turn out in the polling places in greenville is very, very strong. a number of the folks said they planned to vote before they came to breakfast and decided to come here and see newt and mitt, and then go back to the polls where the lines are long. tommy hen house has been on the political radar since he started this place . today, two candidates leading the polls once again made greenville and the hen house center of the universe. it was not by design. there was a conflict. and fully 45 minutes before hand. mitt mitt romney showed up early and had a message to signal that romney and his campaign are aware that newt gingrich is surging in the polls and may end up victorous and that would be a bit of the a blow are to mitt romney considering he was winning by 10 points. he expects this to be a long slog. he pointed out you need 11 delegates. and no one can clinch the election until the middle of april and romney was talking about states of michigan and colorado that don't vote for many weeks until after florida. and on time after the visit came newt g

. >> neil: this is the scene right now in greenville, south carolina, and this is tommy's ham house they call it. a must-stop for anyone who wants to get the voters support in south carolina and become the next president of the united states, and this is the joint where they do it as they he say, and quite a joint. the apparently it's known for all things pork. their menu reads like a cholesterol nightmare, but it sounds like delicious stuff. and now they're featuring a bacon sausage pancake combo for $4.75. it's not really bad. but the state itself is not really doing that well. at this point, nearly 10% unemployment and that is a big, big issue that makes south carolina, perhaps, more typical of the rest of the nation and the prior states like iowa and new hampshire and 9.9% unemployment right now, exactly what it was when president obama took office. meanwhile, the very latest we have for you. the weather could be playing a role in south carolina, showers and thunderstorms are expected and some could be quite severe especially in the northern part of the state. the poll closes at 7 p.

greenville, north carolina. it's a small town with a big passion for sports. these are the four-time high school state champions, the rampants of jh rose. they know what it's like to win. >> coming out here and watching them play, when i was young, i had to play for this team. >> they know what it takes to win. >> you want to be known as the best, the strongest, toughest. survival of the fittest. >> get him! yeah, he's down! >> they also know the painful price of trying to win. >> it's an inherently dangerous sport. i mean, when football first started, they tried to outlaw it. >> but no one could have imagined what would happen to these champions in 2008. >> to me, that was a perfect storm. you wouldn't know how many times i've thought about me doing something different. >> we can't have you coming outside. >> it was todd lipe's first year as head coach. football was always his dream. >> ever since the third grade, i've always been involved in football. either playing it or coaching it. >> 16-year-old junior jaquon waller was coach lipe's star running back. >>

greenville, north carolina. it's a small town with a big passion for sports. these are the four time high school state champions. the ram pants of j.r. rose. they know what it's like to win. ? whether i was young, i played for this team. >> though necessity what it takes to win. >> you want to be known as the best, strongest, toughest, survival of the fittest. >> get him! >> they also know the painful price of trying to win. >> it's inherently dangerous sport. i mean when football first started, they tried to outlaw it. >> but no one could imagine what would happen to these! pones in 2008. >> to me, that was the perfect storm. you don't know how many times i felt about doing something different. >> it was his first year as head coach. football was always his dream. >> ever since third grade, i've always been involved if football. either playing it or coaching it. >> 16-year-old junior jaquan waller was coach lipe's star running back. >> he was very athletic, he was quick. a great smile. good attitude. >> amazing football player. fastest guy on the field. >> za

ron mott, thanks for that in greenville.a and what they're saying as they head to the polls for today's crucial primary. nbc's craig melvin is joining me from columbia, south carolina. voter turnout, how large is that so far today? >> reporter: you know what, alex witt, it is at this point remarkably low. in fact, i just talked to one of our campaign embeds. she spent some time at a precinct here in columbia that is one of the largest precincts in the area when it comes to republican primaries. 35 voters in two hours, if that gives you any idea what we're look at how. upstate south carolina -- this is crucial, going to be particularly crucial for newt gingrich -- spartanburg county, greenville county, 40% of all the primary voters generally tend to come frt upstate, the upstate is also where you see a large concentration of evangelical voters. if turnout in greenville and spartanburg and nofrn counties turnout is low, that may not bode as well for gingrich as it will for romney. we should note here that part of the problem i

we started in greenville. it has the largest number of republican voters in the statement lexington county where don was meeting the voters. it mooerd almost the state results. charleston along the coast, considered to be more moderate than other parts of the state and that could be a strong spot for mitt romney. finally we go to orie county, and that's the home of myrtle beach. it's a mixed bag. it's where a lot of transplants have settled. >>> now we go to my colleague paul. everyone knows the caucus is the first primary, but this in a lot more ways is a lot more critical, isn't it? >> oh, yeah. going back to 1980, everyone won. gary, a week ago mitt romney had a double digits in the polls. now they're almost even. looking ahead to next week, remember, florida, the next state. all four presidential candidates, all four remaining republican candidates will be in our debate, cnn debate in jacksonville. we're here in south carolina. we're also looking a hi ed to florida, gary. >> boy, it's really a very importa

, to which i replied greenville is my hometown. and your great uncle mordecai in fact performed the wedding ceremony for me and my wife e eliza in 1827 as well as we bed on the town council together in 1829 and i reassured mr. lincoln that he was in good hands in terms of politics that his great uncle had gained a great many more votes than i had. but like many young men who came into congress at the time, we went in there with goals. and each of us had a cherished goal that we wanted to achieve in that congress. mine was the introduction of a homestead bill. for mr. lincoln, it was the introduction of legislation which would have provided for compensated emancipation of slaves in the district of columbia. and like other young men who go into congress, we find it is not so easy to get your cherished goals accomplished so we left that session of congress without those bills passed. i would serve two more terms. mr. lincoln, that would be his only term in the house of representatives. at the beginning of the fourth term, i bought the

over themselves to be at tommy's ham house in greenville. two candidates, gingrich and romney will be at the same time today. lexington county has around 150,000 registered voters. the vote there in 2008 almost exactly mirrored the final results of the whole state. it's a bellwetter area. charleston along the coast is considered to be more moderate than other parts of the state and could be a strong spot for mitt romney. and finally, ori county, home of myrtle beach, a mixed bag, a place where a lot of the transplants have settled. be sure to stay with cnn all day for coverage from south carolina and tonight, we've got the results, saturday night results, tune in at 7:00 p.m. eastern time for our special coverage "the south carolina primary," the winners, the losers, it will be critical in the race for the president of the united states. >>> now, for some other headlines this morning, new arrests in a growing hazing scandal at florida a&m university. four members of the famed marching 100 band have been arrested. they allegedly beat other me

that was certainly symbolic, greenville and upstate is where the conservative votes are. gingrich needs a strong turnout to have a successful evening and come out on top tonight. romney went there, when they found out a scheduling conflict at precisely the same time, they said they would go there and have the intersection of the two campaign trains. if there was collision, so be it. mitt romney came in early and got out 15 minutes before gingrich showed up. and first thing out of his mouth where is mitt. i thought we would have a debate today is not only the primary, 15th anniversary of the day that newt gingrich was the first speaker in history for an ethics violation. they sent him a cake. a lot of symbolism before the hours the polls open. >> bill: carl, where do the votes come from, as you canvas the 46 counties in south carolina. what will that tell us throughout the evening? >> reporter: they are going to come from underneath an umbrella. it's been down pouring very hard all over the upstate. there has been some sun along the sea coast but for the most part, it's be

a couple consultants from the greenville area in the upstate and activists from the midlands workingfield staff. ey're very passionate and committed but not a lot of experience. >> you're speaking south carolina speak, which i love. we should talk about this a little bit with the different votes. we talked about where the military veterans are, known as the low country where most of the non-native south carolinians live, that's where we expect romney to do well. what you were describing, greenville, spartanburg area, that's where gingrich has to do well, is that fair? >> yeah. that's where a lot of socially conservative votes are, not to mention, some of the most voter rich counties in the state, spartanville, pickens, greenville, as well as a very big business community. >> the nikki haley endorsement obviously came with an organization. how good is that for romney? >> i think it helps him on a national scale to a very great extent. she has a very high profile with the tea party throughout the country. >> questionable here? >> she still retains support from tea partiers here and got

this was mick huckabee, greenvil greenville, spartanburg, a lot of evangelical and tea party voters critical tonight. >> the state a little more diverse than people know. we go over to anderson cooper to help us preern some of tappreci early numbers. >> we're here with our analysts, republican strategists, democratic strategists, james carville what are you expecting tonight? >> i expect uncertain, that's generally what it is and if one is to believe the final polls taken last night, speaker gingrich is in good shape. we were in the green room talking about ever this and this has been a roller coaster ride unlike any other and i suspect it will provide us -- >> you're thrilled by that fact. >> if the last polls are correct, if last night's polls are correct, yeah, i think yes, i would be understandably thrilled by that. i think donna would probably be happy. >> absolutely, we're ready to take out some of the balloons that we've been storing away but look, anderson, this was a very interesting week in politics. jon huntsman dropped out, threw his support to romney. perry dropped out, threw hi

greenville is a conservative part of the state and considered to be a newt gingrich stronghold .e'll see when all of the numbers come out. meanwhile, michael reagan is joining me now. he created waves when he threw his support behind newt gingrich. it is good having you. there doesn't seem to be a favor war between the bush eats and reaganites. you are after all ronald reagan's son. and then george bush senior endorsing romney . jeb bush all but endorsing mitt romney . last president bush thinks highly of mitt romney . john sonunu. campaigning aggressively for mitt romney. is there a split? >> there is always been a split. it is the rockefeller side of the republican party and reagan conservative side of the republican party. >> your dad chose that side on his ticket. >> and he chose that side for second place on his ticket and not first place on his ticket. you might remember that. >> even though his second place guy became the first place guy. >> absolutely right. but the guy who became the first place guy, and i love george w. bush and george bush. and he wanted to make his pr

we're in greenville, ohio, which is in dark county. locals know everybody. people talk and they know just about everything that's going on in the town. we do have a rather high profile when we come into a small town. >> let me get this camera, put a mouth on the bottom. >> we move into this house to do our investigation, and there's guys with cables and climbing up poles and setting up ladders and doing things. it, i think, did raise a little suspicion in this quiet neighborhood. so day one came and seemed fine. >> hey, nathan? >> yep. >> i just cut the crap out of my toe. i'm getting a band aid. sit at the kitchen counter, okay? >> in this case, as previous times we worked with perverted justice. decoys go into chat rooms posing at 12, 13, 14, 15-year-old kids, home alone. >> do me a favor and have a seat. and take your hands out of your pockets for me. good, have a seat. as a potential predator walks in, there's a whole other investigation starting outside the house. the sheriff's department is moving into position, trying to monitor what's going on so the

. >> that of course was rick san store up in greenville, south carolina. is the nominating process going to go on for months? with me now, the chairman of the republican national committee, he was part of the team that put together this calendar. >> how are you, chuck? >> i'm good. nice to hear you there. >> i heard you the other day on "morning joe", you basically said it's six and one and a half or the other whether you would like a nominee in february or whether you're comfortable having -- the rommy plan is by april or whether you're comfortable waiting for most of the spring before you have one. >> yeah, i think it is -- you can find some benefits with bojesen air yoes, one may be a little easier to raise money early but we haven't been doing that bad when you compare our money raising to the dnc. other piece is the competition, the debates and the little bit of drama, it's been good for our party. it's not something i have to spin it this way to sound good. i think it's been -- it's good. it worked very well for barack obama and hillary clinton. we p

. >> neil: on the other side in greenville, south carolina, the arrival of newt's bus right there. and he's got the momentum and certainly, the red meat oomph from conservative who feel he far better articulates their cause. is there a divide in the party? and if so, is it a severe one? how would you define it from people you've talked to? >> it's been interesting, and a lot of folks said that the dehe bait performance this week, two debates this week, was a deciding factor for them. some were really impressed by his response to the challenge that he got in the last debate, and so, that is certainly a factor, but some people have said, you know, we're worried about a dividing the conservative vote, and so, newt's been saying vote for me, not santorum, and santorum has been saying, this is a three-person race. and you know, there's been this effort to be the romney alternative, if you will, so, a lot of folks that i've talked to today said they voted for the person they liked best and in the fall they will support the republican nominee, neil. >> thank you very much. mike emanuel an

i replied greenville is any hometown. your great uncle performed the wedding ceremony for me and my wife eliza in 1827 as well as mortica and i served on the town council in 1829. i reassured mr. lincoln he was in good hands in terms of politics. his great uncle gained many votes than i had. like many young men who came into congress at the time, we went in there with goals. each of us had a cherished goal we wanted to achieve in that congress. mine was the introductionf the homestead bill. we found it's not so easy to get your cherished goals accomplished. i would serve two more terms. mr. lincoln, that would be his only term in the house of representatives. at the beginning of the fourth term, i bought the house you've just seen. it's irony. those of us who live through our late, unhappy struggle felt were were ought up in the hands of fate of each of us, abraham lincoln and myself were 15 years in the future able to help the other achieve that earlier cherished goal. for my part, abraham lincoln signed the homestead bi

so you crisscrossed the state from the coastline to greenville how the turnout looking? >> reporter: it's going to be affected by rain. we started made it up to greenville right in the heart of the upstate where we had this wonderful dynamic where gingrich and romney were scheduled. romney showed up early. rain is expected to be quite brisk and pretty significant lines here in south carolina. they are looking to track in somewhere around 450,000 sleort turnout. depending on where the turnout comes from, whether it's the low country or upstate may be the dery and the who wins. newt gingrich is expectation very strong night and romney has been signaling come what may in south carolina he expects to be campaigning in florida. he added nevada, colorado and michigan. states that are well down the road signaling that romney is expecting a setback and have to regroup. >> gregg: how bad could it be for mitt romney? >> reporter: it won't be bad for newt gingrich. gingrich is looking for a huge night. in addition to being the first in the south primary the state in south carolina

cnn political editor peter ham be is live in greenville, south carolina.er, a new american research group pole shows gingrich running neck in neck with romney in south carolina, just four points behind romney right now. so is it, i guess, too early to say that the lowcountry is becoming gingrich country as well? >> reporter: you know, a lot of people in south carolina frankly saw this poll and wondered how spot on it was. polls have been all over the place here in south carolina. our cnn poll last year, which is an eternity go in politics had romney with a much larger lead. some polls still show him as the front runner. gingrich and rick santorum, the two conservative candidates, vying to be the challenger. if gingrich becomes that person and beats romney here, it could have a profound impact on the race because, look, republican voters against romney have been looking for someone to beat romney at some point and be that viable anti-romney challenger. if gingrich does beat him here in south carolina, maybe it becomes a two-person race between romney and an

but again, rick santorum did an event here in greenville and listen to what he said earlier.ng after romney and ignoring newt, too. take a listen. >> looking for someone, we're looking for someone who can be the anti-establishment candidate. the establishment is trying to ram down the people of south carolina everybody else's throat governor romney as if he's the inevitable. >> reporter: so both -- santorum and newt gingrich going after mitt romney. governor romney likes that because, frankly, they're dividing up the conservative vote and like you said allowing him space to kind of scoot in to -- scoot out of south carolina with a win just by winning 25%, 30%. you can do that here, deb. it's an interesting strategy from the conservative candidates in the race. >> absolutely. obviously, to state the obvious, the way you win is just to get more votes than the guy behind you but let's talk about the impact of the tea party. they're holding a meeting this weekend. the evangelicals, also. they're trying to figure out who's the conservative candidate to get behind and it's not mitt

where is the best place to get barbecue in greenville?ps are the beacon in spartanburg and tommy's ham house in greenville. >> all right. that's where the best breakfast is. >> when we come back -- >> no endorsement. >> keep it right here on "morning joe." >>> there is a rumor running around vienna that you've taken one of your patients as a mistress. >> that's absolutely untrue. >> why of course it is. it's what i've been telling everybody. >> what's being said? >> i don't know. the woman's been bragging about it. that somebody is sending out anonymous letters. the usual sort of thing. bound to happen sooner or later. it's an occupational hazard. >> that was the scene from "a dangerous method." joining us now viggo mortensen who recently received a golden globe nomination for best supporting actor for his role in the film as dr. sigmund freud and he joins us now on the show this morning. good to have you. >> thanks for having me. >> thanks for being on. so preparing for the role, what surprised you the most about looking into presenting

greenville where newt gingrich is attending a private fundraiser.visiting in the nearby town of spartanburg made a campaign spot at the beacon a very poplar drive-in restaurant. we also went to another poplar restaurant to take the pulse of voters to see what was on their minds. not surprising everybody was talking about bread and butter issues. >> it should be the economy. people out of work. i think that's the top thing that they need to look into. so far it hasn't been taken care of. and whoever gets elected is going to have to face that. >> social conservatives play a prominent role in south carolina's electorate but wafford political science professor says voters also have a pragmatic side and favor electability, sometimes tipping the scales in favor of more moderate candidates. >> you have practical conservatives down here that have the tradition of voting for a nominee that's going to get -- that has the chance of getting the nomination and that has a chance of winning. >> and, of course, south carolina voters pride themselves on picking the

>> well, hi be, jamie, we're' on route 385 headed south from the upstate greenville, spartansburg area, the conservative bastion of the state and down to columbia, several candidates holding the ehe lex night headquarters and celebrations and perhaps something less than celebrations. we're going to switch to the outside camera from our mobile vehicle as we broadcast live and show you the weather. there is a driving rain here in the upstate and it is covering much of south carolina. first in the nation primary vote,today are going to the polls with umbrellas and rain coats in most of the state. in the low country, particularly the sea coast, it's not raining and in fact, temperatures around 55, 70 degrees and they're not dealing with this weather, but turnout is going to on and you can see it. and now for the race itself. up in greenville at tommy's ham house, we had this potential intersection of both mitt romney and newt gingrich at the same event at the same time, but the the last minute, the romney campaign changed its plan and came early. mitt romney came and made his pitch to a pa

cnn's peter hamby live in greenville tonight. you know the popular thinking it has been south carolina conservative, a lot of evange c evangelicals a lost cause for a more pragmatic conservative like mitt romney what is behind these dramatic numbers? >> well, you know, it is starting to look like a lot like the mccain path to victory in '08, had the divided conservative field like we saw romney this week, where he can skate to whip the primary. this state has been perceived a long time as being this hive of evangel evangelicals and conservative state. [ no audio ] where i am in greenville, yes, a lot of megachurches but also a lot of international companies. romney is a business guy. you go down to the coast there is a strong military and veteran presence. he was there with john mccain today. romney running on a really strong national security platform. got a lot of commuters around the charlotte suburbs, so it's a very, you know, broad cross section of republican voters in this state. as you and michael pointed out, romney is ru

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it's the best place for breakfast in greenville. it will be tough to fit them both.ut it has to happen. as gingrich said when he heard that romney was coming, romney is more than welcome to come to my event. gingrich is fine to have mitt romney at his event. >> it will be hot in that kitchen at tommy's. thanks, jon, so much. >> this is a pr bonanza for tommy and his ham house. can newt gingrich win this thing? let's ask matthew dowd. good morning. thanks for getting up early on a saturday. we appreciate it. you think he can win. >> i not only think he can win. he is likely to win. he went from being pioints behid several days ago. now he's dead even. if you take a look what his advisers are saying, they're saying, we were always in this for the long haul. it's a good signal they know momentum is on newt's side. you usually bet on momentum. >> has he essentially neutralized the negative impact of the abc news interview with his ex-wife? >> i think he not only has neutralized it, temporarily. it may always come back up. depending on how long this process goes. but he's

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maybe romney did a head fake here because we heard so much in greenville, south carolina . he was there 15 or 20 minutes or so and then a 45 minutes after that. newt gingrich showed up and he was there for close to an hour. bottom line. it was surreal. i think when they were going to that event say going for breakfast. you had idea the candidates are stopping by there. that is weird. order your pancake now two men running for president are crowding the table. probably everyone knew they were there. that is just me. >> fundraisers and the push and money matters. the president has a lot of it who got to ask how they sort it out. and lady, it is roth child a former fundraiser for jon hunts man and a former big backer of the hillary clinton and has a huge losing record. milady. you are like a piriah for these guys. the best doesn't always win. and i am proud of the people i supported and i would do it all over again. >> you are a big backer of hunts man . where do you go now? >> i believe that barack obama should not be reelected. >> i know, you don't like him. >> but mitt romn

at a small ham house restaurant in greenville is the center of a showdown between mitt romney and newt gingrich literally. both candidates scheduled to arrive for breakfast, a meet-and-greet at the same place at the very same time, but romney got there first. maybe he needs that head start especially after a recent poll shows a stunning turnaround, gingrich surging ahead with 450% of the vote, romney a distant second now, 26%. our jim acosta is there. so, jim, tell us what's happening at the restaurant. >> reporter: hey, gary, we're live outside tommy's ham house. newt gingrich is inside as part of the ham house showdown we've seen all morning long. you can see the former speaker was hamming it up inside the restaurant. he arrived, as we all know, 30 ninlts after mitt romney left the scene and he asked the crowd inside, where's mitt, he was hoping to have a debate with the former massachusetts governor. that was not to be. we were expecting earlier this morning these two candidates might actually collide inside this restaurant, but you can say -- pardon all these ham puns that mitt rom

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again it's a reflection of the feeling -- and i was with rick perry a few nights an in greenville, south carolina, and you saw perry with evangelicals, appealing to evangelicals who like him, but they knew he simply wasn't that guy, but the last weekend's meeting, still showed a split. at one point james dobson raised questions about gingrich -- is this the guy we want? so they remain divided. what perry's move today could do is help coalesce things and provide extra momentum for gingrich, who was not the first chiles either. >> again, i want to remind everybody, we are waiting for the formal announcement from rick perry. he'll be speaking in charleston, south carolina, announcing he'll be dropping out of the gop race, and we have the picture there on the topside of your screen. mark, let me talk about the fact that laura ingraham and eric erickson came out saying he needed to drop out. how hurtful are their voices? >> well, we saw at the beginning of the entry the weak debate performances, and the oops moment in michigan, he never got back up. it's analysis nating. he had a lot of peopl

we want to show you a live picture inside tommy's ham house in greenville, south carolina.dates were scheduled to appear at that barbeque restaurant at the same time this morning. however, romney showed up to the restaurant about 30 minutes before gingrich, and left before the house speaker arrived. polls show either romney or gingrich could win today in that state. >>> president obama is promoting tourism in the weekend's online video address. >> we're going to expand the number of countries where visitors can get pre-cleared by homeland security to they don't need a tourist visa and speed up processing future countries that can afford to visit america. like china and brazil. we want more visitors coming here. >> the president also went on to ask americans to tune in his state of the union address scheduled for tuesday. >>> this morning students at u- c berkeley are continuing what is called a study inn to protest reduced library hours. they started the study-in at the university anthropology library on thursday. the daily californian is now reporting students voted last n