nicky haley is makeling headlines after south carolina union leader had a pinata of governor haley on it. that is her beating her pinata during a collegiate a retreat. >> it is creepy. i still hurt every time i see it. this is what i will tell you. this is not typical of south carolina lynnians. this is typical of union thugs. i will tell you the last week the demes came after me with racial slur and hit me on a pinata. it makes my heels sharper. i am not going to stop beating up on the unions or for waste of the spenedding. i am going to keep fighting for what i fight for. >> let's talk about another topic. sean hannity sitling do sitting with the imam. he was the imam backing the controversial growned zero mosque in new york city. >> hannity waned answers about comments he made about the u.s. being an accessory to 9-11. >> how could you possibly have gone on 60 minutes after the slaughter of 3,000 americans and say the united states was an accessory? >> i wouldn't say that the united states deserved what happened. but the united states policies were an accessory of crime? >> can you

. >> on may 18th, 2011 nicky haley put her signature on a bill in a ceremony lating with history ande after all was the first woman and governor of south karm li carolina. the new law would require every south carolina loaniian to ing b. the law has sparked charges to steal elections in her state. but haley thinks south carolina's real problem today is that votes of law abinding citizens are being cancelled out by illegally cast ballots. >> this protects elderly and people from absentee ballots. we want to make sure we are saying who they say they are. >> without photo i.d.? >> without voter i.d. i don't want dead people voting in the state of south carolina. >> there is evidence that dead people voting is a real problem according to a statewide investigation. in january, it found that 953 ballots were cast by voters who were deceased. the state elections commission director disputes those findings. the report came out after haley signed the voter i.d. law but hasn't stopped the criticism of it. >> eric: were you surprised by the reang? >> very surprised. protecting the voting proces

chris christie, nicky haley, bob mcdonald of virginia, marco rubio and paul ryan. the "wall street journal" says insiders are backing rob portman for a v.p. slot. this is reported by janet hook. it says the senator of ohio is the unpalin of the republican party and is being considered. other stories related to the v.p. slot. governor christie is opened to a pitch. he said that mitt romney is a convincing guy who might be able to persuade him to join the g.o.p. tifpkt he was asked by some high schoolers in his state and the opinion section of the "wall street journal" says anyone but condi. former secretary of state condoleezza rice. talks about her like scommood power. what she may go on to do next and whether or not she might end up being someone on the ticket. thanks for all your calls. let's get to one more on the topic of minimum wage. silver springs, maryland, gregory on our independent line. should the minimum wage be increased? caller: yes. no. well, yes and no. first, i like to start all the way back 25 minutes ago. there was a gentleman from l.a. he spoke