>>rook, come on up here. guys, we got a, a new rook on srt. he's been here a little over a month. give them a good introduction. >>yeah, baby. >>my name's dave rivera, i've been on for four years in srt a little over a month. born and raised in miami florida, went to the university of miami, after graduation came here. >>you like him already, huh? listen, for everybody else, i knew he was going to fall in love with you the minute you said that, but - everybody else. >>go rook! >>and live at home with my mom 26 years old. [laughing] >>nothing wrong with that, bro. >>i know. and i drive a mini cooper. >>is your girlfriend still at the massage parlor? >>she still works at the massage parlor, yeah. >>oh that's right, thank you thank you. she works in a massage parlour. what else? >>i don't know. it's your life, tell 'em! >>that's about it. struggling a little bit today. >>yeah, he's having, he's got a little problem with teamwork. obviously he never played any team sports or anything like this, he's having a little problem with teamwork, but anyway, and, and making the right turn wher

rook who's doing the talking, guys. guys talking with other guys about having babies or not having other babies. newsflash, men don't have babies. it's driving away voters, especially women voters. >>> plus, rick santorum surge is serious enough now that the obama campaign is thinking of taking him on. team obama doesn't want to elevate santorum but they're getting a head start on operation research to portray him as a fringe figure out of touch with americans. >>> motown or no town. headlines like this one. "let detroit go bankrupt." now he's making matters worse by try i trying to get outright wing santorum. is this any way to win a michigan primary? what happens in november if either guy wins? tea parties have seemed to have sprung a leak. are they a governing party or permanent protest party? a friend of this show and a colleague of mine for years, pat buchanan. we begin with the fight over birth control and how republican men might be reaching for trouble, especially woman trouble. michael steele is chairman of the

a rook from the top of our building here. let's get a check of the weather from todd santos.ood morning. >> yeah, beautiful one again especially for new york, back lieu boston, pretty much clear skies. you can see that behind me on the satellite and radar together. we'll start to see chances for maybe even a little bit of snow and cooler temperatures to move into places like d.c. by later tomorrow afternoon and evening. but until then, there's a look outside. 40 in new york, 45 down in d.c. so a fairly mild start to to the day. there's a look at the afternoon with again a lot of numbers well above what you would expect to find this time of year. sparse some of the caucus weather, shouldn't be much of an issue now throughout minnesota, down through portions of florida, that's where the rain continues today, spending up the east coast, a few areas getting up over just a half inch worth of rainfall and then of course you can see some of that action through the central u.s. we'll talk more in "morning joe" about the snowfall in d.c. tomorrow. >>> the giants will celebrate their f

come back and take a look at a warmer few days headed our way. , >>> and rook looks like some lacrosse going on northwest baltimore county. nice night for that. chilly air. with all of that movement, i'm sure they'll be doing some perspiration. let's take a look at temps and conditions around the region 50 in washington. 45 in oakland. temperatures running two or three degrees above average this time of year. although this morning, it was awfully chilly. columbia, 49 and annapolis, kept island, down by the bay, at 51 degrees. 49, 23 today. this morning, very frosty, with clear skies, light winds. temperatures really took a nosedive. some spots get to 20. downtown, however, it stayed at 35 degrees. big difference between the airport and downtown. and that's only like eight miles as the crow flies. record, 74 and 8 back in 1895. right now, it's the southerly and southwesterly winds that will keep us about 10 to 12 degrees warmer tonight than last night. and tomorrow will be about 10 or more degrees warmer than today. that means we get into the 60s. at least upper 50s. clouds this afterno

we have a live rook from sky fox rice now. -- use the distraction from the whole no snow thing.ast the dulles toll road heading down towards tyson's. no problems to report for you. we've got plenty of cars out there on the road but your typical hot spots just really not looking too bad at this point this morning. let's move on to trafficland. as you travel inbound 207 headed out of frederick down toward the split someeth he is da. nothing in your way. your lanes are open. we do have volume but everybody is moving and you should be traveling at speed. 66 also looking good as you head through manassas continuing in through cent areville. here we are leaving fair oaks. right open, all clear for you. you've got the green light northbound 59 in virginia. 3 # 5 also looking good. look at this past duke street up to the 14th street bridge. you look great and hov vie trixs lifted everywhere except for route 50 the john hanson highway. over to you. >> thank you. >>> we continue to follow developments this morning in that foiled plot to bomb the u.s. capitol. friday, a 29-year-old was arr

. >>> there's a live rook at the cpac convention in d.c. the belly of the beast. gathering of conservatives underway. newt gingrich about to make his pitch to the crowd. his wife introducing him as we speak. let's take a listen and see what he has to say. >> thank you. what she didn't tell you, by the way, is i'm a very bad golfer. she just wouldn't say it. i want to thank dave bossy, who has been such a great friend. also on a personal note, i want to thank ralph hallow and cpac for recognizing last night tony blankly, who is such a great friend. [ applause ] >> and i want to thank the newt 2012 volunteers who have been here working and have made such a difference. we're a people-based campaign, and ourç volunteers are really important. [ applause ] >> you know, i have spoken at cpac many times. and cpac was founded to challenge the republican establishment. the fact is, when ronald reagan came here in 1974 and gave his famous speech on bold colors, that was a decade in from reagan's first great national speech for barry goldwater, a time for choosing. when reag

at 5:15, don't rook for relief at the -- look for relief at the pumps.ces are jumping and prices in the mid-atlantic region are expected to soar. tracee wilkins is live with more on this latest spike. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yes, folks are going to be waking up this morning to even higher gas prices. and according to aaa, we're looking at an average here in washington, d.c., of $3.83. it really depends where you land. here, it's $3.77 still on u street. this is where it was last week at $3.76. but it is expected to get a lot worse. again, not very good news here. according to aaa, gas prices are rapidly moving toward $4 for regular. february is the earliest prices have gotten as high as $3.50 a gallon nationally. prices normally don't head that direction until the peak summer driving season. the average in retail price for regular reached $3.65 per gallon. 12 cents higher than a week ago. 2 cents higher -- 27 cents higher than a month ago. we are 49 cents away from the all-time high of $4.11 a gallon set in july of 2008. prices are highe

. >> this is anthony rook.got an open tib fib fracture. >> when jaquan waller was critically injured on this field in 2008, nothing like this existed. there was no athletic trainer spotting injuries, no ems at the ready, no plan, and no budget to pay for anything. school superintendent beverly reap and her team came up with a solution. >> we live in this little town with all kinds of experts. we don't need to pretend we know what we're doing if we don't. we need to bring folks in and say, what would make this better? >> greenville, is after all, the place "sports illustrated" called sportstown, usa. home to east carolina university's championship ecu pirates and their renowned sports medicine program, and the only trauma center east of raleigh, north carolina. but in a small rural town strapped for cash, putting everything together was a tall order. rogers, an assistant professor at ecu, was the first on board to tackle the biggest challenge, putting athletic trainers on every field in the county. >> would you

rook at the mass, look at the entire population as it now is and say can you see any indication of a progressing improvement, anything that can encourage a philanthropist? to boudinot and the ridges, remaining on the homeland not only denied their inevitable fate of removal by the u.s. military, it also flew in the face of a powerful moral imperative; the cherokee people left surrounded by the basic elements of white culture continue fronted immorality. you will find an argument in every shop in the country, you will find its effects in the blood key tragedies frequently -- bloody tragedies frequently occurring and in the tears and groans of the widowless and fatherless, homeless, naked and hungry. a genuine patriot seeks to save his people's soul, not simply its land. and so for him and the ridges, that meant resettling out west where the cherokee people would reconstitute themselves in peace as a vir choose and prosperous nation. ironically, as sort of a side note, in choosing removal, boudinot and ridge put important distance between themselves and their missionary friends who had

let's rook at what i've done in new jersey. that's the best gauge to judge a politician. what they say in a talk show with you and bu what they've done. in two years what we've done is protect the most vulnerables are even when we had to cut $13 billion in state spending over two years, increase funding to hospitals to take care of the poor to make sure charity care was available and increase funding to federalically qualified health centers to make sure people had access to health care, made sure that people at the lowest rung of our economy were being taken care of. so of course during difficult economic times you're most concerned about the people who have the potential to suffer the most. >> that's all i wanted to hear. that's the only answer was after. >> that's logical. >> you've handed over your budget today for new jersey. one of the key planks for this is you want a 10% income tax reduction for everyone in new jersey. very controversial. tell me about this. >> well, it's part of what i was talking about earlier. everybody shared in the sacrifice in terms of the t

charles rook roa charles rock road that snapped last night.s you can see traffic is still affected hours later. the pole when it came down, lines went down all across highway, or in tere state 2 270. shut down all lanes of the road northbound and southbound for hours. the power company was able to get the lines off the road, open traffic not just on 270 but on st. charles rock road as well. look a little further east on st. charles rock road, those lines are down. we have several of these poles down. there are several businesses, as you can see, that will not be opening today as the missouri department of transportation is still working to clean this mess up. >> i felt like my chest was going to explode, and my ears and i thought, i'm not so scared, what is this? by then it was over, and everything was quiet. >> i said i need a hug. he says i have blood all over me. he says it's uncle rigs. i said, yeah i don't care. i need a hug i need to tell everybody is okay. and he said i can't tell that you. >> it's crazy, you don't have tornadoes in feb

president obama and to his allies in the media to make it look like things are getting better, but rookat the price of gas, look at the price of a barrel of oil, look at the manipulation of the domestic oil supply via our's actions to lock things up, and you start getting a collier and truer indicator of how the economy's going. jon: not long ago, mitt romney led the president in a hypothetical matchup in the polls, now he is down, mitt romney is down seven, eight points below the president. some observers say that's because mitt romney, newt gingrich, rick santorum have been engaged in this circular firing squad where they're all attacking each other. do you agree? >> i do agree with that. and i have been a proponent all along of healthy debate and great competition because it elevates our game, it makes us all produce more, produce better. i guess that's kind of my free market capitalist within me believing in competition. however, when we are losing sight of the main thing and the main thing is candidates start talking about the solutions, start talking about the alternative to barac

i think you could say that, rook, having agreed to this one expansion we don't agree to any further expansions. i think that certainly i imagine there are all kinds of objections sort of regarding how that money is being deployed, et cetera, but i think it's problematiced a ann suggests. >> there's -- it's a reflection of where republican party is at on anything involving immigration. in the migration that there's been in the last ten years, you can't do anything that looks like you're okay with immigrants coming into the country and supporting them, even -- even say, well, you know, if a woman is being abused, with want to add 5,000 visas to protect them. >> currently 10,000. the bill proposes. >> during a recent debate they agreed they wanted to increase the number of skilled immigrants in the united states. at least in that sense to say that any direction, any positive message about immigrants is rejected by republicans, is not true. i take your point. >> i don't know. i actually -- i mean, i think that that's one of the surprising things. will there be an ookt surprise in terms of republic

i think obama is the biggest .rook of all eric holder is another grcrook.he reason people cannot find a job is because they cannot pass a drug test. [inaudible] they could not pass the drug test and he got the job. i would like to say -- keep obama off the tv for a while. i'm tired of looking at his big mouth. host: let's keep the focus today on the issue of earmarks and members of congress sending money home to fund projects in their backyard. do you have a comment on that? caller: yes, if they use them for good things. they use them for stupid things, like crossings. host: members of congress in "the washington post" story defend the projects, saying they are worthwhile projects. let's go to misty, an austin,ent scholcaller in texas. caller: this is ridiculous. i live in austin. they have been trying to re beautify. i wonder how many projects have been brought in through our congress people sitting up there for years. i think we need reform. we need to make it known, like votesmart.org, so we can easily find where these people are putting money. two, we n

first, it was rooking for what was necessary to do as vital to the health care of women. but it was also looking to work with constitution -- to what was constitutional and mr. speaker, if i may say so, i believe the broad exemption that the catholic church seeks, which would penl size the -- penalize the rights of hundreds of thousands of women who work for them, who are not catholic, who do not share their views, whether or not they are catholic, on this issue, that if such an exemption were to be granted, then the administration, it seems to me, would find itself engaging in an unconstitutional exemption. the administration has accommodated the church, it has fulfilled its obligation to see to it that women have a vital health care service and it has prevented an unconstitutional violation, an i'm pleased to yield time now to mr. nadler of new york. . mr. nadler: i thank the gentlelady and her ex position on the law of the constitutionality which i'm in full agreement. as we all know, the administration announced a critically component of the health care reform law wou

rook's honor will be a well-deserved tribute to a world war ii veteran and a modeled public servant. i hope my colleagues will join me in supporting h.r. 2079 in honor of mr. john j. cook. with that i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from missouri reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. kelly: mr. speaker, i have no other speakers at the moment and i continue to reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from missouri. mr. clay: mr. speaker, i have no further speakers and i am ready to close if that's ok with the gentleman from pennsylvania. having no additional speakers, i once again urge adoption of h.r. 2079. i also ask that we keep the example of mr. cook's career in mind as we work together to craft what should be bipartisan legislation to ensure that the institution mr. cook loved so much, the united states postal service, can continue to serve our nation so well. and with that, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. t