announcement? >> unconventional, the media will not like it, but the people will. >> sean: will i like it. >> i know you will and you'll love it. a lot of people in the media are going to like it. 19, charleston southern leadership conference, keynote speaker. >> sean: that's next. see you tomorrow. >> greta: tonight, did former speaker newt gingrich admit he was wrong to attack governor romney's business record? we just asked him and you'll hear from the speaker coming up. and senator santorum is storming south carolina. you'll hear from both candidates in a few minutes and also john bolten is here with a big announcement tonight and stand by to hear what that is. plus, first lady michelle obama fights back fending off reports of friction in the white house. >> i guess it's more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here and a strong woman and you know, but that's been an image that

people have tried to paint of me since the day barack obama announced that i'm some angry black woman. >> greta: so, is there really conflict between the east wing and the west wing at the white house? fox news' brit hume is here. right now, first of all, and the fight gets fierce, almost blood on the floor in south carolina and the voters are getting in on the strategy. one voter confronted newt gingrich about his attacks on governor romney's business record. >> missed the target on the way you're addressing romney's weaknesses, and i want to beg you to redirect and go after obvious disingenuously conservativism and layoff the corporate versus the pre-market. i think it's nuanced and i-- >> i agree with you, i think that it's, it's an impossible theme to talk about in the fact-- with obama in the back drop. obama makes it impossible to

talk rationally in that area because he's so deeply into class warfare, automatically you get an echo effect as a reagan republican frankly never occurred to me until it happened and i agree with you entirely. >> greta: so did former speaker gingrich admit he was wrong? we spoke with him a short time ago. mr. speaker, nice to see you, sir. >> greta, great to be with you. >> greta: i'm going to sort out the latest kerr fuffle, that indicates you crossed the lane and governor romney and bain capital, a firm he was a partner in and a statement by your representative that said that you basically the headline is misleading, that you are not backing down on the aggressive attack on bain capital. so, where are we on this? >> well, first of all, i'm not attacking bain capital, i'm questioning mitt romney's judgment.

i'm questioning mitt romney's decisions. he's the person who has gone around now saying that his business career is one of his two credentials and the other is his governorship. he doesn't want it talk about his record as governor because it's too liberal for republican primary and he doesn't want anybody to talk about his business career. "the washington post" today gave him three pinochios for his claims that he created 100,000 jobs. i've raise theed the question, a totally legitimate question, what about the companies that bain took over that went bankrupt. and this isn't about free enterprise. it's one of those phony efforts to throw up a smoke screen. this isn't about capital, or funds, this is about a person who wants to be president of the united states. he owes the country an explanation, why were certain decisions made, how were they done, what was the consequence, does he stand by them in retrospect. surely if he's going to go

around running for president and his 25 year business record is proof. he ought to discuss the 25 year business record instead of jumping up, any sign you're attacking free enterprise. that's baloney. i have a long record as a reagan conservative. and work for more jobs not less. more entrepreneurs, not less. in fact, i would say that mitt romney did pretty well under the tax law that i helped ronald reagan pass in 1980. he ought to be happy with my role in expandingree enterprise and role in 199 ooh's as speaker in cutting the capital gains tax. the largest tax cut in american history came while i was speaker, so this is not about free enterprise, this is about one person, mitt romney and what he did. >> greta: okay, so what i understand from what you said is that you're not anti-venture capitalism, that you are pro capitalism. so let me ask you the other question. at what point though, is it sort of fair to sort of clamp down on venture capitalism?

is there a point where there is a view, that it's not just sort of open season for venture capitalists to do whatever they want? >> i think there's always some boundaries of free market behavior that you watch and you check. so like we did with insider trading where we say, hey, that's breaking the rules and there may well be circumstances. the question here is, various newspapers have reported an entire documentary has been made about three or four cases that are very specific. now, i think governor romney thinks there's nothing there, that he ought to hold a press conference, walk the news media through it, explain how it was done, let people see it. but i find it change that they are so sensitive on this issue, that they've sort of pushed the panic button. but understand me, this is not about free enterprise, this is about the character, values and judgment of a particular person who is running for president of the united states

and it strikes me, just as with his record as governor where his record's very different from his advertising, he owes the country some candor and he owes the country some facts, all i'm saying. >> greta: all right, the super pacs that run ads against you in iowa and now there's a super pac supporters of you in south carolina and taking a run a the governor romney. it seems and i mean, i underline seems, it seems leak a lot of our critics think it's okay what happened with you with super pac with iowa, but think you're going too far. do you have explanation, why some conservatives are like-- all right, go ahead. >> i think the establishment wants mitt romney to be their candidate. i think the establishment thought it was terrific when there was-- somebody said, i think it was rush today who said that 90% of all the negative ads run last week were run against me. and the whole, out of the whole ticket.

90%. 45% of all the ads run in iowa were negative ads attacking me and romney already has attack ads up in florida attacking me. so, it seems to be just fine to the establishment when i was the guy beaten you. after all i'm the outsider, change agent, the guy that wants to break up their game. now, all of a sudden when it's their candidate, oh, that's a bad thing to do. i think it's actually kind of funny to watch the very same people who were happy a week ago now suddenly shocked that it's a two way street. as you know, greta, because we talked about it. i spent three weeks, getting attacked and doing nothing, for three weeks i said i'm going to stay positive and i called on governor romney to cut this stuff out and for three weeks, he came back with sort of smart alec comments about having broad shoulders ap taking the heat. all right, now we're in south carolina which is my country. as a georgia conservatives i have a pretty good idea how to

campaign and we'll make it a clear race. a reagan conservative from georgia or a moderate from massachusetts i think that the state produced mike dukakis and john kerry is not going to send into south carolina. and i understand in iowa, but have you boxed yourself in in iowa saying are a he not going to do that and you not directly, but a super pac associated with you is taking a strike at romneyment how do you explain that. >> let me strike a blow for candor. at the end. iowa campaign, calista and i spent a full day talking about this. given the fact that governor romney is prepared to spend millions and millions and millions of dollars in attack ads, i either get out of the race and unilaterally disarm or i have to find a way to draw his record and to layout his liberalism on issues like abortion, gun control, raising taxes, these are all issues

when the voters understand that, he's going to get remarkably few votes down here because he's not pro-life. he in fact wrote planned parenthood, the largest abortion provider in american into romney care. he has tax paid abortion in ram any care. his administration approved building an abortion clinic for planned parenthood. he appointed pro-abortion judges and these things have to cling to pro-life. so, take that, take there's a site called romney taxes.com. >> greta: and i get the feeling that you're going to fight back and from candor and conversation with-- you're going to fight back? >> we're going to fight back and my only point is i'm open it, i tried to do it the other way, i like the other way better, i'd rather go back to going back to positive, that would mean getting out of the race. i'm not getting out of the race, not going to yield to some guy that can't possibly

articulate conservativism. i'm going to fight because i think i can defeat barack obama in the debate and offering a straight reagan conservative model the country will really want. >> greta: mr. speaker, thank you, sir, hope you come back soon because this could be a long and interesting race. thank you, sir. and senator rick santorum is in a tight battle with speaker gingrich. there's news tonight from the union leader it's no longer a die and we'll talk with senator santorum about that and as far as we figure out, trying to come out as the conservative alternative to governor romney. good evening, senator and big news in the union leader, it's no longer a tie in new hampshire. >> yeah, we just got word that, with the count that we're now in fourth place, which we're very excited about. you know, we went into new hampshire with five days to campaign. we didn't run a single ad on broadcast television and we frankly spent very little

money and went out there aen just tried to communicate to the voters and did town hall meeting and we did very good debates and 1 or 2% seven or ought days before the primary and finish at 10% ap get ahead of speaker gingrich who was endorsed by the most influential paper in the state, the manchester union leader and who spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in iowa, excuse me in new hampshire. and when we were focused on iowa, that, that is good news for us and we felt good about the fourth place e i don't know how much the paper endorsements, boston globe, essentially the new hampshire paper as well. and union leader endorse, eem, speaker gingrich over governor romney and governor romney claims he got the endorsement of the people. now, in terms of this current battle that's going on between governor romney-- or speaker gingrich and

governor romney. speaker gingrich says he's going to fight back. i understand you're going to try to stay out of the frey. i'm curious if you think it's fair or right that speaker gingrich fight back? >> look, i think what newt just talked about was going governor romney's record in massachusetts is absolutely dead on. his record in massachusetts is deplorable. it's not a conservative record. it's tax increases, as he mentioned, $50 a taxpayer funded abortions. in romney care, there are a whole host of fees and things that the governor put in place that actually, he even proposed in a democratic legislature wouldn't go along with some of his tax increases. so, you have a-- that's why it's been somewhat, you know, hesitant to go after his bain capital record. i don't want to divert attention away from his horrible record as governor and being a moderate to liberal governor in massachusetts.

that's the record that i want-- as newt said, gun control, abortion and a very bad record on taxes and spending and those are the kind of things i want to talk about here in south carolina. >> greta: all right. explain your strategy from here to, i mean, for south carolina and to florida. explain to me what you intend to do. the organization, the amount of money you have and how you plan to seize the momentum? >> well, we had a money bomb that's finishing up in the next day or so, that already exteeded our goal on rick santorum.com and we, i think, from the-- from the date of the iowa caucuses we've now raised well over 3 million dollars which has been just a fabulous-- we've raised more money this week than we did by far in the nine months prior to the iowa caucuses so we feelike we've got a real shot in the arm, the wind at our back and we're able to run a full boat of campaign ads down here and the

first time we've run a really campaign. and a great event in lexington county here outside of columbia 3 or 400 people jammed in an event outside of town and it's been that enthusiasm in south carolina and hopping for a good day in the low country and finishing, hopefully we'd love to win here, a shot here. ap a twop two finish would be super and we need to show we're the candidate is it the best one to take on mitt romney and eventually barack obama. we finished basically in a tie with governor romney in iowa and having virtually spent mow money and now ahead of speaker gingrich in new hampshire, spending no money and we have an opportunity to get a full, full fledged effort here in south carolina. and we hope to do very well. >> all right. ahmadnejad, the president of

iran is making latin american tour and he's in cuba, and the problem there was a nuclear scientist who was killed in iran, iran says it was the united states who did it. the united states condemned it, britain condemned it and israel said nothing so there's a lot of suspicion that israel was responsible for his death, but things have certainly heated up. if you're president of the united states with ahmadnejad visiting just down the road a little bit in cuba and all of that going on in tehran. what would you be doing different tonight than president obama was doing. >> i've already made a public statement that any nuclear scientist, particularly any foreign scientist who is cooperating with the iranians in developing a nuclear program would be considered an enemy combatant. >> greta: would you have participated in trying to eliminate him? >> i'd be saying nothing right now. >> greta: would you have been behind his elimination? and would you have any-- there are different ways to go

after the program, one is to take out the plants and another to take out the people involved with them. >> i think this is the most serious threat to the security and stability of the world that we have today and we should be using all types of methodologies to stop that, including taking out people and i've said specifically foreign scientists who come into iran for the purposes of helping them to develop a nuclear weapons program, these are people who should be treated like enemy combatants, period. >> greta: on a lighter topic. the sweater vest. i understand they're for sale? >> they are, actually, believe it or not we've already sold almost 500 of them online. so, i feel sort of bad, i don't have my sweater vest on today. the weather was sort of nice in south carolina, and we'll have one on this week and they're going to be made in america, by the way. and we're trying to get distribution out here very soon and we're-- i understand that even the, some of the clothing stores

are selling brisk numbers of sweater vests these days and i'm feeling-- i don't know if that's necessarily what i want to set a fashion trend, but it's working for me. >> greta: it feels a little o'reillyish, selling the sweater vests? >> no, because they're embroidered and they have our name so people can advertise. that's why we're doing it, we want to get our name out there and promote the cause. so, anything that you can get people to wear that promotes your brand is a good thing. >> greta: all right. well, good for you. all right, whatever. all right. >> greta,le' send you one, greta, don't worry about it, we'll take care of you. >> greta: i think i'd be in big trouble if i wore one of your sweater vests, but i'd like to see one in person. senator, thank you very much and good luck on the campaign trail and hope you come back. >> thank you very much, greta. appreciate the time. >> greta: and straight ahead, former u.n. ambassador john bolten is here with big news,

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>> one of the g.o.p. candidates is getting a brand new endorsement right now. and it is a big one. former u.n. ambassador john bolten is here to announce his pick and ambassador bolten, i'm not going to steal your thunder. i know who it is. tell us who it is, sir. >> i'm going to support mitt romney, i've thought hard and this is important decision for the republican party and i believe it's absolutely critical to defeat barack obama in november. he think our country would be in dire straits, domestically and internationally if he gets another four years and i think governor romney is the person who can best lead the party, best ar tech-- articulate our conservative

principles. >> and newt gingrich and senator santorum describe him as a moderate. do you agree with their critique in many instances? >> looking at the whole range of perspective candidates there only one met my test as an ideal conservative and he decided know the to run. >> greta: is that you. >> i guess he's sitting here. and so faced with everybody else, i followed the way that the william f buckley, jr. test, find the most conservative candidate capable of getting elected and there are obviously two variables there. in the words of the old song "give me that old time religion" romney is conservative enough and i think thats critical. >> greta: i'm guilty of type casting people like others are, i would think that the most important criteria is foreign policy, obviously, and i'm sure you think a president

romney foreign policy would differ from a president gingrich or santorum in any way? >> i think i'd add rick perry. i think their foreign policies are very, very similar i wish there would be more debate and he think there will be among republican candidates, to articulate these issues, but i think governor romney, i've read his speeches and writings and talked to him about the issues over the years. i'm very confident about the strength of his view of american exceptionalism and the importance of a vigorous role in the world to defend our interests and i think he fully understands the challenges we face. i realize you have a disagreement with a democratic president, president obama. what's the single most egregious, in your mind, foreign policy part of president obama's foreign policy? >> i think on the big picture he's comfortable with

america's decline in the world. happy with reduced defense budget. he doesn't appreciate we face enormous risks and challenges, most immediately from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and also from the threat long-term aggressive china, resurgent russia, chaos in the middle east. i don't think he understands the world even after three years of on the job training. >> greta: all right, let me celebrate out from your support and endorsement of governor romney. and i asked senator santorum about it, and the scientist killed on the streets of tehran. ahmadnejad is blaming us and israel is silent. >> and obviously, someone has gone after a scientist and that's a shame indeed. the fact is we're not taking adequate steps, not the united states, not the west as a whole, to stop iran from achieving its objective of getting nuclear weapons. and shortening the life expectancy of the occasional

iranian nuclear scientist is not going to stop their program. they're very close to getting it. the administration knows that, there's no chance going to stop them-- e who is responsible. >> i don't know who is responsible for them. >> greta: somebody who didn't like the program maybe the an ex-wife, but sounds like it was related to his job. >> i'm not losing any sleep over it, but i think what's even more interesting in response is hillary clinton saying, the united states didn't have anything to do with this. why did she say that? because i think she fears iranian retaliation. well, if you don't like the way iran behaves now, threatening to kill saudi arabian ambassador and how do you think this'll behave once they get nuclear welcomes. >> greta: is the fear irrational and the plot that assassinate the saudi ambassador he in the united states. is her fear out of line. >> no, it's not irrational, but this is the regime she and her president want to negotiate with, still operating after three years under the dilution they can chitchat the iranian regime

out of its nuclear weapons program. >> greta: ambassador, thank you. and thank you for coming here and announcing your support for governor romney. thank you. >> thank you. >> greta: did you hear what national committee chair debby wasserman schultz just said about the tea party? we've got it on camera so you'll see yourself. fox's brit hume is here to talk about it next. is it the end of twinkies, did is it the end of twinkies, did he think donnings and hohos? this is an rc robotic claw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. r science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three y we've put nearly 100 million dollars

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>> first lady michelle obama is fighting back, dismissing reports of friction with her husband's top advisors, and falsely being portrayed as an angry black woman. >> i guess it's more interesting to imagine the conflicted situation here and a strong woman and, but you know, that's been an image that people have tried to paint of me since, you know, the day barack obama announced that i'm some angry black woman. >> yeah, how do you deal with that, that image? >> you know, i just try to be me and my hope is that over time people get to know me. and they get to judge me for me. >> and so where are the reports of tension in the white house coming from? is there any truth to them. fox news senior political analyst brit hume. >> have you heard anything

that she was an angry black woman. >> i know people on the right, but suspect they don't know her. i don't know her well, but i've met her and she seemed like a gracious woman to me. >> and first of all, being first lady is not always the easiest job. >> well, look, if you're a strong and able and capable woman with an interest in politics and you arrive unelected within the position of influence in the white house, people are suspicious of you. and some people are that way. this idea of the influential first lady, whether angry or not, has been with us for a long time. remember all of the talk that went on about the influence of nancy reagan was having on her husband. remember, she was consulting aastr aastrol gists and first ladies have the access to the president that nobody else enjoys and it's in private, it's secret and it's nightly

and my sense about that, and that's always been for folks, a suspicious and this is another case of that. >> greta: and you've covered the white house for a long time for another network, but that there's tension between the first lady's staff and the president's staff. and everyone is vying for position? >> you do hear that from time to time. and look, washington and in politics in general, it's often the case that staff level tenon is it more than the principles, particularly when the principles are married. i can't tell you, i don't know if there's a high degree of tension between the first lady's staff and the president's staff or not. i'm sure, there is suspicion between the two that her staff is trying to meddle in what they're supposed to be doing. that's the way it is in the white house. >> greta: there's a new book out that provoked this and why she's doing the interview and robert gibbs, apparently, in

private. with a group of staff people and snapped at her and got all fussed up about her, but-- >> what he did, he cursed hadder because he'd been told-- robert gibbs is press secretary. there'd been a little bit of a bonfire created when nicolas sarkozy's wife said she'd overheard michelle saying she hated being in the white house. and he went into damage control on that and by all accounts did a pretty good job of it. he later caught criticism from valley jarrett, a senior member of the team, an old friend of the obamas about that and he, weary and annoyed by that, barked at her. >> greta: i don't have find that unusual. not going to tell secrets here, every job we've had we barked at each other, a lot of barking. >> and she then claims felt the fuhirst lady felt the same way she did and he said blank her, too. and turns out the first lady didn't, and i don't know if

that's going to be robert gibbs cursing the first lady, it was based 0 and false premise. >> greta: and another war of words, dnc debby wasserman schultz blamed the tea party for taking discourse and she brought up the shooting of congresswoman gabby giffords and here is what congresswoman wasserman schultz had to say. >> we have to make sure that we tone things down, particularly in light of the tucson tragedy from a year ago, where my very good friend gabby giffords, who is doing really well, by the way, and i know everybody -- [applause]. >> and making progress. but, the discourse in america, the discourse in congress in particular, to answer your question very specifically, has really changed and i'll tell you, i hesitate to place blame, but i have noticed it

takes a very precipitous turn towards, towards edginess and a lack of civility with the growth of the tea party movement. >> greta: well, is the congresswoman right or is she blaming, brit? >> well, depends on what part of what she said you're talking about. >> greta: is there hostility. or she tried to tone things down and placed blame for the discourse on the creation-- >> and a couple of things about that. it's widely reported that she's blaming the tea party for the gabby giffords shooting. and in context, i don't think that's fair and i don't think that is what she's doing. she goes on to became the tea party for the discourse in this country ap that's at best highly one-sided and this is the problem with interviews or speeches by party chairmans. they're by definition partisans, that's what they

do. place things in the best possible light for their party and the worst possible light for the critics or the other party and this was a key component in 2010 and won a big election and she's blaming the discourse on the new members elected by the tea party. did she not notice occupy wall street with whom many democrats are very sympathetic are causing all kinds of trouble and gotten into all kinds of trouble on the streets of our country and you know, having sanitation issues, violence, and how has that contributed to the softening of the-- >> and silence about the occupy as far as we can see. >> she's silent about that and silent about harsh criticisms levels at previous republican presidents, so my view of that. she may have a point about the overall thing, but it was a grossly one-sided presentation. >> i think it's fair to say that the tea party came into existence, around april of 2009. >> right. >> and they came about because

they felt they weren't listened to by the brand new administration. >> they didn't like the results. >> didn't like the results and so it was part of democracy and there were peaceful demonstrations and maybe that summer there was some fussing at town hall meetings, but that's part of democracy. >> i agree and i think the tea party by and large is pretty peaceful and ones they'll get the permits and clean up after themselves. >> greta: and they pay for, i think that's unfair that they have to pay for permits when they have the parades and occupiers don't. >> we know in the city of rich mopped virginia. they were-- richmond, virginia, they were charged for a permit and occupy, and that was an issue. >> greta: thank you, brit. tell us what you think about congresswoman wasserman's schultz comments. you can post in an open thread we just posted for you to talk. and the deadly drug war in

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i'm ainsley earhardt. the u.s. denying any involvement in the assassination of an iranian nuclear side of the. tehran is blaming the man's death on agents linked to israel and backed by the u.s. and

britain. the u.s. says they were not about in back of the attacks. they killed the scientist on wednesday by passing a magnetic bomb to his car. >> a series of possible tornadoes causing widespread damage in western north carolina. strong winds injuring at least ten people in are you they areford counties. two of them seriously. local authorities say 35 homes were destroyed and mobile home parked was nearly wiped out. thousands of people are himself without electricity. it was pelted by ten any sized hail. ce supply. it will be stopped at the border. i'm ainsley earhart, now back to greta. thanks for watching. ♪ >> well, twinkies, ding-dongss and wonder bread, don't deny it you've tried it.

the baking giant is filing for bankruptcy and it's the second time. what's the problem? . and they claim it's partly he thinks about -- pensions and benefits. >> and calling for bankruptcy a second time, what happened? >> it's a great american institution and helped to make america fat since 1930. 2 1/2 billion dollars a year in twinkies, but it's a tale of teamsters and twinkies. they emerged from struggles and litigation and negotiation with unions. and ayns then burned up 250 million pumped into the company by new investments. lost 340 million almost half a billion. what's the problem? unions. hostess has almost 20,000 employees, greta. 80% are in unions. a dozen different unions, 372

different contracts. 80 different health and welfare plans. it pays $100 million in pension costs and guess what? a big portion of that goes to cover the pensions of people who never worked for hostess for any company that hostess bought and that's because of the teamsters contract and this stipulation is moving across the manufacturing economy and you'll see it more and more and people never worked for them. >> let me ask you this, is that in 2009 when it emerged from bankruptcy the first time, it was, the control was seized by a private equity fund. and holdings, so was all the talk about the venture capitalists, and the equity, equity funds, and coming out of bankruptcy in 2009, the question is, why couldn't they renegotiate the contracts with the unions? why couldn't they fix it so now we're back to another, another bankruptcy? >> here is what happened. they came in, they wanted a

cut and decided we're going to leave the pensions and medical benefits alone, by golly that's say credits, but you unions, you're going to help us cut work expenses, rules, et cetera. the problem, the unions ended up saying no and turning it down after coming out of chapter 11. drivers can't load their trucks a separate person does it and things are delivered to stores in separate trucks. >> greta: why wasn't that part of the restructuring when it came out of the first bankruptcy. why on the hope and whim that something was going to change later. it doesn't seem to be astute business planning, if runs into a wall because you weren't senator enough to be ready for this. >> they've been confrontational and need the people and don't sit down with them. filed chapter 11 today after deciding the unions aren't giving enough concessions and we'll go to the court and the

court will say, unions give up or do something more drastic and give them more leverage. but the union work rules that artificially inflate, you need, that's killing the company. there are four or five players in the market and they don't have unions, this one does. this is another institution hurt by union pensions and union cost the. >> greta: we'll see what happens in the next round. dennis, thank you. >> all right, thanks. e right now, a case update on joran van der sloot. as you know he's the prime suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway. today he pled guilty to the murder of a young woman. stephanie flores was found beaten ayn strangled in the hotel room and told the court, i'm truly sorry for what i've done and i feel very bad. >> a lawyer says he suffers

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