responded. we'll be on the hr-z with sarah -- on the phr-dz -- plaza with sarah evans. "fox & friends" starts now. good morning. it's friday, may 23, 2014. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. our nation's veterans forced to wait again. a bill meant to speed up accountability at the v.a. just stalled by harry reid's senate. they want more time to read it. but it's only three pages. are they really playing politics with our veterans again? >> meanwhile, mavericks owner mark cuban being called a bigot for saying this. >> i see a black kid in a hoodie and it's late at night, i'm walking to the other side of the street. >> wait a minute, a lot of americans agree with him. we're going to tell you the

complete context of his comments, so you will decide on whether it was appropriate. >> take a look atstuck on the t. a speeding train coming towards that car and the woman is inside. so what happens next? "fox & friends" begins right now. >> this is sarah evans and you're watching "fox & friends." ♪ ♪ ♪ and how ♪ do you keep ♪ your feet ♪ on the ground ♪ when you know ♪ you were born ♪ you were born to fly

>> the song is "you were born to fly" not you were born to fry despite the fact we're looking at barbecue going on. this is kind of the unofficial start to the summer today with this friday. it is the kickoff of the all-american summer concert series. you saw sarah evans out there with her back to the camera. they're wrapping up the sound check. as you can see the famous dave guys are getting racks of ribs ready. if you need something to do today, stop by 48th and 6th avenue. we'll buy you breakfast. >> what better way to start the day than with sarah evans, our summer concert series and some ribs, and with the two of you. good morning. >> thanks for having me, guys. >> i thought you were brian? >> no. he'd be outside with the ribs all morning. i'll be inside with you guys. >> he did that yesterday

and said he smelled like a grill. he was worried about it. i said we like to know a guy can grill. spoeuf they -- >> they have cologne like that. let's tell you what's going on in washington. we've been telling you about the scandal at the v.a. i believe it was on wednesday night the house passed a bill so that they could hold those who do wrong at the v.a. accountable. a hospital administrator needs to can, they would be able to can them. the bill went from the house over to the u.s. senate and it looks like it going to sit on harry reid's desk through the vacation even though yesterday marco rubio, a florida senator, tried his best to get an emergency vote on it yesterday. he said the last thing we need to do is be on vacation and people walk up to them and say what are you going to do and he'd say we're going to have a hearing in 15 days.

he wanted to take action. harry said no. >> especially for memorial day. if you're back home at your district and we're honoring our veterans this weekend, when members of your constituency come up to you and say what have you done for your veterans? have you voted on the bill? we wanted to take time to read it. that is what bernie sanders said. "we have not held a hearing on this situation. some of us want to read the bill before we vote on it." meanwhile he's saying it is only three pages long. >> as compared with -- let's remind everybody, they were quite hasty to pass -- and we have to get a truck to find it -- >> this is the affordable care act. >> obamacare right here, 2,409 pages right here that certainly didn't cause pause or hesitation for

them to look at it. they didn't read it all. >> but three pages. >> we had to pass it before we could read it. there's the affordable care act bill. had to pass it before you could read it. ladies and gentlemen, this is the bill, the v.a. accountability bill. it is three pages, as clayton said. take a look. page 1. >> a bill. >> page 2. >> i just read it right here. >> page 3. >> there is not even a full page on the third page. >> it's 37 lines. yet what they say is we really have to take a look at it. one of the problems, the democrats say, is we want to make sure these government employees get their due process. we don't want to be tied up in a bunch of lawsuits and stuff like that. people don't care about lawsuits. >> more and more americans are actually becoming more and more furious with the fact that the v.a. isn't serving our veterans when they actually commit to saving anybody's life, being willing to put their

life on the line for you out there. you know it. and then they come back here and not getting the care they deserve. americans are finding out about it. it's going across the country. apparently the president found out about it on the news, so it is news to him according to their offices. what is so heartbreaking, this weekend on memorial day when we think about those that have paid the ultimate sacrifice, including those, 40 reportedly died in the phoenix v.a. system through the process there which didn't treat them in time, this is unlawful to let three pages sit there over the course of this weekend while they have a burger and hot dog in a backyard. >> that's a great point. that three pages is one of many bills actually sitting right now on the desks in the senate waiting, these v.a. reform bills. but they did, however, have time to write a letter requesting the washington redskins name change. you know how congress tends to waste their time honoring a bridge or high school basketball team and spend all afternoon doing that, but yet they can't

pass legislation dealing with our veterans right now. >> changing the redskins name. they actually let bills sit there, dead on arrival most of them come to the senate floor. >> let's get it over to heather nauert who is standing by with a look at the headlines. >> good morning, gang. happy friday morning to you. wild weather brings us to our first story. brand-new video coming in to "fox & friends," hail that is so big and powerful, it actually cracked the windshield of an airplane. there was a pilot at a u.s. airways flight forced to make an emergency landing in philadelphia because of all of this hail there. then take a look at this video coming out of hartly, delaware, a twister tearing homes apart leaving nothing behind but piles of wood. the death penalty making a lot of news after that botched lethal injection in missouri recently. now the electric chair returning to tennessee.

late last night tennessee's governor signing a bill to allow the state to electrocute death row inmates if the prisons there can't get lethal injection drugs. there is a european-led boycott of those drug sales. in wyoming and also utah, lawmakers are trying to bring this back. the firing squad. both states are set to introduce bills next year. the white house certainly hesitateed to send in help for the four americans who were killed in benghazi, but they didn't hesitate to e-mail youtube. according to a classified e-mail that was recently released, the white house reached out to youtube at 9:11 p.m. eastern time on the night of the attack while that attack was still unfolding. the reason was to warn the website about the alleged consequences of posting an anti-islam video on youtube. according to house oversight committee chairman darrell issa, the e-mail suggests the administration was

connecting the attack to the video from the very beginning, but that claim was later proven to be false. a brand-new update on paul mccartney. he is expected to make a full recovery. the 71-year-old was rushed to a hospital in japan because he had a virus. he had to cancel tour dates but is expected to be back on stage in texas on june 14. who needs paul mccartney when we've got sarah evans here today? and those are your headlines. warming up outside. >> she can sing. >> she can. she's awfully loud a little early but fun. gets you awake. >> a lot of people heard this loud and clear. mark cuban was at a conference in nashville. it was called the grow-co conference. and he said this that lighted up a firestorm on twitter. >> we're all prejudice in one way or the other. if i see a black kid in a hoodie and it's late at night, i'm walking to the other side of the street. and if on that side of the

street there's a guy that has at that tattoo all over his face, white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere, i'm walking to the other side of the street. the list goes on of stereotypes of who we're fearful of. >> he said we're on a slippery slope, talking about there being a slippery slope with sroepgt sterling down. he went on to say we all have inherent prejudices, inherent stereotypes we walk around with on a daily basis. it is ignorant to say we don't. people flew off the handle. you saw people with headlines saying mark cuban said i'd cross to the other side of the street if i saw a black kid in a hoodie. >> he said via twitter, you better change this

headline. that's not what i meant. he defended what he said and is really being honest, and really to the surprise of many, steven a. schmitt got in the ring -- steven a. smith got in the ring to commend him. >> i want to emphasize that i have absolutely, positively no problem whatsoever with what mark cuban had to say. zero. there was nothing remotely offensive about what this man had to say. now, i understand that me being a black man, an african-american, that people are going to be rubbed the wrong way by those statements. they will need to get over it. >> they will need to get over it. well, what about the white guys who are bald with tattoos, shouldn't they be upset as well? no. he was making a point. stephen a. smith also said he believes every one of the owners of the nba club would say exactly the same thing that mark cuban did. he said donald sterling's

comments on a totally different level than what mark cuban who owns the mavericks had to say. >> let us know what you think. friends@foxnews.com e-mail. go there and use your keyboard. let us know. >> about 12 minutes past the hour. coming up, a story we told you about yesterday, a bill that would restrict the n.s.a. from spying on americans but it's not add good as it sounds. this morning a big update on that. >> want to know how to grow pot? there's apps for that now that your kids can access. our next guest says it's called the new gateway called the new gateway drug.

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viagra home delivery. get started at viagra.com. the pot growing game weed firm has been yanked by apple off of i tunes but not before soaring to the number-one download on i tunes. similar apps are still available with crazy things. are these games becoming essentially the gateway to the gateway drug for our nation's youth? joining us is fox news contributor and former homicide detective rod whao*el in our d.c. -- rod wheeler in our d.c. bureau. good morning. what this app did is it showed people who download it and put it on their smart phone how to grow weed. what's your problem with that? >> it's not just showing people but it's also showing children and young teenagers because we all know these individuals are very influenceable at these ages. between the ages of 10 and

18 years old, that is the capture age. also that's the age more people download applications from websites such as the apple store. that's the problem that i have with this application. and not only does it show you how to cultivate and grow weed, it also, this application shows you how to sell weed. you know, does our kids really need to know or learn that type of behavior? >> sure, it's a good point. but it's a slippery slope too because this particular application got yanked by apple after it shot up to number one. there are still other weed games on-line that you can buy and stuff like that. but at the same time, you look at grand theft auto, games like that. you've got people not only stealing cars but killing people. you've got hookers, every imaginable bad thing. that's legal. where do you draw the line? >> here's the problem with that. these are learned behaviors. it's one thing to actually see this kind of stuff on television or even through the internet. but whenever there's an

application, steve, and i think this is where you draw the line. whenever there is an application that literally teaches people how to commit these crimes and teaches people how to become a hustler, such as this one weed game, i think that is where we have to draw the line. i think it is important to note that with the apple store as well as the google store, they have age restrictions that pop up, know, when you try to download certain apps. but the grim reality is there is nobody policing that, so if you have a 10-year-old or a 12-year-old and they want to download this app, that age restriction goes out the window. >> a lot of 10-year olds may have done it. it's ultimately the parent's responsibility because they've got the password to spend the money to buy the app. >> right. i think that's the bottom line. you hit the nail on the head when you said parents. parents must take responsibility at the end of the day. >> here's what the apps' firm said. the creators of this game do not encourage the cultivation or use of

cannibis. the plot of this game is solely a work of fiction and should be viewed only as such. but to your point, you know, you have a problem with the apps that teach you how to do stuff that's against the law. so the app on how to cook withpressure cooker bomb, that too? >> absolutely. because think about it. who really needs to know and who really needs to learn how to do those things? i know some of you are saying you can google it and go to different web pages. and you can. my issue with the app store is it puts these things in front of kids at an age when kids are very influenceable. they call it a game. the reality is it is not a game. right here in washington, d.c. and major cities we're seeing learned behavior of teenagers, kids and they're acting in ways where you have to say to yourself where did they learn that? think about about it.

maybe they downloaded the app and learned how to do that. >> there is an app for that. we should point out as well smoking pot, buying pot in two states is legal, so that makes it more confusing. there is a lot going on. rod wheeler joins us from d.c. thank you very much. we'll see you back here in about 45 minutes. it is exactly 20 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, outrage over new rules has the i.r.s. backing off. what thousands of you feared could lead to more targeting of ordinary americans and conservative groups as well. then up next, the story of two of our nation's young heroes who are now buried side by side. their families here with the bond that everybody is talking about. ♪ ♪

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23 minutes past the hour. quick headlines making news out of washington for you. thousands of americans mailing comments blasting new i.r.s. rules about targeting the tea party. now the agency says it will be backing off the proposed regulations. republicans warn that they would increase the targeting of conservative groups. the house overwhelmingly voting to restrict the n.s.a. from collecting and storing phone records. the agency is still allowed to get court permission to view land line and cell phone data. it's -- if part of a terrorism investigation. the measure now heads to the senate. >> on memorial day 2011, president obama stood in arlington national cemetery and told the story of two fallen heroes buried there side by side, an unlikely story. u.s. marine travis manion

and navy seal brendan looney were best friends who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. now their stories being told in a book called "brothers forever." the book was written by travis's father tom, a retired marine corps colonel and he joins us now. thanks for being here this morning. i know having spoken to you about how difficult this was putting this on paper, how does it feel to finally be able to tell their story and put this out there in the world? >> it's great to be able to get it out there. as you said, we lost travis in 2007. as a father, your worst nightmare. but then to have lost brendan, his good friend and roommate at the naval academy in 2010, and then fast forward. we've got the navy seals that captured and killed osama bin laden and then the president talked about brendan and travis a couple weeks later, about their example of character, service and sacrifice.

to be able to write this story and get it out to the broader country was important for me. >> the book obviously focuses on their friendship. how did they come to find one another at the naval academy? how did they become so close? tell us about them. >> they were very similar in a lot of ways. they were cut from the same cloth, so to speak. both college athletes, division 1 athletes. travis wrestled. brendan played on the lacrosse team at navy. they went to the national championship game. and they both came from close knit families. and family was important to them, and they just sort of gravitated towards one another. they were also both very hard workers and overachievers, guys that sort of led from the front. they became very close at the academy and stayed close afterwards. >> you uncovered some things that i can only imagine losing your only son in this way, but then to go back and to pick through the details, to

have to learn about that fateful day in april 2007, tell us about what happened and how your son paid the ultimate sacrifice for this country. >> well, travis was part of a military transition team. he was embedded with the iraqis. they are on a patrol. they were sent to a home looking for a sniper and it turned out to be an ambush. and several of the marines were hit. they pulled them back to safety and then travis went out to lay it down fire and he was ultimately hit by a sniper. >> he went out to protect his fellow marines? >> he did. he moved out from around the cover to protect the guys. turns out he was the only one that didn't make it home that day. but he did what he needed to do, what he knew he had to do. >> brendan, of course, died in a helicopter crash in afghanistan. and then the families managed to bring them together to live eternally at arlington. how did that happen? >> you know, it's interesting because we never really got travis

settled. my wife wanted him close to home. you're in shock when something like this happens, and we buried him near our home in pennsylvania. then it came to find out he told a lot of people if anything happened to him, he wanted to be in arlington. we never put a headstone up and deliberated whether we would move him to arlington. we thought about it. but my wife visited him every day. she didn't want to let him go. then when we lost brendan, brendan's wife amy said i want brendan to be with travis. and my wife finally was to a point where she said okay, this is right. let's do it. >> unbelievable. you'll be down there of course on memorial day at arlington. as you were describing to me, you can feel the spirits in the air. >> special place. >> we'll be thinking about you this memorial day. we'll be thinking about all the men and women we lost in this country paying the ultimate sacrifice. tom, great to see you this

morning. i would encourage all of our viewers to pick up this incredible book "brothers forever." we'll link it up on our show page. tom, thank you so much. coming up next on the show, the most insane video you're going to see all day. a driver stuck on the tracks as a speeding train barrels right towards her. the dramatic ending is next. a terrifying scene unfolding at george clooney's home. why cops rushed to his house. we'll be right back. instead of hanging out on the couch, you could be hanging ten. what are you waiting for? (vo) get up to 40% off hotels this memorial day at travelocity. plus, enter promo code memorial50 for an additional $50 off. (gnome) go and smell the roses.

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busy and tpas alternative friday. -- and festive friday. we've got sarah evans today. we've got cooking out front. we've got fleet week and we start with unbelievable videos. >> think about how you get a new car and it takes some time getting used to. that happened to one lady and she almost lost her life but she is okay. a woman inches from death as a train barrels down on her car. look at this. well, that brand-new video just released and it shows the exact moment that a woman managed to escape from her car before it is smashed to pieces by a train. she opens the door and she dives out just seconds before impact. this happened in maitland, florida. it turns out she just bought that car and was still getting used to the stick shift. oh boy. it was a 145 ton train and it smashed into her car at 35 miles an hour. oh boy, can you imagine.

the juice wants loose. o.j. simpson's lawyer filing a super sized appeal to the nevada supreme court over his conviction in 2007 on armed robbery charges. the appeal documents are 43% longer than the court normally accepts. the court is now deciding whether to accept his appeal or not. his lawyers claim the nfl great's trial was biased because of his notoriety. the 66-year-old is currently serving 33 years behind bars in a prison there. as you prepare for your holiday weekend cookouts, we have new information about that massive beef recall. the beef that was tainted with e. coli was shipped to stores in ten states, included on that list gordon food service marketplace, georgio's italian deli. it was sold from the end of march to may and has the establishment number 2574-b. so be on the lookout for that. george clooney's

italian villa playing host to an unwanted guest. police say a 29-year-old sneaking on to the actor's property and stealing a bottle of wine. he was believed to have had a few drinks already and then he tried to get into the house. police arrived and they reportedly -- they say he tried to use the bottle as a weapon against them. clooney was not home at the time. it looks like a gorgeous place. i'd love to have a drink there. those are your headlines. let's go. >> i wonder if the guy knew it was george clooney's house or if he was just thirsty. heather, thank you very much. >> you know who is on our patio right now? maria molina who has got some of the folks from fleet week. >> that's right. we have our service men and women out here. the stage is set for the all-american summer concert series which kicks off

today. take a look at this stage. the barbecue is free and also smelling delicious out here. this is great news, kicking it off. that is going to continue throughout the entire summer every friday on 48th and 6th. the weather conditions in the new york city area could be a little bit worse. we have a little bit of a chance for showers moving through but right now it is holding off and that's great news. mostly cloudy skies but areas farther south across the carolinas could be seeing the potential today for severe storms and across the state of new mexico and texas, you have the possibility for storms not only today but also as we head into this weekend. looking at largeunday we hail, damaging winds and even some isolated tornadoes from some of these storms. very heavy rain also expected, a flash flood threat is in place from texas up into parts of missouri, kansas and oklahoma. and temperature-wise, heating up across parts of the southeast. we're into the 90's across the state of florida. when you factor in the humidity, it feels hotter than that. in parts of georgia we're talking upper 80's for the

city of atlanta. let's head back inside. >> maria molina, make sure all those people dressed in white when they're eating the barbecue, they're careful. >> be ready with napkins. >> drew barrymore and adam sandler back together on the screen in a new movie called "blended." >> the blind date guy. >> you said that was a disaster. >> it was. >> you said he was a chubby loser. >> he is. >> he drinks a lot of dairy >> is this comedy worth your cash? joining us now, the contributor to fox news.com, kevin mccarthy. >> here's the problem with this movie, it's half funny and then half awful. you have to sit through half of the movie that's pretty bad. this is much better than

the grownups film adam sandler did years back but it is nowhere near as good as billy madison, the classic back in the day adam sandler movies. but there are decent laughs. terry cruz steals the film. this is more of a rental. don't waste your money to see this in theaters. in the nine years i've been doing this, i never sat down with adam sandler and drew barrymore. remember drew barrymore shot "e.t." back in the 1980's. before i got into that i brought in my ticket stubs for "never been kissed." >> oh. $3.75. >> $3.75 for "never been kissed." >> when e.t. came out, the highest-grossing film of all time and theater tickets were like 3.75.

>> i personally miss, like, films that are about outer space, aliens, the most far-fetched things we can conceive but they have lost that sense of being in suburbia. all the exterior forces would come into our backyard and there was something human about it. i want like -- i want like marty mcfly back. >> she should be happy all this weekend at the theaters because x-men days of future past, is it worth the cash? my friends saw it last night. sold-out theater last night. >> this movie is predicted to do over $100 million, this is my favorite x-men film to date. there is a scene in this film that i would literally pay $20 just to watch on a loop for two hours. that's how insane the action is. this scene, all i will say the character's name is quicksilver. it is the most jaw-dropping

action scene i've seen since the original matrix film. everybody is amazing. it is a four and a half out of five, one of my favorite movies of the year. skip the 3-d. it is dreadful, drowns out the movie. stay until the end of the credits. marvel always does this, a special end sequence. >> kevin mccarthy, can't wait to go see it this weekend. thanks so much. >> thanks a lot guys. i'm looking forward to the concert festival today. >> you're welcome to some barbecue, man. >> coming up, this video is hard to watch. kids electrocuted while swimming and unable to move. how did this happen? what you can do if it happens to your children. look at that. >> washington. pay attention. a small town in new jersey has a solution for the v.a. nightmare. anna kooiman went there to see how they're taking matters into their own

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welcome back. each day we are learning more about how deeply flawed the national v.a. system has become. one small town has had enough and it is taking matters into its own hands. >> our own anna kooiman visited nutley, new jersey, where they are vowing to leave no veteran behind. good morning, anna. >> reporter: good morning, clayton. it is a small-town solution vowing to help the men and women in uniform like our friends from fleet week joining us. we want to take you to nutley, new jersey, where they are vowing to leave no veteran behind. since their program opened two years ago they helped 200 vets. they knock on your door and they find out you're a veteran, and what do they ask? >> they ask me if i need help. this is the magnification system. >> this man is a vietnam veteran visually impaired from agent orange. >> all i see is shadows. >> the gap he says veterans

affairs left behind are getting filled in locally. >> i started what i called the how you doing tour? i walked to every neighbor in this community and learned how people are doing especially our veterans and it wasn't too good. >> the commissioner doesn't want veterans of his town at town hall meetings like this. >> it is virtually impossible to get ahold of somebody over the telephone. >> stop playing with my life! >> nutley, new jersey, is trying to make sure no resident is left behind. >> we decided that we would take care of our veterans as far as we could before we would refer them to the v.a. whether it be a phone call to another agency, helping him fill out form for benefits, transporting him to the hospital. >> rogers says his military and veterans affairs bureau has been around for two years and is costing taxpayers almost nothing extra. the director does two jobs

for one salary. >> as opposed to having one person be a drafter, the other person investigator, i'm taking on two responsibilities at once. >> we have doctors who have stepped up, sigh -- psychologists who have stepped up. the spirit of volunteerism is strong here. >> is this solution possible on a grander scale? >> i want to see the federal government think about this. send that money to local municipalties so you're reducing big government and bringing these veterans back to their homes to be serviced at their homes. >> if nutley didn't do that, i would be out in the cold myself. >> we don't want anybody left out in the cold, no resident left behind, like commissioner rogers said. he said phaou municipalties across the state of new jersey have reached out to him and said this program is working for you. they are thinking about modeling similar programs after that. guys, are you ready for some barbecue from famous

dave's? we've got sara evans coming up in a bit as well. back to you on the couch. >> that is uplifting to see commissioner rogers get out there and go door to door and make that happen. >> and take it out of the hands of the federal government, which botches everything. >> we know their track record. 11 minutes before the top of the hour. >> up next, this video is so hard to watch. children electrocuted white marsh -- children electrocuted while swimming and unable to do. what can you do if this happens? >> everybody is a winner. schools tell students to keep competition to a minimum. good idea or more wussification of america? ♪ ♪

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well, this video here is hard to watch, to say the least. a favorite summer time activity turning into a nightmare. children nearly electrocuted in a miami swimming pool and all three children were injured from what investigators are calling faulty pool pump problems here. so what can parents do to keep their kids safe? joining us from the fox news medical a team, dr. mark siegle. good morning. this is i hope uncommon. is this out of the box here? what can we do to prevent this from happening again?

>> with memorial day weekend coming up, we should remind parents that pools can be very unsafe. they're a lot of fun, but we have to be very careful. this is rare, to answer your question. 13 people have died overtip to 15-year period over this. why does this happen? everyone needs to know that water is a conductor. it's an electrical conductor. when you have a wet body, that conducts as well. people don't think of it that way. the metal railings, they conduct. electrical devices were not grounded. the heart is electrical. the heart conducts electrical energy. that's how our hearts beat. if you get an electrical force from outside the heart, it can stop your heart from beating, which is why i believe that every state should have a law that the automated external defibrillators, aed devices should be at every pool in this country. in new york state, it's state law. it should be every state. >> the three children that we saw there, they are actually okay after a few days? >> thank god, yes.

>> you're saying there are things, have those defibrillator things by the pools because this could happen again. >> because your heart can stop beating. >> so do they wear something special? do they not touch the railing? >> first thing to do is check to make sure your pool is not old and corroding because there is insulation around the pool. there is rubber, glass. but that can corrode. i don't like electrical devices around pools. we're getting more and more of them. all of these pools have lights. the less, the better. wear rubber soled shoes around pools. that helps because leather can conduct. things used to clean pools s away be fiberglass. from pools. >> if this happens and you have someone who has been electrocuted, how do you help them? can you touch them? do you get to -- what do you do right away? >> by the way, it's an absolute medical miracle that this boy, the last one out of the pool,

was in there for 15 seconds after being hit with electricity and saved. you want to see if the person has a pulse. number one. you want to see if they're breathing, or awake and alert. if their heart stops beating, start cpr right away and you want to put that defibrillator on the chest. the defibrillator will take over the rest of the work. even if you don't know how to use one, if you put it on the chest, it may save a life. >> call 911 as well. >> absolutely. >> thank you. this is so disturbing, but now we have some action tips. coming up, we sent our own captain hegseth to get answers about the v.a. mess. what did he get in return? he got kicked out! pete is here in the next hour. and sarah evans is here with our summer concert series taking off get all your favorites all day, everyday.

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good morning. it's friday, may 23, 2014. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. memorial day travel getting off to a hectic start. severe weather producing hail so big and powerful, it's blowing out car windows. >> holy hail. they fought for our country and they can't get the health care they need. guess who is. gitmo prisoners. we're break down the numbers for you coming up. >> they will bother you. plus, maris owner mark cuban being called a bigot for this. >> i see a black kid in a hoody and it's late at night, i'm walking to the other side of the street. >> many americans say he's right when you hear what else he said. we're going to report and you

decide because friday mornings, especially as we almost kick off summer, always better with friends. >> hey, america, this is famous dave's and you are watching "fox & friends". ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> pay attention to when fox friends friends kicks off its all american concert series. that's when you know it's officially summer. >> sarah evans rocking out on our plaza, kicking off our all american summer concert series. we got famous dave's out there and it's fleet week. can't get better than that. >> beans and beef. >> you guys are going to talk to her in about 20 minutes. so come on down. if we got anybody watching on

some of the ships docked on the western side of manhattan for fleet week, come on over 'cause we love to take care of you, particularly today and this weekend for memorial day. >> that's right. let's toss it over to heather nauert. a near scary collision in the skies again? >> that's right. if you're traveling, this might make you nervous. two united airlines planes packed with passengers within seconds of crashing into one another. this happened shortly after takeoff from houston's airport. air traffic control telling the pilot of a plane heading to vancouver, canada, to make a right turn instead of a left turn and that brought the jet within 400 feet of the other plane that was headed to mexico city. both flights had 150 people on board. we're just hearing about this now because the faa just now releasing this information. and then we've got incredible new video coming into "fox & friends." look at this. there was hail so big and so powerful that it shattered

windows and also wind shields of these cars in pennsylvania. then look at this video coming out of hartley, delaware. there was a twister coming through tearing apart homes, leaving nothing behind but piles of wood. that crazy springtime weather. and then the death penalty making a lot of news lately after the botched lethal injection in missouri. but now the electric chair is returning to the state of tennessee. late last night, tennessee's governor signing a bill to allow the state to electrocute death row inmates if the prison there can't get lethal injection drugs they need. there is a boycott of those drug sales now, so it's increasingly difficult for prisons to get the drugs. then the state of utah and wyoming, lawmakers are trying to bring back the firing squad. both states are set to introduce bills related to that next year. and another example of the woosification of america. officials at an elementary school in michigan telling students, you will all be

winners. at the annual field day, a letter sent home to north hill elementary school parents saying, quote, the need for athletic ability and the competitive urge to win will be kept to a minimum. the real reward will be the enjoyment and good feelings of participation. isn't that nice? parents hope that officials will change their mind about this. field day is june 6. no word if they'll sing kumbaya. >> no winners here. >> none. >> there will be wieners because we've got the barbecue. >> it's early. i didn't have my coffee. >> and this weekend for memorial day. >> and in washington, d.c., by the way. >> there are plenty of wieners down there as well. we got to tell you, you know there is a scandal at the v.a., right? so the house of representatives on wednesday night passed this

three-page, 37-line v.a. accountability bill. so it's only 37 lines. you think the senate would take it up. nope. harry reid will sit right on his desk, along with a dozen others that the house has already passed. bernie sanders has said look, we've got to have hearings on this. listen. >> senator from florida knows we have not held a hearing on this legislation. some of us are old-fashioned enough to know that maybe folks in the senate might want to know what is in the bill before we voted on it. >> he said i'm old-fashioned. maybe i want to read the bill before we vote on it. remember the health care bill was this tall and none of them read it? so you can't read a three-page bill. senator marco rubio, because it's memorial day weekend, we're going to go back to our constituents and ask us what, have you done for our veterans? i'm going to have to say, we can't get this day. >> we're gog have a hearing!

>> like many other things, dead upon arrival right now on the backs of our veterans yet again on the most important weekend to them, honoring those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom here. they need more time to deal with the three pages, which would give the v.a. and this high ranking official there the ability to take someone out of their position if they've been doing a bad job, meaning not treating veterans who reportedly are dying in the system that's not treating them. this is absolutely appalling. >> and you are appalled, e-mail is flooding in after we talked about this. reverend james hug joins -- higgins said i'm appalled at your recent decision to hold up a bill in the senate regarding the firing of v.a. employees. i have suffered at the hands of these incompetent bureaucrats since april of 1965. if the truth has no effect upon you, then there is no hope for those of us who have no other choice for our care. >> maybe they should go to guantanamo bay because we've heard about the lush treatment

that the inmates down there receive. they're getting cable television in the rooms. they get nice meals. they get nice libraries. >> they've got a ton of doctors. >> yeah. >> j.d. gordon, retired navy commander who served as pentagon spokesman a while ago, knows this, that they do have that great care 'cause he visited gitmo over 30 times and this is what he has to say. >> guantanamo bay there is 150 detainees there now and they've got a medical unit of about 100 doctors, nurses and health care support staff. 1.5 detainees to one is the ratio. if you look at the veterans in this country, there are 21 million veterans and of those 21 million veterans in the united states, 9 million are receiving v.a. care. but if you look at the v.a. employees, it's 267,000. that's a 35 to one ratio. i have think president obama has a flawed sense of priorities. he's taking better care of the

prisoners in guantanamo bay than of our heros. >> meanwhile, as we switch gears, this is going to get you going as well, we don't have time to save the guys who have fought for us, but the night of the benghazi attack, you know what the white house was doing? they were contacting youtube about hey, there is a video out there, right? right? this was before they sent help, which they never did. senator paul rand was on with hannity last night. this doesn't smell right. >> one of the things that's interesting is that very night they were struggling to get reinforcements, we had more special operations forces forcen trip apply that couldn't find a plane for them. instead of calling for a plane or make arrangements for a plane, they're on the phone trying to create spin to say that you know what? this is about a video which never had anything to do with this attack. >> here is the thing about the video, it's been classified by the state department. there is no basis for them to

classify an e-mail that they send to youtube. think about it. if you're sending out classified information to youtube, to somebody who is not authorized, cleared, they would never, ever do that. >> remember, google -- >> this is to cover their tracks. >> is anyone outraged, the fact that they're asking people to censor videos? the federal government, that the obama administration can just call up google and say, we don't like this youtube video put out, so you know what? we want you to censor it and pull it down. >> it was about spinning. they were already working on the excuse. that is the problem. >> creating the enemy out of the video instead of in the seven hours of attack where our own citizens and civilians were under attack. those that served our nation, including ambassador chris stevens with three other americans died there, but yet they're contacting youtube. okay. story that has all of you fired up this morning and one of the most talked about stories this morning, dallas mavericks owner mark cuban, you heard about his controversial remarks when he openly talked about

prejudices. he was asked to talk about donald sterling, the owner of the clippers in l.a. and whether or not the nba owners would get together and vote that he be thrown out as the owner. he was asked this in an interview this week. take a listen to his response. >> we're all prejudices in one way or the other. if i see a black kid in a hoody and it's late at night, i'm walking to the other side of the street. if on that side of the street there is a guy that has tattoos all over his face, white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere, i'm walking back to the other side of the street. and the list goes on of stereotypes that we all live up to and are fearful of. >> after he said that, the twitterverse just absolutely through up. he did wind up apologized to trayvon martin's family for the hoody comment. rod wheeler was with us an hour ago talking about this crazy how

to grow weed apps and you wanted to weigh in on this. what do you think about his comments? >> when mark cuban crosses the street because of the two examples that he gave, i'm going to probably be right behind him. and i'll tell you why, because what the guy is saying, first of all, he's being very honest and he's being very genuine. you know what? i'd rather as an african-american male myself, i'd rather talk to somebody such as mark cuban who is being very open and honest about his own personal prejudices and when he says we all have prejudices, he's absolutely right. so i'm trying to lessen exactly what the uproar is to what this guy said. i get the fact he used the analogy with the hoody and i understand that, but he apologized to the martin family and when he even used that analogy, i don't think he was necessarily thinking about trayvon. he was saying anybody in a hoody. you know what i mean? so i think we're kind of jumping at these things every opportunity we get. >> what do you think about the press reaction and some of the

headlines? they leave out the part where he's talking about the skin head and only focusing on his comment about the kid with the hoody? what did you make of that? >> that's unfortunate. the reason that's unfortunate is because that's happened to me before, too. look, some of these news network, not fox, believe it or not, fox played the entire clip. a lot of these news network also only pick and choose certain things that individuals say just to get the uproar going and they won't play the entire context of what was stated. that's one reason, guys, why i have so much respect for dr. ben carson. because dr. carson talks about this country. he talks about things without a racial perspective. that's why i have respect for him. but a lot of people see that from a different perspective. >> right. it's a culture where you can't even be honest about how you feel or where we're going. the conversation has to be dead. >> right. >> you're exactly right. with prejudices, these are learned behaviors. so we have to work our way through these prejudices and i think that's what mark cuban was saying. but what donald sterling said, on the other hand, was completely different. that was racism.

so i think we just all need to be more aware of what we say and try to work our way through it. as rodney king once said, can't we all just get along? >> amen. >> all right. thank you very much for sticking around and weighing in on that. >> sure. >> have a good holiday. >> you as well. 13 minutes after the top of the hour on this busy friday, coming up. we sent our own captain pete hegseth to get answers about the v.a. mess. what did he get in return? he got kicked out of the hospital. pete is going to be here reporting for duty with the full story. and high school yearbook feature has two-page spread dedicated to parents that are teen-agers. are they glamorizing teen pregnancy? we report. you decide. ♪ ♪

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welcome back. the president acted mad as hell about the growing scandal at our v.a. but he still hasn't interrupted his fundraising trips to visit any of the veterans. >> soon the president hear them out? at the very least? we sent fox news contributor and ceo of concerned veterans for america, pete hegseth, to get their side of the story. good morning. >> good morning. yeah. it was great to get out on the street. we were in baltimore at the baltimore v.a. facility, just asking them questions about the care they're getting. we heard a lot of the headlines and talked about the wait times. what are the veterans saying and experiencing? this is what they told us about the care they're getting at the baltimore v.a. >> it's been bad. just getting appointments and scheduled and the waiting time here. he's not getting the care he needs. >> he has no teeth, so he's literally starving to death. >> there have been times i waited two days. >> sometimes it isn't a lack of prime minister, it's that the personnel don't have a sense of urgency? >> absolutely. either you're a number or you're a diagnosis. >> how long have you been

waiting? >> two years. >> do you feel like the president cares about this scandal at v.a.? >> negative. >> so the issue is not the care. the issue is the wait times and the barriers? >> yeah, exactly. >> i'm very disappointed. i'm very disappointed. starts at the top and i think he should be replaced. >> the buck stops at the president. it comes to the top. if the top doesn't put out the effort, nobody else is going to. >> i've got a nephew that left for boot camp four days ago. what's going to happen when he's 60 or 65 and he can't help himself? who is there for him? >> great questions. great answers. apparently the v.a. didn't want you to ask the questions because they tried to show you the door? n they tried to show us the door. they walked out. thankfully our cameramen moonlight there and said this is a public sidewalk. so we stayed and asked questions and these guys were candid, powerful stories. you can only play a little bit. we spent a couple hours there talking to people. time and time again, three months, four months, five months, six months. we're waiting. these are not guys that are victims. they don't see themselves as

victims. they're proud, they're grateful. they just want the v.a. to work. >> sure. they come from the generation of accountability. >> that's right. >> responsibility. so to not see it when it has to do with their health has to be ultimately frustrating. what can be done? >> what can be done is you can pass three-page bill, like you said. that's a great place to start. hold people accountable. the president can stand up and say people will be fired and held accountable. i think that's what these veterans are looking for. we asked about the scandal. they put it in context of i'm waiting. everyone is waiting. someone should pay for that. >> eventually the scandal will blow over and people are going to start to forget. but ultimately we were just talking a home ago, what should probably happen is give them the opportunity to go to a local doctor. >> we opened up that question. a number said if i had the opportunity to go to someplace else, i would do that. so it's a pretty common sense thing. v.a. facilities provide great care in some places. if they don't, let's let them go someplace and not wait six months for it.

>> captain pete hegseth, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> have a great memorial day. coming up here on the show, a jaw dropping sight, a baby falls two storyies. luckily these guys were there to save the day. what in the world happened? oh, my gosh. next, a beautiful sarah evans here to kick off our all american summer concert series right here on 48th and 6th. good morning, sara. good job! still runnng in the morning? yeah. getting your vegebles every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8.

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time for some quick headlines on this friday. the insane video edition. first up, a cop in russia gets run off the road while trying o stop a suspected drunk driver. the guy rams the cop car, flipping it into a ditch.

check this out. a woman escapes her car just seconds before it's hit by a train in florida. turns out it was a brand-new car. she wasn't used to driving with a stick shift. and in china, finally a miraculous catch as a one-year-old -- oh, my goodness -- plummets from a two-story building. the baby had gotten through an open window and slipped. luckily those guys were there. and they've got good hands and great reflexes and the baby is okay. ♪ ♪ >> oh, yeah. we are kicking off our all american summer concert series this morning right here on the plaza with up with of country music's favorite stars, sara evans. how exciting. >> what a way to kick it off. she sold more than 6 million

albums, wrote five number one singles and you have a new album out. >> i do, yeah. >> congratulations. thank you for joining us. >> tell us about the new album. how long did it take you to put this together? >> i've been working on it for two years. we finally launched it in march and first single is called "slow me down," which i'll be performing today. >> and the entire next hour you'll be performing. tell me about "slow me down." you're so successful, what's behind that song? >> i'm a sucker for dramatic songs and movies and books and anything that's about heartbreak and struggle. so this is a song about a woman who is threatening to leave her man and she's saying you need -- if you have something you need to say, you need to say it now. hurry up and slow me down, 'cause he wants her to chase her. right, girls? that's what we want. >> that's what women want? >> yeah. we want to be chased. >> come a little close. when you get close, they say north texas no, get away. >> we want to know you want us.

>> exactly. if i was threatening to leave you on this stage right now, i would want you to chase me. please don't go. >> you're teaming up with great artists. to people not in the country genre, how was it like to work with those guys? >> record gavin has song and we invited him to sing harmony and then it became this full blown duet. it's amazing. isaac slade from the fray also does a duet with me. and then vince gill sings with me on one song. there are three really, really big collaborations that i'm very proud of. >> what's the secret with having a great duet? >> i think it's matching the two personalities together and there has to be chemistry. obviously the vocals have to match. with gavin, we have very similar tastes in the way that we sing and songs we choose.

>> are you going to perform on stage with any of those guys? >> not today. >> but when you get that look, i always love the duets, like the kenny rogers. you have to look in the eyes. >> yeah, there has to be a chemistry. like i did a television show called "crossroads" with adam levine and same thing. we just had a great chemistry and so it sounded like we've been singing together forever. >> we are so thrilled you are here. this all american concert series is a hit already because you are on the plaza singing. >> are you ready for her to sing shortly? [ cheering ] >> "slow me down," she'll be singing that for us in a short time. pleasure to meet you. >> nice to meet you, too. >> steve, back inside to you. check in with sara in a little bit. >> thank you very much. very nicely done. still have time. come on down, 48th and 6th avenue. 27 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, your taxes pay their salaries. so why aren't government workers

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identifying themselves adds pelosi nancy. >> wanted to correct the record. don't let it happen again. if you're one of the millions of americans about to hit the road for memorial day weekend, there is a warning. doug luzader is on the road literally driving with the scoop. good morning, doug. >> reporter: good morning, clayton, elisabeth and doocy steve. we're on the road this morning and right now traffic is not too bad. so that's good news. obviously we have some commuters right now. but overall, triple a thinks there will be 36 million americans hitting the road at some point this weekend traveling 50 miles or more. they're going to be spending a lot of time in traffic. they're also going to be spending a lot of money. and that is good news for the white house looking for anything to boost the economy. president obama yesterday was in cooperstown to visit the baseball hall of fame talking about the importance of tourism.

>> because tourism translates into jobs and it translates into economic growth. when visitors come here, they don't just check out the hall. they rent cars, they stay in hotels. they eat at restaurants. >> reporter: that's all true. the president's argument is that all of this travel is essence, kind of a form of economic stimulus. however, it's easy for him to talk about travel. he gets to go on air force one. it doesn't cost him anything. the rest of us are stuck in car seats like this or having to pay our own air fare. air fare is up, hotel prices are up over last year. gas prices, more or less stable. normally we'd say that's a good thing. but gas prices have not been below $3 a gallon since the end of 2010. of course, all of that takes money out of all of our pockets. and that's money you would be spending on something else.

so that's really -- that really acts as a drag on the economy. that's something we're all going to be paying for, at least if we're hitting the road like so many millions are over the course of this weekend. >> 1200 days into gas with over $3 a gallon. doug luzader where we're kind of curious exactly who is taking the pictures 'cause it looks like the driver would be operating the camera from that point of view. >> doug thinks he's in europe. >> a selfy. >> i see, there you go. there is the camera guy. >> now, that's a selfy. >> thanks, doug. >> thank you very much. keep your hands on the wheel. >> it used to be 9 and 3. let's investigate. let's toss it over to heather nauert stand big with the headlines. >> good morning. i'm so glad you pointed that out. it was making me nervous watching that. >> it looked like the driver was running the camera. >> he was talking about gas prices and this next story is about oil and it's one that folks should listen to. there is a big development out of iraq this morning.

the kurds in the northern part of that country telling baghdad shove it. the self-ruled region making its first international shipment of oil and that is going to infuriate baghdad. they have long disagreed with the kurds over who owns that oil in the north. so a big foreign policy issue potentially coming out of iraq. we'll follow this story for you. back here at home, your taxes pay their salaries. so why aren't government workers paying their taxes? there is a shocking new report that reveals more than 300,000 federal workers and retirees currently owe back taxes. this adds up to $3.3 billion. can you imagine that? $3.3 billion. you could add congress to that list, too. the irs says more than 700 house and senate employees are overdue on their taxes. what do you think of that? this question causes some controversy this morning. should teenage parents be

allowed to be featured in this school yearbook? a high school in arizona says yes. they dedicated this, two pages of a yearbook to students who have their own children. >> they shouldn't be with this type of crowd. >> i felt it wasn't appropriate. >> despite somewhat of a backlash, the spokesperson for the district says no changes will be made to the yearbook. sixth grader in colorado gets a really nice graduation surprise. look at this. >> how you doing? >> that is his big brother, senior airman keegan harris, returning home for the first time in three years. wow. he is an air force electrician who is stationed in italy. welcome home. what a tear jerker, to make it home for your little brother's sixth grade graduation. he must really look up to his big brother. thank you. let's go out to the streets

of new york city once again where it smells like barbecue, doesn't it, maria molina. >> that's right. it smells delicious, just like barbecue. we'll be hearing great music coming up later this morning with sara evans. we want to look at the weather conditions across the country and by the way, if you live along parts of the east coast, you want to keep an eye out tonight because between 2 and 4:00 a.m. eastern time, if you live along the east coast, you could potentially see a meteor shower. we could see it at a rate of 200 meteors per hour. the concern, though, is it's going to be cloudy. but we are expecting ouds across parts of northeast and even some showers and storms -- some storms could produce severe weather across parts of the carolinas and areas farther west across states like texas, off to new mexico. could be seeing severe weather not only today, but also on saturday and also on sunday. so that will be a concern out there. we do have a chance to see maybe some tornadoes, some damaging winds and some large hail. a lot of heavy rain across parts of the plains states with the concern for flooding over the

weekend and temperatures heating up across parts of the southeast. when i came out here, i found a very special friend here. her name is samantha. where are you from? >> rock land county. >> is your birthday today? how old are you turning? >> 15. >> you're a big sarah evans fan? >> yeah. >> we're going to talk to her later on. happy birthday. and this is your sister? >> i'm jennifer. >> nice to meet you. welcome and have some barbecue and happy birthday. sending it back inside. >> maria, i think she wants cake rather than barbecue. actually bring dessert. >> i hear it's true. but sara evans is a great birthday gift. how fun. still ahead, washington has not come up with a plan to fix the v.a. mess. so we asked for your ideas. peter johnson, jr. has them. he's going to bring them next. then bond jovi band. what do they do? you're about to find out. >> first the trivia question of the day, born on this date in

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welcome back. stories making headlines in the entertainment world, this morning paul mccartney will make a full recovery. the 71-year-old was rushed to the hospital in japan because of a virus. he canceled his tour there. but is expected to be back on stage june 14 back in texas. aborne jovi ban in effect for buffalo, new york. the rocker reportedly wants to buy the buffalo bills and move them to toronto. the presidents are against that. so 80 businesses agreed to ban his music. john travolta is sporting the world's tiniest beard. the actor was spotted with this chin fuzz at a charity event in france. it is so weird. over to steve.

>> all right. thank you very much. it's becoming clearer by the day, lawmakers in washington, d.c. won't be able to solve the va's problems. so we asked for your ideas. fox news legal analyst, america's lawyer, peter johnson, jr. is here. >> the democratic congress for the senate had an opportunity to do something yesterday. you talked about it earlier. you have it there. three-page bill. senator sander, who is the chair of the senate committee on veterans administration says, i haven't read it yet and we can't pass that. >> it's 37 lines! >> it's designed, senator reid, to ensure that the secretary of the v.a. has the ability to make command decisions. general shinseki, show his picture. he's on the way out. general shinseki is on the way out. i predict he's done. he's toast. he's finished. he should be. that's what your e-mails were telling us. you also had some real substantive solutions to the problem.

e-mail number one, you said to us, turn over all v.a. hospitals to private companies, issue vouchers to all vets who qualify for treatment. vouchers will be paid by the government. this will save not only billions, but provide immediate care to the vets, steve. >> captain pete hegseth said that he got a lot of those suggestions when he was down in baltimore yesterday. >> what are they picking on him for? >> i know. one of your suggestions is with his medical background and management skills, dr. ben carson should be named the director of the v.a. >> incredible recommendation. e-mail number three, 25-year army veteran, i believe that all veterans and their families are entitled to the exact plan, the exact care that congress receives. the veterans have done all the dirty work while they reap from our sacrifices. isn't this what president obama is always saying, a fair shot? equal opportunity. >> it is. meanwhile, another one of your suggestions: my idea is to take the veterans who have just recently completed their contracts or are about to be

discharged from the military and hire them into the v.a. this would infuse the v.a. with skilled personnel to help with the backlogs, but also help with veterans coming out instead of them being unemployed, they would be put to work. >> one of america's hero, colonel ollie north, agrees. e-mail number five: where is the president's pen and phone when it comes to doing something good for the v.a.? we could use an executive order right now to help the v.a. patients. i guess it only works when he is freeing illegal aliens and ignoring drug laws. so what's new? couple of folks, including a couple of democrats agree, there should be an executive order. there has been no executive order. >> and the final one of your e-mail. as a 100% disabled veteran, may i suggest you push for a program that would place volunteers from american service organization such as the vfw, american region, order of the purple heart in each v.a. facility as monitors, available to veterans

upon completion of their appointments. that is a great idea. >> we're moving forward next week on this. if you have ideas, if you have suggestions, if you have problems on this, e-mail me and steve or write us here at the world headquarters. we're moving ahead on this, we're keeping the pressure on, keep the weight on. we're doing it. >> absolutely. thanks to you. thousands of americans have been watching and they are fed up and we want action. >> we want people to pay attention. >> you got the attention. thank you very much. dozen minutes before the top of the hour. up next, sara evans isn't the only country superstar in the house stowed. winona judd and her husband are here with some big news. good morning to both of you. first on this date back in 1788, south carolina became the eighth state in the u.s. 1934, bonnie and clyde caught. in 1989, "forever your girl" by

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we are excited here at our all american concert series. summer time is official and i'm about to be joined by some spectacular individuals walk in now, country superstar winona judd, her fantastic husband, and they are here to tell a most remarkable story. we have a plaza full of our nation's greatest, our biggest fans coming out right here. >> we got their good side. >> you have something to share. >> that's right. >> all sides are good when it comes to our military help and

women. you have a great story to share. there is a remarkable film that's coming out. you were so moved when you saw the screening of it that you decided to write a song for their sound track. why? >> because we could. and there is so much we could talk about, but you can go on winona.com and learn more. this is a movie for everyone who watches fox, just so you know. this is a great country and we need to know the history of where we come from. this is not about actors and hollywood. this is about a movie telling a story of real people in the real world and the guys -- the men and women who put their lives at risk every day so we can have freedom. we live in the greatest country in the world. don't even get me started. writing a song is our duty. >> name of the song? >> "follow me," because that's what we did. we follow the people in the military who say we're going to go do this, we're going to do

that. it's one of faith and commitment. >> there is a scene where the guy who is the leader, which is the cool thing, the leader goes, i'm going down this valley to get my friends who are hurt. he says follow me, to these guys who are with him. that's what moved me when i saw the movie the first people. that's so cool to see people say i'm going, go with me. >> this isn't just about the war and about all of that that we see on the news. this is about a story within a story. there's a father, son and his son. this is about commitment to each other as father and son within a story. so this -- just go see it for yourself f. you don't like it, you don't like. it's like everything else, like walter reed and bethesda, go visit and have an experience with these people and say, you know what? i'm grateful. >> for something that i have taken for granted my whole life. >> a great message, particularly as we enter upon this weekend here with memorial day. there are so many, just to

refocus and see the sacrifice. >> "the hornet's nest," go to -- the film is an amazing story about survival and brotherhood and just the commitment to our country. >> it's real footage. it's live footage that they shot. i promise you, it's not like -- when i saw it, i've seen it a number of times now. it's more like a experience or a ride you're on. when it's done, i always go, i can watch it again right now. >> for you all to be so inspired by it, to create a song for it says a lot. we are thrilled to have you here. steve and clayton, over to you inside. >> thanks, elisabeth. >> that's sweet. he calls her honey. sweety. >> coming up here, mavericks owner mark cuban says we're all prejudiced in one way or another. now he's being called a bigot. geraldo rivera weighs in on that. plus, sara evans performing live in the next hour.

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good morning. it's friday, may 23, 2014. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. our nation's veterans forced to wait again. a bill meant to speed up accountability at the v.a. stalled thanks to harry reid. thanks, harry. meanwhile, mavericks owner mark cuban being called a bigot for saying this. >> i see a black kid in a hoody and it's late at night, i'm walking to the other side of the street. >> so is he a racist? we're going to talk to geraldo rivera about that comment and more. remember the president's mom jeans? you'll never see them again. what? what happened to them? stick around because mornings are better with friends. >> maybe i have them. ♪

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sara evans right there on our plaza, kicking off the summer in a special way. >> what a wonderful way to kick off our memorial day weekend. sara evans with her brand-new album out. already doing really great on the charts. if you're in new york city, come on down to the plaza, get some barbecue and food, thanks to famous dave's. >> they've been partners with us for a number of years, expedia as well is helping bring you the summer concert series. i was talking to this gal yesterday and i said tomorrow is the day when you come in, you're going to have a great big rock star set-up. was i kidding? >> no, you were not. it is big. it's fantastic and thanks to everybody who is out there on the plaza having a great time with some of our military men and women and veterans out there. having ribs, listening to good tunes and joining us this morning. >> geraldo rivera joins us in about two minutes to weigh in on the mark cuban so-called controversy and you want to hear what geraldo has to say about

his hoody comment in just a minute. in the meantime, let's turn to heather nauert who has the update on the air. >> a lot of folks traveling this weekend for memorial day. two united airplanes packed with passengers within seconds of crashing into one another. it happened shortly after takeoff from houston's airport. air traffic control telling the pilot of the plane heading to vancouver, canada, to make a right turn instead of a left turn. that brought the jet within 400 feet of the other plane that was headed to mexico city. both planes had 150 people on board each. the faa just releasing this information now. incredible new video just coming in. hail that was so big and so powerful, it shattered windows and windshields of cars in parking lots in burks county, pennsylvania. the damage was so bad that these cars had to be towed away. crazy springtime weather there. the death penalty making news after that botched lethal

injection that took place recently in missouri. now the electric chair is returning to the state of tennessee. late last night, tennessee's governor signing a bill to allow the state to electrocute death row inmates if those prisons can't get the lethal injection drugs that they need. there has been a european-led boycott of the drug sales now, so it's been tough for prisons to get their hands on those things. then listen to this, in wyoming and utah, lawmakers are trying to bring this back, the firing squad. both states set to introduce bills related to that next year. a fun story for you. remember when president obama threw out the first pitch at the major league all-star game in 2009? remember these jeans? everybody called them mom jeans. we wanted to know what happened to them. the president was at the baseball hall of fame in cooperstown, new york, and answered that question. listen to this. >> at the hall's request, i contributed something on my own, which was the jacket i wore when i threw out the first pitch at the 2009 all-star game.

i hear that with all the media attention about it, there was also some interest in the jeans i wore that night. but michelle retired those jeans quite a while back. >> what do you think she did with them? did she donate them or burn them or did he like them too much? he didn't want to give them up. >> can you have a garage sale at the white house? >> he gave them back to michelle. >> wait a minute. geraldo is with us. geraldo is wearing mom jeans. >> i don't think they're good jeans. >> thanks, heather. good morning. >> commander in chief, we've heard he's madder than hell, although he didn't seem very mad the other day. now there is finally this three-page bill that the house passed. gave it to harry reid. he says look, we're going to have to chew on this for a little while. bernie sanders says we need hearings. it's pretty simple. it says if somebody does something wrong at the v.a., fire them.

>> the last time i was here we spoke and i said we have to go easy with shinseki, he's a wounded war hero, four-star general. let's see the facts come out. then we have the review of the gao and all the various investigations. now we have people like senator blumenthal, the democrat of connecticut, getting on board. now you have the speaker of the house, john boehner, in the most articulate statement he made in his entire tenure saying we didn't just let the vets down, we let them die. i think at that it will be a miracle if general shinseki survives this weekend. i think that it is that urgent. >> you don't think it will be let's get through it and then i'll fire you? >> i think the metastasizing of the scandal. it's not being contained. it is spreading. therethere is an epidemic of scl in all the various v.a.s. and i think it will result in a change at the top.

i want to say something about the president and his demeanor. he seems curiously disengaged. >> he's a bystander. >> it's almost as if he's taken the memorial day holiday off a couple of days ahead of time. i don't see any urgency in -- it kind of started with the ukraine and crimea and then from that point on, he just seems to be kind of mellow, taking -- >> he was at the baseball hall of fame. i get that, i like baseball. >> what if this was a republican president and this was happening on a republican president's watch right now and he was taking the memorial day off, would there be outrage in the main stream media? >> i don't know. it's very difficult to answer the question. i will say people tend to look at the memorial day weekend as a beginning of summer, as a barbecue. they forget what it's for. if i were president, i would seize this occasion. this is where you reenergize the nation's commitment to the people who serve in the armed

services. this is where you really -- where harry reid should seize the bill, where there should be bipartisan kind of let's go into this together. these are the -- we were on the platform with winnow a and the -- wynona and the acts, they were up for fleet week. this is when you embrace them and show them the due deference that they have earned in service to the nation. i don't know what the president is up to, but he needs, if seems to me, a double espresso. >> you have had such a measured approach to this entire scandal and to your credit, i think what you just said right there may be the most impactfulis still time. i want to take your temp on what mark cuban said. he had this to say about race. >> we're all prejudiced in one way or the other. if i see a black kid in a hoody and it's late at night, i'm walking to the other side of the

street. and if on that side of the street there is a guy that has tattoos all over his face, white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere, i'm walking back to the other side of the street. and the list goes on of stereotypes that we all live up to and are fearful of. >> he was talking about donald sterling and whether or not as an nba owner, they should get together and vote him out. he said we want to be slow to judge in those situations because we all have inherent biases. a lot in the media jumped on him and called him a racist and should apologize. what do you make of the statements? >> i think mark cuban stole his line from me during the trayvon martin murder case. if you'll recall, i got in a lot of hot water when i suggested that the hoody that the youngster was wearing that night killed him as much as george zimmerman because it fit the stereo time of every surveillance video, of every stickup of every 7-1 # we've

seen timend time again in the local news programs. there are definite stereo types. we did he have israeli a -- definitely have a race reaction. it doesn't make us racist. it's not that mark cuban invented it or george zimmerman or geraldo rivera invented it. it is the reality. i'm doing on saturday night, we start the weekend. i'm going to do my o. j. simpson murders at 20 years special all this weekend on the fox news channel. the simpson case and the way people responded to it laid bare the race divisions in this country and the racial stereotypes in this country. it is a reality. we should grasp it and deal with it and i think cuban should be applauded for being frank about it. i think, however, this will start a discussion that where it ends, nobody knows because look at the nba. if i'm not mistaken, every owner in the nba is jewish. i mean, i may be wrong about that, but i think that is real.

and 80% of the players are african-american. i think that this controversy is going to impact in a negative way the historic comedy, the historic coalition of jew and black. i think that it is a far reaching, deep reaching phenomenon that we will be witnessing not only in professional sports, but in society. we have to come to grips with it. cuban should be applauded for being frank and honest about it and we have to stop tiptoeing around the issue and confront it. race is still the most bitter domestic issue in the united states. it is as real today as it was 20 or 40 years ago. >> speaking of 20 years ago, you just touched on it. hard to believe, 20 years ago. >> 20 years. we all remember the actual anniversary is june 13 of the simpson murders. we remember how we all responded with the white broncos. one of the most famous men on earth. >> during an nba basketball

game. >> amazing how it happened and unfolded. we interview everybody, we relive the story i covered in great detail. >> nobody did it better than you. >> thank you. >> we'll be watching this weekend. >> thanks. coming up, a terrifying scene unfolding at actor george clooney's home. why the cops were called in. you met him two years ago after a town hall where he pressed the president on the economy. he wanted to know where are all the jobs? the president said, they're coming. did they? an update when that man joins us live next. ♪ ♪ t!

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back in 2011, chuck painer questioned the president of the united states at a town hall on when the recession would end. >> the question is, what could we do to unite ourselves to help the economy? >> the most important thing we can do right now is to help jump start the economy, which has stalled, by putting people back to work. and so not surprisingly, i think the most important thing we can do right now is pass this jobs bill. >> you know what? that bill didn't pass. it was defeated in the president's own democratically-controlled senate. so we wanted to know what chuck painer thinks about all of that. he joins us right now from charlotte, north carolina. good morning to you. >> good morning to you, steve. thanks for having me here again on "fox & friends." >> we're just reaching out to you because the president told you that one thing back in 2011. here we are a couple of years later. you would like to ask him another question, wouldn't you?

>> yes, sir, i sure would. i'd actually like to ask him the same question and see what his response is now, steve. >> sure. when he told you in 2011 that answer, pass this bill and we'll have jobs for folks like you, chuck, what did you think? you must have been hopeful. >> i was hopeful. i didn't see things happening out there. i had to go get involved and volunteer and get involved in my community and reached out to my local chamber of commerce, my church. got involved and networked, networked and networked. that's how i was able to find a job, steve. >> so you were working today no thanks to the federal government, but thanks to your own wits about you. you were able to find a job through networking. >> yes, sir. and the help of many of my fellow americans who reached out to me again from my community, from volunteering and from engaging local americans and

asking them for help rather than the government, steve. >> chuck, i don't know if you've seen this poll, but it has to do with the longer people are out of work. take a look. the longer out of work means less need to search. if you've been out of work between seven and 12 months, 35% say that. 13 to two years, 54%. if you're out of work more than two years, 63% pretty much given it up. chuck, there are a lot of people in this country who have looked to washington for help and it just hasn't come. >> yes, sir. i agree completely. from experience in that, steve, on multiple occasions, i encourage people to get out and not wait on the government and do things themselves. get involved. volunteer. get involved in your community. reach out to your local churches. personally, my belief is as americans, we buy american made

goods, it generates jobs. i believe it. i've seen it. i believe that's what will help us get out of this economic situation. >> sure. right now there are a lot of regulations. washington needs to do is get out of businesses' way. >> absolutely. i could not agree more. i hear that consistently from businesses. >> i bet you do. chuck, we're glad you are finally working, got your own job. we thank you for joining us from charlotte today. >> thank you for having me on "fox & friends." i hope everybody has a great memorial day holiday and thanks our veterans, to all of our veterans and god bless them and god bless america. >> nicely put. thank you very much. it's now 20 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, the white house hesitated to send help for the four americans who would be killed in benghazi. but they didn't hesitate to e-mail youtube. what? yep. stunning new details ahead this morning. and you know from beverly

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first some headlines from the entertainment world. paul mccartney will make a full recovery. 71-year-old beatle was rushed to the hospital in japan because of a virus. canceled his tour there. but is expected to be back on stage june 14 down in texas. george clooney's italian villa broken into by a drunk guy from romania. he snuck into the property in italy, stole a bottle of wine and then tried to get into the main house. when the cops showed up, he reportedly tried to use the bottle as a weapon.

enclose looney not --y not home at the time. that's show business news. well, the former 90210 heart throb is trading in his zip code for sin city and showing a lot of skin there. actor joins us now. you are going back. >> i'm going back. i'm so flattered, they asked me to reprize my role again and i'm going to be spending six weeks in las vegas at the rio hotel and casino. they've got a magnificent theater and they treat me so well, i get to bring my family. it's summer camp. >> you've got a signature move, i understand. >> and i taught it to you and i want you to demonstrate it. take your shirt off first. >> they moved the table out of the way to give iam some extra room. what is it, a body roll? >> you teach the guys. >> can you move your hips? >> i can move my hips.

>> you got the moves. this kind of thing. and then you have kind of like a hip grind. >> that's what i do in the mirror at home. >> you don't want to see this this early in the morning, i'm sure. >> our producers are saying clayton, we don't want to see you do it. >> i shrink wrap and i time it right for opening. >> do you have a name for that move? i suggest hip nato? >> yeah. it's storm in my pants. >> whoa! >> bring it. >> exactly. >> come on! >> i got to ask you -- >> shark nato 2. >> this thing was a huge, mean, craziness. everyone is talking about shark nato and people were going crazy for this movie. are you excited to be back on this? >> thrill. first of all, when i readscriptt would never see the light of day. my wife says look, you got to do it. you got to get your insurance and go to work.

i forget as an actor, i do this as a living. but now that i'm a husband and father, provider kicks in every once in a while. >> not just any dad, by the way. 2013 was big for you. rumors of sharknado 3 were rumor s. you are father of the year now. how old are your girls now? >> one and three. the light of my life. >> hollywood, we see this, able to turn over the keys to parenting to somebody else. >> no. we don't have a nanny. my wife just wants to do it all herself. she puts the kids to bed every night. especially when i'm traveling, which is the sacrifice of having to be a dad to provide. it takes me away, crushes me. >> what do you do? >> how do you connect with them? >> i talk to them all the time on their cell phones, we can see each other. but my wife really has the hardest job. she's with the kids all the time, taking me to school.

with penna all day long. >> penna is? >> my little girl. >> she's one now. and she speaks spanish. >> that's great. >> and mia? >> she's three and she understands some spanish and speaks english pretty well. >> isn't mia a little worried that dad works with sharks? >> no. if you ask my daughter what daddy does for a living, daddy pops his shirt off. 'cause she's seen the reveal so many times. daddy pretends. >> all of her little girlfriends will be coming over to the house on a regular basis. >> with their moms. >> right, right. i would rather at our house than my daughter going out. so i'm fine with that. >> the now movie comes out when? >> july 30. it's a global release. the storm will be the same day all over the world. where last year it was one market at a time. diupres for five months after it

aired here. but in the meantime, i'm with the chippendales having a blast. you'll have so much fun. >> that's what america wants to see. >> june 12 to july 20. >> yeah. >> thanks for coming by. >> thanks for having me. >> and sharing the girls with us. >> lot of fun. >> coming up here, our nation's veterans forced to wait once again, a bill meant to speed up accountability at the v.a. stalled. chris wallace will join us on that next. a baby falls from two stories up. luckily there were those guy there is to save the day. so what the heck happened? >> but first, more from sara evans. here is "duds in the bucket" for the all american summer concert series. ♪ ♪

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big international news, china and russia just signed a historic gas bill worth $400 billion. so you're saying they passed a gas bill. yeah. they passed the gas bill. pretty big one. >> you know what i heard? >> what's that. >> i heard russia denied it. that's what i heard. and they knew it. >> yeah. people caught wind of it. they weren't pleased, really. but this is one of those gas bills that's going to linger. >> i think the kind of humor at my dinner table.

and around the chris wallace house. chris wallace is live with us this morning. did you follow that this morning? >> let me just say that that's not exactly johnny carson and ed mcmahon. >> you are correct. >> you are correct, sir. >> we are glad to see you here. you know something else that might not sound so good is what's going on as the democrats stall on the veterans affairs reform. the house did what they need to do, bipartisan, took three pages, passed it overwhelmingly in the house. but gets to the senate, chris. near dead on the floor there right before memorial day. three pages here. they didn't have time to read it before the weekend? come on. what's going on there? >> look, there are unions involved, things like that. i'm not saying that's right, but you're asking what's going on. that's part of what's going on here. and you're right. people would think that on memorial day weekend, of all time, that you do something. all it does is give

administrators more authority and make it easier without jumping through hoops to get rid of people who aren't doing their job. i'll give you another idea. we talked last sunday to dr. sam foot who was the doctor in the phoenix v.a., he was the original whistle blower who talked about 40 people who died while on these long waiting lists. he said why not give a voucher to every veteran in the country who has been waiting months and unable to see a doctor so that they can go to any hospital, any private health care provider in the country and get immediate treatment? the other thing just means well, we can fire somebody if they've messed up. this would actually get immediate treatment for every veteran in america. what a great way to honor our veterans. >> absolutely. today on the pages of the "wall street journal," the op ed page, the final line is, why are politicians punishing veterans with inferior government health care? to your point, let's open it up. everybody gets a card, they go anywhere they want. but i want to ask you about the president. a couple days ago, we heard he was madder than hell. although he comes out and didn't

seem that mad. his ultimate message was yeah, i'm going to wait for the investigation. we've already heard. the government has already investigated. we already know dozens of people died waiting for care. >> it's interesting because we knew we were going to do the v.a. story for this weekend and when we heard he was going to come out, i believe it was on wednesday and make this big statement, one of the thoughts -- because in the news business, you're always saying how this is going to affect your news story. maybe he'll announce some major change and it will completely change the story and as i listened to him speak, i realized a lot of rhetoric, but no action. you can argue well, he wants to wait for the studies to come out, as you point out. there have been seven either inspector general or gao studies, but he didn't take a single concrete step, whether it's to pass or endorse this legislation or whether it is let's give private vouchers who

people who have been waiting months to get care, nothing to change the facts on the ground for veterans who are going to go through this weekend with one more weekend when they'll be waiting for care. people who desperately need it. >> we hear the president in the state of the union address demanding congress take action on certain bills. there is over a dozen v.a. reform bills now that have passed by the house sitting on harry reid's desk right now. >> remember the 2,000 pages for the affordable care act, which we passed before we read it versus the three pages, let's fix the v.a. situation, which the house has passed and harry reid says, you know what? we got to study this really hard and we got to have some hearings. >> need more time to get through the three pages. they certainly didn't waste any time pushing this forward. >> it's a very full three page, guys. >> 47 lines. >> my four i wouldn't he would read that -- four-year-old read that in an hour. who are you going to talk about this weekend? >> we're talk being this and the

head of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. he's obviously going to be talking, derek bennett, for young veterans, relatively young veterans, many of whom have terrible injuries, the lack of care that they are getting and what they think should be done. also dr. margaret mockness. she's a whistle blower from west virginia. she's a psychiatrist and she would be seeing these people, depression, suicidal thoughts. she'd want to schedule them and they'd say no, it's going to be months before you can come back and see them. imagine if you had a really serious mental illness and you couldn't get in to see a doctor for months. the pain and suffering and at least a couple of cases, they committed suicide. then we'll also be talking, the other big story this weekend is the presidential election in ukraine. obviously questions to whether or not the russians or pro-russian separatists will try to disrupt it. we'll talk to senator kelly

ayotte, part of an international observer group to actually see whether or not these are fair and free elections. so very special fox news sunday. >> action-packed one hour coming up sunday. we're going to be watching. thank you very much. have a great holiday weekend. >> thank you. same to you. let's get over to heather nauert who is standing by with a look at the headlines. >> good morning. 20 minutes before the hour. the white house hesitate to do send help for the four americans killed in benghazi, but they didn't hesitate to e-mail youtube? according to a classified e-mail, the white house reached out to youtube on september 11, the night of the attack, while that attack was still unfolding. the reason was apparently to warn the web site about the potential consequences of posting an anti-islam video. according to the house oversight chairman, darrell issa, that e-mail suggests that the administration was connecting the attack to the video from the very beginning. of course, that claim was later proven false. incredible video captures the moment that an american

mountain climber falls 70 feet down in a crevice in nepal. take a look. >> thankfully i didn't keep falling that way. >> look how tight that is right there. his name was john all. he wrote himself off for dead. but the cameras kept on rolling. he had a broken arm, a dislocated shoulder. actually two shoulders, and internal bleeding. but he still managed to crawl out of that ice hole using an ax. he texted for help on saturday, rescuers found him the next morning. lucky to be alive. then some dramatic video out of china. miraculous catch as a one-year-old plummets from a two-story building that. is so hard to watch. the baby managed to crawl through an open window during a thunderstorm and then slipped on the ledge and fell out. but the lucky thing is, there was this guy, who happened to be

walking by and thankfully, that baby was not hurt. that baby is okay. those are your headlines. let's go outside to maria. how is the weekend looking? >> hi there. we're talking severe weather possible this weekend. we had more than 200 reports of severe weather yesterday and that continues today across parts of the carolinas and in areas farther west across states like texas and also in the state of new mexico. then as we head into the weekend, same areas are going to be looking at the potential for steer severe weather across parts of the southern plains saturday and sunday. heavy rain is another concern. several inches expected across parts of the southern plains. we do have the possibility to see some flooding out there. temperature wise, those temperatures are climbing across the southeast, well above average, into the 90s across florida and upper 80s in parts of georgia and also alabama. let's head back inside. >> thank you very much. coming up, brand-new develops about the republican national convention. what cities are in and which ones are out.

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>> 47 minutes past the hour. luck has run out for las vegas and cincinnati. the cities just withdrew from a

list of possible hosts of the 2016 gop presidential convention. so what cities are still in the running? wjw reporter stacy fry is live in cleveland this morning with the very latest. good morning, stacy. >> reporter: good morning. yes, we are still on the list. the republican national site selection committee announced yesterday that four cities that made it to the final cut, cleveland is one of them, along with dallas, denver and kansas city. the next step is for the full site selection committee to come to town. they already had a smaller group come here to look at logistics and things like that. the city putting together a very comprehensive package not only for the venue, but the security, the transportation, the hotels, all of that put together and clearly impressed the republicans. cleveland has been a finalist before. not gotten the convention, but were feeling pretty good about this one. johnny football, number one pick in the nba draft and now on the list of the final four for the

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♪ we have a doctor offering a free care to veterans waiting on the v.a. >> that's right. we have so much more playing for this memorial day weekend live on "fox & friends." and our thanks to sara evans this morning. >> thank you. you're amazing. >> have a great weekend. we'll see you next week, everybody. chan-ocha. bill: good morning, everybody. we have new developments on benghazi. one of the first:white house responses with the contact youtube about taking down this offensive islamic video. i'm bill hemmer, welcome to friday in america's newsroom. martha: i'm martha maccallum. congressman darrell issa is reviewing that still classified memo. but it reveals