more likely to stay in the middle than someone with a high school diploma or less. a person who is married is more likely to stay in the middle than someone who is single or divorced. and a person with higher test scores is more likely to stay in the middle than someone with lower test scores. reporter: race and gender factor in. the pew study found 38% of the black men fall out of the middle class compared to only 21 of white men. 31% of white woman compared to 1/5 of white men. what passes as good news in report as she told us drivers of downward mobility include factors over which policymakers do have some influence, jenna. jenna: lots to think about there, james report thank you. . reporter: thank you. jon: joran van der sloot is being sentenced today for the murder of stephanie floorries. there he is in a live picture from the courtroom. we could learn his fate any moment now. when it comes down we ll
steve harrigan poignantly points out to us. more as we get it. jon: lock him up. jenna: we have to change things up a little bit, don t we? that story brings up a lot, i don t know for you, but certainly for me as we ve been covering van der sloot for years now. let s talk some football and what s ahead for this weekend. tim tebow s series of blockbuster victories, could it be divine intervention? is there something really going on? why tim tebow is the talk of football. we have fran tarkenton to talk a little football and about the big games this week. we ll be right back. wake up!
covering a lot of ground in a state much bigger than new hampshire. jon: the latest real clear politics average in south carolina shows former massachusetts governor mitt romney leading with 29% of the vote. newt gingrich number two at 20%. rick santorum at third. jenna: not separated by much. we ll look to florida. former house speaker newt gingrich making several stops in the sunshine state today. the primary there isn t until january 31st. polling stations in some counties are already open. jon, he made many stops already whether or not he is there today. where the candidate will be all over florida, south carolina next couple weeks. jon: so hard to figure out the set link. now we believe our mike emanuel is in washington. mike, take us out there on the campaign trail. what are these republican contenders doing today? reporter: you mentioned early voting in florida. mitt romney made several appearances in florida. today newt gingrich is there. former speaker made a stop in miami
these three peruvian judges, obviously, not giving a whole lot of twilight the, quote, sincere confession he made. generally, that confession, that admission of responsibility could get a considerably lighter sentence. the judges in this case talking about the ferocity, the brutality of this murder of a defenseless 21-year-old woman, not giving much weight to his defense at all, giving very close to the maximum sentence of 28 years. and that time is likely to be spent in a very difficult part of peru, in a mountainous region near bolivia, and he s still wanted in the u.s. for extortion for the holloway case, so it could be at least a decade or more before the u.s. attorneys get their shot at this man who has now a confessed and convicted murderer. jon: and you know he d rather be in a u.s. prison than a peruvian prison. jenna: certainly more to this story, but today 28 years.
michelle obama has done interviews where she feels like she s been misrepresented, and jodi kantor came back and said i didn t really say these things. this is something that people who are detractors of mrs. obama, i think, have taken away wrongly from the book. jon: well, let s take a listen to mrs. obama said to gayle king when she was interviewed earlier in the week about this on cbs. who can write about how i feel? who? what third person can tell me how i feel? uh-huh. um, or anybody for that matter. jon: judy, does she have a point? el, not really because well, not really because as long as she doesn t grant access and talk about how she feels, people are going to have to surmise how she feels through 33 aides which is what jodi kantor says is the number of people she talked tonight to about mrs. obama