any final thoughts for you kirsten?nk those two web sites are correct, if i'm not mistaken. >> yes. those are great web sites. we want to encourage everyone out there, if east valley is not your local ymca, go on to wr ncasv.korg and find your local ymca. we are here to be a helping hand, ton close doors, but make sure that everyone has opportunity to participate. >> good work. thank you so much. and we will see you out when you're future leaders in our community. >>> up next, on "comunidad del valle," citizenship days. stay with us. >>> citizenship day is right around the corner. pi tri patricia is with us. and nick is with the alashian lot alliance, also in the south bay. welcome back to the show. >> thank you. >> we have video of previous workshops. but tell us the benefits of what you are having. >> there are numerous benefits. it is an annual event where individuals can get free assistance on the orientation process to become a u.s. citizen. one of the main benefits we want the community to know about this year, is

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just watch it unfold. >> but the flip side of that, kirsten. many in the media said, rick santorum, his win a meaningless, he's not going to get the nomination anyway. >> well, that would be my opinion, actually, because i think if you look at the states, they're not probably, you know, they're not, they're not. >> he didn't leave a lot of delegates. >> and this is a beauty contest and not where he's putting most of the efforts and romney will do well and a lot of states are coming up. that's a fair analysis, and we never can say who the nominee is going to be of course, but it's a job of political analysts to handicap what's going on and make some sort of informed judgment. >> and i saw this comment, in the new york star ledger, wrote that god must love pundits. just when you want to hit the snooze button during this g.o.p. race, he, meaning god, polled the rug out from under them, giving rick santorum-- >> it may be god or the voters who have a way of up ending the wisdom and the best laid plans of the candidates and the media and i think one

kirsten, what say you? somebody brings up theology and refers to the bible it is a little hard to believe they're not questioning his christianity. i saw some explanation of it that he was talking about radical environmentalists. i don't really see that. so i think that it was out of bounds, even if it was about radical environmentalists, the president is not a radical environmentalists by any stretch of the imagination. julie: yeah. >> so, yeah, it is definitely out of bounds for a presidential candidate to say something like this. julie: let's hear from mr. santorum himself. he says he was not. let's take a listen. >> accept the fact that the president is a christian. i just said that when you have a world view that elevates the earth above man and says that, we can't take those resources pause we're going to harm the earth, by things that are frankly are just not scientifically proven, for example, the politicization of the whole global warming debate, this is all an attempt to, you know, centralize powe

martha: that really, kirsten, is the battle the gop is having.id approach or bold approach work? newt gingrich would label romney's approach as timid and are we seeing that to some extent in the numbers coming out to support him in these early caucuses? >> no, i don't think it has anything to do with romney's approach. he actually previously was beating obama in matchups or was tied with obama in matchups and what has happened, if you look, there has been a series of polls shown him dropping among independents. he was beating obama among independents by about 10 points in most polls and what's happened is newt gingrich attacks on him have taken a real to and his response to them frankly has taken a real to, particularly taxes issue hurt him in this poll, the "abc news/washington post poll" that they showed something like 2/3 of people believe that the tax rate that romney pays is unfair. so i think that has taken a toll. and then the bain attacks i think also taken a toll among independents. they generally don't like the nastiness. democrats and

steve hayes, kirsten powers, columnist for the daily beast. syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles, we were trying to figure out what the message was from secretary panetta in saying what he said about israel possibly striking iran in april, may or june. and today more fuel on the fire really from all sides. >> particularly from the leader of iran. he really makes clear what the issue is about. there is no country on earth that is constantly threatened by its advera tears with annihilation and extermination. over borders, fishing rights or whatever. but there is only one country under the threat of complete annihilation and khomeini speak about that explicitly. to cut out the cancer. there is no other understanding of that. when the iranians parade their missiles publicly, written on them is death to israel. so everybody understands what it's about. the israelis know all of the possible problems with an attack. they know they're going to get thousands of rockets from lebanon, from gaza, even from iran. they're going to be all kinds

joining us from washington fox news analyst kirsten powers and marian walsh.will begin with you. don't you know oil prices are complicated. you spent a lot of time explaining that today. i was hoping he would have a solution or two so the oil prices might come down this week. alas, no. >> he made the case by -- started today by using the speech. president kennedy in 1962 with the steel companies would use every weapon to get them to reduce their prices. the thing he needs to do is bring the head of he every american oil company to the white house and say look you guys are making record profits and we are living in a recession where a record number of people are out of work or just getting back on their feet. you owe it to fellow americans and this country that have allowed you to make this money. >> that's exactly what i told them. he can threaten them with an export tax, too. why hasn't he done it? if i am saying that and you are saying that why isn't he doing it? >> i think that's step number 2. he looks them in the eye they may or may not say yes they need

something that we acknowledge the basic problem that was caused by the extremists at the time. >> kirsten want to go back to charles talking about the fact that the violence has intensified since obama made his apology. there's no connection between the violence intensifying and the apology. i don't think that we've seen more violence because of the apology and i think the only reason not to make an apology would be if it's going to lead to violence and i don't think there's an argument that it did. i still believe that it's the right thing to apologize, it's the right thing to set the standard of conservatives or i think are blowing this out of proportion and saying that all of these apologies when in reality we had a letter from the president, with the diplomatic letter, to hamid karzai and we had general allen say a couple of remarks about it and somebody here apologized to the muslim community. i don't think that's overkill. and the only reason not to make an apology would be is if it would risk more american lifers which it doesn't and i think that we have our standards and our stand

kirsten, what do you think?this the best way we have to come up with for a candidate to run as president? >> as voters democrats did it this way last time. i think it is better. there is more time. it isn't just the person who is sort of the inevitable candidate who has the institutional support and the money that can sort of knockout the early states and winner take all and move on. i think it's good to have it be protracted and have people have to battle for it. if you are the republican party and you are looking at the situation, i don't think it is good if it gets nasty or personal which it has been. i think that is actually harming romney. i don't think the fact that having to compete for it harms romney at all i think he has become a much better candidate. but the nastiness and stuff that is coming up that gingrich is getting under his skin about is harming him with independent voters now. in that sense it could be a negative. >> cal, the other night after his win in florida mitt romney said that competiti

i think that the tide is turning. >> if there is a caricature, it's jan brewer. >> kirsten, now seekinghe seat in the ninth congressional district. good luck with that, and thank you as always. >> thank you so much. >> maybe rush limbaugh had his finger up his nose in an effort to say we're number and make them simple intuitive, and available to all. distill all that data. make information instinctual visual. introducing trade architect, td ameritrade's empowering web-based trading platform. take control of your portfolio today. trade commission-free for 60 days, and we'll throw in up $600 when you open an account. is on the new news network. >>welcome to the war room. >>jennifer granholm joins current tv. she's a political trail-blazer. >>make your voice heard. >>detremined to find solutions. invest in our country is critical. >>driven to find the truth. >>how did romney get his groove back? >>fearless, independent and above all, politically direct. >> the quarterback of the new england patriots took his second consecutive super bowl lost with sportsmanship. the quarterback wife, not s

kirsten, the president decided he wants to appeal to his base on this issue. be successful for him do you think. >> i actually don't think he decided to appeal to the base. i think he was trying with this compromise or whatever you want to call it he is trying to first of all appeal to balancing religious liberty concerns. there are a lot of progressive catholic who is are upset including high-profile supporters of his who supported health care reform. i think he was trying to really reach out to a bunch of broader group of people than just his base with this decision. martha: tony, what do you think? how does this play for the president politically? >> look if this conversation remains about contraception the president obviously wins. this accommodation to kirsten's point was really more satisfying those who didn't like how the policy looked, not what the policy actually did. the policy will still in some way force catholic institutions to pay higher premiums in insurance to cover the cost of the contraception. what the republicans and catholic bishops have t

kirsten powers from daily beast. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.es, you wanted to go first. what are your thoughts about that? >> that was embarrassing from what we saw. we have gone from apology here to abject self-debasement and groveling. to whom? the mob. we should have had single apology from the commander on the ground and that's not. not from the secretary of defense. not from the president of all people. remember when the president had to pick up the phone and a crazy pastor in florida who wanted the quran burning and he had to be talked out of it. is the president in charge of offenses against certain religious tradition in the world? this is a world in which nobody asked the islamic conference, grouping of the islamic countrys to issue an apology when christians are attacked and churches are burned in egypt or pakistan. had we heard a word from any islamic leader anywhere about radical muslims in nigeria, not only burning churches but are burning women and children in the churchs. when i hear that i'll expect the president to issue apolog

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i think that the tide is turning. >> if there is a caricature, it's jan brewer. >> kirsten, now seekinghe seat in the ninth congressional district. good luck with that, and thank you as always. >> thank you so much. >> maybe rush limbaugh had his finger up his nose in an effort to say we're number >> the quarterback of the new england patriots took his second consecutive super bowl lost with sportsmanship. the quarterback wife, not so much. >>> and this guy said the newest voice in cable news is on the new news network. >>it is an independent progressive voice and i love that. >>jennifer granholm joins current tv. she's a political trail-blazer. >>people like somebody who's got a spine. >>determined to find solutions... >>we need government to ensure that people have freedom. >>driven to find the truth... >>what's really going on? >>fearless, independent and above all, politically direct. >> rush limbaugh fails to pick a super bowl finger. and you're really super bowl round up next. first because there is nothing super about these folks. we have the worst persons. the charles payne that

and kirsten powers. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. >>> you to have accept it, my gosh, back in my days, they used aspirin for contraceptives and it wasn't that costly. >> it was bad joke. he shouldn't have done it. it certainly does in my opinion reflect on the campaign or me, he wasn't doing it as part of our campaign. >> that was g.o.p. candidate santorum to strong media to the remark you heard there. one of the supporters said about the issue of contraception earlier in the week. jim, it got all kinds of media attention. it was essentially blamed on the santorum campaign, why? >> santorum has strangely enough chosen to big donor to super pac to be on stage with him. it used to be present tense of distance between them but it's through the media. it's a part. >> jon: i think judy is in ordering in agreement? >> absolutely and media about, just wait until they hear everything that rick santorum believes about contraception and women's rights. >> he is leading in the polls. numbers rick santorum at leas