karen santorum is very much her husband's partner and equal.se and she told me how they talk about policy and strategy, and she tells him when he slips up. but she is saying behind the scenes. she rarely talks to the network media. she was warm, genuine, and she talked openly about their life, their marriage, and the challenges they've endured. >> when you walk through the door, he is not a senator, he's not a guy running for president. he's a husband and a father, and he immediately shifts gears. he's in the kitchen make gragt meal. >> what's his specialty? >> oh, my gosh. chicken marsala, pasta air bee a ta, pancakes for the kids. >> a month ago they didn't know who we are, but they do now. >> reporter: did you ever think i could be first lady? >> no, and i still don't even go there. i just take one day at a tame and work hard and pray hard and we'll see where this is going. >> reporter: they've come a long way since they met by chance 24 years ago in pittsburgh when then karen garver was offered a job where rick santorum worked. he was with

karen santorum has stayed behind the scenes. we talked about that.ne, she tells him when she thinks he maybe goes to far like the other day when he called president obama a snob. she had something to say about that. she has been behind the scenes, but we've been seeing her lately at these rallies. she says the demands of their life makes them different from the other candidates whose children are grown. >> jan, thank you. >> i'm thinking karen santorum needs to do more interviews. i wonder if it we'll see her more out there front and c >>> prince hares >>> prince harry moves on to jamaica this morning. some important people there may not be so happy to see him. what are their names? we'll show you why. and there's more room for your carry-on bags, you say. that's long story short. we really need to know the details on that. you're watching "cbs this morning." we'll be right back. today we'll experience a typical michael phelps training day. not gonna need those. come on. let's go, mikey. sandwich boy. what do you mean? [ grunts ] still training. ♪ wh

karen santorum. plus massachusetts senator scott brown. >> newt gingrich and rick santorum now have secret service with them. in santorum's case, i think it's the first time he's ever used protection. >> a rising republican star is a rare thing, a moderate. and only in america. the '80s obsession. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. our big story tonight, the santorum surge continues. and there's a woman as always behind the man and the surge. karen santorum. i'll ask her about tough talk like this from her husband today. >> let's just be brutally honest about it. there's one candidate in this race that can never make this race about freedom. because he simply abandoned freedom when he was governor of massachusetts and he abandoned it when he promoted obama care in 2009. >> plus on the eve of the illinois primary, the battle for the soul of the gop. can mitt romney eventually seal this deal? i'll ask scott brown. >> newt gingrich wants to build a colony on the moon. he should build it o

my meineke. >>> my exclusive interview with karen santorum, who joins me now. mrs. , how are you? >> hi, piers. it's so good to be with you. >> well, last time i spoke to your husband he basically said the key strategy going forward was less rick, more karen. >> how funny. >> tell me how your husband's getting on. last time i spoke to you was a very personal interview with you and your family. and if the full rigors of this campaign were beginning to kick in. how do you think he's faring? >> piers, rick is amazing. he is so optimistic. he's a guy who stays strong. and he just amazes me. i've known him a very long time. and he's not the kind of guy who gets down and out or loses his energy. and he's staying strong and i just love that about him. he's a really neat guy that way. >> he looks -- a rather british phrase. but he looks like he's got his gander up. which is a sort of euphemism for he's beginning to beat his chest with the expectation that he's gone from being this rank outsider to somebody who now wakes up and thinks you know what? i could actually win this.

karen santorum. i'll ask her about tough talk like this from her husband today. >> let's just be brutally honest about it. there's one candidate in this race that can never make this race about freedom. because he simply abandoned freedom when he was governor of massachusetts and he abandoned it when he promoted obama care in 2009. >> plus on the eve of the illinois primary, the battle for the soul of the gop. can mitt romney eventually seal this deal? i'll ask scott brown. >> newt gingrich wants to build a colony on the moon. he should build it on whatever planet ron paul's from. >> we begin tonight with my exclusive interview with karen santorum. who joins me now. how are you? >> hi, piers. it's good to be with you. >> last time i spoke to your husband he said this key strategy going forward was less rick, more karen. >> oh, funny. >> before we go any further, i actually want to play you a little clip. let's just watch this. >> karen will be on a cnn interview tonight. she's doing an interview by h

. >> karen santorum, the wife of rick, has proven to be a very good surrogate for rick santorum.ebody who speaks his mind, tends to say some things that at times get him in trouble. and in fact, sometimes karen santorum has to come in and clean up some of the problems that rick santorum has created for himself, in fact when rick santorum was talking about contraception in many ways, that really hurt him with women voters, and karen santorum this past week on piers morgan explained it. >> i think women have nothing to fear when it comes to contraception, he will do nothing on that issue. >> you have rick santorum's wife explaining her husband would not outlaw contraception and in fact really understands the problems and the duties that women in the household have to face but it's not just of course rick santorum's wife or mitt romney's wife, but a lot of talk about calista gingrich, seems to be by his side, she doesn't really talk a whole lot on the campaign trail, she does do selective events. ron paul's wife has not been on the campaign trail very much at all if ever. >> let's t

>> she have a real gender problem going into this election and i don't think karen santorum can erasesantorum introduced the issue of contraception into the race, gave the democrat as windfall. they're raising a ton of money over it and create add problem for mitt romney and a serious of other events republicans contributed to this. rush limbaugh's antics, bob mcdonald's legislation that he was humiliated by. they've got a real issue they have to turn around. the latest pew poll shows that obama is beating romney by 20 points with women and santorum by 27. >> and to slice this, it is suburban, married white women. >> that's right. >> this is the group that are the more that usually provide republicans their portion of the women electorate. they're the ones sitting on the fence right now. >> they're the ones sitting on the fence. republicans in 2010 saw something of an evening of the gap among women. it was thanks to these women and that helped them take the house. yeah. i mean, this is a real problem that at this point they're still talking about this, and that they haven't been able

proud and honored to have ann romney or karen santorum as first lady. what de niro said was onthe pale and he should be ashamed of himself. >> the context is that what de niro said was, do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady? the crowd roared. it was clearly a joke. is that's what we're about? >> are you talking to me? >> i mean, i tend -- >>> touche. >> i agree with mark. that's the politics of smallness. i remember a few weeks ago there was a quote about ann romney in which she said, i don't even consider myself rich. and a lot of people, many democrats, sought to make a huge deal out of this. when you read the longer quote it was clear she was talking about how her struggles of multiple sclerosis and breast cancer made her understand spiritual wealth was more important. we know what these people mean. unless you're willfully misunderstanding and in the de niro case, a joke, and newt gingrich is misunderstanding it. it's throwing red meat to conservatives in louisiana. so that's what he needs to do. but let's be honest. this h

we have a blast there. >> coming up, former senator rick santorum and his lovely wife karen join us. ely conversation with him. stay with us. (applause). >>> republican presidential candidate rick santorum has surged fromd (applause) >> republican senator rick santorum challenging mitt romney for the nomination, with the status comes scrutiny and say he's not in with issues to women. t rick santorum and the woman who knows him best, his wife karen. join us. [applause]. >> thank you, governor. >> mike: senator, the young man who was with us in ohio, one of the concerns he had with the question that you raised about barack obama and people and i think you used the term be snob. look, having been a candidate we've been on the campaign trail and we said things we wished we hadn't said or differently. is there anything out there you would love to walk back ab say, well, let me do that differently. >> my wife after she heard that comment, she said, rick, his comment might have been snobbish, but that doesn't make him a snob and so don't-- if you want to say it was a snobbish comment that's

because we had a blast there. >> thank you very much. >>> coming up, former senator rick santorum and his lovely wife karen join us. we'll have a great conversation with them. >>> republican presidential candidate rick santorum has surged from fromd back of the pk and the side of the stage to be seriously challenging mitt romney for the nomination. but with the status comes the scrutiny, and his critics say he's not sensitive to issues important to women. the former pennsylvania senator and the woman who knows him best, his wife, cairp, joi kares from wichita, kansas. senator, good to have you and karen. thank you for joining me today. >> thank you, governor. >> senator, the young man who was with us in ohio, one of the concerns he had was the question that you raised about barack obama and people, and i think you iewf the ter used the term . look. having been candidate, we all go out on the campaign trail, we say things we wish we hadn't said or we wished we would have said them differently. is there anything out there that you wish you could walk back and do that a little differently. >> my wife after sh

because we had a blast there. >> thank you very much. >>> coming up, former senator rick santorum and his lovely wife karen join us. we'll have a great conversation uu them. >>> republican presidential candidate rick santorum has surged from fromd back of the pk and the side of the stage to be seriously challenging mitt romney for the nomination. but with the status comes the scrutiny, and his critics say he's not sensitive to issues important to women. the former pennsylvania senator and the woman who knows him best, his wife, cairp, joi kares from wichita, kansas. senator, good to have you and karen. thank you for joining me today. >> thank you, governor. >> senator, the young man who was with us in ohio, one of the concerns he had was the question that you raised about barack obama and people, and i think you iewf the ter used the term . look. having been candidate, we all go out on the campaign trail, we say things we wish we hadn't said or we wished we would have said them differently. is there anything out there that you wish you could walk back and do that a little differently. >> my wife after sh

listed the wives of the presidential candidates saying callista gingrich, karen santorum and ann romney you think the country is ready for a white first lady? gingrich said the racial reference was inexcusable. and obama campaign official called the remark inappropriate. >>> various news outlets put together their own audacious moments of the last five centuries in response to vice president joe biden's remarks at a fundraiser this week. vice president biden hailed president obama for the usama bin laden raid. "you can go back 500 years. you cannot find a more audacious plan." politico compiled plans it deemed arguably as audacious or more so including d-day, napolean's invasion of russia and the landing at inchian in the korean war. conservative "national review" noted 500 years is a long time. i'm sure all you history buffs throughout can think of another battle plan at least in the running to be more audacious than operation geronimo. >>> finally, the federal government needs to be better about recycling. a new study by the government accountability office found only one-third of the

i want to say thanks both to rick and karen santorum, two wonderful people.ou with us. >> thank you, governor. god bless you. >> mike: his character got whacked by hit many on the sopranos. he's the host of the documentary serious about real life hired guns called nothing personal. he joins me n >> live from america's news headquarters, i am patty an brown. tragic and shocking that's how president obama describes the killing of afghan civilians allegedly shot by a u.s. soldier. he called president karzai for his condolences and vowed to hold any one responsible accountable. the soldier opened fire on sleeping families in two villages killing 16 people. reports say the sergeant later returned to his base and turned himself in. >> the national average price of a gallon of gas reaches $3.79. the age administration shows prices going up $0.02over night and $0.07 from last week. one puts it even higher. the average price is up $0.27 from a year ago. i am patty ann brown now back to huckabee. for all of the headlines log on to foxnews.com. the all-time clc movie, t

i want to say thanks both to rick and karen santorum, two wonderful people. great to have you with us. >> thank you, governor. god bless you. >> mike: his character got whacked by hit many on the sopranos. he's the host of the documentary serious about real life hired guns called nothing personal. he joins me naulkner. now back to huckabee. >> mike: the all-time classic movie, the gotfather, had member mabmemberrable lines including s one. it's not personal, its just business. the investigation discovery show nothing personal is not based on a hollywood script but real life murder-for-hire stories. >> he has agreed to kill susan for $50,000. it's not going to be pretty. to keep things quick and quiet, he plans to beat her brains out with a claw hammer. no gunshots, no screaming stab victim. the weapon is unusual unless, of course, you're totally confident that you're way more powerful than your victim. >> please welcome back to the show the host of nothing personal, our favorite, steve sharipa. you did that opening thing with the hammer and all, and i'm think

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karen santorum will likely do that as well. but it begs the question of whether or not they are going to be forced into this situation where they do look seriously at female number two vice president. in some ways i think mccain's choice of palin wasn't a cynical move. he thought he could transfer the hillary love to palin. didn't work for him. but they're going to have to look at folks like nicky haley and saws san martinez. chris: you look at santorum. he said he was going to bring it up in a campaign. then you have roy blunt leaving a fight on the floor, losing, he and rubio pushing this thing on the floor about contraception. >> and you have rush limbaugh, too, making a series of remarks. from romney's perspective, it's like guys, you're killing me here. he wants to have a conversation about anything other than this, romney. he wants to talk about nothing except jobs in the economy and you saw him backpedaling on the limbaugh issue. chris: rush limbaugh made him look weaker, because he wasn't take him on. >> we were talking

. >> thank you, senator. 80's and gentlemen, please welcome karen santorum, senator santorum boss' wifesenator santorum's wife. >> thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [unintelligible] it is exciting to see the enthusiasm tonight, and i'm confident this will go all the way to november, because there is one thing in common, and that is what -- and that is why we have to defeat barack obama as the president of the night. it has been great to hear from one candidate. we're about to hear from another. you have been anticipating having all the candidates here tonight, and we are fortunate we have two of them. i would like to tell you a little about our next speaker. newton leroy gingrich, better known as newt, is of german, english, scottish, and irish descent. that should reach everybody. he received a degree in history from emory university in 1965. he proceeded to turn and m.a. in 1968. both from tulane. gingrich has two daughters. speaker gingrich represented the sixth congressional district for 20 yea

[cheers and applause] >> los angeles >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome karen santorum, senator santorum's wife. and john. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, are you enjoying tonight? [cheers and applause] >> it's certainly exciting to see all the enthusiasm here tonight, and i'm confident this enthusiasm will go all the way to november because there's one thing we all have in common and that is we have to defeat barack obama as president of the united states. well, listen, it's been great to hear from one candidate and we're about to hear from another candidate. i know that you all have been anxiously anticipating having all the candidates with us tonight and we're so fortunate we have two of them. so at this time i'd like to tell you a little bit about our next speaker. newton leroy gingrich. [cheers and applause] >> better known of newt, is of german, english, scottish, irish descent. that should reach everybody. gingrich received a b.a. degree from emeritt university in 1965. he then provided to earn an m.a. in 1968 and a p.h.d. in 1971 in

fundraiser along with the first lady michelle obama and while introducing our he said calista gingrich karen santorum and romney now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady so a lot of people found this funny and romney said that she laughed at the joke but apparently close to gingrich didn't find it so funny her husband newt called the remark remarks inexcusable and divisive i know you quite well know you have a great sense of humor but you really feel offended by robert de niro or was it just the transfer work of democrat. i really think the use of racism going democrats is just as well as the use of racism where republicans and i really think it's wrong to use racial references like birth. rates robert deniro apologized michelle obama's office called the joke inappropriate so is this just politics or is it yet another example that political incorrectness will be shunned in the society earlier i spoke to political comedian dean obeidallah and got his take on whether american society is an offensive unapologetic nation take a listen. i think there are too many insincere apolo

the first lady michelle obama and while introducing her he said that he said calista gingrich karen santorum and romney and you really think our country is ready for a white first lady. a lot of people found this funny that they weren't offended even ann romney said she laughed at her joke but apparently close to gingrich didn't find it so funny her husband called the remarks inexcusable and divisive i know you quite well know you have a great sense of humor did you really feel offended by robert de niro or was it just a chance to watch a democrat. i really think the use of resources and democrats is just as well as the use of racism where republicans and i really think it's wrong to use racial references. are it's a robert de niro actually did apologize michelle obama's office called the joke inappropriate so what's going on here is this just politics or is this yet another example that political incorrectness will be shunned in this society develop as a political comedian and as our studios in new york to talk more about this already and there are few days after all the apologizing bill ma

bill maher talked about a by grader in recreational to karen santorum.magine about that liberal woman the world would come down as we know it. i can't mention names of liberal woman about vibrators but apparently used by liberals and conservative women, is that correct? i don't know, vibrators. >> i have no comment on that issue. >> i don't get into that. >> they might. [ laughter ] >> here is the thing. after the gabrielle giffords shooting, president obama went to tucson to get give a well-received speech about changing the tone and proud of us. >> in light of this talks about the two daughters and malia and sasha because he wants to be a good role model and have them grow up in a civilized society. now because what we are looking at here because the party and refused to condemn bill maher and everybody on the left. we're supposed to look at statements like in this is political statement and he doesn't mean it. >>> i think bernie touched on this and bill touched on this, i think it has backfired. poll numbers 41%. not just gas prices and economy and de

teams and nascar teams how out of touch he is with how women are living their lives. >> here is karen santorumsband's plan for women's health. >> he's supportive of women. he's surrounded by a lot of strong women. i think women have nothing to fear when it comes to contraception he will do nothing on that issue. >> that clearly contradict what is the candidate has said. how does it play? >> he's had his wife at his side in the last few weeks since he started getting himself in trouble with women voters. i think he's going to have to explain himself. you've got these guys out there talking about these measures. then you have

by the way, sat down the karen santorum and she opened up about her husband's campaign and why she wasng and what she wishes people knew about him. you can see the full interview at noon eastern. here is a pr -- on sunday. here is a preview. >> we take it one step at a time, one primary at a time. we're in this for the long haul. make it to tampa. who knows? i think god has us on a path. i don't know what he has planned and how it will unfold. i really believe rick is the guy. i do. >> shannon: more of that on sunday. stay tuned for now. the first lady praised the president's smooth singing voice. what about his other smooth moves? [ male announcer ] any technology not moving forward is moving backward. [ engine turns over, tires squeal ] introducing the lexus enform app su-- ...... there's no going back. see your lexus dealer. when the doctor told me that i could smoke for the first wee.. i'm like...yeah, ok... little did i know that one week later i wasn't smoking. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. some

karen santorum, his wife, will be doing solo campaigning. santorum people are trying very hard to grind this out, as they have throughout this campaign season where they have overperformed in some places but the polling certainly shows that romney appears to have an edge in wisconsin. and in part it's the kind of state it is, this is a place that always has a real active political life and they certainly will with this primary as well. >> nbc's kelly owe done until wisconsin. >>> one person who has been noticeably absent from the romney endorsement circuit, former president bush. a question about g.w. made for an awkward exchange with romney and the parents of the 43rd president. >> endorsement? >> no, no. >> i love that picture of the two presidents, father, son. quite a legacy. >> we want to bring in our political power panel this morning, political commentate, alista menendez and jackie kucinich. great to have you here. former president g.w. bush after after thought yesterday, also m.i.a. at half a dozen fund-raisers romney's had throughou