i think what she sounded like someone trying to cover their own tracks. all they seem to keep doing with where immigration is concerned. the dream act with young people, cut off age 32. everything they talk about especially where immigration is concerned, when you dig beneath the surface, you find deception and that's not the way that we'll find people that discourage things on the law. and we've never had the resource or political will to enforce the law. >> megyn: a quick answer on this. attitudes seem to be softening towards the issue of illegal immigration, particularly in the wake of the last election and even those on the right who were very worried about this have taken another look and realize they're not necessarily. people are not necessarily with them. i want to ask you whether this kind of thing helps or hurts the cause of doing something to be realistic about the illegal immigrants who are here in this country, not committing crimes. does this help or hurt the effort toward immigration reform? >> well, i think it hurts, but we've got to remember that the idea of giving millions of people the authority to work at a time when one in six americans is on food stamps makes no sense. we're admitting 150,000 workers every month legally, between lawful immigrants and people with work visas, now you've got the illegal aliens and now releasing criminals into communities around the country? this is an anarchistic approach. >> megyn: micke cutler, thanks for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> megyn: and more young women diagnosed with breast cancer. what could be triggering this, a scary update. and why school officials are accused of playing politics when teaching students about black history month. >> some disturbing new information just out in the battle against cancer. a new study reveals that late stage breast cancer is on the rise in women ages 25 to 39. researchers behind the study say it's a bizarre anomaly which could have serious implications for younger women. joining me now a doctor of breast surgery at nyu cancer center and she's renowned. i'm so honored to have you here, doctor. we'll get to this in a minute. and she's also my doctor. thank you for coming out. >> thanks for having me. >> megyn: how seriously should we be taking this? >> this is actually really good data. the researchers went to the data base, a national data base covering 19 places in the united states and they looked at data from 1976 to 2009 and verified that for younger women from 25 to 39 there was a substantial increase in the rate of women who were diagnosed with breast cancer than had already spread to other organs. >> megyn: because when they talk about metastatic breast cancer it's spread, gotten to your brain and liver. >> exactly. >> megyn: and then they're discovering it. why? >> it's a very good question and this study wasn't able to tell us what the root cause is of this observed increase might be. a few thoughts, some of it may have to do with genetics and we don't understand the genetic background and we know in families with a lot of breast cancer, age tends to go down generation after generation. and these are women in an age group that we don't generally screen for breast cancer and if they were not necessarily attentive and felt the lump and probably couldn't be a problem in the breast they may not have brought it to medical attention early enough. >> megyn: not supposed to get a mammogram until age 40, 35 if you have a family history. >> that's correct, the age that it should be done has relevance to the family history. for women without family history we generally recommend by age 40. >> megyn: what are the women supposed to be looking for. >> it's a very good question. overall the rate of breast cancer in the 20's and 30's is still really, really low in an absolute way. but women who are young still need to know that if they feel a lump in the breast or if they see a change in the skin or discharge from the nipple or retraction or any one of these problems, they shouldn't just assume that because they're young it can't be breast cancer. it's something that should be be brought to medical attention. >> megyn: i mentioned to the audience that you're my doctor. when i turned 40 and a mammogram i went in thinking this was formality what you think, and you better have follow-up and follow-up oh, my god and i went and saw you and what i learned in the this process because there's he no lump in your breast doesn't mean you're safe. there's another form of breast cancer that only a mammogram will detect. even if there's no lump you have to get the mammograms when they're recommended. >> that's right, mammography is not perfect by any means, but right now it is the best tool that we have available and early detection still counts. it improves the outcome, it improves the survival from breast cancer and also allows the patient to have less obnoxious treatment, which is a big, big benefit in and of itself. >> megyn: and the biopsy that was done was not that bad and thank god everything turned out to be fine and benign and hope everything continues to be fine, but it's the mammogram itself isn't so bad and you really do need to get it even if you think it's a formatty and hopefully wind up with a beautiful, wonderful doctor, like i have to do it. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> megyn: coming up, the issue of the voting rights act reaching the boiling point. some on the left are taking out their anger on justice antonin scalia after comments he made from the bench when the case went up to the supreme court. he talked about voting laws creating a racial entitlement. we'll take that up next. a montana family is asking congress to investigate their son's death overseas, it was ruled a suicide by authorities in sing more, but after complaints that his company may have been using him to help spy for china. his family joins us live. it may not lolook like fun, but everyone is laughing about this video shot at 30,000 feet. what the f.a.a. is doing. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you measure happiness? 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the law confusing what we're talking about. when it comes to voting we used to do bad things in this country and this law tried to address it and one of the things the law does, in addition to many things, it allowed for creation of racial racially identifiable voting districts and gerry mander so that they get a black representative and some say that creates a racial entitlement, but also then leads to disparities because the blacks only have representation in one district and not the other districts where they should have a voice as well. >> the secret about electing state officials. we've seen red states gerrymander out of districts and you say let's not get hung up on the word entitlement. words have meaning. and when the supreme court justice attaches himself one of the most intellectual members of the court refers to a racial entitlement that's a very unfortune phrase for someone like scalia to use and in tact to say we don't have more problems, elena kagan pointed out in the statements in the court, alabama as you mentioned, still has no state elected black officials in one of the worst terms of disparity in voting. and let-- >> in red states you have situations where he they tried to install voter i.d. laws with no real history of prosecutions for this kind of thing and to the nyu has been studying this and it's not really a problem and they're clearly trying to stop blacks and certain people-- >> no they're not alan. this is the farcical fact of the left on this. and if somebody runs in the community and somebody supports them he or she gets elected. let's be clear, discrimination against quote, minority voters is still illegal whatever happens. >> megyn: you can always sue. >> you can sue, go through the court process. >> megyn: the question whether you have to run this by the doj before you do something. >> right, and here is what we have got to get past. being told where we need to be as any voting block. we're all americans and frankly i reject the left's argument on this. >> and voting is a racial entitlement? >> first of all, alan, entitlement was added when it was changing into the disparity before the voting and civil rights act. >> is voting a racial entitlement. >> megyn: but that's, there's a question whether that's what he meant that voting is a racial-- that's what he said. >> megyn: no, that's not what he said. >> that's not what he said, alan. >> megyn: that's why i raise the issue that they do the racial gerrymandering, i don't know what he was referring to, but we don't know. and it is the court's role to oversee acts of congress, even this one and check the congress if he does something that's out of line. i don't know whether they should do it here or not. they'll decide that for themselves, but there's a question-- they are entitled to judicial oversight. >> let's get to the gerrymandering which is an important part of that. i don't like gerrymandering on it's not relegated to the south. it happens in newark, new jersey, in camden, they have the districts. look at detroit with mayors over since the 60's. and they gerrymander on both sides. what we should worry about, making sure the voting laws are upheld properly when we have cases new black panther party and intimidation, we tackle real issues not pushed by the-- >> go ahead. >> as john lewis says, he suffered because of the civil rights. >> megyn: civil rights leader. >> he say it may not be literacy tests or poll taxes, but the net result is the same. >> megyn: no, no that was the last word, that was it. i'm giving it to alan. thank you both very much. 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he was leaving and coming back to the united states. >> simply, he was a key man for the company, he knew the formulas and the recipes and then when he was broached by the company, who we later identified as howway. >> megyn: that's the chinese company. >> correct. he would have known the key players and formulas, everything asking for and identify the company. and he could also identify who his contact is. >> megyn: mary, tell us about the note. the suicide note that you were given that they claimed your son wrote? >> well, first of all, they gave me a description, told me categorically this is how my sung hu son hung himself, followed by a suicide note, typed off his computer and started thanking ime for giving him every opportunity to succeed and that he was sorry he did not meet their expectations. that was my first sense of joy as a mother to know my son did not write this note and i knew in my heart at that point he was murdered. he did the not take his own life. >> megyn: ime was his employer at the time and i know that you said that then he gave a, what you called a pathetic list of memories of family memories that you just do not believe he would have written. tell us why, mary, on that? >> well, first of all, he-- we're a very close family, i have four sons and they're all best friends, and we are a family that travels together, prays together, stays together. and the memories that wrote were one is barbecues on our house on the hill. another one was shirley temples on the beach. we've never ever done shirley temples on the beach the whole note was pathetic and gave two sentences to his brothers, who are literally his best friends that didn't, weren't personal at all. it didn't, it was incongruent and didn't make sense. >> megyn: i know he was stressed out what he was going through fearing perhaps his life might be in danger and i assume the singaporion authorities might say whatever stress that he was under led him to take his own life. do you believe he was in a state he could take his own life. >> no, shane would never do na. >> megyn: you just don't think he's capable of. >> vocallize $it there was times he had a bout with depression in 2002, but it's just the lack of seratonin and it was turned around immediately. shane, i mean, shane was a larger than life type of individual. he played hard, he worked hard, and he had -- he loved life, that was the way he was. >> megyn: i know, that's why he went to singapore, he wanted a job that would bring adventure to his life and may have gotten too much. just so our viewers know, he worked for the singaporion company iecme, and the chinese company has been described as a serious threat to u.s. national security so he had reason to be concerned when suddenly he had to be dealing with them and they were trying to tap into his expertise. mary, what can we do? what can congress do to press these international authorities for a real investigation, and real answers? >> what has to happen we need a congressional investigation. the most important thing we have shane's external hard drive with the evidence that it was accessed after his death twice and the singapore police have both of his, his computers. we need to work together with the singapore police to come to a conclusion as to what happened so we want pressure put on the singapore government, the singapore police from our government in a congressional investigation to bring the two together and really investigate this as a -- for our u.s. security. >> megyn: mary and rick todd, very sorry for the death of your son. >> thank you. >> megyn: appreciate you coming on today. >> thank you. >> megyn: we'll continue to follow it, what a story. that is an american whose death we need some more clear answers on. well, earlier today, two top administration officials made some claims about the sequester spending changes that have already been proven false by fact checkers. why did they do that? 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>> we also heard the president warning again today of the impact of these spending changes, saying it won't be the apocalypse, but quote shall the pain will be real. a message we've heard from the white house for weeks now, although you know it sounded more apocalyptic and in recent days less apocalyptic, and the president says what will happen on the military bases and children of those who are in our armed services. >> the department of defense right now have to figure out how the children of military families are going to continue with their schooling over the next several months because teachers at these bases are typically civilians, they're therefore subject to furlough which means they may not be able to teach one day a week. >> megyn: joining me now a pete, the ceo of concerned veterans for america, and one of the vets who used to live on a military base, welcome back to the program. >> thanks. >> megyn: is the president expressing some concern there for members of the military and what these reductions in the increased spending are going to do to them. your thoughts on it. >> first of all, across the board and you even heard mayor michael bloomberg take him to task, this administration is using the old washington strategy, and the worst scenario and put it out front and across the board. no one is for laying off teachers in dod schools, who might have a mother and father in afghanistan and that's exactly what he said as well. no one is for that. that may or may not the happen, i'm not quite sure, if it does, it's a reflection of the nature of the cuts that don't lend themselves to any reform at all. and furlough, you're not reforming anything and ultimately step back from all of it. the president has been talking about this for 18 days, he had 18 months to lead on this, he's had-- he has not and now it's turned into a blame game and the president thinks he's got a winning hand on revenues and he's playing it over and over and over. >> megyn: well, you heard him say he didn't acknowledge, really, that he came up with the idea although the white house spokesperson already admitted that and he didn't talk about the fact that he signed it into law. he did talk about the fact that it became a law and he says he tried to go back to the republicans to come back with something better. they came to him what they thought was better and both sides rejected the other side's proposal and he says the republicans are the only ones that rejected a balanced approach, that's what he uses, his term, tax reform, tax hikes and spending cuts. it's really the republicans military guys are going to have to blame for this. >> well, he, again, he thinks he's got a very winning political hand here. you know, as someone who's been in the military. you know where leadership stops. you know what leadership looks like. you know what it means to say, we've got a problem here, this can't happen. and we're going to bring sides together to fix it. that's what leadership is. leadership isn't speeches, leadership isn't grandstanding. leadership isn't finger pointing, it's bringing peel into a room and say we may disagree on fundamental stuff and certainly boehner and the president do, for him to stand up there and say, hey, republicans don't want to do this because of revenue is indeed disingenuous, a lot of boats sid bowed sides, and let's throw the corporate loopholes to benefit the rich and payroll tax and simplify the code for the little guy and doesn't look like we're obstructionists. there's ways to flip this, but coming back to the president and calling on the carpet for it-- >> he is of course our commander-in-chief. we were told when they struck this deal, to put these automatic spending reductions in place, that it was the democrats who wanted the cuts to the military and it was the republicans who wanted the cut to the discretionary spending, you know, outside the military. he they wanted that. so that both parties would feel some pain. and. >> yeah. >> megyn: but today the president is up there as a champion of the military trying to blame the cuts on the republicans. both parties have, you know, their hands in it, but your thoughts on that and on the president protection of the military? >> it's ironic, i think what the president is doing here is everything, but protecting, by pushing tough choices down the road, by being unwilling to, i mean, he says he wants reform entitlements. i hope he means it, but really at the negotiating table, that hasn't yet manifest itself and anyone who is serious about defense knows that the biggest security threat we've got right now is our out of control spending and debt and deficit so until you're willing to fundamentally dress that you're going to get stupid cuts, megyn, to the defense department and other parts of the discretionary budget and the republicans many sick of the spending culture are willing to cave, but for those who are deficit hawks and defense hawks these are the worst type of cuts, they indescriminately cut and stuff rolls downhill in the military and that's what's happening here. so you see not tough choiceses on a big weapons system, but furloughs for 800,000 dod civilians who are going to feel the heat of a lack of colonel courage in washington. >> you have written a piece earlier this week, and critical of the first lady because of her oscars appearance, why was that, pete? >> well, i think she used them as props, a minor offense in my opinion because if you look the at the real record of this administration of veterans a lot of smoke screen, not a lot of results. the backlog has doubled for va claims under this administration, 900,000 veterans waiting in line and the average claim is now 9 months waiting for a response and some people in some places are waiting for over two years and then the best unemployment rate which they said they've tried to target persistently made above the civilian average and lives of vets at home are no better than four years ago, but the administration loves to take the credit and make it look like their friends veterans, oscars was just another example where michelle obama was happen to stand in front of uniformed members who she never acknowledged that they were standing there, create ago image for the vets and we need to call them on the carpet. >> megyn: pete, thanks for being here. >> all right, megyn. >> megyn: see you soon. 2013 is off to a rough start for many of us, new numbers show that american suffered their largest one-month decline in income in two decades, over all incomes plunged 3.6% in january, the biggest fall since january of '93. experts blame that payroll tax hike that he we all saw for much of it. at the same time, the americans are still spending a small amount more than they are, than they did the previous month and that means they're also saving a bit less. and well, we're also getting reports today of a dramatic experiment in medical science with enormous implications and here it is. for the first time ever scientists have managed to make a major break through in mind to mind communication. and trace gallagher, does it have to do with rats? >> reporter: it does have to do with rats. >> megyn: we're way ahead of it. >> reporter: you're way ahead of the game, megyn. >> megyn: one of the rats in brazil and the united states and they have no way to communicate and they put electrodes in their tiny brains in theory would allow them to pass messages along. rat number one in brazil who has been taught now, the end-coder, taught to find the water in his cage by responding to light signals and then pressing a certain lever. rat number two in the united states, the decoder, he has no light signals and he, to find water has to rely solely on the braen signals from rat number one, who's in brazil. yet, rat number two in the u.s. pressed the right lever 70% of the time, which researchers say is amazing. now, here is the catch. rat number one only gets rewarded when rat number two gets it right. so when rat number two is wrong, researchers say rat number one in brazil would actually change its entire brain function to make it easier for rat number two to find the lever and researchers say, this amazing study could lead to brand new wonders, listen. >> and this is a very exciting line of research that would open many doors, not only for interfaces in terms of rehabilitation, but potentially for something in the distant future that i like to call the brain act. in which we will be able to communicate just by thinking. >> reporter: yeah, and as to what he's saying, animals can read each other's minds, megyn, somewhere down the road humans can, too. not exactly mr. spock vulcan mind melding, but might fascinating and maybe tap in and hook up a bunch of us to the organic computer, who knows. >> megyn: this is further evidence of our growing laziness as a people. now? ellen degeneres says we have we're too lazy to suck on a minute and the breath strips. and moving my mouth around to talk is exhausting, how i'm going to deliver the news from now on, ready. >> reporter: coming up later on there-- i can do it for you, right. >> megyn: how lazy can we be. all right, thanks, trace. and the little rat and the little hat. okay. coming up, the mysterious death of a rising star. a prize winning show dog at westminster suddenly dies and claims spread that the dog may have been poisoned and wait until you hear they believe they're accusing of doing it. who done it in kelly's court. plus, president reagan wanted to appeal for our best hopes, not our worst fears. we take a look why that sentiment seemed to be sorely lacking in washington when michael reagan joins us next live. and imagine the horror of sleeping in your own bed when suddenly the earth beneath you opens up, starts to swallow your home, your bed. and eventually you. and that's what they believe happened in florida. and one man is today sharing the terrible story what happened when his brother disappeared from sight. . >> we heard a loud crash and i ran in there, i heard somebody screaming and my brother screaming, and i ran in there and all i could see was this big hole and all i could see was the tops of his bed. i didn't see nothing else, so i jumped in the hole and tried digging him out. and i couldn't get him, all i could hear-- i thought i could hear him screaming for me, and hollering for me to help him. i couldn't do nothing. i've gotine grams of protein. that's three times more than me! 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>> i remember being there in 1982 and that speech he gave in 1992, really book ends the political career of ronald reagan. even people on the left were affected by that. aalec baldwin goes to the same gym and he talked about the television shows and i want to share something with, i miss your father. you disagreed with everything he said and voted against him. why do you miss my father? . he said i've come to realize that your father had a good soul and what the world is missing is a good soul. let me tell you i haven't heard a republican put if in those world. >> megyn: i think a lot of people believe the current president has a good soul and is a good man and the polls support at that, but the optimism, that's harder to find. >> it is. >> megyn: president obama has come under criticism in past days and weeks, because he's been sounding what he would say is the alarm on these spending cuts. but as i said in the intro, his critics say it's fear mongering. let me give the audience is hint. >> would weaken america's economic recovery. it will weaken our military readiness. >> air traffic contollers and airport security will see c cutbacks and that could cause delays in airports. tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids. >> emergency responders like the ones here today with their ability to respond to disaster will be degraded prosecutors close cases ab let criminals go. thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off. >> megyn: he says he's laying out real world consequences of political machinations in washington. >> yeah, absolutely. and i tweet just the other day, megyn, i say here is government not by leadership, but government by tantrum and seems to be going on in washington d.c., a huge tantrum put on to them that somehow they can't take a cut of 2% in what's coming into washington while they ask the rest of america in january to take a 2% cut in pay in their paychecks. and america isn't throwing a tantrum. they're learning to deal with the fact they are he getting 2% less this year in their paychecks than last year. but it seems that government doesn't want to get down with the regular people in this country who are also in fact suffering. so, we have this-- we have this reality show we seem to be watching, like the president and his staff and others are out there trying to be the next great-- what, leader of the fear factor on television. people are tired of it and they want answers. they're tired of the fear mongering. >> megyn: how do you think that ronald reagan would have handled this differently. if he found himself in a situation where the cuts were coming, they're not cuts, but decrease in the increase in spending. how would he have approached this differently. >> well, first of all, we wouldn't have been in this position, remember, when he took over in 1981, 21% interest rates, gas lines going up. double digit inflation. ronald reagan didn't blame jimmy carter, he didn't blame anybody. he rolled up his sleeves and got to work. and cut spending and a little did you know 1983 going to 1984 election, our economy is growing, people are going back to work and ultimately 20 million jobs are created and unemployment in the black community and the hispanic community went down, actually down. they didn't go up. and the economy was going to 7% at this point in my father's second term, not at 1% that it's growing today because he did the right thing, worked across the aisle with people like tip o'neill, but that was a battle, but ronald reagan had the blue dog democrats on his team. ronald reagan did it the right way when it was wrong he said it was wrong. this president never seems to want to admit he might have made a mistake. >> megyn: and whatever history may say about me gone i hope it will record that i appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears, your confidence rather than your doubts. wow, michael, thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> megyn: well, before we end this hour, you have got to see the one shot on the basketball court that created an unforgettable moment. a very special young man scored big just ahead. plus, earlier today, two top administration officials made some claims about the sequester spending changes that have already been proven false by fact checkers. why did they do that? 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>> really, really clear on the comments what i said was that teachers were getting notices and that the district we talked about, 110 teachers have gotten notices now i think there was a miss interpretation that they're being laid off tomorrow, that's not what i said or meant. >> what about now and-- >> they're getting slips now, they're getting notices now, so, that's, i think where some of the misunderstanding was, but the fact of the matter is, whether it's-- its already happened or coming across the country over the next two months, which i also said, tens of thousands of teachers potentially are going to be given these notices across the country. so the impact here is very, very significant. >> megyn: so, are we in store for more spinning as hope for a deal fades? not everybody is hoping for a deal. joining me now is tucker carlson of the daily caller, and a consultant. arne you feel for him a little bit, but what he said on the sunday show is not true, that the teachers, first of all, they said "the washington post" fact checked and gave him four pinochios and teachers laid off nothing to do with the sequester and now he comes out there and seems to be sticking by the original thing somehow. >> what a shame. why is he doing it, a lot of the people are politicians, i know arne duncan, kind of a serious guy not a hack. >> megyn: a serious guy. >> he is, but he's up there acting like a spokesman for the political operation like jay carney, he's acting like a hack and fed these lines in some sort of talking points briefing and devaluing his on currency doing this. he doesn't need to he should have said no. >> i have to say we don't always agree. we agree here, he does not have to be doing this. to say, one, you know, he made a miss talk. >> megcited. >> yeah, got a little excited. i'm not sure why he kept saying it because the problem is it distracts from the actual issue and discredits his argument and the president's argument. i mean, it really does and distracts from the issue, teachers will be laid off and the sequester does go into effect today and those are the issues we should be talking about not how many numbers and which days within the next week. >> megyn: but people start to doubt when they hear something claimed and then they say they get the four pinochios, can i trust this person to tell me the truth about the consequences here, we should be clear about the federal role in sequestration, it's going to affect the pentagon because the government pays for the military. it does the not pay for individual schools, there's no federal high school, no federal grammar school. this is a state and local function as we know. of course, will this have some effect on teachers? presumably you have to believe there's not a single government employee who should lose their job, the core message they're saying, any job in the federal, state, local government that's essential, we'll revert to barberism without it, don't believe that. kathleen sebelius health and soo human services secretary says what congress is allowing them to go into effect and this is essentially blaming the republicans in the house. this is something the president himself did and both of those two officials, miss sebelius and president obama have been contradicted by the white house spokesperson, listen to the president and then jay carney. >> the sequester is not something that i proposed, it's something that congress has proposed. it will not happen. >> what i will concede is that we were looking and the republicans were looking for a trigger around which to build the mechanism to get us out of default, possibly and sequester was one of the ideas put forward, yes, by the president's team. >> megyn: why are they coming out trying to say it's congress. >> sure, it is congress's law, it will be congress. >> megyn: how does a bill become a law again after congress passes it? what happens next? >> right then we get the president. >> megyn: and they all have dirty hands. if you like it, clean hands, i don't know. >> it will be congress that has to reverse this. congress does have to come together with the president. the president has been forth coming with the answer to avoid the sequester and been out there the entire time and congressional leaders came together today, but mitch mcconnell has said maybe a week or two ago he didn't want to see any 11th hour deals, it's a difficult climate to be working in. >> a lot of people feel this way and don't see armageddon and keep cutting after that. >> if someone said to you, could you cut 2.3% out of your household budget. give up starbucks, it doesn't need to be a huge deal. i think that both sides are implicated in this, a lot of dumbness in d.c. for sure, on the other hand, you know, the head of the republicans in the senate said point blank in the television cameras we will give the president disgegs to make these cuts in some sort of sensible thoughtful way not across the board. that was dismissed out of hands. >> megyn: and now there are reports and charles krauthammer says the worst fear of some of on the left we're not going to feel pain and the spending cuts, but the spending reduction, it's not that bad. >> the truth is however, the real spending cuts that you have to put into place in order to save us from default and even in the short-term are to entitlement, medicare period. and there's, i don't think, any will on either side-- >> the president said differently today. >> right, and discussing a lot of, what happens when the sequester goes into effect, but what we need to be talking about is long-term stability. we can't just keep letting this go day by day and saying, oh, which one are we losing today. where did we feel it today? we need stabilities, more teachers in classrooms, we need more solutions. >> a fun exercise, go on google, there are many graphs, showing increase in government spending and if you want to be a bipartisan, oh, since the bush administration, it's been steep, if you adjust for inflation and we're spending dramatically more in absolute terms than we ever had. >> megyn: it's going up, going up a little less, and before i let you go. i want to get to this. i didn't tell you we were going to ask you this, as you know one year ago today that our mutual friend and your good friend andrew breitbart died and i wanted you to give perspective on it and getting tweets and e-mails about people who miss him. >> first thing i thought of. yep, a year ago today march 1st. a lot has been written about his political legacy and role in the movement. i can't keep my mind off his four children and his wife and what it might be like to have a household with no father. and it's just, it's just crushing and that's where my prayers are for-- >> so young and if you knew him you were blessed because he was just so jolly and fun. >> 43 years old. >> megyn: great to be around and just a reminder of somebody who had a big impact on the country and a lot of people. and thank for sharing your thoughts. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> megyn: ahead, a bitter high school rivalry put on hold. one of the greatest acts of sportsmanship you may see caught on tape. what the opposing team did to help one student achieve a dream. and basketball making for an interesting friendship. former nba star dennis rodman chilling court side with kim jung un. and more in kelly's court on the dog mystery. >> and the relationship-- no one man can do anything, not one man, not one thing. his country would like him, not like him, love him. love him, guess what? 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>> in my mind, it was murder. there's a whole lot of circumstantial evidence that would point to murder. the problem is we've got no dog that we can test and nobody saw anything, but, megyn, if it did happen at this dog show i imagine there had to be cameras all over the place. maybe if they took a look back to see if there's anything weird going on we might see somebody throwing a treat, a poisoned treat in this dog's cage. that's what i think happened. >> megyn: they have it down to a four hour window when you're a dog like this, a handler at all time, not like our dogs. there was a four our window he wasn't attended immediately by the handler and believe it's the time he was poisoned. only a limited suspected pool of people. >> there might be, so many other things, first of all shall the vet said the dog may have eaten this inadvertently, dogs don't make the right choices and that happens and even the vet is suspicious whether there was foul play and no one has pointed at foul play. if peta folks are coming forward, nonsensical to say they poison the dog, this dog was debarked and vocal cords removed. >> megyn: but that i think is the alleged motive, jonna. that's my first thought. why would peta that devotes the entire existence to the protection of animals intentionally harm or kill a dog and that, i suppose, is the motivation, because to protest what had been done to this dog through dog shows and the vocal cord thing. >> and by analogy, a bad one, people who are against abortion kill the doctors and-- >> you kill the handler, the owner, not the dog. >> you would think that, there are two possible pools of people, one is a competitor, if it's a jealousy thing and the other is perhaps peta. in this case, somebody did say something to the handler, something off color about the dog being debarked. >> megyn: he says that there was a man at the dog show who was just scowling at me and telling me how cruel i was, but mercedes, as the peta person points out the guy didn't even identify said person as a member of peta. didn't know who it was. >> exactly right. even the handler, i think there might be some back peddling, too, this is not a peta person, they didn't come forward and say anything other than make a face and how can they interpret that face of indicative the person is going to be-- >> if he said something, said you're cruel, obviously the person had motivation. >> but honestly, it doesn't make sense, megyn for someone who say this dog has been mistreated and i'm going to kill the dog. frankly, if this were so commonplace you'd see may more of these happening. the last incident 1985 where dogs were poisoned. >> megyn: that's a point. if they thought-- if an animal rights lover thought it was a form of mercy and the dog, take out the vocal cords and stopped them from barking, i didn't know that, that's not right in my view. but apparently this is a common practice, jonna, if that was the motivation, then, mercedes has a point, we would probably see more of it. >> we might, but when you're at one of the dog shows like you pointed out. there was a tiny, tiny window where the dogs are alone. the dogs aren't running wild indescriminately eating alpo. it would be hard to commit this crime not impossible obviously. >> megyn: and they went back to the hotel and the hotel says they do not use rat poisoning. the vet says it's consistent with eating rat poison, but the owner and handler have effectively ruled out any other time frame or location rather than other than the t.o.ing sh dog show. >> if you make the allegations, you get an necropsy of the dog. >> megyn: the dog version of autopsy. if they could prove it, i think they agree they can't, but if they could, could there be charges, jonna? >> oh, absolutely. it's a felony to kill-- it's a felony to kill an animal though. animal cruelty so, yeah, there absolutely could be charges, but without a perp, not like a human being where they could bring you up on charges without a body. it's different. >> megyn: it's an interesting case and hope they get some answers. >> sad. >> it is, thanks, megyn. >> megyn: coming up a special needs student spent three years as the student manager of the high school game. and the ultimate dream would not have been possible without the amazing active sportsmanship from the rival school next, and you have to see it. don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption. could lose tens of thousands of dollars on their 401(k) to hidden fees. thankfully e-trade has low cost investments and no hidden fees. but, you know, if you're still bent on blowing this fat stack of cash, there's a couple of ways you could do it. ♪ ♪ . thyou eat less...ing weiyou lose weight.et. it's a great plan... until you get hungry. that's the time to take slimful. one tasty 90-calorie slimful and a glass of water satisfies hunger for hours making it easier to eat smaller meals, and resist snacking. your friends might think you found the secret to losing weight. but it's no secret... it's slimful. eating less is a beautiful thing. >> former nba star dennis rodman making a new friend in north korea. that country's leader kim jong un. and rodman praised the leader saying, quote, i love him, he is an awesome guy. rodman was in north korea to film a sports documentary and spoke in english and rodman now on the way back to the united states. an incredible act of sportsmanship helped had a student see his dream and make the shot of his life. and he spent three years on the bench until he was able to suit up with teammates in the final game of the season. and what the opposing team did in the final seconds was nothing short of amazing. trace. >> reporter: get the kleenex, great way to end the week, megyn. this is a high school in el paso, texas and mitchell marcus has been the manager for three years and developmentally disabled, but his team says he's a fantastic manager. the last game of his senior year the coach said you know what, you're going to suit up. mitchell said he would have been happy wearing the jersey, but what he didn't know, nobody else knew, is that mitchell marcus was going to play in that last game no matter what the score. listen to the coach. >> i really trusted our players to make sure they were going to do the right thing, not only try to get a victory, but also, also share the ball to give mitchell his final moment in life, his dream come true of scoring a basket in a basketball game. >> mitch shell goes in and the crowd begins chanting mitchell, mitchell, but the fairy tale falls flat and each time he throws it he misses. 13 seconds left the other team has the ball and the dream appears over or is it? watch now, megyn, what the other team does, play this. . >> come on, mitchell. >> owe the opposing team, he misses once. he misses twice. and they stand down, stay back, the other team. three, four, and to steal a phrase. the crowd goes wild! and listen now to the kid who threw the ball. >> i was-- how you want to be treated, and give that other person, a chance of an opportunity that he deserves. >> reporter: got to go, but a great story. >> megyn: that was beautiful. trace, thank you so much. we'll be right back. why let constipation slow you down? try miralax. mirlax worksdifferently than other laxatives. it dws water into your colon to unblock your system naturally. don't wait to fe great. miralax.

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