[applause] charles rosen.ational humanities medal to charles rosen for his contributions as a pianist and a scholar. demonstrating a rare ability to join artistry to the history of culture and ideas, his writings on classical composers and the romantic tradition highlight how music evolves and remains a vibrant, living art. [applause] teofilo f. ruiz. [applause] the 2011 national humanities medal to teofilo f. ruiz for his outstanding scholarship in history. an accomplished teacher and author, dr. ruiz has captivated students and scholars by deepening our knowledge of medieval spain and europe, and exploring the role terror has played in society for centuries. [applause] ramÓn saldÍvar. [applause] the 2011 national humanities medal to ramÓn saldÍvar for his bold exploration of identity along the border separating the united states and mexico. in his studies of chicano literature and the development of the novel in europe and america, dr. saldÍvar highlights the cultural and literary markings that divide and un

mark rosen. rosen.utenant with the beverly hills police department. >> will you give us an update later? >> ile give you more information as it become a's veilable. >> she was in the fourth floor in her room. >> yes. >> and there are investigators up there right now investigating the crime scene? >> we brought in detectives. they are currently investigating this and we will get more information to you as it becomes available. >> her body is still there. >> she still is in the hotel, yes. >> will this affect tonight's events? >> i couldn't comment on that. >> thank you, lieutenant. >> any other questions? >> thank you. >> judge jeanine: all right. just hearing from lieutenant mark rosen of the beverly hills police department who says that whitney houston was positively identified by friends, family and coworkers. now, joining us is celebrity journalist flo anthony. to we have flo with us here? all right. flo, thank you you very much for being with us this evening. >> good evening, judge pirro. >> judge j

i spoke to cnn's hilary rosen earlier. chairman and ceo of the recording industry association of america. >> what an amazing coincidence that this would happen during grammy week, of course, when the entire music community comes together to celebrate the best of music in a series of kind of week-long events culminating in tonight's grammy awards. in some respects i feel like this -- if, you know, it is way too early for her to leave us, but the fact that she's doing it around a night where there are so many public tributes available is wonderful because i think for the last few years there has been too much negativity around whitney and what she's -- and her life and so the ability to sort of sit back today and listen all that great music and to listen to jennifer hudson and chaka khan tonight and pay tribute to her will be magical and so well deserved. >> yeah, magical sounds like the right word. so, you know, while it is very heart breaking, you know, that's kind of the understatement, you know, that i'm making, that how

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according to beverly hills police lieutenant mark rosen.o-workers as being whitney houston. that police lieutenant said he got a call, they got an emergency call, a 911 call around 3:23 into the police department. when they arrived two to three minutes later, there were members of the fire department, hotel staff, emergency workers working on the person in that fourth floor room. that person never regained consciousness. they said there was no sign of any criminal intent, and at this point, there is no word on the cause of death of whitney houston. cnn's piers morgan is live for us now live in los angeles. piers, what a sad evening. what a sad story to have to report to our viewers. >> it's shocking, don. the great mentor who discovered whitney houston, i talked to him and we were talking about him having the greatest voice of them all. i know he was excited about whitney being at the party. apparently she went to an event last night and was singing there. i'm told the party is going ahead tonight. it will obviously be now sort of a memoria

james rosen alluded to this in his report.ot of pro-life people think that actually they just -- they haven't changed anything, that they're actually not going to be -- it hasn't said they'll be funding planned parenthood. >> bret: such a great organization, steve. they did great things, but they seem to, this week, manage to make a lot of people on all sides angry. >> i think they did. the big take away is for pro-lifers who didn't know of the komen foundation's involvement with planned parenthood, now they do. that's going to be a long-term problem. >> bret: okay. final one here. super bowl picks. down the row, steve, you're first? >> the giants are hot. but i think the patriots will be too much. >> bret: you don't have provide detail. kirsten? >> i'm not a theologian, but grace is something you can transfer. brady could beat tebow. nobody, therefore, can beat brady. >> bret: okay. the giants beat my falcons. therefore, i choose the giants. okay. panel, thank you. we'll see how we did on monday. that's it for the panel. but

chief washington correspondent james rosen shows us tonight that crackdown seems to be intensifying.reporter: outside mosqu mosques, and houses, amateur video purportedly shows the city of homs absurding the artillery, amid reports that regime tanks in the east are streaming toward the city. >> damascus, too, is aflame with violence. the uprising against president bashar assad is now in the 12th month. and the death toll according to the u.n. exceeds 5400 with some placing it above 7,000. that fact along with growing defections among syrian army officers including some operating armored vehicles and some in the fourth tuition, integral to assad's security led to growing calls for american intervention to tip the scale. >> there are ways to get weapons in syria. it's time we gave them wherewithal to fight back and stop the slaughter. this put on the table the idea of economic and humanitarian assistance with the possibility of arms being provided at a later date. >> some tough uniform commanders past and present disagree. >> i think it's premature to take a decision to arm the opposit

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harry reid indicated this week he will allow it up for a vote soon internet washington, james rosen,ews. >> john: we'll talk about the price of gasoline and how the tension with iran might affect it. the fox all-stars join me right after a quick break. >>> when president obama came to office, the average cost of gasoline was $1.79. today the average cost for gasoline is $3.28. that is an 83% increase in the cost of the pump since president obama has been in office. >> he comes to reducing dependence on foreign oil, increasing production of oil and gas. increasing reduction on clean energy. it's really all of the above approach. >> the price of gasoline heats up, so does the rhetoric. bring in the panel. steve hayes for "weekly standard." a.b. stoddard associate editor of the hill. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. let's kick around what the political impact of rising gasoline prices will be. and let's put up this really interesting graphic. tracks gas prices in presidential approval back to the carter administration. while it's not a mirror image it very closely measures pres

which focuses on america's energy issues and hillary rosen. apologize for the pun there. you say the price of gas is absolutely a winning issue for republicans. you thing it's a winning issue for republicans? >> winning issue for republicans because there happens to be a democrat in the white house. if the situation were reversed, it would be a winning issue for the democrats. to protect the president in this regard, every president 6 richard nixon at least has said, elect me and we'll have energy unless. first, we're not going to have energy unless because two of three biggest oil traders are mexico and canada. and we want to keep trading with them on oil. but the other side of this thing is that it -- there is no reason for, in terms of demand, for oil prices to be spiking to $109. it's all in the lead up to this, geopolitical. you have nigeria, iran, all of these places where traders are saying, i need to protect myself, moving forward, and they're bidding the prices up. but there's no demand reason for this. >> hillary, it is kind of hypocritical for the president to

james rosen, fox news. >> bret: one of the president's strategies for reelection centers not on faitht finances. chief national correspondent, jim angle has the first in a series of reports on income disparity. >> there is nothing subtle about the administration's case, the vast majority of americans, and over the last few decades, the rungs on the ladder of opportunity have grown farther and farther apart. the middle class has shrunk. >> suggesting everyone, but the rich is losing ground. but researchers say that isn't true. and one who supports mr. obama, and writes that the argument that mobilities are in decline are deceitful and dishonest. >> you routinely hear year after year, this is the first generation that's going to do worse than their parents, and i don't think that there's any data so far that supports that that's ever actually been true. >> there's no dispute that the wealthiest 1% of americans have enjoyed stung gains of income over recent decades and no evidence those gains came at the expense of the middle class. >> global is not as high as it ought to be and i would

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chief washington correspondent james rosen tells us some of the officials objected to what they wereg and who they were hearing it from. >> i want to make an inquiry. >> democrats on the house oversight and reform committee angrily accused congressman darrell issa of california stacking the panel hearing on religious liberty with clergymen and scholars who oppose obama's mandate on contraception. he said the holy man himself could be complicit in a sham hearing. >> this is a panel designed with your conscious participation or not, to try one more time to embarrass the president of the united states and his administration, by overstating an issue which is sacred to all americans. religious freedom. >> the witnesses disputed that view. >> if they don't see this as a religious liberty issue, what do they see as a religious liberty issue? >> they blasted the new h.h.s. rules that force catholic affiliated institution to provide female contraception in the healthcare plan even if in what the administration said insurers pick up the tab. >> religious organizations would still be obligated

james rosen, fox news. >> bret: up next, why some american businesses are pulling up stakes and going to canada. later, one woman's crusade to overcome government red tape. and get a legal handgun. >> bret: talks between the u.s. and north korea resumed today. the restart had been delayed for two months after the death of kim jong il. the u.s. wants north korea to abandon the nuclear weapons program. the north is seeking food, aid and diplomatic concessions. the soldiers are accused of biggest leak in u.s. history deferred his plea. army private bradley manning delayed the trial by military jury or judge and is charged with giving half a million sensitive battlefield reports to the wikileaks website. >> bret: the supreme court heard lobbying about a law to make at it crime to receive top military honors. decision about the legality of the stolen valor act is expected by late june. wednesday, we told you how president obama and his republican challengers are coming up with their versions of corporate tax reform. tonight, correspondent steve brown shows us just how damaging the current

lieutenant mark rosen of the beverly hills police department said that the cause of death is still being investigated. it is way too early to speculate what happened. there were no obvious signs of any criminal intent inside that hotel room and we have heard reports that she may have been found in the bath tub but the officials with the beverly hills police department have not confirmed that information to us. i can tell you that the crime scene van, the beverly hills police department crime scene lab, mobile crime scene lab is still here. earlier, when we first got here, it was parked right out in front of the hotel right at the valet area where all these guests and all of the le limosd everything was pulling up. this left. we presumed it left the scene but it resurfaced at the rear of the hotel near some loading docks and the los angeles county coroner's office is still maintaining as of just a few moments guy that that office has not received a call to respond to this location. now, a couple of things here. they may not be very forth right with the information about that because of ob

in washington, james rosen, fox news. >> newt gingrich did not compete in arizona or michigan.is putting in a great deal of time in the state. he was the congressman for georgia. senior national correspondent john roberts tells us gingrich has work to do. >> georgia is a hotbed of conservatism and gathering place for undecided voters. >> i change midmind five times already. >> patty and rick are undecided. they lived here 25 years, voted for newt gingrich in the past and say this time around they just can't. >> i really wanted newt at first. but some of the negative things have pulled him out of it. >> i have always been very proud of him. but the personal issues really come to heart. i struggle with that. >> gingrich's survival as candidate depends on the southern strategy. he has powerful help in the state. >> he has to do what he does best. that is to show that he first of all, can engage the president in a meaningful debate setting. somebody that has the right idea. leadership and electability are important qualities for voters where unemployment is 10%. home prices are in

>> andrea: i was talking with our colleague james rosen and he seems a little bit muted.was up on the stage. the music was bumping. i think he needed to deliver big-time and i'm not sure he did it. we have didn't get a chance to ask him a question. i tried. he went in an event. i was going to ask him, mr. speaker, do you think conservatives are giving up on you? now i'd rephrase the question, are you giving up on this effort? after hearing the speech. >> bob: by question about this, romney talking points or not, romney is not perceived to be a con seventive in that crowd, is he? >> andrea: no. he is not. he's not. >> kimberly: no hesitation there. that was great. thank you so much. hang tight down there. don't make a move. we're coming back to you later in the show. we'll hear from congressman allen west. that's all coming up. but next, did you hear about this new $25 billion bank deal that the obama administration put together? oh, yeah. eric, he's got it. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] we know you don't wait until the end of the quarter to think about your money... ♪ that right

lieutenant mark rosen of the beverly hills police department said that the cause of death is still being investigated. it is way too early to speculate what happened. there were no obvious signs of any criminal intent inside that hotel room and we have heard reports that she may have been found in the bath tub but the officials with the beverly hills police department have not confirmed that information to us. i can tell you that the crime scene van, the beverly hills police department crime scene lab, mobile crime scene lab is still here. earlier, when we first got here, it was parked right out in front of the hotel right at the valet area where all these guests and all of the le limosd everything was pulling up. this left. we presumed it left the scene but it resurfaced at the rear of the hotel near some loading docks and the los angeles county coroner's office is still maintaining as of just a few moments guy that that office has not received a call to respond to this location. now, a couple of things here. they may not be very forth right with the information about that because of ob

the backlash, another with james rosen tonight, it seems to continue to gain.was an indication today that the administration might back down and jay carney, the white house press secretary said they are not reconsidering it. >> we had axelrod who began to walk it back and look if a way out. you have carney who walked the back and said we won't change. i predict a third switch and they will walk back the walk-back of walk-back. they are going to cave. this is a powerful issue. they might have imagined being liberals and secularists the small minority of devout catholics themselves don't practice contraception. but this offends everybody. whatever the personal look at a or view on contraception it's assault on church and the good work it does. it doesn't respect that a church isn't only what happens in prayer, it's also what happens when it deals with the sick and poor. it has to practice faith. what the administration has done to ignore that and curtail religious liberty is a powerful issue. other elements will gather. the administration in the end has to cave o

james rosen, fox news. >> bret: up next, why some american businesses are pulling up stakes and going to canada. later, one woman's crusade to overcome government red tape. and get a legal handgun. [ dad ] i'm usually checking up on my kids, but last year my daughter was checking up on me. i wasn't eating well. she's a dietitian, and she suggested i try boost complete nutritional drink to help get the nutrition i was missing. now i drink it every day and i love the great taste. [ female announcer ] boost has essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to help keep bones strong and 10 grams of protein thelp maintain muscle. and our great taste is guaranteed your money . learn more at boost.com. [ dad ] i choose great taste. i choose boost. >> bret: talks between the u.s. and north korea resumed today. the restart had been delayed for two months after the death of kim jong il. the u.s. wants north korea to abandon the nuclear weapons program. the north is seeking food, aid and diplomatic concessions. the soldiers are accused of biggest leak in u.s. history deferred

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