please always remember the spin stops here because we are definitely looking out for you. >> welcome to new hampshire where we are less than two months away from the presidential primary and one of the candidates that is working the state very hard is former massachusetts governor mitt romney. i sit down with him for a special one-on-one edition. >> governor, great to see you in new hampshire. >> thanks, sean. >> how are you? >> good to be with you. >> are you keeping up on the campaign trail? are you glad you are end of the line? >> i met a lot of great folks, a lot of folks in new hampshire. this is a great experience. who would have guessed i would have gotten the chance to run for president, but it's an honor. >> let's start with the president is going to be in new hampshire tuesday.

so he's going to be here tuesday, and your first ad is up and running in new hampshire. tell us about the ad and why is it important to bring up president obama in this? >> well, when he was candidate obama, he said he was going to get this economy going, he was growing to bring people together, be a real leader for change in america so i'm going to run an ad that shows him and the things he said here in new hampshire and the speech here and the contrast between what he said and what he did is so stark, people will recognize they need to have someone new to lead the country and then i describe why i'm the right person for that responsibility. we will put that ad up on tuesday, the very day he comes to new hampshire. >> we will run it first and take a look at that ad right now. [applause] >> i am confident that we can -- we need a plan for the middle

class. we need a new direction. if we keep talk back the economy, we are going to lose. >> i am going to do something to government, i call it the smaller, simpler, smarter approach to government. getting rid of programs, turning programs back to states and finally making government itself more efficient. i am going to get rid of obamacare. it's killing jobs and it's keeping your kids from having the prospects they deserve. >> as you get closer to the end, you are less than two months, governor, away from the iowa caucuses and then you come right here to the state of new hampshire. the polls that been fascinating to me. you had a challenge from michele bachman and tim pawlenty at one point. two people have stayed relatively consistent, you and ron paul. you are at the top of the heap. how do you explain that?

what do you think that is? >> i can't begin to explain what happens in polls and how people's sentiments change over time. people have had a chance to look at different candidates. microscope gets applied and people decide is this someone i want to support in the final analysis or not? in my case i think people know me pretty well because i ran four years ago and they want to make sure whoever we nominate can actually beat barack obama and also has the capacity to lead the country. these are troubling and dangerous times globably, and domestically we have a lot of people out of work. we have a lot of problems and we could ultimately be like greece. five or six or seven years from now we could be in the position greece is in. team want to nominate the person who will actually win and fix the country. that's why i think they are giving it such a careful look. >> it's interesting. back in 2008 the establishment candidate was senator mccain.

you were viewed as the more conservative candidate. this time around it seems that you are viewed a little bit more establishment and people are running to the right of you. what do you make of that? in other words, it seems that it's come down to the way political analysts are saying, it's romney -- the pro romney versus anti-romney. do you see it that way? do you see the shift. >> i spend my days thinking how do i bring my message to the people of the country and make america stronger with a better future. i look at america in a positive light. i know right now it's become somewhat conventional to be very, very critical and to be very concerned about the future. i know we face real challenges but i'm convince sudden what america has is what the world would love to have, the most powerful, dynamic people in the world. and so i talk about that day in and day out and don't spend a lot of time worrying about what the other candidates are doing or what they are saying. i focus on my message and what

it takes to get the economy going again to make sure we can pass along an america that has a brighter future than the days we've enjoyed in the past. >> it may surprise you but i'm a pretty competitive person and i was trying to see this through the prism if i was competitive in a presidential race. and we know that governor perry had a tough 54 seconds in one of the debates and herman cain had a tough time answering the libya question. you are sitting there quietly saying, yes, or are you saying, oh, that could be me one day, feeling a little sorry for them? >> in the case of governor perry, i was the guy that talked about the epa. it turned out that was not the one he was not looking for. this is a grueling process. in those debates you are probably operating with about 70% of your brain capacity because you have all the lights on, you never know what is going to come, there's a bit of pressure, as you might imagine so we are all prone to make a

mistake or two. but we have to be able to take our message to the people of the country and that's what we ought to focus on. if you spent your time worrying about the other seven it people on the stage, it's going to be a long night. if instead you talk about your vision of the country, it can be a pretty good night. >> ultimately there's been some that have been critical of the process. i think it's good for the process. because at the end of the day, whoever gets this nomination is going to face a billion dollars ad campaign. it's obvious it's not going to be positive. in many ways we may look back at this primary as tee ball compared to the hardball that's coming. so by analyzing the candidates and discerning them and looking at their backgrounds and dealing with controversy, do you think in that sense it's a good thing that we sort of vet all of them prior to them getting the nomination? >> i think so. i think the debates have been very helpful. i think it's a good chance for people to get to know the candidates, to hear them speak on issues of significant, and to get to know us personally to a

certain degree. that's always hard in a bunch of 60-second answers but you do get some sense of the people that are running. in the general presidential election debates i hope we have more than just two or three. i would like have more of a chance for people to get to know more candidates. they think they know president obama pretty well but i would like to see a more complete opportunity to have him talk about a wide array of issues and to describe why it is he's been such a failure on international matters, on the domestic economy. the president, by his own standards, by the speech i saw on that ad, by his own speech he's failed on almost every dimension. >> what do you think of the tone and the rhetoric the president is taking on. the republican plan is for dirtier air, dirtier water, fewer people on healthcare. the attack ads are conservative and they have now been well-chronicled. maxine waters said the conservatives, they can go

straight to hell. and one said republicans want blacks in america hanging from trees. if this is before the general election race gets started, what do you expect that you were to get the nomination, and is going to happen in the general election? >> one said their strategist is toñi kill romney. so i'm not looking forward to that. clearly the president can't run on his track record. his track record is miserable. when he was running against -- or i say running against president bush because he was always criticizing precedent bush. he criticized him with regard to israel and the lack of piece process in israel. how have things developed under president obama? things ares worse. things have declined. on almost every dimension his record has been failure. 26 million people out of work or unemployed or stopped looking for work. home values down. median income down ten%.

it's a failed record so he can't talk about his record and get re-elected. what he will try to do is asays nature on his character basis his opponent. i hope it's me but i'm not look forward to those attacks. it's what we've seen the last three years, which is excusing his failure to lead by attacking other people. whether it was george bush, the congress, republicans, atms, the tea party, he's always looking fourth someone to blame. >> the tsunami, earthquakes, but now he's blaming the american people. he are saying american people are lazy, american people have gotten soft. you think of it, the list is wrong. when all else fails you blame bush. but now he's taken a tact i've never seen a politician take, he's blaming the american people. they have gotten lazy, they have gotten soft, he's done it on

multiple times and you have taken issue with it. >> i think it's a mistake. blaming other people works in a very narrow setting but it certainly doesn't work when you are the president of the united states. it is not stopping the harry truman the buck stops here model. people will not forget president obama had two years with a democrat house and senate. a super majority in each chamber. and he had his way with a whole series of legislative initiatives, and those initiatives have failed. he borrowed, what, $787 billion for his first stimulus. how did that work out? not so well. he promised that he would hold unemployment at 8% or below. never been below 8% then. his record is abysmal and he cannot continue to cast the blame on the american people or on anybody else because he is the president, and he is the one who has failed as a leader. >> and we will continue to gop candidate mit romney right after this.

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>> welcome back to a special edition of "hannity." we are with presidential hopeful mit romney. >> what do you think of his class warfare rhetoric? the rich don't pay their fair share. now the numbers don't lie. 47% of americans don't pay a penny in federal income taxes. he keeps saying over and over again, the rich don't pay their

fair share. what is your response to that? that you would be representing -- you would be the representative for the party of the rich. >> look, we have as a nation an extraordinary opportunity ahead of us. we have a new century. this can be a of and must be an american century. only way that happens is if we pull together as a people. i know there are people who want to divide america and think that will somehow help their campaign prospects. you can't divide america. we have to come together and all the streets are connected in america. we've got to encourage main street and wall street and the suburban streets and the urban streets. we've got to come together as a people. when president obama was candidate obama he campaigned with a message of unity and change. he just hasn't delivered. he's done the exact opposite of what he promised in the campaign. and the american people want to see a leader who is not in this race for themselves, but is in this race for america and can bring us together, can work

across the isle to get america on the solid economic foundation it needs, that can turn us into the job creating machine we've always been and can make it good to be middle class in america again. >> you've gone through a fair amount of scrutiny, and we will go through some of the issues you have had to dole with during the campaign. we go back to 2007 and 2008, we read a lot about president obama. reverend wright, bill ayers, acorn, community organizer. he was asked one question about bill aiers which happens to be a issue i was concerned about a lot, probably more than anybody else in the media. and only one question about an unrepent ant terrorist but he was with the guy. do you think the media has been unfair? when you look back now at the president's positions back then, and look at how's governed,

should we have gleaned who obama was at that point? did we miss an opportunity to scrutinize him, to do due diligence and vet him? >> i'm not terribly surprised the mainstream media gave him a pass and didn't devil into what he really believed and what he would do. it was hard to do that in some respects because he didn't have a record. we select add guy who had an undistinguished record in the state senate, did nothing of note in the united states senate, and so it was hard to know exactly where he was. he was a black page and he had soaring rhetoric, which was inspiring, but people presumed he would be perhaps like bill clinton and try to move toward the middle and get republicans and democrats to work together. he has not been that. he has been found out to be an extreme liberal and who has on almost every dimension weakened america. we have a weaker economy because of this president, we have massive deficits, now $15 trillion in debt because of president obama. he's now, by failing to lead the

super committee and having led a trap by say questioning will cut the military, that's on top of billions and billions of cuts so far he's put in the military, our military is now weaker. he has made america a weaker nation. that's inexcusable. we face challenges around the world and opportunities that are bright for us. i want to make america stronger. >> what do you think it is? bill clinton, very interestingly, he changed. he altered course. he moved to the center. end of welfare as we know it, end of big government, et cetera, et cetera. all these things he said and it helped get him re-elected. this president has shown an unwillingness to adjust, to change, to alter his strategy. why do you think that is? is he a rigid? >> i think he is. i think he thought the europeans

got things right and i disagree. >> how could you think that with italy is bankrupt, greece is bankrupt -- >> you think he would figure it out, wouldn't you? >> yes. >> the policies are so stark. his policy is saying america is another nation, we aren't really exceptional we are going to apologize to the world. how has that worked out. iran, the greatest threat we face, has he made progress there? no. has he made progress with israel? no. his efforts in afghanistan, i applaud the fact he was in favor of the troops. but he didn't think an election there was fair, would have the support of the people. he's failed on almost every dimension but he continues to pursue the same course. it's inexplicable other than having a person that just doesn'understand america and i don't think he does. i don't think president obama understand what is unique about america, what is exceptional but #* about america. i don't think he understands

that it's free people and free enterprise that is make america the economic powerhouse it is. i think he thinks that government bureaucrats, well-intentioned, somehow can do a better job guiding our economy and our lives than free people, and he's wrong. >> and we continue. more of my special interview with mitt romney right after this. ♪ it was the best day [ whooping ] ♪ it was the best day ♪ it was the best day ♪ ♪ it was the best day ♪ 'cause of you we make a great pair. huh? progressive and the great outdoors! we make a great pair. right, tally. that's what i was thinking. all kinds vehicles, all kinds of savings. multi-policy discounts from progressive. call or click today.

wenches continue, more of my special interview with gop candidate mit romney. >> you were asked do you think obama is a socialist and you were a also reluctant to say. you said he supported european socialist policies. do you think based on his nearly three-year record that he's adopted socialist views or he's following through on socialist principles? >> i consider i'm a liberal democrat. >> in europe that would be a socialist. >> the word means different things to different people. this is a liberal democrat like other liberal democrats i have dealt with in my career that believes big government, higher taxes is the best way to go. i saw it in my own state with

michael our governor before me. and i'm not going to throw out all the possible names you can come up with, but i will nail them for what they are, liberal democrats. >> let me ask you your issues with conservatives. george will has been a little critical of you, trial pretty critical. and rush limbaugh has been critical and some others. on the other hand, you have somebody like ann coulter supporting you thinking you are the nominee, get behind him, it's reality. ann made the case you are bamboozled the liberal democrats in massachusetts and got elected there because you had to sort of moderate your views. what do you say to conservatives that want you to be more conservatives? they look at some of your policies, romneycare, and he is not convincing us. he's going to be conservative

like reagan. >> of. what do you say to that. >> look another my record. i didn't raise taxes. balanced the budget every year i was in office. a $3 billion budget gap when i came in. by the time i was finished we not only had balanced budgets we had a $2 billion rainy day fund in place. and high standards for the schools. we make sure the kids to graduate from high school had to pass a graduation exam. i'm for keeping the bush tax rates in place and hold them down. i want to lower our federal tax rates. i think conservatives in my party will see i'm a rock solid conservative. you pointed it out a moment ago. last time around john mccain and rudy giuliano were running, i was the conservative choice. mike huckabee and i were on the conservative side and i have the same views today as i had then. >> is this perplexes to you? >> no, i know people cast their

opponent in a less than favorable light. and the massachusetts healthcare plan, don't forget, this healthcare plan is something we learned about from the heritage foundation, a conservative think tank. even newt gingrich insisted on personal responsibility. some parts worked, some didn't, some things i changed but it was a conservative idea, not a liberal idea. i'm proud of the fact we did something that worked with our state consistent with the tenth amendment. i'm also proud of the fact saying i'll get rid of obamacare, i know how it's bad and how it's different than what we did and why it needs to be taken off the books of the entire nation. >> how do you describe yourself politically? >> i'm conservative. >> if you ask me a reagan conservative. >> what i say is i'm a conservative businessman. my background is business, i'm conservative. reagan conservative, john adams conservative. i'm a conservative republican.

>> what happened? you told me once that when the healthcare bill was being debated and passed in massachusetts, that you didn't get everything that you wanted. >> right. >> and you vetoed person provisions and they were overridden in the legislature. one of the things that got overridden that you would not have had in that bill that you would have changed? >> the most obvious was that the legislature wanted to have each insurance policy in massachusetts contain a whole series of coverages or benefits. and then wanted to man date all those benches gets and all the policies. i said no, no, no, let the people choose which benefits they want and let the insurance company offer a wide array of choices but the legislature said no, we will push those in. and ivey toad that and they overroad that. there was also a provision employers who didn't provide insurance for the employees they have to pay $290 a year for each

one that didn't have insurance. i vetoed that as well and they overroad it. in the past there have been a number of things done differently than we anticipated at the time. one of them is we laid out in our schedule that everybody receiving help would have to pay something for their insurance. no one would get it free. but the people who now run the program say, oh, no, the poor shouldn't have to pay anything. look, in my view everybody should pay something. people don't value something they get for free. so there are a number of things that i don't like about the final legislation. i hope that those things get improved over time. >> and when we continue, more of my special interview with mit romney. also new hampshire senator kelly ayote will explain why she's supporting the governor. that's coming up. st: could swito really save you 15% or more on car insurance? host: do people use smartphones to do dumb things?

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a. >> morph my special interview with mitt romney. >> on aboring, your position when you were governor, a lot of people say you have now changed it since 2008 when you were running. your answer some. >> i changed my position on abortion back when i was governor. the first time a piece of legitimatelation reached my desk that dealt with the irish of life and abortion, i came down and said pro life. i said i simply cannot support legislation that would create new embryos for the purpose of testing them and destroying them so i came down on the side of lou some years ago. >> when you were running? >> no this was when i was governor. >> no, but when you were running you had a different position. >> that was when i was governor but before that time i said i'm not going to change the law. i didn't call myself pro choice or pro life but given the ls

were pro choice, saying i wouldn't change the law made me effectively pro choice but when i faced a piece of legislation on that matter i simply could not come down on down on pro-choice. and said i am pro life and i have been pro life since that time, and that was, i guess, 2005 or something of that nature. and i note, by the way, other great pro life advocates like ronald reagan and george bush had been in their earlier years pro choice and as they faced the issue directly, just as i did, they became pro life. >> global warming. >> my view on energy is pretty straightforward and that's i'm opposed to cap and trade n new hampshire, for instance, new england, there was a regional greenhouse gas initiative, and i would not sign it. other governors did. i did not believe in cap and trade. i do not believe putting in

place a big carbon tax. my view is that the earth is probably getting warmer and humans probably contribute something to did but i don't know how much. i'm not willing to spend trillion of dollars to try to stop co2 emissionings when i don't know where it will lead. >> so you won't give millions and billions of dollars in loan guarantees. >> and solyndra and. >> it's a long list. >> it is a long list. i find the idea of financial support from the federal government given to enterprises where there are bundlers for the democratic party to be a level of unsavory conduct, which is really beyond the pale. >> and it ca up in maybe two or three of the debates and that was in your book "no apology" the hard back versus the paper back, and this has been a big issue with governor perry in particular, he brought it up a

number of times in the debates, and it talks at length about some of the things that changed in the two editions. forks, the rewrite in the book talks about the 2009 economic stimulus package. in the original you wrote, quote, it will accelerate the timing of the start of the recovery, but not as much as it could have. the paper back pronounced the stimulus a failure and blasts obama's economic miss steps. the other major change is on healthcare in the hard cover romney tried to distinguish between massachusetts law and the national version, and that was, you know, basically -- i'm giving you what they wrought up. >> you don't really think that we imagined that people wouldn't have both versions of the book, do you? we are wise to that. >> when i release a paper back i don't bother rewriting it, i leave it. >> the hard back was written, started to be written in january when the president was just

inaugurated. we hadn't seen anything he had done yet. there was discussion about whether there would be a public option in the obama plan. in my first version i talk about the perils of a public option for healthcare. when the paper back came out a year or two later we had already gone through the healthcare story. out came a bill that was very different than what the original had looked like. so we updated the book. a lot of parts of the book we updated. i put a whole new chapter in the front end and actually put a new sub title and so forth. the idea was to point out that a lot of things had changed in what president obama had done from the very first days we wrote the first edition. but by the way, my positionings remain the same. >> you did not support the stimulus package from the beginning. >> no. right. >> you did support tarp. >> yes. >> do you think in retrospect you thought that was the right thing to do? >> yeah, i do. i believe that had president bush and secretary paulson not stepped in in such an aggressive

way that we would have had a complete collapse, not just a few banks and not just a few money center banks but all the banks and we would have had a complete collapse of our currency system. was it well-implemented after president president bush left? i don't think so. it became a bit of a grab bag for geithner. in i was obama, i wouldn't have used it the way it was used. but was it essential at the time to keep our entire economy from collapsing, yeah, i think it was. >> you mentioned earlier you think within six or seven years america could be as bad as greece or italy, we see what is happening in the euro zone, spain is now not far behind, ireland and portugal. you see the conflict emerging between germany and the countries they are helping it bail out and even great britain. >> yeah. >> so there's a lot of conflict. how bad is it if the euro goes down, how about that impact our

economy? >> well, it's a real mess. the whole idea of one single currency tieing together nations that had very different fiscal policies, it was doomed to fail. and we are seeing it unwind as a philosophy. i'm not sure how they will deal with it ultimately, but will it have an impact on the global economy? absolutely. may it pull with it some american bank necessary yeah, it could. i don't know which banks have sovereign debt and how much. i hope the fdic and the fed understand that and knows which banks are in trouble but those banks should be let to go out of business, go bankrupt if they need to. >> that was your position on the car companies. >> yeah. because we have bankruptcy process. then emerge stronger with a stable footing going forward. the idea of baling out banks or corporations is a bad idea. >> and we will continue with governor mit romney in a minute. also we will speak with new

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>> we continue from new hampshire. more of my exclusive interview with former massachusetts governor mit romney. >> what about the super committee? there was a report this weekend that if the soupcommittee fails amera risks another downgrade. we are only talking about $1.2 trillion. it seems insignificant. if they don't get a deal, they cut the fence further. is $1.2 trillion enough considering last week we passed the 15 trillion debt mark. >> it's amaze to go me that we have a president of the united states that was willing to put up $600 billion in defense cuts, and his own secretary of defense

saying that's a doomsday scenario. he's willing to put that up and then not involve himself in any way, shape or form for the super committee process. >> just advocate it. >> just say we will see what you guys do. i can't recall in my life time a president that has so abvocated the role of leadership. i find it disappointing. >> what do you think about his thoughts on wall street. >> i think he made a huge mistake. people are always drawn to people looking to weaken america and all streets in america are connected. you don't attack fellow americans. we have a lot of challenges. we around going to live up to chem by attacking americans. you work together for the common good. we lift the entire nation. that's something that's going to happen by having a leader that really believes in america. >> you said if obama is re-elected, iran will get

nuclear weapons. >> i think that's right. >> how would you stop it if you were president? >> i had a chance to speak in israel at a conference probably five years ago, and i laid out seven steps that i thought had to be taken to keep iran from having success in creating a nuclear weapon. i won't go through all seven but there is a few i will mention. one is crippling sanctions. extraordinary and crippling sanctions against their economy and the president has failed to deliver on that front. number two is treating them like the paraia they are internationally. and number three, making sure we have a credible military threat. people in iran, the leaders in iran have to recognize when we say it's inexcusable for iran to have a nuclear weapon that we mean that, that we are prepared to do whatever is necessary.

that's the last option. >> they right on the verge of getting them. they have repeatedly said he would wipe israel off the map. you heard the comments about prime minister netanyahu. you saw how he was treated at the white house and then, of course, the president breaking a promise we made to israel which is we would never ask them to return to 67 borders. those are three really extreme examples where we are almost isolating ourselves from one of our close he felt allies. >> the president's approach has been a foreign policy based on popularity. that somehow he could be popular with our foes around the world and one of the ways to be popular of our foes is to be critical of our friends and that's the approach he took, as well as apologize for america and that approach hasn't worked out very well, certainly not in north korea not in iran. you have a regime there that continues to fund the taliban

with weapons to kill american soldiers and you have a regime that's developing nuclear weaponry at a rapid pace. the president's policy has failed. the right course in dealing with a nation like iran is a course of american strength and resolve and standing by our friends. throwing our friends under the bus is not the right way for the people of the world to respect america. >> the last question on this. if we see iran is that close, it's got to be a military option, correct? it seems at that point we won't have any other option. >> when we say we are putting a military option on the table, it has to mean something and of course you have to say if all other elements fail, this any military option is the one that you will take. and we still have a number of options that can be pursued. crippling options, including those againsthe central bank of iran, can have an impact. working covertly within iran to support dissident movements can have an impact.

one of the amazing things of this administration is president obama had nothing to say when disdents took to the streets in iran. you can't make this stuff up. you have a president that doesn't understand the power of standing with your friends and standing up against terrorists. >> when we come back, we will speak with new hampshire senator kelly ayotte. she will tell you why she's supporting the former massachusetts governor as we continue. i know the name of eight princesses. i'm an expert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but it's for them, so i've found a way. who matters most to you says the most about you. massmutual is owned by our policyholders so they matter most to us. massmutual. we'll help you get there.

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>> we continue from new hampshire. moments ago i sat down with new hampshire senator kelly ayotte and she tells us why she is supporting the former massachusetts governor mit romney for president. >> we are joined in this segment by new hampshire senator kelly ayotte. how are you? >> great to be with you. >> you are part of this tea party group that made it to the senate and ran paul and marco rubio and this whole group of people. strong conservatives. >> we are strong conservatives and we want to change the direction of this country. >> you made a decision in a key state to support governor romney. why? >> i'll tell you, sean, i've been carefully following this

race like everyone else and after seeing governor romney's not only as a business leader and governor and throughout the debates, he is the person who can lead our country, change the direction, bring those conservative issues we need to the white house is make sure president obama is a one-term president. >> how hard has it been a minority in the senate? harry reid, for example, all the bills passed, and one which is cut cap and balance, can't even get a vote on these things and then the president goes out and says this is an obstructnist congress. >> you have hit it right on right there. we need presidential leadership. it's very frustrating with harry reid in charge of the senate, we are ready, you mentioned the freshman conservative senators, we need presidential leadership to cut spending in washington, to get our economy moving by actually getting the government

out of the way of our private sector job creators, and finally making sure that our country is protected from terrorists. i serve on the armed services committee and i trust mit romney if he is our president to make sure america is safe. >> let me ask you the same question i asked the governor. it seems george will, rush limbaugh, he seems to be having some trouble with conservatives. why? why do you think that is? and what do you want to say to them? >> well, what i would say to them is this, that governor romney has the experience that we need. he's been a successful business person, he's been an effective governor, he's turned around the olympics, and president obama, he's the one, talks about governor romney all the time because he's afraid of him. >> okay. if you were to -- now that you are supporting the governor, i'm going to put you on the spot. >> sure. >> i know he's going to duck my question. at least this one. he says, senator, give me your

top four people that i should consider for v. p.. >> well, i have to say, sean, we've got some great people out there. you mentioned marco rubio. i serve with him in the senate. i think he would be an excellent choice, somebody like paul ryan who has worked so hard on the fiscal issues. we've got some great governors out there. i happen to serve as attorney general with governor bob mcdonald. >> in virginia? >> in virginia. >> he went back to 2006 spending levels in his state. pretty fascinating story in virginia. >> we have a great governor in mexico, as well. we have some terrific choices out there. this election is so important for our country. that's one of the reasons i decided to weigh in right now. we can't take for more years of this president. we need real leadership in washington and i believe mit romney will provide that leadership. >> what does her endorsement mean to you in this very important state? a lot of people said you were being criticized this past weekend for maybe not spending

as much time in iowa, but new hampshire, you have a home here, neighboring state, how important is the new hampshire primary for you? >> new hampshire shouts when it comes to deciding who the nominee will be. iowa is critical, south carolina, new hampshire, and i am going to campaign aggressively here, south carolina, florida, iowa, i want to get the nomination. i am going to do what it takes to get the nomination. i will let the tacktitions in my office figure out how much we spend in each state. but i'll be in iowa this week and new hampshire regularly. you will see me in each of the four states. >> who are the top four or five people you would consider for v. p.? >> no names for you. >> i told you. >> i'm not the nominee.

i hope to become the nominee and then we will start thinking about that. >> do you like the choices? >> there are probably 15 names of people, including kelly ayotte. there are terrific republicans in the house, the senate, governors offices. we have a very deep bench. this year is really exceptional. and whoever our nominee is will be able to choose a remarkable, superb person to become the vice presidential contender. my view is that we have to take back the white house. we can't take as a nation four more years of a president who does not lead, of a president who doesn't know how the economy work, of a president who doesn't understand the perils that we face abroad and is committed to american exceptionalism. we have to have a new president. i hope i'm that person. i think i've got the best shot at defeating president obama. but if it's not me, then one of the other people on the stage has to be successful in defeating him. >> great to see