michael crowley will join me live. three air force act cadets are accused of central assault.ers. a startling new study finds our mental decline starts well before the age of 60 like many of us previously thought. plus -- the oscar trailer is out and it's packed with celebrity cameos. we have the scoop on that. all that and more straight ahead. more now on the poll of a likely republican primary votener south caroline a. good news for mitt romney. he's the front-runner now surging 17 points in the past month to 37%. also good news for rick santorum as well. he surged 15 points in the skt place. the big loser? newt gingrich. he dropped 25 points in the past month and falling from the top of the pack to 30 place. joining me now to talk about all of this and make sense as well, deputy washington bureau chief michael crowley. let's put up that new cover here. looks like south carolina republicans are -- how do you like me now? >> they sure are and striking numbers. the conventional wisdom held that south carolina is not going to be a natural state for mitt romney. he didn't do wel

joining me now is deputy washington bureau chief michael crowley. thank you for your time. you like me now. do they like him with the dip of about two points and in iowa staying in that 25% range. those who criticize romney like to say 1 in four picked him and the rest did not. >> that's true. two ways you can look at this. at one point he was writing off iowa and not going to compete and nobody would have cared if he had lost and there is this 25% question. therefore we will be interested to see what happens in new hampshire and south carolina. he may be down a couple of points, and 41% is a commanding lead. rick santorum not very high in that poll, but i think the real showdown will be south carolina where romney does not have the home field advantage in new hampshire. >> we saw senator john mccain endorsing romney. john huntsman saying it didn't matter. you have the dnc out with a web ad and cataloging the instances where senator mccain criticized romney. let me play a bit of that web ad. you see it here. does this help at all with mitt romney getting this endorsement fr

crunch these dramatic numbers and their big meaning with "time" deputy washington bureau chief, michael crowley. let's start here in new hampshire before the south carolina numbers. the wmur poll out, romney 44, ron paul, 20, santorum and gingrich at 8%, is the goal in these big weekend debate, i can't assume they are going to beat him, how low do they need to knock romney down? >> a peg or two from where he is now the remarkable thing, john, they need to lift themselves up. i'm struck how low santorum's number s he got such a boost out of iowa. the surprise dramatic win, tops of free media, people talking about how he gave this great speech afterwards. 8%, i mean, he may be up from where he was, but still pretty weak. these guys and newt, also, they have to rise a lot. also know that huntsman is not moving in that poll. great news for romney all around. terrible news for the other guys. >> assuming romney, the former governor of massachusetts, he owns a vacation home here, he campaigned here for six years, assuming he can stay above 40% or in this ballpark that has been a momentum race even th

we're talking about that with michael crowley.magazine's" deputy bureau chief in washington. michael, something that struck me, one of the articles. a series of articles, obviously. the headline that said how obama saved romney. romney is on campaign trail ripping apart the president, your headline is saying the president is saving romney. >> what romney wants more than anything right now is for this to feel like a romney versus obama campaign. he wants inevitability. he wants a sense that he's already kind of passed the primary process, that these guys like santorum, gingrich, perry, nipping at his heels but it's a formality. you'll notice in interviews when he's asked about rivals like gingrich or santorum, he pivots to talk about the president and how he's going to take the fight to the president in november. so the more the president focuses on romney and obama's advisors are attacking romney, that actually plays into something he wants, which is a sense that this is already underway. game on romney versus obama. republicans n

joining me now is reaction from the civil rights coalition, michael myers and nationally syndicated, monica crowleyood stamp president? look at the numbers. 36 million to 46 million. obama's policies resulted people on food stamps? >> hasn't been that been the objective. the objective of the democratic party is expand the people that is dependent on government. this is purpose of obamacare. this is the point of everything they have done. there are two parts of this. one to expand the cult of victim hood. this is what they need. secondly to eventually achieve a full democratic majority. when you change the balance in the public sector you have a permanent voting majority. >> sean:. >> a racial component to this? what is so unfair about saying this is a food stamp president? >> a food stamp president, gingrich should know he was lbj. he created it to address it and hunger problem in america. >> sean: one in six americans. >> when it comes to racial issue that is good question. what does food stamps have to do with blacks and what do blacks have to do with food stamps. this is not a racial issue. the

michael! [ male announcer ] and step out of the shadows. hi! how are you? [ male announcer ] learn more at isitlowt.com. [ laughs ] hey! >>> state of the union with candy crowleyop of the hour. the republican presidential candidates stumping in south carolina. candy joins us live with the state of the gop race. candy, we're going to hear from rick perry on your show today, right? he was expecting to get the christian conservative vote, which apparently he didn't. >> it's interesting because this is a guy who came out of texas. the whole reason he stayed in this race -- remember in iowa he decided -- he said, okay, i'm going to go home and reassess the campaign. the day later, he said, i'm going to south carolina. why? because his brand of social as well as fiscal conservatism is sort of made to order in south carolina. he's a born again christian. he is totally in sync with the issues of the social right, and yet he didn't get their vote. and when they came out and talked a little bit about it, it was very clear the reason rick perry did not come out as the consensus candidate from this group of evangelicals is they don't think he can win. this is not the kind

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crowley, steve hadley. brian jenkins all the way from california. michaelism center and papa to be. stewart levy. is stewart here? jim lloyd, phil mudd, eric olson, guys won, juan zarate, evan wolf, gary hart, former senator gary hart a new member of the group. you are from colorado and the indefatigable director of homeland security, inspector general clark ervin. the wilson center is pleased to partner with the aspen institute to host this event. the second public discussion we have held with secretary, home and secretary janet napolitano. today, we are examining the international dimension of homeland security. most people don't recognize what an important role the department of homeland security actually plays internationally. as a recovering politician, as i mentioned, who sat on the house homeland security committee and chaired its subcommittee on intelligence for many years, i do know about this. representing two of america's largest courts of entry and terror targets lax and the port of los angeles i spent a lot of time thinking about the best ways