and special report anchor bret baier is live in washington with complete coverage of the caucuses andret, you're bringing viewers a chance to see what's at stake and who their fellow americans in nevada see as the best person to take on president obama. take it away. >> yeah, thank you, harris. welcome to washington, the latest on the nevada caucuses and the next step as you mentioned in the presidential nominating process and many of today's 125 caucus meetings in nevada's 17 counties, that concluded and you're looking at one vote there. we'll you bring you raw vote totals shortly after 10 p.m. when the caucuses conclude. people are still voting and meeting in caucus sites around the state or getting ready to go into caucus site. so we're choosing not to show you vote totals real time, that were tweeted from caucus sites, no matter how reliable those numbers are from people inside those sites. you could potentially influence people's votes at caucus sites that haven't started yet, let alone the occasional caucus site that might have a tv on inside as people are making their choices.

bret baier and megyn kelly he will be here with all the results all night long. first though time for mr. bill. particular it away. >> "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight: >> i was concerned that occupy was going to be antibusiness and what i found was that the folks at occupy are not antibusiness. >> the founders of ben and jerry's ice cream now trying to raise nearly $2 million to pay protesters under the occupy banner. and wait until you hear why the ice cream guys are doing it we have a factor investigation. >> the obama program is higher prices, more dependency in the middle east. >> newt gingrich says if elected president he will bring down gas prices to $2.50 a gallon. how will he do that? the speaker will be here. you say you knocked jesse ventura to the floor with a punch. now, you don't mention his name but everybody knows who that is. >> i knocked him down. >> bill: jesse ventura now saying he will sue the author of "american sniper" navy seal chris keil. is it legal on the case. >> you are bleeding, man. >> i ain't got time to bleed. >> caution, you

we'll get his analysis but first bret baier is standing by with an update. >> bret: voters in minnesota, colorado as an missouri are participating. the caucuses are convening right now all across colorado. polls closed about an hour ago and caucuses are just ending in minnesota. here is the latest in minnesota. there you see it's very early, just the first caucuses, all these they are non-binding, for minnesota and colorado this the stirs step in awarding delegates. in missouri, it's essentially a statewide straw poll. take a look at the numbers here. you can see rick santorum has an early lead of 2%. the votes cast in missouri won't be awarded delegates. newt gingrich isn't on the ballot there. please join us for 11:00 p.m. eastern a full recap of tonight's voting. you'll see the raw total all night long. >> sean: we'll be watching all night long and check in the course over the next hour. in the meantime, turning for analysis, former candidate, herman cain, sir, how are you? >> mr. hannity, i'm fine. >> sean: this process is a little different. you got a beauty contest going on in mis

. >> bret baier taking over, next. >> bret: i'm bret baier, let's continue to listen to rick santorum. >> we have a president of the united states who would roll over that and impose his secular values on the people of this country. and it's worse than that. when one of the catholic bishops tried to communicate that to army chaplains, the obama administration said no. you can't do that. no. because your language is sadicious and they made the change the language of a letter from a bishop to his people. ladies and gentlemen, freedom is at stake in this election. we need to be the voice for freedom. >> and in the founding document, the declaration of the independence, those founders signed their names and says we pledge our lives, and our sacred honor, ladies and gentlemen, every generation of americans doesn't create freedom. but they have many respects a harder job. they have to maintain freedom. your charge tonight, your charge tonight here in missouri, because we're not done with you here in missouri. you've got a caucus coming up next time. is to go out and pledge, pledge, no. not

i'm bret baier. >> and i'm megyn kelly. polls are about to close.s like mitt romney is having a very good night in arizona. michigan may be a little tighter. >> romney looking for a critical victory in the state where his father was once governor. but rick santorum has so far put

bret baier anchor of "special report" will be on hand starting at 10:00 p.m. eastern with complete results of the caucuses. he's stop i by justice first. good moaning, bre -- good evening, bret. thanks forking being with us. we are waiting for clark county could tomorrow in. >> this is a caucus state. they had caucuses through out the day and into the evening. all of the caucus sites are closed except for one, and that one will start at 10:00 p.m. eastern time. once the doors close there we expect that you will get a dump of information from the nevada gop and we will be able to make a call at that point. what you see at the bottom of the screen here judge the raw vote total from the nevada gop. we are putting that out. we expect another reporting in just a couple of seconds. it will update automatically. it is a good night. a very good night for mitt romney across the board according to the entrance poles and according to the raw vote total. we will see how big a night it is for him coming up. the big battle right now is for second place between newt gingrich

that's what he told bret baier last night, causing mr. bret baier to furrow his brow. charles is here from washington. scandalous? >> reporter: scandalous because he knows otherwise. if he didn't, he would be clueless. i don't think you are right in saying that he doesn't believe the debt is important. i think he knows it is. he said so in his first two years. he said so when he apoib -- pointed a commission on debt. the debt commission was a report i'm sure he read. said it's a mortal danger to the country. you don't have to make a theoretical proposition out of this. look across the atlantic at the meltdown of the entire social democratic experiment in europe, which is the -- the perfect example of the entitlement state athens is in flames. this is what happens when you pile on debt. what does he do in this budget? he adds another $1.3 trillion, four years in a row. this is a man who will have added $5 trillion to the debt in one term. >> bill: okay. but he says he has to do it because of the economy and that there was no other way out. we would have been in a great

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martha: he would like everyone to report in person, bret baier. rick perry, in the first post-campaign interview he could see another white house run for himself. the texas governor not ruling out a white house bid in the future. perry tells fox news the one thing he regrets waiting as long as he did to get into the this race. watch. >> there aren't a lot of things differently i would have done in my life but looking back now. we would have got in this race substantially sooner. i haven't left the fight. i just went home and rearmed and reloaded my mafs. i'm going to be fighting on a different front. martha: get the mags reloaded. his wife anita would be up for another run. clearly many people who won the presidency ran a couple times before they did it. he is thinking about it, rick perry. of the president obama set to unveil the new budget plan if that sounds familiar because it is. the president is calling for 3 trillion in deficit reductions 10 years, half of that would come from what else, tax increases which is big part of his plan all along

. >> bret: i'm bret baier in american election headquarters. update, voters in missouri and minnesota participated to today. let's begin in missouri, they named rick santorum the winner in this beauty tir contest. it's santorum's win of the campaign season following his victory at iowa caucuses. it's a big win. missouri is a beauty contest, sweater vests are in. take a look at minnesota, rick santorum had a big lead light now but only 13% reporting. as you go to the next board, ron paul is in second. romney in third. in colorado, very early in the night, you can see that rick santorum with big lead but less than 1% reporting. we'll bring you complete results and analysis of today's three nominating contests, 11:00 p.m. eastern. let's go to greta van susteren, on the record. >> greta: right now, we're closely watching the election results come in. minnesota is one of the states picking a candidate. michele bachmann joins us. >> good evening. >> greta: it seems like a very big night for senator rick santorum. he has won the state of missouri. he

. >> bret baier is the anchor of special report. brett of course the folks in nevada they are used to high stakes. for the first time the stakes are high on the political front. you got to tell us what other issues they can put their money on in terms of the economy of course and who has the most to lose. >> sure arthel it will be an interesting night obviously heading into tonight there was a sense that mitt romney was going to have a big night no matter what. we are getting interesting information on how voters feel about the not yet called republican race in it nevada. we have been conducting these entrance polls all day long asking nevadians on the way to the caucuses how do you intend to vote and why. there are two caveats here. these are entrance polls. they are taken as voters go into the caucus sites. they could change their minds once they are inside there they could be persuaded by a neighbor, a speech by a surrogate. you have to consider all of these things as you listen to these polls keeping all that in mind. a large gr

i'm bret baier.t romney held serve on his home court in michigan and swept through arizona in two crucial primary wins tuesday. now romney and the three g.o.p. challengers focus on washington state saturday and super tuesday next week. we begin the coverage with chief political correspondent carl cameron in ohio. >> with a slim 3.2-point win in michigan, mitt romney arrived in ohio, the crucial test six days from now on super tuesday. 11 states will hold contests. >> a big night last night for me. i was pleased. good news. >> michigan's 30 delegates up in the air but will be shared. >> we had a better night than reported we ran dead even in michigan. the really important part, delegates. that is what this is about. we are going to walk out of michigan with 16 delegates. he is going to walk out of michigan with 16 delegates. [ applause ] >> michigan g.o.p. officials not yet a gaited all the delegates. to date, romney has 165 overall. rick santorum, 85. gingrich, 32. ron paul, 19. it takes 1144 to win.

bret baier will bring you nevada caucus results later tonight and host a special edition of spanish reportthat will air at 10 p.m. eastern, only on fox. >> we've got a fox news alert. iran launching new military exercises and building untension in the region and even around the world, because the show of force, followed repeated iranian threats to close the strategic strait of hormuz, this week, secretary of defense, leon panetta warning that israel may be planning to strike at iran's suspected nuclear weapons program and israel in the meantime is claiming iran is working on a missile that can strike the u.s. and so coming up, we're going to ask retired army general four star jack king to weigh in on the possible threat and what action the u.s. may need to take. kelly. >> kelly: well, another fox news alert, president obama accusing syria's president of quote, a disdain for human life and dignity. new reports of more than 200 people killed in the city of holmes. and some now calling it a massacre. meantime, the u.n. security council failed to pass a resolution calling for syria's president

." ♪ >> i'm bret baier in america's election headquarters in new york. the big story today.oting in arizona and michigan, the primaries. tonight on special report we'll have reports from both primary states. carl cameron is in novi, michigan and mike tobin is in grand rapids, and plus john roberts explains the issues in arizona and martha maccallum has the first what voters are telling us from exit polls and shannon bream in georgia where newt gingrich is ahead of the super tuesday a week from today. and leaders from israel tell they will not warn the u.s. before taking military action against iran's nuclear program and u.s. officials are reacting to that. ed henry has the story and james rosen, president obama's contraception mandate. and now back to my colleagues with "the five." ♪ >> back. oh, okay. and now, some republican presidential candidates have been fondly calling the president the food stamp president. of course, they're wrong and they are he' telling lies. nonetheless, jesse jackson, my friend and i'm sure the friend of everyone around this table, had something

joining me, bret baier. this is exciting. watching this happen. but what a night.they were supposed to have two debates and they bailed, so this is it. these candidates -- they don't really like to debate temperature. they don't like to do it. but they are going to do it tonight. >> reporter: they are. it's been so long. we haven't worked together in three weeks. megyn: you are missing me. >> reporter: i have been missing you, right. you are right, this is a big deal. we don't often talk about another network's debate or promote it. we are not doing that. but i'm telling you it's a big deal because it possibly is the last debate in this cycle. you are right. these candidates have not agreed to other debates and there have been efforts to get them to sit down at other times. but they are going to go at it in arizona and it will be interesting to see the dynamics between a new surging santorum who is under attack by a well-funded romney campaign and a super pac. megyn: let's not forget newt gingrich who has been excelling in many of these debates. this is a chance fo

special report with bret baier right here. >>> united nations human rights chief called for an immediate cease-fire in syria. that cry for peace falling on deaf ears. syria's military is still murdering men, women and children in the face of growing battle is pressure. regime has killed 40 civilians today in the rebel stronghold of homs and 8500 people since march. they held a meeting today. they called the international community to take action to stop the bloodshed. syrian delegation stormed out of the room in response. to jonathan hunt has been following this story since the beginning. u.n. human rights commissioners today suggested that president assad may end up in front of the international criminal court as a result of this. >> reporter: that coming at the beginning of the u.n. human rights council and passing another resolution condemning assad and telling him to step aside. couple hours after. that secretary of state hillary clinton testifying and whether assad should be considered a war criminal. here is her response. >> i think that based on definitions of war criminal and cri

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. ♪ >> good evening, i'm bret baier and we're coming to you live from fox news headquarters tonight in york where we will monitor the republican presidential contest in michigan and arizona. as we told you before, what happens today and on super tuesday, next week, will go a long way toward determining who will be at the top of the g.o.p. ticket in november. my colleague tells me what we're learning from the exit polls. >> hi there, good evening, bret. the people in michigan and arizona are still voting. here is what we're seeing so far, in the michigan primaries as long as you're a registered voter you can vote and we're seeing quite a few independents and democrats, more than we saw in 2008. and rick santorum has been trying very hard to appeal to this group as a cross over vote for him and here is how that is shaping up. democrats are making up 10% of the michigan vote for today, and half of those, 51% are-- 50% are going tore rick santorum in the exit polls this evening. a look at the independent vote in michigan for you now, nearly a third of today's voters are independents, they

. >> good evening, i'm bret baier. if money is the lifeblood of politics we're going to take the temperature of the presidential campaigns tonight. new fundraising numbers are in. the republican candidates prepare for the next phase of the nominating process beginning next week in michigan and arizona. alicia is on the campaign trail in phoenix. >> thank you, arizona. >> rick santorum arrived in the grand canyon state in time for a new attack ad by ron paul. >> santorum i voted to raise the debt ceiling five times then sported the biggest entitlement expansion since the '60s. >> you see commercials, rick santorum is a big spender but never talked about how i voted for increase on appropriation bill, because i never did. i voted to cut appropriation bills. they never talked about me voting for a tax increase because i never did in 16 years in public life. i voted to reduce taxes. >> all the talk is about michigan and its primary next tuesday. romney spent more time talking about the tax plan and attempt to go undercut s

." ♪ ♪ >> john: i'm john roberts in for bret baier.u gas up your car lately, you probably notice you are paying more to do it. some predict you will pay more and very soon. prizes are on -- prices are on the rise despite demand is set to be at the lowest point in 15 years. we have fox team coverage. leland vittert in jerusalem has the latest on how tensions with iran are a factor. we begin with doug mckelway up in maryland where prices reach important psychological mile post. doug, good evening. >> geng, john. in chevy chase, maryland, premium cracked the $4 margin. a from cursor to what most americans can expect in the spring and summer months. >> prices for regular unleaded are up 12 cents on average in the last three weeks according to the latest leung survey. the spike is result of several factors uncertainty in the middle east and u.s. refineries are offline for maintenance in advance of spring and summer, historically one person is blamed for my spike in the bump. >> there is a strong correlation between rising gas prices and pre

i'm bret baier.sident obama is touting the budget plan as balanced approach to benefit the middle class. republicans say it's more about campaigning than governing and is filled with budget gimmicks. ed henry looks at the budget and fall out. >> breaking a promise to cut the deficit in half in the first term, president obama suggested today deficits don't matter too much. since spending year could choke off recovery. >> at a time they are creating at faster clip. they need to do everything to keep it on track. >> there was an annual $1.3 trillion deficit when the president took office, he unveiled a budget predicting this year's deficit will stay above a trillion dollars for the fourth straight year. far cry from the first 100 days. >> today i'm pledging to cult the deficit in half by the end of my first term in office. this won't be easy. >> cutting the original deficit in half would mean getting it to $650 billion. not in this year's budget. this budget reach $1.33 trillion. next year's budget woul

i'm bret baier.lions of americans tonight are trying to figure out if today's deal wean the obama administration and the five largest mortgage lenders will help them get a better deal on refinancing. fox business network senior washington correspondent peter barnes has specifics on the $25 billion settlement. and what it might mean for your mortgage. >> after a year of tough negotiations, five big banks agree to a $25 billion settlement with the obama managers and 49 states except oklahoma. to clean up foreclosure scandal that included robo signing. >> america's biggest banks, banks that were rescued by taxpayer dollars will be required of them. so to help them avoid forecsure. especially those who owe more than the value of their homes. the banks will use $3 billion to lower interest rates for thousands more. and $5 billion will go to pay small settlements, $1,500 to $2,000 to 700,000 more families that lost their homes in foreclosure legitimately, but possibly without due process. as well as for st

♪ amen, omen i'm john roberts in for bret baier in washington.f gasoline. tonight on "special report," we'll tell you why you are paying more at the pump these days and how high the price could go. we'll also examine political reasons and ramifications. doug mckelway has that story for us. leland vittert shows us how iran is fitting in to the equation. that country's president was at his most defiant as the west considers more financial penalties over iran's nuclear program. it appears we're moving closer toward an agreement to preserve the payroll tax cut in your paycheck. mike emanuel is following the action on capitol hill as lawmakers scram to believe do a deal before the next recess. we have 2012 campaign report from carl cameron and steve brown as they prepare for super tuesday next month. "special report" from washington starts at 6:00 eastern. i'm robin roberts. back to new york and "the five." ♪ ♪ >> greg: welcome back to "the five." a north carolina preschooler forced to eat chicken nuggets because the woman serving it told her mother's

. >>> i'm bret baier in washington.ances in the fall election. tonight on "special report," the president let it slip how confident he is in winning in november. ed henry has that story and details of the president's remarks in miami about gasoline prices. the men aiming at trying to kick the president out of the white house are preparing for a crucial stretch, more than 500 convention delegates are at stake in an eight-day period that begins next tuesday. mike emanuel tells us what the candidates are doing today. there were more deaths in writhing over the religious materials by the u.s. troops. two of the dead are americans. president obama sends a letter apologizing for the burning of the books. cameron powell has the -- colin powell has the story. "special report" starts at 6:00 eastern. now have back to new york and "the five." ♪ ♪ >> eric: i used to do -- >> bob: i used to do a lot of stuff to that song. and a pastor arrested two years ago. i will say this. i know i get upset on this issue. in this country, we wer

. >> good evening, i'm bret baier, the west is raising the stakes and burning up the pressure on syria's embattled leadership tonight. the u.s. closed its embassy in damascus and great britain recalls its ambassadors, but the senior white house foreign affairs correspondent wendell goler reports, the brutal crackdown in syria continues unabated. faced with a spike in violence and diplomatic effort, saturday, the u.s. today closed its embassy in damascus and recalled the ambassador and 17 other divisions. >> our concern is the situation in and around damascus is becoming increasingly violent, reflecting the fact that the regime is increasingly losing control of the situation. >> the security council resolution an arab league plan for syrian leader assad to step down, but vetoed by russia and china and secretary of state clinton reacted bitterly. >> faced with annuitiered a security council, we have to redouble our efforts outside of the united nations. >> clinton suggested russia and china will eventually have to answer to the serioyrian peoe for prolonging their pain and intervene like w

joining us from lavonia, michigan, bret baier, anchor of "special report". vote, huh bret? >> it really will, jon. first of all that story out of ohio has put a lot of things in perspective, the campaigns reacting to that horrible story and the one student who was killed and many people out here saying it puts things in perspective on a day like this, ahead of, as you mentioned, a big, big primary. here in michigan, and in arizona. not as big as far as the number of delegates, but really big as you mentioned about momentum, and the top two frontrunners, mitt romney and rick santorum, battling it out, really event by an event. i'm head to go an event in alvia, michigan, i went to a santorum event last night, i caught up with the former pennsylvania senator, i asked him about his status in the polls and what he thinks about his chances here in michigan. >> look, when you get outspent as much as we've been outspent by the superpacs and everything else, you're the underdog whether you're ahead in the polls or not because once you pop your head up they're going to

i'm bret baier.lions of americans tonight are trying to figure out if today's deal wean the obama administration and the five largest mortgage lenders will help them get a better deal on refinancing. fox business network senior washington correspondent peter barnes has specifics on the $25 billion settlement. and what it might mean for your mortgage. >> after a year of tough negotiations, five big banks agree to a $25 billion settlement with the obama managers and 49 states except oklahoma. to clean up foreclosure scandal that included robo signing. >> america's biggest banks, banks that were rescued by taxpayer dollars will be required to right these wrongs. that means more than just paying a fee. these banks will put billions of dollars toward relief for families across the nation. >> bank of america. citigroup. j.p. morgan chase. wells fargo, allied bank signed on to the deal, which officials said will help up to a million struggling homeowners. they agreed to use $17 billion to reduce mortgage pr