i am eric shawn. >> i am jaime colby. much more ahead. take care. >> i here by officially and enthusiastically endorse newt gingrich for president of the united states. >> rage against the machine vote for newt. a liberal vote newt. tea party darling newt gingrich gets word of support from two key part signatures from the florida primaries. will it help? will we will ask the man running newt's campaign. the senate tackles a bill that would stop members of congress from making money off of insider information. we will take a closer look at the debates. inspecting iran. u.n. inspectors inside iran looking at the controversial nuclear program. we will talk to the chair of the house intelligence committee. all of that plus a pastor fired up about a viral video seen by

more than 17 million people. what is it all about? i am sharon brie. >> looks like mitt romney is getting his florida mojo back in time for the winner take all primary on tuesday night. after a distant second place finish in south carolina new polls show romney in the field with a growing lead over newt gingrich. the latest maris poll has 15 points ahead of gingrich. the clear politics average has it closer about 7 percentage points separating them. regardless the other two candidates are falling way hand. we begin this hour with campaign karl cameron live at a romney event in naples, florida. hi, karl. >> it's a big gop bass bastian. with me is connie mac junior the

former senator connie mac senior is also on stage. in a moment we will be hearing from mitt romney. big crowd in naples. they had to close down the street in order to let a couple hundred maybe thousand of people to come to this event. 48-hours before the primary in florida. this morning and last night newt gingrich on the attack. last night gingrich got the endorsement of herman cain a boost that will certainly resinate on the campaign trail particularly with tea partyyers. this morning the former speaker ripped into mitt romney complaining that romney is essentially running a dishonest and misleading ad campaign making it difficult for gingrich to compete. gingrich insists he is closer in the polls than some of the surveys suggest. listen. >> he has a basic policy of t carpet bombing his opponent. he doesn't try to build up mitt romney he tears down who he is running against. it has an effect. we are in a tough campaign down here. ironically if you look at the

three national polls every place else in the country they can't carpet bomb the ideas i am representing the scale of change i represent the conservative movement we been pulling away from him in national polls. >> national polls aren't what determine who wins the nomination and who collects the most dell cats. it is demonstrably true he has vastly out spent newt gingrich. if you compare what they have spent it's in excess of 15 million. when you look at the gingrich super pack and what the speaker has spent in his own campaign it's about 5 million. that 3-1 margin is huge and could be difficult for gingrich to make up. >> carl, thank you for joining us live from florida. >> ynbc is asking romney to pul an ad he got almost 15 years ago. it includes a 30 second clip of a nightly news broadcast by tom

brokaw. >> newt gingrich came to power after preach ago higher standard in american politics. a man who brought down another speaker on ethics accusations. tonight he has on his own record the judgment of his piers democrat and republican alike by an overwhelming vote. >> the romney campaign is reviewing a letter it received from nbc but believes the ad falls within fair use laws. brokaw released a statement that he is quote extremely uncomfortable with the ad. gingrich campaign is facing calls to pull an ad. former gop candidate mike huckabee wants newt gingrich to stop an ad it has a comment he made in 2008. it splay sleighs on romney's character. he says it has been taken out of context. he hasn't endorsed any candidate and says he doesn't plan to. mitt romney is back on top of the polls in florida. he has three xaiven vents in the sunshine state today while fellow frontrunner is racing

around the state as well. has mitt got his mojo back? with us now is andrea stall. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you. >> i have to ask you what kind of difference do you think the debates will make? for a lot of folks they felt like a different mitt romney showed up in the last two florida debates. >> governor romney had a great two debates this week. you saw he was explaining what it is he would do to fix the economy to turn things around. he wasn't going to take speaker gingrich's negative and false attacks lying down. speaker gingrich didn't have the facts on his side. that's why he saw he couldn't back up what he was saying. governor romney was able to articulate his plans for the nation his plans to get the economy back on track. he would get floridians help them get back in their homes and all of the things that the american people are looking for right now in a president. >> the gingrich campaign as you would image says it's your campaign that is running false ads. they point to issues about

ethics violations saying the speaker was ultimately cleared it was a single account that had to dole with incorrect documents filed his attorney. how do you respond to the charges that casting him in a light where he was forced out because of ethics try layingses they say is not accurate? >> an independent fact check organization did an analysis of all of the candidates. what they found was that speaker gingrich tells the truth less than he doesn't tell the truth. about 60 percent of what he has said has been proven untrue. for someone who can't tell the truth half of the time i am not sure we want to take his word for it. but on the ethics violation. when you have multiple accounts that are drawn against you you might be clear to some but what he did was he misled the house. he admitted to misleading the house. he apologized for it and he paid a penalty for it. if he didn't do anything wrong i don't know why he would have apologized or paid a penalty. further on down the road the irs

cleared him of tax fraud but that was a separate issue than the issue at hand. this is an historical count of what happened. examining back to our ad we have with tom pbrokaw. the voters can see the ad at www.mitt romney.com they can judge for themselves. it is something that is documented through out history. >> let's talk about another issue that came up the issues of individual mandates the fact that governor romney had a plan in massachusetts that was statewide but had a lot of the same characteristics as the president's healthcare law is trying to impose nationwide. how do you differentiate the two? this morning speaker gingrich was held about an inch apart. that is the difference between the two programs. i want to give you a chance to spontd to that. >> speaker gingrich it was his idea for additional mandate.

>> it was his support and his ideas. it was what governor romney was warning about all along. he said that from day one and if he is president on the first day he is in office he's going to sign an executive order to direct the secretary of health and human services to start waivers for all 50 states. then he's going to start immediately on the path to repeal obama care. >> andrea, always great to see you. thank you for your time today. see you again soon. >> in light of all of the negative ads out there has negative campaigning gone too far for you? we love to hear from you tweet your answers to us at anhqdc. we will read them to you later this hour. >> congress is trying to win

stress by stopping members of inside trading. >> we are talking about the stock act now shannon. senator scott brown says he thinks this bill sent set a legislative speed record. they have been known to drag their feet. it was introduced november 15th passed committee december 14th and will be voted on tomorrow january 30th. president obama used his state of the union address to try to drum up support for the stop trading on congressional knowledge act on tuesday. >> send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of congress, i will sign it tomorrow. let's limit any elected official promoting stocks and the industries they impact. >> in a statement after the speech senator brown who was a co-sponsor of the bill says i hope the senate passes the stock act and sends it unified message to the american people that

congress is not above the law and will be held accountable. norco sponsor got a little bit more specific on thursday with what she wants the stock act to stop. >> i am pleased the final product that passed bipartisan support in the committee is a strong bill. it includes measures such as assuring members of congress cannot tip off others with nonpublic information gained through their duties. >> the vote tomorrow will be just in the senate. it is on the house of representatives radar. gop cantor says the house will consider an extended version of this bill that would ban this kind of insider training. >> peter doocy thank you very much. >> iran says oil prices could go up because of bans of import from that country. that is according to iran's deputy oil minister. the price of crude was over $99

as barrel. the e. u. ban eyianian imports crippling the nuclear program. it is purely for peaceful purposes they insist. officials from the international atomic agency have arrived in iran to discuss the nuclear activity. iran continues to insist all of the nuclear efforts are aimed at generating electricity. iaea officials want to address evidence that iran is working on a nuclear weapon. dozens of activists gathered where officials arrived to protest the visit. reports say the iaea inspectors were escorted from the runway by security officials in order to avoid protestors who gathered. on the heels of news that iran is ready for nuclear talks with the west house intelligence committee is to hold a hearing on worldwide this week. no doubt it will include discussion of iran. congressman mike rogers joins us live in washing tonl. he is chairman.

thank you for coming in today. >> thank you for having me. >> what are your immediate concerns. iran signaling to the west we are ready to talk to you. the inspectors are here. do you think we are moving forward or is there more to it? >> there is a lot more. the only reason they have gone as far as they have is sanctioning are taking a tole. banks are not able to move money as easelly. they are running out of cash to give to customers. there was a bit of a run on the bank late last week on some iranian banks. it is really starting to tighten their economic opportunities. so a little of this is just bluster. when you bring the iaea fwh you say we are going to start talks that's just buying iran time. we should be very, very cautious about taking our foot off the gas any time soon. they really -- they could end this tomorrow by just stopping their nuclear weapon program. >> how confident are you the iae inspectors have true full access to what is going on in iran? >> history is any bench mark here, not very.

my optimism is low on this. they will use this again to stall time. they will bring the iaea in they won't allow them to go to places we would like them to go. places that actually get into those facilities. they aren't going to allow things to happen. they are going to use this as a negotiation stall point. that is again why it is important to put pressure on iran. >> they are able to open it up to the west. the west must stop what it called foul behavior toward iran. more bluster? >> when you consider they tried to commit an act of political assassination here in the united states, they are responsible for one dod report said up to 600 depth of soldiers in iraq. this hardly is i would describe it as foul behavior. this is trying oh obtain the country which unleashed nation's state terrorism around the world and it needs to come to an end.

if iran gets a nuclear weapon it creates a nuclear arms race in the middle east. i can't think of anything more to stabilize them. >> we got reports the pentagon is working on a bomb that would have the capability of taking out some of the more fortified things that we suspect are going on in iran. that doesn't come cheap. they come to congress requesting additional money. that comes at the same time the pentagon is facing significant cuts. what are your concerns there? >> well, we will have the opportunity in congress i hope to have this talk and debate about what we are doing with our defense cuts. this is a fundamental change. even in the light of iran and of course north korea is rattling and china is getting more bra n brazen. russia just revamped the nuclear fleet. this is the wrong time to take our two front strategy off the table. we are going to reduce that by half and say we can only go to one place and do one mission at a time. that is a dangerous doctrinal change i believe.

priorities are a little crazy. they are going to fire 20,000 u.s. marines they are going to hire almost 20,000 irs agents to enforce the healthcare law of the president. i think most americans say wait a minute. we prefer a strong defense in a very uncertain world. maybe that's where we ought to place our resources. it's a dangerous thing. we can walk to this i wouldn't run to this conclusion. >> how do you find common ground most of them across the i'aisle who sadie fence spending is out of -- say dee fence spending is out of control. there are other programs that need to be cut there are other places that need help as well. it is time to dial back or cut spending. how do you reason that with them? >> remember after we went into 9-11 we weren't prepared for that. the military wasn't structured correctly. we had really horrible problems in intelligence budget where we weren't recruiting human spies across the world. we had parts of the world we weren't even covering because we didn't invest that money. same with the defense side.

we had to ramp up the number of soldiers for deployment simply because so often we were burning them out. even at the end at the height of the iraq and afghan conflict we were still deploying at a rate even though we had increased the size that was wearing our soldiers out. now they are talking about going far below where we were right at the 9-11 point. that is not right given all of the challenges in the world if you have a tsunami on one part of the globe and something happens on the other part of the globe we won't be able to adequately respond. the constitution is clear we have to defend the united states of america. it's worth the investment. it brings us prosperity at home and gives us the center of influence. it does more good for the world than any other country in the world. we don't want to lose that mantle. we bring more peace than we cause problems in the world. we ought to invest in them. we will watch the house intelligence committee hearing on thursday.

chairman mike rogers thank you for making time for us. >> an update on a story we told you about a minute ago. imprisoned pastor is being told by an iranian judge to deny his faith once again or he will be executed. the pastor is still refusing to do that. reporters say he is only alive because of mounting international pressure on iran. the pastor was originally arrested in 2009 and convicted of charges of becoming a christian. they changed the charges to rape and extortion. he has been sentenced to death. >> at least nine people are dead after a series accidents just outside gainesville, florida. several commercial and passenger vehicles were involved in earl mroirng wrecks the -- early mor wrecks there. they had been shut down because of snoek and fmoke and fog from fire. it had been reopened before the accident. his son is safe in egypt. sam lahood and at least two other americans have been banned

from leaving egypt. lahood says he hasn't been told why he is on the no fly list. >> my son is safe and the administration through the state department and national security team is working very hard so he can leave. >> sam lahood is the head of a nongovernmental organization with ties to congressional leaders. he was one of 7 that were barred from leaving cairo. the younger lahood and other americans were in egypt to oversee the recent parliamentary elections there. for a second day rough waters are delaying efforts to remove fuel from the cruise ship that ran aground two weeks ago. if there is a big leak it could damage a marine sanctuary off the coast of tuscany. the choppy waters radio are hindering recover reef forts. 15 people are still missing. a 17th person was taken from the ship. rick santorum on the campaign

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>> breaking news now. five people have been found dead in a home in alabama. birmingham police say they found the body when is they arrived to investigate a roby in the ensley area. no victims have been identified no arrests have been made. police are investigating the deaths as murders. >> well most of the gop candidates are out on the campaign trail rick santorum is back home in pennsylvania tending to a family emergency. steve harrigan joins us live now with the latest. shannon two of the four republican candidates are not on the trail right now in florida. ron paul has left florida for maine. he is campaigning there ahead of the state's february caucuses after two-days in maine he will move on from there to colorado. he says that continuing to campaign in florida with ten major media markets was simply too expensive.

>> the rough road is complete xooeting with -- competing in establishment money whchlt you talk about not a million or two we can raise the millions but we can't compete with tens of millions of dollars for each individual state. that is what came up in florida. you need a lot of money. >> rick santorum temporarily left florida. his youngest child isabella 3 years old has a genetic disorder similar to downs syndrome was hospitalized saturday. santorum is with his daughter there. she is the youngest of his 7 children. campaign officials stressed santorum will return to florida. the campaign in florida is continuing. but the exact timing of his return to the state before tuesday's primary still unclear. shannon back to you. steve hair began live on the trail in florida.

thank you, steve. can't talk about his record as governor. he can't talk about all of the various things he has done to hurt floridians by foreclosing on their homes. can't talk about his organization made up of washington insiders washington lobbyis lobbyists. >> that was newt gingrich last week when he was fresh off momentum of a big win in south carolina and blasting mitt romney on his record. the sunshine has cooled a bit for gingrich recently. he lead the pact by 16 in some polls average has it more on the 7 point range. if you can break it down we have sherry and david. thank you both for joining us today. >> let's talk about these negative ads. the gone back and forth. florida you have a lot of media markets. how does this play out for the candidates? >> the bad news for all of us is negative ads workment we wish they didn't. if they didn't work we wouldn't

do them. they do work so we spend less money on them. my my fear is it wasn't bring it up. he has not had one in my lifetime. i am old. >> beautiful. >> i don't think it will happen. here is what i really think will happen. at 1.1 of the guys is going to edge ahead of another one so it's not going to matter if we have a broker convention. they are going to have a luxury of going after obama. we see this a little bit with mitt romney in florida. he is up 7 points or so. he started focusing on obama. ultimately that's what we need to do. i am not too concerned with damaging the party at a whole. it makes me nervous right now. >> democrats would like to see the end fighting. republicans have externally expressed and publicly expressed they are worried about how much

ammunition is getting democrats in general. >> we are leading up to them to find out what they have to do to find their nominee. in the meantime i think there is hurt that is to the american people because they don't get to the heart of the issues. if we just look at the fanny and freddie debate we are learning how much in ads each one of them invested or made but we are not hearing a solution to the foreclosure problem. in addition we are also -- we don't hear from romney whether or not he still beliefs that the bottom should fall out on housing and more people falling out of their homes. it is that that hurts the american people and not finding out what is at the heart and substance of the issues facing americans going forward. there was actually in 1976 a broker convention or close to it with ford and reagan with mississippi and namely haley barber casting the vote 4-4 for the institutional incumbent. i am not sure we will see a broker convention going for this year given the nature of the

geography coming out of florida with nevada, arizona and states like michigan that favor more romney than they do any other candidate in the race. >> on that note ron paul looks to finish third or fourth in florida. he has never been in the primary pack. he signalled he intends to stay in this thing for the long-term. he talked about the fact he wants to keep collecting delegates along the way. he can have a say. he wants to have an impact on the gop flat form. he want to have a voice. do you think him staying in and possibly rick santorum staying in as well if you are splitting them four-ways it could happen. >> it could happen. it will be interesting to watch. the problem i think ron paul brings to the table in terms of some of the libertarian issues that are important to everybody. the problem is his supporters a good man knee of them don't have a second choice. you force them to have a second choice at a convention? possibly that could be a positive thing. i would like to say that i think for barack obama the reason you

guys like this on the democratic side is that he doesn't have to defend his own record. you are talking -- >> he is out there after the state of the union went exactly to those states that your primaries are going to be held at. >> it was his record. >> when people focus on him and his record we talk about it his numbers go down. when he has the big wide open field he has the freedom to be a little cheerleader and was paying close attention to detail. >> you believe that disarm yourselves. >> i want to focus mer on the president and his horrible record. >> they have their two top candidates sharpening each other going into the final election. thank you both. >> pleasure to be with you. >> it's important to put in everybody's campaign ad. frank luntz will tell us how the negative ads were raging in florida. we have the reaction to those

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>> the news conference you saw in ohio caught on tape. the bust hhit a newsman. pushed the van forward as well. no one got hurt. we don't know exactly what happened. it was being showed live on television. had they had to stop it for just a few minutes. >> this 48-hours of campaigning from tbefore the pivotal florid primary. peter is standing by with the story. >> mitt romney and newt gingrich are in they can take florida both in xaiven vents through out the day today. gingrich accused the gop establishment of trying to block

his path to the nomination. an official chinese newspaper says beijing needs to increase the chinese pressure on the philippines until they back off on military ties with washington. they have a wealth of (inaudible). they made a surprising sign on the class field trip. they discovered a homeless man who said he has been stuck in the mud for three-days near the rio grand. >> remember the intense exchange between president obama and jan brewer over her portrayal of the president in her book? one thing has come out of it. higher book sales for brewer. scorpions for breakfast is now number 15 on amazon's best seller list. it was number 285,568 before that. >> that's a nice little controversy to stir up book sales. thanks, peter. negative campaign ads from gingrich and romney campaigns

have been filling the airways rooently. what the voters think about them. with an in-depth look is frank luntz. great to see you today, frank. >> great to be here. thank you. >> you are famous for putting together excellent focus groups that speak the truth. what do they think about what they have been seeing? >> they are pretty frustrated. there are a couple ads you have got them right here right now one against newt gingrich one against mitt romney that have been effective. even though voters tell us repeatedly they hate negative ads we know the ads against newt gingrich have had a significant impact to undermine his support in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina and now they are having an impact in florida as well. >> they are slicing each tore to bits. instead of attacking obama that's the real problem. >> waste my time. >> how do they waste your time? >> i don't get to hear about the issues. all i hear is stuff that may or may not be true. >> doesn't it teach you about

the candidates? >> maybe. but most of the time it is stuff we can't even take as truth. >> so much of it is taken out of context anyway. it doesn't make any of the candidates sound very presidential. >> listen to that. it doesn't make any of the candidates sound very presidential. there are two ads i think you should start with the romney ad against newt gingrich. we dialled it at the focus group a couple nights ago. this ad is effective against newt gingrich. it causes doubt about his previous record. let's take a look. >> there are some people who say should we have a two-state solution? the israelis would be happy to have a two-state solution. it's the palestinians who don't want a two-state solution they want to eliminate the state of israel. the best way to have peace in the middle east is for us to not if as late and appease we stand with our friend israel we are committed to a jewish state in israel. we will not have an inch of

difference between ourselves and ool allies of israel. this president castigated israel for building settlements. said nothing d thousands of rockets being rained on israel in the gaza strip. >> that's not a negative ad against newt gingrich. that was mitt romney. best line from his debate in florida most people thought he won when he focused on the mid ill east in gern rale and israel in particular it was a real winner in jacksonville. >> i think this is the ad you were trying to get to there was at least a negative add out there that did seem to work with some people. let's try to roll that one. i think this is the one you were referring to. >> great. what has massachusetts given us? a liberal governor who wanted us to believe he is strong on defense. a liberal senator who wanted us to believe he was a man of the people. and a massachusetts nmoderate wo runs away from ronald reagan. >> i was an independent during the time of reagan bush. i am not trying to return to reagan bush. >> he donated to democrats and

given the choice to vote a democrat or republican primary romney choose the democrats voting for a liberal democrat instead of george h. w. bush. romney opposed the contract with america raise taxes and government am mandated healthcare with tax payer funded apportiobortion abortions. now he tells us. >> that is the ad that newt gingrich's super pack is running against mitt romney. it is one of the most effective ads. it's talking about specific things in romney's record. that concerns con seb tive vo-- conservative voters in florida. here's the issue. it has to be backed up in fact and clearly delivered. some negative ads do that some don't. that ad has been effective against mitt romney but it is being run so infrequently in florida that it is not having the impact that the gingrich campaign wished that it would. >> quickly i want to ask you do you get a sense that they get

the difference at all between ads directly linked to a candidate or the ones coming from a super pack or do they all seem the same to them? >> that's a fantastic question. they can't possibly tell the difference which is why the campaign tries to get away from it. the strategy for these republicans should be in the debate and speeches to be positive and let the ads deliver the negative message. that has not always been the case. ton at 9:00 we are talking about the impact of negative ads with speaker gingrich, senator santorum and trio of positive congressmen straight from florida. you will see some of the most powerful vicious negativity you have seen but you are only going to see it here on fox. >> we report at 9:00 eastern tonight. great to see you, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> all right latino voters are a key demographic in florida. will they be republican or democrat? which gop candidate will get a primary bump from them? we will breakdown the numbers next.

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>> one group that could be key in the florida gop primary is latino voters. statistics show that group isn't growing as fast as the democratic counterparts. as for registering for the primary more than a million latino voters are signed up to vote. out of those registered 452,000 are republican, 560,000 are registered democrats. that's a shift from 2006 when the number of registered republican latino voters out numbered democratic latino voters. in the final stech with two-days before the primary candidates have a full court press interest attract the voters. al fan zoe aguilar under george w. bush and host of a brand new talk show bearing his name joins us to talk about the importance of the hispanic vote. alfonso, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me, shannon. it's a pleasure. >> are you endorsing any particular candidate?

has any one come out from the pack as being better in tune with the particular constituency? >> i am not endorsing any one but i have to recognize speaker gingrich has done a great job engaging latino voters in terms of tone but also in terms of the policyings he has been proposing. he had the history with the latino community here in florida he had the history with the puerto rican community which are the two major voting blocks in the state. and i think also his proposal on immigration is something latinos respond favorably to. he is for border security but at the same time he is for providing legal status to those undocumented immigrants who have been here for a long time. i think latinos respond to that. governor romney is doing a better job to clarify his

position. he believes in the mow tality of the dream act he would be willing to support legal status for those who came here illegally as minors if they are willing to serve legally in the military. the problem is with govern nor rom -- governor romney. he may be able to win in florida. in the general election he needs to win 40 percent of the latino vote. he needs to clarify his position on immigration, which he is doing but it is an important issue. >> let me ask you about the general election. how does it reach out to hispanic voters? as we saw the ship ft in florid they identify more easily with the democratic party. >> right now latino voters are

angry at president obama. he promised them he would push immigration reform and he didn't do it. not only that but the deportations under obama has sky rocketed. he keeps criticizing republicans in south carolina and alabama and harizona but he is going after undocumented immigrants not only those with criminal records but the majority of the people he is supporting do not have criminal records. sewo they are angry at him republicans have the opportunity but they can squander the opportunity if they don't propose the right ideas on immigration. it's not that republicans have to embrace amnesty or so-called comprehensive reform but they have to support measure that is go beyond enforcement only like a guest worker program or some sort of legalization like speaker gingrich is proposing. i think he would do a great job

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>> shannon: less than 48 hours away from the florida primary. it is expected to give mitt romney or newt gingrich something that no other primary or caucus has this race. a second win. d a huge boost in momentum. right now, polls show romney pulling out in front at least

one florida poll has him 15 points ahead while the average of recent polls puts the gap at 7 points. gingrich may be down but he is far from out, taking aim at h his rival and the republican establishment. i'm shannon bream. hour number two of america's news headquarters starts right now. carl cameron standing by in naples, florida. hi, carl. >> reporter: a big brad in naples, florida. the contrast to mitt romney, florida, candidate versus south carolina is like night and day and a then some. it has gotten tougher and tougher still on the last day of the weekend prior to the big election on tuesday. less than 48 hours for the polls and newt gingrich and mitt romney are going at it it hammer and tongue. attacking character, attacking policies, attacking their records, attack is their histories. a sampling of this morning's exchanges. start first with newt gingrich. >> i have had a long record as a very hard hitting regan

conservative. and the idea that that record would be deliberately falsified by a massachusetts moderate using money from wall street from the very companies who have been getting money from the federal government is really about as big an outrage as i have had in my career. i look forward to the next couple of weeks. this debate is going to go on. >> mr. speaker your trouble is florida is not because the audience is too quiet or loud or because you have moderators that are too tough. the problem is that you worked for freddy. you are accelling influence in washington at a time when we needed people to stand up for the truth in washington. >> reporter: and last night, of course, newt gingrich got the endorsement of former candidate former rival herman cain. romney today had on stage with him both former senator and current congressman connie

mack. in florida that is a family with a lot of name recognition. romney is looking for a huge win here. a barrage of polls, many showing a double digit lead. clicked the real clear politics average of recent polls up to 11% for romney. by many accounts that is a difficult margin for newt foot gingrich to catch up with and today he has begun to say things like this campaign will continue for months. had some reporters speculating wildly he is hoping for a brokered convention. that is very unlikely. no doubt, newt gingrich rick santorum and ron paul all said regardless of the outcome in florida they are campaigning in contests ahead. if mitt romney pulls out a victory here he won't be free of the rivalry. they say they will dog him for weeks, maybe even months, shannon. >> shannon: and carl will be there for all of it. the campaign trail in florida

has been brutal at times. former florida attorney general and u.s. congressman bill mccullum is the man behind newt gingrich, florida campaign team. joins us live from florida. for you, why did newt gingrich line up for you and why have you endorsed him and now working to see that he becomes the nominee? >> i have known newt gingrich a long time. i served in the regan era. i was in republican leadership with him before we took control in 1994. i know we wouldn't have taken control or had the contract with america without his leadership and wouldn't have passed welfare reform and so on. i also believe that he has the leadership skills, he has the knowledge and he has the vision to be a great president of the united states and he think he is better at articulating conservative issues than his opponents are. a true regan conservative. has a vision of where the country ought to go. i believe that in the long haul he he is going prevail in this race because of that very fact.

>> shannon: how do you respond to those that make the accusation, those that served with him as you did are familiar with how he operates and they generally aren't endorsing him. you certainly break the mold when it comes to that accusation. >> there are a number of those who served with him who are supporting him. j.c. watts is with him. bob walker who also is with me and i could go on down the list. the money that powers the romney campaign especially in florida is a big factor. they have been able to outspend us in florida by some say four to one, five to one and those dollars were negative early on and hard hitting. they won't be able to spend that kind of money everywhere. the truth will will out and we did have and had a strong support base in congress behind newt gingrich. there is selective memories on part of some of those folks. he is a great leader and has the value structures and

leadership qualities. his plan is the boldest on the economy of anybody. and i don't think being some what moderate or not quite so bold is the way to go to beat president obama in the fall. at the end of the day we need somebody whose plan is going to be clear. who is going to be strong on national security. in favor of reducing the size and scope of the federal government and able to articulate this very, very well and newt gingrich is able to do all those things and can stand up on obama care which i don't think mitt romney can do well. i thought rick santorum did a great job of pointing that out in the debate last thursday night. newt can do equally well. happened to be santorum's turn at the podium. that will be a big issue for governor romney going forward because he has under his belt the law in massachusetts that is very much like the obama care law that i'm fighting and want to continue to fight in the courts but is something which really the congress and the next president have to decide. >> shannon: let me ask you about what happens in florida and beyond. the latest polls there appear to show that mitt romney is

taking a significant lead in florida. is it is one state. beyond that will he have the momentum going forward? do you predict that the former speaker will do better in other states because you said florida and by most accounts people say it is so much about media because there are a lot of media markets to cover. you need a lot of money to do well in florida. how does the speaker do well beyond florida? >> let's say we are not giving up on florida right now. the polls all over in the place here. newt gingrich led a week or so ago and mitt romney was up by 25 points in florida. let's look out as you asked me to. coming up a couple of weeks very few states deciding delegates. when we finish, florida, at best mitt romney would have 84 delegates and newt gingrich would have 25 delegates out of what are 2,088 that are going to be decided over the course of the next few months. supertuesday march 6 is a day for example when georgia decides. georgia has 76 delegates that

will be decided. i suggest newt gingrich has a good chance of picking those up along with several other key states like, tennessee, that are coming up that will be favorable to him. a week later both mississippi and alabama i think totally combined have well over 100 delegates. the march is long from over. i will think newt will do well coming up given which states they are and i don't think that governor romney will be able to spend this kind of overpowering money in all of the states. and gingrich will have a lot more money too as the con col dation becomes clearer this is a two person race. i like rick santorum but he cannot prevail and voters in florida ought to know he that and they will know it down the road and most of those folks will be not for romney but the person there that represents the values that newt gingrich does, the real conservative values. i think this is a two man race and it is going to go on as you said earlier or carl did to the convention.

i think that gingrich ehe vent wally wins this outright but it will take a long haul and a lot of states. real battle this time. not one that gets over with the first couple of primaries like we have seen the last few years. >> shannon: could be one for the history books. >> could, indeed, be. >> shannon: former u.s. congressman bill mi bill mccul, great to see you, sir. >> thank you. >> shannon: mike huckabee is asking that an antiromney ad with a clip from his 2008 presidential campaign be taken down and nbc is asking the campaign to take down an antigingrich ad. has the ad war gone too far? tweet your answers. we love to hear from you and we will read some of your responses a little bit later none this hour. presidential candidate rick santorum's youngest daughter bella is in the hospital. the three-year-old suffers from a genetic disorder and was not expected to live past her first birtay. in a video on his website he

calls bella the center of his family's universe. he canceled all of today's campaign events. he is sending surrogates to some of the events. he does plan to return to the campaign trail in florida as soon as it is possible for him to do so. right now u.n. nu nuclear inspectors at the start of a three day investigation in rye ran. they are asking about the program is it really about making energy or making bombs. steve centanni with the latest details. >> this visit comes amid tighter sanctions against iran and threats by tehran to choke off oil world shipments through the strait of hormuz. the team seen here has now arrived in tehran. the iaea issued a report citing evidence that iran does have nuclear ambitions. the organization says this trip will help clarify matters and

the chief negotiator expressed optimism. >> we hope that iran will engage with us on our concerns regarding the possible military program. we are looking forward to start the dialogue. >> iranian president ahmadinejad said recently he is willing to restart international talks over iran's nuclear program which he claims is for peaceful purposes only. he is feeling the squeeze from increased sanctions including a decision by the european union last week to ban iranian oil imports beginning in july. the u.n. inspectors are likely to visit the underground enrichment site 80 miles south of tehran. experts say even though iran will try to control what the inspectors see it is still possible they could uncover important evidence. some say iran really has only one major concern. >> i think that what iran wants to use this visit for is to buy

time to give the appearance of cooperation with the u.n. as negotiations look like they are about to start again with the five permanent members of the security council to give them more time to adjust to the economic sanctions and get closer to a nuclear weapon. >> iran is currently under four sets of united nations sanctions. the inspectors will return to their headquarters in vienna on tuesday. >> shannon: thank you rep for update. yemen's embattled president just arrived in the u.s. for medical treatment. he arrived yesterday but the yemen foreign press office is not saying where he is. he will be treated for injuries he suffered during an assassination attempt that burn the most of his body. he agreed during november to end his 30 year rule. at least nine people now dead after a series of accidents just outside gainesville, florida. police say several commercial and passenger vehicles were involved in this early morning

wreck. the road had been shut down last night because of smoke and fog from a brush fire but was reopened before the accident. it is, once again, closed down now. crash is of the gram crash is coming in and we will bring it to you as soon as we get it. the justice department key sided to release almost 500-pages of documents related to the failed fast and furious program. and they are facing more road blocks. key witness is refusing to testify. william la jeunesse has details. >> reporter: without that testimony, congress has almost nothing. after a year long investigation of an illegal federal program an international embarrassment that left unu.s. agent and dozens in mexico dead no, one has been held accountable. patrick cunningham was a lead fast and furious attorney. he is taking the fifth, refusing to answer congressional questions. without cunningham, the committee cannot determine if

fast and furious was as the attorney general contends, a rogue operation with a few bad apples only in phoenix or was it a top down, washington, approved scandal. so yesterday the committee asked to talk to the number two attorney in phoenix mike morrissey but the attorney general says it cannot leaving chairman darryl issa with few options. one of those is flipping a key play. we have the ability to grant a limited immunity. we take it seriously. we don't want to do that happen hazardly so ultimately we may grant him some immunity after we have seen if we can get the same information from other sources. >> issa told holder in a letter "this is a major escalation of justice department culpability and without the testimony they can't gage the veracity of claims that holder and others in washington didn't know about the operation."

critics say the next option is to put the attorneys in front of cameras where it would appear that they are covering up for themselves and washington. >> i wouldn't discount the power of putting on a public hearing and asking a lot of difficult questions to increase the pressure. they definitely do have leverage. >> the stakes of high next week when the attorney general will appear before issa's committee on thursday. no comment from the justice department. in los angeles, william la jeunesse, fox news. >> shannon: the second amendment gives americans the right to keep and bear arms but in some states that is not so easy. after being robbed emily miller decided she would guy a gun to protect herself. little did she know how difficult it can be here in washington, d.c., a city with some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. as a senior editor as the washington times she chronicled the time and expense it is taking her to get through the 17 step process. filling out numerous forms, taking a gun class and

ballistics tests. final cost $4,76 $465 and thats not include the gun. >> miller says d.c. is penalizing citizens. >> getting a gun is easy in d.c. getting a gun legally is difficult. if i wanted to walk down the street and buy a gun that is no problem. it is getting one legally and that is why people don't get guns legally. >> shannon: tomorrow, miller will testify before the judiciary committee about her experience as a d.c. resident trying to legally get a gun. just a fecoming up, we wilo legal experts about new calls and new evidence linked to one group's claim that one justice needs to step down in the case. [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus presents: the cold truth.

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>> shannon: fire and transit officials say a collision between an suv a a light rail train in sacramento was caused by the suv's driver. they say video shows the driver ignoring flashing warning lights and trying to go around the crossing at the guard rail. the crash killed a man, woman and 18 month old boy in the nissan pathfinder. a four passenger is in critical condition. the idea thats that i'm representing the scale of

change i represent, the conservative movement i represent, we actually have been pulling away from him in national polls. down here one of our challenges is that the two major conservative candidates between us clearly beat romney but we are splitting the conservative vote. >> shannon: that was presidential contender newt gingrich on "fox news sunday" this morning talking about his rough week in florida. i had a chance to catch up with chris wallace this morning for a preview of the gingrich interview. >> you had newt gingrich this morning as your guest. >> we did. he has not had a good week. came in to florida with a lot of momentum from the big victory in south carolina. leading by 7-8 points in the polls. a new poll has him losing to romney now by double digits. he talked about that. he certainly wasn't conceding defeat in florida but made it sound like it is going to be tough. he also made it clear he will stay in the race and for a guy who has been counted out twice

and gotten back in and won why wouldn't he stay in. >> shannon: i thought it was interesting that he brought up the fact that he thought he had flat debate performances there in florida and said it is hard to debate mitt romney or somebody putting out misinformation by the way he describes the ads and back and forth between the two. >> chris: i wanted to say to him what about if you are up against obama next fall. you are certainly going to think he is putting out misinformation by the same standards. does that mean you will not be able to deal with that? look, campaign is a rough business. he complains about the negative ads. he has negative ads about romney. the difference is that romney and his super pacs are outspending gingrich five to one in florida. he called it carpet bombing. it is. but if romney wins in florida and gingrich loses it may not be fair but the money disparity between the two is only going to get greater. >> shannon: florida is a tough

place to compete if you don't have money. >> chris: and if it gets national it gets even tougher. >> shannon: you had representative paul ryan to talk about the president and what he laid out in the state of the union and where they go with putting the u.s. economy back together if there is any cooperation with the two. >> chris: and ryan who is the chairman of the house budget committee is going to put out a republican budget in a couple of weeks made it clear he doesn't think there were any specifics. he thought the state of the union was all about politics. nothing there the two sides will agree on. it sounds terrible but it made it sound like it will basically be a lot of year. said we will do something to extend the payroll tax cut but in terms of tax reform, major deficit reform, something to get the ten plus million americans back to work i don't think he thinks anything will get done and kept talking again and again about electing a republican president, electing a republican controlled senate, keeping the house because he doesn't think that the split government is going to get much done. >> shannon: tough to get anything done in washington especially in an election year.

>> chris: you bet. >> shannon: thanks, chris. and catch chris wallace's one on one interviews primarily with presidential candidate newt gingrich but also house budget committee chair paul ryan today at 2:00 eastern. the contest in florida is becoming bitter and personal. so much so it is getting difficult for state and local politicians who do not want to choose sides. we will talk to florida governor rick scott who vowed to state neutral and not make an endorsement. a colorado mother does the unthinkable. abeeabandoning her three-year-d that shocking story is next.us ragu for years. [ thinking ] i wonder what other questionable choices i've made? [ '80s dance music plays ] [ sighs ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego.

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as the primary race in florida comes down to the wire not everyone is choosing sides. the state's governor rick scott is opting out of making an endorsement. as things are heating up between romney and gingrich will he stay neutral? governor rick scott joins us live now in washington. a treat to have you. thanks for coming in.

>> nice to be here. >> shannon: why do you think it is important to stay neutral at this point? >> i went through a race and i was not the establishment candidate. everybody talks about why they should be elected. quit talking about the negatives and let's talk about jobs. i ran on a campaign and getting the state back to work. seven steps to jobs. come down from the first year unemployment has come down. 40,000 private sector jobs but still have 900,000 people out of work. it is the biggest issue and that is what they ought to be talking about. >> shannon: a lot made about social security and medicare and medicaid. a large latino population as well. do you think the common pack for for all of the voters is the economy? >> it is the economy. three things that people care about in florida. every family wants education for their children. a job for the adults and they want a cost of living as low as

possible. they don't want government to be doing things that raises the cost. they know you can't have trillion dollars deficits and can't be wasting money. they want an accountable government. the big thing is jobs, jobs, jobs. >> shannon: you have not endorsed any one and are not going to endorse any one. you have noted that governor mitt romney shouldn't be punished for being a successful businessman. you have things in common being professional personally and successfully. you say that shouldn't be held against him. >> we all want jobs. we know the private sector builds jobs. why would we attack somebody because they have been successful in business when that is where the jobs are? if we don't have private sector job growth we can't afford medicaid or medicare or anything without success in business. all the candidates bring different strings to the table but owings a business strength which is positive but in the end it will be who does the public say whether it is three points, five points in my case

seven points, i have a plan to get the state back to work. every state back to work. in our case we he have done well, this last year but we needed a federal partner to help us. >> shannon: you mentioned talking about specific plansish are shoes and those kinds of things. truth is a lot of money has poured into florida. a lot from super pac groups not directly linked to the candidates. they they don't have the accountability of being linked to the candidate who sit there's and says i approve this ad. do you think that is a positive or negative in florida. >> you hope people say gosh i'm not going to worry about that. what are you doing to help my family. because in the end when you go vote you are going to say is this good for my family or not good for ny nye my family. are you going to keep the cost of living low. that is what they will think about. in florida that is all i talked about the last year i have been in office. i think it is even more relevant they say we are doing the right thing in the state.

unemployment has come way down. the second biggest drop in the country. third biggest in job growth. we want somebody at the federal level to lower taxes, reduce regulation. we are paying down our debt. we have a triple-a credit rating. the federal government ought to be doing the exact same thing. >> shannon: do you think the heated debates and all that has gone on thus far and whether it continues to be protracted in the conventions do you think it sharpens the eventual nominee or hurts the party? >> look at the benefit for very little money you get your message out. i think it is outstanding that they had the debates. and you get to -- you get to answer the question. you get to explain what you are doing. you get to defend if somebody wants to attack you defend it. what i would do if i was in the debates i would say i understand that is an issue but you let me tell you the biggest issue. how do i make sure that each family in this country has the same opportunity i have had to get a job. >> shannon: and if you eventually do decide to get in

the debates and want to make a presidential announcement come back to america's news headquarters. >> i don't think that is going to happen. >> shannon: thank you very much for your time. the bottom of the hour. peter with the top stories including a big endorsement days before the florida primary. hello, peter. >> former presidential candidate herman cain is now endorsing newt gingrich. he had endorsed we the people but now calls gingrich a patriot and says he is not afraid of bold ideas. six u.s. passengers rescued from the costa concordia filed a $460 million lawsuit against the cruise line in italy. officials said plans to remove the half gallons of fuel from the ship has now been delayed due to rough seas. recovery efforts continue. a 17th body was pulled from the wreckage today. a colorado woman is in jail and facing charges after abandoning her son on a highway. police are crediting one of their k-9s for finding the three-year-old. investigators found the boy under a cluster of trees

covered in bushes. they say the boy's mom is not cooperating. and mary tyler moore will accept a lifetime achievement award at the screen actors guild award. she is most remembered for her work on the mar are tyler moore show in the 1970s. the show won 29 emmies and the sags are on tonight. those are the top stories. back to you. >> shannon: thank you you very much, peter. with just weeks until the supreme court holds three days of arguments regarding the constitutionality of the president's healthcare law the government has just filed a brief arguing that even if the court strikes down the individual mandate the rest of the law can stand on its own. meanwhile, the court has turned down a request from a group trying to get justice alaina kagan to reduce herself from taking part in the case.

welcome to you both. >> thank you, shannon. >> good to be he here. >> shannon: the latest calls come from documents that your organization uncovered. what are they? >> there is really two questions here. one is whether her activities as se sew issuesitier general. the other is whether her answers to the senate judiciary committee were accurate. personally i think if you look at 28 usk 455 which governs when supreme court justices must reduce i think the case for her recusal is already made. she assigned the lawyer her top deputy who was going to handle the case. didn't assign him to lose it. she had her good friend larry tribe then working at the justice department the day the bill passed. i think we have the votes larry or here we have the votes. she clearly was a partisan on it. on the golden gate case goes to the question of whether the answers she provided to the

republicans on the senate judiciary committee during the confirmation process, particularly one question where she was asked have you been asked about the merit's of florida's lawsuit against obama care and then asked her opinion about any other legal questions that may arise from public law 111-148 and she said flat no. i think the golden gate case raises questions about that. >> shannon: this is a case that came out of san francisco dealing with the local health ordinance there. justice kagan's office filed a brief here and did discuss the president's healthcare law. it is noted by an internal memo that she was substantially involved with the case but elizabeth, you say the cases are so different there isn't a conflict? >> absolutely. the golden gate case has nothing to do with the constitutionality of the affordable care act. simply notes its existences as a then recently passed law that alters the federal landscape in terms of the issue that was actually involved in the golden gate case which is whether a 1974 federal law erisa

preempted the san francisco local ordinance. the allegations are simply to be frank silly. and the way it is telling they have been argued to the court in a brief that is full of insults against the justices and rants against conservative chief justice john roberts and that is not the way that you make serious arguments in the supreme court. >> shannon: and the chief justice noted there are outside groups calling for the recusal of justice kagan and justice thomas and he said he trusts his colleagues to make independent decisions. is that not good enough for you. >> the law if you look at the question there that she submitted to the judiciary committee during the confirmation process she said she would be governed by the letter and spirit of that law. the first part says if your impartialallity can be reason ably questioned you ought to be reduced. also says if you served as an advisor or counsel or expressed an opinion about the merits of

it you need to reduce. i think clearly given she was a partisan of obama care clearly give than she named the actual attorney, brilliant attorney, by the way, who argued the case in multiple appeals courts she had an interest as solicitor general. the golden gate case goes to a different question. also the question of whether she seriously did not ever as solicitor general discuss other legal issues arising from the healthcare law in the brief. you can go online and read it. the actual office that her office made in the brief was the supreme court ought not to take up the challenge under erisa to the san francisco universal healthcare law because the patient protection affordability totally changed the landscape regarding the case. they said it is all about that. matily the decision is hers. >> and both cases of justice thomas and justice kagan, the chief justice, justice john roberts backs them up in his

year end report and said i trust my colleagues to make the right decision and to the extent there have been any legitimate questions of recusal they have been asked and answered and it is time to move on to the merits of the case and any further attempts to bring up the grasping at straws types of arements about recusal hurts the proponents of the federal care act. >> shannon: we will be talking about the case quite a bit as we are just weeks away now. thank you both. >> thank you very much. >> shannon: we have brand new video just in of the accident we have been telling you along i-75 in florida just outside gainesville. at least nine people were killed and 18 injured. there were a series of accidents again in the gainesville area. the highway apparently had been caught in a fog and smoke from a brush fire, had been shut down at one point. it was reopened, that is when the accidents were triggered. we understand it is, once again, closed. this is the first video coming

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>> shannon: a christian poet's recent you tube posting entitled why i hate religion but love jesus has snagged more than 17 million views and very quickly. what is generating all the interest? our next guest believes it has something to do with the disillusion that young people have with hypocritical religion. joining us the author of honestly, really living what we say we believe. great to see you today. thanks for coming in. >> the video is amazing. talks about that jesus didn't come to the earth to talk about

religion and actually challenged religious leaders. >> shows them as believing what the parents believe but largely unaffiliated. 15 to 20% of 18 to 29-year-olds that were in church no longer regularly attend church. only 29% say they don't believe any more. any believe the things but don't know where to live the things out. >> shannon: what about the fact being in a community of believers. about your particular church or your particular religion? >> faith has to be lived out in a community. jesus didn't arrive in rome or alex andrea. he arrived in a feeding trough. there were animals there were there and he didn't come with the perfect physique. he came like a man. like maybe men would believe a god that looks like them. i think that a lot of christians are really trying to figure out what does it really

mean if i'm going to follow jesus with my life and does that have to be lived out in a big church building with a bunch of people that don't seem to really relate to me. and then throw hypocrisy in the mix. christian people know it exists but don't do something about it. jeff's video has awakened everybody to say there has to be more than this than what we have seen. >> shannon: how do you as a pastor, how do you reach out to young people. you site the statistics and people in the 18 to 29 range are less affiliated and plugged in than the older generations at that same age. they are not connecting. how do you reconnect them? >> every generation gap is a communications gap. people are talking and people aren't listening to one another. all of us know a young person and everyone that goes to church knows young people. i mean for me right before my parents divorced i had a sunday

school teacher that took me under his wing and taught me how to read the bible. that is largely why i'm a pastor today. the pastor that was counseling my parents had been simultaneously in an affair with another pastor's wife. that don't destroy my faith because i had a grounded faith because someone mentored me. the church doesn't know how to communicate to the young people. the first digital communication, living in the social world. is starts with good authentic honest conversations not just about the bible and church but about life. faith goes on the rhythm and on the trail of relationships. that is where things come from. >> shannon: the personal touch. >> yes. >> thans reverend. >> john: ray moore. thanks for coming in. >> ron paul has long been the darling much the college crowd but newt gingrich captured the vote in south carolina. did he do that in florida. we'll talk about that coming up. a live look at newt new at the

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>> shannon: after barely scoring with young voters in iowa and new hampshire, newt gingrich pulled in 28% of the under 30 vote in south carolina, finishing just behind ron paul who led with 31%. will gingrich hold the same

appeal for florida's youth alexander is the founder of the political site and senior studying history at harvard. thank you so much for joining us. i have to start by asking you about ron paul. on the campaign trail any rally or gathering he is the oldest candidate but has by far got the youngest supporters out there. why? >> he represents a rebel in the political process and represents a path to a possible third-party movement and that is why he is connecting with young people. he also represents a position of isolationism, focus on domestic economic concerns rather than international commitments and that has appealed to a lot of young people. >> shannon: are they, though, worried as well about like yourself graduating from college either going on to grad school or looking for a job are they worried about the economy as well because that doesn't seem to be his number one focus at least not when it comes to the creation of jobs? >> paul's libertarian ethos is

connected directly to the economy. the idea of putting more money in the pockets of americans. his number one issue is bread and butter economic and that has connected with young people. >> shannon: let's talk about newt gingrich because he had a good strong showing with young voters just behind congressman paul in south carolina. what do you think sparked their interest in him? >> well, they are evangelical to the right of voders in the iowa caucus is, we'll see it is interesting in florida young people represent a more diverse demographic. the children of parents who represent a wide spectrum of american families but in south carolina he represented an authentic conservative and also he wasn't mormon. i mean that is something we might discuss, too. there was a bit of an insurgent christian focus on newt gingrich and we'll see in tennessee and some of the other southern primaries if gingrich can garner the evangelical vote

among young people. >> shannon: we will look at the exit polls tuesday night as it breaks down. fox will have 2 covered and we will see what the young voters in florida decide when casting their ballots. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> shannon: elective coparenting is a new way of raising children and seems like an adecatching on among the moms and dads of tomorrow. they think it is easier to raise a child without the hassles of love and marriage. doesn't sound very romantic, julie. >> not exactly. romance has nothing to do with it. they say it takes a village to raise a child but what if your parents came from an online community. it is called coparenting. matching up spouseless people who want to have a baby butster no one to have a child with rather than using an anonymous sperm donne donor, a woman whoe biological clock is ticking can now build a family. >> this doesn't mean that i'm any different than anybody else

with a child. this means that i have and will commit to someone that is interested in raising one and that relationship to me by the time the child arrives would be a healthy and happy relationship. >> here is how it works. new websites like coparent match .com specialize in pairing up dreams of building a family in a private environment much like an online dating website after months of getting to know one another they decide whether to share a life long commitment not to each other but the future child. the concept is raising a red flag for conservative and religious groups who argue this is the wrong way to raise a child. >> two people who are not married do not live together, do not have a sexual relationship, why would we assume that they going to agree on the parenting of a child? and why would we assume that the child will be happy bouncing back and forth from one home to another?

seekers still admit a committed parent relationship is still like lie the best for children but to those who haven't found mr. or mrs. right sharing the responsibility could be all they need. not for everybody. >> shannon: not for everybody but an interesting concept. thanks so much. twitter. we asked, you answered. that is coming up. >> guarantees the right to pursue. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8.

>> shannon: is super sendoff to the new england patriots. thousands of fans gathered to wish the pats good luck in indianapolis. tom brady faces off with ely manning and the new york giants next sunday. the two teams last met in super bowl 2007. the giants won that battle 17-14. we love hearing from you at home. today we have been asking you if negative campaigning has gone too far. you really weighed in. >> shannon: thanks so much. by the way, tweet us your picks for the super bowl. that is it for us here in washington. chris wallace is up next. he is talking to presidential candidate newt