the former governor haley barbour. before leaving office he gave 14 pardons including a murderer. in an exclusive interview with cnn, eps he s sorry and has found god and changed his life. he worked in the governor s office as part of a prison program for three years and talked with the governor he said every day. reporter: your pardon, as you probably know by now, has triggered a lot of outrage. not just yours, of course. but the pardons of other prisoners. yes, sir. reporter: what do you think about that? well, you know, if the lord lay it on the governor s heart, the inmates who work at the government around the world who have been working at the governor s mansion, be they, whatever they been doing their chores at the governor s mansion, yes, i think they should be pardoned. everybody deserved a second chance in life. martin savidge tracked him down and conducted that exclusive interview. martin, explain more on how he described his relationship with the governo
is responding. we ll take you live to afghanistan. also, no holds bard in south carolina. the candidates unleashing brutal attacks trying to stop mitt romney from steam rolling straight to the nomination. will it work? newt gingrich who said, i m not going to go negative. here s what he said. this is going to be armageddon. they will come in here with everything they ve got, every surrogate, every ad, every negative attack. wait, wait, what happened to the i m not going to go negative? that s ridiculous. i will not go negative until now when i go negative. we ll talk about that. plus, the story of a florida gator quarterback who is not named tim tebow that everybody loves. starting point begins right now. welcome barx, everybody. here inside tick talk diner in new york, lower part of midtown. the delicacy here is this dish. loet me move my coffee out of the way. this is a diner delicacy everywhere. giant waffle covered in fruit and then smothered in whipped cream, a
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welcome, everybody. as i mentioned we re at chez bouchon. we move right to the cake in is actually what i like to have for breakfast. this is a pistachio cake. the owner, everybody calls him b but his name is robert. he makes this for his mom every year for her birthday. this is a green cake with slightly green icing. we re going to try that this morning. i like that, sugar to get us going. we re really talking this morning about a historic night in new hampshire. and yesterday we were talking about what was going to be a historic night and, of course, it happened as many people predicted. mitt romney is the first non-incumbent republican to win in iowa and then right in new hampshire. he did it very convincingly, with 95% of the votes counted, romney had 40%. ron paul had 23%. jon huntsman came in third at 7 17%. the rest of the field, gingrich with 10%, santorum with 9%, rick perry has had that 1% number really for the last week plus. john conley of the 21st century. wh
for mitt romney the expectations couldn t be higher. he s declared new hampshire front-runner and nationally as well. his business record has been turned into a target. there s intense pressure on the former massachusetts governor to post a big win. if we re able to win tonight, it ll be historic. it ll be the first time anyone who is not an incumbent in our party whose won iowa and new hampshire. i have my fingers crossed. it could be a big night for us. candy crowley is at the romney headquarters tonight. how are they handling the expectations game and how big of a windows governor romney need? reporter: listen, you heard him. it s just a win would be great, historic, we ll be the first people to do this. you ve seen these polls. they had one at one point, it was a couple weeks back showing him in the 40% range. they don t expect that. they do expect something in the 30s. but as we like to say all the time. a win is a win is a win. and he looks and feels as though he