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>> mitt romney holding the trump card and the very poor, hes more than back-pedaling saying he misspoke. >> this one blew up. the feud between the cancer charity and planned parenthood. a top charity, susan g. komen charity, has executives starting to resign in protest because they pulled their funding from planned parenthood. women who are in need, the critics say, are being caught in the middle of this. >> you know the names, manning, madonna, who is she? whos feeling the pressure to...

? we dpin with a major retreat into whats turning into a surprise issue on this years presidential campaign. the politics of womens health. in a ferocious backlash one of the nations biggest players in the fight against breast canter announced it will not cut off money tomanned parenthood. cnns lisa sylvester has more on todays about face. >> reporter: the susan g. komen board of directors and ceo began with saying sorry. "we want to apologize to the american public for recent decision...

israel will likely launch an attack on iran as soon as april in an attempt to derail tehrans nuclear program, secretary panetta does not dispute that report, suggesting the administration is purposely trying to stop or slow israels plan. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the bg more. jennifer, what are the military leaders saying about this? >> reporter: megyn, theres a lot of parsing of words of what leon panetta told to the national security writer for "the ...

jennifer griffin is following developments from the pentagon. >> after the u.s. defense secretary signaled during a trip to nato headquarters in brussels that israel is likely to strike iran this spring, the supreme leader of iran described israel as a cancer that needs to be cut out. irans president, meanwhile, watched the launch of a small iranian satellite into space, amid israeli reports that iran is working on a missile designed to reach the united states. all of this a day after ...

will continue. this started three days ago and you could sort of see the fire storm building and the komen foundation is a private charity. they raise money for breast cancer research. they coo it all over the world. its a private organization. theyve given some of its money to planned parenthood. they were going to take it back because they said planned parenthood wasnt doing enough of the breast cancer work they shut it should be doing to fulfill its mission. then the fire storm erup...

more remarks during fridays prayers. that is when he makes the addresses and we get the headlines. he says the united states will lose if washington decides to use military force to stop irans nuclear program. jon: it comes a day after a "washington post" editorial saying defense secretary leon panetta believes there is a strong likelihood israel will strike iran, in april, may or june. jenna: interesting comments coming from the defense secretary. general jack keane, retired four-star...

three years. bill: promising out look for the economy. stuart varney read between the lines. fox business network. what do you think, stuart? >> this is a strong report. no question about it. this is a strong report and suggests that the recovery is gaining steam. that number, 24,000 new jobs, that was a surprise. -- 243,000. additional 60,000 jobs created in two months over and above what was reported. as for the unemployment rate dropping to 8.3% that is the lowest since february of ...

derail tehrans nuclear program, secretary panetta does not dispute that report, suggesting the administration is purposely trying to stop or slow israels plan. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the bg more. jennifer, what are the military leaders saying about this? >> reporter: megyn, theres a lot of parsing of words of what leon panetta told to the national security writer for "the washington post" in which he wrote that panetta told him that he was concerned...

all after his comment hes not concerned about the very poor. it was a grade-a gaffe, a universal offender, panned on the left and on the right. it has conservatives worried and progressives hopeful that mitt romney just isnt a very good politician. a huge dispute between two organizations dedicated to womens health. whats behind the decision by the susan g. komen foundation to not fund planned parenthood. and word the u.s. could end combat operations in afghanistan as early as next yea...

we want to apologize for the recent decisions that cast doubt on our commitment to our mission of saving womens lives. we do not want our mission marred or affected by politics. joining me now is barbara boxer, she has joined with our senators and objecting to the komen decisi decision yesterday. in looking at the wording from komen today, do you think its a clear cut reversal or is it simply something to get past the immediate controversy? >> oh, i think its a reversal and im very hap...