voters with perrigo. will their go with gingrich or go to santorum. bill: we ll find out saturday. talk to you nix hour. john roberts on the trail in charleston. martha: what a difference a day makes to be sure, right, folks? some of rick perry s most memorable moments were during debates. no doubt he thought back on those and wondered if he could do things differently. here is one of those as we head to break. we ll be right back. the state of texas is under assault by the federal government. i am saying also that south carolina, is at war with this federal government and with this administration. [applause] wake up!
appropriate policy. look at a couple of facts. the price of gasoline at the pump has nearly doubled since the president got into office from 1.68 a gallon to $3.34 a gallon. the unemployment has been over 8% for 4 straight months. we have thousands and thousands of jobs up to 200,000 jobs and decrease our reliance on foreign oil and the president turns his back on it for purely political reasons. bill: here are specs own the pipeline. cost of $13 million. we ve gone over time. talk about jobs that would move crude oil about 1600 miles and create 20,000 jobs many predict in the united states according to some estimates. what the white house says this deadline was arbitrary and it was rushed. what do you say to that? well it is just in inaccurate. the fact of the matter all the work has been done over last three years. in essence everybody signed off on this. look, there are hundreds of pipelines running,
martha: unbelievable because when you think about rick perry, governor of one of the biggest states in the country, there was so much promise for him to get into the race and so much momentum, it did not go well him in terms of campaign. a lot is talked about as we head through the next hours. steve, thank you so much for hopping back on with the breaking news this morning. we appreciate it. bill: fox news confirming that rick perry is going to suspend his campaign. here is where the players are this moment. newt gingrich is in bluffton, south carolina. at 11:00 a.m. he has an event in buford, south carolina, near hilton head. rick perry will hold a news conference 11:00 a.m. eastern time. will they be together? we ll see if the reports are true that he will endorse gingrich. before we go, i want to bring in carl cameron talking to folks in south carolina. good morning. what have you gathered? reporter: rick perry will take a decisive test, some suspend canada sis for legal reasons a
bill: there is a lot of fallout over this decision to reject the keystone pipeline project that was slated to run from canada down into the u.s. gulf coast bringing thousands of jobs and millions of barrels of oil in the process. the state department defending its decision. republicans say it is all politics. roll this. both sides. in nebraska, in particular we had very, very strong views about, about the environmental issues, about the routing et cetera. and it was on the basis of that that we decided that more work needed to be done. the president had said he will do anything that he can to create jobs. that promise was broken. bill: georgia congressman tom price is the chairman of the house republican policy committee. he is on the house budget committee. sir, good morning to you. i imagine you re none too happy about this decision. what do you think? this is exactly what the american people are sick and tired of, that is putting politics ahead of
do a lot of interviews, do debates and you gets bette get better eight. it was kind of an exhibition season in may and june when all the other guys were getting better at it and he came in right during the regular season in august. i guess his first debate was maybe in september an wasn t ready for it. bill: right out of the gate. i have about 20 seconds left here. santorum is competing in south carolina, ron paul is competing there however his presence there the last couple of days has not been significant. the poll you just sited. do we now have a neck-and-neck race possibly between gingrich and romney on saturday. reporter: except, real quickly we have a debate tonight and we also have a report that abc will have an interview with gingrich s e wife over the next new days. a lot could happen. maybe peeking 24 hours before the are primary is too soon. bill: very true. we were thinking about 2000 when mccain took the heavy hits from