decision. >> there are two schools of thought on that. >> no, there's not two schools, only one, mine. that's all the time we have left. let not your heart be troubled. the news continues. greta is next. see you tomorrow night. tonight two candidates go on the record. former speaker newt gingrich and senator rick santorum. they are minutes away. first, fireworks at tonight's debate. >> a direct fresh character attack on the speaker. mr. speaker, i want to start with that this evening. as you know, your ex-wife gave an interview to abc news and another interview at the washington post and this story has now gone viral on the internet. in it she says you came to her in 1999 at a time when you are having an affair. she said you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take some time to respond to that? >> no, but i will.

[applause] >> i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes is harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and i am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that. [applause] >> is that all you want to say? >> let me finish. please. every person in here knows personal pain. every person in here has had someone close to them go through painful things. to take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary, a significant question in a presidential campaign, is as close to despicable as anything

that i can imagine. [applause] >> my two daughters, my two daughters wrote the head of abc and made the point that it was wrong, that they should pull it, and i am frankly astounded that cnn would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate. [applause] >> as you noted, mr. speaker, this story did not come from our network. as you also know, it is the subject of conversation on the campaign. i take your point. >> john, it was repeated by your network. you chose to start the debate with it. don't try to blame somebody else. you and your staff chose to start this debate with it. now, let me be quite clear, let me be quite clear. the story is false. every personal friend i have who knew us in that period said the story is false.

we offered several of them to abc to prove it was false. they weren't interested because they would like to attack any republican, they are attacking the governor, they are i tacking me, i'm sure they will get around to senator santorum and congressman paul. i'm tired of the elite media protecting barack obama by attacking republicans. >> speaker gingrich is here in just a few minutes and so is senator santorum. but now there's breaking news. there's new danger off the coast of italy. severe weather is moving in quickly and italian officials are warning the ship is at threat of breaking up and shipping. plus the mystery woman. did you hear about the young woman spotted with the captain of the ship the night of the shipwreck. there are lots of questions about why she was on board but it gets a tad bit stranger. tonight she's defending the captain against the accusationings he abandoned

ship. >> i've heard in russian media that the captain left the ship first or among the first but this is not true. i'm a witness. i don't know if i'm invited to testify in the court or not but as a witness i can say i left the deck at 23:50 following an order from the captain who told me to go to the third deck, to get into a lifeboat that could take more people. >> but there is more. a new and disturbing recording released today paints a very different picture of the captain's response to the crisis. a transmission from the bridge to port. officials insist a blackout is the ship's only problem. the associated press said the captain is the one speaking, and he was telling them about a blackout a full 30 minutes after the ship rammed the reef and was in extreme distress. >> good evening, costa concordia. do you have problems on board? >> yes, affirmative. we have a blackout on board. we are checking the situation. >> do you need assistance or for the moment are you only staying in the area. >> we are staying in the area to verify the blackout. >> what kind of problem,

generators? we got a call from a relative of the crewmember that said during the dinner everything fell on his head. >> no, negative. we have a blackout and we are verifying the conditions on board. >> some passengers said you made them put on life jackets. is this correct? >> i repeat, we are verifying the conditions of the blackout. >> now that was obviously a translation. but what really did happen on board that doomed cruise ship? for the latest developments, fox news reporter courtney joins us by phone from the island. courtney. >> you are right about the winds. they are expected to pick up and the rough and choppy seas will make it more difficult. i spoke to a technician that said they are trying to batten down the boat, the pilings in the water to prevent it from moving. it has moved already and will do more so when the winds come up. if it should break up with the 2,000 tons of oil, it will be a disaster. in the port you can see a large tugboat with a crane and huge

pipe. it's a dutch company that's been commission today extract the gas. the problem is with the cold weather it's become much more solid making it more difficult. i hear it is not impossible. you mentioned this woman. now we've been hearing a lot of rumors about this woman. her name is dominca and she said she was with the captain that night. she's been defending him completely all over the place saying that he actually saved many lives and she also claimed to have saved many lives. she's from eastern europe and lives in the capitol city city. but a waiter i interviewed as part of the crew actually told me she came on board november 24th and disappeared and then she reappeared that night and was eating and they were drink ago lot of wine at the captain's table, implying that there might have been some kind of liaison. but that's total hear say. we really don't know anything

more about her. the costa said she embarked that evening with the other passengers, had her papers in order. in an interview she said she was there to celebrate her birthday. she said she hoped to be called in to of it to defend the captain. now that audio that you were talking about today, there's some conflicting parts about exactly if it was the captain or another official that was talking to the coast guard. but again, they kept saying it was a blackout, no serious problems and it was recorded half an hour after the impact at 10:15 p.m.. the coast guard again kept saying is there a real problem? and they kept saying no and they were trying to minimize it. the crewmember in defense of the crusade everyone there was convinced it was a problem with the generator. they realized they had gone aground and there was damage but they thought it was a problem with electricity and they would be able to get over it, it would be resolved. but again, it's been a very difficult time over here and on

giglio today there were new victims identified by the relatives. it's a somber mood. bad weather is not going to help matters at all. >> courtney, i realize this happened last friday night and it's already very late in the week, but is there -- i mean, i take it that. they not been able to actually board the ship and go through and see if the remote possibility because there is food, there is oxygen, to see if missing people, anyone might still be trapped on the ship? >> actually they are boarding -- what they are doing, they are making small little explosions to get inside the boat. it's really interesting. we were talking with some of the divers, the police divers, and they go underwater and they are check being all the underwater areas. then the alpine or the mounteer people are going on the upper part and repelling down. part of the ship is emerged and the other part is above. they are repelling down, breaking into windows and seeing. there is a slight possibility that somebody is still alive,

but it's very, very difficult because it's cold out there. there's -- the mother of a five-year-old, diana, she kept saying, please, keep on look for my girl. i want her home. and also we spoke with a family tharpe here to look for their daughter, ericka, and they kept on saying, they know ericka got off the ship and fell overboard as the life boat was lifting over but the family is here and they want their family back, even if they are dead. >> courtney, thank you. >> okay. thank you. take care. >> okay." now check your watch. we are about 33 hours away from polls opening in south carolina. two of the candidates, former house speaker newt gingrich and senator rick santorum will be here in a few minutes. and the big news the gop field just got smaller. governor rick perry dropped out. tonight the candidates squared off before the all-important primary. and political analyst brit hume

joins us. good evennening. i suppose newt gingrich was critical of starting with the question and we are guilty of starting with the tape of the fiery exchange with john king, but did that help the speaker? >> you heard him say he was astounded they would start the debate with that question. i doubt he was astounded. he seemed very well prepared for it. he had an attack on cnn for doing and an attack on the other network, abc news, that originally broadcast it and was going to broadcast it in later interviews. i thought governor romney had a good answer, let's go on to real issues in the campaign a smart place for him to go. if gingrich is damaged, romney isn't responsible for that and if people think it was unfair, romney said he didn't think it was a real issue so romney's answer probably worked pretty

well. gingrich's answer is the key. it's certainly water over the well, but ron -- juan williams question had a strong attack on the issue raised." this was an attack on him and he seemed very, very angry on him. it's difficult for a candidate to be astrictive when angry. i think the question is this may very well go down with south carolina voters the same way it went down in the hall tonight but on the other hand you have to wonder. >> i don't know how much play he will get, he was critical of abc saying they had offered people who would refute what his ex-wife said and that was declined. he said that was unfair. >> i understand that. but my thought about that, just looking at it from the perspective of a reporter is, this is supposed to be a conversation between the two of them. i don't understand how how anybody outside the two of them would know the truth. this is is he said, she said

situation. >> hypothetically. maybe she confided in someone else, i have no idea but at least abc should have explored something that was on the eve of the debate. it would have been wise. maybe they did. to explore if there was corroborating evidence or anything inconsistent. >> i don't think the media will come out of this exchange very well. the question is how does it affect the perception of newt gingrich? he was sort of the center of the debate tonight as he was bound to be as the new frontrunner. everybody else had plenty to say. rick san went after him on some of the questions the others had. his consistency back in the days in the house as a leader. there are plenty of conservative republicans who served with him who have the same criticism. i think gingrich may have taken on some water on that issue. rick san is the person that needed to do the most damage to gingrich because he's the one fighting for the spot that gingrich now occupies as the

alternative candidate. it was interesting how he did. >> it was interesting speaker gingrich released his tax returns as the debate was happening because he knew he was going to get asked the question. and governor romney is doing a little bit of a dance. but let me say this. speaker gingrich released one year of his tax returns. you need a little bit of a pattern, a couple years to get some idea what someone's finances are. you can't have a snapshot of one year and i am going to ask him. >> that's a fair point. >> and mitt romney by giving the date he will release his tax returns may have helped himself a little bit. but that's now become an issue. my sense is the sooner does that, the better. >> he wasn't ready for it. >> i know -- >> he was ready for the question tonight? >> yes, he was and he was going to do it in april when this year's tax return was completed. >> what about last year's tax return? >> i wasn't ready for the question about whether he would release twelve years worth, that's true. >> i think when you are sort of stuck in the weeds with which year you are releasing and

everyone is hammering you for it, you have to do a better answer than that. not saying he won't release them. >> i think the better answer is i'm going to release them just as soon as i possibly can, i've ordered the accountants to step on it and we will release a whole series going back a number of years. that's the better answer. and saying in april, it will give the democrats too much ammunition, suggesting he has something to hide. and nor has i think he's made an argument on his behalf of bain capitol. but i think mitt romney needs a more detailed explanation what he did. there was a specific company mentioned tonight in a question i think by speaker gingrich and governor romney never got around to answering that. he has to do better on those issues. >> how is the republican party doing? is there blood on the floor? >> oh, yeah. >> and president obama sitting back with some sort of amusement watching them tear each other apart? >> i think so. on paper it looks like they are

all damaging each other and one of them is going to be his final opposition, his final opponent, and the more tough up that opponent is the better. it doesn't always work out that way but that's got to work out for them that way now. on balance, rick san, who had a lot to do tonight because he need today overtake somebody who has been -- gingrich, i thought he had a pretty good night. but he's spent a lot of time attacking mitt romney. there's nothing wrong attacking mitt romney, but that's not his big problem. i think he scored a few points on speaker gingrich. >> i love numbers and to the extent it's a little bit of voodoo, but one of the most recent polls said 8% are undecided and rick perry had about 5% so about 13% up for grabs between now and saturday. >> remember this, maybe a larger number than that because remember this about support for candidates in primaries. it tends to be very soft and changeable. the reason for that is that these candidates tend to agree with each other on nearly all the issues. it's not as if it is a general election where you have one candidate on one side of the

ideological fence and another on the other. support firms up and becomes hard and there's a relatively small amount in the middle. i think here it can fluctuate a lot so there may be more than 13% up for grabs. >> policy open saturday morning. brit hume, thank you. >> thank you, greta. >> and newt gingrich is here. what a day of big ups and big downs for him. now there's only 33 hours left before the policy open in south carolina. the speaker is here to go on the record but he's not the only one. senator rick san is the other one. tonight he has big news, he's declaring victory in iowa. but will it give him the boost he needs in south carolina. senator santorum is coming up. plus very disturbing news tonight out of mexico. this time it is the posh area. you may have been there or planning to go there. [ tires screeching ]

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>> former speaker of the house newt gingrich is riding a roller coaster today. he picked up endorsement from governor rick perry but he's facing harsh accusations from an ex-wife. good evening, sir. >> good to be but, greta. >> i'll tell you in all fairness

we started with the exchange you had with john king and you hardly left my skin on it when you were finished with particular the back and forth. but i'm curious, in all seriousness, is there any appropriate time in your mind that you be asked that question, you know, about your ex-wife, she's going on television, she's making some accusation, is it a fair question? and if so, when should it be asked of you? >> look, if voters and it or if you get asked it in a normal press conference you just answer it are running for answer and you owe people an answer. you don't want to get in fights regardling 20-year-old incidents. it's not true and we have people who know it is not true and we offered them to the media. i think to open a national presidential debate at that kind of personal level with such nonsense, and the audience, you could tell, the audience agreed totally it was nonsense. we have big things in this country, jobs, balancing the

budget, defendanting america, re-establishing american values, economic growth, lots of things to talk about other than that. >> all right. well, aim actually -- i'm always concerned about the fairness aspect and what caught my attention besides the fact john king, my old colleague hardly had any skin left on him, was the fact you said you offered these people to abc. i'm only going to ask you one question about it, but was abc unwilling to talk to the people to hear what they had to say? that's obviously an important issue. >> well, after a great deal of conversation, they finally freed to take my two daughters, who you know, kathy and jackie, and they are going to appear on the show tonight. i think they are doing good morning america tomorrow but it was only after a great deal of conversation. we have a number of other people, personal friends, eyewitnesses at the time, they weren't interested. you end up with one of these things you don't want to go back and relive some kind of deep, personal problems knowing that

each party have of had very different memories of 15 years ago. and a little bit out you try to smile and move on, but i thought it was a bit much to have it planted right in the middle of a presidential debate as the very first question. so i hope i reacted appropriately. i certainly reacted the way i felt and apparently the way the people of south carolina felt. >> all right. now to the election. do you have any idea, what's your estimate how many people are undecided? what's the percentage? >> i expect there's about 10 or 15% undecided and another 10 or 15% who are leaning, but could switch between now and saturday. i mean, people are paying real attention. they are looking at things. you have seen a very dramatic change in the polls this week. in four days time i think i jumped 11 points. governor romney has come down a little bit. you've seen a lot of turmoil in that sense. it really seemed to start monday

night with the debate and when governor palin said she would vote for me if she was here, and rush limbaugh felt several hours reviewing the debate. we were thrilled today to have governor perry, who is a great friend of ours, decide he would endorsement. he didn't have to do that. i think that sends another signal. the speaker ever the house has endorsed me. tomorrow i will be introduced by livingston, who is a very famous south south carolinaian, so that's a step in the right direction. i think we have a good chance to win on saturday and that, of course, would be a real earthquake in this race in a ten-day period. nobody, i think, thought coming down here from new hampshire that i was likely to win. >> all right. during the course of the tee bait i got an e-mail from karl cameron that your tax return went up on the web so immediately i nabbed it and figured out the math.

it's about 32% for the year 2010. but i wondered because one of the oldest trick in the books is if you release one, that may be enough to satisfy everyone. but in order for me to understand your finances i need several years. are you willing to release 2009 and 2008 so we can take a look at it. >> we will release 2011 and i'm not going to go beyond that at this moment. governor romney hasn't released anything yet. >> i understand that. but you got out ahead of him with the one year but in some ways when you did the one year, i immediately became curious about the two years preceding. >> i knew you would. i knew you would be and eventually we will get around to doing that. we set the standard and we've been more open than any other candidate in this race and i think we set the right standard tore openness. anyone who wants to, you go to newt.org and we filed our -- >> i got that. 2010 i got. 2010 i got.

everybody's got it. we all got that one now. >> anyone who wants to can see that and we will move on beyond that. we started in good faith and i look forward to having governor -- i would be happy if governor romney just released one year tomorrow. i don't have any evidence tonight he's going to. he's not sure he's going to ever release anything. >> what is it like backstage with you and governor romney and senator santorum? right before the debate are you kept separate or together and talk. >> no, we chat. we chat for a couple minutes. i mean, we all go to our own green rooms, we get ready and we all talk to our staffs and think is through but we get together for a few minutes. we also talk a little during the breaks. it's a little strange this week because we went from six to four in one week and all of a sudden there's a lot more intimate group than it used to be. but we also know each other better. i think this was our 16th debate. we've been together a fair amount by now. i thought a couple times tonight it was almost funny, you know, ron paul got into his medical

doctor cycle, and he should have. it was kind of funny, the personalities tharpe expressing themselves on the stage. >> it was sort of interesting because i thought governor romney came out and said let's get to the real issue after the exchange with you and john king and ron paul said he wasn't going to release his tax returns because he was embarrassed because you guys made so much more money. >> well, we have no idea, do we? >> i don't know. >> he's got to make his own decision. he's got to make his own decisions. i think it's fair. whoever the nominee is will have no choice except to release the returns so therefore it's a lot better to go ahead and release them early so the republican voters have a chance to make sure that whoever we nominate can survive against obama. obama is going to run a very ruthless, a very big campaign. and whoever is out there better have full armor. >> isn't it inevitable you have all tipped your cards a little bit because you have gone at each other so much. i mean you are giving him a lot of sort of insight.

i guess its inevitable, you can't help it but he's getting a good look at the field. >>,, he is, and that's what always happens when the challengers. with a billion dollars to spend he has enough investigators and researchers he and axelrod will figure out lots of stuff on their own. we have to have somebody whos able to win the debates and tough enough and can think the stuff through fast enough and i have encouraged people to believe that i am the one conservative who could actually debate barack obama and could win the debates decisively and we are going to have to do that to offset the billion dollars he's going to raise. >> how important is it that governor palin -- it was sort of an endorsement. she said if she were in south carolina she would vote for you s there a way to measure what that does for you? >> there's no question, we saw it help us in fundraising, we saw it help us in volunteers, and we saw people all of a sudden on the phones. she has a significant following in the republican party.

to have her say she would vote for me in south carolina and we are in south carolina and it's saturday, that was a big break and helped us a lot. that combined with what happened on the debate monday night, those two things really accelerated what we were doing this week. and governor perry sort of topped it off with his endorsement this morning, which has been enormously helpful. >> speaker gingrich, thank you very much. we will be watching saturday. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> bye-bye. >> coming up, senator rick santorum. can he cash in on his big political news when the policy open in south carolina? and plus, since january, 2007, more than 18,000 people have been killed in afghanistan. but get this? in the same time frame, right next door in mexico the drug wars claimed nearly three times as many lives, almost 50,000. so why isn't our government doing more to stop the bloodshed there? that's coming up. is it fast?

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they're going after everybody. they've been beating up pretty bad in south carolina and if they are going to beat us up on television we're going to take our opportunity on television to lay out the case for us versus the case for them. what i said, with respect to his ability to execute that plan as speaker is something that i think if you want to talk to a lot of folks that served with him, they would back me up. we are looking for a leader that has ideas and newt has been a big idea guy. i've given that hundred times over. the question is are you disciplined enough to accomplish those ideas in a way that is going to move this country

forward. after three years, conservatives decided no. they tried to move him out of the speakership. after three years. >> greta: is all that information they talked about, it happened almost 15 years ago. do you agree with me, the things that you are pointing out. am i right it happened in the mid 900's? yes. >> does that make any -- '90s. >> and his campaign will have to go after him. are you thinking of electability or is that the way he is today? >> i think you are looking at a pattern that has actually continued. the reason i talked about this, speaker gingrich came out and said i should get out of the race after i won iowa and finished ahead of him in new hampshire, he says that my abilities are not as grand.

my capability is not a vast in order to win the national race. he just lost two elections to me. those are the kinds of things you have to take into consideration when you are looking at someone day in and day out that is going to be covered and micromanaged by the media. you want someone who is solid and be disciplined in their message and be able to execute that as well as to be able to execute that when you are president of the united states. >> greta: you mentioned iowa. first of all i neglected to congratulate you, you were the win in the iowa caucus. there was a phone call between you and governor perry -- what. i'm sorry. with governor romney. it was like the gore-bush

conversations. who placed the call to him? tell me what happened. sn was eight confession call? >> yes, he left me a message. i have the message if people want to hear it. i called him back. he called me back. he called to congratulate me. he said it when he talked to me. got more votes than me. one for you and one for me. let's see if we can settle the score. he said i'll look forward to that. we talked about the rick perry situation and we moved on. then when i heard he didn't concede, i didn't know what a concession call is. why would he call me if that wasn't a concession? i won. the interesting thing not only did i win with the certified

votes but the eight precincts that weren't counted because they couldn't certify them and took the eight votes, he won by more votes than 34 votes. our heck was better than his victory. >> greta: your tax returns. you have done them on yourself. you asked them to produce it. it's pretty easy to produce them. do you intend to produce your tax returns? >> absolutely. >> for how many years? >> you know, i don't know. i guess i could produce them for a few years. i can go back. i'll see what i have on my computer. i probably do have some. i know you have to keep them for three years. so i probably have them back for three years. i don't think -- my tax isn't

going to look like mitt romney's tax return. i wish it did. the question for me is when i'm going to get home. we got the whole family down here. we're thinking of taking the whole family to florida. i don't plan on making a special trip to my house and clean out something to take my time away from campaigning. if that happenings, i'm happy to do it and produce when i get back here. >> greta: it's interesting, all of you are in the same place on healthcare, president obama's healthcare. you agree with that, you want to get rid of it. where you differ is the history. i see that you go after your opponents, they agreed with you today. you are punching at them for personal history. is that an electability issue? you don't disagree with them today about what they think, right?

>> i think they are legislate in saying, they realize how bad the bill is. every republican up there wants to repeal obamacare. but the question is winning this election on this issue which if not the central issue of the campaign. we have somebody badly compromised that have been putting the model for obamacare and another badly compromised speaker gingrich who supported the core feature of obamacare which san individual mandate. that makes it problematic so that clear contract is necessary. >> greta: in a primary, because everyone agrees ultimately on the issues but it oftentimes to come down to a guessing, who do you like. go ahead. >> i would say it's electricity bit. i don't think it's who you like. who is the best match-up. who is the person that can draw

the contrast. that can go out there and make the case, convincingly of a different vision of healthcare. >> greta: i got to go. senator santorum, good luck, sir. >> coming up news out of mexico, it's grim, in fact very grim. latest disturbing developments there next. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. and lunesta can help you get there, like it has for so many people before. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activities while asleep, without remembering it the next day, have been reported. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations or confusion. in depressed patients, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide, may occur.

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administration. we are joined by phone from mexico city. nice to talk to you, sir. tell me, what is the latest? i'm reading the violence is now spilling into areas tharpe considered safe and posh and nice and all sorts of things where they never saw it before. >> well, a few days ago it was reported and we saw on the news horrific image. it was of a burned-out s.u.v. in one of the entrances to the very up-market shopping center in mexico city. this is also a place where many multi-nationals based in mexico city have their corporate headquarters, as well as banks. they decapitated bodies of a man and a woman in their 30s. there was a note by the s.u.v., and it was signed by a new cartel called the hand with eyes. this is a fairly new cartel.

what is happening is men of the cartels are splintering and new cartels are growing up. this is a disturbing element of the drug war. this wasn't happening in tijuana, this is happening right in the heart of mexico city. >> there's also vera cruz and other cities of that not historically been the center of this violence and they are getting it now too. it certainly appears that this war is getting worse. am i correct in that? >> yes, you are correct in that. you mentioned vera cruz and another city particularly shocking is acapulco, a jewel in the crown of mexico's huge and successful tourism industry. at least three cartels are fighting tooth and nail to control acapulco, the illicit drugs going through acapulco.

this is a very famous doorist report. and also monterey. the worst so far because i say so far because god knows what's going to happen next. but what actually occurred in monterey last august is a drug cartel that is probably the most dangerous and fiercest of the cartels went to a casino and want the protection money. they refused to pay the money. a number of people came back and gassed the casino and set it off and more than 50 people were killed. that was the worst so far in the drug war. she's situations are getting worse. in the port of vera cruz the entire police force was fired. >> james, thank you. i got to go, but it's just horrifying. terrible stories. thank you, james. >> thank you.

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