we're glad you're with us everybody, i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. the u.s. and u.k. e calling on israel to hold off on any plans for an attack, warning it would destabilize the entire region. jenna: that's the message so far, the logistics of hitting multiple target at a great distance would be a difficult high risk undertaking, according to the reports just out this morning. jon: the military experts have been taking a look at it saying it could take at least 100 fighter planes, including bombers, fighter, refuelling tankers and awax, electronic and command and control planes. jenna: it sounds like a lot to take in. ambassador john bolton is a former ambassador to the u.n. and fox news contributor. ambassador, bring this news together for us. you have officials speaking out about how they really are discouraging israel from making a move, you have a front page story in the "new york times" that's questioning israel's ability to do so and now we have a meeting scheduled with bin gentleman min netanyahu at the white house. what's happening behind the scene here? >> wel

jenna: i'm jenna lee.r grabs in the whole conference is who wins the title of true conservative. you don't get a medal for that. it's something that will be discussed. there is ann coulter right there. she is vying for that. it's all at cpac in the nation's capitol. they try to show the conservative gathering how they share the same values. we have our chief work ton correspondent james roads even whrosen who is there, covering all the events. >> reporter: as rick santorum took the cpac page at the marriott with his family this morning he could feel the wind at his back, most specifically and recently in the form of today's just published fox news poll of republican primary voters nationwide which show he has doubled his support in just 48 hours and stands essentially tied with delegate frontrunner mitt romney. to the conservative faithful here santorum said, i know you and you know me. he said not to compromise on their believes. he is fresh off history-state sweep. he never mentioned mitt romney by name

i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. "happening now", a three-state sweep for rick santorum. jenna: the former pennsylvania senator celebrating victories in minnesota, missouri and colorado, a trifecta. jon: 45% of the vote in minnesotas caucuses. ron paul coming in second, with 27%. mitt romney, 17 and newt gingrich with 11. jenna: 55% of the vote. romney followed with 25%. paul had 12. gingrich wasn't on the ballot. we'll quiz you on all the numbers later. hope you got them all. santorum is talking a bit about his strong showing. >> the last few weeks we weren't doing particularly well in the polls in florida and nevada. we were doing great. in getting kind of support that we needed to keep this campaign going. our fund-raising as our best two weeks last two weeks and we felt it. jenna: chief washington correspondent james rosen is live in washington with more with all of this. hi, james? >> reporter: how long before they play the theme of rocky at rick santorum's events? with the knockout he scored last night the rick santorum is the rocky balboa in the 2012 cycle. mitt rom

we are glad you're with us, everybody, i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. of the world's most dangerous outlaws, one government, one ideology group joining forces to become a bigger threat. catherine herridge live for us in washington with that. >> reporter: good morning. the nation's top intelligence adviser james clapper said bubbly what many intelligence officials have discussed privately, there is an alliance between al-qaida and iran. they asked clapper to define the relationship. >> what is your understanding of this secret deal so-called between iran and al-qaida? >> iran and al-qaida have had sort of a -- to a certain extent a shotgun marriage. i think iran has harbored al-qaida leaders, facilitators, but under house arrest conditions. >> reporter: clapper's comments cannot be seen in isolation. in prepared testimony before the senate intelligence committee in late january he wrote, quote, some iranian officials probably including the supreme leader have changed their calculus and are more willing to conduct an attack in the united states in respons

jenna: did you ever think you'd be reporting on muck, july lee. >> reporter: i never thought i'd ever live tv. i never heard of it until then. thank god i didn't slip. it doesn't sound good. jenna: we're glad for jobs, yeah for muck. julie thank you. jon: a lot of bucks in muck. donald trump endorsess mitt romney in las vegas two days before the nevada caucuses. will his endorsement make any difference to voters? or will happened in las vegas stay in las vegas? ♪ [singing] ♪ ♪ jon: well, donald trump getting a lot of attention when he endorsed mitt romney for president. a huge media crowd covering the event. a lot of folks are hr*ef left wondering, though, why bother? and do endorsements matter. let's talk about it with kristen powers, judith miller. both of fox news contributors. this endorsement by donald trump, judy, does it help mitt romney? i think it does and it certainly annoys newt gingrich because his aids 15 minutes before were still saying that they thought that he was going to get the donald's endorsement. donald-the show man-trump, never a dull moment. jon: kristen? >> i

we're glad you're with us, i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. is about to release a decision. jenna: they're asking to play this videotape that has a reenactment of the alleged murder which, according to the prosecution, pokes holes in the story that gabe watson is telling. jon: watson is accused of killing his wife, tina, while they were scuba diving so he could cash in on her life insurance. >> reporter: hi, jon, good to see you. we're expecting that ruling any moment now on whether or not jurors can take a look at that reenactment video of the aled crime by australia police. prosecutors say the video determines whether or not watson is telling the truth about where his wife's body was when she sank so to her death. the judge says he's not convinced the recreation video is a valid test of gabe watson's story from that day. the judge says there are so many variables like the ocean's current, water temperature and, of course, experience level to rely on this one piece of evidence. now, alabama prosecutors as you say, watson says he turned off his

we're glad you're with us everybody, i'm jenna lee. rage of mortar shells reigns down on homs. jenna: arab nations in the west are pleading for a crest fire to allow humanitarian aid into those areas hardest hit by the brutal crackdown. dominic di-natale is live for us in beirut, lebanon. >> reporter: more unrelenting bombardment, 150 shells fired yet again into that area, according to activists on the ground there. they're saying now that syrian government tanks have moved into the edge of the neighborhood, they haven't been able to so far, but activists are telling us they're ramping up everybody over the age of 14 and taking them away. we don't know how many numbers they're taking away, nor to where they are taking them. but we do know there's been a large number of tanks brought into the neighboring areas, part of an expected advance of what -- >> [inaudible] >> what is expected two days ago. we saw a heavy attack yesterday in which two western journalists were killed and 60 other people also perished in a large amount of rockets in

is poise today play a key role, we're glad you're with us, everybody, as we start a new hour, i'm jenna leecott. all the republican candidates are fighting over who the true conservative is. governor palin calls governor romney a great candidate but says she's unsure of his conservative credentials. jenna: the former alaska governor tells fox news if gop convention is brokered, she would do whatever she could to help. we're going to talk about more of these issues issues with sarh palin, the former governor of alaska, former candidate for vice president, and what a run. i was taking a look at our last election cycle to see what was going on with governor palin four years ago, apparently it was iron dog racing? do you remember that four years ago today? >> i do, i remember that todd broke his arm on the trail and finished the race 400 miles later, finished up crossing the finish line in fairbanks. jenna: can you believe what's happened in the last four years? >> a lot has changed. yeah, a lot has changed in our country too. yes. jon: so you have been quoted as saying, in fact, you said it ri

jenna: hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. we're here in the fox newsroom and "happening now", republican presidential candidate mitt romney celebrating a big win. probably a sigh of relief. jon: i imagine the romney camp is pretty happy. they beat newt gingrich and everybody else in florida's gop primary. 14 percentage points, the margin of victory over gingrich. now he is turning his attention to president obama. >> another era of american crisis thomas payne is reported to have said, lead, follow, or get out of the way. well, mr. president, you were elected to lead. you chose to follow, and now it is time for you to get out of the way. [cheers and applause] jon: well the former speaker of the house, newt gingrich refuses to give up. he says we will continue his fight to win the white house. >> this is the most important election of your lifetime. if barack obama gets reelected it will be a disaster for the united states of america. jenna: phil keating live in tampa with more on this phil, one of the things we talked about w

great show coming up, thanks, jenna lee.fesaving device in action, the survivor of an avalanche this weekend says she owes her life to a sophisticated tool for back country skiers. we are going to talk to the man behind the avalanche airbag. he'll tell us how it works coming up. bill: lifesaver in a big way. being a manly man can come with a heft thee price i the tell you. what the million mustache march is demanding from your government. patti ann: a survivor of that avalanche near a ski resort in washington state credits an airbag for saving her life. the airbag is designed to keep the person on top of the slide. as you can see in this demo it is quick to deploy, it's highly visible, so that the victim can be easily spotted. joining us now is steve wagner, the ceo of the company that makes this life-saving device, abs avalanche rescue devices. thank you for joining us. >> no problem at all. patti ann: you've been at this since 1985 but the airbag has evolved a lot in that time. >> that's correct. the airbag was first intro

i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. good morning to you, we're here in the fox newsroom and "happening now", california, missouri, minnesota all hold presidential contests tomorrow. mitt romney is in denver, campaigning there fresh off his big win in nevada where he wracked up more conservative support than rick san tore ul and newt gingrich, romney now setting sites beyond the primaries and caucuses and right on the presidential election. >> president obama says he wants to fundamentally transform america. we want to restore to america the founding principles that made this country great. our vision for the future could not be more different from his. jen that's romney, gingrich not giving up his plan to take his campaign to the convention and he's confident things will opportunity around after supertuesday. >> my goal is with governor perry's help and others to be tied in delegates by the time we come around to texas. jon: let's talk about it with bret baier, anchor of special report. the question

jenna: hi, everybody i'm jenna lee. we are here in the fox newsroom. "happening now" we have a live look at the northern virginia community college where the president is set to address the crowd any minute now. he's going to speak about the budget plan that includes cutting the federal deficit by $4 trillion over the next ten years. jon: cop eaves the budget, each of them thousands of pages long were delivered to congress this morning. inside those piles of paper are plans for more spending on infrastructure and education as well as higher taxes on the wealthy to help try to pay for it all. jenna: you might think they would put it on a disk and email it to save some dough. it's the budget. i'm just saying. wendell goler is live at the white house. he has no control over how they print the budgets. i'm not going to put you on the spot for that. the republicans are saying the budget doesn't cut the deficit as much as the president promised. the savings aren't real savings. we'll hear that throughout the day today. tell us what they are talking about. >>

we're glad you're with us, everybody, i'm jenna lee. on scott, all three states holding contests today. mitt romney is the heavy favorite but some analysts say rick santorum could be getting help from evangelicals in minnesota. >> jenna: mike emanuel has the latest. what's happening there? >> reporter: of the caucus goers with whom we've been speaking, they can be divided into two camps. one believes the only thing important in this particular caucus is picking a candidate who can beat barack obama in the general election. >> it's the number one goal i think for any republican conservative, and so whoever can have the best chance at doing that, that's who we're going to vote for. >> reporter: the other group can repeat from memo the most prominent talking points of ron paul and they believe them with great passion. >> i'm a recent ron paul kohn vert, actually. i grew up an establishment republican guy and the message just really, his message of freedom and liberty, you know, free market economics, and counseled constitutional foreign pol

jenna: i'm jenna lee. jon: and i'm jon scott. a -- jenna: even though it's valentine's day, we with all still have the go to work. the payroll tax extension is set to expire at the end of the month. millions of americans will take home less money, and the president was just talking about that. jon: the president acknowledged the progress in striking a deal with republicans, but he says nothing is final until he signs the bill. mike emanuel live on capitol hill keeping an eye on that for us. >> reporter: hi, jon. president obama clearly sounds encouraged by what he is hearing from lawmakers here on capitol hill. the president a few minutes ago pressed lawmakers once again to pass the payroll tax holiday for the remainder of 201 and to also extend unemployment insurance benefits, with republican leaders now saying they would extend the payroll holiday for the rest of the year and not insist on paying for it. president obama sounds hopeful. >> now, the good news is over the last couple of days we've seen some hopeful signs in congres

i'm jenna lee. jon: lots of concern of what iran is doing. i'm jon scott.eader of the country thumbs his nose at the west twice. he is getting ready to insert the first fuel rod made in iran into a reactor in teheran. and advanced centrifuges at an enrichment site, in response to western sanctions. jenna: they are increasing their technology there, they are not stopping. the u.s. and europe considering new financial pressure to punish iran. the unprecedented action would cut off iran's access to an entire international banking system and prevent them from collecting oil profits. their economy is built simply on oil. this move could result in higher oil prices around the world, that is another person. jon: let's check out another hot spot in the middle east right now, syria, there is new amateur video of a huge fire, an explosion damaging an oil pipeline that runs through the central city of homs. jenna: homs is one of the city's hardest hit as a brute physical crackdown as syrian forces target the forces of bashar al-assad. it's also the site where his fath

jenna: i'm jenna lee. here fresh off winning all three presidential contest th-s week rick santorum campaigns in oklahoma today and he's sharping his attacks on mitt romney especially when it comes to the hot button issue of insurance coverage for birth control, or the requirement to cover birth control when you have insurance coverage. the growing debate over the provision of the new healthcare law that would force religious institutions to provide contraception benefits to employees for free. jon: the issue sparking outrage and protests with it critics calling the birth control mandate an attack on religious freedom. supporters say it's about women's access to family planning and healthcare. chris wallace is the anchor of fox news sunday and joins us now. is rick santorum benefitting, chris, or is his campaign benefitting from the publicity over this issue? >> i can't offer any hard numbers that would indicate that, jon. but it does stand to reason, all the candidates have certainly criticized the presid

hi everybody, i'm jenna lee. and i've been abandoned by my coanchor, jon scott! >> jon: be back there tomorrow, jenna. i'm in our washington newsroom today, and fallout from the michigan and arizona primaries is the big story after mitt romney racks up two more wins but the rest of the candidates are not giving up. here is how it all shook out last night. romney scoring a big victory in arizona, 47 percent of the vote in the winner take all primary in that western state. santorum, a distant second, with 27 percent. >> jenna: the race is a whole lot closer m in michigan. that obviously grabbed headlines, romney winning his home state by three percentage points over santorum and now all the candidates are gearing up for supertuesday next week, where ten states have con tests and the most delegates to date will be up for grabs. jon: chris wallace is the anchor of "fox news sunday", we believe he left the cowboy gash at home. >> no, it's in my office, it's ready! when we break it out, it's like our victory cigars. jon: very good. so speaking of victories, can mitt rom

michigan races all day hosted by bret baier and megyn kelly and don't forget our own rick folbaum and jenna lee coverage on tuesday, and no excuse not to participate in the water cooler. >> and i typed in the rundown. >> you deserve the message. >> okay, the price of gas rising to uncomfortably high levels, and with spring driving season on the way, they say it will get worse. president obama takes on the issue in his weekly address. take a listen. >> some politicians see this as an opportunity. and election year, dusting off their same three-point plan for $2 gas. i'll save you the suspense. >> and step two drill and step three, keep drilling. we hear the same thing every year. >> and live in washington, doug, good to see you. so, there are some unique qualities in this particular gas price increase, isn't there? >> yeah, you know, you see in many gasoline price spikes, but what singles this out. it's occurring much earlier in the season before the summer blends are refined and often cause the price rises in the spring and summer driving season. take a look at the chart now. the steady rise in

jenna: hi, everybody, i'm general a lee. i hope you're all awake for us despite the alarm clocks. jon: i'm jon scott in the newsroom "happening now." jenna: seven states banning together on a controversial issue asking to join a federal lawsuit blocking a mandate that religious organizations must offer healthcare, including birth control. they are asking a federal judge to declare the law unconstitutional. let's talk to senior judicial analyst gentleman nepal ta nap poll tan owe. >> reporter: the constitution requires that in order to bring a lawsuit in federal court you must have standing. standing means that you have been uniquely harmed by what the defendant has done. so who would be harmed here? a catholic employer would be harmed, who would be forced to purchase health coverage that violates the teaching of the catholic church. for example the archdiocese of new york which employs 10,000 people, the university of notre dame which employs 15,000 people. they would be ideal candidates to bring this lawsuit, but not the state of tpheb r-r. the attorney general of nebraska may ard

primetime coverage with bret baier and megyn kelly and check out foxnews.com, our own rick folbaum and jenna lee will have full coverage for the web site, 8:00 p.m. eastern, tuesday, foxnews.com. >> eric: and mitt romney facing a crucial hurdle in the quest for the nomination. now, he's in the tight race, in the state where he was born but up next... fox news host, the anchor of chris wallace, with an exclusive sit-down with mitt romney. we'll hear from him in his own words. plus, taking the guessing game out of the flu season, have you had it yet? we have a test to let you know about whether or not you are under the weather. the doctors are in, "sunday house call," and, the flu, straight ahead. [ peggy ] here's me. and here's my depression. before i started taking abilify, i was taking an antidepressant alone. most of the time i could pull myself together and face the day. but other days, i still struggled with my depression. i was coping, but sometimes it really weighed me down. i'd been feeling stuck for a long time. i just couldn't shake my depression. so i talked to my doctor, and he added

jenna: hi, everybody i'm jenna lee. we are here in the fox newsroom. happening now a top u.n. nuke already official says there is no way forward with iran when it comes to the atomic programs. jon: the president will face off against a republican challenger come november. could the high gas prices and oil prices prove to be his biggest rival. jenna: we all want our kids to be safe but this one for every day leaving is that okay or a little bit over the top? that is all now on "happening now." jon: breaking news out of sear why whersyria where shelling has killed two americans. we have the reporter from the sunday times of london. two journalists died in the city of homs. it has faced weeks o of assault by government forces. secretary of state hill hil hillary clinton goes to the region to meet with readers. what can you tell, about marie colvin's death. >> reporter: she and a photographer were killed when a shell hit a house where they and other reporters were saying at a house. two other reporters had been injured. she was on oliver north war stories, she was on cnn anderson

we're glad you're with us everybody, i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. the final states before the big supertuesday vote. jenna: delegates up for grabs, 59, the biggest total so far, the candidates pushing hard to get their messages out. >> it's great to be back. >> i'm quite clear about this, those people who want to tell us, want to kill us because from their world view, we are the greatest threat they've ever faced because we represent freedom. and freedom is the end of their world. we need to change this by changing the peoples of attitude about what the government should be doing. and let me tell you, the government, under our constitution, is not supposed to be running a welfare state, nor a warfare state. it's there to protect our liberties. that's what their job is. >> i never went around and crowed about how i was going to put caps on co2 emissions as a certain governor from massachusetts did. yes. he bought into cap and trade. >> we need someone you can trust. someone who can go after president obama on the horrible record on energy. and on what

we're glad you're with us, everybody, i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. merica's election headquarters. primary voters are going to the polls in arizona and michigan, as jenna said, but one of them is getting the most attention. our chief political correspondent carl cameron live in michigan. carl? >> reporter: this is a big state, obviously, it's the one where mitt romney was born, it was the one where he was leading for the better part of the last year and a half and considered to have an inevitable victory that would be an easy cake walk, and it has proven to be anything but. mitt romney and rick santorum are battling neck and neck on the final day of campaigning, votes underway this morning. they're expecting between 15-20% of the registered voters to take part. this is an open primary, and rick santorum has been aggressively courting them with a controversial robo call for which he has been much criticized by mitt romney asking democrats and independents to join the santorum labor union support and vote against mitt romney and back santorum. listen to

martha: let's head down to the newsroom and find out from jenna lee what is coming up next at the top." jenna: this is a big story today, religious freedom becoming a major campaign issue at this hour. we have chris wallace, amy stoddard weighing in on all of this. the u.s. killed a major militant tied to al-qaida. [no audio] martha: a new race to space, while heading to the heavens could be pretty much like sticking your finger out to hail a taxicab here in new york city, hello. bill: while you're watching your screen they are watching you. why walking and texting at the same time to get you a hefty find. martha: probably not a good idea. bill: don't do it. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. bill: i feel like we should be going over the brooklyn bridge right now. nasa is working on a space taxi. it plans to give 3 to $500 million to two companies to develop a new program. boeing hoping to be one of the luck

jenna: lots of big stories to get to, we're grad you're -- glad you're with us, everybody, i'm jenna lee. testimony in the house getting very heated, some republicans accuse the justice department of a cover up. well, now general holder and democrats are responding. william la jeunesse who's been on this story from the beginning joins us live from los angeles. william? >> reporter: jon, it's been less contentious than previous appearances by the ag, and yet after a yearlong investigation there is no clear evidence that the attorney general was aware that one of his agencies, the atf, was deliberately helping criminals run guns across the border. however, republicans claim the department of justice is not sharing documents they need to determine the truth. today chairman issa said oversight committee has lost patience and will hold holder accountable in contempt if they don't get the documents and testimony they're demanding. issa blamed holder for failing to discipline assistant ag lanny breuer for not vetting a wiretap application that likely would have revealed agents were letting guns