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mr. huntsman.pected talking about your economic policies and, yet, you can't seem to get any traction. what is going on? >> you've got to have a market moving event. i'm absolutely convinced. the fact that we're lower in the polls nationally doesn't mean a thing. new hampshire is where the action is going to be and i'm here to tell you right now it's going to be a two-person race. we celebrated our 101st public event the other night, house parties, vfw club, we are connecting with the people on the ground because of the very things that you cited there. they get the part that this nation has been downgraded under this president. they get the part that we have high joblessness, highest in a very long time, and it's not getting better. they get the part about $15 trillion in debt. they get the part about afghanistan being an ongoing problem. they get the part about the other major problem in this country, which is trust. we have a trust deficit. i don't think a lot of people are focused on it. the pe

newt gingrich and his wife are on a luxurious vacation at an undisclosed location and jon huntsman mr huntsman has been written by goat well campaigning in new hampshire so we want to risk allowing a rabid candidate on the stage right let's get started candidates thank you so much for joining me tonight and we're going to start with issue number one on the mind of many americans right now recent census figures have shown us that in two thousand and ten poverty levels went up so now forty six million people forty six point two million people in this country are living below the poverty line if you look at the official unemployment numbers over nine percent if you look at the real unemployment numbers as measured by the you six sixteen over sixteen percent. i'm sure what's going on where you live it isn't going you know this is this is this is one of the serious issues that are facing the nation right now poverty they want a president and as a candidate do you have any good promises any good ways that you can promise to bring this country back onto its feet to fix the economy to drag people out

mr. huntsman who has picked up a little bit of speed there. shep? >> shepard: doug mckelway in washington. thanks. jon corzine has splains to do. something the governor from new jersey to talk about the collapse of mf global the company he once ran. just yesterday customers learned that more than a billion dollars of their money may still be missing. the house panel reports it will ask governor corzine about the events leading up to the company's bankruptcy filing last month. regulators say they are investigating whether mf global mixed its own money with client's cash, that would be a major violation. the company's collapse was the biggest wall street failure since lehman brothers three years ago. days after a police officer triggered outrage when he pepper sprayed students sitting peacefully arm in arm in a university in california. the protesters are back. we are see what happened when they came back to reclaim their space. and word of children coming forward to say penn state's jerry sandusky abused them too. in this case they claim the abuse ha

mr. huntsman the other day and it's almost like roll over. i thought it was a terrible answer.hat he gave it improperly. i think it's a terrible answer to a big problem. i think that we have to focus from within. we have to start getting back to the core values of this country. the world is eating our lunch. they are taking our jobs, they are doing numbers on us, and our politicians aren't smart enough to even realize it. when we have the president of china coming to this country, and obama gives him a steak dinner, what he's doing to this country is unbelievable. i'm not talking about obama, i'm talking about the president of china but if you think about it, president obama also. >> and opec is the other one that gets you really going. >> opec is the single biggest abuser of this country, absolutely. >> which of the candidates has the toughest approach to opec? >> i haven't seen anybody. >> none of them. >> i haven't seen them using the word opec, i haven't seen them discussing it too much. but i will say this, the candidate that wants to drill in this country without mentione

mr. huntsman and patted his stomach." he patted his stomach. rick perry may not be running a very effective presidential campaign at this point, but i admire the fact he seems to be having a really great time doing whatever it is he's doing. particularly when he's in new hampshire. i don't know why new hampshire makes him so giddy. but it patently does. but iowa comes before new hampshire. today marks five weeks until the iowa caucuses and with rumblings today that herman cain might be considering quitting the race, that he is reassessing the viability of his campaign, given the latest sex scandal allegations about him, the two most recent polls out of iowa show a pretty clear trend. herman cain's loss in the polls is newt gingrich's gain. since the last insider advantage iowa poll three weeks ago today, herman cain dropped 13 points and newt gingrich gained 13 points. that poll has newt gingrich way out ahead of the field in iowa. similarly in the latest rasmussen poll in iowa, again, three weeks ago, to last week, herman cain dropped 15 point

mr. huntsman may be wizard, but that was not a magic moment. mitt romney, in trying to humanize his rather stick figury persona, mitt romney has tried to drop some pop cultural knowledge on his peeps. last time around he blew it with a who let the dogs out thing. with a group of african-american youngsters -- do we have the who let the dogs out tape? do we still have that? >> who's got your camera, though? who let the dogs out? who, who? >> still awkward after all these years. mitt romney's cultural references. who, who. this time around have not been as embarrassing or bordering on scandalous as that one. they've more just been kind of confirming him as seeming stiff and out of date. >> there's something special about lakes where you don't get salt on you after you've been swimming. where there's no seaweed. where you don't have to worry about things eating you in the water, right? and -- i don't worry about sharks. but somehow in the back of my mind, after seeing that movie "jaws," you know, it just -- it just makes you think. >> in some resp

mr. huntsman, jon huntsman, says that it diminishes the u.s.he world talking about waterboarding. ron paul as well doesn't agree with it. and we caught a tweet from senator john mccain. he says he was very disappointed by the statement at the south carolina and gop debate supporting waterboarding. waterboarding, he said, torture. >> what's up next on the agenda for the president? >> reporter: today is a down day for the president here in hawaii. le doing a campaign fund-raiser. then of course we hit the road again. he'll be making stops in australia next, then headed to bali. the big picture of what will be taking place on these next stops again will be focused on the economy and boosting jobs back at home. >> we know what a down day for the president means. a little time on the beach there, dan. i know you'll be hard at work here. want to bring up one last thing here. i know he is trying to push forward trade agreements with asia. how does he plan on doing that? why is that so important? >> well, it is important because as we've seen what has

mr. john huntsman for standing up and saying, no, this isn't what america is about and that torture is inconsistent are saying we don't need it. >> you're right to point out two of them did say. let me go to you. many of us on different sides of the political spectrum, right and left may disagree with a political policy. i've disagreed with the intervention into sovereign states, but explain to me, dana, what it is that mr. cain stands for when he attacks president obama on his invasion of libya. i want you to interpret this for me and for my fellow americans. >> so you agreed with president obama on libya, or not? >> libya. i do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reasons. that's a different line. got all this stuff twirling around in my head. specifically, whether you ask me that i agree or disagree. >> dana, you are my expert in cain language. could you explain that to me? >> reverend al, i would love to but i have a lot of stuff swirling in hi head. you really get the sense you're watching a spoof of it. for people wo satirize politics it's getting hard to do better than rick

mr. huntsman at a town hall meeting saturday.is was oh so by the atkinson republican committee of new hampshire. it was the first campaign stop in his four-day trip in the state. this is about an hour spent how is everybody here? >> a good. >> good to see you. it's a pleasure. >> hello. >> thank you. pleasure to see you. >> thank you very much. my goodness. i didn't think it would be anybody here when i arrived. >> this is just the generator. the power has been out. >> that's incredible. we got in tonight and i thought -- [inaudible] got early notice, for folks may be, a couple more. thank you. delighted to be with you. >> you're welcome. >> is this going to be like a roundtable? >> ensure. >> atkinson republican committee has, would like to introduce -- the second in a series. >> you're my favorite. >> some guy in the gray shirt back here. the atkinson committee -- i happened to report because of his experience because he means what he says and says what he means. i think in new hampshire we make the decision. not the media. >>

mr. huntsman is very good. i believe that he is a very intelligent man. a lot going for him. like him. host: what about newt gingrich or mitt romney, who seemed to be ahead of in the polls? caller: they would never get my vote. i might consider him. host: what is holding her back? caller: he has not had alike past either. -- a lily white passed by there. three times married, what is wrong here? you could see the second time, but the third time, what is going on here with this man? host: here is an e-mail from a viewer. it is the media that exploits these events and yes, the personal life does matter. arthur, a democratic caller, what you think? caller: in this instance, i do not feel like personal life should matter all that much. it is supposed to be personal. i think that these people had a problem with this and they should have done it 13 years ago. the person that should be most concerned would be his wife. she has the final say. thanks. host: john, an independent from maine. caller: all politicians lie. in politics, you have to be a realist, not an idealist. this woman,

. >> tonight congresswoman michele bachman, governor jon huntsman, and mr. herman cain all here tonight. you will hear from them just moments from now. the candidates tonight facing off in a showdown over national security and foreign policy. >> i think it is unpatriotic because it underminds our liberty. i'm worried like everybody about our terrorist attacks. timothy mcveigh was a terrorist. and terrorism is a criminal, it's a crime, and we should deal with it. >> if there are some areas of the patriot act that we need to refine, i'm all for that. but i do not believe we ought to low out the baby with the bathwater for the following reasons: the terrorists have one objective that some people don't seem to get. they want to kill all of us. so we should use every means possible to kill them first or identify them first. >> at this point i would continue that aid, but i do think that the obama policy of keeping your fingers crossed is not working in pakistan, and i also think that pakistan is a nation that it's kind of like too nuclear to fail. we have to make

doesn't this open up the perfect opportunity for john huntsman to display expertise on china and really e vis rate mr? do you think that's what's going to happen? >> i don't think you will see john huntsman being in the debate because he hasn't been so far as all. what i think we will see is mitt romney continuing to push forward. he had a good speech today and as we talk about what may or may not happen with herman and any involvement with rick perry. for mitt romney, he was able to sit back and focus on jobs and look presidential. i is up will see him do that next week too. >> isn't he is the luckiest guy in the world? he doesn't make mistakes and is not charismatic and stays about the same and goes up in the polls and everyone else is imploding around him. >> they really don't want him. 3/4 of the base do not want him. he did make one when he came out and flip flopped on the ohio law on tuesday. by then we know the results and which way that goes will depend on whether he benefits or not from the flip flop. if that goes down -- >> don't under estimate you can change his opinion. they have been ral

mr. santorum still polling at roughly 4% there. also jon huntsmanentire campaign on new hampshire, only polling at 9% there and can't get a bounce to save his life. don't forget poor tim pawlenty who sunk everything into iowa, who ran really, really hard in iowa and dropped out after the ames straw poll. for whatever reason, early state campaigning does not translate into doing well and isn't cutting it for republican candidates. what does seem to be having an impact for the candidates in the polls is the debates. tons of people watching the debates and there have been a ton of debates. the republican candidates have completed ten of them.ç along with two forums and one sort of fakey super friendly two-person nondebate between newt gingrich and herman cain for which the tickets were really expensive. there's apparently going to be three more debates between now and christmas. these things have been the greatest show on earth. at the very first debate, we were reminded why it was so great ron paul is always around at these things. >> senator, are yo

ron paul and paul huntsman third and fourth respectively. mr. cain dropped to 5%.o on the campaign trail, a growing number of critics are now challenging president obama's itinerary and asking if he is campaigning on the taxpayer's dime and if so whether that's appropriate. the president is setting a new record for visiting swing states. jay carney defended the president's travel during this briefing yesterday. >> he expanded the electoral map. isn't the criticism the campaign and not the taxpayer should pay for it. >> he can't make official travel to any state that is considered contested or close. and we reject that. the president has a responsibility as commander-in-chief as well as the leader of the country on domestic matters to go out and meet with americans. megyn: ed henry was asking the question you just heard, and he's live in the briefing room right now. >> reporter: as you heard jay carney yesterday, he makes a fair point that president will be aso has expand the electoral map. in 2008 he won states like virginia and indiana that had not been won by a d

mr. cain. what are his rivals saying? are they putting pressure on him to bow out of this thing? >> reporter: rob, jon huntsman says every time the allegations come up, it distracts the entire field from discussing issues that matter to the american people. and michele bachmann, another one of cain's opponents, said that pretty much, that -- she noted that since these accusations broke, cain's standing in the polls have decreased. rob and sunny? >> abc's tahman bradley. thank you. >> fall from grace. he boasted after the sexual harassment claims came out, he raised a bunch of money. he wrote an open letter to his supporters saying, i'm asking for your prayers and support. this is a trying time for my family, my campaign and for me. see if the money keeps flowing in. >> and i think it's interesting that there has been a discord with the message being sent from cain. and his campaign said two things would push him out. mrs. cain and if we show up to do events and no one is there. who knows? >> that would be a tell-tale sign for sure. >>> and stay with "good morning america" later this morning, and we'll be talki

earlier today i was hanging out with the huntsman daughter no less, they had a few ideas -- ideas -- >> greg: did they like your hat? >> eric: take a listen. mrkel, liberal commentator from "the five." >> i'm blocking. i like greg gutfeld. >> really? changing the -- you're a fan? >> he brings spice. diversity. >> i'm going to block it, because i am going to talk about eric. >> there you go! >> dana: that must have been a hard segment. >> bob: is this -- >> dana: like to meet the campaign that suggested they come on your show. >> eric: that was fantastic. you should see what they did about kim kardashian. >> bob: i don't care what they did about kim kardashian. see what they did about me. >> eric: they love you. that was love. >> bob: that is love? >> andrea: you have a rough job, don't you? >> bob: please take the hat off. please take it off. >> dana: that is a good thing. >> greg: he twinkled. >> bob: i don't know what that is. who is queen? >> eric: it's a band -- >> dana: talk about that in the break. >> eric: coming up, 30-year-old hollywood mystery is reopened and witness says he knows who killed actress natalie wood. details next on "th

mary kay huntsman i were friends and we are better friends now and we will be better after this. and mrs gingrich, i've gotten to know her better on the trail. i know all of the sowses except one, i met karen, and what a beautiful woman. there's no many. but interestingly enough i have saw cindy mccain the night before last and she said how are you? and i gave her a big hug and i said only you know. >> on that we thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. >> coming up, the showdown for the united states supreme court over president obama's healthcare law. florida attorney general pam bondi is leading the charge and she joins us next. also, could new clues help find missing florida mom michelle parker? our top-notch legal panel weighs in. [ coughs ] what is thishorty? uh, tissues si i'm sick. you don't cough, you d't show defeat. give me your war face! raaah! [ male announcer ] halls. a pep talk in every drop. give me your war face! raaah! now there's no need to hold back. new revolutionary scope dualblast obliterates strong food odors leaving your breath minty fresh. hey. [ male an

mary kay huntsman i were friends and we are better friends now and we will be better after this. and mrsgingrich, i've gotten to know her better on the trail. i know all of the sowses except one, i met karen, and what a beautiful woman. there's no many. but interestingly enough i have saw cindy mccain the night before last and she said how are you? and i gave her a big hug and i said only you know. >> on that we thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. >> coming up, the showdown for the united states supreme court over president obama's healthcare law. florida attorney general pam bondi is leading the charge and she joins us next. also, could new clues help find missing florida mom michelle parker? i know the name of eight princesses. i'm an expert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but it's for them, so i've found a way. who matters most to you says the most about you. massmutual is owned by our policyholders so t