mitt romney is mr. 1%. the republican party won't be looking out for those folks who are under water. the middle class has been forgotten and squeezed for decades. that's the core of this campaign. >> john, with mark, nice do you see guys. get some sleep, we have a big year coming up. thanks. >>> up next, florida went to the forefront of the housing boom and now sits in the center of a housing crisis. >>> plus, we'll tell you why you should be refinancing your mortgage right now. >> i'm in a time-out underneath my blanket just so i can get on e-trade. check my investment portfolio, research stocks... wait, why are you taking... oh, i see...solitary. just a man and his thoughts. and a smartphone... with an e-trade app. ♪ nobody knows... [ male announcer ] e-trade. investing unleashed. hey, i'm really glad we took this last minute trip me too. you booked our room right? not yet, thanks for reminding me. wait, what? fret not ma'lady. i have the hotels.com app so we can get a great deal even at the last minute.

south carolina primary happens, they could deliver the nomination to mitt romney and then they will have to decide if mitt romney is not mrright if it's good enough that's he's mr. right now. >> a lot of evangelicals say they are uncomfortable with mormonism, with a mormon candidate. why is that? >> there's a lot of reasons why evangelicals haven't backed mitt romney. a lot of them say they don't trust him on issues like abortion. he's changed his position or they don't like where he stood on health care some time back. there's this issue of his mormon faith. many evangelicals don't consider mormons real christians. that's offensive to members of the church. we're real concerns but for some evangelicals the fact that mormons don't believe in the trinity. they believe that god and jesus were separate physical beings, that's a real difference. mormons believe that god continued revelation in the book of mormon. catholics say this is outside the stream of traditional christianity. for some evangelicals that means we don't want our president representing that. some say that would legitimatizize a faith legitimae ize a faith w

the other part of this as we have discussed before, mitt romney is mr. 1% and the president himself, he does not come from wealth. he had student loans until just a few years before he became president. he knows what it's like to struggle, he knows what it's like to pinch pennies and this is a man who really does not think that $374,000 is a lot of money. so, i think that people day in, day out, are going to understand that this president with his wife, with his small children, is really much closer to their own lived experience than mitt romney, mr. 1%. >> now, tad, when you look at the fact that he has run, by his own choice, as a businessman, not running on his record as governor, he wants to run as -- on his experience in the private sector, then he has claimed any number of times that he has created thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, now has gone up to 120,000, but when you look at how he explains it, which debunks his statements is that he is dealing with companies bain invested in and added 120,000 jobs, only count success stories, no layoffs, counts jobs as of toda

romney's lead over newt gingrich has been cut in half in south carolina. in terms of the national trend polls, mr. romney is way out ahead but look at the movement recently. mittining and newt gingrich gaining. then there is mitt romney's favorability rating. just 35% of americans say they have a favorable view of mr. romney. the unfavorable numbers for mitt romney have begun to spike in recent weeks. >> i like being able to fire people that provide services to me. >> at this key moment in national politics, happy birthday, ted dibiase. the million dollar man. i don't know who wrote your character for you in pro wrestling, if that person has not already made their way there already, there is clearly a future for that person in political consulting. >> what it all comes down to is this: money isn't everything, it's the only thing. and everyone, everyone has a price for the million dollar man. whoa! golly, that is deep snow! yeah, can you get me out of it? of course. travelocity? that's how i got here! that's amazing! but i'm still stuck. come on man, dig it! [ female announcer ] travelocity. get great deals on all kinds of beach vacations. >>> congressional rep

of the 36 economists, a two- thirds consensus, say the best candidate to handle the economy is -- mitt romney. mr. romney certainly knows how to save. here he is saving words. >> when he was on the today show after being nag rated, he said if i can't get this economy to turn around in three years, i will be looking at a one-term proposition. well, here to collect! [applause] >> present a fair rap on the part of romney? >> yes, it is. i think the president has made two huge mistakes amount the very beginning of his presidency, one is the stimulus program was not only an inadequate but half went to the states and municipalities, which is call the public service unions. and did not do what had had to do, which is become a multiplier in economic dynamism. secondly, he voted months and months and months to the health care program, which amongst other things created a tremendous amount of what they call regulatory insecurity. and stanford and the university of california berkeley did a survey of this and found as much as two million jobs were not created because of regulatory insecurity. and that's a s

mr. romney, that liability which hurt mitt romney in his race against jom jm in 2008 is likely to be thatf a liability for him in 2012. yes, it does look like mr. romney otherwise his way to sewing up the nomination but this stuff still hurts and the race is not over. there is a reason the million dollar man was a wrestling villain. this stuff does not look good for a candidate. mr. romney's opponents seem to smell blood here. they know this is a weakness for mr. romney as a candidate. they are starting to press that advantage. >> to make a statement that i made a couple of extra bucks giving speeches when that couple extra bucks was over $300,000, that to me says more about governor romney and his connection with the american people than his tax rate which is driven by the tax code. >> you're saying because he made a lot of money he doesn't understand what american people go through? >> no, but to refer to $300,000 as a few extra bucks to me is -- $300,000 isn't a few extra bucks to me. >> rick santorum should be noted also a millionaire. smart enough not to mention it in that circumstan

is mr. mitt romney. >> susan mcginnis is live in manchester joining frus a polling place. good morning, susan. how is it going? any indications of who may be leading. >> reporter:: good morning, frank and grace. the indications are of an extremely light turnout. that's what we're seeing so far at the past couple of hour, the polls are open at this elementary school. we're getting a general feeling that voters are unhappy with the front runner mitt romney and with all of the choices. new hampshire voters headed to the polls early this morning, to cast ballots in the nation's first

mr. 22% is being retired, mr. romney gave his campaign a new number to worry about today. if i were the mittomney campaign i'm not sure if i wouldn't prefer old mr. 22% to the new guy he just brought on the scene. the new guy he brought on the scene is named mr. 15%. >> i the effective rate i have been paying is probably closer to the 15% rate than anything because my last ten years i've -- my income comes overwhelmingly from investments made in the past rather than ordinary income or rather than earned annual income. i got a little bit of income from my book but i gave that all away and then i get speakers fees from time to time not very much. >> mitt romney today explaining that the personal tax rate he pays is probably close to 15%. at the end when he said his speakers fees have earned him not very much money? what counts as not very much money to mitt romney? is $374, 000. that is what he earned in speaker fees in one year in 2010. mr. romney describing that amount as "not very much" did you hear what he said right after that? >> i get speakers fees from time to time, but not very much.

it's gotten a lot of attention, but it shows to the extent gingrich is now attacking mitt romney. mr. romney is campaigning obviously very aggressivefully florida and banking on a big win. gingrich made it clear hi is not only going to go on in future states but today he said he is going to continue on to the convention and has no intention of backing away. gingrich recognizes the upcoming states include a lot of caucuses where you can get a bigger bang for your buck when you organize for them. he sees opportunities in places like minnesota, where there's a big populace in the republican party that he believes he can turn against mitt romney. there's a lot yet to be said about this race but looks as though the florida aspect of it may soon be written and the chapter closed. the romney people look very confident. >> carl, you could argue all of this back-fighting, regardless, produces four candidates who still go all the way to the convention. i don't see ron paul going anywhere. i imagine he sticks it out. i think you could make a point that rick santorum might but you don't know. ne

that said, i wouldn't exactly say that mitt romney is mr. capitalist. out in american history of business, that's got to stop, too. tarp subsidizing g.m. and chrysler, attacking bain capital, you know what's killing this country? the government is killing this country. not bain capital and not the private sector. >> that's somewhat of your focus in your new book. on its face when you see that title, you think that sounds pretty good. would it be like utopia. >> it wouldn't be like tapioca. >> which i love, by the way. >> no, my premise in this book is that there's this force, what is this, that underlines statism that drives millions of people to it. it atracts millions of people and it ruins them. what is this? we talk superficially about big government and all this. what is this force that does it? what it is is this fantasy driven top down authoritarianism where people even today and people thousands of years ago used to argue about, you know, how everybody is going to be equal. no, everybody is not going to be equal. let me tell you something, americ

polls, the three most recent polls in south carolina, mitt romney is still ahead, but newt gingrich is close and gaining, and the ppp poll, he's up over mr. gingrich by 5. in the rasmussen up by 7. insider poll up by 2. the movement in the polls broadly speaking is mitt romney is holding steady or dropping. newt gingrich is rising. ron paul is rising. and rick santorum is falling. now there is still another week to go until south carolina votes. they vote next saturday. south carolina does not seem to be a gimme for anybody. south carolina seems to be in play. rick santorum so far is not showing much momentum in south carolina. he had that disappointing fifth place finish in new hampshire. oddly, this is an observation, who am to give him advice, i'm sure he wouldn't take it. i find it out when he went to new hampshire, about every event, he stressed all of his social conservative positions. so in the least sheelly conservative of all the early republican states, rick santorum went hard core and full bore on social conservative, abortion, anti-gay, how you should have sex and with whom, now that rick santorum is in south carolina, which

this is not an indictment but the idea thatwe're attacking mitt romney, i'm attacking capitalism. is he mrng to say he is on creative side and his record is false. you don't think that is going to happen in a general election. thanks for having me on. >> shep: take any one one of the major candidates and stack him up against president obama and you may have a pretty good chance of winning. new poll. up next we'll take a look at stats and how the campaign is responding to them and keep it on fox news channel through the night. we'll have live coverage with brett baier that goes all the way through at least 11:00 and hannity and on the record will be coming up after that. if you stay up, we'll be here. >> shep: 16 minutes to cavuto. president is not aggressively campaigning, aggressively is operative word but according to a poll, former massachusetts governor holding a two-point lead in general election match-up. that is within the margin of error, governor romney leads by 6 points when it comes to independent voters and despite what the white house says the president's fund-raising veevts,

is also the collapse of the basic justification for mitt romney. newt gingrich is killing mitt romney in the debates. two this week. supposed to be another one in florida on monday. mrromney today making sounds about potentially not showing up for the monday debate in florida. the romney campaign kicking a whole contingent of press off their campaign plane today. the romney campaign warning supporters they expect to lose tomorrow. in 2008, john mccain kicked mitt romney's butt. this year, none of these other republican candidates is john mccain. but could mitt romney still be beaten the same way he was beaten the last time? on a day like today it feels more possible than ever. >>> joining us next is the man who ran john mccain's 2008 campaign, stay tuned. ♪ what started as a whisper every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing. there's an insurance company that does that, too. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? ♪ feel the power my young friend. mmm! [ male announcer ] for unsurpassed fruit and veggie nutrition... v8 v-fusion. could've had a v8. over a million people have discovered how easy it is to use legalzoom for importan

mitt romney. the guy is like mr. magoo. you're going from doing this hire-wire walk with the republican party that doesn't seem to want him and yet he's stumbling towards the nomination and newt gingrich is helping him get closer by the day. >> i want to listen to what sarah palin said. i'm wondering, listen to the way she puts it, whether she found a way to connect this to a blue collar republican view of what this bain stuff might be. let's listen to how sarah palin put it. >> governor romney has claimed to have created 100,000 jobs at bain and people are wanting to know, is there proof of that claim and was it u.s. jobs created for the united states citizens? you know, the 100,000 jobs and i believe that that's what governor perry is getting at is, you know, own up to the claims that are being made and that's fair. >> joe, south carolina has watched their textile jobs move off shore for decades now. is she saying something that could play in south carolina? >> no, i really don't think so. not in the republican party. as

mitt romney's going after barack obama. newt gingrich is going after conservatives. walk us through the dynamic here. >> you know what i say about mitt romney now? luckiest rich man since mr. magoo. all of these guys are trying to be the romney alternative. no one's going after mitt romney at all with effectiveness. newt gingrich stopped talking process. all these doing is saying negative ads, tactic strategy. you've got to talk about the real lives of real people, which he knows. but for some reason, he's just all caught up in the fact that he's right, negative ads have been his undoing. at this point, gingrich and rick perry are going to need a boost to leave her with a positive result. or we're going to see the top three in some order of romney, santorum and ron paul. >> let's talk about the development of mitt romney in this stays. you brought it up many months ago. will he play in the state of iowa? he was playing an underground game, laying below the radar. now, over the last two weeks, he's clearly all-in. they believe they're the winner here tomorrow night. >> they think they can win. nair happy with the top three because they think at least in theory, they could

is trying a populoust appeal. that's his key edge. pitting mitt romney or whoever the republican nominee is, mr. 1%. the democratic base, particularly, the liberal base, is limited. only 20% of americans say they're liberal, so he's walking a fine line on the republican side that he is talking about wealth redistribution. >> jamal, let me ask you about what the president's plan is. the economic numbers were disappointing, but they may be enough to keep getting the kind of job growth we've been getting, which may be enough to get the president re-elected on that key point that matters so much. do you get the feeling they are concerned in the white house, that the economy is not cooperate rating? >> i think they're more concerned about what mayo cur. if the president can make the argument that we've turned the corner, the trajectory is going in the right direction, get a new president, it's going to take a long time for him to get up to speed and get moving. if he can make the argument, he's okay. the problem b is you've got europe dangling out there. you've got iran out there. there are all kinds of

paid off debt and balanced the budget four years and that is a rorted to run on mitt romney doesn't have a record to run on. >> chris: very briefly mra, you get the final word? >> guest: that is part of the fallacy of the argument. government doesn't create jobs. private sector does. they created more sustainable jobs than the government. rick tyler bought this film and he didn't do his homework or determine the voracity of it. he offers it and it was discredited. it is not a examination of the record. it is simply fiction. >> chris: we'll have to leave it there mr. tyler and mr.c chocola. we'll see how it plays out in south carolina. we invited speaker gingrich to come on the program and he turned down our invitation. up next, the republican field turns south. we'll break it down with our sunday panel when we come back. dave. -hey, dave. -hey, dave. hey. -hey, dave. -mr. dave. -dave. -what's up, dave? -dave. -dave. dave. dave. dave? hi, dave. oh, dave's looking for you. hey, dave. yo, dave! [ male announcer ] in a small business, it's all you. that's why you have us. at staples, we have low prices on everything your small business

is trying a populoust appeal. that's his key edge. pitting mitt romney or whoever the republican nominee is, mr. 1%.emocratic base, particularly, the liberal base, is limited. only 20% of americans say they're liberal, so he's walking a fine line on the republican side that he is talking about wealth redistribution. >> jamal, let me ask you about what the president's plan is. the economic numbers were disappointing, but they may be enough to keep getting the kind of job growth we've been getting, which may be enough to get the president re-elected on that key point that matters so much. do you get the feeling they are concerned in the white house, that the economy is not cooperating? >> i think they're more concerned about what mayo cur. if the president can make the argument that we've turned the corner, the trajectory is going in the right direction, get a new president, it's going to take a long time for him to get up to speed and get moving. if he can make the argument, he's okay. the problem b is you've got europe dangling out there. you've got iran out there. there are all kinds of things that