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outrage over the mass killing of 16 civilians brings hundreds of the streets protesting the u.s. presence in that country. it's like groundhog's day. it's like every week -- >> here we go again. the same questions looming. can mitt romney win over the most conservative in his own party and will rick santorum and newt gingrich continue to split the conservative vote. criticism over a new poll showing republicans, so many of them south, still believe the president is muslim. why it's being called faulty and misleading. it's what's for dinner. a study claims even the smallest amount of red meat could lead to an early death. is it all hype. using the homeless to hawk wi-fi. an unheard of practice at a huge music festival in texas is being slammed for exploitation of the

most in need. i'm tamron hall. the "news nation" is following breaking news. we have live pictures from andrews air force base where david cameron is arrived just a short time ago, only moments ago. this visit comes as the crisis if afghanistan grows following the massacre of 12 afghans involving a u.s. soldier. just a few hours ago president obama insisted the u.s. is committed to finish the job in afghanistan despite a new york times report that the administration has been talking about speeding up the withdrawal. security has been heightened. sunday's killing has not sparked the violence after the burning of the koran but a protest by students in the eastern part of that country has raised fear that things could flair up again. protesters chanted death to america, even burned an efigy of

president obama. they vowed justice is served. >> we will make sure that anybody who was involved is held fully accountable with full force of the law. i'm confident that we can continue the work of meeting our objective, protecting our country and responsibly bringing this war to a close. richard, there were reports that thousands showed up. i saw your report with andrea mitchell. you said it was more like hundreds of people. is that because we're not seeing the outrage equal to the koran burning or is the word not spreading. give me some insight. >> reporter: so far it doesn't appear to be the same level of outrage. the koran touched a very core belief. the people felt the religion of a billion people was being attacked deliberately.

this incident where you have one staff sergeant wander off his base in the middle of the night and in a situation of rage go on this murderous shooting spree killing 16 people, most of them children. 11 of them from one family. it seems that afghans, at this stage, seem to be willing to accept that this was an isolated incident and will try and move on from it. friday prayers are still coming later this week a as you said, people are still learning the details of this crime. they are really quite horrific. we're hearing more about what specifically happened on that night as well. the staff sergeant left his base between 2:00 and 3:00 in the morning. walked about a mile and then went into three different afghan homes opening fire, stabbing people, shooting people and tried to set fire to some of the bodies. an american search party was

alerted that this american soldier was missing. that search party left the base. helicopters were involved and started to track him down. some american soldiers found him laying in a prone position in an open field and the american search party knew about the shooting incident that civilians had been executend and asked th soldier if he knew about it, and he said i did it. he's still in custody and there's talk about putting him on trial in front of a tribunal here is afghanistan, u.s. military. >> thank you. the military still with holding the name of that soldier and out of fear of retaliation the army has his family under tight security. defense secretary leon panetta said he could face the death

penalty if convict e edconvicte. there's a conversation about speeding up the withdrawal despite the stance and the words from the president today whar, can you clear up for us? >> after this incident, white house officials freaked out about this as one could imagine. it allowed those within the administration who had been lobbying hard to accelerate the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan, to push their point forward. we've heard knew from the president himself from secretary of defense leon panetta that there is already a plan in place for a gradual and responsible, in the words of the president, withdrawal from afghanistan that would end sometime at the end of 2014. all combat troop, according to

defense secretary may be out sometime by next year. there would still be a number of troops left in afghanistan to provide the kind of training and assistance that the u.s. military commanders think will be necessary until the end of 2014. now, is there a possibility that if events change and improvements made and security there in afghanistan that that timetable could be accelerated, that's more than -- that would be possible. i can tell you that there appears to be no appetite on the part of the president, at least for the time being and secretary defense panetta and military commanders to accelerate the withdrawal plan that is already in place. >> all right. thank you very much. now to politics and rom's fight to win one or both primaries and prove he should be the nominee for his party. polls show romney, santorum and

newt gingrich are locked in a close race in alabama and mississippi. romney is hoping they will split the conservative vote giving him his first wins in contested southern states. just about an hour ago mitt romney a rally, get this in, missouri. >> if i become president of the united states, my job will be to make sure you get great jobs. we get gas prices to keep our money here in this kun trip and balance our budget p. let eets bri let's bring in our panel. thank you. michael, i'll start off with you. mitt romney is in missouri talking about increasing the military as a time we're discussing defense cuts and

measures that need be taken here in these tough times. i'll set that to the side and talk about what rick santorum mentioned last night. here we go again. he compared it to the movie groundhog day. michael. >> yes. >> what do you think? is it groundhog day? >> it is because we thought that super tuesday. sorry. i didn't know you were coming to me. it was groundhog day with me. we thought super tuesday was going to give some finality to this race and it didn't. as i look at the calendar, i think we're going to be in this position for another month because the pennsylvania primary looms large on the 24th of april. i cannot see any scenario where senator santorum gets out of this before he collects his chips from the commonwealth. newt gingrich as got to win down south or i don't know how he can stay in. >> steve, our first team points out when you look at the demographics of alabama and

mississippi, they fit either newt gingrich or rick santorum. these are folk who is make less than $100,000. they did not go to college. they are evangelical christians. those are not the people who vote for mitt romney. on the flip side he's out spent santorum four to one. newt gingrich, three to one. this same story line here, but well respected republican who is coming up later, jimmy williams is putting his money on your guy, newt gingrich, to win both of these states. >> i think it's loser go home tonight. i think it's the loser leave time. >> loser go home for santorum and gingrich. many people believe it's newt gingrich go home if he cannot win. >> i'm talking about the candidate that i've endorsed. he's got to win tonight after he called the shot earlier this morning and say romney is going

to lose and win a third of the delegates. i think he has to deliver. i'll go one better than michael because have few people in the media are running the delegate numbers. i cannot for see a scenario unless they are out of this race where mitt romney is get 114 delegates before june 5th. he can't do it. this is going to go way into the spring and summertime. >> third place in alabama, congressional district does not give you a second place. he's doing the math. he's trying to figure out how to get to that number, steve. >> no doubt. romney is going to come. if he gets to 1144 or not, it's

going to be within 50 delegates. eight here, ten here, 12 here. a little bit is going to add up later on in this process. this is going to go all the way to june 5th. i think this is good. this is probably the most important primary on a presidential level in alabama or mississippi since jefferson davis was alive. we haven't cared for a long time about these state pps they are having a say in the process. >> the the states are red and will get behind whoever is the nominee. perry, let me talk to you speaking of interesting inside in the president and how some of the people view him. there's a poll that indicated a

majority in mississippi and a great number in alabama believe the president is muslim. i want to play what chuck todd said about this poll. here is what his insight this morning. >> it's a robo survey. you get an automatic phone calm and you press the button. you introduce, the way the question was asked, it was designed to get a higher number because there are some republicans who map not believe he's a muslim but like saying it because it's way to attack him. >> the validity of this poll but what it keys into is there's a group of people who just want to attack this president even on things they don't believe, perry. >> i think if you remember on air a few weeks ago franklin graham wouldn't say he was a

christian. i think a lot of republicans that don't like him use this as a way to frame it. they remember reverend wright. they remember the pastor was criticized. i think it's more as a proxy for hate and dislike. >> michael, what's your take? they, at least in his observation, that call was trying to hit a hot button, get people going, for lack of a better description that they know is not true. >> it's conceivable to me that people could have used this just as means to diss the president. there's nothing good that comes out of it. it reminds me of this new survey where if you go into the internal, it shows the passion that those that are in strong disagreement have as compared to those in strong agreement.

those that strongly disagree outnumber those that strongly agree. there's some folks that have a strong dislike for the president of the united states. that's the bottom line. >> thank you all. i wish we had more time. michael, thank you. get back to talking to you many fans on the radio. coming up. >> grits and biscuits and gravy. seems like they're trying to talk it up to us. >> romney's trouble down south. nbc team point out that romney could lose tonight due to the demographics, the lay of the land. if romney turns out to be the gop nominee, what are the republicans going to say about him down south. comments from eric holder about the justice department striking down t voter i.d. laws. it could harm hispanic voters the most in texas. going to talk to sheila jackson lee. eating amount of red meat

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we need a modernized washington or the country is going to decay. it's competent versus incompetent. it's productive versus nonproductive. >> newt gingrich is hoping to keep his presidential hopes alive with a win or perhaps two, alabama and mississippi while mitt romney hopes to prove that the people down south really like him. let's bring in our "news nation"

political panel. thing is unprecedented, three southerners talk about the south. i'm a little different kind of southerner than you two. >> from texas. >> stephen your based in alabama here. chris cillizza has this article talking about the dirty little secret of alabama and mississippi. he goes on the say none of these three candidates even though newt lived in atlanta, none of them have a connection and that's why this is up in the air. they can't get the southern people really heated. maybe they can talk about the military. maybe there's this robo call about whether the president is muslim, but beyond that they can't get the folks going down there. >> i agree. santorum people are really active on the ground. they are pushing on social and religious issues. a lot of the newt people that i know are one degree of separation from newt.

a lot of these people have been friends for a long time. i'm not seeing that much with the romney guy pps. >> ed rogers is a native of alabama. here is what he had to say. none of them hit the sweet spot. none of the candidates are story ri tellers. none take football seriously. nobody really has a favorite country music singer. that's a republican. he's from alabama like yourself. what does he see that's different here that what you're explaining? >> i happen to be at an vent where santorum showed last night. he was treated like a rock star. in alabama football is king. nobody has touched the football line. if anybody can invoke the ghost, they'll win the election. >> it's a little late for that. jimmy, you think newt is the man tonig tonight. >> something he just said was

interesting about football. in the south where do you sit during college football games. you sit in the stands. not a single one have sat in the stands. they sat in the presidential suite. they cannot understand what they are going through. i know newt gingrich is from georgia, so what. mitt romney, i don't know where he lives and santorum is from pittsburgh? >> what are they going through that the rest of the country is not especially when you look at michigan with a high unemployment rate? >> that's true. >> i know a lot of people would like to believe that the south is on its own, but we're in this together. >> the south lost the war. >> some of the people i know need to be reminded. >> we lost. since we lost we always feel like there's a big chip on our shoulder, and that's the plain fact of it. don't forget who did the poverty tour in the south.

at the end of the day, the south has massive pockets of poverty. >> massive issues with education. >> you cannot win the gop, i think the gop georgia chair today said you can't win the nomination, the gop nomination if you don't win the south. mitt romney's going to go down and rack it up today. i don't think so. i think newt gingrich will pull it out. >> stephen, if your observations are accurate and rick santorum is a rock star, why is this a close race? >> the numbers are really, really tight right now. >> why? my question is why? >> each of the candidate speaking to a different base. people are starting to wake up and pay attention. for once alabama is important. people are thinking about it. they are thinking a lot harder than they have in the past. >> okay. i'm intrigued by that line.

i have to tell you, i again go back to this enthusiasm issue. we saw people on nightly news last night. they feel there's a lot of pandering going on. they're just not an authentic candidate out there. before i let you go, when you look at the demographics of this state, alabama and mississippi, they line up against mitt romney. these are people who make fewer than $100,000. they did not go to college. they are evangelical christians. they line up against mitt romney, which is going back to my question of why aren't we seeing -- rock stars walk on stage alone because they are the star. if rick santorum is the star, why isn't that translating just yet? you might be right tonight. >> i'm thinking more about romney in that respect. everybody is talking b about grits. romney if he wants to win an election, he needs to be eating

grits a t a waffle house where the normal people go. waffle house is a win in alabama. if you want to win a race, you have to know every barber in the state. >> your waffle house rule might be accurate. there's a picture of me in a waffle house in burleson, texas. that does count. up next. >> we want to be as transparent as possible and answer some of those questions right now. >> the group behind the viral video kony 2012 releases a new v video. they are responding to the backlash. toure is back with us for a second day. record ratings. game change become's hbo's most watched movies, we'll tell you in how many years. details the ahead. announcer ] d and flu relieves your cough 50% longer than tylenol cold multi-symptom nighttime.

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of red meat, even three ounces could dramatically increase your chance of an early death. arrested again, rebecca brooks is taken into custody for a second time with the connection of the hacking scandal. i understand why a lot of people wondering is this a slick, fly by flight thing. >> facing the fallout. the group responds to critics. a brand new video just released. homeless hot spots. homeless people being paid to be human wireless transmitters. this is happening at the south by southwest festival. some say it's inhumane. they have explained this to you how they can do it. it's our "news nation gut check." we begin with the federal government's fight on an attempt

to suppress the minority vote in this country. a texas state law requiring a photo i.d. to cast a ballot is on hold until a federal court decides whether it can be enforced. the measure deprives hispanic voters who tend to lack this kind of identification. pete williams just sat down with attorney general eric holder. what did the attorney general told do you in this new interview? >> he calls this a solution in search of a problem. he says requiring a photo i.d. does set up a problem to a constitutional fundamental right. >> we want to make sure that our elections are free from fraud, but there's no proof that our elections are marred by in-person voter fraud. >> we have to show driver's licenses to do lots of things in our live, to get on a plane, even to buy sudafed.

voting is a fundamental constitutional right. you shouldn't have to show additional i.d. many people that don't have them would have to pay money or go to great lengths or travel great dances in order to get one. in texas you have to be fingerprinted to get the photo i.d. as the alternative for the driver's license. for all these reasons he says the texas one the justice department decided would get in the way of voting and that would be unconstitutional. as a separate matter, the other states that don't have to get pre-clearance, he thinks it's a matter of bad public policy. he realizes that this is something every state legislature is looking at. >> supporters of the law dismissed the federal government's move as election year politics while others argue it's merely defending the right to vote. sheila jackson lee joining us live from her district in houston. thank you for your time.

>> it's very nice to be with you. >> department of justice says 81 of texas' 254 counties do not have place where people can get a driver's license. there's not an operational driver's license. to me that seems to be the tip of the problem here. if you're going to require people to have this i.d., you should have the access available. what are your concerns here? >> well, the justice department decision was thoughtful, well reviewed decision after seeking to determine whether the voting rights law in texas or the voter i.d. law was correct. frankly, this is a reflection of the law, the voting rights act which says one person, one vote and as texas sought to implement or put in place a voter i.d., picture i.d. they didn't think

it through. there seem to be under pinnings of trying to dumb down or depress the minority vote. 81 counties without a d.p.s. asking the home bound or those that are seniors who are also impacted in a devastating manner to find other ways to get a voter i.d. or picture i.d., telling students that if you have a state issued student i.d. from a university that is accredited that you cannot use it, however you can use a concealed weapons permit points to certain populations will be allowed to vote and others will not. this is a very good decision. we only have 12.8 million voters. 2.4 million voters don't have a picture i.d. and don't have ways of getting it. some don't have marriage

licenses. this is a right decision. >> some of the numbers the, hispanic voters are 4550% more likely to not have driver's license. keith is from greg county texas. he's a republican chairman. he said that this is playing the race card. he says all of this, once again, i'm sorry so say, people playing the race card. it's time for that to end. i'm tired of the democratic party playing the race card and calling the republicans racist when they are the ones playing the race card. are you and the democrats in the state of texas playing the race card? >> the department of justice represents the entire united states of america whether it was department of justice under president bush or president reagan or president clinton. they have an obligation to follow the law. that's what they did. let me explain that i have ever represent for difference of opinion. our own attorney general in the state of texas indicated in the last decade they only prosecuted

and were able to prosecute 50 cases in the last decade. that's five cases per year. >> do you take offense? does that particularly bother you? >> it bothers me because of the lack of understanding. i don't waste time on people's opinion, but it bothers me because people will be denied the right to vote because of misunderstanding and mischaracterization. i'm enthusiastic about the department of justice decision and enthusiastic that they will pursue this in court. this gentleman will find out it's not race question when he sees millions and thousands upon thousands be denied the right to vote. we have a presidential election. i don't care whether the voters go out and vote republican or democratic or independent. i want them to be able to vote and there's no evidence that people show up and try to impersonate another voter. this is wrong headed, misdirected. i hope we will pursue this and i

hope the supreme court will look in a fair manner at the number who is will be impacted. let me say this, the state did not send in numbers regarding african-americans. they didn't send in numbers regarding asian or seniors or home bound or disable persons who may lack opportunities to get a picture voter i.d. this is not a joke and this is not race based except for the fact that the voting rights act says no barrier should bar a citizen of the united states from voting regardless of race or ethnicity. it's the right decision to make. >> thank you for your time. obviously, this is not going anywhere any time soon. thank you. british police are arrested rebecca brooks. brooks and her husband were among tix people arrested in connection with raids in the phone hacking scandal. the couple are being held on suspicion of destroying some kind of e-mail evidence.

a priest who denied communion to a woman at her own mother's funeral has been put on leave. they say it's not related to the controversy. it's because the priest engaged in intimidating behavior toward parish staff. a study claims red meat, any amount, could increase your risk of dying early. scientists at harvard say 13% of the people were more likely to die if they ate a three ounce serving of meat just once a day. 14% were likely to develop heart disease or cancer. those numbers go up if you add bacon or hot dogs into the equation or into your diet. okay. three ounce. that's the size of a deck of cards. >> they take a group of people. in this case it's 84,000 female

nurses and 34,000 men that are health professionals. they give them questionnaires about what do you eat on average. they compare that with the ones to their health outcomes. it's not exactly a great revelation that red meat is not health food even though it's a great source -- >> we've had this conversation before about red meat. everything in moderation. in this study even the smallest portion can affect your ability to have a healthy life. >> they only asked the question, do you eat a serving or more. if you do, these are your numbers. >> isn't that amount in our guidelines of what a balanced diet is? >> yeah. a healthy diet is keep the red meat to a minimum. eat as much fish as you. there's a lot of research over a

lot of years that have established this. it's up to our will power and taste buds to whether we can follow. those numbers sound big. they're really tiny compared to say someone who smokes every day. >> in comparison, obviously, but, we have for many years been told and science is there on the danger of smoking. i eat a burger probably every day. >> you're mighty healthy. likely to stay that way. >> is it back to moderation? >> it is moderation and choices you make. there's other things about red meat in terms of the energy that's consumed to feed a cow or a pig. the amounts americans eat. americans eat 65 pounds of beef.

65 pounds of pork and 80 pounds of chicken per year. that's a lot of meat. >> it is. a lot of people are talking about this. maybe they will rethink dinner. >> i hope they have a good dinner. i'm not here to destroy anybody. >> you're not the red meat police. the creator of the kony 2012 video is responding to the back lack. we got the tape. first, there's a lot going on today. here are some things we thought you should know. more than two million people tuned in watch the premier of hbo game change saturday night. that makes it the most watched original film in eight years. game change based on pay's rise during the 2008 election. that's one thing we thought you should know. ohhh my head, ohhh.

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i'm martin bashir. coming up, high stakes in the land of dixie. the last stand for newt and a new judgment day for mitt and rick. rush limbaugh as offensive as ever and more advertisers plea. a republican member of congress pushing a birthing amendment. i'm not kidding. the group behind the viral kony 2012 video is out with a response. ben said his group has only one goal, to stop war lord joseph kony. they face tough criticism over the strategy and how it is spending money raised. here is what they said earlier. >> using our three-prong approach pd we have adapted to fill the area of greatest need. sometimes that's been worked on the ground. sometimes it's been mobilized in

international community and sometimes it's mass wareness campaigns like what we're doing now. >> toure is joining us. i don't know what i'm looking at. you went from this emotional viral video to this numbers board. it's like a five-point plan. what is that? >> they're still doing their emotional formula. we learn third-degree ged this college. they are still working on that motional thing. they are showing us more what they are doing on the ground in uganda. nobody is saying the stop kony movement is evil. we have some questions about it. people are so breathless in this mob mentality. we're saying let's answer some questions. one question that is not answered, are we talking about thousands of child soldiers or

hundreds. are there in uganda. they have been forced out. they quickly say they are in a weakened state. that's not the point we get from the video. if they are in weakened state, then why is there this urgency. there's important issues. >> one of things that raised your anger level was this whole notion that people with click on and think they have done enough to save the world and save these children. i want to play what the makers said about this slacktivist question. >> i understand why a lot of people are wondering if this some slick, fly by night slacktivist thing. it's not at all. it's connected to real deep, thoughtful, very intentional and

strategic campaign. >> you get the mike. >> the people that are inside are doing is thoughtful, working hard, doing old-school activism or attempting to. the people that they are connecting to, the audience is slacktivist. >> why are they to blame? >> what does that do? just knowing and caring doesn't do anything. the whole world know and care about bin laden. did that capture him? no. actual military wordy. the world caring about him didn't. when the world kind of stopped caring then he got caught. the two things are not connected. >> i don't connect about that argument. the second his name was said live on television, most people never heard that name just like with joseph kony.

john staurt and others have pointed that maybe the media is hating on the kony movement because they have exposed when notary public video of us have been hit 73 million times. there's a bit of envy here. >> i think the word hating is far overused. we are not jealous. we are breathing and taking stock of what are they doing and not doing. millions of people who never knew about kony and never really interested in activism are introduced to these ideas and this passionate and emotional plea. slow down. just caring is not enough. >> all right. thank you very much. we'll be right back. machine oh! [ baby crying ] ♪ what started as a whisper ♪ every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing.

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