according to activists. secretary of state clinton had a warning for the assad regime. assad can still made the choice to end the violence, save lives, and spare his country from descending further into ruin. but if he continues to reject that choice, we and the syrian people will chemopressure on him until his deadly regime cracks and collapses because it will. i m absolutely confident of that. late today, president obama called for greater pressure on assad to go. all of us who have been seeing the terrible pictures coming out of syria and homs recently, recognize it is absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send a clear message to president assad that it is time for a transition. it s time for that regime to move on. and it is time to stop the killing of syrian citizens by their own government. despite the words, the killing goes on. we said at least 91 lives today. more than 100 yesterday, according to activists. and the shelling, this
why not have a dialogue with him. why am i the only person going there to talk to him. only in america. why is this man baned from the oscars? this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, the big story, the battle for the gop. rick santorum and mitt romney are fighting for the lead as they head for the contest in michigan and arizona on tuesday. much more on that later. from hollywood to tehran. why he s defending ahmadinejad. he s been vilified. we label him as an extremist. the speeches i heard him say were clear in the sense he preached we are all made in the image of god, all people of all countries, all colors are brothers and sisters. that was his clear message. we begin with the big story, the race for the white house. as far as the gop is concerned, it could come down to the michigan primary on tuesday former michigan governor, jennifer granholm. governor, welcome. how are you? i m great. how are you piers? befuddled after last night s debate. i watched i
gas prices overnight jumped 3.3 cents a gallon on fears iranian oil, the world s fourth biggest stash of crude, could be disrupted. if iran made good on its threats to halt oil supplies, which it s promised to do, it would hurt consumers around the world. the strike team says it would send the united states into another recession with gas prices possibly hitting $4.75 a gallon, but it would also devastate iran. 80% of the nation s economy is linked to oil and gas. will it come to this? rudy giuliani was mayor of new york city during 9/11 and he comes outfront tonight. good to see you. nice to be here. let me start with this issue of the rhetoric here. do you think it s going to get to the point where iran feels threatened enough to do something like shut off its crude oil supplies? i do. it does have a devastating impact on them. they re very good at threatening. the threat i think you have to take as a real one and as we ratchet up pressure on them, they may very wel
situation for any late changes. this report coming from our state correspondent. it s one of many new developments tonight on many different fronts. two things remain constant. dozens of people are being murdered, killed every day and the assad regime continues to lie about it. in fact, they re finding new ways to lie about it. especially the two journalists killed in homs yesterday and whose bodies are trapped there. the government blaming them for dying in the conditions they created. also claiming they re not targeting journalists or civilians, only terrorists. the second statement is a flat out lie. one of the journalists, marie colvin did the last reporting on our program. we spoke to her hours before she was killed. a new rort out from u.n. investigators, sfie pages that read like an indictment of the assad regime. forces have committed widespread systematic and gross human rights violations amounting to crimes against humanity. with the apparent knowledge and consent o
costs more to fill up. 12 cents in a week. about 11% so far this year. we ve never seen gas prices this high so early in the season. usually you see gas prices going up into the spring and summer driving season. never so high so early. what goes into a gallon of gas? here s the breakdown according to the way the government looks at it. 12% of the price of gasoline are the taxes that we pay. 6% goes to distribution and marketing. 6% is refining. look at that, kyra, 76% is crude oil. crude oil is a price that is set in the global market that is a lot of different head winds and cross winds and when crude oil prices, gasoline prices rise, crude oil is above $108 a barrel. mostly because of this fear factor about iran but also because of, you know, consistent global demand for energy and oil, kyra. so you ve got the demand for oil, you ve got the arab spring, you have the fact that look what s happening here in the united states with regard to the economy. all of that combine