. >> good afternoon i'm david schuster in new york, and you're looking live at cabot pennsylvania, north of pittsburgh where rick santorum, is announcing that he's going to run again. you can see his youngest daughters in one of his son's arms, and his wife, kirren, and he's announcing that he's going to run for president of the united states. he's making the announcement, part of the bid to focus on the economy and broaden his support for 2012, when he was driven by conservatives. let's listen to rick santorum,. >> thank you so much. what an amazing feeling to be up here with the folks who made it possible for me. you know, i would start with my family. so i am. i want to thank karen my sweetheart all of my kids for all of the sacrifices they made so we could be here today. i love you more than words god bless you, thank you so much. [ cheers ] as you can see we brought a special guest up. she wanted to meet you. my sweet daughter, bella who just turned seven years old a couple of weeks ago. bella also requested that she could go play during the speech so we're going to let her go. now,

way up in cabot pennsylvania, there are 36 different states represented, about 15 people coming up ande main thing about rick santorum that people are craving is authenticity. we see so many people who shifted their positions. rick states in his position because he thinks it is great for the country and great for the american worker, and that will resonate very powerfully. john: we have to leave it there. thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us. foster friess: well, it is great to be on bloomberg. you have a great reputation helping people to know the truth, so thank you for your good work. john: once again, foster friess. when we come back, rick santorum's speech. ♪ john: rick santorum's announcement speech is underway. rick santorum: we lust over 100,000 jobs in what seemed to be overnight. that has to and did leave a mark on all of us. afterwards, big government and big business told our workers that times had changed. american workers could no longer compete with low foreign wages and that those jobs were gone forever. well, what about those politicians? for all of th

standing behind me, there are people here way up in cabot pennsylvania, a little tiny town.here are 36 different states represented, about 15 people coming up, and the main thing about rick santorum that people are craving is authenticity. we see so many people who shifted their positions. rick states in his position because he thinks it is great for the country and great for the american worker, and that will resonate very powerfully. john: we have to leave it there. thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us. foster friess: well, it is great to be on bloomberg. you have a great reputation, i respect you for everything you do to help the american people know the truth. so thank you for your good work. john: once again, foster friess. when we come back, rick santorum's speech. lives, after this. ♪ john: rick santorum's announcement speech is underway. near his childhood home in pennsylvania. let's listen. rick santorum: here in pennsylvania we lost over , 100,000 jobs in what seemed to be overnight. that has to and did leave a mark on all of us. afterwards, big go

supporters he will seek the republican nomination, during an event near his childhood home in cabot, pennsylvania. this will be santorum's second run for the white house. in 2012 he lost nomination to the former massachusetts governor mitt romney. santorum says he wants to put americans back to work. >> it is time we have a president who sees the struggle of working families in america not as an opportunity to divide us along race or class but as a chance to unite us. >> rick santorum joins a crowded republican field that includes ben carson, ted cruz karlie fiorina, mike huckabee, rand paul and marco rubio. on the democratic side, hillary clinton and bernie sanders seek the nomination. >>> do you know what it feels like to be on top of the world? you will only of to wait until this friday to find out. nearly 14 years after 9/11 observatory of one world trade center will open. work hers who helped build the nation's tallest sky scraper got an early look before it opens to the public. guests will be able to observe a panoramic view of new york city from 102 stories up. >> pretty spectacular. >> ho

here he is announcing in cabot, pennsylvania earlier today. >> i am proud to stand here among you and you, the american workers who have sacrificed so much to announce that i am running for president of the united states. >> we're back with our roundtable. roger, jackie and jonathan. let me start with roger. it used to be only one guy was the evangelical candidate, him. we have seven in the race. all bible thumping, if you will, politically, which i don't like, but there they are. it's where the party's gone. >> the strange thing is, it's all based on the assumption that christianity is so fragile that it can't stand something like same sex marriages. i mean, i think christianity is doing pretty good for something that's only 2,000 years old. when did it get to the water's edge. >> someone is talking about it being a victim of hate speech. call me old fashioned, but i'm different sex marriage, traditional marriage. nobody's going to hate the person, that's just my opinion. no one's going to go after you and kill you for that. that's your personal opinion he's throwing out this victim

in cabot, pennsylvania rick santorum became the seventh republican to officially announce his candidacy for president of the united states. >> working families don't need another president tied to big government or big money. and today is the day. today is the day we are going to begin to fight back. i am proud to stand here among you and for you, the american workers who have sacrificed so much to announce that i am running for president of the united states. >> today, hillary clinton returned to south carolina where her last candidacy for president was crushed by then senator barack obama in the south carolina president of 2008. she warned voters about the kind of republican populist rhetoric that rick santorum is now using. >> today, too many politicians who want to return to the same failed top down economics are mouthing the words middle class. but this is something you have to believe in and something you have to be ready to fight for. >> and as usual, no one sounds more ready to fight that fight than the most popular democrat who is not running for president. >> the only way we g

santorum officially entered the fray in the small town of cabot pennsylvania this afternoon. >> you can'tdly by as big government politicians make it harder for our workers, and then turn around and blame them for losing jobs overseas. working families don't need another president tied to big government or big money. and today is the day today is the day we are going to begin to fight back. >> ifill: santorum will kick off his campaign with stops in the early primary states of iowa and south carolina. >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour: soccer officials get hit with corruption charges. more rain for an already flood- ravaged texas. one woman's journey, fleeing syria for europe. improving diversity in advanced placement classes. trying to find homes for morocco's abandoned children. and, art that stretches the boundaries of imagination. >> ifill: the indictments of officials at soccer's international governing body were a stunning blow to the sport, and prosecutors promised it is just the beginning. it's the world's most popular sport, run by a powerful group that rakes in billions

former republican presidential candidate, now yet again republican presidential candidate in cabot, pennsylvania where his family there, his wife obviously making his case. gloria borger our chief political analyst is with us as well. he did very well four years ago. he won the iowa caucuses barely but he did win -- >> 34 votes. >> but he won. he carried 11 states. he didn't get the nomination, though. he's trying again. >> and don't forget he also lost the iowa primary by less than 1%. and what i'm seeing here today, wolf is a rick santorum with a bit of a different twist. we know he's a conservative evangelical candidate, appeals to that slice of the electorate. bued field this time. what we heard in rick santorum today was the candidate who's really trying to appeal to blue-collar voters as he said who want to take the power back against big government running as he says on behalf of the american worker. as a republican. he believes he's got a lot of blue-collar appeal. don't forget as he points out, he won statewide in pennsylvania. and then he also talked about his national security credent

pennsylvania. in the hustle him -- in the susquehanna river basin, cabot oil and gas from houston had drilled 40 wellsfew months. it is a small place with no major highways. you could easily forget the world and disappear completely. i was going because i had heard a lot of complaints and i heard the pennsylvania department of environmental protection had said everything was going fine. the story of the town starts with distressed calls from pat. pat: there are like 10. sometimes it boggles -- it buckles. i will not drink it. cap it came in -- cabot would not drink it. there were days when for kids were out of school sick. everybody was sick. our stomachs were acting up. we could not handle eating anything for over a month. jean next-door talk to me at church and said do you notice anything funny about your water our well has gone bad. they had bad weather and they have a newborn in the house. even though they have a $6,000 such ration system, they are buying water. josh: my next trip was to ron and jean. shortly after their well was drilled, their water started bubbling and fizzing. it turned out to

former pennsylvania senator rick santorum is going to do so in cabot, pa later today expected to announces are all over the map. on the gop side john casic and carly carly fiorina in chicago. as we mentioned, we've got hillary clinton there in south carolina. former ceo carly fiorina spoke with andrea mitchell from south carolina. during that interview she attacked the seniority in government officials. and referred to porn found on government officials. >> a seniority system which exists in the federal government which allows a man to watch pornography all day long in the federal government and earn the same pay, pension and benefits as a woman signature next to him trying to do a good job. that is not equal pay for equal work. the seniority system and the federal government that promotes that seniority system and unions as well they're not willing to talk about that. >>> meanwhile, marco rubio is raising some eyebrows with comments of his own. take a listen to the senator's recent comments about marriage equality from tuesday. >> we are at the water's edge of the argument that mainstrea