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Senator awe barack obama. >> senator obama. sure politicians will use every bit of economic evidence to make their argument for or against their candidacy. so thats a red herring. jon: theres a look at the prices that weve seen spike between march of 08 and july of 08. and were seeing the same kind of thing now. you know, the president has talked a lot about, you know, how he said george bushs economic policies got us into the unemployment situation were in and so forth. why are gas prices not h...

$10 for regular in britain, $12 in premium. most of that is tax. lets not forget that. but can you imagine driving up in an suv filling up at $12 a gallon? in america the price has gone up again today. odds with, it will go up again next week. i say that because the price of oil this morning has gone up to $108 a barrel. that oil price has not yet benefactorred into the price at the pump. most people who live now california, illinois, connecticut, or oregon, they pay $4 a gallon. martha: the rea...

Back to "hardball." now for the sideshow. what a show tonight. first up, master of disguise. remember in 2007 when mitt romney got caught, well, stepping all over himself when he tried to strike a chord with gun owners? heres what he said during the 08 race when he tried to talk up his hunting skills and then again at a debate last month. >> im not a big game hunter. ive always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. small vermins if you will. and i began when i was, oh, 15 or so. and have hunted those...

>> a lot of this has been happening since the 08 campaign. having the first african-american president has brought out some nasty, ugly, and often racist attacks. having a president with a different background, we see the attacks on his religion questioning whether he was really born in this country. thats something that president obama has to face. he does have a different background from a lot of other candidates. and these are, i mean as dana said, these are being fuelled by the presidential ...

>> yes, its race to the bottom. you think republican voters are wearing this t-shirt called im in love with stupid or im with stupid. these continued affairs they had with michelle bachmann and newt gingrich. if you compare it to the 08 election with obama and clinton, it was a fierce election but you didnt have situation where camps from the obama campaign and the clinton campaign hated each other, disliked each other, didnt think the other was electable. they had deep respect for one another. ...

a sad story out of chardon, ohio, were expecting probably about an hour and a half or so because of of course, an hour behind us, students are going to start returning to classes there. dons tons of grief to deal with and post traumatic stress. first time since mondays shooting that those students will all be coming together. alleged shooter, t.j. lane, now charged with three counts of aggravated murder. hes charged as a juvenile but theyre expecting that he will be prosecuted as an ad...

us. ted, how hard has it been this morning for kids and teachers to arrive at school? >> reporter: well, as you can imagine, fred, its been a very tough day here. it was a tough day yesterday, too. students came with their parents yesterday to school. they had about 1.5 hours in the school cafeteria, the school classrooms where they could go. there were counselors on hand to talk to. they have changed the school taffe tear yeah. thats where the shooting took place. they changed it in a...

What he wanted. >> and you see some of that rhetoric about the fed being adopted by a lot of the candidates in the race. mitt romney, who has a recurring nightmare, not about the oval office, but probably about it being locked when he gets to it. >> pauls a punchi ining back i 08. this time, everyone embraces him. >> thanks to willie geist for the comedy, the humor, the goodwill. >> wow. >> the smile. thank you for getting up so early to host "way too early." >> its painful, it is. >> here on ms...

Also looking ahead, he came in second in both primaries last night. so what is his strategy for supertuesday? well can him -- ask him directly about that. he joins us live in a matter of moments in "americas newsroom". that will be interesting. martha: looking forward to that, absolutely. for complete coverage of last nights primaries, go to our website, foxnews.com has the complete breakdown of the results in michigan, and foxnews.com/az, i get it , they have details on the website on all of th...

Perspective. what weve seen in this race, again, coming back to the narrative, is ups and downs for romney. hes unable to sustain it going forward. and everybody wonders is this the case tonight, that he might win, lets say squeak out a victory, and i dont think thats great news for him in a state he won over mccain substantially in 08. >> and we cant say that yet because its too close to call. >> im saying he won in 08. but if he is to win tonight in a narrow sense, its a big difference from th...