mitt romney. mr. romney has, in fact, argued repeatedly that he supported a national health care plan based on what he did in massachusetts, including, specifically, the individual mandate that he now decries. he may find this politically inconvenient now, but that is the truth, and it's easily accessible by anybody with the google. and he still lies about it, all of the time, over and over again. this is not a normal amount of politician lying. mr. rom lies about himself, he lies about the president, he lies about policy. he lies about everything. it is beyond a normal amount of politician lying. >> while we've got $15 trillion of debt, he's said, look, i'm going to put another $1 trillion of debt for obama care. >> that is mitt romney lying. every congressional estimate shows that the president's health reform law actually cuts the definite by hundreds of billions of dollars. now, you cannot like it for other reasons, but mr. romney says all the time that health reform adds to the deficit when in on

mr. romney at 49% of the vote. ron paul and newt gingrich both distant third and fourth in single digits right now. that's less than half it have vote in but enough to project mr. romney as the winner. we heard mr. romney speaking high pressu. here is rick santorum addressing his supporters in pennsylvania. this is live. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. it is great to be back in pennsylvania. thank you for joining us. let me thank all of you for being here. i know they're not going to be hearing me but i feel so bad, we have about 1000, 1500 people that couldn't get in here. we were just overwhelmed by the response. i feel welcome back home to pennsylvania. thank you very much. first, i want to congratulate governor romney. i gave him call earlier and congratulated him him on winning the state of illinois. i also want to stay i want to thank all the ol fofolks in ill. we're going to win down state. we're going to win central illinois. we're going to win western illinois. we won the area that republicans and cons

most worrying for mr. romney, though, is this. the 34% of people who say they like him is the lowest "i like you" number for any leading presidential candidate in this poll at this point in the primary season since 1984. ow. this is not the sort of thing that just befalls you as a candidate, though. sad as this may be, this is not the sort of thing that just happens to you. this is less like a stomach flu and more like a hangover. this is something that you kind of have to bring upon yourself. and campaigning today in wisconsin, mr. romney once again showed how he has brought numbers this bad upon himself. unprompted, mr. romney brought up what he said was a humorous anecdote -- he used the word "humorous" -- regarding michigan and wisconsin. listen to this. this is the story that he volunteered to wisconsin voters today during a telephone town hall. listen. >> i have a few connections with the state of wisconsin. one of the most humorous, i think, really, is to my father. you may remember that my father, george romney, was presid

this is what he said about mr. romney on libya. he said mitt romney has responded to the situation in libya as it has developed going to it's the president who has been unclear regarding what his intention was with respect to our military's involvement in libya. whether or not you agree with president obama on foreign policy, and i think that most americans find his foreign policy largely uncontroversial, it's hard to imagine that mitt romney will portray himself as the guy that makes more sense on foreign policy. if this is the new romney campaign plan, this is awkward timing for them to relaunch their campaign around the idea of a mitt romney foreign policy genius strategy. all this week the romney campaign has been making all lovey dovey with the paul ryan budget who mitt romney says he loves to support and wants to be next to as much as possible. mitt romney would like them to think mitt romney right there behind him. paul ryan's budget has a big foreign policy problem, which is he's just accused all of the top u.s. generals of

romney and mr. romney will win by hook or by crook? mr. gingrich addressed his supporters in alabama within the next hour. he reiterated he's not getting out but is taking his campaign all the way to the republican convention in tampa. of course, they all say that before they get out. time will tell whether or not mr. gingrich means it. now, this may also be an appropriate time to take a step back and concede one of mr. gingrich's points tonight, which is that everybody's been wrong so far about the race to pick a republican nominee for president. i mean, the media, self included, really has been wrong all along about who was going to show strength and who was going to be viable. it's not just the media. it's also some of the insiders who have been really, really, really wrong about this race. for example, this guy's a real insider. >> we're going to win this thing with all of our passion and strength. >> that was mitt romney in marion, iowa, before the iowa caucuses, predicting that he would win iowa. mr. romney, of course, lost iowa to r

romney will win by hook or by crook? mr. gingrich addressed his supporters in alabama within the last hour and reiterated that he's not getting out and he's taking his campaign all the way to the rip convention in tampa. of course, they all say that before they get out. time will tell. >>> this may also be an appropriate time to take a step back and kwon seed one of mr. gingrich's points which is that, everybody has been wrong so far about the race to pick a republican nominee for president. the media, self included, has been wrong about who would show strength and who would be viable. but it's not just the media. it's insiders who have been really, really, really wrong about this race in guy say real insider. >> we're going to win this thing with all our passion and strength. >> that was mitt romney in marion, iowa, before the iowa caucuses predicting that he would win iowa. mr. romney, of course, lost iowa to rick santorum. now, this was mitt romney's campaign saying in a web ad that south carolina would pick a president i

mr. romney at 49% of the vote. ron paul and newt gingrich both distant third and fourth in single digits right now. that's less than half it have vote in but enough to project mr. romney as the winner. we heard mr. romney speaking to his supporters in illinois. here is rick santorum addressing his supporters in gettysburg, pennsylvania. this is live. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. it is great to be back in pennsylvania. thank you for joining us. let me thank all of you for being here. i know they're not going to be hearing me but i feel so bad, we have about 1,500 people who couldn't get in here. we were just overwhelmed by the response. i feel welcome back home to pennsylvania. thank you very much. it is -- first i just want to congratulate governor romney. i gave him a call a little earlier and congratulated him on winning the state of illinois. i also want to stay i want to thank all the folks in illinois. if you look at what will happen tonight. we're going to win down state. we're going to win central ill

case in point, the very first television add run by mr. romney's campaign. we talked about his announcement maiden speech when he launched his campaign, he told a big lie in this case about the economy. not just in his first speech, in his first ad on the romney campaign, he told an absolute black and white, no question full on, blatant lie. >> i am confident we can steer ourselves out of this crisis. we need a rescue plan for the middle class. we need to provide relief for homeowners. it will take a new direction. if we keep talking about the economy, we are going to lose. >> stop it right there. that was mitt romney's first television ad. makes it sound really bad, right, what president obama said, makes it sound awful. president obama is saying, right there, you heard him in the ad, if we keep talking about the economy, we are going to lose. i want to know what president obama really said? >> senator mccain's campaign actually said, i quote, if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose. >> he was quoting somebody else. he was quoting somebody

only be the case with mr romney my own view is that mr obama has done a pretty credible and substantial job in the foreign policy arena i think he's going to have mr romney for lunch in their foreign policy discussions during the debates. risk assessment. is from connecticut appreciated thank you. now it seems this panic at the petrol pumps in britain the head of a possible time kid drive a strike some stations are reported to have run dr who will offer a government but it's just people should fill the tanks and stock up with fuel costs but that's despite the fact that now we just relax and yet being cold is a london correspondent laura smith. the scene that you see behind me is something that's repeating itself up and down the country today dr panic about whether they're going to be able to get enough fuel they killing up at petrol stations to fill up ahead of a propose rolling national strike by casual tanker drivers panic buying is of course a self-fulfilling prophecy if thirty million motorists suddenly decide they might not be able to get enough fuel coming up at the station and ea

another state to reject mr. romney is georgia, favoring newt gingrich. ohio was won by mr. romney. and mr. romney was declared the winner of super tuesday by the washington times but it says that rick santorum has solidified his claim as the conservative alternative in the american heartland. get lots more on our web site bbc.com. updating the top stories on bbc world news. six british soldiers have been caught in a bomb attack in afghanistan. they have likely been killed. flags are flying at half mast. on the biggest day of primary elections, mitt romney has strengthened his position but failed to secure the nomination outright for the republican nomination in the united states. more on the events in afghanistan, six british soldiers missing, believed killed. it happened in helmand province in the south of the country? when there was a big explosion near an armored vehicle on tuesday. the families of the soldiers have been informed. that brings the total number of british soldiers killed during the conflicts in afghanistan to over? 400. jonathan beale reports. >> british troops ha

mr. romney, hugely outspending his rivals in mississippi. and outspend his rivals in alabama by even more. look at that. at the same time that mr. romney is spending money hand over fist to try very hard to win in alabama and mississippi, mr. romney has sigh mutried to damp expectations he might have a shot. newt gingrich and rick santorum are scheduled to give a speech. victory or concession speeches or amalgam of neither. mr. romney on the other hand is not scheduled to give a speech tonight, not scheduled to be in any of the states that are voting tonight. mitt romney will not be speaking while he's in the great state of missouri tonight. missouri isn't voting today, it doesn't hold the caucuses until saturday. to be fair, rick santorum is also not going to be in alabama or mississippi tonight, he will make his speech from louisiana. louisiana votes in another week-and-a-half. that is not a clear signal of much except for the fact rick santorum intends to still be competing in the race a week-and-a-half from now. mr. santorum on a conserv

mr. romney is ahead of mr. santorum there, and again, this race has not been called. more than 90% of the vote in and it is not called. nbc's ron mott is with us, and we have a report that the santorum campaign is moving on to intimating that newt gingrich should get out of the race to clear the way for rick santorum to actually calling on the party activists and tea party supporters and others to speak to that issue on the santorum campaign or does that seem right to you? >> well, hey, there, rachel. maybe a little divide in the santorum campaign, because the national spokesperson said they are not going to ask newt gingrich to get out of the race, but a senior strategist is saying that they will ask that of the conservative tea party voters is to persuade newt gingrich to give up the bid. if you look at the scorecard, rick santorum with victories tonight has seven primary caucus and victories to newt gingrich's two, so they want to make the case that he is the conservative choice in the race. the spokesperson is saying that if newt gingrich did in fact drop out of t

well again it's interesting with mr romney in particular he seems to endorse many of the things that president obama has done and just says ultimately he wants to do things in a different way so if it becomes the case where mr romney beats president obama most people who think about these things know that romney's rhetoric will not match what he'll do as president he knows that there is no a there is no public support and he there is no end game that makes any sense for the united states to have a hostile relationship with russia it doesn't make any sense so we both have too many things in common as countries than we do dividing us and romney smart enough to appreciate that i mean you mentioned just now you'll take is the most americans don't have such a problem with russia. going to but i do americans really want to see such a hardline leader in a country in the first place what is the position i was he likely to. well some again in your set up piece you know there is some sentiment that's left over from the soviet union there is an element of americans well they were both on the li

mr. romney was on a show, yesterday mr. romney was on another fox news program hosted by megan kelly. that interview actually ended up being a little testy at times. >> you know, you're struggling, though, with folks that make less than $100,000. >> no, no, no. >> in ohio -- >> you don't win a million more votes than anyone else in this race by just appealing to high-income americans. >> no, no, no, no. point of fact here, i'm on megan kelly's side. if you are mitt romney, you do win races by just appealing to high-income americans. i mean, we've talked about this on the show. that is how he won ohio. ms. kelly was right about this, mitt romney tied or lost every other income bracket in ohio except ohio republicans making more than $100,000 a year. mitt romney cleaned up in that category and was, thereby, able to win the state, but he lost or tied with everybody else, and it was the same thing in michigan. mitt romney lost every single lower income bracket to rick santorum. everybody who makes less than $100,000 a year in t

mr. romney could not let that pass. so he fired back showing santorum who the king of the gaffe really is. >> this president's run out of ideas. he's run out of excuses and in 2012, we're going to get him out of the out -- out of the white house. >> out of the where in and what election night would be without a -- would be complete without a strange metaphor from one state winner, newt gingrich. >> there are lots of bunny rabbits that run through. i'm the tortoise. i just take one step at a time. >> that single victory in georgia prompted newt to give the night's longest speech, something his new secret service detail couldn't protect the audience from. but if there was any question as to the tortoise's desire to plod along from one book signing to the next, i mean sorry stay in the race to defend the constitution, well, mr. gingrich made clear today that there are many moral miles left in those legs. >> we are staying in this race because i believe that it's going to be impossible for a moderate to win the general elec

the last six months have shown us two of mr. romney's most significant characteristics. first, mr. romney is indemicily wealthy. he always reveals the fact that he knows nothing about the economic struggles of ordinary americans. and that's because he's been wealthy for the vast majority of his life. now, that's no crime. it's just a fact. but it does affect his behavior. that's why he keeps saying things like, i like firing people. my wife has a couple of cadillacs. some of my close friends are nascar team owners. and i like those fancy raincoats. really sprung for the big bucks. every word is a ringing endorsement of his own wealth. he can't stop himself from revealing he owns multiple cars, multiple homes, multiple asets. the second and most disturbing is that mr. romney is entirely suggestible. he gives people what he thinks they want to hear. within the space of 20 minutes, he can say this. >> i'm not for the bill, but the idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception within a relationship between a man and a woman, i'm not going there. >> but with

>> you're not going to see that will from mr. romney, that's for sure. this op-ed is a sort of sad testament to the ways in which the 1% and the ways in which business as usual continues to be conducted both on wall street and in washington, d.c. i mean, the bottom line here is, we need a better code of ethics for those folk working in places like goldman sachs in order to overcome some of the financial woes we're faced with right now. >> ken vogel, some of the comments in this editorial are devastating. the culture used to be vital. there was integrity, humility and teamwork. now that doesn't exist. there's been a decline in the moral fiber of this firm. they callusly rip off clients. i mean, this after all, is the world that mr. romney comes from, isn't it? >> it is to some extent. he comes from the finance sector certainly, and this is a narrative that has hurt mitt romney or these connections to the finance sector have hurt him both because there is this movement on the left that's sort of embodied by the occupy movement and the 99 first versus the 1