now, mitt s caught quite a few people on christmas weekend when not a lot of headlines were flying around. this was flying around the political world fast and furiously. you re comparing your campaign to 2400 people being killed? it doesn t make sense. let s not make a mountain out of a molehill. you can tell the other side, too, barack obama said he was lazy. explain his comment. he can t become president and become lazy. i ll explain that. he s saying this is the setback. it was a setback and unexpected. he s going to regroup and refocus like america did in pearl harbor. how they bounced back but this was an attack on american i understand. i get it. i mean i just think don t make such a big deal about it. furthermore, it was a surprise attack. and this is not a surprise. karl rove s point was that this is fundamental politics. you ve got to get on the ballot. you ve got to get all these ballot signatures figured out and signed and this is fundamental campaign pol
the virginia primary, both candidates failed to submit 10,000 voter signatures needed for the ballot, a huge set back especially for gingrich who is leading in the virginia polls and was expected to secure that state s nomination, and romney and ron paul did get enough ballot signatures to qualify. we will hear more on that. and donald trump changing his voter registration from republican to unafillated, and this paves the way for a late presidential bid. no word whether he will do that, his spokesman said mr. trump has said if he is not satisfied with who the republican candidate is, he may elect to run as an independent and this change in party afillation certainly preserves his right to do so and after the finale of the apprentice. dave: plug.
years working with you. as i said, we will always be friends and i look forward to seeing you in new york. i will see you there soon. the next chapter. one more day. i ll be here tomorrow. so will i. i ll see you then. t.j., thank you very much. good afternoon, i m alina cho. fredricka is off today. it s saturday december 24th. thanks so much for joining us. two big stories today. politics and the christmas eve shopping crunch. in virginia, two candidates not making it onto the ballot. newt gingrich and rick perry. what happened? and last-minute holiday shopping. will it be the therapy that retail needs? let s start with politics and a surprising announcement from the republican party in virginia. newt gingrich and rick perry will not appear on the state s presidential primary ballot. the region? the candidates did not submit enough signatures to qualify. athena jones joins us from washington. athen ark, how did this happen? a lot of supporters of these two candid
there s chosen to govern. and picked public employees against the private sector on purpose. that s a very irresponsible thing to do. since then, it hasn t gotten any better. yeah, he s running scared. i don t think he quite understands the insincerity of the signatures staring him in the face today. now, john, do you think he will ultimately be recalled? we re getting the suggests. do you think he will be recalled and are you thinking about running against it? i have no doubt in my mind, al, that he will be recalled. i wouldn t be surprised if they approached 700 to 800,000 ballot signatures to recall the governor. now, the question as to whether or not i will or won t, my biggest concern is the best person to defeat scott walker when that happens, when that
that i have every bit of safety equipment i need to come home the next day. the firefighters here, we didn t cause the economic downturn in ohio. i know that the teachers didn t. i know the police officers didn t. i know all the other hardworking public employees did not cause the economic problems here in the state of ohio. so what did they do here in ohio? well, the grassroots coalition of senate bill 5 opponents launched the we are ohio campaign on april 9th. more than 10,000 people attended a rally here in columbus. in less than three months, the group delivered 1,298,301 signatures to the ohio secretary of state. 1 million more signatures that was needed to put it on the ballot. the ballot signatures put senate bill 5 on the ballot this november and written up as issue number 2, giving voters tomorrow the final say on where they re going to go on this issue.