dolly parton will join us here on the show. and schools now allowed to sue bullies if they see them in their midst. that's all coming up this weekend. >> and it starts at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow. >> and goes 'til 10 a.m. >> out of time. bill: a fox news alert. is russia on the edge of an invasion. a massive buildup on the ukraine border. it has brought on concerns of an invasion. martha: russia is calling these buildups just military exercises. the pentagon is worried about russia setting the stage for something potentially much bigger. president obama urged the russians to pull back.

>> what we need to resolve and deescalate this situation is for russia to move back those troops and begin negotiations directly with the ukrainian government as well as the international community. >> reporter: there are big worries in kiev about the russian buildup. but no clear fix on when and if russia might invade. we have been talking to the top national security chief. his assessment 88,000 soldiers poised on the border with ukraine and neighboring crimea. he says he thinks the invasion appears real. he says he does not think the russian president would do it unless he had the cover of

widespread protests and unrest like he had in ukraine as a cover. we heard the first comments from ousted president yanukovych since moscow's annexation of ukraine. he called for referendums in other parts of the ukraine. a top military expert explained to me the next few days were very important to watch. if moscow exercises with the troops stick around, it might indicate that they just want to keep ukraine and the rest of the world on edge a little bit longer. bill: gregg palkot live in kiev on that. martha: the president is on his way to saudi arabia where he

will meet with king abdullah. the first meeting in 2009 created a stir after the president's critics say i bowed when he met abdullah. the president's meeting with pope francis yesterday, we got two different accounts of what they spoke about during that sitdown. the white house says they spoke about poverty and income inequality which has been a buzz phrase of the president of late. the vatican said they talked about healthcare, contraception and religious freedom. which one do you believe? here is charles krauthammer. >> there are a couple ways to answer the contradiction. one is to say you have got the bishop of rome, the holy see, where religiousists believe in his infallibility.

on the other you have got a man who says if you like your plan you can keep your plan and if you like our doctor you can keep your doctor. who are you going to choose? bill: who do you believe. president obama or pope francis. it doesn't usually go like this. it's a photo-op, they get a blessing and that's it. martha: who do you believe, me or the pope. bill: we are just getting word new jersey governor chris christie will hold a news conference as a new report clears christie of the new jersey bruj closing scandal. >> there is not a shred, not a

shred of hard evidence that the governor did anything other than what he has publicly said. that he had no knowledge of the lane closures beforehand,. >> reporter: that man is randy master. we'll talk to him about the allegations that this was a white wash and not a serious investigation. megyn sits down with the governor chris christie. you will see that in a cable news exclusive at will air partly tonight at 9:00 p.m. and again on monday, same time with megyn. martha: new details in the hunt for the missing malaysian airliner. australian officials are saying they are looking for debris in the wrong place. they shifted this whole search. 700 miles from where they thought they saw 122 pieces of

debris. this is gut wrenching for these families. william lajeunesse joins us in los angeles. how did they get the wrong spot? >> reporter: remember the big arc we showed you last week? they are saying the plane is still on that arc but it's farther north. they crunched the data and determined the jet was going faster and burning more fuel. see the new area is about the size of new members co-where the currents are as strong -- sighs of new mexico where the currents aren't as strong. new zealand airlines says one of its search planes did spot something that could be a part of the plane. it's white in color. it's not coming from satellite

data but from human eyes on the ground. >> this is a very large area. and it could give us an indication of where the main wreckage is likely to be. >> reporter: five aircraft reports spotting multiple objects in the water. this is as a result of searches done friday. an australian airplane says it saw two blue or gray rectangular objects in the ocean and they are going to go out to acquire this stuff. martha: the water is very rough out there. how can they be sure they won't lose track of these new pieces of debris they think they see? >> it's a process. they are going to try to get those ships out there. they will bring those pictures back for analysis.

they will send the ships trying to retrieve it in the water. is going to drop several gp sprks locateors next what they saw and it will alloy planes to go out and reaction inquiry that and the ships can zero in on that location. >> these planes can drop a gps receiver that floats with the current and it continues to send back to its base station its location. >> reporter: the weather is supposed to be good until sunday. they will actually be able to get something on board the ship, look at the serial number and determine if it's from this plane or not. it's been three weeks of shall i say back and forth. you think you are going forward and then you find out it's not.

martha: appreciate this, the families look for more information. bill: what are they going to tell us tomorrow. lumpur there are th of your map. route number one, kazakhstan. route number two takes you to the western coast of australia and theneddan ocean. why do they think -- and the indian ocean. why do they think they have a different hunch. this is perth, australia. from march 18 to march 27, 9 days now, the focus of the world has been over here in this area several hundred miles -- almost 2,000 miles off the southwestern

coast of perth. this is where they have been looking. this is also where we believe they have been locating the pieces of debris located on the satellite. what are they doing now? 600 miles to a new debris field closer to perth. they say the weather is a little better up here, the weather is not as rough. why do they think this? because new data from malaysian investigators suggest the last ping on the plane showed the aircraft traveling at a much greater rate of speed which means it would have run out of fuel sooner in the southern indian ocean. they believe this is fresh analysis of existing data. it's not new data and they don't expect further adjustment to the search area based on what they

found today. but you know what? who knows? until they take a piece of that debris they see on the satellite and put it on a boat and take a picture of it and say this is from that flight, we don't know much. martha: it's shocking that the malaysian prime minister came out and made that definitive statement. it went down right here. a lot of questions to be answered here. the white house said they didn't have hard numbers. kathleen sebelius said they didn't have harmed numbers. but they know now. 6 million they say signed up for obamacare. bill: the newlywed who pushed her husband off a cliff. he's dead. find out how long she'll be behind bars. martha: hope is fading for

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one mother lost her mother and baby trying toy fight back in the wake of this tragedy. >> i'm not as strong as her.

but i'm going to be. i know that she would be here and she would say, don't give up. it's going to get better. there is only up. and i'm not willing to give that up. >> reporter: what an awful situation. authorities are expected to give pane update on that situation a little last less than 3 hours. the fear that some of the victims of this tragedy may simply never be found. bill: the white house head high pressuring a new obama enrollment number. it says 6 million americans have signed up for the enrollment plan. fox polling show four in 10 americans support it. and support for it even lower in an associated press poll.

the a.p. find over 26% of americans support it. that's a new low. what do you find on the a.p. poll, chris? >> this thing is four years old and it's got a 26 person approval rate -- a 26% approval rating? >> they are giving people the option to have no opinion. but when you only have 26% of people supporting the most significant domestic policy initiative in three generations. when you roll that out to only 26%. people 13 points down from where it was. that's an indication of a crisis of public confidence in this law and by extension this administration. bill: it's either a crisis or a

crokono. 1/2 are saying it's more expensive. and majority say they are not confident. >> the administration has forced a false narrative into the health law pretend can this is about an internet website or this is about whether it's 6 million people or 7 million people. what this is about is, do americans buy in? are the uninsured who weren't insured? are they going to come in and purchase obamacare? as our polling shows, the reason they are not buying doesn't have to do with any website. it has to do with whether they can afford the product when they get on the other side. you can pad out these numbers and if you click a box you are temporarily enrolled in obamacare. bill: republicans are saying

give us a number. they say we don't know, we don't have a number. now the administration is saying they have 1.5 million visits. if you have 1.5 million visits and all you have to do is click a box, do we know whether those clicks are counted to each the 6 million? >> can you imagine this administration would not count these clicks. they have been talking about whether people who were just even rolling or reenrolling in medicaid or reenrolling in obamacare. these numbers have been a thorough going mess. they would decide to be blue nolessed whether this click or that click constitutes enrollment we don't know. bill: we don't know how many people paid.

i think cbs put out the report. 10-20% of those who signed up have not paid. that makes you well below 5 million. right around 4.pa.8. it's a moving line. >> we don't know how many people even who enrolled are people who had their policies canceled under obamacare. number two, how -- what percentage of those are people who don't need insurance the most? how many of those are people who are supposed to be induced by all of these interviews to come on in to buy them some obamacare? those are the numbers that really count. as far as who paid. the administration has hean enhance for that. they say for 90 days everybody

has been deemed to have paid whether they paid or not. try that with the irs. bill: that's like fuzzy math 2.0. thank you, chris. martha: a major ruling on a controversial law in texas. we are going to tell you about the decision that will keep at least 19 abortion clinics closed. very volatile discussion down there. bill: they are trapped by tumble weeds. they say it hurts. it can flatten your tires. [♪] ♪

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bill: they creep, they crawl, they are everywhere. folks in colorado are trapped in their homes by a bizarre tumbleweed. masses of them. tumble weeds are all over the high plains and don't show any sign of leaving. folks in colorado are used to tumble weed, but they say they have never seen anything like it. martha: how do you get rid of tumble weed? bill: colorado had a drought.

martha: let us know how you get rid of tumble weeds. martha: a federal appeals court uphold the tion laws in the country. it sparked a filibuster by the candidate for governor wendy davis. what does this ruling mean? >> reporter: it means the state of texas can go forward with implementing all of that abortion law that was passed hereby last summer, not parts of it. it band -- it bands abortions ar 20 weeks of facility. it requires abortion clinics to upgrade their clinics to

surgical procedures and it demand that doctors have admitting procedures at nearby hospitals. critics claimed it jeopardizes women's health because 20 abeergs clinics have been forced to close. but the district coast appeal overturned the ruling saying the law can be implemented to its full extent. you may say this is a win for the pro life side. but it's likely this ruling will be challenged. there is talk this could make its way up to the u.s. supreme court. march where what are the pro-choice groups saying about it? >> reporter: planned parenthood called this ruling terrible. they are the largest group that sued to block the law from going

into effect. their argument has been if abortion clinics are forced to close their doors that leaves women with fewer options when it comes to their health choices. the president of the pro-choice america released this statement. we will show you this decision reaffirms we need to continue the fight to insure all women regardless of where they live can exercise their constitutional rights to choose. you haven't heard the end of this from texas. martha: thanks a lot. bill: i was expecting more on the tumbleweed reaction. one person suggests you can burn it, i guess you could. martha: pretty close to the houses and the cars. bill: there is a rash of twisters covering a trail of

destruction in the midwest. >> i heard her screaming. the roof started falling on her. she got under the table though. bill: we are now into that season. martha: big story right now. an internal review cleared governor chris christie in the george washington bridge scandal. and relief for his administration after what he calls personal and political soul searching. has he been vindicated? >> it's such a change in the leadership style? >> no, i am who i am. for some people they love it. when i travel around new jersey most people say that's what they love the most.

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bill: a fox news extreme weather alert. several twisters touching down north of kathlee north of kansa. i moved some stuff out of the way and we met halfway. i said debt down here. we'll be all right. bill: meteorologist maria molina is live in the fox news extreme weather center. >> reporter: we saw missouri

being the hardest hit state yesterday with reports of damaging winds and tornado across the northern part of that state. today the risk for severe weather continues on the move. it will move into eastern texas including houston, dallas, jaks jackson, mississippi, new orleans. along the duffl gulf coast alone florida panhandle, the carolinas, and southeastern parts of virginia could be looking at severe weather. bill: we are coming into the season as we head toward april. >> reporter: april, may and june tend to be the most active months during the tornado season. the month of march has been below average so far.

so that's good news. and the reason for that is how cold it's been across the eastern part of the country. all that cold air has produced a lack of severe weather. bill: thanks for making sense of it. we'll talk to you soon. martha: new jersey governor chris christie cleared of any wrongdoing. this is a review of the incident that was done by his administration -- attorneys hired about it admin surprised look into this and do a review of this internal matter. they say their look at all of this shows he was not involved in the clothin -- in the closinf those lanes on the george washington bridge. the governor sat down with diane sawyer and he said he had nothing to do with those lane closures. >> i spent a lot of time

thinking about anything i did to contribute to this. to the extent that any of them thought this was acceptable conduct then i fell short. i don't think in the end i obviously didn't make it clear enough to these folks this kind of stuff was unacceptable. martha: let's bring in our panel, juan williams and mary katharine ham. good morning. do you believe him? is he together appropriate damage control if he wants to continue with 2016? >> he certainly is. this is crisis management. he brought in very reputable lawyers. the problem obviously is it's done by his administration, paid for by the taxpayers as a result. so it looks like a white wash. he says definitely not a white

wash. these lawyers have their own reputation at stake. he had emotional moments when talking to diane sawyer. he said his son came in and said, dad, did you do this and he said no, definitely not. martha: 2016 is the impact when you look at this nationally for him. >> reporter: has this torpedoed your 2016 run? >> no. i haven't made a decision about 2016, and i don't intend to make a decision on 2016 until a year from now. but it won't have anything to do with what happened the last 10 years. what happened the last sick weeks will make me a better leader. >> juan is right that it does

not automatically make it a white wash wash. they had access to it personal phone and emails. the cpac speech was a step. he's a good communicator. he goes on with sawyer who i think was a good choice on a network news show and shows some emotion. he's been humbled. i think it's true. i said from the beginning if it turn out he did know about this stuff then he's post because he said he didn't. thus far it hasn't turned out. i have a feeling the full court press from the press might have turned it up. martha: we'll speak to the attorney who led the investigation on that in a little while. i want to get your feel for the gop if field. jeb bush and marco rubio and all

the other players out there probably enjoyed this moment for chris christie because they thought maybe it gave him a better shot at the top spot on the gop side. how does that impact that dynamic? >> he's absolutely fallen in the polls. he was the leading candidate on the republican side. he's no longer that and there is no evidence he has hit bottom yet. what you see is rand paul pills the one who has benefited and shot up, not so much ted cruz. christie's appeal to independents and democrats. the fact that he's such a strong candidate across party lines. now people are looking toward the jeb bushes and other republican governors. governor scott, you know, i think others -- the wisconsin governor, those are the ones who

benefited greatly from this. martha: has it cracked the field wide open. how does it change it. how does it change what jeb bush might be thinking about at this point. >> i think this can be recoverable for christie. if i know a gop primary and i think i do, it was always going to be wide open. christie might have appeal across the rank. i think it was always going to be wide open. the other thing gop * voter should remember, any candidate who rights to the top is not going through a ferocious vetting, more ferocious than president obama ever faced. they will pass through the crucible. but they will all have to say something like this with the possible exception of walker who

has been through the crucible in washington. bill: that's when i was referencing scott walker. later today governor christie is going to speak at 2:30. he said all along he was holding his thoughts on this matter until after this report came out. it's now out. he will face the press at 2:30. remember the long wide-ranging press conference we got and we'll be watching that. bill: a stunning report on increased autism rates in the u.s. martha: vladimir putin and president obama likely on a collision course as russia masses more troops on the border with ukraine. bill: the newlywed convicted for pushing her husband off a cliff has been given her tense. she may not see freedom for years. >> you kill someone in federal

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♪ martha: the cdc issued a shock new report on autism rates. one in every 68 children suffers from the disorder in some form. that's a 30% jump from just two years ago based on the agencies he val waiftion eight-year-old kids across 11 states. scientists say those affected are overwhelmingly male. bill: russia is digging in on the ukrainian bored and establishing potential lines for those forces. there is widespread fear of an invasion in ukraine. >> we are all concerned about what russia is doing on the border of ukraine, the size of

the forces have a message that is not co con congruous with respecting the borderers of ukraine. bill: what you are trying to figure out is intent. what is vladimir putin's intent? >> i don't think anyone knows for sure when it pertains to the boardered on ukraine. but the amount of forces have doubled since the crimean crisis began, i think they have all the analysts genuinely concerned. the ukraine is no match for the russian military. that's just an established fact and this force is a dominating force that would break any opponents will very quickly.

bill: we have gone through this a couple times. ukraine here, moscow here. this is crimea. what crimea does for the russian fleet, it provide access to the black sea. this is what we believe is happening. some of the regions in southwestern russia bump up against ukraine. look at these regions. rostov and kursk and belgorod. the united states believes between crimea and the forces amassed along the eastern border of ukraine total 50,000. the ukrainians put that number

at 100,000. your point is well take. '. russia can go into ukraine with barely if little resistance. >> we have a tendency to focus on what russia has gained. but they suffered a significant loss when their stooge yanukovych was run out. he was friendly to russia. now there is an anti-russian government in ukraine leading toward europe and the united states. and there is an election coming up. putin does not want you crane to move away from a close association with russia into european's camp. these troops on the border are about intimidation and

occupation. bill: is that your concern, that the forces will come into eastern ukraine? >> i think we have to look at the track record. he lied about going into georgia and he lied to the president of the united states about it in a personal phone call with him. here we are, those troops are there ostensibly because of some exercise going on and no one buys that. based on a track record and given the commitment of those forces, it's likely he would tend to use them. bill: we threatened tougher sanctions. if he thinks we'll hold our card back he will do whatever he wants. >> we already told him. as a result of the meeting in brussels. the fact of the matter is major european nations did not want to

go along with tough sanctions. the united states has a policy of de-escalation. not confrontation. what we put on the table as a result of those meeting is we would have further economic sanctions undefined against russia as a result of his movement into the ukraine. what does thot that mean to him? not much of anything. he knows that won't impede him and the price won't be significant. bill: jack keane out of washington, thank you, sir. martha: former secretary of state condoleezza rice sounding off on the president's handling of the situation. why she says the white house is responsible for a vacuum leading to this crisis in crimea. bill: this woman is responsible for her husband's death. how long she'll be behind bars. female announcer: what will you get with your new sleep train mattress?

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martha: a judge sentenced a montana woman in the death of her husband. she pushed him off a cliff 8 days after their wedding. i understand she took the stand yesterday. what did she say? >> reporter: she got on the stand. she was emotional. she started crying. but in the end it didn't make much ofa an impact on the judge. they say she lured her husband to glacier national park and pushed him off a cliff. she tried to use emails to convince investigators cody simply disappeared with friend.

but surveillance video sos her at the park with her husband shortly before his death. graham pleaded guilty to second degree murder. she was facing life in prison but got 30 years. martha: i wonder how much of that time she'll actually spend behind bars and what we learned about her motivation. why would she do this? >> that's a good question and that's the question everybody linked to this case has been asking. the answer is there is not a whole lot of indication. the judge said said only one person knows exactly why this happened, that's graham, and she hasn't been exactly coming with the information. she says that they had been arguing. that johnson grabbed her arm and she got angry and pushed him and he ended up falling 300 feet

into a ravine in glacier national park. but prosecutors said they have never thought this was an accident, especially with all the things she did to try to cover her tracks after he fell down. bill: the white house lauding the latest numbers on obamacare. but what do we know about those numbers? martha: steven colbert is at the center of a firestorm. colbert and comedy central are on damage control. s having troue getting out of bed ithe

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the whole story? welcome to a brand new hour. i am martha maccallum. >> and i am bill hemmer. the numbers don't tell us the final numbers like who sealed the deal. >> let's ask charles payne. kathleen sebelius said she doesn't have the numbers and can't tell us how many people have paid. but then the big headline six million people signed up. >> not too bad considering the rollout. but it is seriously flawed and disappointing. the insurance industry is guessing that maybe 80% or so have paid so that means 4.5 million and the goal was 7 million. so almost 50% off the goal.

we add in people that lost their insurance as well. and i think the important thing that no body talks about but how many people that didn't have health insurance before the law now have health insurance because the numbers i am hearing it is 400,000 out of the millions of people this mean spirited capitalist society that we ignored. where are they? >> 38 million uninsured and we lost 6 million because of the plan. and now they are saying 6 million signed up so that is breaking even. but the administration isn't being transparent about the real

numbers. >> we are all guessing here. and another critical part for it to work and you need an amount of young people and that is supposed to be 40% and we know it is hovering around 25%. i talked to the ceo of the largest private health care network and they said the catastrophic plan is cheaper and what the younger people are taking. >> and the private insurers are there as well. nearly half of americans that were polled in this latest fox news polls said they think the administration is getting worse

and last year it was 39% >> the economy is bumping along. what we are seeing here is we all know we should be doing better. we know there was a recession and the market meltdown, but we know. you have young people talking about jobs for the first time. they want to move on but there are no jobs. and older people say i have a job but my income has gone down while the bills went up. and everyone is complaining about taxes mostly because of the way government waste our money. >> charles, thanks as always. >> see you next time. another fox news alert. president obama with a warning from russia urging them to push

back from ukraine's boarder. >> there is a difference between that and sending in troops because you are bigger and stronger taking a piece of their country. that is not now international law is observed in the 21st century. david is live on the lawn of the white house. we have heard this reference several times. >> yes, we have. we heard it from the secretary before putin took over the crimea. putin is under no illusion needs to behave in any 21st century way. >> putin has looked at the

response to the united states and europe of the seizure of crimea and concluded he phases no option. if he wants to take the eastern and southern parts of the ukraine, the areas of russian majoritydy, i think he thinks he can do it and get away with it. >> there is another theory obama is trying to get nato countries to pony up money for their defense. >> we cannot have a situation in which the united states is consistently spending over 3% of our gdp on defense much of that focused on europe potentially more if we end up having ongoing crisis within europe and europe is spending, let's say, 1%.

the gap becomes too large. >> some of the baltic states have pledged to increase their own defense spending but it may be the case of too little too late. >> thank you, doug . in washington state, rescue teams are hunting for any signs of life in the deadly mudslide that happened over the weekend. the conditions there are flash flood warnings. 17 people confirmed dead and dozen missing. this happened an hour north of seattle near the town of arlington. dan springer is live. >> reporter: 90 people are listed as missing and we will have a news conference in a couple hours and official tell us the death toll will be quote

s s substanti substantially higher. people are having to liedo down plywood to walk to the victims. one female search rescue worker said some of them will never be found. it was described this way: >> houses, trees, and mud put in a blender, run for a bit and put back on the ground. it is devastatindevastating. the conditions are rough going and difficult to move around. >> and as you mentioned, the weather is only adding to the difficulty and misery. it has been raining off and on. they are expecting inch of rain

now and there is a flash flood warning. >> it is hard to imagine how the families are coping. how are they doing? >> most are staying away from the media. but a few came out and talked about family members and some have started the healing process. i interviewed a woman who lost her parents, her daughter and her daughter's fiance. she booked a hotel to hold a memorial service. and searchers found a 4-month-old baby and the mom's body as well. >> my mom was very strong, but i am not as strong as her. but i am going to be. i know she would be here and she

would say tash, just don't give up. it is going to get better. there is only up. >> reporter: the official death toll stands at 17 and officials are thinking about releasing the list of the 90 people still missing. >> that is a remarkable thing. a gentlemen was on yesterday saying he was going down the mountain and found a hole and he put a stick in and waved and waved. he is alive and was pulled out. the white house bragging about the new obamacare numbers but a leading republican tells us why it is hardly anything to accept.

>> and outrage over what a fictional character said. why steven colbert is in damage. >> and chris christy says he is in the clear. his lawyer sits down with "america's newsroom" in three minutes. >> we found that governor christie had no knowledge bef e beforehand of the bridge idea and played no role whatsoever in that decision. imp hey, i notice your car is not in the driveway. yeah. it's in the shop. it's going to cost me an arm and a leg. you shoulda taken it to midas. they tell you what stuff -whi -whi white house

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we learn mike rogers, head of the powerful house intelligence committee, will not seek reelection in november. the michigan republican is stepping down leaving to start a national radio show.

he announced he would not seek the open senate seat and that is when rumors started spinning. >> back to one of the top stories of the day. chris christy is going to hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. eastern after the release of a 344 page report that cleared him of wrongdoing in the bridge scandal. the governor sat down with diane swayer. >> this report says i had no knowledge, nor authorize it. i am not clueless. but it makes me feel taken advantage and i will like i let people down. >> randy mastro is the lead attorney in the case. thank for being here.

>> pleasure to be here. >> you said you didn't have a relationship with christie before this. >> i met him for the first time in january the day i was hired. i was a lifelong democrat and i have represented many of them. i had no relationship with chris christi christie. i did a professional investigation to get to the truth. >> as you pointed out, their reputation as well as yours are on the line. and that is the question when they do the two other investigation. there is a new jersey ongoing state into the this and a federal investigation. so two more hurdles for the

governor to cross. are you confidant they will be consistent with your finding and he knew nothing about it? >> i am confidant because we followed the evidence and the facts and they told us that governor christie had no knowledge of this alignment decision before it was made and played no role to align the lines. >> there were e-mails you didn't have access to? >> we had access to documents in the governor's office. even personal e-mails and text of the governor and former senior staff. and as to david winestein

produced documents including personal e-mails and text messages in response to the subpoenas. >> you are not concerned there is an e-mail that is going to surface between bridget ann kelly and the governor will come up and you will say we didn't have that? >> i am not absolutely not because we had access to personal texts even. i want to ask you something about bridget ann kelly and the suggestion there was a romantic relationship between her and bill and she was emotional. one of the talks this morning is this report is trying to make david wildstein look like a crazy guy and she was unstable

almost and emotional and dealing with personal relationship issues. >> let's be crystal clear. that fact, the short period of the personal relationship, and then when it cooled and the lack of communication where they were not speaking in the first week of august, is a relative fact because this decision of kelly greenlighting the proposal to close the lanes occurs in a now in an e-mail on august 13th -- time for traffic problems in fort lee. that is after they are esstranged and not communicates.

they continued to communicate and consult about politically sensitive issues. they seized doing that by the first week of august. >> so you are saying there was a reason for her to do this and cause this controversy? >> if the normal communication was going on during this period, and bill who wasn't involved in the decision or consulted, he knew of the idea and passed it on, he was out of the loop when normally decisions like this would have been made with kelly and him speaking. it speaks to both of their knowledge and state of mind. >> it was an unusual moment of time in communication.

>> or lack of communication that might have prevented this. >> randy, thank you very much for being here. >> thank you. >> governor chris christie is going to hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. eastern. and meg and kelly will sit down with the governor tonight at 9 eastern on the kelly file. >> and new concerns over president obama's foreign policy and what the former second of state is saying: that the united states has gone wrong and it could lead to disastrous results. >> and girl scouts selling cookies targeted by a thief? >> $45 isn't the issue. it was what he did to them and i thought they would never want to sell cookies again.

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off on american foreign policy saying it has led to the situation in republican. rice said quoting there is a vacuum because we decided to lower our voice, and step back and lower our voice and decided others will lead and other things will fill the vacuum. ralph peters is here. good morning. is she right? >> of course, she is right. nature is a vacuum and human is part of that and strategy is part of humanity. when the united states retreats from the far frontiers of

freedom, people run in. >> this is what she concludes with regard to the vacuum. it isn't our allies and friends that filled it. it is instead dictators like in syria and russia and extrep -- extremist raising the black f g flag. >> indeed. putin would be pushing anyway. but now why stop? >> will he make a move in the coming days? >> he has the capability but i think it would be stupid for us to say he is going to move at midnight on saturday. i think the real problem here is that even though our intelligence community can monitor the troops and we see where the buildup is, thanks to

edward snowden i am sure we are not able to listen to the decision making we would be able to a year ago. snowden is hurting us in this crisis. >> putin could wait a week. he could wait a month. he could wait a year! >> in the long-term we can predict what putin wants. he is going to try to gobble all of ukraine and move on to more russian territory. but you cannot predict when he is going to do it or the means. he has the forces on the boarder now to do what he wants to do. and i suspect he is still going back and forth on the risk but there is no question, circling back to condoleezza rice, that the wimpy and not affective western response to the takeover

of crimea encourages putin. he is dismissing everything we are doing because it doesn't hurt. this is a dangerous man and there could be a military move in ukraine at any time. >> quickly, what are the risks to putin he is weigweighing? >> therethere are considerablely fewer. he would have worried about the sanctions hurting his gas and oil industry. his military runs on money as well. but had the risks are diminish and europe is refusing to do anything so he may just go. if putin does invade eastern ukraine our response is going to

be whimpy and temporary. >> the white house is celebrating a milestone for obamacare saying 6 million people enrolled but our next guest says it isn't anything to jump for boy. marsha blackburn is here >> and the found of facebook is getting into the dronthe drone . mark zoic and auckerberg and an

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>> the white house bragging about a number for the sign-ups on obamacare saying more than six million americans on board but we don't know how many people have paid and another questions. the administration expected 7 million. congresswoman marsha blackburn says falling a million short certainty something to brag about. how are you? good morning to you. i know the republicans like yourself are not sure of the number. but why? >> we don't know how many of the six million previously had insurance.

they are trying to move away from that and say you have these new entries into the market place. it is wrong. we know they are lying about

this. they will not give us the information because think about this: what happens if we are looking at a trillion dollars over ten years to pay for this and that is just the beginning numbers. if you only have two million new people that have come to the health care market place, what is that going to do? numbers don't work. it shows how much per person you spent so it wasn't about access to health care it was all about government control >> you said they are lying? what are they lying about? >> i think they are lying to us about who has paid, who hasn't, who is getting subsidies and how much they keep pushing off. it is like all of the delays. they were not going to have any delays. this was ready to go and then one after another and now we are

at 38 delays. just even at christmas, a few weeks ago, secretary kathleen sebelius, who comes back at energy and commerce next month, was saying there is not going to be another delay. so you can say they are telling the untruth or they don't know enough of what is in the law and they have not read the law so they can implement it. >> you said 38 delays i think our number was 36. these are oppressive numbers saying 1.5 million went to the website and 430,000 made a phone call to the federal number. but on the website number, we don't know because the deadline has been extended and all you need to do is click the box. if you click the box, are you

one of the six million? >> that is what we want to know. how are they surveying the numbers and saying somebody signed up. and out of those, did they go in there and click on the box or just put it in the cart to make the purchase later and how many completed the purchase. the way they are survying the site you know they are trying to cover things up because they will not tell us the truth and give us the numbers about what is happening. it is very frustrating. they have for gotten this isn't their money. this is taxpayer money. >> some estimates believe 20% of the sign-ups maybe quote overestimated. if that is true, you are well below 5 million, you are in the

upper 4's. i will give you the last word on that. >> that is right. this new math they are using isn't adding up. they need to tell us the truth. they need to stop hiding behind all of the shifting numbers. they need to say we have tried it, it isn't working, it is going to end up costing tens of millions of dollars over what we thought it was going to be just to get people to the website. we need to start over. >> and it will be interesting to see how secretary kathleen sebelius answers that before your committee. >> thank you and she will be asked. the facebook founder, mark zuckerbe zuckerberg, wants to see high speed internet all over the world. they are looking at using solar

powered drones that could fly for months on end and teaming up to beam internet to hard to reach people. it is part of a project called internet dot org. it reminds me of the amazon plan of delivering by drone. >> you can get your 12-pack of beer and log on to facebook with a drone now. >> nab and stings straight from the movie "american hustle". our next guest debates on high profile investigation on corruption. >> and one thief stole cookie money from girl scouts. his fate -- what do you think should happen to him? >> i think it was just a great reminder like the girls said that, you know, if you are going to make bad kig decisions and steal there is going to be

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tonight. get your brackets filled out. >> you want to be a winner >> i do. it has been hard. new questions after four democratic lawmakers have been arrested or raided by the fbi in just the last few days. firs the mayor of north carolina who pled guilty to accepting money from 48 undercovers. leland yee might take the cake. he is a strong advocate of gun control in the state of california but get what he was arrested for? conspiring to traffic in illegal guns for campaign donations. and a speak of the house in

rhode island as well. and mike lesser is here and steve who is a radio show host. this is like something out of a movie. >> this is something hollywood would reject because it is too obvious. leland yee was working to travel in shoulder rockets and 2 million worth of weapons to the chinese bob. throw in there the chinese mob leader is shrimp boy it is too

good to be true. >> you cannot make this stuff up, steve. >> you know, martha, i will not defend any of these guys. but i will say one of the things i think this shows the fbi and justice department of the obama administration is showing no favorites by parties. if you break the law, they are going to investigate you and come after you. there are folks in politics that walk the walk and believe what they say but these guys were not among those folks. no matter what party, i feel bad when this integrity is displayed because it demeans the whole process. >> is steve right about that? showing no bias here? four democrats sweeped up.

>> that is a low standard of success for the obama administration. this isn't political at all. this is about the importance of a limited government. people on the left say people are fallible so we need help controlling our lives. these people are controlling so much of our lives so steve when will you fight for a limited government like the founding fathers wanted? >> this is a stretch calling this justification for a limited government. i want to say i am not in favor of sting operations. if someone is suspected, i think we should investigate and prosecu prosecute, but i am not a fan of these operations. i do agree with mike that we

have to hold all-americans to the highest standards. the government is the wrong place to be if you want to commit crimes. that is what they said when i joined the air force. if you come in to do something wrong, you will get found out. this is the wrong place to do this. >> power corrupts. stop giving them so much power. >> this california case of him pushing control for guns and accused of pedaling shoulder fire missiles in his fair time: >> he is the third california senator to be arrested or indicted in the last three weeks. >> jon scott is here. >> we are working on the new

enrollment numbers from the white house saying six million people enrolled. but critics have questions about the specifics? and new fox polls on the affordable care act and they have moved the search area for the flight mh370 with reports of debris and the intensifying build up of troops and material on the ukraine's boarder and can the united states do anything about it. >> he is not a news anchor but plays one on tv. >> the secret service shouldn't have gotten drunk on the job. they should have gotten stoned they were in amsterdam. it might make them paranoid but that is part of a joke. >> steven colbert is at the center of a firestorm and many say his show should be canceled.

>> a guilty plea from a man accused of stealing from the girl scouts. he admitted he stole a jar with $45 inside it. he is going to spend 240 days behind bars and that is not all. >> the judge, i think, gavea an appropriate resolution. he got a lot of custody and will have to pay the restitution and has to stay away. >> do not mess with the girl scouts. several people stepped in offering them $400 so they made money. it goes into operation thin mints that buys troops overseas

bookies. a quote from a fictional comedy character is being taken seriousry. people are calling for the stev stephen colbert show to be canceled after this quote was made: the tweet was a parody of a washington red skin's owner outreach to native americans. we have a political columnist here. nice to see you. colbert may not be responsible for this. what is the truth we believe? >> we believe a tweet went out

from at the colbert report with one million followers but that is not stephen colbert. but it is based on a ching-chong ding dong character. whenever someone like colbert or stewart is called out for something they hide behind the fact this is a joke, lighten up. and that only asks until they ask to be taken seriously. >> i see that point about stewart more than colbert. colbert employees? >> 17 writers and all of them are write and most of them are male. so i find it ironic that this whole premise of the red skins

name and dan synder, the owner, should change it because it is racist. but colbert has 17 writers who are white. >> colbert sent out this tweet from his twitter account saying #cancelcolbert. i share your rage over the tweet i just saw. that would suggest he didn't do this. >> no, show show isn't going to be canceled. if you watch south park for five minutes you will see the bar has been lowered. but change it to the caucasian report based on the show employees. >> i think you make a good

point. does this blowover or continue? >> it will last about 24 hours. comedy center can say and do whatever they want because it is in the name of satire and shouldn't be taken seriously >> a new lead in the hunt for the malaysian flight mh370 as the search moves to a different part of the indian ocean and crucial discovery may have been made coming up. made coming up.

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bill: big day. big-name audience in texas. john any football, his pro day. texas a&m quarterback johnny manziel going pro and showing off his arm to the former president. former president george bush. manziel set himself apart. wore helmet and pads for the

demonstration. why is that a big deal? most quarterbacks do it without equipment to impress the guys. hey i got to play with this stuff. i would take that guy in a heartbeat. take him for the jets. take him for the bengals. martha: i would tyke him too. absolutely. good-bye everyone. bill: see you monday. jenna: right now breaking news on today's top headlines and brand new stories you will see here first. jon: a wave of soviet nostalgia after russia's power grab in ukraine. will the standoff to the west lead to a 21st century cold war? "the blade runner" murder trial put on hold. we'll tell you why and when oscar pistorius could take the stand. plus a powerful new painkiller headed to a pharmacy near you. why it is alarming so many people. it is all "happening now."