he is not electable because of his experience at bayne capital, because he may be gap-prone. they say take a second look, new hampshire, and take a look at him again in south carolina. a veteran republican from south carolina told me tonight, brian, he actually sees evidence of consolidation around romney in his favor. his rivals don't have a lot of time left. >> was interesting this weekend, you have two debates, what, 10, 11 hours apart. it was clear the candidates waited for the second one, yours yesterday morning to attack romney and leave that lasting down in voters' minds. >> i think that's right. i think the reality set in. he won in iowa. he's way ahead here in new hampshire. he's ahead in south carolina. if they are successfully going to make the case whether it's huntsman, santorum or gingrich that romney shouldn't be the nominee, they need to do that soon. >> david gregory in new hampshire, thanks. >>> way want to show you what we discovered in the nbc news film archives today. to our knowledge this hasn't aired since it was recorded in 1967. what you're about to s

. >> mitt romney and bayne capitol were involved what i call vulture capitollism. >> some republicans believe the attacks on romney are dividing the party and will make it harder to defeat the president in november. at a campaign event one voter told newt gingrich to shift his focus off his business ties. >> i want to beg you to redirect and go after his obvious disingeniusness about his conservetism. >> i agree with you entirely. >> he said he intends to highlight his views on social issues. he former speaker calls romney a massachusetts moderate and says he campaigning as a projobs reagan conservative. tara mergner, wjz eyewitness news. >> they have evented planned. >> the schools have reason to be proud. they have been named the best in the country. taken as a whole maryland schools are ranked number 1 in the education by education week magazine and for the 4th year in a row they received high marks for overall student achievement in how funding is allocated. >>> the baltimore city president wants to realo indicate resources and put the baltimore grand prix in park for good. jack y

as head of bayne capital he bought companies, carved them up, and got rid of what he couldn't use. if mitt romney really believes -- >> corporations are people, my friend. >> -- then mitt romney is a serial killer. he's mit "the ripper." funny and frightening at the same time. the clip part of a 60-second commercial that will actually be aired by cbs affiliates in south carolina. the narrator, if you recognized the voice, that's john lithgow. he played a serial killer on the tv series "dexter" and did it very well. colbert is launching an exploratory committee to decide if he's going to run for president. >>> well, shares in electric carmaker tesla jumped after its founder shrugged off news two engineers left his company. scott mcgrew is following the stock for us. >> well, good morning to you. tesla held a press conference by telephone early this morning, to address the news that two of the engineers working on its new model sedan has left the company. here you see the ceo and founder when opening the nasdaq some years ago. he said engineers were not critical to the effort and the

ceo of bayne and company and founder of bayne capital, private equity firm, here's what romney did.al to buy existing companies, they attempt to make companies more profitable in short term, by cutting expenses, firing staff, busting unions, cutting salaries, health care and pensions. they reward themselves with large fees and bonuses taken from the company's cash flow and sell off the business and reap the profits typically leaving companies load down with debt. in some cases it worked out well for companies. the point is that romney wasn't a job creator so much as he was a wealth creator for his partners and investors, making millions of dollars for them at the expense of businesses often and communities around the country. josh, you wrote an entire book called "the buyout of america" and one reason i want to add you on here is we hear private he can quhe can quit and it doesn' mean anything. there are hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, they run together in my head. explain what is private equity and what role did mitt romney play in its sort of glory days. >> good morn

than $3 million in ads, savaging prom any's background, use ing clips from this scathing movie about bayne capital. >> a group of corporate raiders led by mitt romney, more ruthless than wall street. >> reporter: supporters fired back, buying nearly $1 million worth of air time. one more thing, earlier today mitt romney told voters in new hampshire, i like being able to fire people. he was speaking specifically about health insurance companies that provide bad service. his opponents jumped on that. the rick perry campaign offering supporters a downloadable ring tone of that line. tonight mitt romney's campaign says those words were taken out of context. >> you're right, peter. rightly or wrongly, that turned out to be the sound bite of the day for him. peter alexander from new hampshire tonight. >>> today's attacks on romney picked up where things left off yesterday during our nbc news "meet the press" facebook debate yesterday morning moderated by david gregory, who is also part of our team in new hampshire tonight. i guess this becomes the question. is mitt romney stoppable or unstoppabl

ted kennedy beat him in 1994 in a senate race on bayne capital and laying off employees. that's how he turned it around. you can bet your bottom dollar that the opposition research is teaming up in the obama team saying this is romney's vulnerability, but conservatives are bothered by mitt romney's style and persona. >> wtop political analyst mark plotkin, we thank you as always. you can look at the complete results tonight from www.myfoxdc.com. brian, we will take a break for a couple days, 11 days now till the south carolina primary on january 21st. >>> new tonight thieves in stafford county stealing gift cards and other items meant for people in need from local churches. police say three chumps have been hit since the start of -- three churches have been hit since the start of the new year alone. >> the pastor at the stafford church said yesterday they got a letter from the sheriff's office warning them about burglaries and then several hours later someone broke into their church. reporter: when ebenezer united methodist church pastor mark miller got to church this mor

america and went down after we spoke last week to south carolina and asked dozens of people about baynefind anybody minded. they all thought that's business. that's the way it is. sometimes the deal works, sometimes it doesn't. you have to be efficient. that's not the issue. the issue is personality not social class. is he comfortable in himself. does he get people like me and does he have the momentum? the primary electoral wants brave heart and right now he's brave heart. >> it's not like gingrich doesn't have issues the second ex-wife and he spoke about his wanting an open marriage and he denied that. why sent that more of a detriment or is it? >> i'm not sure it isn't. i'm not sure it's not going to be a voting booth issue come saturday in south carolina. newt gingrich faced with that question that you mentioned from john king last night in the opening ever the debate resorted to the most time-tested tactic and uniteses the people on the party and you attack the media, elite media and mainstream media and eastern media and that's what he did. he just shot the messenger and never rea

conservative newspaper "about the best that can be said about republican attacks on mitt romney's record on bayne capital is that president obama is going to do the same eventually so gop might voters might as well know what's coming. yet that hardly absolves newt gingrich, rick perry and others -- these candidates are desperate but do they have to sound like mike michael moore?" how would you respond to that. >> i disagree with their characterization that we're not just telling the truth. the fact is the obama administration will use this and we do need to get it out now and talk about it. it doesn't sound like michael moore. what it sounds like is the people from gaffney, south carolina or georgetown, south carolina who lost their jobs. the fact is you can create jobs without destroying a company. and that's what i'm talking about is i think americans are really tired of these wall streeters that take advantage of americans. >> an interesting ten days ahead in south carolina. governor rick perry of texas, appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you, john. so long. >>> governor perry isn't the on

i can say publicly, i hope the super pac runs an accurate movie about bayne. it will be based on establishment newspapers like "the washington post," "the wall street journal," "the new york times," bloomberg news and i hope it is totally accurate and people can watch the 27 1/2 minutes of his career and decide for themselves. >> let me ask you, senator santorum, we talked some about the role of government but the presidency is also called the bully pulpit. i wonder as president how you would use the bully pulpit to try to shape american cultures and values. >> i haven't written a lot of books. have i written one. it was in response to a book by hillary clinton called "it takes a village." i didn't agree with that. i believe it takes a family and that's what i wrote. the one thing that's undermining this country is the breakdown of the american family. it's undermining the economy. rates of poverty, moms doing heroic things but it's harder. five times higher in the single parent family. we know there are certain things that work in america. inspect brooklyn in

than any of the other exit polls, but it was this, chris, a validation, continuing on the attack of bayneery much capital company? >> i'm he not so sure about that and i think that's a risk for him. and clearly, often you can tell by how candidates respond, what their polling is show, romney went right at them on that in his speech and said, you know, people who use the weapons of the left and i think by that he meant attacks on capitalism and free enterprise, against their own party are going to see them turn by the suspects against the republicans. so, i don't think that romney feels that that is a strong point for gingrich and a weak point for him. i think that romney had plenty of weak points and an exclusive interview at the top of the hour and talk to him about it and i think his fumbling in taxes and that he had something to hide is a big problem for romney. >> dave: do you think more on substance and style? do you think it's more important that romney releases the tax returns or learns how to spin it? >> i think probably both. i mean, i think there are two points, it's a good ques

both of them hammering mitt romney yesterday for his time running the investment firm bayne capital. take a listen. >> the question isn't should he be businessman of the year? the question is, what is his character? what is his judgment? how does that relate to being president? and are there legitimate questions that can be asked that ought to be answered for somebody who wants to be president? people should know it before they vote because the presidency is such a central position in our society that you want to know what does this person think? what are they doing? and what values would they bring to the oval office? >> the reason that his work at bain is an issue is because governor romney has offered his business experience as his sole credential really for being president of the united states. so it behooves everybody to look at that experience. the truth is, he closed 1,000 or more factories, stores, and offices. he outsourced tens of thousands of jobs. the question is, is that the philosophy that you want in the white house? is that the economic vision for this country? skbrou

but what do we do j just sit back and say it's grit lock and i will shoot for 50.0001 by turning bayne capital into a four-lerd word? that's great. somebody wins by 50.00001 and there's no mandate. so we're back in the same suit. if we're back in the same soup, you know, it's -- we sometimes forget, we kind of toss this country around like a football. it's not a football. actual actually a faberge egg. you can drop t you can break it. i really don't want to be the nextration that's known for not having had the responsibility to pass on the american dream to the next generation. but that's right where we're headed. so we've got time for one more? >> thank you. there's been a lot of talk recently some of the major companies who made significant gains and increased their bottom line by outscoring a lot of their work. recently, a number of companies announced that they're bringing some of work back because when obama announced incertaintyive incentives to create more of an insourcing environment. what is your view on that? >> you know -- >> and how can it be successful? >> i have not done

with respect to bayne capital, that's been an angle of attack against governor romney, he's seen it brought up over and over by newt gingrich but in the republican party, i think voters tend to err on the side of wanting americans to be successful. at whatever level. to be able to go out and do well, to work hard and reap the benefits of that. governor romney is trying to make that case, that he was successful, he played by the rules, he's paid more than 40% of his income either to taxes or charities, so again, i think we'll have a real feel for how voters have responded to those issues after the results come in tonight. host: joanne in san diego, california. caller: sally, since you're familiar with the romney strategy than their campaigners, my big concern as a conservative is to defeat president obama and -- does anybody in the romney campaign have the ability to reach out to the tea party voters when this is over, reach out to the these young ron paul supporters, because we know that negatives, you know, obama will spend $800 million or so on negatives -- negative campaigns and that wil