now, live update for you on the primary results. >> meanwhile, a stunning resignation yesterday caught the president off guard. his top advisor called it quits earlier than anybody expected. what does that mean? we're going to report and you're going to decide. >> romney inviting occupiers to have had their voices heard. >> stop it. why don't you say -- what's your view? madam, what do you think? >> what do you think? do they even know what they think? you'll find out, "fox & friends" starts right now. >> all right. where's that shot? hey, come on, i keep waiting for it to come out. maybe that camera guy is still out there. it's the big day, it's the primary. manchester, new hampshire, we're here for you for four hours

today. it's 6:00 a.m. on the east coast now. lots of voting going on today. >> there is. some took place already. let's take a quick look but also in a few hours, thousands of other voters to the tune of maybe 320,000, 250,000 of which are probably going to be voting in the republican primary. there's no drama on the democratic side. some votes have already been cast. let's take a look at our guest list first before we tell you who is out in front by a single digit. steve forbes will be here in a matter of minutes. who better to unwind what bain capital's mission statement was, what mitt romney did and what is true capitalism and what is cannibalism. >> you know, according to all the polls, it looks like it's going to be a big win for mitt romney. the question is how big and really the battle is over second place so newt gingrich and rick santorum would both like to wind up in second place. we'll talk to them about that. and then from the other side of the political sfekt rum, debbie wasserman schultz is going to be joining us talking about the primary from the democrat point of view.

>> allen west will respond to debbie wasserman schultz, of course, they're both from florida and he's a republican, though, so he may have a contrary point of view. laura ingraham will be here at the top of your 8:00 hour and frank luntz will be doing some analysis with voters specifically in new hampshire. who they like in this primary. a major white house shakeup. president obama's chief of stiff william daley on his way out turning in his resignation after one year on the job. the president reportedly did not see this one coming. daley's tenure was supposed to last at least through the 2012 election. they scaled back his duties in november. maybe it wasn't a surprise. daley says he'll return to his native chicago where he will co-chair the president's re-election team and be replaced by the budget director. we're learning more about the islamic extremist accused of planning terror attacks in tampa. >> the infidels, the jews, the pagans, the hindus, the buddhas and the atheists they're the worst of creation.

we will fight the church. looked at as evil. >> the views of the 25-year-old so extreme his fellow muslims banned him from two mosques. an internet video shows his violent confrontation with protesters from the controversial westboro baptist church and he was busted in an f.b.i. sting last weekend accused of trying to use car bombs and assault weapons to attack multiple targets in tampa. born in kosovo, it's believed he's a lone wolf. facing a possible life sentence, if convicted. mother nature bearing her claws down in texas. wild weather dumping several inches of rain in houston leaving cars under several feet of water. roads closed, many people lost power there. the worst is believed to be over. and while many had a miserable start to the week, there is one group happy for the water in the drought stricken region. farmers say it couldn't have come at a better time. the tsa defending the decision to confiscate a cupcake from a

woman as she boards a flight. the cupcake was packed in a glass jar. the problem, the tsa considered icing a gel and only small amounts of gel are allowed in a carry-on. is it three ounces, i think? she could have weighed that cupcake. i wonder if she would have put it in a plastic bag. >> what if you have a glazed donut? that's barely iced. >> if you put it in your checked bag, i think you can take it with. >> you know everything. >> exactly four minutes ago, the polls opened in the great state of new hampshire and there you can see where our live coverage is emanating from and so far, this is a tradition going back -- >> if you don't mind whispering, they're all asleep. >> this is a tradition that comes -- >> they're all having a secret party. >> what they tried to do in dixville notch, new hampshire was because so many railroad employees had to go to work early, they voted right at midnight. generally it takes one minute and the final results are in from dixville notch, romney by two, huntsman by two, gingrich

got one, as did ron paul. >> all right. let's go down to hart's location. that's the other place that opened the polls at midnight for a minute. romney had five. paul had four. huntsman had two. perry had one and gingrich had one. now, earlier, brian schooled me on the fact -- i was a little upset 9 out of 75 people showed up to vote in the first town but apparently, they continue to open the polls all day long. maybe they'll be a better percentage of voter turnout. >> is it a good indicator of who is going to wind up winning? in dixville notch, they got it right last time with barack obama but in 2004 in the primary, they picked wesley clark over john kerry. in 2000, they picked bill bradley over al gore and back in 1996 in the general election, they picked bob dole to be president over a guy named bill clinton who eventually won. >> so you know that mitt romney has been under attack especially by newt gingrich joined in by rick perry and rick santorum over his years at bain capital. in fact, in about two weeks, there's going to be a movie

coming out, 28 minutes long that discusses the negative side of what mitt romney did according to newt gingrich's super pac at his days at bain capital. >> it doesn't have a happy ending. >> i don't really think super pacs try to get -- make the other guy look good. steve, i don't want to jump to conclusions but mitt romney in particular said something yesterday when taken out of context sounds really bad. i want you to judge if these comments could hurt him here on primary day in new hampshire. >> i want individuals to have their own insurance. that means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep you healthy. it also means that if you don't like what they do, you can fire them. i like being able to fire people that provide services to me. you know, if someone doesn't give me the good service that i need, i want to say, you know, i'm going to get somebody else to provide that service to me. and so that's one thing i'd change. >> so that's free enterprise, folks. that's the way it works. if we go into a store and they treat us poorly, then you probably think to yourself, i

might not go shopping there anymore. that's kind of the way it works. but when you're running for president of the united states, you have to be careful with every single word that you say because everything is taken out of context and turned and twisted. now, usually, it's only the democrats that we do that against the republicans and the republicans would do that against the democrats. now the other republican opponents pounced on that statement that mitt romney made and here are some of their attacks now about that firing statement. >> governor romney enjoys firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. >> you're a victim of bain capital's down sizing. it's the ultimate insult for mitt romney to come to south carolina and tell you he feels your pain. because he caused it. >> i think there's a real difference between people who build in a free market and people who go around, take financial advantage, leave behind broken families, broken towns, people on unemployment. >> even the democrats have already taken that single line out of context and edited it

along with some really ominous music to make mr. mitt romney look pretty bad. i would imagine because it's completely out of context and, you know, truth -- the truth on media people, the politifax people, they will go look, these ads are disingenuous and stuff like that. it will probably be a big flare-up today, maybe tomorrow but you got to figure by the weekend, this thing will have run its course. >> i don't know. i don't know. i mean, i don't -- >> it's flat out a lie. they were talking about obama care of all things. >> yeah, i just don't know if it will be over. i mean, this political season is like no other. we can't say -- we can't make hardly any predictions anymore because just things continue to happen that you don't -- that are out of your control. i mean, the republicans are not going to let this die because the other ones want to win this race and rick perry has it as his ring tone now. i like being able to fire people. that's his ring tone. it's very interesting when the republicans are pouncing on the same thing because they may be helping barack obama. >> right.

>> or they could be stealing mitt romney if he gets the nominee. but in the big picture, it will be interesting to see if -- you remember how newt gingrich was hurt by the attack ads of him. this is the first time that mitt romney has been hit with a sustained attack for a few days, almost 10 days now. will it affect him in the polls, he had a 40 point lead in some polls before. it's dropped about eight points, according to some although american research has it higher. coming up shortly, newt gingrich and rick santorum will further explain what they feel is bad about that statement. >> fantastic. >> meanwhile, yesterday, we played a little clip for you of chris christie when he was confronted by some of the occupiers at a town hall meeting over the weekend, got a lot of air play. chris christie in charge. got some laugh lines as well. yesterday, the protesters were back and mitt romney gave him a little taste of chris christie. watch this. >> how about you talk? instead of shouting, why don't you say what you mean? madam, what do you think?

ok, whats that? ok and who is the president who is spending more money to campaign than any in the history of america? the answer is that this president is spending money and he spent money. we have had over the history of this country a public funding plan for our presidents and you know what, this president has been the first one to throw aside the public funding program to break all those barriers and to spend massively more than any president in history. you know what? this country is too important to hand over to president obama in the second term. >> everybody experienced the same thing, turbulence getting in their event, once leaving the event and once he was on stage, you had rick santorum, ron paul said it was really packed. you didn't see any hostility and then you have mitt romney and newt gingrich canceled his event yesterday. >> and mitt romney when you watch what he did, he did something like what chris christie had done the day before but it would be like a comedian at a comedy club where suddenly you got a heckler and you turn it to your advantage. remember, everybody in that room for the most part is there to hear him so they were very supportive and they turned on

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support from steve forbes but why doesn't he support, that is, a fellow businessman like mitt romney? joining me is chairman and ceo of forbes inc., steve forbes. >> good morning, gretchen, how are you? >> very fine. you said a long time ago you were supporting rick perry. you've known him for 10 years and you were impressed with his tort reform in texas but why are you keeping with him when a lot of people say hey, you're a business guy, too, you should be for mitt romney. >> well, i think that rick perry has shown not only does he have good ideas like the flat tax, like regulatory reform, but he's demonstrated in texas he knows how to create an environment for job creation starting with the tort reform keeping bad taxes away and the like. so he's demonstrated he can perform in the public square. it's one thing to have an idea. quite another to be able to carry through an idea. and while he's had a rough patch so far, i think south carolina is going to be wide open after this mish mash in new hampshire and has a chance to get back in the fray again. >> uh-huh. what is it about mitt romney that he fails to take on tax reform in the way that you would like him to? >> yes. i hope he comes around to it but

he hasn't yet. his tax plan is almost, you know, weak tea compared to the bourbon of rick perry and the others. he's wrong on health care and wish he would get rid of that individual mandate he did in massachusetts and other things. if he sharpens up his message which i think he will have after all the criticism he's taking but so far, he hasn't. rick perry has excellent ideas out there. he has very good record. the second largest state in the union and the most successful large economy in the union. so it's performance and policy. >> i'm going to bring you back to the fact that you are a very successful businessperson. now "the wall street journal" opening the book on mitt romney also a successful businessperson and his time at bain capital. private equity firm. they're saying look, you know, he had a lot of successes. made a lot of money for his investors but also had some busts and people lost jobs. is that just the way business works or is it a negative for him? >> they're going to portray it as a negative and if he's the nominee, it's a good thing to go

through now because it will steel him up for the campaign in fall. he'll have to be able to handle this. one way to handle it is go on the offense in terms of reaganist and pro growth policies. in terms of bain itself, i have not looked at the particulars but the whole nature of that business, most businesses eventually succumb and if you can save it, that's great. if you can start when it succeeds, that's great. it's like baseball, 7 times out of 10, you're not going to get that hit. and the same is true in what he did in terms of equity capital. but the key thing is did he create jobs overall? because a lot of those companies, they're going to portray him, as you know, killing jobs and that kind of thing would have gone under if you didn't have somebody in to try to save it. sometimes you have to tighten the belt to save the company. >> ok, a lot of talk today about the statements that mitt romney made yesterday. taken out of context. that he likes to fire people. do you think that has legs because you're guy rick perry pounced on it as well as the dnc and other republican candidates. >> well, he's going to have to -- in the campaign, i've lived

through a couple of them. everything you say will be held against you. it's part of the process but the thing is how does he handle it? newt gingrich felt he was unfairly attacked. people want to see how you handle the pressure of a job where the pressure is constant and so in terms of romney, i think again, what he's going to have to do is come up with his own offense, not be on defense and say this is how we create jobs, i've been there. i know what works and what doesn't work and come out with a bold tax plan and the like. even if this dies out in the republican primaries, democrats, you know, are going to hammer that again and again in the fall. >> there's a thing called videotape and they have it forever speaking of videotape, another successful business person, jack welch is supporting romney. this is what he said about why. >> in my lifetime, mitt romney is the most qualified leader i've ever seen run for the presidency of the united states.

bain, the company -- the consulting company gets in trouble in 1990, mitt, come back and fix it. back to bain capital. bain capital than its best years ever. run for governor, wins the governorship. $370 million in debt. he gets it out and gets a surplus. we haven't had anybody do all these things! >> i mean, how ironic that we do have this successful businessperson mitt romney who is now going to be portrayed in a totally different way or do you agree with jack? >> well, what he points out and he was criticized in his first 10 years at g.e., he was known as neutron jack, you know, wiping out jobs. but he re-created that company in a way that made it highly successful, one of the few companies in the world that is diversified all over the place and has had success over 100 year period and he contributed to that. but again, you're going to have things that are not going to work out. you're going to have to have times where you tighten the belt

and the key thing is at the end of the day, do you have a success -- steve jobs had failures for crying outloud. >> everyone does. >> it's part of the process. if it was easy, everyone would do it. >> no doubt, you've learned how to do it. steve forbes, thanks so much for your thoughts. hope to see you sometime soon. >> thank you. >> coming up next, 41 questions were directed to the republican candidates during sunday's debate. 25 of them, more than half were from the left point of view. does that sound fair and balanced? then danger might as well be her middle name. check out this video. a fearless 3-year-old takes on a ferocious lion. i hope that glass is pretty strong or that lion is coming right through. hi, kitty. 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.

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>> quick headlines now. new video of a 15-acre brushfire burning just miles from a residential community in southern california. investigators think it was sparked by a transformer explosion. no homes have been damaged yet. an arizona election officials announcing jon huntsman is off the primary ballot? they say his paperwork was missing a notarized signature! huntsman plans to challenge the ruling. steve's a notary. thanks for helping him. >> that's right. where's my seal? it was over here a minute ago. >> you'll have it in a second. >> thanks. the debate moderators from saturday and sunday's debate in new hampshire coming under fire for questions like this. >> do you believe the states have that right or not? >> should that be done in this case? >> should this be done -- contraception? it's working just fine. leave it alone. >> joining us right now to weigh in is radio talk show host neil borts who joins us from new hampshire.

good morning to you, neil. >> good morning, steve. hi. >> we just showed a little snippet of george stephanopoulos hammering mitt romney on contraceptives, what was george stephanopoulos who used to work for bill clinton, what was he doing? >> well, he was trying to set up mitt romney and every other candidate on that stage. trying oh, i hope one of these people will say that contraceptives ought to be illegal. oh, i'd be such a hero. i will be the one that brought them out for the american public. it was an idiotic, insipid exhibition of leftist ambushing of a presidential candidate. it was -- it just didn't make any sense on any level. >> how do you really feel about it? whoa! >> you asked! >> you're the one that got me up this early, steve. >> and we appreciate it. and i know it's cold out there in new hampshire. but you know what they've done is they've revealed their hand. because diane sawyer asked some equally loaded questions and

david gregory did the next day as well. in fact, during david gregory's debate, 41 questions were asked. 25 of the questions came from the left. 25! 13 were neutral and only three from the right point of view so by an 8-1 margin, they asked leftie questions. >> well, remember, steve, these are the people, evan thomas "newsweek", obama is sort of a god. terry moran, abc news. obama had to step down from wherever he was. step down into the oval office. over 90% of these people are going to be voting for obama in november. they're on a mission. they try to put themselves forth as objective newscasters and questioners. they're not! they have an objective and that is to make sure that these knuckle dragging war monger

republicans don't manage to capture the white house this november. >> yeah. you know, what was interesting about the line of questioning, you could -- rather than just ask a question that would wind up getting their policy answer, they tried so desperately to engage the republicans to yell at each other and snipe at each other and get an argument going. sure, it's a great tv show. i don't know what it does for the democracy. >> steve, look for this. as i understand it, in these debates, there has not been one question from one moderator saying could you please detail for us the problems you see with obamacare? and how those problems can be resolved. not once have they asked the candidate about obamacare. they want to find out whether or not they're going to allow contraceptives to be sold at the cvs down there on the corner. >> right. but neil, excellent question. you have to figure when it's time for the presidential, the

official, final, presidential debates with barack obama on stage with a republican, they're going to ask the president of the united states these guys exactly those same, hard questions of him, aren't they? >> sure. steve, yeah, but this is -- because in too many ways, it's about the moderator. what the american people need and what would best serve the american people is get a round table, put the republican and the g.o.p. candidate to really mix it up, put the libertarian there, too. and then say, ok, you guys have 90 minutes. if you need coffee, raise your hand. we'll be back to turn off the cameras. >> sure. you can call the show "survivor." i like it. >> it would be great. great tv. >> it would be. >> this was great tv. having you this morning. >> can i go back to bed now? >> you certainly can, neil. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, sir. >> all right, thank you, neil. straight ahead, they put a lot of money and votes in his pockets back in 2008 but wall street is turning their back on president obama calling them fat

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and indigestion. so why wait ? ask your doctor today... ... about taking care with vesicare. >> and santorum doing everything he can to appeal to the evangelical crowd. you hear where he showed up yesterday. you have to watch -- take a look. take a look. he's blocking for tebow! he's blocking for tim tebow! >> all right. >> it was the first down. that was a great job. >> good product placement right there. >> very good. brian, i do like to learn lessons from you usually. however, i'm just finding out from our viewers that actually the polls are closed now in dixville. >> so you only have a few minutes to vote, then. >> they have one minute and so i have to go back to my pest

pessimistic point of view that only nine people got up and vote. >> who wants to get up and vote? >> wait a minute, we live in a country where we're free because you have the opportunity to vote. >> live free or die. >> come on, people. >> they have freedom to vote or not vote. it looks like they said no. if you move to dixville notch, isn't it incumbent on you to get up and vote? >> if you live in punxsutawney, pennsylvania, you have to show he up at groundhog's day. i got you babe is the song that came on the clock radio in that movie. >> not going there. >> he's a good guy. we have some headlines for you on this tuesday morning. we're learning more about the man suspected of setting a pipe bomb in colorado. seriously hurt his ex-wife and her new husband. michael britain has a long rap sheet including child abuse and assault charges. court documents also show another woman even took out a restraining order against him. britain has been uncooperative

with investigators invoking his fifth amendment right when questioned about the bombing. great. >> it sounds like the plot of "24" a suspect holds an elderly couple hostage in their own home. it happened in fayetteville, arkansas and things got worse from there much the woman says the suspect forced her to rob a bank by strapping what he says was a bomb to her ankle. when she got there, she alerted employees the bomb squad removed the device. they're now testing it. cops do not have a suspect. >> all right. what would you do if you saw a driver swerve off the road and crash his car into the road? five men in miami did not hesitate before they jumped in the biscayne bay to try to save him. >> it was dead and then they kept pushing on his chest to get the water out of his lungs! and they got him alive. >> doctors say the 81-year-old driver will be ok. no word yet on what caused him to lose control of the car. >> check out this video, a

3-year-old girl getting really up close and personal with a little kitty. no, a lion four times her size! her walk on the wild side caught on camera. this is sofia peering at the lion through the glass at australia's wellington zoo when all of a sudden, she barely flinches. the bear insists this glass is so thick, sofia was never in any danger but even a sledgehammer couldn't break it. as sofia's parents are probably hoping that's the case. >> that is a funny video. >> all right. >> brian, too bad that lsu didn't have that kind of defense last night. >> absolutely. they weren't lions and they weren't even tigers. alabama celebrating their second bcs championship in three years this morning led by a dominating defense, the crimson tide got some revenge. lsu, they beat lsu 21-0. the first shutout in the game's history. huge rivalry, lsu previously undefeated. alabama coach nick sabin used to coach there. he's won three bcs titles in

lsu, he won one in 2003. let's move on to the white house. seven months after winning the nba title, the mavericks finally had their meeting with president obama at the white house. the mavericks beat the miami heat and stunned them in the process. the president gave high praise to the big german, dirk novisky, the series mvp who played with a painful finger and a fever. unrelated illnesses. a huge honor for former cincinnati reds shortstop barry larkin. he's headed to the baseball hall of fame and got 86% of the vote. he's the only guy to get in this year from baseball writers. he'll be introduced in the summer in cooperstown with the late ron santo. next year will be exciting because all the big names like barry bonds and the steroid guys like reggie -- roger clemens who is accused of it will be up for eligibility. if you want to talk more sports or hear more sports from me, foxandndiends.com/keeping score, you'll be able to get it. and then you can comment. >> sometimes during the day

when i haven't seen you for a while, i go to foxandfriends.com to watch you. >> you know i can't hear you. >> i do know that. >> thank you very much. >> meanwhile, 1 big wall street firm that's thrown its support behind president obama during the last campaign now putting their money on mitt romney. we're talking about legendary goldman-sachs. >> so what does this say? let's ask stuart varney, host of varney & company. they don't like being called fat cats. >> that's part of the problem. clearly what's going on here is wall street, the financial industry, that's broader than just wall street, the financial industry has reversed course. big financial backers of president obama in 2008, reversing now becoming big financial backers of the republicans. and looking for a republican candidate who could beat president obama, they think they've found it in governor mitt romney. they've backed him. they're putting much more money behind him at this moment. so that's what's happening. a reversal in the flow of money. away from the democrats and now

to the republicans. >> what happened to the love affair with barack obama? >> fat cats, occupy wall street, financial reform and a possibility of a financial -- attacks on all financial transactions. wall street is not doing well with what president obama has done to them in the last thee years. >> lloyd blankfein in particular is the ceo that seems to have changed gears. we understand he feels perfectly afronted in the big picture, people outside of new york and outside of wall street don't love goldman-sachs and that could boomerang to a degree. actual dollars will help. image is not good. >> that's the other side of the story. you're right. the money flowing to the republicans will help them financially, no question about it. but it's wall street money. and president obama has very successfully demonized wall street, blamed the banks for the crash of 2008, so if the republicans now get wall street money, maybe they, too, will look bad and look unpopular because of where the money is coming from. >> i guarantee you they'll not be publicizing it too much because rest assured, the dnc

will probably be publishing it if that's the case. >> they'll jump all over this like they're jumping all over the opposition to mitt romney because he ran bain capital for so many years. >> karl rove was on our program about a week or two ago and he predicted that they're not going to be able to raise the obama people a billion dollars and if you don't have wall street behind you, that's going to be tough. >> it will be tough because wall street does raise a lot of money but don't just think of it as wall street, this is the entire financial industry. the credit card business, debit cards, mortgages, student loans, car loans, bankers, brokers, insurance. it's all in the financial industry. and it raises an awful lot of money. it's flowing to the republicans. >> we'll see you today at 9:20 eastern time on the fox business network on "varney & company." >> thank you. very nice. you met the couple yesterday here on our program. their dream of owning a home crushed when the government stepped in to stop construction out in idaho. they have taken their case to the supreme court and they heard

the case yesterday. judge napolitano has an update on their case. >> and he's about to co-host with kelly ripa. but first, carl edwards is flipping for the friends. his friends. the nascar star up next. >> doesn't want to pull anything. come on, carl. you can't do it. >> can't do it in a tie. >> my goodness! i wish i had time! my legs are stuck. dad, why are you getting that? is there a prize in there?

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predisposition to alzheimer's did better on memory tests after using the patch. wow. a dual purpose. brian? >> 15 minutes before the top of the hour. he's known to the racing world as the no nonsense driver and he's gearing up for a possible daytona win after coming so close to a sprint cup championship last year. joining us right now and winning that race, nascar superstar carl edwards. welcome back. >> thanks for having me. neat to be on the show. it's so much fun. you ask me all the questions and i get to talk about nascar. that's a blast. >> it's going to be good. alt bit later, you'll have to co-host with kelly ripa and be regis. first thing's first. coming off this season, tiebreakers leave you a runner-up to tony stewart. does it sting or do you feel like you accomplished a lot? >> i feel like i accomplished a lot and i think it's like life. you go out there and give your very best. our whole team, we worked hard, we did our jobs and tony stewart stepped it and up and we did tie but if i won it the way i did,

i'd be proud of that. >> right. jimmie johnson had won five in a row, right? last year, that streak is broken. so with you with beating by the razor's edge and johnson looking to come back, you could argue this is as intriguing as it's been in the last 20 years. >> yeah, nascar has so much momentum. the fans really enjoyed the championship chase. i enjoyed it almost as much as i could have. but i think nascar is on a huge up swing. the february 26th daytona 500 is probably going to be one of the neatest 500's we've had. they've made some rules changes and we don't know how it's going to turn out. the drivers are a little nervous, i think the fans are anticipating one of the best daytona 500's in history. >> people think about cars and the cars they drive. for you in the auto industry, you've been through hell over the last three or four years being with ford. being that ford did not need a bailout. did you feel the pinch? >> i learned a lot about -- about the economy, i learned a lot about hard work and a free market through the downturn with ford. jim farley brought us in, nascar, the ford racing teams and said hey, guys, this is

ugly. this is not going to be good. they said chrysler is in trouble. g.m. is in trouble and ford is in trouble. and if we trim everything down and do our job right and create the best cars on the planet, we'll be ok and that's what they've done. >> and right at the auto show, you were with ford fusion yesterday, domestic automobiles. being that you've been on for the last few years, i feel -- i feel personally responsible for your success with kelly ripa in about two hours. so i'm wondering would you mind maybe going through a few rehearsals and get the idea of what it's like to be in my spot. >> you want me to ask a few questions. >> perfect. >> you come over here and you pretend like i'm coming in, not that i'm kelly but i'm a guest. so you have any questions for me? do you have an inate curiousity. >> one thing i've been thinking as i watch the show, is this -- >> why am i on it? >> the second thing i was thinking is is this g.o.p. debate, has this been hard on you personally? >> right. this is a great question. so many people are focused on the candidates, but what about the anchors that got to get up

and do the morning shows. >> what about us? >> the fact that you thought enough of me to ask about me, shows empathy and that's the primary trait of a successful host. you're off to a tremendous start. is there any other question you would ask, let's say you're on kelly live. >> well, i guess i was a little surprised to see that steve and gretchen here, they actually label their computers with their names. you guys actually get along or worried about you stealing their stuff? >> exactly. i have a long history of theft and being that they don't really want to rotate anchors on the show, they thought if they labelled things, we won't give it back. you notice, i don't have a label because it doesn't matter what computer i have. i don't know how to work it. that's my problem! >> brian is -- >> right. he steals everything. >> he steals our pens. >> you know what? i've noticed that you have not taken any joy at all in asking these questions. it seems like you're just -- you're not having any fun with this at all. what are you going to do this afternoon? >> funny you bring that up.

funny you bring that up. around 2:00 i'll take a shower in my office. i have this huge suite. >> wow! >> then i'm going to change outfits. i'm going to hop in a nascar and race around the city. >> deal. hopefully on february 26th you're watching the daytona 500 and i really -- i hope to maybe see you at the super bowl, too, i heard you're hosting that or what are you doing at the super bowl exactly? >> again, so many people are focused on who is at at the super bowl. what is brian doing? i'll be there at the fan experience so we'll be seeing you there hopefully and catch up to you then. >> cool. i think ford has a giant presence there. maybe you can talk a little business with them. >> carl, you are a tremendous host. kelly is lucky to have you today and congratulations on a great season. and i'm predicting victory in daytona. >> thank you very much. thanks for the warmup. that was really nice. >> thank you to fastenall and all my sponsors. >> it's true, you're not wearing any sponsor stuff so you have to talk about it. meanwhile, the dream of owning a new home crushed when the government stepped in to stop

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>> pictured in this video here, they took their fight for their property to the supreme court yesterday. they're fighting the e.p.a. which claims the land they planned to build their dream home on is protected wettelands now. they joined us yesterday on "fox & friends." >> they don't allow you to get your day in court. it's unamerican. >> that's what they feel. meanwhile, judge andrew napolitano, the host of "freedom watch" joins us live. they bought this plot of land in

idaho that they were going to build their dream house on it. out of nowhere, they got the permits to build the house and the e.p.a. said wait a minute, that's wetlands, what are you talking about? it's absolutely dry. >> it's very bizarre. in the intro that you just showed, a true picture of the property, it doesn't appear to be wet. there's no water next to it and there's no water on it. that's a picture of the land right there. >> right. >> here's the law. the law is that when the e.p.a. makes a scientific determination that land is wet, the courts shall not second guess that because supposedly, under the law, the e.p.a. has certain expertise that the court doesn't have. so you say ok, i want to challenge that. i want to bring in my own engineers who will demonstrate to a judge that the land is not wet and capable of sustaining a building and the e.p.a. said you're not entitled to a hearing! that's really what the oral argument was about yesterday in the supreme court where justice alito said how can this happen in the united states of america? >> where's the due process? >> that the government can come in and say you can't use your

property the way you want and can't challenge what we say and you can't take the case to a neutral judge. prediction -- the landowners will prevail in this case. >> but they'll prevail to get a hearing. >> that's what i think will happen. it would be very nice if the supreme court just ended it and said, you know what, there's no basis for the e.p.a. to do this. this is the united states of america. all the local authorities say it's not a wetland and you can build on it. therefore you can build on it. i predict that the supreme court will say a judge will hold a hearing and then i think these landowners will prevail at the hearing because the e.p.a. will not be able to demonstrate the reasons for which it has declared dry earth to be a wetland. >> and in fact, they told us yesterday on this program that they've already had their experts look at it and they say yeah, it's dry. but this has -- this particular piece of -- of information that the court is considering could have an impact on anybody who owns property. >> yes, it could, steve. this will have an enormous impact on restraining the e.p.a. from interfering with private

property rights. our right, the right of anybody watching us now to do with their own property as they see fit uninterfered with by bureaucrats from washington. that's what this case is about. >> that's right. very interesting because i never knew about this whole wetland thing until i moved out to the country. it's a big deal out in the country and even if your property doesn't have it, if your neighbors does, that restricts you from doing certain things, too. it's a big battle for a lot of people. >> it is and every justice who spoke on it yesterday who asked a question was harshly critical of the e.p.a. >> we'll be watching "freedom watch" tonight on fox business. judge, tony, thank you. >> is that kilmeade again? >> newt gingrich says mitt romney's no capitalist, he's a looter making money off firing people. should his attacks be focused on president obama instead? we'll ask newt gingrich here live from new hampshire top of the hour. >> and reporters hold press secretary jay carney's feet to the fire demanding the real story behind the president's

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this tuesday starts now. >> finally exciting. it's finally here. >> yeah, it is game on and look, the sun came up just like we asked it to. >> it did! >> i feel the action going on there. not quite yet. but it's going to be a busy day all across the granite state which is new hampshire today. this is the first primary in the republican and democratic presidential election. did you know when people go to the polls, they're also voting in the democratic primary. most of those votes going to president obama. >> you pick one or the other and the polls open in new hampshire just about one hour ago. and we've already received word on who won up there in dixville notch and hart's location as well. i know a lot of people wake up to try to figure out who that is. we'll have that in a moment. right now, let's take a look at who is on the big show on this

tuesday. >> still a big group left. we have newt gingrich joining us in a matter of minutes. rick santorum right after. debbie wasserman schultz will be live as will allen west. >> laura ingraham will be here and frank luntz. will it be rick santorum or santorium? >> i like to add a syllable here and them. >> he beats rick santorum. >> which he never was in. 2 minutes after the hour. he stole my sweater vest idea, the least that i can do is give -- >> you stole it from dan rather, didn't you? >> i don't think so. >> sorry. >> i'm glad i'm not a man suddenly. no sweater vests for me. let's do your headlines right now beginning with new details about the islamic extremist accused of planning terror attacks in tampa. >> the infidels, the christians, the jews, the pagans, the hindus, the buddhists and the atheists, they're the worst of creation. we will fight the church. evil designs in the churches.

>> well, those are the views of this 25-year-old, so extreme. muslims banned him from two mosques and an internet video shows his violent confrontation with protesters from the controversial westboro baptist church. the kosovo native was busted in an f.b.i. sting last weekend accused of planning to use car bombs and assault weapons to attack multiple targets in tampa. late last night, republican leader of new jersey assembly suddenly died at the statehouse. the 75-year-old collapsed in the men's room moments after they held their final voting session. governor chris christie returned to the state capital at midnight. he's postponing his state of the state speech. he served the assembly since 1979. his 76th birthday just two days from now. president obama's chief of staff william daley on his way out now. he resigned after one year on the job. the president reportedly did not see this one coming even though he had been stripped of some of his duties last november.

daley's tenure was supposed to last at least through the 2012 election. he will return to chicago where he will co-chair the president's re-election team and he'll be replaced by budget director jack lutz. the white house getting grilled over that lavish hollywood style alice in wonderland halloween party detailed in the new book that comes out today. yesterday, press secretary jay carney tried to deny any down playing of that event. >> if it's a secret, why did we invite the press in? why was there a pool report and why were there contemporaneous pool reports. >> in the dining room about johnny depp being in there. >> ann, this wasn't a publicity event for the outside. this is an event for military children and their families. >> there's apparently no record of johnny depp in the official white house visitor log. no mention of mad hatter either. >> meanwhile, voters are out right now at the nation's first presidential primary in new hampshire. molly lyon in new hampshire. good morning to you. big day out there. >> yes, indeed.

this is the day the voters speak in new hampshire and as you can see behind me, they had a big flood come in the floor in the last couple of moments when the polls opened at 7:00. some folks vote even earlier here in new hampshire. up in the tiny village of dixville notch which is a little bit below the canadian border, they vote just past midnight and, of course, we have the results counted up there. here's the numbers. they're in tiny dixville notch, gingrich one, paul one, and there were also three votes cast for president obama. now, in the little town of hart's location not so far away, also voting a tad after midnight. 23 total votes cast there. romney pulling in five. paul four. huntsman two. perry one. gingrich one. and president obama pulled in 10 votes there much the secretary of state william gardner saying today in the g.o.p. primary about 250,000 people expected to vote on the democratic side, 75,000 people expected to vote. and, you know, as we get closer to the people heading to the polls, the anxiety can heighten in the area and yesterday, senator santorum and his family had a kind of scary experience.

they were surrounded by some occupy protesters and some younger ron paul supporters, all of them shouting bigot and shame. no one was hurt or arrested but it was clearly a very disconcerting experience for the family there. gingrich's security saw trouble at their campaign stop at their campaign headquarters so mr. gingrich was forced to cancel a stop there. meanwhile, the voters will spend the rest of the day going to the polls, casting their ballots, speaking, you know, with their voice here with the voters of new hampshire and the polls will wrap up at 8:00 tonight so we'll have a chance to find out who wins. back to you. >> all right, molly lyon live in new hampshire. thank you very much. >> right now, it's our privilege to bring in the former speaker of the house, newt gingrich from new hampshire. welcome back. >> good to be with you guys. this is quite a day up here. >> i can imagine the excitement you feel. what do you think is overmuching today? what would you walk away with? what percentage of the vote where you thought to yourself and your campaign this is good? >> well, i think first of all,

that the biggest story today is going to be how much governor romney falls short of any kind of reasonable expectation because he's been living here, literally bought a house. was the governor next door for years. and people expected this to be his fortress. i think it's not going to be much of a fortress. i'd like to be in the top three or four and i think we have a good chance to be in the top three or four and i think that sets the stage to then go to south carolina which i think will be the decisive showdown with governor romney. >> i know initially when you started your campaign, you said that you did not want to do any negative ads. that you didn't believe in it and you wanted to try to remain positive. but you would respond to negative labelling of you. well now you've changed your tune, i guess, after what happened in iowa. and now you're going to be going after mitt romney in particular very, very hard. your pac will go after him big in south carolina and now you yesterday going after his record at bain capital when he was chairman of that company. a lot of people are asking you this morning, mr. speaker, should you be focused on

president obama instead or is it right to show the differences between yourself and mitt romney? >> look, i think you have to always be realistic about what's going on. and governor romney's people spent $3 1/2 million in negative ads attacking me and 45% of all the ads in iowa were negative attacks on me. you can hardly unilaterally disarm and stand down and let them run over you and so i'm not running any negative ads. i am prepared to point out the difference between my record as a reagan conservative and his record as a moderate from massachusetts. i'm also prepared to raise questions that frankly "the wall street journal" outlined. these are facts, they're not something that we're making up. it's something that is accurate. "the wall street journal" reported in one case they put $30 million into a company, took $180 million out. that's a 6-1 return. and then the company was bankrupted. i think it's reasonable for people to raise questions. it's romney who spent a lot of time talking about his role as a

businessman, that that was one of his credentials so i think he owes us a press conference to explain it. >> why don't you hear this? yesterday you were asked a question, how do you feel about mitt romney making the statement i like firing people. i want to see if you could hear the whole thing in context and see if you think this is -- this is unfair to mitt romney or not. let's listen. >> i want individuals to have their own insurance. that means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep you healthy. it means if you don't like what they do, you can fire them. i like being able to fire people that provide services to me. if someone doesn't give me the good service i need, i want to say that i'll go to somebody else to provide service to me. that's one thing i'll change. >> now that you hear the whole soundbite, do you think it was taken out of context? >> absolutely, of course it was taken out of context. at the time, i couldn't imagine why anybody would have said what he was supposed to have said. you know, it wasn't very well

worded and i think what he was trying to say is that, you know, consumers having the right to choose between competitors is dramatically better than a government monopoly controlling your life. i think that sentiment is exactly right. it raises one of the points about why i'd be a better candidate. i think i can debate better than he can. i'm more careful in that kind of example. imagine if he had said that in a debate with barack obama, what a mess that would have been. so -- but i don't think it's fair to say that he likes firing people. he likes having the right to choose and that's probably what he meant to say. >> exactly. that's the context. i was driving around yesterday in my car and i was listening to rush limbaugh and he was talking about you and how you've gone after mitt romney and bain capital. he said you're using the language of the left to beat up romney over bain. he says it makes him uncomfortable because that's what the left will do if romney is the nominee. >> well, i don't think i'm using the language of the left. i'm using the language of classic american populism.

main street has always been suspicious of wall street. small businesses have always worried about big businesses. i'm very uncomfortable when i see seven or eight banks get to occupy 80% of the market share and crowd out small independent banks. and i think people have a natural concern when they see financiers come in from out of town, take over a company. take all the profits and then leave people unemployed behind. there's a difference -- i'm for capitalism. i'm for free enterprise. i'm for entrepreneurs. there's a big difference between people who go out to create a company, even if they fail, if they try in the right direction, if they share in the hardships, if they're out there with the workers doing it together, that's one thing. but if somebody who is very wealthy comes in, takes over your company, takes out all the cash and leaves behind the unemployment, i think that's not a model we want to advocate and i don't think any conservative wants to get caught defending that kind of model. >> what constitutes acceptable capitalist behavior, then, in your mind? >> well, i think when you look

at the one example i cited from "the wall street journal" story, to put in 30 million and get back $630 million would be a fabulous return. would put in $30 million and get back $90 million is a fabulous return. did they need to take out that much if leaving money behind, the company would have survived and jobs would have been there. mitt romney has to have a press conference and walk through case by case the places, these are not places where they lost money when the company went broke. these are places where they made money many the company went broke. >> didn't you serve on a board with forceman little which was a similar kind of company. >> no, that's not a similar kind of company. that's the whole point. when he took over gulfstream and discovered it was in much worse shape than he thought it was. he raised an awful billion dollars of capital and personally went to savannah, he drove the company to success. it's now the premier corporate jet maker in the planet. and they deserve a lot of

credit. he was about saving jobs. not cutting jobs. and he worked very hard at doing it. >> all right. newt gingrich on this primary morning, thank you very much for spending a little time with us. we know you have a lot of hands to shake and babies to kiss. >> in south carolina. >> take care. >> talk to you soon. >> all right. >> see you soon. you heard from speaker gingrich and now it's rick santorum's turn. he's the only candidate who's not ripping -- well, newt gingrich wasn't actually ripping into that firing statement but other stuff he is. so why is rick santorum not doing it? hear from him next. so i'm glad it's with fidelity. they offer me one-on-one guidance to help me choose my investments. not just with my savings plan here at work. they help me with all of my financial goals. looking good, irene. thanks to fidelity, i can stay on topof my fi? good one. why, thank you. whether it's saving for retirement, college, or anything else,

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>> all right, just before the break, we talked to republican presidential candidate newt gingrich about mitt romney's record at bain capital. >> now we're joined by former pennsylvania senator and republican presidential candidate rick santorum. he's live in manchester, new hampshire, of course today. good morning to you. >> happy primary day for everybody. >> happy primary day. so we just talked to speaker gingrich. and asked him whether or not

mitt romney was taken out of context yesterday when he said that he likes to fire people. and we got a response from speaker gingrich that he said yes, he was taken out of context and he's not going to go after him on those comments per se. what's your take on that? >> well, that's what i said originally. i think everybody else sort of piled on him and when i heard this comment, i said that doesn't sound right to me. and i wasn't going to take the bait of the reporters. you know, you're walking through a crowd and reporters are throwing lines at you. what do you think? i said you know what? i'm going to wait and hear what the full context and when i heard it, i said did he say it articulately? no. but it was pretty clear what he meant and, you know, i'm not going to play gotcha politics. i don't want people to play it on me and i'm not going to turn it around and play it on anybody else. >> senator, you went there about 30 times, i think you said, right after you nearly won iowa. just lost by a sliver. and now, you say you're going to pick up and go to south carolina regardless, correct? >> come on, absolutely. we come up here to new hampshire

and we were tired with rick perry for last place, if you will here in new hampshire on the day of the iowa caucuses and since that time, we've climbed up and reached the pack and we're in most of the polls in the pack with governor huntsman and speaker gingrich and slightly behind ron paul. that's a great pickup for us. and we did that without spending a dime on broadcast television here so we -- we've done an amazing job where everybody else is spending money, newt has been endorsed by the union leader which is a huge, big deal up here in new hampshire. and we're in the mix with them having spent nothing so i feel pretty good. >> how important is a second place finish for you? what would that mean for south carolina? >> oh, my gosh, just the mention of that would be beyond our dreams to be very honest with you. we're hopeful to finish in the three, four, five, gingrich, myself and huntsman are sort of grouped together there and we can finish in that pack somewhere that's great. that would show we have the momentum and that, you know, our grassroots effort is still on the rise and obviously, south

carolina where we are involved there, we are running ads there, we've got a big organization and, you know, that's where we're going to do a little better than we are here. but look, we feel like we might sneak up on some people here, too, i'm not -- i'm not saying we won't do a little better than the pack but it would be a shocker if we did. >> you never know. at 41%, people going to vote today are undecided still. that's a huge showing of people. i want to bring you back, though, to show the difference between yourself as a candidate and the frontrunner mitt romney because the other candidates are going after mitt pretty hard on this whole bain capital thing. are you going to do that to show yourself as a different kind of candidate or are you going to focus on different issues? >> well, i'm going to focus on his issues when he was in public life. i'm going to focus on his electability and those are the two things. in contrast, our bold plan. "the wall street journal" wrote the lead editorial that our plan was much bolder than mitt romney's plan. our plan will get people to work

and grow the economy and reach down and make sure the ladder of success is available for everyone. that's a fundamental difference in our plan. for blue collar workers to have the opportunity to get better jobs and provide for their families, that's going to be the difference in this race. our issues and we believe in bottom up solutions to problem not like mitt romney and health care and the wall street bailout top down. that's the fundamental difference in this race. not what he did as ceo of a company. >> right. so you're running strong in south carolina. i believe you're third with 16 percent of the vote in florida so senator santorum, you're just getting started. thanks so much for joining us this morning. good luck today. >> thank you. this will be a long race. don't anybody tell you because you win a primary or two, this race is over. this is going to be a long race. we'll be the conservative alternative because we have the record and the plan and we're going to be the nominee and i hope we get some votes here in new hampshire to back that up. >> all right. senator rick santorum, talk to you again soon. thank you. >> thank you. >> you just heard from newt gingrich and rick santorum on romney's bain capital past. now, the democrats get a shot.

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>> welcome back. the democratic national committee is pouncing on governor mitt romney's comments yesterday about firing people. >> 25 years in the private sector. i know how business works. i know why jobs come and why they go. i like being able to fire people that provide services to me. >> ok. but here are the governor's comments not surgically taken out of context. >> i want individuals to have their own insurance, that means the insurance company will have

an incentive to keep you healthy. it also means that if you don't like what they do, you can fire them. i like being able to fire people that provide services to me if, you know, if someone doesn't give me the good service i need, i want to say i'm going to get somebody else to provide that service to me. that's one thing i'd change. >> joining us right now from new hampshire is the chairwoman of the democratic national committee, congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. thanks for having me. >> great to have you as well. i know it's really cold up there as well. >> a little colder than florida. >> just a little. ok, so we just showed your web ad where you make it sound like mitt romney where he talks about i like -- i like firing people, makes it sound like he's on a yacht lighting cigars with a 50. but when you listen, then, to the soundbite in its context, you realize that you probably have taken it out of context, haven't you? >> isn't there anybody that

likes firing people? mitt romney had the opportunity to be specific and talk about that he would let his insurance company go and switch insurance companies but he didn't. he broadened it out and generalized and said he likes firing people that provide services to him. it's a pattern of insensitivity and callousness that mitt romney has shown throughout his entire campaign. he said earlier this year that corporations for people in florida and my home state, he actually said that, you know, he understands what people who are unemployed because he's out of a job right now. he said in nevada that he wouldn't do anything to help people remain in their homes and let the foreclosure hit bottom and investors come in and scoop up their properties and sell them. this is a pattern of callousness for the middle class and working families and we need to show people. >> in this particular case, though, clearly you have taken his comments out of context because what he was talking about, he was talking about obamacare and if you don't wind up with the right kind of insurance -- let me just finish, if you don't wind up with the

same kind of insurance, you ought to be able to fire that person. if you had a guy, congresswoman, who was mowing your lawn, providing that service and he did a really lousy job and he kept, you know, running over the grass and just did a terrible job, wouldn't you fire that guy? >> well, mitt romney is consistently talking about his economic experience and his private sector experience as the reason that voters should put him in the white house. we think it's important to show that what his experience really is is dismantling companies, shipping jobs overseas, bankrupting companies deliberately and talking about how he enjoys firing people. i mean, i'm sorry, but i mean, no matter what the situation you're in and the reason you might sever your employee relationship with people, no one says they enjoy it. it's not an enjoyable experience and that's just evidence of how mitt romney is really out of touch with the struggle of working families, the difficulty that the middle class has in

trying to make sure that everybody has an opportunity to be successful in this country. >> so you didn't take it out of context. >> well, what we did is show that mitt romney had an opportunity to be specific and he's instead decided to be general and say that he enjoys firing people. that's just something that in the context of all that mitt romney has said throughout this campaign that voters need to see and decide for themselves. >> all right. let's move on to this. it sure looks like the democrats and your party are focused on mitt romney to the ex clues of others and there's a brand new cbs poll come out, i saw scott pelly talking about it last night, if the election were held today, don't worry, it's not going to be, mitt romney would meet the president of the united states. ron paul extraordinarily would come within one point, president obama would beat him 46-45. of course, the margin of error is down at the bottom of the screen. but that makes it pretty clear why mitt romney is your target. >> well, you know, we're not

too focused on polls right now. we're 11 months from the election. what we're doing in the obama campaign and the democratic party is getting organized and standing up the largest most significant grassroots campaign in presidential history. as mitt romney is packing up and putting his manchester office in new hampshire up for lease, we have seven offices open today statewide and have made tens of thousands of contacts. we've had 500 events here across new hampshire. we've taken the retail politics of new hampshire very seriously. in fact, we can -- if you can run a retail presidential campaign, a door-to-door, neighbor to neighbor campaign, that's what we're doing across the country. it's what we did in iowa and we're going to continue to make sure that we really connect with people and that we take president obama's message of fighting for the middle class and working families all across this country. >> all right. very good. debbie wasserman schultz joining us today from new hampshire. be careful. there are a whole bunch of republicans loose up there! >> that's ok. i enjoy spending time with republicans, too. >> all right. very good.

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was describing someone that likes to fire people, shipping jobs overseas and also causing companies to go bankrupt, i thought she was talking about president obama. because the president is the chief executive officer was united states of america, obviously, he sees himself as a venture capitalist but yet, we saw solyndra and others go bankrupt. we know that when the president came to the presidency back in january 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.8% so he's fired quite a few millions of americans as well. so i think that debbie wasserman-schultz and the democrats need to go back to the drawing board. >> as you know, the republican candidates have taken shots at mitt romney's private equity background. what he did at bain capital. are you comfortable with that? >> well, i think that one of the things that governor romney needs to probably do is explain his position there at bain capital. i understand venture capitalism

and i understand capitalism and part of what happens in the free market is there is risk out there and people try to mitigate that risk but sometimes companies do fail but the great thing about america is we revolutionize with new innovation and ingenuity and a better company comes along and we're able to continue along a better path so i think the most important thing that we have to have a president with a vision, with the right type of tax policies and regulatory policies that will enable production in manufacturing and the trillion dollars of capital that's off shore to come back to the united states of america. so that we can get those americans back to work and not use taxpayer dollars to pick winners and losers in the marketplace or use taxpayer dollars for your own ideological agenda. >> speak of tax agenda and what not, sir, i know just before christmastime, you guys voted on that payroll tax extension of two months. you're going to take it up once you go back to washington, d.c. the republicans did vote with the way to pass it, but from what i've heard, you're not

happy with your own party leadership of what happened in the house. >> well, i'm not happy whatsoever because actually in the house, it was done by unanimous consent so we did not have the opportunity to vote on that two month extension which if you understand a two month extension for tax policy, that's one of the most insidious things you could ever think of so the american people will see the exact same dance coming about again in another two to three months. we voted for a one year extension that was paid for, that would not have any detrimental effect on social security but what did we get back from the senate to include senate republicans was something that is going to raise the fees on loan guarantees for the government sponsored enterprises so in other words, american home owners will be paying for this two month extension and you cannot run this country with policies based upon two month increments. that's what has me upset. >> you used harsher words when you've been describing this earlier and called it a pathetic policy and the g.o.p. leadership sold us down the road. what's going to happen when you

guys go back to capitol hill? what kind of words do you have for speaker boehner? >> well, i have the exact same words because when i flew back down to south florida, the wednesday before christmas, we were told that we would stand firm on that one year extension that we were passed which was passed bipartisan and the next thing i know, about 36 hours later, we were on a conference call where we were told that we would accept that two month extension by unanimous consent. my consent was not part of that and i think i was more than willing, we were not adjourned to go back to washington, d.c., continue to fight for a one year extension so we can deal with predictability and uncertainty. that's what we'll continue to do and can't knuckle under. >> year extension, we're told is going to collapse again with another stand-off in the next two months. great to see you. thanks so much. >> pleasure. thanks a lot, guys. >> we're coming down there and it looks warmer than it does here. >> you can come here.

>> absolutely. >> it sounds like the plot of "24". a suspect holds an elderly couple hostage in their own home. it happened in fayetteville, arkansas and things got worse from there. the suspect forced her to rob a bank by strapping what he said was a bomb to her ankle. when she got to the bank, she alerted the employees. a bomb squad removed the device. they're not testing it. cops do not have a suspect. brian? >> g.o.p. presidential candidate newt gingrich has a palin endorsement under his belt. todd palin. sarah palin's husband, of course, says gingrich is well suited for the white house. >> i think newt is the best conservative that can win against obama and obama is going to have the billion dollar campaign fund and, of course, will have a lot of the media in his corner and newt is a proven reformer. you have to have a proven record to go up against the obama machine. >> sarah palin has not announced who she'll endorse. >> meanwhile, mother nature bearing her claws down in texas. wild weather, call it extreme

weather dumping several inches of rain in houston quickly leaving cars under, in some cases, a couple of feet of water. roads were closed and many people lost their power. the worst is believed to be over and the storm has moved out. while many had a miserable start to the week, there is one group happy for the water and the drought stricken state and that would be farmers. there has been a terrible drought there and that water could not have come at a better time. >> glass half full. good job. >> thank you. amazing survival story of a father and daughter as their plane crashes into the ocean in the bahamas. the two were on their way to haiti to help with a cholera outbreak. luckily, they were not hurt when the plane hit the water and climbed on to a life raft. the u.s. coast guard eventually rescued them. they say despite the close call, they plan on flying again. look at that. look at. there's no land anywhere near around that. that is amazing! >> if you're going to be stuck stranded, that's a nice place. i mean, that looks beautiful. >> it is. >> the sharks swimming around you. >> right. that would be bad. >> ok. >> straight ahead, should your

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>> all right. time now for your news by the numbers. let's first start with 259. that's how many ucsa facilities will be closing to save money. the move is expected to save $150 million a year. what's the matter, gretchen? $0, wal-mart offering free preparation of simple tax forms at more than 3,000 wal-marts nationwide. 200 million, the number of people that tuned in to see tim tebow and the broncos to soar past the steelers in overtime on sunday. that makes it the highest rated wild card playoff card game in 24 years. all right. gretch? >> my gosh. how do i do a segment after that? you can come out of hiding, brian. all right. she is smart, qualified and motivated but there's one problem -- she's a republican. a conservative lawyer is doing everything she can to become a law professor at the university of iowa. but she claims bias could be holding her back. check out this letter from the associate dean. "frankly, one thing that worries

me is that some people may be opposed to theresa serving in any role in part at least because they so despise her politics and especially her activism about it in parenthesis." peter johnson jr. has prescription for justice. it might not be just as law schools but all academic institutions. >> we've heard anecdotally in a long time that academia is a place that only liberals can flourish and if you look at the contribution rate at some of these law schools across the country, you'll see that 80% or 90% of the professors there give to democratic candidates in this country. and so theresa wagner at the university of iowa law school applied for a job as a writing instructor twice. two different jobs. was turned down and so sued and now is successfully suing and there will be a trial as to whether she was turned down because of her first amendment rights. her political associations, her

associations with anti-abortion groups, with the family research council, with pro life organizations. >> let me ask you this since you are an attorney. if the associate dean said that quote that i just read back in 2007, basically saying they were concerned about her politics, sounds like she has a case. >> and the circuit court of appeals agreed and said there's a question of fact and we're going to discuss that in a trial. it's an interesting thing, a lot of people in this country say listen, yes, i understand gender discrimination. i understand race discrimination. i understand ethnicity. i understand sexual orientation. but there's also a terrible amount of discrimination in this country with regard to people's political beliefs, with regard to their associations and that, too, is protected by the first amendment. and that is illegal if you use someone's political beliefs against them not to give them a job. >> so let's take a look at the federal campaign contributions by professors at top law schools.

91% of the harvard law professors gave to democrats. 94% of my alma mater at least undergraduate, stanford law professors gave to democrats. 78% of the university of iowa law professors gave to democrats. so i guess there's less people that gave to democrats. >> it was pointed out that there was only one republican on the faculty law staff at that school and it was also pointed out in the decision that one of the -- allegedly, one of the foremost opponents of her appointment to the law school was a person who was a law clerk to supreme court justice harry blackmon who wrote on the roe v. wade decision, the abortion and pro choice decision in america and so that's an issue that's going to be coming out in this trial. the issue is academic freedom, the issue is the right to associate with political organizations and not be punished in the workplace based upon that association whether you're a democrat, republican,

liberal, conservative, whatever those associations are. so this is a very interesting case that's testing the limits of our liberty and what academic freedom really is in this country. we're going to walk the walk, talk the talk. >> thanks, peter. have a great day. >> you, too. >> when we come back, cheryl casone breaks down the top five hiring hundreds of people this week. one recruiting heavily from the military. stay tuned for that. on this date in 1978, "baby come back", what a great tune. takes me back to my roller skating days, peter. [ male announcer ] where's your road to happiness? what ithe first step on that road is a bowl of soup? delicious campbell's soups fill you with vegetable nutrition, farm-grown ingredients, and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbell's -- it's amazing what soup can do.

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>> answer to the question of the day, rod stewart. the winner is russell from atlanta. rod stewart likes scotland and the celtics. not boston. >> the new year is bringing new factories in states like texas, arizona and massachusetts. and that also means more jobs, perhaps, for you. cheryl casone from the fox business network joins me now with the top five companies hiring at this moment. welcome back, cheryl. let's start with red hat. >> lots of jobs at red hat. this is i.t. services and engineering. now, red hat is -- it's basically they have jobs in raleigh, north carolina. it's software. it's critical software and i.t. services so it's engineering jobs and things like that. they hired 250 people in the third quarter. that was actually a record for the company. they're expanding. they're really big about support for other companies. i.t. services. so it's kind of the back half of a lot of companies. >> the headquarters are in washington but you end up going

-- you go to a central location but you can go to mountainview, california, massachusetts and raleigh, north carolina. >> they really need engineers. >> yes. jobs that will pay well. i would think. stewart and stevenson. tell me about them. >> this is -- you were talking about, this is where they are looking for military personnel. i got to get this out. they have a job fair coming up january 18th in fort hood, texas, it pays $17 to $25 an hour. they need people that can do basically assembly, mechanical assembly, transmission mechanics, diesel mechanics, think of the skills that you got when you were overseas in iraq. those skills are highly, highly needed by a company like stewart and stevenson. here's the thing, they have that job fair coming up next week but some of the jobs will be in canada. you may have to go -- you may have to do some traveling for this one. hey, if you're a military veteran and came back from overseas, travel might be ok for you. >> right. >> the pay is decent. again, they've told me in five different ways this company has told me they're looking for military veterans so i want to get that out. >> they make between $17 and

$25 an hour. scott trade is looking for? >> financial associates. if you've got any type -- even if you're a recent college grad, they didn't say this. i'm saying this about scott trade, if you have financial experiencea business degree, they need associates. this is on-line trading like etrade, it's scottrade are looking for people that can guide the average investor more and more because the market has been a mess over the last four years. people want advice but can't afford heavy duty, you know, wall street managers. they need people who can help the average person to get a foot in the door. >> they have about 200 openings. caterpillar, leading manufacturer of construction. what do we have here? >> global company. all right, this is mining equipment, construction equipment, they make gas engines. they need -- look, they hired about 12,000 people since 2010. they've got a new texas factory that will be opening up this year. here comes texas again in this segment today. they're going to be opening up a new factory and they've already opened up a couple in 2011 but

still need people and again, it's those mechanical skills. i would recommend this to military veterans again, the skills that you've got, if you can build a base in iraq, you can work for caterpillar. >> silicon valley bank provides commercial banking services to a wide variety of companies. >> arizona, one of the hardest hit states across the country. they need associates and they need sales. if you have sales experience, jump on this one. they're going to be opening up a new facility in tempe, arizona, again the job market is so tight in tempe. i wanted to get that one out. >> thank you very much. you have a new advice column. >> launching today on the "fox & friends" web site on my blog casoneexchange.com as well, it's advice to get you hired. i've been flooded with advice and now it's my turn to communicate directly with you. help you get hired. the first column is click, fill and hire. everything is on line. the column goes through the steps of how to do it. go to the column today. >> cheryl casone, thank you so much. we'll be going to it. president obama tested a new

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wow. riot at rick santorum's appearance and his family dragged in. "fox & friends" starts right now ♪ >> gretchen: thank you, you probably got the party music for me. >> steve: republican party. >> gretchen: we were ready to party at 5:00 a.m when we started the extensioned version of "fox & friends." now there is sunlight and i can see a party going on inside there. >> brian: i almost saw a person. >> gretchen: come on. we had to have some excitement about the whole thing. polls have been open a couple hours. >> steve: after the millions of dollars spent on ads and all the yelling and give and take between the candidates, today is

the day, the granite stayed decides. >> brian: we'll find out. some polls show mitt romney's lead is slipping. then i saw another poll that shows it's in the 40s. so you have no idea what's going to happen with 40% of the people saying i'm going to make up my mind in the final three days. it's time. >> gretchen: it is. let's get to the headlines before we focus on that. last night, 75-year-old alex decoach collapsed in the men's room moments after the legislature held its final voting session. governor chris christie returned to the capitol at midnight and he's postponing his state of the state speech. he served since 1979. his 76th birthday would have been two days from now. new details about the islamic extremist accused of planning terrorist attacks in tampa. >> the christian, the jews the pagans, the hindu, the buddhists, atheists, they're the

worst of creation. we'll fight the charge. >> gretchen: those are the views of 25-year-old sammy, so extreme his fellow muslims banned him from two mosques. internet video shows his violent confrontation last april with protesters from the controversial westborough baptist church. the kosovo nature of was busted -- native was busted in a sing last week. she went on for a jog and never came back home. now police have found one of her shoes. sherry arnold, a teacher and mother of three, never returned from her run over the weekend in montana her shoe discovered in a ditch along one of her jogging routes. the disappearance rocked the small town of sydney, with over 1,000 volunteers showing up to help in the search effort. former minnesota governor jesse ventura shooting down a former navy seal sniper story that he decked ventura in 2006.

kyle says ventura was talking trash about troops in iraq and said, quote, you deserve to lose a few guys. >> she popped him? >> yet. >> did he fight back? >> he went down. the cops were there. i took off running. >> you ran? >> yes, sir. >> did they arrest you? >> no, sir. i have a master chief that always said, punch and run. >> gretchen: not true, says ventura. posting on facebook, if this happened six years ago, someone would have known about it before now. i have always opposed the war in iraq, but i have never spoken or wished any ill toward soldiers. someone is out to destroy my credibility. those are your headlines. >> brian: all right. that's the former governor of minnesota. four minutes after the hour. voters in new hampshire up this morning casting their ballots in the nation's first presidential primary. >> steve: moply line is in new hampshire with very latest. good morning to you. >> good morning. we're not busy.

there are parking attendants. we've seen a steady flow. lots of republicans vote not guilty this primary, as well as independents. the voting really kicked off a little after midnight in a tiny village way up in the northern part of the state, close to the canadian border, nine people voted this this morning. that's the entire population there. here is the numbers. romney came in with two votes, huntsman 2. gingrich, one and paul 1. in hearts location, 23 total votes cast there. romney got five. paul, 4. huntsman 2. perry one. gingrich one and president obama pull not guilty ten votes up there at hearts location. in these final hours before the voters have been going to the poll, things can get heated and senator rick santorum and his family had an unusual experience yesterday. they were leaving one of the restaurant stops they were making and surrounded by occupy protesters, as well some younger ron paul supporters.

no one was arrested. no up with was hurt, but as you can see, rather disconcerting situation as the senator tried to move forward and continue his campaign in the final hours. senator santorum spokes on "fox & friends," as well as newt gingrich. they weighed in on a lot of topic, but one is how they would like to finish as the race comes to a close. here is newt gingrich, as well as senator santorum talking about how they'd like to come in here once the votes are counted tonight. >> i'd like to be in the top three or four and i think we have a real good chance to be in the top three or four. i think that sets the stage to then go to south carolina, which i think will be the decisive showdown with governor romney. >> to be honest with you, we're hopeful to finish in the three, four, five. gingrich, myself and huntsman are grouped together there. we can finish in that pack, somewhere, that's great. that will show we've got the momentum. >> as you can see, the candidates looking ahead toward south carolina. but the excitement will be right

here in new hampshire tonight as the polls close around 8:00 o'clock this evening. back to you. >> steve: molly, we thank you very much. let's bring in laura ingraham, she's in our dc bureau. good morning to you. >> hey, did rick santorum say he didn't mind finish not guilty third, fourth or fifth? there is only six people in the race? >> steve: lowering expectations. >> if i finish in the top eight, it will be great momentum going into south carolina. >> brian: there's a way to solve that rumor. ahead of buddy roamer. >> gretchen: newt gingrich said that, too, didn't he? i love my friends up there in dixville notch. lives with my family and we got the pictures in the voting booth. i love the three people who vote for obama. that's why new hampshire, you can not predict. new hampshire is wild. >> gretchen: i didn't love the fact that only nine of 75 people showed up. did you like that part? >> no. gretchen, that's an excellent point and goes to the question of enthusiasm for all the reporting that the parking lots are full, there is a sense among

republican voters that there is not that really big build-up of momentum and enthusiasm and passion for any of these candidates. we'll see if that changes when they head to south carolina. >> brian: let's talk about the president because bill daley called it quits and much of the surprise that the president said he tried to convince him not to. he refused to take his resignation. what's the real story? we know he had his power diminished a few months ago. >> yeah, well, if you believe that obama had to beg him to stay, then you believe that those shovel ready jobs are right around the corner. this was a bad arranged marriage from the very beginning. daley is one of those old style politicians who likes to work for the republicans and fashion a deal, get a deal on the table. but from the very beginning, word here in washington is that valerie jarrett and others thought to freeze him out of the process, which lends toes dysfunctionallity in this white

house, which i believe is something that needs to be covered more and talked about more because when you talk about this administration just completely disentangling itself from anything that's happening on capitol hill and just saying look, we're not going to work with them, well, who is to blame here? the president of the united states has got to have a team in lace or should, that actually works for not just his reelection, but for the american people. as far as i can tell, they're just not doing much more the american people. it's all about reelection all the time. >> steve: sure. there is that new book that comes out today, "the obamas "and looks like there is crazy stuff going on at the white house. okay. so jack lieu will be the temporary guy. it should be all hands on deck in an election year. >> it's very strange in an election year to change course when it comes to the chief of staff position. it's highly unusual. when i was out of college, i worked in the last two years of the reagan administration and the tumult there, that was kind of because of that controversy,

right? but at this point, you would think that the president has his team in place and is going to push that message out to the american voters and the american people. i think the managerial skills in this white house are abysmal and i think the american people have seen the fruits of it, which is nothing done. >> gretchen: that will be interesting because last night, the president continues to promise more change as part of his campaign strategy and listed awful his accomplishments, except some people were wondering how he could forget what we've been debating for much of the last year, which is the trillions of dollars of debt that we continue to face with no real solution for it right now. what do you make of it? >> his new mantra will be change is. so i say change is stagnation of voyages. change is america in steep decline. change is a health care system which is pushing doctors out of the work force and having them retire early. change is the fact that the middle east is in more chaos than before. change is iraq could be evolving

into civil war. >> brian: you got yourself fired as the dnc lead writer. >> debbie wasserman schultz, i wanted your job. >> brian: he also did leave off cutting defense. that's big change. >> yeah. change is undermining our military and even our secretary of defense saying these could be catastrophic cuts. look, these debates we've been seeing, guys, over the last several months, most of these questions in these debates are focused on topics that people aren't talking about, like contraception and the gay marriage. most people are saying, look, america is going off this cliff. how are we going to stop it and have security and wealth? and the president doesn't want to talk about his record. he wants to talk about oh, i'm just getting started here and the republicans are not working with me. we know that this white house has basically stated they're going to do one thing this year and that's the extension of the payroll tax cut. that's the only thing they're going to do with congress. everything else he's going to do on his own. that's going to be great for the american people. >> gretchen: the president may

have to answer some of those questions when the real debates start happening. when the republicans have a nominee and it's just two people standing up on the stage going against one another. but with all the eyes on the republicans, do you believe that too many eyes are off the president right now? >> absolutely. i mean, the idea that this guy goes day by day meeting with the dallas mavericks, we now learn about the lavish halloween party, the fact they spent probably over a million dollars in that failed olympic bid, all these things are coming out now about the high life living in the white house and the failure on the part of this president at every juncture to sit down and craft a deal with the republicans who were willing to work with him in the fall and in last spring. he's unwilling to do that because he wants to campaign against congress. to me that, is not just dysfunctionallity, that's a derelict of his duty and that's what the republicans should be talk about and i think when

there is a nominee, it's going to be in the republicans' mind, a referendum on whether he has worked for america. whether he's really worked, whether his plan is working and whether we're better off than we were three years ago. >> steve: all right. laura ingraham, all a pleasure to he you. thank you very much. we know you have to hop on the radio. she'll be on in 45 minutes. >> that's right. >> gretchen: a new book claims to expose a bizarre tension between michelle obama and rahm emanuel? got the white house in damage control. laura bush's former chief of staff here. >> brian: then danger might as well be her middle name. a fearless three-year-old face-to-face with a ferocious lion. she's seen worse. >> steve: that's no cowardly lion there wake up!

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>> steve: welcome back. the white house has been in damage control mode since the release of a new book today that reveals possible tension between the president, first lady, and their staff members. >> looks like these tend to overhype and sensationalize things and i think that's the case here. the fact of the matter is, and i think this is depicted in the book, that the relationship between the president and the first lady is incredibly strong. their commitment to each other, to their children and to the reasons why this president ran for office. >> steve: our next guest has direct knowledge of what probably went through the white house's mind when this book made news. anita mcbride is the former chief of staff for george bush and joinses from d.c good morning to you, eye nita.

>> good morning, steve. >> steve: here this white house thought their friends at the "new york times" were their friends and yet, this book comes from jody cantor, one of the writers there. >> well, jody cantor wrote a terrific piece about the obamas and their marriage for "new york times" sunday magazine a couple of years ago. i'm sure that contributed a little bit to a potential false sense of security among the staff to give her the kind of access that they gave her over a long period of time. 30 staff member, multiple interviews with each person. to paint a picture about life in the white house. of course, that's always a risk when you're going to talk to somebody outside. >> steve: sure. and it does -- i've only read the first 100 page, but it talks about tension between the first lady, the president, staff, stuff like that. but you say just in every white house, there are going to be tensions between the east wing, which is where the first lady has her office, and the west wing, where the oval office and the president sit. >> well, i think that there is a little bit of a natural tension until everybody feels out how

they can work with each other. i will say this, these are from the rule book of working with the east wing, number one, don't ever ignore the first lady. number two, don't ever put anything on her schedule she doesn't know anything about. and at the end of the day, all advisors have to realize the closest advisor is the president's spouse. at the end of the day, she's the only one who won't be fired. that's just sort of the reality. >> steve: that's right. now, of course, that the book is out there and people are going to start buying it, nugget also come up, one thing i saw was that when he was in the senate, barak obama thought it was too slow, rule bound. he wrote, shoot me now on a piece of paper during a particularly long and boring speech that was being given on the senate floor by joe biden. there is going to be some embarrassment with this book. >> well, again, with the access that she had and all of the interviews, there is certainly going to be at this time bits. i'm sure now they're saying they

wish they never gave that kind of access. but that's the reality of public life. barak obama knew that running for senate. he certainly learned it running for president. and again, i think of all of the interests that there was for americans to have the first african-american president there, maybe it did give a little bit a false sense of security to the kind of life that their public life might be. >> steve: who knows? maybe johnny depp will come to our secret halloween parties. who knows? >> wow. now that was something. >> steve: it was. all right. anita mcbride, former chief of staff for laura bush, we thank you for joining us. >> thank you, steve. >> steve: straight ahead, you remember christina taylor green, nine years old, the youngest victim in the tucson shootings a year ago. but her face no longer the face of tragedy. she sparked something incredible and her mother is here next. and some bad news for jon huntsman's campaign this morning. is his run for the white house in jeopardy?

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>> brian: quick headlines. arizona election officials announcing jon huntsman is off the primary ballot. they say his paperwork was miss ago notearized signature. and a brush fire burning miles from a residential community in southern california. investigators think is was sparked bay transformer explosion. the homes have been damaged. gretch. the days following the tucson tragedy, president obama often spoke of its youngest victim, nine-year-old christina taylor green. >> she saw a public service as

something exciting, hopeful. she was off to meet her congresswoman, someone she was sure was good and important and might be a role model. she saw all this through the eyes of a child. i want to live up to her expectations. i want our democracy to be as good as christina imagined it. i want america to be as good as she imagined it. >> gretchen: and it was from that speech that christina taylor's mom got the title of her book, chronicling the short and powerful life of her beloved do you remember. joining me is her mother, founder of the christina taylor green foundation and author. good morning to you again. >> good morning. >> gretchen: i can't believe it's been a year. >> i can't either. >> gretchen: on the day of a your beloved child died, you spoke to me in the first

interview and i have to tell you, it was the toughest thing i've ever done in my life because i could not imagine the pain that you were going through and now you're chronicling that so raw in this book. why? why do the book? >> well, our daughter is amazing little girl, extraordinary little girl, but shortly after she passed away, we received so many letters and calls and e-mails from throughout the country with various stories about the wonderful things that she had done and the caring, giving heart that she had. we didn't know about many of the things that she -- acts of kindness that she had done. we thought we'd write an inspirational book of hope and just tell the world what an extraordinary, wonderful little girl that she was. she was only nine years old and third grade, but the things that she did to help others were extraordinary. >> gretchen: you write about how she wanted to be a veterinarian or a doctor, major league baseball career possibly was in her future, after she was

beyonce's back up singer. but she also a love for politics and she went with a purpose to see congresswoman gabrielle giffords, right? >> she wanted to learn more about her government. she looked up to miss giffords as a role model, just like she looked up to michelle obama and president obama. so she wanted to go to learn more what, she could do for her local community and her government in general. >> gretchen: i think this book will be so wonderful for people who have gone through immense pain in their life because one of the things you talk about at the end is how, after all of the flurry of news people and attention that the next month, february, was so tough for you, until you had a message from god one night. what did god say to you that night in your dream? >> christina came to me in my dream and it was a bright light and it was her face, her beautiful face and she told me to be happy and not to cry or be sad because she was in a great place and she was being taken care of. she was with my mother, her

grandma that she adored and try not to be sad anymore, to be happy, to move on, and that she was -- that we'd see each other once again. it was confirmation -- i'm a christian. i believe in heaven. i know she's in a better place, but just so hard to go through such a horrific tragedy and that just really helped our family in so many ways. >> gretchen: one of the ways that you're also helping to get through the pain is setting up this foundation. >> yes. >> gretchen: when i saw you last month, you said that it had helped to pay for a new playground at her school. now you've done something else wonderful in your hometown of tucson. what is it? >> we partner with the salvation army and we raise over 15,000 brand-new toys and bikes so less fortunate children could have a hanukkah and christmas gift this is season. we're really proud of that. we're going to build a children's theater in 2012 and we're just giving back to the commune and hope to take it nationwide. >> gretchen: i know you had a chance to see congresswoman giffords recently. what was it interaction like

when you see her? >> well, of it very comforting to see her and mark kelly. we just gave each other big hugs. our family, my family just wanted to let her know that we love her and that we pray for her every day and we know she's going to get better and better each day and we just want her to know we're rooting for her recovery. i think she felt good about the invest as well. >> gretchen: as one of the gentleman who treated me this morning, he said, please tell roxana wraps their arms around her. >> that's beautiful. i think people around the country and various other countries who sent us well wish, it's vest comforting for everyone to think of us and pray for us. we appreciate it so much. >> gretchen: the book is called "as good as she imagined, the story of christina taylor green." thank you so much. >> thank you. >> gretchen: the race for the republican nomination turning into a battle between

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>> this is good. the national debt has reached $15 trillion. the size of the entire u.s. economy. yeah. i don't want to say president obama is out of solutions for the debt, but today he tried heading it off with tim tebow. >> brian: all right. 26 minutes before the top of the hour. with the hot debate in new hampshire, first off, who will win and come in second in but also bane capital, once considered a major asset for mitt romney and perhaps still is, but all the other candidates seem to be taking shots at him because of his years as an investor with that company and ceo of bane capitol. >> steve: sure. for many years, jack welsh was the ceo and top guy at the general electric corporation,

one of the smartest guys in the whole wide world of business, a titan of industry really. he was on another one of those nbc channels and nobody ever watch, so he thought we'd show awe clip so you can see for yourself. he does have a favorite in this race and that guy's name is mitt romney. >> my lifetime, mitt romney is the most qualified leader i've ever seen run for president of the united states. bane, a consulting company gets in trouble in 1990, mitt comes back and fix it. back to bane capital. the company then has its best years after. ran for governor, witnessed the governorship. the government is in $370 billion in debt. he gets out and gets a surplus. we haven't had anybody do all these things! >> gretchen: so that's jack welch. he would noe something about running a business since he basically turned around general

electric. now, steve forbes, another guy who knows a lot about business, he is supporting rick perry and he was on our show earlier this morning. he responded to jack welch talking about mitt romney. >> well, what jack welch points out, and he was criticized in his first ten years at ge, wiping out jobs, but he recreate that had company in a way that made it highly successful. one of the first companies in the world that's diversified. had success and contribute to do that. steve jobs had failures, for crying out loud. >> steve: everyone does. >> it's part of the process. if it was easy, everyone would do it. >> brian: so here is a guy supporting rick perry. i think jack welch's wife actually worked at bane capital. is that right? >> steve: i'm not sure. >> brian: i believe she did. he also points out his years in the olympics. i know what was going on with the olympics, it was about to go belly up and he came in, did mitt romney, and do a pretty

good job. >> steve: he was impresssive, mitt romney, went to harvard law, harvard business, was governor and saved the olympics. put it all together, jack welch says that's quite a guy. >> gretchen: let's do the rest of your headlines. it sounds like the plot of "24", a suspect holds an elderly couple hostage in their own home. things got worse. the woman says that the suspect forced her to rob a bank by strapping what he says, she says, to her ankle. she alerted employees. a bomb squad removed the device and they're testing it. meantime, the cops say they don't have a suspect. >> steve: what a story. mother nature bearing her claws in texas. look at those pictures right there. wild weather. number of inches of rain in houston ask in a short period of time caused flash flooding, leaving cars under in some cases, several feet of water. look at that. i don't think that's such a good idea. a number of roads were closed, many people lost power. there is a hint there might have been a tornado down there. this is believed to be over and

while many had a miserable start to the week, there is one group happy for all that rain. farmers. there has been a drought across much of that region back across through texas as well. water couldn't come at a better time. >> gretchen: excuse me. the three-year-old girl getting really up close and personal with a little cat. all right, it's a lion. four times her size. a walk on the wild side caught on camera. check out this at australia's zoo and all of a sudden, he swipes. she barely flinched. the zoo insists this glass is so thick that the girl was never in danger and even a sledge hammer couldn't break it. >> steve: let's not try it. >> brian: she doesn't look like she's scared. >> gretchen: that's not a stuffed animal. >> steve: the impact of video games. it's something i'm looking at t must be a big picture. >> brian: they must have a saint bernard at home mixed with a great dane. meanwhile, it doesn't get any better than this, this year you

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week. and china showing they can do it faster. look at this time lapsed video showing it only takes them 15 days to build a hotel. that sounds safe. and they claim the 30-story building can withstand a 9.0 earthquake. although i'm doubt they want to try it. >> brian: are we an independent nation? a new poll finds 40% of americans identify themselves as independents. the highest percentage in 60 years. as voters in new hampshire choose their republican nominee and that's happening now, are they thinking with an independent slant? frank luntz is live in manchester, new hampshire and has the answer. fastest growing segment, how does new hampshire fit into that? >> well, it's critical for either party. the truth is, you don't win by winning the democrat vote or republican vote. you win by getting people in the center and what's key to understand about independents is that they're rejecters. it's different than being unaffiliated. if you're unaffiliated, you

don't care. if you're independent, you're specifically saying i don't like either party, i don't want to be identified with either party. in 2008, barak obama won the majority of the independent voters and it's why he was elected. but bush did well among them in 2004 twice. why he won. it's critical segment of the population. they are younger than average, wealthier than average. >> brian: let me bring this up. they just did a survey to ask independents how they feel about they oppose cutting federal education, republicans would be somewhat against that. they also are not in favor of overturning obamacare. republican issue, it's almost 100% they are for overturning that. so republicans might have a tough time. >> but they're also against wasteful washington spending. they're particularly focused on the deficit and the debt. those are much stronger republican issues. i'd argue they're the key voting bloc this election cycle and republicans, if they focus on economic issue v a fair shot at

them. >> brian: you have two special guests with you. >> yes, i do. i have the most important voters in america. new hampshire moms. let me ask the two of you. sue, who do you support in this election cycle? >> newt. >> it's interesting 'cause you call him newt rather than newt gingrich. when did you come to support him? >> as soon as he announced he was running. i've been a supporter from day one. >> what is it specifically about him that you support? >> his knowledge about the ways around washington and i just think he really knows what's going on and can get things done. >> you don't support newt gingrich. you support? >> i support mitt romney. >> and the reason why? >> i supported mitt romney since he was governor of massachusetts. he obviously did a lot of great things, very fiscally responsible. the deficit is no longer in the state of massachusetts and his values and what he stands for as an american.

>> so let me ask the two of you, it's gotten pretty bloody between newt gingrich and mitt romney. what advice do you have for those two gentlemen? >> the only advice i would have for newt is he might want to temper himself maybe a little bit when he gets emotional and just stick to the facts and the issues and i just think he's great to listen to and -- i don't know. i just think he would do a really good job, get things done in washington. >> what advice do you have for mitt romney? >> to stay positive. he's one of the most positive candidates i've ever seen to run for office and that leaves us with promise and faith that our country will be restored. >> i want the two of you to have faith because you're moms. i know you care about your kids and the future of the country. i thank you for joining us. the debt, brian. anything else to ask them? n heidi murray and sue, great

job. a question for you, are the attacks about mitt romney's days at bane capital, are they taking a toll like newt gingrich's days in congress were with him in iowa? are they taking a toll in new hampshire and south carolina, do you think? >> in new hampshire, they came too late to have a significant impact. most surveys show mitt romney's lead, which is very large, still decreasing by two to five. but in the end i believe he'll win tonight. the question is south carolina. south carolina is anyone's game. any one of three candidates, gingrich, romney or rick santorum could win that state. >> brian: do you believe like some of the conventional wisdom is, that for mitt romney to walk away with a convincing win, he's got to get at least 37% of the vote? is that your magic number, too? >> i don't have a imagine -- i've never supported a conventional wisdom because, as you know, the conventional wisdom is usually wrong. all mitt romney needs to do here is win by at least double digits and in the end, south carolina is not going to make the decision based on new hampshire.

they're going to make the decision based on the fox news debate that's coming up in a week. >> brian: very good. then we have south carolina and then florida. frank luntz, thanks so much. great job. >> thank you, guys. >> brian: straight ahead, if you like football, and you like funny, stick around for this. actress brandy norwood and tia maury on deck. but first, let's check in with bill hemmer and find out what he's doing at the top of his show. >> good morning to you. also developing this morning, crazy story here. a grandmother with a bomb strapped to her body is now talking about that experience. we're going to have that story for you. also major questions about one of the most popular jets flying passengers in the world today. big day in new hampshire. how too republicans feel about the candidates and rick perry is not even in new hampshire. we'll map his strategy with a member of his team. we'll see new a few minutes. it's primary day in the granite state.

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>> steve: now for something different, they both became household names as music and tv stars in the 1990s. they're delighted by this old video. and brandy norwood and tia mowery teamed up on the hit tv show "the game" which kicks off its fifth season tonight. if you haven't seen it, here is a peek. >> hi, jason. >> hi, jason. >> she couldn't make it. she found shrapnel in her back. >> gretchen: joined by tia mowery and singer and actress, brandy norwood. good to see the two of you together. >> wow. >> did you see that video? it was crazy. >> the hair. >> gretchen: you don't like

seeing the olden days for these young women folks, it wasn't that long ago. >> you look great. >> gretchen: you look great as well. >> i loved your show. >> gretchen: now you're together on a new show. a new show on bet, the show that's been around for a while. >> yeah. i can't believe it. we're in our fifth season and it's really nice to have brandy. she has been a professional. she is amazing, you're hilarious. but we share something in common. we don't like to see ourselves. we were talk being that the other day. we can not watch ourselves on television with everyone else. >> brian: is it all right that we're watching you? >> that's fine. >> we can't watch it with you. >> brian: i understand that. >> steve: you've been on the program for a long time. >> yeah. >> steve: you, brandy, wait until it's big hit to sign on. >> yeah. it's been a blessing to be part of such a great cast. tia is amazing. i love working with you. i wish i had more scenes with you. >> i know, right? >> it's been great. >> gretchen: for people who aren't familiar with the show,

what's it about? >> it's about football, but it doesn't focus on football. it foxiness the relationships behind the scenes. i play a wife of a football player and then we have other characters who are wives of football players and girlfriends and she happens to be, well -- i don't want to give away the story. >> i play. >> brian: a sexy bartender? >> yeah. that is not moved by any of the football stuff. >> steve: you would think that if you, brandy, played a bartender, your tv name would be brandy. [ laughter ] >> but her name on the show is chardonnay. >> gretchen: oh, my gosh! >> brian: you date a wide receiver. is this correct? >> i do. but i don't care about his fame. i put him in check, meaning i let him know what it is all the time. >> steve: come on, you don't care? >> i don't care. >> gretchen: i like that about you. >> i have my own dream and i don't care what he has. >> he needs that. i think the character needs

that. >> steve: so it's two games. it's one they play and the one you play? >> yeah. and the one she plays. >> gretchen: tell us about your musical career as well, because that's how you originally became famous. you have a new cd? >> new cd coming in may. i'm very excited about it. my fans have been very patient with me. it's great to do what i love to do full time now and i'm with a great record label and i'm just excited about the future. >> brian: what are you better at, singing or acting? >> singing. [ laughter ] i got to practice on my acting. i don't have to practice singing. but singing comes more natural. >> steve: brandy has been coming to this show since we went on in 1976? >> gretchen: 1976? >> wait a minute, what? >> steve: you've been coming here over ten years. we appreciate that. >> thank you. >> gretchen: tia, your twin sister is married to our colleague here.

>> yes, she is. she's enjoying married life. they just bought a beautiful home in napa. >> steve: we see them on tv. >> yeah. he is hilarious. he's a great addition to the family and yeah, we're very blessed. >> gretchen: speaking of addition, you're a new mom. and you have a nine-year-old daughter, brandy. off baby at home? >> i have a six-month-old and when we started filming the show, he was just 2 1/2 months. that was a challenge. but what's really cool, i have a book coming out may 15 called "oh, baby" about my pregnancy and the experience and i kind of tell it like it is, how it really is when you go through your pregnancy. >> gretchen: they don't tell awe lot. >> steve: we want you to tell us more stuff. can you stick around? >> yes. >> steve: "the game" premieres tonight at 10:00 o'clock on bet. thank you losing weight clicked for me when i found a plan

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