back with andrea tantaros.he republican national committee knows name i can pronounce. mr. priebus. welcome to the sir. >> thank you, bob. thank you, sir. >> bob: nice to have you here. go ahead. >> andrea: you are outnumbered. you have two conservative greeks down here. >> coming after you. >> bob: they come after me every day. >> everyone here thinks you are more conservative than you let on, pal. >> bob: well, that will show you something about their state of mind. because that is not true. [ laughter ] >> we don't believe that you believe it. >> bob: how did you think -- i know you got to say everybody did a great job and all that. but were you surprised by the recent surge in polls by rick santorum who now looks like he is tied nationally with mitt romney? >> you know what? what i think that our base is excited about a lot of the candidates. it depends on what state you are going to. we are having a great debate in the republican party and the conservative movement. the independents are getting involved. i

>> hello, i'm eric bolling along with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, dana perino and greg gutfeld. it's five o'clock in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ >> well, it's election day primaries in arizona and michigan. polls close in just a few hours. while arizona should go solidly romney, michigan, a completely different primary, and the candidates, they're going rogue to win the wolverines state. listen to the the robo call that's got conservatives like me scratching our heads. >> romney supported the bailouts for his wall street buddies. opposed to the auto bailouts and that's a slap in the face to every michigan worker and we're not going to let romney get away with it. >> and romney fighting back with harsh words for santorum's tactics. >> it's a dirty trick, outrageous, to see rick santorum team up with the obama people and go after union labor people in detroit and try it get them to vote against me. i think it's outrageous and disgusting, a terrible dirty trick. >> all right. while santorum and romney slugged it out in michigan, president obama addressed the united auto

captioned by closed captioning services, inc >> eric: hello, i'm eric bolling with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, dana perino, greg gutfeld. it's 1:30 in the morning in tehran. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> eric: gasoline hitting $3.52 a gallon for the first time ever in february. if they include all surcharges $1 a barrel to staggering $102 a barrel. meaning much more pain at the pump headed our way. what is causing run-up in prices? tensions in the middle east are palpable. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad personall personal g the switch on the nuclear plant and showing the bird to israel. they are announcing that they are ready, able and able to drop a bomb on iran. how does the tension translate to high gas prices here? take a look at the telestrator. we broke out the telestrator for the first time. check out the world's most sensitive and dangerous oil choke point. 17 million-barrels pass through the strait of hormuz. more than 20% of all the world's consuming ability. all the production in the world passes right through the area there. 20 miles wide. here is the problem, though. h

i'm kimberly guilfoyle with bob beckel, eric bolling, andrea tantaros and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: well, the fight to preseven religious freedom in america isn't letting up up with bit. today, archbishop timothy dolan set to become a cardinal next week said that president obama broke his promise to the catholic church imposing the obamacare mandate on contraceptives. >> it seems to be at odds with the sincere assurance he gave me that he wanted to continue to work with the church in endeavors and views and projects that he shared. passionate interest in it. i can't figure it out. that's why i am hoping in the massive negative reaction to this ruling, i'm hoping he will go back to the assurances he gave me. we can't have government bureaucracy invading the privacy and the independent pep dense of autonomy and integrity that the constitution gives to religion. >> kimberly: andrea, the catholic church at war with the obama administration. >> andrea: they are. a terrible place for the administration to be. battling the hi

judy miller, jim pinkerton, kirsten powers and andrea tantaros. keep it rye here on fox news channel. ♪. ♪ [ music ] . >> this is a fox news alert. a home going service they didn't call it a funeral for whitney houston in new jersey this afternoon. the stars shined today, some of the biggest names in the music and movie industry came together to remember a legend. tonight we'll have the latest including the investigation into the cause of whitney's untimely death. rick santorum surge in michigan. what does that mean for romney? governor huckabee is here to break it down. plus... the sole lynn dra boondoggle. money, gone. the white house is going to talk. will we get some answers? coming up tonight on "justice". good evening, welcome to justice, today was a day to celebrate whitney houston's life. >> judge, good evening to you. the beautiful whitney houston was a celebration of her life. a star-studded line up of some of the best people in music and hollywood shared memories of whitney houston. >> there is a grace that carried her. that is one thin

. >> monica: joining me with rea action, charles payne and co-host of the five, andrea tantaros. great to see you guys. >> we got nancy pelosi unemployment creates jobs. then we've got valerie jarret that is running the white house and the country. basically saying unemployment checks stimulate the economy. this is classic leftist thinking. they actually believe that does it? >> this is the neo keynesian. they believe if you give money to a defense contractor or sit on a guy sitting on the couch. that is sometime lieu active. we know that looking at history clearly pelosi didn't study history, obama didn't study history. if you look back what got us out of the great depression was not the new deal. it was world war ii. >> monica: here is where i disagree with. they actually governor this way. expanding dependency. >> to your point there has been a might have campaign from day one to make feel people not feel ashamed about this. it's no fault of your own, it's no fault of your own. if i got a business of 20 people and i have to lay off two, it will be something of their own fault

i'm kimberly guilfoyle with juan williams, brian kilmeade, andrea tantaros, and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >>> well, the american people aren't stupid. they know that's not a plan. especially since we're already drilling. that is a bumper sticker. kiloh, yeah. that's right, america. the president doesn't think you're stupid. he's just going to treat you that way. in a speech yesterday president attempted to put concerned americans at ease over rapidly increasing gasoline prices. he attacked his critics and he promised more clean energy and said he wants to penalize oil companies by raising their taxes. since you aren't stupid, the president doesn't want you to get your hopes up. >> the easiest thing in the world to make phony election year promises about lower gas prices. >> kimberly: any politician who does something like that in an election year, should be the source of both scorn and ridicule. >> i want to invest that money in clean, affordable, renewable energy sources like wind power and solar power and biofuel so we're not talking a

i'm bob beckel with andrea tantaros, eric bolling, darren darren and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ our top story is the continuation to my one more thing from yesterday. this newsweek cover highlighting the war on christianity in muslim countries. an example is december of 2011 churches in nigeria were torched. catlich church, another church, christian church 40. people were killed in this ram pain. this is not isolated incident. it happened across the muslim world. it happened in egypt with coptic christians and it happened in pakistan. it's happened in many of the countries that we have -- reportedly have allies with it. we'll keep going with this. dana, we give money to some of these countrys and yet, we go out of our way to respect the muslim religion and allow them to practice and build their mosques. is it unfair of us to be picking up the countries and say enough is enough, the authorities in the country, why don't you do something about this? >> dana: it's absolutely right and appropriate we should be doing so. we need to

. ♪ >> bob: hello, i'm bob beckel with andrea tantaros, eric bolling, dana perino, and greg gutfeld.t's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> bob: big story tonight, the santorum sweep. rick santorum winning in three states yesterday. colorado, minnesota, missouri. it looks like his strategy i is comparing romney to obama. >> they have the contracts to make barack obama the issue in the race and not our candidate who is in respects the big issues of the day, just where obama is. >> bob: i have been around presidential politics for 30 years. it woke this morning and when i heard this, this shocked me. i got to tell you, i was just taken aback. >> greg: then you walked home. >> bob: then i went home. i saw you on the way. andrea, who is hurt more here? mitt romney or gingrich? >> andrea: they both get hurt. because look, they were fighting over the conservative vote. santorum and gingrich. but i think it hurts romney more. because now he has to fight a three-headed monster. gingrich isn't going to get out of this. it will be santorum, gingrich and it will be president obama

i'm dana perino with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, eric bolling and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> dana: our top story the controversy surrounding obama's contraception mandate is growing by the day. some in the catholic church is refusing to abide by the rule and one says catholics refuse to be treated like second class citizens by the obama administration. it looks like the managers may be considering the mandate. >> we have great respect for work that the institutions do. they're important elements of our country. they serve many, many america americans. we certainly don't want to abridge anyone's religious freedom. we are going to look for a way to move forward that both guarantees women that basic preventative care that they need, and respects, respects the prerogatives of religious institutions. >> dana: earlier today one of our colleagues, fox news contributor and columnnist for daily beast kirsten powers wrote about this and said i'm not catholic. i support contraception, but this is madness. andrea, i think the adminis

i'm andrea tantaros. this this is "the five." our top story tonight, obama's enemies list. you heard the saying, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. what about keeping your friends close and your enemies on a list? what if that list was being held by the white house? that's the accusation being leveled today in the "wall street journal" by legal giant ted olson, a former bush administration solicitor general and a representative of the koch brothers two prominent republican fund-raisers. here is what he said today, some serious accusations, folks. he said, it is exceedingly important for all americans to respond with outrage to what the president and his allies are doing to demonize and stigmatize david ask charles cosh. it's been choreographed from the very top to damage or demean one's political enemies is abhorrent. and he charges they've been launching this campaign and engaging in innuendo and going after the koch brothers even in a political ad. we saw this january 18, which is a little suspect. so i got to go to you, bob. this enemy's list, is it true an

today on lease from greece, andrea tantaros. the silver samurai, bob beckel. the oil man with the great tan, eric bolling. and america's gumdrop, dana perino. it's 5:00 in new york city. 1:00 a.m. in my spleen. this is "the five." this is packed tighter than willy wonka band. let's do this america. yesterday, president superhero at the united auto workers conference where he gave us his view of america. it wonder if he said that america is not just looking out for yourself. that it's not just about greed. it's not just about trying to climb to the very top. and keeping everybody else down. >> america is not just looking out for yourself, not just about greed. it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. >> greg: so predictable. talk about a back-handed compliment. him saying it's not just about greed, means it is about greed. it's like president, you're not just a left wing community organize they're got lucky. you are also a good golfer. shouldn't president obama apologize to half of america whose motives he questioned? i

i'm andrea tantaros with bob beckel, eric bolling, dana perino and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in the big apple. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ c'mon ♪ baby don't you want to go ♪ ♪ we don't; chicago ♪ >> andrea: that was president obama singing "sweet home, chicago" and that's where republicans want him to go come november. the question is who is the best man for the job? yesterday we were talking about what the conservative base wants on "the five" versus what the republican establishment wants in a candidate. rush limbaugh spent a lot of time talking about our conversation today on his radio show. here is part of it. >> the establishment really care more about the independent vote than they do the base. at this point in time. it may not have always been the case. right now it's the case. they are more worried about losing independents than they are securing the support of the conservative base. the question is how do you get them? this notion that you force them to run away from you by fighting back, that has always been absurd to me. they try to tell us these i

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we've got fox news political analyst juan williams and co-host of "the five" andrea tantaros.ing. >> good morning. >> let's start with you, andrea, does rick santorum's sweep prove that the people who voted wanted a conservative voice? somebody more conservative than mitt romney or who is that who wound up going to the polls a couple of days ago, people in the more conservative wing of the republican party? >> yeah, look, i think the conservatives have been unsettled on the candidate for a long time and they look at mitt romney and they're still suspicious that he's going to back their conservative beliefs. so the natural fit was a rick santorum. you know, i've just never bought this argument that mitt romney was the most electable candidate because if you look in 2010, voters poured out in droves to the polls and they voted against barack obama's very liberal agenda. so rick santorum is coming out now saying mitt romney is obama light. in order to beat obama in a general, you need somebody who will be able to draw the sharpest contrast with the president. that person is going