gas prices are giving the republicans fuel for fire. will pain at the pump translate to pain at the polls for the president? and will the bad gasoline jokes continue through the summer. this is "now." joining me today, steve kornacki of solon -- and ed -- the white house scheduled a last minute rose garden address from the president this morning, grabbing headlines and news coverage on the day of the alabama, mississippi and hawaii contests. it's a funny coincidence, almost

like when the president decided to hold his first press conference in months on the same day as super tuesday or when he spoke to the united auto worker's union during the michigan primaries and similarly when he gave a speech to the joint session of congress at the same time that the republican candidates were debating at a reagan library. govern rendell, the white house said they are not paying attention to the republican race, but this is evidence they are. is it not? >> they are clearly paying attention to the race. anything that the white house does will be suspect. >> i think republicans would agree with you. >> you are running for re-election, i remember when i was running for re-election as a mayor and governor, everything that i did, people were saying you are just doing that for politics. and i said no, i get paid to be governor for four years, i do

not take the fourth year off because i'm a candidate. i stay away from approximate obvious scheduling conflicts but it's their ball right now. >> they seem to be drawing stark contrast as the republicans fuss over whether satan is attacking america or the contraception question. the obama has been going to manufacturing plants and talking about job creation, today he was talking about bringing trade cases against china, let's play sounds from that. >> since i took office, we brought trade cases against china at nearly twice the rate as the last administration. and these actions are making a difference. >> china has been invoked and some of them have had sharp language about china here, and i had think the president is -- and i think the president is talki ining about having a

substantial stand here. >> it's one of the biggest rally cry that you can hear is that america is not tough enough on china. people are starting to worry about united states's role in the global economy so i think it's smart for the president to start to talk about his message on china. absolutely important for independent voters. the problem i think for his press conference today is he is starting to see events popping up outside of his control. he had to talk about the killings in afghanistan that happened early we are in week. he is going to have to talk about gas prices and he will have to talk to those events that are not in his control. and it's his response that voters are watching. >> we have a cbs new york times

poll today showing that 41% approve of his job. that is down from february where he had a 50% approval rating and the thought is that gas prices are effecting his numbers. >> yes, it's a strange thing, that people and republican candidates in particular make it out as something that the president can control with newt gingrich's promises of $2.50. but there's a bit of truth in this that is interesting, do ha -- you have a president that is trying to be environmentally conscious, and you follow the fuel prices, supply and demand, you'll have higher prices. that is a question that the president will have to maneuver and the republicans will attempt to use it against him.

>> i disagree with that slightly. in developing alternative sources of energy is the best way to reduce our dependance on foreign policy. if i were president -- no interest -- i would get every businessman and company and i would urge them to convert now to nat gas and that is 50% better for the environment and it's cheaper and we could turn oil on its head and force oil prices down. >> but you have a timing issue. even if that is done, it's a political issue. it's a timing question. >> steve, i know you have a number out about the polls numbers, i want to play a mon montage, the president has been

talking about gas prices since january. let's listen. >> last year we relied less on foreign oil than any time in the past 16 years. if we are going to avoid being at the mercy of these world events we have to have a sustained all of the the above strategy. a story said, i'm quoting, gasoline prices are to rise and republicans are licking their chops. we will not be able to drill our way out of the problem of high gas prices. anybody who tells you otherwise does not know what they are talking about or they are not telling you the truth. >> and yesterday he did a conference and said this. >> as long as gas prices are going up, people will feel like i'm not doing enough. >> certainly he is trying to strike against the story that he is not doing enough, based on what we have seen so far.

>> right, and i think it's more complicated of an issue, i'm not ready to buy in yet, when you look at the poll that has him at 41% approval. i'm not ready to buy in yet that the gas prices have replaced skyrocketing unemployment that is the situation for swing voters. another poll came out yesterday, that put the approval rating at 49%. that is the highest he has been in the gallup poll nine months. it suggests to me that they took into account the weekend. if you look at the cbs or abc poll, they started polling last wook -- last week, wednesday, thursday, friday, the key is friday, the jobs report came out friday. which was is sixth straight good news of jobs. we had high job growth and signs the recovery is afoot. the news of the middle of last week which proceeded the jobs

report, was heavy on the crisis in iran, that may be what is at play in the early polls and the jobs caught the gallup poll. >> there's something to the gas prices, there's an effect that it has on gdp. it was early in the morning, it was talked about that the rise in the price of fuel has a ripple effect in terms of the other commodities. >> sure, it raises the price of food. >> and we have the times poll that said 54% of americans think the gas prices are something that the president can do something about. more telling, 39% of americans approve of how he is handling the economy and 54% disapprove. this is cutting to a larger picture of how he is handling the american economy. >> i want to go back to what steve said. i think he is dead right. i think polls are a snap shotty

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>> i guess what i say is it's long, we will be going all the way to tampa. >> that was mute gingrich this morning, interesting to note, newt is the only candidate campaigning in the two southern states today, mitt is in missouri and santorum heads to louisiana and dr. ron paul is looking far ahead speaking in maryland, which has its contest in april. patricia, daughter of the south? >> yes. >> it's a big night for you and southern lovers all over the country. it is a make or break night for newt gingrich, is it is not? >> it is. and it may not be in his mind, i think he believes that he will be the best president. he believes all the other guys will soon see the light and get on out of the race and let him win the rest.

for anybody watching the race. including anybody funding his campaign, it is make or break, if you cannot win in alabama or mississippi which ataylor made for newt gingrich, if you cannot win there, you cannot win anywhere. he is the only person that thinks he is hurting mitt romney by staying in the race. he said that his tag team effort with rick santorum is hurting the romney and dragging him down, because it's keeping him under 35%. come on, not all gingrich voters will be santorum voters but there's no way to believe that if beginning -- if gingrich got out it would help santorum. >> this is gingrich struggling. what is it about newt gingrich

that appeals to southerners that santorum has not been able the to do? >> for mote of the gop voters, they remember him having big ideas, he can win with elections. when you ask him, that is what they say. his biggest question is can he compete and win. >> conventional wisdom said that if gingrich does not do well, he will have to exit soon. sheldon adelson aside, he has ran a pretty much self indulgent campaign. he was going have an event at the birmingham zoo this morning. a lover of animals. he was trying to take the president to task on energy and he said that the winds industry

kills 33,000 birds a year. but nobody has thought about going after wind because wind is green. his love for animals a theme in recent days. when newt says he will take it all that way to tampa, some part of me feels like this is a personal journey. >> he does not quit, he does not do it. he quits when the writing is on the wall and he sees his own blood being spilled to the point that he is dead. he is not there yet. he is not ready to have that conversation. >> his reputation is as, you moerks sort of the ego maniac, everything that has happened has been because of his whims. >> i want to know what you make of rick santorum. right now he is looking for a two-man race and certainly again, wisdom is, if gingrich gets out, his supporters will go

to rick santorum. let's listen to what rick santorum said in mississippi yesterday. >> what we are seeing is, this soun sounds like someone who has been listening to delegate math class a as opposed to looking at the realty of the situation. it's going to be difficult for anyone to get to the number of delegates that is necessary to win with the majority of the convention. >> if we go to a convention, we would signal our doom in terms of replacing president obama. >> so unsurprisingly here. mitt romney is saying if we go to the convention, it will be signaling our doom. rick santorum clearly wants a brokered convention and right now, it's the only way he can win. >> it's a crazy split in the party that is not going to serve anybody any good down the road for this to go here. but that is what is happening. and i thought it was a fascinating piece over the

weekend how rick santorum is splitting republican women who are more likely to drift democratic at any time in the past because of the republican's focus on the social issues. it's a fascinating thing, because -- these economic issues are still going to determine the race at the end of the day. yet, you have this focus on social issues that i think are just a distraction overall. >> that the white house or rather the team obama is looking to exploit by you know, launching initiatives whether it's nurse for obama or the one million mailers that they sent out in swing states earlier. steve, it bares mentioning that mitt romney has out spent santorum, 5 to 1, and gingrich, to 1. what happens if he loses? >> it confirms that there's sort of a demographic reality that is in the race. that mitt romney cannot win in

the south. even under circumstance where is the vote could be split. that could suggest we are in for a very long spring where romney will gain delegates, getting close to the magic number but he will lose states like kansas and mississippi, it will be a long and bloody spring for him. >> the argument is that, don't worry, he will get a third of t the vote tonight. and do not worry because any republican is kbog to carry these states in the fall. so don't worry that i'm losing he's -- losing these states, i'm the guy that can win in the suburbs. >> romney came in second in tennessee and oklahoma, which surprised a lot of people. newt gingrich was third in both states and he can say, mike huckabee won alabama and mississippi, and he did not do that great. john mccain ended up winning the

south. >> does anybody any that mitt ro many any will -- mitt romney will lose alabama and mississippi to barack obama. >> good point. but mitt romney does not like cat fish, he said i had it for the first time and was delicious. and our investigators said, that in january 18th, he admitted to the owner he is not a cat fish man or a fish man so much. the flip flops. >> this is cat fish gate? >> it is. always a way with words. who wins alabama and mississippi tonight? we will make our predictions and place our bets after this break. the wags wager, wait for it. [ male announcer ] the draw of the past is a powerful thing.

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[ male announcer ] fiber one. >> it's time for everybody's favorite part of the show, the wags wager. governor rendell, tonight is a big tonight. we ask you to tell us where are you going? what will happen tonight? >> to be honest, this result beats the heck out of me. i'll take a shot, i'll put half of my money on romney to win mississippi half for newt to win alabama. >> hedging one's bet if you will. that is a prudent bet. steve? >> i'm not making a prudent bet. i'm going to take everything that i know, and going for the trifecta, exact order of finish, one, two, three, gingrich first,

romney second and santorum third. >> in all three states? >> not hawaii. meaning first, second, third place. >> so, teamed up in the territories. >> one chip on romney to win samoa. >> a little bit of love for romney. >> i want to pretend i'm in biloxi mississippi and because i'm from georgia and i do not want the race to stop, i'm going all in, plus my ipay iphone, its like newt land in these states. it feels like newt country. >> that is a tweet right there. it feels like tweet land. >> bethany in her first betting on the wags wager. >> now, i was thinking all in on

newt too. but now i feel i have have to do something more dramatic here. i'm so excited with all the cash. i want all in for newt and santorum on two. just to keep it interesting. >> i'm going steady eddie wins the day, santorum, it all about math, take it to tampa a, everywhere, santorum. his daughter is there, who knows? i heard she is good at hula, the white house is pushing back on reports that the u.s. is reexamining involvement in afghanistan. next on "now." sweet, nutty crunchy nut... can't wait 'til morning. wait. ♪ it's morning in the himalayas... [ male announcer ] it's sweet. it's nutty. it's absolutely delicious. kellogg's crunchy nut. it's morning somewhere.

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meeting our objectives, protecting our country, and responsibly bringing this war to a close. >> that was president obama, just a short time ago talking about the road ahead in afghanistan, this morning, violence broke out in the village where an american soldier allegedly killed villagers. we have our contributor, matthew, thank you for joining the program of. >> thank you. >> i wonder what your first thoughts were when you heard about the news this sunday and talk to us about how you feel it could effect the situation, vis-a-vis, u.s. policy in afghanistan? >> it could not come at a worse time, right now they are trying to negotiate the partnership between afghan and the u.s. one of the things was there was an end of night raids and u.s. run

detention facilities in afghanistan and one of the things that u.s. soldiers not come under afghan law. and now this happens. >> just an exdotally, things have changed with the burning of the korans and the news this weekend, in terms of civilians in afghanistan, share with us what it's like over there? >> we have seen the reaction has been calm compared to the koran burning where there was massive rig riots. it's not a good thing because for the afghans, it's a part of a pattern of them being killed by air strikes, and collateral damage from air force raids. >> this morning on "morning joe" it was said that the afghan

people understand that it's in their interest that the united states remains. if we took a poll that they want to united states out tomorrow, they would not want that. >> they understand there's progress made on the ground. whether it's schools or resources, what would you say? >> what is your gut on a poll right now? >> it depends on the part of the country you ask. if you and people in kabul, who are linked into the economy, most of them want us to stay. but if you go to kandahar, where they are living in conditions of extreme violence, everyone we talk to, in terms of ordinary villagers wants us to leave. >> so the average afghan would vote for us to get out as fast as possible? >> it depends on the part of the country can, and that is the problem, you see the differences in the different areas of the country. >> i wonder what you make of the political calculus for the white house.

you know they will be talking about this today, they may speed up the timetable of withdrawal. that is not decided at all. but what does the president have to do? >> he that is to justify, if you are not going to speed up plans or get us out sooner. he has to justify, in a way he did not before, what exactly it is that is keeping us there, what is it that will be accomplished by staying for a more years and what will we get out of this with the risk of this happening and the blow back coming from this, that is horrible to say, but it sounds like the reaction from the lagz so -- from the population has not been as violent as we thought, i imagine it can change if there's another incident like this and if that happens, what the reaction is among the american population makes it tougher for obama to keep troops there at all. >> this morning we heard the american ambassador say, if we leave the taliban will come

back. if we leave two years from now or four years from now, does th reduce -- does that road the odds? and if answer is no. they have to come out and speed up the withdraw. >> you are increasingly saying more republicans saying we have to get out of there, but notable the "new york times" said that the united states that is a vital interest in ensuring that afghanistan is not a launching path for terrorists and should continue to see if there's a process for withdrawal. the wall street journal saying that one soldier's actions should not influence. >> that is the excuse, we sacrifice so much, does that give us an excuse to sacrifice

more american lives, for what the and who? get out now. i don't want to see one more american die for a cause that i do not think we can change. if you look at the history of afghanistan, it's just not going to make a difference. >> i think that, you know, for avenue fwan and american interests, what we need to do is tie the military strategy to a political strategy for negotiatesing with the groups in conflict right now and that might mean ending night raids and harnessing our military operations to a valid political vagina in the -- political strategy in the country. we need to deal with what happened with a lot of the vets and u.s. soldiers who do multiple tours of dutiy. the u.s. report said that 20%,

472,000 of the two million service members deployed will develop post traumatic stress disorder. this u.s. soldier in question had a brain injury, we are not sure how that effected what he did. but, you know, 1/3 of marines in their deployment report psychology problems. >> and the lack of forces to replace these men. it probably forced him to go back in even if they knew he had a brain injury. >> when will you go back? >> in april. >> and you'll be there for an extended period of time? >> yes, i'm trying to see what happens as we draw down forces and i think it's important to witness it. >> it will be a key time in the country and you'll have more reports and dispatches from your

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struck by lightening than to pretend to be another voter. how is it not anything but partisan politics? >> you are right, the premise that there's massive voter fraud that we did not notice is absurd on its face. in the face of this nonproblem, we have seen a wave of laws that are making it harder for people to vote. you have a driver's license and i have one, but a lot of people do not. that has been going on for the last year and a half, it's been a lot of partisanship but we are seeing the courting says, wait a minute, this is not constitutional and it's illegal, so there's a push back going on. >> and the department of justice, govern rendell, because we are talking about pennsylvania here, what is your how the in i think there are -- what is your thought, there are eight states that have passed

are strict photo i.d. laws. all republican held states in terms of the state house, what do you make of this? >> there's no problem. pennsylvania was in the hot seat of three presidential elections and not one evidence of voter casting a vote for somebody else was recorded in all that time. and we had poll watchers that were on top of things. not one. we went through all of the elections, the kasey santorum election without any hint of fraud. thises a problem looking -- this is a solution looking for a problem. the problem simply does not exist. this is -- and think about it, in philadelphia 1/3 of the population does not own a car. if you do not own a car, why have a driver's license? >> 20 million people do not have photo i.d. >> it's ridiculous, it will cause, fear, hate and loathing.

under the pennsylvania law, you can file a provisional ballot. you are annie smith, you have not had a car for 20 years and you do not have a license. you are 78. you go to the polls you are allowed to fill out a provisional ballot, if it's a clo close vote in pennsylvania, and pennsylvania is the state that determines the election, good lord, good lord, we have created a problem. >> i wonder how the independent voters feel it plays out. >> interesting thing -- go ahead. >> i think the roots of it go forward, we have laws in the works, the roots go further back. i remember the 2000 recount, random relate tives and e-mail chains, there were people that wanted approximate bush to win the election. and i talked to people, and the

race was close, you know the democrats had millions illegal rotes that is what they always do. that idea has been around for a long time, and we are seeing it expressed in the legislative effort and that has been the message for a long time. >> and you have the data that it's hog wash. >> despite many, many efforts by prosecutors and others to find this, there's just no evidence. it's something of an urban myth. and that is the real sad thing here. there are problems with our voting systems. we have a rap shackle voter registration system all over the country and we should be able to move to a modernized system where everyone who is eligible to vote is registered and that would take care of it. but you mention in texas, to give you a sense of the gamesmanship that is going on, the new texas voter i.d. law, you cannot use your university

of texas i.d. as a government i.d., but you can use your concealed carry gun permit. but that gives a sense of the kind of precise slicing of the electorate that is at stake here. >> that is unbelievable. >> if you talk to republican voters and the bills have been signed by republican governors, they believe that any time -- not any time, many times when a democrat wins a close election, it's because of fraud, it's because there are dead people voting. there's no evidence of of that. when the south carolina attorney general said that there were dead people that voted in the elections in 2012. the reporters said where are they, it ended up there were a bigger patron -- bigger patro gs of the people that were dead. one guy voted and then died, so

it was -- if there's a huge problem, where is the evidence? >> i agree with you, the voting system in the country is in some broken -- in some ways broken. but we have limited voter registration drives, five states reduced early voting. we are encouraging people to not vote. >> what we should be doing in pennsylvania, weshtd we -- we should have primary saturday voting. and early voting and saturday voting is important for people that work. we need to extend casting a absentee vote beyond being out of the state. there's so much to do to get participation up. if we want to limit the impact of special interest groups is to get more and more people voting, not less. >> it's a cynical move to do

this, in terms of the american vote system. >> we have had debates over who gets to vote, but it's been slowly expanded from first, when it was white men with property and african americans on women. this is the first type where we have seen -- first time that it went backwards and it's really sad because we ought to be making it easier for people to vote. there are noncontroversial ways to do it. it's just not what the politician ans have chosen to do. >> a disturbing trend, thank you for your work and joining us us. coming up, "what now?" bo obama makes an appearance but there may be another pup that may rival bo. that is next on "now." >> coming up next on "andrea mitchell reports," the battle for dixie will mitt romney win, place or show? chuck todd and chris cillizza

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welcome back p time for "what now?" a reporter got a surprise from a special member of the white house yesterday, bo obama, the water dog ran right across the south lawn as the reporter taped her segment, i look at that and that is clearly a green screen, it's not really bo, or the south lawn. the reason we are talking about this is just a shameless excuse

to bring up photos of two real canines, maggie may and windsor. the prize winning pooches of governor rendell. >> both rescue dogs. maggie may, i contrast her to sofia loran and windsor is the grace kelly of dogs. look at that tail. >> i heard you just got a golden retriever pup yourself? >> i call him the engine of destruction. >> there you go. >> i think that more of us should treat people the way we treat our dogs. the world would be a better place. >> bo versus shameus could decide the election. >> rebecca brooks was arrested as part of the ongoing investigation of the phone hacking scandal of news of the

world newspaper, how about that in steve kornacki of course does this mean the wheels are turning for perhaps a murdoch arrest? >> in could go all -- this could go all the way to the top, and the political fall out for the prime minister. they are close and have ties that go back to school days. it draws attention to his elite status. he is in the united states today, he is going to the basketball game barack obama tonight. >> i do not want to beat a dead horse or dead dog, don't you think that rebecca's hair looks like shamus. >> that is this thing, she has that flame hair -- >> and shamus had red hair. >> and rebecca brooks is going to jail, second arrest. i'm not saying she is a fall guy, but i think it's been

sensationized about how evil she is and her involvement in and some of it has to be because she is a woman. >> the british media, we were talking off camera and we said who will succeed murdoch, and someone he had is the question is -- and someone said is the question that murdoch will get arrested. >> i think she makes good press. face it. and has gotten a lot of attention because she makes good press. we in the media are as guilty of moving forward the stereo types. >> guilty as charged. let's talk about david cameron meeting with president and going to a basketball game. governor i want to ask you, on a certain level there's a lot going on right now. there's the afghanistan question

and economy and gas questions, is it appropriate for them to go to the ncaa tournament? >> sure, a person is not concentrating 20 hours a day on their job and if you are doing these negotiations you need stress relief. get off of it, be real. elected officials are people too. they need a break during the day. >> there's my bumper sticker. politicians are people too. you are a person, i'm sorry. >> i would not get on a plane and go to ohio. get out popcorn and watch it in the white house? >> because are there's something to being there. smelling the sweat. >> the game is in dayton. and ohio is a swing state. >> oh, that too. >> the president will be voted for because he a tended a game

in dayton ohio. >> last zinger for governor rendell. i'll see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific. when i'm joined by mark mckinnon and hugo lindgren. happy primary day, andrea. >> hi to youly alex and we will talk about david cameron about to land at u.s. air force base, we will talk about afghanistan, iran and syria and growing concerns about what will happen to afghan women after the u.s. leaves. and a women's rights leaders take on rush. robin morgan, cofounder of the women women's center, pulling the plug

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