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memories of attending the jubilee in detroit, which was nine months before he was important. >> and six months before this thing got going every republican i know was saying he was going to beat obama. now what an f-mess. investigated by the federal government. turns out it was the partially funded by the federal government. >> those who forget history are condemned to repeat t and the people have short memories as to what happened here in 2001. >> and apparently others who forget there is an fbi, a c.i.a. and department of homeland security. murdoch gate exploits another one of his newspapers, paying off not the cops but government

officials. the congressman's idea to get senators to adopt the plan? >> go over with a gun and kill a couple of them. >> nice work, einstein. no literally disproving of his theory is disproved. and the discoverry of planet steam bath where a huge fraction of its mass is made up of water. all that and more now on "countdown." good evening this, is monday february 27th, 254 days until the 2012 presidential election. less than 24 hours before michigan, rick santorum's campaign is asking democrats to vote for him in the republican primary tomorrow. this after santorum had tan us back to the time when president kennedy asked us to separate

church and state while romney remembers events that took place nine months before he was born. the over coming presentation and elect a catholic, romney implying that campaigning begins at conception. the normal governor improving in the polls, pulling 4 points above santorum romney also looking to crush santorum in arizona with a 17-point lead. in the latest public policy point. and michigan, a far more more important battle bar, romney winning with a two-point margin of error. saying that economic issues are far more concern to them than social areas, an area where senator santorum seems to be in a class by himself or lack of class by himself. attacking the president obama over the president's wish that

americans become as educated as he possibly can. >> he said he wants everybody to go to college. what a snob. oh, i understand why he wants you to go to college. he wants to remaining you in his image. >> santorum perhaps responding to this well-meaning call from the president's first speech to a joint session of congress in february of 2009. >> i ask every american to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training. this could be a community college or four-you're school, vocational training or apprenticeship. >> santorum distorting the president's words and then adding a complaint in a news interview yesterday. >> to layout there that this is some how should be everybody's goal, i think devalues tremendous work of people who don't go to college and don't

want to go to college because they have a lot of other tonights and skills. we have some real problems on our college campuses with political correctness, with an ideology that is forced upon people who may not agree with the political correct left doctrine. >> mr. obama under cutting santorum's first claim at a meeting at the national governor's association today. >> i have to make a point here. when i speak about higher education, we're not just talking about a four-year degree degree. >> two republican governors agree with the president. bob mcdonnell said i wish santorum had said it differently. i'm pushing in virginia for 15,000 new degrees. and chris christie also disagreeing with santorum. >> i certainly don't think that the president is a snob for saying that. i think that's probably over the line. >> and the rick santorum of 2006 probably agrees with christie. that rick santorum posted on his senate campaign website that he was committed to ensuring that

every pennsylvanian has access to higher education, having supported legislative solutions to make higher education more accessible and affordable. santorum also returning this week to his attack last year on president kennedy's historic 1960 speech on religion in america. >> i had the opportunity to read the speech, and i almost threw up. >> santorum objecting to jfk's call for america where the separation of church and state is absolute. >> i don't believe in an america with separation of church and state is absolute. the idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely anethetical to the objectives and vision of our country. >> santorum's vision, perhaps. a vision that includes the news that late this afternoon, the santorum campaign confirmed that it had, indeed, paid for a rebow call in michigan, encouraging democrats who can vote tomorrow to do so for santorum.

romney's campaign saying this is beyond using santorum sprays the willingness to take one for the team but to wear the other team's uniforms. as for mitt romney. he's not having trouble with the uniform but the season and sport. when asked about the rain-delayed 500. and if he followed car racing. >> man of the people. romney making another unforced error reminiscing with michigan voters with the joint jubilee parade. >> my dad had a job of bogey being the grand master of the 50th celebration of the detroit. i was probably four, something like that.

>> no, no, you weren't. the parade took place on june 1, 1946. and mitt romney was born on march 12th 1947. for more on republican race i'm joined by politico chief reporter. >> is there some threshold in which santorum could claim a win in michigan with a near loss. >> certainly if his goal was to bloody up mitt romney and sent mitt romney limping into a general battle with a well-stocked president obama but if santorum's goal is to win a nomination, no. he needs to win delegates, and he can do that in some states with the allocation of delegates just from placing and getting a certain percent angle of votes in the primary. but all it does is mitt romney was able to close this gap with

rick santorum, who enjoyed a rather healthy lead in michigan is bolster the case for romney's candidacy. when he has time to campaign in a state and more importantly spend a lot of money in the state, both he and his super pac then he can do well. that's only going to be borne out further in the next round of voting in super tuesday, where of course there is more of a national campaign. it's going to be harder for rick santorum to rely on his grassroots appeal, if you will and it's going to insent vize the campaigning. >> and emphasizeing the issues. the extraordinary about michigan. here is a poll that shows the g.o.p. voters are far more concerned with the economy than social issues. why is santorum doubling down on the social issues? is there some get out the vote quality that he could whip up if

afanatics they could come caught even if they don't nowhere to vote for him. >> this is where he is, and he can't get away from it. this is the strongest contrast with mitt romney who many social conservatives feel leary on mitt romney's stance on those social issues where they are very comfortable with rick santorum. nationally and particularly with the swing and independent voters who decide these elections of the general elections, these issues are not really where the focus is. the focus is on economic issues and jobs. rick santorum. can't really deviate too far from where he's strongest and where his strongest contrast with mitt romney are, nor can he ignore the economic issues where most voters, republican primary voters place those at their top issues will gravitate towards mitt romney. it's a tough row to hoe for rick

santorum. >> if romney really handed santorum something recommend nicing something that took place before he was born. but now we have santorum with robo calls seeking votes by democrats, what does it mean on wednesday? isn't that basically an anville to hit him over the head from romney or guinn or ron paul who said you went into a republican party and asked for democratic votes? >> it's to an extent acknowledging the self sabotaging aspect, where you see mischief, it's in the interest of the other party to vote for the weaker candidate. the candidate who they think will be weakest in the general election. so the fact that he is playing into this to try to hurt mitt romney is in some ways acknowledging that he thinks that democrats would view him as the weaker candidate.

so it's certainly a bit of tactic that in the past at the margins has been able to help candidates in mission michigan and other states where they have these open primaries but it's an acknowledgment that he's not as viable of an election candidate as mitt romney. >> ken, always a pleasure. thank you. we're going to talk to our next guest, marcos, principally about the g.o.p. culture bargains. but what a coincidence when rick santorum followed his call to encourage democrats to vote tomorrow in the republican primary in michigan, which was something that you kind of dreamt up. i want your reaction to it first but we have one of the robo calls on tape. i'll play that first and then get your reaction.

>> marcos, a couple of people heard that. republicans in michigan thought it was a setup by somebody to hurt rick santorum until they heard the last line of that. what is your reaction to this? >> yeah, no, absolutely--it helps rick santorum, absolutely. the idea being that michigan has an open primary, the democrat contest is irrelevant. they have their own caucuses in may. therefore, it's an opportunity for democrats to actually help prolong this election a little

bit longer because we've seen that the longer this drags out the worse it is for mitt romney and rick santorum and the best it is for barack obama. so we've been urging our readers and our michigan crowd to turn out in vote for rick santorum. we've seen the michigan democratic party turn out and vote. obama campaign moves on and the super pac have been hitting mitt romney in attack ads. if you're hitting mitt romney, you're trying to depress his turnout to help rick santorum. there is no other option. the multi prong, multi effort campaign to deliver santorum victory in michigan. if we do, this thing drags out for another month, if not two. >> santorum, no matter what advantage you're handing to him or this sort of bizarre campaign that would come back and fall on top of his head on wednesday. they could say he only one because of the democrats which screws the things up more for

the republicans. he seems every chance he has to move ahead he should hand back. he attacked the president as being a snob because he said americans should get better educated and that drew plus. he advocated the same thing in pennsylvania the last time he ran for senate. does the past not exist for the candidates or people who support them? >> yeah, these people keep forgetting this thing called youtube and video, and these things exist. i think beyond the hypocrisy, i don't think the tea party crowd who support him don't tear with the hypocrisy. they just want to attack obama. he's are people who probably would like to be trained and make more money. these are republicans. they are supposed to want to get better and make more money. why is education evil? because santorum has created a

whole mythology about how is a way to strip out god from students and turn them into pc heathens and whatnot. it's just another prong in the culture war. it doesn't matter what obama said, it's a way to attack and the tea party members will cheer cheer. >> he had rollins, six months before this thing got going every republican i know was saying we're going to win, we're gonna beat obama. now he even those who have endorsed him are saying, my god what an f-ing mess. only he didn't say f-ing. does he have a plan c. >> yes, that's why so many top tier republicans decided not to run. they're hoping that the tea party will run its course so they can have the saner components of the republican party will be in charge. really, this whole fantasy about a broken con convention and a consensus candidate coming out of that is pure fantasy.

this would be someone with no organization, no money and not vetted. we saw what happened with sarah palin. when the press got around to vetting a preys who had never been vetted before. and this is not exactly a solution. this person would come out of the convention and face $200 million in attack ads from democrats and their allies. this is not going to be a good year for them. plan c is to really do as best as they can. minimize the losses in the senate and the house, and pretty much start building towards towards 2006. >> "countdown" contributor and not the voice you heard on the santorum robo call markos. >> good evening. >> not only has the new york police department been profiling law abiding muslims in the muslims in the city, wherever you are your tax dollars helped pay for it by a special white house grant. the ever uglier details next.

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and they need a nice enter planetary scmitz. the steamy planet. >> investigative reporting by the associated press has gotten more and more astounding. the new york city police department targeting and spying on law-abiding muslims first in new york, new jersey, and now up and down the east coast.

several mayors and governors have discussed the possibility of a federal investigation but documents obtained by the ap now make it seem less likely that an investigation will occur. not only was the federal government aware of the spying program but made a hand in funding it. the program federally funded one designed to aid local agencies disrupting illegal drugs. it was used to fight terror i am. the ap confirmed that a portion of that money was being used for the nypd spying program. congress approves funds for the program but it is not provided detailed breakdown of the program's activities and nypd intelligence operations receive little oversight in new york. but according to chauncey parker, the director of the hidta program about $1.3 million of the federal money was used by

the new york police intelligence unit for cars. those cars are used to collect and analyze count terrorism information with the goal of preventing an attack in new york or anywhere else. they say that those vehicles were used to photograph mosques and collect the license plates of worshipers there. ray kelly continues to insist that his department has done nothing wrong. yesterday on a radio show with peter king whose own investigation into muslim drew fire last week he defended the actions with the rationale of keeping america safe. >> those who forget history are condemned to repeat it and the people have short memories as to what happened here in 2001. it would be folly for us to focus only on the five boroughs of new york city, and we have to use all of our resources to protect everyone. they forget that we've been

subject of 14 plots since 9/11 9/11. >> joining me now, the congressman in new jersey's 12 district, thank you for your time. >> thank you, keith, good to be with you. i'm glad you're a doing this story. >> we've been doing it all along with growing dismay, and without getting into the religious element or this news about the funding, the point i can't get past, tell us about jurisdiction. the needing to way outside of new york city. it's too bad that there is no federal investigation bureau or central agency of intelligence which could deal let's say security in the homeland? >> yeah, they're way out of line. they're out of bounds in several senses. you know, they've been un unapologetic about it. the police, chief kelly, the mayor, they said well, the 9/11 september 11th, 2011,

hijackers spent time in new jersey. i shutter to think that the new york police department is also in florida, maine and hamburg, germany. it seems it's illegal unconstitutional on several counts. even if it isn't it's bad policing. and now we hear that they've been misusing the high trafficking drug money, the high intensity drug trafficking money for purposes that it was not intended for. so this is out of bounds on all sorts of scores. >> is that high intensity drug trafficking in some ways a can opener for this? i know you've written previously to the attorney general and asked for a special prosecutor to look into this. but the fact that the funds have been at least massaged to fit into a program that they clearly

weren't intended for the opportunity to start an investigation. >> it might be another opportunity. when i first heard of this last summer because of enterprising reporting by the ap, i wrote to the attorney general and said, you know, you need a special prosecutor on this. you know, all i've gotten back were repeated interactions from the department of justice is they're taking it seriously. you ought to take this very seriously. whenever you start targeting a group based on their religion, i mean, a few minutes ago you played a clip, if you don't learn from history. well, yeah, there are lessons we should learn from history by targeting people of minority religions. and the new york city police department 40 years ago were called on the carpet by the courts saying they may not target groups domestic groups

without a valid probable cause demonstrated before a court. clearly in this they did not get that. they have just violateed that longstanding court ordinary. >> congressman jake carney tried to down play any white house involvement. he said this is not an administration program or the white house program, it is the new york police department. it is true but does not say how this fun is coming and funding the bush administration more than the obama administration but funded by them both indirectly. is there a way to cut this off and delay this from the white house and say get off the stick. >> yes, there are so many avenues that one could go after this, on the 4th amendment the

14th amendment, and the c.i.a. was involved, under title 50 of the u.s. code there is a strong prohibition of the c.i.a. being involved in domestic surveillance, domestic policing, they're not supposed to be doing this. so there are so many avenues and this might--the misuse of this drug--anti drug program might be another avenue to go after. mostly what i would like to do is to get everyone from the mayor to the attorney general you know, from the president on down, to condemn the idea of profiling. to condemn the idea of targeting people based on their religion. whatever avenue we take to go to court and stop this particular activity, that's not enough unless we can just erase the temptation from any police department's mind of ever trying to do something like this.

it is such bad policing. driving while black should not be a reason to be pulled over. by the same token praying four times a day facing east should not be grounds for suspicion and surveillance. you know, there are 3 million muslims in america. if you can't to spend say an hour surveilling each one it will take about a further of nypd time. and if you want to go to hamburg or other places where they're known to frequent. >> thank you. nice speaking with you.

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>> rupert murdoch hoped to shift attendance from his newspapers to bringing a new one. in our third story sue acres the officer he leading the

investigation into murdoch news investigations said that according to e-mail record the sun paid both cops and military and government officials hundreds of thousands of dollars for information. >> the bribes were not only paid to police officers but a wide range of government officials with a sum of illegal payments and some to facilitate those payments hiding the identity of the officials receiving the money. >> she went on to say that the payments were made to very senior levels of the newspaper and mr. murdoch does not dispute the allegation. he released the following. the practices sue ak ers described are of the past. because we're not doing it any more, let's pretend we never did it at all. adding fuel to the fire, it could burn down the murdoch empire, more information

surfacing. seems that former news international rebecca brooks that she traveled the world on his dime was told back in 200600 people had been victims of the phone hackings despite insistence until 2010 she was only aware by an only rogue reporter. to help us understand the implications we're joined robert moore. thank you once more for your time. >> it's a pleasure. >> which of these developments resonates more meaningful, the alleged awareness of rebecca brooks from 2006 to 2010 or the alleged bribery by the sun. >> they compound each other. the strategy to contain it to a single newspaper, the newspaper of the world, it is clearly

failing and scandal to the heart of murdoch's tabloid the sun i think that's devastating for news international. that's the company in the u.k. the parent company is news corps. murdoch had these great firewalls that he had designed. first, contain the scandal and second fire wall, make sure that the scandal stays in the u.k. now it has crossed the atlanta and could endanger news corps here in the united states. it's a grim day. >> that second point that you raiseed is a principle interest here. there specific developments today that made the likelihood of problems for him in the united states grow? >> i think that's right. i think it certainly did. up until now we assumed that there was a relationship between journalists on the sun and

police officers, maybe investigating various sort of criminal activities. now it appears that the criminality of the sun was on an industrial scale. it wasn't in relationship to police officers but extended to government officials and officials inside the british ministry of defense. the idea that it was industrial not just a drink between journalists and police officers. but a network of corrupted officials, that clearly discuss impact attentionly fbi investigation under the foreign corrupt practices act. it does have the danger for rupert murdoch and it's a major danger of becoming an investigation in the united states as well. >> why is murdoch's response to this to create another newspaper. a former newspapers executive who said let's accept that these are toxic properties they're severely damaged and have no

value to anyone but him. if they're toxic properties and they're shut down to make the news go away, is the champ of starting a newspaper just so great he can't resist it? >> well, it's partly that. well, for decades he has loved to be unpredictable. he loves the idea of during defense into attack. he loves the idea of being able to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. i think that's classic rupert murdoch. let's be frank. "the sun" on sunday sold three three-quarters million copies. it could be a successful tactic, but what he had not imagined 24 hours of that launch he would be hit with an avalanche of fresh and devastating allegations on a criminal and industrial scale. as he succeeds on a commercial enterprise, he is under

relentless pressure once again. >> robert moore, thanks so much for your time, sir. >> it's a pleasure. >> a planet full of steam. and a debunking of einstein's relatively full of broken cables. literally. coming up.

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