still with me bill schneider.ay nam and officer connor studies at rutgers university and the author of substance of hope. barack obama and the paradox -- >> thank you for joining me at the table. we ended up talking about super tuesday which is where we need to go now. you know, again, huckabee dropped out this time four years ago ending the race. but now we're going into super tuesday and the states actually matter. i just talked a bit about ohio. yesterday on the show we talked about youngstown, ohio. youngstown being a place where there's been a stunning economic recovery. this time a situation where obviously, the republicans are gathering together in a place where there has been and continues to be a lot of economic pain. i want to show you one last thing before i bring you guys in. the ohio primary, nbc news marist poll shows that santorum and romney are neck and neck in ohio. rick santorum at 34, mitt romney at 32. newt gingrich and ron paul falling off considerably. robert traynham. what's happening in ohi

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tomorrow, geraldo, peter johnson, jr., chris wallace and dolly parton, john schneider might even sleep over. >> steve: huh? bill: stay tuned for that, won't we now. good morning, everybody. doubling down on solar energy as you wake up to even higher gas prices. price at the pump spiking two cents overnight. national average, $3.88 a gallon. president obama saying we need more investment however, in green energy. listen. >> one member of cone guess who shall remain unnamed called the jobs phony. called them phony jobs. i mean, think about that mind set, that attitude, that says because something is new it must not be real. these guys were around when columbus set sail, they would be charter members of the flat earth society. bill: welcome to our society. good morning, everybody, in "america's newsroom.". you look great over. martha: thank you. bill: feels like summer on the outside. heating up with solar energy. i'm bill hemmer. martha: i'm mart that -- martha maccallum. critics are not buying that argument. they say the president is playing with taxpayer dollars. here is newt gingrich. >> this is like solyndra.

schneider, and that was probably the closest i've been to a tornado. it was very intense as it moved across southwest oklahoma, but that tornado didn't hit anything what we were thankful for. billeginning and we've already seen a string of tornadoes that have been deadly and coming off the record setting pace of last year, we hope we don't go there now. john hammerfield, chasing storms in oklahoma, from now, and for the next couple of months. thank you for your time. >> thanks a bot, lil. arthel: surging gas prices, digging into families' budgets, the average miss for a gas of -- price for a gas of regular, rising 30 cents at the pump. mitt romney is calling on the president to dump his interior, energy secretary and head of the epa. >> gas prices are up, the right course is they ought to be fired, because the president has apparently suffered an election year conversion, he's now decided that gasoline prices should come down. well, the gas hike trio has been going the other direction. time for them to go. arthel: congressman staef scalise, the louisiana republican sits on the energy and commerce committee. good to see you congressman. >> good to be with you, arthel. arthel: so

bill and i join you at the top of the hour >> steve: all right. welcome back 6789 you remember him from the show "dukes of hazard." remember that car? now john schneiderilm that's getting a lot of support from the pro-life community. take a look at this clip from "october baby." >> get in the car now. >> fine! >> fine. lawson. >> stay out of this. >> i said, stay out of it! >> i know how you must feel -- >> you have no idea how i must feel about it and you can't know until you have a daughter of your own, so stay out of it. >> brian: joining us is the star of "october baby," john schneider is here. >> nice to see you. >> brian: we brought you through your whole career just now. >> i know. >> brian: a lot in between. we're beginning with the latest. in that, what was happening in that dynamic? >> my daughter has gone out with her friends on a trip to try to find her biological mother. >> brian: okay. >> and i didn't want her to go with this group of people because she has a lot of health issues and i'm a doctor. so i'd -- that's actually her friend, not her boyfriend. that's like her buddy. i said, don't take her with you. please, don't. side with me o