mr. huntsman's wife have been criticizing that ad. governor huntsman wife calling it absolutely disgusting and using the attack as an opportunity to tell their family story, including the adoption of those daughters. when i saw jon huntsman speak on friday when i was up in new hampshire, he ended his discussion with a long personal discussion how much that ad bothered him and how much he loved his daughters and how he and his wife came to adopt them it was very, very effecting. the most emotional thing he did in the campaign appearance. here's the thing, this is kind of amazing. the ron paul campaign says it commissioned a study, an audit, i guess, of where this anti-jon huntsman ad came from, and who has been circulating it. the ron paul campaign says it has looked into where this campaign ad came from and who is circulating it and they think it's jon huntsman. seriously. the quote from story about this. after researching which the available evidence, we believe it's likely the video came from a source within or closely tied to the hu

mrs. huntsman, thanks for coming on the program. >> thanks for having me. how are you? >> i'm great. bout the boston globe endorsement. i thought well-worded language, the boston globe said, jon huntsman would be a better president. but if he fails, he could still make mitt romney a better candidate. i want to unpack this in two separate questions. the first is, does the boston globe endorsement help your husband or is it potentially -- does it potentially hurt him insofar as he is seen as too far left or too moderate, as it were? >> listen, i think it always helps when you have someone doing their due diligence and looking into the candidate, and making judgment on that. what they said in there is that he is a bold leader. whether you are republican, independent or democrat, you find that jon has the characteristics that is reunique in today's race. >> as far as helping mitt romney, i know it's been difficult for your husband to sort of get out of the bottom of the pack, and i'm wondering, your husband spoke of being up against the tyranny of the clock, saying he wished he had time t

mr. huntsman and mr. romney have been competing for moderate republican voters and an aide said he come to the realizization he had little chance to win and the votes he would receive would come from mr. romney's potential voter pool. huntsman had the support of moderates. mr. romney has breathing room to focus more on persuading evangelical voters who have been cooler to his candidacy that he is more electable candidate in november. in michigan, a democratic caller. good morning. >> caller: how you doing? >> good, thanks. >> caller: i just want to say, i don't think huntsman had a chance from the start. i mean, he didn't have the -- his name wasn't really out there big and i just want to say something about mitt romney. you know, he's coming into the race here and pushing people around and starting, you know, words with different people. i think we really need to look at for rick santorum because i really think that he's got a good point on certain things. i think he's going to be a big one in this race.

mr. huntsman about. i still own huntsman 2012.com, which redirects to the hupts man cartoon theme song. we bought it because it was the most common misspelling of his name. we offered to give this url to mr. hunts man. but we never heard from him. i am here to say, the offer stands if you would like that. even with your campaign gone caput. in either case, mr. huntsman or mr. romney, if either of you want it, it is yours. seriously. for free. i would be happy to give it to either one of you in person, if you are free, one week day night in the 9:00 hour, i could give it to you here. you know where to find me. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. premier of the packed bag. you know organization is key... and so is having a trusted assistant. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle...and go. you can even take a full-size or above and still pay the mid-size price. here we are... [ male announcer ] and there you go, business pro. there you go. go national

mr. huntsman's appearance. rick santorum, the former pennsylvania senator is going after mitt romney with the issues of the republican campaign. he is hitting him for what has been referred to as romney-care the health player plan with a mandate in massachusetts. he is hitting mitt romney as a massachusetts moderate. something newt gingrich initially hit mitt romney for aggressively but supplanted with criticisms of romney's history at bain capital and private equity. now challenging romney to release his tax returns, both of which were attacks on romney first initiated by the obama campaign and democrats. and you hear rick santorum aggressively embracing more direct hits on mitt romney for his record as a massachusetts moderate. that suggests mr. santorum could be getting real surging here amongst the conservatives in south carolina who ultimately prove decisive. having said that, here is something to watch, jenna. only robo calls happening in south carolina are from the room any campaign targeting conservativ

mr. huntsman is a good man. have a long public future and america will see a lot of him. >> evangelical vote is important in south carolina. mitt romney often doesn't speak about his mormon faith. take a listen. we'll talk on the other side. >> it's an election about the soul of america. the designers of the declaration said our creator has inalenable rights. we're a nation that believes in a provident hand. >> do you think his faith is hurting? >> i come from the tea party wing. i spent 10 years of my life doing mission work overseas. when i'm out in the field i don't hear about it. we know at the romney camp we're not going to win every vote. we hope to get most of them. i don't think the religion problem is any problem. people have met mitt and ann. he's a faithful man. that comes across. >> when we watch the debate what does mitt romney need to do? >> he needs another performance like he has. every day we go closer to the election day. he's done really well on all these debates. i don't think tonight we have

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mr. huntsman's announcement would come after a poor showing in iowa and moderate finishes in new hampshire polls show him trailing badly in south carolina ahead of the election, that's set for saturday. >>> south carolina tea party coalition is continuing the second day of the first ever state convention. it will conclude ahead of the presidential debate. it will be gw[held tonight. >>> news around the nation, a man hunt is underway for a 22 year old accused of killing his co-worker. watson's body was found saturday. mark anthony cox is wanted in this. the victim and her fiance had been dating less than a year. investigators say children playing with fireworks sparked a brush fire near florida. a dozen crews were able to keep the fire under control. it started near homes and spread a quarter of a mile. so far, no one has been injured and no homes have been damaged. the florida division of forestry issued citations to the juvenile whose caused the fire. >>> many low income families depend on them to help with child scare expenses. -- care expenses. how the federal cut back is affecting fami

mr. huntsman about. d remember, i still own huntsman2012.com, which redirects now to the huntsman cartoon theme song. we bought this because it was the most common misspelling of jon huntsman's name. i'm here to say now the offer still stands, governor, if you would like huntsman2012.com, even with your campaign gone kaput. perhaps now that your campaign has gone kcomput kaput, we woul would like this url. it's yours for free. i would be happy to give it to the either one of your for free in person. if you're free one weekday in the 9:00 hour, perhaps, i'd give it to you here. we know a place where tossing and turning have given way to sleeping. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. and lunesta can help you get there, like it has for so many people before. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activities while asleep, without remembering it the next day, have been reported. abnormal behaviors may include ag

mr. huntsman because i don't like what china has done to this country during his watch. his watch has been a complete and total disaster. >> greta: okay. so, under the criteria you would endorse someone you could win against president obama. looks to me by process of elimination. gingrich, romney and santorum-- >> you're a brilliant woman. >> greta: i'm going to get the answer sooner or later, but narrowed it down to three. thanks, greta. >> greta: straight ahead, senator santorum did it in iowa. can governor huntsman do it? he goes on the record next. big news from the big state of alaska. a palin endorsement from the state of alaska and governor christy goes jersey on a heckler. >> good morning, dave. >> good morning, dave. [taps on window] dave. >> both: hey, dave. >> hey. >> hey, dave. >> mr. dave... >> dave? >> 'sup, dave? >> dave? dave? >> dave? >> dave! dave? >> hi, dave. >> oh, dave's looking for you. >> [singing] >> hey, dave. >> [loud] yo, dave! >> announcer: in a small business, it's all you. that's why you have us. at staples, we have low prices on everything

mr. huntsman because i don't like what china has done to this country during his watch. his watch has been a complete and total disaster. >> greta: okay. so, under the criteria you would endorse someone you could win against president obama. looks to me by process of elimination. gingrich, romney and santorum-- >> you're a brilliant woman. >> greta: i'm going to get the answer sooner or later, but narrowed it down to three. thanks, greta. >> greta: straight ahead, senator santorum did it in iowa. can governor huntsman do it? he goes on the record next. big news from the big state of alaska. a palin endorsement from the state of alaska and governor christy goes jersey on a heckler. you'll see it all coming up. how can you get back pain relief that lasts up to 16 hours? with thermacare heatwraps. thermacare works differently. it's the only wrap with patented heat cells that penetrate deep to relax, soothe, and unlock tight muscles. for up to 16 hours of relief, try thermacare. the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it

mr. huntsman will announce his withdrawal from myrtle beach, south carolina, and will endorse mr. romney. word of that withdrawal came on the same day that south carolina's largest newspaper endorsed him for president. at the same time, c-span2 will be live with a campaign event with texas governor rick perry, with his wife anita. rick santorum and his wife karen will also be speaking at the event. we will have live coverage of the former pennsylvania senators comments, at 1:30 south carolina's primary is coming up on saturday, florida, 10 days later, followed by the bad and maine. road to the white house political coverage continues through all of those events. you could watch online at c- span.org/campaign2012, and you can also join in on facebook and twitter. we are going to listen to some viewers phone calls from this morning's washington journal -- "washington journal." host: romney is seen as a likely beneficiary. jon huntsman plans to withdraw from the broken the presidential race on monday. let's go to the phones to hear from patricia. democrat in bakersfield, california.

mr. huntsman being outpolled by a man stephen colbert. likely primary voters colbert is polling at 5%, huntsman at 4%. stephen colbert, not actually running. at this point in the race, what we have is mitt romney on what is likely to be a long, slow, difficult path of sewing up the nomination. there are a lot of people engaged in the contest, whether they are running and nobody knows it like bear betzler or running and people do know they are running, they are still failing, people like rick perry or like everybody other than mitt romney and ron paul who did not qualify for the ballot in virginia. fair thought tonight, fair thought for the guys who could have run this year, and didn't. the people who opted out at the start of the campaign season, even though a lot of people wanted them to run take for example haley barbour, the now former governor of mississippi who has supporters and colleagues standing ready to support him when he considered running for president in the election. yesterday it was his last day as governor of mississippi.

mr. huntsman instead, offers the republican party an opportunity to quote renew itself. and by the way, this is the second time that massachusetts's largest newspaper has snubbed the former gov. they say huntsman for gop nominee. >>> three air force academy cadets are charged with sexual misconduct. including rape and assault. officials say the three were involved in separate incidents over the last 15 months. >>> and one of two men who allegedly broke into a woman's home in oklahoma now free on bail. there's the video. watch them. this is dustin stewart, he's charged in the death of his pal, his accomplice, even though he didn't even fire the fatal shot that killed that accomplice. the homeowner fired the shot. sara mckinley, after she called 911 to find out if it was okay to do so. it's oklahoma's doctrine, your home is your castle and you have the right to kill to protect yourself if someone's breaking in. >>> this is a picture of jakadrien turner who was mistakenly deported to colombia, after running away from home a year and a half ago. we'll try to get you some answ

mr. huntsman had for rivaling mr. obama for the presidency.wasn't the only move like that that president obama naid made early in his administration. it wasn't the only bipartisan pick, not even the only high-profile bipartisan pick. three months before president obama nominated jon huntsman to go to china you may remember this bipartisan scene at the white house. >> thank you very much, mr. president. and thank you for taking this rather extraordinary step of asking me to join your administration as commerce secretary. >> that was republican senator judd gregg of new hampshire being nominated for and accepting the nomination to be the nation's secretary of commerce. judd gregg said that day that when the president of the united states calls on you to serve he said, "it is your obligation." in his words, "it was my obligation to say yes." that's what he said. and then nine days later inexplicably judd gregg changed his mind and he withdrew his nomination to be commerce secretary. so about that whole it's my obligation to serve thing, i was jus

mr. 25%. tim pawlenty. who was already out of the race. and former utah governor jon huntsman. mr. an ignored iowa entirely. he staked his whole campaign on new hampshire. yesterday, 150 events in new hampshire. a new new hampshire poll today shows him losing ground there. losing ground now when attention is turning to new hampshire. and when he was already only at 10% before he started losing that ground. so it seems clear clear the obama campaign thinks it's going to be mitt romney. mitt romney was also the choice of the largest proportion of iowa republican caucusgoers last night who said the economy was their biggest concern. everybody thinks the economy is going to be the biggest concerns of voters in the general election. it is probably no coincidence the obama campaign's rather decisive turn toward mitt romney today coincided with the white house also making a rather decisive move on the issue of the economy. the white house picking a fight with republicans on the economy and on the white house's own terms today. president obama's top economic adviser will be joining us next.

mr. huntsman? he spent quite a bit of time in new hampshire with over 150 events. i would imagine he's maybe not -- maybe a little sad he didn't do better. >> reporter: yes. but, you know, cea in third. he should be feeling pretty good about that. all that work he did here for weeks right here in new hampshire has paid off. so he comes in third. he again is going to face a much tougher time in south carolina. he's not expected to place very highly there. he's -- he lacks money. he lacks resources. he lacks the organization. he's a relatively unknown in south carolina as well as in florida so look for him the people i talked to say will drop from here. >> thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >>> a group of atomic experts has made a change to the doomsday clock. that story coming up. >>> we'll show you some eye camping gadgets that are debuting this week at the consumer electronics show. >>> and ahead in sports, the wizards were the last team in the nba but not anymore. >>> it's 10 after 5:00. get ready for a wet afternoon. rather wet out there. here's a look

mr. huntsman is to endorse mitt romney. he has a similar profile.e's the guy who's got the commanding lead in the race up to this point. it is a bit of an afterthought. i think romney's reaction to it was pretty predictable. this is a campaign that barely was a blip on the radar screen. so it's acknowledge it and move onto the real contest of south carolina on saturday. >> tony, let me ask you, what's the impact on the race on the one hand, jon huntsman was pulling in the single digits in south carolina. so it would seem it would have almost no effect. on the other hand, this seems to add to the perception that he's clearing a path for mitt romney to become the inevitable nominee, something i assume you clearly aren't gunning for. >> well, i mean, from a practical standpoint, i don't think it has a bill impact on the race. although i think it's interesting the timing to do that before the vote in south carolina. you know, it's possible it could open the door for other republicans, maybe one of the social conservative candidates ta might step out and

mr. huntsman? >> you know, piers, first of all, thanks for having me. think he would have learned the perils of ghost-written subject matter by now. but i have to tell you, at the end of the day, i actually found it to be pretty humorous. i discovered it last night. somebody shared it with me. and i thought it was pretty funny. you've got to have a little bit of levity and humor in this business or you'll go crazy. just tell dr. paul that i owe him a tweet in return, and he should be expecting one sometime soon. >> i think he should do what mitt romney does and get the dirty work done by someone else. maybe your daughters can unleash themselves on twitter. keep your hands out of it. >> they've got plenty up their sleeves, sir. you might be surprised what they release in the next few days. >> now, i'm hearing noises of more stuff coming. let's get serious for a moment. let's talk about what happened last night. because i was on air with all the cnn anchors until the early hours. all i kept thinking about is if i'm jon huntsman and i put all my eggs in th

mr. huntsman, mr. romney, if you would like huntsman2012.com it's yours, seriously, for free. i would be happy to give it to you in person. if you're free one weekday night in the 9:00 hour perhaps, i could give it to you here, you know where to find me. >>> suffice to say i have a hard time getting republican candidates to agree to come on the show. requests are in, to everybody, all the time but i'm not getting anybody ever. however, looking down the road at potential vice presidential prospects for 2012, this week i was given an inkling of hope. the person who gave me this inkling of hope is laura ingram. this is amazing. laura ingram talking with one of the guys who everybody says is on the short list, virginia governor bob mcdonough. listen. >> i was going back on youtube, governor, watching some of reagan's old debates from the '60s, late '60s, early '70s. there wasn't a place he wouldn't go to argue the conservative message and advocate for conservative principles. he got a lot of grief for it but he won a lot of respect seems to me if we have republicans out there comi