this is a fox news alert. it is a dead heat in michigan with that state's primary just three days away. mitt romney and rick santorum running neck and neck. romney with 35% of the vote, santorum at 34. a victory by santorum would be a public relaxes nightmare for romney who was wor worn and bod in michigan. both candidates taking no chances, making several campaign stops there today. and -- >> you know what i think is poppous. >> joe on the ground in michigan. his impression of the gop race. >> can i speak frankly. >> judge jeanine: and is google stalking you? what do they know about you and what are they doing with it?

plus, the ski stone plan turned down. gas prices on the rise. now, what? coming up tonight on "justice." hello and welcome to "justice" i'm judge jeanine pirro. rick santorum lashes out at mitt romney and ron paul in michigan. he says paul and romney are teaming up to take him down, hinting that he finds it suspicious that not once in 20 debates has paul attacked romney. >> the people are supporting ron paul you just have to take a look at what his real objective. if it is going after trying to fundamentally change, washington, why is he he the wingman for mitt romney throughout the course of the campaign? >> judge jeanine: mitt romney battling back in his home state. he pulled no punches when spoke in flint, michigan, hammering away with more attacks on rick santorum. >> senator santorum mentioned

that he voted for something he didn't agree with and said did it because now and then you have to take one for the team in washington. and i thought no, it is about time we have someone that goes to washington that takes one for the american people not for the partisan team. >> judge jeanine: meanwhile, newt gingrich on the campaign trail in washington state. and last night the former in with had a run-nintendo with hecklers. take a look. >> there is no necessary parallel between noise and intelligence. >> judge jeanine: j.d. heyworth calls himself a recovering congressman and joins us this evening. good evening, congressman, how are you? >> hi, judge, doing quite well, thanks. >> judge jeanine: if you are a recovering congressman, are there 12 steps to your program? >> i think the most important thing is reflect on the

positive time in washington, d.c. some very real accomplishments and that is why i have endorsed former speaker newt gingrich because through the fire of all sorts of heckling if you will from a dominant media culture, really aligned with the democrat white house in the 1990s, newt gingrich was able to deliver four balanced budgets, the first tax cuts in a decade and a half including meaningful capital gains tax cuts which resulted in a 11 millionle new jobs and welfare reform that required work. i was there. i saw it. i saw it withstand the scrutiny and criticism and i think it is telling, judge, that it was newt gingrich what, now ten days agoriesgo resurrecting thl here drill now proposition that prompted president obama to go to florida on thursday and say of energy oh, gee, we can't possibly drill or have domestic sources of energy and i think you see that in a curious way former speaker gingrich is

helping to define the debate as former governor romney and former senator santorum slug it out in michigan. >> judge jeanine: let me ask you this this. you are known, j.d. as a thundering opponent of illegal immigration. and of all four presidential candidates who want to run for president newt gingrich is probably the most moderate on immigration. how do you reconcile your support for him and being right there on the ground in arizona? >> well, judge, let's understand this. ms. mare are and i willle celebrating 23 years of wedded bliss today. she let me come do your show tonight and thank goodness she loves me even though we don't agree on public policy. understand this, of the four remaining republican candidates none come to the table with clean hands when it comes to the illegal immigration question. i would point this out. number one, newt read my book. number two, i have no doubt that when says one year after taking the oath of office the

border will be secure he absolutely means it. how do i know that? take a look at what we were able to do with the contract with america. the fact is you had governor romney endorsing the bush and the deep land back in 2007. senator santorum was voting against e run verify that is vitally important and congressman paul has been all over the place with his libertarian background. the thing about newt, judge, in the final analysis we had an incumbent president call those of us who wanted to see the solution call us nativists. we had a republican nominee in 2008 cold us and say the illegals were god's children. the president has to reach out, the president has to reach out. achieveent has to achieve consensus. do i agree with every part of the gingrich plan on this? no. i do believe as president you have to bring people together

and seek solutions and you can see evidence of that at newt.org. >> judge jeanine: and you certainly got your point there. who do you you think ultramaltly is going to win arizona? >> arizona, and this is a curious thing, judge, as we take a look on ahead to tuesday. despite all the difficulty mitt romney is having in his native state of michigan the fact is curiously in many ways he is more at home here in arizona. why? well, the debate the other night took place in my old congress cal district. i can tell you there is a very active lds vote in republican circles in the east valley and throughout the state of arizona. and i think there is a natural affinity for mitt romney in it that situation. i also think many in the establishment are supporting mitt romney. so i think you will see him prevail in arizona. but arizona though it is a state i represented in the congress of the united states it is but one stop along the way. this process is going to go on through california right on to

the convention. >> judge jeanine: let's talk about arizona right now. do you think that being a mormon and you mentioned lds, trumps a tough stand on illegal immigration in arizona? >> i believe there are many factors at work here. and i believe that as we take a look at issues, you know, judge, it is a situation where many different issues come into play. they are all interrelated. right now with the economic conditions we have, with the specter of $5 a gallon gasoline, energy issues have reached preeminentness. that is where newt gingrich has taken the lead. governor romney and senator santorum are following that lead as is president obama ironically. so there is always a moving situation with issues. i'm not discounting illegal immigration. i'm saying it is but one issue and i think that arizonans and, indeed, americans look for solutions in the final analysis and they understand that a

president might have to it have a consensus. >> judge jeanine: now, you are on -- you know, in arizona, you have seen a load of negative ads in arizona? >> the romney pummeling of santorum continues or to be fair about it the leadership pacs loosely affiliated. you know the law better than i do. there cannot be coordination but a lot of romney supports with the superpacs, met forrically speaking beating the h-e double hockey sticks out of rick santorum. negative ads work. we had a situation in the republican senatorial primary where i was outspent ten to one, well over $20 million by some estimates close to $30 million of negative ads me and that is one reason i'm back in broadcasting instead of

serving in the united states senate. >> judge jeanine: jan brewer is skipping the white house president's dinner and there is speculation that she he is still stewing over the confrontation on the tarmac. >> i think the governor is taking a look at the primary here and i think that the president. it is interesting. the president is a man of great accomplishments. becoming president of the united states prior to his 50th birthday but amazes me how thin skinned mr. obama really is. and for him to come to arizona and try to take the governor to task over something she wrote i thought was incredible and i thought the governor responded in a way that was -- well, it was just a human thing saying hey, wait a minute here. >> judge jeanine: i'm not going to your event. all right. j.d. hayworth, thank you so much for joining us.

>> great to be with you. >> judge jeanine: rick santorum is giving mitt romney a run for his money in his home state of michigan. the race for the great lakes state is next! j nhñ xç@÷ 0@h@

>> judge jeanine: polls show a dead heat between mitt romney and rick santorum in michigan. noelle is a republican strategist. brett o'donnell and christopher hahn, democratic strategist. good evening, everyone. this this rollercoaster campaign season, ten days ago, rick santorum is beating mitt romney by double digits in michigan. tonight it is a dead heat. why? >> money. period. mitt romney has it. rick santorum doesn't. he also way too far to the right for a state like,

michigan, which is overwhelmingly blew collar. they are not really christian conservatives as you had in south carolina where romney lost. and he has been carpet bombing that state more than he did any other state. >> i think it is about message more than just money. rick santorum since he won the four states a couple of weeks ago when got to michigan he really went off message. >> judge jeanine: did he go off message or did mitt romney like a disciplined trial attorney with all the information in his back pocket strategically time nail him saying you are not the conservative you said you were? i don't think so in this case. in it case i think it was rick santorum and the way he was talking about social issues. >> yeah. >> and i think that is what drug him off message. it wasn't that he was talking about those issues, it was the way he talked about them. and that made a big difference. and then old speeches started coming up and they were dragging him off of his blue collar message. >> the quotes come back to haunt you.

>> if you look at it, i think romney moved up in the polls because a lot of the voters it is resonating they want a businessman in the white house and not a white house -- >> you are shaking your head. >> santorum made it clear the last week that on this whole issue of birth control it wasn't just paying for it versus not paying for it. he comes out sounding like he thinks sex isicky when talks about it. >> i don't think so. how many kids does he have? >> if you watch the debate on wednesday night it is more of and i think you are on to something. it is the argument of inside versus outside. >> right. >> i think people want someone from the outside. they want someone who can turn. >> calling mitt romney an outsider is very -- >> he is an outside. his father is a governor and his father ran for president. he has been running for something since 1994. >> he is a an outsider. >> he is not an outsider. >> judge jeanine: he started his own company. he was in the private sector. he made a fortune. >> he is not a creatures of

washington. >> he was appointed to the olympics because he has been known by the republican party for regeneration. >> you don't like him, do you christopher. >> of the three running probably the most recent of them all. but i will tell you this reit now. we don't know where he stands. we don't know who he is. >> yes, we do. >> electable -- >> it is obama who we don't know who he is. >> we know exactly who he is. >> a moderate president who has done a great job. >> we know obama is a socialist. >> he is not. stop. what is a socialist? define it. because i have been hearing this from the people like you for the past few years. >> obama care. >> which is based on romney care. >> it is not base on romney care. >> tell me a difference. >> judge jeanine: guys, let's talk about -- we are not going to theorize on what is socialism. let's talk about the president and the fact that todayed everyone is talking about the the fact that he has said and apologized to karzai for our

military burning the koran. two days ago two americans killed and then another two killed. four americans killed and our president is apologizing to the president of afghanistan and saying so sorry my apologies, i will hold those accountable. >> the president really -- >> judge jeanine: should he be apologizing? >> he got it backwards. he should be demanding an apolllegy from the afghanistan people and from president karzai. >> judge jeanine: why? >> because the korans were burned inadvertently. >> judge jeanine: do you know the story behind it? >> they were being used to pass along radical messages and were burned because of the messages contained in the books. >> judge jeanine: should the president have apologized to the people of afghanistan? >> this is a crazy world we live in right now and people of riot over the streets over the

burning of a book. this is what happens when religious extremists. >> judge jeanine: should your president have apologized because we destroyed korans that had messages in them from the men enemy? >> times things happen and you have to make exceptions for things happening. >> judge jeanine: do you apoll gaze? >> i'm not crazy about him apologizing. >> should he have apologized, yes, or no? we are giving them money because doppler. >> i think that people expect this of obama because he has gone around the world on an apology world in the first place. >> and did bin laden think he was apologizing when had a bullet in his brain. >> judge jeanine: this caused a lot of people a lot of anxiety. gas prices are soaring. and no president wants to be running with gas prices at the level they are now. he knicks the keystone pipeline

project. 20,000 jobs. right or wrong? >> absolutely wrong. >> noelle? >> that is the worst thing he could have done. >> judge jeanine: bad decision, chris? >> nothing to do with the current gas price problem. we have a speculation problem on wall street. anybody who knows about that pipeline -- >> when obama was running for reelect it will be bad when joe six pack goes and fills up his tank with $5 or $6 gas and goes home. >> chris he goes home and sees an ad for obama. >> it is not just about speculation. what about the fact that there were 20,000 people who would get jobs if the pipeline project went through? how do you answer that? >> i think the president was willing to put the pipeline through. >> no he, he wasn't. >> judge jeanine: then why did he -- >> in the 11th hour the nebraska governor said -- the nebraska governor is a republican. i know he might be a radical environmentalist to a bachmann supporter but to the rest of the world he is a moderate

governor of the state of nebraska. please don't put the pipeline here. >> judge jeanine: you are all coming back. thank you, brett, noelle and christopher. >> good to be here, thanks. >> judge jeanine: actor are and comedian joe piscopo joins us next. he is on the ground in grand

>> judge jeanine: michigan often hails itself as the first line of defense against the canadians. proveing that humor in politics can co-exist, actor and comedian joe piscopo joins me now from grand rapids. how are you? >> judge, nice to see you again. >> judge jeanine: good to see

you also. you were on the ground there in michigan. we are hearing it is a dead heat between santorum and romney. what are you hearing? >> forget about it, i got all the info. i have been polling. i'm at a big corporate event with my friends here. i asked everybody. it is a slam dunk for romney i'm telling you right now. >> judge jeanine: why do you think it is a slam dunk? >> i think so. my friend father sirica is here with me. he thinks maybe not that it is close with santorum. i have to tell you and i love the father but jack my driver says romney by 15%. >> judge jeanine: and is jack your driver usually right? >> and he is like a blue collar working guy. grand slagrand rapids is a great town. i'm proud to come here and see my friends and they are the earth of the united states of america. i'm telling you what. i'm a democrat but a very conservative democrat. the gop has got to get it together. back behind mitt romney. i worked with romney.

i worked for mitt romney. i'm not telling you, everybody has got their faults and i'm a disillusioned democrat by the way. >> judge jeanine: you are working for mitt romney and you are a democrat? >> and my democratic friends in hollywood hated me for it. remember when rudy giuliani bought the convention to new york. i worked for the state of massachusetts. got to meet the governor and work with him. we had a great time and then i saw him a couple of years ago. >> judge jeanine: if they entertain you, you support them, is that the deal? >> no, i was a hired hand. >> judge jeanine: they pay you. >> i was a hire ad hand. >> judge jeanine: why would santorum beating romney ten days ago by 14 points? >> i don't know. you know, it is a good question. i think beam get convoluted with the social issues and when rick santorum who is a decent individual but you can't start throwing -- people in glass houses. it is scary about rick santorum is i keep thinking of jimmy

swaggart. as soon as he starts with the social issues you run off with a hooker. forgive me for saying that. makes me a little queasy. you know what i'm saying? i think that people in america in this good part of america especially the good state of michigan they go to the heart of the united states. they believe in god. it is okay to believe in god and be he prolife. i think rick pushed the envelope a little bit and struck a nerve in the way right wing that will lose them the election. >> judge jeanine: you don't think it had more to do with the fact that mitt romney nailed him and said you are selling yourself as a social conservative when you supported the federal family planning act and the bridge to know where and you are not as conservative fiscally as you say? >> no, judge, to your point, they have to stop. and i know hillary and obama went at it and went at the jugular. it has to stop now. there is a window right here now with arizona and michigan there is a window for the gop.

i'm a democrat and i will probably vote democrat. as an objective observer in this state of michigan they got to stop the attacks. please just stop it. we are so sick of it. and ron paul, it is a comedy show. i wish i was half as good on the road as these guys. >> judge jeanine: you think that is why president obama has been singing his tail off for the last week? >> that's great. i said, i was telling my buddy, i was saying man, obama is dancing in the white house, man. and that is why he is singing with b.b. king. they are laughing. i mean there is no contest here. but honestly, and i'm here and i always like to be talk with you and you always have an interesting introspective on everything. in michigan romney is the guy they can get behind this guy and he is a moderate. deal with it gop, he is your guy. >> judge jeanine: do you think mit can beat obama?

>> not today but i know governor romney and i have seen him in action and i have to tell you this, if i may. i saw him a vegas a couple of years ago. we were doing the same corporate event. i'm a hired hand. i'm joey benefit, i have the good grace of god to work all over north america. i went throughout and mitt romney was the keynote speaker and i watched him and there was no fire. everything they say i saw on this stage for this corporate event. i'm going mitt, go for it. he looks great. looks aren't everything. >> judge jeanine: getting ready wrap up here. can he go for it and beat the president? >> when perry went after him at the debate and romney goes back, he has the fire. i'm still not cop vinceed to vote for him -- i'm still not convinced to vote for him. they have to be nice. >> judge jeanine: let's all be nice tonight. joe piscopo, thanks for being with us. >> i'm going back to work. all right. what happens to your personal information when you search on google. shocking new details on how

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"justice" with judge jeanine. >> judge jeanine: what happens to your personal information when you are on the internet? if you go on google, your every move is being tracked and shared with advertisers. google says they are fine tuning their privacy policy but is it about us or them? jon sim son, consumer advocate with consumer watch dog, thomas a report bert "wall street journal." good evening gentlemen, and thank you for being with us. >> good evening. >> good evening. >> judge jeanine: we have a company google whose mantra is do no evil with an incredibly checkered record of privacy violations including as recently as a week ago. how do we trust these people? john?

>> well, you know, i think one of the things we need to understand is we sometimes think of ourselves as google's customers. we are not. we are google's product. their whole business model is based on assemble digital dossiers about us and selling ads around that and it is a successful business model for them. they bring in about $30 billion in revenues a year. so we think that -- i'm sorry? >> judge jeanine: go ahead. >> i was simply going to say that i think that consumers need to understand that business model and also need to be able to get control over whether their data is shared and gathered and one of the problems that happened last week that was revealed in the "wall street journal" after a stanford researcher jonathan mier established this was that google was, sir couple venting settings on the safari browsers

to put down tracking cookies. little bits of computer code. >> judge jeanine: and thomas, you are with the "wall street journal" that broke the story about them. can we trust google? >> that is the big question. the white house unveiled a whole privacy bill of rights and many of the internet companies including google signed on to produce a do not track button so you can go in this and track this button and you won't be tracked across the sites but the question is, this is a voluntary framework. and can we really trust google and other companies to abide by it? >> judge jeanine: given the fact that there are so many prior violations with respect to their tracking information and invading privacy rights, you know, wi-fi communications, that they are actually tracking in several countries and they are under investigation by approximately 18 countries now. the question is what exactly are they collecting and what

are they doing with it, tom? >> well, i mean they are collecting all manner of information. you know, like many companies, do, about what kind of visiting we are doing on the internet. you you know, what kind of preferences we have. you know, a lot of our, you know, commerce is now happening online. and other companies can also link that up with stuff that is happening offline. so the question is, you know, we don't like the idea of sort of government surveillance and now as a society we are handing companies the power to, you know, kind of perform a lot of surveillance of what we do and i think a lot of us feel that, you know, we need to stop and at least think about, you know, what we are doing here. >> judge jeanine: it is interesting. in january when google announced the change in their privacy policy no one was going to be able to opt out unless you made the decision you weren't going to use google or

g-mail, youtube. two days ago they came out with a do not track button. is this something that has to be repeatedly signaled in order to not track us. john? >> the way that is being conceived of right now, would be something that you would set your browser one time and it would send that message to all websites. the problem right now is that a number of the browsers have started to enable people to send that message but there is no clear obligation yet on the part of the websites as to what they will do when they get the message. i'm part of a working group with something called the w3c. worldwide web consortium trying to come up with precisely what the company's obligations would be and google is at that table. >> judge jeanine: but there are no real federal regulations regarding this do not track. there is no federal legislation. instead it is kind of an agreement among the companies

that they are going to monitor and regulate themselves? >> it is eceptionly a self-regulatory regime and that is why i think we really need to have privacy legislation passed. now, to the credit of the white house, they did call for this privacy bill of rights to be enshrined with legislation which i think is essential. as you and i know, judge, right now the possibility of getting any kind of bipartisan action in washington seems pretty difficult. so i'm not sure that the legislation will be forth coming this year. >> and what about when they say that they are not going to sell the information, they are going to share it, tom, what do they mean by that? >> well, i mean in a sense it is a distinction without a difference. their business is to televisers that they can use a lot of the information that they collect on you to specifically target their ads to the right people. so whether they are actually he handing it over to other companies so that they can do

what they want or use this temperatureselves. that is how they made the money by using it themselves. >> judge jeanine: by saying that they have all this information. and we do have a response from google. their response to our inquiry regarding their privacy policy. we are not collecting more data. our policy makes it clear that we use data to refine and improve our experience. this is something that we have been doing for a long time. all right. thank you so both of you for being with us. john and thomas. >> thank you, judge. >> thank you. >> judge jeanine: up next, congress woman mary bono mack and maryland attorp@?ñm ñoyó

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seven pages long and they dispute themselves within a matter of two paragraphs. they talk about they don't collect information about you when you log in but the next paragraph they say they have to anonymize the data about you when you log in. i have been asking them a whole host of questions, getting varied responses is from them. i'm appreciative of how hard they are working on giving me 7 page letters but still a lot of questions to ask. >> judge jeanine: they now changed the policy from you cannot to now do not track. does this do not track thing two far enough? >> westerlies the do not track sounds great but it is very complicated. and you know, especially in these technology issues, the devil is certainly in the details. do not track is going to be problematic and for the consumer to think what happens with do not track is really their habits are not being tracked but that is hot true. what is going to happen is the

companies collecting data on you are just not going to use that data to target advertising to you. it is complicated and they are still fighting over it. the last guest talked about the topics that will be discussed in the worldwide consortium. >> judge jeanine: given the fact that google is presently under a consent order with the ftc. as recently as last friday there were complaints they had circumvented the safari browser. do you think that the do not track button goes far enough? >> i don't think so. on thursday they will put a new policy in which is an extreme invasion of policy. the question is is it an acceptable invasion of privacy. there has to be a line drawn between the which is model of google where they wanted to be able to target with laser presix our individual advertising interests along with the amount of invasion of

privacy that we are willing to accept. what they are going to do now is say not only are they going to look into each of our individualized g-mail account every team you do a search on google, they will combine all of the applications into one rich and individualized information set on each of us. the question is how are they going to protect that from hackers, from those who would steal our eye den fit identitiy isn't there any choose. certainly well, an opt-in or certainly an opt out option. the final problem is 56% of the smart phone users today are android user. people bought the androids not knowing they are going to change the technology. hard to avoid the google eco system and now what do you do. >> judge jeanine: and attorney

general, i understand there are 36 states attorney generals who expressed their concern to google. is there a possibility of a criminal or civil action against google? >> the letter that i wrote that was signed on by 35 other attorneys general and i coauthored it with the attorney general from the state of washington because it is a bipartisan effort is really not contemplating litigation at this point. generally when it is a national association of attorneys general effort which this is we usually get their attention. we just did with the five national banks regarding the mortgage settlement. we are hopeful we can resolve this. there is middle ground here. >> judge jeanine: to both of you, what should users know about the personal information collection that worries you the most. quickly, congress woman and then the attorney general. >> first and foremost what bothers me the most in google's own privacy policy it mentions clearly that they going to actualry read the content of

our e-mails. they will say that no person is doing this, that a computer is reading the content of your e-mails. >> you are worried about the privacy. we have to wrap here. attorney general, what is the thing that worries you most? >> exactly right, the privacy issue and how far they are willing to go and what they will do with that information and how we don't have a choice. >> right. okay, congress woman and attorney general, thanks so much for explaining that to us this evening. >> thank you. >> judge jeanine: gas prices are up as the president derails the keyis stone oil pipeline project. is that decision hitting americans r

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you can bet that since it is an election year they are already dusting off their three

point plan for $2 gas. and i will tell you the suspense. step one is to drill and step two is to drill and step three to keep drilling. >> judge jeanine: congressman michael burgess from the state state of texas joins us. he serves on the house energy and commerce committee. thanks for being with us this evening. >> judge, thank you for having me on. >> judge jeanine: why did the president reject the keystone pipeline project? >> i think he rejected it for political reasons. he was playing to part of his political base. frankly, i don't understand. if we think back a couple of years i can't believe bill clinton would have rejected this same deal had he been in the same situation with rising gasoline prices and an opportunity to bring them down via the approval of the keystone project. >> congressman, jay carney, a white house president secretary

this week said the fact is the republicans essentially forced the administration to deny the permit process because they insisted on a timeframe within which it was impossible to appropriately approve the pipeline and then says this is all the republicans fault and says the process ended the way it did, it is wholly the responsibility of republicans who insisted on playing politics with the payroll tax cut extension at the end of the year. does that make sense to you? >> it doesn't. the fact of the matter is the keystone pipeline project started the approval process in september of 2008 when a previous administration was in the white house. then, they have had three years to evaluate this. my golly, the documents were piled head high in the committee hearing that we had on this. the documents compiled by the state department doing their

due diligence on the environmental aspects this of. this had been in the works for years. in fact, we were told during the summer of this past year not to do anything of trying to push the approval of the keystone pipeline because the state department was already ready to approve it and it would not be necessary for us to pass any additional law to enhance it. this is all just fabrication on the part of the press secretary i think. >> judge jeanine: besides the fact that 20,000 jobs would be created at time when we are in such economic distress for the president to say no to something like this doesn't make sense. in addition to the jobs why are are republicans so keen on making sure this happens? >> well, it is a jobs program. the company congress was criticized by the white house for not enacting his jobs bill. but mr. president, here is a jobs bill that could happen literally within the next week if you would just agree to it.

and 20,000 jobs. who knows what the actual number is. but there are likely to be spinoffs or secondary employment that oh he curb as a result of just the construction of the pipeline, never mind the refining jobs created in my state of texas when the actual product gets delivered. >> judge jeanine: what is the president's plan, quickly, congressman? does he even have one? >> in his speech that he gave on this it was so discouraging because, yes, gas price is are high for a number of reasons. it is a multifactorial response but we all know that speculation does play some role but president bush showed us in the summer of 2008 the minute he said i'm going to expand offshore drilling the price came down and why pause the people who put their money in speculation on futures contracts realized this might not be as stable a bet as they thought it was and so they backed off and as they backed off the price reduced. this president should take that lesson to heart. do everything in it your power

to show that the supply is going to be increased and watch what happens to the price. >> judge jeanine: it is not going to be good. congressman burgess, thanks for being with us this evening. >> thank you, judge. >> judge jeanine: this week's military shoutout goes to a member of america's battalion. lance corporal jake pettit. he served at in afghanistan last year. thankfully he returned home safely and is now at camp lejeune in north carolina awaiting his second tour of duty in may. he epitomizes many who serve this country. a direct descendant of a general who fought in the civil war. jake is a machine gunner who does his job without question, always faithful to the mission, the corps and his country. he swore an oath to defend all of us and does that every day.

lance corporal pettit, we thank you. that is it for us. see you next week.