and the very very ugly arizona congressional candidate gabriel of mercer mercer a republican candidate for congress told a group of tea party members yesterday that her opponent incumbent representative raul grijalva was anti american is what she had to say. i do know what is wrong with this guy the stupid me is a representative for health you never know all the i'm sorry business he said i'm tired of america really how those who are against the protection of the greats of allegiance because he suddenly just not one america. really hello for me here but he hates the american way. not quite clear what evidence mercer has to back up or outlandish claims but the questioning of an individual's patriotism has been a common theme among members of the tea party of personal attacks and slander campaigns are nothing new to the political arena openly questioning the patriotism of an employee and opponent and then flat out calling them anti-american and a traitor. really has no place left for him. and his very fair. it's no secret that our nation status is the global superpower is on life support

and we have the president of penn financial group and president of mercer associate david mercer . welcome to all of you. matt, start with you. don't blame the people but constant government hand outs. >> we are created an entitlement nation. people and americans, if the government hand itself out. they are going to take it. that is how human beings are. i see the government handing it out and not finding out if they are disable at the same time americans are gaining a system that are taking advantage of this. you know, unemployment can end. disability checks do not end and you can be on that the rest of your life and the taxpayers are paying for this. >>> and wayne, they keep taking the checks that doesn't show up on the monthly jobless data and they are not shown in the system. >> not only that. if you have a shrinking labor force, obviously and a unemployment rate. the rate itself is going to show a drop because you are shrinking the labor force even though you have steady employment. if they go to the disability side. that means less there and unemployment rate is dropping and

dempsey searches for a solution for madden military officers rick johnson, dwayne cooley and john mercerheir hands full interviewing other offenders who want a shot at being in the future soldier program. >> cite the pledge. >> i pledge of allegiance -- >> 150 of pendleton's 300 inmates applied. currently, there's only room for three more. >> it's a tight unit. we have to be very careful who we let into the unit. today is the selection interview process. we're going to do our best to screen out any people that might be detrimental to good order and discipline in the unit because we have to protect that. >> why are you requesting to join e-15? >> i would like to get away from negative peers. a lot of negative peers on the unit i'm on now. so i know if i come here i have an opportunity to go home. >> we get up at 4:50 in the morning, will that be a problem. >> no, sir. >> it's a very structured environment. go to bed at the same time. there's no horseplay, absolutely no horseplay. is that going to be a problem? >> no, sir. >> 2100 is lights out, taps. there is no talking. if you were to be

charles mercer says he c annot -- >> reporter: the former massachusetts governor shrugs off criticism that he's out of touch with republican voters. >> i got into this race, other people have come and gone. i have more votes than anybody else in this race so far. >> reporter: santorum touted his conservative credentials to voters in marquette. >> you can tee it up right here in michigan. you can change this race right here in michigan. >> reporter: both candidates will spend 48 hours criss crossing the state they know could be a turning point to face obama in november. danielle nottingham. >>> it is not just michigan, arizona is also holding their primary conference tuesday. governor jan brewer threw her support behind romney making it official. >>> still to come on wjz news tonight. >>> backlash over the burning of a muslim book. >>> and also it's the hottest day in hollywood. stars are taking the red carpet for the oscars, details on the awards show coming up. ,,,,,,,, it's time to get going. to have the energy to turn a "to do" list into a memory. to put more giddy-up in our get-al

charles mercer says he can't identify with romney and admires santorum's positions on social issues.> i realize that he sounded a lot like me in a few ways. >> reporter: romney admits he has little time to make up a lot of ground here in michigan, but says he expects to come away with a victory tuesday. the former massachusetts governor shrugged off criticism that he is out of touch with republican voters. >> you know, when i got into this race, there were a lot of guys in the race, other have come and gone. i've got more votes in this race than anyone so far. >> reporter: romney said a win in marquette could shake up the race. >> you could tee it up, right here in michigan. you can change this race right here in michigan. >> reporter: both candidates will spend the next 48 hours crisscrossing the state they know could be a turning point in the race to take on president obama in november. danielle nottingham, cbs news, lansing michigan. >>> arizona is also holding a primary contest on tuesday. its governor, jan brewer today threw her support behind mitt romney. newt gingrich is not c

investment advisor julian robertson, hedge fund manager paul singer and financial consultant robert mercer all gave a million dollars. overall, restore our future took in 59 donations of $100,000 or more in the last six months of 2011. jim and alice walton-- heirs to the wal-mart fortune-- were in that group. by comparison, the superpac backing newt gingrich "winning our future" lagged far behind. it raised $2 million in the last six months of 2011. the money came from 18 donors, including a million dollars from the step children of casino mogul sheldon adelson. adelson and his wife donated $10 million to the superpac in january which was a lifeline for the struggling gingrich campaign. as for the superpac supporting the president, they raised $3.3 million in the last six months of 2011. one top donor, the service employees international union which gave a half million dollars. director steven spielberg was at $100,000. to date, about $45 million in superpac money has been spent on campaign 2012. much of it, scott, pouring into those negative political ads. >> pelley: curious, armen, was t

to expand and hire hundreds more at the new location in nearby mercer county. business, business creates jobs where it feels welcome. citizens live best where they are employed and don't live in the constant fear that what they e earn will be taxed away. this approach works. our unemployment rate dropped by a full percentage point from the end of 2010 to this very moment, and as this year began it was nearly a full percentage point below the national average. our private sector workforce grew by 79,000 jobs. in short, we continue to grow the kind of -- it sometimes runs uphill, but thanks to your partnership in the past year, pennsylvania is going in the right direction. we must not turn back now. the old approach of tax and spend was comfortable for some. in fact, it was so comfortable that it put our economy to asleep. we cannot allow the debts of today to crowd out the dreams of tomorrow. if we don't act to reconfigure government, and revamp how it provides services, we will find ourselves trapped in the same box every year. difficult economies do not follow

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david mercer and republican strategist port. >> main caucaus you don't get a lot of delegates, but fort romney it would be momentum before the next round of primaries that come in the end of the month. but for ron paul, it could be a moment for him. >> i think it will be a great moment for him and not so moment for mitt romney. coming off of the string of losses to santorum in the last three states. colorado, minnesota and missouri . again, it is it a caucaus state that benefits the retail politics than a media bombardment like we saw in florida when mitt romney took it to gingrich in all of those negative ads. ron paul has been on the ground and giving mitt romney a run for his money and to add a fourth loss to his past losses is not good for the mitt romney campaign. >> i disagree with david, my friend. ron paul will not win the gop nomination temperature is all about mitt romney. he can't lose four in a row going in michigan and arizona which are much wins because super tuesday follows that and rick santorum is on the rise and he needs to stop that. >> headlines are all about ron pa

most of those are in roanoke county, virginia and mercer county, west virginia. >>> 6:06. jessica doyle is here with a special your money report. >> a new hot spot in downtown washington. >> that's right. when you tend to think of daily deals companies, you think of discounted oil changes or discounted lunches, maybe some housecleaning. but one big local deal provider is evolving its business in a big way with a little help from a famous face. >> reporter: local celebrity chef mike isabella is hoping a new restaurant called band layer a -- bandelera this spring. the timing was perfect when he was offered a temporary space to create a new pop-up restaurant. he got to try out recipes. >> probably about 15 of the dishes might make it to the menu. >> he has an opportunity to help train the servers and staff that will be working at bandolero. >> reporter: in just hours, living social sold out of the pop-up restaurant deal with the former top chef contestant. >> i wanted to give people a preview of what i'm doing because of the anticipation. living social wanted to do something

another $1 million from robert mercer. and more boldfaced names as you dive into this financial disclosure report, you see mark an dreeson, the founder of net skap posting up $50,000. the outspoken real estate investor from chicago also po ponied up $50,000. the miami dolphins owner. and harlan crow and crow holdings $300,000. he's no slouch in the department. he's got the global casino magnet who has given $10 million to newt's super pac just in january. we don't see that contribution in this filing because this only covers what happened back in december up to the end of the year. so we'll expect to see those numbers in the next disclosure report from the newt gingrich folks. guys. >> eamon, thank you so much. straight ahead as ty and i continue, it's rally time today. the markets made a slow but steady move upwards in january. the economic data though in the past couple of weeks has been a bit soft. so we have a new month and a new question. can the economy keep this rally going or not? >> and why don't we take a look at

this includes mercer counties and houston, month gom ree and stewart counties. counties. you need to be seeking shelter immediately as that storm appears to be intensifying right now. we also have new video coming in. this is out of elizabethtown and that is what you see in the upper corner of your screen and that was a likely tornado that happened about an hour, hour and a half ago that moved through the area. now, it appears that it missed the downtown area and stayed mostly on the out skirts but there were numerous buildings, homes, as well as outbuildings as it sustained considerable amount of damage and it's a live, working situation as we speak. we don't know about injuries or fatalities or how widespread the situation is there in elizabethtown at this time. it appears that those storms have moved out of elizabethtown and some drier weather is going to push into this area. now, we also have other breaking information. we have a new tornado watch which has just been issued, just literally a minute ago. that's this big red box here. it includes the city of n

robert mercer of renaissance technologies rounding out the million dollar club for mitt romney. has been hitting romney very, very hard for his wall street connections. he says romney is connected to new york elites and washington elites, but newt gingrich also, his superpac revealing its donors last night. we saw some of the big money donors contributing to newt. a different cast of characters, a little bit here. the casino owner, his relatives put in $1 million all told in the report that we saw. what we didn't see there is edelson has since this closed put $10 million into newt gingrich's super pac. that's part of the fuel keeping gingrich going on the campaign trail. harold simmons of contra incorporation in texas gave $500,000. w.s.propst, $500,000. big money in the race. >> as the attention now turns to nevada, the question will be whether gingrich needs to go back to the bank of sheldon. >> in the past we've had campaign finance laws that tightened would people could give. now we're seeing unlimited super pac giving. these guys can write very, very big checks. one or two

also, gabby mercer. there she is. [applause] she is running against the candidate who is most famous for state -- for same body, arizona. -- for saying boycott arizona. also, and david bushman also, david bushman, candidate for congress because it also, david bushman, canada for -- david bushman, candidate for congress, are you here? andy? at this time i would like to introduce one of our key people in the republican party in the state of arizona and he is, by name, bruce ash, and he is the national committeeman for the state of arizona, and is also the chairman of the rules committee for the upcoming convention in florida. so, he is a very important man to us in that capacity, and he is going to introduce the co- chairman of the republican party, and that is sandra day. bruce has worked with her -- sharon, i am sorry. sharon day. it is a fortunate thing that i have my wife here all the time to correct me, and i'm sure all the husbands are very grateful for their wives that are able to correct so quickly, so accuratel

would we not have wanted fdr as our leader in world war ii because he once had an affair with lucy mercermine who -- they made some screw-ups, no question. harding wasn't a great choice, fdr, was great. >> you were talking before about mitt romney and barack obama not necessarily loving the game. doris just asked who would ever get into the senate if they didn't like it. well, barack obama. and you talk to anybody they will tell you the president didn't like being there. but most sane, rational people -- no, i'm dead serious, would not like being in the united states senate in 2012. >> well, no, and i will -- i think the senate that barack obama was part of was different -- it was pre-tea party. we are at an all-time low in terms of congressional approval rating. he thought he could go in there and make a difference. would barack obama run today? i have no idea. i do have a question for doris, though, as we talk about back in the days. estimated that george washington's net worth was $500 million, which would make mitt romney's fortune pale in comparison, and we talk about wealth and back

debate, didi benke and former director for the national committee and democratic strategist david mercerorning to both of you. >> good morning. >> is this strategy, there was a memo sent out to all the top advisors in the obama administration telling them to talk about winning another four years? >> well, that's what every first term president wants to do and administration wants to do so they can continue on their work. but i think we'd be reading too much into this to say it was an overconfidence. if you look at obama's record back in 2008 or even as president, he always cautioned against overconfidence and went after every vote. he bought more voters into the electorate than any other presidential candidate before him. he will not take any vote for granted and secondly, we know, for instance, on the national security front with usama bin laden, he didn't talk about going after him, he just got him and then he announced to us that he did get it. he lets the results speak for himself. >> is this a strategy, because americans like winners? so you got to start the winning talk? >> it >> i

also, gaby mercer. where are you? there she is.ause] she is running against the candidate who is most famous for saying "boycott arizona. boycott my own state." so we wish you the best in that race. also david, are you here? candidate for congress, david bushman. there he is in the back. thank you. andy, are you here, board of supervisors? [applause] at this time, i would like to introduce one of our key people in the republican party in the state of arizona. he is by name bruce-. he is a national committeeman for the state of arizona -- he is by name bruce ash. he is also the chairman of the rules committee for the upcoming convention in florida. he is a very important man to us in that capacity, and he is going to introduce the co- chairman of the republican party. that is sandra day, but bruce has worked with her -- sharon, i'm sorry. i said sandra. i cannot stop that. it is important i have my wife here all the time to correct me. i'm sure all the husbands out there are very grateful for their lives that are able to correct so