on this day, there are more than two dozen sandwiched in together, including rick herman. >> rick hermanested for a number of charges by the phoenix police department. >> the 35-year-old receives a card that lifts his charges, and then his clothes are taken away. >> the phoenix police department took them into evidence and issued him what we call a bunny suit. it's a white paper suit. and booked him in that apparel. >> herman keeps to himself but a few inmates show interest in him, asking to see the card that lists his changes. >> rick herman doesn't know any of the men who interrogate him. they are adrian rivera, jeremy quint, and jason morris. >> there's nothing that would indicate that any of the individuals knew each other, had any history with each other, had ever seen each other before this particular date. >> with thousands of inmates to monitor, it can be at least five or ten minutes before guards pass this tank again. and though there is a camera inside the cell, the video is not watched in realtime. after the guards leave, a few of the inmates move to the window blocking the vi

i'm very thankful for herman cain and rick perry and all the blunderful people in the republican racet now. it's thanksgiving week. one of my favorite things to do before thanksgiving is watch the charlie brown thanksgiving special. they started airing it 28 years ago. so, to freshen things up a little bit, we removed the original audio and we replaced it with audio from a republican debate and i think it really freshens it up. >> mitt, you hired illegals in your home and you knew about it for a year. and the idea that you stand here before us and talk about that you're strong on immigration is on its face, the height of hypocri hypocrisy. >> i don't think i've ever hired an illegal in my life. i'm looking forward to finding your facts on that. because that just -- >> i'll tell what you the facts are -- >> rick, i'm speaking. >> your newspaper -- >> i'm speaking. >> it's time for you to tell the truth. >> i'm speaking. i'm speaking. i'm speaking. you get 30 seconds -- i get 60 seconds -- >> the american people want the truth. >> you get 30 seconds to respond, right? >> they want -- yo

we had michele bachmann, then we had rick perry, herman cain, who has disappeared now. the nealatest person to make a run at it is newt gingrich. his support has plateaued and dropped a little bit. we are watching to see whether gingrich has flamed out like the other candidates or if he has the staying power. >> mitt romney has never been that popular with conservatives but nikki haley has endorsed him. what does this say about the right of the party? >> haley is considered an icon of the tea party movement with the same time she is a governor -- but at the same time she is a governor. do they start to coalesce around mitt romney because they have decided he is the best candidate to face obama and he can't push off newt gingrich. many people have known him for a long time and many people don't think that he is a good general election candidate. >> is this all about electability? >> to win this nomination, you have to be conservative and electable. so far, the republican party has grudgingly admitted that may be romney is the electable candidate but they have been skepti

front-runner is different from that of other former republican flavors of the week, michele bachmann, rick perry, herman cain. >> those guys were the new kids on the block. and isn't this wonderful? and boy it'd be great if it worked out. and we don't know anything about them. i'm the guy that's been around forever. >> reporter: and with this new status come vicious attacks from his opponents. but gingrich, never known for a small ego, is undeterred. >> i'm going to be the nominee. it's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high i'm going to be the nominee. >> reporter: but some republicans have reservations. two, specifically, that i keep hearing. they worry that even though you are a familiar figure, that maybe there still are skeletons in your closet that we don't know about. are there any skeletons that we don't know about? >> not that i know of. i mean, again, given the nature of the modern world, whatever is there i'm sure will come out in the end. >> reporter: and then, the other concern has to do with your propensity to make outrageous, interesting, whatever

our guys coming up on the other side of the break michele bachmann herman cain and rick santorum debate on a special holiday edition have a long shelf. download the official ante up location to go on the phone the i pod touch from the queues apps to. one child's life on the go. video on demand on tease my fuel costs and already says feed now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. welcome to the. science technology innovations all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future are covered. more news today violence is once again flared up the phone these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets and can attach china operations are on today . ok everybody welcome to our g. street northwest republican presidential debate now way the mainstream media have been selectively allowing candidates to participate over the last couple of months leaving people out like gary johnson and so tonight we're going to continue that tradition actually going to make it even more exclusive joining me are republican presidential candidates herman cain rick santorum and mi

don't know if that kind of bust cycle that we've seen with michele bachmann, donald trump, rick perry, herman cain, if mute is subject to that because there will be a vote before it might even come. >> take a look at the escalation between newt gingrich and mitt romney when we've got gingrich talking about how they don't have to point to all these things. >> i don't have to point out who will be the nominee. p i'm going to be the nominee. it's hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high i'm going to be the nominee. >> statements about polls won't win elections. this is not a matter that america needs better lobbyists or better deal maker, better insiders. i think america needs a leader. >> so they're going at each other, but now newt gingrich's latest is on child labor. >> i do this and you give me cash. unless it's illegal. what if they became assistant janitors and their job was to mop the floor and clean the bathroom? and you paid them. >> so he's talking about children and he set up the notion that children in poor families around america don't have a work e

michele bachmann has been the front-runner, rick perry, herman cain. and right now, the man who may be peaking at just the right time is mitt romney. >> and you talked to the gingrich team today what do they have to say? >> reporter: first of all, they say it's not a surprise, given all the negative ads in iowa against gingrich, that he would be down. they're now saying, diane, that he doesn't need to win in iowa. he doesn't need to come in second or third. he's strong nationally. he's going on. i have to tell you this, they are out of money, the gingrich campaign says. they will end december in the red, in debt. and it doesn't get easier after iowa. in new hampshire, mitt romney today, new poll, nearly 30-point lead. >> that's a big win. and if they want to go negative, then, in the gingrich campaign, any sign of that? >> we >> reporter: well, he certainly isn't afraid to hit back, but so far his ads have been all positive. >> but no money tonight for new hampshire. thank you, jonathan karl. >>> and we do have news tonight about the cancer drug avasti

front-runner is different from that of other former republican flavors of the week, michele bachmann, rick perry, herman cain. >> those guys were the new kids on the block, and isn't this wonderful, and boy, it would be great if it worked out and we don't know anything about them. i'm the guy that's been around forever. >> reporter: and with this new status come vicious attacks from his opponents. that gingrich, never known for a small ego, is undeterred. >> i'm going to be the nominee. it's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high i'm going to be the nominee. >> reporter: it has been a short, strange trip. not even six months ago, your entire staff resigned en masse. >> the line that somebody used, i was like bruce willis in "the sixth sense." i was the only guy in the room that didn't know i was dead. the debates changed everything, as you know. and i began to rebuild momentum. >> reporter: this momentum means large, enthusiastic crowds on the campaign trail. but some republicans have reservations. two, specifically, that i keep hearing. they worry that even thou

our guys coming up on the other side of the break michele bachmann herman cain and rick santorum debate on a special holiday edition of a long. witnesses . to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and seven on our t.v. . ok everybody welcome to our g. street northwest republican presidential debate now we at the mainstream media have been selectively allowing candidates to participate over the last couple of months leaving people out like gary johnson and so tonight we're going to continue that tradition actually going to make it even more exclusive joining me are republican presidential candidates herman cain rick santorum and michele bachmann rick perry could be here tonight as campaign hasn't commented but word on the street is he's in rehab and since mitt romney just schools the other candidates every time and ron paul to say it on foreign policy we've also left them out newt gingrich and his wife are on a luxurious vacation at an undisclosed location and jon huntsman well mr huntsman has been bitten by go to all campaigning in new hampshire so we wa

our guys coming up on the other side of the break michele bachmann herman cain and rick santorum debate on a special holiday edition of a long shot. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. welcome to the. science technology innovation hall the list of melamine from around russia we've got the future covered. download the official antti up location on the phone on called touch from the. one life on the go. video on demand on teasing my old costs and already says feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. the f.b.i. . the the f.b.i. . ok everybody welcome to our g. street northwest republican presidential debate now way the mainstream media have been selectively allowing candidates to participate over the last couple of months leaving people out like gary johnson and so tonight we're going to continue that tradition actually going to make it even more exclusive jo

. >>> and herman cain, rick perry, michele bachmann, which republican presidential candidate has been the butt of more jokes on late-night tv? well, someone actually tracks this stuff. we've got the answer tonight in the sideshow. >>> but let me finish tonight with some advice. be careful, progressives, for what you wish for. i'm talking about those wishing for newt gingrich to be the republican candidate. >>> we start with mitt romney on the attack. republican strategist steve schmidt worked on the bush/cheney 2004 campaign and ran the 2008 campaign. he's also an msnbc political analyst. and jennifer donohue is a senior fellow at the eisenhower institute and a "huffington post" contributor. both of you, thank you much for joining us. it's great to have two people on who really know the republican party well. let's talk about the numbers. another day, another new set of poll numbers showing newt gingrich gaining strength among registered republicans. take a look at the new quinnipiac data. in florida, a wide lead for gingrich over romney where he had to win, 35, gingrich, 22, romney.

we had michele bachman, rick perry, and herman cain. who is next? >> it has to be jon huntsman or rick santorum. that is who we have left. there are folks who are not happy with the republican party. they are not happy with their choices. they tried to get chris christie into the race, the governor of new jersey. they tried to get jeb bush and others. they are not happy. it tells me that we take a look at the front runners. it is still mitt romney to lose. he is not concerned enough for the base. >> i am sure we will talk about this again. in fact, tomorrow we have a report from iowa, their take on the latest in the republican race. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come, protecting a vital resource in the heart of africa. the race is on to save one of the world's largest rain forests before it is too late. there has been a significant scientific breakthrough that could help preserve australia's great barrier reef. duncan kennedy has the details. >> it is the only living thing on earth visible from space, 2,600 kilometers long, the

he's surging at the moment but rick perry and herman cain real-time lessons in the value of caution andpeaker gingrich has his own history. as a close friend told me, he surprises you by climbing high mountains and then again when he blows them up unhis own feet. the friend is a big fan and thinks he sees evidence of a new, more disciplined newt. no doubt the wind is at the former speaker's back. we've had plenty of proof this year already what goes up can quickly come crashing down. speaker gingrich would be wise to dial it back. confident, yes, but his history suggests when he gets cocky, he gets in trouble. >> here with their own thoughtses on what gingrich call newt mentum. he tells jake tapper i'm going to be the nominee. last night he's doing a little bit of chest thumping. >> i think where i would have thought originally it was mitt and not mitt i think it's may turn out to be newt and not newt and that's a very different formula than frankly so we're having to redesign our campaign strategy because we're 60 days ahead of where i thought we'd be. >> confident, bordering on cocky,

at various times michele bachmann the frontrunner, rick perry, herman cain, newt gingrich and right now the man who may be peaking at just the right time is mitt romney. >> for gingrich in iowa it has been a spectacular collapse. he has lost nearly 20 points in the polls in just 20 days in a campaign of ups and downs he is in danger of being the shortest lived frontrunner of all. jonathan karl, abc news, new york. >>> in the meantime, the occupy movement has set up camp where the republican presidential caucus is set next tuesday in iowa. occupiers say they want to turn the vote into a raw suspects they are moving the vote counting operation for the night to an undisclosed location trying to avoid the protesters. they say they want to ensure that things run smoothly in iowa. >>> the answer to the question of what you do when you retire from congress is this -- perform standup comedy perhaps? case in point, former pennsylvania senator arlen specter. he took the stage at the helium club. he joked as having a second career as a comedian is a natural given his time in it congress. >> i have

we have seen what happened to michele bachmann, rick perry, herman cain, we saw what happened to hillary clinton. she was in roughly the same position i was in, maybe even further ahead of barack obama. so being a front-runner is always perilous. it doesn't mean you're not going to win. newt has a few advantages i never had. i knew i didn't have a chance in iowa. newt can win iowa. then really i lost in florida because i lost in new hampshire. and by that time i was out of it. so two primaries pretty much reduced my chance in florida to almost nothing. so now if newt can win in iowa, if he can come close in new hampshire because i think everyone expects that governor romney, being governor of massachusetts and living in new hampshire, governor romney has to do real well in new hampshire. then if newt can win south carolina, he'll go into florida with a head of steam and right now he's at 50% in florida. so nothing is certain. somebody else could come along, you know. i go back four years before my election and right before iowa, about four weeks before howard dean was ahead by 15 points,

rick perry. herman cain. newt gingrich. and, and, romney has been through this the whole time so we have had so many different candidates that have risen and fallen but tomorrow will be the most watched debate of the entire election season. more people will make up their mines tomorrow. and i think that the candidate that goes negative is going to be the candidate that gets punished, and this is a challenge for both rick perry, might be, and romney, how do you take down gingrich without seeming to trash him and help president obama get elected? they will punish any candidate who seems to make obama stronger at the expense of the republican party. >>neil: one thing i have learned talking to you over the years don't underestimate the likability factor with candidates where leaders in general and this is probably the biggest potential detriment to the former speaker, on the likability count he does not score well. he has a very high unfavorable rating. what are we to make of that? how vulnerable is he on this? >>guest: absolut

michele bachmann, donald trump, rick perry, herman cain, newt gingrich.aven't conservatives said you know, we flirted with all these other people, we're ready to sign on with mitt romney now? is there a lingering problem for mitt romney among conservatives? >> no, absolutely not. we have strong support, more conservatives are coming on board every day. conservatives such as south carolina governor, and we have jennifer horn, a tea party favorite in new hampshire that signed up with us just this week. governor chris christie. we have strong conservative support. and you have to remember in the polls, they're polling, you know, seven candidates. eight candidates. so no one's really going to be able to pull out of the pack that much. if you look back at history and the people that have won iowa, won new hampshire. you know, no one, you know, up in the 50s and 60s. but if you look at mitt romney and how he goes against president obama in a head to head, he's going to give him a run for his money. and that's why the democrats in the white house are so scared t

center stage spot alongside romney following in the footsteps of one michele bachmann, one rick perry, and one herman cain. vanquished all of them early on. george stephanapolous handed mitt romney an opportunity to do the same with gingrich. >> speaker gingrich and i have a lot of places where we disagree. we'll talk about those. >> name them. >> places where we disagree? let's see. >> jon: umm. okay. i would not have taken the $1.6 million that gingrich took from freddie mac while the housing bubble was going on. i never had to pay $300,000 to settle congressional ethics. i never shut down down the government based on a sub optimal seating assignment. i never menaced manhattan until i was defeated by three comic geniuses and ernie hudson. romney, you have this all in the bag. you are going to crush gingrich. go. >> places where we disagree. let's see. we could start with his idea to have a lunar colony that would mine minerals from the moon. >> jon: what? what? we start with the lunar mine idea. romney, newt gingrich is a life support system for bad ideas. and you magically reach in and pick out hi

rick perry up there high. we had michele bachmann who has scored very high. herman cain set the record at a score of 34. e rick santorum. i think this under scores the issue with mitt romney. when our gallup interviewers say what do you think about mitt romney. he's republican. he's pretty good. then we say, is he strongly, silence on the phone. very few say i feel strongly about mitt romney. that's potentially an issue. >> always great to talk to the two of you. frank newport, susan page. we'll do it again. thank you. >> thanks, alex. >>> a couple post scripts. the house voted to do away with taxpayer -- that would mean the end of the checkoff box on the federal tax return. senate majority leaders saying that the bill will not get past the senate. >>> mother jones magazine points out that president obama has been busy fundraising. he's had 69 fundraisers equal to one every five days. a pace that outdoes former presidents george w. bush and bill clinton. do you have an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, or afib, that's not caused by a heart valve problem? are you taking warfarin to reduce yo

first it was michele bachmann, then it was rick perry, bill flounder and herman cain and he floundered. for me watching the debates and gingrich's performance, he took on obama in a much stronger way than anybodylse did. he stood up. he felt smarter at the table than most other people. and so as that anti-romney sort of cloud moved, it settled on newt gingrich and i think the romneyolks are really nervous about it. thiss not going to go away andate doesn't have an expiration date like the oers did. >> charlie: there are two things about it. one they have the experience with the republican parties. he knows republicans, peace been talking to them for a number of years. on the other hand people who know him best have expressed some great doubt about his leadership abilities. coburn, for example. >> he's got, he's got more baggage than macy's luggage department as most people have said. part of the problem has always been his personality. people think he can say something off the cuff. he gets angry. i think some of that has not seesened. i've seen him in iowa and you have conversations w