mr. romney is now trying to do on that personhood initiative in mississippi.r back in october, mitt romneyox news cúó'el program, and he told mr. huckabee that he absolutely would support a constitutional amendment w3 establishing the definition of life as beginning at conception1 after us asking his campaign to and him not answering repeatedly, the democratic party then hit him on it through this web ad. and again, mr. romney chose just not to respond. so mitt romney's position, his on the record position to the question of, do you support a life begins at conception constitutional amendment, which is what mississippi voted on yesterday, mitt romney's stated on tape was the word "absolutely." that constitutional amendment then fails in mississippi by 16 points and the new headline on 3 politico.com today -- wait for ] it -- "mitt romney says he's person." falsely characterized as >> would you have supported the constitutional amendment that would have established the definition of life at conception? >> absolutely. >> it's like, when newt gingrich said, you know, if you quote that thing i

she felt that mrs. romneyas running only because of import and male politicians including her husband wanted her to make the race so that would become pleasantly clear as the campaign when i'm. i think she also did not want her friend to feel as degraded as she had during her own sacrificial lamb campaign six years before but once leonore romney was committed, peterson tried to be supportive, taking time off from her job in washington to campaign for her on election night. peterson phone, she sent yellow roses and hinchey wrote another note later on. lenora responded with gratitude. it helps to know there are others to give their all because some things mean so terribly much. the political highs and lows that peterson had shared with the romney's made their political separation a decade later all the more painful. they romney said become local opponents of equal rights amendment and argued that ratification of the amendment would lead to marriages and the further dissolution of the american family. peterson's

the romney campaign won't say when he is coming back to the hawkeye state. they are looking carefully at mr. cain's potential vulnerability as an opportunity for the governor to pick up the first win. shep? >> shepard: no question mitt romney has not gone hard there. they will admit that. the question is whether will he make more of an effort now? it sounds like he will. >> they won't actually say. count on mr. romney to go right up to the level of appearing to work like he is trying to win the iowa caucuses without actually revealing that he spent upwards of $10 million four years ago in a losing effort in the iowa caucuses. spent barely a fraction of that this time around. and is he in the lead or tied with herman cain. mr. romney would love very much to win the iowa caucuses. if he were to win here in iowa and new hampshire. he would be tough to beat for the nomination. yet, they won't commit to it, recognizing it's still a tough hill to climb and still unclear with a nation about divided, about 50% of the folks say they are worried about the charges against herman cain and 50% saying th

mr. romney.l nominee by default is different than by acl acclimation. >> here's a clip from your last appearance on this show when you and i made a friendly wager. watch this. >> i've come out and publicly everybody dorised newt gingrich. >> newt gingrich? he's never going to win the nomination. come on! >> really! do you want to bet a nice steak dinner on that? >> i will hold you to that wager on dinner. >> just tell me how you like your steak. >> are you still up for that steak dinner? and michael, would you like to join us? >> i'll join you. i'm carniverous. i have a steak in that plate and a dog in that fight. >> thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. make mine medium rare. >> i will. >> let's turn now to the president and his trip to secure america's role as the dominant force in the pacific. or his trip to -- well, i'll leave sean hannity of fox news to explain and then we'll decide. >> for much of the week the president has been rein beautiful hawaii under the guise of the apex summi

mr. romney detroit. are leadingow they newt gingrich. it shows mr.eading herman cain 50% 236%. >> the chancellor of the university with a protesters sense to me with demonstrators today. he takes full responsibility. she is resisting any call to resign. protesters are now on administrative leave. night'sights from last american music awards. see which stars led home the big winn ugh, time to color. woohoo! whoa. haircolor is a chore no more! you gotta come see what's new. c'mon! tadaaa! welcome to haircolor heaven. aa-ah-ahhh! courtesy of new nice 'n easy colorblend foam. permanent, dimensional color, now in a delightful foam! just three shakes, foam it, love it! simply saturate hair root to tip, front to back. with tones and highlights. it's foamtastic! home hairc or, make room for foam haircolor! new nice 'n easy colorblend foam. your right color. >> monday morning. we had some areas of rain. arein move through where we out of the eastern shore. we're still learn to deal with lingering cloud cover. for the most part, a fairly great day. to push our

mr. romney. >> skeptics say newt gingrich has issues. including its lobbying fees from a controversial clients. >> many experts think mitt romney remains the one to be at. some republicans are already tweeting "it's over for herman cain." making great only has $300,000 on hand, not much staff. this is newt gingrich's week to be in the spotlight and he is going up in the polls. >> we will go back to the herman cain story as soon as we hear more details from his latest accuser. >>> d.c. police are looking for clues into the shootings and stabbings of six people at a dupont circle restaurant police are searching surveillance camera video for the suspect in the incident sunday morning. one person was killed, five others were injured. we are learning of previous incidents that raised concerns by police. sam ford is live in northwest washington. >> we have learned that five months ago, at the same club, and event promoted by the same promoter, there was an incident in which there was a fight and was pushed out into the street. people were beat

mr. romney. >> i think that newt gingrich is going to take a hit the market.specially with iowa coming up. i do want toç say one thing abt this debate that bothered me. that is not one of them will be able to stand toe-to-toe with president obama. this is the man who caught bin laden. we have not had incidences on our shores. those that have been attempted, we have caught them. this is the man who made the right decision when it came to libya and throughout this whole debate not one republican gave the president credit for all of the successes that he has had as it relates to national security, but newt gingrich, i guarantee you, is taking a hit tomorrow morning when the polls come out. >> newt gingrich played its mark as far as immigration is concerned. >> not for the right. >> he's going to have to get the latino vote. there will have to be some kind of a play from the republicans for the latino vote. when he talked about family and said that people that have been here, you cannot up rig them when they have roots in the community and are contributing to soc

mr. romney basically gives us nothing. he is just invisible. is the strategy working for him.is unscathed? >> if you see how well his competitors are doing by making their appearances he is looking smart by comparison to be quiet. this is a classic front-runner strategy and let these other guys burn themselves out and make their mistakes it. worked brilliantly and couldn't have worked better the way cain self destructed the way perry self destructed and you see newt causing himself all kinds of problems. it will be more of a headache in the -- chris wallace in fox news are starting to get on his case saying you have to get out in front of the cameras and answer questions. there will be a lot of time for that later. at this point laying low may be the best bet. >> do you think romney could be making a mistake? he could be absent when conservatives have a cattle wall. all be it with problems and shouldn't romney be there? >> he has done this delicate dance and the calculation is that his supporters are not these people and everybody is competing to be the anti-romney. if he puts

mr. romney has a scheduling conflict. >>mark: a debate for the 2012 election will not become the to the bay area. the three presidential debates will be in colorado, new york and florida. >>darya: 6:40 a.m., we will be right back. let's take a look at the golden gate bridge. everything is moving smoothly. there is no fog. we will be right back. this what >> the economy is not producing jobs. there is an erosion of confidence in our government. frankly, under the first amendment, people have the right to speak out and protest but that does not mean they have permission to violate the law. he is urging the super committee to find common ground. >>mark: it looks like one more nice day before temperatures school down. >>erica: it is shaping up to the court to stay in downtown san francisco. clear conditions but we do have a red flag warning in effect from 6:00 a.m. today into 6:00 a.m. on wednesday. netflix what are contending with low-cost said it is an attempt had halted. temperatures will be warmer the events depicted one

mr. romney before he gets to run against mr. romney in the late spring. you're right. his first job, i believe, and he laid it out there, is to justify himself as the alternative to romney before he has to take him on. here he is, by the way, showing the first sign of trouble. this was at the fox news debate in september, a couple months ago. rick perry stumbled when he had an easy chance for a haymaker, a chance to deliver a blow at romney for his flip-flopping. let's listen to how he blew the chance. >> i think americans just don't know sometimes which mitt romney they're dealing with. is it the mitt romney that was on the side of -- against the second amendment, before he was for the second amendment? was it -- was it before he was before the social programs, from the standpoint of, he was for standing up for roe versus wade, before he was against versus -- roe versus wade? he was, um, for race to the top. he's for obama care, and now he's against it. >> as a debate expert, bob shrum, what was happening there? a man who was unable sort of to put it together, who kne

mr. romney tops mr. obama by a thin margin, 45% to 42. voters in ohio giving prime pret obama the edge by just three appointments, and in pennsylvania president obama is about tied with mitt romney, 44-43%. that's the latest -- that's according to the latest quinnipiac university survey. peter brown joins us now live in about ten minutes from right now on "america live". >>> some say it is the biggest flub in mod everybody political history, and when rick perry says he, quote, stepped in it at last night's debate, well, this is what he's talking about. >> i will tell you, it's three agencies of government when i get there that are gone; commerce, education and the -- what's the third one there, let's see. [laughter] >> you mean five. >> five, okay. commerce, education and the -- >> epa? >> epa, there you go. [applause] >> seriously? is epa the one you were talking about? >> no, sir. no, sir, we were talking about the agencies of government. epa needs to be rebuilt -- >> but you can't name the third one? >> the third agency of government i

mr. paul, suggest that you are now in the thick of it out in iowa. statistical tie with romney, with cain, and with mr. gingrich. i want to ask you some questions now that you're among the frontrunners. we need to know more about your positions on the issues. i want to start with foreign policy because your statements over the years posted on your website and elsewhere some of the things you have said in the debates suggest that you believe that 9/11 happened because of actions that the united states took. is that correct? >> i think there's an influence. that's exactly what, you know, the 9/11 commission said. that's what the d.o.d.has said. that's also what the i didn't a has said. that's what a lot of researchers have said. just remember immediately after 9/11 we removed the base from saudi arabia. so there is a connection. that doesn't do the whole full explanation but our policies definitely had an influence. you talk to the people who committed it and those individuals who would like to do us harm, they say, yes, we don't like american bombs to be falling on our country.

mr. romney who has this record which he keeps repeating. what he did in ohio after everything, after all of the talk about his waffling, to have backed out on that union business was very-- >> that's a vulnerability for ram any. why gingrich? if he was ruled out three months ago? >> i've had enough male on this, telling me anybody who is exposed to gingrich on the campaign trail, who listens to him, he has an extraordinary flow of substance, ringing conviction and put at such dramatic odds as a leader and whose ideas are so contagious that he makes the room rise up. this is an important thing in the presidential race. >> clearly he knows, dan, he's the most knowledgeable about government of all of them on the stage. >> and that matters. >> it ought to matter, shouldn't it. don't we want someone at least informed? >> exactly. that i think is rick perry's problem. >> this is the governor of texas decided the last minute to run for the presidency and talk about washington and whose issues by and large are distraction to a governor like that, h

mr. romney to shreds, running editorials like this one every few weeks. "the more mitt romney speaks, the less believable he becomes." ah. so the biggest new hampshire paper not endorsing mitt romney, given how we know they feel about him, that's not a big surprise. the big surprise is why this newspaper's publisher said that newt gingrich got the endorsement instead. listen. >> gingrich is going to have a better time in the general election than mitt romney. i think it's going to be obama's 99% versus the 1% and romney sort of represents the 1%. >> occupy the gop primary! i sort of think congratulations are in order here. i mean, to anybody who has doubted the effectiveness of the occupy wall street movement, doubted what they might accomplish, especially without a manifesto of specific demands, let the record show that appealing to the 99% of americans and not the 1% is now the stated rationale for one of the most conservative newspapers in the country making its endorsement for the republican presidential nomination. so if the occupy wall street moveme

mr. romney accused china of cheating at hacking into our computer systems to manipulate their own chinese currency. he also accused china of stealing our jobs. >>pam: coming up next, gary has more on the firing of joe paterno. there is a paternal rally going on at this hour and pennsylvania. ♪ born to be wild [ female announcer ] is your medicare plan keeping up with you? ♪ since you've never been one to slow down, now through december 7th, you won't have to. it's faster and easier than ever to switch your medicare coverage to anthem blue cross. ♪ we've created medicare solutions that are just right for you. we have plans with low monthly premiums. plus you have the freedom to choose your own doctor monarch >>kimberlee: we are back. check out this surveillance video and oklahoma showing an earthquake hitting a high school. chairs fallen off the tables and trophies from from their case. the earthquake rocked this small town earlier this week. in the next video, earlier today, this huge closed signs toppled over in green bay. fortunately, no one was injured. the one time the design crashed

mr. romney's mormon faith is not a religion, it's a cult. >> in my estimates, mormonism is a cult, and it would give credence to a cult to have a mormon candidate. >> so if republicans want to nominate mitt romney, a several identified mormon, as their official g.o.p. candidate to run for u.s. president, that would credentialize a cult, says jeffers. but mormons point out their religion is a faith, not a cult. item, jesus. "mormonism is indistinguishable from christianity." so says the church them believe jesus christ is the messiah. the second person of the holy trinity, of the father, the son, and the holy spirit. item, mormon population, nearly 6 million americans practice mormonism in the united states, and 17 million worldwide, including the united states. item, tax-exempt status. mormonism is exempt from taxes on expenditures, exactly as are other religions like catholicism, judaism, hinduism. that tax-exempt status is a further guarantee that mar mannism is a religion and tax- free in its expenditures. not what a cult gets, by way of being tax-free. item, no polygamy! one man and o

mr. romney mad to say? >> reporter: david, it's a frustrating issue for the white house and so far the iran policy has not convinced the iranian leadership to stop their nuclear weapon m ambitions. white house officials point out a lot of the steps that romney and others on the stage pointed out needed to be taken are already being taken, especially when it comes to sanctions and a robust u.s. troop presence in the region. seems to be a matter of rhetoric. republicans saying president obama needs to be more outspoken, making sure the iranians understand the military option is on the table. when asked about that, white house officials say this president believes more in deeds than in rhetoric. david? >> all right, jake tapper in honolulu. while we have you, just con fir ration that that is really the water there behind you? >> reporter: this is not a green screen. this is actually where i am standing. >> that's the real jake tapper. jake, thank you very much. >>> and we're learning more this evening about th

mr. romney argued that mr. obama was being too aggressive in libya. then mitt romney cheered mr. aggressiveness after gadhafi was toppled and finally mitt romney returned to his original position which is president obama didn't act fast enough. the response so far to anybody who might question whether or not mitt romney knows anything about foreign policy, he's never worked in foreign policy in his life, the response from the republican establishment is essentially don't worry, he's surrounding himself with a great foreign policy team. that's what they said about george w. bush, too. in the case of mitt romney, though, the great foreign policy team mitt romney is loading up with are foreign policy advisers from the last republican administration, which would be the administration of george w. bush. if there's one thing the american people think of when they want to be comforted about foreign policy expertise, naturally it's the administration of george w. bush. >> can you name the president of chechnya?ç >> no, can you? >> and the prime minister of india? >> the new prime ministe

but you know you you did some work for mr romney back and if i did a larry of the just politics that we will do is totally lying campaign well it is what they do once they know about this is only when politicians do you want to start like detailing deceptions and campaign you're going to be here for a very very long time and it's not republicans you know i'm sure that once the president obama starts putting out putting together campaign stuff it's going to we're going to find the exact same sort of really. you know no politician he says they want to see for everyone just like this is the way the world is the way the game is played perhaps and i worry about the people who are watching at home and you know don't watch the news and read all the blogs today that are like. you know romney is the wrong word and i believe that we have to say i'm sorry i didn't mean it was the fact that we're in d.c. i don't know if this winds up being true to the resignation but we look at the fact we're just writing this off as this is what politicians do maybe there's a sense in most american people that

mr. romney's people admitted it.aining why they did this. >> there has never been an administration that has provided to the opposition research team or to the public electronic communications, so ours would have been the first administration to have done so. >> now, was he already planning to run for president when he was governor? opposition research, so you >> yeah. i mean, i think it was never a secret that romney was preparing to run for president towards the tail end of his governorship. he basically left the governor's office and immediately started his presidential campaign, so i think in essence the statements that he was making i think to an editorial board there is a concession of that, i mean, that they were preparing and doing everything methodically that they could to prepare for that run, including purchasing hard drives with 11 of his aides purchasing 17 hard drives as -- as they were leaving office, and as he was leaving office. >> now, richard, do you think that this kind of story can stick to romne