new evidence that gas prices are getting to be a big issue in this presidential election for both the gop and the white house. welcome to "america live," everyone, i'm megyn kelly. look at this. exit l polls from six super tuesday states show concerns over gas prices are getting more significant. in massachusetts a whopping 70% say the price of gas is important to them. that goes all the way up to 83% in georgia where voters overwhelmingly chose newt gingrich as their preferred republican nominee. and here's a key part of his speech last night. >> the president said we have to be practical, drilling won't solve it. and then he offered his practical solution. does anybody here remember what it was? algae. [laughter] algae. i mean, i think this summer as gas prices keep going up one of our campaign techniques should

be have people go to gas stations with a jar of algae. [laughter] and say to people would you rather have the gingrich solution of drilling and having more oil, or would you like to try to put this in your gas tank? [laughter] megyn: matt mccall is president of penn financial group and chris stirewalt is host of power play on foxnews.com. let me start with you on what we saw last night, chris, in terms of the exit polls. it seems clear that like it or not this is an issue for voters, and this could drive the polls come november. >> oh, my gosh, yes. look, it's the most real, it's the most tangible experience that people have when you have inflation, when you have the economy struggling and you have high gas prices, they feel it. the difference between filling up your tank for $50 or $60 is something every voter can feel. and look at where the president is today. he's down in north carolina campaign anything a state that -- campaigning in a state that he wants to win again.

if i look at these exit l polls in southern states, i'm not liking where that's going, and i'm not liking having newt gingrich make fun of my algae. megyn: it was no accident, matt, that newt gingrich got out there when the cameras were on him. you've got millions of people watching, that's your opportunity to get your message across unlike any other besides the debates, that he chose to focus on gas prices and going after the president on that. the question is how the president can respond and what can he do, matt? he keeps telling us there's no silver bullet. >> well, the thing is between now and election, megyn, there's nothing the president can do in my mind. gas prices are on a one-way trip here, higher, and i think they're going to keep going especially into the summer season as the election heats up. i think the only thing the president can do to save himself right now is keep going after the drill, say he's going to start drilling here in the united states, start relying on fossil fuel coming out of our country.

the problem is then he has the green party on the other side, basically, pushing him back. so i don't think he has any shot to save himself when it comes to high gas. and i think chris makes a fantastic point. when it comes to gas prices, it's real. it's something that everybody can feel. even if it only cost you $30 extra a month to fill your tank, you can feel that. you don't care about any of the numbers, you care about the fact that gas prices are going higher almost every single day. megyn: chris, whether it's republican or democrat in the white house, the american voters hold it against the president when the gas prices go up like that. it seems to be in this administration folks have started the narrative that president obama wants gas prices to go up in part because of who he appointed as his energy secretary, steven chu, who suggested that he wanted that because it would help get people off of foreign oil. ed henry asked president obama about that yesterday at the press conference, and the president said what kind of sane president in a re-election year would want gas prices to go up?

newt gingrich took a shot at that last night as well. listen here. >> now, i want you to imagine the debate this fall. the president was right the other day. he's so nervous about gasoline prices and energy that he's done two major speeches. and i thought today in one of the most shallow and self-serving comments by a president that i've heard in a long time he was candid in his press conference. he said, you know, i'm really worried about higher gas prices because it will make it harder for me to get reelected. i did not make this up. it was just nice to know that the president once again has managed to take the pain of the american people and turn it into his own o personal problem. [laughter] megyn: effective? >> yes. and also, you know, you mentioned steven chu, you mentioned ed's question. steven chu's going to be a bellwether for where obama is on

requests -- gas prices. if he is still the energy secretary he of even more expensive gasoline fame, if steven chu's still the energy secretary on election day, they're probably feeling pretty confident about it. but i would not be picking out any new draperies or decorations for my office. megyn: matt, last question to you. anything that can be done short term, president obama brings you in and says, matt, i've got a few months until november, what would you recommend i do to drive the prices down? immediately? >> unfortunately, there's nothing. you have the tensions in the middle east. you can't put the moratorium in the gulf of hex coe, you can't -- mexico, you can't bring that back online and start drilling. the only thing he can try to do is get confidence back into the american people by saying, listen, it's okay, we can survive with $4 a gallon gasoline. i'm actually kind of happy,

because he's stuck. i think there's nothing he can do to fix it at this point. megyn: well, i think you may be the only one who's happy. >> so the energy policy changes, that's why i'm happy. megyn: matt and chris, thank you both so much. >> you bet. megyn: well, rick santorum's supporters have a message for newt gingrich: get out! they're pressuring the former speaker to quit the presidential race arguing he's preventing a fair fight between rick santorum and mitt romney. you may recall gingrich had a similar message for santorum right before the south carolina primary. he's been telling him to get out for a while. but after a big win in georgia, it looks like gingrich is in it for the long haul. you can find out more on that by going to foxnews.com. well, we're also keeping a close eye on the united nations today. the united states is working with five other world powers to set the stage for new nuclear talks with iran. the diplomats hoping to take a unified stance on the iranian nuclear program. in a joint statement to the

international atomic energy agency tomorrow. the group includes russia and china which both blocked a previous attempt at a resolution addressing fears of iran building nuclear weapons. of course, things have changed since then with israel significantly ramping up its rhetoric about what it's going to do in response to iran's program. what does all of this mean for israel, these new talks? coming up this hour i will speak with dory gold, a former israeli ambassador to the u.n. and former foreign policy adviser to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and speaking of iran, just a couple of hours ago the white house press secretary echoed the president's attack on what president obama called those people who are beating the drums of war. mr. obama yesterday called out gop candidates for criticizing his iran policy suggesting they were being far too casual about the matter. so we put those questions today to a bipart saab group -- bipartisan group of voters just moments before the show began. as a gop voter, your reaction to

hearing the president -- >> this is bizarre. this man unilaterally decided to send our troops and nato into libya without a worth of assent from anybody in the united states congress including members of his own party, and he now stands there and lectures gop candidates about war? this is the same man who on sunday said to netanyahu, i have your back, who is now a day later walking back everything he said to aipac over the weekend. i don't get it. megyn: well, trust me, that response was just the start of a fierce debate. this particular focus group got a little bit more heated than we have seen in if recent weeks, and you will see it all in our next hour. well, america's top brass warning syria the u.s. military is ready and able to end the assad regime's massacre of its own citizens. but the chairman of the joint chiefs, martin dempsey, warned the senate armed services committee about the dangers of

outside extremists and the possibility of syrian forces using chemical and biological weapons. the united nations estimates that more than 7500 syrians have died in the government's crackdown this past year. panetta left open the possibility of u.s. military involvement but argued that the u.s. should keep its focus on isolating the syrian government diplomatically. fox news alert now on a big, new twist to a story we've been following here for weeks. some of the american democracy workers who were virtually held hostage in egypt for weeks are now meeting with i -- lawmakers on capitol hill as we get new reports on why they were taken and now the possible fallout for egypt. trace gallagher's here with more. >> reporter: these american ngos or nongovernmental organizations are meeting with lawmakers because they're concerned about what's going on inside egypt despite the arab spring pushing out hosni mubarak. they're saying egypt is a long way from democracy, and an

anti-american sentiment is rising. the american ngos were released last week after a $5 million bail was paid. the ngos paid it, but the money came from the u.s. government. there is still, they believe, one american in egypt, and they're very concerned about the safety of their egyptian colleagues who worked with them who cannot leave the country. and one of the ngos tells our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge that while the americans in egypt were demonstrating, they were actually calling for their heads, and they wanted to swap the americans for one of the most notorious terrorists held in u.s. custody, otherwise known as the blind sheikh. he was convicted in 1993 of bombing the world trade center that killed six people. keep in mind the united states still gives egypt more than a billion dollars a year in aid as part of a peace treaty that egypt signed with israel. and now there is word that some of those lawmakers who are meeting with these ngos today

would like to withhold that aid until relations improve. the ngos, we should note, are still facing charges. they are supposed to go back to egypt. they say they are still plotting their next move, megyn. megyn: wow. trace, thank you. well, the family research council has uncovered some new federal rules that mean some illegal immigrants in federal custody are getting medical services even some americans cannot get on the taxpayers' time. tony perkins joins us next on what is being given to these folks and why. plus, democrats launching a petition to stop a so-called republican war on women. now the winner of a very famous battle of the sexes is weighing in on this. we'll show you who it is and what side this person is on. and it tugged at the heartstrings of so many of our viewers, a dad fighting back tears as he talked about his son's struggle for veterans' benefits after a devastating injury in afghanistan. now a can't-miss follow up to

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megyn: fox news alert on a story we have been working to confirm this morning. it turns out that there are new federal rules on health care in place right now at the immigration and customs enforcement agency, i.c.e. as you may know it, rules that mean people arrested for entering this country illegally may soon be entitled to free abortions and transgender hormone treatments with u.s. taxpayers picking up the tab. tony perkins is the president of the family research council. his organization was one of the first to stumble on to this and, tony, it appears that you have stumbled on to an actual issue because the immigration and customs enforcement department

just provided us with a statement confirming, this essence, the nature of your report but offering a justification for why they do this. exactly what are they paying or for and why? >> well, i.c.e., immigrations and customs enforcement, has said when they're holding a detainee that is here illegally, that they're afforded pregnancy care which would include abortions which, obviously, is something taxpayers would have to fund. it's outside the hyde amendment, so there's no restrictions on it. and then they would also provide hormone treatment for those undergoing gender transformation. and so, i mean, what this is really, i mean, this is a bad, radical social policy, you know, cross-dressing as health care because this is really a trial balloon, megyn. if they can get by with this under i.c.e. for illegal immigrants, t going to be a part of the -- it's going to be a part of the obamacare. as we saw the mandate that just came down on contraception, this

will be another mandate that will be included in obamacare because hhs can write the rules, and they're going to see how far they can push this. megyn: we did a story last week about how military veterans are having their benefits cut to save money, they're going to have their health care costs go up, but if you are an illegal immigrant and you need an abortion at least in the case of rape, incest or in order to save the life of the mother they say, the taxpayers are going to fund that. even though you're not an american citizen, and you've broken our laws to get into the country. >> exactly. i used to work in law enforcement, my first assignment was a prison, and you have to provide basic health care. that's only the humane thing to do. medicines for blood pressure and making sure people are not dying from diseases. you give them basic treatment while they're there. this is elective treatment. this goes beyond what's essential to keep someone healthy and alive. again, remember, these are folks who came into this country illegally. they're being held into they're

deported, and we're giving them services, as you mentioned, that veterans are not even being given the basics in health care treatment. we're giving that money into radical social policy like this which is not, shouldn't be surprising from this administration. megyn: but in defense of the administration, what are they supposed to do? if they have an illegal immigrant in custody and she, she is, she needs an abortion to save her life -- >> well, if that's the case -- it's the terminology here. you never need an abortion to save the life of a mother. megyn: never? >> the mother is the primary patient. megyn: right. >> if you're working to save the life of the mother and the child dies, that's not ab aworse. so -- abortion. so we're not talking about -- megyn: what about cases of rape, that they're saying that's a justifiable time when they would use taxpayer dollars. they say elective abortions they can get, but they're not going to pay for those with taxpayer dough, but rape, incest --

>> you talk about the issue of rape, that's such a small percentage of pregnancies. plus, how do you verify that that, in fact, is the case? that it's a case of rape? again, this comes down to government funds being used to advance radical social policy that is masquerading as health care. megyn: they say on the transgender issue i.c.e., like the bureau of prisons, allows detainees who are already receiving hormone therapy to continue that therapy. there is, apparently, a medical belief that if you are undergoing the hormone therapy to transition from male to female, they stop it right in the middle, that that could be potentially dangerous and then i.c.e. would get, would be forced to pay for the, you know, medical bills that are associated with this reaction. >> it's about a $20,000 process to undergo that. but here's the question, megyn. the taxpayers want to be funding that? you could list any number of areas of your life that are going to be impacted if you're taken into custody for being

someplace illegally. your children are going to be impacted, your job. are we responsible for that as the citizens of this country, to pay to mitigate the damages that people have because they make bad decisions? i don't think so. megyn: i.c.e. seems to be saying yes because they say our policy on these issues is in line with the policy of the department of justice and the bureau of prisons which applies to criminals serving their federal sentences. this is what you do when you take somebody into custody, illegal or american citizen. >> two points. one, these are rules adopted without congressional authority, these are internal rules by the entity itself. i. c.e. has adopted these. we're talking about nonamericans, people who have entered into this country illegally. and in many cases being afforded more costly health care than the basic health care that's been given to americans who have served their country honorably. there's a problem with that, and i think voters have a right to know, and i think congress should be looking into why these rules have been adopted and can changing them. we need to protect americans.

at a time when we have a $15 trillion debt, do we need to be paying for people to undergo hormone therapy or paying for abortions from illegal aliens? megyn: some in congress are already raising questions, lamar smith of texas, republican, has said the administration's new detention manual is more like a hospitality guideline for illegal immigrants. we'll see whether they do more with that. tony perkins, thank you, sir. >> good to be with you, megyn. megyn: it takes a lot to shock new yorkers, but this came close. a soccer mom with four kids accused of running a call girl ring that was charging up to $25,000 to score a date for the weekend. trace is on the story of who was possibly protecting this woman. and up next, the story of a mom who sets the bar so high, she's an example for all of us. stephanie decker tells us about how she nearly lost her life trying to protect her children when the twister hit. >> i saw a brick coming at my daughter's direction, so i would maneuver my back left and

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that almost cost her her life as she was trying to protect her children from a tornado last week. and in her first interview, she says she has no regrets. none. trace is here with more about this incredible woman. trace? >> reporter: this is a great story. 30-year-old stephanie decker actually went to pick up her kids early fro school, they're 8 and 5 years old, because she knew the storm was coming, and she went right home. they went right to the basement. a window broke out, and the entire house started shifting. she then made a split second decision, she wrapped her kids in a blanket and put herself on top of them. listen. >> the pillars, the steel beams, the bricks, everything from the house was hitting me in the back. i remember having a steel beam fall right on my leg. dominic would say, mommy, i need you to save me. >> reporter: she knew at that

point that her legs were bleeding very badly, but she was still trying to stop the bricks and the debris from hitting her kids. she says she kept praying and kept telling herself to keep fighting. listen. >> i sat there and talked to myself out loud and say, all right, we can do this. we can do this, you know, we can make it. you know, i've got to live for my kids. the next moment i was, i can't do this anymore, i can't stay awake, i'm tired, you know? i just want to close my eyes. >> reporter: she said she couldn't do it anymore, she even took out a cell phone and started videotaping for her husband and her kids. that's when a neighbor walked in, found her, ran down, grabbed a police who used a tourniquet to stop the bleeding on her legs. she lost one leg below the knee, the other one just above the ankle. her children, megyn, not a scratch on either one of them. and you saw the house and the debris which is in itself an amazing part of the story. megyn: it's unbelievable. you know, it's like you see

people like that, and it just restores your faith in humanity. you know? i think most parents would die to protect their children, but it's one thing to say it, and it's another thing to see a woman actually willing to do it and to lose her legs to protect her young ones. oh, god bless her and the entire family. trace, thank you. >> reporter: yeah, okay. megyn: right? i mean, it's a sad story, but it's an inspirational story just about the resolve and the bond between a parent and a child and the courage. well, democrats have now raised more than a million dollars on a web site recruiting donors to, quote, fight the gop war on women. but is there really a war, or is this just fund raising on women? we'll survey the so-called battlefield and debate it next. plus, six world leaders now joining forces to tackle the growing nuclear threat out of iran. but just yesterday ambassador bolton pointed out a new warning from the secretary of defense saying that stalled talks only give iran extra time to cross

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megyn: welcome back. 1:33 here in the east. mitt romney officially declared the winner of the alaska caucuses. that may have happened after you went to bed. bringing that candidate's number of super tuesday victories to six. governor romney racked up the majority of delegates yesterday, but critics say he's still struggling to win over the very conservative voters. the indiana colts giving long-time star quarterback peyton manning his walking papers, making the 35-year-old now a free agent. the team says they decided to cut manning loose rather than pay him a $28 million bonus. and lawmakers in utah approving a bill requiring all public school students to recite the pledge of allegiance daily. the new bill expands an earlier law requiring elementary students to recite the pledge every day and high school students once a week. it now heads to the governor's office for approval.

well, it's been almost 40 years since billie jean king famously won the battle of the sexes, defeating male tennis player bobby riggs in a nationally-televised match back in 1973. but now the tennis legend is part of a new fight against republicans. king is lending her star power to a democratic campaign that accuses republicans of waging a war on women's rights. in an e-mail she's encouraging people to go online and stop the republican war on women. that's how she puts it, to sign that petition. but is there really a war on women, or is this a case of fundraising on women? monica crowley, sally cohn are fox news contributors. you're a relin and a woman, are you waging war on yourself? [laughter] >> i am not, nor is the republican party -- megyn: do republicans hate women? >> this is the theme now coming out of the left.

and, look, it's understandable because the left has really, the democrat party has hemorrhaged a lot of women since 2008. the 2010 election cycle we saw a lot of women leaf the democrats -- leave the democrats, vote for the republican party, so this is their attempt to try to get women back, and this is why the whole contraception issue came up, team obama dropped this like a grenade into the middle of the election campaign. remember, megyn, they had a year and a half, obamacare was passed a year and a half ago, to figure out how they were going to deal with these kinds of issues. so the reason they dropped it into the race at this particular moment was to get everybody, all the republican presidential candidates, all of the hearn people, all the media chasing after the story or like lemmings off a cliff, and we all fell for it, and here we are talking about it once again. birth control, contraception, nobody cares about. megyn: i don't know about that one. go ahead. >> look, i completely and totally disagree with you as a woman. you know, look the issue in 28

states they'd already had a mandate like this that was stronger, and republicans didn't make a whisper of a problem about it until, ooh, all of a sudden it's election year, all -- [inaudible conversations] but the point, monica, it's an election year, and republicans keep wanting to hammer it not because of the issue itself -- excuse me, it was republicans who introduced the blunt amendment saying that any employer of any kind who has any religious objection to any kind of health issue, including women's health issues, can raise a finger -- [inaudible conversations] megyn: sally, you know, president obama he's going to bring us all together, hope and change, unifying force. there's a war on women! the republicans hate women! >> we hate them. >> first of all, it is really hard to unite when you're working with a party that says no to absolutely everything including tax increases they once favored. but that aside, there's no question here this is an election year, and all the polls say that, you know, 25% of the voters which is the republican base think there's not a war on

women, and the 25% which is the democratic base thinks there is. it's clearly part of firing up your base, i get it. when you have republicans and conservatives call women who want to exercise their first amendment rights sluts, i think -- megyn: do we have to go there? >> i'm just saying. megyn: ed schultz? >> i'm not talking about them -- megyn: it's not just republicans. >> i think what we really should be focusing on is the middle of the country, that 50% of independent seaters. overwhelmingly -- voters. overwhelmingly they think the republicans are in a war with everyone. actively sabotaging the u.s. chi. >> oh, come on. megyn: you disagree. i want to ask you this because you talked about how you think women have been turning on the democrats since 2008. we have a poll looking at president obama's approval rating with men. not with women. since the start of the year through march 4, 2012, barack

obama's overall approval rating has averaged 45%. trust me on this, this is according to our brain room, the gallup weekly tracker. his approval among men has averaged 41.7, so he is tracking lower with the men than he is with the women. does that suggest to you that democrats understand he needs to get women on the democratic side motivated and out to the polls? >> absolutely. look, he's had for a while, he's had a pretty serious problem with the base and, yes, that does include women. this whole thing was orchestrated to get everybody off of the main subject of this election which is unemployment and the state of the u.s. economy. so while everybody is over here talking about contraception which nobody cares about, we're not talking about the issues that, yes, do affect men, do affect women -- >> wow. >> and that's exactly -- megyn: before you respond, and i'm going to give you the floor, ann romney suggested something like this last night. she didn't quite make the comparison -- do we have that

sound bite, you guys? no. we don't have ann romney. [laughter] okay. i'm going to introduce anyone, and i don't want anyone to interrupt me. [laughter] okay, no, ann romney went out there last night, and she said this it was the first time we heard about what women want, and she said what women care about is the economy, they care about the debt, the entitlements, that's what she said. go ahead, sally. >> i'm going to flatly reject the idea that this is what democrats want to be talking about. the truth is the economy is getting better, talk to any republican strategist off camera, obama's approval ratings are getting better, they're still highly likable and, oh, yeah, you can't beat somebody with nobody, and the republicans have yet to find a nominee that they all can agree that they like. so santorum ran on -- this is, the democrats didn't invent this war on women, and republicans like santorum have been drumming up this social conservativism, and so they're the ones who wanted -- [inaudible conversations]

megyn: gotta go. >> nobody was talking about this until team obama dropped the hhs mandate on catholic universities, and they did that quite deliberately so that everybody would be talking about that. megyn: do you feel like we should have done this segment with little pink combat helmets? [laughter] >> next week. megyn: all right. thank you both so much. a pleasure as always. well, president obama making some bold claims in his first formal news conference of the year about syria, taxes, drilling for oil. it was the first big time he went before the press corps. as i say, in a year. now our fact checkers are telling us whether all those claims add up. and serious new warnings that iran is on the verge of building a nuclear bomb. yesterday on this program you heard there the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., and now we get reaction from the former israeli ambassador to that world body. >> the prospect of returning to the negotiation table gives iran the opportunity, which it has utilized to great advantage before, to drag out negotiations, to give it that

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megyn: follow up, now, to an emotional story that we brought you. it was a moment from the candidate forum hosted by mike huckabee last weekend here on fnc. it began with the father of a veteran who suffered a traumatic brain injury in afghanistan. that father sharing his family's ordeal to try to get his son benefits when he questioned mitt romney. >> the government has repeatedly denied services because his wounds aren't visible. he will never be able to return to the regular work force. this week president obama's administration again cut his benefits. sir, will you look me in the eye and tell me he'll be taken care of? megyn: well, yesterday that

father told our own neil cavuto that his son's claim has now been processed. good news for them. well, the u.s. working with five other world powers now to send a united message to iran ahead of new nuclear talks. diplomats are meeting at the united nations to come up with a joint statement addressing fears of iran building nuclear weapons. all this comes a day after the six nations accepted an offer from tehran to restart talks over its nuclear program. but on this show yesterday former ambassador to the united nations john bolton questioned whether it's too late for diplomatic maneuvers like this. >> the fact is iran is very close to achieving nuclear weapons. his own defense secretary has said that. and the prospect of returning to the negotiation table gives iran the opportunity -- which it has utilized to great advantage before -- to drag out negotiations, to give it that extra time and extra political

cover that it needs to cross the nuclear finish line. this is like a bad dream all over again. megyn: joining me now, dory gold. he's a former israeli ambassador to the united nations and a former foreign policy adviser to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he's also the author of the book "the rise of nuclear iran." ambassador, thank you very much for being with us. is this like a bad dream for israel, the restart of talks? >> well, this is a bad dream for the world. on the one hand, look, if through negotiations you get the iranians now to withdraw and halt their nuclear program and turn over their enriched your rain numb, that'd be great for everybody. but there's a record here. we know how the iranians negotiate. back between 2003 and 2005 they negotiated with the e.u. iii -- germany, france and britain -- and when those negotiations were over, their head negotiator gave a private speech in tehran that was later leaked. and he said you know what we did

in those negotiations? when they started, we didn't have a big nuclear plant for uranium conversion. when we finished, it was up and running. we exploited the negotiations in order to move our program down the road. i'm afraid that that's what the iranians will try and do again. megyn: we are already hearing questions by some in this country that, you know, what proof, what hard proof is there that iran has a nuclear weapons program and that it is at the precipice, if not at the point of having a nuclear weapon? and folks are hearkening back to the leadup to the iraq war saying say the administration told us there were weapons of mass destruction. none were found. are we heading down that same road now without cold, hard proof? >> well, there's a huge difference between the iranian situation and what happened before the iraq war. because in the iranian case we have proof from the international atomic energy agency. and that's a u.n. body. and it's not its last report,

the report before that it says where do we get our intelligence from? from ten different countries. these aren't cookbooks, this isn't one country trying to push an agenda. this is an international consensus by a u.n. agency that they're moving for it. now, i also hear people say, well, we don't know they want to make an atomic bomb. you know something? if you walked into a kitchen and you saw somebody take out a jar of peanut butter and a jar of jelly and two slices of bread, would you have doubts that they want to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? we have all the elements of a nuclear weapons program present today from enriched uranium beyond what they need. we know from the iae, they're trying to figure out how to take the conventional weapon, the warhead out of that missile and put in a nuclear payload. and we know they parade these missiles around tehran saying israel must be wiped off the map. and they write it literally in both farsi and english.

so if that doesn't tell you that they're trying to develop a nuclear bomb first of all to attack israel but also our neighbors like saudi arabia, then i don't know what kind of proof you need. megyn: what is the american president to do, though, when iran is coming back saying we want to resume talks, and barack obama knows the american people don't want to get involved in another war. is he supposed to say, no, we're not going to talk? >> you know what? talk but be very careful and keep the time frame extremely short. because if you allow them to drag this out, let's say towards the end of 2012 what would be wrong with that? well, secretary of defense leon panetta said by the end of 2012 they're going to have a nuclear bomb. so you don't want to allow them to use these negotiations to create a kind of zone of protection for them from international pressures. that's ha they've done in the -- what they've done in the past, and that's what i think they're going to try to do now.

megyn: ambassador dory gold, thank you, sir, for being here. >> my pleasure. megyn: well, some members of congress are now talking about authorizing the use of force against iran. in about five minutes, we'll show you what is causing new concerns. plus, anna christina is a stay-at-home mother with four children and a couple of rescue dogs. police say this mother had a secret life making millions running a high-priced string of prostitutes to some very powerful and wealthy clients. wow. trace has the story now getting national, i should say international, attention. >> what we have here is a mother, a caring mother of four, who has been slapped with a $2 million bond. [ dog barks ] appears buster's been busy. [ man ] yeah, scott. i was just about to use... that's a bunch of ground-up paper, lad! scotts ez seed uses the nest seed, fertilizer, and natural mulch that absorbs and holds water better than per can.

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megyn: well, we have a bombshell of a story that started in new york city but is now getting international anticipation. a soccer mom with four children is now facing serious charges after police accuse her of running a high-end prostitution service for the very rich and very powerful. trace? >> reporter: and remember, megyn, the name because she could become the new heidi nice. it is 44-year-old anna christina, and this investigation has been ongoing for five years where investigators say they have 100-plus hours of audiotape from undercover police police officet this manhattan madam bragging about her high-end clients including entertainers, bankers and how the police would actually protect her. they allege that she ran this multimillion dollar brothel for 15 years out of her upper east side apartment. she's a soccer mom with four kids, now being held on $2

million bond. you see the list there? that's the pricing list. a thousand dollars for a dream model girl, that's per hour. 1500 for a calendar girl and 2,000 for the ultimate elite model. that, by the way, if you want the ultimate elite model for the weekend will set you back $25,000. she's being held on $2 million bail because they say she's a high flight rigging. she has a home in canada, and they believe some of these high-end clients would like to get her out of town. the defense, by the way, says she's just trying to set up a matchmaking service. listen. >> she has some legitimate business interests that they're trying to make look like she's doing something wrong. she had some legitimate business interests, she has legitimate clients and nothing to do with the sex trade, and they're trying to throw everything in to muddy up the waters. >> reporter: the cops aren't buying that at all. the investigation, by the way, could also include tax evasion

since she hasn't paid taxes in a long, long time. police also looking at underaged girls being a part of this as well, megyn, and her husband says he is shocked because he thought they had the perfect family. megyn: wow. you've always got to think about the guys who are sitting at home thinking ah, as they see this report. trace, thank you. >> reporter: okay. megyn: some lawmakers want to send a message to iran's leaders. we're live at the white house with that story after the break. and a father uses a laser pointer to distract the opposing goalie during his daughter's hockey game. it's obviously rude, but is it criminal? it's on the docket in today's kelly's court. and it started as a local story about a philadelphia man using a cell phone jammer to silence loud bus passengers. wait until you see why this has now gone nationwide. ♪ i take insulin,

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megyn: new moves in the growing showdown with iran as lawmakers push for a resolution authorizing the use of force against that rogue nation. jay carney fired back against those he says are beating the drums of war that he says will have to answer to the american people. this comes after mitch mcconnell suggested congress send a message by authorizing use of force against rawns. >> it might convince the iranians we are serious about it to vote on an authorization of force. it would be a credible step in the direction saying we view this as a serious matter.

>> i'm not going to be part off rushing forward on a declaration of war. these have to be done cautiously. we have problems around this world that are so significant. we have north korea. syria, problems in egypt. let's stop throwing the word war around so casually. megyn: wendall goler is standing by with more. >> the white house often weighs in on legislation the congress is considering. but they don't want to say no, thank you for a resolution of support. it's something the president says it's not time for an hopes it never will be. spokesman jay carney defended the decision to resume talks with rawb which netanyahu warned

may be a trap. it's not just republicans in congress but those on the campaign trail criticizing obama. mitt romney says administration policies gave the. >> ayatollah what they wanted most, time. rick santorum said mr. obama has turned his back on israel. >> this is not a game. there is nothing casual about it. and, you know, when i see some of these folks who have a lot of bluster and big talk, but when you actually ask them specifically what they would do it turns out they repeat the things that we have been doing the last three years. >> reporter: the president says there is still time for sanctions and diplomatic pressure convince iran to either

stop its nuclear program or profit' not aimed at building a bomb. jay carney said those beating the drums of war should explain to the american people, why, why now and what the consequences would be. megyn: israeli fell netanyahu gave a gift to mr. obama this week. he give him a copy of the book of esther. it tells the story of the queen of persia who saved her country from a plot. that gesture from the prime minister highlighting what has become a strained relationship with the president over iran. we put the iran issue to a focus group, asking if they believe the president really does have israel's back as he stated

earlier in the week. he is not treating them like a friend of the united states. >> he's committed to protecting the united states, israel and the rest of the world. he's together most responsible thing possible. authorizing the use of force is outrageous. megyn: that's the on part where they were talking over each other it was civil and strong. it's was democrats and republicans. there were some real fireworks from these folks who were thoughtful and very opinionated on this issue. you will see it all in just a bit on "america live." there is new testimony from the nation's top military leader on whether we should intervene in syria. new video coming in as army admiral martin dempsey tef guys

our armed forces would be ready if called to go in. he's concerned about outside extremists and syria's chemical and biological weapons. the testimony comes after a panel called for u.s. air strikes against assad's regime. the u.n. says 7,500 civilians have been killed. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. >> reporter: for the second day in a row there have been extensive debates on capitol hill about whether the u.s. should intervene in syria. >> how' more have to die? 10,000 more? 20,000 more? how many more. >> what doesn't make sense is to take unilateral action at this point. as secretary of defense before i

recommend we put our sons and dmairts uniform in harm's way, i have got to make sure that we know what the mission is, i have got to make very sure that we know whether we can achieve that mission. at what price, and whether it will make matters better or worse. >> reporter: defense secretary panetta warned against the u.s. taking unilateral action. he says there are no simple answers. secretary mccain tried to shame panetta into acting by making comparisons to bosnia when he served in the clinton administration and decided to act. the chairman of the joint chiefs warned about how serious the terrain is than that of libya. syria has five times the defense systems. >> we can do anything, the

question is -- it's not about can we do it, it's should we do it and what are the opportunity costs elsewhere and what are the risks. >> reporter: what they are concern bodies if they arm the opposition since they know very little about the opposition, some of those arms could end up in the hands of hezbollah. megyn: jennifer griffin, thank you. new questions about green energy in washington. this time involving wind power. a major power producer in the pacific northwest coming up with a new plan to deal with a recurring problem, power overply. wind farm owners in the region produce too much power for the grid certain times of the year. so they have the idea to have washington pay wind producers tens of millions of dollars not to produce wind power. dan springer has more on this one live in seattle.

dan? >> reporter: contrary to what we have been told when it comes to renewable energy there can be too much of a good thing. lit cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars on top of the premium for wind power. hydro power and wind power are peaking at the same time in the late spring and early summer. that when the snow is melt and the wind is howling in the columbia river gorge. >> it's the one system in the world where in realtime moment to moment you have to produce as much energy as is being consumed. >> reporter: last summer bonneville power shut down the wind generators for 28 days. that's lost income for the wind farms. green groups hate because it sends a message that when push

comes to shove hydro power will always trump wind power. that will kill future wind development. conservatives don't like it because it's driving up the cost of energy. hydro doesn't emit any carbon. >> we require the taxpayers to subsidize renewable energy and we want rate payers to pay them when they lose money. that system is unsustainable. >> reporter: bonneville submitted its plan yesterday. now they have to decide whether it's fair to the energy companies and taxpayers. megyn: bold claims made during the president's news conference while he took credit for the energy and we'll show what the fact checkers found when they looked into those claims.

we'll show you the most searched topics online. a showdown over iran's nuclear program grows worse about it day. the white house accusing republican critics of treating war like a game. treating it casually. our voter and is back and they sound off on the president's claim. all the language coming out of israel suggests they are getting ready to bomb iran. is it the gop candidates stirring this pot or is it the circumstances of the world in which we live? occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defend against digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. hit me! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'. ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition

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problems is to deploy our military -- that hasn't been true in the past, and it won't be true now. we have got to think through what we do through the lens of what's going to be effective but also what's critical for u.s. security interests. megyn: he went on to say the' not a question of if asaid's regime will fail, but when it will fail. so how do the president's comments on syria and some other issues square with the facts? christopher hahn and chris plant of the chris plant show. you have media folks who will do fact checking. in this case abc news did a check of the president's claim. they point out that, look, many are predicting these rebels in syria who we are not helping right now because we don't want

to get involved at the moment militarily may not succeed without more direct help us from. and the regime, the assad regime is by no means assured of falling without some meaningful u.s. intervention. your thoughts on it. >> i don't think the president ruled out ever assisting these rebels in syria. the president said he didn't want to do it by himself. he wanted to make sure he had support from the region and our allies in europe and elsewhere to do this. that was a successful formula in libya and it would and successful formula in syria. i think the american people are weary of the got it alone strategy that we mad for the 8 years that preceded the president and that's his only tack right now. megyn: chris plant, is it true it's not a question of if the asaid regime will fail by when? >> of course not.

eventually bashar al-asaad will pass from this world to the next world, but i don't think that what the president is hoping for. the syrian military has the wherewithal to crush this insurrection. if i'm not mistaken when the libyan situation was evolving, the president decided to intervene with his coalition of the willing which was very, very limited. two other countries when it comes to air power being involved. this was about the responsibility to protect and the use our military forces in that context was entirely appropriate according to the same president. we now have a situation that is nearly identical and we have a different standard being applied. megyn: we have europe's support. it's not got it alone. >> are they willing to get in? that still remains to be seen. so we'll wait and see. listen, again, i think this is a dangerous situation for those rebels on the ground and i think

at some point we are going to intervene. but i don't think we have to do it immediately. megyn: we have a couple issues to get through. john bolton has been saying you have got to tread carefully because this could turn into a proxy war with iran. let's talk about taxes. the president went back to the buffet rule and he's sick and tired of millionaires and billionaires paying a lower effective tax rate than their secretaries. warren buffet and his secretary are the exception to the rule. so is the president not being straight with us on this? >> i think that would be a generous understatement. this is one of the most repeated mantras out of this administration. it's part of the war on

prosperity, the war on success. the war on those obscene profits they hold in such contempt. you find the exception to the rule. poor warren buffet doesn't pay enough in taxes. he was taxed once when it was income. if his secretary makes so much money, she makes $400,000 to $500,000. she lives in omaha. it's a big job. >> the true measure of a person's success is how many people he makes wealthy around him. >> they are the 1% of americans we talk so much about. when we talk about this income being taxed as income in wages that's not necessarily true.

most of the money these people make is by borrowing money to invest that money. that how they make their billion where you and i don't have those same opportunities. megyn: president obama claiming u.s. gas production has rinse and imports are down under his administration. this is from abc, the quote is yes, but thanks to obama's predecessor. christopher hahn? >> if we could still give bush credit for things that happened four years ago, let many still blame him for things happening, too. which way do you want to have it? megyn: he gets credit for that but he gets blamed for a lot of things. >> it takes years and years and years for any policy on oil to make its way into the markets. the reason we have high gas prices is more about speculation of war with iran. when it doesn't come to fruition later in the summer those prices

will plummet. megyn: is the president trying to suggest i'm on it it's as a result in large part due to the policies of president bush. >> the increased production is because of president bush. for president obama's credit in his energy speech he actually admitted under his breath mumbling that most of this is because of what was done in previous administrations. he said he was talking about the bush administration. chris, i have been hearing for 40 years how all this stuff takes a long time to get to market. cotton takes a long time to get to market and so does corn. you know what you do? you start. >> we are drilling more than we ever have. president obama has short us since the oil embargo.

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the time. people talking loudly on their cell phones, usually in an enclosed space. a guy in philadelphia found a way to shut them up it's a huge thing being talked about from coast to coast. even the federal government is getting involved. >> reporter: it was the local news in philly that found this cell phone jearm. he admitted it and then he boasted about it saying i'm take the law into my own hands. i get that, but i'm proud of it. the story caught fire. it went national. now you have people in d.c., new york and other cities saying i'm jamming their cell phones, too, when they get too loud. i guess online amazon.com, cell phone jammer.com you can buy these jammers from between $200 and $400. the fcc decided to send out a

little friendly reminder saying i'm quoting, these devices pose serious risk to critical public safety communications and can prevent you and others from making 911 and other emergency calls. jammers can also interfere with law enforcement communications. remember his video, the san francisco bay transit, they shut count occupy protests so they could stop people from gathering and rioting and that caused a firestorm of public outrage? they were upset when the government decided to do it. but when one guy in philly decides to do it they give him an atta boy. megyn: some woman talk on the sidewalk, i thought what kind of person can't make from it a to b

without talk on a cell phone. that was in the dawn ages of the greg phone. >> reporter: they were this big. megyn: that was a little before my time. thank you. we have been hearing serious new warnings that iran is on the verge of building a nuclear bomb and military action with israel is necessary and imminent. our voter panel is brutally honest when it comes to the reality of war next. >> i don't think anybody in this country wants war. republican, democrat. but there is a question about whether going to be forced into this base of the situation in israel. if israel bombs iran without the united states, raise your hand if you would be in favor of the united states getting involved militarily. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements.

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megyn: back to one of our top stories. the growing showdown over iran's nuclear program as congress starts talking about possibly authorizing the use of force against iran, the white house press secretary lashed out against those people he said are beating the drums of war. that comes 24 hours after president obama talked about iran as a campaign issue during these remarks during a news conference.

>> what's said on the campaign trail, those folks don't have a lot of responsibilities. they are not commander-in-chief. and when i see the casualness with which some of these folks talk about war, i'm reminded of the cost involved in war. i'm reminded the decision that i have to make in terms of send our young men and women into battle. and the effect that has on their lives, the impact it has on our national security, the impact it has on our economy. this is not a game. and there is nothing casual about it. megyn: back in our studio our focus group. we are adding some democrat voters to the panel. usually we do republicans in response to republican primary nights. jay, i want to start with you as a gop voter.

your reaction. >> this is bizarre. this man unilaterally decided to send our troops and nato into libya without a word of assent from anybody in the united states congress including members of his own party and he now stand there and lectures gop candidates about war? this is the same man who on sunday said to netanyahu i have your back who is now a day later walking back everything he said to aipac over the weekend. megyn: jehmu greene, democrat. do you think this was a political speech? >> clearly it was a substantive criticism. and it was absolutely necessary for our safety as a country. it's dangerous when you have candidates playing politics with our support for israel, with our resolve to keep iran away from nuclear weapons, and he just

have to listen to the list of options when governor romney says what he would do, what is different between him and president obama. as the "new york times" says, president obama is already doing those things. we have to have a bipartisan approach to our support for israel. some things aren't political and these candidates don't understand that. >> it's hypocritical for the president to be taking this path because while he downplays the gop nominees as not knowing what they are talking about. it was him in 2008 that ran so far to the left against war that awas identifying with codepink and many of those movements only to keep in place every element of cheney and bush's foreign policies in afghanistan, iraq and gitmo, they are all still in place and they are all still open. he was the one that changed, not the gop. megyn: do you think the president has a point about the

casualness of the language when it comes to war with iran which everyone would agree it would be a huge deal. let me give you a sampling of what we have heard on the gop side. >> i'll make sure iran knows of the real peril that awaits it if it becomes nuclear. i'll engage iran's neighbors. i'll station multiple aircraft carriers and war ships at iran's door. >> in a gingrich administration we would not keep talking while the iranians keep building. >> if they do not tear down those facilities we'll tear down them ourselves. megyn: jason? democrat. >> i think the president is right on this and the clips you show reveal that. presidential candidates historically on both sides of the aisle have always respected the president as commander-in-chief. john kerry did that as it per pertained to iraq in 2004.

john mccain did that in 2008. i think it's upsetting now to see these gop candidates distorting facts in a way that at best creates a false choice between them and the president because as we said i think they are similar positions to what president obama has already done. i think at worst it creates an environment of fear that has an effect of doing things like driving up iranian crude oil prices which puts more money in the coffers of iran and funds their nuclear program. megyn: are they creating an environment of fear or is there a real fear? on this show we have had ambassador dan gillerman, former israeli ambassador to the united nations. he's telling us we are warning you. this is serious, all the language coming out of israel seems to suggest they are getting ready to bomb iran and we'll be tonight whether we want to be tonight or not. the question is is it the gop candidates stirring this pot or is it the circumstances of the

world in which we live. >> this is a president governed by fear. there is always a crisis. i think he was hypocritical. but i'm going to give credit where credit is due. obama is a master at controlling the message and that the message that will be plastered everywhere. he twisted it in a way that made him look good. they are so casual. who wants to go to war? nobody wants to go to war. he's brilliant at spinning the message and i have to give him credit for that but i think he was hypocritical about that. megyn: when i saw that it reminerred me of "an american president." president obama has been accused, applauded of trying to emulate president andrew shepherd the fictional president. michael douglas' character said we have serious problems and we need serious people.

barack obama said these are serious times and call for serious debate. he talked about these folks don't have a lot of responsibility and they don't have a -- and i'm commander-in-chief. is there any chance barack obama is taking his talking points from andrew shepherd. >> i don't think he's doing a good job of it if he is. the way he talks down to the gop candidate and the way he's politicizing it makes me mad. they take it very, very seriously and our whole philosophy has been a strong defense stops war. and that's the whole point. if you let iran have nuclear weapons and they said they are going to wipe israel off the map. then we are taking a stopping stance with them instead of going on with his diplomacy. to act like they are just politicizing it, playing politics and they don't have much to do is really the way that obama works sometimes, it's the way he talks down to people.

megyn: i don't think anybody in this country wants war. republican, democrat. but the question about whether we are going to be forced into this because of what the situation is here in israel. if israel bombs iran without the united states, raise your hand if you would be in favor of the united states getting involved militarily. >> depend on how well they do. megyn: it's splitting along partisan lines. >> the president hasn't taken the iranian threat seriously is ridiculous. we have had 7 rounds of sanctions passed. we got u.n. to pass tougher sangs that have been passed before. >> they aren't working. >> they are starting to work. prime minister netanyahu said the sanctions are starting to work. dose say it's going to be the end result? will sanctions be the end to the iranian crisis? >> sanctions always go against a

nation's poor. which is one of the reasons why president bush always said to the people of iran, blah, blah, blah, but to the leaders something else. megyn: the jewish vote in this country typically votes democrat. but israel is a very difficult issue. it tend to unite a lot of folks on the democratic and republican side. so is the president in a difficult position if israel bombs iran, he's going to displease a lot of people. >> if it's good enough for benjamin netanyahu it should be good enough for the united states. israel has the most to lose. netanyahu was pleased with the president. the president was very clear. he keeps military options on the table, he does have israel's back and he's committed to insure that iran does not get nuclear weapons. it's outrageous and

irresponsible and disgusting is when we are still in the midst of winding down the longest war this country has ever fought, over 6,000 dead, 50,000 wound, the republican candidates can go out and engage in this war mongering talk when we haven't even figured out how to deal with the cost of this $3 trillion war we fought improperly and early. and dealt with a $2.3 million coming back home. it's time to take care of america here instead of fostering war abroad. >> over the weekend as you just admitted, the president said military options are on the table. and then yesterday he went out after the republicans. >> the commander-in-chief, that's the most important job the president has and the republicans are being responsible, they are not being

casual, he is. what about peace through strengths. we'll have war through weakness because he has coddled the muslim brotherhood and told benjamin netanyahu 1967 borders are fine. he has not treated our friend israel well enough. republicans are strong and they know if iran gets the bomb, that's it. >> he's committed to protecting the united states, israel and the rest of the world. i think he's doing the most responsible job possible. >> he said if it's good enough for netanyahu it should be good enough for obama. if bb drops bombs by bernard's own left of center perspective we should be backing them up.

>> did you see how he's completely switched the next day? >> no, he did not. >> that's different ... megyn: we feel like we touched a never and rightly so because this is an important topic. i was going to keep going. but we have to go to break. maybe we can put it online. coming up. laura ] maine is known for its lighthouses, rocky shore,

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megyn: "kelly's court" in session. the dad who ruined a hockey teams chance of winning fair and square now feeling the heat. he's accused of shining a laser point in thize of the goalie. look at this. we are told it started after the other team scored. that's when joseph reportedly

directed the beam into the opposing goalie's eyes. now he's facing criminal charges. joining me to discuss it is lis weihl, former defense attorney and. he goes to the high school daughter's hockey game. her team is down 1-0 an panics. how bad was it? >> he put a laser right into the goalie's eyes. the whole game was disrupted. the poor girl could have tripped or fallen or bumped into somebody else. and, megyn, it's not the first time he has don't. he has don't before in other games. megyn: how do they know? >> he admitted to it. megyn: he was caught green handed. so it's not good sportsmanship,

it's not something any high school girl what would want to find out her dad was doing. criminal charges? what's he been charged with? >> disorderly conduct and disturbance of the peace, both of which are misdemeanors. it's outrageous. it's the poster child for idiotic behavior. is he a jerk? absolutely. but jail time? he's been ban from the games. that's punishment enough. megyn: in the prosecution's defense it clouded the 3-1 victory. the team he messed with, did they win or lose. >> his daughter's team went on to win. megyn: so the scheme worked, but it clouded their victory. so there were nor winners here because the victorious team had its win cloud and the losing team says they lost because of the green lantern. >> this was a playoff game.

i think disorderly conduct absolutely. disturbing the peace in massachusetts, got to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the defendant engaged in conduct that most people would consider unreasonably disruptive. did it intentionally. annoyed or disturbs at least one person. >> was he screaming? was he rooting? was he up and down and slapping people around? he was doing none of that. >> that little laser my children have, i told them don't it in each other's eyes. that's for another day. it's ridiculous. it's not that he was so disruptive. >> the whole game stopped. of course, kit was disruptive.

the goalie is saying i'm getting blind out here. the game stopped. megyn: what is this videotape we have? is this the actual green layers or is this just one of our team go out and do this? this is a local affiliate did this. this could be the local guy. what are the odds now that a civil case will be brought against him because we are told that the father of the goalie who had the laser put in her eyes said he's not sure. they are considering a civil case. >> there is a civil case to be had damages are hard to know. but she could have been hurt. megyn: are they hard to know? >> she the young goalie is complaining of headaches, her eyes hurt. megyn: that's the society in which we live. panel, thank you.

megyn: major developments in a story we have been following in west virginia. a former shaffer and another official voting guilty to voter fraud and ballot stuffing. eric? >> reporter: guilty pleas in a shocking voter fraud case involving two top officials. jerry bowman pled guilty. prosecutors say he tried to steal an election by stuffing the ballot box with inhe will absentee ballots. the county clerk pled guilty in court about lying about the

voter fraud scheme. while the sheriff was in court pleading guilty, outside when arrived he refused to say anything. >> shaffer, why did you try to steal the election. does he have anything to say to the voters he defrauded? >> reporter: the gop chairwoman -- how bad is voter fraud? >> it's deep and wide in southern west virginia. especially lincoln county. we have seen commissioners having keys to the machine. we have seen people buy and sell votes and most recently the voter absentee ballot fiasco that occurred by a courthouse gang that contributed to the illegal elections. it goes from the low level to

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