politics is so much more important than shaking bob smith's hand. >> if it's going to work, it's not going to work in florida. if you look at iowa and say this man with the funny sweaters can win iowa, it has some effect. it has none in florida. >> it looks like romney is pulling away. >> in florida and that's what's happening coming out of south carolina didn't seem like that would be the case. when you look nationally, here's the gallup national poll. that mirrors another poll today showing that newt gingrich is ahead. >> what do you think? is that attributable to gingrich is ahead overall? >> i think there is a wall that mitt romney runs into that he will not stop running into. he runs into the wall of conservatism. he cannot win them over. he has to do it in a broadway with the south with the tea party, it's very, very difficult. >> there are more conservative states early on in the primary process so that could become relevant. rick santorum has decided that he's going to take his sweater vest home for a little bit. he's going back home to do taxes. nonsense. it made me think of

the house, thank you very much, and i already know that you have been on board with former senator bob smith for years, you should already addressed this issue. >> the answer is yes. i would move immediately, if we could do it by executive order, i would do it on the day i am sworn in and changed to a pow- mia category as of that day. it would happen the first day. i would establish a task force and ask bob who has been involved to help me put together a task force to seek out these two people and try to track down their whereabouts and their circumstances. i would make that a high priority. we should have an aggressive attitude about returning our young people when they are in situations like this. in some cases it may involve negotiating. in other cases it might involve a covert operation. i do not think we should leave a single american behind. we should not forget the people who served this country and i say that as the son of a 27- year infantryman who fought. [applause] thank you. >> attacks on character are part of the political and media norm and they are affected. you have not follo

senator bob smith. >> i am the speaker of the house in new hampshire. how are you? [applause] i am pleased to be up here. my son went to brewster academy, so we come up here all the time. what a great area of the state is that you live in but i am here for an important reason today. i am here to talk to you about the candidate that i have endorsed for president of the united states. the reason i have endorsed him as for the very reason i am involved in politics. i have not been in politics that long. it is my third term in the house. i have moved to forward it into the speakership pretty quickly. as i became involved and spent my first term in the legislature, i began to realize that the republican party in new hampshire had a problem. the problem was this, that we were not presenting to the people of new hampshire a clear conservative alternative. we were not going to the people of new hampshire and unabashedly saying, we are republicans, and we are republicans because we believe in limiting government. we are republicans because we believe in liberty and personal

i'm joined by former new hampshire senator bob smith, a newt gingrich supporter.ood morning. >> good morning, chris. >> you saw it newt gingrich came in a distant fourth last night. he's vowed to stay in the race and is going to start hitting back at mitt romney in ads in the next three primary states. are you worried, is it too little, too late? >> new york not at all. this is a long-distance run. we expected that. this is the first quarter. >> you didn't expect him to come in fourth in iowa? >> well, look, no, we want to win. i mean, winning is the best, that didn't happen. but it's still early. i mean, one election, no delegates picked. you know, now we're in new hampshire. so this is a long distance run. there are 49 other primaries and caucuses. we're in it. we're in in. >> when you got on board with gingrich you were impressed about his debate performances and the surge he saw because there ways time he was at the top of the polls and now that surge belongs to rick santorum, also like you a conservative. do you think he would be a good alternative to barack

smith: that's okay, yeah. downie: only ben bradley and carl bernstein and bob woodward knew. smith: well, when did you know? downie: i didn't know for years afterwards. so, so but what i did know was.we were just going through the archive again today. smith: yeah. downie: because this was such a sensitive story, we made them type out all their notes from all their interviews from all their confidential sources. smith: right. downie: their many confidential sources, and every confidential source except deep throat had their name at the top of it, so i knew who deep throat wasn't when people would speculate. smith: oh, well that's. downie: right. smith: . but that's so interesting. that's great. downie: so when people would say. smith: it's like a game. downie: but people would say alexander haig is deep throat. no, he isn't. he was at the top of the smith: i know he's not. downie: so that was an advantage. so i figured i can guess, right? so after everything was over and nixon resigned and everything, i, i think about this, and i decide, i, i try out richardson. what was his first name? smith: elliot richard

the former reagan national security advisor and former senator bob smith will make remarks as well. house speaker is third in the latest polls, behind mitt romney and ron paul. [applause] i am really pleased to be up here. my son went to brewster academy. we would come up here all the time. a great area of the state to live in. i am here for an important reason today. to talk to you about the candidate i have endorsed for president of the united states. the reason i have endorsed him is the reason i am involved in politics. since my third term in the house, i have moved forward into the speakership quickly. one of the reasons i think i was able to is, as i became involved and spent the first term in the legislature, i began to realize that the republican party in new hampshire had a problem. it was that we were not presenting to the people of new hampshire a clear, a conservative alternative. we we are republicans because we believe in liberty and personal responsibility and a government that should be a modest government, that should be turned to as the last resort, not the first r

bob smith, a supporter of newt gingrich. big -- how important was that endorsement from john mccain today? >> well, you know, i don't know, i think we are focused on moving ahead, and i think the issue really is if i were romney my concern would be 75% of the people in iowa voted against him. the republican party wants to nominate a conservative. mitt romney is not a conservative. a long time ago a friend of mine said when people go into the voting booth they vote for themselves. if you have to ask yourselves, is a multi millionaire like me, someone who runs negative ads against another person in his own party, would i like to be the victim of that? i don't think so. i have been on the ground a couple months in new hampshire it's moving very, very well and it looks like bachmann is out and maybe perry. not sure at this point. so republican conservatives are going to look at the field. it's narrowed. they will say who do i want to be the conservative standard bearer to take on mitt romney and eventually win. martha: you have

he was joined by bud mcfarland and bob smith.his is about two hours. >> i am speaker of the house in new hampshire. how are you? i am pleased to be up here. i have a special affinity. my son went to brewster academy. we would come up here all the time. this is a great area of the state that you live in. i am here to talk to you about the candidates have endorsed -- the candidate i have endorsed. i have not been in politics that long. it is my third term in the house. one reason i was able to move forward quickly is that as i became involved in the legislature, i began to realize the republican party had a problem. we were not presenting to the people a clear alternative. we were not unabashedly saying we were republicans because we believe in limited government. we believe in the government that should be a modest government, a government that should be turned to as a last resort, not the first resort. a government that should assume that we are adults and that we can care for ourselves and we can make decisions for ourselves. wh

that he wanted to come and volunteer and spend virtually all tim just helping us and that's senator bob smithfor a minute. do we have a microphone? [applause] >> there we go. bob, take a minute and talk to the hometown folks. >> thank you very much. thank you, mr. speaker. this is his show and i just want to say thank you for coming and thank you for all coming to see speaker gingrich. you know, in 1984 when i was elected, i walked into the congress, didn't really know where the bathroom was and here's a congressman from georgia who came over and he says to me, before you really get involved with all the minutia that happens here, are you content to be in the minority here and fighting this liberal majority of democrats, or do you really want to take the bull by the horns and take control? and i said, i think the answer is obvious. he said come on. and we met, about 10 of us, in a closet called the conservative opportunities society in the capitol. and it's true. we plotted the revolution. but it's not finished. and the reason why i left the sunny area of key largo to be up here in the colds

the house, thank you very much, and i already know that you have been on board with former senator bob smithor years, you should already addressed this issue. >> the answer is yes. i would move immediately, if we could do it by executive order, i would do it on the day i am sworn in and changed to a pow- mia category as of that day. it would happen the first day. i would establish a task force and ask bob who has been involved to help me put together a task force to seek out these two people and try to track down their whereabouts and their circumstances. i would make that a high priority. we should have an aggressive attitude about returning our young people when they are in situations like this. in some cases it may involve negotiating. in other cases it might involve a covert operation. i do not think we should leave a single american behind. we should not forget the people who served this country and i say that as the son of a 27- fought.antryman who [applause] thank you. >> attacks on character are part of the political and media norm and they are affected. you have not followed this pa

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that is senator bob smith. [applause] , up for a minute. do we have a microphone? there we go. hometown folks. >> thank you very much, mr. speaker. this is his show and i want to say thank you for coming and thank you for all coming to see speaker gingrich. in 1984 when i was elected, i walked into the congress and did not know where the bathroom was. here is a congressman from georgia who came over and said before you get involved with the minutia that happens here, are you content to be in the budget -- in the minority and fighting this liberal majority of democrats or do you want to take the bull by the horns and take control? >> i think the answer is obvious. >> he said come on and about 10 of us met in a closet area. we plotted the revolution but it is not finished. the reason why i left key largo to be up here in the cold of new hampshire is because i believe in this man. we need and so desperately right now. [applause] i cannot tell you -- i cannot put into words how much i mean that. he and his wife have produced this movie about ronald reagan. if you saw that movie and

joining me now from tampa is rod smith, chairman of the florida democratic party. and in l.a., bob shrum, democratic strategist and a professor at nyu. great to have both of you with us tonight. >> glad to be here. >> thank you, rev. glad to be here. >> now, bob is romney doing the right thing here by going on the offense and being more aggressive than we've seen him so far? >> i think he's doing the only thing he thinks he can. there have been three polls in florida so far since south carolina. and two of them, gingrich is leading by eight or nine points. one he's tied. in the national gallup poll he's all but tied with romney who used to be 23 points ahead. and they run about the same kind of race, although i don't believe this against president obama. so the electability argument doesn't hold much water. romney is not getting much traction. in fact it may be hurting him with this argument that he's going to be the ceo of america. so what he's doing and what he's going to do in this debate tonight which i think is going to be watched by a lot of people is he's throwing the kitche

of the game, dan schulman doing play by play said, very good question i thought, bob, on the night you went past dean smith last couple of minutes, when it was apparent duke was going to win that night how did you feel when you realized you were going to be the winningest coach of all-time and knight said, you know, dan, i didn't really think much about being the winningest coach of all-time but being the first coach to 900, now why did he say that? because nobody c take that away from him, she chef ski can win 1,000 games and he was the first one to 900, that is bob. >> rose: i want to go back to you, this is the part about you and what you experienced, you came outf the washington post. >> when i graduated from duke i got an internship at the post. >> rose: i saw you went directly to the post and influenced by wdward. >> tremendously. >> rose: what have you developed, what has woodward and others taught you? >> well, one thing the taught you is that you don't have to be bob knight night or tiger woods .. or any other famous person you want to mention to have a great story to tell. a lot of the stories th

. >> we noted that disney's ceo bob iger was in the audience and ben smith from buzz feed so wisely acknowledgeday have some ground to make up with some entertainment companies after the sopa debacle, shall we say, that happened in the last 24 hours. but, mike, thank you for the intel, as always. and a big thank you to steve, elizabeth, joy-ann and ben, always great to have you guys on the program. that's all for now. and remember that unconventional endorsement that herman cain said on our show was coming, remember that? the day is here. the former presidential candidate and pizza mogul will be here tomorrow at noon eastern just before his highly anticipated press conference with stephen colbert. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. hello, andrea. >> hi, alex. thanks so much. >>> and coming up, the impact of rick perry's departure from the race and a look back at his wild ride in the contest. iowa republican chairman matt strawn is here, where he has just declared rick santorum the winner in iowa. that's still being disputed. and "time's" richard stengel on obama's world. all that right here on "

bob. still to come on eyewitness news tonight. how is one ravens rookie approaching his first play-off game? >> mark talks to talks to tory smith next in sports., >>> mark is in owings mills for wjz the fan sports report. and i don't know if you heard bob, but it's going to be very chilly sunday. you need to wear your double- triple layers. >> we'll be ready for it for sure. and certainly, the ravens will be as well. four straight years in the play- offs. so they are accustomed to the post season experience. but for about a dozen ravens rookies, this is all new. and today, i had a chance to chat with one of those rookies who stands to play an important role when the ravens take on houston on sunday. >> he's a receiver who has caught on quickly. a rookie from the university of maryland. tory smith's first season as a pro has been a fast track to the play-offs. >> i'm excited about it, obviously. but as far as football goes, and the same low preparation. everything is a little more heightened. but i'm approaching. obviously this is the biggest one. >> with hopes of a bigger one ahead. perhaps the super bowl. >> anquan boldin is o

smith. details coming up in a live report. >>> the friendly skies are about to get more friendly. i'm bob redell, that story coming up. >>> and the bomb squad call-out, a major intersection shut down and dozens of officers on scene all because of an empty briefcase. the news at 11:00 starts now. >>> good morning. thanks for being with us at 11:00 i'm marla tellez. >> i'm jon kelley. a horrifying attack in san francisco. a teenage girl visiting the city's dragged into the bushes and assaulted, this all happened early this morning on north point streeting blocks away from fisherman's wharf. that's where christie smith joins us live. we understand a policeman was on patrol early this morning and saw that attack happening and imagined pull the girl out of the man's hands. >> reporter: that's right. san francisco police were looking for her after she was reported missing and i just got off the phone with police and they tell me officers interrupted the assault that was going on behind these bushes that you see here. they interrupted that about 3:45 this morning. a man, adult male in custody, t

smith. i'll tell you what the strike is about coming up. >> reporter: i'm bob redell with why a deadly constructionhe south bay is garnering the attention of police. that story coming up. >> also a bay area company will get a big fine today for an accident that sent 17 people to the hospital. we'll have details. >> a live look from the east bay this morning. we'll check to see if that morning commute is picking up on this tuesday, january 31, "today in the bay." >> good tuesday morning. thanks for joining us. 6:29. seconds away from 6:30. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> and i'm marla tellez in for jon kelley. we want to check the forecast with meteorologist christina loren. >> it's a little slick out there this morning. we have mist and some drizzle. give yourself plenty of time. look where your temperatures are. upper 40s, low 50s, that means your teeth will not be chattering as you make your way to the car but you want to give yourself extra time. let's see how the roads are with mike inouye. >> pretty standard tuesday. we have seen a couple of spin-outs and that may be because of the drizzle. kee

smith. i'll tell you when they want and how long this might last. >>> why police are considering criminal charges in a fatal construction accident here in south bay. i'm bob redell, that story coming up. >>> plus, google bus backlash. why parents say the green fleet is putting kids in danger. >>> a park ranger uses a stun gun on a man walking his dogs offleash. the news at 11:00 starts now. >>> good morning to you. thanks for being with us. i'm marla tellez. jon kelley is off today. thousands of workers are off the job at hospitals statewide and now medical centers are relying on backup workers to take care of patients all day long. nbc bay area's christie smith is live at kaiser permanente medical center in oakland where workers are marching picket lines. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. four hours into this one-day strike and the workers i'm speaking with this morning think it's going pretty well. there's one union involved in a contract dispute, but they have support from two other unions. they are out here today as well, including the california nurses association, which has about 17,000 members. the kaiser worker says this one-day walk

bob you are lick has a part time job and title. a columnist, hired to write a column for the sun replacing the one written by ron smith and debuting this sunday. >>> mitt romney is reversing course saying he will now release returns tomorrow. the documents should lay out how romney, a multimillionaire makes money and reveal his tax rate which is relatively low 15% because of investment income. >>> a week of vigils and memorials planned for this week on the campus of penn state university where joe paterno died at the age of 85. adam may examines a legacy. >> reporter: the winningiest division football coach of all time. fans lit flowers, lit candles and said good-bye to who they called joe pa. joe died sunday 65 days after diagnosed with lung cancer. >> people will remember what a great man he was. how much he did for the university. not just for the football program but the entire university. >> reporter: donated $4 million to penn state during his record breaking career. >> people asked me why i stayed here so long, look around, look around, i stay here because i love you all. >> reporter: then in the middleel of his 46th season

smith in the itannic, you go down with the ship. he violated every maritime tradition and insulted all of us who sale the seven seas and slandered his nation. >> bobbut i understand that. the captain's excuse for why he left the ship is he tripped and fell in a lifeboat. i could have thought 1,000 more than that. this is a tragedy. people are dead. this has happened before. >> eric: geraldo is great, fantastic. that interview on "fox and friends" he said i have been in the shipping lane. it saw that rock. is it a tragedy. people are dead. they're still finding bodies allegedly. this captain, he single handedly changing the cruise -- don't call me cold for this. but cruise industries the stocks dropped 20%. starting to make their way back. what a horrible turn of events from coming back after long time on the side. >> eric: you are a resident expert on this subject. what do you think? he is under arrest, right? >> dana: under house arrest and deciding what they are going to do with him. the italians will probably prosecute this to the fullest extent of the law. the problem is the law is kind of old. this has not happened. this is not usual. this is

former governor bob you are lick has a new title, columnist, hired to write a weekly column, replacing the late ron smithext sunday. stay with maryland's news station, up next, preview of the super bowl match up. plus, travel editor, peter greenburg assesses cruise ship safety after the costa concordia disaster. concordia disaster. a foggy dadrinkin'? i'm drinkin' dunkin'. coffee -- black, straight up. extra cream, three sugars. iced coffee french vanilla. for me. iced coffee with a turbo shot. i'm drinkin' dunkin'. i'm drinkin' dunkin'. i'm drinkin' dunkin'. drinkin' dunkin'. america runs on dunkin' coffee. get america's favorite coffee for america's favorite single-cup brewer. try all five delicious varieties, only at dunkin' donuts restaurants. america runs on dunkin'. >>> fourth quarter. 32 yards. the kick -- it's no good. it's no good. >>> the kick is good. and the giants are going back to the super bowl. >> one kick was good and one was bad. that's why the patriots and the giants will have a super bowl rematch next month. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> we had two nail biters on sunday. new

smith. i'll tell what you you need to know if you are going to be crossing a bridge this morning. >> severe storms sweep across the midwest overnight. we'll show you the damage. >> reporter: i'm bob redell, what fans are saying this morning to kyle williams mistakes last night. that story coming up. >> a live look at highway 880 running through oakland. traffic is starting to fill up a little bit on this monday, january 23rd, "today in the bay." >>> good monday morning to you. thanks for joining us. 6:00 right now. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> good morning everyone. i'm jon kelley. we check in with meteorologist christina loren to find out when this rain is going to symptom. >> we're going to get outdoors today without having to dodge those showers by about 11:00 a.m. i'm going to give it till 12 to be on the safe side. your real time doppler radar shows you pretty good batch of rain moving through the north bay t east bay as well. san francisco, you can see that cell about 15 minutes out. watch for slick conditions on the way to work. thatrings us to our own christie smith live on the bay bridge. wind advisory was set to expire at 6:00 a.m. is it still gusty? >> reporter: good mo

smith: by the '90s, madoff had already formed alliances with financiers like ezra merkin, president of new york's prestigious fifth avenue synagogue; stanley chais of beverly hills, who worked the hollywood crowd; and bob jaffe of boston and palm beach. >> people who had access to madoff, whether they were advisors or accountants or attorneys or... or fund-to-funds built sort of a cottage industry of just feeding money to bernie and it sort of mushroomed. >> smith: madoff was also being courted by private bankers, mostly from greenwich, connecticut, the capital of the hedge fund business. one of the first to knock on his door was jeffrey tucker, a former sec lawyer with a love for horse racing. he joined private banker walter noel to found fairfield greenwich group. >> fairfield greenwich started as a small-scale investment advisory business led by a gentleman, walter noel, who had a pretty good reputation on wall street. not just in us money circles, but in foreign money circles, as well. he attracted a partner who also had a... a good track record, jeffrey tucker. they joined forces and got fairfield greenwich up and going. >> smith: walter noel's assistant remembers how, at first, they struggled unt

smith. [laughter] >> and reverend sightfield. [laughter] >> i'm bill sprigs i'm the assistant professor of labor. >> i'm chair of the white house council on environmental quality. >> i'm bobtitute fellow at the urban institute and i'm professor of economics at american university in washington. [applause] >> okay. let's give them a hand. [applause] >> okay. certainly the economy is on everyone's minds. and i know we have legislators out here but we also have a c-span audience, and so i think people who normally aren't maybe engulfed in the economy are kind of paying attention right now so i'd like us to have as simple and as easy to understand a conversation as possible which maybe is not so much economy and ease or whatever. so if we can just do that, i'd appreciate it. well, we have a president, you know, facing re-election a 8% unemployment and not since fdr that a president has been re-elected with an unemployment rate over 7%. so we have sort of a difficult situation and then we have a democratic president who is looking at, you know, having to make history in order to be re-elected. we have, i think, this country is in a -- where i hear people -- even students, grad