bill: i'm bill hemmer.ublicans say they are done with any sort of short-term fix. >> i want to make sure we're here to continue to work until congress passes a year-long extension of the payroll tax holiday. and we out right reject the attempt by the senate to kick the can down for 60 days. >> it is a come part son convulsion driven by the tea party. martha: mike emanuel is live. any idea how this gets revolved? >> reporter: bottom line we expect the house of representatives today to take a vote to disagree with the two-month extension that has passed the senate and suggest that it goes to conference. the thinking there is that you don't want to ask your members to vote against lowering taxes, but of course the house is run by republicans, the senate by the democrats. there is old rivalry between the house and the senate. here is speaker boehner why the senate plan don't work. >> what the senate did pass it's going to call job creators all kinds of problems. we saw reports out today from those who run payro

bill hemmer >> williams: bill hemmer, if you're talking about wendell goler at the state department.alking about peopleewhooactually cover, i mean f you're alking about, you know, shannon bream at the supreme court. these people are high quality reporters. >> smith: they'rr real jourralists. >> williams: they're telling you what's going on. >> smith: yeah. >> williams: now you may get some of the anchors or hosts during the daytime who will ask questions from a conservative perspective, and you say well, isn't that slanted? ii's not, they're not asking crazy or illegitimate questions. it's fine. if you want to ask it from a conservative position, go. but you know what, notice the journalists are giving them facts back.3 >> smith: well, if you go over to msnbc you listen to tamron hall during theeday, she's asking questions from a liberallpoint of view. >> williams: well, all i'm saying, but that's the environment that we live in, in media today. ttese niche pockees in the way that, you know, the new york times editorial page is positioned versus.. >> smith: wall street journall right

eastern, megyn kelly and bill hemmer.nd you can text your greeting to a number 36288, you type u text. heading to the homestretch in the state of iowa. why is some people are saying it's time for him to start fighting back, we'll ask a gingrich inside insider about that next. forty years ago, he wasn't worried about retirement. he'd yet to hear of mutual funds, iras, or annuities. back then, he had something more important to do. he wasn't focused on his future but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide retirement solutions for our military, veterans and their families. from investments... to life insurance... to health care options. learn more with our free usaa retirement guide. call 877-242-usaa. ♪ that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. >> gregg: welcome to a brand-new hour of america's headquarters. i'm gregg jarrett. >> heather: i'm heather childers. the fight for iowa entering its final phase. candidates spending the l

gregg: i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer.romney unleashing attack ads targeting his biggest rivals. heather: it's not a don deal for romney just yet. carl cameron is live. they are spending incredible amounts of money in iowa. who has the most cash to burn? >> reporter: well what is really important to note here is that when you look at most aspects of the 2012 iowa caucuses, it's actually been slower and more low key than in caucuses pass. the spending on tv ads they are actually breaking a record this month. all told there will be over $10 million spent which does break the final month's pace of preceding caucuses in the past. mitt romney is spend baggy a million and a half dollars a month. a super pack will be adding another couple million dollars to his ad campaign. some of it is negative, some of it is positive. that is standard. newt gingrich is only putting on a half million dollars worth of ads. there is no super pack, an outside independent group augmenting his mention. ron paul is spending a million-missouri this mo

i'm bill hemmer. huy are you doing over in? martha: i'm great. how is the voice? bill: i think turned corner. martha: he feels like a million bucks. sound like a buck 50. bill: i said a billion bucks. martha: we're just printing money so it doesn't matter. the dow we watched yesterday, it was roaring as we started the show yesterday. up 490 points on the day on the news of the huge euro bailout mostly from the u.s. this is the largest percentage gain of dow jones since march '09. now up 7% year-over-year. bill: analysts saying a short-term fix is not the answer. leaders need to come up with a long-term solution with a massive debt problem that hits the entire continent of europe. stuart varney is with us. good morning. where do you want to start on this, stuart. >> yesterday europe rode to the rescue a short-term fix for europe's credit crunch. have not fixed in any way europe he's debt mess. two things are needed pretty soon. europe has to come up with its own huge pot of money to rescue it telephone. we're talking trillions here. number two, they have to change t

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martha: bill hemmer, person of the year. ard the "time" magazine editor talking on another network earlier today. he said the how the cairo protester helped change the world. a nod to wall street and zuccotti park and various protesters across the country we do not know how they will play out yet. martha: i like a person, one person. bill: e-mail us or tweet us let you know what you think. martha: think about this on the way home, folks. your car may be a cell phone -- no cell phone zone. this is why it is becoming a deadly issue. a deadly crash caused by a texting teenager caused for changes in the law. hands-free device, how will they play into this? the chair of the ntsb will talk about that. bill: that is pickup truck underneath that school bus. a little more than three weeks, less than three weeks, 20 days before the voting begins in iowa. today, mitt romney live in studio talking about his campaign strategy in the final weeks as we close in. martha: lots to ask him about. that's coming up. a car run up a light poll and

i'm bill hemmer. martha: you are bill hemmer. good to see you this morning. i'm martha maccallum. we've got three weeks to go. bill: from today. martha: until the iowa caucuses. mitt romney is making it clear you know what? i would rather lose to make charges against my opponent that he feels would ultimately help president obama. bill: romney says i am what i am. i don't tend to say outrage just things about other people that i don't believe in order to win political points. where are we do? steven hayes, fox news contributor. senior writer, "weekly standard." what is your take? >> good morning, bill. i think mitt romney is actually right. newt gingrich is the frontrunner. if you look at polling over past several weeks. look at the enthusiasm. he is winning the momentum primary at this point. mitt romney still has the advantage on organization and long term infrastructure of a campaign that you would want to have going into the actual voting period we're seeing a contest between organization and enthusiasm. bill: romney says he has a foundation in place to take him all the way to

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i'm bill hemmer. how are you doing today, martha. martha: is that all? good morning, bill and everybody. i'm martha maccallum. our treasury secretary tim geithner is heading overseas fire russly trying to work out some kind of major deal with the european finance ministers. bill: could the bailout money be your money? fox business network stuart varney leading the coverage. what is the answer to that question? >> yes it could. american money could be involved in a bailout of europe. here's why. in june of 2009 when the president signed the stimulus plan into law, it contained a provision under which up to $100 billion of our taxpayer dollars could be made available to the imf for use in this kind of bailout. no further congressional authority is required. the money could be made available by the president right now for that kind of bailout. bill: wow! washington is clearly inserting itself into this european issue. why are joe biden and tim geithner in europe? >> first of all, tim geithner is all over europe. right now he is in frankfurt. he is meeting wi

i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer here in "america's newsroom.". patti ann: i'm patti ann browne in for martha maccallum. he has been called iowa's dark horse. rick santorum has been campaigning through each of the state's 99 counties. looks like his hard work is paying off. he has gained major ground in the hawkeye state. in the latest poll he has surged into third place behind mitt romney and ron paul. gregg: the question, can he pull off a win in iowa. jamie weinstein, editor of "the daily caller". santorum has jumped 11 points in one week alone. vaulting him within third place, striking distance from the top. do you think his strategy going to all 99 counties the last year-and-a-half, good old-fashioned retail politics is beginning to pay off and can he win iowa? >> if the latest polls are any indication looks like that strategy was pretty good. it was just a few weeks ago that santorum's lone toil in the iowa wilderness didn't seem to pay any dividends. the republican voters were dancing with gingrich. they already danced with bachmann, perry

just ask bill hemmer who is from ohio. he will tell you that any day of the week. ill talk to governor john kasich. bill: all roads lead back to cincinnati. martha: sooner or later. bill: live from the hill, we're expecting remarks from every side momentarily starting with house speaker john boehner at 10:00 eastern time that is 20 minutes away. we'll talk to republican tom price and ask him whether or not he agrees with karl rove who just told us that republicans should give in to democrats on this. this is an rc robotic claw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. r science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three y we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love ience. ♪ isn't that cool? and that's pretty cool. ♪ >> something wrong? martha: remember that? doesn't happen only in the movies. a 9-year-old's trip to visit her grandmother turned into nerve-wracking

foxnews.com, your front row seat for politics, bill hemmer. bill: certainly is. point and click, 24/7. now only on fox, an exclusive look inside the only u.s. facility responsible for putting together and taking apart nuclear weapons. kris gutierrez has seen it. he is live in dallas. where is this place and how do they keep a place like this secure? >> reporter: you bet, bill. up in amarillo, in the texas panhandle just outside of am ma littlely -- amarillo. the facility is protected by 500 security police officers. some have amilitary background. some do not. look at the video here. they train in this $6 million, 360 degree attack simulator. this is state. art technology. computers put the officers through a wide range of scenarios, including potential attacks on the pantex facility. officers carry assault rifles and wear bulletproof vests and are trained for heavy combat. listen here. >> we're testing their ability to operate the weapons and communicate and resolve those problems. the weapons themselves function exactly like the real ones. >> reporter: that the

good morning, everybody i'm bill hemmer. that's where we start today. >> i'm julie banderas. bill: martha is working a today. hello, stranger. >> let's have a good show. congressman peter king says there is evidence that extremists infiltrated our own bases and making troops a high-value target. bill: catherine herridge is in washington. this start the with what the fort hood in texas? >> reporter: yes, bill. according to testimony obtained by fox, it may be manifesting itself in two distinct ways. first insider threat. the case often cited the case of major nidal hasan, from fort hood and killed 13 and injuried dozens more because he didn't believe military service could not be reconciled with invading muslim countries. >> they are symbols of american power. symbols of american might. if they can be killed then that is a great propaganda victory for al qaeda. >> reporter: two seattle, washington men and are often cited as the second example, the outsider threat. the men allegedly plotted attack a military installation near fort lewis in washington and using handguns and grown

bill hemmer. bill: good morning, everybody.ust broke the news to us, he sees a lead change yet again in iowa, so hold on. right now newt gingrich leading the pack by a healthy margin according to this poll. now, mitt romney and ron paul nearly tied for second, that's the latest when you average all the polling together at real clear politics. we'll see whether or not the average is right or whether rasmussen is right in the end. martha: we just showed you rasmussen now has romney ahead in iowa which is fascinating. steve brown joins me now from sioux city, iowa. newt gingrich says he's committed that his campaign is not going to go negative, steve. a lot of negativity has come his way, though, in the last few days, so what do we expect tonight? >> reporter: well, we expect the candidates to be, perhaps, even more aggressive than they were on saturday. you mentioned this is the last opportunity before the straw poll or, excuse me, before the caucuses begin. so if you're going to get your jabs in, tonight would seemingly be the n

bill: i'm bill hemmer. we woke up to news.koreans have been shown on tv, a handful of women morning the loss of the man known as dear leader, as president obama calls south korea to secure the security in that region. martha: jennifer griffin live at this is the biggest headline right now are the missile tests. what can you tell us about them? >> reporter: a senior u.s. defense official confirms to fox news that the pentagon has observed at least one short-range missile, it was a ballistic missile, a ground to ground missile fired from north korea it landed in the sea off the coast of the korean peninsula it is not viewed as anything that would destabilize the region. it is the region that the u.s. and others have observed tested by north korea in the past. again it's not being seen as a destabilizing the situation there. meanwhile the south korean military is on high alert and began preparations on the very same island that the north korean shelled with artillery last year. the u.s. added about the missile test that it is unr

bill: good morning, i'm bill hemmer.g nearly five years after the massacre and come pus left 33 dead. this time two men were killed, including a campus police officer, a 39-year-old army veteran and a father of five children. martha: what a tragedy. nerves were shaken as students wondered what was going on as the campus was put on lockdown. >> they were checking all the doors to make sure they were locked, and telling everyone to stay in their rooms and not leave. >> it was kind of like an eerie aura around campus, it was quiet. that's not what you get on a weekday. martha: no word on a motive for this shooting. doug mckelway is live in virginia. what can you tell us about the shooter. >> reporter: we are expecting a press conference to start in a moment. we hope to learn from the press conference a lot more who the gunman was and what his motive may have been. here is what we do know. ballistics tests have now con peurpld tha confirmed that the same gun was used both the officer and the man believed to be the gunman. th

i'm bill hemmer. ready to fire up another week, are we not. >> how are you doing? bill: it goes and goes and goes. martha: good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. gop field is smaller by one person. newt gingrich extending his lead in all important state for iowa. which is not that far away folks. gingrich at 20 6:00%. romney is at 20%. he hasn't put a whole lot of time into iowa. herman cain has 14%. we'll see how the numbers shake out after everybody realizes he is not in the race and ron paul at 8%. bill: when cain gets out who gets his 14%. kelly wright in washington. good morning. >> reporter: bill, that is the big question. we're still unsure who herman cain will endorse at this time however a fox affiliate station in atlanta reports newt gingrich is likely candidate to receive cain's support. the two men are good friends. both live in georgia. they recently appeared in the lincoln-douglas debate. they have known each other since gingrich served as speaker of the house. cain is popular among conservatives. his endorsement could help gingrich lock down a

gregg: i'm greg gerratt in for bill hemmer.ng extension will follow . i urge them to keep working to reach an agreement that will extend the tax cut and unemployment insurance for all of 2012 without drama or delay. will there be any drama? now that the senate has approved it,ed, are democrats celebrating a big victory here? >> reporter: yes and no. the president has still not come out on camera to celebrate anything here. that is because they learned their lesson last saturday, thought they had a deal and it unraveled. here we are almost a week later and we're waiting to make sure that the house approves this by unanimous consent. the president sent out a little tweet saying thanks to all who shared $40 stories. today's victories is yours, it makes all the difference. bo. when the president has his initials that's when the president himself sent out his thoughts. a $40 reference in reference to how the white house used social meeting to create hash tag, how much a family would save per paycheck if this deal goes through. the p

i'm bill hemmer. welcome. how are you doing? martha: doing well. happy friday. good morning, bill. good morning, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. these numbers are troubling when you get below the headline number w the unemployment rate dropped but the reason appears to be thousands of americans have simply given up looking for a job. bill: let's dig into this with stuart varney to help us understand it from fox business network. first start with the big number. >> the big number is 315,000. that is the number of people who simply stopped looking for work. they have dropped out of the workforce. the workforce shrank. that's why the unemployment rate came down so sharply to 8.6%. 315,000 people, by the way to put that in some perspective. that is the like the population of pittsburgh walking away from the labor force. this is really a picture of despair right down there on the ground level. we now have the smallest proportion of people of the overall population, the smallest proportion who are actually working or looking for work for generations. we're down to 64%. that is all it is

getting ready to sick off new year's eve celebrations and you can ring in fox news, megyn kelly and bill hemmerseening a show at 11:00 p.m. right here on fox. i'm rick folbaum. now back to greta van susteren. >> greta: now our candid conversation with rush limbaugh continues. let's take detroit with an unemployment number in the inner city of upwards of 25%. and it is absolutely disgraceful that a community is suffering so. what would you do? >> get rid of every liberal in government. what is the one constant in detroit, all of these years? been run by liberals. liberal ideology. liberal mechanics. liberal belief system. detroit... other places, a micrososm of where europe is and where we are headed, unchecked, unstopped liberalism. for those of you who like the committeeic party, that's where we are headed. there hasn't been any opposition there, not of any strength or power. take a look. that's the one thing that is constant. it was the same thing in new orleans. post katrina. what's the one thing that was constant there? all run by liberals. all run by democrats. what is happening to califor

getting ready to sick off new year's eve celebrations and you can ring in fox news, megyn kelly and bill hemmerseening a show at 11:00 p.m. right here on fox. i'm rick folbaum. now back to greta van susteren. >> greta: now our candid conversation with rush limbaugh continues. let's take detroit with an unemployment number in the inner city of upwards of 25%. and it is absolutely disgraceful that a community is suffering so. what would you do? >> get rid of every liberal in government. what is the one constant in detroit, all of these years? been run by liberals. liberal ideology. liberal mechanics. liberal belief system. detroit... other places, a micrososm of where europe is and where we are headed, unchecked, unstopped liberalism. for those of you who like the committeeic party, that's where we are headed. there hasn't been any opposition there, not of any strength or power. take a look. that's the one thing that is constant. it was the same thing in new orleans. post katrina. what's the one thing that was constant there? all run by liberals. all run by democrats. what is happening to califor

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i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer in "america's newsroom". >> i'm heather childers in for martha maccallum gregg: mitt romney is hitting the campaign trail with new jersey governor chris christie. if romney downplayed his chances before he is not doing that today. >> sure i want to win iowa. everybody wants to win iowa. i want to make sure your vote backing me makes me the nominee. gregg:. steven mace hayes, joins us live. fox news contributor. with "the weekly standard.". is this strong organization here in iowa because he has remnants from the 2008 campaign there? >> that is one of real questions going into the voting next tuesday is how strong is he organizationally? has he kept up the network of people that helped him four years ago where he didn't win but had a second place finish that was reasonably strong. if he is able to keep that network going and the last minute people you pointed out, the undecideds who may sort of come home to mitt romney i they has a decent chance to win in iowa. gregg: we hear he changed his schedule. he will spend tuesday night, the night of the caucus in i

bill: i'm bill hemmer, good morning, everybody.thing from republicans, lamar smith, darrell issa moments ago about what the attorney general knew and when over a gun running sting gone haywire. >> i'm pleased to welcome back eric holder. i am disappointed in the department's repeated refusal to cooperate with this committee's oversight request. this lack of cooperation is evident in the department's handling of inquiries related to alcohol, tobacco and explosives, operation fast and furious and the death of border patrol agent brian terry in december, 2010. any consistent statements from department officials about who knew what and when have only raised more concerns. >> mr. attorney general i respect the fact that you said in the senate that you gave truthful testimony, but i would like to hear when a few days becomes a few weeks or a few weeks becomes a few months, are we to have the confidence that the president he says he has in you and the many people up and down the chain of command at justice who saw this program, this opera

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