another story we re going to be following throughout the afternoon. jenna: j.d., thank you. reporter: you bet. gregg: shaking hands and kissing babies, an age-old political tradition, to be sure, but candidates can really have a hard time gaining traction when their ground game is overshadowed these days by the very expensive television ads and online campaigns. joel sawyer joins us, former executive director of south carolina s republican party, a member of the huntsman campaign. i was reading a story that says rick santorum is winning the ground game, he s been seeing everybody, and he s been in all 46 counties. but you look at his poll numbers, and he s not, he may be winning the ground game, but that s not winning, is it? no, it s not. i mean, but, you know, you ve got to give rick santorum a lot of credit. it s been hard to go to a county republican meeting in south carolina without tripping over the guy. he s invested a lot of time in the grassroots.
legitimate questions raised about romney s record in the past. so i think that s something all these candidates are in the race, none of them are perfect, and i think it s perfectly fair to gregg: joel, if you re telling me that huntsman was right and he stands by, you stand by his words that romney is unelectable i m not, hey, i m not speaking for governor huntsman. i m speaking for myself, and as i said when i started that answer, his words are going to have to stand on their own. gregg: all right. joel sawyer, thank you very much for being with us, appreciate it. yeah, sure thing. thank you. jenna: fox news alert, new details on the shifting threat posed by al-qaeda and some new warnings about the growing danger by iran. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with the latest on all of this. reporter: thank you, jenna, and good morning. at the policy center here in washington this morning, the discussion by current and former administratio
romney. as long as there are so many people in the race, it s hard to coalesce around that one single alternative. gregg: yeah. as i mentioned in the introduction, you were with the huntsman campaign who called it quits yesterday and offered up a rather tepid, at least the washington post called it an awkward and brief endorsement of mitt romney. and then we noticed huntsman urging the candidates who were still in the race, stop the personal attacks. well, you know, joel, isn t that a little hypocritical since it wasn t long ago that huntsman was referring to romney the following ways: he s completely out of touch, romney is unelectable because he lacks a core, romney is the perfectly-lubricated weather vein? i mean, look, isn t huntsman guilty of the things he s now encouraging other candidates not to do? i m going to let governor huntsmans words stand on their own, but there s been some