At kabuls international airport. The attack days after Obama Administration official bent over backwards to explain that the taliban is not considered a terrorist group. Well discuss all these verbal gymnastics with general robert scales. The Obama Administration setting a date for the start of the president s amnesty plan. Legal experts lis wiehl and rebecca rose woodland will stop what the gop calls a president ial overreach. And guess what . Two days away from the super bowl. If youre more interested who will win the battle for the best Super Bowl Ad weve got you covered. Sports marketing legend and budweiser executive is here with us. We begin with mitt romney, surprising the political world with the announcement he will not be running for president a third time. Fox news chief Political Correspondent carl cameron has our report. Reporter three week to the day after saying he was seriously considering a third president ial run mitt romney held a National Conference call with supporters and pulled the plug. Its critical that america elect a conservative leader to become our next president. You know that i wanted to be that president , but i did not want to make it more difficult for someone else to emerge who may have a better chance of becoming that president. Reporter romney could raise the money but many former donors wouldnt commit or were to others. Romney was heartened by encouraging calls, but the conservative grassroots showed little interest. It was obvious a gop Candidate Forum last weekend. Romney wasnt there wasnt missed and team saw firsthand what little romney buzz existed was negative. Two nights ago he joked about his wealth. I dont miss the adoring press, i dont miss 300 nights a year in a hotel room. As you no doubt heard, im already rich. [ laughter ] im thinking about how i could help the country. Reporter not only leading gop polls, he was the only one tied with Hillary Clinton in the latest fox news survey. President obama took notice of romneys potential return last night reprising the attacks as romney as an outoftouch rich guy. Former president ial candidate who all of a sudden is deeply concerned about poverty. Thats great lets go come on lets do something about it. I am glad the rhetoric at least has shifted. Lets make sure that the policies match up with the rhetoric. Reporter romneys response made it look like game on last night. Mr. Obama wondered why am i concerned about poverty in the Record Number of poor in your term and record of failure. This morning romney bailed out with a nod to newcomers. I believe one of our next generation republican leaders, who may not be as well known as i am today. One who has not taken the message across the country. One whos just Getting Started may well emerge as being better able to defeat the democrat nominee. Reporter to many that amounted to a shot at jeb bush, governor of florida for more than a decade and Chris Christie former chairman of the republican governors association. Romney is having dinner with christie tonight and met with bush last now hes out of the race and so begins the struggle among the rest in the field for whats left of romneys supporters and donors. Ashley . Carl cameron, thank you very much. Romneys decision will have impact on the other president ial contenders in one form or another from potential donors to campaign staff. Fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen looks at the most likely beneficiaries of the romney void. Governor jeb bush. Reporter from former Florida Governor jeb bush the prospective republican candidate widely presumed to benefit most directly from mitt romneys withdrawal from the 2016 field came in an almost immediate Facebook Post saying mitt is a patriot and i hope his days of serving our nation and party are not over. Jeb bush was certainly helped by romneys decision it takes his main rival in the establishment here of the nominating battle out of race. He still has to worry about Chris Christie and scott walker, even marco rubio. Were starting to see he is as much under jeb bushs shadow as we thought. Reporter the latest fox news poll of registered Republican Voters find romney supporters up for grabs with bush former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and senator rand paul of kentucky mired in the mid teens. What tells me is republicans are very much not thrilled with establishment candidates right now. Not thrilled with the establishment and its a great opportunity, perhaps a governor were not thinking of to step in and take control of this race. Reporter the other prospective candidates invariably issued statements praising romney as they circle about the 2012 nominees donor base looking to corral cash. One of the reasons the mitt romney announcement is so important, it frees up a lot of the establishment money that may float to the multiple governors because theyre the establishment candidates. Reporter with a year to go before the first in the nation Iowa Caucuses seasoned gop candidates say the field will likely expand and contract. Poll numbers will fluctuate and voters will be unlikely to pay close attention for sometime to come. This is not a race where the one that raises the most money gets the nomination. This is a race that ultimately is going to be one on message, candidate, skills, personality and honor in a lot of ways. Reporter the former chairman of the Republican NationalCommittee Governor barbour pleaded to the conservative base he made ardentally not to exalt purity over victory. Ashley . James rosen thank you very much. More fallout over the Obama Administrations refusal to label the taliban a terrorist organization. The socalled armed insurgents today claiming responsibility for a terror attack that killed three americans. And the taliban terrorist and former Guantanamo Bay detainee the president traded for Army SergeantBowe Bergdahl apparently planning on rejoining the fight. National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has our report. Reporter pentagon officials defended the white house decision to trade five top taliban leaders for Sergeant Bowe bergdahl a day after information emerged that one of the socalled taliban five had reached out by telephone to taliban contacts in afghanistan. Defense officials said this does not constitute a return to the fight. I would hasten to remind it was because of the process we have in place, and the strong relationship that we have with the government of qatar that we were able to identify this particular activity, and i can assure that you steps are being taken to mitigate any activity in the future. What i can say is confidence is this individual has not returned to the battlefield. This individual is not allowed to travel outside qatar and this individual has not engaged in physical violence. In fact, this individual is in qatar right now. Reporter the five detainees included deputy minister of intelligence and interior minister who had ties to mullah omar and osama bin laden. I believe there are 35 of those returned to the fight. It should be of no surprise that one or more of these five would return to the fight. Reporter the pentagon is also backing the white houses continued reluctance to refer to the taliban as terrorists. I dont think the white house said theyre not terrorists. My colleague said they use terror tactics to exert influence, and they are not designated a foreign terrorist organization, and for purposes of the u. S. Armed forces theyre considered armed insurgency. Reporter the amir promised they would monitor the five gitmo detainees for a year that ends in may. After that theyre allowed to leave qatar. We have a mixed relationship with the government qatar. A Major Military base, there but qatar is also the organization that helps to fund hamas and there was indications that qatar was doing early funding of isis. Reporter senator Lindsey Graham says the five released gitmo detainees met with representatives of the faction which is designated a Foreign Terror Organization by the state department. Ashley . Thank you very much Jennifer Griffin. On wall street stocks falling in heavy trading. The dow plummeting 252 points the s p down 26, and the nasdaq dropping 48 points. Volume on the big board, the highest of the year at 4. 5 billion shares. For the month, the dow and s p down 3 . The nasdaq with monthly losses of 2 . Crude oil climbing more than 8 today settling above 48 a barrel. Economic growth slowing in the Fourth Quarter up 2. 6 Consumer Spending a bright spot growing at the fastest pace since 2006. Consumer sentiment climbing to the highest level in 11 years. Were coming right back. No third round. Mitt romney bowing out of the 2016 president ial derby leaving the republican field of potential contenders wide open. The when heartburn comes creeping up on you. Fight back with lief so smooth. Its fast. Tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. And neutralizes stomach acid at the source. Tum, tum tum tum. Smoothies only from tums. Recently, a 1954 mercedesbenz grand prix race car made history when it sold for a record price of just under 30 million. And now, another mercedesbenz makes history selling at just over 30,000. And to think this one actually has a surroundsound stereo. 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The past six years have been really, really hard are in country, and theyve been really tough for our party just ask steve. Theyve been really tough for our party. But together its because together, and together we made some really really tough decisions. Decisions that werent at all popular. Hard to explain. Hard to communicate why it was so important it had to be made. And the decisions had real political cost. Ashley not exactly a ringing endorsement for the Democratic Party. Joining us pulitzer prizewinning columnist for the New York PostMichael Goodwin and former adviser to george w. Bush Leslie Sanchez thank you, both for being here, what a great day to be talking about this. Three weeks ago, mitt romney saying i could be in. Three weeks later, im out. Leslie begin with you. Are you surprised by this . I dont think so i think governor romney was ambitious, he liked the idea, you had a lot of the Political Consulting class in washington talking him up very much saying his donors would be there, level of support would be there. Hed done this before put the Team Back Together and you saw the donors had a suspicious look at this. They felt other candidates more qualified. When the money dries up it makes it difficult to mount the national campaign. Ashley michael, who benefits the most on the republican ticket . Obvious jeb bush is one maybe Chris Christie maybe walker, scott walker. Hes like a towering tree that now theres more sunlight for everybody. Thats what the Republican Party needs is new idea new energy, and i could say romney is not a good candidate. Hes a wonderful man. Ashley department is connect with people. Would have made a good president but a lousy candidate. If barack obama taught bus politics, you need to be a really good candidate. A good campaigner you have to like it. People have to like you on the stump. That wasnt mitt romneys strength. Ashley and leslie kind of a passing shot to bush and others when romney today says its time for a new generation to emerge pushing aside the name bush as we walk on through, synonymous with runs for the white house, but maybe Chris Christie as well. Whats the thinking there . Is there a mythical candidate thats going to emerge . There could be . It could have been a shot at Hillary Clinton. People are tired of the clintons as well. The legacy families. There is a point, it does open up the field for a lot of opportunity. When you look at polls, name id, who do people know and recognize . I dont think republican establishments align themselves with any candidate and the debates not coming for several months are going to be the ones who has the skill and the campaign for them. Ashley what do you think hillary thinks about this . Im convinced she was licking her chops at the prospect of going against romney. Now no . Look the romney ads were written by obama in 2012 and republicans as well in the primaries. Now you really do have to come up with something new and i think you are right, she would have loved to run against romney. The entire Democratic Party would have loved to have seen romney again as the nominee. Ashley and interesting, the latest fox news poll had romney out well ahead 21 , the nearest back was 11 or 10 . What does that say theres the poll. Mike huckabee at 11. Senator rand paul at 11 . Well behind mitt romney. What does that do to the field now . What does it do to the middle of the road conservative voter who says okay now where do i go . I think theres a lot of time. This used to be the invisible primary, can you raise money . Can you build a Grassroots Organization on the ground especially in early primary states. Now visible, everything is disclosed and on twitter. I think showcase is an opportunity for candidates to build coalitions. You saw that in a lot of senate campaigns, raising money Senate Candidates outside the states. Much more homogenous in the sense that you can build coalitions that are not early primary states and raise money. Ashley michael, is there a split in the gop between the ted cruzs of this world, and the more moderate Chris Christies and what does that do to the voters . Sure i think there are several major clumps, according to their experience, their philosophies, how conservative they are or not. Certainly ted cruz is probably the most bellringing conservative in the group. Maybe rick santorum. I think santorum is likely to see diminishing returns this time. Ashley yep. And all the way over to jeb bush, Chris Christie, governors who governed. Ashley scott walker . Yep, governors who govern blue states and kind of centerright ways. Thats the other main camp. But, look, rand paul is certainly could be a surprise candidate. I tend to believe the way the numbers are so scattered right now, that its going to be a while, its too soon to say whos a frontrunner. Ashley leslie . I believe were going to fall in love with governors again. We get to know them in executive role in their state. Ashley thanks for being with us, good discussion. May be time to put deflategate behind us thank god. Comedian jimmy kimmel found wellknown bostonians found to be responsible for deflating tom bradys footballs. Sucking air out of regulation ball in order to save peoples lives. I saved 17 peoples lives. Tom brady had nothing do with it. If he did, he would have done exactly the same thing. Because hes a [ bleep ] hero. I did it im the perpetrator. I take a football. I dont want to squeeze all the air into his little lungs, because i dont want to ruin the football. I take a little air out of most of them. Like 11 out of 12 of them, and it does the trick it. 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