laura ingraham in for bill o'reilly. >> laura: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight. >> i wanted people to understand this is another government subsidized contraception nor is contraception as incredibly cheap as some people have shared. >> georgetown law student sandra fluke finds the spotlighted again in the contraception debate while new polls show this battle is actually hurting president obama among women. we will have a report. >> anybody who says that they have got some magic bullet to get oil -- gas prices down to two bucks a gallon aren't telling the truth. >> president obama takes a shot at a g.o.p. rivals over gas prices but does he have any solutions? perhaps john stossel does. >> what is fair? he will be here. >> the united states takes this as seriously as if it was our own citizens and our own

children who were murdered. the president calls the shooting rampage in afghanistan unacceptable. while leon panetta says the u.s. soldier accused could face the death penalty. is it legal is investigating. >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. but first an election update with bret baier. we will be back in 60 seconds. captions by closed captioning services >> bret: i'm bret baier in washington with america's election headquarters update. all polls are in alabama and mississippi. both states at this hour are too close to call. in alabama, rick santorum appears to have a slight lead over mitt romney and newt gingrich. in mississippi, romney appears to have a slight lead over gingrich and santorum. the one thing we're certain of, fox news can project ron paul will finish a distant fourth in both states but it's very tight at the top. now a look at some exit polls. 73% of voters in alabama are

evangelical christians and they back santorum with 36%. gingrich 31. romney 28. in mississippi, tea party supporters are breaking almost evenly for gingrich and romney. romney's support with this group might have been bowl diserred by the endorsement of mississippi governor phil bryant. more coming up at the bottom of the hour and full hour at 11 p.m. eastern. keep an eye on the screen. see the raw vote total soon. we will send it back to the o'reilly factor. captions by closed captioning services >> laura: hi, everyone. i'm laura ingraham in for bill o'reilly. no talking points memo tonight because we want to get right to the top story. president obama's sinking poll numbers. according to brand new "new york times" cbs poll just 41% of americans approve of the job mr. obama is doing while 47% disapprove.

a month ago approval ratings were 50%. even worse is approval ration on the economy. 31% approve of the his handling of the economy. 54% disapprove. what's behind the president's recent struggles in the polls? let's turn to barack and hard place duo monica crowley and colmes who join us from new york. great to see both of you. >> hi, laura. >> laura: alan, look, a month ago he remember some of our friends on the left. indeed he had something of an uptick and spent a lot of time talking about it. this is the path to re-election. is he back, the economy is back what's going on here? >> i don't think anybody can say it's back or take for granted anything that's happened in november. there is a lot of fluctuation and there is going to be between now and november. give you other numbers. national journal poll says 44%

trust president obama to make the decisions that bring down the price of gas as opposed to 32% of republicans 50% of them trust obama alternative energy compared to 42% of the republicans. so, if we look into the issues a little more deeply he actually does he have well. the real clear politics rolling averages show that obama beats just about every potential candidate, particularly mitt romney. i mean, i certainly wouldn't get to concerned about we know which way the election is going to go based on this number from the cbs poll you cite. >> there have been a number of polls that have come out. not just one post. "the washington post," abc poll. rasmussen had a poll yesterday all showing a bit of a downturn hurricane independence the "the washington post" cbs poll showed a stark drop for the president on the issue of handling the economy which is still the number one issue. >> yeah, 57% of independents who are likely going to decide this election disapprove of his overall job performance.

even more than that disapprove of his handling of the economy. another poll, lauer, that you didn't cite came out last week, gallup 50% of the american people have half of the american people polled thought that this president has been a quote failure, look, anything can happen between now and election day. we all know that. this president is certainly i have vulnerable. he has uphill battle. all of the polls that we are citing are a direct function of a couple of things. obviously the economy stop bornly high unemployment. gas prices hurting every american regardless of whether or not you adrive. anemic economic growth. you mentioned this earlier. you covered it yesterday. we have been covering ton fox news for the past couple of weeks. the sandra fluke controversy i now think that most of the american people have looked at the left's or committees strays and manipulation of occupy wall street and the left's orchestration of the contraception issue and most of the american people are actually on to the left. they are on to the white

house. they are on to the democrat party and they are saying we have serious issues in this country and this is how the left is spending their time trying to manipulate us and we are over it. >> it's the right. >> laura: what of that? the numbers among women voters have also declined for the president in this poll, he still leads a little bit but the decline was documented in the "new york times" today. >> i think it will continue to lead. the fact that you see birth control as an issue, contraception asen issue isn't because of the left or whatever perceived. >> laura: because of the media. >> perceived manipulation. it's because people like rick santorum continue to talk about it in their speeches. the right has made it an issue. become a bigger issue because of the limbaugh debacle and in the long run hurting republicans. this isn't bad for democrats. this is actually helping them alan do you believe that when people are seeing gas prices, "weekly standard" has $4.53 picture up on their web site now, when beam see that do you think women voters are going to say oh my gosh my partner

and i can't buy condoms and can't buy birth control pills that are 9.99 at wal-mart. do you think they rate that in the top five issues they in their families today? >> general perception there is a war on women going on for women on the right. this issue calling women these terrible names. in terms of gas prices. >> laura: how was that a national issue? people like rick santorum talking about birth control and contraception as an issue. >> laura: is he being asked about it constantly. >> he gives speeches he introduces the topic. >> how long ago? >> president does not set gas prices. instability of the middle east, the president and any more than george w. bush said. republicans said back then bush doesn't set gas prices. they are right. >> alan is right to this extent there are a lot of factors that go into this gas prices issue. speculators, they effect about 15% of the uptick or the down

particular, sometimes, in gas prices. nevertheless, i think there is a concern that the administration is doing a the lo of this stuff like the sandra fluke calls and they are doing let's move and they are doing cool campaign stops with celebrities. when it comes to an oil and gas policy that makes sense for people, i don't think that's working with the voters. i'm trying to look at this not as a conservative but as, you know, person out there who is trying to fill up his tank or her tank every week and like maybe it's not all his fault but he can do a little bit more here. >> and over the last couple of years, laura, he has actually taken deliberate steps to get us to this place right now. he has blocked drilling. he has blocked exploration. he has slow walked permitting and, of course, recently he blocked the keystone pipeline. that's why people are holding him accountable. look, presidents get the bulk of the criticism on the economy, gas prices, even when they don't deserve t and they get the credit when they don't deserve it in this case because obama spent years waging a real ward on fossil

fuels. that's why the american people are going why am i paying $4 a gallon? you know what somebody who works in my building in new york a maintenance guy nice as he can be said these gas prices are killing me i cannot even afford to make ends meet anymore. the american people are hurting and they are holding the president accountable as he should. >> actually expanded drilling though. he has not reduced drilling. >> permitting has been a disaster. >> public lands, no. >> expanded drilling. more drilling going on than in the bush administration. >> actually, alan if you look closely at the latest white house picture there is a drilling rig right on the front lawn of the white house. cool. >> that would actually help him, laura. >> yeah, it would. next up on the run down sandra fluke continues her crusade to force all employers to offer free coverage for contraceptives while new polls show that the issue could actually be hurting obama among women. we're going to hear both sides. and then john stossel investigates the rising prices at the pump. so what's a fair amount for

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neither government subsidized contraception nor as contraception as incredibly cheap as people have shared. >> i was speaking out about students and low income women across the country who need access to this care. it's unfortunate that folks have made it so much about me and my access because that was not what my testimony was about. >> laura: that testimony helped disik off an effort why democrats to try to capitalize on fluke's new found fame. but, a big but, according to a "new york times" poll released today, this may be back firing on president obama. check this out. just 41% of women now approve of the job president obama is doing while one month ago that number was at 53% who approved. joining us now were austin texas, fox news crib tore jehmu green and dallas texas conservative commentator hanna smith. new poll numbers out and fairly reflective of what we saw on yesterday's "the

washington post" abc poll fairly consistent on this issue of approval ratings hone it down on 00 issue of women. you can chime in on this gentlemen jehmu. after this issue has been pushed and pushed and millions of mailers going out today from the democrats in this re-election efforts, the numbers don't seem to have translated for the president in a great, you know, surge of female support. why? laura, we can all agree that every issue is a woman's issue. if you look at rising gas prices. if you look at the fact that for the past few weeks we have been all consumed with this potential war with iran there is a lot of issues that women are going to be focused on and concerned with. so, it's not a surprise that one month those numbers are going to reflect well for president obama and the next month another snapshot will be

different. but at the end of the day this conversation about contraception is one the democrats want to have this conversation about contraception is reinvigorating women activists. when you look at his results in 2008, winning a larger margin of women voters than ever recorded in a presidential race, i think president obama is well on his way to repeating that. >> laura: right. gentlemen knew, -- jehmu, you believe the issue of getting free contraception from your insurance that that issue is in the top five issues for women voters in the united states, with all the things facing this country you believe that make sure you get that 9.99 covered and get in wal-mart, condoms, i don't know how expensive they are, you think that's really the issue? >> well, i'm not going to place it if it's in the top one or two. >> laura: i don't think it's in the top 20. it's not in the top 20, jehmu, i'm guessing. but i think i'm correct.

where women do see this issue is that they feel that they have been backed into a corner. when you look at what has happened across the states. just not with the affordable care act, state by state women are come under attack by legislation that's been happening for the past couple of years. when they feel backed into a corner, they are going to speak out and stand up. >> laura: they feel backed into a corner, jehmu is referring to and you are in texas. referring to the fact that the hhs secretary kathleen sebelius, handna, refused to give texas a waiver basically texas is on the hook now for about $30 million for family planning or what services medicaid used to pay for because texas said no to planned parenthood's involvement. i think that's what jehmu was talking about. >> i think what jehmu said every issue is a women's issue is really important to remember that religious liberty is a woman's issue. when you look at the "new york times" poll that just came out. it shows that women favor religious exemption for religiously affiliated groups like schools and hospitals

when they have a religious objection to this mandate. twoom a 3% of women favor exemption for religious groups. if you look at the other number is 46% favor versus 44% that oppose an exemption for any employer. not even a religious employer. but any employer that has a religious exemption to this mandate. so, clearly women are speaking on this issue of religious liberty and the polls show that they support exemption from this mandate. >> laura: what i'm seeing here and jehmu we can shift from that fluke said today a 1% of those polls, cbs "new york times" today said people should be able to opt out any employer for religious or conscience reasons. this whole issue has been totally spun in a false and really damaging fashion. this is about every employer who has a moral conscious who says this isn't i support. i don't want to have insurance plans that offer sterilization

abort face interest are you goings or birth control pills. if you want to do that at planned parenthood or community health clinic, more power to you, go for it that's an interesting number, 51% to 40%. >> in my employer told me that he or she was religiously against me getting a pap smear, that's the direction we are headed in. >> laura: a pap smear is routine care. >> rude tear amendment. >> and so is contraception. that's exactly it. that's what sandra fluke was talking about. >> laura: huh-uh. what disease does. >> ovarian. >> birth control prevent. >> ovarian cysts. >> birth control. >> let me answer, laura. ovarian cysts are -- ovarian cysts are searly reduced with contraception. >> laura: so everybody should be on birth control pills. >> many women. >> use it for health care reasons. >> laura: sorry, go ahead. >> the catholic church has specifically said it would not

deny any woman. it would not deny any woman contraceptive drugs for the treatment of ovarian cysts. so, when it is used for a medical purpose contra acceptive would be allowed. that's simply a distraction. >> laura: there is a medical debate about whether injecting yourself or taking massive amounts is hormones is good for your body. we are all into organic and natural suddenly we want to take lots of hormones. good to see he you and continue to track these polls. as gas prices continue to soar. president obama struggles to find solutions. john stossel has some advice for the president. later, first lady michelle obama defends nationwide fitness program saying it is not a big government intrusion. do the facts back that up? we will debate it coming up.

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>> laura: in the stossel matter segment tonight, the average price for a gallon of gas is now at $3.81. the highest ever for this time of year. on the campaign trail newt gingrich has said as president he would get gas prices down to $2.50 a gallon. president obama was challenged about this and in an interview with wftv orlando. >> your opponents say that they can get price down down in the $2, $2.50 range what do you think americans should be okay with. >> first of all, nobody believes that they know that's just politics. anybody who says they have some magic bullet to get gas prices down to $2 aren't telling the truth. >> laura: kind of like jobs saved or created. john stossel joins us whose show airs on fox business channel on thursday. you were listening to the previous segment, especially in light of the new polls and

the "new york times" cbs poll that just came out on the contraception issue. what's your take? >> i just don't get it. if you could buy birth control pills at wal-mart for $10 a month, 110 bucks a year. jane fonda and barbra streisand all by themselves could buy birth control for every poor woman in america and have millions of dollars left offer. why do they want to force employers to pay for it when some of the employers think it's wrong? >> laura: "new york times" poll shows that 51% of women believe that there -- people should be able to opt out for any religious or moral concern. that number goes even higher when that's religiously affiliated institutions. i don't think it's played the way the administration thought it was going to play i think they believed they were going to get a big payoff, john. they didn't. >> it's interesting your guest equates paying for it, equates banning it with saying i don't want to pay for it big difference. >> laura: meaning of the word

access. now access means other people have to pay for it i want to know all those people who can't afford the 999 a month do any of them have premium cable packages? that's all i want to know. okay? do we go to starbucks? anything like that. because it's not that much money. all right. john, let's talk about this hot issue of gas prices. in washington, d.c. i would love to have $3.81 per gallon gas prices way higher here. you say that this price of 4 plus in some metropolitan areas is just fine. that's what the market is offering today. >> the market gets to decide. i think the president's is right. there is not much he can do about it might effect it a penny or two if he hadn't sent all these signals that we're not going to drill anywhere. it's a world market. so what america does doesn't make that much of a difference. >> laura: president obama though, john, on the issue of keystone and slow permitting in the gulf and no drilling in alaska, newt gingrich says that if he had opened up those areas, then we would have, i

think the figure is like 2.1 million barrels more, i believe, a day in america. and obviously it takes time to do that. but that obviously would lower prices over time. >> maybe a penny or two but not a hugement a. the world market makes such a big difference. and i just, for perspective, one thing we should think about and take me a second to do it. in some ways it's quite reasonable what we are paying even now. i would love to get rid of the big gas taxes, but think about what it takes for them to get us this gasoline. they have got to suck it out of the ground in horrible places where they might be shot at. the drills now go seven miles into the earth. they turn corners and go sideways put in pipelines that cost billions of dollars and put in ships that cost hundreds of millions. refined into three types of gasoline. put in a truck that cost $100,000, put in a gas station where they have all this expensive equipment so we don't blow ourselves up and it's still in most gas stations cost less per ounce than the bottled water they sell in those gas stations.

>> laura: stossel, how much do you drive? do you fill up your car? >> i have my minivan and i hate paying the 70 bucks it cost. but if government were bringing us gasoline it would cost 40 bucks a gallon. i'm impressed with what these oil companies are doing. >> laura: do you think that newt gingrich is playing a game with the 2.50 sign and holding up the gas pump sign. >> yes. >> laura: it might be working though. >> he also wants to take us to the moon. >> laura: i'm a space cadet myself. so the moon is fine with me. but, fascinating conversation as always, john, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> laura: plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. taliban ratcheting up threats against american troops in afghanistan as the defense secretary leon panetta says the soldier involved in deadly shooting rampage could face the death penalty. is it legal on that. but, next, michelle obama is the most powerful surrogate her husband has this election year. her let's move healthy eating

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because your moment is now. let nothing stand in your way. learn more at keller.edu. >> bret: this is america's election headquarters update i'm bret baier in washington. we are tracking with it big southern primaries tonight. rick santorum has the early advantage in alabama. very early as you see here. according to exit poll data and the earlily raw votes coming. in he does have a slight lead. it's very tight though. and it could be quite some time before we're close to declaring a winner in alabama. early word from mississippi has mitt romney enjoying a slight lead there polls closed about a half an hour ago. romney is trying to solidify his frontrunner status and add to his lead in the delegate count. again, it's very tight in mississippi. newt gingrich has said he needs to finish very well in both southern states to go along with last week's victory in georgia. so what would a possible second or third place mean in either state.

we'll ask the former house speaker during our coverage later this evening. will join us at 11:00. fox news is projecting ron paul to finish a distant fourth in both states. get an update from senior national correspondent john roberts in lafayette, louisiana where rick santorum is holding a rally. good evening, john. >> good evening, bret, for the last week santorum supporters now the candidate himself increasing the drum beat for gingrich to get out. their argument gingrich cannot win outside the south. he can't become the enemy knee. if he were to lose in alabama and mississippi tonight, watch for that drum beat to become deafening, rick santorum will say let's stop splitting the conservative vote. he wants the track clear for him. he can see and he will get substantial argument on this a path for him to get 1144 delegates by the time this is all over. and if he couldn't get that maybe he could stop mitt romney from getting that number and then they take it to a floor fight at the convention which he said he would welcome. as for what gingrich would do, he doesn't like to be told what to do. get some delegates at the very

least ought of these two states. he he may just say forget it, i'm staying in. bret? >> elisabeth: john, thank you. more at the top of the hour and full hour at 11:00 eastern. now back to the o'reilly factor. >> in the factor follow up segment tonight bs as we have been reporting michelle obama's fitness program cost are functional and whether it's the government's responsibility in the first place. inmrs. obama used an interview with an 11-year-old reporter from the scholastic news outlet to rebut her critics. >> this move is not about having government tell people what to do because government doesn't have all the answers parents have to make some changes at home, you know. but they need the information to be able to make those

choices. they have to have access to affordable foods so we need government to do its part but we need businesses to do their part as well. >> laura: joining us now from new york is democratic strategist and nanny state spokesman bernard whitman. hey, bernard, good to see you. >> great. how are you? >> great. >> the first lady has a laudable goal, i think, no doubt about it becoming more obese. our children are suffering at an earlier age than ever health problems once the aproblems of adults only and the problem is is out of control. i think what some people are concerned about, however, is that the first lady uses unelected power, namely she is the first lady and not elected to push various initiatives like remember a couple years ago the child nutrition bill ended up about $5 billion that she pushed behind the scenes. her husband did as well. and it basically sailed through the house of representatives, went on to passage because of what she did to push this. had a lot to do with the calf

cafeteria foods and so forth. is this the right role for government. >> government's primary function ought to be to protect its citizens with as little intervention as possible whether you are talk about health care, the economy, education, the environment and civil lirkts. the truth is we have an obesity epidemic in this country. more than one in three adults owe obese. children are overweight. the cost to our country is astounding. cost more than $150 billion a year just in health care costs to deal with the effects on obesity. increased stroke, heart disease, diabetes, some forms of cancer. any time government sees taxpayers spending tens of billions of dollars through programs like medicare and medicaid they have a responsibility, in fact, to determine how to cut that spending, make it more efficient. that's exactly what the first lady is trying to do. arming people.

>> laura: i don't think she is cutting spending. >> arming people to make make better nutrition choices. >> laura: it's not quite that simple. remember, she is flying around the country in various let's move two year anniversary stops. she went to walt disney world. she went to long wood church in florida. she judged the top chef competition i know that's critical for reducing obesity. led aerobic classes that's fun. it's not cheap to do. this it's not cheap to move a government official and an entire entourage of people to do these events mind you. when you are talking about a a billion-dollar child nutrition bill which there was a lot of republics who had problems with this. she really did become a political player. her goal is to help on obesity but what is the evidence that the government is very good at doing stuff like that? i think the fact that we can use first lady through tens of millions of dollars through

earned media to educate parents to give proper information to make better decisions. >> laura: that's our decision not hers. >> to get them to engage and exercise so we can start controlling obesity. >> laura: we he know that already. >> this helps lower health care cost and provide the economy with workers who actually are fit to hold jobs reproductive for the economy. >> laura: do you think the american people are so stiewnd that they don't know stupid when they eat five big macks it's not good for them in the course of two days or don't exercise for three weeks or a month or a year that it's probably not good for them. i think people know exactly what he they are doing. >> no, they don't. >> laura: i don't think whether it's a republic or democrat lecturing them with the full force of the u.s. government behind them. i'm talking about the f.d.a. four different government agencies working with the first lady on this that has more influence than someone doing a psa. >> we do a lot of research here in new york city. people do not understand the amount of sodium and the

amount of sugars that are in processed food. >> how did that mike bloomberg initiative work? >> don't appreciate the fact that a little bit of exercise can go a long way. >> laura: spent millions of dollars to tell them that. >> all these diseases. the fact is. >> laura: personal responsibility. >> actually help save tens of dollars of dollars and probably help save hundreds of thousands of lives. >> it hasn't done that. >> how can would he be against having skids i have this very odd idea. i'm for freedom. i want parents to be able to raise their kids with the values they believe in. i think they do it well. >> you must be in favor of other information given to women who are making important decisions. >> about giving the freedom of information. >> laura: spending a lot of money doing it? >> well worth it. >> laura: bernard, thank you. angry protests eyunt in afghanistan while the u.s. considers the death penalty for a soldier accused of killing 16 afghan civilians, the is it legal team on that.

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>> laura: thanks for staying with us. i'm laura ingraham in for bill o'reilly. in the is it legal segment tonight, two hot topics including attorney general eric holder saying he is, quote, disturbed by and will investigate reports that the nypd was monitoring muslims outside the city in their anti-terror efforts. but, first, protests are heating up in afghanistan following the horrific shootings of 16 afghan civilians over the weekend. and last night defense a secondeon panetta said the u.s. soldier accused in the shootings could face the death penalty. joining me now from new york is attorney jona silber and

kimberly guilfoyle who you can catch weekdays at 5:00 p.m. on the five. when i heard panetta commenting on this case we thought it was a little unusual because we haven't had investigation i think and don't know the facts. pretty amazing when the secretary of defense comes out and almost, you could say prejudges the case. a capital case, kimberly, how could this go down. >> this is obviously a very serious case and very unfortunate. disturbing on a lot of the levels. we don't have all the facts in yet we know a few things for certain this is an individual who had served several tours over seas and including the most recent one in afghanistan there is also evidence in that he had suffered from tbi the duration and extent of this is still to be determined. >> brain injury. >> which can cause problems like this. in addition to suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. now there are late breaking instance of evidence coming in alcohol perhaps being involved

at the time. all these things will be factored in. is he going to be tried and prosecuted? absolutely. is that going to happen in a court in afghanistan? absolutely not. i will be tried here likely in the united states and also be court martialled and depending whether or not they do in the military or military court. >> apparently john karzai said today is he okay for this happening in the united states but the process must be open to the media and totally transparent is that always going to be possible here, given the sensitivities of this matter? do you think that's going to take place have media in a u.s. military court? >> doubtful. not in a capital court martial. he can still get the information. what the afghanis want to make sure is that this guy, if he has actually done something wrong, we are still in the very beginning of the investigatory staining, if -- stage. if he did something wrong and doesn't get to come home and sip a march gore rita some place. of course not we can

communicate with the afghanis to make sure that doesn't happen. i'm sure it won't. once they determine what if anything he can be charged with i'm sure justice will be swift in this case. >> laura: i don't know if it will be swift because these things tend to take a lot longer than i'm sure the afghanis want it to take. kimberly the psychological pressure. nothing excuses this horrific conduct horrific crime. the psychological pressure that our troops are under and multiple deployments. i always try to put myself in their position with small children myself and leaving them for year after year after year. and he is now on his fourth tour and coming from this washington state base that has already had some problems. we have got to factor all of this in when we talk about these long and very protracted military engagements abroad. >> sure what they're engaged in and putting their lives on the line on a daily basis. they are away from their families over and over again. it takes a tremendous

psychological toll. anybody can understand that and the pressure he was under. he was cleared for duty. that doesn't mean he wasn't suffering from psychological problems. again, nothing excuses it but you can't ignore the facts and the evidence. you have to find out what really went on here. of course the u.s. will be responsible. this also will not be a death penalty case. there really isn't precedent for that to treat him in this way especially if there is psychological factors at play. >> laura: let's listen to the nypd and eric holder controversy, johnna. right now eric holder says is he disturbed because he learned there is some surveillance going on by nypd. it's been going on for some time and cory booker says, i guess some of it took place in newark, new jersey. he said it's put a chill in the atmosphere for muslims and muslims are afraid to go to restaurants and afraid to pray in mosques. talk about it? >> right. he should be disturbed. because what's happening here is there is absolutely no evidence of criminal activity. but we're -- or the nypd is following the muslim community around for no apparent reason

that's a clear violation of the amendment. who is authorizing it? it doesn't appear -- eric holder doesn't know finance going on. he should be absolutely disturbed. we should do whatever it takes to put a stop to this. >> laura: kimberly? >> we should do whatever it takes to make sure that islamic terrorists and jihadists don't continue to try to do harm to this country. there have been 14 terror attacks in new york alone that have been preempted by the fine work of the nypd which is relied on internationally in terms of their investigatory effort. they are reason of the law and reasons and bounds to conduct an investigation. if you have evidence that leads knew new jersey cross the street. >> they don't. >> laura: what i keep thinking of, if another attack heaven forbid happens in new york and the nypd was not all over this wasn't on top of what was happening in maybe some of these more radical areas of these mosques they would be criticized that's for sure. we appreciate it both of you. thank you so much. asking you to vote in our bill o'reilly.com poll. should the u.s.a. use its air

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>> in the back of the book segment tonight, a factor flashback. 27-year-old shawn stone, son of the controversial director oliver stone, went to iran and claimed he converted to islam, on of all days st. valentine's day. he sat down with bill o'reilly to explain why. >> we have no beef that you converted to islam. but your association with iran is interesting since our country's an enemy to america. what say you? >> well, in the first place, i wouldn't say the conversion is an interesting word because i don't believe you can convert from the same god -- from one god to the same god. so i have always believed in the

same god. i think it's a misunderstanding to say it's a different god. it's a different name. i accepted islam and i think it's an important move. also politically, if you want to understand the history of this region, the persians have been muslim for going on, what? 1400 years. they have many jews in iran. i spoke to some where i took the vow. and, you know, the iranian people are very intelligent people. i had great discussions with pel tigs. i met with the president briefly. i talked to the adviser. supreme leader. i was clear in saying, let's stop with the down with america nonsense. they have a problem with our government as imperialism as a long-standing policy. but they understood my point of view. i think it helps the american image, having this dialogue. >> i don't have any beef with you being there. it's a matter of how you present

t. your father's a very controversial guy. he had bad things to say in the past. but look, when have you a guy like ahmadinejad, you said you met him for a little while. when he makes a public statement that the holocaust never happened and he would drive the israelis into the sea, you are dealing with an extremist. a fanatic. if you were in germany in the 1930s and you were talking to hitler and you were talking to all of these guys and you were trying to get them to be reasonable, which i assume you are trying to do -- you basically can be seen as a pawn there, somebody who is being used because, you know, you come from a family that's very well known. >> that could be. i mean, with ahmadinejad, he's really misunderstood because there are many factions in that country. he has said some sensational things like israel should be dissolved,. >> look, look.

the one thing that he said that's undeniable. he said that the holocaust never happened. once you get into that kind of a fringe lunatic assessment, your father's jewish -- i mean, come o. once you get there to those territories, there is nowhere else to go. >> totally agree. his point on the holocaust has been if the holocaust has taken place in germany, from european christians as well, why should that influence israeli policy in regards to the middle-east. that's always been his point on that matter. there is no room for holocaust denial, of course. i would never agree with that. but it's simplistic to say he's a fanatic. when you talk with these people, the point is that we have to have a dialogue about israel in this region -- >> we are trying. >> we need to open it up. i would love for jimmy carter, for example, to go there and start this dialogue. >> i don't think jimmy carter is going to iran. he doesn't have good memories

from the first time around. you okay with iran having a nuclear weapon, you, yourself? >> i am. it's a republic. there are factions -- it is very much like this country, there is a lot of unrest inside the country from the economic point of view. i think there could be an up on tehran coming in the next months or years because it's a dynamic place. >> yeah, it is. but if they have a nuke -- if they have a nuke, you are putting a nuclear weapon into the hands of very, very unstable, fanatical people in my opinion. >> pinheads & patriots on deck, starring a wounded u.s. soldier and a surprise visit from tim tebow. p&p in just over 2 minutes. by tn for events to come. well somewhere along the way, emily went right on living. but you see, with the help of her raymond james financial advisor, she had planned for every eventuali.

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>> finally, pinheads & patriots. u.s. army ranger roamy camargot was seriously wounded in a combat mission in afghanistan. after reading about his story, denver broncos quarterback tim tebow wanted to meet the hero. >> when tebow read about what camargot had endured, shot in the neck and left as a quadriplegic in afghanistan, he. ed to meet the wounded warrior. >> has a real, true-life hero. so it's very special. for me, it's so humbling when you see kids and they are like, you are my hero, athletes did nothing special. we play a silly game. there is someone who put his life on the line for our country, he's a real heroism for

putting his life on the line for our country, and tim tebow is a patriot as well. on friday night, bill will be in boston, doing a benefit for the alexa foundation, to help victims of violent crime all over the united states. and if you sign up to become a bill o'reilly dot-com premium member, you will get a free copy of "killing lincoln" which is on the best seller list after six months on the marketplace. we can become a laura 365 member. all sorts of fun stuff. and get a autographed copy of my book for a few laughs. i'm in tonight for bill o'reilly. remember, the spin stops right here because we are always looking out for you.