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martha: i'm doing great. good morning, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. last night's debate setting up what looks like a two-man race in florida when you look at all the polls across the board. a lot of passion. a few jabs. a little bit of humor mixed in. look at highlights. >> i did say and i don't know of any american president has a swiss bank account. i woe be glad for you to explain that sort of thing. >> i'm proud of being successful. i'm proud of become in the free enterprise system that creates things for people. i'm proud of that. >> governor romney in spirit of openness how much money he made how many houses foreclosed made by his investments. >> can we set aside that newt was member of congress and used skills as member of congress to advise companies and that is not the worst thing in the world and mitt romney is wealthy guy and going out and working hard. you guys leave that alone and focus on the issues. bill: that might have been a little too much to ask. "wall street journal" new poll shows this. mitt romney and newt gingrich, gingrich wit

martha. martha: indeed they are. the vetting process, and the vetting is sort of heavy right now. carl, thank you very much. carl cameron joining us this morning as usual at the top of the 10:00 hour. we turn our attention to rick taoeurl, a former spokesman to gingrich. he is now with the winning our future political action mitty that supports the former house speaker. good to have you today. >> good morning, i'm happy to be here. martha: did you find anything in mitt romney's tax returns that concerns you? >> the one thing that does concern me, i'm glad that he disclosed them. he's probably to disclose more. one thing that does concern me is how much taxes did he avoid paying from having off-shore accounts. that is one question people would want to know. martha: we know that so far the campaign has said that the taxes was paid on the money before it was deposited in those accounts. i'm sure you're right, we will hear a little bit more than that. there was a swiss account closed in 2010, that will be discussed as we

martha: good morning, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. it has been a dramatic 24 hours in this story. divers and firefighters searching. looking for the still missing 28 passengers and crewmembers. that captain screen right under house arrest. investigators try to figure out why he sailed his ship so close to land. >> the fact the ship went on the rock and the rock was on nautical chart. everybody sailing this area knows there is danger rock over there and really close call. under 50 meters. so we know that. the investigation, that we are taking is to understand why the captain let the ship go so close and hit the rock. bill: we also heard from the captain's lawyer this morning, blaming the ship's construction for the matter. greg burke streams live from the island on italy's west coast. greg. >> reporter: bill, you know, this really looks like a movie scene. it is just incredible. the thing is very, very sad movie as you see that boat just behind me, really just yards away from the island from the shore here. now the rescue at this point

martha? martha: ron paul basically skipping ahead to florida, he is headed to maine where caucuses begin next weekend. the texas kong man is placing a big bet on the west heading to colorado next week. he same in second in nevada four years ago right behind mitt romney. rick santorum is heading back to the campaign trail after his daughter bella quote, had a miraculous turn around according to his family. santorum had headed home to pennsylvania after his youngest daughter was hospitalized with pneumonia. the 3-year-old suffers from a genetic condition. his eldest daughter elizabeth stepped in for her dad at a rally in florida. >> he will be back. right now family comes first. >> can you give us status update on your sister, what happened and how she is doing now? >> she got sick and right now she is in the hospital. we're hoping she will be better soon. martha: bella is said to be doing much better. santorum is expected at campaign stops in missouri and minnesota today. she looks like her da

martha: i'm martha maccallum. mitt romney despite "the boston globe" situation he is crushing his competition in the granite state right now. look at rcp average we like to call it. they put a bunch polls together. mitt romney, 40%. ron paul at second place but a distant second at 21%. gingrich and huntsman splitting 9%. bill: they had all the predictions for eye awe and what happened? -- iowa. all the candidates fanning out across the state before the first-in-the-nation primary. molly line is live in new hampshire. good morning, molly. >> reporter: good morning, bill. new hampshire voters can break late. that is something to always watch. they make up their own mind and. mitt romney has been leading consistently in the polls. a pretty commanding lead. he has been focusing on president obama here in the state speaking with people not so much going after his white house hopeful competitors. he traveled to south carolina yesterday. perhaps a sign he is feeling pretty confident here in new hampshire. he traveled dow

martha: that makes me martha maccallum if you're bill hemmer. great to have you with us this morning. get this. more than 600,000 voters made their choice through the early voting process which is very popular in the sunshine state and many are absentee ballots. we just don't know. newt gingrich and mitt romney cruising the sunshine state. they're trying to shake hand and make eye contact for any last minute votes. uping the ante big-time. watch that. >> a massachusetts moderate who offers romney kiar is not in good position to debate barack obama who says romney-care is based on obamacare. hopefully the next couple weeks we'll be able to consolidate the conserve tough vote. in which case governor romney at that point will start losing badly. >> i know the speaker is not happy, speaker gingrich. sew not very excited these days. it is sad. flailing around a bit going after me for one thing or another. you watch it and shake your head. it has been painfully revealing to watch but i think the reason that he isn't doing so well because of those last

nominee, martha. martha: it's an interesting history. mitt romney's claims about the accomplishments at bain, have they shifted or changed over the years as he told this store row? >> reporter: somewhat in his run against senator edward kennedy romney claimed to have helped create between 10 and 17,000 jobs. those claims at that time were verified by both of boston's major newspapers the herald and the globe one of which endorsed ked kennedy that year. however, more recently in the last year romney has spoken about helped to create 100,000 jobs, not just 10 to 17,000 to get to that figure he's using all the jobs that the companies that were successful under his tenure have added over the years, even since romney himself left bain capital 13 years ago. tricky stuff you've got to keep on top of it. martha: we heard from the ceo of staples this morning who backed up those numbers. bill: a lot of paper clips isn't it, staples. martha: a lot of cheaper paper clips according to him. bill: search and rescue crews heading back to the crippled cr

martha?tha: house speaker john boehner giving his preview of this week's state of the union address coming up tomorrow night and his view is not pretty. take a look. >> they have made it worse. if that is what the president will talk about tuesday night i think it is pathetic. i think the president should listen to his own jobs council. it is time to go into a new direction. martha: why is the speaker is fuming before the president has even spoken his first words, they're going to the super bowl. wow, wow, wow! tom brady and the patriots beat the baltimore ravens. the ravens missing a field goal in the final seconds of that game that helped new england clinch it. it was a late night on the west coast and it was overtime. giants and 49'ers. super bowl two weeks away. the giants beating san francisco on their home field that is rematch by the way of the 2008 game. martha: i know. bill: giants-patriots faced off. martha: unbelievable. bill: during a heated primary season then as well. martha: co

martha? martha: how about rick santorum. he is trying to regain the momentum that catapulted him to virtual tie in iowa. santorum holding a town hall last night. there he is in columbia, south carolina, telling voters despite romney's success the future of this election is to the people of south carolina. >> south carolina has a choice. they have choice whether we want to go with the establishment, whether you think that is what america needs, or whether we want someone who has got bold plans, a bold vision for this country, got a track record to back it up and someone who believes that we need to take it to barack obama every step of the way and has the ability to do so? what do you think? martha: santorum went on to tell the voters he thinks the most important election they have ever been part of is what we are witnessing right now. bill: boy, after a last place finish in new hampshire, rick perry, the texas governor, banking on a good showing in south carolina to jump-start his campaign. we'll ask him about that live top

martha? martha: this is unnerving story.binet member has been barred from leaving the country of egypt. why the new leadership there is a whole new reality. bill: also, parents saying their daughters just suddenly went crazy. now new cases of a mystery illness appearing in one new york town. why erin brockovich is now getting involved. >> this is about getting the girls the proper help, finding the problem, correcting the problem so that no other kids get sick and they get the proper treatment. that's what it's all about. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. bill: goat some breaking political news now. sources telling fox news the north carolina governor, beverly perdue will not seek re-election. she is democrat. she won election back in 2009. so only one term for her but north carolina has been wracked by unemployment. still 10% at the moment. barac

here is martha. martha: as carl pointed out some of the people's mission who run the caucus is try to persuade people that come in and pull them over to their side. how will this work? iowans will trek into the church basements and school auditoriums and private homes in their neighborhoods and areas. the republican party require that the caucuses are held in nearly 1800 republican precincts. all of this gets started at 7:00 p.m. local time in iowa. it lasts no later than 9:00 p.m. any registered republican voter can attend. unregistered voters can attend and they can get in there and sign at the door. for independents as well. bill: carl mentioned that newt gingrich go all but conceding defeat in iowa to predicting rather victory. only days ago the former house speaker told reporters he expected to lose. gingrich telling his supporters his fate in iowa is in their hands. listen here from late last night. >> each of you will go to the caucus and make the best possible argument for nominating an exper

martha. martha: that is good place to start. hello, bill. good morning, i'm martha maccallum. the seals pulling off a daring rescue picking off nine somali pirates. in doing so they freed a pair of hostages including this young woman, american jessica buchanan. she had been held captive for the past three months. bill: let's go to the pentagon. jennifer griffin, you saw some signs last night. what was that? >> reporter: the biggest sign, the president walked into the chamber and shook hands with leon panetta the defense secretary. here is what he said. [applause] >> leon, good job tonight. good job tonight. >> reporter: we should have known what he was talking about at that point but we didn't. it was this raid had been called. he said good job tonight to panetta. we can confirm that 50 u.s. forces were involved in the raid into somalia to rescue those two hostages. they were from the navy seals. but 50 people on the ground in sew small yaw, those two hostages had been held since october, bil

good morning, martha. martha: welcome, bill. i'm martha maccallum. on the tape you're about to hear with the captain speaking with a member of the italian port authority. listen closely. >> translator: this is captain scatino there are people trapped own board. go on lifeboat on the bow of the ship on the side. there's a ladder. climb up the ladder and board the ship. get on board and report to me how many people there are. is that clear? i'm recording this conversation, captain scatino. let me tell you one thing. speak up. this ship at the moment. captain speak up, shield the microphone with your hand and speak louder, clear? at this moment the ship is tilted. i understand. people are coming down the ladder on the bow. go back in the opposite direction. get back on the ship and tell me how many people there are and what they have on board. clear? tell me if there are children, women, and what kind of help they will need. you tell me the number of each of these categories. is that clear? look, scatino perhaps you saved yourself from the sea but i wil

martha: ouch.t about this now with rob livingston former republican congressman from louisiana and a gingrich supporter, sir, welcome. good morning to you. good to have you here today. >> thank you, good to be with you. martha: he has said that a lot. it was an idea a minute, there was no discipline. he brought up the ethics violations against the former speak of the house. i'm about to talk to john senunu, he's barking up this tree as well that the ethic violations are far more important than the other things that came up last night. >> the ethics violation were nothing but a slap on the wrist that were brought about by retribution of the people in the democratic control of the congress. they were furious when they found out that newt gingrich had taken off the -- we've got a little problem here. martha: take a moment and put that -- can you hear me okay, sir? >> yeah, i've got it i apologize. martha: no problem. >> they were very upset when newt took on jim wright as speaker of the house. the dem

here is martha. martha: bill, thanks very much.residential candidate newt gingrich live in plymouth, new hampshire. as we said they are all over the state today. so we'll bring them to you in these live shots. he is making several stops today, talking to the folks in plymouth right now. we'll bring you those developments as they happen. last night the former speaker was "on the record" with greta saying the safety of america he believes with the iranian situation could be very much at stake. here is what he said. >> the fact is the iranians are headed by a dictatorship led by religious zealots. ask yourself a simple question, greta. if somebody puts on body bomb and walk in a bus or a grocery store or restaurants and blow themselves up in order to kill you, how happy would you think they would be to have a nuclear weapon so they could blow the whole city up? i think it is really dangerous to think that we can live in a world with iranian nuclear weapon and not run the risk of eventually losing an american city. that is how seriousl

martha: very -- martha. martha: very busy in new hampshire as you might expect. mitt romney speaking live from new hampshire. we'll bring it to you live as events hand. he knows there are tough economic times because he also once feared losing his job. >> i learned what it is like to sign the front after paycheck, not just the back of the paycheck and to know how frightening it is to see if you make payroll at end. week. these are experiences that many of you know. i know what it is like to worry whether you're going to get fired. there were a couple times i wondered whether i was going to get a pink slip. i care very deeply about the american people. and it frightens me to see a president who has made so many mistakes when people are hurting so badly. martha: romney of course, former ceo of investment firm bain capital which is increasingly becoming a focus of the attacks against him. his rivals have accused him making millions by gutting businesses and laying off their workers but this is a claim romney has strongly denied. the former utah governor jon huntsman

bill: martha.pect in the disappearance of natalie holloway expected in courtney minute now. where this is happening and why. bill: also jon huntsman puts all his focus in new hampshire, third place finish. can he keep the campaign going? he says he will. south carolina next. listen. >> you know what i saw from 10,000 miles away living over in china? i saw a nation with the greatest people on earth. a nation that is down for the moment, down temporarily but a nation that is about to rise up again. bill: got some new video this morning here in "america's newsroom" after a pair of tornados touching down in the houston area that is harris county. look at damage caused in this neighborhood. debris is everywhere. roofs missing. one survive said he and his mother and sister huddled in the closet while the twister slammed into their home. >> this house has been through a hurricane when ike came through. it didn't cause this much damage. >> the longest, 30, 45 seconds of my life. felt like it went on 10 min

martha: fascinating. he's using that rebel language which definitely resonates in new hampshire in getting that message out today. he also says it's in the negative to go after someone's record to describe what they have been doing. that is in reference to the sort of attacks that he's expected to make on mitt romney, which of course he was the subject of in iowa. as i mentioned a moment ago, congresswoman michelle bachmann as also announced a big thing today, she is suspending her presidential campaign in an emotional announcement that was made a little while ago. 6th place finish for her in the iowa caucuses. she talked about how that was her birthplace, she had to do well there. she told supporters she had no regrets about the whole thing, she ran her campaign with integrity. thee took final shots at president obama, specifically his healthcare overhaul law. here is what she had to say. >> i ran because i believed that since day one barack obama's policies, based on socialism are destructive to the ver

martha? martha: we're watching people voting across all of new hampshire this morning as things get rolling there. the best reporting on the new hampshire primary is right here in america's election headquarters. if you had any doubt, find the go-to guide for gop candidates. you can find out where they stand at your front row seat for politics, foxnews.com/elections. get news, analysis, commentary and the results. you saw the count in dixville notch. get all of that in realtime down to the individual counties. it is fascinating to look how all of this stacks up. go to foxnews.com/new hampshire for specifics. our prime time coverage starting 6:00 eastern tonight live from new hampshire. bret baier and megyn kelly will be take us through the evening. i'm doing exit polls. bill will be on the board showing all the cool stuff that is happening as we get rolling tonight. >>> give your take on the economy this morning. more americans using plastic. consumer credit rose 10% in november as people sta

martha: good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. as you remember on january the 3rd the iowa gop chairman came out. he announced a win by mitt romney by the slimmest of margins, eight votes. who can forget that night, right? the final tally. we were told it would come in two weeks. the final tally, guess, what shows, rick santorum ahead by 34 votes, but, this is a major but, okay? eight preseats, out of 100 precincts, eight of them are mysteriously missing. person supposed to carry the bundle of handwritten votes, the eight precincts are gone. they will be never be found or certified. we wait aofficial announcement. a lot of crest what really happened in iowa. bill, go for wit. bill: if memory serves there are 1766 precincts in iowa. it is a lot of precincts. this was the total we were given back on the 3rd of january deep into the night about 2:30 in the morning. remember that, long, long night? romney a winwer by just a hair. this is what we believe the count according to "the des moines register" we checked in a short time ago. s

martha? >> martha: another story.out of italy, as divers search for survivors of the tragic cruise ship crash. and the discovery today, sad discovery, of a woman's body, in a corridor in that ship has now brought the death toll there to 12. and now the ship's captain is starting to make admissions in all of this. he said he, quote, messed up and the investigation continues today. amy kellogg streaming live from giglio island, italy. joins me now. amy, good afternoon to you, good evening. >> reporter: hi, martha. well it has been days since the body was discovered, so, this was big news here on giglio today, the body of a woman, wearing a life vest and she was in difficult to access corridor and 20 people are still missing and the families keep coming out to the island hoping for some sort of news. including family members of the only american couple among the missing, a retired couple from minnesota taking a cruise of a lifetime. so, also, today, martha, the safe, the captain's personal property on the ship was recove

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neither martha stewart living nor j.c. penney has commented. >> susie: with the presidential politics in full swing, revamping the tax code is sure to get lots of play. tonight's commentator welcomes the discussion. she's maya macguineas, president of the committee for a responsible federal budget. >> we are going to be hearing more about taxes in the coming months, and given that it's campaign season, much of what you hear will be more politics than good tax policy. that said, here is what i would like to hear: we are going to need more revenues. the government faces a huge fiscal hole, and as much as we need to cut spending, new revenues will have to be part of the solution. promises about not raising taxes are just not realistic and they stand in the way of fixing our huge fiscal mess. second, marginal tax rates should go down, not up. this goes for corporations too. yes, if we get rid of many existing tax breaks we can actually lower rates, while raising more revenues in a way that will be good for the economy. pushing

at 4:41, martha stewart facing a lawsuit from macy's. >> a major internet company plans to track your every move. >> we're back with your weather first in just two minutes. keep it here. >> clear and chilly this morning. we're starting out in the 30s. even a few upper 20s up toward manassas. a few more clouds will show up. while we get to 45 or 46 early this afternoon, we'll pretty much stay there. winds not that bad. about five miles or so out of the west and northwest. i'll be back in five minutes telling when the rain is going to arrive. >> we'll take a look live at 66 inbound leaving centreville toward the fairfax county parkway. volumes are light on the fairfax county parkway in reston. a car, accident involving one vehicle with authorities on the scene. more coming up at 4:47. jessica? >> thank you, monika. the time is 4:39. it is time for the first your money segment of the morning. and here are the headlines. appearle had a blowout quarter, profits surged 118%. the company sold more than 37 million iphones from october to december. apple's report was released after the closing