>> eric: oodle a big day here at the fox newschannel, mitt romney with chris wallace later. >> jamie: exclusive, of course. great to have you here for this hour of america's news headquarters, check out this lineup later. you get harris, chris and john roberts. keep it here. we send to you washington and

shan shannon bream. >> i see this as a huge opportunity and it's being squandered by politics. by people who are more interested in the political victory than in what is right for the country. >> i totally believe at this moment, if mitt were there in thea office that we would not be facing sequestration right now. >> in the first hitt sit-down since election day, mitt romney talks about the politics in washington. live from the nation's dap capitol, we begin with mitt romney candid interview with chris wallace on "fox news sunday." i sat down with chris to get his take on the interview. this is the first exclusive interview with the rom niece post election. you covered a lot of territory. i want to play a little bit what

have mitt romney had to say, in talking about viewing what is going on in washington and wishing that he was a part of it. let's take a listen to that. >> it kills me not to be there, not to be in the white house, doing what needs to be done. the president is the leader of the nation, he brings the people together, does the deal, knocks the heads together. the president leads. i don't see that kind of leadership happening. >> you get the sense that he really wishes he could be there and he would make a significant difference. >> >> reporter: he certainly wishes he were here. washington has never looked worse, regardless of whether you think the white house is right, washington looks dysfunctional. here is he, out on the west coast. of course, easier to be on the west coast saying, i could have done it. this is the second part of your question. could he have made the difference? i don't know. i would say, in a nixon went

techina way, i think he might have been able to bring the republican party further on tax reform, not raising tax rate, lowering the tax rates, but doing away with the loopholes and using that money in a deficit deal and then persuade the democrats to go with the spending cuts and entitlement reform. the one thing he said, he said he did this as governor of massachusetts. i worked with the legislature, 87% democrat. you don't go out campaigning, scoring points. have you to bring them into the room, closed door, no leaks, no bashing and just do business and make the deal. >> he's not there because he did not win the election. have you talked to him a lot about processing what happened, what could have been done differently. mrs. romney seems to be struggling more to get over it. maybe he's further in the process. i want to play a little bit of what she had to say about how he

was portrayed during the campaign. >> reporter: do you think the mede yafs in the tank for barack obama? [laughter] >> i think that any time you are running for office, you always think you are being portrayed unfairly. of course, on our side, we believe there is more vase bias in favor of the other side. i think that, you know, that's a universally felt opinion. >> did you get a sense of regret from either of them? >> reporter: absolutely. i would say at least -- i would say both on camera and off camera because hidinner with them the night before. he seems in a better place than she does. she called it at one point, a mourning process, it's gree. he seems further along in that than she does. i wouldn't say she's bitter. she's happy with her life. but i think she feels more, gosh, we should have won.

whachdz what happened, how different things would be for them and for the country if they had won. but they go over what it's the 47% video or hurricane sandy or his position on immigration. or the failure of the ground game. one of the things that really bothers them -- mitt romney is aboutness, systems and disaita. and theiridata was wrong. they thought that as they say, going into election night that they were going to win. and i think there is a lot of frustration that their ground game and their ability to read the assessment was wrong. >> folks won't want to miss the end of fox sunday today, seeing the two newest members of the family. theyville to stick around for that. you can see the interview with mitt romney and anne right here on fox, 2:00 and 6:00 eastern.

have you seen what chris wallace asked, but if you had a crack at the interview, if you could ask one question, what would it be? tweet us your questions and we will read them later in the show. with both sides locked into position, it looks like the automatic budget cuts are here to stay. on the talk show, the president's top economic adviser says the president is reaching out to encourage democrats and republicans to compromise. as republicans see the pain of sequester, he thinks they will compromise. but for now, this is not a victory for either side. >> this is not a win for anyone. the only win -- if you can call it that -- is that those on the republican side who are willing to let all of this harm be inflict sode they can stand by this principle that there should not be one disme deficit reduction. >> a complete failure of

presidential leadership, that's what lamar alexander is calling the cuts. he is live now. senator, i want to ask you, gene sperling said that the president is reaching out to democrats and republicans. what is your sense of what is going on? >> well, he hasn't reached out to me. my sense is -- and mitt romney suggested it -- this is a colossal failure of presidential leadership. this is the president's sequester. in 2011, he made a deal, he wanted so badly to get through the election without a debt ceiling issue, he didn't want to touch the real problem, which is mandatory spending increases and he spent the last year doing nothing and the last month campaigning against his own sequester. that's not the way the president of the united states is supposed to perform. >> my understanding is that you voted for the budget control act, which had the sequester framework built into it --

>> i did. >> even though many people didn't think it would ever come to this, do you regret voting for it? >> no, i don't regret t. it gave us $2.2 trillion in spending reductions. the only thing i regret is that we are not able to focus on the real problem. the sequester's focus and the reductions are focused on the part of the budget that's under control. national parks, national defense, national laboratories. the part that's not out of control is the mandatory spending increases. so that's the only regret i have -- between the president and congress, he won't focus on that and we can't get that done. >> the president said this week that, quote, none of this is necessary, referring to the cuts we are discussing. he said it's happening because of a choice by congressional republicans. what weight do you bear? any blame that the g.o.p. bears? >> i just can't understand this

style of presidential leadership. the president takes nosponsibiln sequester. he has had a year to fix t. he could fix it today. he could send us a plan tomorrow. we could have back to him a result within a couple of weeks. he could suggest that we spread it out over the discretionary part of the budget, 2%. he could suggest we spread it out over the whole budget. that would be a 7% cut. we could spread it out over the whole budget, 2% cut. he could do what senator corcorin and i have done, which is spending increases on mandatory, a favor to seniors and young people to make the program solvent and lower the possibility of a debt we can't pay. but he is doing none of that. he is not acting like a president of the united states is supposed to act. >> on your side of the hill in the senate, there has been no budget passed for years, now. senate majority leader harry reid has not moved one.

the vote that has happened on the hill with respect to the president's budget, in which he got zero votes from republicans or democrats for that particular piece of legislation, why do you think with all of those factors in play, it seems that republicans are taking so much of the heat publicly for where we are right now fiscally? >> well, i am not sure. [chuckles] i wish i could give you the answer to that. the problem is that the president has profited politically so far from blaming other people for problems he has caused by not producing the bottoming, by ignoring the real problem with mandatory spending increases. but colossal failures of presidential leadership will be a blot on his legacy. i think he is going to regret deeply missing this opportunity to lead, right after he was elected by a good margin and purting this problem behind us,

the problem of mandatory spending increases, that's the problem. then we could get on to the agenda. >> speaking of spending, you know there are more budget battles looming. the next one is a continuing resolution, which essentially keeps the government funded and running at the end of the month. that will expire. the president has suggested he will allow congress to handle that separately from the sequester issue. there are conservatives on the house side who have written to house speaker john boehner saying they want something in return for that. they don't want to put together a funding measure, as it seems to suggest he is going to go doub that path. they want the c.r. to be used for leverage, negotiation. where do you stand on that? >> here's what i think. that's a spending plan for six months. the president this week should send us a plan to -- to replace the sequester with an equal amount of spending reductions

that spread across a bunch. that would be a 2 or 3% cut and would avoid most of the pain that he keeps talking about. we could enact -- and we could put that on the senate floor within a week. we could get it to him within two weeks and fund the government the federal rest of the year with that plan and avoid the sequester. and still do a reasonable job of reducing spending, same amount. except, the problem is, what he really should do, he should send us a plan to reduce the entitlements, it's the mandatory spending increases that are causing the problem with the mandatory spending reductions. >> sir, thank you for your time. >> thank you, shannon. it this is a fox news alert from buckingham palace. queen elizabeth ii is in the hospital for what appears to be a stomach infection. a palace spokesperson says the 86-year-old monarch is expected

to say at king edwards vii hospital. all the 89s official engagements are cancelled or postponed, including her big trip to rome. john kerry has wrapped up a meeting with the egyptian president, muhammad morsi, and he decided to release helpeds of millions of dollars to egypt. this is the first trip to the region as america's top difficulty we have more now. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry arrived in cairo at a hime time of political and economic turmoil. egypt has been plagued by infighting, protest and economic citations, since hosni mubarak was toppled 2 years ago. he met with muhammad morsi, with a message that egypt needs to have political and economic reforms. the u.s. will provide $200

million because of cairo's promise to reform. the obama administration remains deeply concerned that continuing instability in egypt will destabilize the middle-east region. if the situation in egypt will likely get worse in the coming weeks as the opposition is toset to boycott the next month parliament elections. some opposition groups refused to meet with secretary of state kerry, in protest of his visit, believing that the u.s. is too supportive of the ruling muslim brotherhood party. kerry insisted that the united states is not in the process of picking would it winners, they t egypt's government to work together to find solutions to economic and political problems. >> thank you. sunday mass at the vatican was the first without a pope in 8 years. tomorrow, a date will be set for

the conclave. we have more on the search for a new pope. >> reporter: hi, shannon. it was quite poignant for the faithful on st. peter's square to be without a pope. this is the first sunday of the vacancy. many of them were sort of glancing, longingly up at the pope's window in the epistolic palace, from which he usually reads on sunday. it's sealed off. some say they are praying for the unnamed new pope. in the meantime, the bookies and the aficionados are pointing to march 11 as the most proabl probable date for a conclave. but the card cardinals themselves have not set the dealt date. we did speak to one u.s. cardinal, who could possibly become the next pope, cardinal donald whorl of washington. i spoke with him a short while ago. he tells me that it would be a

fantasy for him to become pope. it is probability not going to happen. but diask him broadly if they would be ready to select an american. but that does go against the conventional wisdom. >> the pope has to be a voice for spiritual values, for moral values and has to challenge regularly leaders of governments. i think there may be a sense that it's better done by someone who would not be immediately perceived as a part of a specific political approach. >> reporter: shannon, the cardinal says that this congregation of cardinals is more about setting church agend agenda, talking about what needs to be dealt with and the important area phos focus on. and the conclave is more

reflective, more prayerful. and that is when they do elect the new pope. officials have begun demolishing a home on top of a sinkhole. a man disappeared when the house crumbled beneath him. his brother laid flowers at the site this morning. early this morning, officials ended efforts to retrieve the body because they say, that would put the rescuers at risk. >> the mission has changed because we can no longer sustain a rescue effort. we have met with the family. we advised them of that and at this point, we have to move beyond the rescue to a demolition phase and a securing of the site.

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>> shannon: another casualty of the sequester, military flyovers will stop april 1. the center performs a thousand flyovers a year, but won't do any more through the fiscal end of the year. they don't cost the government more money, but flying hours are cut back, so the training hours will focus on overseas flight training. it is the inside story on the

debt debate you haven't heard. john roberts invests how the debt crisis unfolded through the eyes of the lawmakers in the thick of it. john has a preview. >> reporter: good afternoon. president obama has been declaring and warning doom and gloom over the sequester for weeks now. but recently, he has had to walk back that talk, acknowledging that the sequester, when it was triggered, would not be the apocalypse he has been making it out to be. he has been bludgeoning the republican, say that this g.o.p. would rather see the cuts go through than close one tax loophole on their rich friends. but what about the president's conduct, the dire warnings? and what about that golf weekend in florida right in the middle of the crisis? as part of our special, i put that to john delaney of

maryland. here's an excerpt from what you will see tonight. february 16. with automatic spending cuts he called sudden and harsh, just two weeks away, the president heads to florida for a boys weekend of golf. >> the president in the middle of this crisis took a weekend to go to florida to play golf with tiger woods. smart move? >> i can't comment on the president's schedule. i learned a long time ago to not worry about the things i can't control. >> reporter: democratic freshman congressman and finance millionaire john dlaily. >> if you face aid crisis in your business, would you go to the golf course? >> you can't yell charge from your second home. >> reporter: you can't yell charge from your second home. he co-founded the capital source bank. he says he is firmly in the simpson-bowles camp with the deficit and spending problem, he

says it needs to be a balanced approach. but he doesn't have a problem with the size of the cuts, just the way the sequester applies them. >> shannon: you have a fascinating inside look at how we got to where we are now. but what happens next? >> reporter: where are we heading? people point to march 27, the continuing resolution to fund government. it doesn't look like there will be a huge battle for that. the debt ceiling debate comes up again in may. but it looks like republicans in congress for all the talk in the white house, they are making progress and getting bipartisan agreement on how to re-apply the most draconian of curts. paul ryan telling carl cameron he has an agreement with democrats to adjust the military spending so it doesn't hurt as bad as the sequester cuts would be and he is trying to move that. be watching. in the next few dice see how

maybe there are modifications made to the sequester that may mean it is nota as bad as inch predicted it would be. really, what we are seeing here, for all the cries that this is a failure of government, is perhaps a turning point here that congress is being forced to take a very, very hard look at spending. the big issue, discretionary spending, mandatory spending, the big part ever it. are they prepared to head the tough debates regarding social security, medicare, medicaid, other entitlement spending that are the huge budget busters over the coming years. >> shannon: we will see if the current situation changes conversation. we will look forward to your special tonight, john. thank you. >> reporter: thanks. >> shannon: that's 8:00 eastern. it is part of a powerful block of television, starting at 6:00 p.m., with a must-see, chris wallace interview, followed by fox report at 7:00 and the john reports special on the national debt, starting at 8:00 eastern.

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>> shannon: mitt romney is breaking his post election silence. peter doocy has more. >> reporter: the former presidential candidate and his wife spoke in depth about the ups and downs of their campaign. romney said, in his heart, he thought he would win until the exit polls suggested a close race in florida. romney says the loss is tough to

take. >> well, it's hard. it's emotional. i mean, there was such passion in the people who were helping us, i just felt, we have really let them down. >> it was a crushing disappointment -- not for us. our lives are going to be fine. it's for the country. >> reporter: is it true that you began to cry? >> i did, of course. yeah. >> reporter: it looks like a state takeover of the city of detroit is all but a done deal. unless detroit finances suddenly and miraculously improve, an emergency manager will be forced to take control. they face more than $14 billion in long-term debt. senator mitch mcconnell is blasting a group for attacking his wife. in a tweet, he said that mcconnell's marriage to chow may explain why her job moved to

china. she was born in taiwan. baltimore ravens quarterback joe flacco appeared to be on track to be the highest paid player in the nfl. he will be paid $20 million a year in a new six-year deal. he is expected to sign the deal tomorrow. those are the top stories right now. back to you. >> shannon: do you think he's worth it? >> reporter: i don't know. do you think he's worthwhile more than brady or manning or tebow? >> all right. the department of homeland security has released thousands of illegal immigrants and is planning to release many more. are the think about dut cuts to blame? dominic has more on the developing story. >> reporter: whether homeland security will release those illegal immigrants is unclear, given the tide of negative reaction to the news. the plan was to release an additional 3,000 this month, bringing them to a total of

5,000 illegal immigrant who is were let go. according to the associated press, the new numbers were found in intrl internal budget documents, significantly higher than the 300 that the obama administration had said were released. here's how arizona governor jan brewer explained it to fox's neil cavuto last week. >> we don't know who they have released and what they have been charged with. no one from the administration has contacted my homeland security division. no one has contactedded my office. no one has reached out. obviously, they don't know what the heck is going on because they didn't know anything about it either. who is running this country?! >> reporter: the a.p. says the documents show that immigrations and customs enforcement released around 1,000 illegal immigrants each week since at least

february 15. the white house has said it would -- [inaudible] and the homeland security has acknowledged they occurred in a manner that she regrets. jay carney blames the decision on i.c.e. >> the agency released these low-risk, non-criminal detainees under a less extensive form of monitoring to insure levels stayed within i.c.e.'s overall budget. priority for detention remains on serious criminal offends and other who is pose a significant threat to public safety. >> reporter: it looks like they will be released. it costs the government $164 a day to keep the detainees in immigration jails. those who have been released will have to face deportation and until then, they will have to comply with check-ins, home visits and gps tracking devices, but the controversy will continue as they continue to

release detainees. >> shannon: absolutely. thank you. schools across the country are dealing with a weighty issue -- obese students. according to the centerings for disease control in 2010, more than a third of kids in this country were overweight or obese. but are some schools taking the fight against fat too far? we have a fox affiliate in boston with this diswroor cameron watson is hardly a videogame playing 10-year-old. >> i don't like to sit inside. >> reporter: he was brought into this world as a premy, but he is healthy and very athletic and plays youth football, practices martial arts and wrestles. he is at practice several times a week. >> we run starks jog... drill and live wrestling. >> reporter: this weekend, he is wrestling in the state finals and must weigh in at 95 pounds. >> i drink a lot of eench joyce

andigatorrade. >> reporter: that's why cameron and his mother were stunned when they got the letter saying his body mass index puts himself in the obese category. >> why do you care? it's not your body. half of us -- how they do it with the numbers, tom brady's obese and he's the skinniest quarterback in the nfl. >> reporter: both girls and boys at school were upset. >>ure -- either ankerexic, too small or you get the obese letter -- that means you are too big, you can't be just right. >> there are a number of children that went to bed feeling not so great about themselves that night. that bothered me. >> reporter: cameron's mother says the state's fixating on a number, rather than looking at overall health and says that the screening costs school districts money that would be better spent. >> why aren't we having a nutritionist speaking to our children and hiring more gym

teachers. >> reporter: she filed tol get rid of the bmi reports. >> in your face, i'm a pro football player and i got the obese letter when i was 10. >> reporter: you have to love his attitude. we commented the school for comment. no direct response. but we did find this statement on the web site, regarding the body mass index screening program. it reads in part... schools are required to perform height, weight and body mass index for students in grades 1, 4, 7 and 10 and send home the results to the parents and guardians to give parents additional informs about their child's weight status and ideas for living a healthy life t. continues, quote, bmi does not tell the whole story. are the schools overstepping their bounds or doing an important service in the fight for childhood obesity.

we have mike gallagher from the mike gallagher show and mark lavigne from the mark levine show. >> mike, you know, part of this -- the statement was kids went home not feeling great about themselves. how do you respond? >> well, i mean, i am going to go on a limb here and wish that schools educators worried about education. you know? i mean, this is this typical nanny state mind-set that do-gooders want to force parents how to parent, tell patients how to parent that. great story out of the mouths of babes. cameron is the smartest guy in the room, saying it's my body, leave me alone. he has a loving mom on the scene. i mean, this is the overreach of the government. it shouldn't surprise us in the state of massachusetts. i was intrigued when you ran the report and said they do the testings of grades 1, 4, 7 and

10. what about 2, 3... 8, 9 and 11 and 12? it's arbitrary andka capricious and nonsenseical. take it from a parent, stick to reading, writing and arithmetic. let's not get into the kitchen of every child who goes to school in massachusetts or elsewhere. >> is this too nosy? >> i think it's something when a third of all kids are obese, parents need to know may affect their kid. cameron is a special kid. he's in the state wrestling championship. he hit ace punching bag like a boxer, he wrestles, he works out. he has a lot more muscle than an average fourth grader. he is not typical and the bmi index does not appropriate for kids or adults who are more muscular than average and says that if your child is not more muscular than average, he may be obese.

we have a third of kids in america who are obese and suffer from diebtsz, that are lifetime problems. and the reason why the governor of arkansas instituted this program was because he was obese and he thought it was important for him to get healthy -- he did. good for massachusetts for copying his plan in arkansas. >> shannon: by the way, the letters go home to kid who is are underweight too. cam ran says kids are having their feelings hurt either way, mike? >> it is not the school's responsibility. test scores around the country are at an all-time low. we have schools that are struggling to get funding because the kids are performing so poorly academically. think of all the time that's wasted on letters about underwet or overweight or body mass. are we going to have letters about hygiene? leave this to the parents. let the parents decide what the

right weight should be for their child. they are wasting time and money by focusing on something that's not the school's business. >> it sounds more up to you. you get rid of physical education in school it's. >> no! >> we had the president's physical fitness test. i couldn't do one chin-up. schools test all kinds of things, not just academics and this doesn't just test body mass inderks they test strength and cardiovascular training. and some kids are not studying enough and others are not getting outside enough -- [overlapping dialogue] >> the parents can decide what to do. >> shannon: we have to leave it there. >> as a rail-thin person, i am telling you, i never met a cheeseburger i didn't like. let us fatties be fat. >> shannon: we will see if the massachusetts school bhoard and the department of health are

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>> shannon: mission accomplished, a one-time shipment has been successfully delivered to to the space station. it was a day late because of technical issues, but the docking did go smoothly and the privately owned space capsule will hang out in the space station most of march. then it will be sent back to march with science sale sale sad empty food containers. in the past 90 days, the federal government has posted 6,170 proposed regulations to the site

regulations dot gov, now, a bill has been proposed to explain exactly how much these regutions will cost. virmg virmg fox is here. >> thank you. >> shannon: i know by executive order, the president said, if you are going to propose a new regulation, you have to explain how much it costs. but many are being issued with no cost benefit analysis. but your bill would go further. >> it would. this would close the loopholes in the pass called the unfunded regulations act. what we want to do is to make sure that the american public and the people who are writing the regulations know what the regulations are going to cost. the regulations are a hidden tax on the american people, on businesses, even on government. so what we want to do is to make sure that people understand that and hopefully look for

alternatives. you know, we have a terrible debt problem. we are all searching for ways to solve that. but one of the ways we can do it is to reduce the cost of regulations to everyone. >> shannon: so many, you mentioned a number of places they are going to hit, which are businesses, private businesses, and state and local governments. unfunded mandates, they have to comply, but somebody has to pay for it. >> that's exactly right. it's the american people who are paying for it. the bill passed in '95 wgreat bipartisan support, passed the house and the senate -- it was huge support. i am really pleased we have bipartisan support on this because both democrats and republicans understand we can help solve our debt crisis by reducing the cost of regulations on the american people. and as you say, on other governments because if they're using this money for unnecessary regulations, they are not hiring teachers, they are not hiring

firefighters. so we want to bring down the cost of government and allow the money to be used more wisely. >> it's always good to hear imfg bipartisan in washington. i know you have strong support on both sides of the aisle. what you are asking the agencies to do when they put out the proposed regulations is not to tell how much it is going to cost to comply, but the overall impact on the u.s. economy, which is a bigger picture. >> that's right. that's one of the loopholes we evaporate to close. currently, they only have to talk about the direct costs. but we want to show how many jobs will be lost. do the costs outway the benefit -- do the benefits outway weigh the costs -- outweigh the costs? we are looking for more transparentsy and accountably from our governments, particularly at the federal level t. doesn't have a catchy

title t. doesn't grab headlines, but a lot of work gets done behind the scenes and quietly that can help make our government better. it's the unfunded mandates, information transparency act -- umitta. doesn't have a great ring. i tried to work accountability in there and we couldn't quite do it. but that's what it does, it makes our government more accountable. >> reporter: are there teeth in this? are there penalties -- >> yes. for the first time. we have judicial review. this way -- and the agencies have to do this for all the rules. they can't circumvent it by putting in emergency rules and letting them stay in effect. there are teeth for the first time in in rule -- in this bill. >> shannon: congresswoman, thank you very much. sports fans may have to say goodbye to a spectacle and gridlock in washington could be to blame.

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i believe i could have made a difference for the people of this country and you think gosh, i haven't been able to get the job done and it was very hard. >> shannon: four months after losing h his bid for the white house mitt romney and his wife are speaking out for the percent time in an interview with chris wallace on "fox news sunday" they talk about the drama of election day their high hopes and the disappointment of defeat and their thoughts on what is going on in washington now and their plans for the future. i'm shannon bream. hour number two live from the nation's capitol begins right now. and we begin with peter doocy who has more on the revealing interview. >> reporter: mitt romney says in his heart he thought he was going to wen the election until after most polls were closed here on the east coast and he says he wishes he was in the white house right now because he thinks president obama is

dealing with some critical issues by campaigning instead are leading. >> i recognize as the guy who lost the election i'm not in a position to tell everybody else in how to win. they are not going to listen and i don't have the credibility to do that anyway but i still care and i still believe there are ( principlese need to stand for. i wish i were there. it kills me not being in the white house doing what needs to be done. >> reporter: he thinks incumbency and obama care helped obama win reelection. ann concedes the obama campaign had a stronger ground game but also thinks media bias playe ba major role in his defeat. and as for when chris cristie heaped praise on obama to thank him, romney says that did not

cost him the election. >> i'm not going to worry how chris was doing what he thought was best for the people of his state. i lost election because of my campaign, not because of what any one else did. >> reporter: mit and ann romney just welcomed their 19th and 20th grand kids into the world injuries they spend these days with a lot of time with fair almostly and doing charity work. >> what role if any should mitt romney have in the republican party? digital politics editor and host of the dot .com's power play chris stirewald is here with his take on the romneyrvi. how are you today. >> good. always happy to be here. >> shannon: talk about your overall impression. he was asked if he should have a role in the gop moving forward. >> there was a note of ruefulness and you heard him

saying here the byte with peter it was because of my campaign that i lost and a lot o of republicans probably agree with him in all of that. the thing about mitt romney he wasn't an ide logical kind candidate. he is a manager. he likes to run stuff. he wanted to be the ceo of the if federal government. and candidates that aren't idelogical the question there is if you don't have a message about which direction the party should go what message he going to bring to republicans about the technical side of getting elected and it sounds like maybe he learned some hard lessons. >> shannon: i want to play more about what he had to say. talking about sequester and what the president is doing with this whole thing as it plays had. >> i had a legislature 87% democrat. it was not lost on me that to get anything done i couldn't be attacking them.

i had to find ways to reach out to them. the president has the opportunity to lead the nation and to bring republicans and democrats together. it is a job he has got to do and a job only the president can do. >> shannon: sounds like he is trying to appeal to the greater interest of the country and to the president to say essentially let's get it together here. >> remember that lunch after the election the president invited mitt romney to come over to the the white house for lunch and from all outward indications it was a pe perfunctory sort of thing like aren't we glad we didn't have a rebellon in the streets after the election, yeah. you look at mitt romney, someone barack obama could have is used in his administration. emergency treasurimagine treast romney. it is not without historical precedent. franklin roosevelt brought his adversary on the team and tended up being the united

nations but that became wendell wilkie's baby. the president might have missed an opportunity with mitt romney to have somebody who would have partnered with him. he is still a young man and he wants to do stuff. >> shannon: do you think that is passed now? >> this president has not shown that he is interested in building those kinds of bridges. he is is interested and we saw a spate of articles around the sequestration. he is thinking about kicking republicans out of the house, not building bridges with mitt romney. >> shannon: there is a lot of looking back at what could have been done differently in the campaign. toward the end they thought they were going to wen. covering them in virginia they had crowds turning out 10,000 and 15,000. here is what ann romney had to

say about the enthusiasm and maybe they misjudged things. >> i think they had a better ground game. we had the passion coming from our side and i don't think we were as aware of the passion coming from the other side. i think we were a little blind sided by that. >> back to the reference to the ground game. >> they were genuinely is surprised. ann romney was genuinely surprised not that they lost but that they lost by a few points. the truth is this and this is the reality. republicans do outperform polls. they do better on election days than in preelection polls. they were counting on some magic uni corn dust to sprinkle down and take them to the top. >> shannon: we all have heard the stories about voters even i talked to folks who are ridge terrorisregistered republicansg they had someone knocking on their door saying have you you come to vote yet, let us take you to the the polls, from the

obama campaign. it was very organized. >> elections like this you cannot overstate the importance of the people who stayed home. a couple million people who were potential romney voters said i don't care for either of these guys, i think i will just stay home. >> shannon: chris stirewalt always good to see you. see you you on the internet tomorrow. >> i'll be there. >> shannon: if you land the first post election interview what would you ask the romneys? we have been asking you to tweet us. here are some of the responses we have gotten so far. >> shannon: he said it was the experience of a lifetime. tweet us at anhqdc. or @ shannon bream. we will hear more of the potential questions you would have asked the romneys later in this hour. as the free fragile economy

braces itself for the spending cuts. president obama and the republicans are pointing blame squarely at each other. even as some ever working to retroactively undo cuts. steve centanni is watching it all in washington. >> house speaker john boehner said the president didn't have a good plan for athe $85 billion in cuts and blames the president for kick the can town the road and failing to come to terms with the real problem at hand. the issue here is spending. spending is out of control. there are smarter ways to cut spending than this silly sequester that the president demanded and so we need to address the long-term spending problem. but we can't cut our way to prosperity. we also have to have real economic growth. american families wages aren't growing. they are being squeezed. >> now, the president for his part is urging congress to work with him on a compromise even after signing the sequester on

friday. the polls are are showing the president shares some of the blame for the crisis. his approval rating dipped from 51% to 49%. and even as senate minority leader mitch mcconnell downplayed the seriousness of the cuts calling them modest, a top white house aide said nobody wins with the automatic across-the-board budget slashing. >> this is not a win for republicans. republicans are supposed to be for strong iser national defense. this cuts our military preparedness dramatically. they are supposed to be for border security. the sequester cuts will end up meaning enough reduction in hours that would be the equivalent of 5,000 border patrol agents being cut. they are supposed to be for long-term entitlement reform. there is no long-termen titlement reform. >> the next i big fic fiscal sn comes at the end of the month when the government could shut down if there is no agreement on funding. >> shannon: always something coming done the pike.

>> a new state department report is more proof that it is time for the obama administration to approve the much delayed project. the draft report was issued friday that found there would be no significant impact to the environment anywhere along the route of pipeline. now, the issue is open for public comment. that means a final decision could still be a ways off. joining us is north dakota senator republican john hoeven who will be direct impacted by this. what did you think of the report friday because it allays some of the environmental fears but does stop short of saying this is a good idea, let's move forward. >> this is the fourth environmental study. no significant environmental impact anywhere on the route. clears the way once again for the project. >> shannon: a public comment period 45 days starts this friday. the department wants to get that in before they make a decision. we know that new you secretary of state john kerry has said that climate change issues are

a top priority for him. do you think that within the state department there is going to be resistance to the administration moving forward with in at some point? point. >> i met with senator kerry at the time and now secretary kerry at length before he was concerned on h this subject and he said he has an open mind and understand there are less greenhouse gas emissions with the project than without it. so again, whether you look at the jobs, whether you look at energy, whether you look at not getting oil from the middle east but producing it here at homeworking with our closest friend and ally canada or actually the emissions we are better off with the project than without. >> shannon: how do you explain the very vociferous pushback to the project? environmentalists have rallied in washington trying to send a message to the white house and publicly calling out with the froze side with the way they see the project and they say it will be "a run away climate damage project." >> the report that came out

said just the opposite. less emissions with the project than without. that is because by moving the product through pipeline you e less emissions than if it goes by train or other means to ships and then to china. the false assumption that the opponents are making is that this oil won't be produced. it will be produced. the only question is does it come to the united states to help us with energy security in this country or does it go to china. >> shannon: they say the construction of the peopleline would create 42,100 jobs directly and indirectly. how do you think the president uses that information? i mean do you think that is going to be additional pressure at a time when jobs tore desperately needed? >> absolutely. that is why the pressure continues to mount for project. it has been four and a half years the administration has delayed it. this it about jobs as you said. it is about more energy so we don't have to import our energy from the middle east. this is about creating revenue from economic growth to help

with the debt and deficit at a time when we are going through sequester. 70% of the american people in it the most recent poll support the project. i understand there is some hollywood and some extreme activists that don't but the president needs to make a decession for the american people and that means approving the coo keystone xl people project. xl pipeline project. >> shannon: why the delay? >> it is about appealing to special interest groups rather than what serves the country and the american people. as we have gone through, it is about energy, jobs, about a growing economy to address the debt and deficit without the higher taxes but with economic growth and it is about national security. not getting oil from the middle east. we can produce our energy here and in the final analysis less greenhouse gas emissions with the project than without. it is not just me saying that. it is the state department in their fourth environmental

review of this project. >> shannon: quickly i want to ask you we have all this information and we had a long timeline for making a decision here. how much do you think the president who doesn't have to face voters again is thinking about his long-term legacy as it relates to this project? >> history is going to judge that he stepped up and did the right thing for the american people. remember the oil in pipeline isn't just canadian crude. also from my home state of north dakota and montana. senator bachus is working with us in a bipartisan way. light sweet crude produced in this country getting to market as well. his tore arery will determine did the president make a decision for the country and what serves the country or for special interest groups when makes the decision on this project. >> shannon: we will await that decision. thank you you very much for your time. thanks, shannon. >> shannon: secretary of state john kerry is giving egypt's government a big financial boost. he will release $250 million in american aide to support "the country's future as a

democracy." the news comes after more than is a two hour meeting between kerry and egyptian president morrisey. he leved that's that the obama administration would keep a close watch to make sure the controversial leader keeps h his commitments. syrian presiden al assad ig to retaliate against israel. assad made the comments in a british newspaper. he says he is not going to step down from office. the sequester has just begun and already congress is preparing for yet another budget battle. this one on the debt ceiling. we have hit the roof soon. our nation's debt is fast approaching $17 trillion. economist douglas eagan joins us next live,. and a sinkhole that literal devoured a man and most of his home is in trouble and the neighbors homes as well. we'll have the latest on that

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>> shannon: officials are almost done demolishing the home sitting on top of a florida is sinkhole.

jeff bush was devoured into the hole. early this morning officials ended the search for the body because that would put the lives of rescue workers at rick. they intend to clear the debris today and then get a good look at that sinkhole tomorrow. >> shannon: the sequester axe has fallen and there are many more budget battles on the horizon. the next deadline march 27 when a stop gap bill extending routine government funding expires. that could prompt a partial government shutdown but an even bigger worry the debt ceiling which we are due hit may 18. douglas holt eaton, thank you for joining us today. >> my pleasure. >> shannon: talk about the continuing resources is that comes up later this you explain a poe he tension

scenario in which this could truly be the president's decision about whether the government shuts down. >> we have already seen a big battle over the sequester. some will want to lock in spending at the lower level. you can imagine the house passing a cr that goes to the end of the year at the lower level and the senate decideing that is a good idea. we have members up for election and we don't want to be seen as the big spenders so let's pass it. now, the president of the united states who has fought the sequester tooth and nail says i will shut the government over the sequester and that is an important question to ask whether he would do it. >> shannon: do you think he would? so much to lose either way. >> i think in the end he would probably sign such a bill. number one, even with the sequester these are funding levels that are above what he asked for the agencies. so it is not as if he really has a stake in n. that. if they get the money moved around as they can when they pass a cr to agencies that got short changed they will be in pretty good shape. >> shannon: with that coming there are conservative members in the house robert who have wo

john boehner jane boehner saying we want you to get something for it. >> they are minor the party. they control the house of representatives not the senate, not the white house and you can't use a tiny lever like the funding of the federal government to get the president and the senate to do the right thing. and so they should look for their opportunities to be successful. the sequester was one. lock it in and move to the next battle. >> shannon: a lot of speculation about the sequester and how much people will really feel it in their real lives. people are still driving the highways and airways for now that it will take some time for what happens with sequester to kick in. you have taken a look at what is a real issue that is going to hit americans in their wallets and in their home budgets. what have you found? >> the implementation of the affordable care act. it is getting real. obama care put payments to medicare advantage plans. integrated plans some seniors

choose and cut it dramatically at turn of the year. the proposed cut is 8%. that is going to come from somer with. lower benefits or higher premiums or both. a million and a half seniors will lose their coverage. ed a odds with the president's promise that everybody could keep it if they like it. in the absence of some sort of change this is going to push more people into the fee for service traditional medicare program that is most broken. going exactly the wrong direction. other than that it is all fine. >> shannon: we were told ahead h of time it is about making sure that more people were covered and healthcare was more affordable and people would be able to keep their plans. a that point aside there are those out there accused of being conspiracy theorists but some things implementing through the affordable care act are pushing people on to government programs. that was the -- in your estimation was that the plan all along? >> it was unavoidable from the beginning there to he would

higher cost. higher taxes and expanded benefits. requirements to cover sicker people. no way around the fact that is going make insurance more expensive. had you somehow made medicinity self-cheaper you might have offset that but we didn't. this is an expensive law. it may produce conspiracy theories but it will certainly produce a hit in thual let. >> no dispute about that regardless of what side of the aisle you are on. just the way it is playing out. douglas, great to see you. thanks for coming? >> shannon: tonight the inside story on the debt debate you you haven't h heard. downroberts investigates now the country's debt crisis unfolded through the eyes of the lawmakers there in the thick of it. here is a preview. >> reporter: david is back in arizona telling constituents he will hold firm. >> you are going back to d.c. on monday. from there, there will be five days to solve this or go over whatever fiscal cliff will h happen

when the sequestration kicks in. >> woo dough can't do this teenly marginal reduction in spending which ultimately by the end of the decade isn't even a reduction in spending it is just a reduction in the growth of spending god forbid what our future is if we can't to that. >> shannon: part of a powerful news block starting with chris wallace ex-clue you suv interview with mitt romney and ann romney. and then john roberts exclusive special on the debt at 8:00 eastern. coming up, sequestration cuts officially in effect. california and virginia could be tightening their belts as some of the deepest of the cuts come their way. we will talk to lawmakers for a fair and balanced debate about what congress can do now. plus, he was a well respected veteran news anchor and then one day while at the peak of his career he walked away from it all. we will tell you how to journalist came to find serenity in it life, after news. [ male announcer ] this is kevin.

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queen elizabeth ii is in the hospital being treated for what appears to be a stomach infection. the 86-year-old monarch is expected to stay at london's king edward vii hospital for are a couple of days. all of the queen's official engagements are canceled or postponed including her trip to rome. >> shannon: states across the country are bracing for the impact of sequester. in california and virginia, lawmakers are wore are rid about the fallout. joining us to talk about it congressman randy forbes and congressman schiff. as i understand it you you voted yes on the budget control act which leads us to sequester. did you imagine you would get to this point and do you regret your vote? >> i never thought we would get

to this point. hard to regret pause the alternative is default on the nation debt. i never thought that the trigger would get pulled and we would have the really stupid across-the-board and i hope that they will be short lived and that in the next few weeks we can resolve this and bring about a sensible balanced plan that will make further spending cuts but also raise additional revenues in a balanced way because this really cuts the good programs with the bad. it will cost us if it goes into effect for the full year 750,000 jobs and part of the problem with that is not only are 750,000 americans not going to be working but also not going to be paying tax revenue and that is not going to help with the deficit and debt problems. a foolish way to go about deficit reduction. >> shannon: congressman forbes you voted against the budget control act which brought us sequestration. what do you think we can do to fix it now? >> he voted against it because i knew we would be right where

we are today. we are are playing many individual is that are my friends and constituents as pawns in a dangerous game. it is important, shannon tortion realize it is not just sequestration. this administration has is already cut out 14 times as much in national security as sequestration will will cut out this year and it is putting us in a very, very dangerous place to be. i think the armed services committee and many other people in the house this week will have a continuing resolution that will have certain anomalies in it which will mitigate against a lot of this. we have to turn around these spending cuts and stop putting them all on the back of the united states military. >> shannon: let me talk to you about a couple of polls about how the american people think think everyone is doing on capitol hill. how will the country eventually get budget deficits under control. only with automatic cuts, 57%, the majority of people. lawmakers can do it only got 29%. do you think the american

people have lost confidence in the ability of capitol hill to get things under control? >> absolutely. and unfortunately lost confidence for good reason. we had the succession of fiscal crises and they are all man made and all unnecessary. country quite reasonably has very little faith in the government's ability to get its job done. that has got to change. what is particularly frustrating about this is i think our economy is really pop quizzed to recover and finally ready to take off but keep getting in the way with the art fix problems. i agree the defense cuts are too sharp and too stupid because they are indiscriminate in terms of cutting the good with the bad. the spending even before the sequester was down to a 50 year low. we haven't had this little investment in the nation's future in 50 years. this has got to be fixed. we can find a much more rationale way to trim defense which has to be trimmed as we downsize our presence in afghanistan. as we continue to adjust from the cold war to this asymmetric

threat that we face but we also have to make sure that we don't eat the nation's seed corn and continue to invest in education and research and healthcare and things that will keep the country strong and vibrant and competitive for another century. >> shannon: congressman forbes do you agree there is a way to come together and found some common ground to resolve this? and if so why hasn't it happened yet. there have been 18 months to plan for this. >> i do agree with that. he and i have a great deal of respect for each other. unfortunately, washington has been playing by a different set of rules than the rest of america and we simply can't afford the irresponsible budgets and irresponsible spending that we have had. and when you look at what we have been doing with the federal spending and think that the president can't find just 2 percentage points. that is 2 2-pennys out of a dollar to cut responsible and because of that we have to have the arbitrary cuts. what americans underand it is

if we can't come up to the plate and make reasonable cuts you will have other people doing it for us and one day that will be the countries that we are are are borrowing money from or perhaps other countries putting more money into defense than we're. we have to turn that around and the time to do it is this week. >> shannon: we wish you all the best in finding those common solutions with many are budget battles looming very soon on the horizon. thank you you both for your time. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: sometimes amid the grind of daily life it is hard to find god. that was the experience for one veteran newsman. he gave it all up at the peak of his career and found faith on a small remote island. we will talk to jack perkins. while we are at it, check out the hand some fel low in fellok perkins in the photo. the scoop on that, next. [ male announcer ] how do you make america's favorite recipes?

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>> shannon: jeff perkins was a network reporter correspondent and anchor for 35 years the height of his career heat dave it all up and moved to a small island off the coast of maine. a remote place he and his wife have come to call moose wood and it was in the setting that he writes about that. >> thank you you for coming in. >> thank. >> i had the same question i'm sure you have been asked a million times. at the height of your career are with nbc news and you walked away. did you know why at that point you were doing it? >> i know now. i did it to learn. i had done the same thing. i had been on television on and off -- on for 35 years in broadcast news. n bc most of that time. i had done that and i had done that well at least i was told. that is all i had done. how terrible to get to the end

of one's life like in vietnam here and not have done anything else. i wanted to flex new muscles and find out what else could i do and what else might i do. what else would be fun and what else is would teach me more about myself and god who had brought us to that point. >> shannon: the book is so beautiful. such a way with language and so descriptive and you talk about this adventure that you and your wife went on on the island. and basic necessities weren't necessarily abundant there about you you you learned a whole new way of living and what opened your eyes there? >> what opened our eyes was the nature around us and to realize that the beautiful nature on barr island was something that we always took for granted as being nature. they weren't the gifts of nature. nature it in fact a bunch of commercials for god who creates nature and makes nature work to our all benefit. that was what impressed us most

and to get to know the world around us and the nature and the spirit behind it. that was such a revealation and blessed revealation. >> shannon: and to that point in your life had you been to busy and successful maybe you hadn't explored that side of your life? >> didn't have much time to, of course. my wife who is a brilliant artist in many media didn't have time to explore it either. her interests because she was raising a family while i was off galavanting around to other parts of the world she was calling most interesting. it was a good time, first of all, to decompress. but to say okay, now what is really important. and seek it. and i think we found it. >> shannon: you did. and this is an amazing journey through the book. i have to ask you because one of the first things i spotted was the picture that involved one of our own. chris wallace was in the picture with you. what can you tell us about that? >> that was on the press

announcement of a new magazine shona nbc was launching that was going to feature chris and tom snyder and we he on the right. and chris says he was 32 at time the picture was taken. >> shannon: looks the same now. >> you look the same, too, minus the glasses. >> minus the glasses and maybe adding a few years. >> shannon: the book is beautiful in its language. you are an accomplished photographer as well and your wife is talented as you mentioned. a very inspiring book and for all of us who get so busy in life whether it is running a home or a business or just working getting through the day, it provides a lot of food for thought contribution thank you for writing it. >> thank you for reading it. >> shannon: we appreciate it. jack perkins, thanks. >> comes out march 5. >> it is out on tuesday. we had the sneakies so we have the copies already. folks will not want to miss it. thank you. good luck with it. >> a 28-year-old woman is trying to make history in the nfl. lauren silverman is the first

woman to participate at the nfl combine. wants to be the first to play on an nfl team. mollmolly line is live at the jets training facility with more. >> reporter: we are are here at the jets training facility. a history making day. we are looking behind meow you can see the kickers already in the midst of the tryouts that the first woman is also participating in. lauren silverman. 28 years old. has an interesting background and a lot of competition she is facing. a college soccer player in wisconsin and then went on to mit where she studied how you video games can help athletes and went on to it found her own consulting business in her line of work. she is hoping that the nfl will give her a chance to see what could happen as far as her career if she ended up in the nfl. she would be the first woman on a roster. we also had a chance to speak with jim grey a long career as a sports caster and also a fox news contributor and he says that if a woman were to be able to join the nfl the position of

kicker would be a pretty likely spot. take a listen. >> i think that this is the one place the one place where she is trying out where if there was somebody who could hit a 50-yard field goal or a 40-yard field goal and be consistent regularly this is the one place where we could some day maybe see a female play in the national football league. >> just to put a little perspective on all of this. there are ten of these regional combines and they fill into what is considered a supercombine. you have to be good enough here to be sent to that. and that is essentially what they are looking for. skill. accuracy. i'm told if you have that and deserve to play football somebody out there will want you to play football. we will be keeping an eye on silverman to se see how it progresss. >> shannon: if she can put points on the board, go for it. one woman says an unexpected and illegal delivery

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online. peter doocy has more on that and the other most clicked stories. do tell. >> the 7-year-old says he was trying to make his straw betterly pastry into the shape of the mountain but the teacher thought it looked like a gun so the boy was suspended for two days and a letter was sent home explaining that "a student used food to make an inappropriate guess tour." a massachusetts woman is suing fed ex because she claims the company sent drug dealers to her house. she accidentally got a package full of 7-pounds of imagine. fed ex gave the intended recipients tobin's address. police have made an arrest but the woman is still worried about her family's safety. yosemite park rangers got a surprise delivery. two sticks. a girl apologized for taking them and askd that they be returned to nature. read more on fox news .com. back to you. that is a perfect example of

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had more than $21 billion stolen last year. the increase in i.d. theft hurt small bis big-time, too. track to small businesses is hit hard after an attack with many victims avoiding smaller online merchants for fear they are more dangerous. on another topic, tax day is nearing and there are a lot of changes this year which means there are a lot of confused taxpayers. we got your back. next week i will answer any questions you you have. tweet us your tax questions. either tweet to @ anhqdc or @ brenda buttner and we will see you next week. back to you, shannon. >> shannon: helpful information. i look forward to that. thank you. >> thank you. >> shannon: another question we have been asking you about today. if you could sit down with mit and ann romney what would you ask them? we asked you to weigh in and you answered. your twitter responses, next. and you at homiest oen say the media doesn't share enough -- you at home often say the media doesn't share enough good stories.

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