directly ahead, lannie davis and alan colmes are the democrats are processing last night's vote. jesse watters asking americans to predict who will be the next president of the united states. upcoming >> bill: in the impact segment, president obama made a live video feed address to democratic vote increase iowa last night. it would be very interesting to know what he really thinks about the vote, of course. he's not going to say. but lannie davis and alan colmes, who channel barak obama. both democrats and fox news analysts. colmes, what did you see last night in -- as far as the democratic party and president obama is concerned? >> i think that it's going to be very good for president obama. i think that he's going to have an easy -- easy is not the right word. but i think you have a situation with romney who i think is going to be the nominee. i don't think there is any question about that at this point. after he battles the conservative choice, which is rick santorum. i think romney wins. there's a lot of stuff about romney that hasn't seen the light of day which i believe the

>> oh my god i do look like alan colmes? >> bill: there is only room for one. >> janine even said there is a fundamental difference. hey, bill, i'm wondering, where are the jobs going to be outsourced to from the u.s. government from these agencies? >> bill: they are not. they are going to disappear. the jobs are vaporized. they are gone. they won't exist. and that's what bain did. bain took jobs away from private industry. they didn't exist. they said there are too many people sitting around doing nothing. so we are going to eliminate them. newt gingrich and others pick it up on the commercial that people who got eliminated are sobbing. they are there are going to be sobbing people in the commerce department. my job is not there anymore. it's the same thing. >> not doing it for their own wealth. bain was not doing it for the reduction of the deficit. >> bill: doing it for his own political currency, leslie. >> he is doing it for his own political. >> bill: political currency, all right? it's all currency. >> exactly. >> bil

i mean, you know i thought it was interesting earlier on alan colmes. and pennsylvania in when george w. bush was in office. it was the bush justice department who pursued it and obama justice department that dropped the charges. why? it didn't want to have the flashback in the african-american community from this kind of -- from pros prosecuting this kind of intimidation. they are going to press it. it's offensive and ought to be offensive to any american, republic, democrat or independent. >> all right. mr. rove. thanks very much. pinheads and patriots on deck. one last thought about tim tebow. p and p moments away. you know organization is key... and so is having a trusted assistant. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle...and go. you can even take a full-s or above and still pay the mid-size price. here we are... [ male announcer ] and there you go, business pro. there you go. go national. go like a pro. but proven technologies allow natural gas producers to supply affordable, cleaner energy, while

we asked alan colmes to explore that. president obama on the catholic church dubious terms because of obama care and birth control. is it legal on the case upcoming. [ sniffling ] [ male announcer ] all stuffed up? simple relief is here. introducing robitussin® nasal relief pills. the right relief for nasal congestion...in a pill. ♪ ne from robitussin®. relief made simple. >> bill: in the barack and hard place syncment tonight the name saul olenski keeps popping up in the presidential campaign he was an activist that died in 19272 not before leaving all kinds of strategies for radical americans. hillary clinton wrote her thesis on him and his plan. ed henry asked this question. >> newt gingrich keeps saying on the campaign trail that the president's vision comes from saul olenski, community organizer. i haven't heard you asked about that. >> the president's background as a community organizer is well-documented in the president's own books. so, his experience in that field obviously contributed to who is he today. but his

now that's doing so well, including this shockingly cruel comment from liberal pundit alan colmes describing inaccurately how santorum and his wife grieved their dead newborn child in 1996. >> by taking his two-hour-old baby who died right after childbirth and played with it for a cull of hours so his other children would know that the child was real. >> reporter: this afternoon at a town hall in newton, santorum was asked about that. >> we got together and we brought gabriel home with us to bury him. >> reporter: nearby his wife karen wept. those values have gone straight to the heart of what socially conservative iowans care about, lynn roger got on the santorum train early back in october. what was it like to be a santorum supporter for all those months when he was at like 1%, 2% in the polls? >> it was tough to see him that low. i wanted -- i wanted the media -- i wanted to call the media and say you're missing it. you're missing it. you're missing out. you got to speak with him. go see him because when you see him, you change your mind. but it was hard, but i felt good in my heart. >> r

alan colmes later apologized for the exchange.ld it be out of bounds to criticize, challenge rick santorum over his handling of the baby's death? >> the way that he did it was out of bounds. the topic isn't out of bounds. the candidate himself made it fair game. i think what you're having happen here is rick santorum was basically ignored as a man who had no chance to win this. ignored by the media the entire time. suddenly nobody thinks he has a chance to win, but suddenly it's like, let's give this guy the treatment. i think some people are perhaps overdoing it and giving him the treatment like to make up for lost time. >> how would you define "the treatment"? >> it's just like -- like i think we see ourselves as the self-appointed police of this. and we're going to bring up everything bad in anybody's past. you know, like, all right, we did it to herman cain, we did it to michele bachmann, rick perry, now it's santorum's turn. it's almost like a feeding frenzy. >> or like a wake-up call if the r ref misses fouls, we call fouls.

, host of the alan colmes show as well.e start with you. you saw half of the room standing at that. how did you think the president did last night? >> i think it was a pretty bipartisan speech. a republican president could have given the speech. talked about going after china for fair trade. tough on iran. go down the list of things. talked about drilling for oil. he has fewer regulations enacted than previous president. those people will say he give as good speech. well, that is what the whole point of last night was. i mean i thought it was a very bipartisan speech. a lot of outreach and i didn't, i thought it was quite good. i'm not just saying that because i'm a democrat but i really think it was quite good. martha: tucker, -- >> tucker will laugh. martha: new agency to put in place to try to deal with china as part of the list. tucker, what was your take. >> alan is basically saying it was a right-wing speech i liked it. >> i didn't say right-wing but -- >> no, no very revealing. it was entirely political speech, right

alan colmes is the host of the alan colmes show. and mike gallagher is a fox news contributor.is frequently about president obama that he's aloof, that he's cold, he's not connecting with americans the way they hoped he would when he was running for office. he says there is a reason for that and it's because of an unfair press corp. >> reporter: i think he may have tripped into the life boat on this one, megyn to be very honest with you. this coming the same week that newsweek magazine has the audacity to put on its cover, why are obama's critics so dumb? this is a guy who ought to be on his knees every night and after he thanks god that he's actually an occupant in the oval office, which is unthinkable he literally has major american news magazines covering him, giving him so much protection, he probably owes his presidency to a news media who has been advocating for him all through his campaign, and now we're stuck with them. frankly, at the end of the day this is a guy -- listen, last night, alan the best line of the night is newt gingrich saying he was tired of a news media

[speaking french] megyn: knowing me to discuss it alan colmes host of the alan colmes show and mike gallagherio host and fox news contributor. ]speaking french. >> you could use that music from the scary odds for the buffer music here megyn. megyn: i think i would prefer it. i like the old stuff better, i'm being honors. that is the question. the republicans -- the republican national committee leaders are meeting, or did yesterday to talk about whether and how to ratchet back the rhetoric. i thought this is what they wanted, mike, they wanted the extended primary. of course they'd all be going after each other for months and weeks on end. >> this has taken a turn. this has really got even ugly. now we have republicans a cushion other republicans of sounding like liberal democrats. megyn: of being liars. >> liars, and that started out really with the mitt romney super pack in iowa where they accused newt of being in favor of the mandate. i mean the individual healthcare mandate, which wasn't true. this has got even ugly. i really was rooting for newt in terms of staying positive. i thought it

alan colmes is host of the alan colmes show and mike gallagher is a fox news contributor. president maintains he's been a staunch ally to israel. but that graph from gallop seems to suggest that jewish voters don't think so. >> the graph is wrong -- the direct graph is right it may represent the way jewish voters are now thinking. he's been terrible lee represented. mitt romney misrepresented what happened. benjamin netanyahu thanked the president at the u in in september for in his stance of not having a palestinian state at the time. ed koch who is influential with jewish voters. megyn: former meije mayor of new york. >> he said he would support obama based on new information about how supportive obama has been with israel intervening with the egyptian army during the arab spring. helping to protect diplomates, providing bomb materials and all kinds of things to the israeli army. mitt romney clearly miss represented the president's position. and the 1967 border issue, he has always said that that should be a starting point for negotiations. benjamin netanyahu agrees with

alan colmes and other devoted liberals will tell you the president needs more time and should spend more money to stimulate the economy. well, recently the coaches of the st. louis rams and the tampa bay bucs were fired because they could not produce winners after three years. politics is like sports. you have to produce. but democrat partisans don't care about performance. if you have a d after your name, they like you, period. they don't care. of course, the same holds true for republican parmesans and i'm fine with that on both fronts. if your political philosophy trumps performance, that's on you. but i live in an entirely different world. the mandate of the factor factor means we have to be skeptical about all of those seeking power. we have to challenge them and i hope that's why you watch. much of our political analysis is based on facts, such as polling we trust from folks like rasmussen and gallup. santorum is at 21%. gingrich 16, ron paul 12. head to head matchup, romney versus obama, it's tied at 42. the new hampshire tracking poll of likely gop voters at romney at 41. paul 18

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, host of the alan colmes radio show.rning to you both. let's pull up this other number and get you to react to both of these. has president obama accomplished a great deal in the last three years, over the course of his presidency so far. 12% say a great deal. 35% say a good amount. you put those two numbers together at 47%. not much or little or nothing adds up to 52%. this is the question, i guess that will be on people's minds as they look at this election going forward, alan. do they think the president is doing a good job or give somebody else a shot basically? >> we don't know the ultimate answer yet, more so people are seeing more economic recovery. 9% more than two months ago. 21% increase in democrats say we're headed in right direction. there are pretty good numbers. ratio more than two to one. independents are blaming former president bush is where the economy. there are other things, other indicators in this poll. face it the race really hasn't begun and people haven't really gotten to know who mitt romney is

let's bring in part of our news watch panel, alan colmes, part of the alan colmes radio show and calted columnist and fox news contributor. call, along with people like mitt romney, rick santorum and ron paul, some of the opponents had had names like juan williams and john king. >> bashing media has been a full contact sport in the modern times since john kennedy who canceled his subscription to the new york "herald-tribune" because he didn't like their approach to his policies. richard nixon didn't like media. mainly that was his own fault. lyndon johnson didn't like media. if i lost walter cronkite i lost the war in vietnam. bashing media will only get you so far especially in florida and beyond that, newt gingrich made his point about the media. he needs to branch out. he is giving a speech i understand on space which certainly resonates with florida voters since the kennedy space center is there. so much of our manned space program has taken off from there of course the obama administration canceled any future manned space exploration. it riles the base up. gets you so far but do

. >> bill: i would like to do that to alan colmes, slap the thing on him. thought process because i don't know where this guy. >> change the way these segments work. >> bill: megyn kelly, everyone. great american news quiz on deck. the civil war edition. actor mark wahlberg says controversial things about the 9/11 attacks. coming right back. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight. the great american news quiz, the civil war edition. here now the quiz kids themselves fox news anchor martha maccallum playing for steve stackman, fairborn, ohio. steve doocy representing susan roe, clinton, michigan. go to bill o'reilly.com if you would like to sign up to win some any of the were prizes. >> any of they, way to go. >> bill: civil war era your area of expertise, maccallum. >> you know this? >> bill: i wrote a book about it. >> i did too. it was a marriage book. >> you worked on that all day, didn't you? >> bill: i don't get it but that's okay. move on to question number one, in the debate earlier this week rick perry accused the obama administration going to wa

alan colmes the host of the alan colmes radio show and brad blakeman the former deputy assistant to george thank you for being with us. brad, i have to ask you and i'll ask each of you about this anticipated indication that michelle bachmann will drop her bid. >> i think michelle bachmann understands there is no path to victory. she will suspend her campaign which has really no effect as a matter of law. there is no federal law regarding suspensions of campaign. this allows her to continue to clean things up and to wind down her campaign and to exhibit. certainly perry and bachmann who not have a pathway to victory, i think its smart. they can't -- they are not wealthy in their own right and they can't subject themselves to personal debt which you would have to do in order to continue on. jamie: alan, we'll hear at the top of the hour whether or not the finances really played that big a role. rick perry still in the game saying he's going to go back to texas to think about it. what is the impact of michelle bachmann leaving this race? she said she is the only true conservative that could b

. >> bill: i would like to do that to alan colmes, slap the thing on him. because i don't know where this guy. >> change the way these segments work. >> bill: megyn kelly, everyone. great american news quiz on deck. the civil war edition. actor mark wahlberg says controversial things about the 9/11 attacks. coming right back. i find the omega choices overwhelming. then i found new pronutrients omega-3. it's from centrum. it's a smaller minigel. with two of the best omegas to support my heart, brain and eyes. new pronutrients from centrum. but think about your heart. 2% has over half the saturated fat of whole milk. want to cut back on fat and not compromisen taste? try smart balance fat free milk. it's what you'd expect from the folks at smart balance. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight. the great american news quiz, the civil war edition. here now the quiz kids themselves fox news anchor martha maccallum playing for steve stackman, fairborn, ohio. steve doocy representing susan roe, clinton, michigan. go to bill o'reilly.com if you would like to sig

. >> bill: i would like to do that to alan colmes, slap the thing on him.rocess because i don't know where this guy. >> change the way these segments work. >> bill: megyn kelly, everyone. great american news quiz on deck. the civil war edition. actor mark wahlberg says controversial things about the 9/11 attacks. coming right back. [ kyle ] my bad. [ roger ] tell me you have good insurance. yup, i've got... [ kyle with voice of dennis ] ...allstate. really? i was afraid you'd have some cut-rate policy. [ kyle ] nope, i've got... [ kyle with voice of dennis ] ...the allstate value plan. it's their most affordable car insurance -- and you still get an allstate agent. i too have...[ roger with voice of dennis ]...allstate. [ roger ] same agent and everything. [ kyle ] it's like we're connected. no we're not. yeah, we are. no...we're not. ♪ the allstate value plan. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight. the great american news quiz, the civil war edition. here now the quiz kids themselves fox news anchor

we'll talk with steve king, juan williams, chris stirewalt, rich lowry and alan colmes as we count downaucuses. plus, those new missile tests from iran after it threatens to shut down the strait of hormuz. what's really behind rapp's aggressive -- iran's increasingly aggressive behavior? we'll see you in just a few minutes, "happening now." bill: see you in ten minutes. >>> all right, a family trapped in an icy river. how a group of quick-thinking bystanders rushed to their aid. we have the dramatic rescue in a moment, and we have one of the russ key you ares -- rescuers with us lye to explain how thiss happened.e pr there , [ thinking ] i wonder what other questionable choices i've made? [ '80s dance music plays ] [ sighs ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego. martha: this is an incredible story, a utah man ask and his three children escaped certain death thanks to the bravery of good samaritans. the driver lost control in icy conditions, the car went into the river upside down at one point, but in seconds a team of onlookers had rushed to their aid. joining us now on the pho