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>> rick: hello, everybody. welcome to brand-new hour inside america's news headquarters. i'm rick folbaum. >> arthel: i'm arthel neville. topping the news, president obama has just arrived in south korea for high stakes meetings on nuclear weapons. we'll get a live report from seoul. >> rick: also new details about the deadly shooting this past week in france. and the family of the man at the center of the crimes you will not believe what they're saying today. >> arthel: forget about march madness. how about ipad mania? we break down the good, bad and the ugly behind apple's newest sensation, what "consumer reports" has to tell us.
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>> rick: we begin on the campaign trail, louisiana holding its primary. crawfish etoufee taking a back seat. none of the candidates campaigning there, but rick santorum is looking to rebound. newt gingrich hoping a victory down south keeps his presidential hopes alive. carl cameron live in the big easy for us. carl, would a win in louisiana revive santorum's candidacy? >> he argues it will, obviously. he faces a daunting challenge. he would have to win more than 60% of the remaining delegates in the races yet to come. but still for santorum to be able to beat mitt romney in louisiana, another southern state victory has the potential to complete santorum's argument that there are parts of the country that mitt romney simply can't compete in. santorum had a lead in virtually every poll for weeks leading
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into louisiana. mitt romney did not compete here aggressively. his campaign didn't spend any money at all. there hasn't been the type of romney advantage in terms of a spending edge over santorum here that there were in many of the preceding states. so santorum is likely to get a win. there are 20 delegates at stake. it's likely romney will get some delegates for a second place showing. he's likely to get somewhere in that neighborhood. newt gingrich fell far off the polls in recent weeks and may not qualify for delegates, which means santorum can claim a victory in the popular vote and perhaps the lion's share of delegates, but not necessarily blocking mitt romney mitt from competing here. >> rick: what about the string of los angeles that he suffered in the southern states in general? what effect does that have as he trieste sort of make the case that it's time for the republican party to all come together and unite behind him? >> he had a very big week in the sense that this week jeb bush, the former governor of florida, came out and endorsed mitt romney's candidacy. jim demanipulate, the very influential super conservative senator from south carolina, a
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tea party favorite who has recruited some successful tea party candidates to congress in the senate, also signaled his support for the romney candidacy. romney did win virginia and florida. southern states, although florida is much different than the deep south, alabama and mississippi wins that santorum enjoyed. win in louisiana sort of completes an illustration of santorum's strength in the deep south, something romney can't claim. and it's obviously part of the geographical core of the republican party. so as romney puts together this argument of netability for him being the nominee, the fact he would be weak in a part of the country that is considered the quint essential stronghold of republican conservatives makes him somewhat of a weak front runner. that's the argument newt gingrich has been making, but there was a remarkable statement from the former speaker of the house on the campaign trail here in louisiana yesterday. he said that he will not be able to reach the 1144 delegates necessary for the nomination and he went on to say, neither will rick santorum or ron paul. gingrich's view, either romney
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will be the nominee or there will be a brokered convention. the odds of that are very difficult to achieve because so much of the republican establishment is behind romney and would rather not see the type of public display that a brokered convention or open convention might create. >> rick: carl cameron in new orleans, thanks very much. as the votes are counted in louisiana, keep it right here on fox news channel for the latest coverage of the louisiana primaries all night right here on fox. >> arthel: two years of debate, ager and lawsuits coming to a climax in our nation's capitol about 1,000 tea party members rallying against president obama's health care overhaul ahead of next week's supreme court hearing. doug live in washington with more. hi, doug. >> good afternoon to you. in advance of three days of supreme court oral arguments on the constitutionality of the affordable care act, about 1,000 tea party patriots came out in a steady drizzle for the road to repeal rally. former republican presidential candidate herman cain captured the mood of the crowd with this
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one liner. >> we the people are here! we want our freedom back! >> among the other speakers, a doctor who described how costs are rising rapidly under the affordable care act. they heard from virginia attorney general and gubernatorial candidate ken cuccinelli, the first state attorney general to file suit against the individual mandate. he won that suit. it was overturned in an appeals court. and now stands before the high court. cuccinelli urged attendees to support anti-health care law candidates in the upcoming 2012 elections. >> the battle for the principles that are at stake in this case will go on in these elections this year. they will go on this year. and we've all heard the hyperbole in election, but i think i can make the case that you will never live through a more important election than this year. >> friday, house speaker nancy pelosi expressed confidence that the court will find the law to be constitutional and she
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criticized opponents of the law as extremists. >> there are people out there who oppose the bill who are antigovernment ideal logs who don't think the government should have a role in clean air, public safety, public education, public transportation, health care, medicare, social security, medicaid, any of it. and no, but they love their medicare. except they don't realize that there is a public role there. >> the supreme court oral arguments will be broken down into four segments, perhaps the key argument coming on tuesday when the court considers whether the law's insurance requirement is constitutional. that's going to be a big day. arthel, back to you. >> arthel: doug, thank you very much. disturbing find in a california airport. a montana man under arrest after trying to pass through security with four loaded guns. tsa agents at sacramento international finding three guns in a bag belonging to harold waller. they patted him down, finding a
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load gun in a holster. other travelers were shocked. >> there is a lot of whackos out there. you just never know who is armed and you got to protect yourself at all times. >> there is a tremendous amount of ammunition. he was apparently planning on doing damage. >> he's got some type of agenda that's scary. >> arthel: agents also found three knives on him and eight guns in his car. no word yet on why he was carrying the weapons. >> rick: new video of the aftermath of a deadly plane collision in colorado. two people dead, one surviving somehow. authorities say the two small planes collided and went down within minutes of each other just north of denver. according to reports, the two people killed were a flight instructor and a student. there is an investigation underway. >> arthel: new developments in a the shooing massacre in southern france. gunman mohammed mehra murdered three jewish children, a rabbi, and three soldiers in separate attacks over eight days.
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this week police killed the 23-year-old following a 32-hour stand-off. now anti-terror police are questioning the gunman's older brother. investigators saying they found traces of what could be an explosive material in his car. the 29-year-old apparently telling police he was, quote, proud of his brother. >> rick: web sites like craigslist might make it easy to sell your things to the highest bidder on-line. it's also behind a disturbing trend police call crime by appointment. thieves are posing as interested buyers on-line with the intention of robbing you blind. casey stegall is live in l.a. with this scary story. casey? >> hey, rick. good to see you. back in the day, if you had to get rid of your old couch or let's say a diamond ring, you would take out an ad in your local penny saver, right? or go to your local newspaper. let's face it, the traditional print classified ads are a bit archaic with the plethora of on-line options.
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millions of people now turning to these sites like craigslist and backpage to set up face-to-face appointments to hawk their goods. but cops say there is just something about the internet that has people putting their guard down. they're more inclined to give out personal information and invite complete strangers into their homes and the l.a.p.d tells us these so-called crimes by appointment may actually be more common in smaller towns. listen why. >> i believe it's probably more prevalent where the criminals don't believe that the police can do anything about tracing them on-line, whereas a department that does have that training can pretty easily find somebody on-line. >> one of the more recent incidents caught on tape, a georgia man was robbed at gun point in this grocery store parking lot after he responded to an ad on craigslist to buy a cheap ipad. internet security experts say if
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you are one that is jumping on-line to buy or sell anything, there are certain steps you can take to play it safe. >> lots of pictures ahead of time will clear people who are serious. talk on the phone with them. get a sense of who they are. if they call you, keep a notice to who they are. caller i.d. if you've got it. if they sound like they don't know what they're talking about, you don't want them to be a buyer 'cause they won't buy. >> good advice there. obviously this problem has become so large, one city, oakland, california, up near the bay area, has launched a special task force within the police department to investigate these kinds of crimes and unfortunately, rick, the experts say they're only going to rise as more people go on-line. so you've got to be vigilant. >> rick: casey stegall live in l.a. >> arthel: a tornado ripped through southern illinois. the wind was so strong, it
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collapsed a house, killing one person and injuring two others. it was part of a storm that also brought golf ball size hail to other parts of the region. maria molina live in the fox news extreme weather center and extreme is definitely the word of the day here. >> yeah. we are headed toward the time of the year where we hear of more tornadoes. basically during the months of april and also may into june. that's a peak of severe weather season and we're seeing more as we head into today. yesterday it produced 20 reports of tornadoes along portions of southern illinois, like you saw the images, ohio, western kentucky, through portions of alabama and georgia and today that severe weather risk is further off toward the east, across parts of west virginia, portions of virginia, north carolina, southeastern georgia and also northeastern florida where we have a number of watches all in effect through tonight. there is one that's a tornado watch. conditionsconditions are favorae thunderstorms to develop that could produce tornado touchdowns and unfortunately, we do have two tornado warnings right now
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where we could currently tornado on the ground or could have one very shortly. that's just to the west of the town of danville in virginia. just toward the northeast of that. most of these storms moving pretty rapidly toward the northeast at 25 miles per hour. so when these warnings get issued for your warning, seek shelter immediately. again, there could be a tornado on the ground. another issue with these storms is that there is rain in the area, so they could actually be some rain wrapped tornadoes, making it very difficult to see them. again, warning means seek shelter. otherwise the big story is the extreme warmth across the country that we've been seeing over the past several days. today was no exception. another very warm day out across parts of the midwest, chicago saw well above average temperatures over the past several days. incredible stuff. quiet weather across the center of the country. and another storm actually impacting california today. >> arthel: you're right, those warnings, you can not ignore them. all right. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> rick: japanese fishing boat that washed away in the country's massive tsunami last year is getting closer to north
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american shores. canadian rescue workers say they don't believe that there is anybody on board. they spotted the ship approaching british columbia. it does not pose a threat to the environment, we're told, but it could create a hazard for other ships in the area. >> arthel: honoring the fallen, how one church is paying special tribute to those who paid the ultimate price to keep us safe. >> rick: still ahead, big excitement over the new ipad, but is it worth it? "consumer reports" is here with the lowdown ohhh my head, ohhh. [ speaking in japanese ] yeah, do you have anything for a headache... like excedrin, ohhh, bayer aspirin... ohh, no no no. i'm not having a heart attack, it's my head.
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>> arthel: good day, shot at my hometown. by the way, still almost three hours until the polls close in louisiana. it is a conservative southern state that rick santorum is looking to for a boost. the exit polls are showing early patterns. in southern states so far, having a repeat, santorum has enjoyed strong support from
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evangelical christians. that's true again today. santorum is getting 54%, while romney is backed by 22%. gingrich follows with 17%. and romney is winning among nonevangelicals. what about the qualities that voters value the most? romney has always been the top choice with the voter who wants a candidate who can beat president obama. that trend continues again here in louisiana today, or there in louisiana. romney is getting strong support from republicans who prioritize electability. here it is. these voters give 48% of their support to romney. while santorum gets 31%. on the other hand, voters who want a true conservative, they're going big for santorum. rick? >> rick: thanks. maybe your grandmother told you, mine told me -- that nothing is ever cut and dried. the truth is almost always somewhere in the middle.
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have recent news events pushed people even further to the extremes of their own political beliefs? the tragedy of trayvon mart machine florida has reinforced the view by some on the left that blacks continue to be treated as second class citizens, that only more gun laws can protect innocent lives. the sect anniversary of the president's health care law and his continued opposition to the keystone pipeline has reminded others that he's socialist. but where is the truth? in the extremes or somewhere in the middle? what does it mean for this upcoming election? joining us, tony, republican political analyst, campaign consultant and national political correspondent for talk radio news service. and jehmu green, fox news contributor and i'm glad you're both here to talk to us about this. 'cause i think it's important and it doesn't get talked a lot about, especially not on cable news. but jehmu, is this new, this
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inability for people of all political stripes to see somewhere in the middle, to see newance? >> i don't think this is a new dynamic, but the reality is your grandma was absolutely right. there is, when it comes to the truth, there is my story, there is your story and then the truth does lie somewhere in between. but i think we all can agree that we are at times moving to a place where we're so much more polarized, but something that tony and i talked about before we came on set was actually looking at the trayvon martin shooting. this is something that has inspired us to think that this is not a black issue. this is not a left-right issue. anyone who is trying to politicize this is not seeing the humanity in the fact that just looking at the petition around the shooting, the fastest growing petition in the history of the internet. that gives me faith that there is room to carve out in the middle the humanity of different issues. >> rick: that seems to be the
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exception, don't you think, tony? look at a lot of the issues out there and rarely do you see a coalescing around a certain issue where everybody is in general agreement. what's going on here? don't blame the media. >> you've been reading my talking points, rick. look, it really does ebb and flow. in the early part of the clinton administration, you had a very strong resistance to hillarycare, the clinton agenda. by the end of his first administration, you had the most effective bipartisan government than in a long time. changing parts of the tax code as they relate to capital gains. it's not always stuck in one place. in the george bush administration, you had no child left hyped. he sign that had with ted kennedy and george miller. very staunch liberals. and we had 9-11 which unified the country. by the end of the second term, he was the worst thing since sliced bread. regardless of where we are today t could always change and incidents like the shooting in
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florida do make us double think, should we really be fighting as much as we do. >> rick: a way out. should the liberals make the point about the ryan budget without airing ads showing grandma being pushed off a cliff? if that's where the conversation starts, how do you get anywhere? >> and i have to admit, i know the young woman who was behind that ad very well, the agenda project, erica payne, she's on fox news all the time. i'll raise my hand and say i am guilty. i think as a lot of pundits are, we talk to the extremes. >> rick: why? why do you do it? >> a little more black and white than they are to rile up the base at times, and it would be great if we could all hold hands and sing couple buy i can't and say we're not going to do that. i'm not gog make that prediction because it's not going to happen. it is an election year. but we can do a better job of actually being pragmatic and telling the truth more when it comes to issues. one example here, when george
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bush is in office, president bush is in office, you have the left holding conferences saying, we're going to take back america. and now on the right, as the message is from the tea party, we're going to take back america. where did america go? it didn't go anywhere. what concerns me is that we have to take back america for a reasonable dialogue to actually take place. >> rick: john mccain corrected a women during the 2008 campaign saying barak obama was not a muslim. there are still people out there who continue to believe that the president is, in fact, a muslim. there are still a lot of people out there who do not believe that he is a citizen of the united states of america. how do we go from sort of having people who really truly believe in those positions, which are wrong, and which have been proven wrong, to having a thoughtful conversation about the future of our country? >> those are ludicrous positions
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for people to hold. a lot of things were said about george w. bush and we say there is a conversation about liberal hypocrisy when things happen to republicans. but the bottom line is the opposition to barak obama does not lie in the fact that he might be a muslim. it's the fact that he is truly transforming this country and there has to be an honest ability to oppose the president and say that he's grown government too much, he's taken over a sixth of our economy with health care reform, he sent more money than george bush and frankly any other president did prior to him, without feeling like we're criticizing barak obama. we're just criticizing the policy decision he made. that being said, and i agree with your other point, we have lost the ability to thoughtfully disagree about these things and that's where i said to you earlier, the media kind of comes into play. because you have -- it's not the media's fault, but it's the access the media gives every american now, to instant
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information. >> rick: you're talking about across the board. twitter, facebook and blogs? >> it's not the media driving bad information or bad opinion. they're just making information so available that individuals are getting these very strong opinions. they then unify around those opinions and they drive the conversation and the politicians follow on the extremes. >> the next time you hear one of your colleagues call president obama a socialist, step in and correct him. the next time you hear one of your colleagues call him a muslim, step him and correct her. we can do that. there are things we can do in the media, but also in talking about the truth, even just from this recent set of points about the budget and how much he's spending, we have to keep in mind that those points weren't the same priorities that republicans were focused on when george w. bush was raising the deficit, when we were going to war and the bush tax cuts were responsible for the deficit we're in. so if we can all acknowledge our
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own culpability at times from the left and the right, i think that would be a good way. >> rick: i got to let you respond, tony. >> the last three months, barak obama has ran a bigger deficit than george w. bush did in his worst deficit year. that being said, i would gladly stand up and defend any american who serves our country against a personal attack, republican or democrat, and i would like barak obama to do the same with bill maher and other -- >> rick: thank you both for a thoughtful conversation. appreciate that. >> arthel: thanks. a church paying tribute to each and every american service member who gave their life in iraq and afghanistan. middle towns, westminster presbyterian church plant ago flag for each of the nearly 6400 men and women killed. today the community gathered at the field of flags for a very special prayer service. anna is live with more. hi. >> hi there, arthel. yes, earlier today, the church
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has really been honoring the 6399 service members whose lives have been lost since the start of the wars in both iraq and afghanistan. the field of flags is a traveling memorial being set up at churches across the country. each flag represents one life lost. and there were hundreds of congregation members that came out to a very special and patriotic service today. the names of the 117 soldiers, lives lost from new jersey alone were read aloud. poetry read, hymns sung, taps, bagpipes prelude and "amazing grace." the pastor here says this town is connected to the conflicts overseas because middle town lost more people on 9-11 than any other community in new jersey. >> we've had dozens of people each day out there and they're just so interesting to meet. you realize how deeply this war has touched the hearts of people, caused by that heinous act of evil on september 11.
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>> the field of flags was started at summers congregation church in summers, connecticut, back in 2005. since then, the memorial has traveled to 55 churches and eight separate states. a member here at westminster, julie bayer, had the idea of bringing it in after losing her 23-year-old cousin, dennis, to a road side bomb in iraq a few months after being deployed. she says the flags are a quiet and dignified reminder of the men and women who are fighting for freedom. >> they are putting their lives on the line for us and i think it's easy to go about our happy lives in the best country in the world, but the best country in the world and we're safe because they're our backbone. >> when the memorial started in 2005, there were 2231 flags. that number has tripled to the
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6399. these flags will remain here for three weeks. then volunteers will pack them up and travel to another church. back to you. >> arthel: anna, a touching scene behind you. thank you very much. >> rick: absolutely. coming up, president obama joining other world leaders in south korea for a summit. the topic, nuclear weapons. the main topic is how to keep nukes out of the hands of terrorists. it's a live picture from seoul, south korea, with a gentleman who obviously doesn't know we're taking that camera now, standing in front of it for a second. we'll go live coming up. >> arthel: also, how serious is the risk of a trade war with china? a fresh look at relations with our largest trading partner turn left. the passat is one of nine volkswagen models named a 2012 iihs top safety pick. not that we'd ever brag about it. turn right. come on, nine. turn left. hit the brakes.
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>> rick: president obama kicking off an important visit to south
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korea where he'll attend a world summit on nuclear weapons summit, the goal, finding ways to keep nukes out of the hands of terrorists. we find wendell goler there. >> the president will join more than 50 other world leaders here in seoul, south korea for the second global nuclear security summit, a follow-up to one he hosted in washington in 2010. he will begin with a trip to the demille tarrized zone, very much the focus of this gathering. a shot of the president leaving washington. he actually arrived here about an hour ago. he and the other leaders will be looking for ways to safeguard nuclear materials to keep it out of the hands of terrorists in rogue nations and it's not likely they'll agree on binding measures, but white house press secretary jay carney says they will very definitely make a commitment. >> there is really no greater threat to the security of the american people than the potential for terrorists to
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acquire nuclear weapons. >> north korea and iran are the odd men out here in seoul and it's not just the north's nuclear program that is a concern. it's a plan to launch a satellite next month to mark the 100th birthday of sung. both see the launch as a missile test. they're concerned pieces of the rocket could fall on them. it doesn't make it into orbit. the test would violate a u.n. security council resolution, would likely set back plans to resume the so-called six-party talks on north korea's nuclear program, and could impact endanger plans for the u.s. to provide food aid to that country. >> rick: wendell goler, thanks. >> arthel: is america in a trade war with china? the u.s. trade ambassador, ron kirk, says those fears are being blown out of proportion. i sat down with him and he says currency and trade challenges
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should not obscure what is working with china. >> our exports to china have grown faster in ten years than any other region in the world f. a base point of zero, china is our third or fourth largest trading partner. there are large -- they're our largest market for agriculture. so the upside is extraordinary. >> we owe so much money to china. they own so much of our debt. do they have us, the u.s., over a barrel, so when the u.s. says, hey, china, we want you to stop manipulating your currency, hey, china, we want you to stop buying so much oil from iran. they say sure, no problem and then they do what they want to do? >> if you look at what we said, hey, china, what we want you to do, at least this administration has not been constrained at all by the nature of our relationship and the amount of debt that china holds. the other way to look at that is in a world in which the global economy has been very turbulent, the united states is still the
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safest debt for many other countries to invest. >> arthel: he added that president obama and his administration are working to encourage american companies to do business with countries in addition to china. with the focus on the bricks. >> because these are the next emerging economy. brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa. now, we look at others, but what we want to say to our businesses, as these countries, which have massive amount ofs people, but also a challenge to feed them, give them power, water, lights and the tools they need, those are obvious places that we'll focus on the short-term. it's a great opportunity for american businesses to help them meet their objectives. >> arthel: you have problems with tariffs when you were talk being the bricks. >> we do. in most cases, and again, this is where i say it can be counter intuitive to americans to feel like trade has operated on one hand to give us the best and the cheapest products around the world, but jobs going elsewhere.
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but the reality is our tariffs and duties are among the lowest in the world. so in many cases now, every case we are entering a new trade agreement such as we did with korea, panama, colombia, we just negotiated an agreement with korea, which congress passed in october. it we want into effect last thursday. 80% of manufactured goods after last thursday, march 15, that we sell to korea are now duty free. that's a huge break for everything from opinionries to cars, to whatever we're selling. >> arthel: the ambassador says this new deal adds up to 70,000 jobs mainly in the manufacturing sector and farm economy. it sounds wonderful and we're all americans. we want to do well. when we hear you say, great, this is going to create 70,000 job, i want to know, suddenly are we talking about farms outside of houston where they're going to get the call? >> let me tell you this, because
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for -- we have very detailed information on our web site. i mean, i don't have all of this in my head. i can tell you every third row of soy being grown in this country is exported somewhere. typically in asia. i can tell you that our beef sales to korea are up above 600 million. they've grown about 35% that. could be texas that. could be montana. that could be kansas. >> arthel: what role do corporate taxes play in attracting more companies to do business in the u.s. and not take that business elsewhere? >> i think it plays some. you've heard a lot of conversation by -- the administration has listened to that. we are beginning to see what we call an in sourcing initiative, the tax structure notwithstanding, more companies have said, i'm better off keeping these jobs here. we have the best workers, the best rule of law. we have the ability to move
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goods anywhere in the world and given our productivity advantages, i'm better off producing them here in the united states. >> arthel: in spite of the enormous deficit, the debt, the gridlock in congress, unemployment, underemployment, what is it that you can say to the people, ambassador, that will make everybody realize that still being made in america is a great thing and that, in fact, china is not the big bad dragon bring up our country? >> consumers around the world never worry about putting food on their table that's grown in america because they know it's safe. when somebody gets on a plane and they know it's been made by boeing, they don't have any doubt that it's going to work around the world. it may sound jinglistic, but the words "made in america," have an implied value. >> arthel: he also told me that administration is negotiating with nine other countries in
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southeast asia to form the transpacific partnership. he describes it as a trade agreement that works for the new century incorporating labor and environmental and technology demands. >> rick: nice work. coming up, former massachusetts governor mitt romney looking to clinch the republican party's nomination, but could he learn a lesson from a democratic massachusetts governor and his run for the white house? we'll speak to a former campaign manager for michael dukakis next
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>> arthel: with today's louisiana primary, mitt romney is hoping to add to his delegate lead in the race for the gop nomination. now some say he could take a lesson from another former massachusetts governor, a democrat. so what can romney take from
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michael -- dukakis' run for the white house? this is a fox news contributor and political science and law professor at usc. susan, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> arthel: so let's start here. let's stay the romney campaign folks are taking notes from the dukakis 1988 campaign that you were running. what should they be writing down? >> what not to do maybe. some of the mistakes we made. they want to win. seriously, watching romney this week with the etch a sketch problem kind of reminded me of watching dukakis riding around in that tank with the strap on. what your problems are, when a mistake happens, it can be bad if it really goes to the core of what your problems are. and romney's problem in a very real way is the people don't really know what he stands for and what he believes in.
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they think he's kind of this rich guy who is maybe multiple choice mitt and it makes me laugh in a way because dukakis used to take the tease. everybody knew he was a regular guy, but the question was, was he too liberal? i think the lesson is maybe you have to find a way to connect with people and to convince them that even if you're not just like them and even if you don't agree with them on everything, you understand them. >> arthel: susan, let's talk about their similarities and their strategy. putting them side by side, what are the differences and what are the similarities in those campaigns and their style as people? >> well, romney comes across as much more smooth and if anything, scripted. dukakis was a little bit more rough around the edges. i used to fight with him about getting a new suit. he'd look better in for the presidential debates. and the funny part was in the primaries, nobody said it's
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dukakis liberal enough for the democratic party. it was the switch. it was when he got to the general election people saying, is he moderate enough to be president? romney has got the opposite problem. the question among conservatives is this guy too conservative? and in a way, is he too flexible? dukakis maybe wasn't flexible enough and he didn't like to do the attack ads. romney may be a little bit veering in the opposite direction of being a little too flexible and a little too hard edged on attacks. >> arthel: what a difference 24 years makes. a different political climate now, right? >> my life, too. >> arthel: and so you mentioned the general. do you think that romney has a better chance of standing or fairing in the general as compared to dukakis? >> we used to have a joke that was a wonderful pollster who died recently who worked with us, tubby, and we would look at the polls and we'd study what
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language he should use and what position he should take. then tubby would look at me and say, you know, he's got real problems, but he doesn't have any problem that a few points of unemployment wouldn't solve. i really think sometimes these elections turn on things much bigger than the man himself. so sad to say, but romney could use that unemployment. >> arthel: susan, you always have great insight. i know you'll keep watching it for us and come back and tell us your take on it. we do appreciate it. always good to see you. >> always good to see you. >> arthel: thank you. i want to remind everybody that you can read susan's syndicated column in newspapers across the country every wednesday and friday. see you, susan. >> rick: all right. so you guys probably know what this is. one of the hottest gadgets going. the new ipad just out. is it worth it? does it live up to the hype? "consumer reports" is here with a reality check coming up next. don't go away
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>> arthel: the hysteria, we're talking about the ipad, apple rolling out its latest tablet, already selling over 3 million of them. >> rick: impresssive. is it worth the cash? luckily "consumer reports" magazine takes a closer look at the latest hot gm jet. here to break it down, paul
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reynolds. good to see you. thanks for bringing in the you ipad. it's not the ipad 3. it's just the ipad. >> the ipad. they decided to be what they said unpredictable and not put a number on it. >> rick: all right. so show us what it's got. >> what it's got, the really big thing is this new screen which is four times the resolution of the previous ipad screen. it's basically like a big version of the screen on the iphone 4s, which is a very nice screen. it really is as far as resolution goes, we have not seen a screen this good on a tablet in our test, it was also the colors are really, really good. the pictures were a little bluish. this is really nice. the ipad 2 pictures were great. the screen was great. but this one is even better. >> arthel: we mentioned this is a hot item. those are some of the reports that are out there. maybe it's a little too hot as it compares to the ipad 2. it's get too long hot. >> we looked at that, because there were reports, we took it
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into our lab, we ran both the ipad 2 and the new one on a game which is something that really runs the devices hard. sophisticated action game. what we found is it's true that it runs a little hotter. about a dozen degrees warmer after, say, 45 minutes of running a game than the ipad 2. the good news is we really don't think that's cause for concern. it's not a big safety issue. it's just warm, perhaps uncomfortable to the touch. but not dangerous. >> rick: for folks out there who have the original ipad or have the ipad 2, is it worth going out and swapping in your old one and getting a new one? >> i would say if you have an ipad 1, the first generation, you are going to see a real difference moving up to this one. ipad 2, most people are seeing a difference in the screen, particularly there is a better camera on this one if you want to take photos with it. it has 4 g high speed data access if you want to get a model with that versus 3 g, which is slower on the other one
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if you're happy with your ipad 2, you may not want to upgrade to this right now. but if you haven't bought on ipad yet, this is worth getting. it's worth the extra $100. actually dropped the price of the ipad 2. this is worth the extra $100 if you have it. >> arthel: it is beautiful. that is so vibrant. >> rick: it's a little heavier. the weight is more. >> a little heavier and thicker because they had to get a bigger battery for the screen. >> rick: paul reynolds, always good to see you, thanks very much. >> thank you. >> arthel: very nice. that does it for us. don't go anywhere. fox report with harris faulkner is up next. thank you for joining us. see you next saturday. each day was fueled by thorough preparation for events to come. well somewhere along the way, emily went right on living. but you see, with the help of her raymond james financial advisor, she had planned for every eventuali. which meant she continued to have the means to live on...
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