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obama was not afraid of a little exercise during a daytime talk show appearance. >> two three, four five -- >> let them go. the audience was counting well into the 20's. mrs. obama was ona two day trip to the los angeles area to promote healthy food and fitness. she says she could have kept going all day. >> the first lady kept going. >> i think they both put me to shame. >> that was pretty impressive. >> speaking of looking good, it looks good of their parent >> -- out there. >>

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obama to a pushup contest. as you can see the audience just kept on counting. they went up into the 20's before degeneres ended the contest. mrs. obama was on a two-day trip to the los angeles area, part of her let's move campaign promoting healthy food and fitness. clearly the first lady practicing what she preaches when it comes to fitness. >> getting a little workout in on her trip to the west coast. >> absolutely. 6:41 right now 34 degrees in waldorf. also also looking at more metro headaches, and they're not going away anytime soon. >> daniel radcliffe trades valdemoort for the woman in black. i'll have the weekend's best bets. >> politico's anna palmer joining us live. also the role of the super ♪ ♪ pierre! your fashion is so "right now," but your banking is so last season! earn more with high yield free checking at capital one bank. instead of some unfashionable rate your checking could be earning five times the national average. and free atms anywhere. five times the interest? that's hot. oooooo! let's catwalk! you want more interest? open an account at a capital one bank. what's

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obama is not an vowed muslim. s a secret muslim. [ laughter ] but today on morning joe with joe morning rick explains -- [ laughter ] -- that he had a good excuse for not correcting her. >> this was an elderly there there leaning on a cane, quite wobbly. i'm not going to sit there and slam on older lady because she has some way out, bizarre beliefs. >> stephen: bravo you cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. you would never make it through thanksgiving dinner. as it is now nana grabs her purse every time someone offers her dark meat. good for you rick santorum for respecting the elderly's right to spout hateful nonsense. >> he needed so say something. >> stephen: i'm in the middle of my show but ins sense elderly you can say what you want. >> i know for a fact that rick santorum running a white slavery ring. >> stephen: well -- >> it's proof. he steals blonde haired blue eyed high school cheerleaders from the changing room and sells them like meat on streets of bangkok. [ laughter ] >> stephen: okay. um, all right. thank you. >> rick santorum threw baby jessica down the well. he was

on "the situation room"'s facebook page. pretty funny. >> severe wasn't even scripted. he ad libed that. >> he should never go off the prommer the. obama needs a prompter to say good morning to the first lady. romney should never be allowed off the prompter. >> maybe they'll listen to you. >>> you're in "the situation room." >>> happening now, new details about the final hours of whitney houston's life. >>> this hour, the investigation, the unanswered questions and the pop icon's history of addiction. >>> plus, new evidence that some independent voters are abandoning mitt romney. we'll look at his long-term headaches as the republican presidential race drags on. >>> and israel, targeted with bombs planted on moving cars. is it payback for the assassination of iran's nuclear

>>> the gop is fighting is out in the primary but any one of them shows by poll would lose to president obama if the election were today. as fox 5's tom fitzgerald discovered, the polls reveal more troubling results for the republicans. >> reporter: leaving washington on a three-day trip, president obama headed to milwaukee, wisconsin. >> american manufacturers are creating new jobs. >> reporter: the president cited continued job growth, healthier stock market and improved public perceptions of where the economy is heading. >> if we pull together with common effort, i've got no doubt we will rebuild this economy so it lasts. >> reporter: now a new york times cbs news poll finds the president's reelection chances are improving in. head to head match-ups the president beats mitt romney 48- 42%, rick santorum 49-41%, ron paul 50-39% and shows obama trouncing newt gingrich 54-36%. >> i'll probably spend quite a few days between now and the 28th primary and talking about my roots in michigan. >> reporter: mitt romney is facing a surge in his own birthplace of michigan by rick santorum whose conservative message is attracting republican

obama. >> yes. two. >> the only two i know. >> okay. we only like multiple choice. don't ever do that again. >> james garfield. >> herbert hoover. >> harry s. truman. ronald reagan. george h.w. bush, bill clinton and barack obama. >> next one>> you're not doing so well. which president was known for his early morning dips nude? john quincy adams, franklin delano roosevelt -- i don't want to see any of these guys naked -- calvin coolidge or lyndon b. johnson. franklin had physical problems. >> i'm going with john quincy adams. >> coolidge because he was a whack job. >> go. john quincy adams! >> naked? >> yes. >> i don't believe it. all right. i don't believe this for a minute. i've never seen anybody who's better with people than you besides me. >> they say if your name is difficult to pronounce you are not favored in work, in your personal life, in school. >> who did you sleep with to get this job? >> ha. here's the thing. when people don't know how to pronounce your name, they don't ever say it because they don't want to be wrong. >> he doesn't care. how's by koda? most people go heeyyyy. >> some people are name injectors. >> both ends, so to speak. hoda and then kotb. you know? i mean -- didn't you add an "e"? what did y

concern prices could hit the $5 mark this spring and summer and today president obama weighed in on who's to blame. fox 5's fitzgerald has the story. >> reporter: the president headed to miami thursday and quickly took aim at republicans for attacking him on high gas prices. >> only in politics do people root for bad news. >> reporter: but as prices rise, so is gop blame for them aimed at the president. >> what's going on in this country with gas prices, we have very bad news that's come from the middle east. >> for every american they can look forward to $2.50 a gallon gas lien. >> reporter: but the president says promises of lower prices are running on empty. >> near dusting off their three- point plan for $2 gas and i'll save you the suspension. step one is to drill and step two is to drill and step three is to keep drilling. >> reporter: av aa finds the current national average at 3 -- aaa finds the current national average at $3.61 a gallon, locally d.c. is at 3.58, virginia at 3.56. >> something we've never seen in the dead of winter. >> reporter: john townsend of aaa says their survey shows virginia

>> going back this time three years ago when the earliest obama budget was announced, we've annualized on the s&p 500, i believe, north of 20%. so it has been a strong increase in prices. in the fourth quarter, the russell 2000, a benchmark for small cap shares, is up close to 12. and then through -- up through this year to date, it's up about the same. so when money's free, everything looks attractive, is what i say. >> don't fight the tape, don't fight the fed. here's the problem. because of the all the issues we just talked about, all the potential wall of worry things, a lot of people have been sitting on the sidelines and just watching helplessly has the market over the last two months has been grinding up in a straight line. is there the danger now that if you get in, you're essentially buying at an intermediate top? >> that's always the concern, of course. we try to focus on long-term prospects of the stocks we buy. keep in mind that we had a big selloff last fall. and i think people are forgetting that, where we were on october 3rd. yes, we've rebounded significantly. but we still reall

the results show he, not romney s the best candidate to take on barack obama in the fall.delegates were awarded last night, the former pennsylvania senator said that he is no building momentum. >> ladies and gentlemen, i don't stand here to claim to be the conservative alternatives to mitt romney. y stand here to be the conservative to barack obama [ applause ] >> i want to congratulate senator santorum and wish him the best. we'll keep on campaigning down the road, but i expect to become our nominee with your help. >> and there was more bad news. this poll on the critical swing state of virginia, according to the new survey out today, president obama has now inched ahead of mitt romney in virginia, 47-43%. you will remember, barack obama carried virginia into the presidential election four years ago. it's been viewed as one of the critical states that he will need to hold on to right now, laura, and this poll is fresh evidence showing right now that he's doing just that. >> and, of course, the president's coming off of good employment numbers, too. that could change this.

not just not corporations, small businesses, sub chapter s companies that report to the individual tax base, and obama is proposing to raise taxes onhose businesses up to 41%. >> yeah. >> when current tax rates expire. big contrast between 41 and-- >> obama's proposing to essentially raise taxes on the u.s. multinationals, which won't help. one thing i am he' worried about, paul, here, how strongly, romney's going to run on this tax, when he barely mentioned it at the debate the other night, that's not a good sign. >> paul: really, you're not convinced he's-- isn't he committed now, once you propose is, if you don't, if you don't defend it you look silly. >> there's no turning back, but he did say the day after he proposed it or the same day in response to questions does this favor the rich. he said don't worry, we'll have the deductions and they're not going to get a break. a lower rate system with lower deductions is great, but if this is his opening bid. there's a concern that you don't want him giving away too much. if he does feel he has to apologize for anything that might help someone who successful. >> paul: you're saying h

it should clear up on monday for the holiday with temperatures in the 40's. >> president obama signed t stimulus planc three years from today. tracie potts has more from washington. >> the stimulus for tax breaks, and so-called shell already projects to create jobs. republic and said it would never work -- republicans said it would never work. >> america is coming back. >> this president is not going to get credit for the economy coming back. >> the money goes to washington but it never gets distributed fairly. >> rolley fax -- here are the facts. unemployment is falling. jobs lost -- economic growth is down almost 7% then. two and half years straight years of growth. >> the economy keeps moving forward and it will be very tough to beat president obama. >> 12 million americans remain unemployed. president obama plans to talk about the jobs today in washington state. you can bet his opponents will be talking about it, too. >> every friday this month, and channel 11 is celebrate black history. will be joined by the ceo of the peanut pratt library -- we will be joined by the ceo of the e

now, it will be the smithsonian's 19th museum and president obama was even on hand for the big event. fox 5's john henrehan has the story. >> reporter: america today is sometimes described as the world's most successful multicultural nation. but today's success came after the eras of slavery and racial segregation. >> i want my taughters to he soot shackles that bound slaves on their voyage across the ocean and the shards of glass that flew from the 16th street baptist church and understand that injustice and evil exist in the world. but i also want them to hear louis armstrong's horn and learn about the negro league and read the poems of phyllis whitley. >> reporter: president obama's children will be able to examine at achievements and the pain suffered by african- americans at a $500 million museum to be constructed on a corner of the national mall not far from the washington monument. >> we must tell the story, the whole story, the 400-year story of of african-american contribution to this nation's history from slavery to the present without anger or apology. >> reporter: some stories to

on waste watch. an apology from president obama hasn't eased the anger... or theeprotests... over he burning of qurans by u-s troops in afghanistan.in fact, as ninette sosa explains.... it's drawn criticism from a republican looking to taae the president's job. job. outraae is spreading ooer the burning of copies of the quran at a nato base in afghanistannangry -- and at times -- violent rotests have beee raging in the country since tuesday, despitt repeated apologiis from nato and the u-ssmilitary."this was unintentional. there was no intention, by any member of isaf to defame the faith of islam or to deeecrate the precious religious materials pf this faith.""resident obama issued an apology to afghhn president hamii karzai yesterdayyit came as two american troops were killed by a man wearrng an afghhn national army uniform. candidate newt gingrich wasted no time criticizing the president for issuing an nothing that radical islamists can do to get barack obama's attention in a neeative way and he is consistently apologizing to people who do not deserve the apology of the president of the united states, peri

obama will speak at the event. for more on the ceremony, we head out now live to fox 5's melanie alnwick. >> good morning, wisdom.thing is starting to kind of pop here as the sun is coming up. you will see more activity behind me where the tent where the president will be speaking laura bush. there will be musical guests, musical programs that will begin around 9:00 a.m. and the actual groundbreaking ceremony which has been such a long time coming, about 10 years since the museum was approved by an act of congress it 2003. joining me now is kinsasha conwell who is the deputy director of the museum. how are you feeling this morning? >> very excited. a little chilly right now but so thrilled. it is a long awaited moment. it is the cull minutation of 10 years since the legislation, six years since our director was hired and all of us joined but also really a hundred years since this was a notion to memorialize the contributions of african-americans on the national mall. so long awaited moment finally here. >> some people might say we have the american history museum. we have other museums. why do we need this? >> th

but, ralph, i do agree with you on this, it isn't going to be enough to be anti-obama whether rum 's gingrich or whoever it is, we have to have a forward-leaning, positive conservative reform agenda that will excite and energize the grassroots. >> i want to shift gears, though, for a second. we've only got a little bit of time to cover the entire landscape. we're talking about some of the issues, but every bit of polling shows that the economy is the top issue driving election 2012. before lehman brothers collapsed, 43% of americans said their finances were in good shape. when president obama took office, it had already fallen to 35%. by last summer, it was down to 27%, and the president's ratings were tanking. right now, 35% say their finances are in good shape, exactly the same as the date that president obama took office. if that number keeps moving up, if people feel better about the economy, is president obama a lock to win? ralph? >> i think it's a lot harder. but i don't think that will be the case. you've still got almost 1 million more people out of work today than when he t

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s of chevron dream works disney and coca-cola on attendance now president obama said that he welcomes that china's peaceful rise and expects relations between the two countries to continue on a cooperative track his relationship is obviously a complicated one take a look at public opinion here in the u.s. a gallup poll from february tenth shows that fifty three percent of americans view not the u.s. but china as the world's leading economy and a.b.c. washington post poll from today shows that fifty two percent of americans have an unfavorable impression of china so with so much competition what will the relationship look like between the two joining me to discuss that is economic analyst gonzalo lira and all thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess for starters what do you say about this poll this is the second year in a row now that americans say that they see china as the leading economic power and not the u.s. well it's not actually because china is america's credit and so your creditor is always the most important person in europe financial relationships we owe chinese a

obama and tree huggers have done. fire all at czars in the white house. again, one phrase 'sle e house arrogance and overreach. he has a way of doing that when he sticks to obama, to what the liberals have done in governance he is good. when he talks about how he has been hit unfairly, is he off. >> bill: okay. now, mitt romney, i don't know this for a fact but i assume that the romney campaign believes it has it wrapped up. doesn't seem to be any derailment possibility unless the press break as story about the governor. until the next debate which is late in february. and then the super tuesday seems to favor him. and his money flow is going to start whereas the money for gingrich is going to be hard to raise. santorum and paul, i don't know where they are going to get money. particularly santorum. is it possible that the romney campaign can get arrogant, overconfident at this point? >> i think they can. they have got to be careful. if his three opponents stay in the race, ron paul will stay in. even if the apocalypse comes. and even if it happened i think he would only susp

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on c-b-s' "face the nation" sunday. governoo christie is stumping for mitt romney, while governor defender of president obama's policies. o'malley says, "we're part of a global economy. and the fact of the matter is domestic oil production has been increasing every year under president obama. our reliance on foreign oii is down to the lowest level that it's been in 16 years. and, yes, w do need to find ways to be more energy efficient, //butt to// christie says, "ii the end governor romney who has some real conservative values, but has real appeal to independents across the country is going to be the nominee. he's going to be taaking about the things that he should be talking about: jobb and the economy economy one of the biggest iisues not discussed during the shhw's taping... same sex marriage. christie recently veeoed gay marriage legislation passed by the state of new jerrey hile here in maryland... governor sex marriage into law this e week. we're just a day away from the first republican preeidential contests in weeks.as greg black eeplains... two states are now gearing up for tomorrow'ssprimaries. primaries. the

obama proposing one? huh? well, of course, it was wherein by our friend robert rooish. sr labor secretary and author of "aftershock." just to have a mix-up here on a debate, we bring in our other freend phil kirkman, vice president and policy at americans for prosperity. he is the author of dempsey denied. for heavens sakes, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. how can we not cut it? >> when you say we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world, i don't think you're looking at effective tax rates. effectively a tax rate right now, according to the cbo, right now the eftive rate is about 12.5% of corporate profits. the lowest it's been in 40 years. on top of that you have corporatings sitting on $2 trillion worth of cash. they don't even know what to do with, and, you know, your friend ronald reagan, great president ronald reagan, in 1986, he signed into law corporate tax reform, tax reform generally that included a corporate tax increase in today's dollars that would have generated about $1 trillion of the next ten years. the economy did not suffer.

then he has very effective on substance, when he pushed all of the keystone and obama and the s implyingcutive overreach the arrogance of this administration. he talked about the war on -- i think it's an issue that is going to be extremely important. these do with regulations of obamacare. then as always he had one sour note. that was i thought at the end where he said i pledge my life, my fortune and my sense of honor. of course, last line is last line of declaration of independence but the people that signed that document, had they not succeeded they would have been hanged. if newt doesn't succeed he returns to k-street. there is a little bit of difference. but i think each spoke in character very interesting speeches tonight. >> sean: let me go through a few of the lines. when gingrich defined himself as clear conservative versus a massachusetts moderate, 46 states to go, people power, defeating money power. he talked about extending over six months. there is comparison. romney tried to unite the party and then he went after obama. we're here to collect. this is a one-term propositio

on c-b-s' "face the nation" sunday. governor christie is stumping for mitt romney, while governor o'malley remains a staunch defender of president obama's policies. o'malley says, "we're part of a global economy. aad the fact of the matter is domestic oil production has been increasing every year under president obama. our reliance on foreign oil is down to the lowest level that it's been in 16 years. and, yes, we do need to find ways to be more energyyefficient, //butt to// christie says, "in the end governor romney who has some has real appeal to independents across the country ii going to be the nominee. he's going to be talking about the things that he should be talking about: economy one of the biggest issues not discussed during the show's taping... same sex maariage. christie recently vetoed gay marriage legislation passed by the state of new jersey wwile here in maryland... governor o'malley is set to sign same sex marriage into law ttis week. a new jersey teenager battling leukemia.... gets an invite from taylor swift he just can't pass up. the singer reached out to 18- year-old kevin mcguire on facebook... asking if he'd be he

on birrh cont. control.in a statement, the u-s conference of catholic bishops called the new plan ""nacceptable" and said it "must be corrected."friday, president obama eased the catholic institutions to ay for birth control for their employees.the new plan wouud force insurance companies to pay for the contraceptives.but the catholics confereece andd ssme republicans say the compromise isn't enough and their religious freedom is still compromisedd mcconnell ayy: 0:43:544this the administration simply backs down. they doo't have the authority under thh first amendmenn f the united states in this country or somee &porganization in this country what their religious beliefs are. 10:44:10 but the president showssno signs of repealing his plan... even as memberssof congress consider legislation that would outlaw this kind off birth conttol mandate. supporters of same sex marriage will hold a rally tonight... in annapolis. annnpolis.this... as committee members in the ssate sennte and house considdr moving the chambers.on friday night... &ptwo commiittes in the house o pelegates earddarguments oo marriage held a rally similar - rally earlier thhs year. mor

s as long as they disclose. what i'm troubled with is the corrupt media. you have this guy, politico based on the obama network, msn msnbc. i mean, the head of g.e. is on board for job czar. g.e. got a big deal out of the tarp and they didn't pay no taxes. and all of this money that is collected, where does it go but the media? host: sorry about that, bob. go ahead, david. guest: sure. many people criticize the media as the unit backward and forward. people on the left think the media often is going it skew too far right and bring up fox news and on the left with msnbc. it is a debate that is out there every day. so, the caller i can only speak for myself. i have appeared on msnbc, fox and cnn and what i want to do and i think i can speak to colleagues is report the news as we can best report it and make sure that issues on super p.a.c.'s and influence might be that the best they can possibly know about both sides of the coin and i wouldn't want to do anything less. host: we have a tweet from c-span junky, still an individual who talks about representative ron paul saying he gets no money from banks or

>> there is only one woman on the face of this entire earth who can put obama over the top. ready? margaret hatcher. s do. >> chris is obsessed with margaret thatcher. this is the third time he's brought her up. >> i am. but barring that, you could get meryl streep who played thatcher. >> chris hoodimoody, what do yo think? >> the game changer is definitely not scarlett johansson. the entirety of hollywood supported him in 2008. so i think the best you can do is get them all back on board, hopefully they don't pull obama girls on him this time and show a lacking in their support. but i'm a little disappointed because i was going to say margaret thatcher, too. i agree completely. so let's make it american. sarah palin. that will change it. >> all right. we shall continue. >> not going to happen. dwl thanks, guys. >>> president obama may be ready to compromise on a controversial new rule requiring religious institutions to cover birth control in their health plans. let's get to breeann mai brianne at the white house. >> reporter: this is about insurance coverage for fda approved contraception. birth con

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