newt gingrich is in a lower rank of want to bes. >> we'll get to that in a minute. >> what gingrich istelling the audience, what the media are playing this. politicians realize how important the media are to their story . gingrich is also attacking and saying don't let the media fool you. pay attention to what they are saying it is an interesting acknowledgment to shape politics. >>> and let me ask you the question. he asked governor perry in texas about executing and do you sleep at night. >> if you turn that question on its head. if a conservative columnist ask a pro abortion politician if he could sleep at night and authorize and support abortion. >> that would never be asked. most questions came from the left and like gingrich did and rom no does, you can turn those kinds of questions around to your advantage. the weirdest moment in the debate was hauling out the telemundo guy. are we going to get the black ghy for the civil liberty . religious guy for the. >> over all theme seeps to be that it is a two horse race governor peryegovernor romny. is that the theme. did you see the med

the most entertaining moment of the sparring was provided by newt gingrich. >> speaker gingrich, sounds like we've got a philosophical disagreement. in massachusetts, a mandate, almost no one, uninsured. in texas, a quarter uninsured. who has the better end of this argument? >> i'm frankly not interested in your effort to get republicans fighting each other. >> whoa, speaker rightly pointing out the moderator, brian williams and john harris, are very interested in having the republicans go after each other. makes for good tv and conservatives believe shows a liberal bias. on that subject, a twilight zone alert. the debate was carried on nbnbc. almost immediately after it ended, pundits began calling all the republican candidates morons. i'm sitting there watching this and i'm thinking, why did the gop and the reagan library agree to that environment? it was no interest in providing any balanced analysis. it was yeah, we covered the republicans, but they're all idiots. now for president obama's latest attempt to save the american economy. a called the american jobs act and has good point

and think about gingrich's history for a second. when he came into congress in the '70s, republicans were such a minority, sometimes the democrats didn't even bother to tell them what was going on, and republican leadership just kind of didn't care about it and it was gingrich who had the vision to be able to say look, we can take control of congress, and we know what happened in 1994. we had the conservative revolution, gingrich became speaker. we need that kind of leadership now to replace obama. one of the things i've always said is it's not enough to replace bad leadership. we've got to replace bad leadership with good leadership and part of that compon -- component of good leadership is leadership for the future. there are great guys out there running. bill: i apologize for the interruption but in august we found gingrich way down in the polls, he was eighth among republicans with only 3 percent of the vote. that is a tall mountain to climb. why not michele bachmann? she's head of the first tea party caucus in congress. what's

i'm saying. >> bret: speaker gingrich?t those in the audience who want this to be a hollywood game. i don't have any idea who i would pick as vice presidential nominee. it would have to be a person capable of being president of the united states. that would be the first criteria. these are all good friends of mine. i couldn't imagine hurting any of their feelings by choosing one tonight. >> bret: congressman paul, hurt away. >> i don't plan to make a choice at the moment, because i am on national polls. it seems like i'm in third place now. i think it would be inappropriate. as soon as i'm one of the two top tier then i would start thinking along that line. right now i'm going to defer and work hard and make sure i stay on the top tieer and eventually be one of the top two. >> bret: governor perry? >> staying with the game show idea here, i don't know how you would do this. but if you could take herman cain and mate him up with newt gingrich, i think you would have a couple of really interesting guys to work with. [ laughi

and gingrich said i'm not picking -- picking anybody!e on two points here. i think people did want to be picked in the way that everybody wants to be the most popular kid in the class. i think people wanted the recognition from their peers, and especially romney and perry. and you'll notice, nobody picked those two, the frontrunners, because no one wanted to bolster their chances and acknowledge them as the leaders of the field. martha: brad o'clock before we go, who was the big winner? >> i think it was romney. romney certainly looked presidential, he acted presidential and perry went in there with a chip on his shoulder as the frontrunner and he went on the attack, not waiting for the attack, which is typical of what happens when you're the frontrunner. martha: interesting. juan, what about you, what did you think? >> it came out a draw to me because the two frontrunners i think are unscathed, still there, although among people who are strong conservatives and opponents of immigration, perry's answers on immigration i think were very t

>> perry to gingrich. >> why? >> we've been doing these for a while. mitt romney, what is so strong? >> besides decisions perry a waffler. he looked presidential. >> i thought he spoke with great specificity. >> he gave specific answer autos very edgey in the way he answered questions. >> he was elegant. >> i have not heard that word describing mitt romney before. >> i thought perry was too defensive, spending too much time fighting with romney instead of talking about his policy. >> there are three segments we're going to show tonight. first was the most-negative reaction i've seen any republican candidate among republican primary voters. this is rick perry talking about immigration. let's take a look. >> most folks... i guess we don't have that clip. you remember we talked about immigration and said that those who don't support funding people with illegal immigration, -- funding education have no heart. what was so wrong with that? >> absolutely disgusting thing to say when you holdup free health care or free education to people who want to get their

. >> sean: presidential candidate newt gingrich is here with the highlights. >> pollster frank luntz gets reaction to the debate from a special focus group of gop voters. >> the government has to get out of our lives. >> sean: all eyes on the new york special election tonight with republicans poised to pull off a major upset. is this a referendum on the obama white house dam dana perino and charles gasparino weigh in. >> more bad news. u.s. poverty rate reaching highest level in years. ohio governor kasich explains what this means for the anointed one. we are on the road to 2012. hannity starts right here, right now. breaking news. the polls have closed. we are waiting the results of a special election in new york's 9th congressional district. this is the race to fill the seat vacated by anthony weiner. republicans are hoping to steal the seat in the liberal stronghold of new york city. we'll bring you the results as soon as we have it. the republican presidential contenrs were back on the campaign trail today after a fiery debate last night in florida. the event featured some conten

speaker gingrich. you criticized extending unemployment benefits saying you were opposed to giving people monitor doing nothing. benefits have been extended to 99 wieblgs and set to expire soon. if you were president today would you extend unemployment benefits and how do you just fie that to the millions of unemployed americans who are looking in ernest and whose families are depending on those checks? >> what i said is that i think unemployment compensation should be tied directly to a training program and if you have to -- if you don't have a job and you need help, then in order for us to give you the help you should sign up for a business-led training program to that that 99 weeks become abouts an investment in human capital giving us the best trained workforce in the world so you can get a job. i believe it is fundamentally wrong to give people money for 99 weeks for doing nothing. that is why we had welfare reform. the proposed extension is to allow all 50 states to experiment at the state level

we're going to talk about that with former house speaker newt gingrich. he has something he'd like to share about this whole thing, he's here live in minutes. bill: a man dig necessary his garden and comes up with a whole lot of lettuce. his surprise find. >> i went over, picked it up, took it to the picnic table, opened it up, said well, it's a bunch of money, looked at my dad and said now we're really in trouble! bill: got some breaking news on a crime story, in san diego, california autopsy results will be given out tomorrow on the mysterious death of rebecca daho, found dead headaching naked and bound from an outdoor balkan --o balcony at her boyfriend's mansion in san diego, at the same time her boyfriend was apparently at the hospital taking care of his dying son. they both died that week, some reports suggest that she committed suicide, but nothing confirmed yet. the final results tomorrow out of san diego. martha: all right, let's get to this now, where court papers are shedding new light on the once-secret rendition flights following the 9/11 att

newt gingrich would be the guy i would pick. >> i'm going to disappoint those in the audience that want this to be a hollywood game. i don't have any idea who i would pick as a vice president nominee. they would have to be capable of president of united states. these are good friends of mine. i couldn't imagine any feelings by choose one tonight. >> congressman paul? >> i don't plan to make a choice at the moment because i am on national polls. it seems like i'm in third place now. it would be inappropriate. as soon as i'm one of the two top tiers, i will start thinking along the lines. i'm going to defer and work very hard and make sure that i stay in the top tier and then eventually be one of the two top contenders. >> governor perry how do you answer the question? >> staying with the game show idea here, i don't know how you would do this. you could take herman cain and made him up with newt gingrich, i think you would have couple really interesting.... [ laughter ] >> brett: governor romney? >> there are a couple images i'm going to have a hard time getting out of my mind. that is o

former speaker of the house newt gingrich. businessman herman cain. former senator rick santorum. former utah governor jon huntsman. and former new mexico governor gary johnson. joining me at the big desk my fox news colleagues, megyn kelly and chris wallace. with our partner google we have new features. throughout the night we'll be playing questions from viewers who posted their video and text questions on youtube. we will be polling viewers on key issues while the debate is underway. we'll have updates from shannon bream. our rules are similar to previous fox debates, one minute for answers, 30 seconds for follow-ups. after an outpour of e-mails from dog owners who said the last bell sounded like their doorbell, we have a new sound for the candidates if they run too long. thank you to google for that sound. we hope, after a string of debates we don't have to use that too much. we received thousands and thousands of questions from around the world on different topics. each one of these pins on the map is another question from health care, immigration, foreign policy and social i

gingrich was one of the architects of the house gop's contract with america. this event was held at a financial services company in des moines. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, also, to the principal group. i'm delighted to be here, and to have a chance to share with you what i think is a very important concept. and i am particularly delighted that billie and bob ray would come honor us with their being here, because i think this is to some extent in the tradition in which governor ray served this state. it's an effort to actually talk about practical realities. what? these were not on? i wondered why i wasn't getting feedback. now is that better? the other way? are they on? >> yes. >> ok, so, all right. i apologize. i just started to say this is, i hope, in the tradition governor ray established when he was governor, because it's an effort to lay out for people what we need to do in a way that we can all understand as citizens, and we can put it together. i am particularly glad that greg was willing to come and introduce me. i am delighted that he is suppo

when speaker gingrich was asked if he believes protesters president obama is a socialist he responded sure, of course, he is. do you, governor romney, believe that president obama is a socialist? >> let me tell you the title that i want to hear said about president obama and that is former president barack obama. let me tell you what president obama is, is a big spending liberal. and he takes his political inspiration from europe and from the socialist democrats in europe. guess what? europe isn't working in europe. it is not going work here. i believe in america. i believe in the opportunity and in the freedom that is american opportunity and freedom. i believe in free enterprise and capitalism. i believe government is too big. it has gone from 27% of our economy in the years of jfk to 37% of our economy. we have to rein in the scale of government or we will not continue to be a free economic. economy. i spent my life in the private sector. not in government. i only spent four years as a governor. i didn't inhale. i'm a business guy. i'm here to get america working again because i be

gingrich? caller: i like newt gingrich. he has a lot of experience and the only republican the field who can claim under his belt that he has balanced a budget, which i think in the last 50 years or longer. he worked with the democrats, yet he still at the same time got conservative policies passed. i think a lot of republicans don't like to admit that. clinton was not as bad as some of these more leftist democrats that we are seeing today. host: there is a story in "the new york times" about those pushing gov. chris christie to run. you can see him tonight at 9:00 on c-span. it says -- manchester, new hampshire. hello to bob. go ahead. caller: how are you? calling from manchester. i don't know if there is a particular title -- newt gingrich, i think i would go for. there is similar to what the other gentleman had said. i wish that there was a presidential candidate out there that i could vote on that would bring all of the troops home, shot our borders down, get the economy rolling back. host: here is a story in "the washi

cain at 17%, newt gingrich in fourth place 11%.uc5.t#ñ=qdo4sbsegt3&6+b' úah!pju> doing great. had a great day here in iowa and des moines and outlined the 21st century contract with america, which can be found at newt.org. it's a sophisticated effort that lays out how to get america back on the people that have seen it today, both atÑs;y$hÑhcp1 fw earlier today really felt very strongly that this was the right size, this was the right scalew÷ñ?ñ?ñ? to begin to put america back on the right track. >> sean: repeal obama care, replace it? optional flat tax and other reforms? energy production in america. medicare, social security. balanced budget. illegalg-neÑd2`l úb#'r6 w6á hfg,5hj#x'jívmqb9 security. diseases of the brain. a little off track. at least unconventional. judges. and the last one is states' powers. go in order and give a quick summary were you stand on these. >> sure. first of all, you'll never get the ec

former speaker of the house newt gingrich. businessman herman cain. former senator rick santorum. former utah governor jon huntsman. and former new mexico governor gary johnson. joining me at the big desk my fox news colleagues, megyn kelly and chris wallace. with our gotner google we have new features.s whostedheir video and text questions on youtub will be polling viewers on key issues while the debate is underway. we'll have updates from shannon bream. our rules are similar to previous fox debates, one minute for answers, 30 seconds for follow-ups. after an outpour of e-mails from dog owners who said the last bell sounded like their doorbell, we have a new sound for the candidates if they run too long. thank you to google for that sound. we hope, after a string of debates we don't have to use that too much. we received thousands and thousands of questions from around the world on different topics. each one of these pins on the map is another question from health care, immigration, foreign policy and social issues. the highest percentage of questions dealt with jobs, the economy

newt gingrich, the big thinker. >> wow. he's a big thinker. >> but are they serious about that? >> yes. >> are they going to put labels on the president and the vice president when they attend the debate? >> work to decide that this guy is the thinker and i won't say it's mocking because the tea party was involved with the preparation of this debate. was someone seen as putting it on? somebody when they do that, that was when rick santorum and made a mistake on the hpv. and it was a strong push back and forth between governor perry and governor romney on social security. a lot of people have concerns about social security and the truth is when you look at some of the comments that governor romney made and he differentiated what it was in terms of what the criminal act was, congress taking the money away. in some sense, their positions have been in writing rather close. maybe governor perry hasn't been as articulate as he wanted to be in articulating them but somewhat close. so it goes forward. fox is preparing a big, big de

. >> newt gingrich would be the guy i would pick. >> i don't know how you would do this. mate him up with newt gingrich, i think you would have a couple of really interesting -- >> there are a couple of images i'm going to have a hard time getting out of my mind. >> all right. rick perry wants to mate newt gingrich and herman cain. >> yeah. >> i think it's because of their georgia roots. that's clearly what he's saying. >> funny, three people picked gingrich, three people picked herman cane cain and rick perry picked them both. >> who are the two candidates everybody fears the least on the stage. >> right. >> hate to say that, in a weird way, that's not good for newt and herman cain that everybody is picking them. >> it's true. made for an open moment. this image of them mating up. >> don't ask, don't tell issue is -- >> well, no. funny, let's transition. there was a question where the audience reaction, again, like we've had in previous debate. the audience reaction was somewhat more surprising than anything asked or said. here's the question from a gay soldier. >> -- de

i thought bachmann had great hair and gingrich was gingrich-y. >> but that was manufactured or planned, going after the media, right? >> uh-huh. >> greg: but it's his new role. he's like the professor, protecting his students. >> gingrich has a hundred ideas a minute. he doesn't know which ones are good. keep him in a basement. let him talk, sort out the things and discard the rest and you incorporate it into your agend a. he's a great guy to be around. >> you know who valid a problem with that? locking him in the basement? >> greg: they would go down. was the telemundo thing as awful as it seemd? it seemed like they said, we have telemundo, they get the immigration question. >> they had a full courted of mariachis. >> the stage hand asked for his papers. >> i read that, greg. we would never do that. >> rick perideported him. >> are they going to build a wall -- >> greg: so strange. weird. okay. coming up, where can you buy a top hat for your top hat? we discuss the new books, the things i buy because i sleep in a bed made of money. but first, controversy on toddlers and tiaras, we pic

but if you could take herman cain and made him up with newt gingrich, i think you would have a couple of really interesting things to work with. >> how would herman cain and newt gingrich like to mate up like that? interesting to say the least. who the other candidates picked straight ahead. >> and it's the worst two days plunge in years. i'm talking about the dow. the dow dove enough to wipe out all of the gains your 401k made in the last year. so what's next? "fox & friends" starts right now. >> live from new york city, studio e, it's 90 seconds off the top of the hour. >> i'm sorry. we have a bit of a radio announcement going on at the same time. >> what's going on? what is it? >> i think it's 10-10 wins doing an update. traffic is bad in midtown manhattan. >> one of the production guys was crawling behind the couch before we went on. i wasn't sure why he was underneath the couch. >> he dropped his whiskey. that's the worst. >> it's flask friday. anyway, listen, we have got -- if you missed the big debate last night, we have all the highlights and tell you who the blogs are saying

coming up, how newt gingrich is trying to prove he's still in the race. >>> but up next, a man accused of impersonating an nfl quarterback makes a court appearance. a live report from northwest washington when 9news now returns. >>> new at 5:30, a date in court for the man police say is pretending to be an nfl start. we've been waiting for steven pittman to go before the judge. >> scott broom is live outside the courthouse. has he made the appearance, scott? >> reporter: it just happened about 20 minutes ago. it's a little complicated because now there are a lot of people who want a piece of this guy, stephan pittman. a judge decided this alleged imposter is going to stay locked up here in washington at least until next wednesday. that gives now the state of texas, yes, texas, a chance to come get him. today the lone star state issued a probation violation warrant for stephan pittman because this man who is accused of pretending to be quarterback vince young here in the d.c. area is a sex offender from denton county, texas, still serving his probation. he could now face two to 20 years

. >> let me bring speaker gingrich into this conversation. jobs, jobs, jobs. all of us that covered you when you were speaker and worked together with president clinton at the time, you compromised. he compromised. you got things done. there was a budge surplus for as far as the high can see. if you were president, you would work with the democrats assuming they were the majority in the house or the senate? would you compromise with them on some of these gut issues? >> when i was a very young congressman, ronald reagan taught me a great lesson. if you have democrats in charge, go to the american people on principle and have the american people educate their congressmen. he used to say, i try to turn up the light for the people so they will turn up the heat on congress. when we passed welfare reform, half the people who -- half the democrats voted yes because they couldn't go home having voted no. and on a principle basis, i'd be glad to work with democrats in any office. would i do it on principle, not on compromising principle. >> governor perry, as you well

of our interviews with republican presidential candidates.an tonight, former house speaker newt gingrich. >> it would be nice to have somebody who actually knows what they're doing and could actually get it done in washington, and i think of the candidates running, i'm the only one with a trackac record of actually achieving things at a national level. >> brown: from our "economist film project" series, we excerp a documentary about the united nation's push to stem the flow of opium out of afghanistan. >> we focus on high-all targets. we focus on the biggest, the baddest, the largest drug trafficking organizations in afghanistan and the region. >> woodruff: and we close withdr sports and the dramatic end to baseball's regular season, as the boston red sox and the atlanta braves fail to make theu playoffs.la >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by:ou >> oil companies make huge profits. >> last year, chevron made a lot of money. >> where does it go? >> every penny and more went into bringing energy to the world. >> the eco

santorum, paul, and gingrich at 10 and 11. reaction?e one of the great waste of time and resources of a campaign. i did it before. perry did not have a good debate, no question about it. he touched on key issue for republicans. had he apologized right away on the heart thing, i think he would have been all right. the idea that he's been written off so fast. >> i'm not writing him off. >> you're not. a lost the media -- the subtext is the guy's gone. the attention will turn to romney and he'll have a tough time. >> sean: i don't think they thought through the issue, nor did they understand how the issue resonates with conservatives on illegal immigrants. >> this is a game the media plays. who's up this week? we'll go after him and try to attack him and bring him down so we can bring somebody else and get the interest going. there hasn't been a single vote cast. the iowa caucuses aren't until february or january. this is a media game. >> we're looking at the candidates. >> while republicans agree any of these candidates are better than th

(cheers and applause) the former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. (cheers and applause) (laughter) >> we... we just met them. we... (laughter). remember you had the whole graphic with the "the firebrand! the businessman! the newcomer!" and now it's a... all right. now can we have a debate? >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise now and join recording artist diana nagy as she leads us in the national anthem. >> jon: oh, for (bleep) sake! (cheers and applause) come on! we get it. everyone there loves america. (laughter) for god's sake, the debate set already looks like the inside of betsy ross eva join that. (laughter) betsy ross' vagina. (laughter) from what i've been told. come on, can't a brother get a social security argument or is there any other pageantry you'd like to regale us with? >> ladies and gentlemen, the eight republican presidential candidates. (applause) (laughter). >> jon: wow. now that... wow. blue angels interior fly by. (laughter) kudos. (laughter) did not see that coming. all right, anyway, let's have the national anthem. ♪ o, say

newt gingrich would be the guy i would pick. >> i'm going to disappoint those in the audience that wanthis to be a hollywood game. i don't have any idea who i would pick as a vice president nominee. they would have to be capable of president of united states. these are good friends of mine. i couldn't imagine any feelings by choose one tonight. >> congressman paul? >> i don't plan to make a choice at the moment because i am on national polls. it seems like i'm in third place now. it would be inappropriate. as soon as i'm one of the two top tiers, i will start thinking along the lines. i'm going to defer and work very hard and make sure that i stay in the top tier and then eventually be one of the two top contenders. >> governor perry how do you answer the question? >> staying with the game show idea here, i don't know how you would do this. you could take herman cain and made him up with newt gingrich, i think you would have couple really interesting.... [ laughter ] >> brett: governor romney? >> there are a couple images i'm going to have a hard time getting out of my mind. that is one

newt gingrich is here, michelle bachmann, mr. herman cain and rick santorum. first, former governor sarah palin goes on the record from wasilla, alaska. good evening governor. >> hi how are you? >> greta: very well. what did you think of the tea party debate cnn tea party debate? >> i was very pleased with this debate. very excited about the validation of the tea party movement. the hook-up with a major news network, cnn and more power to cnn for allowing that validation of this grassroots tea party movement participants from all over the nation being able as a voice of we the people asking questions of these potential presidents. very, very wonderful debate in terms of the whole forum and the venue that was chosen. the winner in this really i believe was the tea party movement and validation of what it is that we've been talking about for two years now. where we've been saying obama's big centralized government, his agenda that replicates some of the socialized government policies of some european countries, doesn't work. you saw a group tonight there on stag

at least two of them chose newt gingrich. huntsman, it, threw his political career away choosing herman cain right out there on the stage. >> on the basis of yellow ties. >> there's a presidential moment for you. >> a smart move to choose a tie color. >> i thought that question was so interesting. it was a good question, actually, i thought. it is the kind of question an expert, someone who is practiced. so there is this real division between the people that knew enough to swat it away. you don't have to answer the question. it is the first thing you've learned and the thing you have to get drilled into your head. being a politician is totally unnatural. human conversation is interaction and answering questions. and you have to unlearn that impulse. the people unlearn that impulse goes furthest as presidential candidates. you really saw in that question, who is ready and who is not? >> can i also second something that chris said. i thought watching rick perry try to get out of his mouth the attack line, the attack lines on mi

speaker gingrich coming in. david gergen, your point, about pulling it to the right, the iowa caucus five months away, the new hampshire primary five months away, the south carolina primary which the last five in contested republican races, the last five south carolina winners have gone on to the be the republican nominee. the p of the united states is vulnerable, clearly. because the economy. primaries are about ideology. will republicans pick the candidate who is to the right or will they pick the candidate that they think has the best chance to beat barack obama? >> they're going to try to find both. that's always the magic formula. i thinker i can is absolutely right, he wants to hold the whole party accountable. not just one candidate. he wants to bring the whole party around, the tea party positions. i think the danger here for the -- for a republican is you want to appeal to the tea party, but you don't want to say something that's so incendiary that you drive away or alienate independents. >> they just e

. >> newt gingrich, do you really want to be president? >> no. >> and a florida straw poll says governor rick perry may be in trouble. we will have the latest. >> rick perry really did throw up all over himself in the debate. >> for life, for liberty, for the american family, this is what we're going to fight for. >> bill: michelle bachmann will be here. can she make a come back or is it all over? caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. abraham lincoln aned next president of the united states. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. most americans well understand the u.s.a. is not in good shape right now. the economy very shaky. millions of americans can't find jobs and the national debt puts every single one of news jeopardy. the worst part? few solutions are in motion. so what the country needs right now is dramatic leadership. enter, abraham lincoln. as you may know, my new book

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the good thing about that -- have you gingrich who is an april rigs from the 90s. you have a cowboy who wandered in. from this, vote eshes are rational and you will get a highly electable person and it is mitt romney. he will be great are to the republican party and give barack obama a run for his money. >> a lot of the lefty websites were saying that the crowd was booing the gay soldier. >> it was a couple jerks, but no one condemned him. he said he didn't heard, he heard that. he is a young core board set up of a human being slash politician. but he heard that. his ears work. the problem i saw with perry is they don't do their homework. when they talk about obamacare, there was a debate sometime about three years ago where they actually have a sound bite of romney saying, i think what i did in massachusetts would be great for the whole country. the whole thing was very con vow lewded. i felt bad for the poor, gay soldier and felt bad for rick san for rum for hating the soldier. >> that's not fair. i could not disagree more with the don'tt ask, don't tell." >> fir

gingrich is up, bachmann is way down to 3% from 8% a month ago. even though perry lost a lot of support, he's doing better against president obama. but that's 2% better than he was doing back in july. romney makes the closer race with president obama steadily creeping up just 3 points back 45-42. bill: does that mean voters think president obama will win reelection? >> reporter: only 40% say he will win reelection. 5% say no. democratic primary voters are similarly split about whether they want obama on the ballot in the first place. 27% would prefer his secretary of state hillary clinton. that's just the democrats. republican voters aren't the only ones trying to decide who they want to mom made in 2012. peter, thank you. a lot to talk about in those numbers. martha: newt gingrich is set to unveil his contract with america. the speaker of the house helped unveil the original contract. >> apply all laws that apply to the rest of the country to apply equally to the congress. second, select a major independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensiv

newt gingrich absolutely did. "u.s. news & world report" said look for gingrich to step up. i thought it was wonderful. >> showed up sick, there they were under the former air force one there at the ronald reagan library last night, 105 minute debate and because he was in the cross hairs, mr. perry, the interesting thing about him, all eyes were on him and he did not back down, whatever the topic was. here's a little montage. >> for the president of the united states to go to el paso, texas and say that the border is safer than it's ever been, either he has some of the poorest intel of a president in the history of this country or he was an abject liar to the american people. it is not safe on that border. >> your state has executed 234 death row inmates more than any other governor in modern times. have you -- have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent? >> no, sir, i've never struggled with that at all. they get a fair hearing. they go through an appellate process. they go up to the supreme court of the united states if

solving the nation's problems and one guy who probably knows more about this than everybody is newt gingrichnd while i criticize perry for not doing his homework, how deep is he able to go in these foremats. >> what about huntsman, versus santorum? there was a hot exchange on foreign policy that john huntsman says let's bring our troops home, we've got to worry about the economy first. will it sell in republican ranks? >> it might sell. it's a question of how things are polling out there. for john huntsman to stand there and say he's served his country four times overseas in diplomatic posts and say we should let pakistan figure out its own problems after gingrich had rightfully said that iran's capability and pakistan could have a hundred nuclear devices and huntsman to say we should walk away from pakistan-- >> the biggest problem with that exchange, paul, it was between huntsman and santorum. either of whom is going to be the nominee. perry and romney were not brought into that discussion and that speaks to the debate format. you want to hear on the most likely candidate on the issues and