israel's securities. >> we face common enemies and iran's leadser s know that too. for them, you are the great satan and we are the little satan. >> but what are their real policy differences that is what they are talking about right now behind closed doors and we are kicking off our series, a series we are proud of here at "andrea mitchell reports" together with ne"newsweek" and the daily beas hear from women who are creating change. on the campaign trail, romney unleashing the silver fox. >> hi, this is bar brar bush calling for romney for president on behalf of our friend, mitt romney. we have known the romneys for years and believe mitt is the best man to lead the country for next four years. >> but just wait until you hear what barbara bush refused to say in the call about president

obama. and romney's sons get the s and l treatment. >> so mitt romney's five adult sons why should people get excited and not terrified about your presence to trail? >> our average age is 36 and our medi median age is 35. see, we are just like you, america. >> good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington skeshs are -- conservatives are getting behind romney but there's a big swing in women voters against congressional members. chris cillizza is a managing editor of post politics.com and chuck todd host of the daily run

down and chief of all things polling. chuck, first to you in the new poll. it shows that mitt romney has the support of 38% of likely republican voters. this is his best showing yet, rick santorum trails behind 32%, but the fight has had costs on the republican party, 40% viewing the party less favorable, and so, let's talk about this and the impact as we go forward? >> well, you pointed out the good and bad for romney. the good is you see coalescing of conservatives, he is not winning tea party, but he is now up to 35% among tea party supporters. that is double what he had last month. he is not winning the very conservative vote, but he has nearly doubled the support among the very conservative. that is explaining how he got 38% and the number one negative on santorum, he is seen as a guy that just cannot beat president

obama. that is his number one piece of baggage if you will of the things we tested. while, you know, mitt romney is not seen as conservative enough to some voters while he is still not seen a as the perfect vessel of some of the republican primary voters in comparison to the field that that he is running against, he is. you start to see it coming together in the same way you are watching the last second band wagon by eric cantor and folks realizing that the train may leave the station tomorrow night and if it does, there's -- as someone said on twitter, a rominee in the making. >> and eric cantor's timing interesting because it was of course, two days before it was on meet the press and that is two days before super tuesday and newt gingrich and santorum not even on the ballot. a lot of support building in virginia for romney. let's talk about weapon, chris cillizza and take a deeper dive in the whole issue of

contraception. we could not have been in field for a worst time with the republicans, it's nuanced, let's look at the numbers much chris, what is your take away on how the gender gap is playing for republicans? >> you know, andrea, for elections for quite some time, the democratic nominee has done better than the republican nominee among women and typically they do better among men. that said, talking about contraception and birth control particularly in the in terms talked about in the republican presidential field as well as certainly the way the controversy that rush limbaugh has played out has not been good for independent women. we say inspect independent -- we say independent s but independent women maying be the swing voters. they tend to be more fiscally

conservative, romney is a good nominee for them to have to appeal to these people but not over the last would months, because whether it's rush limbaugh and others, they are turning off the independent women, the issues are us of step with what they care about. mitt romney is trying to get back to the economy. if he can win ohio tomorrow night, there will be a coalescing behind him. these numbers may be a blip on the radar, but the numbers are not positive at the moment. >> we see the voters favored contraception by 53-33 but when you talk about the morning after pill the numbers change. the most interesting thing is the gender gap, the divide among

independent women when it comes toward attitudes. >> it depends on the conversation of what is the average american hearing. are they hearing birth control or the morning after pill? do they hear government intrusion on their personal lives or is it government intrusion on how religious institutions conduct themselves. to go to the gender cap question, suburban women which among the congressional ballot, among conservative women, the republicans had an advantage of i believe seven points, fast forward to the wintser now of 2012. the last two polls we put them both together. two from the summer and two here, democrats now win in the generic ballot test, it's an 18 point swing and as peter and

bill said, it's as good a place on measure to see if it's doing damage to the republican party suburban weapon, this is -- suburban women, this is the swing group. suburbs of columbus, ohio and the tampa, orlando area, denver, colorado, you name it, that is where the damage is being done right now by the republican party's conversation that they have been having on this issue. >> you know, two more things that i want to get to. a huge change, thises the first time that we are seeing a overall favorable american attitude toward s gay marriage. 49% to 40%. it cuts across all demographics. this is an increasing familiarity, it's a change in generations. and the attitudes towards gay couples. married couples.

>> if you talk and chuck and i all do this, if you talk to republican strategists type s not the candidates and the activists, they will tell you almost to a person, making elections or trying to make elections about gay marriage and talking about it, when it come s to being against it, is a long-term loser for the party. they do not think that -- because as you see in the poll, opinions are changing. younger peep do not care as much about it, it does not animate them or persuade them, so i think you'll hear the republican go away from it. >> let me give you the quick run down, 18-34 favored or oppose 63%. i mean opposite right there, that means every month there'ses a -- there are when the young estimate vo est voting groups are saying they are for it, the older

groups are saying they are opposing it. >> i know the president does not have to just because of where the republican party has been, he has the support of that constituentsy most likely but maybe his evolution or however he wants to phrase it on this subject may change, we are seeing such a big change in the polling. quickly, barbara bush, who is more popular than ms. bush, she does a call, we have a clip of it and we will talk about what she refused to say. >> we have known the romneys for years and believe that mitt is the best man to lead the country for the next four years and ann will make a great first lady. >> but, how is sit -- how is it possible that the romney campaign, she refused to say that i'm supporting mitt for one simple reason that america cannot survive four more can years of barack obama, that is

she will not say. they do not attack the people in the offal -- oval office. >> that is right. especially a former first lady, getting her to say something like that, this is the case that strikes me as the political staff of the romney campaign may have wanted this, i'm guessing had the candidate or mrs. romney had known about the script, they would have said, you are not going to get her to say something like that. >> of course, it's always the staff. it's a fascinating poll, so we will look for more. and in the oval office today, the president tried to reassure the prime minister of israel that the u.s. will not let iran get a nuclear weapon. >> commitment to the security of

israel is rock solid and as i've said to the prime minister in every one of our meeting s the united states will always have israel's back when it comes to security. >> israel has the right to make its own decisions, i believe that is why you appreciate that israel must reserve the right to defend itself. >> but sunday the president told the pro israel groups and supporters that diplomacy still needs time to work. >> now is to sustain the broad international coalition we have built. now is the time to heed the timeless advice from teddy roosevelt, speak softly. carry a big stick. >> clearly the president is sendsing multiple messages. starting with an interview with

our guest here jeffrey goldberg. and you are joining me here at the table. jeffrey, he received the preview of the messages. this is a very careful balancing a act and as we sit here right now, the president and the prime minister are meeting and trying to negotiate differences the difference s are where are the red lines. >> and what the president is trying to do is something simple, he is trying to tell him in private, you do not have to do anything, i have your back. you do not have to go off and attack iran on your own right now, because i take this problem seriously. and so the only question coming out of this meeting is will the prime minister buy it? will he say and go back home and say, you know what? the president said that iran is a problem for him, he is a bigger power, he has a bigger

military. so i'll put it in his court. >> for everything that we know of the prime minister who also said, there's no one whom they can appeal to. everyone in israel, the mill tear in israel as well as here, some of the military in israel and military here, very, very nervous about this. but the ultimate responsibility, is mine said netanyahu. that is why he will be convinced to completely stand down. approxima because he said my country was founded so that jews would not have to rely on someone else for their defense. if you have a country like iran that is building weapons that can bring about the extinction of israel i have to defend it. >> what is your take on the

iatola's been saying under law, there cannot be a nuclear weapon, that is not fitting with what iran wants. is there a signal, and we should point out iran says this is not a weapons program. the u.s. military intelligence and other intelligence has not concludesed that iran has crossed that line in terms of deciding to build a bomb. >> right, look, the international community, believe they are working on plans so they can get to the point. >> more rapidly. >> so they are doing weapons development. but, the -- a, on the one hand take everything that they say with a grain of salt, on the other hand don't in the following sense is. if iatola is saying that we cannot have a nuclear weapon, he is providing iran a way out of this crisis, in other words, if they decide that this sanctions are too much to bare.

well they have a good reason now to cease their nuclear program without losing face. >> now the president of the united states is in the middle of a re-election campaign. >> yes he is. >> and the prime minister that no american president is going to say no to israel in the middle of a re-election campaign. >> right, it's a flip side of that, it's no american president will be seen as being too nice toward iran. and that is true and so, one of the things that the president has been doing in the last week is making sure that he is doing his best to neutralize israel as a campaign year issue. obviously he has the toughness thing down because of bin laden and he is trying to neutralize iran and israel as an issue which is why he is speaking so -- language has been so tough in the last week. >> i do not think it will be newly rallyized as a campaign

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alabama state troopers and their dogs on peaceful civil rights demonstrators marching from selma to montgomermontgomery. over the weekend, protesters gathered to march again for what th they describe is a new assault on votesing rights. it's great to see you mark. >> thanks for having me. >> let's talk about what you think, what we see as the assault of voter's rights. >> it's not coincidental, it's an efforts that has reached 34 states where there's been proposelials s to suppress th vote. requirements that could affect as many as five million voters.

it's across the fact, alabama, south carolina, texas, tennessee have already passed new voter i said laws. in texas, restrict s the use of student id, but allows the autos of a conceal to carry id, it's bizarre and it demonstrates the sinister nature of this effort. >> now, are we talking about driver's licenses in most states? >> in most states that would work, but in a lot of states there's an elimination of student ids and other sorts of government i saids like social security cards and other forms that have been allowed historically. we only had two states before and now we are up to 34 with proposals and seven that have passed and many it's pending. that is why this year, in black

america, it's about about preserving the vote. >> your annual report is coming out on wednesday but this is the preview. you are talking about the building blocks of democracy. >> it's the right to vote. we are fighting wars overseas to defend democracy in iraq and afghanistan, this is about defending it here in the united states. what we want people to understand is, without the vote, you have no voice when it comes toly schools and education, jobs pau policies and all the things we need to focus on as we try to climb out of a recession. >> do you think it's a coincidence that it is coming out in an election year? >> we want voters to understand that the argument of voter fraud is nothing but a smoke screen -- >> kwha is the -- what is the percentage of rovoter fraud?

>> most of it is by the hands of election officials not by voters. indeed the secretary of state in indiana was charged with voter fraud. it's a misplaced remedy and we have to throw heat and light on it. in maine, where you are having a history of same-day registration, it was put to a vote of the people of maine, maine rejected it. so, the voters across nation, the people across the nation are seeing what it's all about. >> the the signal that we should be sending is vote. the issue is participation, it has been a scandal in the country of the lack of voting compared to what the other people overseas are trying to get. >> this is a year where we need to be good citizen ises, we need

to be participating, thises a year when we -- this is a year when we need to step up to be a part of the conversation. this year of state of black of america will be at howard university on wednesday night, great institution with the student s. we are bringing the message to the campus. >> it's great to see you, thank you for visiting. >> thank you. >> and we will be right back. this is $100,000. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much, i appreciate it, i'll be right back.

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states and because of new party rules on how they are awarded, mitt romney is not conceding anything. the big prices, of course , is ohio. jim, when we look at super tuesday, it's not as big as past ones but they are important. rick ssantorum, is it is fair t say that it's do or die for santorum in ohio? what is the path to the nomination for rick santorum if he the not win ohio? >> he need s to win ohio and win it convincingly and do well in other states particularly in the south. he need s momentum and money. he had outside support, he needs a lift. particularly in a key swing state like ohio. if he can win them, place s like ohio that are important in a general election context, it make beliefers out of skeptical

conservati conservatives. it will feel like it's inevitable that romney will wrap it up if he wins ohio. he has better organization, better ballot access, so it's hard to see who can knock him off that front-runner perch. again, santorum looks like the one best positioned. newt gingrich not so much. and the only thing i guess newt gingrich can hope for is a win in georgia and another big win to rise again from the dead to say, hey i'm the alternative to mitt romney. tough to see it happening. >> and mitt romney is going trench warfare, delegate by delegate and proved in ohio where santorum was not even in play in three congressional districts to getz delegates. that is a problem, he is is not on the ballot in virginia and neither is newt gingrich and we

have the new yorker today, this is the cover of the new corker, you have rick santorum as the dog tied down on the roof of mitt romney driving along. just a bit of a amusement, and here is mitt romney trying to make a play for tennessee if he were to win a southern state, he could say to the people in the party of course i'm a national candidate. this is the way he made this is play for tennessee. >> this place always has a special feeling in my heart because when i grew up, i was thinking about davy crockett, raised in the woods so he knew every tree and killed himself a bear when he was only three. yeah, remember that? >> i don't know the demographic of people who remember the 1955 huge be national fad with that.

obviously i remember it. the coon-skin hats. >> you have on love him. >> you have to love him. he is basically the rex harrison of the campaign trail for those who love "my fair lady" he has a tough time are trying to connect with voters when he is trying to break outs as i'm normal mitt romney. he is the best when he is businessman mitt romney. i want to apply business to politics. his problem was that message alone was not resonating so they tried loosen him up, he freaks people outs. he has these issues where he talks about his wife having a couple of cadillacs and it th s the opposite effect, he needs to be comfortable in his skin and be the competent mitt romney which is what republicans were

attracted to early on. the thing about politics, at the end of the day, they make you naked. you cannot hide anything, you are who you are. you just have to be you. >> it's an x-ray. exactly right. jim, thank you very much. at least he did not put on a hat. and we are being very proud to be kicking off our "women in the world" series, sorries of survival, we are live in the storm zone after that deadly wave of tornados as well. coming up next, inspiring women from across the globe who are confronting -- yeah, do you have anything for a headache... like excedrin, ohhh, bayer aspirin... ohh, no no no. i'm not having a heart attack, it's my head. no, bayer advanced aspirin, this is made for pain.

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as if she has not enough to worry about. walk this with a way, look at the folks to the other side of the house, this is tone of few houses standing. folks are trying to cut down limb s and brachbs to give them room to work, can you see all the mud here? this is what they are dealing with, there's mud everywhere. phone lines and power lines down throughout the town. >> take a look at the tree, andrea, it looks like every other tree in henryville, it h been torn apart. look at the land escape, this is every part of henryville looks like this. it is absolute devastation, so they have a lot of work ahead so it will be months before they are back on their feet. the good news is that nobody is unaccounted for, so the death

toll is not expected to rise either in indiana or kentucky at least at this point, back to you. >> tom, that is just devastating, i don't even -- words cannot express what has happened to those people that the land escape completely destroyed. the white house announced that president obama will be speaking at the high school graduation ceremony in joplin, missouri, you remember joplin was devastated last may by tornados and more than 160 people were killed there including seven students who attended the schools. for the first time in anyone's memory, rush limbaugh has apologized for what using what he said was a poor choice of words. and said he was trying to be funny, but others are saying that the bottom line, advertisers abandoning him is

what prompted the apology. sandra fluke respondsed today on the view. >> what i have to say is that i do not think a statement issued like this, saying his choice of word s was not the best changes anything, and especially when that stapt is issued when he is under significant pressure from his sponsors who have begun to you pull their support. >> and we have just learned that aol is sus spendsing his advertising. they are the eighth advertiser to pull the ads because of his comment s. >> this week, many of the world s most influential women are gathering in new york for the third annual women in the world summit. women who are transforming their nations, challenging the status quo, and shaterring glass ceiling will be looking at the issue s around the world.

it's news week's cover story. i have tina brown with us. the editor and chief of course of news week and the daily beast. thank you so much. >> this is your third summit, the biggest and most powerful ever, tell us what you are hoping to achieve. >> what we try to do is get behind the lines of the news. you know, you see these incredible world events happening. what about the women who are living through the situations, and i think there's something about seeing the world for the eyes of women who gives you a unique perspective, a different way of looking at the world of course as you do, you see what amazing sacrifices are being made. the women in egypt and west africa and women in pakistan, women in berma they are doing incredible brave things every day. and they are really unknown women. >> and one of the women whom you feature last weekend that i met through and then joined us on

the show is now a nobel laureate. >> she is amazing, she is coming back, she is an amazing force, she is. she led a mass movement for piece in her country, where she gathered women together and really helped to create the downfall of the tyrant charles taylor by putting morale pressure on the government. she is an extraordinary women. she is one of the many firry breaker of taboos and so on, who are on our stage. >> another woman that i read about that you are going to be featuring is rosie orsaco from mexico. tell us about our sfrulg and the odds against her in mexico. >> well, it's just the most extraordinary amount now of abuse and fair or happening in central america, because the whole sort of narcotics, drug you know, drawing barron things that are going on in cents rally america are terrorizing women,

and there's a new terrifying trend, particularly in guatemala where women are being killed and their heads being cut off and being sent as a warning from people of drug cartel s, it's a terrifying thing, women are just regarded as cattle. they are used to send frightening message s to people who cross the drug cartel s which is terrifying. >> we had hear about the extraordinary stories you see people with real power, the head of the international monetary fund. the leader of the katima party in israel and our secretary of state, has spear headed these issues if you recall from the paging women summit. the whole issue of women's rights. >> it really is powerful. we are having ms. streep doing a

honor to the secretary of state. where we will talk about where she is been promoting the lives and rights on of women. it's been the sort of life of hillary in all the countries she goes to, she as, always meeting with delegations of women. and has done it throughout her career. >> that is the point she started making in beijing, and people were shocked. we learned as those of us were traveling with her at the time that she would not let up and she sparked voice s that leads us to 150 women that i'm proud and delighted to discover today that i'm one of your with especially. >> of course you are one of the 150 fearless women in news week. i don't know how i got in the

crowd, but thank you. before i let you go, can i ask you about rush limbaugh and the language that seems to be tolerated against women compared to language tolerated against men? >> it's obscene, what you i find incredible is at this point, american women are having to look overseas and separation of other women -- american women have had the most horrible three months with a all of the assault to rights and dignitiy which continually has been happening, now we have rush limbaugh delivering the obscene comment s about the student in george town and i'm delighted to see advertisers pulling out. what does it take to get people to pull their ads in i'm glad they are finally doing so. >> tina brown, we look forward to seeing you in new york. why isn't fixing our education system front and center in the

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hello, coming up in 15 minutes on "newsnation," rushing out, aol becomes the latest advertiser to you pull ad s, rush issued another apology, and we will play it for you, with so many advertisers backing out, should his show be damaged. how much damage is he causing to the gop, and santorum said an op-ed written by romney in 2009 praising the individual insurance mandate makes romney unqualified to take on obama on health care when word s accommodate back to haunt you, our panel weighs in on it. >> education is one of the biggest challenge s facing our country. we have not heard about it much. except for santorum calling the president a snob for suggesting

that some kind of higher education should be available to all. on fox news sunday, santorum tried to wiggle out of that after the host pointed out that the president only called for the president to seek higher education in some forms including apprentice ships. we have the previous chancellor of did department of education in new york. let's talk about the op-ed that you wrote today approximate in the -- today in the washington post p what are we missing here? >> we are issuing the most important issue that the country is facing. we are in a position where a large number of kids are not being educated to the level that the 21st century is going to require. we go longer live in a world where kid s dropping out of high school or graduating from high school will be able to committee and yet, we are not performing remotely like our foreign

competitors, this to me is the ticking time bomb and if america wants to have real economic equality in the country in terms of ensuring that we have a growing and expanding offense eg we have a growing and expanding middle class, we have to get serious this. 1% of the questions have been on educati education. it's a joke. >> one of the things that was pointed out is that teaching as a profession is not valued highly enough. we have seen the contrast in the way finland and shanghai as well as singapore treat teaching as profession. the kinds of salaries they pay. what can we do to recruit the top college graduates and make them be interested in serving as teachers in public service and even if the salaries are not as high as they should be? >> it's so important. i think we need to improve

salaries. we have teach for america bringing more and more young kids from all over the country, top of their class. we have to keep those kids by inspiring them and rewarding excellence. we have to understand that our teachers are our heroes. it's a title of honor that they bestow on their teachers. i think we need to move away from the current model. they're not really selective fluff. in finlantds it's harder to get into that education school than other graduate programs. that's the model that we need. our best and brightest have got to become the hallmark of teachers. they have to inspire the kids. we know from experience now, we've seen it happen time and

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