neither of those stories has ever been as big as this limbaugh episode, but at the same time, rush is a much bigger figure and more closely tied to republican parties which is why you have republican candidates like mitt romney and newt gingrich and rick santorum being asked about rush's remarks, much bigger figures than these others. but it shouldn't just be less all the people on the left beat up on a conservative when he says that and vice versa when it's a liberal that talks his wr way into trouble. >> how does this end? >> reporter: it probably ends with rush limbaugh having his reputation a little battered but still on the air, and the democrats being handed pretty much of a presence here in which they can tie these remarks to radio talk show hosts to the republicans who are going to be running this forum. >> thank you.

now this. welcome back, i'm brooke baldwin. top of the hour. it is super tuesday, after all. republicans voting in ten states today. primary caucuses. we've got you covered. time to play reporter roulette political style. in ohio, big, big state for mitt romney and rick santorum. dana bash is there for us. dana, the race is down to the wire. >> down to the wire, and right now it is a dead heat in this very important state of ohio between mitt romney and santorum. they are tied for 32%, according to our latest poll. this state is not just important in terms of the primary because it has very delegate rich, 63 delegates at stake, it is also symbolically important for the volatility of the general election. the last 12 cycles, no president has won the white house without winning this state. i talked to voters for the past day and a half here trying to

get a sense of how they feel. here's an example of what two voters talked about when it came to the top two contenders. >> romney, i think, is more electable. i have no problem with the other guys. >> why do you like santorum? >> because of his family values, and i just like everything about him. but if he doesn't get the nomination, no matter who has an r behind their name, i'm going to vote for them. >> reporter: now, brooke, we also spent some time with some santorum volunteers as they tried to get out the vote. that is largely what santorum is relying on, that being the enthusiasm for people in this very conservative area of southwest ohio. on the flip side, mitt romney has a tremendous organization, even santorum backers admit that, and so he is hoping that that is going to propel him to win. also the fact that he is making the case, which i've heard repeated many times from many average voters, that he believes

he is the best position to beat barack obama, and no matter what these republican voters think of in terms of the field, they are really unified that they want to get president obama out of the white house come november. >> maybe because you're sitting in a bar and they seem so relaxed, but do you sense enthusiasm between these voters in ohio, or is it lackluster? >> you know, i have to tell you it's not as high as if you are a republican wanting to beat barack obama, as high as you would want. i'm at a polling station in hamilton county, which is incredibly important, and it encompasses cincinnati. there's been a trickle of voters here, not huge, and in terms of enthusiasm, that bar where i was, it was actually the former house speaker -- the house speaker's, i should say, family bar, and even john boehner's bar, his grandfather started it 75 years ago. i talked to his sister. even she says she's not enthusiastic. too much sparring. she said she's just going to flip a coin.

>> how about that. maybe that's a sign of things to come tonight. thank you, dana bash. meanwhile, david mattingly standing by for us in georgia. newt gingrich hoping to get back in the win column here tonight. he is the favorite son in georgia, after all. >> reporter: that's right, brooke, and the headline coming out of super tuesday isn't going to be that newt gingrich won georgia. he probably is going to win georgia. this was his home state. this was his district here where i am right now. he is still a very influential republican figure within the party here and among voters. but at this point, the question is by what margin of victory can he win georgia tonight? it's got to be very strong for him to come out of this state and hope to be able to have any life for his campaign after super tuesday. so right now he's looking for a very big win in georgia to take most, possibly all, if he's able to arrange a big turnoutn his favor across the board here in

the state of georgia for the 76 delegates that are up for grabs. he's been on the ground here five out of the last seven days campaigning. you know he's going to win here but that just shows you how much he wants to win big. and earlier today, he was in the state of alabama trying to pursue his southern strategy, and here's what he had to say. >> ron >> ronald reagan was a visionary. he had a vision that the soviet union could be defeated. when everybody and the elite had been demoralized, was desperately seeking to accommodate the russians, a reporter went to reagan in the late '70s and said, what's your vision of the cold war? he said four words that changed history. we win, they lose. and gingrich hoping to make a little bit of a win here in

georgia to continue on with life after super tuesday. brooke? >> next to the heartlands, to oklahoma, and ali velshi. hey, ali. >> well, brooke, you can see i drew the short straw in the election coverage. we're here in guthrie, oklahoma. guthrie was the first state cammca capital here. it has oil that is produced here and piped here. this is a state that's been disa poidisa -- disappointed about this administration's view on the keystone pipeline. this would be a transfer point. it would go down through the gulf of mexico.

so they want a pro-energy candidate. most of the republicans have a strong pro-energy platform, so there isn't a lot of policy differences separating the voters here. many of them like rick santorum. like i said, this is a socially conservative state. they find themselves in line with rick santorum's views, but a lot of them really don't like president obama. i heard some of them talking about an abo policy, anybody but obama, so somebody going into the polling booth saying they will vote for somebody as long as it's the person most likely to defeat president obama. like i said, there are democrats in this state, and there are some people voting for the other candidates, but it seems to be the polling and other people we talk to that it comes down to mitt romney and rick santorum tonight. brooke? >> ali velshi, thank you. more help for underwater homeowners. president obama announcing today another plan to make it easier to refinance your mortgages. we're going to have all the details for you.

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big takeaways? >> reporter: i think it was iran and israel, that there is time for diplomacy to work and he thinks there can be an agreement between israel and the u.s., that there is no need for action in the next two weeks up to a few months. on the topic of syria that there is a difference between syria and libya because there is no international unity in the arab world, that the u.s. would have to act militarily if it were to act alone. but really, that's not a new position from the white house. he's just reiterating what we've heard before. he did take a bit of a 2x4 to the republican candidates, accusing them essentially of popping off on iran without having to take any responsibility with what he called loose talk of war before, and he did sort of go out there with new language on that, saying that, you know, he's really the one who has the real

responsibility here, and it's the military members, men and women on the front lines, who have to pay a price. that's why he moved slowly and cautiously on this one, brooke. >> right, saying american families know all too well the cost of war. i do want to ask you about your question, jessica. you asked him about a possible war on women. what did he say? >> reporter: i asked if he agrees there is a war on women, because there's been all this talk back and forth with the discussion of contraception and the language that's been hurled about with the political rhetoric. if he actually agrees that some of women's reproductive freedom are at stake or if this is really sort of being juiced up to get the women's vote engaged. here is part of his answer. >> women are going to make up their own minds in this election about who is advancing the

issues that they care most deeply about. one of the things i've learned being married to michelle is i don't need to tell her what she thinks is important. there are millions of strong women around the country who are going to make their own determination about a whole range of issues. it's not going to be narrowly focused just on contraception, it's not going to be driven by one statement by one radio announcer. >> reporter: brooke, he did add that he thinks democrats have a stronger case to make to women voters, and the reason i asked this question in part is suburban women voters are a key green block in this election, both republican candidates and the democrats will work to win that vote, and the president is winning more women support since

this contraception issue became an issue, brooke. >> gloria borger and i said this looked like a political gulch among the candidates. he was asked about the races overall, especially about race contender mitt romney, and there was a bit of chuckling involved in that answer. >> reporter: yeah. the white house knew they were doing this on super tuesday. he came out with a housing plan which is in tritrinsically whatt romney is not doing, which is not proposing a house plan to help underwater house owners. and nora o'donnell asked the following question, and listen to the president's answer. >> mitt romney has criticized you on iran and said hope is not a foreign policy. he also said that you are america's most tactless president since carter.

what would you like to say to mr. romney? >> good luck tonight. [ laughter ] >> no, really. >> reporter: way to make news in as few words as possible. >> right? that was a moment in there. jessica yellin, thank you so much for us at the white house. coming up next, defense secretary leon panetta says the greatest threat in the mideast is a nuclear iran, but the u.s. should just make a major move. military action is not off the table. we're going live to the pentagon, next.

the u.s. and five other countries are willing to go back to the negotiating table over

iran's nuclear program. but the diplomacy really just part of the story. we heard the president's preference is diplomacy, but he also said no option is necessarily off the table. >> right, brooke. this is coming the same day where the u.s. commander of the middle east, commander of the forces in the middle east says iran is the most nuclear threat to the stability in that region. there is a lot of rhetoric. prime minister benjamin netanyahu here in the united states also sounding concerned from israel's point of view that iran is moving closer to the bomb. so yes, diplomacy is one aspect of this, but the military force is always right there on the table as well. >> some news today, there appears to be some unwillingness on behalf of iran to let international inspectors visit a key military base, and obviously, i imagine inspectors want to get there asap, correct?

>> reporter: they want to get there as soon as possible, brooke. they wanted to get there as a last visit nearly a month ago, but they said proper procedures weren't followed, you have to put in this sort of formal request so they were not give a given -- ak assess to it, but they believe there was testing there in relations to the program. they believe something is happening there. they won't say whether they think evidence is being moved or simply more testing taking place, but the inspectors are hinting that something is happening there that puts a premium on time, that they need to get there as soon as possible. >> so then the obvious question is are there any conditions for this visit? are we to actually assume iran is forthright in this? >> reporter: well, iran continues to make certain claims. one of the things that's really raised some red flags is that they tripled their production of

enriched uranium. they tripled their production about a month ago. iran is claiming this is for cancer therapy, this is for peaceful purposes, but there is some concern that this is a ramp-up, another step along that process. now, to get to military grade, you need to enrich to 90%. but the key is once you've gotten to 20%, that's the tough part. the jump from 20 to 90 is not all that great. it's just more evidence from those who say, you know, iran is positioning itself to be able to make that jump to a nuclear weapon in a very short amount of time. >> chris lawrence, thank you. republicans are working to make up some ground when it comes to the ladies. i just spoke with one analyst who says this whole rush limbaugh controversy is not helping the party's gender gap.

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>> it's hard to argue with her simply because she's probably seen so many more elections than i have, but i seem to recall that in 2008, the primary with barack obama and hillary clinton, in south carolina in particular there was some nasty racial undertones to that. we've all seen tough primaries. it's distasteful. we know they make better candidates in the end. i'm not sure if it's any worse than anything we've seen before. >> there is this perception out there, and president obama was asked about it in his news conference, that the republican candidates collectively are somehow anti-women. i want to show you these numbers. it shows president obama, a pretty big gap. it shows president obama leading mitt romney in a hypothetical matchup among women. you see 55% with obama, 37 with romney. whether you agree with it or not, the perception is out there, as a colleague of mine

said, that's a gender gulch. big. >> yeah, it's a gender gap, and i think we're seeing a lot of grandstanding and emotionalizing around this contraception thing. but when the dust settles, i think women's level heads will prevail. they know deep in their heart the gop is not going to compensate birth control pills, that this is truly an issue of religious liberty. the boston tea party wasn't about tea and this isn't about contraception, it's about the first amendment. when all of that settles, when our candidate finally comes out of this primary, whoever that might be, i think the independent women came out for the gop in huge numbers in the 2010 election, the election my husband actually won in, and i think they won on economic issues. when it comes down to it, women understand those kitchen table issues, and they vote on that. and if you don't mind me saying, frankly, the democrats talk a

lot about issues, and they don't really deliver on them. and one of them in particular, this medicare and social security. women over 55, women like me or daughters know we may end up being the caretakers for our mothers, we care about that issue. and frankly, if the democrats have offered nothing, which essentially is going to send those programs into bankruptcy. >> let me bring you back to something you mentioned, kitchen table issues. what do you mean by that? >> i mean the economy, and i mean specifically those feelings that all of us have that we are not leaving america with this debt level, with this spending level, and frankly, with the job numbers that we're seeing now for our kids that are graduating from college. we're not leaving off the kind of opportunity country that we were handed off. and i think it makes us sick to our stomachs. and i think, again, when all of this emotional issues about sandra fluke and all the fluffy

stuff that's coming out right now settles out, we're going to reconcentrate just like we did in 2010, and who actually can get the job done. >> let me run through some of these candidates with you. we have rick santorum. he has certainly said some things that have rankled women. we have newt gingrich. he's on his third wife and there's some issues there. we went into the archives and pulled out some video of mitt romney. he's with some female dineres in derry, new hampshire. let's roll it. >> much closer, much closer. >> derry, new hampshire. i don't know what's going on there. it was a bit of a giggle last summer. he's having a little fun with the ladies. when you look at those ratings, it seems he has the fewest negatives among female voters. does that jibe with you and how important is that?

>> obviously, i think there is a gender gap and i'm not denying that there is. first of all, that clip, i mean, women have a sense of humor. hello, i'm glad we do. i don't like living in this hypeerhyp hyper pc world where everything a guy says is offensive and i like when they open the door for me. out of everyone you mentioned, romney probably has the least issues with women. he's been married for a long time -- so has santorum. that's probably why obama fears him the most. that's the impression that we get, that he would like to run against the others and not so much romney. so i don't know, i mean, again, it is what it is. the gop, i think, has some really solid issues to run on, issues that really matter to women, and again, they're

kitchen table, tangible, economic issues, and frankly, i think we care about that stuff. >> it's the constituency we're watching for. rachel campos-duffy, thank you, and for the record, i like it when men open the door for me as well. paula deen and her brother face a lawsuit involving sexual harassment and racism. we're going on the case with sunny hostin after this quick break. ♪ ( whirring and crackling sounds ) man: assembly lines that fix themselves. the most innovative companies are doing things they never could before,

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i want to bring in sunny hostin here on the case, and we're going to do this a little bit on the fly here, sunny, because we just learned there is some video coming in. let's take a look at the videos here together. these are live pictures, as

we're about to see. tj lane, the young man accused of murdering those students at chardon high school. these are the very first pictures we're seeing of him, and as' been told, a judge ruled it's okay for us to show his face as long as he's not in restraints. sunny hostin, you and i looking at this for the very first time. what do you make of this, and why is he in court today? >> you know, it's remarkable, isn't it? he appears so young. this judge initially ruled that he could not be photographed, that no video could be taken of him in large part because we're in juvenile court. apparently the judge revised that ruling and said that he could be viewed as long as he wasn't shown in restraints, because typically, brooke, when you show someone in restraints, it has the possibility of affecting a jury pool, someone that's going to ultimately pass judgment on this young man. my understanding is that he may,

indeed, be eventually charged as an adult. we know that there were three people that allegedly he was the shooter and he murdered three people, and so my understanding is there are a lot of issues that are going to be dealt with today. i don't know if that determination is going to be made today, whether or not this will be held over or transferred to an adult court. but i suspect that ultimately he will be charged as an adult in this case. >> sunny, since we're sitting here talking about this and you and i were sitting here live talking about this last week, and we saw that very first appearance and could only hear his voice, we couldn't see his face. you and i had the conversation whether or not he could face the death penalty, whether or not he is tried as a juvenile or tried as an adult. ultimately your answer is what? >> thank you for giving me the opportunity to clear that up. ohio is a death penalty eligible state, but the supreme court held in 2005 that juveniles cannot be given the death

penalty. so when we had our discussion before, brooke, i was explaining that ohio is a death penalty case, and i mistakenly said if he was charged as an adult, that would make him eligible for the death penalty. he is only, my understanding, 17 years old, and supreme court in 2005 made it very clear that a 17-year-old, someone under the age of 18, cannot be -- is not death penalty eligible. so even if he is tried as an adult, he will not be death penalty eligible, but he could very well serve the rest -- if convicted, serve the rest of his life in prison, which is, as anyone knows, a very, very stiff penalty for someone that's only 17 years old. >> let's move off that. let's talk about southern chef paula deen. she is under attack from one of her former employees. apparently deen and her brother bubba are being sued for sexual harassment. what are the accusations here? >> this is remarkable. this was filed yesterday. i have a copy of the complaint yesterday in georgia, in

savannah. well, lisa jackson, who apparently was a manager of one of paula deen's restaurants that she runs with her brother, it's called uncle bubba's seafood and oyster house, lisa jackson claims this was a hostile work environment and paula deen condoned sexual harassment, racism, and used herself racial epithets. i think we have a bit of what is contained in the complaint. and lisa jackson alleges that when paula deen was asked about planning a wedding, she said i want a true southern style plantation wedding. i really would like a bunch of little n words to wear long sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know, in the shirley temple days. she goes on to say, that would abe true southern wedding, wouldn't it, but the media would be on me about that. so these are just allegations, brooke, but very serious

allegations. i reached out to paula deen's attorneys. they said that they cannot comment, of course, on pending litigation. i also reached out to the plaintiff's attorney. he indicated to me that at 2:00 today there would be an emergency hearing on a gag order motion that was filed by paula deen's attorneys. he just recently let me know that that gag order motion was denied. i hope to get the opportunity to speak to the parties involved in this case, lisa jackson the plaintiff, and her attorney, but at this moment, she has been sued civilly. it's not a criminal case but she has been sued for sexual harassment and several other counts. it's a 33-page complaint. so really, really striking. >> as you mentioned, the accusations, we'll follow it and see if it goes anywhere. now this is something perhaps a lot of us can relate to. i'm talking popcorn. sky high prices for snacks at

the movie theatre. you just kind of groan when you hand over that $25. a man has filed a class action lawsuit against his local amc theatre. he says movie theatres are gouging customers who buy popcorn and drinks. he also says the theatre violates the consumer protection act. amc is not commenting on the suit. so, super tuesday. ten states showing primary caucuses on the same day. we'll go state to state about what's important and what's not. stay with us. not in my house. with maxwell house french roast, you let gravity do the work. [ male announcer ] maxwell house french roast. always good to the last drop. ♪

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here we go. on this super tuesday, ten states going all the way from alaska to massachusetts, voting today in what could be a deciding day in the republican presidential race. super tuesday. the number here, 419. 419 delegates the total up for grabs today, so we want to break down a couple states we're really watching closely and then of course what they mean for these candidates. i want to begin with the great state of ohio. you see here 63 delegates stully n is actually not the biggest delegate prize here today. no president has ever not won the state of ohio. you have blue collar, white collar, evangelical, tea party. low voter turnout could be a bad omen, a bad signs for

republicans going into november against the president. this is a state he won back in 2008. so moving along to georgia. this is the most number of delegates up for grabs here at 76. and specifically, the question is, can gingrich maintain his poll numbers here? we have to wait and see, of course, course. he served congress for two decades here, so we'll have to watch and see in georgia. moving along, though, staying in the south, tennessee is a huge conservative territory. a win for newt gingrich could jump start his campaign. if he wins georgia, that's a huge win for him. romney appeals to southern republicans. keep in mind in 2008, mitt romney didn't win a single deep south state, so how these evangelicals, how the undecideds vote could really show who comes

out on this state. finally we take you to virginia. virginia is significant because you just have actually two people, two people on this ballot not beating santorum or gingrich. they're not on the ballot, so this could be a huge, huge day for mitt romney. can he get 50% or more of the vote in virginia? because if he can cross that threshold, he will add even more delegates to his total. 46 up for grabs in virginia which, today, stands for romney at 207. remember, here's the magic number for the delegates to date. magic number to clinch the nomination, 1,144. and we're going to have live spishl coverage, of course, all night long on this super tuesday. join us beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern. this is $100,000.

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we do now have some information just in to cnn. this is that developing story out of florida. two people are dead after a shooting at a high school in jacksonville, florida. here's what happened. police say a teacher who had been fired today walked back into an episcopal high school in jacksonville, shot the female headmaster. the teacher then committed suicide. we're told the headmaster had been at the school for more than three decades. we are also told no students were hurt. a home invasion in philadelphia ends with a husband dead and the wife shot more than eight times. this all happened while their boys home.

>> they're devastated, needless to say. they had to leave the house, they had to step over their father to get out of the house, their father laying on the ground. >> the 13-year-old son called 911 monday early morning. his brother is 10. police say they don't know why the shooters targeted this family. investigators say 35-year-old john paul and his wife cheryl have no history with them. investigators believe a trail of blood at the home shows one of the gunmen was hit at some point in time. there was some sort of struggle. mrs. pull is in critical condition. a reward is being offered. wolf blitzer in atlanta with me, obviously we know why. it is super tuesday, after all. ten states holding primaries, caucuses. i just saw gloria borger, she said we would be here until potential 2:00? >> take out the word

"potential "potentially." >> who better to spend my evening with. huge night. top of the talk is ohio? >> ohio, ohio, ohio. if santorum can win in ohio, and our last poll shod neck and neck, if he wins, he'll survive. if romney wins in ohio, it's going to bolster this notion that it's all his for the taking, if you will. ohio is going to be critical. >> then you look at the south, of course gingrich needs to win his home state of georgia. >> he probably will win. >> he probably will. the next question is tennessee. romney hasn't won -- >> tennessee is like ohio. it's snick and neck between santorum and romney. gingrich is not necessarily all that much of a factor in tennessee right now, which is a surprise, because you would have thought in the south he would be doing better, but at least according to the most recent polls we have seen, tennessee is very much like ohio. >> a total of 419 delegates.

>> and then the super delegates unplunged from the states that will be more. >> tune in for our coverage. >> more delegates tonight at stake than all the contests until now. >> one third of the delegates of the final 1,144, the magic number. now to this. this is a tough one. a young college student dies in a violent car accident moments before she had been texting behind the wheel. now her parents are coming forward, telling her story, and making an important request. shana and clay sower join me live. do not miss their daughter's story. [ engine revs ]

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texting and driving, you're not supposed to do it. it doesn't make driving any easier, but even the brightest among us do it, like 18-year-old taylor sawyer. her work once prompted a local station to profile her as the distinguished student of the week. >> ready to leave and go farther, take on the world. >> but the world didn't see that happen. she died january 14th after crashing her car into a tanker. this was the aftermath. idaho state police say she had been texting and driving, reportedly every 90 seconds as she headed home from college.

the last text, i can't discuss this matter now, driving and facebooking is not safe. >> now her parents of speaking out. idaho senate has already approve lug. obviously to both of you, my condolences. in fact, i know this is quite fresh, that your daughter passed away just two months ago. so why speak out? why come forward now? >> we feel we need to. it is very hard, emotion are raw for us. the bill came forward. we were approached, and fell it was the right thing to do, to get this message out, the message of awareness to kids, and help to get this bill passed. idaho needs this law. >> clay, if you can, take me back and help us understand.

it was january 14th, she was coming home on i-84. what happened? >> she was on i-84 driving home from college, and, you know, it was around 9:00 that evening, and evidently she was texting or facebooking at the time, was not looking, and ran into the back of a slow-moving semi and passed away on impact. we found out about the time she should be rolling into our house, we had a knock at the door. i answered the door, and it was the local coroner giving us the terrible news. >> shana, i look at they pictures of this beautiful young woman, and we heard her say she was ready to take on the world. i have to ask, did either of you ever have any conversation about please, taylor, don't text, ton facebook while you're driving? did that ever happen? >> definitely.

we've talked with all of our kids about texting. the facebooking, all of our kids haven't had phones for very long that had the facebooking ability on it the facebooking, we would always talk to our kids, and taylor in particular, we would say, taylor stay off, no facebooking, no texting, and she would say, hey, facebooking isn't texting. i think she would still say that. mom, i -- even though she was doing both, and we know that. i think because they think they're rolling through, just reading, they're not texting. >> and both you parents say, no, it is the same. you have got to the state capitol. what specifically are you asking from the state legislature? >> we would like them to help us keep our kids safe, keep the adults safe, keep the citizens of idaho safe. this is no different than the

seat belt law, no different than drunk driving. if we make it into a law, then you know, there's going to be less people that will participate in it. it's proven with the seat belts, it's proven with drunken driving. >> i think that's a important and wonderful point. i understand from a lot of teens you have heard from say it isn't the same, that rolling through your facebook page or twitter at mentions isn't as harmful. what do you say to teens or parents? 30 seconds left yet. what is your message to parents today? >> to get the message out to their kids. we evidently didn't do it well enough or enough. we need to get this message out. if we get this law in place, it will help with education, help the younger generations to understand this law, it is a law, and they'll be trained that way all the way through driver's education and on, just like