marie colvin handed over by syria. her remains now being returned to her mother in the united states. and as rick just mentioned, several county results now, in in today s washington state caucuses. dan springer is there live from seattle. so, dan, what do we know so far? well, arthel we just got handed the first batch of results from 15 of the 39 counties. these are the smallest counties. most in eastern, washington. the early results are good news for mitt romney. ron paul and also rick santorum. 31.5% of the vote went to romney out of these 15 counties. paul in second at 26.9. and santorum is closely behind paul at third place at 24.38%. so you have a pretty closely contested three person race so far. again, the eastern counties in the state of washington smaller
polls. there you can see the spread, 3838.7. 31.5. with that, let s bring in the panel. jonah goldberg. liz melantes. seasonedcated columnist charss kuthahammer. jonah, start, reactnn to the bait and fall-out today. i thought it was romney s best debat i a long time. the mostmportant performance in a long time. i thwarted the momentum. in large part with assistn rick santorum with a better perfmance d stole newt s shtick in a lot o waysndnd help romney inhe process. the audience, the gingrich campaign is saying that the dienence was packed with pro-romney people. it wouldn t surprise me if that happened but who cares before newt complained that audiences weren t allowed to
northern virginia today. according to real clear politics average, mitt romney is holding a lead in florida with 38.7%, newt gingrich with 31.5. rick santorum and ron paul are right behind. we re also learning this morning that the u.s. military is set to launch a floating naval base in the middle east. the u.s.s. poncy will be used as for high speed boats and helicopters used by special forces and the military saying that it s especially necessary considering the rising tensions in the region. i m jamie colby, more headlines 30 minutes away, keep it right here on fox news channel. . brenda: gas prices spiking more than 80% and president obama s watch and calling for more drilling in the future. guess who is already drilling 60 miles off the florida coast? china. a chinese built oil rig is set to pump out oil near cuba as early as this weekend. gary b.
and rick santorum moving on to northern virginia and ron paul in maine. he is speaking in a university town hall event. mitt romney holds the lead in florida with 38.7 percent and newt gingrich with 31.5. and santorum and paul is right behind. in syria. new reports was a bloody government crack down as the arab league suspends the commission. it was working on a peace plan to stop the blood shed that killed 5400 people. i am jamie, see you at 1:00 p.m. eastern and now back to forbes on fox . president obama delivering a stern warning. cut your tuition or face cuts. if steve forbes said that government funding is driving
average, romney is way out in front, 38.7 to 31.5% for gingrich. santorum with 11%, ron paul with 9.7%: if mitt romney goes on to win florida, what does that do to this race? it would be, it would be a big bow to gingrich because he has less money and organization and has been depending on momentum. he certainly got a big burst of momentum out of south carolina. if he loses florida, you know, it would be tougher on gingrich than if romney were to lose, although romney really can t a loss in florida would be really bad for romney as well. jon: so what are you going to do once this florida primary is over? does it cut back on the information that you get to write about? you just going to keep following this race nationally? well, you know, florida s always the center of the universe, so i m sure something else interesting s going to come up pretty soon. jon: yeah. the fact that florida moved up its primary and got penalized for it, is anybody in the party talking about the fact tha