permission is wrong. kelly says good, too many youth dress inappropriately. i say kudos to the school. antonio tweets, yes, too far. why photo shop students who wore clothes they chose? thanks to everyone who responded. >> happy friday. >> "fox & friends" starts now. >> hey everybody. good morning. it is friday, the 30th of may, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. we begin with a fox news alert. a health scare for rocker brett michaels, why he was rushed off stage and sent straight to the e.r. >> v.a. secretary eric shinseki about to speak this morning as more democrats are calling for him to step down, but one democrat says hey, in florida, everything is just fine. >> i get my reconnaissance in florida. i can tell you we're doing fine in florida. >> guess what? we've done some reconnaissance in florida, and congresswoman, you're wrong. you're about to hear the

evidence against that statement coming up. >> it's one of the best pranks you'll ever see. this guy is blindfolded and thinks he's about to bungee off a bridge. little does he know what will happen next. and if you stay with our show, you will find out what happens next. it is friday, and according to every study that steve and anna have done, mornings are indeed better with friends. hi, it's susan somers and you're watching "fox & friends." i watch it every morning of my life. ♪ ♪ >> well, it is a friday in the summer, and know what that means? that means our crew came to

work at midnight to set up that stage and get all the cables laid in place and today charlie daniels will take that stage, and he's going to perform live that song. famous dave already cooking up the barbecue. it smells great. it smells like summer here at 48th and 6th avenue. and folks, you're invited. >> mornings are better with friends. come on down to 48th and 6th and eat barbecue with famous dave and listen to the devil went down in georgia. >> for the first time there was a sign i can remember, and i tweeted it out with our pictures and the concert series. with charlie daniels. >> right behind anna, it's kind of a profile. but free concert and free food, there it is right there. >> it is either an attraction or repellent. >> anna, welcome aboard. thank you for filling in today for elisabeth.

>> you're working all weekend? >> absolutely. first we need breaking news overnight about brett michaels. heather has an update. >> good morning. he was on stage in new hampshire last night and had a real scare. he was rushed off the stage. he was three songs into his set at the palace theater in manchester. he is diabetic and apparently he had extremely low blood sugar. his guitarist writing on him i've never seen a look like the one i saw on his face, as if i was a complete stranger. when i rushed to the bus, he could barely speak. michaels had an emergency ep -- appendectomy. >> the l.a. clippers may soon have a new owner. the price tag $2 billion. the former microsoft owner steve ballmer reportedly is ready to buy the team from co-owner mrs. sterling.

that sale price will be nearly four times more than the previous nba record. how about that? look at this one e-mail. that is apparently the extent of the paper trail edward snowden left behind with the n.s.a., according to agency officials. the n.s.a. leashing says he re -- leaker says he repeatedly raised concerns about sweeping surveillance to his higher ups and the search for those e-mails is incomplete. that e-mail is dated april 8, three months after snowden first reached out to the media. for the first time in 52 years the national spelling bee ends in a tie. >> just spell it. >> seuilleton. >> correct. [applause] >> here are the two 2014 national spelling cochampions. take a look at who else is making the headlines.

watch this. >> kabaragoya. i know it. cabaragoya. >> what? [bell rings] >> that's jacob williamson. he didn't win but captured the hearts during the competition. he had a good time. he was ousted with seven spellers remaining. son tkpwrat hraeugss to the others and those are your headlines. >> he was stunned he didn't have it right. i've been to that event a couple of times. >> have you? is it kind of nerve wracking? >> absolutely. later today, 8:30 eastern time you will see right here live on the fox news channel, general eric shinseki is going to speak to the national coalition on vets. it could be his last speech in public because the drumbeats are getting louder and louder for him

to go. yesterday jay carney in front of the press corps -- the press corps wanted to know is he sticking around -- not jay carney. eric shinseki. and he would not answer and that is very telling. here they are asking does shinseki have the confidence of the president. it's either a yes or a no. what does jay carney say? here's the answer. >> does the president have confidence in secretary shinseki? >> john, the president addressed this question from the podium. >> does he have confidence in secretary shinseki? >> the president believes that and is confident that secretary shinseki has served his nation admirably. >> it is either a yes or no. >> he didn't give either. >> no. >> we heard from our own ed henry say last week the president promised punishment while he was up there from the podium. who has been punished? nobody has been punished? just like benghazi, just like fast and furious, just like the i.r.s. except for lois lerner being forced to

resign. is this telling, the drumbeat is getting louder? we're going to be saying a very different story on monday morning about eric shinseki. >> shinseki is a dead man. what you heard today is invitation for a resignation, and i think he's gone by the weekend. >> his buddy, retired general barry mcaffrey, essentially said sadly it is time for him to step down. you have six democratic senators saying it is time for him to down. you have the i.g. report and the president saying as soon as we get the investigation i'm going to make an opinion. the i.g. report comes out, it is worse than everyone thought. even though he is not to blame and there is a flaw in the system that needs to be restructured, the bottom line is it was the press that told him about it. he had the job for a number of years and did nothing about it. he may not be the problem

but did nothing to solve the problem. >> the president of the united states reportedly will get a report of what went on at the v.a. it is probably going to be worse than we thought. probably today. charles krauthammer could be right but shinseki yesterday was pleading for his political life in front of democratic lawmakers and also a number of veterans affairs groups as well. what's curious is it seems like everybody now is looking at the v.a. under a microscope. cbs news last night had a thing where they had one of the schedulers from the v.a. on who showed them how they tricked the system. they used this operating system called vista -- not microsoft, but a software program where whatever number of days you wait, it always comes up zero. if they don't put zero, they don't get a bonus. >> they were taking screenings and putting those out so they would have a hard copy to show washington as well even though what they were actually logging in the computer was sometimes on a dead-end waiting list. >> not everybody is unhappy

with the v.a.'s functioning. representative corinne brown of florida said there is no problem in her state so i don't know what the rest of the country is worried about. however, the facts are a little bit different than she understands them. here she is yesterday going to bat for the v.a. >> i can truly say i went and talked to various v.a. groups in florida, and not one single complaint, because we're doing our job, and that is what this committee is supposed to do. make sure that the v.a. is doing what we committed to the other veterans. >> bad news for her, though. maybe she should have simply turned on the television because in her district the fox affiliate had a story where they talked to the members, the local president of the vietnam vets of america. and in her hometown of jacksonville, apparently he told them that they have

members waiting three or four years to see a doctor. three or four years! >> they have an audit team, in gainesville, they say they found a list of over 200 patients who needed follow-up appointments that were not even in the computer system. instead they kept their names on a paper. guess what, it wouldn't be logged in, wouldn't hurt your bonus structure. >> we've seen secretary hagel say he's going to start looking for military facilities making sure something similar doesn't happen to them. >> we've been telling you highlights from commencement speeches. the best one is admiral mccraven. they will be talking about a message that former new york city mayor mike bloomberg gave to the ivy leagues. he finally told truth to ivy. >> here he is yesterday at

harvard, his alma mater. he says folks, you are biased. listen. >> it has been disturbing to see a number of college commencement speakers withdraw or have their invitations rescinded after protests from students and to me, shockingly, from senior faculty and administrators who should know better. in each of these cases, liberals silenced the voice, and they denied an honorary degree to individuals that they deemed politically objectionable. this is an outrage. in the 2012 presidential race, according to federal election commission data, 96% of all campaign contributions from ivy league faculty and employees went to barack obama. liberal arts education must not be an education in the art of liberalism. >> it is incredible did he that. >> if he made this speech before, i wonder if the result at rutgers would

have been different with condoleezza rice. >> he mentioned ray kelly went to brown university seven months ago. a hundred students stood up and wouldn't allow him to speak. mr. bloomberg said what were they afraid to hear. he makes a great point. hats off to him. i tell you what, we've got a video of -- okay, those are the harvard grads. here's a young man who's got his life ahead of him. he's in preschool. >> he's got goals. >> he not only has goals. he knows what he wants to be when he grows up. watch this. [inaudible] >> and i want to be batman. >> so sweet. >> he says i want to work really hard and i want to be batman? >> he gave his name and i want to be batman. did you guys go to preschool? >> i went to preschool. i didn't have a graduation after that or kindergarten or anything. >> he's got full gown. until i decided to do the parenting thing and have children, i can't believe

how many graduations there are. there's graduation from preschool, graduation from kindergarten. >> you have one in your family within a week. >> graduation on sunday. >> little brian, congratulations if he's watching. >> not so little anymore. coming up straight ahead. >> do you want your son to grow up and play football. well, the president doesn't. just how dangerous is football? we have the facts you're not hearing from the white house or the mainstream media coming up. >> gwenyth paltrow says being teased is just like going to war. this morning cindy mccain who has two sons serving in the military, gets the last word. ♪ y'all ready ♪ for this ♪ ♪ introducing nexium 24hr. finally, the purple pill, the #1 prescribed acid blocking brand. comes without a prescription for frequent heartburn.

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thank you for joining us on this friday. president obama doubling down on calls for better research into the effects and treatment of concussions in kid athletes in the nfl and sports in general need to take concussions more seriously. >> identifying a concussion and being able to self-diagnose that this is, this is something that i need to take care of doesn't make you weak. it means you're strong. we have to change a culture that says you suck it up. >> here to react new jersey congressman john runyon. thanks for being with us. the president said he wouldn't let his son play profootball if he had one. you have three kids, i understand, a beautiful wife. one of your sons is commited to play football at michigan. i guess you see it a little bit differently. >> really at the end of the day -- and i think the president kind of alluded to it -- it's about awareness and it's about

tying all the medical professionals, whether they're athletic trainers or doctors, the coaches and the parents into the process and the athlete into the process and knowing what it is. i've seen it happen with my young children playing sports and, you know, athletic trainers and coaches putting kids back into the games that probably shouldn't have been put back into the games. it is really about educating across that spectrum. >> sure. the good news is that the nfl has done a lot and the concussion rates are actually on the decline. when you take a look at the number of regular season games where there are concussion rates, for instance, back in 2011 it was 174 concussions. in 2012 it is 176 concussions. in 2013, 151 concussions. clearly the nfl is doing everything they can to make sure that the players aren't getting hurt. >> i think the biggest thing when you go back to it, you see this and it kind of ruffles my feathers a little bit. when you get away from

fundamentals and the fundamentals of tackling -- and that's where you get into football, everyone is trying to make the highlight reel and launching themselves, making themselves a projectile instead of getting into a great athletic position, breaking down and making an athletic move. there's a huge difference there. and i believe, and you can go on u.s.a. football and look at all the statistics and techniques that do it that actually will get you away from the possibility of head injuries. >> congressman, talk about what the nfl has done for you after you broke your tailbone, also had to have knee surgery. injuries simply are part of the game, but how did the nfl help you? >> i think the biggest thing, dealing with brain injuries personally, is i was fortunate enough to be on a team in philadelphia that was way ahead of curve on baseline testing with injuries, which i think the majority of high schools now won't let you back on the field until you can pass that baseline test to know you have your

cognitive and your reaction time back up there. they're on the cutting edge of it because not only the nfl but you're dealing a lot of with the department of defense right now with brain injuries and collaborating, trying to figure out what is the best way forward. obviously we're all individuals. we react to these injuries in different manners. so trying to figure out the individual medicine side of it, you know, can you treat everybody the same way? no. and i think we have a long way to go before the medical community can really be very decisive on what brain injuries are to each individual athlete. >> sure. the good news is in the nfl the number of concussions going down and the amount of money they're spending on health and safety investments is going up. john runyon, a congressman from the great state of new jersey, where i live, john, thank you very much for joining us live today. >> appreciate it. 20 minutes after the hour. a bus driver skidding to a sudden stop because of something he saw in the

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good friday morning friends. i'm anna kooiman. some quick headlines. an accused terrorist will soon be freed from gitmo. the u.s. government clearing the way for him to head back to yemen. the national 9/11 museum yanking a controversial cheese plate, the museum coming under fire for offering the plate in the

shape of the u.s. they now say they will get more input from the families. >> last night i had the honor for the second consecutive year of hosting an incredible event. it is a ceremony to benefit the kwraor -- wounded warriors. it's the courage awards. thousands of people gathered for this event. joining us is the cofounder and c.e.o. of the wounded warriors project and the wounded warriors project alumni, an extraordinary guy. norvi, you were in iraq? you were hit by an i.e.d. >> it went through my arm, it sent shrapnel to the back of my seat. i inhaled when the rocket exploded which severely damaged my lungs and sustained a brain injury.

i was in a medically induced coma for two months. >> you gave an incredible speech last night because so many times, as you find out, the best theupg for a soldier, airman or marine to see is for someone who has battled their way back once they came home. >> absolutely. we've got one warrior carrying another off the field in battle and that's what our alumni do when they come home. those like norvi reach over the fence and help the next person. >> in the wake of all this talk about the corruption and scandal at the v.a., that was in your speech last night, you have people from all around come out to even line the rafters at the waldorf to support your cause. you raised about $2 million, $160,000 just in text messages last night. >> it is incredible how much generosity there is from the american people and how willing they are all to stand behind our nation's veterans. >> norvi, you tell a story about going to the v.a.

your wife says you're not the same guy. you're too volatile, tough to be around the house. so you go to the v.a. for help. they give you a bucket of pills and basically put you in a walking coma. >> that is correct. i went to where i'm supposed to go. we go to the v.a. to go get help. unfortunately the person sitting across the desk from me really wasn't paying attention to me; just gave me a bunch of pills. i took those and was base economy a zombie. >> know one of your jobs is to -- now one of your jobs is to reach out to veterans who don't know they need help or choose not to reach out; you're going after them on the west coast. >> absolutely. there is a stigma associated with post traumatic stress disorder. we want them to reach out and get help. >> it was an incredible event. the way it was scripted would have an hollywood producer in awe. one of the winners could not prepare for the speech. he got the courage award.

so he did not know he won. i blew it last year. i did not know it was supposed to be a surprise. so they took that job away from me. so tell me about the most wounded man in the military history. >> he epitomizes what we look for in our warriors, somebody severely injured, emotional, mental, physical. he is now married, he's graduated from college and he is giving back to other warriors. he takes trips to walter reed to help other warriors. >> you used to drive the van to help people out when the war started kicking up and now there is this huge organization. one of the awards was the tony snow award. tony snow had the first radio show, which i am fortunate enough to have now. bob costas got that. why? >> bob has been a tremendous advocate for us. tony was one of our first and greatest advocates, bob

rest his soul and bob carries on that tradition. he has been there since the early days we were around and i can't think of a better spokesperson. >> kevin plank. >> our incredible partners, they do everything from raising awareness to supporting us with funds and providing actual back packs and gear to our warriors. >> a lot of men and women last night are going to be out with charlie daniels today. >> they're looking forward to seeing you guys. >> thank you very much. great job. great speech last night. i appreciate it especially now. we need you more than ever. straight ahead, now you see it, now you don't. why did "people" magazine remove a tweet of hillary clinton going to lunch with the president? this guy is blindfolded and thinks he's about to bungee off a bridge. little does he know what happens next. first happy birthday to wynonna judd. she turns 50 today but doesn't look it. ♪

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time for headlines. heather nauert joins us now. >> good morning guys. you two both had toddlers in the house. you know in a second they are gone. this story relates to that. this guy says he has seen it all driving a bus for 15 years but what he came across was a first. walking across the street in portland, oregon, he's in a t-shirt and diaper. he immediately pulls over the bus. clark then brings him on the bus. >> i finally got around to hot chocolate and he goes chocolate. that's when i knew he liked hot chocolate. >> that little guy was just two years old. police were able to track down the boy's parents two hours later. their son was able to get out of their apartment while the dad was sleeping. the parents have not been

charged. the first time we are now hearing from a marine who has been locked up in a prison in mexico. listen to this interview. >> they put the handcuffs on me nice and tight, and put -- handcuffed me to the bed, naked in the cold. i was hit multiple times. i was punched in the stomach a few times, to the point where i couldn't breathed, was gasping for air. >> that was a phone interview with greta that aired last night. >> tahmooressi faces weapons charges after he made a wrong turn and crossed the border with three guns that were registered and legally owned in the united states. hillary clinton meeting president obama at the white house and nobody was supposed to know about it. it was an off the record meeting and came a day ahead of the benghazi

strategy session. how did the secret mission get skproesed? people -- get exposed? people magazine tweet add picture. tweet said she had a meeting with the president, though they later deleted that tweet because they didn't want anybody to know about the meeting. >> cindy mccain, wife of john mccain fired up about gwenyth paltrow's latest really stupid comments. paltrow says being picked on is like going to war. she said quote it is almost like going to war you go to this bloody dehumanizing thing and something is defined out of it. cindy mccain tweeted this. gwenyth paltrow is a joke. what a joke. my two sons serving in the military should talk to her. those are your headlines. >> an out of touch actress. not the first time she said things like that. >> tom cruise said filming a movie was similar. can yes west said -- kanye

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quick headlines now. former president george h.w. bush honored at harvard. the 89-year-old wearing a crimson robe at the graduation ceremony in cambridge, massachusetts. the university awarded him an honorary doctor of law degree. president bush is an alum of harvard's rival school yale. two police officers pushing an elderly veteran one mile to his house after his scooter broke down. it wasn't until about halfway there the officers realized it was memorial day weekend. >> brian, thank you very much. the inspector general report for the v.a. scandal is in and it prompted this bold question from a republican representative on capitol hill to a top v.a. official. >> based on data in the inspector general report, do you believe there is a need for a criminal investigation?

>> i -- i think the inspector general will make that recommendation. i believe based on their findings, they have the ability to initiate a criminal investigation if they think it's appropriate. >> okay. so where are the criminal charges? and should attorney general eric holder be investigating right now? let's talk to a former attorney general for the great state of florida as well as a former u.s. congressman from florida, bill macallum. >> good morning. from what you have seen in the press, does it look like there is criminality here? >> definitely does. you falsified records. somebody did that, at least in phoenix they did it and i suspect other places too and it's rather egregious. it is huge and rather difficult for me to believe there are not criminal charges that be be brought. from my understanding from what i have read the inspector general said they have been in touch with the justice department.

but the u.s. attorney in place, anyplace there is a v.a. hospital and the inspector general reported there has been falsification of records should be investigating, they should be doing it at this very minute, whether attorney general holder himself engages -- i suspect this is a big national thing he should personally be engaged in and i'm hoping he is. he should be. >> he absolutely should be. but when you look at some of the past investigations the department of justice has done, remember, for instance, when the department of justice cracked down on sherrif joe arpaio, then there was the trayvon martin-george zimmerman case, campaign finance fraud case. he got involved in those things. but then when it came around to the i.r.s. thing, even before the final report came out, he said no criminality there. he seems to be very selective and political in determining what he's going to investigate. >> i have never seen a u.s. attorney general that appears to be more political than this one. i'm very disappointed in

that. the integrity of that office is so important. when you're the attorney general, whether of the state or the united states, the most important thing you have is the trust of the people and the integrity of that office. and that means you should not let politics dictate when you do criminal investigations or how you determine when prosecutions are being made. that should be determined by the u.s. attorneys in the field and the people in the justice department who are the folks who make those decisions in the criminal division. you shouldn't tamper with that. it appears there has been an historical pattern on his part. as a former attorney general of a state, i'm disturbed when i see that. >> we're all disturbed by it. you would hope that the attorney general would be investigating. but at the same time, doesn't the buck stop with the boss? doesn't the buck stop with the president of the united states? >> at the end of the day it does. i think this is a reflection of the politicization of the entire presidency. it's been a very interesting thing to watch because it seems to me that much of what president

obama has been doing is to be political in everything he says and whatever he does in a way that, again, is far in excess of any president in the past and that is reflected in his administration and this process. the v.a. has systemic problems and has been going to when i was a congressman. it's grown worse. it is clearly at the point now where something has to give. we need to have it fixed. there are things that aren't criminal that need to be done here. we've got to also look at the criminal prospects of somebody having done something to falsify those records and cause veterans specifically who should have been treated earlier to be treated or at least allow the public to have an outcry to know. this is hiding from the bosses possibly, we don't know that yet, but certainly from the public and it's being done, i think, in a criminal manner. i can't see how it's not a crime. >> it does look like some of the boss, the bosses were involved. >> absolutely it does. the sooner we get the investigation, the sooner

we see some criminal charges, the better. >> absolutely. our vets deserve better than the treatment they're getting. >> thank you for joining us from sunny, florida. thank you, bill. a dozen minutes before the top of the hour. coming up, the state department spokesperson almost laughed out of her own press conference after she said this. >> i would argue the president doesn't give himself enough credit for what he's done around the world. >> the president doesn't give himself enough credit. wait till you hear what happened next. then we've all seen and heard it, made with real fruit. but is it really made with real fruit. dr. segal puts it to the test to make sure we don't get tricked by those tricky food labels. good morning, doctor.

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>> the label says no added sugar, is that meaningful or misleading? >> no added sugar, i would say that's meaningful. >> misleading. >> you're both wrong. he's right. it's meaningful. >> why? >> because when they say no add sugar, it means no fructose corn syrup. it's just what's natively in the fruit. >> i thought that because no added sugar that, doesn't mean there is not sugar there already. >> it may be good sugar. let's move on. you blew it. >> sore loser. >> good source of fiber on the label, is that meaningful? >> meaningful. >> meaningful. >> all correct. i'm sorry. it's wrong. >> what! >> what's going on here. >> it's misleading. 'cause a good source of fiber, like this apple has a good source of fiber in it. they shove in some insoluble fiber, fiber that's no good for you is in those products. >> it doesn't talk about the quality of the fiber.

>> exactly. >> we should have got alan luddon. unavailable. >> you're all wrong. real fruit, when it says real fruit, is that meaningful or misleading? >> it's got to be meaningful. >> the brains are right. it's misleading. you guys are wrong. why is it misleading? >> real fruit is real fruit! >> it's not in there. >> it doesn't say all real fruit. >> there is not real fruit. there has even been lawsuits about this. the amount is very, very low. lightly salted? >> compared to what? >> aha! >> misleading. >> misleading, exactly. it's lightly salted, just means 25% less. the amount of salt we americans are eat something 4-grams per day. twice what we're supposed to have. >> what we learned today is pretty much everything will kill you. >> what we learned today is no added sugar is a good thing on the label.

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good morning, everyone. today is friday, 30th of may, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. rocker bret michaels rushed off the stage in the middle of his concert. breaking details overnight. the state department spokesperson almost laughed out of her own press conference for this. >> you would argue the president doesn't give himself enough credit? >> well, i think what -- i would give him more than he has given himself. so would the secretary. >> and for what? >> mainstream media finally catching on? have they come to a conclusion? >> don't hold your breath. meanwhile, paul ryan says don't call me a wiener. why the congressman is being

mistaken for anthony wiener. >> come on. >> what? >> find out straight ahead. friday mornings #betterwithfriends. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the long haired country boy charlie daniel and his band will be rocking the plaza at 48th and 6th. come on down and eat some barbecue. >> if you want a friend of the military, a friend of america, it's charlie daniels. still performing at an all-time high, despite his career -- i

think he's in the fifth decade of performing. >> he's been doing it a long time. famous dave's is there performing the barbecue service as well. interestingly enough, charlie was supposed to play with bret michaels tonight. but we have breaking news this morning and that is that during his third song -- this is the animation -- during his third song last night at the palace theater in manchester, new hampshire, bret michaels was rushed off the stage. keep in mind, he's had all sorts of medical problems in the past, type 1 diabetic. he had an emergency appendectomy, brain hemorrhage, heart surgery. apparently he had extremely low blood sugar. and that's the reason, he just kind of went blank and his guitarist took to facebook. >> yeah. he said in the nine years i stood next to him, i've never seen a look like the one on his face. as if i was a complete stranger when i rushed the bus, he could

hardly speak. >> he's already had an aneurysm, and you have no control over the aneurysm. you have to get him to the hospital. instead, it was a dietary thing, we hope. >> sure. >> apparently he couldn't find his words and the guitarist said that he was able to go back on stage and say what had happened and to apologize to the crowd. >> team bret michaels has done some tweeting this morning, sending a shout out to all the paramedics, both on and off duty who assisted bret tonight. no words can thank you enough for your help. signed, team bret. so we hope he is okay. we're going to get an update on what they know from the charlie daniels band and charlie daniels himself coming up within the half hour right here. >> bret michaels going to perform on our concert series. >> yeah. he's in a couple of weeks. >> yeah. >> we know he's got a lot of fans out there and we're a fan of his and we want to keep you updated. >> he also won the apprentice.

>> i've got an update on edward snowden. you know how you said there was a fake paper trail? it turns out it was one e-mail. that's the extent of that paper trail as he left -- gave the nsa according to agency officials. he says he repeatedly raised concerns about sweeping surveillance to his higher ups and the search for those e-mails is incomplete. that one e-mail was dated april 8, three months after snowden reached out to the media. the los angeles clippers may soon have a new owner. the price tag? $2 billion. the former microsoft ceo steve ballmer, agreeing to buy the team from sherry sterling -- shelly sterling. she said she's acting as sole trust yeah with no mention of donald sterling. the league is expected to sign off on the deal much the sale price will be four times more than the previous nba record. wisconsin congressman paul ryan may be having a bit of an identity crisis.

>> pointing and looking and finally one said, you're somebody famous, aren't you? aren't you anthony wiener? i've been confused with him twice now. >> oh, no. that would be pretty awful. ryan joking about his dople ganger at a local golf club in michigan and says he doesn't know how he became confused with anthony wiener, but the republican congressman says he's also been mistaken for scott walker, also a republican. i could see folks back home maybe making that mistake. but anthony wiener, no. >> mistake you for a wiener? >> it's also amazing that you're speak at a golf event and that becomes -- everything is public. like ten years ago, you were speaking at a golf event, that doesn't get out. now everybody is looking at

what's going on. >> that's okay. >> right. i'm not against progress. i'm for it. it's bringing up the point. it's small talk that usually leads into a big talking point. >> are you doing a transition from a speech from a golf setting to the national coalition of homeless vets, a speech that's happening in 90 minutes? >> i think so. >> that is brilliant. >> thank you. >> we're not talking about paul ryan. we're talking about eric shinseki, the chief of the v.a. what's interesting is yesterday apparently he met with veterans group, and also met with bunch of democratic lawmakers and he was pleading his case. look, i can fix this thing. just give me the chance. but the drum beat, as we were talking about earlier, getting louder and louder. he's got to go. >> we're starting to seat white house do bobbing and weaving. last week we heard the president saying that shinseki is a patriot and that he's worked tireless, put his heart and soul into this job, regardless of what has happened. but the press secretary, jay

carney, pressed yesterday by jonathon karl and you start to see a little bit of walking back. listen to this. >> does the president have confidence in secretary shinseki? >> john, the president addressed this question from the podium -- >> it wasn't asked directly. does he have confidence in secretary shinseki? >> the president believes that, and is confident that secretary shinseki served his nation admirably. >> we'll see. we know this, six democratic senators all up for election said he should leave. the one that's standing out says no, i need more information. but people are saying this, it's not teeing off like kathleen sebelius. with shinseki, you have a guy wound in war, been a fine general for this country. so people are holding their fire. but when his good friends says it's time for him to step down, then i think you have a situation where it's a matter of time. in fact, some say it's a done

deal. my fear is, as i said yesterday, is people are going to stop paying attention to this story once he goes, because it seems inevitable. >> it's such a big problem and our vets are getting short changed. it was very telling for jay carney. jay, all you got to do is answer yes or no and he wouldn't answer. and charles krauthammer, who has been around that town for a long time, he sees the writing on the wall. it's clear, this is going to happen. >> shinseki is a dead man. what you heard today was an invitation for a resignation. and i think he's gone by the weekend. >> wow. >> stand by. >> stand by. by the way, the whole system has to be rejiggered. you got to stay with the story even if he goes. i also would like to know who is the systems expert, the ceo that is going to go okay, i did it in the private sector. now i'm going to help out the public sector with my management expertise. i don't want another figure head up there. you need somebody that says here is the new system from here on

in. >> you wonder what's happening to the military hospitals for those who are currently serving, too. we heard from secretary much defense chalk hagel who is starting to soften his support for shinseki as well and saying they're going to investigate that as well so that's not happening there. >> the system doesn't work. they need to figure it out. maybe wind them down, give everybody a card and let them go where they want to. in the meantime, we have this from the state department, jen saki, a long-time political flak for president obama, senator obama as well, now is the spokesperson at the state department. you know what? she loves the work that her president, our president is doing and she thinks he simply is not giving himself enough credit. what? >> i would argue that the president doesn't give himself enough credit for what he's done around the world and that's how the secretary feels, too. >> you would argue the president doesn't give himself enough credit? how much credit would you give him? >> well, i think -- i would give

him more than he has given himself. so would the secretary. >> and for what? exactly. >> i don't mean like -- >> so that was matt lee, associated press reporter. people started laughing, which really seems to have beefedled her. >> what she said was crazy. >> what shouldn't he get credit for? engaging in initiatives like iran, russia? they started heckling her! >> similar to what critics say about former secretary of state hillary clinton. just because she logged so many miles and visited so many countries, let's take a look at your resume and some changes that were actually made. you don't tell a coach, good job, even though you didn't win any games. but at least you dressed up and put your whistle on. >> it's going very well.

>> meanwhile, if off smart phone, there is a real good possibility you check in on facebook or look at twitter from time to time. jesse jackson, who has-- the reverend from chicago, he's got 40,000 twitter÷6jt(jjuáy it's curious what he retweeted. usually when you retweet something, it means yeah, this is a good idea. so anyway, here is something he retweeted i think five or six days ago. >> from reverend back slider. >> it says -- referring to the pope, by the way. jesse jackson retweeted, francis, you old half dead humbug, you are living with another man in a one bedroom apartment. i suppose you love booty. this is something jesse jackson retweeted to his 40,000 people. >> and somehow didn't take down for a long time either. >> it's still up right now! >> we don't know -- can you fake -- did someone get his -- >> someone said you must have been hacked.

>> does -- this is what he says. i was really hoping it wasn't you. this is somebody else tweeting at him. thank you for your attention to this matter. possible hacked account. so the response after all this, yes, yes. thank you. >> they were thanking some of his twitter followers for alerting jesse jackson's team to what jesse jackson had retweeted about the pope and that crazy stuff that that guy had said. >> that's dangerous. we've all copy and pasted something and hit tweet or retweeted. i've done silly things. but you realize it and you don't start putting out other tweets and then not realize that three tweets ago you messed something up. >> why take down the pope? >> when you retweet something, oftentimes it's seen as an endorsement of that view. so for him to retweet that and keep in mind, it is still up there, it's kind of weird. who is running the jesse jackson

twitter machine? >> by the way, he has more than 40,000 followers. he's reverend. how many followers does he have? >> on the twitter verse, 40,000. >> okay. so if you've ever retweeted something from reverend back slider, write us. >> you love booty. >> love booty, humbug, living with another man. >> he's talking about the pope! >> right. fantastic. i thought we were being pranked, like the first hour. i thought we were being pranked. >> we're just reporting so you can decide. 13 minutes after the top of the hour. >> let me tell you what's coming up. the government already regulates out our lakes and rivers. should it be regulating the pond in the backyard? how about the rain water on your lawn? our next guest says we're headed in that direction. >> one school enforcing a dress code after the fact. it's photo shopping yearbook photos to cover them up. >> good job, brian, you half

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we're talking about creeks that you couldn't even paddle in. seriously. >> what will be regulated inside them? >> here is our problem, the breadth of the way this rule is written, you have a piece of property. part of your property is near a flood plain or you have a wash behind it. theoretically, that just makes -- now your property requires a permit for to you do anything on it. >> so there will be some type of recourse there. congressman, why do you think the epa is being so aggressive at this point? aren't you just -- you were just telling me that we've shown tremendous progress in our bodies of water over the last five, six years. >> well, more than that. the clean water act has been around since the '70s. my fear is what's going on right now is they're rewriting the rules to expand it so they can handle and deal with court challenges. by doing that, they're going to draw in so much private

property. for those of us that live in the desert, i live in scottsdale area, the back of my property has a wash. it rains once a year. the water in there never makes it to navigable river. under these definition, my property would probably end up regulated. >> what can do you to stop it? i understand the white house is bypassing your committee? >> what we asked for right now is on the epa's web site is an opportunity to make comments between now and the end of july. if you're an agriculture, if you care about real estate, if you care about just your own private property rights, get on that web site, read over the rule and make comments. help the epa understand how this will affect your life and your family's life. >> and so many people right now with ponds in their backyard, they treasure very much and next thing the government is going to literally be in their backyard. i have to have you back because the epa is going to do something

titanic next week, regulating coal fire plants that could affect energy prices and the coal industry and eventually bring it to its knees. congressman, thank you so much. >> thank you. coming up straight ahead, bret michaels was rushed off the stage last night and the charlie daniels band, who is here to perform, has an update on him. they were supposed to play together tonight. that is charlie daniels himself. tourists say the famous sky deck in chicago cracked under their feet. that's 103 floors in the air. and tests show they were not wrong. ♪ ♪ avo: with expedia you always get the lowest price book any flight

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guess who our entertainer is today here on "fox & friends" for the summer concert series, ladies and gentlemen, give it up for charlie daniels! >> thank you. >> good morning. >> do you have an update for us? >> i really don't because i just found out about this when i walked in the green room this morning. i didn't know anything about it. we were supposed to work tonight and tomorrow night together. we've been calling around trying to get some information, but we haven't been able to get any. maybe before the show over we'll find something out. >> today you are our featured entertainer. how long have you been at it, because i've read some biographies of you and they go back to when you were writing songs foss elvis presley. >> i started in 1958, 56 years ago. i've been at it ever since. i'm 77 years old. people say when are you going to retire? what am i going to do? sit around and play guitar? >> i love long haired country boys. most people love "the devil went

down to georgia." i remember in college, i went to school where you're from, there is a piano that plays that song every night at midnight with the fiddle and the whole deal. what's your favorite song to perform? >> one of my very favorite songs is a called "carolina i remember you," a recitation to the song. it's about way back probably before your parents were born when you could drink water out of the streams and it was pristine woods, pine and that sort of thing. i really like that one. >> you know what? you did just sit at home on the couch, you'd watch tv and probably yell at it 'cause in addition to being a great performer, you're somebody who loves politics and they've got you a little exercised these days. >> they really have got me exercised. i'd like to examiner size some of them. i'd have to say, i got a twitter this morning very early, somebody said, good luck with brian. you'll need it. i could not believe that anybody

would say such a thing about such a genteel human being as brian kilmeade. >> he is such a sweetheart. you've had several tweets, kind of bashing the president, whether it's benghazi or any of the other phony scandals. what do you think about what's going on with the veterans? >> you don't want to get me started on that. that's one of my real sore spots. >> let's get you started a little bit. >> i was five years old when pearl harbor happened. my formative years are during the second world war. i learned very early on. wilmington is a seacoast town, and it was a strategic place with shipping going on. german u boats sank ships off our coast. the wireways was very real to us. i learned very early in my life that two things protect the united states, the grace of god and the united states military. it was that way then and it's that way now and it will be that way as long as america is free. when i see somebody that don't understand the military, that

don't respect this military and don't respect the people who laid their very lives on the line for america, it really aggravates me and i think every congressman, every senator and all the people up at 1600 ought to come through and let's get this thing took care of. run the crooks off. get some good guys. >> you think there are some crooks there? >> i don't doubt it one little bit. >> our vets deserve better than that. >> we could never, ever pay them back. >> we are so excited to have you here and honored. we're looking forward to you playing. >> we're excited to be here. we'll have a good time with this bunch, i can tell that right now. >> ladies and gentlemen, the great charlie daniels. going to be starting his performance 20 minutes from right now. all right, brian. in to you. >> great job. i cannot wait to see charlie. coming up straight ahead, now you see it, now you don't. why did people magazine remove a tweet of hillary clinton going to lunch with the president? what's the big secret? and instead of making things

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>> right. i never figured out who batman was. were you able to figure that out? >> yeah. we knew who it was. >> it is the season for commencement speeches. we told you yesterday about the west point speech given by president obama and the icy reception there. well -- of course, condoleeza rice rice at rutgers and how there was a disruption and she said she didn't want to be a disruption and backed out. michael bloomberg made these comments and said it's the left that's trying to silence the right. listen. >> he's right. >> this spring it has been -- after protests from students and to me shockingly from senior faculty and administrators who should know better. in each of these cases, liberals silenced a voice and they denied an honorary degree to individuals they deemed politically objectionable.

this is an outrage in the 2012 presidential race, according to federal election commission data, 96% of all campaign contributions from ivy league faculty and employees went to barak obama. a liberal arts education must not be an education in the art of liberalism. >> he went on to say, there was more disagreement among the old soviet bureau than among ivy league donors. >> he's absolutely rate. he also talked about ray kelly, his police commissioner, who went to brown university seven months ago and hooted down by 100 students who were protesting just the fact that he was there. he said, what were the students afraid of hearing? why did administrators not step in to prevent the mob from silencing speech? look, when you're in a university, the whole idea is to open your mind. look at all the sides and for them to have such a narrow little lefty view of the world, is that money well spent?

it certainly isn't time well spent. you want to hear it all. >> open your minds and welcome debate. just don't open up a big gulp and salty potato chips. >> i would take the days of debating the big gulp band to what we have now, allowing ferrets and banning horses. new york has gone crazy under this new administration. >> cats and dogs living together. >> now the ferrets are living on park avenue and we can't get a horse when we want one. >> when did you last need a horse that you couldn't get one? >> or a ferret. >> i haven't yet. but just knowing that i could get one is reassuring. >> all right. 24 minutes before the top of the hour. she's got the headlines and she starts with hillary. >> what does hillary clinton really think about the attack in benghazi? an excerpt from her upcoming book called "hard choices" has just leaked out and the details are stunning. clinton defending susan rice for describing the attack as a copycat of the anti-islamic

video on those five sunday talk shows. clinton says the video was indeed a factor in what happened. wow. doubling down on that one. she also went on to add that rice was relying on intelligence at the time and pointed out that it was signed off on by c.i.a. officials. more on that as get more excerpts from the book. that as democrats meet for a strategy session on a how hillary should handle the issue of benghazi. yesterday hillary clinton had lunch with president obama at the white house, but it was supposed to be an off the record strategy session lunch until this tweet from people magazine went out. the magazine's washington bureau chief chats with hillary clinton before white house lunch. hope she wasn't late for barak obama. that tweet was later deleted because it wasçlchzposed to be n off the record meeting. >> in 52 years, the national spelling bee ends in a tie. >> however you say it.

just spell it. >> feuilleton. >> correct. >> okay. those are the two 2014 national spelling co- champions. but then there is this guy who is also making headlines from it. >> i know! i know it! i totally know it! cabaragoya. what? >> poor guy. he didn't win. but he won a whole lot of hearts during his competition with all his color celebrations. he was ousted with just seven spellers remaining. espn carried the spelling bee. enforcing a dress code after

the fact, female students are fuming after the school altered year books. several wore sleeveless or low cut shirts on picture day, but in the year book, they were photo shopped to cover them up. the students say it was done without their permission and only some students' pictures were altered. >> i feel like they put names in the hat and pick and chose. >> school officials say that the rules were not applied to everyone, but insist students were told their pictures would be altered if they didn't follow the dress code. those are your headlines. i kind of like that idea actually. >> during sports, they took some action shots. were they altered? >> it looked like they were altered. >> how could you alter action shots? >> too much skin, according to the clothes police.

>> they're young girls. >> heather, thank you very much. i will say this, though, in my school -- my daughter's school, sally, one year we got the pictures back in the yearbook and they put in somebody else's eyes. >> are you kidding? >> there was a reflection on her glasses or something like that, so they put somebody else's eyes in my daughter's face! we're looking at it like, who is that? >> unbelievable. we did this one thing where they asked the whole senior stands to go into the stands and take a picture and three guys stood up and mooned the camera and they blurred it out. >> they didn't have to run that picture. >> we didn't see any cheeks. >> all right. maria molina out and about. you've got quite a crowd around you this morning. >> that's right. quite a crowd out here on 48th and 6th. we do have the charlie daniels band and also some barbecue and the wounded warrior project

here. thank you so much for coming in this morning, all of you, and also making some friends. we have assisten here, our dog. good morning. good to see all of you and have fun today. let's look at the weather conditions across the country because here in the new york city area, things look very good. other areas not so much. across parts of the center of the country, we have temperatures well above average, into the 90s and middle 80s. across parts of the gulf coast, this is the area that we've been seeing a lot of heavy rain. locally more than four, six inches of rain. flash flooding has been a concern. a number of watches are in effect out here and more rain is expected as we head into this afternoon and also this evening. otherwise over the weekend, saturday and on sunday, we could be seeing severe weather across parts of the plains. let's head back inside. >> all right. maria molina out on the streets of new york city, thank you. coming up, who makes up the next generation of fox news journalists? you're about to meet them. >> good morning. he's our big winner. >> first. >> our trivia question of the day. born on this day in 1971, this

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who are the next generation of journalists? fox news journalists? you're about to meet one of them perhaps because students all across the country have created and submitted news stories with the hopes of winning a trip to new york city and an interview right here on fox news and "fox & friends." >> today we are so proud to announce our winner of our college challenge. >> while the winter winds are giving area land owners a financial boost, they do come at a cost to american taxpayers. these wind turbines receive both federal and state tax credits, as well as a property tax exemption. >> joining us is the 2014 winner of the fox news channel college challenge, seth paxton. good morning. >> congratulations. >> a lot of our viewers saw the same commercial. what inspired to you enter? >> i had seen the commercial on fox news channel watching it during the evenings and found it

was real personal and close to home and rolled with it. >> fantastic. you go to school at the university of oklahoma state. >> yes, sir. >> and you saw it. you're the first one-man band who has ever won. you set up the tripod and ran around to the front and did your own stand up. what is it about this particular story, about wind turbines in oklahoma that you said to yourself, this is a good topic because it's personal for me. >> yeah. it's a highly controversial topic. where i live in southwestern oklahoma, farmersand land owners seek to directly benefit from these being on their land. at the same time they're subsidized by the taxpayers. >> how dowr>÷ they benefit from them? n they receive benefits from the wind turbine companies and the companies are propped up by the taxpayers, $12 billion on the federal level alone. these tax subsidies they receive are huge. >> so how did you decide that this is going to be your story that you wanted to do, 'cause it had a personal edge to it? >> the wind turbine companies

approach my family several years ago and said do we want to put these on your land? and we were kind of hesitant, but then saw the financial opportunity. it's a real personal story, directly benefits our family. >> so your family could get 7, $8,000, something like that, but at the same time, the money comes from the taxpayers, so you're torn. that's why you decided it was a great story. >> absolutely. there are so many different sides to it. if you take from a taxpayers' side, you'd be outraged. from the land owner's side, it's a great thing. >> take a look here, allow us to play ed mcmahon -- stand up for just a second. the winner of $10,000 from fox news channel, seth paxton, oklahoma state university! >> winning a big trip to new york city and fox news channel, what do you think about the studio? >> it's awesome. love to be in new york city. a little bigger than in oklahoma. >> what do you want to be when you grow up? >> law school eventually. maybe do energy law. that would be interesting to me.

>> great. >> you got a good start. >> thank you very much. >> your parents are just off camera. they're taping the whole thing. it's really cute. >> congratulations, guys. >> good job, mom and dad. up next, it's the first movie angelina jolie starred in in four years. is it worth all the hype? >> kevin mccarthy just saw it and he's up next. >> there is evil here

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>> fairy tale we all remember with a little twist. >> i shall bestow a gift on the child. before the sun sets on her 16th birthday, she will fall into a sleep-like death! >> if i was a kid, that would scare the living daylights out of me. >> brad pitt's got his hands full. >> it's sleeping beauty, but this time the story revolves around the villain, angelina jolie. >> disney's "maleficent" -- how do you say it? >> "maleficent." >> they made up a word. >> kevin mccarthy who interrupted me rudely, saw the movie. what do you think? i've been hearing mixed reviews on this. >> yeah. here is the deal. you -- this is similar to

wicked, where you're taking a perspective of a story and looking at the villain. here you're dealing with "maleficent," the fairy who essentially -- i'm sorry, cursed princess in the original sleeping beauty movie in 1959. now we're learning why she did that. almost like a prequel and then it goes into the actual sleeping beauty story line. here is a couple things about this movie. i paid $18 to see this last night in imax. the imax 3d, absolutely worthless. skip it. ickes max doesn't fill -- imax doesn't fill the full screen. skip that all together. also the movie is rated pg, but very scary. i would not recommend this for young kids. there is some scary moments, some intense moments and some violent moments as well. i gave it three out of five. the beginning is a little slow, but angelina jolie tells this. she's amazing. she was born to play this role. i will say there is a scene between angelina jolie and her real daughter, vivian. her and brad pitt's daughter. the problem with the scene is

the kid looks like brad pitt. you're thinking, that's angelina jolie and her daughter. i gave it three out of five. it's decent to watch. not the greatest movie ever made, but a good, solid performance. >> spent 18 bucks to see it. you shouldn't ask kevin mccarthy for financial advice. you got 30 seconds to tell us about "a million ways to die in the west." >> this is seth mcfar land. i loved "ted" which made over $4,540,000,000. dealing with a sheep farmer who falls in love with charlize theron's character -- >> it's a true story? >> not at all. the movie, there is some funny moments, but there is some not so funny moments. remember "blazing saddles requesting," that's a classic, 95 minute movie. this movie has too many jokes that fall flat. i gave it 2 1/2 out of five. i recommend a rental maybe. >> you met tom cruise in london, right? what's up with that? >> i did. i have a quick selfy stalky

picture i took with him on the red carpet after the interview was overment kind of creepy. i apologize for creeping people out with that photo. it's called a stalky. but yeah, that interview will air next week right here. brian, i'm so jealous of your sylvester stallone interview, that was phenomenal. >> thank you very much. >> thanks very much. coming up straight ahead. >> all eyes are on washington, d.c. right now. in 30 minutes, fox news alert, eric shinseki will speak. the big question is, will he announce he's going to call it quits blocking brand. comes without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protection.

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good morning. it is friday, the 30th of may, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. v.a. secretary shinseki set to speak this hour and all eyes are on it. we have cameras taking it out right now because the big question, will he call it quits? >> you'll see it live here. meanwhile, another developing story, details from hillary clinton's new upcoming book just leaked out. we're finding out what she thinks about the benghazi attacks and susan rice. >> okay. and they spend time together on the battlefield. but haven't seen each other in nearly two years. here is proof man's best friend never forgets. >> hi, baby!

>> that veteran and his dog join us live. meanwhile, according to every report and everybody on our veranda, mornings are better with friends. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> southern boy from wilmington, north carolina, has been singing for six decades and continues to kill it this morning right here on the "fox & friends" summer concert series. >> it's a great pleasure to have charlie. about ten years ago -- >> charlie dams was set to perform this evening with bret michael, but bret michaels was rushed off the stage last night, in his third number of his first set at the palace in manchester, new hampshire. apparently they're attributing it to low blood sugar. of course, he's a type 1

diabetic. his guitarist took to facebook to tell us pretty much what we know right now. >> he said in the nine years i've stood next to him, i've never seen a look like the one on his face, as if i was a complete stranger. when i rushed to the bus, he could barely speak. >> look at his history. >> it's been tough. he had an emergency appendectomy , brain surgery. he came back and said, i'm going to be okay. paramedics did take him to the hospital. >> geraldo rivera is here. >> good morning, everybody. hi, anna. >> good morning. >> he was also the winner on apprentice. >> we can't talk about that. >> if we weren't live, we would have taken it back and edited out. >> good morning, anna. >> it was great to see charlie daniels. he did a big benefit for me in the '70s. he's been around even longer than i have. that's a long time. did he a benefit for the d institutionalization of the

developmentally disabled, now people we call autistic. they did a wonderful job at it. he performed then with greg allman, the allman brothers band. >> unfortunately, we got to transition to many wound warriors that have been disabled. we should alert you that general shinseki will be speaking in about 30 minutes. >> you mentioned the wounded warriors. part of the stress that was placed on the veterans administration was the longest war in american history in afghanistan, now winding down, and iraq. now it looks as if this will be the swan song for the embattled v.a. secretary. >> do you think it should be today? you think it will be in 30 minutes? >> i predicted it would be last weekend over memorial day weekend. i thought it would be a more appropriate time, given the fact you are honoring the service of veterans and the v.a. let them down so profoundly. i think today is appropriate. >> we're looking at live pictures outside the venue where mr. shinseki is going to make

his speech in about 25 minutes. we've got it covered all over the place. what's curious, i want to play a sound bite for you. if he was going to stick around, jay carney yesterday would have, when he was asked by the press repeatedly, does shinseki have the confidence of the president, he would have said yes. he couldn't answer that. listen. >> does the president have confidence in secretary shinseki? >> john, the president addressed this question from the podium. >> does he have confidence in secretary shinseki? >> the president believes that -- and is confident that secretary shinseki has served his nation admirably. >> right. so last week we heard the president saying that there would be some sort of punishment, some sort of ac report came back bad and what we found out yesterday from the preliminary report, these waiting lists are real. >> it's not just the waiting lists. there is the inspector general

discovered a more venal motive. why were they doctoring the books? why were they keeping two sets of waiting lists? why were they phonying up the records? the reason is they get performance-based bonuses, so they were doing it allegedly, to get the bonus. in other words, they were denying care to wounded warriors and our other veterans so they would look good, so they would get a bonus that. is a federal fraud. that's a federal crime. i spoke with rudy guiliani, the former new york mayor and federal prosecutor about it yesterday. he delineated exactly what section of the federal penal code has been violated allegedly. now you need a grand jury. now you need the f.b.i now we need indictments. this is -- general shinseki, american hero, a patriot, sadly he was at the wheel when the v.a. crashed. >> he has to pay for that. that is his responsibility now

to fall on his sword and go away. but this is way deeper than we ever suspected. there will be -- and i want to see -- people who rig the books to get a bonus, i want to see them being led out of the phoenix v.a. hospital in manacles with an f.b.i. agent accompanying them as if they were the low down dirty crooks they appear to be. >> then go right from there to the irs. >> when you put -- what did you say? >> go right from there to the irs and get those people. >> you're changing the topic. this is a muddy place filled with crappy people that have done terrible things. now you're going to -- let's clean out the v.a., not that you can't do two things at once. but i think that this -- talk about other scandals when you have something that is a cancer at the heart of the presidency, i think distracts. >> speaking of the presidency, though, he got the interim report. he saw it before we did. he should have pulled the plug right then. >> clearly the president campaigned on cleaning up the v.a., among other things.

i mean, it is pretty apparent he knew there were deficiencies in 2008 when he was senator obama running for president of the united states. i think there is definitely presidential responsibility. first shinseki goes, and then let the people in the midterm elections decide whether or not the party is responsible as their president is. >> we're going to see it live at 8:30. let's pivot. >> let's talk about politico has got on their web site right now an exclusive chapter from hillary clinton's new book about benghazi. we've got some points that are contained in it. the book is called "hard choices." apparently she doubles down on saying it was a video. it was a factor. also she defends susan rice. she also says essentially that, quote, those who ex -- she's taking a shot at republicans -- those who exploit this tragedy over and over as a political tool minimize the sacrifice of those who served our country. so essentially what she's saying is she's risen above politics,

the republicans do, too. but the republicans say, look, we don't have answers. >> specifically she says that the c.i.a. signed off on susan we have the deputy director -- >> you're going to get mad at me. >> let me finish my point. the deputy director saying i knew nothing about a video. >> well, i don't know about who knew nothing about a video. all i know is it cannot be a coincidence that the attack in benghazi was timed precisely to follow the attack on the embassy in cairo and other u.s. facilities around the world. you can not think that it is implausible that this video played some role. now, was -- every investigative report i have seen about benghazi -- remember, i was in combat in benghazi with these scummy militia. every report i have seen is does not appear to be long, careful planning for this attack. i mean, the attack issues i've been in plenty of military

operations, this wasn't pearl harbor. at one point they hit the embassy from all sides, various militia. they fired their weapons. they disgraced our security by killing our ambassador and they did all those things. >> okay. so it was impromptu. >> then there was the mortars. it didn't take weeks to plan this. so my point is, the argument that the video played some role i think still has some credence. now, was it the prime motivating factor for the al-qaeda element to attack our embassy? i don't know. but i think that it is plausible that it played some role and i think that it is illogical to think it played no role. >> geraldo, what about the alteration -- >> did you follow that? i'm not excusing what happened in benghazi by any means. i'm just suggesting that to say the video played no role is probably unrealistic.

>> how about this, let's say they get into the nitty-gritty of it. you just know the c.i.a. director is on the record doing it. she's invited that debate again. she's invitedrr that debate because we just -- >> she's saying you got to rise above politics 'cause the republicans are doing that. and interestingly enough, apparently democrats are meeting with her right now to try to figure out how they go forward. >> the better way forward politically for republicans like me is to see benghazi as a tragedy that it is alongside the v.a. tragedy and the irs tragedy as incompetent administration. why wasn't there adequate security in benghazi? why wasn't there adequate policing of the audits in the irs? wasn't there adequate auditing of the v.a. hospitals? this is an issue of obama administration competence and i think that if you attack the competence of the democrats, then the midterm elections will show a -- americans will see this is a party that can't run

the country. let's change it up. let's see if we can do better with the other side. >> nice suit, by the way. >> thanks. >> very nice. >> thank you very much. >> she's all dressed up with headlines. >> good morning to you. i've got news about edward snowden and the nsa. one e-mail, that is the extent of the paper trail that edward snowden left for the nsa, according to agency officials. he says he repeatedly had raised concerns about sweeping surveillance programs to his higher ups at the agency and claims now that the agency's search for those e-mails is simply incomplete. that one e-mail, by the way, was dated april 8. that's three months after snowden had first reached out to the media. more on that as we get it. the los angeles clippers may soon have a new owner. the price tag for the team, $2 billion. the former ceo of microsoft, steve ballmer, agreeing to buy the team from its owner, shelly

sterling. she says she's acting as sole trusty. the team is expected to sign off on the deal and the sale will be four times more than the previous nba record. retweet gone seriously wrong and jesse jackson says he's now trying to clear his name after retweeting someone else's insulting tweet about the pope. that tweet said, quote, francis, you old half dead humbug. you are living with another man in a one bedroom apartment. i suppose you love booty. jackson now saying, quote, this tweet does not reflect my reviews -- views. i hope all who received it would not bring further attention to it. by the way, that retweet is still in his feed. jesse jackson may have received it, but someone else could have done it for him. >> you hit that button, you don't know. >> you old half dead humbug, geraldo. >> i love this pope. he's the best pope we've had in

decades. >> thanks, geraldo. coming up, you want your kid to grow up to play football? the president does not. how dangerous is the sport? we'll ask michael irvin and he'll yell something back

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so is this ruining the game's reputation? let's ask one of the all-time great, hall of famer, michael irvin, also on the nfl network. first off, you were there yesterday. does this indicate the nfl is doing something to address this big problem? >> i think it indicates nfl is doing a great deal to address the issue, brian. over the last few years, one of the things that i've struggled with as the nfl retired players sued the nfl is that we are so in this place where we're fighting each other instead of fighting for solutions for sports in the head injury department. what we saw yesterday was a move in together fighting for solutions. >> i know you got sporting goods people, professionals like yourself and the nfl working hard in that direction. i will bring up this as well. are you concerned that people are being scared off of football? that didn't stop you from getting your 15-year-old and 17-year-old playing today. it helped you as one of 13 kids

break out of a cycle of -- in the ghetto, as you just told me. >> a cycle of poverty. gave me an opportunity. it gave me an identity at a very young age to feel good about myself, helped me to be able to achieve other things with that identity and feeling good myself. i went on to graduate from the university of miami after my junior season in college. i think sports has given so many young men like me opportunities. i think sports gives so many young men a basis of what it takes to survive in life, especially football. football is about teammates, about working together with others, doing your part and understanding that others are depending upon you. and those are the same very criteria this will make you successful in life. that's why i think it's important. >> are you concerned that football is getting destroyed at

the youth level because of this fear that might not be warranted? >> one of the things that i watched and i was pleased with yesterday was even a barbaric man like me thought, hey, we need to keep people around football and make sure they learn more about football, and maybe we can take away from these other sports like soccer and that stuff. but they brought out a young lady yesterday that plays soccer. so i got so educated that it's not just about football and guys taking hits. you can get hit in the body and your head gets moved enough that you have that concussion. i thought that they drove home real well. that this is not a football problem. this is a sports issue. we need to take care of our kids. >> mike, always great to talk to you. thanks so much. you're doing great on television. continued success on every level. >> always good talking to you, buddy. god bless you. >> coming up straight ahead, michael irvin, thank you.

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we've got quick friday morning headlines for you. an accused terrorist once deemed too dangerous to be released from gitmo will be released from gitmo. the u.s. government letting him go home to yemen. he was never charged with a crime. and he is heading home. and the national 9-11 museum now yanking a controversial cheese plate from their gift shop. the u.s. shaped platter has hearts where the hijacked planes crashed. the memorial ceo says from now on, they'll get input from

victims' families about appropriate things to sell, like that cheese platter. anna? >> thank you. 24 minutes after the hour. after nearly two years apart, an iraq war veteran was finally reunited with his military dog, proving dogs truly are man's best friend. take a look. >> hi, baby! hi, baby! >> her ears are personning up listening to the video. joining us is sergeant jason boss and his military dog, cece. good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having us. >> you guys served in iraq together. >> we did. >> she's serving for five years. then what happened? >> basically i had to get out in 2012 due to a back injury and she was still pretty young. they kept her in service and another handler tried to work

with her for a while and i guess it didn't work out and they contacted me two or three months ago and asked me if i wanted her and of course, i jumped at the chance. >> this is a pretty rare thing to happen for handlers to be reunited with their dogs, is it not? >> it is rare, because sometimes if you have like a dog that's aggressive and you have young kids, you're not going to want that dog in your house. but she's super friendly and i'm really happy that i got the opportunity to get her back. >> yeah. what's that like for you? you spent so much time with her. she's almost a member of your family. and then all of a sudden, poof, she's gone. so the moment you see her, what's that like for you and how would you describe it for her? >> excitement, joy, just enthusiasm. you see her jumping up and down on me. i went down on the ground because i knew she was going to try to jump all over me. then i called her cece. i knew she would remember that. i wasn't really sure if she was going to remember me, but obviously you could tell she was really excited and so was i. >> it was like she had been

waiting for that moment for two years. >> yeah. >> and actually, you have big plans for her down the road for helping veterans. >> yeah. definitely. i'm going to try to get her classified as a service animal and go to veterans homes and try to help them out. dogs are great for people and i think that would be great for her and i. >> it's nice to have her back on american soil. >> definitely. >> and your home in michigan. >> definitely. >> thank you. and thank you, cece. good luck with the veterans. 27 minutes after the hour on your friday morning. a fox news alert. v.a. secretary shinseki set to speak at any moment. the big question is, will he call it quits? chris wallace joins us next. plus, gwyneth paltrow says being teased is just like going to war? this morning cindy mccain, who has two sons serving in the military, gets the last word. first, more from the charlie daniels band. here is "i'll be your baby tonight".

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>> that means a lot. >> no kidding. let's deal in our old buddy chris wallace who joins us every friday at this time. chris, we should point out that when shinseki does start to speak, we've got our producers listening and if he does address the scandal, we're going to go back to him live. we heard the drum beat. now a -- there he is right now taking the stage at the national coalition of homeless vets. chris, does he have to go? >> well, my guess is yes. if not in substance, yes, politically. when you've got this many -- what did we get, 11 or 12 of the democratic senators calling yesterday for him to step down. sometimes it just becomes a political netability. it's like a train accident in slow motion going over the cliff. and i just don't see how he survives, whether he's the man to solve the problem or not,

he's become kind of politically toxic as a symbol of the problem. it will be interesting to see because you quote the president saying today he's going to have a serious conversation, whether or not he's up to doing it, my guess is shinseki is a pretty tough guy. he's a disabled veteran himself, is going to sit there and say yeah, i am the guy. i can do this. so it's sometimes the commander in chief has to be the commander in chief and say it's not up to you anymore. >> it just seems like a lot of democrats who were up for election are jumping off because they can not be associated with this travesty and scandal. the latest was mike warner in virginia. >> yeah. as i say, you've also got a bunch of these democrats like allison grimes in kentucky running against mitch mcconnell. michelle nun, people that are first timers trying to get into the senate, they're all calling for shinseki to step down. he's become politically toxic. the symbol of this and you can sit there and say, maybe he could work it through and get a

new guy in. he's not going to know what the situation is. but sometimes the political perception just overwhelms the reality. and quite frankly, it's not as if shinseki looks like he's been on top of this whole scandal which has been going on for some time. this is not a new problem for the v.a. >> chris, critics say that president obama has been weak on benghazi, on fast and furious, on the irs, just letting lois lerner resign after she pleaded the fifth and says she wasn't going to say anything. if shinseki stays -- >> anna, let's listen in for just a moment. he just referred to the last two weeks. here is eric shinseki. >> you give homeless veterans hope, you give them dignity, you give them homes, and you give them real chances at a future. that is the never ending story here. it needs to be told, retold, but told well. since 2009 v.a. has proven that it can fix problems, even big ones.

but the support and cooperation on our public and private partners. we learned to better focus our talents and our resources. five years ago i don't think -- at least i didn't really know how many veterans were homeless. there are a number of estimates, or what really caused homelessness. since then we have settled on an annual point in time count conducted by hud to peg our estimates. today we better understand what factors contribute to homelessness, depression, insomnia, pain, substance use, disorder, failed relationships, usually the last is a product of the first four. >> it sounds as if he's going back into his prepared remarks, just about homeless vets. but what's curious is he said since 2009, we've been able at the v.a. to fix problems.

>> the fact is that shinseki's record on some issues has not been bad. he really has improved the situation for homeless veterans and he really has cut the backlog on veterans getting disability claims. it used to be a tremendously long time for them to get those claims processed. it's still too long, but it's better. obviously the wait time situation is bad and if anything has gotten worse. what's interesting here also is the politics of this because yesterday -- shinseki is fighting for his job and he reached out to a number of veterans groups, which have not called for him to leave yet. obviously he's talking to this group and trying to build up support. so maybe they'll talk to their friends in the white house and say look, we think this guy is okay. he also was talking to top democratic leaders like harry reid and nancy pelosi yesterday. so it's a fascinating thing that's going on here. shinseki trying to reach out to bases of support to fight for his job and trying to counteract

all those other democrats who are calling for him to step down and meanwhile, the president has to make a decision today. >> we're going to switch topics now because some excerpts from hillary clinton's new book talking about the attack in benghazi are coming out. the book is called "hard choices." she doubles down on the video, saying it was a farther. and also defending susan rice going on the five sunday talk shows and saying the c.i.a. signed off on this. what are your thoughts on this and what's the significance? >> it's clear that secretary clinton is going to play -- she's going to play really the only game she can, which is to say that everything we said at that time was what we believed at that time. she's hardly going to confess that they were misleading the country. one of the things i was particularly interested in is in the excerpts we've seen, she says, i refuse to be part of playing politics on the backs of four dead americans. of course, that's what people, her critics are concerned about, is that she and the president and the white house and the --

did play politics with their spin that this was all the result of a spontaneous protest over a video. to give you a sense of how that's continuing, susan rice is going on a couple of sunday shows this sunday to talk. interestingly enough, although we've had a standing invitation to her, she's not coming back on fox news sunday. which is the only show she hasn't done since 2012. >> you're going to talk about hillary 2016 and more on sunday, i imagine? >> yeah. first of all, we'll talk about the v.a. on hillary we'll have reince previn. and claire mccaskill has come out in favor of hillary clinton support of her if she runs. the v.a., we'll talk to jeff miller, the chairman of the house veterans affairs committee. and sam foot, the phoenix doctor, the original whistle blower to talk to him. if shinseki goes, the problems remain. so we got to talk about how we fix the v.a. and we get those

veterans the care they need. >> it will be a big sunday show. we'll all be watching. thank you very much. have a great weekend. >> thank you. same to you. it's about 20 minutes before the top of the hour. coming up, the president signaling a shift on the crisis in syria. but how we know we're helping the right people and not giving arms to the terrorists, which is a bad idea. first more from the charlie daniels band. here with this song. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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my two sons serving in the military should talk to her. president4kk+oa pledge to go work with syria. isn't this a little too late? how will we know we're helping the right people and not giving big weapons to terrorists? joining us now is fox news middle east and terrorism expert, he's also the author of the book "lost spring" and joinses from miami. gorge to you. this is adulate and an hpg short, isn't it? >> in 2011, there were demonstrators. we saw them on youtube and video. they are the ones we should have partnered with. we missed the boat in 2011 because we had the election in 2012. in syria, what we have is either al-qaeda jihaddists on one hand or hezbollah, iran on the other hand and the moderates are not really empowered. we need to identify them. not the jihaddists. >> you make a great point. so we need to identify the

people we can trust. so the white house is relying on who to give them the wise advice? and is it the appropriate organization? >> the problem here is that the administration, not just the white house, now it's dod, state department, it's everywhere, the bureaucracy is relying on those who are now posing as the experts, including care will decide which expert will go or not. at the educational background of the day, if you want to rely on expertise that we have in washington, we're going to end up partnering with the muslim brotherhood and we did in egypt and tunisia and we did in libya and look what the result was. i don't want to see this happening again in syria. >> sure. you know what? it looks like we could have another benghazi, book 2. >> not one benghazi. in syria, it will be 12 benghazis. we already know that the my la shahs in syria are acting energeticcally. >> sir, thank you very much. >> thank you, steve.

>> up next on the big telecast, the big performance from the charlie daniels band. but first, let's check in with hemmer for a preview of what happens at the top of the hour. ♪ ♪

>> i'm bill hemmer. rudy guiliani on american leadership, what he thinks the president needs to do about it. mayor mike bloomberg has a message for liberal college students in america. wait 'til you hear that. and the flying dog, her name is whisper. we got the video of whisper flying. can't make it up. it's friday, martha and i will see you up next. ask. >> welcome back. what a great crowd here! give yourself a round of

applause. 20,000 people here again! >> you know what? they're not here for us. charlie daniels -- >> what? >> charlie daniel high school a new album that came out yesterday called "off the grid." he does dylan, he worked with dylan back in the day. today he's working with us. >> you mean bob dylan? >> yeah. >> wow. he's good. >> he's been rocking for more than 60 years from one of my favorite towns, wilmington, north carolina. he's about to perform "the devil went down to georgia." here it is. ♪ ♪ he was in the bind when he came across this young man's soul to steal a fiddle.

the jumped on and said boy, let me tell what you ♪ ♪ you probably didn't even know it but i'm a fiddle player too ♪ ♪ and you care to take a during i'll make a bet with you ♪ ♪ you play a pretty good fiddle boy ♪ ♪ i bet this fiddle of gold to get your soul 'cause i'm better than you ♪ 'cause he's broke loose in georgia and the devil's deals the cards ♪ ♪ and if you win you get this shiny fiddle made of gold ♪ ♪ but if you lose the devil gets your soul ♪ ♪ the devil opened up his case ♪ and he said i'll start this show ♪ ♪ and the fire flew from his fingertipses ♪ ♪ and he rosened up his bow ♪ and then he pulled his bow and across the strings and it made an evil his ♪ ♪ and a band of demons joined in

and it sounded something like this ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ when the devil finished johnny said you know you're pretty good old son ♪ ♪ but you just flop down in that chair and i'll show you how it's done ♪ ♪ . ♪ fire on the mountain run boys run ♪ ♪ the devil's in the house of the rising sun ♪ ♪ chicken in the bread pan picking at dough ♪ ♪ granny does your dog bite, no child no ♪

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the president will meet with shinseki in the oval at 10:15. charlie daniels in the after the show show. round of applause for the daniels band. bill: good morning. the veterans affairs secretary onli' momen finishing a speech to a veterans group after there were new questions about whether his fate could be sealed. welcome to america's newsroom, i'm bill hemmer. martha: i'm martha maccallum. secretary shinseki speaking to a coalition of homeless veterans. shinseki said he will get rid of the leadership at the phoenix va, saying what happened there is