chief executive officer for this country. we re looking for a commander in chief. we have to change things today and bring back the traditions of america, which means liberty, peace and prosperity. how important is iowa really? and who will drop out? will negative campaigning make a difference? i ll talk to a man who knows a lot about that, herman cain, a force to be reckoned with. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. while most of americans are celebrating the holidays, most of iowa has been inundated with presidential candidates, mitt romney, ron paul, rick santorum, rick perry and michele bachmann sbaurming the state. today alone they ve had more than two dozen events and done innumerable interviews. participants who say they might still change their minds. jon huntsman says forget iowa. i ll concentrate on new hampshire. the man with the most on the line in iowa may well be newt gingrich. the former front-runner actually did something pretty unusual today. he
industry, because they make component parts, and they would have been crushed as well if we let the industry go down. look at what appeared. the american automobile industry is back, back in full force. ford just announced they ll be adding 1200 jobs in cleveland, ohio, an area that needs good-paying jobs. richard, he even joked about being unemployed. here s a man worth $190 million to $250 million. look at what he said about him and being unemployed. well, maybe i should also tell my story. i m also unemployed. [ laughter ] that s very funny, if you have a job. it s very funny if you re worth $190 million to $250 million. but if you re part of 98.6% of people unemployed, and if you re with the party that was saying let s cut off the unemployment insurance benefits, it s not funny, richard. no, it s not funny, and yet
the chicago tribune, that he was supporting federally funded abortions for poor women in certain situations. my council has been for his campaign, if you re a changed man, if you re a new man, go back and run for a lower office and show us the new newt gingrich that s different than the old newt gingrich. clayton: any plans to run for a lower office? look, first of all, there are thousands of people who have opinions. he s one of them. what he said about 1995 is false. i don t know where he got that from. it s not true. i have a consistent record on right 120 life and, in fact, i had a 98.6% voting record with the national right to life committee. i twice helped pass partial birth abortion which president clinton vetoed, finally designed into law by president bush. my record in that area has been consistent all the way through my career. so when you re in the middle of a campaign, different people show up and make different allegations. the fact is i ve been a conservative i went
party by addition service by representing his belief system and accomplishments. the fact is he is a 98.6% pro-life rating with the national right to life committee under his leadership congress passed not once but twice the partial birth abortion ban that s president clinton vetoed twice. regarding planned parenthood she is insinuating that the house and the president and the senate were just sitting around waiting to defund planned parenthood when that really wasn t the case at all. this is only creating this vibe in the party in helping obama. bill: didn t take the lead in going after planned parenthood. also didn t take the lead in backing up the republic national committee chastising those who didn t want to outlaw partial birth abortion. did he so, so everybody understands, leslie. he did that because he said if i if i or we as a party banish candidates who won t ban partial birth abortion, we hurt ourselves all over the place. he did it for political
party by addition service by representing his belief system and accomplishments. the fact is he is a 98.6% pro-life rating with the national right to life committee under his leadership congress passed not once but twice the partial birth abortion ban that s president clinton vetoed twice. regarding planned parenthood she is insinuating that the house and the president and the senate were just sitting around waiting to defund planned parenthood when that really wasn t the case at all. this is only creating this vibe in the party in helping obama. bill: didn t take the lead in going after planned parenthood. also didn t take the lead in backing up the republic national committee chastising those who didn t want to outlaw partial birth abortion. did he so, so everybody understands, leslie. he did that because he said if i if i or we as a party banish candidates who won t ban partial birth abortion, we hurt ourselves all over the place.