>> good day i'm live in washington, we have it all covered today. mitt romney is taking the field for his big economic speech today in the stadium that is home to the detroit lions and romney is channelling paul newman in "cool hand luke". >> we have not seen a fail tore communicate, we have seen a failure to lead and that is why i'm running for president. i want to restore america's promise. that means more jobs, less debt. and smaller government. >> democrats and union members countered romney by parking car on a nearby parking garage rooftop spelling outs romney let detroit go bankruptcy. chris is a managing editor of "post politics.com" the back and forth of the detroit bailout is one of the sub texts of this michigan, the michigan primary coming up on tuesday.

what do we think of the romney speech and how he is trying grab hold of the economic theme the weekend before the election? >> is trying reframe the proposals he put out last september. >> 59 points does not do it. >> it does not do it. people do not consume 59 points 150 page plans. they just don't. he is trying make this, i think, it's not the 9-9-9 herman cain plan but it's geared toward the kind of people that are fiscal conservative tea party republicans that like simple. that barack obama and democrats make it too implicated t more slim down government as involvements the better. we know it's a big speech because they did it at a big venue. it matters. when you do it at a stadium, we will not have that many people there for a economic speech.

it's meant to send a message that this matters. it will draw a lot of attention. and they hope close the deal with michigan voters. we have talked about it before. look, if next four or so days are important to mitt romney. if he loses in michigan he is in a world of hurt. here is santorum's campaign ad. >> who is on the side of michigan workers? not romney. he supported the new york bailouts and turned his back on michigan workers. but santorum's plan cuts taxes for michigan manufacturers to zero. >> santorum striking back. santorum largely up in the polls? how are you reading the race? >> my sense is that's a toss up at the moment. haul the polling i have seen, i saw a romney poll that is being pushed, it suggests he is ahead and most of them say santorum is ahead. and you average it out, i go to

my first boss, he said you add them up and divide them up and you get what looks like in my opinion a tie. what is interesting about that ad w economic populism, that romney is a big rich guy that does not understand the auto industry that makes up the backbone of the michigan economy or once did. santorum has potential as a economic hpopulist. he can fit with kpief the root -- roo root -- he can fit with that group. and he is trying to draw a contrast. >> that message is trumping the whole debate over contraception and all the social issues. that is not what is getting through, that a lot of women are responding positively. >> right. you are referencing our post polling. and i -- look, i have thought since the speech he gave after

the iowa caucuses where he finished first, that night, he gave a terrific economic populist. i'm one of you. i'm the voice for you. the republican party can be a home for those fightsing up through the middle class. he should spend all of his time talking about that and zero time talking about contraception. social conservatives are with him. he needs to reach into the middle of the republican party and that is the economic conservatives. >> that is the speech he gave in iowa. >> if he gives that one, then we have potential for santorum. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> have a great weekend. and the death toll is rising from anti-american protests across afghanistan. demonstrators expressed their anger of the burning of korans

by burning the pictures of president obama. there were tense moments this morning. live ammo pwas fired into the ar to try to break up the crowds in the capitol. >> right now the protesters have gotten out of hand. the afghan army is trying to stop them. they are firing off warning shots. we nearly got stuck in the protests and we have to run. >> atia is joining me now great a safer location. our bureau there. it was heart stopping when we saw you in today. tell me what it was like out there in the crowd, you heard the live ammo, you were trying to be a reporter at the same time as you knew what was happening around you. >> reporter: that is a

interesting question, i have been around bullets and bombs before, but i've never been as frightened as i was when i saw mob of angry afghans holding sticks and coming after western compounds. we saw them overrun the first security check point and we realized we needed to go as well. what helped us is that i had an afghan producer and camera man. i was able to speak the language, so they thought i was a local as well. and we had the afghan security forces firing those shots, making sure that the civilians got away. we also ran. but, we were afraid that those protester s were going to run over the next check point as well. it was a heart racing experience today. especially considering that i have seen a lot in this country, but there's nothing scarier

unanimothan an angry mob coming at you. >> the angry mob was the immediate threat but what about the security forces firing into the air? >> that is another threat, the saying goes, what goes up has to come down. the bullets will come down and injury people. but it broke up the crowd for a second. gave other people the chance to go. i was surprised how well prepare today security forces in -- prepared the security forces were. they were anticipating mass amounts of violence and protests, they had check points out in the streets and police standing in the mosques in various parts of the city and all over the country to try to prevent this type of violence. what really prevented this type of violence, andrea, i should mention, was the people in the mosque. if crowd we saw was motivated by a person in the mosque saying go

rage. but others said don't do it. the koran forbids it, you should not kill anyone, even if they are westerners or nonmuslims. some of the mosques were telling the afghans not to do it. >> atia, i do not have to tell you to be careful, but we are worry bd -- we are worried about you. thanks for being with us. jim webb is with us. an experienced part of our government on military affairs. let's talk about this. i want to play you a bit of newt gingrich about president obama's apology transmitted by letter to the apology of the burning of the korans.

>> the president apologized for the burning. but i have not seen him demand that the government of afghanistan apologize for the killing of two young americans. there seems to be nothing that radical islamists can do to get obama's attention in a negative way and he has consistently apologized to people who do not deserve the apology of the president of the united states, period. >> senator, the white house was quick to point out that parino speaking in march of 2008, for george w. bush apologized for the unintentional burning, i'm not sure it was intention or unintentional but the burning of a koran in iraq. the point from the white house is a president of the united states will apologize if that will help protect american troops in the field? >> well, first of all, looking at the scenes that you just showed, actually, it's very much like a film i wrote about 11

years ago called "rules of engagement" about an embassy under attack. my sympathies go out to any american who have lost their lives as a result of this incident. but look, i do not think the president was apologizing to the people who became so angry that they took american lives. i think that it's appropriate, when we clearly made a cultural error, an inadvertent cultural error, to clear the air with the people of that culture in afghanistan and say it was inadvertent. and let's move faurorward. what we need is just what you heard from the correspondent, that is the responsible religious leaders to come forward and help us calm the situation down. >> secretary clinton, today, took a step that we have not

taken before. let me play this declaring that the syrian opposition is a legitimate -- the syrian national council is the legitimate leader of the opposition. -- sorry, this is what she had to say because we are waiting for that tape to come in. we view the syrian national council as a leading legitimate representative of syrians seeking peaceful democratic change and as an effective representative for the syrian people with governments and international organizations, we heard today that the snc is articulating a plan for the future. we urge the full range of opposition groups including representatives of all ethnic groups to come around that decision. is the snc worthy of support from alleys around the world? and what can we do with the continuing opposition from

russia? >> i cannot make a judgment about that. i just heard the statement, we have a diplomatic relationship with the syrian government. here is what i think we need to do. and i think we are doing it by the way. first, trying to examine the nature of the opposition. how much of it is regional players trying take advantage of the situation and how much of it is organizations like al qaeda attempting to take over the situation and escalate it and we need to look at the measures that the syrian government has taken to put down the opposition and these other portions of the oppositi opposition. in that context, it's been useful for us to go to the international community, and to have their participation in coming up with a solution and this is not -- >> senator, should we be arming the rebels? >> i think, first of all, we

have to examine who they are. and that is what i was saying in the first part. i had a discussion with director clapper and we need to figure out who they are before putting in guns. we should be calling on china to participate in this, not simply looking at the situation with russia, it's a way to move forward. and china has its own short comings in terms of participating in these kind of situations, whether it's iran or north korea or syria, their form of government could allow them to perform repression inside their own country. we need china to be more responsible in joining the international community when we look at these kinds of incidents. >> senator webb, thank you for

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in today's politico briefing, is mitt romney running more of a gottcha campaign, instead of presenting his own ideas. politico's lois romano joins me.

great to see you. through all of our years of talking while you were at the washington post. tell me what your take is on mitt romney and the research? >> i think it's an acknowledgment from the campaign that his narrative, his personal story is not connecting well. and so, this is about what they have got now is the negativity, he started it in iowa, so their strategy is to tear down the other guy, because he is have ago hard time connecting his own life story and his own positive story with the voters. >> is it his life story or is it the substance? is it where he is going out in his stump speech and it does not say enough about what he would do, what he would do about gasoline prices, about the economy, about jobs? >> my personal view is his inability to connect and be heard. i think he put out proposals and

he has fritry to do that, but hs not being heard. he is not a natural speaker. the second half of it is usually about america the beautiful. he recites the whole song. he can memorize facts though. in today as internet campaigns they sent him out there with every conceivable fact in that debate to put santorum to def defensive. he kind of just said all of his stats in the first five minutes. he was very effective. but he shot it all right away. >> the interesting thing is that he talks so often about his father, george romney, george romney was described as a bull in a china shop. he would barrel into a room and romney is more like his mother

when she ran for the senate, who is a more controlled candidate. >> i think that is true, but i think for whatever reason, mr. romney was a successful businessman, for whatever reason, does he not hear how things sound. i understand today, just a while ago, he was talking about how his family owned american cars, he owned a mustang and his wife owned a couple of cadillacs. >> a couple of cadillacs? >> that is what i'm told. that is the kind of thing where a campaign would hear that, and go crazy. i do not think he kind of can see how how it plays. so he tries to -- they try to keep him on a tight script. this is where the negativity is coming from, it's that -- >> it's counter point to that. >> exactly. a counter point. >> thank you very much. good to see you again.

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portfolio, to nuclear and fracking and other nontraditional sources of power. that way we bring down the cost of gasoline and help all of us do better. then we have to have more fuel efficient cars. the electric car, whatever happens. we are all aware of the solutions and have to work together to make it happen. >> the treasury secretary said they are thinking of tapping into the petroleum reserve. it has been used to deal with rising prices. is there a feeling among the governors that the president should do that. >> >> we produce less than 10% and conassume more than 20%. the drilling riggs, 50% of them in the world are working in the united states. we are importing less energy today. >> and consumption has been down

because of a warm winter. >> and conservation, the tail cannot wagon the dog. we are producing less than 10% and they consume oil all over the world. we are doing our part, in the west we have more drilling riggs working than any time in history and we have 50% and more working in the world. so we are working on it. >> what about keystone pipeline and the president's decision to delay that? >> we have heard that he will not delay the entire pipeline. he is looking for an alternative route. we all agree with that, it has to come in at some time or another. >> montana permitted it, and kansas and oklahoma -- >> you are holding the whole thing up because of nebraska or was the president trying to have environmentalists be happy. >> this is not going happen until you have a complete route. the nebraska state changed their

laws to keep the route out of their state. so let's put the blame where the blame belongs. nebraska had a route, if they would have permitted a type line, then we would have a pipeline that the state department request discuss. right now it's the pipeline that dump it in the prairie. >> we want it pumped. so you all have to get your mess together to make it happen. >> montana and north dakota we are increasing our oil rate at the fastest in the country. we are putting our oil on rail cars so we have noeregotiated t put our oil on the keystone, when it's built and not if it's built. the clock is ticking. let's move. and it means jobs all over the country. that is the other part t quicker we can do things like that the faster we put people back to worker with great jobs. >> governors, the president seems to have found his voice, literally and figuretively?

>> like a laser focus he is on jobs. we spent time talking to the president about pinnovation an a attracting businesses to come to the united states t best days are ahead of us. and the president understands that jobs will drive the economy more than anywhere else. >> we will welcome you there and it's a great time to show off north carolina. he will win it and let me tell you why, he has been a constant operation. he has volunteers and offices and excitement. he understands the problems that north carolina faces. he understands the middle class, he is not talk about if -- the 1% upper class. and he has done a great job with

the mill teaaear -- the militar. you are talking about the president, and you see this presidents, he killed osama bin laden, he capture ed more, al qaeda than other years. he may carry many states in the south. it's not impossible for him. >> it's great to see you in person. thanks for the visit. and enjoy washington, d.c. the beautiful weather here this weekend as well. when will the international community get more involved in syria. that up next. plus p ten years after the death of journalist daniel pearl. journalists are dieing in syria today, we talk to his father just ahead. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement, if your car is totaled,

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the national atomic energy expressed serious concerns about iran's nuclear program. they have ramped up their production of higher and richer uranium, the missing amount that has been detected could use to arm a war head. secretary of state hillary linton is in tunisia. we have our guest here from the hill. mr. secretary, thanks so much. let's talk about the options, i was talking to earlier -- to jim webb, senator webb was saying it's not the time to arm the rebels. we do not know who represents the rebels but we have to be more engaged, what can we do? >> i think that senator webb is right. we have to be careful when we

proceed here, and secretary kplin ton is striking just the right note. the arab countries have to take the lead. they are the ones in the region. they know syria best. you have turkey and saudi arabia and you have the uae and others, cutter, they have to be in the for front of the lead here. gathering the nation s and getting them involved. taking economic and diplomatic actions. i would go after their banking system as well. and then there's consideration, at least, being given to the possibility of establishing safe havens where people could flee and be protected. that would involve military operations to protect them. that is a solution to trying to save thousands of innocent lives.

i'm not sure he should take that step yet, but it's something that the group of 70 that are meeting and those well beyond that should at least consider how to bring a stop to the slaughter. >> here is an account from skype showing an explosion. >> houses on fire now, smoke now. our medical team is not able to treat all of the injureds in addition, there are no medical supplies. i want to say, here is a difficult -- here is a horrible life. >> and then the connection went dead. and we were, we are grasping as straws here because there's so few reporters on the ground and we saw what happened with marie colvin and the few that have been able to hide and smuggle

their way in. i'm not sure what the answer is. you went through this with bosnia and trying to get nato to intervene, there's nothing that they can do without the u.n., and they will not do it. does the arab league have to step forward here? >> it may be a coalition of the willing. in the event that the united nations security council proves to be dysfunctional because russia and china will veto action to keep the slaughter from taking place. it may be a league of the willing. i think we can be supportive and provide humanitarian relief. and leadership in trying bring together the international community, particularly those in the arab league, to take action, it would be a mistake at that point to talk about the united states take ago lead that would

result in active military engagement. this is a tinder box over there. you talk ed about the iranian situation. they are involved in the, behind the scenes and connect at the hip with the syrians. the syrians have been relying on the iranians for money that flows through to hamas and hezbollah. before talking about military operations we have to think about what it means in the totality of the region if this is throwing a match into a fuel depo with such and have it explode. we have to calibrate our reaction to this. speaking of iran, we have to stop pretending that we are listening to the iranians talk about a civil nuclear program. they are creating a nuclear weapons capability and for us to listen to, we are only

interested in civil production for civil nuclear purposes, it's absurd, let's galvanize the community and crack down and tell the iranian leadership that they may deal with a change from within from the people rising up if they continue at this level. >> was the chairman of the joints chief wrong to call iran a rational actor? >> they have rational people in the government. but they are capable of ir rational acts. it's been pointed out, the notion that they would undertake the assassination of the saudi ambassador to the united states is not a rational act. if you look at the cost/benefit, if that action had gone through, it would be devastating because the response would be overwhelming and the iranian

leadership would no longer be in existence if my opinion. -- in my opinion. whether the leadership has an awareness or a sanctioned, engaged in activity, i don't know. but i would not dis miss them as being ir rational or crazy. they are calculating, and they have a long history in terms of how they calculated their foreign policy. they have been very clever. they have been very -- i would say dangerous in terms of sponsoring acts of terrorism, trying erase the fingerprints but they are rational in the sense that they understand if they go too far, they will provoke a reaction which they will not want to live with. >> thank you very much, bill. this week, two veteran reporters were killed in the city of homs.

their colleague phil conroy was also injured. here is his video. >>. >> reporter: i don't remember much after that. were a couple of close hits. and then we took a direct hit. i was injured in the leg. i think that my colleague, marie colvin is dead and remi is also dead as far as i know. >> the risk that journalists are taking are poignant, this is the month that marks the ten year death of bruce pearl. he was investigating linked between the shoe bomber and others. his father joins us now from l.a. great pearl, it's good to see you again.

we spent time i believe last in toronto together, and you have launched this magnet school trying create a really living lega legacy. they have got a facebook page called -- let's talk about what daniel pearl's legacy is ten years later. >> thank you, andrea for having me on your show. it has been tough and intense ten years. we have been trying the best we can to harness all of the energy and good will that the tragedy has evoked around the world into a good cause and our mission is to fight the hatred we are doing it in a three prong mode through journalism, through

music. and through dialog. and the daniel pearl high school that you mentioned, it's one of the wonderful creations that the community has created to remember his legacy and to have young people continue his path. >> you know, dr. pearl, just this week, we saw the heart breaking interview with marie colvin's mother, who i'm sure had her heart in her throat all these years watching what her daughter was doing. just today, our own atia was in the line of fire in afghanistan. do you understand, having raised danny who are motivates people to put their lives on the line for the cause of being an eyewitness and of communicating to the rest of the world? >> it's a tremendous curiosity

to find out the news and convey it to people who can use it. and it's a tremendous urge to unveil the human face behind the news. tremendous love of humanity, and empathy with people in various areas of conflict. >> how does a family come to grips with this, you have a grandchild that danny pearl never knew. >> we are seeing that as an obligation, it's an obligation that history has bestowed upon us. not of our choosing. and we simply, it's a duty that we must fulfill for the next generation. danny's son, adam, is 9 and a

half years old, he has the same disposition as his father. he is very secure. he is very loveable. and i hope he will grow to be -- to walk in his footsteps. >> he is a beautiful child. and i'm betting that he is also very musical. that is the other part of the danny pearl legacy. thanks so much for sharing and continuing all the good work you are doing. >> thank you. >> a new novel is taking a look at the unsung players within the time known as our long national nightmare. stay with us. [ male announcer ] this is lawn ranger -- eden prairie, minnesota.

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hi, everyone, i'm tamron hall, coming up on "newsnation," the idea was to have go big to announce his big economic

plan, but it's this picture that is getting buzz, the challenge for romney's team was to make it look like he was speaking to a nearly empty ford field. if he was trying project momentum and he is the inevitable nominee, was this a fail? and santorum picking up support from of all place places, repub women, despite his view on contraception, were his critics wrong? >> as peter alexander tweeted out that picture, we saw that. romney sticking to his trees and cars talking points. this just came in moments ago from the speech. >> this feels good, being back in michigan, the trees are the right height. the streets are just right. i like the fact that most of the

cars that i see are detroit made automobiles. >> a couple of cadillacs, actually. there's this. and now to a new approach toward watergate, take a look back. this is john chancellor, anchoring nbc nightly news back in august of 1974, august 9th. >> at 11:35 this morning a letter was delivered and this is a replica of it. it said, i hear by resign thes of of the president of the united states, sincerely rich around nixon. >> that was the scandal that had been infront of the country for two years. the author and with me right now. it's great to meet you.

what possessed you to take the facts that were you know so interesting for a whole generation of us and spin it to anovel? >> i think i just wanted to make what was this enormous thing intimate and somehow how it affected, i picked seven people, and try to make it a human drama and a local washington story. i found it was still new things to say. >> you focused, in particular, on the woman. you created a new way to look at pat nixon. you weren't looking add rose mary woods as we recall from that still photo of the 18 and a half minute gap. you looked at her as the loyal, trusted and spritely, loyal secretary and alex along with roosevelt that one of the most dynamic portraits.

>> nixon did go to her 90th birthday party. she was still completely with it as she closed in on 90. watergate, she couldn't get enough of it. she was sort of my witching chorus in the novel. she was the person with the longest memory and could see the comedy of it. had been close to the nixones from the time he got to town in the 1940s. >> you've imagined her as to giving him advice of handling the scandal. >> she was in the nixon white house an awful lot but not quite as much as i have her there. >> just the value of creating a fictional account of watergate, what does this bring us? >> i think if you speculate on how it felt to people, what motivated them. rose mary goods with a good example. she comes down to that one awful

memory of the photograph of her stretching. he said don't let the bookend without having her dance. she was a terrific dancer. loved to dance. she used to dance with the senator with whom she had a big falling out. it was those things. when you begin to concentrate on those things, you begin to see the potential for fiction. >> i love it. thank you so much. the book is "watergate, a novel". we'll be right back. i'm freaking out man.

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that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." tamron hall as a look at what's next on "news nation." >> mitt romney just wrapped up his big economic speech of ford field. it's this picture tweeted by our own peter alexander that's getting a lot of buzz. peter reported the challenge was to make it look like romney was not speaking to a nearly empty ford field. if romney was trying to project momentum, was this fail? plus, santorum picks up support from women despite his views on contraception. why one muslim blogger says the riots are misguided honor and asks where is the same outrage

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