you know, we wish marianne no ill will. we wish her the very best. but it happened a long time ago. >> reporter: marianne gingrich says she does have fond memories of newt. walking in the mall. hiking in the mountains. dressing up for halloween. a time when she says they did not have much power or money. did that create a desire to get rich? >> i think we would talk that money would come when he left congress. >> would the gentleman from georgia raise his right hand. >> reporter: but while still in congress, when gingrich became speaker of the house, they traveled the world, even as he and she were caught up in several ethics investigations. on this issue, marianne defends her ex-husband. is he an ethical man? >> at the time, i believed him to be ethical. >> reporter: marianne herself became the subject of an fbi sting investigation, after meeting in paris with a notorious arms dealer, who was working as an undercover government source. the investigation was ultimately dropped. but a 1997 fbi document, obtained by abc news says, gingrich told the sou

that is not a marriage. >> i'm not going to say anything negative about marianne. my two daughters cathy and jackie have sent a letter to the president of abc news saying from a family perspective they think this is totally wrong. they think abc should not air anything like this and that intruding into family things that are a decade -- more than a decade old are simply wrong. >> bill: talking points believes this is terrible stuff and you, the voter, must decide if it is relevant. in the past the press has largely looked away from marital indiscretions we can site jfk. president clinton's problems changed everything and so has the 24/7 news cycle. so gingrich will have to relive his past once again. that's the memo. let's bring in chief investigating correspondent brian ross who did the interview with marianne gingrich. mr. ross broke the jeremiah wright story during the last presidential campaign. also reporting in mitt romney's offshore investments now. doing that interview make you scweem squeamish at all, brian. >> not where i thought i would go when we were s

marianne gingrich: yes.rrporter: when he asked you for the divorce? marianne gingrich: yes.nd he also was advised by the doctor while i was sitting there that he knew." gingrich flat-out story is false. every personal friend i have who knew us in that period says the story was false. we offered several of them to abc to prove it was false. they weren't interested because they would like to attack any republican." gingrich's daughters from is first maariage did appear on a-b-c to refute the claims. they say his second marriage was a troubled one...and that their father is a ddfferent man noo than he was then.i'm ninette sosa, reporting. right now we don't know how the allegations will effect gingrich's campaign... four polls overrthe last few days have shown gingrich catching up to romney's long-held lead in south carolina. and then to know that rrverend al green was here (singing... i... i'm so in love with pou...) cheers cheers that's the president... showing off his pipes... at a re-election fundraiser last night ii new york.the event back fond memories... for the .3 presi

marianne gingrich did not want to do. in fact, the phrase was essentially what she also told abc news. what she said was that's not a marriage. you know, you can't have more than one wife in a marriage. >> why does she come forward now? some are questioning the timing of this. >> well, it's an interesting question. you know, a source tells me that she thought this is -- the interview may have actually run after the south carolina primary, not before. you know, she had been, sources tell me in discussions with two networks, cbs "60 minutes" and brian rothstein. she chose the brian rothstein to do the interview. she sat down for two hours earlier this week, and she had been under the belief that it was going to run after the primary, but when drudge report got ahold of it last night, abc decided they couldn't hold it and they are putting it on tv this evening. >> let me go to you, dick. will this stop newt's surge? let me show you why i'm asking. today, two very well known far right republicans are -- or conservatives, i sh

we have to see the content of this ad. >> what marianne gingrich said is a shocker. this goes above and beyond what you normally hear is a negative statement and if there's truth to it and none of us know, it's a reprehensible thing. i can't imagine women having any other reaction. >> it stood out to me all week when we had newt on a week ago, you had newt winning among evangelicals, but a huge gap, women preferring mitt romney and how this affects that is a big question. >> romney has to deal with the tax issue as well tonight. and newt gingrich's case, there's a reasonable possibility he can win south carolina, but i think this is a real drag on him in the longer term and he's got to be concerned about that. >> all right. we've got rick santorum arriving now. we're going to show some footage as he walks in and that brings me to you, john. i'm going to pound your chest for you. you are the one who day after iowa, ari and david, i don't think it really turned out this way. and everyone said, all right. we know you're passionate about this, but you were rilgt and you

marianne has waited 12 years to talk about this.f assuming that she's a bitter ex-wife. >> john, let me stop you for a second. hey, john, i'm going to stop you. forgive me. we're going to get your mic issues fixed. we can't hear you. let me throw it back to james while we tweak your mic issues so i can get the next question to you. i was going to ask you about the timing issue which is what he was having an issue with. go ahead. >> marianne gingrich, according to a source, thought that interview was actually going to run after the south carolina primary. she told me yesterday, she said she thought the interview was going to be inevitable. she hadn't done a television interview since the divorce. newt gingrich was surging in the polls. she thought she was going to have to talk about it at some point. she was sort of the silent woman out there. she's an old political hand. she was hand in glove with newt gingrich for 18 years of that marriage. it was a political marriage. and she knows in politics you've got to get your story out ther

then bernie goldberg on whether abc news was evil to run the marianne gingrich interview.hose reports after these messages. >> bill: thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly in the lowe's the boss. some people have no idea what's in the offshore account. i don't know what they are. mitt romney apparently has $8 million in the cayman islands. have you been to the cayman islands by the way. >> i have been to the cayman islands. >> you have a lot of money offshore. >> it's always fun to look at other people's domiciles for their money. >> bill: why would anyone have $8 millioned in the cayman islands. >> that number by the way is a very conservative estimate. >> bill: might have more. >> absolutely. numbers rise as high as triple digits. in terms. >> why? why not invest your money in the america not cayman's. hurricane and the money is gone. >> i can't understand why the rest of the medias is talking about it. you focused on the issue. why wouldn't he put his money there? the answer is he gets to defer faxes on the money that is in a trust in the cayman islands earning i

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. >>> issue one, marianne and calista. >> i said to him, newt, we've been married a long time. and he said, yes, but you want me all to yourself. calista doesn't care what i do. he was asking to have an open marriage, and i refused. >> republican presidential contender newt gingrich this week was at the center of a political firestorm. marianne gingrich, his former wife, told abc news her husband had asked her over 10 years ago to engage in an open marriage. marianne would remain married to newt, while newt had a mistress who is his wife now, calista gingrich. newt denies the charges. >> the story is false, every personal frduring that period says the story was false. >> question, how will this affect newt gingrich in the presidential race? pat buchanan? >> john, as a result of newt's response, which was very tough and angry that a personal scandal of his dating back 12 years would be brought up option the first question in the dough bait, the way he knocked it out of the park and his pressed indignation brought him a second surge in south carolina and brought him up to tie in

the reaction of marianne gingrich.is explosive claim. it actually was the night's very first question right out of the gate. gingrich was outraged at that and said the accusation is false, and that's when he turned his anger on the media for even reporting the story. >> i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. and i am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that. to take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything i can imagine. >> very strong words last night from the former speaker. he went on to accuse what he called the elite media for attacking republicans while protecting president obama. that earned him a standing ovation. and again, we see this in every presidential race, this issue of character. can someone maybe have some moral transgressions but still be a

but marianne claims they had already started divorce proceedings. campaign carl cameron live in charleston, south carolina tonight. well, this is getting interesting. what exactly has newt gingrich said on these things? >> well, he has been pretty cautious in advance of tonight's debate. he was asked about it all day long. here was one of his more complete answers. >> i'm not going to say anything about marianne. my two daughters have already written to abc complaining about this as tawdry and inappropriate. >> tawdry and inappropriate. gingrich's crowds today, shep, still big, still energized and thinking that he could actually pull off an upset here in south carolina. >> shepard: he did get that rick perry endorsement today. >> which is very important. rick perry is well-known in south carolina. this is a state he announced in. he didn't have a lot of votes to offer. vote of confidence that gingrich absolutely needed on this day. so now the rest of the field. mitt romney, ron paul, rick santorum all still very much in the race. and they make no me

her name is marianne gingrich, nooult's second wife. he does not speak to. has given a two-hour interview which is likely to air tonight on abc. his daughters have already defended him in a statement. his daughters are from gingrich's first marriage. this morning on the "today" show, gingrich was asked if marianne's testimony is likely to be damaging. >> is your ex-wife someone that you think people should see as credible on your character? >> i think that my two daughters are very decreed of my character. i think people that have known me a long time are credible. i think we have lots of folks willing to speak about this. i'm not going to. people have to judge me. i'm a 68-year-old grandfather. they see how close i tom my wivment they'll have to make their mind up. >> finally, the obama campaign is up with the president's first re-election ad. and it's a response ad. it is early proof that general election is going to be negative, expensive, and outside groups are going to have a huge influence. the ad, the obama ad is airing in iowa, michigan, north caroli

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you heard there, an account of marianne gingrich's allegations. rick santorum finds out this morning he won the iowa caucuses. rick perry out of the race. he endorses speaker gingrich. a lot to discuss now as the candidates prepare to take debate stage now. i'm joined by our political analyst gloria borger and our white house correspondent jessica yellin. gloria, what is the potential impact? any negative impact among south carolina voters? >> i think there is a potential negative impact. this is of course very close to the election. so it may be coming too late to have a large impact. when you think about newt gingrich and you look at our recent poll in south carolina, we see he has twice as much support among men as he does in women. so he's already got women sort of skeptical. they know that he's had three marriages. and let's be honest. when a woman hears the word "open marriage" when a wife hears that, it's usually not good news. and i think women will react skeptically to it. but again, how much impact it's going to have in south carolina is

>> i'm not going to say anything about marianne. daughters have already written to abc complaining about this as tawdry and inappropriate. both might daughters are prepared to speak with anyone on the record. several people who knew the situation are prepared to speak on the record. i'm not getting involved. >> reporter: earlier a man in the crowd questioned him about his personal life and the former speak said judgment will be up to the voters. >> look, i think this is a decision you have to make. you've been very open about my life, about mistakes i've made, about needing to go to god for forgiveness. >> reporter: south carolina votes on saturday. there's not a lot of time for voters to sift through the newest information. >> it will have many some impacts, but when the details start coming out, it will have less impact than i think perhaps the former mrs. gingrich would have hoped. >> she's given interviews before, but i would say never at a more critical time in his political career. >> we'll see how it shakes out, and then in f

was the abc story itself a late hit, repeating charges that marianne gingrich first made long ago? we'll ask the correspondent, abc's brian ross. >>> fox's juan williams draws flack at another debate for challenging the candidates with a series of race-related incidents including this one with gingrich. >> can't you see that this is viewed at a minimum as insulting to all americans, but particularly to black americans? >> was he acting as a journalist, or an advocate? plus, the "new york times" ombudsman hit by a media firestorm after asking whether his paper should be a vigilante for truth? we'll ask art brisbane why his column touched a nerve. i'm hourt kurtz, and this is "reliable sources." >>> this is cnn, breaking news. >>> we'll get to the campaign shortly, but the breaking news this hour, joe paterno is dead at 85. the former penn state football coach who has been much in the news lately had been hospitalized for lung cancer. the word came this morning that he has passed. he has been with that program, associated with that school and that program for half a century, associat

for marianne gingrich.ig story dominating the early part was rick perry coming out, dropping out and endorsing like he did newt gingrich. >> it was a wild day. the internet blackout was yesterday and it feel like it was three months ago. santorum won the iowa caucus this morning. the perry thing is big news. i don't think it's a lot of big news that perry supports will go to gingrich. i don't think perry had a lot of support to go to gingrich but it does create a sense of gelling around gingrich as the not romney, the conservative a terptive to romney at precisely a moment where people are forgetting today romney has had a bad week. i don't think he had a good debate. the fox debate was not a good debate for romney and he has had the gaffes. tax things and the rest. people are unsure with romney. he just lost the iowa caucuses. and gingrich is getting the surge as the alternative to him. it helps, even in perverse way, the marianne gingrich stuff fuels that everybody is talking about gingrich right now. >>

marianne gingrich, wife no. works appeared on nightline last night -- two, appeared on nightline last night saying that newt wanted marianne to share a relationship with him saying apparently according to marianna she doesn't care. marianne told newt that was not a marriage. also this morning texas governor rick perry who was vying for conservative support got out of the campaign saying he wanted his supporters instead to back a true conservative gingrich whom he said yes, is flawed but then perry went on to talk about his religious beliefs, that even those with flaws if they believe in god can be redeemed. he said he believes that is what happened to newt gingrich. other news today in that roller coaster political day that derek talked about, the iowa gop announced it was wrong when it said mitt romney won the caucuses there 2 1/2 weeks ago. instead the new winner, i rick santorum by 34 votes. that changed the political momentum of the santorum, gingrich and romney campaigns and will have a big impact on this y

marianne is this the flu? >> reporter: no it is not. i spoke with an infectious disease specialist here at kaiser and he says we are at the very beginning of flu season and he has not seen many cases at all, but it is other viruses that are making people feel horrible. coughing, sneezing, fever, nasty symptoms sending people in the bay area to the doctor's office, instead of school or work. doctors say they are not seeing a spike in flu cases, so, what's making us sick? >> we have seen an increase in rsv the past few weeks and a substantial amount of rsv going around, probably hasn't hit its peak yet. >> reporter: rsv produces cold-like symptoms that hit kids hard, often causing them to be hospitalized. a spike in rsv also provides clues about what other viruses may soon infect us. >> most years, we see a peak in rsv activity and within a couple of weeks, see a second peak of influenza activity. rsv always comes first. >> reporter: at silicon valley pediatricians in los gatos, doctors say she has had to admit several children to the hos

. >> marianne victoria crandall. >> out of the presence of the jury, marianne crandall told the courte carrie zuck, she met tom through dar and a couple of weeks after dar's murder marianne stopped by the farm to offer tom support. >> i don't mean to embarrass you, but you had sex with tom in his living room? >> he tried to. and it was stopped. >> who tried and who stopped? >> he tried, and we both stopped. >> you don't have a sexual relationship with somebody within two weeks after your wife's been murdered in that house. >> but the jury never heard marianne crandall's testimony. because there was no indication of a romantic relationship prior to dar's murder, the judge ruled, just as he did in the first trial, that her testimony was prejudicial and therefore inadmissible. it was a huge blow to the prosecution's case. >> it supports the position that they weren't this deeply in love couple that he kept trying to present. i mean, that would have proven that. >> but norris still had her two key witnesses, tom's own son heath and heath's friend skyler watty, both two years older and now

maybe marianne gingrich decided to give it to them.on't know of a news organization that would have decided not to take the interview. >> eric: abc news has history of deciding whether or not to run with things. whatever. the night before the debate, hours before primary election. i don't know. it's the establishment hooking up with the liberal left to take the legs out of anyone that appears to be even slightly making ground under the establishment candidate they think is the anointed -- >> bob: that is a little reach. believe me. it's a reach. talk a second about perry. >> dana: thank you. >> bob: perry had anywhere from 8 to 10 points in the polls down there. getting out and endorsing newt is going to convert, when you get out of a race and endorse somebody you will get votes out of it. newt was closing, is closing as far as i can tell on romney quickly. this may make a difference. if this comes down to one-point race and gingrich wins by one, thank perry. >> dana: i thought going in iowa stuff you said if people drop out they're no

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