and laura ingraham will be here. you can follow us on twitter throughout the day and see you tomorrow right here on "fox & friends". bill: morning, everybody. this is an epic day. a supreme showdown over the president's healthcare law. the arguments at the supreme court will start with the hour. the question at hand, can the federal government force you to buy health coverage. welcome to america's newsroom. hope you had a great weekend. stunningly great. actually. martha: we have a lot going on today. 26 states lined against the white house in this fight. however this decision comes out it could be the most significant statement on the limit of government that we have seen

from the court in 80 years. bill: shannon, what is expected on day one of three days of arguments. >> reporter: we heard about the mandate, whether it's constitutional. but today we may not get to that question. the old tax law says you cannot have a lawsuit against a tax you have not already paid. the justices will have to talk about whether they have to wait for the mandate to kick in in 2014. and booting this case until they could take it later after it kicks in. normally the justices would give 60 minutes teen argument like this. both sides in this case agree. the 26 states challenging a law.

they agree move this case forward. this old arcane law does not stop it. but the courts ear appointed an outside attorney to come in and argue the position. they have given it a lot of weight. they considered a strong possibility, 90 minutes, then they get to the heart of the case tomorrow and beyond. bill: we can heart protests behind you. they will be not you force throughout the week. martha: shannon just laid out day one in which they will decide whether to move forward. the most anticipated argument will come tomorrow when the court devotes two hours to the individual mandate. the imposition that you must buy

healthcare. that's a phrase that never appears in the 2,000-page statute. day three, they will hear arguments on whether the individual mandate can be thrown out and the rest of the law upheld. estimates are for a ruling in june. bill: look at two of the key players at the center of this battle. the attorney doned a verrilli has argued 16 cases before the court. he also worked in the u.s. solicitor general's office. he argued 55 different cases before the high court. here is more now on how both

side see their case. >> as you look at this, it is like come knows falling. if you take out one provision then take out another provision, pretty soon you have the heart of the act that is invalid. and the rest of it can't stand alone. >> you have seen jurists appointed by republicans and democrats uphold this law so we are confident it will be constitutional. bill: it's interesting when you talk to the principles involved here how they feel about today. a lot of anxiety but a lot of nerves, too. then they have to go back and analyze this for the next two months before you get a ruling. for them and for all of us there is a lot on the line. martha: no cameras in that courtroom which we would have loved to have seen to watch how this plays out.

but the national federation of independent business is calling this the ultimate david versus goliath showdown. they say it pitted small business against big government. a lot of small businesses say they will no longer cover their employees as a result of this. that group is among those challenging the healthcare law in court. we'll hear from the executive director of that group's legal center. we have their voice here live today in america's newsroom. president obama warning north korea that any new provocative moves will only add to further isolation for the already isolated country. his comments when during his meeting in seoul *, south korea as leading wait too see if

leaders in pyongyang will make good and launching a controversial rocket. >> reporter: korea is calling it a satellite launch but the rest of the world sees it as a missile test. no one has missed the pattern of north korea trying to seize attention from an event to which it was not invited. today at a speech in seoul, president obama spoke directly to the north. >> there will be no award for provocation. those days are over. this is the choice before you. this is the decision you must make. >> reporter: yesterday mr. barack obama made clearing if ahead with the launch would cost north korea hundreds of thousands of tons of food aid the u.s. was willing to provide

for suspension of their nuclear enrichment. mr. obama asked for space on the missile defense system. the u.s. and russia disagree on. he said this is my last election. with the political transition going on in russia and the election year in the united states it was unlikely we would make progress on this controversial issue in this year. officials say technical experts will continue working on the problem. martha: that open mike moment getting a lot of attention this morning. bill: while the * visited the dmz, the armistice was signed in 1953. the dmz runs for 151 miles west

to east. 128,000 u.s. troops are stationed on the south korean side. martha: the dmz is a popular stop for visiting u.s. presidents. president george w. bush was the last president to visit the dmz in february of 2008. presidents reagan and clinton both stopped there during their first term. bill: new comments this morning. ben bernanke league wet blanket on better job numbers. he says the job market is still weak an said he does not expect unemployment to keep falling at the current pace without stronger economic growth. that seems a strong indication that interest rates will stay low. they will stay low for at least

two more years. but that's not great news as we tried to watch this trend and hope for the best and hope for improvement. martha: they worked to tamper expectations as we start to see economic growth happening here. we'll watch how the market opens and seat reaction on wall street. gas prices, hello, fell through the roof. wish we had better news for you there. there -- the president argues there is no quick fix on this issue. but could those words come back to haunt him. bill: the fbi helping in the search for a missing 15-year-old girl. martha: is there more to the trayvon martin case that meets the eye? a friend of george zimmerman speaking out for the first time

about what happened that night and yes says he believes this is indeed a case of self-defense. he will join us live in america's newsroom after the break. stick around for that.

bill: a 7-year-old boy pulled from a house fires in charleston, west virginia has died. that brings the number killed in that fire to 9. that includes his siblings, mother, her boyfriend and his daughters. this is charleston's deadliest house fire in that stay in 60 years. that fire is under

investigation. martha: the white house is hitting back at its critics saying president obama is not to blame for these skyrocketing gas prices. but in 2008 when he was campaigning for president, he then blamed his predecessor. watch this. >> you are paying nearly $3.70 for gas. 2 and a half times wait cost when george bush took office. martha: the national average for a regular gallon of gas, $3s 90. let -- $3.90. let's bring in our great panel. good to have you here. kirsten, let me start with you. it felt as if the president had to be feeling pretty good about the economic numbers we have been seeing and the energy issue

was what they focused on. >> maybe that's something they feel vulnerable. but does this example put him on tricky ground with this? >> it does. though i don't think the average vote letter be thinking that much about what he said about bush. they will be more concerned that they are feeling the opinion inch their wallets having to peso much for gas. whether they blame the president or not is beside the point. the problem is as long as you are having to peso as much for gas, you are going to feel more economically strapped than you already do. because we are in a very slow turnaround of the economy. so, yes, of course the white house has to be concerned about this just as george bush was concerned about it when gas prices were high under him. martha: it may not matter who blames who or who has the

ability to change situation. when prices are on the rise people tend to punish the president for better or worse. >> rightly so. president obama has been in office for over 3 years. what has he actually done to help reduce gas prices, to help increase the supply. his energy policy is a mess. he's prohibited the keystone pipeline, stop that decision from taking place until after the election which makes me nervous. and we know in his energy policy he's prying to promote alternative energy with a $500 million loan to solyndra which gave money to his campaign. so the president is responsible. he needs to take responsibility and accept responsibility, and finally his energy secretary in 2008 said they wanted european gas prices of $8 to $10 a gallon. they ought to fire secretary chu

and put in a new energy secretary. megyn: the two big issues domestically are the economy and gas prices tie into that picture. then healthcare. let's take a look at what david plouffe * said to chris wallace. listen to this. >> we are confident it will be upheld. democratic and republican jurists upheld it. the mandate is support by the heritage foundation, newt gingrich, bob dole and the god father of the mandate mitt romney. we are confident it will be upheld. martha: so the fact that he used that phrase in a couple different places, that's what they are work on. romney is the godfather of healthcare according to the

obama administration. >> they know obviously it's something that's very unpopular among republican voters, and so i think they will continue to kind of stick it to him and pretending they are giving him credit when in fact i think they are trying to stick to it him. however, they are correct. what he said is correct. the mandate is something that was originally a republican idea. it did come out of the heritage foundation it was support by newt gingrich. it's ridiculous now to watch the same people scream and yell about it and say it's unconstitutional. there were two very respected judges in the lower courts, very conservative justices including a scalia clerk who said it's not unconstitutional at all. martha: it may be out of the political discussion at least for the moment. they uphold it or decide not to

uphold it, that's a big question. what's the impact for romney? >> the political rhetoric by the obama campaign trying to characterize mitt romney as the godfather of this. at end of the day barack obama, nancy pelosi and harry reid jammed it down the throats of the american people. barack obama is the one who needs to be held responsible for it. >> most do not think that. only 20% of people think the mandate should be struck down. >> they believe it's unconstitutional. martha: it many up to the 9 justices over the course of this week. thanks very much, kirsten and justin. bill: dick cheney recovering from heart transplant surgery today. there is new information on how he is doing in the post-op after

his surgery. martha: rick santorum with a big win over the weekend. a look at what santorum is up to now. he had a triple strike. bill: they call that a turkey. >> why would we put someone up who is uniquely -- pick any other republican in the country -- he's the worst republic can in the country to put up against barack obama. why would wisconsin want to vote for someone like that.

martha: the former home of the orlando magic is no more.

look at that. that usually happens in vegas. $520,000 in dynamite brought count amway. it disi pared into a plume of dust. it was the home of the orlando magic. that one opened by the same name 18 months ago. the city paid $2 million to knock it down and now they are waiting to build a residential and office area in the same spot. bill: that was a clean implosion there. former vice president dick cheney is in a virginia hospital recovering from a heart transplant. he has been on awaiting list nearly 2 years. 20 months in total. doug, how is he doing? >> reporter: by all

indications the surgery went well. we have known for years his heart was ailing. he had his first heart attack at the age of 37. four more would follow through the years. he had bypass surgeries, angioplasties. he had a ventricular assist device that served as a stop gap. if he was asked about the likelihood he would eventually need a new heart. >> the equipment i wear was originally put together as a transition device to keep somebody going until they could get a transplant. now it's gotten good enough that a lot of people live on it for years. i haven't made a decision what i'm going to do yet. >> reporter: at 71 he's older than most heart recipients. but that indicates the change nature of transplants. older and older patients are

considered viable for transplants. bill: two years is a long time to wait. some people suggest he was given special treatment. >> reporter: it doesn't look like that's the case. that question comes up when a prominent person gets a transplant. there is no evidence of that. mr. cheney was on awaiting list for a long time. you mentioned 20 months. that's significantly longer than the average of 12 months. this is a process that's very, very tightly controlled. bill: our best to him and his family during his recovery. martha: a missing plea after the disappearance of a california teenager after police find a bag of notely folded clothing that clonged to her and her cell

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bill: a fox news alert. we are 30 minutes away from the high court hearing arguments challenging the healthcare law. my next guest is part of the legal team that filed suit. i talked to the director of the legal center earlier today. karen harnett is with me now. on a day like today are you nervous? what is the feeling you have? >> i'm just anxious, ready to go. i have got good adrenaline going. we think it's going to be a great three days. bill: it will be interesting whichever way this court goes. we broken down the three different days on the following three questions to make it more understandable to everybody out there, including us. is the individual mandate constitutional? is it a tax or is it a penalty? and will the law stand if that

mandate is vote down. is that simply put? >> that is simply put. bill: when you argue this today the government will say in order to achieve the goals of lowering costs and getting more insures we have to have this individual mandate. why do you think that's so unconstitutional? >> it's unpress don't. it's the first time has happened in 220 years that we have congress telling us what to buy it's unlimited. the government's argument is if the individual mandate is upheld there will be no limit what congress can require us to do going forward. and it's unnecessary. there were constitutional ways to solve this problem. congress chose the unconstitutional path in terms of the individual mandate. bill: we'll hear a lot about the commerce clause in the next few

days. what the government will argue is the way the law is set up it fits the constitutional definition of the commerce clause. i know you are against this, but simply stated, why? why it does not fit under the commerce clause. >> no, seriously it does not fit that definition because this is the first time congress is compelling you to get in commerce in the first place. today they regulated you. once you have chosen to buy a product or chosen to do a service. now they are telling people who are not in the market at all, we need you in the market so you can subsidize these people. bill: it's the first time you would argue. word came out of washington we are told, every american that you have to go out and purchase said product.

>> that exactly right. there is a good line a an old supreme court case. if congress hasn't don't in 220 years probably they don't have the power to do it in the first place which is what we believe. bill: what is this about a tax or penalty? >> congress usually used its taxing and spending power into season toughize sh shall be to incentivize behavior. that's why you have seen congress change its tune on whether this is a tax or a penalty. bill: has it exchanged its tune? >> they are arguing in court that they have the taxing power to impose this mandate. the penalty is really a tax and they try to bootstrap in the taxing powers. they have not given up on that argument. bill: you represent small business in america. what do you believe is the

impact on small businesses across the country if the law stands? >> it's twofold. the first is they lose as we all do our individual liberties. they are going to see no constitutional back stop to the government telling them how to run their business. how to own and operate and use their precious discretionary dollars. they will divert the money from the small business owners and put them into whatever the government wants them to buy. we are already seeing unprecedented premium increases. we are seeing one in eight of those small business owners, they are being told because of this law, your plan is canceled or it will be in the next year. bill: is the mandates for individuals constitutional? is it a tax or a penalty, and will the law stand if the mandate is voted down. those are your issues, the coming days, three of them.

good luck to you. just as the arguments begin we'll talk to one of the first people to challenge the law. bill mccollum is the attorney general in florida. martha: we are awaiting a major senate vote in georgia that could have a huge impact on women. the state senate is set to decide a bill that would redefine when women can legally seek an abortion. good morning, john. >> reporter: under current georgia law a woman can have an aboirption to 24 weeks in her pregnancy. the senate will be voting today to move that up to 20 weeks. that's when supporters of this bill say a fetus can begin to feel pain. it just passed the house at the end of february. i asked him about that particular provision.

>> they have physiological responses to pain inutero, their heart rate increases, they seek to avoid negative stimuli. there is good medical science to say fetuses at 20 weeks experience pain. we are seeking to prevent abortion after that time. >> reporter: there is a lot of disagreement when fetuses can feel pain. some believe it's 24-28 weeks. but he says why not err on the side of caution. martha: what are the opponents saying? >> reporter: they are saying it's a bad bill. it puts government between a doctor and his patient. they say it would be in the way to preserve the life of a fetus. if a woman's water broke 22

weeks into her pregnancy the doctor would have to do an emergency c-section to try to save that baby. and dr. ruth klein says that's the wrong thing to do. >> i don't think i personally could do a c-section for 22 weeks. i don't know if i would be concerned that's not practiced, it's not how i have been trained to practice medicine. so i have conflict on making that decision. and if not, we have no options in the state of georgia. >> reporter: dr. klein says it's rare for a fetus to be able to survive outside the womb. but the earliest survivor is jim gill out of canada. he was born at 19 weeks. martha: john, thank you so much. john roberts in atlanta. bill: look at the markets? what's going on there?

happy spring, we say. triple digits so far. we'll see if we can stay there in a moment. rick santorum won big in louisiana. but is that enough to catch romney? martha: good bowler, rick santorum. is there more to this story, the trayvon martin case. we are finding out more details from the accused the shooter's attorney. was this self-defense? >> we want an arrest, and we want a conviction. eat good fats.

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bill: a new week of trading getting started on wall street. futures were up earlier.

despite a warning from the feds that the job market remains weak in america. residents in middle virginia feeling a 3.1 magnitude tremor today. no reports so far of damage there. organizers of an easter hunt in colorado springs say the event is officially canceled. overaggressive parents jumped over the ropes to help the kids. other children eggless. are we 10 days away from easter sunday? martha: we turn our attention to this story that has caught so much of the nation's attention in is new details on the accused shooter's side of this story that is emerging. after weeks of protests across the nation demanding jaws is for

this young man, trayvon martin. the 17-year-old unarmed teen was shot and killed last month. george zimmerman has yet to be arrested. his friend believes mr. zimmerman fired in self-defense. zimmerman's attorney says he has been fully cooperating with law enforcement officials on all of this. >> other than being under a lot of stress and being concerned about the grave situation he's in, and, you know, there is a young man who is now deceased in this situation, and he, very concerned about that. he has by my counsel between cooperative with all the investigations by the police. and at this point he cooperated. martha: joe oliver is a long-time friend of george

zimmerman. as i understand it, your wife is friendly with mr. zimmerman's mother-in-law, and you spoke with him over the weekend. >> very close friend. martha: what did he convey to you and what made you decide to get from the middle of this? >> i have been trying to get in touch with george ever since this started realizing he was going to need help particularly dealing with the media and that's where i came into play. i have not been able to get in touch with him until this past weekend. the conversation was very brief and it was mostly to validate what i had learned through his family members in order to make sure i was doing the right thing by stepping out and speak on his behalf. martha: what did he say to you about what happened that night? >> i can't go into details because that's what's going to come out when the grand juriy con veerns. the biggest problem is the

information hasn't come out. so florida law enforcement has a history of providing a lot of information before a trial starts. casey anthony my case in point. i use that as an example. but in this case they have determined it is better not to provide the information. and i think that's because of the history of the stanford police department when it comes to race relations. the police chief who has temporarily stepped down, police chief lee. it's my understanding he was hired because of those bad relationships and things had gone the better until this shooting happened. it's also my believe why it's been passed onto the state's attorney who passed it on to another state's attorney and it will be gone over by a grand jury because the sanford police department is trying to show the world they did everything right by george and trayvon as well. martha: what is your understanding of what he thought

his role is as a mainhood watchman. he's out there with a gun following this young man. what do you think he was doing? what was his role in the neighborhood? >> he was doing the right thing. here's the biggest problem with him having a gun. the portrayal that you just presented, you made it sounds like he's stalking him with a gun. when the evidence comes out everybody is going to find out that that is so far from the truth. there is a lot of things i would love to say, but this is george's life and it's his call on what can and can't be said. martha: let's listen to a part of 911 call that may lead a lot of people to feel that way. let's listen to this.

martha: you can hear him breathing heavy an says yes i'm following him. they said, we don't need to you do that. >> correct. but we don't know what happened from the time george got out of the car and the time he actually was face to face with trayvon martin and that gun went off. that's the hole that has to be filled and that's the information that the police have as far as the evidence they have gathered and will present to the grand jury. martha: is there any suggestion the gun went off accidentally in anything you have heard? >> there is a very real possibility of that. martha: i'm curious about what you think about the racial issue that has been brought up and whether you think it's plausible, knowing george zimmerman that he used the

epithet with that part that's been bleeped out and i would like to you address what you think of the president's statement on friday. >> i read all of the president's statement on friday and what has been broadcast is true, if he had a son he would look like trayvon martin. but that was prefaced by the president saying we have got to let justice run its course. what we are seeing has come from a mischaracterization from the beginning of george zirmman as being white. a mischaracterization of george zimmerman being racist. that's what brought to us this point. i met with the reverend jesse jackson and point out in the big picture this is a racial question. this is a racial issue. and it's something that needs to be talked about. i hope we continue to talk about this once we know what happened between george and trayvon.

but at its core it is not a racial case. martha: it will come down to the law. jeb bush said based on what he knows, he was the governor who put in the stand your ground law. he says he doesn't think it aflies this case. >> it doesn't. once the evidence is presented, everyone will see it wasn't an issue of stand your ground. it was an issue of at some point someone was going to die. and it happened to be trayvon, tragically. martha: thank you for being with us. we appreciate getting your side of the story. we hope you will come on again as more of this comes out and you are able to talk about it more freely. bill: interesting joe oliver talked about being a media adviser. he's a long-time and i dmoar

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martha: fox news alert. day one of deciding whether the government can force individuals to buy health insurance, opening arguments underway, 10:00 on the nose right now at the supreme court. what a momentous day this is inside that court. the hearings will determine ultimately the constitutionality of president obama's flagship legislation. that is how we start a very exciting and big day here in "america's newsroom." welcome, everybody, i'm. >> caller: bill: i'm bill hemmer. hope you had a great weekend. a bit later we will hear the audio tapes, the conversations, the arguments in court, you'll hear it live on tape several hours later on fox. the fate of health insurance for millions of americans hanging in the balance. florida was the first state to challenge that overall law. martha: i think about ten minutes after it went through you filed your opposition to it, is that correct?

>> that's correct. i filed on behalf of 13 states that day and it's now this 26-state lawsuit that is before the supreme court. i'm proud of our team and proud of where they are, but we are anxiously awaiting what happens. martha: i can imagine, a lot of butterflies even in the most experienced of attorney generals and attorneys involved in the case. talk to me a little bit about what will happen today, attorney general mccollum. when you look at this they are deciding right now, or will begin to whether or not she should even hear this case because there is a precedent that would suggest that you can't do anything until it's enacted, fully enacted, and that taxes imposed on people that won't buy health insurance. there is that argumentment what do yo? what do you think. >> they are arguing over the anti-injunction act which applies to tax laws. there is a huge question whether the individual mandate is a tax, we don't think so in the states

and most of the states don't think so. it only applies even if it were considered to be a tax to the individual mandate part of this lawsuit. there is a whole medicaid challenge which will be heard on wednesday to which this won't apply. they are listening to arguments, they won't make their decision until june or july. the first thing they are hearing is that the individuals involved in this. and are the states ineligible to bring a lawsuit until after the law becomes effective in 2014 presumably not until they had to pay the tax in 2015. the arguments besides the state, the way we are arguing it is that first of all it's not a tax, second of call it's not jurisdictional, the court can hear it any way, and third, even if it does apply it only applies to individuals and not to the states. the states don't have to be waiting around until 2014 or 2015, in which case by the way it would be a delay. if they were to rule adversely

on the individual mandate it would kick the can down the road. martha: pretty far down the road until it is enacted a couple years away, right? >> that's right. martha: it sounds like you don't think there is a chance of that happening, am i reading you right? >> you're reading me right. both the justice departments and the states all the parties in the suit want the court to go forward. the court had a case that came from a different district and opinion that said this act might apply. they asked for outside counsel, special counsel to make this argument. they are going to listen carefully today. i guess if the politics in the court reigned they could use it as an excuse, i don't think they will. martha: harvard university law professor hraurpbz tribe who caught chief justice john roberts and president obama at harvard lawsuit he says if the court strikes down the

president's law and this is his quote now, it would implicate virtually every piece of federal legislation enacted over the past several decades and many laws that are now in the pipeline, including proposals favored by conservatives. what do you make of this argument? he says it takes away congress' ability to enact law, basically. >> that is absolutely a child stretch. i have a great respect for him generally, but, no it doesn't do that. the question here is how far does the interstate commerce clause go? where do you draw the line? are there any limits? this is the first time in history this a congress has tried to tell somebody they have to buy a product or service, as opposed to somebody already being engaged in commerce, and that is the real debate over the individual mandate. he may be preferring to the medicaid provisions which are something very different, where it's a spending question, and that's one where we're arguing that the government has gone too far, that the states are being forced to spend money that they can't afford, that in fact this

is the largest, biggest grant program in the history of the country and there ought to be some limiting pin after which yoprincipal under which you can't do that. but that won't eliminate all of the -- this if he ruled in our favor all of the kind of programs out there. it would put a limitation on how far they could go. martha: this is going to be a fascinating constitutional educate indicatio education for all of us watching. thank you very much for being with us today. bill: there are many republicans too who argued you can't get a partial repeal you have to throw the whole thing out. congressman steven king is our guest coming up a bit later here inside of "america's newsroom." when you hear the audio exchanges, sometimes you get lost in the legalese and sometimes it pulls you in.

remember bush v. gore, the nation was rivetted and the deep sound you get from those microphones in the supreme court. i think this is drama. martha: we'll see how it plays out. bill: speaking of microphones, it may be an open mike moment that speaks volumes. president obama at a nuclear security summit in south korea today, what exactly is he talking about when referring and speaking with the russian president dmitry medvedev. listen carefully to this. bill: the two world leaders talking about missile defense and a shield in eastern europe, a long-time dicey subject between russia and the u.s. what was all this about here? chief white house correspondented henry on that. good morning to you,ed. how is the white house

explaining this? >> reporter: as you can imagine white house officials are saying that there is not much here because they are saying that the president is just speaking to the political reality of the situation, not just in russia, where dmitry medvedev will be setting down soon, vladimir putin will be coming back to the position he served in several years ago and that is the political reality that they need more time before they workout this missile defense issue. of course you have a big u.s. election coming in november and the president trying to reflect that political reality. he's not going to get much business done here in the u.s. until that election is done, whether it's missile defense or other issues. when you have the president of the united states saying, after my election i'll have more flexibility. he has said at fun fund raidsers and interviews, i've got five more years in office. it's a question of whether he pays a political price in looking over confident assuming he's going to win re-elections

and be able to deal with all these issues with flexibility. bill: or he may argue he'll change policy and someone suggests the irony that this is an etch-a-sketch moment, what do you think about that. >> reporter: vladimir putin has been very much opposed to this. because he thinks then the u.s. will have missiles right in russia's back door in eastern europe. the u.s. in the bush administration and the obama administration says this is not an offensive system against russia, it's a defensive system to protect u.s. allies in europe against iran or others firing missiles. if all of a sudden the president is suggesting he'll this more flexibility after the election does that suggest he'll be giving up more to russia after winning re-election? that is what he is going to face after comments like that. bill: thank you,ed. martha: fox news alert on the crackdown in syria. now video combing out of homs.

the city coming under new attack by government forces. they are saying that bashar al-assad is preparing to retake the city following an earlier attempt last month. the uprising has recently seen a transformation as army defectors and rebels suggest take up more violence. more than 8,000 people have been killed so far in this violence. bill: about 10 minutes past the hour, rick santorum fresh off a win in louisiana, sounding like he has absolutely no plans to get out of this race. >> governor romney has been dead ropbg on thos wrong on those issues for years and years and years and probably would be the worst candidate to nominate to go after press on gas prices and take over healthcare. bill: is he right on that point? is it mathematically possible for him to win? brute hume takes on that. martha: supreme court hearings now underway, nine minutes in to this discussion on the overall

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that the suspects may have fled to jackson and that they could be traveling in a blue brow browne victoria. bill: voting in louisiana over the weekend. rick santorum winning in louisiana over the weekend, vowing to push forward despite calls from some in the republican party to rally behind the frontrunner mitt romney. >> even though a lot of folks are saying this race is over, people in louisiana said, no it's not, that they still want to see someone who they can trust, someone who is not running an etch-a-sketch. someone who has their beliefs etched on their heart not on a tablet. bill: one thousand one hundred 44 to get the nominations. what are santorum's chances? i want to bring in our senior

analyst brit hume. pick up on that comment there about what santorum is suggesting now that we played a moment ago before the commercial break, that romney is the wrong kind of republican to run against obama for all these reasons. healthcare, which has been talked about a lot, but gas prices? what's he getting at? >> reporter: he's found some positions romney has taken with regard to, you know, energy, and the environment that he would argue are against what republicans believe about the best way to solve our fuel prices, and our fuel supply problems. so he's got an argument there. i think the question for him is whether begin the circumstances he has any real chance of over taking romney in the delegate race. if you look over the weekend, bill at louisiana, which was a decisive win for santorum, though he only gained 5 delegates against that huge romney need in delegates which gives you a clear picture of how

long the odds are that he can actually over take mitt romney and win the nomination out right. bill: i think it was 10 for santorum and romney with 5. you net 5 in the end after all that work down there. now you've got wisconsin on the horizon, the district of columbia where santorum is not on the ballot. you really have to look toward the end of april and when pennsylvania votes. i mean that will be the big decider, lit no lit not, as to whether or not santorum stays in. >> reporter: i would say possible. you'll have wisconsin where sa santorum is making a big bid. it's a north central state where he's had trouble so far and romney has done pretty well. he has to prove himself to voters in that region. even if p he were to win wisconsin. and wisconsin is a winner take

all, he's got huge odds against him. my sense about it is santorum's real chance is to proceed sraoepbt romney from getting to a majority. i don't think he'll be able to get there himself. he could force romney from getting there. that would force a con sese contested convention. a lot of people don't like that. eric cantor has come out and endorsed comrie. kevin mccarthy did so this morning. more and more republican leaders i saying, we don't want this. let's get this over with. romney has basically a lead that can't be sur mounted. let's rally behind him, get it over with and get on with the job of trying to defeat president obama. bill: a lot of these guys now are being asked, though, about the issues, and how they would shape their administration, if indeed they were president. that comes back to the paul ryan ideas of last tuesday.

and each one kind of, they dipped their toe in this idea. romney embraced it. santorum embraced it and said it did not go far enough. do they run toward it an embrace it to get votes or keep it at arm's length? what do you believe is the best strategy at this moment. >> reporter: they've all embraced it or something like it. i don't think there is any running away from the fact that republicans are the party that wants to do something big to address this entitlement spending. the president has indicated that he's not going to do anything about that of any real consequence. so that is a dividing line between the two parties. paul ryan would like to see the whole party and all its candidates stake out a position in favor of what he's trying to do and run on it, and say to the voters, look, we all know in our hearts that something serious and major is going to have to be done, the benefits, the open-ended benefit programs that we now have, we cannot afford, and they are going to collapse under their own weight any way,

so let's do something. how much emphasis the candidates -- mitt romney if he's the nominee will give to that in his campaign against president obama remains to be seen but that is the question, not whether they support it but how much emphasis they give it. that's the kind of thing that romney aids were talking about when he talked about what kind of reset you do for a general election. you can't stake out a whole new set of positions, that doesn't work. what you have to do is make prudent and politically shrewd decision abouts what you're going to emphasize. and that's what it's all about. bill: brit, thank you. >> reporter: you bette. bill: we have to label this. hume on the trail. martha: we'll work on it and get become to you. bill: hume in bloom u know, it's springtime. okay with that, brit? >> reporter: i say it's better

than martha maccallum on martha maccallum. martha: meanwhile the campaign trail may be getting to rick santorum. wait until you hear how he told off a reporter who asked about some of his comments. bill: vince vaughn and owen wilson have nothing on this. a royal wedding crasher you have to see. >> this is wild, isn't it, yeah. ♪

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bill: now you know bracket bust ters the road to new orleans is all set. can as breaking away from north carolina, beating north carolina

8067. jayhawks play ohio state next saturday in the final four. what a game that will be. martha: did you say ohio state? bill: ohio state. what a game that will be. number one seed kentucky heading to its second straight final four, the wildcats punching their ticket with the big easy after they blew out baylor, wasn't really a blowout, baylor came back in the second half. kentucky plays louisville. the first time in 50 years two schools in the same state meet in the final four. there's 80 miles give or take a little. martha: this is what i heard. florida fell aeu parts. billapart. bill: only at the very end. they played a very good game. martha: and kentucky, they are going to win. bill: those guys in kentucky are going straight to the nba, they are that good. martha: how was that, pretty good? bill: not bad. martha: if not by pipe go by rail with the keystone pipeline apparently in limbo canadian oil

companies are turning to the old train system to get oil from alberto to the gulf coast refineries. dan springer is live on this from seattle. can trains completely replace the pipeline? it seems like they are doing a job that they used to do, right. >> reporter: that's right, mart that. they can't completely replace the pipeline, but if you're sitting on a whole bunch of oil you're looking for any way to get it to market. it's a little back to the future thing going on here. a hundred years ago rail was the way to transport oil but that gave way to the pipeline. now with the politics of pipelines getting in the way of getting new pipeline trains are getting back on track. oil producers see it as a way to get around the bottleneck which is costing them money. they've got the oil and they have to get it to the refineries, depending on how much oil they have and writ has to go it can be twice as expensive sending it by rail but that is still a bargain giving the price of oil and the deep discounts they have to give refiners when the product is delayed. >> in canada we're looking in

the 10s of thousands to 50,000-barrel a day options. in the north dakota area they are talking about moving from 10 to 20,000 barrels a day up to 50,000 barrels of oil a day. massive increase in transport. >> reporter: they have seen oil volum volume increase 600%. martha: environmentalists have fought the pipeline. how are they reacting to this option. >> reporter: a little bit like they won the battle but lost the war. they got the obama administration to reject the keystone pipeline at least temporary but now some of that oil from the alberta tar sands is still making its way into the u.s. it's not nearly the 700,000 barrels a day that keystone was projected to carry but it's a start. environmentalists say a state department report says transporting oil by rail is potentially even more dangerous to the eco system than by pipeline. they hate the way oil sands oil is produced. >> the oil is dangerous to our

communities, whether it's in a pipeline, in a train, in a truck, by passenger pigeon. ale sands is the wrong product to be shipping through america's communities. >> reporter: the whole debate is so hot right now because oil production between the shale fields of north dakota and oil sands of western canada is booming, martha. martha: indeed it is. thank you very much. dan springer. bill: fox news alert right now on the healthcare showdown. based on the clock they have been at it for 2 27 minutes. first round supreme court hearings underway. some argue don't mend it you have to get rid of all of it. tea party member steve king will make that point in a moment as we talk to him. martha: rick santorum taking heat over comments he made to a new york times reporter, listen to this. >> quit distorting my words. if i see it it's full of. [bleep] come on, man, what are you doing?

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bill: fox news alert. we are waiting on the audio recordings inside the u.s. supreme court. the hearings are underway on healthcare. outside you see protestors of all stripes of america now making their voices and presence known. can the federal government force you to buy health insurance? that is what justices are hearing as we speak. that is day one of three days of arguments now.

it's the department of health and human services facing the state of florida. we do expect audio from inside the courtroom at some point toda today. is it noon? is it 2:00? is it later? the only guidance we were given is they will try to expa tkaoeulexpedite the audio as soon as the arguments are over. we'll get them to you as soon as we get them here. martha: that is coming up. new details in the search for a missing california teenager, that that search is intensifying right now. 15-year-old sierra lamar, last seen leaving for school more and week ago. teachers say they tphaoefr arrived at school that day and tp-pl lean friends are begging foresee air ra to be brought home or come home safely. >> if you're out there watching this. just know that we love you and miss you so much, and a lot of people are supporting you. >> you have that feisty facial

expression when you're cheering and doing jazz dancing, and i know you have it in you, you know, to be driven, to come back to us. martha: boy, that is her mother. so far police officers have located her cellphone, and a bag that had some folded clothing in it, both of those things were found not far from her home. rod wheeler joins me now, that is the video of the search that is on going in the area. he's a former homicide detective and a fox news contributor. rod, talk to me about what they've found so far and the timeframe. we're a week out now. >> you're exactly right, mart that. it's been about ten days, and this investigation is becoming more and more bizarre as each day goes by. let me quickly tell you and the viewers why it's so bizarre. the thing is they used a police dog to track sierra's scent from the home that morning. the scent -- the dog only picked up the scent to the end of the driveway and no further than that. so when they found her personal belongings, they are purse and

cellphone maybe about a mile and a half from the home it was really pa cal peculiar. the items they did find were folded in a nice manner outside of the pond. police are looking at this case from two perspectives. one of course is whether or not sierra did in fact runaway, which is always possible. the other way they are looking at this is maybe she was abducted by someone watching her go to the bus stop each day. martha: it sounds like that scenario could be what happened if she got to the end of the driveway and was abducted, that is one line of thinking in all of this. then it would seem that the phone and the bag -- they said it was a t-shirt and pair of pants that were folded in there. it could be she had practice after school, she had something that she was bringing a school to school with. as a mother of a similar-aged daughter that stuff seems to line up and it seems to line up in not a very good way, rod.

>> you're right. it's been ten day, like i indicated. as we all know the f.b.i. is involved. i'm sure they checked her cellphone records and looked at her computer just to see if she had communications with somebody up to that point. again, the other interesting thing is the fact that her belongings were found in a particular area, about one mile from her home. i honestly believe that if she has been abducted she is somewhere in that area i can tell you and the viewers that the f.b.i. are now interviewing all registered sex offenders in that area. they are saturdaying second interviews of some of those individuals. not that they have anything in particular that they can go by, but that is one thing they will definitely focus on. any time you have a missing be juvenile like this. martha. martha: one thing that caught my eye, per parents are divorced. she lived with her father in fremont, california until october, and then she switched schools and went to a new school and moved in with her mother. that is a somewhat traumatic i

would imagine change for a child of that age. would you put any credence or thought into that event in her life? >> well, you definitely have to look at that. obviously in any investigation you have to look at every possibility, and that is a very good observation on your part. and i can tell you that the police have already interviewed the father, of course, and we've actually seen videos of the father. martha: a registered sex offender. >> he is a registered sex offender that is correct. they've already interviewed. nobody has been ruled out per se. the focus now is to determine whether something happened to her criminally or whether or not she walked away. because the f.b.i. is involved we should be getting answers pretty soon on this. martha. martha: you have a lot of experience in these things. good to talk to you. >> thank you, you too. bill: did you see this. rick santorum lashing out at a reporter on the trail. "the new york times" asking him about a gap he took at rival mitt romney.

>> what speech did you listen to? >> right there. >> stop lying. i said he's the worst republican to run on the issue of obamacare, that's what i was talking about. i have said -- for every speech i give i said he's uniquely disqualified to run against barack obama on the issue of healthcare. >> you used the word republican. >> on the issue of healthcare because he fashioned the blueprint. i've been saying it in every speech. quit distorting my words. if i see it it's. [bleep] >> are you here to report the truth or try to spin -- bill: santorum said he was referring to only romney's healthcare policies. here is what he said a bit earlier today on fox on friends. >> if you haven't cursed a new york times reporter during the course of a campaign you're not

a real republican is the way i look eight. it was sort of these harassing moments, you know, after having answered the question a few times and it sort of comes back with the same old question, same old spin, i just said okay i've had enough of this. you know what. bill: and if you thought the campaign was dragging a little bit, that will throw some spice into it. martha: the question is if it helps him or hurts him, it could help him with some people. bill: fiery. martha: to the pope now we go. pope benedict the xvi is making a historic stop in cuba mark, the first papal visit there in ten years. steve harrigan is live. >> reporter: the pope is a few hours away from landing in cuba. elvis it the most sacred shrine

for catholics. a 16-inch wooden statue is the official reason for the pope's visit to cuba. it was 400 years ago that the our lady of mercy statue was found floating in the water offer the eastern shores of cuba. now it's the country's patron saint. eight theists under fidel castro who even banned christmas glue closer after the visit of of pope john paul the 2 rope in 1998. 14 years later cuba's catholics want more. we receive the pope with love and hope we can practice our religion the way we did before the revolution. pope be benedict's goals may be

more important. he is going to hold two huge open air masses. the one in havana on wednesday could top more than half a million spectators. martha back to you. martha: steve thank you so much. bill: the mass that was held down there, really, really strong stuff. don't even try to amend it, throw the whole thing out. that is the only option that congressman steve king says is right for america. is he right? he'll join us screen right in a moment live from the hill on that. martha: it's a shotgun wedding that has nothing to do with a baby. >> just about the coolest way i've ever heard. >> i'm jealous i didn't do it myself. >> we can do just about everything about loading up with a shotgun to florals and a limo and a photographer. [ male announcer ] if you believe the mayan calend,

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martha: the man who brought you the abyss makes it to the mariana trench. he went down to the earth's deepest point about 36,000 feet in a one-man high-tech subthat he helped design for the mission. he described what he saw at the bottom as if it looks like another planet according to him. he was amazed at how deep he went in this thing. >> this is a long way down. when you go past titanic, and you go past bismarck, and you go past where the mirrors can go and you're still only, you know, halfway there, two-thirds of the way there, it's crazy. martha: unbelievable. the deep sea journey not without some nail biting moments, cameron kug short his home after a hydraulic leak forced heuplt tforce heed himforced him to surface three hours earlier than

planned. it will be shown in theaters in 3-d. bill: opening arguments underway right now, u.s. supreme court, healthcare hearings day one of three today. today is the department of health and human services versus the state of florida. now the -- what you see screen left there is the view outside with protesters of all stripes out there today, on a beautiful day in our nation's capitol. the tea party was opposed to a healthcare mandate from day one and so too is steve king the iowa republican and a member of the tea party caucus with me now. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. it is a great morning here. bill: what a day this is. what is your sense? do you have the opinion that is rooted in confidence, or are there nerves that run through you today. what is your feeling. >> i feel like we've been training for a great big ball became and the weather is right and the fans are out there and the colors are showing on both sides of this. and there is a great

anticipation, but i can't predict the winner. this is going to be a close call, i think, and, you know, my head and my heart and my brain tell me that it is not that hard to figure out from a constitutional perspective, it's just that it's hard -- bill: how so? >> simply because of the individual mandate component of this. it relies heavily on the commerce clause, and the commerce clause in the constitution requires that there be an interstate commerce link, and the interstate commerce link is pretty hard to make when you realize in every state in every decade there have always been babies pwoerpbd born, lived a long life and not engaged in healthcare at all. to mandate that everybody buy a hoa policy is a huge reach. this is just the kind of government that the founding fathers wanted to limit. i don't know how the supreme court gets to this by some rational to find it constitutional. bill: let me try and poke at

that a little bit here. over the past 75 years, i'm riding now, i believe this is the "wall street journal," i'll get you a source in a moment now. over the past 75 years the court almost always has deferred to congress when it asserts the commerce clause. "wall street journal." meaning they allow congress to do what it wants when a law is in question as it applies to the commerce clause. and what court observers argue is that the court has gone in favor of what congress enacts as law. and that has been the trend. do you see it that way, or is this completely different from what eveee observed over the past seven and a half decades? >> i haven't tracked that trend case law by case law, so i can't really comment on how that view of that trend might be. this is a whole new zone and territory, and it goes into the territory of compelling one to make a purchase of a government

approved product that is declared to be an interstate commerce product just to get the constitutional linkage and rational liization, congress has never done so. if this great leap of one sixth of our economy is oppose imposed, then there is nothing left that exists of the commerce clause in my opinion. the federal government can impose any kind of duty or responsibility. they can come and dear not just one sixth of our economy, but 28%, 100% of our paycheck and tell us how to spend it all. they could actually put us in debt in the company store if this case comes down to the other sides' rational liization of the commerce clause. bill: who knows in late june when the ruling is expected whether or not they will address all these concerns. they could for lack of the best phrase in washington, they could

kick it down the road. >> they could, bill. they could come with a partial decision. one of them is that the bill does not have in it the 2600 pages doesn't have it in a serve ability clause. that is the clause that says if one part of the bill is found unconstitutional all other parts of the bill remains. they've pulled that out. there has been discussion on those reasons. the courts have the hrat lewd should decide and should i think because of its omission they should throw the whole thing out, none or all would be my statement. bill: steve king thank you for your time. we all wait and watch. >> thank you very much. it's going to be an interesting place in washington d.c. these three days. bill: it already is. martha: this is one wedding guest that you really can't plan for. queen elizabeth crashed a ceremony in northern england. so what was behind her unannounced visit? can you imagine? she showed up at your wedding in. >> we didn't know, it was

basically a wedding gift for us. >> it was amazing. >> it was a wedding gift.

martha: how about this one. british nooyi weds getting the wedding crashers of a lifetime. queen elizabeth ii and her husband princ prince philip just decided to stop in at these people's wedding. this is cellphone video that shows the monarch greeting the bride and the couple was absolutely ecstatic that they actually showed up. >> she came over and talked to us straight away. >> basically a wedding gift for us. >> an amazing wedding gift, wasn't it? >> it was a wedding gift.

martha: this is the former butler to princess diana as well as to the royal family and a fox news contributor. paul, good to have you here. good morning to you, welcome. how surprising is this. >> good morning, martha. martha: what happened? >> wasn't that as strong irk, isn't that incredible, the queen turns up at your wedding. the couple did invite the queen knowing that the queen would be in man khas tere on her diamond jubilee visit. they never expected the queen would turn up and there she was, her majesty at her finest at their wedding ceremony what a gift. martha: it is the jubilee year and the olympic year and the family has been out in force. harry has been visiting the islands and all of that. is this a bit of pr to show how friendly and accessible and wonderful the family is? >> absolutely, martha. this is rule britannia year, it's the diamond jubilee of the queen, and the queen has been

taking kate out on engagements too. she is getting her used to what is going to be her life. one day kate will be queen owe she is getting her used to public engagements. martha: there is no job crisis at buckingham palace, they are hiring and they are looking for an entry-level butler, the salary is about $23,000. is it -- how would you compare it to sort of the lower level in the abby, for example. >> it's not a great pay, but it's great accommodation. when i lived at buckingham palace my room looked straight down the mile. you have to be friendly and efficient and you've got to love corgies. by the way, the man who plays him is constantly being mistaken for me. martha: i can see that. >> i'm used to be downstairs, though. martha: yes, you are. paul, thank you so much.

good to see you as always. bill: and make your bed. martha: you've got to make your bed. bill: i mean, come on, right? martha: it's not a bad place to live, though, you could survive on that money if you had such a nice house. bill: a nice view. we are learning more about the selfconfessed matter tere mind of the attacks of 9/11. khalid shaikh mohammed. new details about the world-wideman hunt that led to his capture.

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