eric: ready? three, two, one. >> happy new year, everyone! >> eric: i'm eric bolling, along with kimberly guilfoyle, bob beckel, andrea tantaros and greg gutfeld. 2012 is around the corner. thank you for ringing it in with us. as you can see, the five of us are ready to celebrate. bob! "the five" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> eric: exactly. who gave bob the noise-maker? presidential election will be the focus of 2012. hopefully will be able to celebrate a new president. but, as we end 2011, we can't forget about all the politics that happened in the year, especially the videos. youtube released a list of the most beautiful political videos of the year. now we're going to bring some of those to you that were our favorites. look at this one first. take a listen. >> we have run a campaign like nobody's ever seen. then america has never been seen a candidate like herman cain. >> we need you to get involved, because together we can do this. we can take this country back. ♪ ♪ ♪ america ♪ one voice ♪ united we stand ♪ i am america >> eric: wow! [ laughter ] wow! >> greg:

we hope you stay tuned to those reports. >> bill: eric eric thanks for staying with us. i'm eric bolling in for bill o'reilly. obama justice department banning the new voter i.d. law from taking effect in south carolina. the law would have required voters to present a state or federal photo i.d. at the polls but the department of justice argued it could make for too hard for minorities to vote and therefore violates the voting rights act. this decision comes just days after attorney general eric holder criticized new state voter i.d. laws and their potential effect on voting rights. joining me now from irrelevant vineer vine prosecutor what is the big deal of requiring a picture i.d. before you go into vote? with all the voter fraud and voter suppression going on, it's an i.d. >> here is the problem, eric, laws have to be in response to something. there is all of this talk about voter registration fraud point out the fraud. the bush administration, the justice department. >> eric: acorn. >> acorn. let me point out some facts. from 2002 to 2000', undertook this massive investigati

eric. and listen, it is our christmas present. >> eric: looking forward to it. thank you. >> you bet, thanks. >> ericthe one-on-one exclusive interview with presidential candidate mitt romney is on fox news sunday, only, right here, on the fox news channel, you can see it at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern time and you will not miss it, if you love politics like we do at the fox news channel. >> eric: we do, like bread be a butter. will you bake cookies, speaking of that, this holiday season? i have bad news for you. the doctors will tell us whether or not raw cookie dough, how great is that, sometimes better than baked. but they have a serious warning, it can be dangerous. really bummed out. maybe we could have a little. we'll tell you, "sunday house call," next. kes the right too, but also a caring touch. you learn to get a feel for the trouble spots. to know its wants... its needs.its dreams. ♪call 1-800-steemer. what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if youbank doesn't let you talk to a real perso24/7, you need an ally. hello ? ally bank. no nonsense. just peopl

eric? >> ericank you for your service. >> andrea: very much. >> greg: thank you for joining us, everybody. have a great christmas weekend with your families. thank the troops. thank you for that. also remember, we got a show, christmas show tomorrow. and sunday, i believe. >> bretbe sureand

eric: point out what obama did when he heard that? h >> dana: probably better than that. >> what? >> eric: better moves than that. >> kimberly: i have seen obama dance. >> bob: you want to say something about this? >> dana: move on. >> ericn, brother. >> eric: we'll talk polls. we talk about this before, eric and i had. the first debate, if it is mitt romney with the president of the united states, president obama say before we start this debate, i want to thank you, mitt, for your blueprint for my healthcare plan. >> greg: bob, we have this question we are talking about before the show. is mitt the inevitable candidate. i think he is. so i came up with the bumper stickers. >> dana: cute. >> greg: show the first one. romney, the hair-apparent. next one, please. just admit it. he's all we've really got at this point. and it's mittevitable so stop fighting it. >> kimberly: he looks triumphant, like arnold schwarzenegger. i like it. >> bob: one thing about the presidential politics, important aspect of a poll. it may not show you who is really in front. but intensity matters. in polls. take a look at the poll about the republicans and their intensity factors are. this will tell you a lot. positive intensity for romney and g

eric's mother sees the video, she's outraged and files a complaint with the police department. >> dude. >> sit down! i'm not a dude! >> if he thinks that eric did something so bad that he felt he needed to attack eric, he should have arrested eric. i'd rather he had arrested eric than attacked him. >> the police officer, a 17-year veteran of the force, is suspended.

eric: i noticed unplanned resignation at the times, too. did i not notice that? >> greg: i believe you're right. >> eric: what was that all about? >> greg: got me on the spot. >> eric, dana? >> dana: i don't know. >> eric: didn't they lose a high-profile editor? >> dana: someone who resigned to spend more time with his family? i saw something like that. >> bob: where are you going with this? >> eric: here is my point. i don't read this paper anymore. everything you need is "wall street journal." that's all you need. >> andrea: they have had fox envy for a long time. last night's debt bait was. great they had courage to ask questions that others haven't. the questions were unique. they went out of their way that they cross out fox picture and cross out the low ge of fox knew. -- logo of fox news. >> andrea: last night's debate was perfect. i thought it would be nasty. they went out of their way not to make it nasty. they didn't just sensationagize, pitting the candidate against each other. fast and furious, we finally got questions about fast and furious, and answers which is about time. >> bob: the mistake they needed to make it uglier debate. >> greg: you're right

eric: whose? >> bob: obama. >> eric: carter was at 51% -- >> bob: i worked for him. >> eric: it was 51%. >> dana: to this race. >> eric: mitt romney, marco rubio or newt gingrich-paul ryan type of ticket, either one of those would beat obama. >> eric: that is a 40-state loss. >> dana: we talked about iowa. >> eric: you would know about that. >> dana: ohhh! >> kimberly: below the belt. >> dana: hold on. i'll let you fight it out in the break. another poll, iowa is in less than a month the voting starts. on the heal of that is new hampshire voting. marist poll, romney leads in new hampshireed 9-23%. could it be, greg, because gingrich is just now becoming a front runner? >> greg: i don't know. in a way it's triumph of the american system. the more photogenic candidates were on top. now we have a situation where the pudgy guy with funny hair who happens to sound the senatorrest on top. that is reassuring to funny looking people like me. >> bob: if gingrich wins he could knock off romney in new hampshire. that race would be over. i don't think it will happen. romney will probably come in third in iowa

eric bolling in for bill o'reilly. >> eric: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight. >> i think ron paul's view, totally outside the main stream by virtually every person in america. >> eric: it's no more mr. nice newt as gingrich goes after some of his rivals. >> you want to run a negative campaign and attack people, at least be man enough to own it. >> eric: carl cameron and dick morris will give us the latest from iowa. >> people are making their decisions and they're seeing that i am the one. >> we've come up in all the llpolls. >> eric: with the titans at the top slugging it out, could that leave room for some dark horses to shake up the race? michelle bachmann and jon huntsman will be here to tell us why they think they can win. >> nobody was upset about it then. >> i was upset. >> i let you speak, you let me speak. >> it is great to be here, thanks for having me. >> hope you feel the same way in seven minutes. >> eric: a wild look back at the best factor moments of 2011. you don't want to miss this one. >> i have to go. >> i love you. >> i know, everyone does. >> eric: caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. >> eric: hi, eve

eric: that may be the way he got out of a debate nobody wanted. >> bob: nobody bought that. >> eric: a good excuse. >> kimberly: getting crowded. ron paul, donald trump. greg, do you want to run? >> eric of the debate. >> bob: donald trump, please call eric. he feels left out and he is your friend. >> dana: eric needs to buy a shortie robe to get invited. >> kimberly: did that come from dana perino? >> dana: she a bad influence. >> bob: what is a shortie robe. >> eric: tell you later. >> kimberly: you don't wear one. >> bob: why would anyone wear a robe to a hot tub. should american students say the pledge of allegiance in spanish? it's happening in one school. we tell you about it next. ♪ ♪ i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. if you have painful, swollen joints, i've been in your shoes. one day i'm on top of the world... the next i'm saying... i have this thing called psoriatic arthritis. i had some intense pain. it progressively got worse. my rheumatologist told me about enbrel. i'm surprised how quickly my symptoms have been managed. [ male announcer ] because enbrel suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including

eric: that may be the way he got out of a debate nobody wanted. >> bob: nobody bought that. >> eric: a good excuse. >> kimberly: getting crowded. ron paul, donald trump. greg, do you want to run? >> eric out of the debate. >> bob: donald trump, please call eric. he feels left out and he is your friend. >> dana: eric needs to buy a shortie robe to get invited. >> kimberly: did that come from dana perino? >> dana: she a bad influence. >> bob: what is a shortie robe. >> eric: tell you later. >> kimberly: you don't wear one. >> bob: why would anyone wear a robe to a hot tub. should american students say the pledge of allegiance in spanish? it's happening in one school. we tell you about it next. >> announcer: if you think identity theft is scary, just wait till you try to fix it. >> 58 different individuals are using... absolutely using my old social security number. >> announcer: identity theft has topped the federal government's list of consumer complaints for the last 11 years. it's a serious problem with anyone with a social security number, and it continues to get worse. fact is, on your own there are many things you can do to deter identity theft. protect your social security number

eric: a wild look back at the best factor moments of 2011. you don't want to miss this one. >> i have to go. >> i love you. >> i know, everyone does. >> eric: caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. >> eric: hi, everybody. i'm eric bolling in for bill o'reilly. thank you for watching us. six days and counting until the iowa caucuses and the presidential candidates are working feverishly to rally support and attack the rivals. the twists and turns in this race could make your head spin. it seems as though every day there is a new front runner. tonight according to a new cnn poll, it's mitt romney, surveyed of likely caucus goes show romney on top. ron paul moved to second place. rick santorum shooting up to third place with 16%. and newt gingrich fall to go fourth place with 14%. former speaker newt gingrich attacking him. >> if he were to get the republican nomination -- >> he won't. >> let's say he were, could you vote for him? >> no. i think ron paul's views are totally outside the main stream of virtually every person in america. he's not going to get the nomination. it won't happen. the people in the united states are not going to accept somebody who thinks it's irrelevant if iran ge

eric: good for him. absolutely! >> kimberly: what is wrong with that? >> greg: the shot is the thing. >> eric: there have been five or six kids who made the shot. this is the only one -- >> greg: so he could be talked about? >> ericthat way, gutfeld. >> kimberly: last name! >> eric: he gets down on bended knee and says thank you to -- >> bob: do you think he was following the tebow tradition? do you think he is a christian? >> eric: i certainly do. i do. >> kimberly: we assume he is unless we have evidence to the contrary. >> bob: don't you think of everybody getting down is a school or doing this has anything to do with the fact that tebow and christ have been brought together in a commercialized situation? and this picture i -- don't take anything away from the guy's faith. >> kimberly: it's so weird. like you are against tebow. >> eric: i'm not. >> bob: he is a good christian. but i'm against the commercialization -- >> greg: tebow was an interexcise you do, the infomercial, tebow exercise. >> kimberly: the boflex? >> greg: this is like growing up with fonzi and "happy days" and everybody walked around going "hey!" >> kimberly: you still do that. all the time. >> bob: fonzi and jesus christ. what is that one t

eric: this is a fox news alert. newt gingrich moments ago making a bold prediction telling abc news, "i'm going to be the nominee." ♪ ♪ >> eric: hello, i'm ericng with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, dana perino and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." all right, guys just a minute ago, newt gingrich tells abc news, "i'm going to be the nominee." this is a quote from him. quit's hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the outside are very high i'm going to be nominee. he goes on to say the guys who attack each other up until now, every one of them lost ground by attacking. i will focus on being substantive. i will focus on barack obama." what do you think of that? >> andrea: no one can accuse him of having low self-esteem. one thing newt gingrich cannot be accused of this. is two-fold. i think he really believes it but i think he is trying to send a message to not just the g.o.p. electorate but donors and doing it for fund raising as well. superconfident, if you keep saying it, maybe it comes true. he needs money. we're almost 30 days out. >> bob: dana and i were on a train with newt gingrich last july when h

eric: thank you for helping. good night. captioned by closed captioning services, inc >> eric: hello. i'm eric bolling, andrea tantaros, bob beckel, dana perino, greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in the big city and this is "the five." first night of hanukkah. happy hanukkah. five days from christmas, merry christmas. big show tonight. first, bill clinton sits down with bill o'reilly. the first time ever. the worlds collide. we have the tape. plus, vice president joe biden says that the taliban is not our enemy. you have to love the obama administration foreign policy. and never before seen color photos from battle of the bulge. "the five" starts right now. ♪ ♪ the top story tonight, the interview everyone has been waiting for. bill versus bill. bill clinton and bill o'reilly. two giants amongst us mere mortals. see it tonight on the factor. stop it, greg. the first topic of presidential republican race. go ahead. all right. maybe not on that one. >> bob: now you can explain the suck up. >> eric: how do i have to explain the suck up without this comment. we're going to get it. bill o'reilly interviewing

eric: where are you going? >> greg: nowhere. >> eric: very effective. >> bob: go ahead. >> eric: we talk where is if non-romney didate. this ads hits home. this is the far right. a lot of people in the office is like where has he been for two months? >> dana: i found the ad strange. i had a friend that e-mailed saying they thought it was a viral video. it's contrary to how he started to run for office. for past week i said rick perry would surprise us and come back. yesterday in the "new york times"/cbs poll we talked about 81% of the people in iowa said the most important issue is economy. 14% said the most important issue is social issues. wife are you spending money and time on this when you were the governor with a record to show you can grow jobs in a tough economy and that you can lead and manage and three-times elected governor of texas and that is your selling point. >> kimberly: i don't think it resonateed for him. at this stage in the game trying to get traction and momentum that he had months ago he is trying to appeal really. social conservatives and tea party people who elect change. >> greg: if yo

sorry. >> eric: 2010 and -- >> bob: a low turn-out. >> eric: the house and the senate will be republican. >> bob: take your word on that. >> eriche same pick so i went with something else. greg, this is the story of the year. "the five." >> dana: big story. >> eric: july 11, 2011, bob, even you can sign on to this, right? >> bob: i always sign on. >> kimberly: that is really cute. >> greg: my pick is killing bin laden. i had a big day. went to times square and yelled at the french terrorists who wouldn't stop talking because i was watching obama on tv and they didn't stop talking in french language they use. i said you're in america. get out of the bar. >> bob: why do we worry about mexicans when we allow french to come here? british built a tunnel between them and the french. the french were trying to get to 2,000 years and they -- c'mon! >> greg: i apologize. >> kimberly: pull the rip cord. >> greg: i'm now going to a tease. look at this. i'm told this is picture of a high school field hockey game. there it is. it may be responsible for the team being stripped of their state championship. what happened? we will tell you next