cost us jobs. costs economic growth. is unnecessarily complex for the average american. certainly way too complex for the typical smalls about owner. bill: i would expect to hear a lot more about this in the coming months especially as we get into the heat of this campaign. thanks. i hope so. thanks a lot. bill: todd mccracken out of washington. martha? martha: we have more breaking news crossing on the state trooper story that was shot at a traffic stop. what police are asking for in the search for this suspect who is on the run. bill: also gas prices, three cents up overnight? what is up with that? it is the highest we ve ever seen in the month of february. what can congress do? what can the white house do? we ll ask a top leader in the house about that. first we want to know how the price at the pump is affecting you at our website foxnews.com /americasnewsroom. is your family s budget affected by the rising cost of gasoline? you have three options online. go ahead and cast your v
detailed after that. martha: all right. well, mitt romney throwing some very harsh predictions around at last night debate saying the country is on the brink of nuclear war with iran and reelecting president obama, he believes, would guarantee that. listen to this: we must not allow iran to have a nuclear weapon. if they do, the world changes. america will be at risk. and someday, nuclear weaponry will be used. if i m president, that will not happen. if we reelect barack obama, it will happen. [applause] martha: very stark terms in defining that. joining me now from jerusalem is former arkansas governor mike huckabee, host of huckabee here at fnc, governor, good to have you with us from jerusalem this morning. welcome. thank you very much, martha, it s great to be here. it s a very interesting time to northbound israel with this iranian situation looming so large over this nation and its people. martha: no doubt. and i know that you ve met
our games were successful. while i was fighting to save the olympics you were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere. martha: karl rove, former senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to president george w. bush. also a fox news contributor. welcome, karl, good to see you this morning. thanks, martha. martha: what is your take? how did things look to you last night? well, i think romney became the winner of the evening in part because santorum did so badly with his answers on things like earmarks. he sounded like a sitting member of the united states senate defending business as usual and i think particularly in that exchange over earmarks, romney got the better of him. gingrich showed up, the old newt showed up last night. jovial, visionary, big, funny ron paul showed up but the main focus was santorum and romney. i think by all accounts romney did better than santorum and santorum did not get the night he needed in order to keep momentum going. martha: this is fascinating
a lot of projects voted for. you voted for the bridge to know where. he supported folks on wall street and bailed out wall street was all for it. when it came to the auto workers and folks in edetroit he said no. arlen specter, the pro-choice senator of pennsylvania, that you supported and endorsed in a race over pat toomey, he voted for obamacare. if you had not supported him, if we had said no to arlen specter we would not have obamacare. don t look at me. take a look in the mirror. bill: did you follow all of that? that is how much it went last night but did anyone get the upper hand? stephen hayes, senior writer weekly standard , fox news contributor. how do you evaluate the four? it was certainly a fiery debate. you captured exactly the dynamic between mitt romney and rick santorum. i thought in interesting way romney won most of the exchanges. rick santorum spent most of the night on the defensive fundamental about his candidacy.
jonah goldberg joins me. he s a fox news contributor. he was trying to hone in on one of the issues that is clearly part of what mitt romney has to tkpwab grapple with. he seemed to get a little bit defensive. it s heated for mitt romney, and heated for mitt romney makes him sound like he s trying to return a tie at brooks brothers. the healthcare thing is a problem for him, it s a bigger problem for him in the primary than it would be in the general election. i think a lot of people misunderstands that. mitt romney in his interview last night said, look if i was such a flip-flopper why haven t i abandoned my position on romney care in massachusetts? the simple reason for that is there there would be no saving his reputation. he has to stand for something he did. a lot of his answer er answers