first to bob perry. a couple things about him. fill me in. >> fascinating. ngle biggest donor to the romney super pac. >> out of nowhere. >> and backing rick perry. home state governor. he's now switched big time to romney. longtime conservative backer of conservative republican causes for years. the swift boat ads. his crusade in texas, tort reform pouring millions into electing texas supreme court justices and legislatorlegislat proposing rulings limits on lawsuits against companies like his, that build homes, and often -- >> there's something about the issue of immigration which may get conservatives upset. >> interesting wrinkle. this past year, rick perry killed a bill, his lobbyists, and some of the most influential in austin, kill add bied bill t would have cracked down on law enforcement to inspect, demand papers from people working on work sites such as bob perry, his home building firm. why? because firms like his rely on immigrant labor in text and that would have hurt him. that contrasts with romney's hard line on immigration against rick perry. t

>> i think part of the significance of that is that bob perry is a mega donor that everyone would love to have associated with their super pac for pure reasons of financial advantage. he had donated to a number of candidates. he donated to tim paw looent, i believe to rick perry and now this is a real anteing up like he hasn't for anybody in this cycle. >> we now move to the issue of rick santorum. how long will he be driven to contend? to talk about that, we go to his native pennsylvania it discuss santorum with tom fitzgerald, politics writer for the philadelphia enquirer. welcome, tom. what is driving him at this point? is the delegate map looks set against him. say what you know about covering him with about what is driving him and what may determine when he decides to get out. >> santorum has a super natural, the guy is a missionary. one of his former aides said you can't understand rick santorum without thinking of him as a catholic missionary. he believes that he possesses you a unique truths. if he can get you to accept it, you can be portrayed. i don't mean that in a sarcastic

former nebraska senator bob perry sent the liberal blogo sphere into a panic when announced he was runningor his former seat. what kind of effect has this had on beltway politics adam founder of research incorporated and jehmu green. good to see both of you. >> good to be here. >> i'm starting with you. why does it seem that the word moderate is a bad word amongst the gop party and should they stick to their guns if yo you will, stick to their principles? >> i think it is a false assumption. there are plenty of moderates extraordinarily principled republicans and it is a false argument to say if you are moderate you are not principled. it is something that has been around forever. it has been around certainly from the days of barry goldwater and moving on through the 1980s. i'm not sure if ronald reagan would be considered a conservative candidate if he were running today. >> let me ask you then. these are not my wards. words. folk. those are people on the campaign trail. >> the moderates need to say time out i'm just aspirinned if not more than you. what we also bring to the table is the

super pac, almost half of the 6.4 million it takes in, in the month of february, from one donor, bob perrye texas home builder whose been a big financier of republican campaigns for many years. but tick a look at some of the others. red, white and blue fund, which is the santorum super pac. two donors in foster freeze, the wyoming financier and the -- and energy executive from louisiana, william deer, counts for almost half of the money from that super pac. and then of course you get winning our future, the pro gingrich super pac and that's the most dramatic example of all. sheldon and his family, 95% of the money, more than 95% of the money coming from las vegas. and let's not forget, priorities usa action the obama super pac, about half of the $2 million it raised last month from comedian bill mar. >> $2 million, very much behind. we did a back of an envelope calculation. you have estimated how much it cost each campaign per vote. and for mitt romney, what, 12 to $17. by calculations wlb we put that together here, that means he and his super pac would need to spend upwards of $170 millio

we'll be speaking with bob herbert and melissa harris perry. we've been asking you, are we any closer to justice for trayvon? better that the wheels of justice for us grind slow and sure than not at all. but there can be none for trayvon for he is not here and should be. and, right now there is no justice being served for trayvon. this man pulled a gun and killed this defenseless child for no reason. what is wrong with our justice system? find me on facebook at facebook.com/alexwittmsnbc. >>> it's primary day in louisiana for the gop presidential hopefuls. polls have been open for more than five hours. they close tonight at 9:00 eastern time. the latest polls showed rick santorum in the lead. and the secret service is now looking into comments made by a woman at a rick santorum campaign stop in louisiana friday. take a listen to this -- secret service officials are trying to identify and find that woman that you heard there saying "pretend it's obama." santorum did not hear the comment because he was wearing protective earmust haffs but di resp

i think they'll stay for a good long while and one reason is because people like harold simmons, bob perrythers liked the instantaneous accountability of this kind of donations. in the past when you gave money, let's say you gave soft money, 200,000, 500,000 to the democratic national committee or republican national committee, you call up and say what happened to my money. they'll say we're working with it thanks very much. had no idea what it was doing. now with the super pac, you can give money and a set of consultants are will say here is your issue, here is your candidate, we'll move the needle. and about if we don't move the needle, you can throw us over the edge of the rail. so they like the direct linear accountability and they'll stay in this game because they think it is a better bang for their buck politically than they've ever seen before. >> major garrett, we'll have to leave it there. mr. halperin, thanks very much. i haven't seen you on the air on hbo's game change. very good movie. >> thank you. >> you can still get it on demand. >>> my wife read the book and said it's fanf

woman is told by her doctor on behalf of governor rick perry may i welcome you to your compulsory trans vaginal exam. with so much attention on bob mcdonnell and the anti-abortion ultrasound bill he signed in last week after hemmin and hawing, it was easy to overlook, rick perry signed his ultrasound bill in law last may. forced vaginal probing is the law of the land in texas and the law is in effect. anybody who didn't know that about texas and governor rick perry, will know that by the end of the week. the great gary trudeau chose the topic because it was in the news, thanks to virginia governor bob "ultrasound" mcdonnell and relevance to the battle. the governor has chosen 2012 to relitigate freedom. why rick santorum, rush limbaugh, etal, thought it would be a good time to declare war on have the electorate. to ignore it would have been comedy malpractice. he may have been inspired. the series set to run through saturday is specifically set in texas. where arguably the strictest ultrasound law in the country is in law and is already being enforced. this panel i showed you before, this one specifically invoking governor perry

on behalf of governor rick perry may i welcome you to your compulsory trans vaginal exam. with so much attention on bob mcdonnell and anti-abortion ultrasound bill he signed in law last week after freaking out and amending it to make it seemless innovative it was easy to overlook that texas governor rick perry signed his forced trans vaginal probe ultrasound bill in law last may. forced vaginal probing is the law of the land in texas and the law is in effect. anybody who didn't dmknow that will know by the end of the week. gary trudeau chose the subject because it was in the news, thanks to bob ultrasound mcdonnell and the relevance to the broader battle over women's health being waged in several states. for some reason, the gop has chosen 2012 to relitigate reproductive freedom, an issue resolved decades ago. why rick santorum, et all, thought it would be a good time to declare war on half the electorate. to ignore it would have been comedy malpractice. he may have been inspired by watching the debate unfold but this week's series is set in texas, the strictest ultrasound law is in law and already bei

joining me live from phoenix is karen perry and bob massi.odness, as a mom, i can't imagine the pain that you're going through in losing your entire family. now you might lose your home and the memories that you have with your children there. what can you tell us is going to happen to you? >> well, what i can tell you is that i did want to stay in the home and the memories are in the home, but no one can take those memories away from me. what was most important to me about the home is no longer there. i would have preferred to have stayed, but that doesn't seem to be a possibility at this point. >> gretchen: bob, you've been covering so many of these foreclosure stories for us in the last couple of years. what cue make of the situation -- do you make of the situation that's happening with karen right now? what happened? why is she being forced out? >> because freddie mac when you sell a home on a short sale, there is we call an arm's length transaction, which means the homeowner is not permitted to stay in the home. the theory behind it is th

. >> thank you, captain mike perry, reporting live. >>> let's go over to bob in the first warning weather center with more on our weather. mix bag out there today, bob. >> brief showers. couple of rumbles of thunder in ricouple of spots. rained here at tv hill for about eight minutes. still a chance of a shower later this evening right now. down to 66. it was in the low 70s. temperatures really jumping all over because of the clouds and rain. south/southeast winds at 3. barometer has been falling, 29.70 inches now. rain back in the 60s. sunshine back in cumberland at 70. 72, d.c. however, it's raining in that area. 70, easton. warming to the south. 76 and 72. lower eastern shore. southern in immediate will see some scattered showers and storms for the next hour or two. later on the eastern shore. but most of the activity should be really done by 8:00, 9:00, for the entire region, as you begin to dry out. with a new air mass moving in. 61 in bel air. 61 in westminster. already cooling off and drying out to the north of us. still 68, annapolis. winds kind of all over the place. but they wil

perry in sky high 18. >> let's head over to bob to talk about our weather today.it was very windy. >> forecast advisory. temperatures right now around the region it is beginning to cool down. temperatures were pretty close to normal today. 54 right now, 56 in washington. cold start oakland at 44 degrees. temperatures are beginning to fall here. 50degrees up in bell air. 50 in westminster. the air is very, very dry. so tonight as the wind diminishes, temperatures will begin falling. i don't think the city or any where near the bay will be freezing. north area north of the city, 57 today. 57, 37 are the averages so 37 tonight in the city. it's just about where it's supposed to be. 84 the record high. 21 in 1878. that's pretty chilly. here in the east not much going on expect the storm. the rain moving offshore, more moisture heading into the central states. that eventually brings us a chance of a storm. but tomorrow clear, chilly conditions tonight. lots of frost and freezing. conditions over much of the eastern half of the united states from northern virginia into

perry. sam nunn is the chief executive bob -- officer of a nonprofit organization working to reduce global threats from nuclear and chemical weapons, which he was instrumental in founding. he served as a senator from georgia for 24 years, and 1972 through 1996. now he is retired from a law firm. he served as chairman for the armed committee and investigations. he also served on the intelligence and small business committees. as legislative achievements include a reduction program, that provides assistance to russia for securing and destroying their excess nuclear and chemical weapons. he attended georgia tech, emory university, where he graduated with honors in 1962. hise delighted to welcome wife with us as well. they have all been involved in the making of a documentary film together with -- it is called " the nuclear tipping. ." it is available through the stanford program at spice.stanford.edu. we are also pleased to welcome philip taubman as our moderator. previously he spent 30 years as a new york times correspondent, specializing in national security issues. his positions included serving a

bob around military position b. sixty nine million dollar tax break c. reverse cowgirl rick perry endorsement i'm not seeing pictures change. any of what you think i would surprise you throughout all the american idol contest others are yeah ok there's some of the city abilities that straight is so ok i've really come to embarrassed by this too i thought for. sure. i think it's the dog in the world style so there we go there's the dog i see and hear carefully and jeff thank you very much for joining us. crazy alert there are aliens on that mountain or at least that's what a group of two hundred new age believers in france want you to think the group has flooded the small french town of blue good i like a home to the peek a boo bit our mountain and the new agers believe that inside this strangely shaped mountain is a huge secret aliens spaceship apparently a spaceship was put on earth to take the alien admirers to a new world when the mayan predicted end of the world comes on december twenty first this year one of the alien ambassadors told the independent newspaper that the apocal

perry. sam nunn is the chief executive bob -- officer of a nonprofit organization working to reduce global threats from nuclear and chemical weapons, which he was instrumental in founding. he served as a senator from georgia for 24 years, and 1972 through 1996. now he is retired from a law firm. he served as chairman for the armed committee and investigations. he also served on the intelligence and small business committees. as legislative achievements include a reduction program, that provides assistance to russia for securing and destroying their excess nuclear and chemical weapons. he attended georgia tech, emory university, where he graduated with honors in 1962. hise delighted to welcome wife with us as well. they have all been involved in the making of a documentary film together with -- it is called " the nuclear tipping. ." it is available through the stanford program at spice.stanford.edu. we are also pleased to welcome philip taubman as our moderator. previously he spent 30 years as a new york times correspondent, specializing in national security issues. his positions included serving a

interjebting contraception into the conversation therks whole debacle with rush, it's rick perry in texas. it's bob mcdonald in virginia. there's just a series of events that are making -- is making it appear the republicans are hostile to women. the democrats, i have never seen them so focused. they are rifted on this together on message, i think that they're, i don't know if it can be easily repaired, it might be able to be repaired. but here's the rule of thumb. if women vote democrats do well. if women are motivated by what they think is some hostility toward women, that's going to bode very well for democrats. >> i think one of the things that republicans could do, it's something the romney camp is talking about, is do they need, if he were to win the nomination, to get a woman on the ticket? one of those talked about is condoleezza rice but on fox news this morning she said no way, i have no interest in it. they have to go for somebody who wanted to be in elected office. that was a pretty firm declaration. i don't think they were that interested in her to begin with but there's not a huge ben

bob: are you planing on asking the federal government for help? have you heard from the president? >> sure did. i was standing in the new beacon when the president called. and perry and scott. the simple truth is, we know from experience, the first few days are really on with the state and local authorities, and volunteer organizations -- hoosiers are tough, and you wouldn't believe the resilience and the can do spirits i bumped into everywhere. everywhere i went i ran into people from elsewhere. they weren't always friends or family, sometimes they were just folk who is picked up ask drove a distance to pitch in. >> bob: governor, this is early in the tornado season. are you prepared. what are you going to do to be ready for the next round? >> these storms provided -- i think we were as ready as possible. the weather service and otherss gave lots of warning. i didn't talk to niblg who wasn't fully aware that terrible storms were on their way. people did the best they could to take shelter. and then the reaction afterwards, with all of that, when mother nature decides to work wrath on mere mortals, you remember how inadequate, sometimes the best of human action c

captain mike perry is over the scene in sky eye chopper 13. mike, what can you tell us? >> well, vic, bobust telling you about the fire hazard. this is just one example. several examples. but this is in baltimore county, in dundalk. along the key bridge. near the maryland transportation. police headquarters. a fire burned out sometime ago. and we heard -- we could see the smoke and flames from some distance away. we got here. there was heavy smoke and flames. fire department has arrived. knocked down most of the frames -- flames. and their parking lot. there's no injuries here. but looks like a separate little blaze broke out a little bit farther down from this initial fire. and it is along the edge there. it is along the edge of the creek here. and like i say, it's just very, very dry conditions. these types of fires will break out. but fire officials will be busy with them for the next couple of days. back to you on tv hill. >> thank you very much, captain mike perry, live from sky eye chopper 13. >>> defense secretary leon pineta heads to afghanistan. he opens on civilians, killing 16

perry. you lost, move on. get the guy who can beat obama. he is right. >> kimberly: is that an endorsement? >> eric: i don't endorse. you know that, kimberly. by way -- >> bobre on fox news tonight for election results and the special coverage of super tuesday starting at 6:00 sharp. sharp, now. coming up, is president obama ready to pull the plug in afghanistan? interesting comments in the press conference today. we'll play them back for you. ♪ ♪ the droid razr by motorola, now with amazing tools like the hd station. share your pictures, stream hd videos and movies. all on your tv. or connect your 4g lte droid razr to the lapdock and unleash its massive computing power. even seamlessly video chat. all powered by the 4g lte droid razr. droid razr by motorola, just $199.99. verizon. so i test... a lot. do you test with this? freestyle lite test strips? they need just a third the blood of onetouch ultra. wow! and the unique zipwik tab targets the blood and pulls it in. that'll make testing easy. and you can get these strips for a $15 monthly co-pay simply by joining the freestyle promise program. and i think i know exactly where those savings will go. call or

bob dole, re-election of george h. w. bush. jerry ford. all of those folks have done great in the general election. wrong. >> joining me know joe klein and melissa harris perryu both for joining me tonight. joe, your "time" magazine piece this week is entitled the hair fire manifesto, derived from something mitt romney said about lighting his hair on fire. we should also listen to that right now. >> we've seen throughout the campaign if you're willing to say really outrageous things that are accusative and attacking of president obama, that you're going to jump up in the polls. i'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try to get support. >> melissa, he's burned all of his pair off trying to get support. there's not a hair left on his head. >> he sets out on fire, he puts it out. he sets it on fire. he puts it out. >> and he's pretending he hasn't been accusative of the president on anything. this is crazy. >> he hasn't called him a secret muslim. >> that's right. or a non citizen. that now counts as moderation. >> the greatest attack on the freedom of this country. >> he's a -- arsonist. we learned something really important this week, and it was a first