An s. U. V. Causing front bumper damage. The ugly. Justin bieber booed at the Los Angeles Clippers day celebrating mothers day with his mom. Wow. Thanks for joining us. Fox friends starts now. Bye. Good morning. It is monday, may 12. Im elisabeth hasselbeck. Democrats continue to play politics with the benghazi investigation claiming republicans are fundraising on the tragedy. But trey gowdy sees it differently. They raise money on iraq and afghanistan. Colleagues on the other side of the aisle did not have selective amnesia when it comes to whats appropriate. More on the democrats double standard straight ahead. They attacked tim tebow for talking about his faith but praised michael sam for being gay. Does the media have two different definitions when talking about tolerance . Together they can take on anything. These twins born hand in hand. They beat the odds and give their mother a miracle on mothers day. Good job, guys. Mornings are better with friends. Im bobbyc bowden. Youre watching fox friends. Legendary Florida State tkoefp. Well have Florida State in the talking points as we start the show. First, happy mothers day to you. How did it go . I love mothers day because you just have to hang out. You dont expect presents. You just relax. The kids draw cards and say fun things. Are you telling me you dont expect pictures, drawings, cards and love . You dont expect that . Low expectations . Yeah. Im telling you the best. They say my mommy blank. How did you guysc do . Dawn, kathy have a nice day . They did. Well show a photograph of mrs. Doocy with two of her three kids yesterday. Road trip, i hear . Big road trip. Talk about another woman who had a great mothers day, Heather Nauert. I had a fantastic mothers day. The boys were the best and so much fun. Im with you, elisabeth, amazing holiday. I love your photos. Thank you. I hope you all had a wonderful mothers day. Lets start out in arizona where the Phoenix Veterans Affairs hospital is getting a new chief. Steve young will shift as over for Sharon Helman put on leave following reports the hospital had hidden treatment delays that may have led to the death of 40 veterans. This as calls grow for the secretary of the v. A. , eric
shinseki to step down. The third person who was killed in that Hot Air Balloon tragedy in virginia has now been located. The body of passenger Natalie Lewis was found north of richmond. She was following with jenny doyle and both worked together at the university of richmond. The pilot on board was identified as daniel kirk. His family says he had more than 20 Years Experience. That Hot Air Balloon crashed friday night after it hit a power line and caught fire. Investigators say theyre still working to find most of the wreckage. Hundreds of people forced out of their homes this morningc as wildfire puts an entire town in texas at risk. More than 100 homes have been destroyed. 1,200 homes are now in danger of the fire. Look at that right there. All those flames. This in the town of frisch, texas. At this hour the fire is 15 contained. Nearly 800 people have been evacuated but many more may have to go as this fire
continues to spread. Take a look at this, moms out there. This is the perfect mothers day gift. Twin newborn girls were born. They have a rare medical condition but they are breathing on their own this morning. Congratulations to that. But the interesting part ofc this story is they were both born Holding Hands. A portion of their body was formed together but they were Holding Hands and the babies are expected to be just fine. What a miracle. What a mothers day gift. Can you imagine . Having a baby is wonderful. Hand in hand. Thanks heather. If nostradamus was working at the nfl draft, the most publicized draft pick would have been tom brady. Everybody had a shot at him six times and only the patriots picked him up. However there is somebody who tied tom brady in projected publicity. Were talking about if
we go to the instant replay drafted by the rams. There was a bunch on social media. A tweet omg people said what are you tweeting about . Is this in reaction to michael sam kissing his boyfriend on tv . He said horrible. It had everybody asking can you not say these things . The dolphins said no, you cant. They asked for an apology shortly there after sending a strong message across the league. Demarcusc walker said yall praise michael sam for being gay but yall mocked tim tebow for being christian. Hash tag, society. Marcus walker still a sophomore in college. Since we were looking at demarcus walkers comments, kphft some of the commenters said i dont see why hes praised for being gay while tim tebow was rid called ridiculed for his faith. Double standards . Maybe its more like, well, religion, thats just not cool. How many times have we talked about how in various venues religion and, in particular christianity,c mocked . I will say this. Tim tebow, i think in a way hes become a rock star in life. Wherever he goes, he will pack stadiums where he goes. I saw him at the washington correspondents dinner. I argued and tiki barber said i was pwropbg but i
argued i was wrong but i argued he did so much in college he would be a backup somewhere. If there wasnt so much publicity surrounding him. I think michaelc sam should focus on being the best Football Player he can be. The coach came out and said that was not going to be tolerated on the league certainly on their team after the year they had. When you look at what the nfl is saying, this is a strong message, they are going on the offense. Does it offend those with their free speech and their opinions to voice them . Will they go after what is said in the huddle on the bottom of a pile . If you have timed mics you will have a lot of comments which will be deemed offensive . There will be messages heard when it comes to social media. Were not talking about anything other than the fact that tim tebow mocked
and michael sam praised. What do you think about thatc standard . Email us. You can send it to friends foxnews. Com or you can tweet us or you can facebook us as well. Meanwhile on the sunday shows on fox, the topic was benghazi. Trey gowdy assured it wouldnt be a show trial. He talked a little bit about the language hes used in the last week, its interesting, they had a democrat from california, xavier bezaro on and said if its not a witch hunt well take a part of it. But democrats in the past said we cannot believe republicans are trying to raise money off of benghazi to the point, mr. Gowdyc said this yesterday to chris wallace. They raised money on sandy hook. They raised money on katrina. They raised money on iraq and afghanistan. For me, i will not raise money on benghazi just like i never raised money using crime victims when i was a
prosecutor. And ill ask my colleagues to follow suit. But it would be helpful, it would be helpful if our colleagues on the other side of the aisle did not have selective amnesia when it comes to whats appropriate to raise money off of and what is not. Selective amnesia. Youre right. That was an intelligent conversation. They actually engaged each other instead of yelling. The criteria democrats want is unreasonable for them to participate. Im sure it is put out there to be hopefully theyll back off it. They want to be able to sign off all subpoenas. Lets say the republicans want to see hillaryc clinton. I dont think so. There is no way trey gowdy should give them that. Sign off on all witnesses, i think that is unreasonable too. To say we should have access to call our own witnesses, that would be reasonable. Any democrat should be able to question any witness. And for the g. O. P. To not selectively release testimony, i think thats totally reasonable demand. Absolutely you should not say okay, i like what that
person said. Lets show that to the press as opposed to the other person. The last two i think they can deal with. Trey gowdy is a fairminded individual saying politics should not be involved when it comes to getting to the truth. c remember the glass house you live in when it comes to raised funds. Remember this . Democrats posted this on their video showing the coffins of american soldiers coming from the iraq war and then asking for a button to be pressed. You remember this after the sandy hook shooting. David axle rod urging supporters to click on a link and that linked with donate buttons above the video asking for 15 to 1,000. After the Boston Marathon bombings, the d. N. C. Put the image of the be strong on its website to asking for political
information they could use politically as well. Whats interesting is just this past thursday thec democrats actually posted a statement blasting the republicans fundraising off of benghazi but on the democrats website it had a place where you could contribute. While they say we cant believe that the republicans are doing that, the democrats have done it many, many times in the past and trey gowdy has made it very clear he will not do it. I thought he put it very well yesterday when he said flatout i never had a chance to question the secretary of state, never had a chance to question susan rice. We never had everybody because everyone has their own fiefdoms that were all in our own lane. The oversight committee, special investigative. Now its all going to bec one, everybody together, all the paper work in one pile. Then he said i wish we did this a year ago. God forbid, heaven forbid your family was one of those who lost the four individuals who died at benghazi. Who would you want getting
answers . Trey gowdy who really just wants information, lets get to the truth . Or somebody covering it up. One final note. Eleanor khreuft clift said stevenson died of smoke inhalation. Come on. A veteransc outraged widow wants to know where is the accountability . She will join us next. You might make someone laugh, but do they really mean it . Hes laughing. Good for you. Laugh it up. Enjoy it. Turns out theres a certain person who knows when you are faking it. Laughter . Yeah. announcer from the company that invented litter, comes litter reinvented. woman hey toss me that litter announcer tidy cats lightweight. All the strength, half the weight. Nowchoose one option fromith red lothe woodfire grill,trios one signature shrimp dish, and a pasta. All on one plate. Three delicious choices. All for 15. 99 for a limited time only come sea food differently today
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went in, saw somebody at thec v. A. , tried to make a followup appointment and what happened . It never came. He could never get reassigned a new primary care doctor who would refer him to the specialist. He finally, we gave up and had to take him to the mayo clinic. Thats right. I understand he had to keep his job working for the Postal Service because you needed the benefits even though he was entitled benefits at the v. A. Hospital but because nobody was going to help him, he had to go elsewhere . That is correct. At the time, sonia, did you feel such frustration that, wait a minute, this man, you know, he put his life on the line for his nation andc all he wants is for a doctor to call him, and the call never came . How frustrating was that . It was very frustrating and very sad because he had to keep working even undergoing chemo and radiation treatments at the
mayo. He had to keep working, sick or well, to keep his health care into effect because he couldnt get the treatment he deserved at the v. A. Sure. In fact, he died on the waiting list for the v. A. He still was waiting for somebody to call him back . Correct. Thats heart breaking. Mark, what do you want to do to help this family . Obviously were very upset about this situation, and what we want to do is obviously get to the bottom of what happened here. But we dont trust the government toc investigate the government. This needs to be a private investigation. What wed like to do is try to package as many of these cases as we can together and really investigate them to get to the bottom of what happened here. And if it turns out that things were done wrong at the v. A. , which is what it looks like right now, we want to take appropriate action and possibly even bring a Class Action Lawsuit here. When you say you want to package as many veterans claims together, hence the
class action, what have you done . Put together a website or how would people get in contact with you . People can get in touch with me through my website which is attorneyforfreedom. Were just Getting Started measured response to this. We need to get to the bottom and find out what happened. This would be one of the first lawsuits regarding this. Are you pretty sure the v. A. Was monkeying around with the way they saw people . I wouldnt say that were pretty sure. There were news reports out there. There are allegations. Like i said, we want to be very measured. We want to get the facts, get to the bottom of exactly what happened here. If nothing was done wrong, there wont be a lawsuit. If things were done wrong, well take appropriate action. Sonja, you want to go forward with this . Yes. I want answers, why it happened, how it happened and how is this going to be affecting other vets in the
future. Our veteransc deserve the health care that they fought for in this country. They deserve better. Indeed. Sonja and marc, we thank you both for joining us this morning early. Thank you. Thank you. It is exactly now 20 minutes after the top of the hour on this monday. Next up on the rundown, playing politics with race. A democrat congressman slams senator tim scott for being black and a republican. Is that over the line . A fair and balanced debate next. Its one of the most anticipated movies of the season but what do hugh jackman and Patrick Stewart really think about getting back into their x men roles . They tell us coming up. c can you hear it . Fueling the american spirit. No matter when, no matter where, marathon will take you there. Quick headlines fplt overnight tensions on a hair trigger in the ukraine. [gunshots] cameras capture the moment ukrainian soldiers open fire on a crowd hoping to break away from kiev, i guess, if youre going to believe the votes. Votes being held in two regions, results overwhelmingly in favor ofc leaving ukraine. In north and south korea in a war of words after racist and sexist comments made by pyongyangs media, south korea saying north korea must disappear soon. Playing politics with race coming up again. A democratic congressman slamming senator tim scott for being black and a republican. James clyburn blaming to
the Washington Post if you call progress electing a person with the pigmentation he has who votes against the interests andcaspirations against the black people in South Carolina, i guess thats progress. Republican clyburn in saying this, shouldnt he be more concerned about tim scott representing all people from South Carolina . I think he is saying that. If you look at his legislation, one measure that pushed forward voter i. D. s in South Carolina, that is what representative clyburn is referringc to. It doesnt seem to be about race if hes calling race into the equation. These comments are offensive. They have no place in the political dialogue. I think what youre seeing is hes throwing the race card in the game when tim scott works for all South Carolinas. To say he has to represent only one race of people is wrong. Even president obama said hes the president for all americans, not just africanamericans and tim scott from South Carolina for all South Carolinac, not just blacks from South Carolina. Isnt it oppressing the way someone would govern or represent . I think it would put people in boxes. I think the best part of
america is were a mixing bowl and everyone that is a problem were seeing a lot with some groups that think if youre black you have to think a certain way, you cant be free thinking or have a debate about ideas. I mean, richard, isnt he entitled to be able to represent, govern, be a senator the way he believes is best for that state . I completely agree with you, elisabeth. I think he has the right to think outside the box and has the right toc be different