inutes could save you fifteen percent, or more on car insurance. jon: we want to thank you for joining us today. jen "america live" starts right now. martha: all right, thanks you quite, we got a fox news alert, awaiting the sentence sentencing the -- awaiting the sentencing of former illinois governor rod blagojevich. he faces corruption charges for basically trying to sell the senate seat of barack obama, so he was told by the judge in charge of sentencing that he is terribly sorry for the crimes he committed, he said it was stupid of him, he painted a sad picture of what his life had become, saying he cannot afford the home he's been living in with his family. when that breaks and it should happen momentarily. we'll bring that to you. big drama today in chicago. let's get to the politics, the other big story, mitt romney's campaign hitting the gas in

an effort to try to retake the lead as the top gop contender for the presidency. welcome to "america live", everybody, i'm martha maccallum in today for megyn kelly. mitt romney is a busy man, folks, criss-crossing the country, logging more miles than any other week since he's launched his campaign, about 11,000 miles i think was the number on this. this morning he was getting to jewish leaders and took that opportunity to blast president obama, charging that the president has immeasurably damaged the middle east peace prospects and failed to confront iran. the reason for this ramped up schedule? well, take a look. there are the latest numbers. this is the gallup poll, a lot of people not saying to put too much stock in the national polls but they do gave us some indication of where the movement is. look at the sizeable lead that newt gingrich is enjoying over romney, 37 percent to his 22 percent. joining me, chris stierwalt, digital politics editor and

host of power play.com which we read religiously every day. hello, good to see you. >> good to see you. martha: if you're in the romney camp or a big romney backer at this moment you got to have sort of a come to jesus moment, right, what do we do, this is not going as planned. >> well, they did that last weekend, as they huddled and figured out what the new strategy is. part of the strategy is, as you point out, putting the blitz on. the joke from politico was the mittness protection plan, we saw very little of governor romney, he was not around, doing interviews, now you know he's stkog fox news sunday with chris wallace, he did a contentious interview with bret baier but the media blitz is on and romney is out there trying to connect with a republican electorate that has been with them but only about a quarter of them have been with him and now those numbers are starting to fade as gingrich has risen and we get closer to actually voting and the other thing, and this is significant in a -- in a big

way, he is going after newt gingrich, calling him a career politician and other things and has a new ad out in which he touts his own marital record and family man status which can only be seen as a sharp elbow at the elbow of the thrice-married gingrich. martha: clearly, the family is out in force, trying to prove -- i do think that whole picture of a familiar family does matter to some voters when they look at the packages they're going to get in terms of inhabiting the white house. you said something very interesting about all of this, in terms of the way he's going after gingrich, and you feel in some ways he's doing it all wrong, that he needs to sort of inspire and lead, and sort of show the way that he would be a president to this country, rather than kind of getting into the dirt with newt gingrich. >> well, look, remember, newt gingrich is not mitt romney's problem. he is a symptom of the problem. the problem is that 3/4 of

the republican electorate don't have confidence in romney, don't think he's one of them, not a conservative, attacking gingrich only proves that he's more conservative or more constant than gingrich, who by the way is viewed askew by many conservatives who say well, he's what we've ended up, he's okay but not the gold standard on the right so romney has to do better than that. march let's take a real quick look at this. in terms of independents there are new numbers that shows that independents are growing, democrats are losing rank, losing 5 percent with those that declare themselves a democrat, republicans have lost 3 percent, the independent ranks, with the growth of the tea party and these independent movements, people who consider themselves not belonging to either party, this needs to be the sweet spot for anybody who wants to move into the white house in january. >> that's right. party establishments on either side are way out of favor with voters, those independents, remember, martha, reflect conservative liberal like everybody else, they go across the spectrum but what they all say is

they'd rather not be dictated to, they'd rather be convinced. martha: chris, thank you very much, great khrolum today. >> thanks. martha: always good to see you. mitt romney's rival, another wurpbgs the texas governor, rick perry, has launched a new attack ad on the president. in this tv ad, perry chooses president -- accuses president obama of being at war with people of faith in the united states. take a look at this: >> i'm not ashamed to admit i'm a christian. but you don't need to be in the pew every sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate christmas and pray in school. as president, i'll end obama's war on religion. martha: very strong accusations there from rick perry. that new ad is airing in the first in the nation caucus state of iowa where it has gotten very heated and very interesting, less than a month away for the iowa caucuses. and let's turn your attention to this now, the the justice department is

sending a new warning to dozens of law enforcement agencies in alabama, telling them their funding could be in jeopardy if they aren't careful about the way they enforce the state's new immigration law, the obama administration has sued the state of alabama claiming their law to try to crack down on illegals in their own state is unconstitutional. trace galler has been following this and joins us from the west coast newsroom. >> reporter: because of the obama administration lawsuit, parts of this law have been put on hold but one of the parts still in effect gives police officers the ability and right to question peoples' immigration status when they pull them over for a different reason, so now the department of justice is upping the ante, saying be careful how you enforce this law, or you risk losing your federal funding. the doj has now sent a letter to 156 law enforcement agencies across alabama, reminding them of their, quote, legal obligation, and i'm quoting the letter, reads in part, to ensure that your

enforcement of this law does not result in the unlawful stopping, questioning, searching, detaining, or arresting of persons or in the targeting of racial or ethnic minorities in a manner that violates the constitution. alabama says they are simply doing what the federal government will not do, which is enforcing immigration laws. but now there are some signs that alabama might be walking this back a little bit. the republican attorney general there, luther strange, has now sent out a notice to lawmakers in the state saying that parts of this law could be repealed to make it easier to defend in court, the parts he's talking about are forcing public schools to collect immigration status on the public school students, as well as forcing illegals to carry immigration papers. the republican governor in alabama, robert bentley, has said he does not want the law repealed, but he admits that it could be simplified a bit, which is a very good indication that the next legislative session, this alabama law which is

considered the toughest in the nation could be adjusted to a certain extent, martha. martha: very interesting. trace, thank you so much. we'll see you in a little bit. all right. we've got it going. in chicago, folks, we are moments away from hearing the fate of former illinois governor rod blagojevich. what an amazing three year journey this story has been, the 54-year-old making a public plea for his life, hoping to avoid a maximum sentence of 20 years behind bars. mike tobin is live where all the action is right now inside the courthouse in chicago. what's happening in there now, mike? >> reporter: judge james dagle is addressing the court and at the end of the address he's going to ask the defendant governor rod blagojevich to rise and hear the sentence. the judge said that the government is asking to 30 years to life, as far as the guidelines go, and he said he agrees with those guidelines and agrees with the government. a lot will depend upon how

contrite governor blagojevich is. for the first time we've had the governor be contrite, we've heard him own his crimes as he addressed the court today, he said and i'll quet the jury convicted me, i'm responsible for that, i'm not blaming anyone. itches the governor. i should have known better. and i'm incredibly sorry. blagojevich ran down a list of people he should apologize to, the people of illinois for betraying their trust, the judge for fighting the case in the media, the prosecutors for viewing this as a contest or a joust, his brother, robert, if you remember, who got dragged into all of this, he apologized to his brother robert but emphasized the apology to his wife and kids, particularly his kids, who will walk around now knowing that their dad is a convicted felon. and he made the point it's not like their name is smith, everyone will know what happened and who they are. he talked about the tapes, the profanity on the tapes, what he called the ugly, petty, selfish and self-absorbed things he said, and he apologized for

that. he said that his life is ruined. he can no longer be a politician, he can no longer be a lawyer, and he can no longer afford the home that they live in. he said the only reason he has for living now is his children. he did stray at times from absolute contrition, and we've gotten legal experts watching this case saying ultimately the judge is going to smack him for that, so the judge is still addressing the courtroom now, we anticipate the sentence for rod blagojevich any moment now. martha: mike tobin, we'll take you back there as soon as that gets underway. big news this afternoon after that long tale of rod blagojevich. we'll find out how long he will be going away for. now we want to take to you capitol hill for a moment, senator chuck grassley of iowa speaking on the senate floor about the botched gun walking program fast & furious, senator grassley is the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee in that operation and he has just called for the resignation

of assistant attorney general lanny brewer. grassley says this is evidence that brewer knew about the operation, that the justice department provided congress with inaccurate information about that sting. this comes as a slew of lawmakers and gop an kaeupbts -- candidates i would also mentioned have called for the resignation of eric holder, the attorney general of the united states. this is becoming a very hot situation, and grassley testifying about it light now. we're going to take you back there as soon as we get more information out of capitol hill on that story. in the meantime, congress has approved tough sanctions on iran in a 100-nothing vote. the complete clampdown on their central bank on their cash. but now the white house says they want lawmakers to rethink that harsh penalty. why would they do that? and what message would that send to iran? we're going to have that story when we come back. and new details emergencying about the japanese attack on pearl harbor, 70 years ago today,

december #th, 1941. and what was found in a newly declassified document that we will show you straight ahead. >> i was going to take them down to my buddy, he was working with me on the incinerator, he just went down the day before, and when the bomb hit, it went right down through the deck, it was close to 6:00 a.m. he didn't make it.

martha: welcome back. there's new controversy as the white house asks congress to loosen up some of the sanctions they voted for on iran. congress wants to penalize any countryhat does business with iran's central bank but the obama administration thinks that that plan could backfire. and they're requesting a delay to those sanctions. that's not sit took well with the people who voted

unanimously in favor of those sanctions and those people in the united states senate voted for this 100-zero. you don't see that too much these days. mark kirk joins us now, also, as he pointed out to me, the senator whose seat was in contention and at the basis of the blagojevich trial. if that comes down we may turn our attention to that and ask you about that. in the meantime thank you for being with us. >> you bet, thank you for having me. martha: the big question is how tough do we need to be on iran in order to get results and get them to back down on a nuclear program that is widely believed to be underway why. -- underway there. why do you think the best thing to do is crack down on the central bank? >> because the treasury department that the central bank of iran is a key money hraurd remember and supporting trar and -- terror and the nuclear program, because the united nations has said iran is getting close to a nuclear weapon in violation of its own signature on the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and because of iran's oppression

of human rights, the prisoners across the country. so the central bank is the pay master, it's the central focus, and a weak point of the regime and the obama administration opposed the menendez-kirk amendment, bipartisan amendment, but not a single senator stood with them, they voted 100-zero against the obama position. martha: it's striking because in an era where we barely see any votes that go the way this one did, 100-zero on this to pressure the central bank in iran but their argument is, if you do that, they say sanctions don't work, that they rarely if ever evoke the intention and purposes they were set out to do and this will ultimately the white house believes in driving oil prices higher which will be a bad situation for everybody and really put money back in the pockets of tehran and they say that's exactly what we don't need to happen. >> the senate unanimously disagreed, because number one, the war in iraq is over, and production is going up there, the war in

libya is over, and production is set to double there, and there are indications from oil markets that saudi arabia has substantially increased production. all of that means that there's the chance to have oil buyers unhook from iran, and of course, the mennen daz-kirk amendment gives weeks if not months for the adjustment to happen, with critical waivers for the administration should they see anything unexpected. but bottom line, we do think that we should triple ama din -- cripple ahmadinejad's central bank. martha: we have so few tools available to crack down on iran, put pressure on iran and this is sort of the one that hasn't been tried, right? we've tried all kinds of sanctions that tip toed around the edges, and the thinking is, although sanctions have been problematic, and ineffective in the past, that you really do have to go sort of to the yug ular of iran's bank account in order to make that difference, right? >> that's right.

we think that this is the central weak spot, we basically say for any business which does business with the central bank of iran, you can't do business with the united states, it forces financial institutions across the globe to choose between the small, $300 billion iranian economy and the $14 trillion u.s. economy. and of course, france, britain, canada, australia, many of our allies already agree with france even calling for tougher measures and of course, after the iranian plot to blow up a washington, d.c. restaurant to kill the saudi arabian ambassador, there's no love lost there, either. martha: you know, i do want to ask you a quick question because we are waiting for the sentencing of rod blagojevich from your home state of illinois. he is basically pleaing for mercy in front of the judge, saying that in order to be at home to protect his wife and children and to be a father and husband to them, that he should get a lenient sentence in all of this. you know, what's your take

on it having lived through it? >> i think rod blagojevich should receive a tough sentence. he lost his case beyond a shadow of a doubt by a jury of his peers that convicted him over a dozen felonies, by trying to sell the very senate seat that i was elected to. and i think it sends a powerful message that you cannot sell things like this, and of course, it should be a big victory for patrick fitzgerald, our crusading u.s. attorney, who is now putting a second criminal illinois governor in jail. martha: all right. mark kirk, senator from illinois, good to have you here today, sir, thank you very much. >> thank you. martha: so there is a warning today regarding home grown terrorism, plotting attacks against a new target now. who are they after? and what is being done to stop it? we'll get a report for you on that. plus his bullet very nearly killed president ronald reagan. look at that. march 30th, 1981.

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martha:y watching a very tense situation right now in chicago, the sentencing for former illinois governor rod blagojevich is about to happen. when that news breaks, the judge is speaking to everyone, he said at the end

of that he will give the sentence, he will ask rod blagojevich to stand and he will receive that sentence. we will take you straight back to chicago, mike tobin is standing by and will get that for us as soon as it happens. >> in the meantime, this is the story that fascinates me today, extremely rare chance to see one of the documents that changed the course of our nation. a copy of the 13th amendment that was signed by president lincoln has just been painstakingly restored. it, of course, is the amendment that abolished slavery. trace gallagher is live with this fascinating story for us this afternoon in our west coast newsroom. >> reporter: i know you love history. the 13th amendment was passed by congress in 1865, two years after lincoln's emancipation proclamation, for the past 150 years or so, this document has been stored in a number of buildings in and around illinois, none of them really had any good facilities for storage or climate, so this copy really

when they pulled it out of the vault at the lincoln museum a short time back was pretty well beaten up. it was pulled out of a vault, then it was written by the way in velum, a paper made of animal skin, the ink was kind of weak and flaking off, the paper was brittle, wrinkled, kind of puckered, so a chicago man who owns the paper conservation company volunteered for free to restore this thing after months and months of putting it in humidifiers to rehigh rate -- hydrate it and flattening the document, they will tomorrow for the first time put it on display in the lincoln library and museum for all the public to see. at least temporarily on display. they're going to take you -- take it down after a short time to make sure it is, again, stored properly. we should note there are still some copies of the 13th amendment, bought by millionaires for millions and millions of dollars. some believe the picture you're looking at there, one of the most documents -- important documents in the

history of the united states, for the world to see in a few days in the lincoln library. martha: sounds like a good time for family trip to the lincoln library, trace. i think that's coming up. thank you very much, trace gallagher out in l.a. in the meantime, president obama calls it the de finding issue of our time, the growing gap, he says, between america's middle class and the wealthy. watch: >> this isn't about class warfare. this is about the nation's welfare. march but will this campaign message work and is the president finding it much easier explaining america's problems than actually offering solutions to solve them? we've got a fair and balanced debate coming up on that straight ahead. and exclusive new details on the failure of the firm run by the former governor of new jersey, john corzine. fox has information on this that you may not believe, folks. stick around for that. charles gasparino coming up on that one. and this awful story this week, this young model walked into an airplane

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time ever, the house and senate homeland security committees are holding a joint session. lawmakers focusing on the growing threat of home grown terrorism and what appears to be the terrorists' favorite target, which is our troops. here's connecticut senator and committee chairman joe lieberman on that. watch: >> the united states military has become a direct target of violent islamist extremism here in the united states. martha: this is a troublesome trend to be sure and chief intelligent correspondent cath catherine herridge is live for us on capitol hill. hello catherine. >> reporter: a congress at research service, lawmakers testified today that since 2001 there have been 33 alleged plots against the u.s. military domestically and 70 percent have occurred since june 2009 representing a significant spike. >> american service members and their families are increasingly in the terrorists' scope and not just overseas in traditional war settings, so that the

premise of this hearing, this joint hearing, is not theoretical. it is based on fact. >> reporter: and from both sides of the aisle senior lawmakers called on the obama administration to recognize that you can't talk about the threat without talking about religion. they say it should specifically be called the threat of islamist extremism. in addition, we had some striking testimony from the father of private william long, he's 23 years old, who was killed by an american islam convert who later told police it was justified because of the war in afghanistan and iraq and a second private was injured, outside a recruitment center in june 2009, both victims had just finished basic training when the shooter opened fire by the the passing truck. long's father who served this country since world war i, spoke with emotion: >> it took me two years to get these back, these are my son's dog tags. they wore these when he took four rounds of 7.62ammo from

about 3 feet. on it, there is the warrior ethos, the last line of it is "i will never leave a fallen comrade". well, the army left him. >> reporter: at the hearing, long, along with the father, carlos bledsoe, who is serving a life sentence, both men say they've lost their sons to islamic extremists. martha: thank you very much, catherine. >> reporter: you're welcome. martha: the news is now in. we're going to go to it. the judge has just sentenced ousted u.s. governor rod blagojevich. mike tobin is live outside the courthouse with a very big sentence for mr. blagojevich. mike. >> reporter: it is indeed a big sentence for the former illinois governor rod blagojevich, 14 years, plus a $20,000 fine for the 18 counts upon which he was convicted. if you look at the discussion from earlier, that a message needs to be sent in that rod blagojevich

is the second illinois governor in a row to be convicted, his predecessor, governor george ryan, got 6 1/2 years, so blagojevich is now looking at twice -- more than twice what george ryan received for his role. this comes also after judge yagle spent a good amount of time addressing the court, being rather stern, saying that blagojevich's comments that he was marched by the staff were not correct, he marched the 1256 and ruined their careers and he called the tack tigs foolish and unworthy and said the damage done to the state of illinois cannot be measured in dollars. so again, the sentence for rod blagojevich comes down to 14 years and a $20,000 fine, a fine we now know rod blagojevich cannot pay as he admitted he can no longer afford to live in his own house. martha. martha: quite a sentence, and a big statement, as you say, and the judge has said earlier that he believed that if there wasn't a

deterrent to corruption, a serious deterrent and he has leveled that in his 14 year sentence that others would find no reason not to engage in similar forms of corruption. mike, so what was the reaction? i mean, reaction in the court from blagojevich when the sentence was read? >> reporter: well, so far we don't have that information. i'm getting the information relayed to me from producers who are up there, and the one who was in the courtroom right now cannot see the reaction, but we have certainly seen a different rod blagojevich, the charm is gone, he's stone-faced, he's pail, he even needs a hair cut, martha. martha: i guess that says it all. mike, thank you very much. mike tobin in chicago. >> see you. martha: we'll be back on that story in a little while all right. let's get back to what is a huge story, and what everybody is still talking about, and that's president obama's speech yesterday in kansas. and he is calling it, quote, the defining issue of our time, the growing gap between america's middle class and the wealthy. republicans call the new message class warfare,

they've been calling it that for some time now. here's what the president had to say about that during the speech in kansas. take a look: >> this isn't about class warfare. this is about the nation's welfare. it's about making choices that benefit not just the people who have done fantastically well over the last few decades, but the benefits to the middle class. and those fighting to get into the middle class. and the economy as a whole. martha: so here's one of the big questions that was a takeaway from yesterday's speech. is the president better at identifying the country's economic problems than providing solutions for stphepl and how many solutions did he really provide in this speech in terms of laying out where he plans to go from here if he's elected to another term? joined now by monica crowley, fox news contributor and radio talk show toast and tara dowdell, ladies, welcome. tara, let me start with you. because that was -- you felt like there weren't a whole

lot of solutions in terms of these are the steps i plan to take now. what did you think? >> i think that the president has consistently offered numerous solutions, and i'm happy to name them. we can start with the infrastructure bank that would put our unemployed construction workers back to work, 1/4 of the long term unemployed are construction workers in this country. those are heat, the backbone of the middle class. martha: we were told that the stimulus was going to go to a lot of that infrastructure and such a tiny portion of that ever ended up doing anything for the infrastructure so i think a lot of people are wary of dumping more money in that problem, in that way, because the last time we were told $800 billion didn't end up going there. >> you're absolutely right, infrastructure is a problem and that's exactly the issue. we need as a developed nation the cornerstone of any developed nation is the ability to move people and goods efficiently. you can't continue to not invest in your infrastructure. our roads take a beating. so of course we're going to have to -- >> martha: no doubt, i think there's a lot of agreement on that point. the question is how we have

gone about taking care of that problem. what about this whole wall street-main stphraoet and he pointed a lot at -- a lot at people who need to be successfully, all they need to do, monica, is do more, chip in their fair share? >> whenever he says it's not about cost aware fare, it's what it's about. this president has staked his whole presidency on an economic philosophy that's based on wealth redistribution, taking from one group to give to another and having the government collect the monies to do the redistricting. that's what he's done from the beginning of this administration. you see it through the stimulus, you see it through yet another socialist redistributionist pillar in omabacare, socialized medicine. let me make one point. when you asked the question martha, he's not offering solutions to fix it. he can't. because in order to fix the economy, he's got to reverse everything he's done and adopt a whole different economic philosophy which is based on the free market. government spending, wealth redistribution does not create prosperity, the private sector does.

he would have to change his whole attitude, orientation and philosophy in order to fix the economy. he cannot do that. martha: tara, what is fair? this is my big takeaway, got to do your fair share, if only everything were fair, everything would be okay. what's a fair share? >> this is about merit. i think we can all agree with merit. what i mean by that is we have moved farther away from merit in this country. if you are a ceo and you made bad business decisions, like telling your investors that the mortgage securities were safe, while betting against those very same mortgage securities, and you can read the lehman brothers report, it outlines the misdeeds that happened on wall street, then these guys kept their jobs, fired the people who had absolutely nothing to do with their bad business decision, and now those people are looking for unemployment benefits. that is not fair. that's what the president is -- >> martha: understood and agreed. but -- that's not socialism. >> martha: people, for example, like teachers, he talks about improving

tka*egs in this country, right, but if you're a tenured taoefrp and doing a lousy job, just try to fire her. do those perit -- merit situations apply to those situations and employees of the government, does it apply to them, to fannie mae and freddie mac, and if they blow it, are they going to be judged by this merit standard? >> absolutely. the president actually supports merit pay and that's why he's had issues with some of the teachers' unions and i would say some, not all. the bigger issue is the republicans are trying to spin this as class warfare, the reality is they're offering a solution to problems we don't have. we don't have -- a rich enough problem in this country. our problem is a middle class is shrinking, and working poor people who are no longer working. if we don't address that in the long term, it doesn't matter if we cut spending. if we don't address that in the long term we're going backwards. the president wants to go forward. >> first of all it's not the government's job to determine merit. that is based on free

market. you produce goods and services, you succeed or fail based on the merits of what you're producing. it's not the government's responsibility to determine merit. secondly, it's also not the government's responsibility to create what obama called yesterday an even playing field. that's not what the free market is all about. martha: i think it's a central question for all of this, what is a fair share, what is an equal playing field. >> the government enforcing an even playing field. that's what he's talking b i think that is wholesale rejected by the american people. it's not the government's role. >> i -- martha: tara, i know you disagree. thank you very much, thank you for being here, ladies, we appreciate it. this question is coming up, the naacp does not like some of the new voting rights laws that have been put in place in some states, so they're taking their complaint to a very interesting place, the united nations. do they have any jurisdiction over such things? we're going to have more on that coming up. plus the must-see moment of the day. these kids have not seen their military mom in months. but they are about to get a

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judge was very upset, felt that the governor was not showing any remorse whatsoever. they were sort of in their papers, insinuating that aides may have been responsible. got off to a bad start and may have set in the judge's mind. came back today, governor blagojevich was more remorseful, apologized profusely over and over again but this judge threw the book at him. martha: sounds like too little, too late. sounds like he wanted to make a statement about corruption,cying he abused his power, he said there were good thingsdy as government but it paled in comparison. i just want to share with people, we're getting a little bit of reaction to what he was like when he heard this news. it says rod blagojevich was stone-faced, had a look of shock, he was pale, he walked over when his wife patty, put his arm around her and said according to this report, everything is going to be all right.

now doug, likely, he will have a few weeks, he will not be taken into custody immediately, correct? >> there are two issues there. one is, in this type of case, they almost never make the person surrender right away, he can get 30 days, 60 days. but there's a second issue, whether he would conceivably remain free pending an appeal that he takes. if i had to guess, he'll probably be given a sur ander date, something like 30, 40 days. martha: it's fascinating. i'm looking at where he will probably go. they said it's likely to be a prison outside of illinois, it could be in tarahaut, indiana where ironically he would be sharing the space, in the larger sense, with george ryan, the former governor of illinois. it's incredible, you know, to see these two fallen governors maybe sharing prison space. he would likely get a shared -- he would be sharing a cell with other folks and be given, what, menial chore toss do all day long, i spokes eight hours a day.

that's what it would be like i expect. >> absolutely, normal prison existence. you talk about governor ryan. i don't have the exact specifics but something like four out of eight governors have been convicted of crimes, governors of illinois, so it really is a very sordid and unfortunate history. martha: indeed it is. we just got this news crossing the wires moments ago that he will surrender on february 16th, 2012. >> makes sense. martha: he's got eight weeks or so before he will be sent to prison. thank you very much. >> my pleasure. martha: doug burns with reaction to a 14 year prison sentence for rod blagojevich for corruption charges, as governor of the state of illinois. all right. so how about this for you? more than a billion dollars missing from customer accounts at the failed company run by former new jersey governor jon corzine. this is turning to a very sticky story for him, folks. we have new details about where that money may have gone and what will happen to him as a result. plus, new details

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martha: all right, breaking news now in this fox news alert, former penn state assistant coach jerry sandusky has just been

rearrested and charged with two new charges of sex abuse. he was taken out of his home just a short while ago in handcuffs. prosecutors say two additional young men have now come forward that they are deeming to be legitimate in their charges, and that ings the total to ten alleged victims. we're awaiting pictures of the rearrest now of jerry sandusky of penn state. and 70 years later, we're learning some new details today about what president franklin roosevelt may have known about the attack on pearl harbor before it happened. >> like sitting ducks, the arizona and ships of all classes were sunk, and 2343 american fighting men died in the flaming infern no. so terrible a picture that -- >> martha: steve centanni joins us live from washington with more on this riveting story today. >> reporter: it was certainly a day that changed america, changed the world. and now there's word about

new warnings about japanese aggression in the days before pearl harbor. the surprise attack killed 2400 americans, leaving more than a dozen ships damaged or sunk, 180 u.s. war planes destroyed. and of course, it plunged america head long into world wariminity: author craig shirley is highlighting a memo from naval intelligence sent to president roosevelt days before the attack. one part says in anticipation of possible open conflict with this country, with the u.s., japan is vigorously utilizing information, paying particular attention to the west coast, the panama canal, and the territory of hawaii. now, president roosevelt saw the memo, alerting him of japanese intelligence activity, but he also received one from his army secretary that warned of possible japanese attacks in the philippines, without mentioning anything about hawaii. surely doesn't buy into theories that fdr knew the

attack was coming and looking for an end of the excuse. >> there are no respectful historians that have proof that fdr knew in advance. >> you would have to be a pretty vial individual to allow the japanese invasion to kill 2400 young men and cripple your fleet and destroy hundreds of planes all in the name of getting into a war. >> reporter: surely -- shirley says the pacific fleet in hawaii of not seen as a likely target and most people thought japan lacked the capability for attack. he calls that the failure of imagination, martha. martha: fascinating. thank you very much, steve centanni reporting from washington on this anniversary, 70th anniversary of pearl harbor. back to politics now. mitt romney taking on president obama on israel, and the president's handling of the middle east peace process. >> he's publicly proposed that israel adopt indefensible borders.

he's insulted prime minister netanyahu, and he's been timid -- >> martha: and we'll be right back with congresswoman debbie wasserman-schultz moments away on "america live".

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the administration with both barrels saying brian terry may have been alive today if justice officials had spoken up with what they knew to be true. >> his complete lack of judgment and failure to deal with gun walking when he first learned of it in april of 2010 was bad enough. but this is the final straw. mr. breuer has lost my confidence in his ability to effectively serve the justice department. if you can't be straight with the congress, you don't need to be running the criminal division. >> reporter: investigators believe breuer isn't the only one misleading congress.

and washington suddenly has a collective amnesia. not the attorney general nor his deputy. >> i cannot say for sure whether i saw a draft of the letter,. >> reporter: or his former chief of staff. >> as it turns out, senator, i did not read that weekly report. >> reporter: nor apparently did officials at atf or homeland security. so those charged with stopping guns at the border actually have federal agents helping smuggle them. >> i cannot believe someone at atf would so callously let weapons end up in the hands of criminals. >> he was not aware of what was happening in "operation fast & furious." certainly i was not. >> we have no record any kind of notice or heads up. >> reporter: some lawmakers simply don't buy it. >> the memos with your name on

it refer together "operation fast & furious" operation. are you saying you didn't read them? >> i didn't receive them. >> reporter: grassley says breuer should do the honorable thing and resign. if he doesn't attorney general eric holder should remove him from office. he said he had a chance to come clean when he denied seeing the letter that the atf walked guns and that he basically knew the atf was walking guns and he said he did not. martha: quite a story. thank you very much. 10 minutes from now i'll peak with arizona republican who will be one of the lawmakers confronting the attorney general hours from now. we'll ask him what he will ask the attorney general and what he thinks the fallout will be after he speaks. we'll have that coming up moments away.

he's the gop front runner in a solid way in the polls. newt gingrich about to take the stage at the republican jewish coalition in washington, d.c. the republican candidates are addressing the crowd. they are taking questions at ronald reagan building. now all eyes are on newt gingrich. and he continues his surge in the polls at this point. joined now by chief political correspondent carl cameron. carl, it sounds like they are rue nighted in their criticism of obama's stance on israel. >> reporter: it's been a unified chorus going after the president. ron paul wasn't invited. organizers say he has not been a staunch enough supporter of israel suggesting foreign aid to

israel be cut. all of the candidates have been critical of president obama. saying we have not been an adequate friend under the obama administration. here is mitt romney. >> he visited egypt, saudi arabia, iraq, you are question, he even offered to meet with ahmadinejad. but yet in three years he hassenon't found the time to visit israel, our ally, our friends. a nation that shares our values. the nation in president truman's words that's an embodiment of our great. >> i deals of this civilization. no, over the last three years president obama has instead chastens israel. >> reporter: i had a quick opportunity to speak to mr. romney and asked him about

his race with newt gingrich. he's not pulling his punches against the ex-speaker. asked whether he would match newt rsh's pledge to avoid 30-second attack ads. mitt romney took a pass. watch this. >> i can't tell you what our kds are going to look like. we'll take a strong and compelling case for my candidacy. we'll describe differences between myself and others. i understand how some folks might not want to go negative because they don't want to have gone negative upon. martha: who else is coming up this afternoon? >> reporter: mr. gingrich will take the stage in just a moment. there will be a lot of people talking about him. we'll hear from michele bachmann and rick perry. that will round out the crowd. this is an important part of the

campaign trail, talking about israel. according to the jewish voters, even though they are 2% of the electorate. they hold big sway inn swing states. it's a big deal. that's why they are here. martha: keeping it fair and balanced let's get reaction from congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz who chairs the democratic committee. you heard carl's piece there and it's interesting the criticism that has come out against president obama at this conference. what do you think about mitt romney's statement that the president visited saudi arabia, turkey, iraq, why no visit to israel? >> this entire forum is sponsored by an organization that puts it partisanship and party in front of its love for israel. that's entirely inappropriate to begin with. in addition because they know in the jewish community in america

the republican party is wrong on every major issue that matters to the overwhelming majority of jewish voters, they have nothing else to appeal to jewish voters so they have to distort the president's record on israel, including mitt romney. mitt romney talked about iran and the president's policy towards iran. and the importance of not doing business with iran. yet this is a man who has still not withdrawn his own family foundations' investments from businesses that do business with iran. we have a republican party, an entire house caucus of republicans who unanimously refuse to oppose the building of a copper mine in arizona whose company invests in iran. so when it comes to who talks the talk and who walks the walk. it's democrats and president obama who have resolutely stood by israel. president obama has the best record of standing by israel of any president in american

history. we are standing by is rate and refusing to support and opposing the unilateral formation of a palestinian state. president obama believes he will go to israel. he has been to israel twice and he will go as president. martha: let's talk about the weakness in the face after threat by iran is one of the major contentious issues israel has brought up. had contentious conversations with netanyahu at the white house. what do you make of his stance on that. we just spoke with senator mark kirk about the sanctions they want to put in place against the central bank in iran. 100-0. the white house wants to go a different route. >> president obama has pushed through both in the congress and

the united nations the strongest, most significant sanctions against iran that have ever passed including bringing russia and china to the table. instead of them vetoing those sanctions which happened previously, they supported strong sanctions. martha: what's the progress is the question. when you look at what the iaea came out with, iran has done nothing to stall its progress on nuclear weapons. when you look at side of the ledger what this is getting us, with our take with israel and iran in terms of their aggressiveness. >> did you ask senator kirk why the republicans in the congress have supported funding for an -- a company that does business in iran? have you asked mitt romney why his family foundation still invests in businesses that do business with iran? look, president obama -- martha: i'm sure things will come up along the campaign

trail. but the question -- the president of the united states and his perspective on this is mormon outal in terms of what can be done than the -- this is more monumental. >> we pushed through and passed the strongest sanctions against iran that have ever been adopted and they have slowed iran's quest for a nuclear weapon. we had an opportunity to tighten those sanctions including towards the central bank of iran and we need to continue to press hard and put our boot on their neck and president obama supports that. martha: hot topic to be sure. we'll see what kind of results are coming from those sanctions if they get put in place. coming up right here on "america live." former new jersey governor jon

corzine once considered a candidate for treasury secretary subpoenaed to testify on a multi-billion dollar scandal at his investment firm. plus the naacp claims state governments are conspiring to suppress minority voters and they are taking that case where? to the united nations? can they do anything about that? plus new jersey governor chris christie warns the crowd ahead of time. today is not the day to be a hero. one guy did not rinse, and, boy, did he get an earful. >> with all the important issues we have going felon this state you are wasting these people's time with a question about whether we plant questions in the audience. my doctor told me calcium

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states to resign over the botched gun running sting known as "operation fast & furious." the attorney general facing a firestorm over an operation that put weapons into the hands of mexican drug lords. charles grassley took to the floor and called for the assistant attorney general lanny breuer to get the boot. i'm joined by the arizona republican on the house government fan oversight committee. talk to me about what is your reaction to what grassley called for this morning? >> i think it's an appropriate response when we saw the dump of documents last friday and we see the outright lie to congress. there has got to be -- we have to showed bureaucrats to the law. lie to congress, you have got to go. martha: what were the

contradictions on what he knew and didn't know. >> they were hearing lanny breuer talking about he didn't know about documents. then in the document dump it shows he downloaded copies this email two his gmail account twice. which shows he knew about what was going on with this horrible agenda. martha: you are going to be questioning attorney general eric holder. you are among several who called for his resignation. >> i don't get the chance to talk with him. at judiciary, they took the that over. next week we'll be able to talk with government oversight with regards to the former u.s. attorney mr. burke in government oversight. so we'll see more of that. but i think the judiciary committee ought to be asking the hard-hitting questions. this is not what we expect from

our attorney general. this is not what we expect from the top law official to have something like this going on. martha: where do we go from here? is there any indication the pressure to resign coming from so many in congress will have an impact on the white house and their own support of eric holder and lanny breuer? >> this afternoon i'll be dumping a bill, a vote of no confidence from the house in regards to mr. holder. it's specific to the house. it mimics other thing that occurred in recent history. when attorney gonzalez had it happen to him from the democratic side. we want to keep up the pressure. martha: our reporter's package a while ago, this traffic and movement of these guns, if the u.s. government had knowledge of it which it appears to be a lot of evidence they did, it's in

violation of u.s. and mexico law. is it possible we would see that level in terms of how the attorney general will be dealt with on this? >> we should be. i think american citizens need to know they were used as collateral damage. all our lives were put in harm's way. our law enforcement in our states were put in harm's way as well as the mexican people who suffered countless hundreds of deaths because of these gs. martha: thank you very much, good to have you here today. the department of justice is taking action in another front. they issues a stern warning to those enforce a tough new immigration law in alabama. the doj's letter to police in alabama warning them about the ramifications they carry out that law, what the fallout will be. this is one we have been watching this week. a terrible story about this young lady, a model severely

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martha: we have another chris christie video. the governor is having an argument with a man who asked a question at a town hall yesterday. he preferenced a previous meeting that a friend of christie's was planted to ask a question. >> i don't know who candy is. secondly to say it's a planted

question means my staff is telling someone to ask a particular question and that doesn't happen. so you really in front of this group with all the important issues that we have going felon this state. you are wasting these people's time with a question about whether we plant questions in the audience. >> with all due respect, fit was a planted question, you are wasting time at the town hall meeting. >> if i planted the question, why the hell did i call on you? martha: doesn't sounds like he had any response to that. i don't know any candy. christie is in iowa campaigning for presidential candidate mitt romney. there is chris christie. there are some shocking details back to new jersey on the collapse of the wall street firm mf global. the company bet big on european

debt, folks. he was warned. maybe that's not such a great idea. but he went ahead anyway according to reports. the firm went bankrupt. now fox is learning new exclusive details that $1.2 billion in customer assets may never be recovered. remember the stories? trying to figure out where it is. charlie, what's going on here? >> reporter: this is an amazing political story. a fall from grace. jon corzine was once the ceo of goldman. governor of new jersey, a u.s. senator. now he's under investigation. he's going to give testimony tomorrow. we'll see if he takes the fifth onto questions. martha: is he giving testimony money to? >> the house agricultural committee. a lot of people in the

futures -- i have been told farmers have been screwed over on this because they lost their mone $1.2 billion was customer money that can't be found out. what we reported yesterday is it may be found but it won't be recovered. unlike a bankruptcy with madoff who got x amount of ill gotten gains. you can't claw that back. that money is finally gone. the bankruptcy trustee will make a determination another ballpark determination friday. martha: you think he will not take the fifth because it would look too bad. >> what they will say, i can kind of agree with, i don't think it's in his personality to take the fifth. does he open himself up to a lot issues? perjury traps. he has to keep this statements

very narrow. he will give prepared testimony. that will be narrow in scope. then comes the questioning. that's where a lot of lawyers say -- that's better than taking the fifth, the optics of him taking the fifth, being a major contributor to president obama and being who he is will be very bad. martha: can they claim these people took a risk? it didn't go our way? that's how things go? >> by the way, just because he lost money, you don't go to jail for this. or we would all go to jail. some people make bets in markets. what he has to worry about and what they are investigating is did or his senior executives make false statements to the market in the week before they imploded. i was covering the firm at that point. there is a lot of stuff being put out there. was any of that stuff false? and this missing money? you are not suppose to commingle

customer money with money you run the company with. did people know they were commingling? was it a screwup or was it purposeful. that puts if you jail. losing money does not put you in jail. martha: here we go again with another governor of new jersey. thanks, charlie. the naacp is upset over a new requirement in some states to show proof that you are an american citizen in order to vote. they are taking that complaints where? to the united nations. is that the best way to handle that situation? we'll debate that next. the day that will live in infamy. but for the first time we are getting a look at some never before seen video of the attack on pearl harbor. it's stunning and we'll show it to you coming up. new information of suspected election fraud in the 2008 election primary. eric shawn investigates the allegation that petitions from

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martha: we are learning more about allegations of election fraud in indiana. prosecutors stepping up their investigation involving possibly forged signatures on some presidential primary petitions for president obama and hillary clinton and they are making sure it doesn't happen in 2012. eric shawn is joining us live with the latest on that. >> reporter: the 2012 presidential race is underway which means campaigns are collecting signatures on petitions to put candidates on the presidential primary ballots. but in florida they are investigating election fraud in indiana in the 2008 elections involving barack obama and hillary clinton. >> reporte did you sign this petition? >> no, i did not. >> reporter: chairity was stunned to see her signature. >> i did not sign that.

that's not my signature. >> reporter: the alleged fakes raise the question whether the barack obama campaign filed the necessary signature to get on the state's primary ballot. the signatures were never challenges. the county chairman resigned under political pressure. his lawyer says he did nothing wrong. >> there were many of us who advised against resignation knowing he would never directly participate in anything illegal. >> reporter: the democratic petitions sailed through the voter registration board in south bend, indiana. the hand writing of the deputy and democratic volunteer reportedly matches writing on some of the suspect obama petitions. according to a hands writing analyst. >> did you forge any signatures?

>> i don't have anything to say. >> did you fake any petitions? >> i don't have anything to say. >> reporter: his lawyer says he did nothing wrong and any hands writing comparisons are meaningless. the indiana secretary of state says petitions should be put online for everyone to see. >> the main thing is to make sure remain taken choices for all voters relationship cans and democrats in the primary and we make sure that voters continue to trust the system and that their vote still counts. >> reporter: it turns out white faces charges for registering from his wife's house. the democratic party calls its an isolated incident and they want to know who did it. they say they support the

investigation by the d.a. if you suspect election fraud where you live call us. voter fraud@foxnews.com is our address. martha: it's eerie when the woman says that's not my signature and i didn't sign that. the naacp is getting set to call the united nations to intervene over claims that state governments here in the united states are suppressing minority voters due to new election laws. welcome, gentlemen, good to see you again. let me start with you. let me start with this quote from the general elections coordinator in tennessee. he says, i don't know what the benefits of going to the u.n. would be. i can't imagine any authority whatsoever they would have over

us here in tennessee. why are they going to the u.n. to complain about the new voting laws? >> i don't know that the u.n. is the right form, but i have got to tell you these voting laws are scary. they are designed simply to suppress the vote in america. substituteys have shown and have been proven that you are more likely to get struck by lightning than vote without being registered or have the proper identification or be a citizen of this country. what we are doing is trying to stop people who might vote for one party from voting. that's what's happening in many republican controlled states, they are trying to eliminate certain democratic populace, be they students, minorities or elderly. martha: the new laws would include requirements in several states to present photo i.d. at the polls. voting restrictions on felons and early voting. chris plants, what say you about this? >> first of all i want to

congratulate chris on the blog sentencing. selling obama's seethe. no corruption from democrats. martha: we could go back and forth on this for a long time. >> this demonstrates the irregular advance of the once august naacp and the absurd fringe characters that have taken it over. we have a black president and a black attorney general going the united nations to condemn the united nations of america. maybe they can throw in a condemnation of israel while they are as it. all these claims people don't have i. dvments are laughable on the face of it. the united nations? please. there is no corruption. there is no corruption. we just saw in indiana blagojevich was just sentenced. we sentenced two politicians.

all democrats. raided by the fbi. i grew up in chicago. >> we are talking about vote were fraud. the only people suppressing the vote are republicans. paul shurik was convicted on trying to suppress votes in maryland last year. martha: why not have a photo i.d.? why is that such a challenge? and the states that pass the legislation, south carolina and one other, they are offering free photo i.d. cards. you have got plenty of time to make sure you have a photo i.d. there isn't anything that should stand in your way of voting if you are a legitimate registered voter. >> 20%. americans don't have photo i.d. >> they also don't drive. martha: you can get the photo

i.d. for free. >> they don't want to let student i.d.s count because students are more likely to vote democrat. but they will let you bring your gun license in. this makes me suspicious of their motives. >> of course it does. 20% of people are not of voting age. 12-year-olds are not allowed to vote. they don't have photo i.d.s issued by the government. don't you have to have an i.d. to get a student i.d.? to be a student? >> you have got to region store vote in this country. >> al franken is sitting in a senate seat that was stolen through democrat corruption. it's been established by a democrat prosecutor in minnesota. ted stevens got a phoney

prosecution drummed up against him to steal the senate seat. joe kennedy senior is famous for saying i'm not paying fear landslide. you will oppose any effort to prevent voter fraud. >> the on conviction see recently is republicans trying to suppress vote. republicans in texas saying if you want to register voters in texas you could go to jail for that. that is crazy. i'm seeing the republicans trying to suppress votes. >> if you don't have an i.d. what are you doing voting? homeless people have i.d.s. martha: thank you very much. always good to talk to you. we'll see you next time. in the meantime the department of justice is sending a new tweurng those in charge of enforcing a tough new immigration law in alabama. the doj's letter which is very interesting that they wrote to the police about what the fallout would frontal boundary they carried out that law that

they deemed inappropriate. we'll show you that. she walked into a spinning airplane propeller and suffered catastrophic injuries. but her story is inspiring. in three minutes we'll give you the update on model lauren scruggs' condition. 70 years ago a brave navy photographer stepped out into the war zone that was pearl harbor. his camera was rolling. today the footage being seen for the first time ever right here on "america live." >> the united states of america was suddenly and deliberately attacked by a naval and air forces of the empire of japan. looking good! you lost some weight. you noticed! these clothes are too big, so i'm donating them. how'd you do it? eating right, whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multigrain cheerios... five whole grains, 110 calories.

the pioneers. the aviators. building superhighways in an unknown sky. their safety systems built of brain and heart, transforming strange names from tall tales into pictures on postcards home. and the ones who followed them, who skimmed the edge of space, the edge of heaven, the edge of dreams.

and we follow them up there to live by an unbreakable promise, stitched into every uniform of every captain who takes their command: to fly. to serve. martha: breaking news out of chicago. we heard from rod blagojevich after he walked out of the courtroom after serving 14 years

for corruption as governor of illinois. >> i'm not going to say anything about something very, very brief. rudd yard kipling in his poem, among the things he wrote was if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same, patty and i, especially me, this is a time to be strong and fight through adversity. this is a time for me to be strong for my children, strong for patty and a time for patty and me to get home so we can explain to our kids what happened, what all this means and where we are going from here. we are going to keep fighting on through this adversity, and see you soon. martha: rod blagojevich saying he's going home to talk to his two little girls about what all

of this means. and what happened. you wonder what goes through the form or governor's mind about what did happen and what all of this means. he's going to have quite a bit of time to think about that. a 14-year prison sentence. he will go to prison february 16. he has eight weeks to get home and get his affairs in order before heading off to prison. a huge story and a huge development in a very big sentence for rod blagojevich. this we brought to you earlier. a warning to police in alabama over the state's tough new immigration law. the justice justice justice dept sent hundreds of law enforcement agencies in alabama saying their turning may be in jeopardy if they enforce the immigration law. they claim that that law is

unconstitutional. francisco hernandez is an immigration attorney an joins us on this. good to have you here today. what is your take. let's take a look at a piece of this letter and we'll read it for the viewers at home and we want to get your thoughts. let's take a look at that for starters. it says to insure that your enforcement of this law does not result in the unlawful stopping, searching ... what do you think about this? >> i think the warning is accurate. but all they have to do is look to their own attorney general who advised the legislature they need to revise some of the provisions that have been put on hold about it federal courts. there are two examples of foreign workers pulled over and

ticketed for not having the proper documentation on them. my grandma always taught me if you make a mistake fix it. just make it right. that's all they are telling them. fix it, you have made a mistake. martha: the people of alabama that put this law through believe it has fallen upon them to enforce the law they say the federal government is not willing to enforce. people who are illegally in this country, if they are pulled over for another reason, they have every right to asked them for identification. and the law is not being carried out about it federal government taint falls upon the states, what do you think about that? >> i think for completely opposite reasons are i agree with them. my side frustrated with the obama administration and the republican administration during president bush in that nothing seems to get done at the federal government. all of these states from california to alabama are passing laws to try to urge the federal government to do something and the federal

government refuses to. what we refuse to acknowledge as citizens and a society is the united states has served as a magnet for these laborers to come up here to earn a living. so until we stop sending our business and money to china and keep it among our neighbors and ourselves we are not going to change the problem. there is a problem i will agree to that. martha: thank you very much for being with us today. good to have you. so the attack on pearl harbor 70 years ago changed the world and changed our one drip forever, thrusting us into world war ii. on the 70th anniversary of that fateful day we get our first look at never-before seen video of that day. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements.

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martha: on this day which is the 70th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor we are getting a first look at never-before seen video. phil keating joins me with more on this amazing story. >> reporter: film footage of the actual attack on pearl har boirs so rare that national archives only possesses 12 original films made that day and only four of the actual attack itself. and now five additional minutes of footage suddenly revealed. >> it's a big piece of history. a lot of it has been disposed much, passed on, neglected and even thrown away. >> reporter: just a handful of people saw this rare footage of the attack on pearl harbor as shortly afterwards the pentagon

ruled it classified. thick black smoke rising from battleships and december troirs and the fireballs captured in the ongoing chaos by a navy war photograph more also wrote of his experience in a diary. >> we had seen kodachrome boxes of the day and we knew it was old film. we didn't know what was on them until we had a chance to right. >> reporter: a world war ii historian bought the film which had been stored in a florida garage for decades. all forgotten. >> the more i looked the more excited i got. this was pretty much bottom of the chest. we feel this is probably the best part. >> reporter: the five minutes of film is silent and after so many years fragile and falling

apart. but the film has been duplicated digitally so this treasure of the day of infamy won't be long forgotten again. the footage was declassified in 1985 and six known minutes of his footage is on display at the national archives. but no one apparently knew of the additional five minutes which ended up in a storage shed in florida. he died in 1985. how and why this was separated. how that all happened is a mystery. martha: think of that young man grabbing his camera and how terrified he must have been while shooting that footage. the japanese attack on pearl harbor forever changed america 70 years ago today. we'll assemble the collection of rare and never before seen photos. you can see all of those. an incredible look at it.

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