that is why he said this at ave maria university. >> this is not a political war at all. not a cultural war at all. this is a spiritual war. and the father of lies has his sights on what you would think the father of lies satan would have his sights on. a good, decent, powerful, influential country. the united states of america. if you were satan, who would you attack in this day and age. there is no one else to go after. other than the united states. >> stephen: that's right, folks. the only one satan is attacking is us. god's favorite country. all the bad stuff happening in the other parts of the world, starvation, genocide, slavery, that's not satan. so it must be god working in mysterious ways that we must not question. but raising the u.s. marginal tax rate on the top 1%, folks, that is why the certificate pent got into this game. satan loves big government. i mean what was the apple but the original food stamp. (laughter) >> stephen: rick knows, rick knows that the father of lies is coming for us in all his forms. lose ferr, beelzebubumephistophile, old rick, ol don

. >> santorum made that speech at ave maria university in florida in 2008. tuesday he responded.aying if they want to dig up old speeches of me talking to religious groups, they can go ahead and do so. but i'm going to stay on message. santorum goes on to say, i'm going to talk about things that americans want to talk about, which is creating jobs and making our country more secure. santorum will likely have to respond to those remarks and recent comments he made about president obama's energy policy tonight. that's when all four candidates debate in arizona. it's the last time they'll meet before the next round of primaries. mitt romney is in a battle for his home state of michigan. the latest poll shows him five points behind santorum. but romney insists he's not deterred. >> i plan on winning. hope to win. >> newt gingrich won't compete in michigan so he can focus on the ten states up for grabs next month. in that speech, santorum also said the corruption of decency in america is evident in the nba, in rock concerts and in the movies. betty, it will be interesting to see if an

. >> reporter: santorum made that speech at ava maria university in florida in 2008. tuesday he responded if they want to dig up old speeches of me talking to religious groups, they can go ahead and do so but i'm going to stay on message. santorum goes on to say i'm going to talk about things that americans want to talk about, which is creating jobs and making our country more secure. santorum will likely have to respond to those remarks and recent comments he made about president obama's energy policy tonight. that's when all four candidates debate in arizona. it's the last time they'll meet before the next round of primaries. mitt romney is in a battle for his home state of michigan. the latest poll shows him five points behind santorum but romney insists he's not deterred. newt gingrich says he won't compete in michigan so he can focus on the ten states up for grabs on super tuesday next month. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. >>> 4:35 now. righters and cbs are report -- roiters and cbs are reporting two journalists were killed in syria. they were killed durin

. >> reporter: santorum made that speech at ave maria university in florida in 2008. tuesday he responded saying, if they want to dig up old speeches of me talking to religious groups, they can go ahead and do so. but i'm going to stay on message. santorum goes on to say, i'm going to talk about things that americans want to talk about, which is creating jobs and making our country more secure. santorum will likely have to respond to those remarks and recent comments he made about president obama's energy policy tonight. that's when all four candidates debate in arizona. it's the last time they will meet before the next round of primaries. mitt romney is in a battle for his home state of michigan. the latest poll shows him five points behind santorum but romney says he is not deterred. newt gingrich says he won't compete in michigan so he can focus on the 10 states up for grabs on super tuesday next month. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. >>> the obama administration plan to cut corporate taxes will be unveiled by the treasury secretary today. the rate is current

they excavated the four-year-old speech at ave maria university. they kicked up a media crap storm. >> satan has done so by attacking the great institutions of america. bayousing those great pieces of pride, vanity and sensuality. it is the root to attack all of the strong plants that have so deeply rooted in american tradition. >> true. but when asked about his lucifer lament, he says she a person of faith who believes in good and evil adding -- >> it is not relevant to what we have discussed in america today. that's what we are going to talk about in the campaign. >> for more let's go live to red eye's senior morality correspondent. >> actually my uncle gary who is a barrel of laughs, but he smokes in the shower. it is disgusting. anyway, paul, your life is a living hell. do you think religious imagery hurts or helps a candidate? >> i think it depends on the imagery you choose to use. it is not because it is santorum and republican or democrat, but it is like call me crazy, but i don't want my presidential candidates using language that sounds li

he was speaking to ave maria university, a very conservative, catholic university in florida.ike the father of lies. that is definitely not something you hear him talking about on the campaign trail now. and what is interesting is talking to people who are close to him, they have said, you know, maybe part of the issue, john, is that it was 2008. he had already been defeated from the senate. he didn't necessarily have the political antenna up, the political people around him that he normally had to maybe reel him back from some of that very stark rhetoric that is kind of going through his veins. but the santorum campaign, they call this all of the hoopla around this ridiculous. they say what is it? a news flash that rick santorum believes in god? they said i don't think so. >> and so dana, we can assume people go back and look for these things and they're circulated normally by people who work for another candidate or don't support senator santorum in this case. the question is does it help or hurt at a time he's surging in the polls. >> reporter: i think in the short term hel

. >> andrea: now this was said that his original remarks had ava maria university at 2008, catholic universitywith him talking about religion at a college? religious college. >> greg: the democrats want to turn him into the church lady by saying that. i got to tell you, i loved it. for so long we have had scary enemies calls us the great satan, people burning flags, yelling and shouting, doing odd aerobic exercises in the middle of the street. finally now we have someone who calls them the satan. it find it refreshing. >> bob: you know i was aggressive delegation, tehran after the shaw left and before khomeini came back. 400,000 people outside the continental. that's satan! that's satan. >> greg: now we have that. >> bob: give santorum a break on this. he is a very religious guy. and christian and so am i. i consider satan to be real and evil. it's okay for him to say that at the church school. >> andrea: at least he didn't back away from it saying it wasn't me. that's why people like him. >> dana: but he said i'll defend everything i say, but at same time he said the drudge headline was a jok

i say tom donahue was the founder of ave maria university but it is not.or a preview of melissa perry. >> the goods to see you. i have been loving your conversation this morning. >> thank you. >> what we -- we have a lot coming up this morning. we will lay out the case for newt gingrich because that's what i like to do. somebody has to do it. it has been all of rick santorum lately. we will do a little tv evangelism. it is, after all, sunday morning. i have brilliant religious scholars on the show. we will do godly business. and, oh, yeah, they are all women. >> wow. >> godly women business. thank you. coming up next, what should you know for the week ahead? you should know that just a little over three years after mitt romney said we can, quote, kiss the american automotive industry good-bye, general motors post ad quarterly profit of almost half a billion dollars. eighth consecutive quarterly profit. you should also know when the big banks were poise order the precipice mitt romney supported billions of dollars to save them from their bad debts. when it

meanwhile several online publications have released audio of santorum speaking at ave maria university in florida back in 2008. and it included a scenario of a spiritual war in which satan attacks the u.s. >> and the father of lies has his sights on what you would think the father of lies satan would have his sights on, a good, decent, powerful, influential country. the united states of america. >> santorum responded in a statement that read in part, quote, if they want to dig up old speeches of me talking to religious groups, they can go ahead and do so but i'm going to stay on message. >>> the san jose city council may tone down a june ballot measure that aims to save the city money on employee pensions. councilmembers approved wording for the measure in december. yesterday city manager deborah fagone suggested they make changes before the march 9 deadline. those changes would reduce additional amounts that city workers would have to pay towards their pensions and improve benefits for newly hired workers. >>> the san jose earthquakes could get a big step closer to building their new

there, with people around him, was rick santorum defending his commenting back from 2008 at ave maria universityantorum is leading mitt romney 45 to 19% among white evangelical christians. that is a trouncing. and a short time ago, james dobson released a new radio ad in michigan calling on his followers to vote for rick santorum. "outfront" now, gloria borger joins us, erick erickson, and brett o'donnell, who advised mitt romney in the last debate. good to have all of you with us. i've got to start with you, erick, and the reason i have to start with you, mr. dobson coming out and as a religious leader, saying vote for rick santorum. a poll says, a 2011 survey shows 80% of responders said it is not proper for leaders to tell people how to vote. is this strategy going to backfire when he gets to not just talking to white evangelical voters? >> if he gets into the general election and talks about the economy and jobs, no, probably not. but, everyone always says that religious leaders shouldn't say this, but, in fact, evangelicals have been a force in american politics for 30, 40 years. so they ma

speaking to students at ave maria university in florida, he said satan has set his sights on the united states of america. he described a spiritual war and asked, quote, if you were satan, who would you attack in this day and age? he suggested it was natural for the father of lies, as he called satan, to go after a good, decent, powerful and influential country. fast-forward four years. instead of acknowledging that the dialogue might have been extreme, he's digs in his heels, defending the comments, saying he's a person of faith who believes in good and evil. santorum insists he'll stay on message and talk about the things americans want him to talk about. he says his views on satan are not relevant to what's being discussed today. really? i'll bet some would disagree. santorum is leading the republican field in several national polls, tied with mitt rom in in his home state of michigan. we'll see if his thoughts tonight on satan come back to bite hem. i'll bet they do. here's the question. rick santorum said satan is attacking america. is he right? go post a comment on my blog or go t

maria nationality correspondent thank you. from the institute. studies at the university of exeter says egyptians are tired of waiting for accountable leadership. supreme council of the armed forces. mismanaged the transitional process to a large degree the expectations on the egyptian street. that they will be. power from military to civilian elected civilian in six months and therefore once you have elected civilian rule be investments will come to life the economic life will be back to normal there will be a total restructuring of the security services that acted in a very aggressive. way during the mubarak era and all these expectations so the economy the. better economy the dignity the freedom the bread the slogans of the revolution were not really accomplished by a year after the revolution that's why there is. a president now an elected president now so that they can hold him accountable if you fail to be stored back the egyptian economy and if you fail to reform the security services here without still to come on the program. the people he. will design. spies you

he is a university professor at harvard and he is joining us right now. thank you for joining us. >> good to be back with you maria. >> let's start with the job numbers on friday. 243,000 jobs created for the month. the unemployment rate falling to 8-1/3%. what do you think it says about the economy today? >> these were good numbers. the unemployment rate down, the job numbers you mentioned, the household survey, which has been showing relatively weak performance showed more than 600,000 jobs created. strength in the private sector across almost every sector of the private sector. these numbers suggest that the economy's got some momentum. it doesn't have as much momentum as we'd like but it has more momentum than it had six months ago by a significant margin. that's attributed to the policies we have put in place. it's very fortunate that president obama, a year ago, was able to persevere, insisting to have a payroll tax cut which made a big difference for middle-income families. we avoided a budget catastrophe with a potential default in august. the president absolutely insisted that that payroll tax cut be exte

the international relations department of the universe in turkey thanks for being with us some government has announced a referendum in a few days as maria from the start was reporting when it was originally planned for march how significant is the rescheduling move. well it makes it a more dramatic development it really bounces people by bringing it forward on the other hand it's also a sign of the assad wants to demonstrate his legitimacy it's obviously very important to him that a large number of people vote and a clear majority of the people who could vote vote in favor well the referendum do you think helped bring peace back to syria i think that's more problematic whereas a year ago the opposition as it began was demanding political reforms now the chief spokesman for the syrian opposition abroad and as far as we can tell the various rebel armed groups say nothing short of the fall of assad even his execution is acceptable so it's a challenge to see how the syrian government will be able to stage a referred to that will have legitimacy in the eyes the opposition on the other hand for the opposition if there is a large turnout of vo

headline on drudge yesterday about rick santorum and some comments he made down at ava maria a couple of years ago, a universityited states and rush said, you know, it's not the kind of stuff you hear a presidential candidate talk about. it's not ordinary in that sense. rick santorum needs to explain that. plus some of the things he's said about contraception and abortion. >> ok, no doubt those questions will come up tonight. one of the reasons -- >> that could be one of the reasons, gretch, why he's had some erosion, particularly with women in the polls. >> yep. and a lot of those issues will come up but tonight at the debate. one of the other things is the negative advertisements, they work, they work short term. >> they do. >> but are they a good -- i'm going to go back to what i -- like the saying which i don't agree with them. are they good long term? let us know what you think about that. >> all right. also, i'd like to add, too, i saw some bioads that mitt romney is running in michigan. i thought that was noteworthy but i saw a poll that shows only 26% of the michigan people think he's truly from their s

maria, mario monti made headlines a decade ago when he blocked the then owner of this tv network general electric's bid to take over honeywell. heavyweight academic and economist by training, mario returned to the university in the land. when the bond market was threatened by a meltdown last fall, and then prime minister silvio berlusconi was hounded out of office, monti emerged as the heavyweight designing and driving through spending cuts and tax increases, to restore confidence amongst investors. mario monti prevented panic from overwhelming the eurozone's third largest economy from triggering potentially the euro's total collapse. so far, so good. but even now, as mario monti meets president obama, hard work lies ahead, not least breaking down italy's cartels to restore competitiveness, confronting lawyers, truck drivers, fa pharmacists and cab drivers. mario monti has put italy back atop the power table. in berlin, monti's calls for growth, overall austerity for euro bonds and more aggressive ecb, all fall on dead ears. makes no mistake, italy remains a major potential fault line of the heart of the single currency. if italy fails, if mario monti fails, the euro fails with potentially cataclysmic con