anthony shadid has a recent book called "house of stone: a memoir of home, family, and a lost middle east." why do people like and you colvin and shadid, why do you go do it? as americans, isn't it suspicious that you even care about other countries? ( laughter ) what is it that draws you-- i mean, there's a war on women here. why not cover that? >> you just said it. i mean, if you take syria. i mean, here's a government that was not elected. and they are-- they are-- they are waging war against their population. they are shelling cities. they are-- they've killed at least 7,000 people so far. they've tortured people. they've arrested people. and what they want more than anything is they want to be able to operate in secret. they don't want the rest of the world to know. and so when people like anthony and marie were doing, they were both friends, is they just wanted to get in and talk to people and talk to real people and find out what was happening. and then get out and tell the rest of the world. >> stephen: do you feel like a sense of mission? is this like a vocation to do this or

and "house of stone" the memoir of anthony shadid with his wife. >>> and good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. in our daily fix today, mitt romney and rick santorum battling head to head for illinois which holds its primary tomorrow. romney has a big advantage. he and his supporters are outspending santorum by 7 to 1. and santorum failed to file delegate slates in four congressional districts. even if romney were to win, would that quiet talk of the first contested republican convention since 1976? chris sill lisa is a managing editor of postpolitics.com. it does seem as if everyone is talking about the possibility of a contested convention. first of all, there was this video, video of arlen specter announcing his candidacy for president, march 30th, 1995. he wasn't exactly on the same page as the man you'll see behind him, rick santorum on the subject of abortion rights. >> i want to take abortion out of politics. and leave moral issues such as abortion to the conscience of the individual. that is a matter to be decided by women. not by big government.

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she is the widow of anthony shadid. he died of an acute asthma attack in syria. a book, it's called "house of stone, a memoir of home, family, and a lost middle east." it's just been released. anthony talked about speaking arabic, which he did fluently, but with an oklahoma accent and sort of how he always was interested in sort of digging into and understanding his roots. why was that so important to him? >> i'm sorry, can you repeat that? i'm having trouble hearing. >> i'm sorry. forgive me. i'm going to try again. i was asking a lot of the book is about rediscovering roots. i was curious to know as anthony joked in the book how he spoke arabic fluently with an oklahoma accent which is hard to imagine. why was rediscovering roots such an important theme for him in his own life? >> you know, it's an interesting question. i wish anthony was here to answer you, but i'm going to try my best. i think being the son of immigrants who found themselves in oklahoma city, a place that in the beginning they didn't relate to very much, and then over the years they became ju

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new york times correspondent anthony shadid died of an acute asthma attack in syria last month. us to talk about his life and his book now being released. it's called "house of stone." good morning. >> good morning. >> it's a pleasure to have you here. even just the lead-in was enough to make it difficult for you to be here which says something about how important it is to talk about this book. there was a lovely image of anthony this sunday in an article written by tyler hicks for the new york times who was with him on his last assignment in syria. he says directly across me amid cigarette smoke was anthony with a huge smile on his face. this was exactly the kind of connection that made him most happy as a reporter. what can you speak about in terms of what drove him to work so hard to make us understand the middle east? >> you know, for as long as he remembered he wanted to be a journalist covering the middle east. he felt a commitment to the middle east because this is where his ancestors came from. he moved there, studied the language. he learned the culture. you know, he ju

anthony shadid died as well.ar for journalistings covering wars. >> it has been. they are opening up this new dynamic. they have color clear access. my friend tim was one of them. i'm making a move about them and started a medical program for free lens, called r.i.s.k. so that thoepb how to traoet combat injuries there in the field. a lot end up being fatal but they to the floor to be. and the press core knows what "today" with a bleeding wound. so i'm trying to figure that. >> that will be at sundance next january. >> thanks for having me on the program. >> as the republican voters face kapbdz dates today, president obama gets tough any poll next that give reason to call. bernstein and robinson next. >> i'm talking about smiles from the deep coast to the midwest to the south, enjoying this may-like temperature kwrut break in the middle of the march. how warm they are from, up into new york stay. here's the map. average temperatures, aopbl supposed to be 44 is babe 45 in check. might is today's be high expect and