so we asked you weigh in on a possible obama-hillary clinton ticket. i wonder what joe biden says about this. clara says, i would be extremely disappointed in president obama if this were to happen, not because i think hillary would be a bad vp, she wouldn't. but because biden has done a good job. and connie says, what a great ticket but why not make it superb. randi k randi kaye is taking over. >> we're reminded why it's called running for president.

five of six of the gop contenders have held events so far today. the pace doesn't let up until newt gingrich's college football party at 9:00 tonight. here's the score from a weekend tracking poll. mitt romney holds on to a solid lead but ron paul has eaten into his margin. paul, huntsman, and gingrich are bunched up in third. the only one not there is perry in south carolina. gingrich says the more people get to know romney, the harder it is to look at alternatives. >> 2002 he said he was a moderate. you look at the contrast and i think that's what the south carolina is going to be all about. the poll said that romney has lost a great deal of momentum in the last four days and i think that's because people look up and instead of being told that it's inevitable, they are saying, who is he?

and i don't want to vote for him. i think it's a very wide-open primary. >> remember, our coverage starts tuesday at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. we'll get right back to politics in a moment but, first, we want to tell you about other stories making news right now. tens of thousands turn out for funerals in the syrian capital of damascus. at one funeral, chants cried and seven people have been killed today. as the violence raises, arab league officials will increase the number of forces in syria. iran and a new facility in the north for enrichment uranium. it's deep inside the mountains safe from a military attack. they say that their plan is medically-based. there is word today that iran has sentenced an american to

death for he is espionage. his parents are shocked and terrified by this news. stunning news regarding the national debt. it's now the size of the u.s. economy. according to us today, it is now topping more than $15 trillion. another measure of the debt is how much the government owes the debtors. by that measure, the debt is roughly $10.5 trillion or nearly 70% of the economy. you may want to check your medicine cabinet. novartis recalled a number of over the couns over-the-counter drugs that include several excederin and no

doz products as well as bufferin products with 2013 or earlier expiration dates. the company says there have not been any reports of problems. however, novartis is asking people to return or get rid of unused products. we're now learning one of the major clues that helped police break the jerry sandusky case wide open came from the former coach himself. in his autobiography "touched," sara ganim reports that the one of the mothers reported police to the book. the book contains photos of boys who attended games together. up until then the case moved at a snail's pace with only one investigator digging for any evidence. president obama just congratulated the dallas mavericks for taking the nba

title. he met with the team less than an hour ago. that's not what has a lot of people buzzing. rather, it was who was missing. delante claims that he was banned because that's what happens when you make bad decisions in your life. the u.s. secret service station is disputing that west was banned, saying that he was listed for entry today and was never advised otherwise, to his knowledge. all right. now back to the race for the white house. the republican nominee is still up in the air but is the democratic ticket really set? robert reich and a possible democratic shake-up coming up. but, first, how many names are on the ballot for tuesday ds new hampshire primary? how many? tweet me the answer

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welcome back. before the break i asked you how many names are on the republican presidential ballot in tomorrow's new hampshire primary. the answer is 30. among them still are michele bachmann and herman cain who both dropped out but remain on the ballot. and kudos to j.v. for tweeting me the right answer. nicely done. i actually have the list. these are the 30 people on the ballot. amazing. while republicans go through the costly and painful process of choosing a candidate for president, democrats can sit back and cringe and sometimes

chuckle. not president obama and vice president biden but vice president biden and secretary of state hillary clinton. an obama-clinton ticket is what a lot of voters expected after their hard fought battle in 2008. the next guest makes more sense today. robert reich is professor of public policy at the university of cal berkeley. he's a very wis see blogger. nice to have you on the program. you said that mrs. clinton would fire up the democratic base. how so? >> i think she's a proven campaigner. she is obviously sharp and intelligent and has a fuj following. the most recent gallup polls show that she and the president is the most respected men and women in america.

on top of that, she's done, i think, an ex sems nally good job in foreign policy where the obama administration has shined and even though the economy is likely to be a little lackluster by election day, having hillary clinton on the ticket would enable the president to put together his foreign policies easily. >> you make several points about this. i want to go through one at a time here because each of them really is worth a discussion. you also suggest, as you sort of started to talk about here, that it would divert voter's attention from the struggling economy back to the global stage and you think that would be good for democrats? >> i do think it would be good for democrats. the foreign policy successes of the administration in terms of al qaeda, getting are rid of the head of al qaeda, libya, getting rid of moammar gadhafi, basically dealing with the arab

spring in a very sophisticated way and onward around the world. the world's problems are still with us but the administration has done an exceedingly good job. even republicans admit that. hillary clinton would enable to administration to put that forward. the economy is probably not going to be all that good on election day. >> and what about 2016? i mean, this could possibly set her up, right? >> yes. the republicans have experienced in recent years, or at least in living memory, you know, 12 years. they had ronald reagan and the first george bush but democrats have not had 12 years running since fdr and harry truman. you certainly can have a very formative effect and i think hillary clinton has a better chance at becoming president in

2016 than joe biden. i don't mean to denograte joe biden. but swapping places with hillary clinton and joe biden becoming the next secretary of state would not be bad. he's always been very interested in foreign policy. >> let me ask you, though, really this is a lot of fun to talk about and you definitely make some good points but you've also said that you don't have any inside information that this really could be a reality. i mean, this is just something that is interesting to discuss at this point? >> you know, i don't have any inside information and you have to be always very cautious because political predictions, economic forecasts and as astrolling bear something in common. you have to be careful about this. even at this early stage it just simply makes a lot of sense and

a lot of democrats are coming to the same conclusion. >> how would this work, though? how would -- if this was even a possibility, how would you slide biden out and slide hillary clinton in? >> well, very easily. becoming secretary of state is not a bad thing for vice president. i mean, i think that if the president were to go to biden or maybe biden went to president, hillary clinton is the next obvious place for joe biden, being vice president he's done a very good job but he doesn't added a the kind of luster to the ticket that hillary clinton is likely to add and that the democrats need a little bit of luster. and some excitement. there is a bit of an enthusiasm gap, shall we say. a lot of democrats, although they obviously are going to vote again for the president, they are not going to vote with quite the enthusiasm that they had before. democrats voted twice for the same incumbent with the same

degree of enthusiasm and also some people are concerned that the president has caved in too much to these republicans. so having hillary clinton there, i think that would give a big boost to the democratic base and attract the votes of many, many independents. >> that could be the democratic ticket but the gop ticket you also have for. romney and who? >> and rubio. i'm making a lot of predictions. this is the beginning of -- i figured the beginning of the year, why not? by the time the election rolls around, nobody is going to remember your predictions any way. i'm taking notes i think marco rubio, the junior senator, he's young, hispanic, very important to court the hispanic vote and is he from florida. a key swing state. a very centering state with a lot of electoral votes.

romney is likely to choose rubio. and one thing, if it is romney, and i think it will be romney, rubio will at least nullify the right wing of the republican party because rubio is very conservative, very much over on the right. >> all right. i'll keep track of you later on in the year. >> if i'm not right, don't ever go back to this interview. but if i'm right, i would request you to replay this interview. >> every day, right here. >> thank you. >> be sure to keep it right here on tuesday as voter head to the polls in new hampshire. live coverage of the new hampshire primary tuesday night, 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. we're just a day away from the nation's first primary but unlike iowa this race has a sure front-runner. mitt romney. the question is, who could

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this time tomorrow, new hampshire will be casting their votes. mitt romney is ex pblthed to win. if you look at recent polls and it doesn't mean the rest of the pack isn't trying. one key question, who, if anyone, will emerge as the anti-romney. joining me now from manchester, wayne mcdonald. wayne, thank you for coming on the program.

your state's known to root for the underdog. voters brought someone like that happening tomorrow. >> well, it's been a very unpredictable situation for the second place. congresswoman bachmann, herman cain, perry, they have all been in second place at one time or another and now speaker gingrich and it appears that congressman paul is moving up to be in second tomorrow if the polls are accurate. one thing about new hampshire polls, though, a close race is sometimes not close and vice versa. we'll see what happens. >> let's talk about the issues for folks there in new hampshire. new hampshire has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation. 5.4%. you say that the number one social issues. so what really would you say is

the number one issue on voters' minds there? >> well, the economy is a matter of concern for every state in the country and, yes, our unemployment rate is low compared to the other states and certainly much lower than the national unemployment rate. but at the same time, many new hampshire families are underemployed. they are unemployed and not looking anymore so they have fallen off the radar screen. so jobs and the economy are still very important. social issues weigh in. it's something that new hampshire voters care about as well as part of the mix. if you have to choose a number one issue, i would say it's the economy and how that connects with jobs. >> your state has an independent streak. if we look at the number, 40% of voters there, take a look at this poll. 37% of voters still undecided

about who they will vote for tomorrow. do you think that these independents and the undecides with them could tip the vote with someone like ron paul? >> well, governor romney has consistently placed very strong throughout this presidential contest and so it feels like it's foreign but the race in 2000 was projecting a close race between mccain. and it was a blowout with mccain. governor romney was up here in 2008 and senator mccain proceeded to defeat him. yes, it's absolutely possible. anything can happen in new hampshire. we are an independent state. we accept what iowa did but we're going to make up our own minds. and knowing governor romney and his people, i'm sure they are working hard to make sure that

there are no surprises and we'll see how that works. >> wayne mcdonald, thanks. >> our coverage starts tuesday at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. new hampshire college students reportedly graduate with the highest average of debt in the country and young voters want solutions. how the youth vote could be a lifeline for at least two candidates. [ male announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier.

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kbompb nor romney, what do you have against labor unions? workers shouldn't have any rights? >> i'm rick santorum, i disapprove on your stance on gay rights and i really don't think that being gay and having gay marriage is the same thing as polygamy. you need to talk about the

issues more. >> open mike for cnn, what else they have to say is coming up later this hour. you don't want to miss it. with the first primary just days away in new hampshire, we're going to focus on a group of voters often dismissed as unreliable and apathetic. take a look at this latest poll. ron paul is proving he feels the most to young voters. 25% say he will vote for romney in the primary while 7% are backing jon huntsman. look how many young voters are undecided. 25%. keep in mind, young voters were a crucial, passionate, and loyal base barack obama in 2008 but four years later that could possibly change which is why so many of the republican presidential candidates are fighting for it right now.

before he was old enough to vote, noah, you're a young voter now. you talk a lot to young voters. they are expected to come out, be pretty active. they could play a big role here? >> absolutely, randi. like as you said, when you think of young voters, sometimes we don't vote enough as we should be doing but that's a different case in new hampshire since 1998, more young people -- young people in new hampshire had voted on a higher rate than the national average. tomorrow we may see a surprise. # 197,000 eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 19. 443% of them voted in the 2008 primaries. >> let's talk about numbers here. you can't doubt the power of the youth vote. nationally there are 46 million 18 to 29-year-olds eligible to vote, making it 24% of the vote.

will they do it again this year? >> that's the big question we all want the answer to. certainly, i hope young people get out there in record numbers this year. will it happen? maybe, maybe not. we're still trying to find out that out but i'm hopeful. >> do they talk a lot about obama as well as the other candidates? >> right now it's hard to map it out because there's not much going on. among the young people that i've been speaking to about the republican candidates a lot of them are focusing their support towards ron paul. i saw that in 2008 as well because of his stance on civil liberties and his anti-war message. but jon huntsman is becoming popular among people yeem as well which we may see in new hampshire tomorrow because that's where he's been spending all of his time in new hampshire and he was polling in third

place. i think it will be interesting to see what happens. >> i caught up with him at the last cnn debate and asked what their father would do to make a college education more affordable. let's take a listen. >> i don't think there's one thing that you can do. you need to see a turn around with the economy. there are a lot of things. college alones. a lot of people can't pay for their loans because they can't find a job. i think it goes back to getting the economy back on track. i think that's the best way to start. >> nice get there. talking to them. >> listen, i know one of the things in new hampshire, college students graduate with the highest debt in the country.

state tuition is very high as well. what are young voters there talking about? what do they care about? >> in 2008 it was the war, economy, and health care. right now it's mainly the economy. making college education more affordable and coming out of college with jobs. our unemployment rate, young people are the largest amount in the group. they want to not owe so much when they come out of college but want a good job when they come out of college. >> i heard a rumor that you'll have a bus tour of your snoen. >> i'm planning a bus tour of my own to try and raise money and do a documentary and see why it is that certain young people are not voting in other areas. >> nice to see you. thanks for being on the show.

>> thank you. >> keeping it right here on tuesday as new hampshire voters head to the polls. erin burnett, john king for live coverage of the new hampshire primary. that's tuesday night, 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. >> momentum is the name of the game. one presidential point man says santorum blew it. it's fair and it's next. which candidate won the republican primary in new hampshire with the smallest percentage of the vote. you can tweet me the answer to @randikayecnn. get tweeting. i'll be back after the break.

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welcome back. i asked who won the new hampshire primary with the lowest percentage of the vote and the answer is pat buchanan. congrats to jay curry from texas. you tweeted me the right answer and i'm giving you this shout out. this is the part of the show where we go to the heart of the political debate. a lot of people have anointed mitt romney the winner. after all, he has a commanding lead in the polls. joining me now is mitt romney's point man in iowa back in 2008

and ed espinoza. in late october, romney held a 27% lead. two weeks ago it was still 27 and look at that number. 44% there. but now the latest poll has him at 13%, barely ahead of ron paul. is this really a loss in new hampshire? >> i don't know if you can call it a 13-point win a narrow win. by the time you get to ten points you're in landslide territory and i think just about any republican candidates over the course of the new hampshire primary history would have liked a 13-point win. i think that the other candidates have failed to consolidate a single not mitt candidate, which is really what they needed to do if they wanted to eat into his lead so i think romney is poised for a great

night tomorrow. >> ed, what do you think? certainly romney has got to like the fact that these folks are playing the field with him. >> he's right. a 10-point win, 13-point win, those are good things for romney. but new hampshire is basically a home state for mitt romney. they share the same media markets for massachusetts. if you want to go up on the internet state, you have to buy a boston tv. mitt romney should do very well here. he needs a blow without for two reasons. two, because there's proportional delegate allegations with these races, a bigger race means more separation between himself and the next closest republican. a closer win means he gets fewer delegates for that victor. >> how about rick santorum? how do you think he's done in terms of capitalizing on iowa? is he capitalizing on it? >> i don't think he is.

the campaign staff, people around him ran a brilliant campaign. i think he should have gone straight to south carolina. new hampshire not as good of a fit for him. he's not able to consolidate his status as the not mitt candidate. for a campaign just getting its sea legs under it, you don't have the ability to do one state at a time. so he's wasted the time in south carolina that he could have spent this week. >> what do you think, ed? is santorum playing it start and how about the others? >> i think romney basically owns new hampshire. if you're going to go there to compete with them, you have to put that in relative terms. you have very short windows right now to build your organization in these early states. if these guys want to take advantage of their momentum and really build on that, south carolina is the next real contest in this nomination.

new hampshire is virtually irrelevant when it comes to someone demonstrating their strength. >> what has been the impact of the tea party on this race so far? >> i think it's had an interesting impact. interesting because we haven't heard as much in the media about the tea party but clearly they were active last week. they were very active for ron paul, mitt romney, they have split their support moamong the candidates. they have driven turnout. turnout was at an all-time high. and notwithstanding the fact that there was a lot of indecision about which candidate. the turnout wasn't driven by excitement for a single candidate. it was driven, i think, in part by tea party excitement, and by a real desire among these people, these voters for anybody but barack obama in 2012. >> you know, we've talked a little bit about jon huntsman earlier in the program. he has certainly put all of his eggs in the new hampshire

basket. listen to what he said recently. >> all the others have gone up and down. you know, i'm getting a stiff neck just watching all of my friends go up and then down. perry, cain, bachmann, they all come in and they all go up to 22 and then down to 2. i said, i don't want that to happen to me. i don't want a war holly and 15 minutes of fame episode. i want a gradual, steady, substantive rise. like we're getting here in new hampshire. >> so ed, hwhat do you think? how well does huntsman have to do to do this? >> he's been at the bottom of the poll for a long time. the problem huntsman's got, he's not very different than romney. when you look for an alternative to romney, he's not the guy.

he doesn't have the conservative credentials to do that. the next one is girve rich and santorum. if there was only one of them, one of them would be in the lead. but with both of them in the race, they are both going to be in second. >> ed espinoza, gentry collins, thank you. keep it right here on tuesday as voters head to the polls. join us for live coverage of the new hampshire primary tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. eastern. with mitt romney leading in new hampshire, newt gingrich is resorting to some name calling despite saying he won't run a negative campaign he's called romney everything from a flip-flopper to a liar. so is the new newt returning to his old ways? we'll ask one of his supporters next. people with a machine.

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he says mitt romney is a flip-flopper on core issues and even calls him a liar. these are live pictures, by the way. is his new strategy one that's going to work? if the latest new hampshire polling is any indication, gingrich doesn't have much to

lose. the suffolk university poll puts huntsman in third place. mr. mack far land, thank you for joining us. before we begin, i want to play a sound bite for you from a debate over the weekend. >> you dropped out of office, have been out of state for some 200 days preparing to run for president, you didn't have this citizenship while you thought about what to do. >> gingrich has never been one to hold back. do you think this call it like you see it approach is going to work for him or do you think it could possibly backfire? >> randi, thank you for having me on. telling the truth is never

meanness. it's fact with gingrich. here in new hampshire we're seeing gains every day. we are hoping to go into south carolina with some momentum, based on the substance which distinguishes him from all of the other candidates. >> you're there in new hampshire supporting him, helping to stump for him. why do you think newt gingrich is the best man, the best candidate to go up against barack obama? >> going back more than a year i looked at what the candidates had done based on the threats that we're likely to see here at home and only speaker gingrich had looked at vulnerabilities and terrorism that may include bio terrorism and our energy

problems, our rely generals on foreign oil and so forth but also right here at home and what we're going to have to do to reform the size of government and so forth. and only speaker gingrich had both the knowledge of what to do about the several stresses we're going to face but also the experience. randi, when you ask your viewers what they are most upset about, it's probably paralysis in government. when you ask yourself, when is the last time it really did work, it's 15 years ago when speaker gingrich working with a democrat president clinton was able to produce four years of balanced budgets in a row, also to reform significant costly measures, like welfare reform and get people off the doll and back into the workforce. it takes knowledge, experience, and the ability to make the government work. you learned that with ronald

reagan when he and i worked together. >> let's go ahead to south carolina. looking at the polls, gingrich is in much better shape. and now tomorrow this super pac will be running a multimillion dollar ad that will be attacking mitt romney. let's go right to that. i want to get your reaction to it. >> his mission to reap massive rewards for himself and others. >> they don't care who i am. >> he's for small businesses? no, he isn't. he's not. >> so very quickly, based on that what do you think newt gingrich has to do to convince social conservatives that he's their man and also to go up against mitt romney? >> randi, i think if they look at his record and what he has

done in support of president reagan and in looking hard at what he has succeeded in doing in reforming welfare and in balancing the budget, it's going to appeal to the fiscal conservatives, his values, his strong faith. all of the things that appeal to conservative south carolinans are going to be between that and the population. a there's no question in my mind that he's more appealing to the solid social conservative than any other person in the race right now. south carolina especially. >> appreciate your time today. we'll continue our countdown to the new hampshire primary throughout the day. remember to join us tomorrow, 7:00 p.m. eastern ands with count the new hampshire votes. and archie comics making its stance with issues. if there was a pill

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ask now for a look at stories making news. at street level, we start in new york involving an apparent serial killer. police have released this sketch which is a victim of the killer. they say remains of her body were found in 1996 and her skull was discovered on an ocean parkway beach last april. so far ten sets of human remains have been found on long island beaches.

to virginia now, the making of history. the army has enacted the 437th civilian affairs battalion, the only one in its state. it is the men and women between the military and civilians living in war zones. their job is building wells, building schools and rebuilding entire communities. many are multi-lingual in wars in iraq and afghanistan. number two, alabama for the bcs championship. if this seems like deja vu, well, it sort of is. they beat the crimson tide 9-6 in overtime. this will certainly seem like a home game of sorts to the tigers, but you can count on a huge contingent of the alabama

faithful. according to affiliate haku, flooding left hundreds of drivers stranded and forced more than four dozen homes to be vac waited arou -- evacuated around the area. several roads are closed because of flooding. firefighters are conducting at least a dozen water rescues right now and that number will likely go up. to the deep freeze in alaska. t they're struggling to dig out of snow. it triggered two avalanches and closed major highways. national guard troops now lending a hand. it dumped almost 20 inches of snow in town. total amount of snow in cordova is now 47 inches with drifts 12 to 14 feet high. we would be remiss if we didn't mention a historic wedding of sorts.

kevin has married his partner clay walker. it's the series first ever same-sex wedding. kevin has joined the army but is injured while serving in iraq. he meets clay while recovering in a hospital. you may recall kevin was introduced in 2010 as the series first gay character. the new hampshire primary is only a day away, but voters still have a few questions for the candidates. >> newt, i have a question for you. what are you going to do to bring the democratic and republican party together? you can't even hold -- i'm not going to bring your private life into it. i don't care if you've had ten wives. >> more from cnn's hope mike in new hampshire, plus the latest from the campaign trail. a live report from the granite state coming up next. but first, another political junkie question. who was the first candidate to win the white house without winning the new hampshire primary? you can tweet me the answer at

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it was bill clinton in 1992. congrats to danny in sacramento for tweeting me the right answer first. nicely done. so what are voters in new hampshire really thinking with one day to go before the primary? here is what open mike caught. >> mr. gingrich, part of the reason i'm completely upset with you is you're what's broken in this country. you go to washington, you milk the system and then you become a millionaire. >> i'm a huge supporter of eliminate government and sort of all respect to the constitution, but the thing i'm having a really hard time with is your view on foreign policy and iran. iran looks like a crazy neighbor from next door. that's not much you can help there. >> never know what they're going to say at open mike. you can see more of open mike from cnn.com. let's bring in cnn political director mark preston from new hampshire. mark, what are the main issues of voters, and really, who has

done the best job capitalizing on that? >> well, randi, we've been talking for months now, for years, quite frankly, how bad the economy is and how the republican candidates have been talking about how they would be a better alternative to president obama. here in new hampshire, the unemployment rate is not nearly as high as it is nationally, but still it is a major major issue, so we're hearing from the candidates talk about how they would turn things around, how they would help the housing market get better. but the candidates are attacking mitt romney. we've seen it in the last 48 hours. he's the front runner expected to win on tuesday night. they're going after him now. >> are the candidates doing anything unique in the final hours to try to get more people to the polls? >> they're just rushing, rushing, rushing from all the different campaign events they can. 24 campaign events a month, campaign events here in new hampshire, and that doesn't include the handful that rick perry is doing in south carolina. rick perry the texas governor is not playing in the u.s. primary,

but 24 campaign events. they are running around trying to shake hands, trying to get as much support as they can. >> what about the record turnout we saw in iowa? what do you think the turnout will be, as far as you can tell, on the ground there in new hampshire? >> william gardner, the secretary of state, told the largest newspaper here in the state that he expects 325,000 people to actually appear and vote tomorrow. 250,000 of them will be republicans, the other 75,000 will be democrats. but, of course, president obama doesn't have a primary, so the democrats will be pulling the lever for president obama. >> it's going to be a big day and interesting day as well no matter who the polls say right now. mark preston, thank you so much. be sure to keep it here as voters head to the polls. you can join coverage tomorrow night at 7:00 eastern. you will only find it here on

cnn. thank you all for watching today. i would love to hear what you think of the show. you can find me on facebook or tweert at randikayecnn. brook? >> i'm brooke baldwin. let's go with everything this hour. the new hampshire primary voting is hours away. take a look at the numbers. this is the new tracking poll showing a double-digit lead for mitt romney. there he is, 33%. ron paul running second. john huntsman who has to have a strong night tomorrow night. he is lagging a distant third. what mitt romney said today. these few words may come back to haunt him. wolf blitz will talk to me about that. match number 3, that being south carolina, some hopefuls made their case there already this past weekend. >> we want a conservative on the ticket. >> i'm going to washington, d.c.

to make a difference. and if that means i have to take a sledgehammer to make that difference, that's what i'll do. >> this president doesn't understand how this economy works. it's time to get a president who does. >> our latest cnn time magazine orc poll puts romney as top dog. rick santorum ask newt gingrich are in a dead heat for second place. i'll be talking to williams live. stay tuned for that interview. clouds bringing heavy rain to houston. they're driving through this stuff. officials there in houston reported seeing a funnel cloud, though it did not touch down. the national weather service says nearly 2 inches of rain fell in a 10-minute period, and people in richmond had to be rescued from some of the flash flooding. now imagine this. imagine taking no-doz when you

really wanted gas-ex. apparently this could really happen, and that is leading to this recall of the pillmaker. the company says stray pills were put in the wrong package. the involuntary recall includes excedrin, nodoz, gas-ex. breaking up a terror plot in all places but tampa. grenades and bombs were seen put into a car. they said, we all have to die so why not die the islamic way? that man is expected in court in the next half hour. dussandusky's book is called "touched."

the mother of one of the alleged sex abuse victims pointed this to police. "touched" has pictures of boys he attended events with together, and that pointed police to four other victims. mass problems for third graders in the atlanta area referred to as slaves picking oranges and receiving beatings. >> i'm having to explain to my eight-year-old why slavery is in a math problem. that hurts. >> whoever put together this paperwork and everything else, the schools and everything shouldn't teach it this way. >> school leaders say teachers were trying to incorporate history into this particular lesson, but they agree the questions were inappropriate. iran has convicted an american man of spying and sentencing him to death. amir murani is an ex-marine.

they say he was forced into making a televised confession. new developments today in the case of that body that was found on the estate of one of queen elizabeth's properties. authorities now have identified these remains. they belong to a 17-year-old girl who was reported missing last august. dna helped detectives identify this victim. we still do not know yet how she was murdered. and have you heard about this one? a papa john's employee uses a derogatory, racial name for a customer in one of its new york restaurants. you can see we sort of circled it for you. i'm not going to say the phrase. you can see it yourself. this customer posted the picture on her twitter account. it's been all over the internet. papa john's, by the way, has fired that employee. now we're announcing the detroit auto show today. the elantra is the car of the year, and the range rover vogue

was chosen as the truck of the year. we're just getting started here on cnn. a lot to cover for you in the next couple hours, including this. starting at midnight, the first votes were cast in new hampshire. mitt romney still very much the front runner, but his opponents are taking him on, including newt gingrich, with some brand new fire power in the live free or die state. who stays alive? two women die five hours apart, but their cases are strikingly similar. >> there could be a serial kidnapper on the loose. michelle segona is on the case. we moved heavy weapons and armed civilians from the area. >> thousands of people are killed until now. cnn's nic robertson getting an

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voting in new hampshire. big skirmish between two major players, mitt romney and newt gingrich. romney forced into an error. first you'll see gingrich accusing mitt romney of looting that management firm he founded back in 1984. here we go. >> those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation would find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever, legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1700 families without a job. >> that was newt gingrich yesterday. here mitt romney today. >> if you don't like what they do, you can fire them. i like being able to fire people who provide services to me. if somebody doesn't give me the good service i need, i want to say i'm going to go get somebody else to provide that service to me. >> who am i going to bring in? the one and only wolf blitzer. good seeing you again.

>> hi, holly. it's nice to see you in person. >> let's talk about these two pieces of video. obviously there is conflict to what we heard there. those few words can come back to haunt him. >> "i like firing people." i understand what he was trying to say. in capitalism, that's the nature of the business. those who succeed move up, those who don't succeed move out, so to speak. his supporters are already doing a lot of backtracking, explaining here's the context here, but we meant to say -- politically it could be awkward, to put it mildly. even if other republicans don't use this against mitt romney right now, do you know who will if he gets the nomination? they've already got that videotape ready to go. >> this group that's backing gingrich now comes into this injection of $5 million which they're going to use in these ads starting in south carolina this week. and they're painting romney as

this predatory capitalist. i wanted to ask you about the guy who is providing this money that's obviously very affluent casino owner. >> i think forbes lists his assets at between 20 to $30 billion. he is a huge newt gingrich supporter, and for him to spend 5 million or 10 million, for that matter, is not very much money to him. he's a very heavy supporter of newt gingrich. this is payback. what was done by newt gingrich in iowa to the pro-mitt romney superpacks is devastating because newt gingrich went from the high 30s. when i was in iowa, you couldn't turn on a tv without seeing how awful a person newt gingrich is, because thanks in part to the ron paul attack ads but also these pro-mitt romney superpack, and now it's newt gingrich's chance to pay back and really

try to hurt mitt romney going into south carolina, florida and beyond. it's a tough, tough ad. >> the message that we've been hearing from newt gingrich and the fray and this group is that mitt romney, who started back in 1984, is this capitalist, this predator. normally this is what you hear from republicans saying this is class warfare, and here you have another republican doing this. >> it's awkward right now. zane capital, a bunch of capitalists, they would look for opportunities to buy companies, to strengthen those companies, get those companies up and run, create a lot of jobs if they succeed. but if they don't succeed, you have to move on. >> so people don't lose jobs. >> one company, staples, for example, employs 45,000 people. others not so successful, you

lay off 45,000 people. once that company is not working out, sell it. >> so will we see more back and forth? we have to take a l a these are the new new hampshire primary polls and romney, you see the double digit lead here. we have to talk about john hunts man. he wasn't at all a player in iowa, putting a lot of eggs in the new hampshire basket? how many of us touch third. >> if she stays in the top three, they have to get above 15, 20%, then it shows in new hampshire, which is a unique state, he's doing all right. he says he's going to south carolina and florida. you need a lot of money for that. now, it's interesting, he comes from a family that's loaded. his father is a billionaire. so they have a lot of money -- >> but i saw the article over the weekend in the times saying his father is not going to be

giving him as much as he possibly could. >> it was awkward in a few paragraphs because it said the father would give the son money if the son asked, but the son isn't asking yet, and as a result the father isn't giving. >> he doesn't want to buy an election. >> you know who's going to be to my show today? >> who? >> the three huntsman daughters. do you ever follow them on twitter? >> yes. >> we have big news to share with our viewers right now, and it involves you. where will you be tuesday night when i'm anchoring with anderson and all of our team, where will you be? >> right here. >> wow. what are you doing? >> i've got the news saturday morning, so we'll follow what happens in realtime, facebook, twitter. if there's any major moment to see how it translates via major media. >> if we go to 3:00 a.m., you're

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as you know by now, new hampshire votes tomorrow. a lot of folks are already looking beyond new hampshire, particularly to the next primary state, south carolina. romney spent a couple days in south carolina last week already, because romney sees this date, this primary, as an opportunity. having won the iowa caucuses, keep in mind by votes. not potentially expected to win in new hampshire, romney has a shot. should he's preparing should he capture south carolina.

one problem. voters in south carolina tend to be more conservative than mitt romney. good to have you on. out of the gate here. do you have any kind of problem with mitt romney? would you have a problem with romney winning, ultimately, your party's nomination? >> well, i've been a great admirer of governor romney, the ability he's had of creating jobs. he has strong support in south carolina, and in south carolina, we are very grateful that since 1980, every candidate on the republican side who has won the primary in south carolina has gone on to be the nominee of the republican party. >> so you're saying if possibly he wins in south carolina, he could be your guy. >> absolutely. no, i will be for the nominee, and what this reflects, south carolina is really a composite of america. the vast majority of the people i represent in the low country of south carolina are

transplants from the midwest to the northeast. my hometown of lexington are transplants from the mideast to the northwest. it's really transplanted our state. the focus of the world will be here on wednesday. >> got to ask you about your governor, though, because some tea party groups in south carolina, they're angry that governor mickey haley some time ago stepped out to endorse romney. was it because she had such a strong tea party backing to helper get elected? >> we are proud of haley for getting elected. one of the people to elect her was mitt romney, and i'm confident that all of us will be working together for the nominee

for the change we feel needs to be made in november. >> you, congressman wilson, will you be endorsing anyone? >> i was the first to endorse governor pawlenty in north carolina. unfortunately, he was the first to withdraw. i want to be in the position to promote our nominee. i'm just so hopeful for the quality of candidates that we have running in our state, all six of them, beginning on wednesday. what are the chances you talked about your state and sort of the role it plays ultimately in the nomination. what are the chances that romney effectively sews up your party nomination in your state, january 21st, and would that be good for the republican party not to have this long, drawn-out primary season? >> i also want to defer to our friends in florida. i believe you put south carolina and florida together, that could determine the nominee. >> and ultimately, you will back any individual who ultimately

clinchs the nomination? >> absolutely. i have respect for all six of the current candidates who will be running in the south carolina primary. each one has an attribute of creating jobs individually that i am so eager to go out and campaign for the republican nominee for president. >> so none of them makes you feel at all uncomfortable? >> no. i do have better feelings about one or the other, of course, but any of them would be prefserabl to the indecisiveness we have in the white house today. >> all right, congressman wilson, thank you so much. >> thank you. now we're taking you to texas. you have two 10-year-old boys -- 10 -- charged with sexually assaulting an eight-year-old boy on a school bus. coming up next, we're going to hear from the alleged victim's mother and also talk about these

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who is the budget chief. this transition will take place at the end of january, and we've certainly known that daly was probably going to be leaving the white house after the reelection campaign, but now this news that he will be leaving sooner, paving the way here for a new person to be at the helm of the president's staff going into what is obviously a very tough battle for reelection. we'll be getting more details in the coming minutes. we'll hear from the president himself on your show at 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> we'll take that live, and perhaps between now and then we can get more contacts, too. brooke, thank you so much with the news that bill daly will be leaving as chief of staff. weather? we had some pictures moments ago of horrible flash flooding in houston. >> brutal morning. 3 to 5 inches in some spots. this is coming out of manhole covers there. you could tell that manhole cover was still on, but water just kind of splashes up from

the sewers that may have pushed those manhole covers away from the hole. all of a sudden you think you're driving and your car literally drives into a hole. the car doesn't go down but it bruises that tire. this has been a nasty, nasty day. >> when did it start? >> about four hours ago. we have a drought in east texas that's been epoch. it's a two-year drought. nothing even grew in south texas this year, and then in one day, 3 to 5 inches, in some areas 5 inches in one hour. this is in houston, texas. it's not raining in galveston. water is not coming down. there is so much trash, so much junk in the drains that the water can't even go down into the sewers, can't go down into the bayou. >> but it's pooling and that's causing worse flooding. >> the cars are just everywhere. >> you're saying it's no longer raining? >> it stopped raining.

>> keep an eye on it. thank you so much. we're going to stay in houston and talk about this troubling story out of there. police have taken an extremely rare step. they have charged two 10-year-old boys for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old class mate on a school bus. the houston independent school district gave police video that says it shows questionable behavior prompting them to eventually arrest these two young boys. we reached out to school officials. here's what they told us. the video appears to show three male students engaged in inappropriate activity. they notified the parents of the students involved. houston police department and child protective services were also notified. we brought in sunny hostin, our go-to girl legally in new york. we're talking about two 10-year-old boys. this has to be incredibly rare, this kind of case. >> it is, it's exceedingly rare. we're talking about 10-year-old boys charged with aggravated

sexual assault against an eight-year-old. another interesting thing about it is we're talking about special needs children. it's a special needs bus that takes them to school. so all around, these are peculiar circumstances. brooke, we're still looking into it. my understanding is that a lot of this was caught on videotape, but the parents have not seen the videotape yet, so we don't know that much about the case, but we do know that they have been charged with this aggravated sex assault, which is very rare. you usually do not see children at the age of 10 committing such serious sexual crimes. >> they are questioning this investigation. they want to know why it took so long. take a listen. >> i didn't know anything about it, and my son was scared when he went back to school. he feels he'll be in the same situation, on the same bus with these kids. how do i know it won't happen again after the first incident?

>> she's wondering why her son was put back on that bus, and just for contact's sake, this happened back in august. and now we're hearing about these charges. why? >> that is peculiar. i will say that. typically investigators want to, as quickly when there is any indication that a sex crime occurred, but again, these are you're talking about juveniles, you're talking, and my understanding is the video isn't that clur. i'm not surprised it took a while for these charges to come forward. >> as you mentioned, we're talking about aggravated sexual assault. if these two boys are convicted, what kind of sentences are we talking about here, what length? >> we're talking about 40 years in prison if you combine the potential time in the juvenile court system and the adult court system. so extremely significant,

extremely rare, and it's a case that i will continue to look into. >> please do. sunny hostin, thank you so much. the latest poll ranks mitt romney at the top of the list. but, of course, one of the most talked-about candidates is texas candidate ron paul. we'll get all the buzz on presidential nominee mitt romney and presidential hopeful. be right back. ♪[music plays] when you're responsible for this much of the team... you need a car you can count on. ♪[music plays]

the new hampshire primary is tomorrow, and this man, ron paul, is making his rounds. this is his latest stop. this is stratton, new hampshire. but cnn polls still showing romney is the top dog. let's go to dana bash. she's been covering romney in new hampshire. i've been following your tweet and you talk about the crush, the throng surrounding him. and mo and joe's diner, he couldn't even sit down. >> i've covered primaries here many times in many different ways, and i've seen this before, the candidates, especially, when you get the kind of popularity he has right now, he's actually surging in the polls.

newt gingrich is second to mitt romney, and he has this individual attention he has now, something he's not really used to. he's been here in new hampshire on and off for a very, very long time and this kind of attention is new to him. i think it's fair to say that ron paul's campaign wasn't prepared for this, and it was pretty intense for him, and he did leave earlier than expected. he was supposed to sit down and have breakfast and he didn't get to. they've seen candidates come in and get crushed by the attention, by the cameras, but they still find a way to maneuver and talk to the voters. i actually asked ron paul about that, and let's just say he wasn't very happy with the question and he said it was our fault in the media and the people who didn't get to talk to him should be furious at us. brooke? >> you talked to him and he may not compete in florida? dana, what's that about? >> this is really interesting. obviously, after new hampshire

for people who are local junkies like us, they know the next primary is going to be in south carolina. and then that following that is florida. and the whole question is, what happens with ron paul down the road? florida is a state where it's very expensive, but it is also a state where because of some internal misuse, they probably won't have the number of delegates that a traditionally delegate-rich state has. ron paul has said he probably doesn't have the money to go there and he'll continue to pick up delegates. >> we don't have plans for a $20 million program because we don't have that kind of money in the bank and we can't go to wall street to get this money. so we'll have to wait ask snd s. it is planned at this moment that we don't have a big campaign here, and we have the caucus estates we'll start paying more attention to?

>> does that. >> i think that tells you we're realistic. we had our approach to iowa. we thought we looked pretty good there, and now we're looking pretty good here. we shouldn't be realistic. >> but i think what this tells us, brooke, is the. if ron paul is planning ahead like this and planning to gog gel up as many votes, that means he is here for the long haul. that means it's going to be a pretty interesting moment as we get to tampa to the republican convention. it also gives him a lot of leverage as to whether or not this is a speaking platform he

could demand, or more importantly, getting some of his views. >> on the trail again with the straight out of a movie, working to dismantle this major drug ring. they report it to be operations out of mexico. i'm talking about smuggling millions of dollars in cash, thousands of dollars in wire transfers, even transporting huge amounts of cocaine across country lines. we've got the story. be right back.

we have just found out in the course of the last five or ten minutes or so the president will be issuing a statement live. you can see live pictures there in washington of the white house. we're going to take it for you at the top of the hour, so just about 25 minutes from now. speaking to randi kaye, the president will be telling america that bill daly, the chief of staff, will be stepping down and that the replacement will be happening at the end of this month. so stay tuned for that at the top of the hour. meantime, we're getting a rare look at exactly how far federal agents will go to get the bad guys. in this case the bad guys here are the mexican drug traffickers

and the feds are apparently helping them move millions of dollars in cash. cnn's latin american affairs editor, rafael romo. big title, very important job. you've been following the story for us. this is what the dea does, but it does sound like a movie plot now that we're getting these kind of details. they were helpinging initi init >> it involves three main characters. a columbian supplier who was caught in mexico and a columbian informant all working together to launder money and the dea allegedly knew about this and was facilitating this. but the idea here was not to break the law but infiltrate the cartel so they could arrest these characters. the columbian trafficer was also arrested in 2010, so that's the main idea here. now, the dea officially is saying this.

listen to this. "we have been working collaboratively with the mexican government to fight money launderring for years. as a result of this cooperation, we have seized illicit transnational criminal organization money all around the world through our partnership with law enforcement. brooke, what they're saying is, look, this is nothing new. it's been happening for decades, and let me show you what a former dea agent said about this. let's take a listen. >> the real question here is whether or not undercover agents need to sell drugs, buy drugs, launder money, and i've got to tell you, there is no way to make these kinds of great, international, sophisticated conspiracy cases unless you're going to do that. >> so the bottom line here is, and what's making some people uncomfortable, is how much is

too much? >> exactly did they apparently do? were they carrying cocaine allegedly? >> at one point they were making wire transfers of tens of thousands of dollars and they were smuggling bulks of cash of 3, $4 million. it all came from an extradition order in mexico that was published by a magazine, and that information was shared with the "new york times" and that's how this story came about. but we're talking about large quantities of money. but at the end of the day, the question is, do the means justify the end? and it's debatable. you ask different people, you get different answers. >> dea, great organization. they're just doing their job. >> they have been effective, you have to say. >> absolutely they have. a controversial straight to 3-d movie is extremely violent,

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a new film that portrays child gangsters as young as 12 involved in wild shootouts, drugs and sex cause quite a stir. people are outraged over this 3-d film. it's called "toddlers." here's a short clip. >> i want to bring in the director of the movie "toddlers," main brown. main, i watched the trailer. wait a minute, we can't show it all on tv. i almost myself couldn't get through the whole thing, the blood, the shooting straight in the head at one point, but i suppose that that is precisely part of the purpose you made the movie.

>> say that again. i didn't hear you, ma'am. >> can you hear me, main? >> yeah, i can. >> i was saying i couldn't even get through the whole trailer, it was so violent. i imagine that's part of the reason you made the movie in the first place. >> right. like i told everybody else, it's a harsh reality that i'm just showing, you know, so bafbsical the message about the film is just basically on this is what happens when a family, you know, breaks up, when a father leaves the home and there is no guidance for the child and these things happen. you understand? so i'm just showing that. >> so, mein, if you can, in 30 seconds or less, what's the crux of the movie? what's it about? >> it's basically about a baseball player growing up in a neighborhood, and he witnessed his father being murdered. and he had to take actions on, you know, who murdered his father.

>> take actions meaning shooting and killing people. >> i mean, you know, thatsometi these people you grab off the streets for some of them. let's watch george pena. >> something happened to dad. >> what? >> i don't know. he's not coming back home ever. >> who is going to take care of us? >> i am. >> had he ever been in front of the camera before? he's playing a character named peto. how much of a stretch -- you talk about reality. how much of a stretch was this role for him? >> i mean, it was -- i got him through the whole process of the film, and he was naturally just -- he was just being himself. but this kid goes to school and everything like that, and all

the kids attended the school to make a film. >> non-violence protesters say you shouldn't be allowed to make the film, and i know your weapon is an m-5, an assault rifle. how does that support passivism? >> i was almost killed when i was five years old. >> you were almost killed when you were five? you're from harlem, mein. forget the cameras, forget the movie. what happens every day on the harlem streets, and what are you, at 12, showing to people? >> i'm showing the negative and the positive. >> what's the positive?

who are you helping? >> the positive is taking these kids off the streets and doing activities and doing films and teaching them how to edit and doing music videos and ak an actor and things like that. now these kids are aspiring to be in a film and do some things. they're actors and they're famous. so i understand everybody is making a big deal about it, and i can understand it. >> okay, mein brown, your film is called "toddlers." let us know what you think about the film. give us a tweet. chief of staff bill daly is expected to. coming up next, we're going to talk to them about the implications of this move which

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gas prices, they're going up. let's go to allison kopic who is live for us at the stock exchange. we're talking a dime, allison, over the last couple weeks. why? >> 12 cents, to be exact. in the last few weeks, the average price of gas is sitting at $3.35. that's as of friday. the price hike is the first since october, and why is this

happening? it's tied to the rising price of crude oil. tensions in iran are pushing the price of oil over $100 a barrel. that's pushing prices at the pump, and guess what, that's only the start. prices are expected to keep climbing because the shortened supplies and the tension with iraq. brooke? >> we're only five minutes away. let's bring in this man, wolf blitzer. we're five minutes away from the president. we were told he is going to be announcing from the white house that chief of staff bill daley will be leaving that post end of this month and they will be replacing that spot. >> i always thought he would be staying through the november elections. this is a surprise. it shouldn't be a complete surprise because he did give over some of his responsibilities as white house chief of staff to pete rouse, who was the interim, the acting chief of staff after manuel left

the house to run as governor of chicago. so it's not a complete surprise. i think there are some stylish use, some substantive issues. one thing i'll be looking forward to, learning very soon, and i suspect we will, whether bill daley was completely comfortable with some of the sort of efforts by the president in recent weeks to really go back and energize that democratic party base, what the democrats call this class warfare. let's work things out, we don't have to get in fights all the time, try to work with republicans. there may have been an issue there because the president sort of poking the eye of the house and senate the last few weeks. i'm not sure bill daley always felt so comfortable with that, but do you understand what i mean? >> i understand what you mean. we'll go to the white house in a few minutes. and brianna keilar, what do you

know about what the president will be saying? >> they expect to talk about bill daley stepping down and the accomplishments of jack lew and the role he will serve as chief of staff. you heard wolf say he was surprised? well, someone i spoke to said he was in pretty good company because an obama aide was surprised as well. here's how this all went down. on tuesday, a little less than a week ago, which was the president's first full day back from hawaii, or his first day back from vacation, that is when daley, who had spent the holidays at home in chicago, approached him and offered his resignation, saying he thought about it with his wife over the time he was home, and he thought now was the time to step down. and the president was surprised, he told me. at first he didn't accept the

resignation. he said, think about it for a day, i want you to stay on, let's talk about this tomorrow. then on wednesday he spoke with daley about it again, and daley still had the same feeling. according to this aide, there had just been a victory over the payroll tax cut and this would be a good time for him to go, and ultimately the president, with some discussion with daley and his aide talked about jack lew as a replacement, and on friday lew accepted the position after discussion with the president. but yeah, i think some people are surprised at how quickly daley came in and out of this. but the white house, brooke, not surprising surprisingly that he is leaving, though he is departing sooner than expected, brooke. >> you said this aide was surprised, and then taking a step further hearing t