word is going to be twice as long. >> i didn't have your number. you don't give me your number because of problems in the past. cops won't let me have it. >> voters have spoken and they say the true conservative is rick santorum. the presidential hopeful winning big and making sure mitt romney hears him loud and clear. >> for someone who thinks this race is inevitable, he spent a whole lot of money against me for being inevitable. >> the republican race, we're still in it. >> and newt gingrich promises to keep going and has a message for mitt romney! >> if you're the frontrunner and you keep coming in third, you're not much of a frontrunner. >> a whole breakdown of the results just seconds away. brian? >> and he's hung in. he's hung this american flag outside the auto shop for more than 30 years. now, the city says he needs to take it down or go to jail.

>> what? >> "fox & friends" starts right now. >> we should have made that scramble word mississippi combined with alabama. those two big primaries last night and here is a look at the results. could be labelled a stunning victory for rick santorum because he was not ahead in any of the recent polls in either of those states but he walks away the winner in both of them. >> and the one who didn't win probably has the most pressure to drop out. could it be newt gingrich and of course in alabama where many people thought newt was the favorite to win and romney was gaining it was santorum, 35, 29 and 29. ron paul didn't try. >> and we should point out, though, although santorum won both mississippi and alabama, big, that's a big win for him.

we get that. but the delegate count really didn't change that much. mitt romney still has a substantial lead in delegates. >> it's not winner take all. >> no, they're proportional, mississippi and alabama. guys, i don't know what hawaii is. there's 17 delegates that going to be -- i believe that's proportional as well. >> 86% of the votes have been counted and 45% go to mitt and 25% go to rick to 19 to newt. >> of all the delegates counted from last night, mitt romney still won the delegate count. >> it is. is this a mathematical race or is this perception? i mean, come on. if you are in the mitt romney camp this morning, you're not celebrating. i mean, this is about the split in the party. the conservative voice of the party is saying not so fast and they are waiting for their voices to be heard or they waited through last night. and they picked rick santorum. i think this election right now is about perception, not necessarily math.

>> and by the way, the delegate count is essentially 476 mitt. 246 rick. and 131 newt gingrich, ron paul has yet to break into three digits. >> can i point out, by no means am i saying it's a done deal and i'm not in the tank like a lot of people said yesterday for mitt romney. i'm simply saying, yes, there's going to be a lot of talk about rick santorum winning mississippi and alabama but when you do the numbers, mitt romney did very well in races that he probably shouldn't have done that well in. he's not considered the conservative. >> that doesn't matter. >> i think it does. he's going to end up with more delegates. >> back to my original point. it's a question for the viewers. is this about math or about perception? were you -- do you think it's important that your voice was heard if it was a differing voice? there's a lot of questions this morning. i think one of the interesting things coming out of the polls, though, is rick santorum did well with the independents and

the prevailing thought process in this election has been the inevitable nominee who can beat barack obama. >> we both know -- >> we also know all these states and even barack obama are going to any republican who gets the nomination. here is two that he expected to win last night and did walk away with delegates. rick santorum, newt gingrich and then mitt romney. >> people have said you're being outspent and, you know, everybody is talking about all the math and all the things that this race is inevitable. well, for someone who thinks this race is inevitable, he spent a whole lot of money against me for being inevitable. this is a grassroots campaign for president. who would have ever thought in the age of media that we have in this country today that ordinary folks from across this country can defy the odds day in and day out. >> the elite media's effort to

convince the nation that mitt romney is inevitable just collapsed. the fact is in both states, the conservative candidates got nearly 70% of the vote and if you're the frontrunner, if you're the frontrunner and you keep coming in third, you're not much of a frontrunner. >> i think with that statement, newt gingrich has unveiled his new strategy and that is stop mitt romney, among anything else, before anything else, from getting the 1,140 votes. >> that would be the gingrich strategy. santorum's strategy should be convincing more voters that he can beat president obama. romney's strategy should be that he needs to convince the loyal amongst the g.o.p. base. i mean, to me, those are the three things that come out for these three candidates this morning as they look ahead. >> there's plenty of talk of why mitt romney has been unable to deliver a knockout punch to rick santorum in the primaries. exit polls in alabama and mississippi yesterday are giving us a better idea of why santorum

is still running strong with the party and romney is failing to seal the deal although no one expected him to walk away with both states. heather joins us now with more on why people voted the way they did. what have you found out? >> a lot of stuff going on. let's start out with a look in alabama. in alabama, santorum picking up support from a variety of groups. conservatives, evangelicals and a third of all independents able to vote in that primary. according to exit polls, rick santorum's strong ideas helped him come in first in that state. conservatives backed him by 41%. women 38%. evangelicals 35% and independents 33%. shifting gears to mississippi now, evangelicals backed by 35%. very conservative 39%. and married women, 41%. >> i think it's important, too, to point out how many evangelicals were in both states. between 70% and 80% of the voters are evangelicals and mitt

romney has never done well with him. some of the people that support him, the governor in alabama said a lot of people not sure about the mormon religion down in the south and might have some questions. >> mitt romney who fell into third place last night, he's appearing to struggle with conservative voters at least in the south. the voters we polled said this about conservative values. in alabama, 27% say that he is at about right. 50%, though, say he is not conservative enough. that issue continuing to dog him and the question is, can he drill back? can he try to drill down into that? maybe he should shift gears and go a different way, you know, start talking about some other issues saying maybe i wasn't conservative at the get go but now i've changed. >> "wall street journal" offering that he further clarify his stance on romney care, make it more different from obamacare, if he can. >> he has had a lot of

opportunities to clarify his position on that issue. to apologize for that issue and say maybe i wasn't so right about this and he has yet to do that. >> no, he's clarified it. i mean, he had a special speech on it and now there's going to be more emphasis on it because the supreme court is going to be looking at the mandate. >> he's changed in massachusetts after a democratic governor came into office. >> what i mean by that is he has yet to really explain himself on it and explain the fact that, perhaps, it was too liberal of a position for the state of massachusetts. >> actually, i think what he said is at the time, it was the right thing for massachusetts but the states' rights issue is not a federal issue is the way he's explaining it right now. basically, when president obama says we used some of that to craft obamacare, that's going to come up again. if it ends up being mitt romney, the g.o.p. nominee, it's going to come up from the left saying hey, if it's so bad, then why would, you know, why would you use it for your state? >> the state has certainly seen higher health insurance costs as

a result. >> we have a lot to go over in the exit interviews. for the most part, 1 in 2 budget issues, economic issues most important in mississippi and alabama. budget deficit is number two. >> those who said it was number one, the economy, actually backed mitt romney. mixed results here. really interesting. >> guys, thanks a lot. >> see you again soon. >> to the rest of your headlines now and fox news alert. 6.8 magnitude quake rocking the northern coast of japan prompting tsunami advisories. waves are expected to arrive any moment in the same region hit hard by last week's quake and tsunami. 19,000 people were killed. a little bit of silver lining here. those waves expected to be small ones. so far, there are no reports of any damage from this quake defense secretary leon panetta landing overnight in afghanistan as tensions continue to rise there. the unannounced two-day trip but preplanned for weeks but taken on a new tone after an american

soldier killed 16 last weekend. panetta has denounced the killings. today, he'll visit with u.s. and u.k. military leaders and speak to a group of about 200 troops. meantime, we're getting brand new details about the u.s. soldier accused in that shooting rampage. military sources saying aerial surveillance cameras captured him crawling back to his base and raising his hands in surrender. he was reportedly wearing his military uniform along with a traditional afghan shawl concealing his gun. the suspect's identity being kept under wraps, a military court looking into the possibility that alcohol was involved. we told you about it yesterday. new york city ad agency turning homeless people at the south by southwest festival into walking hot spots. well, after public outrage in texas, the plan to take that idea from texas to manhattan has been scrapped. the walking wi-fi program turned

about a dozen homeless people at the festival into walking wi-fi access points with t-shirts bearing their names and i'm a 4g hot spot. those are your headlines this morning. >> it didn't fly. it had its positive merits. i listened to you on "the five" yesterday. >> it got the point across, i guess, right? >> absolutely. meanwhile, straight ahead, the president offering seaweed as a solution to gas prices and the american people aren't buying it and the economy and the election are at turning points. how will that affect president obama? stuart varney up next. this is when he walks down the hall. >> look out, you've seen bad drivers before but the worst of the worst come from one place, where is it? wake up!

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>> 15 minutes after the top of the hour now. president obama's job approval rating taking a hit this week as gas prices continue to surge. charles krauthammer saying last night that the president maybe doesn't get it. >> and he subsidizes, what, solyndra and then in that speech, he talks about algae and the american people are not about to stuff seaweed in their gas tanks and think of it as a realistic solution and keystone, i think, was the big killer because there's no logical argument whatsoever against the keystone pipeline. it's pure ideology. they understand that, like secretary chu, the president and the whole administration is anti-oil. wants to actually see a decrease

in supply and an increase in price as a way to get us on all this exotic stuff. >> so americans are now growing more frustrated with the president's handling of the economy just as the 2012 election is gaining steam, how's that for bad timing? good timing? joining us to weigh in is stuart varney, host of varney & company. >> terrible timing. no question about it. there's a turning point on two fronts here. number one, the economy, i think, is about to head south. i've got some new inflation numbers on food price inflation that will really affect everybody, not to mention gas prices and the other turning point, i think is the economy and the presidential election campaign. i think we're now going to focus on the economy away from some of the social issues which will be brought out in the republican race. i think that we're now turning towards the economy as the issue in the campaign and that's going to be a very important turning point for president obama because his record is now at

stake as you heard from charles krauthammer. >> yeah, but the unemployment rate although it's higher when he took office has come down under his watch, right? >> that's all he's got to point out is the direction that may be reversed. if a lot of these people who have stopped looking for a job start looking for a job and, you know, their unemployment rate could actually go back up again and look at that on the screen, the real unemployment rate. if you include all those people who just dropped out of the work force because they can't -- these discouraged and no longer collecting benefits and they're discouraged. you put them back in the work force and your real unemployment rate is just shy of 10%. >> so you make a very good point. yesterday you were on the couch talking about diesel prices. diesel average, i believe, is $4.12 a gallon. i had a trucker e-mail me and show me the picture of the pump. he paid $735 to fill up his truck and has to do it three times a week. he can't afford that anymore.

he passes that on. food prices are going up, clothes prices are going up. everything is going up. >> look at this. over january, in a one year period, eggs, turkey, beef, sugar, milk, cheese, up 9% plus. that's the food price inflation everybody feels. everybody knows it. and yet, the government is telling us inflation is under control. it's not under control. if you look at the food price inflation and then throw in gas prices that have gone straight up, you got a nasty inflation bite out of your wallet. >> maybe people are feeling that inside of their soul. when they were asked this question in a poll compared to four years ago, is your family's financial situation better or worse off? only 20% said better. 37% said worse. >> isn't that the ronald reagan question to jimmy carter back in the late 1970's, 1980's? are you better off now than you were four years ago? if you asked that question today, you get a very similar answer. 37% say we're better -- we're

worse off. >> 80% are not better off than they were. >> that's right. 80% are not better off, other way around of looking at it. >> we'll be continuing this discussion on "varney & company" on the fox business network at 9:20 eastern time. >> you need an i.d. to see r-rated movies, thanks to eric holder's department of justice, many people won't need one to vote. is it purely a political move? we report, you decide. >> he's been flying the stars and stripes for decades but now an auto shop owner is being ordered to take down his flag or go to jail. he joins us live after the break. [ male announcer ] what if that hemorrhoid pain

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>> quick headlines now. three alarm fire has been put out in the heart of boston but the problems are far from over. the transformer explosion reportedly left 20,000 people without power. officials say it could take days to restore and the two 9/11 terror suspects now starving themselves at gitmo. sources tell fox news they're protesting a new policy that requires all communications between suspects and their attorneys to be monitored. no word if they are too weak to use the new soccer field we paid for! sorry for yelling. >> tom garrick has been flying the american flag in the very same spot in front of his auto repair business in georgia for over three decades. now the city of albany wants him to take it down climbing it violates city code. if he doesn't, he could be

looking at jail time. we're joined by eric garrick, the owner. thank you, sir. 30 years this flag has been flying in the same spot? >> yes, eric, i've been employed at that location for 30 plus years and we've always had a flag at that spot. >> tell us what changed. how did the police decide it's time to take the flag down? >> we've got a 311 complaint system in albany and it was phoned in that i had an illegal sign on my property. the code enforcement officer came to, you know, to check it out, i guess, she asked to speak to me. and told me about the complaint. and then she pointed out two violations that i had, one being a -- a sign that someone had placed on the corner that didn't belong to me and then the second one was the american flag being flown into the city right-of-way. >> tom, did they or she have a problem with the placement of the flag or just the fact that a flag was flying at the location? >> it was the placement of the

flag. >> so would they be willing to allow you to fly the flag if you maybe moved it closer to the building? >> yeah. like i said, the location was the root issue. my problem with that is that i -- you know, it's really my property. it's city right-of-way but it's my property and i -- i take offense when the government is trying to tell me where or where i can fly my u.s. flag. >> i'm looking at the picture and i'm guessing it's the location, it's on the corner of a fairly business intersection. >> that's right, sir. >> maybe the top of the building or maybe closer to the building, they may not have a problem with it. let's get to the problem that i see. they're fining you per day for flying the flag and you risk jail time? >> well, at this time, my initial ticket was reduced to a warning but i have not -- i have not been issued a new ticket so

right now, there's no fine being imposed right now. when they do decide to come back out and write another ticket, at that point, it could be up to $1,000 a day and up to 60 days in jail for each day that i fly it. but we're not at that point right yet. >> all right, sir. i wear the flag every day over my heart for obvious reasons and i'm thankful that you do the same thing, you fly the flag. but would you be willing to move it back away from the corner? maybe make the town happy, make your customers happy? make yourself happy? >> i think eventually that may be what happens. but right now, i want to stick my ground -- stick to my ground because i'm just really at odds with, like i said, our local government telling me where and where not i can fly my flag. and you know, i realize if it was a safety issue, yeah, i need to move it but it's not. it actually adds beauty to that corner. so right now, i'm going to stick my ground. >> ok, sir. tom, we'll leave it there.

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>> absolutely. it's really nice at that hour of the morning in winter to be up. we were playing at 8:00 in the morning. there i am in the background wondering if we were going to actually unbreak this tie. if we had managed to win that last game, we would have advanced. met a lot of fox fans out in virginia and the massapequa celtics did just fine. they're ready to kick off their season. >> we have a family friend at the same tournament. >> get out of here. >> it's just dawning on me. >> governor mcdonald was here. do you know the jefferson cup? he said this is the biggest tournament we have and his son actually played there so he was actually going to drop by. but it just takes over the town. it's the number two tournament in the country and pretty cool. so a lot of college coaches there. more next year than this year. >> are you going into retirement now? >> i would like to retire. it's way too stressful. i like to relax at work. it's easier. >> good job, brian. >> busy night down south as primary season rolls on. so let's get right to it. rick santorum with victories in mississippi and alabama and even

though newt gingrich had said both of those states were must wins for his campaign, he's not going anywhere. listen. >> we're going to leave alabama and mississippi with a substantial number of delegates increasing our total going towards tampa. i emphasize going to tampa because one of the things tonight proved is that the elite media's effort to convince the nation that mitt romney is inevitable just collapsed. >> we're joined by former advisor to president clinton and fox news contributor dick morris. thanks for joining us, dick. dick, you were on the network yesterday saying it's time for republicans to unite behind mitt romney. doesn't look like they did that, sir. >> yeah, well, i have to learn a lesson and so does mitt romney. and so for that matter does santorum and gingrich but more me. you can lead a horse to water, you can't make him drink and it was pretty clear that romney has now lost georgia, south carolina, mississippi, alabama,

tennessee, oklahoma, kansas, you think they're trying to send him a message? and i think that, you know, you can't win the nomination of a party if its base camp doesn't vote for you. can't stand you. now mathematically, romney is ahead and the points i've made before are correct which is the only way to avoid a deadlocked convention is for romney to take out a lead and seize it and really win it. but he obviously hasn't closed the deal. and like right now, he should be out there criticizing the plan to give our missile defense secrets to the russians. he should be out there criticizing that the lawyer for the guantanamo terrorists is now number three in the justice department in charge of guantanamo. he should be out there talking about how the cbo has just said obamacare will cost twice as much as they thought it would and will add enormously to the deficit. stop attacking each other and start acting like a conservative

republican alternative to obama. >> the problem with that, though, dick. >> i think santorum needs to get away from the social issues and on to the economic issues so he can broaden his appeal. >> the problem with that is that the longer that this race goes on undecided, you know, how much will these be candidates feel like they have to attack one another, right or wrong, to try to get an upper edge in the upcoming states? specifically, now we're looking at illinois. this is 69 delegates and now that santorum and gingrich are vowing to fight past all of these other states that we had last night, what's going to happen in illinois? >> well, i think romney will win illinois but again, not overwhelmingly and he needs to be the consensus candidate to get this nomination and he needs to absorb the lesson that he is simply not connecting with the republican base. >> can he change that about who he is? >> yeah, i think -- >> no, the way i think he can do

it is, as i said, comment on the events of the day and show that he's a conservative alternative to obama. so that, you know, when yesterday they announced that they were going to share our missile defense secrets with the russians so they feel better about our putting missiles in europe, that's crazy. that's outrageous. romney should be attacking that at the top of his lungs. instead of talking about the republican primary or his background or any of that stuff, he should focus on the events and use them to demonstrate that he's a real conservative alternative. >> all right. and the big thing is, too, as you know better than anybody, missouri is going to a republican or whoever the nominee is. alabama is going to a republican or whoever the nominee is. it's a good sign in some of the battleground states like ohio and florida, mitt romney has prevailed. let's move on to what's happening with the battle and i want to get your feeling on the significance of attorney general holder cracking down on texas and saying no go on your i.d.

law. show an i.d. to vote. that's not right. let's listen to eric holder. >> there's no proof that our elections are marred by in person voter fraud. only coming up with a mechanism that makes it more difficult for people to exercise what is the most fundamental of american rights and that is the right to vote. >> how significant is this? what about his -- >> what he's trying to do, of course, politically is to send a message to down scale voters and particularly to latinos that -- that the republicans are against them and he's for them. forget about the economy. forget about the gas prices. just focus on that is what he's trying to do. the fact is what texas is doing is for free issuing this i.d. to people. anyone who wants it can get it. and given that, for him to say that this inhibits participation in the franchise is ludicrous.

and he's chosen texas because of its large latino population so that he could send a message that he's standing up for the rights of latinos and latinas. >> i just don't understand who would be against -- who is for voter fraud. like who is going to stand up and say, yeah, i'm for voter fraud. all this does is try to cut down on that. >> there's plenty of evidence, mr. holder, of very significant voter fraud, of people voting who are not who they say that they are and people voting multiple times and this is something you can get rid of completely by a photo i.d. system and it's a free photo i.d. it's available to everybody. i thought they had a case when they said you have to pay for a passport. you have to pay for a driver's license. that's in effect a poll tax on voting. when you're giving away i.d. for free, they don't have it sail with me. >> thanks so much. and go to dickmorris.com.

except for shopping bargains, he does not have that. >> coupons? >> no coupons? he has books. >> all right, now some other headlines? let's take a look. iran denying that it has sentenced a christian pastor to death for leaving islam and converting to christianity. this comes after united nations human rights council stepped up pressure to release the pastor. he has been in an arabian jail for nearly three years. iranian officials say he offended islam. he was offered a chance to recant his christian faith but refused. sources close to the pastor say he was given a death sentence and he's a married father of two. >> first, he won disgraced democrat anthony weiner's congressional seat and now new york republican bob turner has his sights set on a higher office. turner running now to replace democrat kirsten gillebrand in the u.s. senate. turner expected to lose his

house seat to redistricting. >> the failed solar company evergreen abandoning its $450 million plan in massachusetts. bankrupt company tried to sell it but there was no takers. evergreen trying to get on of paying $453,000 in property taxes. it went belly up despite getting $50 million in state aid. >> and you may want to drive with extra caution in the southern part of the united states. according to a survey by "men's health" magazine, that's where the nation's worst drivers live. it found st. louis, dallas and houston are the cities where drivers are most likely to be road hazards. on the safer side of things, boston, buffalo and reno. the magazine compiled the list by looking at accidents involving speed, alcohol and seat belt use as well as cell phone loss. >> looks like a nice day. 20 minutes before the top of the hour. coming up, why is one of america's largest unions paying tribute to china calling them the best friend of american workers? why -- they got a big award last

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just named the best friend of the american worker? i wonder what trump thinks about that. that honor given to china's premier by the biggest long shoreman's union in america. they gave him award saying he helped create jobs for dock workers in the northeast. all right, guys. over to you. >> anthony weiner, john edwards, herman cain all fell victim to sex scandals but president bill clinton and other politicians have been able to survive them somehow so what did they do differently, eric? >> our next guest has some advice that can be applied to the oval office and your home. we're joined by professional crisis counselor and author of "the instant survivor" jim morehead. so jim, brian asked a very good question of what is a crisis? >> i think a crisis is an unexpected event in either your personal or professional life that really trips you up and gets in the way of how you normally go about your life. >> so why did someone like bill clinton survive it now the most popular living president by far and maybe the politician and guys like john edwards and

herman cain unable to shed that distinction. >> well, i think he survived it because of tremendous likeability which is obviously very important for any politician. the others tripped up because they got trapped really in not telling the truth. that was true for john edwards, obviously, but also herman cain poured concrete around his feet with the story that all these women weren't telling the truth. >> so maybe the other ones weren't exactly telling the truth either but you say likeability, if those -- well, let's say i don't have very much likeability. what can i do to survive a crisis? give us some tips. >> well, you need a system and i developed an instant survivor's system really to rescue myself. i always wanted to be a politician. i ran for office and lost. and then i went to a startup where i was forced very soon to start laying off people who had become my friends so i developed a four step system and step one really is to stay frosty. meaning stay cool and the way you do that is to have your own

personal crisis management plan. >> yeah. >> keep it general because you don't know if it's going to be financial, employment or a sex scandal. >> yes, that's right. it has to be general. and it's not a cookbook recipe. it's really a series of questions. such as what's the problem? what are your goals here? who can help you get through it and what's the one step you can take right now to get moving on your crisis? >> gotcha. >> tell us the next one. it says secure support. tap into networks of contacts. why is that important? >> well, it's so important not to fly solo in a crisis. you know, when cops get into trouble, we know they call for backup. and we should do the same thing in our lives by having our own personal crisis management team, you know, made up of friends and family and maybe an outside advisor who can kind of keep things objective. >> you talk about staying tall that you kind of went over, use your resources and number four, save your future. that's the ultimate goal but what do you mean?

>> what i mean is that you don't want your crisis to be a saga of troubles. you want it to be a short story. so you should do a one hour life audit on yourself. and that's what i described in the instant survivor, how to do that on your relationships, your career, your health, your finances. the four areas of your life that are so critical to how you're doing. >> you know what's interesting, number 5 that you didn't put down there is blame bolling. that seems to be the popular one. >> absolutely. it couldn't possibly be his fault! >> that's our natural reaction, right, is to find somebody else to blame. that's why you need really an instant survivor's system to get through it. >> the name of the book "the instant survivor" jim thanks so much. >> great to be here, thanks. >> national symbol of freedom so why is the government, federal government now letting people hunt and kill the bald eagle? this isn't a joke, folks. >> and who knew you could drink off the pounds. lady gaga's ex-boyfriend says he

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>> welcome back, everyone. what happens when a rock 'n' roll bartender who dates pop stars like lady gaga spend too much time partying and eating late nights? guess what happens, you pile on the pounds. when our next guest started tipping the scales, he decided to take some action by getting

ripped. joining me now is the author of "the drunk diet" luc carl. i have to say of all the diet books on the show, this might have the best and most compelling title, "the drunk diet" so you can drink your way to slimness? >> yeah, that was the concept. what you said is exactly right on. it's all the diet books out there are, you know, based on this and that and you have to do this and you have to do that so that's exactly why i wrote my book to be the complete opposite of all those books because they did nothing but make me upset so i said you know what? i'm going to write my own book and call it "the drunk diet." you were a bartender. are you still a bartender? >> i managed and operated bars here in new york city for 10 years. i've kind of moved on a little bit. >> you dated lady gag >> yeah. >> what was that like? >> what was it like? i can't answer that question. i don't know. it's too early in the morning. she's an amazing woman.

she's truly an amazing person and, you know, sometimes things don't work out the way you thought they would. we all have exes. that's not why i'm here. >> you anlsed the question. thanks very much. you have some laws as to how people can continue to drink alcohol but drop 40 pounds like you did. here's the first one. if you don't like it, fix it. what do you mean by that? >> that's very simply actually. it's self-explanatory. i think a lot of times in life, we all need to be reminded that things aren't, you know, they're a lot more simple than we think they are. you know what? if there's something that you don't like in your life, just fix it, very easy concept but once again, i think that as difficult as life may be, we kind of forget about that as the days go by. >> you wake up in the morning and you say this to yourself, rule number two. i'm smarter than my food! >> this is true. this is very true. and i talk quite a bit about this in the book. and basically what i'm saying here is that we all have these

problems with eating, overeating, but the thing is that a cow is not nearly as smart as a human. why are you stuffing so many cheeseburgers into your mouth? and you're the top of the food chain, you know how to speak a language, you're blessed with intelligence. yet, you're letting an animal that doesn't know how to talk or to do anything rule your life. >> i get it. luc's law number three. what to drink and what to avoid. you say beer is the biggest downfall. you have to go to the hard stuff. >> yeah. beer is definitely the most difficult thing for me in my life. it's -- and i'm sure most of america, maybe not at 6:00 in the morning can relate to this. but it's full of sugar and it's full of carbs that are terrible for you. and i think that back when i was in my bar tending heyday and the nightlife and everything, i didn't know what a carb was. so i learned, and turns out that the beer gut is true. it's real. but if you stick to hard liquor,

there's no carbs involved so that -- oh, that's a great pick. >> so you keep looking. so you've now, looked one of the ways in which you dropped the weight you started running marathons and doing pushups. in our remaining seconds, come on, let's go. on the ground. >> you first. take the shoes off. >> all right. >> come on. >> got me? come on. >> up. >> all right. all right. and by the way, that is his real hair. >> it's real. >> it's all real, baby. >> yeah. >> and gretchen, that's your real hair. you guys touch each other's hair. >> come on, luc, keep going. >> we'll crack open a beer. we have to tell you what's coming up. >> governor chris christie calling a navy seal an idiot. remember this? listen. >> after you graduate from wall street, you conduct yourself like that in the courtroom, you'll get thrown in jail, idiot. >> louisiana governor bobby

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>> good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, march 14th. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing part of your day with us today. rick santorum scores big in the south making this a two man race now? >> best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative to go up against barack obama who can take him on on every issue. >> does the more conservative candidate stand a better chance of winning it all? we'll break down the results for you. >> all right. remember when governor chris christie called the navy seal an idiot. >> let me tell you something. after you graduate from wall street, you conduct yourself like that in the courtroom, your rear end is going to get thrown in jail, idiot. >> this morning for the first time, that guy responded. >> and the national symbol of freedom, so why is the federal government now letting people hunt and kill the bald eagle? we're going to tell you all about it in a few minutes.

"fox & friends" starts right now. >> all right. let's call it what it is. it seems to be a two man race now. when newt gingrich said i got the south, wait for the primary process to get there, well, rick santorum was waiting there and he took it from newt gingrich by a small margin in mississippi, 33-31 to 30 over mitt romney. >> there you go to alabama and you see santorum with a bigger margin in alabama which is even more surprising, i think. 35%, newt gingrich 29% tied with mitt romney at 29%. so what is the message now that these voters have sent to the republican party? what is the message? that they represent a big voice and they want it to be heard. you can still look at the math

but what does it say about the perception of where this race is going.

nn can defy the odds day in and day out. >> the elite media's effort to convince the nation that mitt romney is inevitable just collapsed. the fact is in both states, the conservative candidates got nearly 70% of the vote and if you're the frontrunner, if you're the frontrunner and you keep coming in third, you're not much of a frontrunner.

>> came in third twice but he's won more than he's lost. newt gingrich, his strategy is clear. anybody but romney. he'll stay with it as long as possible unless there's a back room deal that has rick santorum and newt gingrich saying let's team up. >> funny you should say that. it came across on our blackberries that possibly there is some kind of deal coming across that they would team up together and be on the ticket together. how would you feel about that? would that change the way in which you look at this election? in the meantime, many critics are saying that the g.o.p. infighting is bad for the party. you know, that the longer that this goes on, possibly to a brokered convention, that it would leave little time to solidify over a nominee and take on barack obama. >> does that sound familiar? >> yeah. you've brought my attention to this, brian, when i've been on your radio show specifically talking about hillary clinton and barack obama. >> it got so personal and there was such a cry within the democratic party to get this over with, it's killing the party! he went on to be president and hillary went on to be secretary of state. remember this.

>> shame on you, barack obama. it is time you ran a campaign consistent with your messages in public. now, i could stand up here and say, let's just get everybody together. let's get unified. the sky will open. the light will come down. celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect! and people always say, can we do this? yes, we can. but that's not the right question. will we do this? i think that i have a lifetime of experience that i will bring to the white house. i know senator mccain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the white house. and senator obama has a speech he gave in 2002. >> i think it's very important to understand the context of this and that is that senator

clinton has her campaign at least has constantly sent out negative attacks on us, robocalls, flyers and television ads. >> she doesn't believe, i think, in bottom up democracy. >> in this campaign, she's taken nearly double the amount from lobbyists than any democrat or republican running for president. that's not being a part of the solutions business. that is being in the business as usual business. >> fun to look back and think about, you know, how much we were discussing the infighting that was going on between clinton and obama back then. >> and the editorials that were out saying the feeling that obama is the inevitable winner is going by the boards because hillary clinton just won't quit. she brought it until june. people are getting upset if this goes through april. >> right. and a lot of people are saying on the right, when are they going to refocus, when is romney, santorum and gingrich going to focus their attention

on barack obama? clearly in 2008, their attention was personal. they were going after each other so you get there. once you get the nominee. >> commented on john mccain. can you imagine that? >> let's get to the rest of your headlines and start with a fox news alert. 6.8 magnitude quake rocking the northern coast of japan causing a small tsunami. the quake striking one of the areas hit hard by last year's earthquake and tsunami that left 19,000 people dead. this morning, several towns have been evacuated but so far, there are no reports of any damage or injury. defense secretary leon panetta landing overnight in afghanistan as tensions continue to rise there. this snapshot just released to the media. the unannounced two-day trip has been planned actually for weeks. but it's taking on a new tone after an american soldier killed 16 afghan civilians. they had to denounce those killings. that's a message he's expected to deliver in person to president hamid karzai. today, he'll visit with u.s. and u.k. military leaders and speak to a group of about 200 troops.

meantime, some stunning new details about the u.s. soldier accused in that shooting rampage. military sources now saying that aerial surveillance cameras captured him crawling back to his base and raising his hands in surrender. he was reportedly wearing his military uniform along with a traditional afghan shawl concealing his gun. u.s. authorities have reportedly shown that video to afghan officials in an effort to prove the gunman acted alone. the suspect's identity still being kept under wraps. a military court looking into the possibility that alcohol was involved. >> yeah, they found some liquor there and also found out that he wanted out of the service. >> all right. i think he had three duties, tour duties in iraq before that. the former navy seal who was called an idiot because he kept interrupting new jersey governor chris christie now apologizing. here's how it all unfolded. >> i can go back and forth with you as much as you want. and let me tell you something, after you graduate from law school, if you conduct yourself like that in the courtroom, your

rear end is going to get thrown in jail, idiot. >> i'm not too thrilled as being known as an idiot or being known as a jerk. i apologize if i came across as disrespectful to the governor. that's not what i meant. >> william brown, the failed democratic candidate for state assembly says he no longer has any political ambitions and he's planning to return to the seals or join the f.b.i. and those are your headlines. >> governor says no regrets about doing that. >> telling it like it was, i guess, according to him. let's talk about something that may have you scratching your head this morning. this has to do with the federal government giving an american indian tribe out west the permission to now kill bald eagles because it goes along with rituals within their tribe. a lot of people will be offended by this this morning when they hear it because, of course, the bald eagle is a symbol of america and american freedom and i believe that it's been on the endangered list. >> it has been for about four decades. and now it's ok to take them out. but it's not ok, for example,

for other things to be taken out. >> check it out. there are other things that are protected on the endangered species list and other ways. the turtle tunnel, remember that, $3.4 million. how about the critter crossing? $150,000. >> don't shoot critters. >> $11.4 million for lion and tiger housing but that last one right there, see that sand dune lizard? forget the cost pending. that sand dune lizard is literally stopping oil production in parts of texas. as your gasoline prices go higher, we're protecting a little three inch lizard. >> what happens if one of these indian tribes steps on a lizard when they're trying to line up a bald eagle. that's the controversy you're avoiding, young man! >> probably go to the supreme court. >> sounds a little tilted in one or the other direction. doesn't seem to totally add up. but we're interested in what you think about that. >> totally add up? it's outrageous. >> at foxnews.com. >> i'm being sarcastic, brian, i'm being sarcastic. coming up on our show, louisiana governor bobby jindal says he

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>> 15 minutes after the top of the hour. rick santorum taking two big prizes in the south, mississippi and alabama and now the candidates are focusing on another southern state. that's louisiana where voters go to the polls next tuesday. does this spell more trouble, then, for mitt romney in the south? >> louisiana governor bobby jindal joins us. what do you as a conservative republican leader? what do you take from the

results of hawaii, alabama and mississippi? >> well, the bottom line is i know -- and i heard the discussion before, people are so worried about how long this primary is taking, make no mistake about it. our nominee, any one of these candidates is so much better than president obama. this election is not going to be about speaking styles or debates. what these nominations and this primary process is showing the american people is this may be one of the most important elections of our lifetimes about two very different governoring philosophies. president obama wants to tax and spend more, he thinks that's the way to prosperity. he's accumulated a trillion dollars a year of new debt. accumulated debts of over $15 trillion. federal government spending 24% of the gdp, gasoline and oil prices higher than they've been in 150 years. this is one course. every republican running for president believes in a different course and believes in a smaller government, less spending, lower taxes. eliminate that deficit, less borrowing, more energy production at home and a smaller

government. they all believe in the repeal of obamacare. as vivid as the differences are of the different candidates on the republican side, we agree with ourselves a whole lot more than what we agree with president obama. >> there seems to be this disagreement within the republican party. i know originally you endorsed rick perry and he's now out of the race. you decided you won't endorse anyone before the primary in your home state of louisiana on tuesday. what do you make of what the conservative voice said last night about the candidates in this race? can somebody bring the fractured nature of this party back together? >> well, absolutely. look, i think y'all are exactly right. you look four years ago when president obama and senator clinton were debating each other and people on the democratic side we'll never be able to unite, the reality is as much as we -- despite the differences between the four leading candidates on the republican side, they all share a lot more in common. at the end of the day, i think conservative voters when we're faced with two choices come

november, we understand that we cannot afford four more years under president obama. this country cannot afford four more years. whoever that conservative candidate is, we're going to support. >> "the washington post" poll that's out has romney head to head with president obama up two. he was trailing six a month ago. governor, the president is constantly known to say -- the president really can't do anything about gas prices and his record is sterling when it comes to production, import, export. what's your reaction from someone who lives on that business? >> look. he's absolutely wrong. the reality is gasoline prices have doubled under this president. highest prices for oil and gasoline in 150 years. people used to think it was because of incompetence from the obama administration or energy. i think it's because of ideology. they're pursuing a radical environmental ideology. >> what could he add to that? >> look at four things they've done. number one, you look at off-shore permitting. we're still 30% before premoratorium levels, on shore leasing on properties, lowest

level under this president. when he talks about higher production, it's not because of anything he's done. it's because of decisions before his administration took office. secondly, you look at fracking, natural gas prices have fallen from 2008, $13 to $14 to less than $3. we were looking to import natural gas back in 2008 and now we're looking to export natural gas from this country. yet this administration continues to threaten to shut down fracking with their regulations. third, you look at this administration's pursuit of regulations like tier 3 gasoline standards could add a quarter to the gallon, the cost of a gallon of gasoline. you look at cap and trade, just the threat of cap and trade can freeze industry investment. we're talking about multibillion, multiyear and multibillion dollar investments in producing energy. the threat of uncertainty from this administration freezes the investment forward. just last week, this president got on the phone to try to lobby democratic senators to block yet again the keystone pipeline. you look at that, you're looking

at 100,000 indirect jobs and 20,000 direct jobs and you go back to natural gas fracking, 600,000 jobs. they're going to add another 200,000 jobs, by some estimates saving the american households over $900 in lower electricity prices so there are a series of steps if this administration was serious about producing all forms of energy, they could stop singling out domestic energy for higher taxes. >> you have a lot of pent-up anger about this. >> you have your four counterpoints to this administration. always great to see you. have a good rest of the week. >> thank you. y'all as well. thank you, guys. >> see you soon. coming up next, george soros making one bombshell of a payoff to make one problem go away. >> then she writes, she acts, she sings. disney's new it girl debbie ryan is here. [ female announcer ] ready for a taste of what's hot?

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>> hey, time for your news by the numbers. first, four. that's how many banks failed the fed's latest round of stress tests. one of the banks, citigroup. next $1.76 trillion. that's how much obamacare is going to cost you. that's a sharp increase from the $940 billion bucks that president obama had promised. and $49 million. george soros falling $49 million short to get his ex-girlfriend to drop a lawsuit. he offered her $1 million. she's suing for $50 million for not buying her a $2 million apartment. eric? >> as politicians and economists know, fixing the economy is no easy feat but our

next guest says the solution to america's financial difficulties comes down to a very simple formula. freedom! here to explain is radio talk show host and author of "red and blue and broke all over" mr. charles koyette. thank you very much for joining us. what do you mean freedom? >> it would be nice if we had a lot more in this country. the world is filled with lab experiments of people who are living in poverty. we've had so many cases in east germany and west germany and the most vivid is north korea and south korea. you look at the north korean peninsula that's all dark. south korean peninsula, it's all illuminated because people there have an income that's 15 times higher. if we try to assess what's going on with the american dream in this country, why do we have 46 million people on food stamps and depression era levels of unemployment and six million homes in foreclosure or delinquent on their mortgages, you got to really look at the state of freedom in the united states and if the state of freedom is declining as i say it is in the book, then it's no

surprise that our prosperity is declining as well. >> is it changing? is our freedom changing? the amount of freedom we enjoy? it's higher -- are we losing our freedoms? >> we're totally losing our freedoms and it's little things that everybody knows about. toilets, washing machines, light bulbs and all those sorts of things. it's big things, too. when i'm looking at north korea, i'm thinking the head of state who can order the assassination of a north korean citizen on his own say so, we're having that debate here in united states. the other day, the head of the f.b.i. says oh, i'll have to check and see if the president can order the assassination of americans inside this country. >> let's take a look at regulations on president obama vs. president bush. take a look here. go ahead, sir. >> there it is, more costly under president bush or more costly under president obama? >> yeah. for sure. this whole -- i mean, it's a terrible thing no matter who does it. >> looking at it right there. number of regulations 106 obama. bush 28.

here it is $8.1 billion for those regulations under bush. $46 billion so it's costing americans that have businesses, privately, who is it costing? >> it's costing all of us. people ultimately pay the cost of all of this. in this country, we pay $1.3 trillion a year. 8 1/2%, 9% of our gdp of regulation. regulation keeps everything clean. most of it, 70% of it is economic regulation, you know, things like sweetheart deals for certain industries and, you know, price protection for certain people and so on. so it's way out of control no matter who does it. >> have to leave it there. charles, goyette, his book is right over his shoulder. good to see you. >> good to see you, too. the president's energy secretary said we should want $5 a gasoline. now he has a different story to tell. plus debbie ryan is walking down

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>> there's one awkward moment there for mitt romney. they asked him if he'd been to the banks of the mississippi and he said no, do they have better rate than the cayman islands? >> all right. jay leno having some fun with mitt romney was trying to acclimate himself to the south. >> i didn't hear the punch line because our producer was speaking in my ear. we'll have to replay it. >> i heard the setup clear. it was crystal clear. >> it was funny. speaking of cash, were we? it looks like voters -- >> you're always speaking of cash, my friend. hand some over! >> you have a 20? >> very quickly, nasdaq is over 3,000 for the first time since 2000, since the year 2000. >> what's the difference on that? tech stocks? >> cash, people are making cash. >> it looks like voters had money on their mind when they catapulted rick santorum to double digit victories, double victories last night. >> and fox business network's

rich edson live in birmingham, alabama, for us. how much did the economy factor into the primaries last night? >> well, it was very significant and in fact, we are in mississippi and alabama so social issues did play a role here but when you look at the exit polling done by fox news, economy, number one issue like we've seen around the country. here in alabama, nearly 60% of the voters said the economy was their top issue. a quarter saying the federal budget deficit was their top issue, basically an economic issue. abortion at 9%. illegal immigration at 3%. meanwhile, over in mississippi, the economy about the same. 56%. federal budget deficit about a quarter, the same. abortion 11% and illegal immigration at 3%. now, as we approach $4 a gallon gasoline, it's something that's been in the debate in washington, something that's been debate on the campaign trail, here in alabama and in mississippi, and there was a focus on energy. >> the people of this country, the folks who were out there who

are affected when gas prices go up, the quality of the life is affected with the government that is irresponsible and irresponsive to the needs of average people particularly when it comes to gas prices in this country. >> on top of that, newt gingrich calling for $2.50 gasoline, that's what he says his energy proposal would do. that, of course, drew quite a comment from the white house press secretary. back to you. >> all right. live for us in alabama, thanks very much. now to other stories making headlines for you this morning. we're getting the first look at a bus involved in a deadly crash in switzerland. 22 children were killed in this accident. oh! as well as six adults. they were returning from a ski trip in the swiss alps when their bus hit a kush crashing into the wall of a tunnel. police say the students are from two different belgian schools. >> and it's been 15 years since 6-year-old beauty queen jonbenet

ramsey was murdered. now her father speaking out and how he has some serious regrets. john ramsey revealing shows like "toddlers and tiaras" are disturbing. he calls them bizarre and says his wife patsy who died in 2006 never approached pageants that way. he says she and jonbenet did them for fun but he still regrets the pageants because it drew too much attention to his family. >> energy secretary steven chu backpeddling on his plan to jack up prices of gas to europe levels. he first said that before he joined president obama's cabinet in 2008 and then last week, he said cutting gas prices is not his overall goal but now he's got a different idea. >> you say that you no longer share the view that we need to figure out how to boost gasoline prices in america? >> i no longer share that view. >> you did then but you don't now. >> of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up. we want it to go down. >> interesting. republican senator mike lee of

utah getting chu to flip-flop in front of the senate energy and natural resources committee. >> lindsay lohan just can't stay out of trouble, apparently! tmz reporting she was leaving a lounge late last night in hollywood when she hit the manager of the lounge with her new porsche. and then took off. no word if the manager was hurt, if the accident is ruled a hit-and-run, that would be in violation of her probation for shoplifting. that probation expires at the end of this month. just when all those reports came out she possibly was getting her life back in order. >> yeah. >> just this close. >> all right. let's see what brian is up to with regards to sports this morning. >> yeah, you know, as always, president obama making sure to fill out his ncaa brackets. you know, his final four is kentucky, missouri, ohio state and north carolina. i also took the british prime minister to last night's opening night dance. yes, march madness dance that is. he -- there's mr. cameron. david cameron there for the first of a four game -- the first four game in daytona, ohio. they got to see the largest

comeback ever in the last five minutes of a tournament game. amazing to sit there for the first time to see this type of passion. to beat mississippi valley state, they now get to face the kentucky wildcats. good luck. looking at the youngest winner ever of the iditarod. that's where dogs do most of the work. that's dallas sevy and he turned 25 on march 4th when the nearly 1,000 race across alaska started. he finished the race in four hours and 29 minutes and nine days, i should have added that. his father -- i was like wow, he must have used a car. his father won the race back in 2004, we'll show footage of that next hour. >> all right. beautiful dogs there. she is the star of the hit disney tv show "jesse" and texas girl debby ryan is learning what it takes to be a nanny in new york city. >> meanwhile, who wants a brownie treat? >> i do.

>> you do a homework problem, you'll get a brownie. >> maybe you should give me the brownie first. math takes a lot of energy. >> not how it works. >> fine! 1/3 times 1/2 equals 1/6th? >> sure. >> debby ryan. >> the actress is here. >> debby, congratulations you got renewed for a second season. >> yeah, we did and a movie. >> and a movie on top of that. the premise of this series, used to be so simple. the partridge family wanted to go out and they got a bus and sang. you have a complicated story. >> there's a lot. i play a nanny who moves from texas to new york city and ends up as a nanny and she'd never been a nanny before. she's 18 years old. she can barely take care of herself. she's taking care of these kids and the four kids, three of whom

are adopted of this high profile couple on the upper east side. thaurz a 7 foot lizard and a butler that doesn't do anything. it's a little bit much but it's really cool and we try to ground it in reality and have a little bit of heart in it, too. >> we hear that you're a part of the development team of the show? >> yeah, a very collaborative process after my first show with disney, disney and i have this love relationship. we're like cool, let's do this again. and grow up a little bit. and so kind of helped pick the kids, the kids you're seeing right there are the most amazing kids in the world and we went through a lot of kids and went through a lot of crew members and interviewed them all and pulled together an amazing team. >> with two little kids of my own at home, i can relate to that scene you did just there with the brownie before the homework. >> but you'll be well fit to move on into parenthood some day after this role. >> i don't know. something i'm not even thinking about. you know what? it's funny, because playing a nanny on the show makes me better working with the kids in real life kind of like helping them with their line readings and stirring their easy mac, you

know? a little bit of a -- >> you're multitasking. all right, you have a lot of exciting things coming up. there's going to be a clothing line inspired by you. >> there's a clothing line at target right now with the disney kind of clothing lines inspired by my character. it's kind of layered dresses and ruffly skirts. nothing is over $20 to $30. >> how did disney discover you? >> i sent in a video audition from texas and i taped myself doing a character on their spinoff show. and expected to never hear anything back. and i got called back a few months later. i was the top three and within a week, i was in california and filming the show. >> so it's hard to say, wow, this is a dream come true. you're only -- you're so young. you're only 18. but it seems like everything is coming true for you and you're starting your own production company? >> yeah, i have my own production company. it is a dream come true. it's funny, i feel like, you know, when you're young, it's easy to lay your head on the pillow and dream and not seeing it happening.

the fact that i'm living it and doing what i used to dream of and what i still dream of and setting new precedence. with that, it's the production company. >> might you retire at 25? you are so far ahead of the game, it's getting scary. >> i don't know. maybe i'll have to pick a new career. >> real quickly as far as being a role model and seeing some of the younger stars and some of the things they've gone on to do, not always great and getting into trouble, how do you keep yourself grounded? >> ground myself with the family. i have my good family and they're, you know, they believe in me and they are going to work for me. and, you know, if my dad gets a promotion or my brother kind of produces a new song or whatever it is, we're all celebrating successes at the same time with each other. so there's no value on one of us more than the other and it keeps you real. >> i know your show is going to be successful. i walked into my daughter's room saying what about jesse? they couldn't stop talking. >> thanks for watching the show! >> i placed a call to disney

and they made sure you're renewed for the next year. you owe me a favor. >> i hope they like the second season. it's for them. >> continued success to you. debby ryan, good to meet you. >> fridays we see it at 8:00 on the disney channel. >> thank you, debby. next the rundown, the results from hawaii are in. brand new update to the delegate count and what it means for the candidates moving forward. >> and ever daydream about an ex? no matter how hard you try to forget. why am i reading this? is that normal or not? dr. keith ablow here to answer that. he's in person, brian. we're really going to be on the couch, eric. >> remember the first time you broke up with eric? how long it took to get over that? coming up on the trivia question of the day -- man, i'm glad aflac pays cash.

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>> after rick santorum's double victory in the south, it seems mitt romney has a southern problem. but is it really that bad if he's still leading the delegate count? here to look into his crystal ball is the man behind me, university of virginia, best in the business, dr. larry sabado. tell me last night, if you're mitt romney do you still feel good about your chances to get the nomination? >> you feel good and you feel bad, brian. you feel good because you still have an 80% chance or better of being the nominee because it's about the delegates and notice he swept hawaii. he got the nine american samoa

delegates. he won the delegate race last night even with mississippi and alabama. but look at the way he's winning. it looks like he's losing on his way to winning and he needs to correct that and he's going to try to do it with puerto rico on sunday which he should sweep, 23 delegates and then illinois next tuesday which will be a difficult race again just like michigan and ohio. >> i'm going to update the delegate count. that was new to me. just for everybody if you're listening on radio, it's mitt romney, 495. rick santorum 252. newt, 151 and ron paul 48. it's kind of a weird process. let's talk about illinois, if we can. they're saying this is the new michigan and ohio. why? >> it's another midwest industrial state where you would think someone like mitt romney with his background should do very well and yet, the polls show it to be very close. just a slight romney lead over santorum and that was before the boost santorum got last night out of mississippi and alabama.

>> looking at finished products or can these candidates change perception? >> oh, absolutely. look, it's a long, long time just until the end of the process. and really, my big takeaway, brian, from last night is this is absolutely going to june. there's no question about it now. it's not going to be wrapped up until the end of the primary process. that's a long time and if candidates do it right, whether it's romney or santorum, they can change perceptions about themselves. >> has newt -- has newt's candidacy a dead man walking? >> you know, i'm of the old school, brian. i don't think pundits and the press should tell candidates when to get in and when to get out. that's his job. obviously, he's not going to be the nominee. that's clear to everybody. newt gingrich is a very smart guy. he knows that. >> dr. sabato talking about smart guys, you're one of them. thanks for your instant analysis. that means we'll be talking to you every day through june which

is great for us. thanks so much. >> thanks, brian. >> do you ever daydream about an ex that you just can't get out of your mind? is that normal? dr. keith ablow, boy, is he normal, he's answering that and all your burning questions next. it turns out eric bolling is finally fessing up, he's not over gretchen. first on this date in 1992, joan jett has the number one song of "i love to rock 'n' roll." i have that outfit. [ male announcer ] juice drink too watery? ♪ feel the power my young friend. mmm! [ male announcer ] for excellent fruit and veggie nutrition... v8 v-fusion, also refreshing plus tea. could've had a v8. ♪ one, two, three, four ♪ ♪ you say ♪ flip it over and replay ♪ we'll make everything okay

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>> answer to the question of the day, billy crystal, of course. lots of folks got it right. >> including debby ryan who yelled it out on the couch. >> but the first person to win was bill from florida. congratulations.

>> all right. face it. we all have nutty behaviors. unique quirks that humanize us. boy, do i feel human? and don't seem like a big deal until they cross the line from wacky to worrisome. >> so are these peculiar practices normal or not? here to answer your e-mails is fox news contributor and psychiatrist dr. keith ablow in person! on the couch! i'm not sure what message we're getting from all of this that he came to pay us a house visit on the couch. >> yes. even psychiatrists need a couch now and then. >> yes. >> and you got one. >> here's the first question, we have a lot of e-mails. number one is this one. i check out my ex-girlfriend's blog at least once a week. we broke up years ago and we both moved on and hardly even speak. why do i have this need to keep tabs on someone i am supposedly done with? >> look, you know, done with, obviously not. and why? why should you be done with? when you're in love with

somebody and then some time passes, why should it be that you have a hard and fast rule that you're not going to have anything to do with that person? this is just evidence that that was real. maybe it was real love and just didn't work out so look, read the blogs. contact her even. and say listen, that was a great one. why do we have to exorcise people from our lives? we don't. >> when her husband answers the phone, is that -- sorry, is cindy available. dr. ablow says i should call. >> how about this one. i certainly don't want to die. but i often think about my own funeral. who would attend? who would speak? what would they say about me? etc. is there something wrong with me to keep thinking this way? >> well, there are things wrong with you but now on to the question. >> friend of mine. >> here's the thing, listen, i am loathe to argue against thinking about death because people don't think about it enough. you know what? if you think about it more, it informs your life. you become more passionate

because you realize i don't have forever. i better do things today. i better love people the most i can right now. but don't be morose if you find yourself obsessing over this, think to yourself, when in my life did i suffer losses that maybe have gotten me even after i'm dead. >> i'm gone already. >> that's true. however, what you're really thinking about is your mortality. not thinking about mortality is the bigger problem. denying death, short circuits our capacity to care about one another and to get the things done and life that we want to get done. >> let's talk about this e-mail and here it is. i'm terrified of bridges. it began 15 years ago as a fear but now, i can't drive over them. i can't even be in the car when my husband drives over them. i live on long island and the only way to go anywhere is over a bridge. what happened to me? what should she do? >> now, this is a phobia of bridges. you didn't need a psychiatrist to tell you that, by the way. >> i came all the way from boston for that.

>> no, it's a phobia of bridges. it can be treated. behavioral therapy where you imagine getting closer to the bridge and do this visually in your mind with a therapist and then you imagine crossing it. with the use, when appropriate, of medicines and then you actually do approach it and get to cross it. this is the way that you conquer that fear. but never forget, the emotional psychological side, think to yourself when didn't i have control in my life? start honing in on that and you may replace this metaphor with actual insight about those events long ago, perhaps. >> bridge over troubled waters. >> that's what they call it. >> go to our web site to e-mail dr. ablow your normal or not questions and we'll answer them every week. thanks for the visit in person. >> i like being with you guys. and feel better already. >> this car chase is unlike any other. we'll show you why the president says there's not much good he can do to lower gas prices, why he's going on an all out media blitz to talk about them. we'll ask the panel. we'll be right back.

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>> gretchen: good morning, everyone. hope you're going to have a fantastic wednesday. it's march 14. brian's computer suddenly works. >> brian: my practicesword works. >> brian, you're fired. >> gretchen: after two hours on the show -- dr. ablow, we need you back! >> brian: roll it back from the top. >> gretchen: all right. since i'm going on vacation, this is a good way to kick it off with energy. good morning, everyone. today is wednesday, march 14. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your time with us today. rick santorum scores big in the south. conservative voters putting mitt romney on notice. >> someone who thinks this race is inevitable, he spent a whole lot of money against me for being inevitable. >> gretchen: will this contest change now? the republican race, where does it go from here? >> eric: don't count on newt gingrich. the former speaker talking about teaming up with a current

candidate for the number two spot on the ticket. brian? >> brian: the bald eagle known as the national symbol of this great country. why is the government giving out permits to hunt and kill them? "fox & friends" starts now. >> gretchen: good morning, everyone. let's take a look at what happened in alabama and mississippi last night. pretty much a surprise victory because the polls said otherwise. rick santorum wins both states. this is mississippi, 33%. gingrich had 31%. mitt romney coming in third there. very close. >> brian: i didn't see one poll with santorum coming out on top. in alabama he did by a six-point margin. 35 to 29 for newt gingrich. that's also what mitt romney tally asked ron paul didn't try.

>> eric: new delegate count after hawaii, we have 495 for romney. rick santorum, 252. newt gingrich, 131. ron paul, 48. interesting santorum wins in both. the big ones. romney gets the delegate count. >> gretchen: but there is still unease within the party. apparently conservatives not going for mitt romney last night. >> brian: because of hawaii and american samoa. >> gretchen: lucky for us, john roberts decided to get up bright and early and is live in lafayette, louisiana, where the race moves on now. with more on rick santorum's southern sweep and talk about a possible blockbuster ticket for the gop. it's breaking right now, john. what can you tell us? >> everybody is talking about this. get to that in just a second. let's set the stage first. we're in lafayette, louisiana. louisiana holds its primary on the 24. rick santorum hoping to put that one in the win column.

he's in puerto rico this morning. he almost didn't need a plane to fly. he was floating on air after the two big wins in alabama and mississippi. as brian was pointing out, no poll had him winning this thing. he told me monday, he didn't think he was going to do very well, but last night in his victory speech, he took aim at mitt romney for way outspending him in the deep south and still losing the contest. here is santorum. >> people have said you're being outspent and everybody is talking about all the math and all the things that this race is inevitable. well, for someone who thinks this race is inevitable, he spent a whole lot of money against me for being inevitable. [ cheers and applause ] this is a grassroots campaign for president. who would have ever thought in the age of media that we have in

this country today that ordinary folks from across this country can defy the odds day in, day out? >> the coming hours and days, watch for the drum beat to increase from the santorum side for gingrich to get out. they really want to clear the decks and stop splitting the conservative vote. santorum stopped short of calling on gingrich to get out himself, but he really would like to see him go. gingrich said talk to the hand, 'cause i ain't going anywhere. two reasons why. first of all, he thinks he can still become the nominee. and second, he thinks that by staying in, he can stop mitt romney from becoming the nominee. here is what he said last night. >> i think every time we can jointly take votes away from him, the first goal has to be to get to a point where there is an alternative to romney. otherwise he becomes the nominee. >> all right. now to what you were talking about, the huffington post has got an article today that senior campaign advisor for newt gingrich is floating the idea of

a rick santorum/newt gingrich ticket for the presidency. with santorum as the president, gingrich as the vice president. that might be tantalizing for the republicans. we talked to a source close to the gingrich campaign, the one that floated the idea of a gingrich/perry ticket. they said i don't know about this, didn't come from me. we don't know what the veracity is. >> brian: thanks, john. i think the one thing i walk away from, there will never be a mitt romney/newt gingrich ticket. >> gretchen: look at the secretary of state, clinton works for obama. never say never. thanks very much for that report. what do the exit polls tell us about last night? a lot. conservatives and evangelicals helped santorum in both states. keep in mind that i believe almost 70% or more of all the gop voters in those two states who were eligible to go to the polls, they considered themselves evangelicals.

the very conservatives went for rick santorum. 41. women, 38% for rick santorum. evangelicals, 35%. here is the important thing for me if i'm looking in november. 33% of the independents went for rick santorum. >> eric: mississippi, evangelicals 35%. very conservative, 39%. and that one right there, big number, 41%, married women. >> brian: all right. so we have those strength there is for santorum who walks away with a lot of different categories. also it's significant that newt gingrich did very well against mitt romney with seniors and those people who are really rich for the first time. those are two areas in which mitt romney usually locks up. the areas in which mitt romney was hoping for big -- to win big, he did win big. the turnout was low. so the big margin wasn't there for him to catapult himself to the top of alabama and mississippi charts. >> eric: can i point out something that you pointed out earlier? the person or the area that this

new piece of news is floated from, likely the gingrich camp, he's in third place. it sounds -- if i heard this from the santorum camp, we would say, maybe that makes sense. but right now santorum won two states. >> gretchen: it might be a start strategy to float that because many people said if you combine the votes of gingrich and santorum, you would overtake mitt romney. consequently, rick santorum said mitt romney should get out of the race. let's take a look at mitt romney because he seemed to have a problem with the conservatives in alabama and mississippi last night. 50% of the people there said not conservative enough. about right as far as conservatism, 27%. >> brian: that's the whole thing. that's what rick santorum has been saying nonstop. mitt romney is not conservative. he begs to differ. dig morris on earlier said he's got to find a way to win the conservatives over.

>> i have to learn a lesson and so does mitt romney. so for that matter does santorum and gingrich. but more me. you can lead a horse to water, you can't make him drink. it was pretty clear that romney has now lost georgia, south carolina, mississippi, alabama, tennessee, accuweather, kansas. oklahoma, you think they're trying to send him a message? you can't win the nomination if its base camp doesn't vote for you, can't stand you. >> brian: to elaborate, it was rick santorum that did better with people who earn over $100,000 than mitt romney. not newt gingrich. >> gretchen: so romney has to convince this loyal group of the base of the gop, somehow he has to figure that out. rick santorum probably has to figure out how he can make people believe that he can beat barak obama in november and newt gingrich apparently is going to stay in the race. he's saying until june he's hoping for a brokered

convention. >> eric: just to point out, mitt romney has now won guam, american samoa and north mariano islands. owning the territoryies. >> brian: puerto rico is next. >> gretchen: all right. now the rest of your headlines. fox news alert, nearly two dozen people under arrest for plotting to attack the united states and israel. the arrests taking place early today in the former soviet republic of azerbaijan. 22 people were picked up for plotting against the united states and israel, specifically each country's embassies. the details on the suspects and their potential plans scarce at this hour. we'll bring you more information as it comes in. defense secretary leon panetta in afghanistan on the surprise visit. this released to the media. he landed overnight for the unannounced two-day trip. it had been planned for weeks, but it now takes on a new tone after an american soldier killed

16 afghan civilians. he has denounced the killings. that is a message he's expected to deliver in person to afghan president karzai. today he'll visit also with u.s. and u.k. military leaders and speak to a group of about 200 troops. while you were sleeping, a police chase in l.a. came to a wild finish. all went down around 2:00 a.m. eastern time. cops ramming into a pick up truck, forcing it to stop, arresting a man and woman and look what they found inside. an infant in a baby seat. the child's condition not known. the driver initially suspected of drunk driving before taking off. a navy nurse returns from war to the loving arms of her husband and her very surprised children. >> mommy! >> gretchen: lieutenant commander takoya, four children, weren't expecting her until next month. their dad told them they were heading to the airport to pick up their aunt. instead, mom was there waiting.

the trauma nurse spent the last eight months serving in afghanistan. >> completely surprised. >> i can't tell you how rewarding it was. i took care of our american heros and i'm glad to have done that. >> gretchen: she says prayer and focusing on the mission is what got her through the time away. those are your headlines. >> eric: amazing. >> brian: straight ahead, the president's solution to gas prices, seaweed. now he's going yet another -- on yet another immediate media blitz to promote his energy agenda. is that really a good idea? we'll ask our panel if he is capable of driving down prices or can any president do that. meanwhile, his popularity is at stake. >> eric: then he's been flying the stars and stripes for decades. hear from the auto shop owner who is being ordered to take down the flag or go to jail [ male announcer ] what if you have potatoes?

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>> gretchen: 15 minutes after the top of the hour. tomorrow president obama is expected to address energy issues again. 36% believe it's beyond his control to control it. so will words be enough or is it time for president obama to take more action? let's ask our panel this morning, keith, editor of the daily voice, vicky ward, and matt, ceo and president of freedom works. good morning to all three of you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: keith, do you agree with the majority of americans that believe the president can do something about gas prices? >> there is not a lot that any president can do about gas prices to be truthful about it because oil is a global commodity. it's traded on the international

market. so even if we could drive down the prices here somehow and increase production, which is already an eight-year high, it won't have an impact on the overall international price because if you're an oil company, why would you sell oil to somebody for $50 a barrel in the united states when you can sell it for $100 somewhere else. >> gretchen: do you agree with that? >> i do. i think politically, the president is doing exactly what he needs to do right now. his opposition is in disarray. he's still ahead of the republicans in the polls. so he's doing exactly what he needs to do now, which is addressing the issue. >> gretchen: not all the polls, by the way. do you think, matt, that talking about green energy and continuing down that path is the right approach? >> i think it's funny because when president obama was a candidate, he had no problem blaming president bush and the republicans for gas prices. so i think it's a little evennic. but the -- ironic. the fact is, everything out of his control are the positive thing happening in energy markets and everything in his control, like green energy, like

his war on fossil fuels, like the discouragement of new production, these are problems that are his fault. >> gretchen: that's an interesting point. do you want to respond to that? >> these are the things out of his control or not doing well, well, oil prices are out of his control. that's contradicting what you're saying. the reality is, domestic oil production in this country had u.s. at an eight-year high. we import less oil than three or four years ago. the truth is, international instability that's being caused by the forces going on in the arab spring that are having an impact. >> gretchen: let's bring it back home for a minute. what about the keystone pipeline? many people believe that's a political move to assuage the concerns of the environmentalists and might create a ton of jobs. how do we respond to that? >> but no one i've talked to in the energy industry believes it will create jobs for years. that's just one of those things -- >> everybody always says that, that we won't get this on-line for years. well, if we stop domestic

production, of course it's going to impact markets because commodity prices are forward-looking and again, everything this administration is doing is discouraging the production of energy. >> gretchen: i got to wrap it up. can we all agree that high grass price social security not -- gas price social security not good for an incumbent president? >> not good for anybody. >> gretchen: conservative voters fighting back and giving rick santorum a sweep. what does that mean fort republican party? governor chris christie calling a navy seal an idiot. >> let me tell you something, after you graduate from law school, conduct yourself like that in the courtroom, your rear end will get thrown in jail, idiot. >> gretchen: this morning for the first time, we'll hear from the navy seal. his response to the gov coming up [ female announcer ] ready for a taste of what's hot?

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>> brian: quick headlines. strong earthquake shaking northern japan triggering a small tsunami. no damage or injuries reported yet. several towns have been evacuated. soon on warnings and advisories now canceled. and two 911 terror suspects starving themselves. sources tell fox news they're protest ago new policy that requires all communication between suspects and their attorneys be monitored. it took us ten years to come up with that policy? no word if they are too weak to use the new soccer field that we paid for them. i hope it doesn't hurt their scrimmages that they had scheduled for this afternoon. gretch? >> gretchen: thank you, brian. here is the question for you: is mitt romney still the

inevitable gop nominee after losing to rick santorum in alabama and mississippi last night? we're back with our panel, keith, vicky and matt. matt, let me tee this up for you first. you're a member of the tea party. >> i am. >> gretchen: did you hear the voices last night of alabama and mississippi? >> i thought the whole process is demonstrative of the whole thing, it's decentralized. the republican establishment doesn't get to ordain the candidate from on high and the people are looking for someone better than mitt romney. his performance continues to be incredibly weak. the only thing he has going for him is the math. that's not a great way to go into the general election. >> gretchen: the question i've been asking this morning, vicky, is is it about the math or is it about the perception of the candidate? >> well, we'll know about the math when we get to the convention. i think what we have here, as we were discussing in the break, is a fight against the establishment candidate. that's what we're seeing with the rise of rick santorum, what

we're seeing with newt gingrich, i can only call gingrich the grinch. >> gretchen: okay. i guess you're not in favor of him as a candidate. all right. how do you see this, keith? >> i disagree with matt. i think what mitt romney's greatest advantage is is not the math. it's that he has -- he's going against the weakest field of candidates i've ever seen from any part in decades. >> gretchen: why do you say that? >> rick santorum, for all his virtues and newt gingrich, these guys are politically inept. this whole usa op ed that came out a few weeks ago written in 2009 with mitt romney saying he endorsed the federal health care plan, why did they just discover at that a few weeks ago? that's political malpractice. you're a candidate, you don't do opposition research and you're a candidate? they're horribly bad candidates. >> gretchen: is there something to be said for the fact that rick santorum can win these -- if he's so horrible, can win these two states with basically one sixth of the money of mitt

romney and a grassroots campaign where he was driving around in a car -- >> they're all weak. mitt romney is weak and rick santorum was weak and newt gingrich is weak. we give three flub candidates running against each other. >> gretchen: is he right? >> no, i don't think that's right. i think you're seeing a decentralization where buying a tv ad is the key to victory. you have to understand that this president is incredibly weak and his economy -- he owns that. i think any one of these candidateincredibly beat obama once they get to this process. this decentralized process did not hurt barak obama. he have fought all the way up to the convention, and yet, he became -- >> two strong candidates. >> exactly. i think it's a different race at a different tenor. it was a hire class of campaign. >> gretchen: higher class? they were at each other's throats! how can you say this? >> because the substance of the clash -- i saw it.

>> gretchen: that's subjective. >> there has been one incumbent democrat president who lost in -- this is not a jimmy carter versus ronald reagan election. >> gretchen: we don't know yet. that's what makes this cycle so exciting. i have to wrap it up. he has been flying the stars and stripes for decades, but now an auto shop owner is being ordered to take his flag down or go to jail? hear from him after the break. then national symbol of freedom. why is the federal government letting people hunt and kill the bald eagle? this is not a joke, folks. you know him as one of america's top tvdocs and he's here talk being something you never hear. why medical mistakes are a good thing? come on in [ male announcer ] where's your road to happiness?

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each day was fueled by thorough preparation 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. which meant she continued to have the means to live on... even at the ripe old age of 187. life well planned. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. >> gretchen: the story might get you hot under the collar. apparently the federal government is now giving an american indian tribe out west, i believe it's wyoming -- permission to kill the bald eagle. at least a couple of them. haven't we spent decades trying to protect the bald eagle? isn't it the symbol of american freedom and wasn't it on the

endangered list? now apparently there is some sort of a tribal ritual in which they're going to allow this american indian tribe to do this. what to you think about that? >> brian: i think it's outrageous. we spent 40 years trying to get them -- they were almost extinct. almost as long as they've been on the planet, we've had trouble to keep the population going. then you contrast that with the different type of species and animals that we're protecting. >> eric: right. take a look at the monitor over there. we have the turtle tunnel. we spent $3.4 million for that. >> brian: cause they're getting crushed by cars. >> eric: some of this stuff is from the stimulus. we spent $150,000 on signs for critter crossings. how about the lion and tiger housing. that last one, the sand dune lizard. another one, too, in the central valley of california. there was a water issue and they diverted water. the problem was, they were diverting water to save a three inch delta smelt.

three inch fish. they were literally taking the water away from farm increase that central valley of california and losing their businesses. they were losing their livelihoods to protect that three inch lizard. but it's okay for these tribes to kill the american bald eagle. >> gretchen: what did our viewers think about this this morning? we took some of your e-mails. this is from melvin. where is peta when the eagles need them? good point. >> brian: e-mail from sam in north carolina. so it's okay to kill our national symbol, but not okay to say a prayer at a football game? >> eric: good point. and this is from holly. a bird, if it's not lawful to hunt the bald eagle, what's the problem? if it is lawful, what's the problem. symbol of our country should be more than a bird. i don't know. it's the symbol of the country. leave it alone. >> gretchen: it's been endangered. i think those two things together -- >> eric: may have come off the endangered list. but still shouldn't it be protected? >> brian: an update to a fox news alert we brought you at the

top of the hour. nearly two dozen suspects under arrest this morning for plotting an attack on the united states and israeli embassies. of the 22 people were citizens of azerbaijan, but working covertly for a branch of iran's military. that's a former soviet republic that share has borrowed with iran. we still don't have any details on the potential attack or how these arrests went down. more updates as they come in. >> gretchen: it's been flying high for more than 30 years. but now one man in georgia is facing possible jail time for refusing to take down his american flag. an enforcement officer told him the flag outside of his auto repair shop violated the city's sign ordinance. he was ticketed. but after he put up a fight with city officials, it was reduced to a warning. he joined us earlier on "fox & friends" where he told us he's not going to back down. >> i want to stick to my ground 'cause i'm just really at odds

with -- like i said, our local government telling me where and where not i can fly my flag. i realize if it was a safety issue, yeah, i need to move it. but it's not. it adds beauty to that corner. >> gretchen: for each day he refuses to take it down, he face has fine up to 1,000 bucks and even jail time up to 60 days. >> eric: the former navy seal who was called an idiot because he kept interrupting new jersey governor chris christie now apologizing. here is what happened. >> i can go back and forth with you as much as you want. let me tell you something, after you graduate from law school, you conduct yourself like that in the courtroom, your rear end is going to get thrown in jail, idiot. >> i'm not thrilled about being known as an idiot or jerk. i apologize if i came across disrespectful to the governor. that's not what i meant. >> eric: that was the failed democratic candidate for state assembly says he no longer has any political ambitions. he's planning to return to the

seals or join the f.b.i gretch? >> gretchen: what happens when a rock'n'roll bartender who dates pop stars like lady gaga spent too much time partying and eating late at night? well, you pile on the pounds, of course. just ask luke carl. he's the author of the book "the drunk diet." earlier, he told us how he dropped 40 pounds without giving up some of his favorite things, like booze. one of his tips, replace beer with the hard stuff. >> it's full of sugar and full of carbs that are terrible for you and i think that back when i was in my bartending hey day and the night life and everything, i didn't even know what a carb was. turns out that the beer gut is true. it's real. if you stick to hard liquor, there is mo carbs involved. >> gretchen: luke carl says he dropped the weight with good old-fashioned exercise and by cutting out the meat. we actually did push them together. >> brian: his liver couldn't be reached for comment.

>> eric: all right. he's known as one of america's top tv dogs -- docs. but now he's bringing attention to something you never heard. why medical mistakes are a good thing. >> brian: the doctor is practicing physician and author of the book "monday mornings." he finally found himself on the right network. so tell me about this book. it's fiction, but not really. correct? >> yeah. for 20 years, since i finished medical school, i've been fascinated by this sort of insiders only gathering in hospitals where doctors hold each other accountable for their mistakes. this isn't about lawyers or administrators being in the room. cease taking, look, you screwed up. let's teach you how not to do that again and everyone else that's listening as well can learn from those mistakes. this happens in hospitals. these can be tough meetings, as you might imagine to attend. but i found some of the most indelible things i've seen over 20 years of being a physician. >> gretchen: you say they're good things can come out of these medical mistakes. but the first thing that comes to my mind is malpractice.

>> yeah. the thing, gretchen, this isn't in lieu of the malpractice system. that still exists obviously and also people may lose privileges because the administrators of the hospital are aware of this. this is about health care professionals themselves. it's as if you three yourselves said, after the show, let's close the doors and talk about this show. what went wrong. let's be candid. no holds barred. what would come out of that? is this an opportunity? this is a unique thing to hospitals, but as i was writing this, i thought could this potentially work in other institutions? >> eric: very important because there are probably hospitals that may be doing things wrong as a whole hospital. do they do this hospital to hospital, in other words? >> absolutely. sometimes you get publications that come out of this because something happens and they decide, you know what? that's something that the general medical community should know. so let's write a paper on it and share it. that's exactly the point is that if the mistake like this is made, people may do it all along thinking i didn't realize that

was a mistake. no one ever called me out for that. so call him out and make sure everyone else knows it's a mistake. >> brian: when i read fiction, i'm thinking, did this really happen? how far did you go this isn't tracked back to people? can we start reading between the lines? >> the funny thing is, obviously it's a huge world out there. and a lot of these stories and type of things that happened. the stories i made up, they're fiction stories. i had to make a decision to write this as fiction because i've written nonfiction in the past. but i thought in order to be as candidas i wanted to be with this, it needed to be fiction. it wasn't implicating any doctor in particular or hospital in particular. but i wanted to show a peek behind the curtain here. >> gretchen: it's interesting because now it will be turned into a tv show. >> yeah. >> gretchen: i want to move on to this next topic because from time to time, you're also on "60 minutes." this past sunday you pitched a story about the kahn academy.

a way to teach our kids in a better way. what is it? >> this is something i started implementing with them. the basic premise is this: if you look at classrooms, where is a teacher really spending his or her time? in front of a blackboard with textbooks? if you could flip the classroom in some ways what, is considered homework, you do at school: what's considered school work, you do at home. lectures you could watch at home on a video and then when you get to the class the next day, you can actually do the problem sets with the teacher actually being able to help you. that way the teacher is spending his or her time with students as they're doing problem sets as opposed to in front of the blackboard. it's focusing on the idea like how do you know you learned a topic? how do you know you mastered something and ready to move on to the next grade or next subject? that's what it's focused on. >> brian: and why there is big money behind this? >> google, gates. >> this guy started this out of his closet and small house making these questions and

trying to tutor a cousin of his. he saw a lot of people started to watch the videos and he thought. >> a way to build a world class education system on-line. that's what he said, he wants a free world class education to anyone, anywhere. >> eric: any indication, any public school districts may be tuning in looking in, maybe getting lessons, taking notes on the academy? >> it's being piloted in a bunch of school districts around the country, mainly in cal charges but also in the -- california, but also in the washington, d.c. area. it's starting to catch on of the we talked to the teachers unions and they say as long as their teachers are trained, they think this is a good supplemental tool for the classroom. not meant to displace teachers, for example. i think so. as i mentioned, in the anecdotal case of one, i have three kids. i have them starting to watch these videos. >> brian: can i ask you, if you had a choice between hanging out a anderson cooper or wolf blitzer, who would you choose? >> wolfman, every single time.

>> brian: a lot better? >> gretchen: wow. you didn't take the fifth on that question. good for you! continued success in your career. continued suck sees and this is the new book "monday morning." >> appreciate it. >> gretchen: we're going to go ahead and call this the worst way to get out of a ticket. a man actually jumped off a bridge to get away from the cop. that's coming up. >> brian: then no i.d., no problem. attorney general eric holder dismissed texas voter i.d. law saying it discriminates against voters. is he right? robertorgones used to have holder's job. he's here next. >> brian: ali landry is here. she give us a behind the scenes look into her life in a new reality show. [ kate ] most women may not be properly absorbing

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not an aarp member? join today. and then take advantage of the aarp hearing care program provided by hearusa. call hearusa ... and reconnect with your world today. >> brian: texas wanted to require people to show i.d. to vote. the reason? cut down on voter fraud. eric holder says, quote, i don't think so. he says the law discriminates against people, specifically minorities. many who lack photo i.d is he right? former attorney general, alberto gonzalez joins us. does this attorney general have a point? >> well, listen, i generally support the idea of having photo identification to insure the integrity of voting on election day. but there is an additional issue here. there is a law, the voting rights act, which requires whenever a state like texas pass has law affecting elections,

that the department of justice and the courts have an obligation to insure that there isn't a discriminatory effect or purpose against minorities in passing that law. that's what the department of justice has gone through that process and now it's a process that's moving on to the courts. >> brian: in your mind, is this something that the federal government should be involved in, telling the people of texas hey, you shouldn't require i.d.? >> well, listen, the federal government is involved in a lot of issues at the state level that i'm uncomfortable with. but the current state of the law is is that for certain states like texas, again, whenever they pass a law affecting voting rights in a particular -- within their jurisdiction, that that cake has to be approved either by the department of justice or by the federal courts in d.c we can have another very detailed discussion about whether or not that's an appropriate thing, but that's the current state of the law. >> brian: some people of the political mind to say this is a political move because they say

between 50 and 200% of hispanics sometime do not have i.d so they could inadvertently disproportionately affect them. look what we need a i.d. for, buy cigarettes, alcohol, r rated movie, get a hotel, rent a car. to get on a plane. why is it getting in the voting booth should be easier than that? >> well, i believe that you should have photo identification in order to vote. and i do find it curious -- again, i haven't seen the information submitted by texas or the information submitted by interested third parties and evaluated by the department of justice. but to me, it seems curious, it's such a high percentage of hispanics wouldn't have the kind of identification you would normally expect of someone to live and to function in a modern society. none the less, that's where we are told and it's now moving to the courts and the courts will evaluate whether or not texas has submitted the necessary proof to show that this voter

identification requirement does not discriminate against minorities. >> brian: you think this attorney general has been good? >> listen, i know how difficult this position is. i know the difficulty of the job. so it's not my place to give an opinion this morning as to whether or not he's been good or not. i know he's doing the best that he can. that's my own perception. >> brian: all right. always great to see you. thanks so much for checking in with us. >> great to see you. >> brian: when we return, ali landry is here with a behind the scenes look at her new life in reality tv. this could be part of the tv show thee receipticcally. first, let's check in with bill hemmer. he calls it "america's newsroom" starring bill hemmer and a very important woman. >> indeed it is. how are you doing? i'll see you on the radio. >> brian: you promise? >> yeah. ike looking forward to that. bring your a game, will you? santorum wins in the south. romney wins way out west. what's that mean? health care will cost twice as much as we were told.

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>> gretchen: couple headlines for you. it might be the worst get away attempt ever. robert thomas carter jumps off a bridge in louisiana, trying o escape a dui arrest. police say he jumped when asked to take a sobriety test. he survived, but is inj÷+xsq;

ali landry is giving fans a behind the scenes look into her life in a new reality show, hollywood girls night, on the tv guide channel. >> after my breakup, i had the books lined up on the bedside table. i probably had 20. i didn't have children, but i always to this day, i will say that was the biggest blessing that has ever happened to me in my entire life. it changed my existence. it can turn into a really positive incredible thing. >> eric: ali landry joins us now. thank you for joining us. >> that was such a serious clip. we really do have fun. >> eric: that looks like fun. it looks intriguing. >> well, and revealing. >> gretchen: saying your marriage to mario lopez only lasting two weeks was a blessing to get out of it. what do you mean? >> you know, going back to that, it was one of those things that

was absolutely horrible. but in the end, i'm so grateful that i'm out of that. >> brian: now your life is now in every episode. you're you and your friends interacting. you say when you're done with it, you're not even sure what makes the cut and what doesn't make the cut. >> it's girls night. it's when you get together with your girlfriends, all of those conversations happen. yes, it is very revealing and i was sharing with you earlier, we start out with the specialty cocktail, which doesn't hurt, you know. it really gets the conversations going. we open up with telling a secret and we have ice breaker questions. but it's just a really great time. we share tips. it's fun. it's dishy. you learn a lot. it's just great to really share with your friends. >> eric: we should point out that's allison sweeney. we recognize her from "biggest loser." >> gretchen: and "days of our lives." >> eric: how did you get together with her to do this? >> we've been friends a really long time. we did celebrity fear factor together where we really bonded.

we always wanted to work together. then we partnered with the executive producer for oprah for so many years on this project. now we're on tv guide network, on sunday nights. >> gretchen: you're happily married and you're a mom to two beautiful young children? >> i am. >> gretchen: how do you have time for girls night? >> look, it is like one of those things. it's so nice just to -- it's all consuming, being a mother, being a parent. so it's nice to have that one night during the week where i can be with my girlfriends and have girl talk, no husband, just lots of fun and -- >> eric: and camera. >> i can't believe like that's my job. i can't believe i'm actually doing this for work. it's really fun. >> brian: how many bags of doritos do you have in your house. >> i bought a house with doritos. they never gave me one bag of chips. can you believe it? >> brian: that's an outrage. >> eric: brian, we're going to do boys night. >> you guys do it all the time! boys have no problem.

>> brian: you'd be bored to tears about what we talk about. >> we would? >> brian: absolutely? >> really? >> brian: tell me about it. >> eric: thank you for joining us. >> thanks. >> gretchen: more "fox & friends" two minutes away. right back [ male announcer ] how do you trade? with scottrader streaming quotes, any way you want. fully customize it for your trading process -- from thought to trade, on every screen. and all in real time. which makes it just like having your own trading floor, right at your fingertips. [ rodger ] at scottrade, seven dollar trades are just the start. try our easy-to-use scottrader streaming quotes. it's another reason more investors are saying... [ all ] i'm with scottrade.

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>> gretchen: coming up tomorrow, stuart varney will be here, michelle malkin, and john stossel and the cast of "jersey shore". >> brian: and ali landry, you will be tuning in. >> i do. >> brian: that is the number one. >> the whole thing is, snooki -- >> brian: it's our cliff hanger for tomorrow. >> it's a surprise. >> brian: we might never know. >> now everybody will tune in to see. >> brian: thank you very much.