welcome to our special election edition of ac 360. south carolina voters put their stamp on the race for the white house. newt gingrich seizes the lead as the campaign heads for florida. newt gingrich is south carolina s choice. it s a major blow to mitt romney s campaign. this is a hard fight because there s so much worth fighting for. four republicans went into this southern brawl. who will be left standing as the contest moves to florida? the votes are in. south carolina has spoken. and the biggest battleground yet is still ahead. rick santorum at 17%. ron paul at 13%. all the candidates say they are moving forward to florida. we have reporters stationed throughout south carolina as we have for the last several weeks. let s start off with gingrich headquarters. there are still a lot of folks there, romney headquarters looks like a ghostown. does the candidate move to florida tomorrow? reporter: you know, we re still waiting to hear about his travel plans. it s
i did catch up with somebody a few moments ago and they were watching the returns come in on the gingrich bus. i asked were they elated, were they exciting, doing touchdown dances? the answer is no, they were very humbled by the results down here in south carolina. and anderson, i think what happened here is that conservatives in this state, republicans in the state said they couldn t care less about newt gingrich s personal life. what they did care about was a candidate taking it to the establishment, taking it to the republican establishment, not only around the country but here in social. it was the governor of this state who was on the mitt romney team, not on the newt gingrich team. he was going after the media, which we talked about again and again, and conservatives like that, as well. but it was interesting to listen to newt gingrich s victory speech here tonight, because it wasn t so much about his rival. we heard him go on and on about mitt romney on the campaign t
had a strong performance in a debate monday night and a strong performence last night. your ex-wife gave an interview with abc news. in it, she said you came to her in 1999, at a time where you were having an affair, she said you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take time to respond to that. no, but i will. i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and i m appalled that you would begin tapresidential debate on a tuppic like that. is that all you want to say, sir? let me finish. please. every person in here knows personal pain. every person in here has had someone close to them go through painful things. to take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary, a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything i can imagine. last night, our david gergen called t
and how he plans to beat barack obama. make the election about barack obama and his policy. it s about him. plus, for the first time rick santorum s wife karen and four of his children join us. my two younger boys said you can t run because you won t be able to coach baseball. this is the piers morgan interview. starts now. good evening. i m in charleston, south carolina, 24 hours to go before the crucial south carolina primary. who better to talk to than rick santorum, a man who has just discovered he won the iowa caucuses when everybody thought mitt romney had. he s edging third in south carolina to his advantage or disadvantage rick perry has pulled out leaving four contenders left. welcome. thank you very much. call me rick. i m no longer in the senate. you should be thrilled with life, concerned with life or ready to throw in the towel? every one of these things that happened. in the last 24 hours. it s a crazy period. how do you feel? you know, i m
london. here are the headlines. this just coming in. operations at the shipwrecked costa concordia is been temporarily halted because the ship is shifting. the captain is under house arrest as he awaits possible charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship. meanwhile, divers are working to remove a second data recorder from the abandoned ship. they recovered more bodies, bringing the death toll to 11. the arab league is set to end its mission this week, but anti-government protests show no sign of epding any time soon in syria. the government has rejected suggestions that arab league peacekeepers should be deployed to syria. in myanmar, some signs of political change. pro democracy leader aung san suu kyi is registered in parliament. she s running in a country that s still largely controlled by its military. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s news leader. i m zain verjee, and world business today starts now beginning with the coverage of a blackout to protest an