day to all the moms out there. america's news headquarters rolls on from washington now with doug mcelway. have a great day, everybody. take care! >> these are serious issues that he's talking about, and this is a serious race, and this is serious times. >> ann romney sits down for a one on one exclusive interview with fox news. hear what she has to say about the campaign, her faith, and some of the most difficult challenges she's had to overcome. banking blunder. big bank jp morgan getting a lot of questions after losing billions. what went wrong? can it be prevented from happening again. and democrats are joining the calls made by republicans to hold the justice department accountable for fast and furious. we'll tell you what it means for the investigation. all that plus the uso effort to send gift boxes to deployed moms overseas. i'm doug mcelway. america's news headquarters live from the nation's capitol starts

now. banking giant jp morgan under fire after reports it lost $2 billion. now lawmakers weighing in about what should be done to keep this program from happening again and how to protect your money. peter doocy live with the reaction. peter? >> reporter: doug, the big question with jp morgan is now what? their ceo, jamie diamond, said today they made an egregious mistake that led to the loss, and he said everyone in business makes mistakes and it doesn't mean they did anything wrong. >> we've had audit legal risk compliance, some of the best people looking over that. we know we were sloppy. we know we were stupid. we know there was bad judgment. we don't know if any of that is true yet. regulators should look at something like that. that's their job. we're totally open to the regulators. they'll come to their own conclusions. we intend to fix it, learn from it, and be a better company when it's done.

>> reporter: jamie diamond said he supports about 70% of dodd frank, the 2010 law passed to try to control the banks, but this morning one of the co-authors of the bill, congressman barney frank, said the bill doesn't really have all of its teeth yet and it won't until something called the volcker rule takes effect which will regulate proprietary trading. >> part of the problem is while the republicans have plenty of money to spend on international military adventures that haven't worked out well have reduced the funding we asked for fo to regue these agencies. >> reporter: republican senator john cornyn said he thought the regulations in place should have caught an irresponsible bet like this one before it cost a company $2 billion. >> i thought that's what dodd frank was supposed to be addressed at, and apparently it didn't stop this behavior and so i think there needs to be

oversight, investigation to find out what exactly happened. >> reporter: the chairman of the rnc said dodd frank made things worse in the banking industry. he thinks there ought to be less regulation. doug? >> peter doocy, thank you very much. now it's time for you to have your say on this. would more banking regulations help protect your money and stableize the economy? tweet your answers@anhqdc. i'll read some of your responses later this hour. california is facing deep cuts to public safety and schools if voters don't approve tax hikes this november according to a youtube message posted by governor jerry brown. he announced that the state is looking at a $16 billion deficit, almost $7 billion more than originally projected. he blames the increase on tax projections that didn't come in as high as expected and a slow growing economy. the hot topic on this

morning's political shows was same-sex marriage. today republican national committee chair told nbc's david gregory that he backs governor romney's position on that issue. meanwhile, the democratic strategist hillly rosen praised president obama for his support of same-sex marriage but called it a political risk. >> mitt romney is a gracious, caring person who believes that every individual in this country, including people who are gay, deserve the dignity and respect that every american deserves, but that doesn't change the fact that we believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman. >> whenever you say something that has sort of a lot of passion on both sides, then you know, you're taking a political risk, and i think that the president knew that, but it didn't matter because even in election year, some things are not about politics. >> vice-president biden's

appearance on last week's "meet the press" spurred the president's statement a few days later. rick santorum said mitt romney should take advantage of the president's announcement on same-sex marriage. in a tv interview from arkansas, santorum said, quoting, this is a very potent weapon, if you will, for governor romney if he's willing to step up and take advantage of a president who is very much out of touch with the values of america. >> and the polls show a virtual tie between proble president obd mitt romney among key swing states. the national matchups tell a very different story. here to break down the numbers for us, democratic strategist david mercer and republican strategist ford o'connell. thanks for joining us. >> good to be here. >> happy murder mother's day toy day. >> even to my mother who is watching. >> let's look at the recent polls. they're intriguing. first off, let's look at the real clear politics average from

april 27th through the 10th of may. it has obama at 46.7% and also romney at 45.4%. the rasmussen tracking poll is really interesting. it has romney at 50%, obama at 43%. romney up by seven points there. what do you guys read into this? >> the way i see it, the polls are polls, but they're not the electoral college vote, and if you look at 2008 with obama, in 23 of the 28 states that he ran in, he got more of a percentage of vote in those states than he did in the national vote get. so in looking at that, you've got to look at the electoral college where he is strong among swing states and those states is where it counts, virginia, ohio, pennsylvania, all where he now has leads, and that's where the campaign is going to come down. >> david is absolutely right. this is going to come down to

the electoral college and whether or not mitt romney can win north carolina, virginia, and ohio. if he can do that, he'll be the next president of the united states. a big issue for mitt romney right now is the likability imap that he has with president obama. president obama has got twea a 29-point edge. mitt romney needs to make that up. >> we'll look at that likability gap in just a second. we'll get to the swing state polls. "usa today" and gallup did one recently which has obama at 47%, romney at 45 in a number of states. within the margin of error, neck and neck. >> absolutely true. we know that when it comes down to those margin of error, you make it up with the ground forces. obama has 25 state offices in florida. they're only now in the romney campaign beginning to get in there. you'll see a new science brought to the art of campaigning for obama. you'll also see a cobt newt cony between the good times in the clinton e.r.a. and what we're

trying to do in setting the course for recovery and having both obama and clinton out there instullininstilling confidence. >> this will be a very tight election. i think the ground game will be extremely important, but the reason why this is a tight election is because of president obama's abysmal economic record, and the key for mitt romney will be essential 13 million swing state voters that will decide this election. the key for mitt romney is to get those independents and moderates in his column. if he can do that, president obama is going to be packing his bags and scheduling a heck of a lot more tee time. >> one of the great strengths of romney in the republican primary battle was his ground game. in fact he had the institutional work put out before him to a much greater degree than all the other candidates. >> president obama and essentially the rnc and team romney have to pore over it. who can turn out their base better?

that's where the republicans need to make up ground. if they can do it, president obama will be out of a job. >> i'll say two things. one, it was an air game, and he blew them out with super pac money, his opponents, in the primary. it was not necessarily a ground game. that's one. secondly, and with regard to what was just said by ford, is look. when you're losing votes in the hispanic community, when you're in a gender gap with women and losing votes there, almost a 19% gap between obama and romney, you know you've got to gain votes. every time he goes out there, he is losing votes. the more they get to know mitt romney, the less they like him going back to the likability issue. >> let's look at that likability gap right now. this is the "usa today" gallup poll that has romney at only 31% to obama's 60%. how does he make up that gap? >> he's got to come out with a compelling personal message. that's the biggest issue.

a lot of independent moderate voters, he's not well defined in their mind. >> can a dig any fied patrician like mitt romney do that in a linlindsay lohan culture? >> he has to go back to why he was an american success story as a businessman. he has to discuss why he was competent governor. most people don't know a heck of a lot about mitt romney. if he can do that, he will close the likability gap. >> the guy is in trouble, and they've got to find as ford did say, a narrative that is compelling, and they've been fumbling on that for not only this election but last election in 2008. >> if we can close that gap, mitt romney is going to win this election, but that is a job. right now president obama is staying afloat because of likability and superior messaging. that's the bottom line. >> that is correct. i agree. >> ford o'connell, david mercer, appreciate you coming in on this mother's day. in a couple weeks, we'll wish you a happy father's day.

at least five people are dead after a raid on a village in syria near the capital city of damascus. forces attacked people in a small farming village and set homes on fire. activists are also saying that three additional people were killed in a separate attack. this violence comes one month after a u.n.-backebacked cease-e was imposed. this morning in kabul an aas assassin shot dead, a top member of the afghan peace council working to improve talks with the ca taliban. conor powell is live with the details. >> reporter: doug, this is the second time in just a few months that a member of the high peace council has been assassinated. he was an influence person because of his ties to the taliban. he was a former taliban minister for higher education, but he's reconciled with the afghan government and has been a member

of the afghan government since 2005 an a member of the high peace council. he's somebody that has a lot of ties to the old guard of the taliban leadership who are based in pakistan. he has the ear of president karzai, but today he was gunned down outside his house here in central kabul. now, his death is sending sort of shock waves through the peace negotiation process here in afghanistan because of those ties to the taliban and the ties to the current afghan government, but it's not clear that they will have a massive impact because frankly, peace negotiations have stalled the last few months and the council has been locked out of what little talks have happened. so his death in terms of the official position of the high peace council may not have much of an impact, but certainly the trust and the mistrust that has developed between the taliban and the afghan government and the international community is growing larger and larger. the taliban have said they did

not assassinate him, but by all suspicions point to the taliban as they assassinated the head of the high peace council in september. there's a lot of speculation they were behind this attack. right now they're denying it, and that trust, that mistrust between the united states, the afghan government, and the taliban only continues to grow with his death today, doug. >> conor powell, in kabul, thank you very much. still to come, the furry over the justice -- the fury over the gun running scandal is spreading. we sit down for a fox news exclusive. >> we believe in this country. we believe that the country is going in the wrong direction, and we're very positive that it needs to be turned in a different direction, but i will tell you. i believe we will be in the whews. i believe we will be in the white house. [ donovan ] i hit a wall.

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>> doug: the u.s. embassy is denying a report by the "new york times" that said the u.s. was eliminating a program to train iraqi police officers. officials tell the associated press while they're scaling the program back, advisors will still be working with police in iraq. an embassy spokesman calls the program a vital part of the iraqi relationship. the house has passed an amendment to keep the justice department honest. that measure prevents the justice department from using taxpayer money to cover up or conceal factual events or from falsifying documents. it's all part of a bi-partisan effort to hold the department accountable for fast and furious. fox news contributor jay s jasoy joins us now to talk about the next steps. thanks for joining us on this sunday. what do you make of the amendment? it surprised me that 142 democrats voted in favor of it. >> democrats have decided that they agree with the republicans that the white house shouldn't be able to stonewall investigations. that's a step in the right

direction, but what i think this will come down to is whether the house republican leadership is willing to pull the trigger on the fast and furious investigation. by that i mean i believe back in october of 2011 the initial espn was issued by congressman isis' committee, and they're waiting for the justice department to comply, and i believe they set a deadline of memorial day. i believe it's memorial day for whether to hold eric holder in contempt of congress. what's not clear right now is whether the house republican leadership is on board with doing that. john boehner, eric cantor and kevin mccarthy in particular. >> doug: he's threatened to hold the attorney general in contempt of congress. do you suspect they've not done so because of the leadership of john boehner. >> yeah. i strongly suspect that. the leadership fears there may be some back lash if they pull the trigger in that way, and in an election year it will seem to

politically calculating. of course, the longer they wait, the closer we get to november, the more that would concern them. listen. the attorney general is deeply unpopular with many conservatives, not only because of fast and furious but because of his handling of the black panther case, because of his -- the things he's been saying along with al sharpton about the trayvon martin case. the things he's been saying about voter identification playing the race card there, so the conservative base has a lot of problems with eric holder, but the leadership wants to make sure they don't overplay their hand here and they do fear there may be some back lash if they go ahead with this holding the attorney general in contempt. >> what kind of a constitutional pannepandora's box does this hof the congress holds -- open if the congress holds the attorney general in contempt of congress? >> it could be quite serious. i don't know how much precedent

there is for doing this. you certainly have the risk of once the other side is in control, them playing the same sort of game. you have to be careful on that front, so i think that these are legitimate concerns that boehner and majority leader cantor and kevin mccarthy have. they want to make sure they're the adults in the room here and they don't do something that could come back to haunt them or haunt the republican nominee in november. >> doug: jason riley of the "wall street journal". thanks for your time on this sunday, jason. we have a fox news alert now. controversy at yahoo's operation. the internet giant ceo scott thompson stepping down. sources close to the situation say it's because of a fake computer science degree he had on his biography. a heartwarming return home from afghanistan for a father and son, but just who was surprising whom? we'll tell you more coming up. wake up!

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we're learning a lot more about jp morgan's huge losses from their executives. peter doocy standing by with more on that and the rest of today's top stories? peter? >> jp morgan chase ceo jamie diamond said the bank wag sloppy leading up to a $2 billion trading loss last week. diamond said he's not sure if the bank broke any laws or violated any rules during the incident. the move hurt his bank's credit rating. a search is underway for a missing fbi agent who may be suicidal. about 100 fbi agents are among those looking for special agent stephen ivy who was last seen by his family members thursday evening. hundreds of boston university students gathered to remember three of their own who died in a crash in new zealand. new zealand police say the mini van the students were riding in drifted to the side of the road

and rolled over. the nhl conference finals begin today. the l.a. kings face the phoenix coy coyotes in game one of that serious. on monday night the new jersey devils take on the new york rangers in the eastern conference finals. the rangers beat out the washington capitols in game seven last night. those are the top stories. doug, back to you. >> a lot of sad faces in the nation's capitol. >> they had a good run. they had a great run. not as good as the rangers where there are a lot of happy faces. >> peter, thank you very much. >> doug: house and senate negotiators are working on a new highway bill that democrats and republicans can agree on. one potential sticking point is the keystone pipeline. joining us for a fair and balanced debate are republican congressman bill shoester and peter defazio. thanks for joining us. >> congressman, i know you're a part of the conference committee which is negotiating the highway bill. tell us what the status of the negotiations are at this point.

>> well, they've got the staff working about three hours a day, trying to resolve it down to issues that the members will have to deal with. i think there's a lot of room for agreement here. we need a massive investment in our crumbling infrastructure. 150,000 bridges on the national system need replacement or repair. 40% of national highway systems pavement need not just resurfacing but actual underlayment. we have requirements that will create hundreds of thousands, millions of american jobs potentially if we can get a running lo term bill. >> you left out the giant elephant in the living room there, the keystone pipeline. how about that? >> that's not going to be resolved by the conferees. that will be resolved by speaker boehner with leader reid just like when we got hung up on the faa bill over labor provisions.

those two wrote and decided the final settlement. that's the way this will go. we'll be working on other policy issues. >> congressman, do you have any opinions about the keystone xl pipeline? can it become part of the bill. >> it can become a part. it will give us access to more energy which we desperately need. it will also create jobs, something we also need desperately. peter is right. the transportation system needs investment. it is critical to our competitiveness around the world and it's the back bone of the u.s. economy. i believe we are going to get something. i'd like to see a longer term bill. i think 18 months is too short. not going to give the certainty that we need, but that's what's on the table. that's what we'll work towards with the significant reforms that the republicans have put forth in the house as well as the keystone pipeline, as well as making sure we pay for it in a responsible way. >> congress man, the key spoken pipeline has exposed a bit of a fracture in the democratic party between environmentalists and union members who want all the jobs it will bring.

who is winning the fight, and how do you reconcile it? >> well, one thing the environmentalists and union members agree on and the democratic conferees agree on that opposition for support of the pipeline should not get in the way of a transportation bill. like i said, stigmase decisionse made outside the conference. whatever decision the leaders come to i think the conference will accept and will move forward. the underlying bill, the investment transportation putting hundreds of thousands of people back to work, that's the key. >> let's talk a little bit more about the keystone pipeline because i find it fascinating that this is an issue which the state department has the final say over. yet you were negotiating it in congress. who has the final say? >> well, if congress acts, theyy can have the final say. we're trying to put that forward. once again, this administration, the environmentalists in the country are stopping a key project in the keystone pipeline just the same as with

transportation projects. we want to stream line those, so instead of it taking 14 to 15 years to build major highway system. we want to cut that in half. you're talking about saving billions and billions of dollars by cutting the time line in half. just as with the transportation, the keystone pipeline needs to move forward. it will create energy for this country and it will create jobs. >> congressman defazio. any chance we could see the keystone pipeline before election day or at least a movement towards it? >> > well apparently not because it will take the state six months to evaluate. there's a lot of agreement between democrats and republicans on stream lining the department of trandepartment of6 functions -- 106 functions down to six depending on the house or senate position. environmental stream lining is in the senate bill. i think we can tweak that a bit and make it work better. there's a lot of agreement about moving forward on a number of issues, and i know you really want to say gee, what's the

conference going to do? the conference is not going to do the pipeline. it will be done at the leadership level. that's plain and simple where it's going to happen just like the faa bill. >> nice to see that congress is making some great progress here in a bi-partisan way on that transportation bill. we wish you all the best of luck. gentlemen, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. a u.s. marine comes home from fighting in afghanistan to surprise his son, but it turns it out his son had a surprise of his own for his dad. here's the story. >> hello. you know the incredible moment was captured on home video and staff sergeant jeremy coul coons home coming after a seven-month deployment. seeing his 6-year-old son dogsd with cerebral pal -- diagnosed with cerebral palsy walk fort first time.

>> it was a surprise of a lifetime for staff sergeant cooney, and the video you're watching now has gone viral. it's seen by millions of people since last thursday. he and his wife had been told by doctors that their son michael would never walk on his own after getting diagnosed when he turned just one. michael cooney learned to walk while his dad was deployed which his mom kept a secret until the home coming. today the entire cooney family stopped by "fox & friends" to talk about michael's success story and to share what it was like inside that gymnasium when the big surprise was revealed. >> i was expecting a normal home coming, come in, find my family, give them hugs and kisses and stuff and you grab your gear and you go home and go back to normal life, and the last thing i expected was to see him come around that screen and just walking on his own. at that moment when -- you can't describe it. there's no describing, no words

for the feelings that rush through you. >> melissa cooney told us that michael taught himself how to stand and then walk over a four to faceof five month period. it was very hard to keep it all a secret, being very careful to post videos on facebook or show michael walking when chatting with video on dad. michael is now reading. as for staff sergeant cooney, he's moved to noon deploying unit and will help his son become more independent in the months and years to come, back to you. >> just incredible. you feel the same way. whenever i look at that, i close my eyes because i don't want to be seen bawling on the air. it's so wonderful. >> hard to keep a dry eye. thank you. all right. the assassination of an afghan peace keeper today. our terror expert explains how this plays into our troop mission overseas. an effort by lawmakers to ask the state department to put a new terrorist group on the state department's watch list. we'll tell you all about that

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>> it has tieses to some of the sectors in pakistan. being on the list is a very normal thing. >> how many people are associated with the network? >> in is a very wide network, mostly in the northwestern part of pakistan but now has allies across the borders. we're talking about not just hundreds but probably in the thousands. >> where does it get started? >> there are several sources. there's cell funding and the jihad, but also the connection, the heavy connection with the

drug networks in the area. >> do they not court benefactors from other arabic countries as well?

. >> what should the united states try to rein in the network that we haven't done. >> we should continue to work the pang stan knees as much as we can with a secular government and work with the secular government in kabul and thirdly, work with women and minority in afghanistan to isolate the jihad. >> is the united states not doing that now? >> well, the united states administration is working on withdrawing our access, our forces, our funding, our

support, so in the next two or three years if indeed that would happen, it would have less access. >> and blastly, quickly, do you expect the network -- lastly, quickly, do you expect the network to grow because of that. >> all the networks will grow when we withdraw. it's automatic. if we do not support this government and also in pakistan, very simple. we withdraw, they'll move. >> always appreciate your expertise. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> the afghan government announced today its forces are taking on even more responsibility for the country's security. the man overseeing the transition of security from the u.s. led coalition said this stage of the process will put afghanistan in charge of 75% of the country's security within six months. afghan security forces are now responsible for roughly 50% of the country's population. coming up, an exclusive up close look at the wife of former massachusetts governor mitt romney. ann romney talks about life with the presumptive republican

nominee and his possible running mate pick. stay with us. we'll be right back.

and now it's time for a look at some of the day's top

stories. jp morgan lost $2 billion in six weeks on a risky investment. jamie diamond, the bank as ceo, admitted the mistake but said regulations don't need to be tightened. in kansas a plane carrying five people to a christian youth rally crashed. the plane apparently lost contact with air traffic controllers after requesting permission to land. high wire aerialist nick wallenda will attempt to walk across niagra falls this month. for now, he's training twice a day. it's a 1200 foot wire at a niagra casino. talk about gambling. shopping for the right gift on mother's day can be difficult, especially if you're a deployed soldier. one organization is lending a very big helping hand. the organization founders and lisa miller are here to explain how it all works. welcome, happy mother's day. >> thank you. >> you both have mothers.

let's talk about how this program works. it's hard enough for a guy like me to go shopping for mother's day in a city like this. i can imagine how difficult it is if you're deployed to a place like afghanistan. not a lot of shops unless you want to send a couple of poppies, maybe. >> not a lot of shopping opportunities, so we're giving the guys and the women who serve over there a chance to touch base with us. >> it's an easy enough thing to do i suppose if you talk about one family or two families, but you guys have expanded this. how many people are in this now? >> this mother's day we sent out tw2000 boxes and a total of 6,00 over 5 years. >> expectations are increasing? >> absolutely. >> tell us how it works and how people can get involved. >> well, what we do is we take requests from those who are deployed and we then set up boxes for them, mother's day or christmas, and we send it to the woman at home that's supporting them. >> the special part of the box,

of course, in each box is a handwritten note from the soldier from his mom or his spouse, and the minute that note comes out of the box, the women just melt. >> i can imagine. >> you've got one of the boxes here. >> we do. >> can you bring it up on the table here and take a look at it? hold it up like this so we can get a nice, tight shot of it. it's a standard fed ex box. what's inside is what counts the most. >> so it's just filled with pampering things so she remembers to take care of herself because she spends all her time sending things overseas, and she forgets about the fact that she's important. >> you must have heard some great stories of moms who have received one of these packages from loved ones overseas and what it means to them. >> we get phone calls. we've already had two notes this morning saying how much it means to them tha. one woman thought the post office had returned something

that she had sent to her soldier, and she was astounded when she saw her name on it, and just how much it did mean because these women really hold the family together. they work so hard and they just sort of don't take care of themself, and they think that people don't remember them. >> it's so tough. i have an older -- my oldest son is stationed overseas in the navy, and he tells me how he often science with his wif skypd his toddler son. over weeks and months the toddler son is beginning to lose interest because his dad is on a tv screen, not in person. this kind of thing really helps. >> the wives have to be strong for their soldiers or their marines, and this just lets them know that they're remembered. >> how can people get involved? have you got a website? >> we do. it's full circle home.org, and we -- we have wrapping events

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just ahead, the roe versus wade argument heats up again. prolife activists taking on abortion laws one state at a team. coming to the skies near you, drones. a debate over whether the technology will make americans safer for violate their privacy. plus, a fox news exclusive. >> my identity was mother, accomplished, doing many things. taking care of everybody. andal of a sudden i couldn't even take care of meself. >> ann romney the wife of governor mitt romney talks about her battle with ms and breast cancer and the idea that she may spend next mother's day

are in the white house. that interview and more are coming up at the top of the hour on america's news headquarters. a look now at the november election in the house. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel tells us lots of big changes may add up to not much change at all. >> the population shift from the rust belt to the sunbelt has led to fewer northern congressional districts and created 13 member versus member races this year in 11 states around the country. in pennsylvania last month, blue dog democrats were ousted, both losing to more liberal opponents. >> any time that members of our caucus are pitted against one another it is a gut wrenching for them and heart rendering for us. >> in ohio, dennis kucinich

lost to a friend in. >> with a member-member race this throw the football is nothing good that comes out of it. i equate it to two brothers being locked in a room and only one can walk out. i didn't enjoy the process. >> the red fifth district has been eliminated. now, 45% former constituents a 55% new people. king faces a well known democratic challenger, wife of the former iowa governor in what is expected to be a tough challenge. >> i will spend less time at home and more time out in the new district. for us it is grass roots and get to know people in the communities and builded that kind of a network where you you just have to know people. >> states like, illinois, were redrawn to benefit democrats, north carolina is expected to benefit republicans which leads experts to believe this fall redistricting will likely end up being a wash.

>> it will more or less lock down many of the republican gains of the big sweep election of two years ago. many of the maps were drawn to bolster the chances that some of the tea party freshmen and surprise winners can stick around. >> because of redistricting republicans believe they have shrunken the field of where democrats can win to california, illinois and new york. on capitol hill, mike emanuel, fox news. president obama sunday governor romney were not on any of the sunday talk shows today but lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were weighing in on the candidates vying to be the nation's ceo in 2012. steve centanni with more on what they had to say. >> with the president's denouncement that he supports

same-sex marriage that issue is suddenly a hot topic though it is unleer how it may impact the presidential race. one key democrat said she went through a personal transformation on the issue like obama did. >> you get to know more and more gay couples. you see the happiness. you you see the economic security that marriage brings. and even more fundamentally you see children who otherwise would not have an adopted home being able to have that home. and so same sex couples raise children, they do a fine job. >> the president may have energize the his political base with the announcement especially since one in six of his key fundraisers is gay but democrats and republicans' like predict the issue will have little impact on election today. the gop presumed nominee

appeared at liberty university and mitt romney repeated his view that marriage is between a man and a woman. republican members of congress are not dwelling on the issue instead claiming president obama is trying to change the subject. >> president obama brought this issue up because he wants to -- he can't run on his record. let's put it that way. and so he is trying to it raise divisive issues up to so solidy his base and to divide the country. that isn't what we should be focusing on now you. we should be focusing on jobs and the economy. >> neither president obama or mitt romney had any campaign events today. doug? >> steve centanni, thank you very much. while much of the focus this year is on the presidential race there are a lot of house and senate seats up for grab and some of the races may be determined by the popularity of president obama and or governor romney. here to take a closer look at the close races is larry

sabato. good to see you as always. >> thank you, doug. >> the massachusetts senate race between scott brown and elizabeth warren. elizabeth warren dug a bit of a hole for herself a couple of weeks ago when it became learned through the boston herald i believe that she had identified h herself through the years as native american even though she is only 1/32 native american and kind of began to dig the hole deeper when she went on to talk about high cheek bones, you know the store relationship. what kind of damage has this done to her? >> i think it has hurt her. i don't think there is in any question about it.

officials to separate themselves from the top of the ticket assuming they want to separate themselves. >> another state race that is really potentially very fascinating is in florida. the potential frontrunner connie mack versus bill nelson. connie mack had a couple of bad weeks as well. describe what his dilemma is and what shape it has put him in. >> he has made a number of mistakes here and there and there is, of course, talk about the fact that his wife is a california member of congress and that he spends a good deal of time allegedly in california rather than florida. he is having a tough go of it. but again, we'll see whether anybody else jumps in. every time i turn around i hear about somebody new considering

that florida senate race. if connie mack is the nominee let's keep one thing in mind. this could turn out just like at 1988 senate race in florida when george h.w. bush was running for president, won 61% of the vote in florida and who did he pull in with him to the senate, connie mack senior the father of congressman connie mack. by the way, that connie mack was expected to lose to democrat buddy mckay. he ended up winning purely on coat tail. i don't exclude any possibility this early and, once again, in florida we need to look to the presidential vote. >> okay. we will do that. larry sabato, always appreciate your expertise. thank you. >> thanks, doug. a heated debate on capitol hill about an amendment that prohibits same-sex marriage ceremonies oh from occurring on military base is. it passed and is is now part of

a defense spending bill. joining us to talk more about the measure is the person who designed it congressman steve palazzo. tell us more about the amendment and the where it now stands. >> iate to be here. a beautiful mother's day. i would like to wish my wife mother of three children happy mother's day. the amendment is clarifying preexisting federal law is the defense of march act where it defines marriage as between one man and one woman and that mill tare arery installations are federal property. being that they are federal property doma applies to military installations. there has been a lot of confusions and mixed signals sent from this administration and this amendment is going to help clarify that. >> what are you hearing from chaplains in the military about this? >> we are hearing a lot. we received a lot of letters. congressman akin's office received a lot of letters and

that is part of the reason why his amendment, we have two amendments in the same day were necessary. this is federal law and basically the administration from attorney general holder and others are sending mixed signals to men and women in uniform as well as the chaplains which are spiritual and moral advisors in uniform. we are just trying to help them clarify the subject. >> we have seen the repeal of don't ask don't tell in the military. what have you heard about the ostensible effects of that repeal if anything? >> that was repealed and the last congress and i think it was finally passed by overwhelming democrat-controlled house senate in the presidency and done in a lame duck session. the thing is that is law now. they repealed it. it is fixed. and so the people who are having issues with this amendment if they don't like the law then they should try to change the law. if they don't like the defense of marriage act, change the

law. and because it doesn't matter what he think, it doesn't matter what candidate obama thinks but as president obama it is his jo be to enforce the law that is on oooo-oooo the on the books. >> supporters of gay marriage have often said there have been gay people in the military as long as there has been a military. effective fighting men and militaryros in the mill tare relationship. your response to that. >> i'm a marine veteran, i served in the national guard. i'm sure there are people serving honorably. it is not about their service or my service or what our opinions are. what it is about is enforcing federal law. >> where does the amendment go from here? >> it passed with bipartisan support and the national defense authorization act is coming up this week and i expect it to it pass with

bipartisan support. >> thank you very much for your time on this sunday. >> doug, my pleasure. thank you. >> good to see you. it has been nearly 40 years since the supreme court issued its ruling on roe versus wade but the battle over the controversial issue is as heated as ever and prolife activists have shifted their strategy now, taking on the fight one state at a time. shannon bream has a look. >> prolife activists say while they aren't giving up on capitol hill they are turning their focus to a state by state strategy aimed at defunding planned parenthood. >> in 2011, 92 pieces of legislation passed legislature. it is a cullly nation of many factors. >> bills pending in more than two dozen states and the lines are attacked varied. some measures would require

women to undergo ultrasounds before getting an apportion. others would define a legal person from the moment of conception and several states voted to defund planned parenthood. many of the measures are tied up in litigation brought by the center for reproductive rights. >> they are forcing legislatures to spend time and effort and waste taxpayers money on proposals that are clear early unconstitutional. >> crr points to recent victories in oklahoma where the state supreme court voided a personhood ballot initiative and texas which voted to defund planned parenthood but has been ordered by the fifth circuit to continue the funding while a legal challenge to the law plays out. >> the onslaught against women and the effort to take reproductive healthcare out of normal health care is very dangerous. women and sheas families should be making decisions, not

politicians. >> prolife groups say they remain encouraged by the state level accomplishments knowing they may ultimately be judged in washington. >> the last stop will be the supreme court. >> in texas alone, planned parenthood stands to lose $47 million in funding but the legal fight there is far from over. in washington, shannon bream, fox news. coming up, is it right for your employer or even your children's school to ask for facebook passwords? one lawmaker says no. we will talk to him next about his fight to protect your privacy. ugh! all work and no food is making lorenzo very snippy. oh! seriously?! ♪ [ male announcer ] hunger getting to you? oh... [ male announcer ] grab a ritz crackerfuls. made with real peanut butter and whole grain. mmmm [ male announcer ] get hunger before it gets you.

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a top member of afghanistan's peace council was shot and killed today. he was a former taliban official who was working with the afghan government to set up peace talks with terrorist organizations. the taliban has denied responsibility for his killing. some universities and companies require their students and employees to hand over their passwords for facebook and other social networking accounts. but one congressman says that is a violation of your rights and he has written a law to make it illegal. congressman eliot engel joins us live.

thank you very much for coming in. >> thank. >> do you know of real life examples where people have lost jobs or been prevented from getting jobs because their employer was looking at their facebook page. >> we see this happening more and more in terms of people applying for jobs where some employers are saying you need to give us your password or user name in order to even consider getting the job. i think that is wrong. develop nova university is one school that has used it for some of its athletes in terms of saying that in order to come to the school you need to turn this kind of thing over. and i just think it is important to put an end to this. if somebody voluntarily wants to give whatever they want to give that is okay but it should not be coerced as a term of employment or being on a sports team. >> i could see in today's litigious society the first

time somebody gets into trouble you go to facebook and find out who the alleged victim or accuser is. you look at their facebook page to try to get more information. there is nothing illegal about that and you don't want to see that illegal. >> i don't want to see that illegal. anybody can go to facebook or whatever they want. what i do want to see as illegal is if somebody has something private that they don't want to divulge they should not be forced to do so. on facebook each person can decide how private they wanter that information to be. that should be left up to the person it should not be forced out of the person by saying that we won't even consider you for a job if you don't turn over your password or user name or anything like that. >> do you draw a distinction in the seps tha sense there are ss i'm thinking of fbi, cia, where employers want a small footprint, they don't want spies or counter intelligence

people looking up somebody's background who happens to work at the cia. so if you have no facebook page you are well off. should it be he incumbent on an employer in that case to have that password. >> this doesn't deny the legitimate use of somebody who needs clearance or anything like that. this would deny a routine employer from forcing somebody to divulge this information. i think privacy is very important and i don't think government should be able to snoop and look into what a person is doing and i also don't think that frankly private employers or schools should be doing it. this would not affect any kind of national security clearance or anything like that. >> what is the stat it is of the legislation. >> it has just been introduced. this is the first bipartisan legislation introduced. congressman grim of new york a republican and i have endorsed it and others and we are hoping that we will get more and more

are people in a bipartisan nature to do it. these things in congress take a long, long time. we just introduced the bill a couple of weeks ago and it is gathering a lot of momentum and steam. this is something whose time has come. that is why we call is the social networking online protection act. we want to protect the fact that someone put something that is private it remains private. >> aside from this particular piece of legislation you have studied facebook and the dynamics behind it a little bit. what is your advice to a young person who puts their entire life on facebook? >> i think people should be careful. if you don't want someone to see or read it then don't put it on. again, this would not probib hit in any way shape or form an employer from going on facebook and looking up a person or seeing what a person has put on. we are are not trying to ban that. we are saying if a person puts it in a a private matter they should not be forced to friend somebody so that people can go into their private data.

>> thank you very much, sir. good to have you in today. >> thank you. >> the shuttle enterprise is one step closer to its new home in manhattan. enterprise was taken off the transport plane just this morning and will now stay in a hangar at jfk airport until a barge is ready to take it to the sea air and space museum next month. what an addition to that museum it will be. preparations for the trip to space. the soyuz rocket was rolled out today to the launch pad. the rocket will launch on tuesday and is expected to dock at the space station by thursday. could unmanned aerial drones keep you safer here at home or would they be an infringement on your rights? we'll have a fair and balanced debate coming right up.

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let's take a quick look at today's headlines. afghanistan announced itle take the lead from the u.s. forces on providing its own security. hamid karzai says the afghan security forces will have control by the end of 02014. a search underway in california for a missing fibbing agent. he may be suicidal. and everyone's favorite golden girl has endorsed a candidate. she has decided to vote for president obama.

a privately held railroad could soon be getting a multibillion dollars loan from the federal government. ainsley earhardt live to explain. good afternoon, ainsley. >> good afternoon, doug. desert express wants to be the first to bring high speed rail to the u.s. but the 150-mile per hour train will cost taxpayers $5 billion to build. some say it is the fail rail. the train to no where. well, i went to california to investigate. >> our goal is to give 80% of americans access to high speed rail. >> bringing high speed rail to the united states has long been a priority of the obama administration but there is one problem. the closer you get to southern, california's major population centers, the harder it is to build a train. >> it would just be cost prohibitive to get the right-of-way they need to cut through so many cities and simply be too expensive. >> so instead the train will start outside of victorville, california, a desert city of

120,000 people more than 90 miles from the hoped for starting points of los angeles or anaheim. this is literally the end of the road. we are off the 15 in the middle of the mohave desert and the proposed site for the train. 90 miles that way is l.a. 188 miles that way you hit las vegas. the question is would you drive from l.a. and park your car here and hop on the train to get there. >> i don't think the people of los angeles which is where we are are going to be drawing most of the riders are going to buy driving halfway to vegas and then catch a train the other half. >> is it a good idea. >> i think it is a good idea. the reason you see this happening is vegas sees there is a reason for it. >> what is standing in the way of turning this desert pitstop in an oasis? it is money. with private tuppeds drying up the 70s earth express is asking you to chip in. they say they need at least $5 billion in taxpayer money in the form of a loan.

>> solyndra is supposed to be paid back also and we know how that worked out. i just don't buy it. >> the loan will come from the federal railroad administration which has $35 billion allocated for our country's railroads. but concerns still linger at this point will the company desert express make enough money from the project to pay back the billions of dollars bore are rowed from you, the taxpayer. >> these tend to be congested areas such as in japan and certain european area. that doesn't look congest. >> we were in the middle of no where in the desert so that is why they want the site. that is the proposed site. they talked about building it in to l.a. but it is too expensive to build the railroads over the highway. >> interesting. thanks very much. >> sure, doug. >> age mare change coming to skies over many u.s. cities. tomorrow the faa will announce how it plans to begin licensing

local law enforcement for unmanned aerial vehicles or drones. supporters think it could be major boost to law enforcement and first responders. >> joining me is the president much the association for unmanned vehicle systems international and jay stanley who is the senior policy analyst for speech, privacy and technology for the american civil liberties union. gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us today. >> how would the drones work? >> if i first could say happy mother's day to my mother and all of the mothers that are out there. the technology is pretty advanced. we have right now the law that was approved by congress of the f.a.a. reauthorization act. the first ones you are going to see are the 4.4-pounders report small ones. about 2-kilograms. >> how big are they? what, four feet wingspan. >> five pounds or less. >> like a model airplane.

>> and if you look at bridgestone or the other magazines with the quad copters or things of this nature. that was a study done in the 2009 time frame by the aviation folks that said that was a minimal amount effect of damage risk could be involved using something of that size. >> and what are the capabilities? >> most of it is just an extension of your eyes and ears of an operator. when you look at a person that knows how to do their jobber than anybody else. they can get situational awareness to make better decisions. >> and noise factor. i mean used to seeing news helicopters in nye neighborhood, very unpleasant. people will have a concern about that. >> it the technology can be quiet because of the size. most of the systems operate for 30 minutes to an hour because of the size. they are limited in the amount of power they could have. >> jay, i'm sure you have concerns about this. >> this technology has a lot of potential to innovate privacy.

these are basically flying video cameras and there are great uses. they have the potential to be overused. the f.a.a. estimated 30,000 of these things in the air over the years. we don't want a situation where every time you walk out your front door you have to wonder whether an invisible eye in the sky is tracking your every move. the lenses are getting stronger, the ability to track people in vehicles or on the streets as they move around. the intelligence. so we need to put in some good privacy principles here to protect our values. >> it is interesting. you just jogged my memory. years ago i was flying with an unnamed i won't mention it here, police force in their helicopter over the greater washington area. i was going along for a media ride and they took me over a nudist camp for a new laughs. happened to be winter time and nobody was outside at the time. raises the point you are trying to make here. illustrates the point i should sea. >> you might be in your back

yard and have a 10-foot tall fence and trees and none of your neighbors can see you and you should have privacy. if there is a robotic flying video camera hovering over your house, you you know, you have no protection against that. the current supreme court rulings don't offer a lot of protection. they haven't ruled on drones specifically yet but we are wore relationshipped that current privacy laws aren't where they need to be to protect us and we want to see protections put in place and get ahead of the technology before it becomes super powerful. >> how do you asuage those kinds of fears. >> there is certification of the operator and certification of the operatation itself. there will be an actual reason and cause. just like anything else there are processes and procedures and rules that say this is how

you can and cannot use it. if they dorlanding search and rescue there is a reason why they are doing that search and rescue. if while doing that they gather information that could be used for other applications there is a way that that information is to be determined, classified and also disposed of as well. >> we are flat out of time. do ju have a response to that real quickly. >> i'm all for search and rescue if me daughter was lost in the wilderness i want them to use every tool possible. we also need protoeses. the police have tended in the past, they watch protest rallies, sometimes they just want to hover over certain neighborhoods to keep an eye on oooo-oooo everything and that moves us down a path towards surveillance se society. >> thank you very much. coming up next an exclusive interview with ann romney. she sat down with nasca martha mccallum to discuss her husband, his campaign and her vision for the country. >> we recognize as americans

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she is the wife of a presidential candidate, a mom of five and a grandmother of 18. she is also called the might stabilizer. ann romney is the leading lady and spoke exclusive with martha mccallum just in time for mother's day. >> have you thought about the fact that next mother's day you you could be spending it at the white house? >> i don't think that far forward but that is a possibility. >> what kind of first lady do you think you would be and what kind of mission would you set for yourself? >> every first lady brings her own personality to the white

house. for me it will have something to do with the things i care about and the things i love. having had breast cancer i'm sure i will be involved in breast cancer awareness. having had multiple sclerosis which will be involved with trying to promote research. i have worked for many years with at-risk youth and so i know i will never be able to give that up either. >> when you look back at first ladies are there any that you particularly admire and what did you admire about them. >> i love you think about barbara bush and her frankness and outspokenness and her realness. you just loved her. laura bush was lady like and just wonderful. >> what do you think about mrs. obama? >> i think she is lovely. as everyone can appreciate it is a very difficult position to be in where your husband is under enormous scrutiny all the time and attacks from one side

or the other and yet to be able to keep your calm and have your composure we appreciate that and see that in her. >> you talk about the struggles that you have been through you in your life and faith has been i'm sure a big part in getting you through those. how do you feel that has served you as a wife and a mother? >> you have a choice when you are hit with something really hard. you can curl up and give up or just push and keep going. for me for awhile it was really difficult and i felt like doing the first and feeling very sorry for myself. but then you have the resources of the people that you love around you and giving you encouragement but then you finally learn how to dig really deep and say i'm going to get through this. i think it has changed my heart. it has softened my heart. it made me very concerned about others that are going through challenges. and know that we'll all have a dark hour in our life. there are people that are suffering right now. that may be losing their mothers or losing a child or

losing a spouse or being diagnosed with cancer and there is people right now going through enormous challenges and so for me i am grateful that my heart has been opened up and softened and that i can appreciate and understand when someone is going through a challenge what it feels like. >> what was that like between you and your husband when you had those dark moments with that diagnose first it was multiple sclerosis and you have five children to take care of. it is often frightening for the spouse. >> it was hard for mit. sometimes i think it is harder for the person watching than the person going through it. it was hard foe me, too. we have an identity. my identity was mother, accomplished, doing many things, taking care of everybody and all of a sudden i couldn't even take care of myself. it is like a rug being pulled out from underneath you and what are you left with and you you have to evaluate who am i

really and for mitt, that is where he gave me the greatest strength because he was the one reminding me it wasn't what i did why he loved me, it was who i was was ouch h how much he le and cared for mae and not to worry about those things and not to think life wasn't still going to be rich without doing all of those things. for me having my husband give me that perspective when i was losing that perspective and a little frightened and feeling very overwhelmed it was wonderful to have him there. >> this has been a lot of talk about how ugly the campaign will get. are you concerned about your faith and your religion and that that will wok an issue? >> i certainly hope people won't be doing that. as americans there are certain

things primary to the freedoms that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things as americans we cherish. >> one of the biggest criticisms, i heard it this morning, look at mitt romney, he is stiff and humorless and that surfaces all the time in discussions about your husband as a candidate. what doe you think about that? >> to begin with i don't accept it and that is the beauty of me being able to get out there and dispel these things that are not true. he is a funny guy and spontaneous and has a great sense of humor. i will tell you these are serious issues he is talking about and this is a serious race and this is serious times. >> time magazine wrote about your husband and talked about the fact it was some what annoying that he was because beating everybody to work. he called him at one point and said what is going on. is that a side to him how hard he works? >> he certainly does do his homework and he certainly is very bright as i think most

people recognize. it is not just that he works so hard at everything that he does and he does his best. and i think that was the motto from his father, too, is always do your present job well and no matter what that job means. i don't care if you are sweeping a broom, you do your present job well and i think mitt totally live is and embodies that characterization. >> when you think about foreign policy your president has been behind the president in the most recent polls. some of that might come as a result of the retention of the anniversary of osama bin laden. if you put him in that situation how do you see h him responding? >> very responsibly and very well informed and always standing with allies and recognizing the significance that america plays in the world. >> and willing to take a risk. >> i think, of course. >> vice president, big decision that is coming up. have you spoken with your husband about that?

>> it is if fun to talk about, i will tell you. i'm not his advisor are. >> is there somebody -- are you rooting for anybody? >> i cannot do that. i cannot come down and say because it is going to be i think the decision that mitt is going to have to make and have to make it with a lot of information with gathering a lot of names and a lot of people and it is a wonderful thing is right now there is terrific people out there that are very qualified. >> is it important to you that the vice president's wife is somebody that you don't mind hanging out with a lot. >> that would be a plus but i don't think that will be part of the discussion. >> you have been called the mitt stabilizer. they know that they have to bring you in and that he needs time with you to refocus and rejuvenate. is that true? >> that is true. and my sons are the ones that have named me the mit

stabilizer. >> what do you do to stablize mitt. >> both of us enjoy each other's company. we relax each other. also i think when we get together we recognize that is really important in life and what is really important in life our relationships and our friendships and our family and it is a good reminder and takes a lot of the treasur stress awm there with him and we are able to laugh a lot and talk about things outside of political realms.npolitte >> if it doesn't work out and you are here in massachusetts next mother's day what will that mean to you? >> we tried our best and we believe in our country and we believe the country is going in the wrong direction and we are positive it needs to be turned in a different direction. i will tell you i believe we will be in the white house. >> your house wan husband has u he can fix what is wrong. >> i was worried even if he did win it would be too late.

and he assured me that it was getting late but it was not too late yet. >> there you have it. judging from the pace she keeps on the campaign trail you would never know that she was diagnosed with ms. what would you do if you had unlimited airline miles? what one man did and why it has him in some hot water with the airline. >> while prom may be fun for teens can can give many parents real sticker shock. a look at how parents can save money on their child's big night. i was teaching a martial arts class and having a heart attack. my brother doesn't look like a heart attack patient.

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his mom on from the boat. good for her. special day. the man who has 10,000 frequent flyer miles, a man wakes from the dead and a teenager's dream date takes her to the prom. peter doocy with the day's stories. beats crunching numbers on an economic story. >> i have been doing both. a ma who who has racked up 10 million miles. he bought a golden ticket which gave him a lifetime of unlimited travel. he has used the pass to fly to a baseball game and even just to get a sandwich. he pays it ford. he is being accused of fraud for booking seats under phoney names this as american airlines tries to find ways to cancel the program which is costing the company millions of dollars

each year. in egypt. a funeral turn inside a celebration when a man who had been declared dead woke up. the family washed and prepared his body for burial. when a doctor came to sign the death certificate she notice body was still warm and the man was actually alive. 18-year-old joyce's original prom date backed out-other before the big day. the high school senior tweeted nfl store joe haydn and asked him out. he said yes and even picked her up new hampshire his lamborghini. he never got to attend his own senior prom. you can read about all these stories. moreon online at fox news .com. >> if i was the dad i wouldn't want some date picking my daughter up in a lam lamborghi. i guess it all ended well. >> speaking of the prom the price of the big party is

skyrocketing. the social event of the year could quickly empty thua the ws of students and their parents. how to look like a million bucks on a budget. >> the prom has been referred to as a mini wedding. a survey shows families will spend more than a thousand dollars for their child to go to prom this year making up the cost footed by parents. the limo, dress, tuxedo, shoes, flowers, and don't forget hair, makeup, nails, spray tans and accessories. luxury designer dresses can cost up to $2,000. >> if you see something in store that you are just dieing to have whether a pair of shoes, a clutch or the dress remember the name. write down the size and then go home and check prices online. you can seuss price grabber to compare prices and see if there is any online coupons.

>> tux rentals averaging around $140. try to negotiate a group rate. >> maybe you can get all your guy friends together and try to negotiate a better rate if there is ten of you. they would probably be much more willing to knock down 20% off the price. >> you will need shoes and accessories to complete the look. an easy way to save on bling is to borrow. suggest an accessory swap party. shoes are best purchased online. >> so many sites like shoes .com or zapp some. consider shopping at consignment stores. there are tons of consignment shops that have high end luxury fashion for are a whole lot less than you would find at a department store and likely it has only been used once or twice by the person who sold it to the consignment shop and i even found items with the price still on 2. it is brand new and you are looking at spending maybe 15% of what you would at the department store.

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