>> top of the morning to you. it's wednesday, january 11th. mitt romney taking the gold last night but this morning, all eyes are on this silver place winner. >> and congratulate him because he certainly had a clearcut victory but we're nibbling at his heels! >> how does ron paul's second place finish affect results and going down to south carolina? >> new hampshire isn't the only place that mitt romney and ron paul are coming out on top. why president obama should be worried about last night's results in the granite state. don't take it for granted. >> my former girlfriend back in the news. a no a list endorsement from angelina jolie. why the actress is having buyer's remorse when it comes to

the president? "fox & friends" starts right now. >> good morning, everyone. thanks for getting up bright and early. we've been doing "fox & friends" for an hour. we started at 5:00 today because it's the political season and last night was new hampshire so who won? mitt romney and guess who is going to be on our show coming up, mitt romney will join us along with the second place finisher, ron paul and rick perry who has been spending the last week in south carolina. >> if only he had come in third place, rick perry, he would have loved last night. >> yep. >> dana perino will join us from "the five" and she's got a lot of insight in politics. it's been her business for a very long time. >> let's take a look at what happened last night if you're just waking up, you'll be fascinated by this result. even if you saw 85% of the precincts reporting, you didn't see this. romney ended up with 39%. we've had 36% and 37% and in the end, 39%.

ron paul feels very good about his 23% and governor huntsman has done enough to stay in the race. he surged enough to stay there, good luck in south carolina where he's done very little work. newt gingrich and rick santorum are both in a dead heat. both are disappointed and governor perry didn't try. >> the thing about the newt number where he's tied with santorum, there was no noticeable anti-newt super pac ads on the tv up there so why did he -- a couple of months ago he had been doing very well across the board. not in new hampshire, of course, because that's where mitt romney has a weekend home. he's lived there for very long time. last night when he came out to accept the victory in new hampshire, the president of the united states not looking at the back of the pack, looking straight ahead at the president of the united states. >> this president wakes up every morning, looks out across america and is proud to announce

it could be worse. it could be worse? that's not what it means to be an american, it could be worse. of course not. what defines us as americans is our unwaivering conviction that we know it must be better and it will be better. >> smart strategy on mitt romney's part. except for one line where he called out the other candidates for attacking him about his record at bain capital, other than that, it was a speech attacking president obama and to me, it seemed like it was written quite sometime ago and that this -- he knew he was probably going to win new hampshire and it seemed as if he is the likely nominee right now in that speech. at least that's what his strategy is. >> i think he runs in 2008 and john mccain shocked him. ron paul comes in second and goes out and greets -- he's an even tempered guy. this is as elated as you'll see

ron paul who says he's not going anywhere even though he's said i'm not going to compete in florida. i think he has to rethink that. here he is last night. >> have to chuckle when they describe you and me as being dangerous! that's one thing they are telling the truth because we are dangerous to the status quo! >> and along that same vain, here's one reason why ron paul probably did so well in new hampshire. independents in new hampshire are up. the electorate up to 45%. that's up from over just a little bit of a third in 2008. so if you consider 33% to 45%, a lot of those independent voters probably went for ron paul and now it's up to mitt romney to figure out how did he get those voters to come to him? >> by the way, ron paul dominates, oldest guy in the field dominates with the younger

people. 18 to 29, he got 50% of the vote. what else is going on in new hampshire? >> how did the voters feel as they left the polling places yesterday? molly lyon joins us right now from the college in manchester with the latest. hey, molly. >> good morning. these exit polls are so important because they give us insight into what the voters here in new hampshire were thinking and what maybe voters around the country will be thinking as they continue to look at these candidates and we continue down this road towards the white house. the most important issue, no surprise that the voters said what mattered to them was the economy. 61% of voters said that was their number one issue. as for the top quality that they were looking for in the candidates as they went to the polls, they wanted someone who could beat president obama. this was a major key for republicans as i was chatting with them. they were coming out from the polls, they wanted someone who could defeat president obama. 26% said experience was what they wanted. a strong moral character, 22% and finding that true

conservative, 13% of the voters leaving the polls said they wanted that true conservative. not a huge surprise that number is a little low. the 2008 exit polling said about 21% of voters leaving the polls find themselves very conservative as for feelings about obama, a lot of the voters leaving the polls yesterday felt angry. 40% said they felt angry. 42% said dissatisfied. 12% said satisfied. and just 3% said they were still enthusiastic as far as their feelings were concerned about the president. fascinating information coming out of those exit polls. i had a chance to speak with a lot of the voters on the ground and they really mirrored what those exit polls had to say. guys, back to you. >> all right, molly, thank you very much. speaking of polls, a new cbs poll out that shows that the two frontrunners on the republican side in new hampshire would really give the president of the united states a run for his money if they had the election today, mitt romney would be the president of the united states. he beats the current president by two. ron paul right there, nipping at

his heels. 45% to 46% where the president would come out on top. >> that's interesting. two frontrunners in new hampshire. could be a different story in south carolina. could be the same thing. we'll talk to dick morris about that in a couple of moments. let's talk a little hollywood. hollywood celebrity angelina jolie says now, even though she supported president obama in 2008 she's now disappointed in him. keep in mind, as she's very big in foreign aid and visiting foreign countries and so she might know a thing or two about foreign aid in our nation. she says that she's upset with the way in which our direction of the country is going with regard to that. >> do you think president obama has taken the country in the right direction? >> oh, you know, i don't think -- i don't think it's -- i think there are -- there are many, many things i think have gone in a wonderful direction and there are a few things i am disappointed in and i don't want to -- i don't feel like tonight

is the night to clarify but there's many wonderful things that have moved forward and, of course, you know, some other things that are very frustrating. >> angelina jolie went on to say when it comes to foreign aid, they were giving people too much fish and not teaching them how to fish. >> sounds like a china chinese proverb. back in 2009, she did predict that president obama would be a one term president. >> texas congressman ron paul has called for eliminating foreign aid completely. former house speaker newt gingrich would require nations to prove why they need the foreign aid so we're not exactly sure where angelina jolie fits into that picture other than what you pointed out, brian, she's been on the ground in some of these nations and i think what she's alluding to is just dumping money and food doesn't necessarily solve the whole problem moving forward. very interesting. >> all right, 8 minutes after the top of the hour. more world news and angelina jolie was probably going to be

upset about. >> breaking story overnight an. iranian nuclear scientist in tehran has been murdered. a bomb was planted underneath his car killing him and injuring two other passengers. he was the deputy director of a uranium enrichment facility and the latest of a string of nuclear scientists killed in recent years. they immediately pointed the finger at israel and the united states. the islamic regime, however, has no plans to give up its atomic program. joran van der sloot expected to cop a plea in peru today. it's not clear what charges he'll admit to. he's hoping, though, he gets two years in jail for killing 21-year-old stephanie flores claiming it was a crime of passion. prosecutors want him to spend the next 30 years behind bars. van der sloot, also the prime suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway, the alabama teen who disappeared in aruba in 2005. the flights were supposed to be nonstop but dozens of them are in fact stopping and passengers are not happy about it. the flights were scheduled to fly nonstop from europe to the

east coast but they've been forced to make unexpected stops to fuel up after running into unusually strong head winds. "the wall street journal" reports the airline's decision, we're talking about continental now. the airline's decision to use smaller planes is partly to blame. they are less expensive to operate. but that strategy only works when the winds are calm because they run out of fuel a little bit quicker. hollywood remaking another classic 1980's comedy. >> can you get it out under the tree? >> no problem, ma'am. >> new line cinema rebooting the slapstick police academy franchise. seven police academy flicks were made in the 70's and 80's. the remake will be cast with up and coming actors. is that a nice way of saying they've aged? >> they're out, yeah. >> back to cocoon, the sequel for steve guttenberg. >> no kidding. >> still ahead, we told you that ron paul came within a point of

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washington" joins me right now on the couch. >> actually dubs wrote the book but i helped. >> ok. for clarification. thank you for that correction. so what are we to make of ron paul? you've been a staunch critic of him when you've joined our show and other shows but he has this second or third place in iowa and now he's second place in new hampshire. >> he's god's gift to mitt romney. because he can't possibly win the nomination. and as long as he's soaking up those votes, the anti-romney vote is split three ways. among gingrich, santorum and paul and now huntsman and they can't coalesce around one candidate. and every candidate needs somebody who can't lose but can't win. that is they can't get enough votes to win but they get so many that they can't really lose either so they sit there in the race and you keep beating up on them and winning. >> it's a totally different voter who is voting for ron paul than who is voting for mitt romney or if you want to put the conservative bunch into a group.

so what does mitt romney need to do to -- let's say he's the nominee. >> run against obama. he'll get them all. >> but those ron paul supporters may go to obama, then, if they're more of independent mind. >> no, they're not. they'll all go with him. the only danger is that ron paul might run as an independent. that's a bit of a danger. if ron paul stays out of the race and doesn't run as an independent, i don't think there's the remotest chance that any of those people will go for obama. the important thing is that dukakis nailed down the nomination in 1988 when his opponent was jesse jackson. after he defeated tsongas. and bill clinton nailed it down in 1992 when his opponent was jerry brown after he defeated tsongas, gore was the first one. george bush coasted against steve forbes after he had beaten john mccain. so essentially if romney now has beaten gingrich and santorum and all he's got is ron paul as his opponent, he'll coast to the

nomination. the issue is that as long as both gingrich and santorum are in this race and they're now at 10 each in new hampshire and there was no distance between them, then they are going to split that vote and romney will coast in. if one of them pulls out and there was even some speculation that one of them might later today. there was some talk about that, then there's a chance for the other one to go against romney. but right now, romney is winning because he's dividing and conquering. >> i want to bring your attention to this 9:00 a.m. eastern time speech that newt gingrich is apparently going to make this morning. here's his spokesperson's statement. bottom line is you're going to see the most authentic candidate who is running for president who is not worried what the consequences will be put forth the truth as people see it in their lives every day. what are we to make from that? >> it sounds like it's a regular hype for a candidate's speech. and it sounds like he's sort of teasing them that he might have a major announcement in the course of giving the speech. but there's been some scuttlebutt that there have been

some discussions between the paul and the gingrich camp. newt gingrich is motivated by the fact that he hates mitt romney for those negative ads. he's furious. and he's determined, i think, to have some alternative to romney. and i think that it's possible that he might ultimately come out and support santorum. but as long as they're both running, and they're both tied, romney is just going to walk in. >> well, certainly newt gingrich would not drop out of the race or support santorum before south carolina, would he? >> you don't know. newt is a -- newt is very unpredictable. he's brilliant tactically and strategically and i think he gets it that he was unable to open up a gap with santorum. and i was a little interested when we were on the hannity show last night, he and santorum and me. i was on after the other two. >> sorry, i went to bed, dick. >> santorum gave a wonderfully positive presentation. gingrich spent his whole two segments dumping on romney.

>> interesting. >> and looked bad in the process. he looked like a prosecutor. i wonder if that wasn't deliberate on his part. i wonder if his -- >> why? >> because i think he may feel that he can't win and maybe santorum can if he pulls out. i'm just guessing. this is not informed speculation. i haven't spoken to gingrich and i could be doing him a horrible disservice today because if he's really running and he's going in and he's fighting, then i was misled by the rumors. won't be the first time somebody said something stupid because of washington rumors. >> all right. we'll see what newt gingrich has to say at 9:00 a.m. stick around, if you will, dick, because you say president obama will be a one term president but many polls disagree. what does dick know that we don't? he's going to explain to us next. plus, clayton morris from "fox & friends" weekend surrounded by the latest technology this morning at the consumer electronics show in las vegas where they're live after the break. [ male announcer ] got a cold? [ sniffles ]

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>> good morning once again. 23 minutes after the top of the hour. we have quick headlines for you on this wednesday. it's the first u.s. drone strike in pakistan since a border attack in november accidentally killed 24 pakistani troops. the strike left four islamic militants dead northern waziristan, an al-qaida and taliban stronghold near the afghan border. after two months since the lapd reopened the case of natalie wood, the detectives have found no new evidence to think her drowning was a murder, no foul play. she died when yachting with her husband robert wagner and fellow

actor christopher walken off catalina island not far from los angeles. >> just days ago, dick morris made this prediction about president obama's future. >> i think that clearly, the administration is in chaos because they basically know they're going to lose. when you look at the most fundamental measurement there is in american politics, party identification, 21% of the people that identified themselves as democrats when obama was elected have left the democratic party. and about a third of them have joined the republican party. and he's losing many independents and so clearly going to be a one term president. >> we're back with the former advisor to president bill clinton and fox news contributor. >> very embarrassed because i have a thing in that soundbite. >> you know people -- >> people only listen to what you have to say. they don't worry about what you wear. >> so you made that claim on

another program here at fox. but there's an interesting survey out that says that all of these so-called independents may not automatically just go for the g.o.p. pick. what do you make of that? >> they don't all have to go for the republican pick. they'll divide, of course. but most surveys have shown the independents largely lining up with the republicans. in fact, most of the time when you do a poll, you get half the independents who are sort of republicans and the other half are undecided. most many of whom may not vote. but we were prepping for this segment and i was going to say just what i said in that sound bite. you cannot have a shift of 11 points as we've had in the fundamental plates and have a candidate that won by five and isn't even recapturing the vote that he got last time because his approval is a fifth of them have left him on approval and haven't gotten re-elected. i told you, brian, when we were off the air there's not -- and i quoted myself, there's not the remotest chance in blank. >> you quoted yourself

accurately. >> that obama wins another term. >> but then why do these polls when we see these head-to-head polls, romney-obama. they show within his margin of error they're basically tied. >> that's a landslide for the republican. >> why? >> because the undecided vote always goes against the incumbent. i ask you -- are you going to be married to the same guy next year? and you tell me you're undecided. that's -- >> well -- >> not great news for your marriage. >> not having a great year. might be looking on the waiver wire. >> i went back to the 1964 johnson-goldwater race and i looked at the final gallup exit polls for every single election in which there was an incumbent president running against a challenger. even when the challenge got massacred like goldwater or mcgovern or dukakis, he still won all -- not all, 85% of the undecided vote. >> let's show you something that we gleaned from our exit polling in new hampshire yesterday. take a look.

what is your -- asked of all the people that exited the polls, a lot of independents and a lot of republicans, how do you feel about the obama administration? 42% dissatisfied. 40% angry. so you've got 82% either angry or dissatisfied. >> what i found most interesting, though, about the -- i mean, that's a republican primary sample. but what i found most interesting about the exit poll is that when you ask them what quality are they looking for? only 13% said a true conservative. the number one was somebody who can win. number two was good -- was good character was in there, something else was in there. but true conservative was only 13%. and that's really what is helping animate romney. >> and now, dick, finally, if you look at the attacks that newt gingrich and governor perry are putting on to -- to governor mitt romney, do you think in the long run they're making him a better candidate or a weaker candidate? >> oh, i think they're -- i think the attacks are unfair. but i think they're ultimately

going to strengthen romney because they inoculate him so when obama says the same thing, people say we've heard that. we've been through that. but when gingrich says, hey, they maybe couldn't have made 130 million. why didn't they make 120 million and save those jobs. how do they know that they would have gotten private people to put up private money if they couldn't guarantee them 130 instead of 120 on a return. this is not tax money. this is voluntary private sector investments and they need a good return to get them to do it. >> that's just the way it works. pleasure, thank you very much. >> it looks sharp. >> who knows? you may have all purple ties in your wardrobe. >> only have one tie in the world. >> you wear it well. thank you. >> coming up on our show, how far would you go to get some time off from work. we what one teacher lied about so she could play hooky. >> the teacher? did the fight against fat kill

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>> today was the big new hampshire primary and listen to this, while campaigning there yesterday, jon huntsman said he was ready to rock 'n' roll. not to be outdone, mitt romney said he was ready to easy listen. >> if you're just waking up, mitt romney won big in new hampshire last night at 39% of the vote or something like that. all right. meanwhile, we'll have the details on that but right now, let's take a look at other news. voters in oklahoma ok'd banning sharia law in their courtrooms. shortly after that vote in a 2012 decision, as you know, the law allows women to be stoned to death in some islamic countries. well, a federal appeals court has now dumped the law. the court ruled the law is

unconstitutional. and it singles out islam for discrimination. >> first, there were reports of arsenic in apple juice. now fungicide in your o.j. the f.d.a. says the juice maker found the chemical in its product and in a competitor's. the chemical is not allowed in juice made in the u.s. but it is allowed in brazil where much of our juice comes from. the f.d.a. says it's stepping up testing but the agency isn't worried about the safety of the juice right now. in high levels, fungicide can cause problems with reproduction. brian? >> her spelling was so horrendous, downright criminal. a high school teacher accused of forging a jury duty letter. it contained so many spelling errors and raised a red flag. she misspelled manager as manger, mona lisa, yes, that's her real name which is not smiling in this picture has agreed to retire and pay back the salary she collected while she was playing hooky.

>> she was a teacher? >> yes. >> hope not a spelling teacher. amazing story of survival thanks to a kayaker off the coast in florida. he has a camera mounted to his kayak. look what he caught swimming in the gulf of mexico. yep, it's a dog. >> dogfish. >> put down the fishing pole and pulled the dog on board and later found out that barney was on a walk with his owner earlier that day when his owner was hit by a car. he took off run right into the water. he's now safe and sound with his family. >> sounds luke darn -- like a movie of the week. is the dad ok? we hope so. hostess, the maker of fun snacks such as twinkies is preparing to refile -- to refile for chapter 11 bankruptcy right now. >> but is that really the reason why? is it the fight against fat? stuart varney says not so fast.

and he's here to explain what is the reason why twinkie -- we might not have twinkies anymore? >> it's possible. look, the fight against fat, yeah, that's playing a small role here. this is a familiar story to anybody who follows these old line companies which are locked into pension agreements. that's the big problem with the twinkies. that's the twinkie killer, in fact. hostess, the overall company. what are you laughing at? >> i just can't believe they did something new to twinkies. did you see that box? new twinkies. >> i know! >> this company has to pay $100 million a year into pension plans for workers who never worked for twinkies, hostess and anybody else. >> those are the deals the company made. >> that's the old fashioned pension rules and they're locked in. they're existing their own pension fund is $2 billion underfunded and they're $680 million in debt. they can't pay. they simply can't pay.

they're locked into these contracts. they can't pay. they'll file for bankruptcy again and if the union doesn't do a lot of givebacks here, hostess, twinkie, cupcake, yohos, whatever they call it are gone. >> usually when you file for bankruptcy other than that structured bankruptcy for general motors and chrysler, usually when you file for bankruptcy, then the pension plans have to go away, don't they? >> it depends on what kind of bankruptcy and how they come out of bankruptcy. they've filed for what's called a chapter 22 so they're getting some funding to keep them going while they're in this bankruptcy. they may not emerge. if they can't get huge givebacks from the teamsters and other unions they're gone! >> got to figure that, you know, for hostess lovers out there, they would probably be able to sell the rights to the ho-ho and the hostess snowball and everything else. >> is it going to be in bankruptcy again? may not come out.

this is old line contracts that are the problem. no, i'm not going to eat it. >> this could be the last one in the world. are you sure? >> no, i'm very sure. thank you very much. >> we'll watch you at 9:20 on the fox business network. thanks, stu. have a good rest of the week. >> meanwhile, if you go-go for gadgets, you'll love where clayton morris is this morning at the consumer electronics show in las vegas where they never sleep. he's not sleeping. >> you don't sleep when you're out here. the hall here, 30 football fields filled with gadgets, guys at the consumer electronics show in 2012. and a lot of great stuff i would love to show you this morning and stuff to improve your life. in fact, the folks from cobra electronics have made something awesome. you know when you get in your car and you've got your smartphone you want to listen to some music or launch gps or something else, it's a pain in the butt because you're having to peck through apps and find things. cobra electronics have done this brilliant thing. they'll put it in smart mode so it's car ready and instantly get in the car and all you do is you tap a thing and it instantly gives you the menu.

you can set preferences so it automatically turns your gps on, turns your blue tooth on and turns your maps on. with one click, you can control this stuff so you're safe when you're driving and not getting in these accidents and brian, i know because you go to the mall all the time, and you get to the mall and you're like, where am i going to park my car? am i in d 5 or in the red lot? when you unplug this phone, it pinpoints where you parked the car so when you're coming out with all those packages from macy's, you know where you parked your car. >> wow. unless you leave the phone in the car and then you're toast. >> right. then you're totally toast. then you need to get a little note pad to figure it out. please enlighten me. what's thesoundscape, air. >> you want to listen to music in different parts of the house. it charges these speakers on this charging platform, 12 hours or so of playtime as long as your iphone will basically play songs, you can pick up the

speakers and take one of them. i want to walk this out to the back patio and set this outside and listen to some music while i'm inside cooking something, i have another speaker set up in the kitchen. it works wirelessly so you don't have to worry about wires running all over the place. really, really easy. >> i'll take that if you want to expense that and bring it back. >> i'll work on that. and remember, a lot of these gadgets we probably won't see towards christmastime or the summer. here we go is the splash 100 also from berringer. you're out in the pool or you want to take that bubble bath that you're longing to do and you want to listen to some music while you're in the water. just turn it on, plop it right in and it's waterproof and it plays water -- it actually plays music in the water and you don't have to worry about it and finally, guys. don't want to waste energy in your home? the allure system is fantastic. it's the energy system for your home. a smart thermostat. you know how boring thermostats look, what about building speakers in the side of it? you can control all your different weather information

and your different home settings from this touch panel and the best part is it works with a smart phone so when you're away from home, it knows that you're 20 miles away from home and it cools your house while you're away from home and when it sees you getting closer to the home, it will actually start cooling your home down or heating it up depending on -- so you're not wasting electricity during the day. >> very cool. >> isn't this like 2001 where the computer took over and that did not end well. >> we can only get it to do my refrigerators to tell it to stop eating. that's a little preview. see you in a few hours with more gadgets. >> two hours from now, we'll check back in with clayton in vegas. he turned down a chance to play professional basketball to spread a message of hope. former college basketball star here to talk about his latest mission. >> then something funny happened on the way to new hampshire. the primary. the mainstream media tried to embarrass the republican candidates at the debates and no one understood media bias more than ronald reagan when he was

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>> welcome back. forget about the economy. apparently the mainstream media wants to talk about something else. >> what if you had a son who came to you and said he was gay? >> what you would say personally sitting in your living rooms to the people who ask questions like this, given that you oppose gay marriage, what do you want gay people to do who want to form loving, committed long-term relationships? >> they have the right to ban contraception or is that trumped by a constitutional right to privacy? >> when is the last time you stood up and spoke out for increasing gay rights?

>> ok. so can the g.o.p. candidates actually use this to their advantage? fox news contributor and former republican senator of new york state al d'amato joins us live. good morning to you. >> great to be with you. >> in that little montage of some of the debate action over the weekend, it seemed like the moderators were absolutely obsessed with social issues. >> they wanted to try to trap republicans into a position that independents would say oh, my god. that's abhorrent so that's what they're really attempting to do. really put them on the spot and is there a -- a dual standard? the answer is yes. when is the last time you've seen the media really try to put president obama? why haven't they -- >> they didn't ask him any of those kinds of questions. >> what they should ask him about is how come solyndra, how come you put the interest of the taxpayers behind your campaign contributors? when solyndra got over

$500 million, that's half a billion dollars. that's a lot of money. taxpayers money into the trough. you hear them asking those questions? no. there's a dual standard. >> some senators suggest, look, the mainstream media are trying to help them out. i don't know if they do it on purpose or if they -- >> absolutely. >> absolutely! >> you think that they do. but if they talk about stuff, that is not the economy, that's good for barack obama. when you talk about the economy, he's got to answer for that. >> that's absolutely right and what we try to do, what they're trying to do is embarrass the republicans on the social issues, right? stay away from government spending, waste, political cronyism, etc., which is then a detriment to obama. listen, i dealt with it when i was running for office and in office in "new york times" would shred me unmercifully. i was part of organized crime.

the mafia. >> you were? >> that's what they continually worked at. i called an editor and said how could you do this? he said you're too thin skinned. i said thin skinned? >> no kidding. listen, back in the 1990 -- rather, 1980 campaign, it was carter and reagan and, you know, reagan was getting piled on by the mainstream media and by jimmy carter. so what did he do? he turned it around after an attack. listen to this. >> governor reagan as a matter of fact began his political career campaigning around this nation against medicare. governor reagan again typically is against such a proposal. >> governor? >> there you go again. >> that's all it took. there you go again. and it got big applause and people knew who it was about. >> you know, sometimes saying less like the gipper could do is the best because the more you try to explain, you keep digging a hole for yourself. even if you're right.

and so he could do it. but he was phenomenal. >> i'll tell you what, one of the things about where we saw george stephanopoulos ask those tortured questions about contraceptives people are at home saying wait a minute, that's not high on my list of what i'm worried about. i'm worried about my job. i'm worried about the economy. i'm worried about if the united states of america is going to have an army that's big enough. stuff like that. >> national security. how do i protect our borders? >> they didn't reveal themselves. >> absolutely. if you really want to look at it fairly, you will see that mainstream media is out to destroy whatever possible republican will emerge as president, they want to wound him or her. you saw where romney was talking about replacing his insurance program or carrier and they said romney likes to fire people. >> now they completely took it out of context. senator, thank you very much. >> thanks for joining us on this

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>> did you know there was more to the new york giants win on christmas eve. you're about to meet the man who is on a mission to win behind the scenes. his name is john paul gonzalez

and some say he's like tim tebow giants style. joining us right now is john, the big basketball player from montclair, right? >> yes. >> all right. so first off, john, you go to speak to the giants a week after their worst loss ever. they're about to play the jets and you speak to them on friday night and you've spoken to them before. but what was your message then? >> my message was basically about commitment and about being all in, you know, i feel that we've been blessed with a lot of opportunities. got to get opportunities whether it's family, at work and, you know, different situations and relationships. a lot of times with men, it's easy to stay uncommitted and it's easy to stay on the sidelines and say well, i wasn't trying anyway but -- and this is the reason i said, you know, it's a challenge. let's be committed to wherever we're put, you know, and give everything you have almost like a poker player putting his chips on the table saying i'm ready to win. i'm ready to sacrifice everything to get this. >> you handed out poker chips to the entire team and you asked them to put their initials on one side and what on the other side? >> maybe their number or whatever they feel they want to be committed to and i guess it

really caught on because it seems to be their motto. >> what do you mean all in? >> i mean all in like totally devoting yourself, you know, saying that, you know, this is something that i want to just, you know, totally be a part of and not hold back. and, you know, i think a lot of times we do hold back. >> johnny chaplain is the one that scouted you. you're a college player and most of these people your age and they've gone pro but is your message just about sports or is there something else? >> no, no, definitely. i see sports as a tool and almost a bridge to be able to bridge the gap and reach youth, reach whoever -- sports is something that they feel -- see as appealing or something they feel can connect with them and you can bring them a greater message of hope, you know, message of hope that i find in jesus christ and that's the hope that others can find in him and also where they are and where they've been put. >> this man, defensive lineman from notre dame heard your message and spoke about it after the giants victory. >> went to chapel last night and our speaker talked about all in and today you can just tell the

giants were all in regardless of what circumstance happened or, you know, whatever happened, it just seemed like we was -- regardless of what was gonna happen, we were going to be all in. that's how you got to play this game. >> even someone who is very critical of the team says i'm all in. so you hear that. things have certainly changed for you. you didn't do this to be famous. you're speaking to kids in prison. and your message was? >> message was, you know, similar that you're here at this place for a time but when you come out, you have an opportunity to change your life. you have an opportunity to be different and have a future and to be all invested in that as well. >> didn't you use sports as a vehicle, saying play basketball, gave them the same union -- uniforms and made them feel part of something. >> it's amazing where you give them clothing and jerseys, they feel a part of something. >> how can we get a hold of you? >> my web site, number four or through facebook or twitter. >> john paul gonzalez. look at them on the sidelines with the giants if they're

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>> good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, january 11th. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your important time with us today. it's an important day. mitt romney has made history going from the presumptive frontrunner to the presumptive nominee. >> thank you, new hampshire! tonight, we made history. but if he keeps riding this wave of success, can he handle the challenges president obama would bring? we're going to ask him. why? he's going to join us live just two minutes away. >> governor romney has the lead but the race is far from over! >> he certainly had a clearcut victory but we're nibbling at his heels!

>> the texas congressman taking second place in new hampshire. he also joins us live this hour. >> and rick perry won't go out without a fight. texas governor perry increasing his shots at mitt romney in a last ditch effort to save his campaign. rick perry is also here live this hour. "fox & friends" for this wednesday this hour starts right now. >> this hour has to live up with that music. so incredible. >> if you like politic, you'll like what is going on. we had the results from the first of the nation primary and as we look at the guest list right over there, the guy that finished on top, mitt romney

screen left oddly he'll be joining us live to talk about the big win in a couple of minutes. >> as we mentioned a few minutes ago, ron paul will be here, rick perry will be here and dana perino will analyze it for us. we'll shift gears, an actress in a new show that will probably be a hit. she'll join us and larry sabado will round out our guests. >> in the wings, mitt romney but first gretchen with the headlines. >> an iranian scientist in tehran has been murdered. a bomb was underneath his car injuring him and killing two other passengers. he was the director of a uranium enrichment facility. he is the latest in a string of scientists killed in recent years. iran immediately pointed the finger at israel and the u.s. but the islamic regime has no plans to give up the atomic program. joran van der sloot back in a courtroom where he's expected to cop a plea. the charges he'll admit to not yet known. he's hoping to get two years in jail for killing 21-year-old

stephanie flores claiming it was a crime of passion. prosecutors want him to spend the next 30 years behind bars. van der sloot the prime suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway, the teenager who disappeared in aruba in 2005. the flights are supposed to be nonstop. dozens of them are in fact stopping now and passengers aren't happy about it. the continental flights were scheduled to fly nonstop from europe to the east coast but they've been forced to make unexpected stops to fuel up after running into unusually strong head winds. "the wall street journal" reports that the airline's decision to use smaller jets is partly to blame. they are less expensive to operate but that strategy only works when the winds are a bit more calm. call it a supersized surprise. a military nurse reuniting with her two teenage daughters at a kentucky fried chicken. >> ahhh!

>> anita and ashley lee thought they were boxing up care packages for their mom's unit in afghanistan when she walked right in but the surprise doesn't end there. minutes later, captain jackson's own parents showed up to surprise her. >> oh, my god! >> get this, once the screaming died down, there was a third surprise? kfc gave each of the captain's daughters $20,000 for their college tuition. wow, what a day. >> thank you, colonel! >> all right. last night, mitt romney won big in new hampshire and he joins us from the granite state right now. good morning to you, governor. congratulations. >> good morning, steve. thank you! >> you bet. you're heading down to south carolina. currently in the real clear politics average of polls, you're leading by 10. back in 2008, hate to bring this up, came in fourth, you did, how are things going to be different around this time?

>> well, i hope they're going to be different. i can't be sure of that. you are right, i have an uphill climb in south carolina given my track record there. i got a great boost from new hampshire last night. very solid win. of course, iowa as well gave me a boost and i have to get down to south carolina and i'll be there today talking about my vision in making america an opportunity society again with good jobs, rising incomes and a much smaller government. so i'll be out there selling this message and hopefully get support. >> governor, i know it must be especially gratifying because when you lost to john mccain last time around and never got on your feet again in new hampshire. it's a different story now. but as you head to south carolina, something else is guaranteed. that your days at bain capital and your approach to business is going to be questioned and it's going to be looked to be defined -- how do you feel, i know last night you mentioned that you're disappointed republicans are bringing it up. regardless, how do you feel about defending your days at bain? >> i feel great about it.

i'm proud of the fact that we helped start a number of businesses and helped people realize their dreams collectively over 100,000 jobs created over my tenure at bain capital. look, i'm very pleased with the fact that we're talking about free enterprise. i know there are people in this country that want to make the government the source of our economic vitality. i think that's the wrong way to go. i believe in free enterprise and freedom and opportunity. and i frankly think members of my own party who may be desperate in their campaigns trying to attack free enterprise are making an enormous mistake for themselves and the country. >> the campaign and you yourself must have been stunned that these attacks came out now. not only from your republican colleagues but attacks in general because your strong point in running for president has been people believe you can fix the economy and you have this massive private business experience to be able to do that. now that that is under attack, a lot of critics are saying you need to come out front and be more aggressive in defending your time at bain capital. will you do that?

>> well, i get a chance to talk about it a great deal, almost every day and i think that's a good thing. i'm very proud of the fact that we help start some businesses. some are well known names like staples, the sports authority, bright horizons children's centers and even a new steel factory in the middle of indiana and collectively, they alone built some 100,000 jobs so i'm pleased with my record and, you know, i think as you look at the people who are attacking me, they've never worked in the private sector. they've never created a single job. so it's kind of funny to see people bringing this attack but, you know, i'm ready for it. and think that people will understand that in me, they have a candidate that understands how the economy works and the other guys are fine fellows but they spent their entire life in government. that's not the kind of preparation for the white house i think is needed today. >> well, one guy who has not been in government his whole life, he was a doctor for a while, ron paul came in a strong second there in new hampshire. compared to the other

candidates. he actually definitelieded you yesterday against a number of the people who have referred to vulture capitalists and stuff like that. he says i think they're wrong. they're either just demagoguing or they don't have the vaguest idea how the market works. governor, what do you say to, you know, i've heard a number of people on the radio and on television say at this point it looks like newt gingrich is so mad that you ran those negative ads up against him that he will do anything including throwing the kitchen sink at you to stop you. >> well, you know, i appreciate the comments of ron paul. i think he's right. i saw jack welch also, former ceo of g.e. talking about my experience in the business world. i appreciate those who are looking at this honestly and if we have differences on policy, why, you know, that's valid for us to discuss but these attacks from the speaker and from rick perry, you know, i expect that to come. when people find their campaigns are having some difficulty, they look for a new course, i don't

think it worked. i think the evidence from new hampshire last night where the speaker and rick perry were both in single digits suggests this type of attack on free enterprise is not gaining traction for them. >> right and finally, as you see thankfully, our economy seems to be improving. we seem to have added jobs, our unemployment is closer to 8.5% than it is 9%. if that keeps happening, are you concerned that the economy won't be a major issue and your main reason for running will be taken from you? >> well, i hope it continues to happen. i hope we get more people back to work. we got a lot of people suffering in this country. and this recovery has been the most tepid since hoover. and president obama's policies have not sped up the recovery. every recession ends and we have a recovery. this one has gone on way too long and i think his policies on almost every single dimension have made the recession deeper, have made the recovery slower and more people have had to suffer and for that reason, i

think he's demonstrated he does not know how to run the economy. if i'm president, i will make sure that america once again is the best place in the world for entrepreneurs, for innovators, for job creators. >> right. right now, you lead in south carolina with 30% of the vote in the early polling but the hard work is really just beginning. >> it is. and how is the movie yesterday, we saw that you went to "mission impossible 4" i think. >> yeah, i wanted to see a movie about president obama's re-election campaign and that was about as close as i could get. >> between that and the muppet movies i'm not going to even imagine. >> talk to you again probably after south carolina if not before. good to see you. congratulations again. >> thanks, gretchen and brian. steve, good to be with you this morning. >> thank you. >> he's the first guy since 1976, the first candidate since 1976 that is not incumbent to win both iowa and new hampshire so he's already made history. >> yeah. i think i read one statistic that said the last guy to win

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morning, looks out across america and is proud to announce it could be worse. it could be worse? that is not what it means to be an american. it could be worse. of course not. what defines us as americans is our unwaivering conviction that we know it must be better and it will be better. >> and then there's this, new hampshire exit polls show a combined 82% of voters are either angry or dissatisfied with the obama administration. representative javier basarra joins me from new hampshire where he's been campaigning for president obama. good morning to you, congressman. >> gretchen, good morning. >> when you see those exit polls, that's such a high number. 82% of the people at least who came out to vote yesterday are either angry or dissatisfied. how do you overcome that? >> i believe the american public are saying they're dissatisfied with the economy. they want to see progress. and they're seeing it.

200,000 new jobs created last month. i'm sorry, three million jobs created in the last two years. i think progress is being made but the president has said we have to do much more. during the bush recession, we lost eight million jobs. there's quite a few americans that were looking for work. >> that was feelings about the obama administration not about jobs. >> i think that's a feeling about not just the administration and congress, just generally. people are venting. they're expressing their frustration and every politician has to heed that call for job creation. so i think the president will be ready to talk about what he's done to create jobs. i hope mitt romney is ready to talk about what he's done to create jobs and we'll have a good conversation. if mitt romney becomes the nominee, the president and mitt romney will have that opportunity to talk directly to the public. but right now, mitt romney has to get through some very concerted efforts by republican candidates to beat him. we'll see what happens in south carolina. >> i want to know if you agree with the vice president or with the dnc chair, debbie

wasserman-schultz, a fellow congresswoman of yours. mitt romney the other day said a statement in long context, he said that he likes to be able to fire people. but it was taken out of context, the dnc immediately rolled out a commercial against him. joe biden yesterday said this -- >> romney said that, you know, i like firing people. in fairness, that was probably taken a little out of context when he said that. but what isn't out of context is the basic point he was making. he thinks it's more important for the stockholders, for the shareholders, and the investors and the venture capital guys to do well than for those employees to be part of the bargain. >> so it seems the democratic party is not in agreement about mitt romney. do you agree with debbie wasserman-schultz that he actually meant that he likes to fire people or with vice president biden? >> well, mitt romney said he

enjoys firing people. it's for him to explain. >> he said he enjoyed having the ability to do that if the people did not live up to the service that would be required in health care. >> well, that's -- again, you're interpreting from the entire speech that he gave but he did say specifically i enjoy firing people. how you interpret that is going to be left to the individual hearing it. certainly, mr. romney is entitled to try to explain himself. he has to explain and defend his record on job creation. >> so you agree with the dnc chair, congressman debbie wasserman schultz that it was not taken out of context. and you disagree with vice president joe biden. >> well, mitt romney said what he said. and he has to defend his record as a corporate raider who was in the business of laying people off, outsourcing jobs and bankrupting companies but he can explain much better what he meant than anyone else can but he did say, he did enjoy firing people. >> but i gave the whole statement context to be fair and balanced, when you're in private equity, what you do is that you

go in and help struggling companies that would go under if you did not put money into them. so anyway, i want to move on to the next -- >> gretchen, on that point, you're right and he has a right to defend himself and explain himself and that's what the campaign is all about. even republicans are asking questions about that. but let's recognize that his concern was more with wall street than main street when it came to jobs. >> real quickly because i'm going to lose your satellite in a minute, i want to get your take on how the other candidates match up to president obama. it looks like a dead heat. mitt romney, 47% to president obama's 45%. ron paul, 45%, president obama 46%. what do you make of that? >> this is a season for republicans to make their best case. i hope that they're able to choose their nomination sooner than later. once we have the republican nominee and the president now has his opponent, we'll have an opportunity for the american public to make decisions. until then, this is a season for republicans to try to get out there and put their best foot

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>> if you like your news by the numbers, this is your lucky day. i've got them for you.

first 38 million, that's how many americans binge drink on a weekly basis according to a brand new study from the cdc and it says the nation's heaviest drinkers live in the state of wisconsin. thought i was going to say the state of confusion. that's how long it took coors light to replace budweiser as the nation's second best selling beer. finally 2,000. that's how many fights the family dog will cause during its lifetime. the most common canine related argument, what to do with rover while the family goes on vacation. somebody wants to check him in into a kennel. >> i called governor romney a short while ago before he gave his talk and congratulated him because he certainly had a clear cut victory but we're nibbling at his heels! >> the big news out of new hampshire is the silver place winner, texas congressman and republican, presidential candidate ron paul and he joins us right now from concord, new

hampshire. congressman, i was just saying i watched your speech live last night. you delivered it. that's as pumped up as i've seen you. is this one of highlights of your career? >> it certainly is an important point. i see it as a continuation of what i've been doing but i'm so excited because our numbers are growing. we work with small groups for a long time. but it's galvanizing in the real sense that people intellectually know what i'm talking about. but now we're getting the support politically and the volunteers that are coming in and the money being raised, it really is exciting that people are endorsing something that i consider so important. >> congressman, are you most stunned about the demographic of the kind of voter who likes you right now? you garnered more than 50% of the young vote, i'm talking 18 to 30 years old and you are 76 years old. i hope i have that number right. >> yeah, that's right. but i feel a lot younger and i think it's how young you are in

spirit. i think your spirit has to be young if you're attracted to young people. but, you know, i think republicans fall short on this. they say oh, they say sometimes very critical of our supporters and they want to dismiss the young people. but how do you build the republican party if you don't talk to young people? we go to the campuses and we get a lot of support but i've never had a republican leader come up to me and say tell me what you do to get young people interested in the republican party and interested in what you're doing. so i'm always fascinated with that because they are certainly interested in what i've been saying. >> sure, it certainly is working for you there. next stop, south carolina. back in 2008, i believe you came in fifth. right now, according to realclearpolitics average, mitt romney has 31%. santorum has 20. newt has 19 and you have 10. it is a much more conservative state, the experts say. how do you do well there?

>> i'm pretty conservative. you know, i'm the only one that's offered a real cut in the budget. everybody else talks about cut of those proposed increases which makes no dent into our problems at all. so when they understand that i'm willing to cut a trillion dollars out of the budget and move forward and change our ways and even talk about things that are very important like monetary policy because that's what encourages politicians to spend money, i think they're going to respond very favorably. i imagine the polls have just gone up in the last 24 hours down in south carolina so we're pretty optimistic about how things will work out in south carolina. >> congressman, at two different events maybe even three different events from santorum to newt gingrich, your supporters have mixed with occupy supporters and created kind of a rowdy atmosphere. would you encourage them to stop that? >> the occupy people or what? >> along with some of your supporters have mixed in causing some turmoil in those three separate locations in the final day of campaigning. >> oh, well, what i advise is people have, you know, have the

right to demonstrate. i tell people they ought to be polite. and if they even bend over to -- lean over and get into this area where they're breaking laws and practicing civil disobedience, they do it at their own risk. civil disobedience is a proper tool as it was in the civil rights movement but you got to be very careful. no, we talk very much and although once and a while some people are out of step but if we get a fair shake and look at our people and come and see the supporters that -- they ought to just come and see the kind of young people who come and make tens if not hundreds of thousands of phone calls for us. i mean, these are really, really nice, cleancut young people so it's unfair to judge us by a few people who have acted out of line and we do not encourage that, obviously. >> congressman, excuse me for saying this but you believe some people call you kooky because of your foreign policy only? is that the reason why? >> oh, i don't know why they do

that. you have to ask them but they do use those terms because they can't defend themselves intellectually. if they say my foreign policy is kooky, maybe they ought to look at what's happening. why is invading a country like iraq that never did a thing to us kill a lot of people and then turn it over to the shiites who are now allies with the iranians. i call that kooky! i call it kooky allowing our president to go into numerous countries, he went into another african country without permission of the congress and fighting wars undeclared, that's kooky and that's why the american people are sick and tired of what we have. 70% of the american people are now with me in saying it's time to get out of afghanistan. there's no benefit to be there. >> the reason i ask that question is because you sound so much like the other republicans in the field on almost everything else so i'm wondering if that's why some of the analysts use that term with you. just about your foreign policy. >> well, no, they choose that to probably discredit me because

i'm the consistent one because conservatives and constitutionalists are supposed to say we're for limited government, personal liberty and balanced budgets, live within our means. so yes, they'll support me on the issues i want to cut spending here at home frequently. sometimes not when they pass no child left behind and prescription drug programs, but when i say that spending more money overseas, just to spend money overseas is conservative, where did that come from? but that's an acceptance. the more money we spend overseas, too many conservatives say oh, that's our position. spend more money overseas. that doesn't make any sense to me. >> all right. congratulations on your second place finish last night in new hampshire. next stop, the palmetto state. thank you. >> ok. thank you very much. >> straight ahead, you're welcome. you just heard from ron paul and governor mitt romney. up next, we have governor rick perry already in south carolina. can he stop his slide and turn it around in the next stop? we're going to ask him in two minutes.

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>> all right. our candidate palooza continues. let's dial in rick perry in the great state of south carolina already. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning. >> well, last night, not your

best night in new hampshire. of the major candidates, you came in last. now looking ahead to -- and you didn't really spend a lot of time in new hampshire. you moved on to south carolina. what's your strategy there? because you need something. >> well, our message of limited government, of a proven fiscal conservative and social conservative will play very well in south carolina. we knew new hampshire was going to be kind of a long shot at best. that's one of the reasons we side stepped it. but the citizens of south carolina not only are they very patriotic, being a veteran, obviously, plays well here. and having been the commander in chief of 20,000 plus forces in the state of texas over the last 11 years and the state that's created more jobs than any other in the country and also, a governor who has been pushing back and fighting washington, d.c. when you look at south carolina, and realize that this administration is attacking them on their immigration law, on their voter i.d. law and then this boeing issue where the nlrb

came in and tried to stop boeing from coming into a right to work state, south carolinaians understand that they are under siege by the federal government and are looking for someone who understands that and will free up these states to be laboratories of innovation and to compete against each other and i'm the one person on that stage that actually has not only been through it but understands the concept of having that type of environment in the states and in this country. >> governor, one of the other tactics seems to be that you're going to go at it really hard against governor mitt romney with regard to his time as bain capital. you're calling him a vulture capitalist. who made the decision in your camp? was it you personally to go after him in this way? >> actually, when i went through gaffney, south carolina, when we first kicked the campaign off and it became apparent with later information that gaffney was the home of one

of these companies that bain capital had gone in and basically picked the flesh off the carcass, if you will, and 150 people lost their jobs and down in georgetown, south carolina, the same thing happened. listen, i am a -- i'm as much a capitalist and have a record to prove it by creating and helping create over a million jobs in the state of texas. but there's a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture capitalism and that's what we're talking about here. and the fact is that mitt is going to have to -- he's going to have to defend this. i mean, and better in january than in september if he happens to be our nominee to explain exactly why you wanted to take $20 million out of that company and basically release all of these people to be unemployed or 65 million in management fees down at that steel mill in georgetown and hundreds of people lost their pensions, lost their insurance and were unemployed. that's not what america is about. america is about creating jobs. not --

>> governor, i want you to hear governor romney a short time ago on our show about you. listen. >> these attacks from the speaker and from rick perry, you know, i expect that to come when people find their campaigns are having some difficulty, they look for a new course. i don't think it worked. i think the evidence from new hampshire last night where the speaker and rick perry were both in single digits suggests this kind of attack on free enterprise is simply not gaining traction for them. >> and that is echoed by people like rush limbaugh who said you're really going in a place that republicans usually shouldn't go. >> well, i disagree because i do understand what venture capitalism is about. my state is probably one of the places that you see more success with that than anywhere. but where we do need to go is talk about an individual like governor romney and bain capital who have used what i consider to be some pretty harsh tactics from the standpoint of, you

know, i don't believe that capitalism is making a buck under any circumstances. look what happened between washington, d.c. and wall street over the last few years. $7.7 trillion that were transferred from our federal accounts into wall street? that's why americans are upset. let me tell you, the tea party individual in south carolina, they're not interested in all these stories about people making literally tens of millions of dollars on the back of working people and that's not a democrat or a republican story. that's an american story. and mitt may try to defend that as being ok, i'll tell you the people of south carolina don't think those tactics are appropriate. >> when it doesn't work, he's a vulture. when it does work, it's a venture. >> well, and the issue is venture capital is about creating jobs and this vulture capitalism is about making money regardless of whether people lose their jobs or not. there is a -- there's a middle

ground there of which i would suggest that people need to be focused on instead of the greed that we're seeing out of wall street. >> hopefully it will come out in the next debate because mitt romney claims that he created more than 100,000 jobs during his time at bain and the other question might be whether those south carolina companies would have gone under on their own had he not come in. but maybe that will come up in a debate. rick perry, great to talk to you. >> i bet it will. >> we'll see you how do in south carolina. >> god's speed. >> thank you. good luck. >> developing story to tell you about moments ago, we learned that twinkie maker hostess will file for bankrupt. it filed for bankruptcy almost two years ago and had emerged from it last september. the company carries over $860 million in debt. >> oh, no! >> more headlines now, the first lady speaking out for the first time today about reports that she didn't get along with the former white house chief of staff, rahm emanuel. they say it was distant and awkward since the beginning.

it claims that he tried to avoid her at all costs. here's the first lady. >> one thing is true, i talk very candidly to my husband about how i feel. that's the kind of relationship we have. i wouldn't go to rahm to something that i would talk to my husband about. if i didn't agree with something, i would talk to my own husband about it. >> when emanuel was asked about the reports, he said he has a great relationship with the first lady. and the president. >> there you go. meanwhile, first, there were reports of arsenic in apple juice, remember that? well, now, fungicide in your o.j.? the f.d.a. says a juicemaker found the chemical in its product and in a competitor's as well. the chemical is not allowed in juice made in the united states but it is allowed down in brazil where a lot of our juice comes from. the f.d.a. says it is stepping up testing, the agency is not worried about the safety of our juice in high levels, fungicide can cause problems with reproduction. >> a fight on the football field helped save a referee's life. veteran nfl ref tony carenzi, is

that the correct pronunciation, brian? >> yep. >> got hurt breaking up a brawl between the ravens and steelers last september. a bad reaction to motrin sent him to the doctor and a tumor was discovered in his throat. he's now being treated for throat and tongue cancer. and undergoing another round of chemo. that didn't stop him from working the saints-lions game last saturday night and we hope you are well! >> wow. it's been an intense hour. only going to get better. next on the rundown, forget freedom of press. homeland security spying on reporters. finally. >> wait until you hear about that. >> good luck with my life. >> he's paula deen's baby boy but with him, you're not going to get mama's meals. bobby deen is here serving up a summer menu. >> first, the trivia question of the day -- [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition?

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collect personally identifiable information about news people, about news anchors, people that are giving information on social media sites or on networks and keep that information. so you say well, what's the problem with that? there is a 24-hour, 365 day operation in which do you know social media is already being monitored? >> by the government? >> yes, they are already being monitored. what they're saying is there's a certain class of people and that includes news anchors like steve doocy to say, well, we can keep his personally identifiable information if he puts out a tweet. they say well, this is innocent. we need to collect this to know what's going on in terms of situational awareness. >> really? >> that's a keifer sutherland term. situational awareness means what's going on in this country. they say well, we develop this as a result of haiti, as a result of a 2010 olympics but a lot of americans and you look at the internet today and they say what's going on? is this big brother?

>> sure, you start with the reporters and next thing you know, insurance salesmen, who knows who else? ok. so if i do twitter and i do occasionally. >> yes. >> they can monitor that? >> and they can also determine that's you, who you are, where you are, when you said it, and keep that information for as long as they want to keep that information. >> what about my e-mail? >> infiltrating e-mail is a different issue. i hope that's not being done. i mean, there's no order with regard to that, that would be an illegal determination by the government. no -- >> it is troubling, though, that the government is monitoring the people who -- bring people the news because it seems like if there's news they don't like, they might bite back. >> i've spoken to a few people about it including you, it can have a chilling effect in terms of what you're saying. if you're obsessed with the notion that everything that i'm saying at this moment or everything that you're saying and others are saying on this and other networks is being

cataloged in some way and that personally identifiable information is being held for some period of time, you say what's going on? is there some greater evil or is there some greater good? this is something that requires a lot of discussion but a lot of oversight as well. we need situational awareness in terms of crisis, in terms of terrorist attacks, in terms of natural disasters in this country. but where is the line? and is the line being respected in a way that's constitutional and the legal rights are preserved? >> ok, great. i'm going to get on twitter and say hi janet napolitano. >> she's watching! >> probably so. and making a list, keeping it twice -- >> checking it twice. >> all right. peter johnson jr. >> separated at birth. >> good to see you. >> straight ahead, paula deen's cooking is finger licking good but her son has a way to get all that taste without all the butter. paula deen's baby boy bobby is next. so stand by. meanwhile, back in 1977, number

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>> what an endorsement. the answer to the trivia question of the day naomi judd and the winner is morgan from new york. i wonder if that's morgan from new york in our control room. >> i don't think that's allowed. his mom paula deen is the queen of southern cuisine but son bobby deen is here to prove you can lighten up paula's decadent dishes without sacrificing the flavor. >> you can? all right. that's the premise behind his new cooking channel show "not my mama's meals."

take a look. >> my mission for today is to take my mom's krispy kreme bread pudding and cut those calories in half. >> sweetened condensed milk, might not have enough sugar in them. >> oh, man! we're joined right now by the host of "not my mama's meals" bobby deen. good morning. >> good morning, everybody. i'm a big fan. enjoy it and i failed the trivia question this morning. i thought for sure it would be a cash. >> if a guest can't figure out the trivia question, let's do another segment. >> your program and your premise is the fact that you try to reduce calories and reduce fat that we might see in some mom's recipes. >> well, between my mom and me, we have the ying and yang of cooking going on but when i turned about 30 years old, i started to embrace exercise and really active lifestyle and i found that when i did that, it just changed my relationship with food. it changed the way that i looked at it. it changed what i wanted to eat. i wanted to eat -- >> what's that going to do to me? >> i wanted to eat for the way i wanted to feel.

anyhow -- >> what about these pork chops? i love this premise that you take her recipes and try to slim them down. they still taste good. >> we didn't pull a rabbit out of the hat for this show. if we were looking at a recipe and called for 3 cups of sugar, let's try a cup or cup and a 1/2. we cut things down simply. it's a neat show. in the end, we show you the difference in the fat and calorie content between the original recipe and the one that i do. this is very good. >> what are you sticking it into? >> this is caramelized onions, these are vadallia onions, they are the best in the world. come from georgia obviously. caramelized onions 15 minutes cooking them low and slow. this is such a great flavor. we're using gingersnap cookies so this is ginger snap gravy. a little bit of fresh ginger and lemon juice i added to it. for a side, smashed potato cakes. >> these are my favorite. >> these things are terrific. >> are they fried? >> they're not. they're not. they are baked and -- i'm sorry,

no, they're not. they're done in a skillet. but not deep fried. you know what i mean? >> they're not deep fried. when you say fried to me, i think fried. dropping something gu a fryer. >> no, they're not. >> how can you eat dessert? >> i don't have a big sweet tooth. i cut those back, too. this is using fresh apples. any place i could add fresh vegetables or fresh fruits into a recipe, we did it and cut out some of the sugar, you know, some of the raw sugar and used things naturally. >> don't eat this one. we've touched it and put it back. ok? >> for example, with the pork chops, how many calories did you save? do you know? >> in this recipe, i don't know exactly. you might have -- between 1,000 and 1. and here, i'll show you some tricks that we did. here with the potato cakes like my mom's traditional recipe, we would use sour cream. we would use lots of butter with this. greek yogurt. greek yogurt. >> check out his tv show on the cooking channel wednesday nights at 9:00. "not my mama's meal." give your mom our best. >> i will. >> meanwhile, we're taking a

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>> gretchen: good morning. it's our fourth hour, wednesday, january 11. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing part of your day with us. first of it iowa. now new hampshire. mitt romney is making history on the campaign trail. >> thank you, new hampshire. tonight we made history! [ cheers and applause ] >> gretchen: no time for celebrating. he's already off to south carolina where everything could change. >> steve: he's dropped the mr. nice newt title and now he's set to make a major speech one hour from right now. this former speaker, newt gingrich, have another trick up his sleeve? what's he going to tell us?

>> brian: president obama has another new reelection message. wait, wasn't that the last one? dana perino says he's miss ago major point. she's going to tell us what that point is 'cause she's standing by. literally, she's standing and right by. >> steve: she's eating a pork chop. >> brian: "fox & friends" starts right now. >> gretchen: all right. that sounds presidential. until we got to "my sharona". something that it not shift with what happened last night between iowa and on to new hampshire, the same guy, mitt romney making history with that win in new hampshire of the ron paul came in second. >> brian: just for the record, the knack and cheap trick sound exactly a right.

>> steve: newt gingrich and rick santorum tie ford fourth. what influenced the voters? we turn to molly line who has hampshire.n 36 hours. good morning. >> hey, good morning, guys. that's right. now i'm supposed to tell you all about numbers. i'll do the best i can. we've got the biggest issue that the voters were thinking about, not surprising, this is happening all across the country, was the economy. 61% of the voters in new hampshire said that was their number one issue when they were leaving the polls. the top quality that they were looking for in a candidate was the ability to beat president obama in the election coming here in the fall. that's what the independents and the republican voters leaving after voting in the gop primary said they wanted to see. 35% of those folks said they wanted to see a person that was electable. as for experience, 26% said that was the most important thing. strong moral character, 22%. and they wanted to see a true conservative, 13% said they wanted to see that true

conservative. as for feelings about obama amongst the voters here that voted in the primary, there was a lot of anger. 42 say they were dissatisfied. 12% say they were satisfied. and just 3% say they were actually enthusiastic about president obama's administration right now. the most unfair campaign, according to the voters, that have been listening to everything going on, the candidates have been calling them, they say they believe that newt gingrich ran the most unfair campaign by 26%. 24% of the voters said romney ran the most unfair campaign. and 15% said that ron paul had run the most unfair campaign. now, as for political ideology, we know mitt romney won, but for those thinking about him and voting for him, 39% would consider themselves moderate. 4% consider themselves to be somewhat conservative. and 33% consider themselves to

be very conservative. really interesting numbers coming out of the polls yesterday. that give us a great idea of why people made the decisions they did and it will be really interesting to see what happens in south carolina because the definition of very conservative here in new hampshire could be quite different from the definition of conservative in south carolina. back to you. >> gretchen: molly line thanks very much for wrapping it up. you did fantastic with allonyms. now get some rest. it's time to bring in dana perino for her analysis of what has gone on thus far. i guess there is no surprise here really, other than sort who have was second place and then fourth and fifth. they're tied. >> exactly. we had predictions la night on "the five" to how it would go down. i started to see romney, paul, huntsman and bob beckel, whom i respect, said careful on the paul one, 'cause it still was shaky at that time. but it turns out that paul does get second. huntsman, who spent the entire time in new hampshire comes in at third. it was not a surprise that perry

was in last place and really all the candidates have to figure out a way to pay for their staff and the travel for the next ten days to get through south carolina and see if they can make a go for it there. >> steve: mitt romney messed up the democrats' talking points. they say he's got to get more than last time. he got 38, 39, something like that. and they said, all that stuff he's got that ceiling of 25%. he broke that as well. >> i think they would be better off if they let the republicans beat each other up and not continually reinsert themselves. i thought one of the most outrageous things accepted on the sunday shows was david axelrod, president obama's campaign guru suggesting that he didn't think mitt romney would have been the kind of guy that would have tape a hot against -- shot against osama bin laden. that's a ridiculous statement. they continue to do themselves a disservice by chipping away at

president obama's popularity. >> gretchen: so we've had a lot of candidates on the show this morning in our 7:00 o'clock hour, mitt romney, rick perry and ron paul. now they go to south carolina. i want to get your thoughts after we listen to them about whether or not anyone else has a chance now. let's listen to rick perry and ron paul. >> i'm the only one that offered a real cut in the budget. i imagine the polls have gone up in the last 24 hours in south carolina. >> citizens of south carolina not only are they very patriotic, being a veteran obviously plays well here and having been the commander in chief of 20,000-plus forces in the state of texas over the last 11 years and the state that's created more jobs than any other in the country. >> brian: so they weigh in on what their chances are in south carolina. do you see either one of them with chances? >> i think perry will do better in south carolina than new hampshire. when he left iowa, he was going to go home and think about it, reassess. then they decided they would put

all their chips in south carolina. friends of mine who live down there said that his ads are actually pretty good, but that way back when, back in august when he made the immigration comment saying people were heartless and didn't support the type of immigration reform he reported that, that did not sit well with them. so i don't think he'll come in last in south carolina, but i think it's hard for him to get above fourth place. >> gretchen: what about ron paul? >> ron paul is somebody that i think for a long time thought a lot of people thought he's just one of those guy, just ignore him. he can not be ignored. sarah palin, on the fox news channel last week, reminded people that the republicans better figure out a way to reach out to those voters and see if they can bring them in. they're not going to be able to agree with whoever the candidate is on everything if it's not ron paul, but there should be a way to bridge some divides and try to encourage them to vote for whoever it is. >> steve: don't marginalize them. in the last couple of weeks,

we've gotten a little better news on the economy. a little. it's not happy days are here again. but if the economy becomes less and less something that the republicans should beat the president over the head with, what are they going to do? here is what mitt romney said to us just about one hour from right now. you want to watch? >> president obama's policies have not sped up the recovery. every recession ends and we have a recovery. this one has gone on way too long and i think his policies on almost every single dimension made the recession deeper, have made the recovery slower, and more people had to suffer. for that reason, i think he's demonstrated he does not know how to run the economy. >> steve: so it sounds like he made it worse. >> so i think romney is on the right track there, but that is going to have to be amplified and sharpened across the board on the republican side if they're going to counter the arguments from the white house which is going to be we inherited something worse and we didn't know how bad it was going to be. our policies worked, it took a

longer time. stick with us. remember what president obama said yesterday, which is, basically if you're a minority or if you're an illegal immigrant, these people are going to ruin the rest of your lives if you vote for republicans. so we have the narrative set up and the republican, because they're fighting amongest each other and rightly so because it's the primary, they're going to have to find a message that counterbalances that that says he absolutely made it worse and you notice there is two things president obama doesn't talk about at all. and that is what everybody's concern is, which is national debt, serving as lead weights around american's ankles and the health care reform bill he pushed through. >> gretchen: the thing he actual -- let's listen to him first. then i have a question. >> we've begun to see what change looks like. change is the decision we made to rescue an auto industry that was on the brink of collapse. change is a fight we won to stop handing $60 billion of subsidies to banks to manage the student loan program.

change is the health care reform that we passed after a century of crime. ending the war in iraq and bringing our troops home. >> gretchen: interestingly enough, at least for new hampshire voters in the exit polls, they want to know the priority for the next president, 60% said cut the deficit. yet you don't hear him talk being it. >> because the deficit numbers went up dramatically, especially because of the stimulus bill that the white house is going to say worked eventually. but i think all the evidence shows and republicans are going to have to figure out a way to make sure it's amplified, did not work. and you have a president who is shading the truth on some of those things. that's the way it's going to be in a campaign. the student loan thing in particular is a piece that bothers me in that it's not hike republicans don't want people to have student loans. you want people to be able to have student loans in the way that works best. we want a competitive market for it. same with health care. so it becomes a conversation about capitalism versus others.

they would rather not talk about the debt. but unfortunately for them, sometimes the electorate shifts and if they're saying the biggest concern is the debt, then they'll have to address it. >> brian: it will be interesting because i don't think the points he brought up are going to be tough to tackle for any astute politician. even when they talk about bailing out the car industry, no one is anticar, but mitt romney really knows a different way in which that could have been done that wouldn't have given so much power to the unions. you got to get inside the argument. >> gretchen: it's all about the simple messaging. i got to get to newt gingrich because at 9:00 a.m. he'll deliver what's being called a major speech. they don't care about consequences. it's going to be from an authentic candidate. what daubach of it? >> 49 minutes from now, brian, that we're going to have that. >> brian: i gave the time out of "the five" and people almost had a coronary. >> i suppose their strategy is if you come in that low in new hampshire, that you have got to do something to try to drive the news coverage today. so what he will say today, i don't know how it will be

provocative, but it will be provocative because he's not going to drop out. i could be wrong, there's a 2% chance that's true. unnamed sources in south carolina saying maybe newt gingrich is going to say, i'm done here and i'm going to support rick santorum. >> gretchen: never. >> not before south carolina. that's not going to happen. how he changes his tone will be interesting, plus he made a huge mistake going after mitt romney on the bain capitol piece because conservatives who never wanted to defend mitt romney came to his defense and also undercut the obama team's argument which was going to be about bain capital and now they'll have to find something else. >> steve: we made a little mistake at the beginning of this segment. we misspelled gingrich. it happens. >> well gingrich. >> brian: you win. >> steve: we're going to be watching you on "the five". >> great. >> gretchen: mitt romney's rivals are attacking his time at bain capital. so are they sounding more like

democrats than republicans? our political panel weighs in. >> brian: how the teacher tried to get days off of work and got caught in the act. yeah, that's her. >> steve: she had a spelling problem. coincidence wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8.

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for the twinkies. okay. meanwhile, while you were sleeping, an iranian nuclear scientist in iranian murdered. officials say a sticky bomb was planted underneath his car, killing him and injuring two passengers. the scientist was a deputy director of a uranium enrichment facility. he's just the late nest a string of nuke scientists killed in recent years. iran immediately pointed the finger at israel and the evil united states of america. gretch, over to you and the panel. >> gretchen: thank you. republican rivals continuing to attack mitt romney on his past at bain capital. but is that bad for the republican party? >> these attacks from the speaker and from rick perry, i expect that to come. when people find their campaigns are having difficulty, they look for a new course y think it worked. i think the evidence from new hampshire last night where the speaker and rick perry were both in single digits suggests this kind of attack on free

intersurprise is not gaining traction for them. >> gretchen: our political panel takes up this issue. jason, a form assistant press secretary to president clinton and chairman of u.s. corporate practice, lynn is a chavez is a fox contributor and tony is a republican political analyst and campaign consultant. good morning to all three of you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: i'm stunned at some of the criticism that the other republican candidates are giving mitt romney because in the rick perry interview we did this morning, he sounded more, to me, like an occupy wall street protester. linda, did he to you? >> yes, he did. by the way, i used to work for ronald reagan, he had an 11th amendment comma, do not attack fellow republicans. i don't know what is going on. i know these guys want to win, but when you're as far down as rick perry and newt gingrich are right now, i mean, the idea that you're going to attack the very basis of capitalism? capitalism is about creative destruction, out of the death of

companies come new companies and new jobs and more jobs and that's what makes us a dynamic economy. >> gretchen: let's listen to rick perry. >> actually when i went through south carolina back when we first kicked the campaign off, then it became apparent with later in information that gafne was the home of one of these companies that bain capital had gone in and basically picked the flesh off of the carcass, if you will. >> gretchen: then he went on to say that so many americans are upset with how much money that bankers are making which made me think avenues occupy wall street. >> even rush limbaugh came out and defended romney on the fact he should not be attacked for operating so successfully as free market capitalist and that's what they believe will recover and help the american economy recover. this is an opportunity for romney. he'll have to answer these charges at some point in the campaign.

as dana perino mentioned earlier, it's better now among fellow republicans in the context of the primary debate than against president obama who by the time he brings up these charges, romney would have already hopefully gotten his mojo together. >> gretchen: jason, you were an advisor to president clinton, does this take the talking points away from president obama? >> i don't actually think it does. i think president obama still has a very good message going into the election in terms of what he's done and an economy that's slowly improving. what i think this actually shows is what one of the real headlines was from last night, which is that nobody is dropping out. while in one respect that's good for romney because it means that there is no anti-romney candidate that is going to really coal coalesce. i think it's going to be a challenge for the romney campaign. >> gretchen: i got to wrap it up because you're going to stick around and they're going to tackle this. record number of americans say they're not democrats or republicans. are we becoming an independent nation? plus, the best video of the day,

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>> brian: quick headlines. casey anthony reportedly planning to fire her lawyer, jose baez, six months after he helped her beat a murder rap. she reportedly feels bea. >> has become too focused on his fame by securing her first paid sit down interview. dozens of continental transatlantic flights supposed to be nonstop are, in fact, stopping. the unexpected stopped to fuel up after running into unusually strong head winds. the "wall street journal" reports the decision to use

smaller jets is probably to blame. they're less expensive to operate, but that strategy only works when the winds are calm. bye. >> gretchen: he's delusional after being here since 3 a.m a new poll shows the number of people identifying themselves as independents are at an all-time high. is that good news or bad news for the gop? we're back with our political panel. jason, let me start with you on this as the democrat on the panel here today because last time around, president obama got the majority of the independent votes. >> that's right. >> gretchen: now there are more independents than ever before. which way are he they going to go now? >> that's a good question. up think we have a very divided electorate. i think that what's really going to be important are going to be the swing voters more than the independent voters. the people that are really going to change their minds between now and election day. i think those are the people that both candidates are going to ultimately appeal to. but we have a very closely divided electorate. if you look at the gallup poll,

if you ask people which way they're leaning issues if they're leaning democrat or republican and add that to people who say they are democrat and republican, that's 45% to 45%. which means we're actually really right down the middle. it will be a close election. >> gretchen: i loved what you say in your talking points, though, that independents who are undecided tend to go with the challenger. >> sure, because if they're not reconciled over voting for the incumbent, they're obviously looking for somebody else and that's generally going to be the person running against the incumbent. more important to what jason's point is, the number he decided to salining independents now is 45, 45, that's a 12-point drop for democrats since 2008. democrat enrollment dropped five points since 2008. and where are those people going? to the independent identification. the 12 battle ground states, democratic registrations dropped by 11 points. now they have a two point advantage in the most sought after states in the presidential election. this is all bad news for president obama and when you look at the polling and you mine down, while his approval is in

the 40s, his approval by independent social security low 40s or -- independent social security low 40s or high 30s. >> more people identify themselves as democrats than republicans. but tails been the case. >> gretchen: the biggest problem -- >> the biggest problem is going to be turnout for obama. the reason he won last time, he really energized the electorate and people were very unhappy and he got a lot of first-time vote force come out. they're disillusioned. people in his own base are disillusioned. >> gretchen: is this why the republican establishment, at least this is the claim that, they wanted mitt romney, because he would appeal more to the independents and now you're looking at 40% of the nation that's independent? >> i think that's exactly right, because if you go to a social conservative on the republican side, you're going to scare off some of those independents who might be pretty conservative on economic issues, maybe on foreign policy, but they're not there on social issues. >> gretchen: does mitt romney need to pick a social

conservative as a running mate? >> i think that probably will be something that will happen because he's got to energize the base, but he's got to keep the people who are independent also happy and willing to turn out to vote. >> romney is very acceptable and to my theory before where independents, if they're not going to go for the incumbent, they're going to go for the acceptable alternative. a lot of these other republicans are not viewed that way. >> gretchen: i got to wrap it up. thanks so much for your time. coming up next, mitt romney spent new hampshire primary day at the movie theater? and he says tom cruise had a message for the president. and first there was arse in this case in apple juice, now something funky in your o.j.? clayton morris live in las vegas with an inside peek at the electronics show. we check in with him. clayton, what are you up to? cool. >> i got the great gadgets. [ male announcer ] where's your road to happiness?

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>> steve: time for your shot of the morning. while new hampshire voters were headed to the poll, mitt romney spent last night at the movies. here is what romney had to say about the family outing when he joined us earlier on "fox & friends." how was the movie yesterday? we saw you went to "mission impossible" 4, i think. >> yeah, i wanted to see a movie

about president obama's reelection campaign and that was about as close as i could get. >> steve: funny. >> brian: nice. >> steve: yeah. romme and several of his grandchildren saw the muppet movie yesterday and i think his wife ann is right there as well. there you go. >> brian: a lot of people are saying, you know what you think, you know what your neighbors and families think, but what about celebrities, what do they think? you are in luck. angelina jolie, a woman who is true to her word a great humanitarian, done a lot of work overseas for those who need a lot of help. she was asked on the red carpet on the opening of one of her movies about the direction of the country. here is what she said. >> do you think president obama has taken the country in the right direction? >> oh, you know, i don't think -- i think there are many, many things, i think, have gone in a wonderful direction and there are a few things i am disappointed in and i don't want to -- i don't feel like

clarifying. but there are many wonderful things that have moved forward and, of course, you know. some other things that are very frustrating. >> steve: disappointed in obama. >> gretchen: what she hadn't was foreign aid, which brian mixed, she is a humanitarian, and usually hollywood, i don't give a rip what they say. but here she is an expert in humanitarian aid. so she has a problem in which the united states is giving that aid. maybe it's worth listening to her. she says that what you should do is not just dump and run. dump off the food and money and get out burks help the nations establish themselves and get out of the dire straights they're in, so it's interesting to hear she may be disaimportant informed she's got a bunch of pals at the united nations. >> brian: do you think it will be hard taking direction, 'cause she was a director in this movie -- do you think it's hard taking a woman of that magnitude? >> steve: because of the tattoos? >> brian: because of the tattoos that she had removed. could you take direction from

her? gretchen? >> gretchen: why are you asking me that question? >> brian: i'm wondering if she can command -- >> steve: brian, we take direction from a series of women in the control room every day because our executive producer, our senior producers, line producers are women. we do it every day. >> gretchen: i actually thought today we were going to just talk about politics. >> brian: except for gavin. he's all woman. >> gretchen: there you go. mike just took us out of the teleprompter. was that in homage to all the women? there he goes again. i guess we'll have to ad lib for the rest of the show. >> steve: watch me ad lib the headlines. 90 minutes from right now, joran van der sloot will be back in a peruvian courtroom expected to cop a plea, but it's not clear what the plea will be, what he's going to admit to. he's hoping to get two years in jail for killing 24-year-old -- 21-year-old girl, claiming it was a crime of

passion. prosecutors want him to spend 30 years behind bars. he's also the prime suspect, as you know, in the disappearance of natalee holloway, the alabama teen-ager who disappeared in aruba in five. >> gretchen: now fungus aide in your o.z.? the f.d.a. says the juice maker found the chemical in its product and competitors' products. the chemical is not allowed in juice made in the u.s., but allowed in brazil and unfortunately, that's where much of our juice comes from. the f.d.a. says it's stepping up testing, even though the f.d.a. says it's not worried about the safety of the juice right now. but in high level, funguside can cause reproductive problems. >> brian: spelling was so horrendous, downright criminal. a high school teacher in new york city accused of forging a jury duty letter and only caught because her letter contained so many spelling errors and raised a red flag. she misspelled trial. she wrote trail.

she misspelled manager. she wrote manger. she is not smile not guilty that picture because she's agreed to retire and pay back the salary she collected while she was playing hooky. >> gretchen: all right. that was pretty good job. >> brian: thank you very much. >> gretchen: i guess you could say he's rover joyed. take a look at this adorable pup. so excited for his food, he can't keep his behind legs on the ground. maybe it's because he doesn't have a tail to wag or he's really into pilates. either way, the video has been viewed more than 150,000 times on youtube. that takes some strong abs. rough. >> brian: you sure there is into the string pulling him up by the butt? >> steve: could be. >> gretchen: there you go again. to coin ronald reagan. >> brian: look at that. he's defying gravity. >> steve: a little piano wire or a little fillament. >> brian: that must be great

horse meat. >> gretchen: i'm a believer. >> steve: all right. let's take a look at where we're having some rain and as you can see from south of chicagoland through portions of the tennessee and ohio valley, we got a rumble of thunder, thunderstorms as well through portions of western florida at this hour. they're moving to the east. balance of the country is nice and dry. as you head out, it's only 18 now in rapid city, south dakota. it's freezing in minneapolis. 29 in kansas city. caribou, maine, 4 below 0. that's the air temperature. here in new york city, 40. 50 in raleigh. later today, look for temperatures in the mid 50s from the mid atlantic back through the mid mississippi valley. 30s in the northern plains. valley caribou, you'll be up at 6. in vegas, they should have a high in the 50s. that's your fox travel cast.

>> gretchen: the producer asked me to get out the duct tape for you. maybe clayton has some duct tape at the gizmo and gadget show. >> brian: what will they think of next? is that one of the gizmos they come up with? >> how exciting. i'm going to do a whole segment on duct tape. check this out. i'm at the consumer electronics show, 30 football fields filled with gadget. you know how expensive social security to get a home entertainment system. you buy extra speakers and everything. some folks have come up with a brilliant idea. why don't we build the speakers into the home entertainment system? speakers here, here. that's almost like you can't see it and it's affordable. half the price. listen to the sound. awesome, isn't it? all of it integrated right into the tell me center. it's even hard to tell that there is even speakers built into it. slide over here. you have kids. you know how districttive they

can be. fisher price came up with that durable camera a few years ago. kids can throw it down, indestructible. now they've done the same thing with video. the kid tough dvr. record their favorite video shows from your cable box. you plug it into your verizon size cable box and it records two hours of videos so the kids can take it in the car. the best thing is, when little billy decides to drop it on the floor, it's fine. video continues to play without a problem. that's how awesome that is. >> steve: fantastic. you sure you didn't break it? >> no, hopefully i didn't. how about head phone as soon as these are the best head phones i've ever used. these are the parrot. blue tooth wireless, go right on your head. i can't hear right now. noise canceling, so if i start talking loudly, don't yell at me. i can control the volume by a flick of the finger. place the music wirelessly over blue tooth. my ipod.

if i want to flick a song forward, just a finger forward a finger back. >> steve: that's cool. >> wrong panel. yeah. it goes through al the different songs. i can control the volume this way. it pauses the audio so it stops playing the song so i don't have to worry about it. >> steve: be careful, there is something flying behind you. >> last but not least, the guys from parrot, this is the ar drone 2.0. what's great about this is you can control it with your smart phone. it has now an hd camera built into the front of it. so if little billy wants to spy on his sister and nigh around the house, he can control this drone and actually get surveillance and have some fun with it in the house. you control it over your smart phone. zip it around, upside down. it does back flips now. it didn't used to do before. >> steve: are you kidding? how much is that? i want one. >> it's not -- in our studio at christmas time, this is a

brand-new 2.0 version, which i think is so much fun. i'll be out here playing with this. they'll be having a whole group of helicopter pilots playing in a competition later this week. i'll see you tomorrow morning with more gadgets. >> brian: there are countries that don't have that technology. >> gretchen: clayton, i'll see you in vegas, coming out tomorrow. >> come on out. we'll have some fun. >> okay. >> gretchen: see you later. >> steve: straight ahead, new hampshire is so last night, the candidates are already in south carolina and there it's still anybody's game. so what is in larry sabato's crystal ball? he takes a look coming up next. >> gretchen: and for eight years, she played the girl on "that '70s show." she will be channeling chelsea handler. the actress sits down to talk about her new role, coming up next i'm really glad we took this last minute trip!

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>> brian: she's best known for her eight seasons she played donna in the series "the '70s show." >> gretchen: these days laura prepon is taking on a different known, one loosely based on the life of chelsea handler. >> have you decided on a name yet? >> yes. i'm going to name her after mom. >> steve: she joins us live. the new series on nbc is called "are you there chelsea." based on the book by chelsea handler. >> yes. based on it. we actually pull from a bunch of her books. but most of the experiences are from that book. >> gretchen: in that clip, that was chelsea handler standing next to you with brunette hair,

but you're playing her and she's playing your sister. >> yeah. >> steve: confused. >> exactly. it can be confusing. but once people watch the first episode, it makes sense. but she says she's -- she says, i'm sick of doing myself. she's like, do you it for a while and she's been through all the experiences. but yeah. she plays my older sister, sloan. shea she plays a born again christian, uptight conservative woman and she's great at that role. really funny. >> brian: right. because it's the anti-thieves of what she's really like. and you think the series successful, pushes the edge. so tell me some of the edgy topics that we have coming our way in the first season. >> you know, in the pilot alone, my character gets a dui and, you know, my character does drink and has many experiences with the gentlemen folk. but it's what girls do.

i mean, i'm portray agawam who? her -- a woman who is in her 20s and experiences all these things and is unapologetic and goes and does it. she makes things happen. >> gretchen: who do you recommend watch this? >> who do i recommend watch this? >> gretchen: yeah. is it good for families or more for adults? >> honestly, the core of the show is -- i mean, that's when i was saying, yeah, my character does all these things, but at the end of the day, the alcoholics care about each other. it's about the relationship, it's about the heart and the show. we have all of it. we push the envelope of it more 'cause most people aren't used to seeing a woman doing these things on television. >> steve: in this new show, i see there's a lot of liquor involved and there is a scene at the bar. in "that '70s show," it seemed you kids were down in the basement smoking a lot of pot. >> that's why. that's why we were pushing the envelope doing that. now adays -- >> steve: that wasn't real pot, was it? >> of course not.

and the camera always was right ahead of us. mostly we passed the dutch, or whatever you want to call it. i feel like audience, they're mature, you know. they're used to shows pushing the envelope with ""two and a half men"" and "modern family" and whitney. i think they're used to that now. they expect that. >> brian: america expects a funny series because you're involved and chelsea handler is a riot. >> chelsea is very open about these experiences that most women would never want to talk about. and i think that our demographic is going to be i mean, a very wide range of people who will love the show. >> gretchen: it premieres wednesday. which is today. >> yes, it's today. >> gretchen: good to have you. >> brian: coming up, the sights are set on south carolina. could a win there, seal the deal for mitt romney? larry sabato looks into his crystal ball next and he's a

doctor. >> steve: let's look into the crystal ball and find out what martha mccallum has coming up in 11 minute. >> thank you. good morning, everybody. you know what's in the crystal ball? brand-new polls that show how mitt romney stacks up against president obama. and mitt romney lands in south carolina and -- newt gingrich gives a major speech. why some transcontinental flights aren't quite equipped for the long haul. it's scary. bill and i see you at the top of the hour

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>> steve: mitt romney made history last night as the first nonincumbent republican to win both the iowa caucus and the new hampshire primary.

>> thank you. thank you! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, new hampshire! tonight we made history! [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: so can romney ride this wave of success to victory in south carolina? let's talk to that guy right there, the guy with the crystal ball, larry sabato at the university of virginia. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. >> steve: okay. so he had a big win. would you categorize it as a landslide in new hampshire? >> that's a very substantial victory, particularly for new hampshire. new hampshire voters are so fickle. >> steve: okay. now, of course, the race moves to south carolina. we're going to put up real clear politics average poll. romney right now is leading 31 and santorum has 20. gingrich has about the same and paul has 10. conventional wisdom is that romney is going to go ahead full steam ahead and win that one, too? >> yes. as long as the conservative

opposition remains fractured and gingrich and perry and santorum all retain bases of support in south carolina. remember, steve, even -- romney hauls been the favorite. now he's a substantial favorite. some would argue a prohibitive favorite. that doesn't mean there can't be a bump in the road. if there is a bump in the road for romney, it will happen in south carolina simply because the lectorates 60% evangelical. it's very conservative. mccain was so lucky to have the conservative base split just right so that he could come up through the middle and win with 33%. that's what romney needs. he needs to win in the 30s with a split conservative base. >> steve: could the bump in the road be newt gingrich? he's throwing a bunch of stuff in the direction of the former governor of massachusetts. >> i think newt gingrich is at the vanguard of the anti-romney crowd in south carolina, though you can't rule out santorum.

i think santorum has a lot of support from evangelical leaders there and perry is going to take a certain number of percentage points as well. so they all play a role if they all stay in during the next ten days. it's ten days 'til the south carolina primary. >> steve: exit question really, really fast. ron paul, big achievement last night. >> absolutely. and if republicans don't focus on the fifth to a quarter of the vote that ron paul is getting, heavily from young people, they're not going to win in november. >> steve: all right. well put. larry sabato joining us from the university of virginia. sir, thank you very much for getting up early with us today on "fox & friends." >> thank you. >> steve: we're going to step aside, be back in two minutes. put down that clicker ♪ ♪ baby, baby, come along ♪ baby, baby, come along with me ♪ [ air horn blows ] ♪ i love you and i need you

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>> steve: next stop will be south carolina for the guys who want to be president of the united states. we got jim demint on our program tomorrow. he know has thing or two about