and then delaware might be newt gingrich's waterloo. remember the good old days. >> you will bee the nominee? >> i will be nominee. it's very hard to look at the recent polls and not think that the odds are very high. >> odds not quite as high now. >> and then a rant against the president. >> the rich don't pay their taxes. let me tell you something, right, first they say, united states of america, you can do everybody you want. go for it. so then you go for it and they are like [ censor bleep ]. >> it's go time. ♪ [ theme music ] ♪ >> oh newt gingrich you remember the heady days when he thought he had it locked down. who can forget this incredible quote from him. >> you are going to be the nominee. >> i will be the nominee. >> i can't get enough of that quote. i will be the nominee. it turns out of course he is disastrously behind mitt romney. and is he going to win new york? no. he is going to win pennsylvania. >> not even close. he is putting all of his eggs in the delaware basket. it's a strategy that hasn't been used very often, be

and then you have scott walker go on tv just recently saying this would be the battle of waterloo for the public employee unions. and if they lose here, that, you know, everything changes for them. and i think -- i don't think it's a battle of waterloo for them, but i do think that the race is very important. and you'll see other states attack public employee unions. you know, if they, in fact, would lose this race. you're right about the outside groups. there are a number of outside groups on both sides that will be playing a major race -- a major factor in this race. and, in fact, the candidates themselves are probably going to have very little to do with how they're defined in this race. in the primary for the democratic side, some of the candidates are asking that this could be a positive race. but i don't see that happening. the outside interest groups doing independent expenditures are going to go after each of the candidates. and in particular, the current front-runner, the milwaukee mayor, tom baer. he's going to be attacked and probably attacked pretty viciously over the next

and then you have scott walker go on tv just recently saying this would be the battle of waterloo for the public employee unions. and if they lose here, that, you know, everything changes for them. and i think -- i don't think it's a battle of waterloo for them, but i do think that the race is very important. and you'll see other states attack public employee unions. you know, if they, in fact, would lose this race. you're right about the outside groups. there are a number of outside groups on both sides that will be playing a major race -- a major factor in this race. and, in fact, the candidates themselves are probably going to have very little to do with how they're defined in this race. in the primary for the democratic side, some of the candidates are asking that this could be a positive race. but i don't see that happening. the outside interest groups doing independent expenditures are going to go after each of the candidates. and in particular, the current front-runner, the milwaukee mayor, tom baer. he's going to be attacked and probably attacked pretty viciously over the next

is we announced over a year ago we're putting $150 million upgrading the lines in our foundry in waterloo, iowa. 15 years ago you could go anywhere in the world and get boundary castings at cost effective prices. today out of that foundry we estimate that we're 20% to 30% more competitive on large complex castings than any merchant foundry we could find in the world. and the nice thing and this gets back to when the government policies reinforce those type of investments, you put $150 million investment in a foundry it's not a job that you put in place one year and take away the next year. it's a job you plan on keeping 15, 20 years. >> talk about where the u.s. fits with your company globally. what hal is talking about are companies that used to use china as an export platform to serve u.s. markets, and that advantage has been shrinking so they are serving more of the u.s. market domestical domestically. your u.s. operations are really geared to export as much as towards domestic. where does the u.s. fit in the global sourcing plan? >> in that context you have to have a balance. you're n

and very soon series of revolutionary wars which then become napoleonic wars that won't end until waterloo. so the early republic exists in the shadow of a world war that is longer than world war's i and ii put together, as violent as either of them and ideological as the cold war. and washington's adviser take sides on in this conflict. early on, hamilton has a conversation with the british agent and tells him we think english -- united states and britain. what he means by that we are traditional trading partners and this has been good for both of us. let's try to keep this going despite our former conflicts. jefferson and madison are lifelong friends and stick with the french revolution right through the reign of terror. when jeff are son is secretary of state he writes to the american in paris and says rather than that the revolution should fail i would have seen half the earth devastated. this is how passionate he is about the french revolution. now how serious were these disagreements of opinion? they were serious enough that people killed each other. the founders did not set up guill

software engineer operating in india is no cheaper than embedded software engineer operating in waterloo, iowa. we're there because that's where we can get a lot of talent and keep it. here, we cannot get -- first of all you don't have enough u.s. born embedded software engineers being educated right now. that's where companies like us, a lot of companies, business round tables working on the stem project trying to get more people, but that takes a long period of time before they go through the system, come up. in the meantime, you've got to be able to take the ones that are educated here and offer them jobs here so that you can keep the nucleus here. there's going to be a day when so much of the nucleus is going to be someplace else that you're going to wake up and say if 2/3 of our r and d staff is over there, why don't we just move the r and d center there. >> i find it a frustrating part of the competitiveness debate. there are a lot of things that they're growing faster business wants to be near those opportunities. but to lose investment because of a lack of skilled workforce, seem

it is quote disappointed in the ruling and is looking for ways to challenge it this is a saga of waterloo who look back and told us to keep their promise. of placing in all the other things you know it gives them a little chance to live and a chance for india to stand out against domination from the west preassure either party new delhi india. our time now to work its no bit more about russia with our usual russia close up or the latest insulation our newest adventure to earth to a far flung part of the nation. and today we're exploring a russia's extreme north the region it's bigger than france but half of its territory lies beyond the arctic circle but the winter there lasts eight months which means only a few species can survive in the harsh conditions reindeer and fish mean everything for the indigenous people populating this unwelcoming land so we are dispassionate tom gotten over there to see what he makes of. an icon of the north and yet some other native northern peoples follow grazing reindeer wherever they go their routines revolving around the animals the life of the reindeer h

quote disappointed in the rule in and is looking for ways to challenge it this is a solid birth of waterloo to the broken hearted us who even their product of. the placing won't give all the better things you know give them a limit a chance to live and it chance for india to stand out against domination from the west koreas sri there are t. new delhi india. a motorola has been held in moscow in support of russia's orthodox church about seven hundred drivers and bikers tied balloons and flags to their vehicles to take part in the procession participants say the event is to support the orthodox church which is on the public criticism with several protests including punk rock taking over the pulpit in one of moscow's cathedrals and several prayer services in support of the faith and many of its holy sites are planned on sunday. trying to get to know more of russia now in our close up series it's always a venture to a far flung part of the country. today we're exploring russia's extreme north the region is bigger than france and half of its territory lies within the arctic circle which of them

is quote disappointed in the rule him and is looking for ways to challenge it this is a sort of waterloo to the back and all of us who even their product you know the pricing and even all the other things you know really give them a living wage a chance to live in a good chance for india to stand up against domination from the west preassure either r t new delhi india. or at a time after to get more of russia in our latest collection of close up it's almost recent adventure tour to a number four flood part of the nation. and today we're exploring russia's extreme north. and it's bigger than france but half of its territory lies are well beyond the arctic circle their winter their last at least eight months which means only a few species can survive in the harsh conditions reindeer and fish mean everything for being good generous people populating this are rather than welcoming land so we send our teams time to go and enjoy himself. an icon of the north near yet some of the native northern peoples follow grazing reindeer wherever they go their routines revolving around the animals the lif

announced over a year ago we're putting $150 million upgrading of the old lines in the foundry in waterloo, iowa. 15 years ago you could go anywhere and get foundry castings at effective prices. today out of that foundry we estimate that we're 20% to 30% more competitive on large castings than any merchant foundry we could find. when the government policies reinforce those type of investments, when you put $150 million investment in a foundry it's not a job you put in place and you take away the next. it's a job that you plan take a. it's a job you plan on keeping there the next 15, 20 years. >> talk where your company fits with the u.s. globally. a lot used china as a u.s. export platform to serve the u.s. market and that platform is serving. what you're talk about is more global sourcing in which your u.s. operations are really geared toward export as much toward domestic. where does the u.s. fit the global sourcing plans. >> in that context, you have to have a balance. you're not going to service india from the u.s. it's a totally different product forum for us. totally different price

soft mayor engineer operating in india is no keeper than embedded software engineer operating in waterloo, iowa. we're there. that's where we can get talent and keep it. here we cannot get, first of all you don't have enough u.s. born embedded software engineers being educated. that's where companies like this, working on a stem project, but that take as long period of time before they go through the system. in the meantime you've got to be able to take the ones that are being educated here. what i fear is there is going to be a day when so much of the nook you lus is going to be someplace else like yand that you're going to wake up and if two thirds of our r & d staff is there why not move the center there. >> i find it a frustrating part of the debate. there are a lot of things, india is growing faster, obviously businesses want to be near those opportunities. but to lose because of lack of a ski skilled work force. >> i would just add that apart from a variety of initiatives that both carried out in the private sector and led by governments to improve the supply of technology workers,

jim dean lind --demint was heard to say we're going to turn this into obama's waterloo. the senate republican leader -- the republican senate agenda is to defeat obama. this was three years and 11 months before the 2012 election. and nobody in the republican caucus except for olympia snowe, susan collins and arlen specter would talk to the democrats about the bill. i had been a child during the 1930 depression and i didn't want to see another depression. my father who was a russian immigrant in 1930 found -- make it hard -- we live in wichita and my father packed up the family and headed east to philadelphia where we had a sister in depressions. that is what families do. they move in with one another to survive. those were really tough times and i had been there and it was plain that the vote was going to be highly precarious and it turned out to be just that. that single vote out of 10,000 turned out to be the problem which i had. the situation where for example senator collins and senator snowe would not cross the line. we had a case called citizens united which is pre

a very elevated risk in north eastern iowa, including waterloo. over towards lacrosse and eau claire, wisconsin, and back to minneapolis. a lot of populated areas today again under the threat of severe weather. we had it yesterday and there is likely going to be more today before we are done with this storm? >> jamie: we are glad everyone heeded the and all got out of the way. thanks so much. thanks. >> eric: we will continue to follow the powerful storm system and all the heart-breaking damage. we will update you throughout the newscast. and for the latest storm coverage, go to foxnews.com to check it out. >> jamie: another fox news alert for you. a series of coordinated attacks against our forces in afghanistan. at least seven targetsurn attack in kabul, including the u.s. embassy and nato headquarters. more than 10 separate explosions rocked the capitol. the taliban claiming responsibility, warning it's just the beginning, they say, of an aggressive spring offensive. we are treming live from kabul. very sensitive sites. >> reporter: the attacks

, jim demint, senator from south carolina was heard to say we're going to turn this into obama's waterloo. mcconnell, the republican senate leader said, the republican senate agenda is to defeat obama. this was three years and 11 months before the 2012 election. nobody in the republican caucus except for olympia snowe, susan collins, and arlen specter would talk to the democrats about the bill. i had been a child during the 1930 depression, and i didn't want to see another depression. my father who was a russian immigrant in 1930 founded -- he called it in yiddish that's fair, hard way to make a living. we lived in wichita, and my father packed up the family and headed east to philadelphia where he had a sister. in depressions, that's what families do. they move in with one another to survive, and those were really, really tough times, and i had been there, and it was plain that the vote was going to be highly procare yows, and it turned out to be just that, and that single vote out of 10,000 turned out to be the problem which i had, and that has created a situation where, for example, se

demint, the senator from south carolina was heard to say we are going to turn this into obama's waterloo. the republican leader said the republican senate agenda is to defeat obama. this was three years and 11 months before the 2012 election, and nobody in the republican caucus except for columbia snow, susan collins and arlen specter would talk to the democrats without the bill. i had been a child during a the 1930 depression, and i didn't want to see another depression. my father who was a russian immigrant in 1930 found that he called it yiddish -- we live in wichita, and my father packed up the family and headed east to philadelphia. in depressions that's what families do, they move in with one another, and those were tough times, and i had been there. it was plain the vote was going to be highly precarious and it turned out to be just that. that single vote out of the 10,000 turned up to be the problem which i had come and that has created a situation where comfort example senator collins and senator snowe wouldn't cross again. we had a case called citizens united, which is pretty w

it happened at a ruckus party in waterloo, iowa. down, taylor grabbed one of the officer's pistols. >> i just shot the man three times, right? everybody broke and run. and the other police, he was still down, right? so i ran over there and i shot him three times. it wasn't because i was on no drugs or alcohol. i wasn't impaired, you know. >> and afterwards? >> trying to get away, it wasn't no remorse or nothing. i wasn't even thinking about turning myself in or nothing like that, right? i hid for about five or six days in the cornfields before they caught me, right? they give me a natural life sentence, discharged by death. >> for the next 20 years he was transferred to various prisons due to gang activity and predatory behavior. the aging inmate landed in anamosa in 2002. shortly afterwards t@ilor chose to participate in a victim pact program. but it wasn't out of remorse. he was hoping it would earn him a transfer back to his favorite prison. >> first, i was going to use it to try to get back to ft. madison. you know, i wanted to

and then we've got a risk of strong storms later today from lexington, kentucky, all the way up to waterloo, as far east as columbus, ohio, could see a tornado or two. rain fall amounts, especially through kentucky and on to 1 to >> good morning..ra we're off to a chilly start. it will warm up quickly. temperatures get back closer to average. we climbed into time now for today's money 911. that's where we tackle your financial problems. from creating a budget to buying your first home we've got expert advice from jean chatzky, "today's" financial editor and the author of "money rules." farnoosh for onby a personal finance expert on yahoo! finance and sharon epperson is the nbc personal finance correspondent. >> good morning. >> we're going to get started. we're going to go right to skype. say hello to heidi. she's skyping in from sugar loaf key, florida. what's your question? >> okay. we are in the united states coast guard family and our new assignment is bringing us to baltimore maryland for the next three years. renting in the baltimore suburbs is incredibly expensive while similar homes

i would argue -- that's the attack of the old guard at waterloo. but it's interesting, it's something i sort of, there's a little ride piece at the end of this book, i won't tell you much about it, but it's a visitor, a foreigner who was really there, and he's observing it and reporting back to the british army. and his conclusion -- and this was the conclusion of european observers. there were austrians, german, british, french on both sides as well, and they were snobs, and their idea was, well, these americans don't really know what they're doing. they can't really fight. and right until the end of the war they said these americans are an army of amateurs, they don't know what they're doing. and they failed to learn the lessons. because they failed to learn the lessons of picket's charge or coal harbor or the attacks at perters burg, in 1914 you had the europeans, the sophisticated europeans jumping out of fences, charging across open fields, and there's now machine guns and barbed wire and a lot of high explosives. and they're slaughtered. i me

he knows he has to win or that's his waterloo. according to quinnipiac poll that's just out, it's a six point advantage. most of the other polls, one had them within nine and one we had within two so it's really wide. now is the time that the romney campaign usually pours in millions of dollars in ads. >> in the last couple of weeks. that's right. rick santorum while he's ahead of 6 1/2 in the real clear politics average, keep in mind, it was just about a month ago where he had 15, 16, 17 points ahead of mitt romney. meanwhile, as you look at the delegate count, mitt romney really has pulled ahead substantially. currently, he has 655 santorum 278. newt and ron paul in the back. so far, santorum has won just 26% of the delegates so far. he needs to pick up 80% of the delegates going forward to clinch the nomination. however, that is highly unlikely because the number of states are proportional. you know what? it's pretty much a foregone conclusion. it's going to be mitt romney. >> got between 80 and 90 last night. >> it's interesti

home state, and rick santorum must know this, that mitt romney is going to make pennsylvania his waterloo. if i were mitt romney today, i would go up with millions of dollars of ads in pennsylvania today, and let him know, you know what, you say in this race, and you make me sweat this out, and you stop me from focusing on barack obama, you know what i'm going to do? i'm going to reduce you to rubble in your home state. and then just like rome, i'm going to go to carthage and salt the earth to make sure nothing grows back there again. i will kill you politically in your home state. i will humiliate you worse than you were humiliated in 2006. you want to play, big boy? let's play. game on. this is just pure politics. and santorum, he can't afford a loss in pennsylvania. >> well, what can he afford, mark halperin, if you're funding the superpac supporting rick santorum? are you taking it to pennsylvania and on? >> well, they haven't had much money lately. if romney wins there, is no 2016. two, 16 has got a lot of powerful people running in the republican party. >> nobody thinks romney is go

and then we've got a risk of strong storms making their way from lexington, kentucky, back to waterloo, and as far east as columbus, ohio. damaging wind, hail, maybe a tornado or two. looking for anywhere from 1 to 2 inches of rain down through that area. >>> we do have showers on the radar to start you out on the wednesday. good morning. i'm christina lore wren. let's take you right to the radar the and show you for the most part, showers surrounding the greater bay area. south bay gilroy, san martin, little built of action. at this point we are mostly dry. on and off showers throughout the day. especially south of the golden gate bridge. muff sunshine to warm us up into the 70s in san jose. 69 degrees by the bay. >> that's your latest weather. ann? >> all right, al, thank you. rupert murdoch is testifying this morning for the british panel investigating the phone hacking scandal at one of his newspapers. nbc's stephanie gosk is in london with more on this. stephanie, good morning. >> good morning, ann. well murdoch is facing questions today that go well beyond just phone hacking at h

software engineer operating in india is no cheaper than an embedded software engineer operating in waterloo, iowa. we're there because that's where we can get a lot of talent and keep it where here we cannot get -- first of all, you don't have enough u.s.-born embedded software engineers being educated right now. that's where companies like us, a lot of companies, the business round table's working on a s.t.e.m. project trying to get more people, but that takes a long period of time before they go through the system. in the meantime, you've got toke toke -- to be able to keep the nucleus here. what i fear is there's going to be a day when so much of the nucleus is going to be someplace else like india that you're finally going to wake up and say, you know what? if two-thirds of our r&d staff is over there, why don't we just move the r r&d center there? >> yeah. there are a lot of things, india's growing faster, china, brazil, obviously, businesses want to be near those opportunities, but to lose investment because of lack of a skilled work force seems to be something the u.s. ought to be ab

and then we've got a risk of strong storms making their way from mexington, kentucky, back to waterloo and as far east as columbus, ohio, damaging wind, hail, maybe a tornado or two. looking for one to two inches of rain down through that area. that's what's going on around the country, here's what's going on in your neck of the woods. >>> good morning, tom kierein, storm center 4, golden sunlight streaming through the trees on this wednesday morning. live view from our sky watcher camera overlooking northwest washington. it's a cold start, we're down near the freezing mark throughout most of virginia, maryland and west virginia. and elsewhere, right near the bay and the tidal potomac, it's in the 40s. today, much of the region in the upper 60s to near 70. could get showers tomorrow, maybe an afternoon storm. into the weekend maybe >> that's your latest weather. ann? >> all right, al, thank you. rupert murdoch is testifying this morning for the british panel investigating the phone hacking scandal at one of his newspapers. nbc's stephanie gosk is in london with more on this. stephanie,

let me read a line and then we'll talk been this supreme court case is a waterloo for political polarization because it underscores something we should have known all along. great changes in national public policy should never be erected on slender partisan majorities and you're referring to the fact that health care reform law was passed with virtually no republicans onboard. >> that was something i learned covering the congress when senator daniel patrick moynihan was in the congress, and just watching this whole debate it makes you understand that every side is suspect no matter what it does, wolf. you have the congress being suspect with such a low approval rating and having approved health care reform in a very partisan way and in our polls, the supreme court is suspect. half of the public believes it makes political decisions and barack obama is somebody who polarizes the american public one way or another, some like the president and some don't like the president. if the law had been passed in a bipartisan way, i don't think, sure, it might have been challenged before the court at one

have great facilities and that that's why it's so disconcerting when we see over 220 jobs lost in waterloojobs lost in texas and in -- on -- in texas and in kansas as well because of unfounded information being circulated in the media. we're here to strongly push back against this poisonous tone that is so detrimental to the beef industry and to jobs that support it. >> clearly one of the most electrifying speakers we have. >> governor life. >> also the t-shirt over the button-down shirt. >> pretty good. pretty good. >> this puts the expression chaps your hide this jobs argument. >> the whole jobs thing is -- whenever something that happens that closes an industry or where people get laid off in an industry that republicans support, it's suddenly a job issue. is it a job issue in general? no, it's not a job issue in general. of course, as things transition, as the will changes, people are going to lose jobs. do you support training of workers? do you support a safety net so that workers can continue to have decent lives if they get laid off? no, republicans don't support those things. they

announced over a year ago we're putting $150 million upgrading the mold lines in our foundry in waterloowa. fifteen years ago, you can go anywhere in the world the get foundry castings at cost effective prices. today out of that foundry we estimate we're 20-0% more competitive on large, complex castings than any merchant foundry we can find anywhere in the world. and the nice thing this gets back to when the government policies reinforce those type of investments, when you put a $150 million investment in a foundry, it's not a job you put in place and take away next year, it's a you're planning on keeping for 15-20 years. >> a lot of what hal is talking about, i think, are companies that used to be using china as an export platform to serve u.s. markets, and that advantage has been shrinking, so they're serving for of the u.s. market domestically. what you're talking about is different, your u.s. operations are geared as much toward export -- >> right. >> where does the u.s. fit? >> sort after -- sort of a global sourcing plan. you're not going to service india from the u.s. it's a total

in these wars will go on until the battle of waterloo. they become the napoleonic wars when he rises to power. so a lot of america's early history is in the shadow of this 25 year long world war between france and the rest of europe, primarily britain. and washington's goal, and the goal of john adams and thomas jefferson and james madison, the first four presidents, is to stay out of it. we finally do get in it when madison is president. he asked congress to declare war on britain. that's the word of 1812. but up to that point, all of those men for all their disagreements and all the different ways they approached it, they're trying to keep the united states out of this superpower battle to the death. now, washington in the farewell address common he is addressing primarily the republican party of thomas jefferson and james madison, who are very pro-french. and they are pro-french because they are in love with the french revolution and there's also gratitude to france for having helped us during our revolution. their help was essential t

but the problem that doesn't translate to votes in florida which is sort of the waterloo for republican the amazing thing to me about this campaign, and we've talked about this before, is that one guy, shelly addleson, can change the course of history. when he propped up gingrich and then gingrich eventually failed and then santorum took his place, he added two months to the republican campaign -- to the republican primaries. and that has been, i think, going to prove to be fatal to mitt romney because of all this controversy about the immigration and birth control, which he can't recover from in the latino and among women. so i do think santorum is a niche player. i don't think he learned how to organize. i do think he was a good candidate. i knew he was going to be a good candidate because i've debated him. despite his very right-wing views, he's a pleasant person. and that goes a long way in american politics. >> jon meacham. >> governor, i just wanted to ask you, you're the one person here here who's really been in this position. what does santorum feel like today? >> santorum -- we