ger@foxnews.com and visit us on the web at foxnews.com/journal. that's it for this woeek's edition. and thanks to my panel and all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot. and hope to see you here next week. . >> jon: on fox news watch. >> thanks, you guys. >> jon: fresh from the win in florida, he gets tackled for the media saying thfrjis. >> i'm not very concerned about the poor, we have safety nets-- >> taking the words out of contest and conservatives concerned about his plan and then came this. >> it's my honor to endorse mitt romney. >> jon: a spectacle on the vegas strip when donald trump casts his vote for romney and the media go all in to bring you the news. the had the endorsement help or hurt? >> there's no attempt at any kind of coverup. >> attorney general holder on

capitol higrilled about the fast and furious fiasco. and no interest. and catholic church about hits belief. is the issue getting the coverage it deserves and your favorite news canal marks ten years at the top. >> on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor, judy miller. syndicated columnist cal thomas, jim pinkerton contributing editor the american conservative magazine and host, alan colmes, i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. >> . >> jamie: i'm in this race because i care about americans. >> i'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there. and it needs repair i'll fix t i'm not concerned about the very rich, that's fine. i'm concerned about the very

heart of america, the 90, 95% of americans right now who are struggling. >> jon: mitt romney on cnn the day after winning the florida republican primary, the media focused on the very first part of his phrase there, jim, where he said i'm not concerned about the the very poor. everybody jumped on that and said, a-ha, here is a multi-million dollar nair out of touch. >> they have to weigh the safety net a trillion dollars in the federal budget. ignore that. whenever the media are confronted by the quotes, they can apply the dan quayle rule or the barack obama rule. the barack obama rule you ignore 57 states, you ignore clinging to their guns in religion or the dan quayle rule, you focus and pound away forever on murphy brown or spelling of potato. and something tells me, and i'm trying to think the kwarable. maybe because quail and mitt romney are republicans and romney gets the quail rule and not obama. >> jon: what about the

fairness they used. >> i think it's unfair the conservatives immediately beat up on him. for saying he intended to repair the safety net. i thought the statement was, forgive me fair and balanced and managed to allow conservative pundits and the liberals. it was kind of an astonishing display. >> some pundits thought it was out of touch. were they wrote? >> no, they weren't out of touch. what he should have said, look, the war on poverty has been going on 40-some years and just as many poor people as when we started maybe we ought to try something else. there's a template here. the media believes that big government is good and can fix everything, and giving people who are poor checks, and if they can portray republicans as something on the opposite. they're going to do it. >> and the media, it's the immediate kra this, the media that and a poor little victim of the media. >> we'll talk about what he said. if we back up the tape a few

notches, he said i believe in americans or i care about americans, i don't care about the poor. and that out of context as if they're not americans. this is part of an ongoing issue he's got saying i like firing people and this kind of cavalier attitude and next door trump endorsing him one of the most notorious billionaires in the room and pete weiner, a well-known conservative who says, this is ridiculous that he even said this, because, what conservatives ought to be saying is, we want to lift all boats, riding tide lifts all boats and conservative theories will continue the poor not continue the net for the poor. >> jon: we're going to take that phrase, conservatives, what did he just say? >> conservative theories will help the poor and we're going to take that-- we're going to go to romney. >> i know that, noi that alan hates to say that he's part of the liberal media conservative. >> oh, i am the liberal media. >> here we go, okay, in case

anybody wouldn't want to take alan's word for it, he proved it with the fire people line. romney was talking about firing your health insurance company. >> you know he's had a tin ear to this. >> this is how the game is played. take a text, pretext, take it out of context and use it in politics. >> remember when the commercial when romney took obama out of context and romney bragged about the fact that he was lying about obama. >> jon: speaking of which we can expect to see that line from mitt romney in a democratic campaign ad, assuming mitt romney gets the nomination, don't you suppose? >> i think it's pretty safe to assume he's going to get the nomination, though politics is unpredictable. yes, of course. what struck me about this race this week, how extraordinarily negative it was. and that's driving mitt romney's popularity down. >> it wasn't negative to president obama. it was negative to candidate-- >> he's not running, jim.

>> yes, it probably will be romney versus obama and oddly enough, romney is the one getting clobbered to the point that rolen martin and soledat o'brien, happy the way that they nailed romney. >> romney nailed himself by saying it. >> talk about media treatment of the republican candidates. take a look at the cover of news room shows mitt, romney and newt gingrich have gladiators in the arena, who will reveil, interested. i guess, i will prevail is the topic. but the media seemed to enjoy watching these two republicans go the at each other. >> it's a good thing the country and world don't have any problems other than this race which was kind of a foregone conclusion and now nevada and go through this et whole piem r time. it's ridiculous. >> along comes donald trump and makes the secretary spectacle bigger. >> i like what rich gail and his mullings blog said,

compared it to a grand opera. nobody cares who donald trump is endorse. were you alan. >> donald trump is a lot more popular among television producers and bookers than the ordinary american people and fox had a poll that showed his endorsement was a net negative for those who get it. >> so mitt romney has to overcome that. >> the glat yaert spectacle, bring it on. >> his aides were out there, saying he's going to endorse-- it didn't look good. >> he was playing the immediate. >>yeah, he played it well. they fell for it and all of the attention is on him which is what he loves. >> endorses barber for sure. >> we give him what he wants and-- >> match his hair. >> nicely done.

congress investigates a possible coverup involving the attorney general, and the mainstream media don't seem to care. >> we find out that you have not rebuked any staff members. heck, you haven't put a letter in people's personnel files saying that they, on their watch, act and an agent was hurded. >> our attorney general gets a new grilling over what he knew and when he knew a, as members of congress digged deeper into the failed fast and furious operation. the mawn stream media seemed to show no interest. an update on the famous finger pointing saga and how some wagged their finkle finger too soon. details next on news watch. the employee of the month is...

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it's preposterous to me and listen that you as the highest ranking law officer in the country said i didn't know. the country relies on you, sir, to follow those guidelines. >> jon: congressman kelly, the house oversight and trying to get answers from attorney general eric holder and the justice department on operation fast and furious. the failed gun running operation linked to the murder this have man. u.s. border patrol agent brian terry. his mother posted this on facebook, this is for you, son, she wrote. mr. holder, how come you can never say my son's name. you never have. all i ever hear you say, i didn't find out or i can't say. i'm actually tired of hearing your double talk in answering questions, what a joke you are, my son was a real american, a warrior and a hero who was also protecting coward politicians like you. pretty strong language there

from a mother who is bereefed. >> when you get evidence like that, as in the power of an ordinary individual now this the new media environment to punch through she's not waiting on the new york times for her to interview her, you which of course would never happen and no longer have to wait for john hayward and the attorney general holder has the sergeant schultz defense, i know nothing, hogan's heroes, and from a legitimate public mainstream publication, and stonewall, the famous watergate phrase. i think it breaks through. >> a perfect example of what we're talking about, the woman is being i can in order and her son. and out of cindy sheehan, on the talk shows. >> her son was killed in iraq.

>> she had great sympathy toward her editorials. not a single new york times editorial calling for a special prosecute. and there won't be because a democrat is in the white house. >> you're such a victim, cal. >> i'm not a victim. >> you know what was wasn't represented in the media, the fact na the u.s. house minority report indicates this is not about holder, rather, it was the federal agents in arizona. >> oh, yeah. >> who were involved in this. >> blame it on the little guy. >> why isn't the house minority report which should equally focused upon the democratic report. we don't hear anything about this and this was all over the fast and furious story was all over the media over the last-- >> listen, washington times reported holder knew about the killing of a border patrol agent months before he testified before congress that did he not. >> that's not accurate. npr and washington times have been covering this story and gone through e-mails. you can link the information about the death of the agent

to his, holder's office. there is nothing i've he seen so far that links it directly to holder. and that's what we're waiting for in this story. >> except for the chief of staff who says well, i briefed him on this and i passed the news on to him. who knows, holder will probably evade a perjury rap because it's kind of foggy and vague. look, i have to say the most poignant thing about this thing i've read aside from mrs. terry's commentary, michael hayden, a former cia director under president bush who said if only holder showed the same leniency to the ceo against who he's been prosecuting over water boarding. and holder holds himself, i can't remember, too bad for me and everybody else gets the hammer. >> and totally ignoring the other side of the story which the media is not covering, which is that holder was to the-- and secondly he may have been aware of fast and furious not aware of gun walking the fact that the guns were taken from the gun sellers and that's

where the problem came in and holder was not aware of. >> now is seems to be clear. if holder says i didn't know about it months later and now says weeks later. >> he knew about fast and furious not the gun walking, two issues here. >> to be candid and honest with the house government committee and apparent to me that he wasn't. >> the media, the difference between the gun selling and gun walking. >> you're not answering my question. >> i didn't hear the question. >> my point was as always, the issue and coverup. holder knows about the issue and certainly the coverup-- >> we're about to take a break, if you see something of media bias, e-mail us, news watch the@foxnews.com. why hasn't president obama done more sit-down interviews than presidents of the past. >> guess what? president obama has done more media interviews than the past presidents, what does it tell us.

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>> the governor of arizona with her finger in the face of the president of the united states. you don't see that often, or maybe ever. really? brian williams? here is a report from august, 2006, in new orleans. on the first anniversary of hurricane katrina. you seem to be pointing your finger at then president bush. and mr. obama just as guilty. making a point with louisiana governor bobby jindal, a republican and again with israel prime minister netanyahu, a man with whom you've had rather frosty exexperience and the media seem to forget the moments and pointing the finger of shame

at governor brewer and we thought worth a mention. catholic church in open revolt against an edict that sterilization included in health plans. warning we are entering a time of religious persecution and catholics and others will have to make a final decision which side they are on. not just a catholic issue, cal. >> there were two terrific columns this week in "the washington post," one by a former bush speech writer, a very reserved guy and doesn't use incendiary language very often, but put in his column, what the obama administration is doing is declaring war on religion and interestingly, a liberal catholic, also writing for "the washington post," said that this was a major mistake by the obama administration, political and even moral mistake which for ej is quite an admission.

>> jon: why are you chuckling. >> his idea there's a war on religion, who is denied the right it to religion in the country. >> they're not. >> with their-- >> do the hospitals get federal dollars. >> i'm sure some do. >> and you can't, you can't discriminate based on federal dollars. according to the institute, 98% of catholic women report using birth control at some point. >> it's not available to poor women or women who can't get the same resources or don't have the same resources as more economically sound women. >> judy. >> i think what's interesting is that 93 of the 195 dioces in this country had their bishops speaking about this issue and yet, it wasn't a news story, it was relegated to the opinion pages pan i think it does qualify as news, no matter which position you take on it. >> jon: you think the media are ignoring this issue. >> i think they underplayed it, it's an important issue, but i am totally with alan, that this is not a war on

religion. >> well, the catholics seem to think it is, but-- >> all of them? >> but matthew of media research center made the great point look, while the media were stone silent on this issue, the mainstream, they were all over the susan komen story, and similar news holes in terms of religious, sexual issues and the media pummelled the komen foundation, front page story, and ignored this. and interesting why. on the one hand he they were rooting for planned parenthood and the other hand rooting against the catholic church, nothing new there, but quite stark. >> well said. >> this is a health issue not a medical is issue. they've come out in favor of much contraception and choice as possible for the health of women. now, what the president's motivations were, we can argue about, but in terms of the facts, i think, they're pretty clear. >> jon: we have to take one more break. up next, your favorite news

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