that was how nikki haley presented their work to the public. but thanks to the tenacious bulldog reporting of the "charleston post and courier" and thanks to that state agency that did follow south carolina law and did release the requested records, unlike the governor herself, thanks to all of that we now know what governor haley was actually doing about health reform not in public but behind closed doors. on march 31st she instructed her spokesmen, "the whole point of this commission should be to figure out how to opt out and how to avoid a federal takeover, not," all caps, "not create a state exchange." so in public nikki haley is saying we're taking that million dollars in federal money to take a look at all the options. and in private she's saying, all caps, don't you dare look at all the options, i'll tell you which options you can look at. the charleston paper noted the discrepancy between governor nikki haley's public front and what she was doing behind closed doors. as you can see here, they noted it with the word "dictated" in the hea

haley has endorsed romney before and he's endorsed her.ere's why it could be a little bit bigger of a deal. number one, she is the republican governor of south carolina. south carolina will be the first state in the south to hold a primary next month. after iowa and new hampshire. romney, of course, could use a bit of a boost there. the latest cnn poll shows newt leading by a big margin, 43% to 20% for romney. all right. that's one reason that it matters. second reason, governor haley was elected into office with the help of the tea party. and romney, as all our viewers are well aware, has had a lot of trouble getting supporter from tea partiers and conservatives. cnn political analyst david gergen, and good to have all of you with us. let me start with you, scott. i'm curious, what do we read into this? because nikki haley supported by the tea party, but her approval rating in her state right now is not very high. >> yeah, that's right. it is an important endorsement, but endorsements today mean less than they did probably 10 or 20 years

a recent winthrop poll shows governor haley's approval rating dropping by double digits.ley faing a scandal over e-mails, an independent panel supposed to be studying how to implement the law in south carolina. e-mails unearthed by "the charleston post and courier" showed the governor dictating what the supposedly independent health panel would find. when "the post and courier" tried to get access to the governor's e-mail that were public records, the governor's office refused to turn them over. governor haley's problems are not necessarily the biggest problems for republicans in south carolina. last friday the federal department of justice shot down what south carolina republicansç have been working on this year, the new republican-backed voter i.d. law. an i.d. law that would require voters to show documentation in order to vote that they've never before had to show and thousands of south carolina residents do not have. the justice department saying the law would target minority and lower income voters. the day before the justice department struck that south carolina la

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haley has endorsed romney before and he's endorsed her.ut here's why it could be a little bit bigger of a deal. number one, she is the republican governor of south carolina. south carolina will be the first state in the south to hold a primary next month. after iowa and new hampshire. romney, of course, could use a bit of a boost there. the latest cnn poll shows newt leading by a big margin, 43% to 20% for romney. all right. that's one reason that it matters. second reason, governor haley was elected into office with the help of the tea party and romney as all our viewers are well aware has had a lot of trouble getting support from tea partiers and conservatives. cnn political analyst david gergen, and good to have all of you with us. let me start with you, scott. i'm curious, what do we read into this? because nikki haley supported by the tea party, but her approval rating in her state right now is not very high. >> yeah, that's right. it is an important endorsement, but endorsements today mean less than they did 10 or 20 years ago. south

to ask that state's governor nikki haley for some document. governor hallie is a republican, serving her first term. "the charleston post and courier" asked for records. governor hallie's office responded to the newspaper with stuff that the post and courier describes as irrelevant. they gave them some press releases, and some public schedules, but really not much. the charleston paper, though, also made the same request for the tame type of documents from another agency in south carolina's government. they also asked a different agency and that office did hand over a lot of information. they handed over information that governor hallie had withheld. that is how we know something that governor hallie wishes we didn't know. now that we know what it is that that other agency was willing to give up that the governor's office wasn't, we can see why her office was probably hoping that newspaper would never know this thing existed. this commission to convene the stakeholders and build trust and consensus. that was how nikki haley presented their wor

i'm calling about inmate haley french..b. 1/10/1971. >> unfortunately, i missed my daughter's birthday. but better late than never, i figure. what i plan on doing is going home and getting a great big box, wrapping it up, telling her -- having my dad tell her i -- she got an early birthday present and when she opens it up, here i am. >> do you need to see me again? >> hey, did you have time to get that stuff filled out? checkout list? >> yes. >> i did a warrant check, pending charges. is there any other counties you may have a traffic violation or anything? >> i've never been arrested before in my life. >> traffic violation? >> nothing. >> speeding? >> nothing that hasn't been paid. >> for whatever reason, if i'm not here, your i.d. is in your envelope with your gratuity. okay. >> excellent. can i ask how much it is? >> it is for a total of $260.29. >> okay. >> sound right? >> yes. thank you. >> see you tomorrow. >> all right. >> receiving the green light for his release from prison, haley makes what he hopes is his last p

. >> mitt romney has never been that popular with conservatives but nikki haley has endorsed him. what does this say about the right of the party? >> haley is considered an icon of the tea party movement with the same time she is a governor -- but at the same time she is a governor. do they start to coalesce around mitt romney because they have decided he is the best candidate to face obama and he can't push off newt gingrich. many people have known him for a long time and many people don't think that he is a good general election candidate. >> is this all about electability? >> to win this nomination, you have to be conservative and electable. so far, the republican party has grudgingly admitted that may be romney is the electable candidate but they have been skeptical about whether he is conservative enough. they want to exhaust every possibility before they declare that romney is the candidate. >> even n beikki haley says that he is perfect. -- even nikki haley has said that he is not perfect but it is the best that they got. >> the obama camp is wondering if they could really

nikki haley, the thing about south carolina is there is a problem with her and gingrich.en that way since she ran in the primary, number one. number two, she is not -- if mitt romney -- i mean newt gingrich can win in iowa, i don't care how many nikki haley you have, romney will be bludgeoned in south carolina. >> dana: can i say something about mitt romney and the other candidates, he can't help how he looks. you make fun of him for ken doll looks. greg can't help it that he is this ken doll barbie man of mystery. >> greg: i've lived with this all my life. >> dana: you can't comment on obama's looks but we can make fun of romney? >> andrea: i think he looks like the president. that is one of the best thing he has going for him. but the problem is he is too stiff. they say he is like a used car salesman and answers don't come from the heart. >> greg: the ken doll is not about the looks but the functionality of the ken doll. fact he can't move -- if he gets the nomination it's against barack obama. it is like the cast of "america's next top model." good looking young men -

haley will be bringing a report to the policy and government committee. they wanted you to know after focusing on the 28 and 29, we are moving up to the 14, with one and exciting announcement, a connection to bart. the jfk by claims have gone through a lot of work between us, recreation and parks, dpw, and they have gone up through the recreation and parks commission. and the impact they might have on people in the disability community. we are working through those issues with those folks, with a large internal staff meeting this meeting. we will be meeting with some of the folks later this week. there has been a lot of email and traffic flying around. we what you want to know that we are working diligently to address and resolve any outstanding issues and concerns we have, just a point of information, when the voters passed proposition back in 2007, one of the requirements was that me -- we will meet regularly, and we had the first meeting, where we sat down with the union leadership to talk through some of the intent

nikki haley endorsed mitt romney in 2008. mitt romney endorsed nikki haley for governor in 2010.e's repaying the favor now. in south carolina, nikki haley, her polls are down. some polls show president obama having a higher approval rating than nikki haley. in south carolina maybe, but 20 percentage points is pretty tough to close in on. >> i think he's totally right. that means little. what has to happen gingrich has to stay competitive in iowa and new hampshire. if he stays competitive, goes to south carolina, he can really get back in the game. >> it helps mitt romney in terms of his conservative credentials. that helps him more nationally. >> let me get this in. let me role this. newt gingrich trying to defend his zany self from the other night. >> i sometimes get accused of using language that's too strong. so i've been standing here editing. i'm very concerned about not appearing to be zany. >> good idea? does he have to hold on, edit himself the next few weeks? is he making a conscious effort to not say the wrong thing? >> not only that, he's funny. this is the newt gingri

haley dropped a little in the polls in south carolina. i think we have to wait and see how much this endorsement helps romneys with voters there in south carolina. >> as we see a lot of the candidates we're also getting to know their spouses. newt gingrich, we have been seeing a lot of his spouse and more of mitt romney's as well. is this intentional to get the wives out in front to get their take on their husbands as candidates? >> yeah, i think it certainly is. we have seen a lot of ann romney. those two are like a couple of teenagers joking around with each other. so i think one reason she's there, just to support her husband, mitt romney. in a larger sense, yes, we're seeing more of ann romney, both campaigning with her husband and then campaigning by herself, often in iowa. so in iowa she can talk about their long marriage, their five children, their 16 grandchildren and that's a state where voters look to the values of the candidate. so, you know, it presents an interesting comparison to newt gingrich. >> yeah, we saw pictures of ne

romney picked up the endorsement of south carolina governor nikki haley. and she is also here. she will tell you why she says governor romney is the republican candidate to beat president obam a. but first, here's governor mitt romney. >> governor, nice to see you, sir. >> thanks, greta. >> i see you brought some friends. >> i have a few friends near south carolina. very exciting. >> very excited to see you, especially with the news of the governor here in south carolina. >> big news. having nikki haley endorse my campaign sent a shock wave through the political circles here in south carolina. i am delighted. it's a piece of very good news this week. >> all of us have had our blackberries and iphones buzzing because earlier, you said something to the effect -- correct me if i am wrongue have gotten involved in government, you didn't know what medicaid is. do you want to explain that? >> i didn't know how the system works. back in the 1980s, itches working in a care consulting practice so i knew how medicaid and medicare exist. but the particulars and how much the state would se

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so which brings me back to the nikki haley endorsement. it is, on one hand, payback. mitt romney one of the first presidentials to endorse her before she was the clear front-runner. he did it before it was cool to get behind nikki haley, before sarah palin did it and all of those things back during those primaries in 2010. but it now does raise expectations in that state that he did not do well in four years ago and nobody thinks he's going to do well in this time. >> well, i don't think we quite know how he's going to do in south carolina. >> that's true. >> does somebody get steam out of iowa, or do you have such a mixed result, a romney victory or a ron paul victory that doesn't catapult anybody who we would see as a serious contender for the nomination? you know, it certainly provides with him some important endorsement in south carolina, and it makes it more of a game there for him. and of course, their real prize, florida, the next state down the line. that's where the romney people really hope to go head on head with whoever the other finalist is and make it cl

i want to start with you, tony, nikki haley's endorsement, take a listen this coming from mitt romney today. >> what it comes down to is how do we get every person a job? how do we make sure our economy gets back on track in the only way to do that is go with someone that has done it not talked about it but actually done t. >> nikki haley giving that endorsement. how does this, tony, help him, romney, that is, and also, in your estimation, did romney stop the momentum that newt gingrich has last night? >> i think so. let's get to the momentum in a minute, because i think what's happening is people are taking a second look at newt gingrich, but as for the endorsement, it is very significant for the romney campaign. if you think about the, you negotiate sort of number one concern among republican voters is, you know, has -- is mitt romney consistently conservative enough for the primary voters, likely to go out in iowa, new hampshire and eventually south carolina and florida? having the good housekeeping seal of approval of, you know, the darling of the -- of conservatives and certainly

haley. haley says mitt romney knows how the government works. newt gingrich's it down there right now. in a poll conducted by the associated press syndicate majority of americans do not think president obama and deserves a second term. 52% say he should be voted out of office. 43% disagree. when matched up against the two republican front-runners, he does pretty well. he is 1% ahead of mitt romney in the margin of error is 4% on this one. >>> no error in your prediction however. >> no snow tonight. you will begin tomorrow with a smile on your face and sunshine streaming through your window. >> that's good. if you have a window. >> true. [laughter] >> he thinks that's really funny. >> earlier today, this was up on skyline drive. watch closely. here is the time lapse. some of the local fauna out there, some of the deer in joining brunch. the temperature now outside is still into the 40's and our high temperature today -- did not feel like 62 this afternoon, but that was a little bit after midnight before the chilly stuff really began coming in. th

haley is on the scene with the latest. >> police have reopened and the westbound lanes of university boulevard, something they were not optimistic would happen in time for the morning rush. eastbound is still closed. that is where the accident happened at the intersection of university boulevard and piney branch road near langley drive. two young women are this morning. they are possibly and in their late teens or early 20's. there were three women in the car. the third young woman has been taken to the cost littl hospital with non- life threatening injuries, we believe. there is a vehicle on top of a brick retaining wall that's about four feet tall. as we get closer to accident, it is a mess of mangled metal resting on that wall. police kept all drivers to produce a clearer this area as accident constructors' do their job to try to figure out what happened this morning. they don't yet know if speed or alcohol were factors in this and early-morning crash that happened at around 3:00 a.m. haley harrison reporting from silver spring, abc 7 news. >>> steve has some other spots to watch

. >> and so this morning we'll talk to governor nikki haley in south carolina about why she's behind romney. >>> finally, the major moments on the campaign trail this weekend. what they mean, as voting is just around the corner. analysis from republican strategist mike murphy. and "washington post" columnist e.j. dionne. >>> good morning. the a.p. news alert last night at 11:31 eastern time, u.s. military says last american troops have left iraq, as war ends. and with that, a conclusion to the nine-year war in iraq, a mission costing nearly 4,500 american lives, and $800 billion. back home another congressional showdown. the senate has passed a short-term extension of the payroll tax cut, but the measure is now facing strong opposition from some rank and file republicans in the house, leaving final passage in doubt. that is where we begin this morning with our exclusive guest, the speaker of the house, john boehner. mr. spoker, welcome back. >> david. good to be here. >> so, what's going to happen? >> well, it's pretty clear that i, and our members, oppose the senate bill. it's only

bachmann and haley both up next.arty support after south carolina's ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of a pain free holiday. ♪ this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. >>> we're back. joining me live from our bus tour in iowa with 16 days go until the caucuses, republican presidential candidate congresswoman michele bachmann of minnesota. congresswoman, welcome back to "meet the press." >> good morning, david. a pleasure to be with you this morning. >> so you heard speaker boehner. my question to you is, under what circumstances would you support an extension of the payroll tax cut through 2012? >> well, i didn't support it a year ago when it was first proposed. and the reason why i didn't is bates denied $111 billion to the social security trust fund. i didn't think that that was a good thing to do last year. i don't think it's a good thing to do this year. and remember, the reason why president obama proposed it in the first place was to create jobs. there isn't one s