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headquarters in the capitol starts right now. they are underway . they gather to choose their pick. and polls showing romney with a essential lead. john what can you tell us from las vegas? >> and good morning to you and good afternoon in washington. the high school in the western part of las vegas. this is one . biggest caucaus and two of the precincts will be represented. it feeds in the idea that the state gop is talking about. people energized about the caucaus. they are hope wards of 60,000,

will participate. mitt romney is the favorite. of last night he dropped by one of his phone back to thank people for getting out there. this is what he told the volunteers last night. >> you can be out with your familis and doing other things. but getting people to come to the caucaus. i appreciate it gingrich's last appearance was before a group of faith leaders and asked them to pray for him today . he may need those prayers based on the poll results. he told me he expect to do well >> well, our goal is trying to

-- he won by a majorit yewe are working to come in here second. they are porportional . we want to pick up delegates here and colorado and maine and minnesota. he will continue on even if he loses. and the mormon vote is important here. represent one in four voters went 95 percent to mitt romney and while the latest polls show that maybe he support is softer and because some is going to ron paul. >> and they were in the single digits . that doesn't reflect the ability to get people out to the caucaus. he never left after the last competition here. what we see in terms of the polls may turn out and ron

paul could be second. >> thank you for the update from vegas. >> it is poor and safety net there. i am not concerned about the rich. they are doing just fine. >> i am concerned about the heart of the americans who are struggling . >> that is governor mitt romney earlier this week. he said his words were taken out of context. this is a latest example of a candidates inability to connect with average americans. and former minnesota governor tim pawlenty is joining us today. >> good to be with you, today, uma. >> mitt romney should have done a victory lap. he had to fend off question democrats who wonder if he is truly concerned about the poor and republicans who wonder if he is a true conservative. what impact will it have on

voters who feel they are out of touch? >> i don't think much, uma. he acknowledged he misspoke. he always made it clear he said there are programs available for the extremely poor and could be reformed and improved and the rich are doing well. he wants to focus on the policy proposals in the middle class. it was not that he didn't care about the poor. when you are a candidate and you speak all day every day. there is some oops moments. that was one of them. but it is not determinive of anything. we'll move on to the real issues. who is best to get the economy moving and mitt romney is the only one in the race that started businesss and growing businesses and providing jobs. his remarks is seeing a candidate that is doged by issues of wealth and poverty. why is it difficult for him to

express himself in the arena >> each of the candidates had these kinds of moments. remember last nime barack obama said conservives and republicans clingg to god and guns and he was derisive of that perspective and so it is not uncommon. but you look at the needs of the country and needs of the poor, it relate to getting a job as one of the path ways. bark obama had his chance and people on the republican side spent their whole life in dc. you don't grow job in washington d.c.. mitt romney is the best person to do that as an entrepreneur. >> you conditional from a working class background. and the party of sams club. and romney can connect with

people beyond the country club circuit. >> absolutely. if you go to places where i grow up. in a meat packing town. and down in the vp-- vfw. the candidate has white paper and they have a measure of a person and how do i pay for the health care and pay my mortage and kids through college. most people do that whether they have a job or not . so right now for this moment in time in particular. mitt romney is someone they look to and say obama had his chance we are sick of washington d.c. politicians. that will be a strength. >> you think the perception is not stick the vores are seeing beyond that? >> you look at the results which is mitt romney doing better than the candidates, it

is obviously not stick look at his head-to-head numbers against barack obama and who is best to beat obama is mitt romney. >> and what about the conservatives that are concerned about the presence pels. republicans don't need to elect an obama like. damaging is it for romney. he is a conservative and cutting taxes and spend growing jobs and reducing unemployment and standing for traditional marriage and it is a conservative record. is t perfect, no. i would say compared to who? record of people flapping their yaws. but the actual record of newt gingrich and santorum. they have clunkers as well. but the idea that newt or rick is a perfect conservative is a flawed premise . so none of the candidates is

perfect. mittt is a conservative. and no one else in the race is perfect conservative and the idea that newt or rick is not plasible. >> and on the personal note. the fact that we have had candidates drop out of the race. do you have regrets of your dropping out early on? do you think that perhaps it would have been nice to stay in longer. >> we took it as far as i could with my race and resources. we didn't get it done. i am proud and pleased to support mitt romney. we took it far as i could. we might have regrets of the tactic. but i am a national co-chair for mitt's campaign. he is the most knowledgeable and electable in the field. >> thank you for your comments as always. all the best to you.

>> thanks, uma. >> your turn to weigh in. now you heard tim pawlenty take on romney's comments about the poor, do you think he's out of touch with average americans? tweet at anhqdc. or hurricane uma. texas congressman ron paul setting his sights on minnesota. he has stops in a bid to win over voters . and ron paul and mitt romney's other rivals have little chance of an upset and they are looking to the next contest on the primary. casey stegall looks at where we are in the race and gop nomination and where we go next, stacey? >> uma good to see you. ron paul in minnesota and even though he's not in the silver

state for the caucaus today. he's been on the ground campaigning heavily. and experts say that he's going to fair well despite the polls. much of the tea party vote according to the political analyst and stealing away the crucial mormon vote from mitt romney. rick santorum is also in nevada today. he will be in colorado, holding several rallies in the state. he was in missouri yesterday looking for a golden opportunity there because we know that newt gingrich is not on the ballot in the show me state . looking ahead three days from now on tuesday, colorado and minnesota will hold caucaus and missouri will have its primary and one week from today. next saturday it will be time for the state of maine's caucaus and first tuesday in march is huge with 10 states

head to the polls. and now let's talk delegates. 28 are up for grab in nevada awarded to the candidates. after today. 167, will be assigned and here is how the numbers shake out so far. rom romm has secured 69 . gingrich 23. and santorum with 13 . paul with three. and jon haunts man got two and out of the race at this point. remember it takes 1144 total delegates to secure the nomination . then eyes are on florida with the news this week after the gingrich campaign is contesting the win or take all 50 delegates in that state. we'll have to wait and see how it plays out from here. it is it a busy day in nevada and we'll keep you posted as we follow all of the results

as they trickle in. >> absolutely, a busy day indeed. thank you, casey. >> turning to other news at this hour. u.n. security council is backing a arab league call syrian president assad to stipulate down. this comes after a bitter assault on the stave holm. >> lilan? >> in the past couple of minutes. china and russia used the vetos in the u.n. security council to end the resolution that called on president assad to step down. past three or four days, united states tried to get a resolution that has tooth in it and that will not happen it appears and over the past 24 hours. world attention is focused on syria and this is way. a massacre in the town of

holm. snipers were shooting unarmed civilians as they walked through . mortar barage that killed 200 . wounded 500. there are no ambulances in the town and a number of the hospitals there in holm are shut down. video coming in from activist on the town shows fires all over the city. they landed in civilian neighborhoods. this is a huge escalation by the assad regime in the terms of the use of force that they brought on their own people. french came out strongly against the syria regime and called the attack you are watching a crime against humanity. and the world responded in cities all over the arab world and united kingdom and europe and in the united states, protestors went out to embassies in the world. all of the embassies had

called on president assad to tep down. in london they had to keep the protestors from storming the embassy there in london. rhetoric has been stepped up against president assad. today president obama called the massacre unspeakable and he had the feelings that the united states was standing behind the syrian people and president assad needed to go. however, there is a big difference between what is happening here and what is happening in libya in the sense that in libya, the world came together and allowed for a resolution for military force. today the u.s. secretary of state ruled out the use of force . what you may be looking at now. the u.n. lines in the u.n. security council. they are trying to find some kind of language that either the united states can propose or russia or china could

propose that would allow them to vote against sir yampt effectively what we will get out of the u.n. a watered down and will not call for assad to leave or the arab transition plan that has deeth against it. for a long time russias felt they were pressured by the united states and western world into voting for the libya rez lusionn and they will not be pressured into voting something that allows for a military force. there is a lot of back room diplomacy going on between russia and the united states. the u.s.'s big push to get a resolution for assad to step down failed even though the massacre and shows how assad will do anything including opening up on entire neighborhoods just like his father did in order to stay in

power. >> it is a tragic and desoperate situation in syria. >> one person is dead and two others injured after a propane explosionn near a california military base. several other homes in the area were evacuated as precaution . investigators are saying that there was a propane leak but not sure what ignited the gas. >> the supreme court will hear arguments on the enforcement law on april 25th. the courts final day of hearing is for the current term and arizona verses the united states and adopt tough immigration laws. at issue is whether the legislation will take precedence over arizona laws. >> the government said the economy gained a quarter of a million jobs. jobless rate dropping in the

gop weekly media address. republicans saying that there could be more growth in the president would support the jobs bill. mr. obama told americans to tweet and phone lawmakers asking them to support his proposal to lower lending rates for millions of strapped homeowners. >> in order to lower mortgage payments we need congress to act. they are the ones who have to pass the plan. as anyone who followed the news can tell you it is not easy to getting congress to do the jobb. >> energy plan that supports the creation of more than one million private sector jobs. the not behy wasting your money on pork barrel and stim tim spending, but rumoving the government bar yerse that are getting in the way of job growth.

>> republican wants obama to pass the pay roll extension for a full year. >> he is described as a robotic. who is the real mitt romney? a book written by two reporters who covered the real mitt romney . is super bowl sunday and battle on the grid iron. and angry protestors are threatening to disrupt the big game. >> fighting to send a message to arrogant who tell us how to live and where to live and what kind of levy we can have. wake up!

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congresswoman ron paul has no plan to drop out of the presidential contest. e we'll talk about what the campaign is doing to stay focused on winning. at this moment they are campaigning in colorado and

expected to return to nevada for a victory celebration. rick santorum are focusing his efforts to missouri. there are differences between me and romney and me and bark obama. it is about the very poor unlike governor romney. [inaudible] >> they are slamming mitt romney and gop hopeful mitt romney is becoming a household name. and the editor of the book called the real romney. welcome, sir, great to have

you here today. >> thank you, uma. in the book. you point out that romney seems to be two people at once. savvy politician and someone who does anything to win. a business visionary for example and a deal maker. there are two sides to the way he projects himself. whether as governor or business leaders. mitt romney is a man of tremendous background in intelligence and pursued challenging career in business and took on big targets in polititions. he hadn't had an opportunity to think about what you have to think about. and suddenly when you are running for political office. he ran for senate. it was the first time he had to think through what position

he would articulate on abortion and gay rights . same thing as governor. in his case a decision on what you do about the uninsured people who had no medical insurance. he had to devise how he would stand and then on as a national candidate. you are in a context . run nothing a party where some of the positions he took as candidate for senate and governor look difficult for him and he evolved in his time as governor to refine those positions to closer to the main stream. what does he think about the pressing issues in the republican campaign. he grew up in michigan who rejected the 1960s pop culture. why did he reject that part of

the society in those days? >> well, he was obviously people know he grew up in the mormon faith . mormonism cultivates a sober and conservative outlook on social issues . mitt was a child of the mid60's person. a lot of people who grew into a more we think of '60s outlook. mitt went to stanford at a time yes, there were protest against the war. but they were conducted in a suit and tie . mitt was seen with a sign protesting the protesters himself. he was supportive of the viet nam war as the main streamm was and only changed when his father came back and decided he had been talked to support

for vietnam and mitt grew away. it grows out of the cult and you are deeply ingrained caution . he is a cautious person and not someone to take outlandish positions. >> mark, i have to jump in here. we have breaking news i need to get to and i thank you for the comments it is a great read. >> thank you very much. >> this is a fox news alert. there is a set back in the diplomatic efforts to defuse the situation in syria. russia and chin hoa the u.n. syria resolution calling for syria president assad to step down. they accused assad forces of killing hundreds of people in a assault on the city of holms.

>> whatever it takes. fighting to send a message to arrogant people who think that they will tell us how to live and what kind of levy we can have. >> besides the giant clashes on super bowl sunday, there are expected to be more protest outside of the stadium from groups who are upset with the right to work situation. opponents are so angry they will hope to stop the super bowl. it will attract employers.

. we'll tell them what happens.

>> welcome back. the nevada caucauses are underway . most of the candidates are spending time outside. peter doocy is standing by with more on that and the rest of the top stories. >> most of the candidates are in states that hold primaries next week. ron paul is holding a town hall in minnesota. he is behind in minnesota and nevada. mitt romney, the man likely to take nevada is campaigning in colorado as is rick santorum it is officials that say the blast happened in a military housing unit. and they were evacuated and no

word on what caused the explosion. >> dozens of police converged on the occupy dc protestors this morning. they were there to impose a no camping ban. demonstrators were camped out there since. and in an interview this week. the first family is planning a quite super bowl sunday and in past years they invited celebritis and wounded warriors to watch the games. they are the top stories right now. >> not just the first family. but a lot of us watching for the big game on sunday. thank you very much . another friday night document dump. white house making news and obama administration releasing a stack of internal documents and e-mails relating to the bankrupt solyndra corcheration. >> good afternoon to you. white house critecs say it is

a classic night document dump. 300 pages hand over to the house committee and commerce committee last night. there was a conditional loan in march 2009, months before the full loan. the white house maintained that was disclose there is no evidence of political pressure. in a statement put out last night. handing over five or six pages a day is not a level of compliation in a situation where taxpayers are out over half a billion dollars. it is astonishing that the administration that held itself up to be open in history contues to stone wall refusing any accountability. >> evidence of bad blood. they indicate and quote. not with standing the lack of evidence supporting the

committee's allegation ofitism of campaign donors and other improper conduct the committee done to engage in a fishing exdition. republicans maintain if the white house has nothing to hide. they should hand over the documents. they say the investigation will continue because the documents are critical. they want to insure that the public is never left holding the bag on the administration's risky bets. >> thank you for the update. >> emergency lights on a runway. it is not what happened on the plane that caused chaos. we'll tell you about it coming up. you know when i grow up,

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>> take a look. you are looking live at the union union security council in new york city. another major set back. world leaders hoping tobling an end to the deadly violence in syria. moments ago. in the u.n.. russia and china veted the arab backed resolution and calling for assad to step down. recent attacks in the city of holm left 200 people dead. this is news according to the activist on the ground there. president obama released a statement saying i strongly condemn the unspeakable assault against the people and of holm and offer my deepest sympathy to those who have lost loved ones. amust stop the kill category cripes against his own people now. the syrian government is denying the killings and saying it is a ploy to gain the support of the united

nations. and turning to other news it is not the way most people want to spend the friday night trapped undera massive airplane. a washington man is recovering after being trapped under the of a boeing jet at an airport in everett. crews were towing the plane. the helicopter crew rushed him to the hospital for leg injuries . boeing is investigating how all of this happened. folks in colorado are digging out today after a massive snow storm hit that area. the snow shut down hundreds of miles of highways and cancelling 600 flights. maria molina is more on that and where the big storm is headed next. >> hi, uma, good to see you. the storm brought a lot of

snow out there. we have super bowl coming up tomorrow and good news finally as far as the weather goes. good weather for the tailgators. the game is in in doors and that will bring nice weather conditions for the game otherwise for you guys outside. looking for sunshine and dryy weather and temperatures that are above what is typical for indianapolis. 40s for the game. we have light snow moving in portions of western pennsylvania and northern highway highway. a lot of rain in parts of louisiana and mississippi and we could see flooding in the lower mississippi valley. generally speaking one-three inches of rain and there are flood advisories due to the rain . snow in parts of nebraska.

accumulations of four-eight inches of snow. this is nothing compared to what we saw this week. totals of 50 inches are reported in parts of colorado. >> wow. that's a major, major storm to hit that area. they will be digeg out for sometime. great news for super bowl sunday and a lot of folks watching the game. thank you very much. and ron paul is signaling his expected loss in nevada. he left the state and looking further down the road to the nominating calendar. we'll talk to jesse benton about his strategy going forward. that is coming up next. don't go away. feel the power my young friend. mmm! [ male announcer ] for excellent fruit and veggie nutrition... v8 v-fusion, also refreshing plus tea. could've had a v8.

>> welcome back. just moments ago despite international outrage over a syrian government assault. russia and china veted a draft resolution calling for president assad to step down. in other news. actor ben buzara has died. he was 81 years old and

beyonce may get a chance at a reality tv gig. there are respects that simon cowel is offering her a show on the x factor. if we do well with this philosophy and send a message and well on tuesday in various states in minnesota and do well, the rest of the country and world will notice that the right ideas is what we need and we don't need more. >> ron paul is getting a lot of applause. the caucus underway in nevada. ron paul wrapping up a town hall meeting. and mitt romney the favor to win and there is a great deal of time by ron paul on how to lure romney supporters.

joining us is the ron paul campaign. there is a three second delay. i hope you will bear with us. thank you for joining us today. cthanks for having me. he may come in second in nevada. what are yourr expectations? we are running a great open. we expect it to be that way second time around. >> second would be great and

we are taking on a lot of folks out there. and gingrich has the backing . we'll think we do well. second place is achievable. what impact with the mormon vote in nevada. we expect to do well with the mormons. they have a respect of liberty and these are the folks that gave us scouts . we are competing with the mormon vote and we respect those people and we respect their respect for liberty. >> why do you think you do better in caucaus states as opposed to a primary? >> well, we did very, very well in the new hampshire primary and strong second place.

you know, caucaus states reward grass roots campaign hard work and you can make up for your lack of financial resources through organization and through passion. and dr. paul is a great grass roots campaigner and he brought the house down, over 700 people and it was wonderful. these are the kind of people who turn out to caucaus in a smaller environment. they are highly motivated and tuned in to the issues are the people who will caucaus. a primary is a broadsentiment but the people who are tuned in the issues and studied and understand what is going on is likely to caucaus. that's why dr. ball does well. >> other rivals are saying apart from mitt romney, even if they come in behind mitt romney they'll go all the way to the convention is mr. pall,

planning to go all the way? >> we'll keep going until there is a clear winner. when someone wins 144 delegates. if it is dr. paul or not us. but when they aulate 144 delegates. >> less than three percent is allocate just getting started. we have 46 more states to vote . all of the territories need to vote and we have a crom prehensive plan. we are working hard and we'll keep going. and dr. palt can come out on top beed hads money and terms was connect being with votes what is the biggest road block going forward?

perception in the media. we need strong showings in minnesota and colorado and maine to show we are here and we will run with the big boys . support will grow. >> thank you for joining us today. you have a loud and happy crowd out there. we appreciate it very much. thank you. >> the new york giants and that doesn't mean they don't have all of the perks of home. we'll tell you why their super bowl snack received a police escort. i couldn't concei this as a heart attack.

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>> is this the most valuable pizza, the giants have humberto's pizza, and supplies to the people before every game and the super bowl is no exception and the pizza shop will make a special 700 mile deliveries to indianapolis tomorrow complete with a police escort. and of course, we also love hearing from you at home and when it comes to the election, you weigh in. in light of the backlash against mitt romney for his comments against the very poor. we're asking you if you agree with the pundits who say that romney is out of touch. joyce says i watched the entire interview and i didn't hear anything that mitt romney said that was