in our poll are at less than 1%. as for who will be on the 10-podium stage thursday night, right now the final two spots would go to new jersey governor chris christie and governor john kasich. rick perry would be left out. it s at 5:00 p.m. eastern time when they determine who will be on that stage. in the meantime, candidates are spending hours in practice sessions as they prepare to face trump who will take part in his first debate. the strategy so far, it seems, a kinder, gentler trump. i think frankly i would like to discuss the issues. i m not looking to take anybody out or be nasty to anybody. as you know, chuck, when i made harsh statements about various people, that was always in response to their criticism of me. you know, rick perry, i always thought he was a nice guy, but he started hitting me hard so i hit him harder. i m not looking i don t know what they re going to be doing. i m reading so many so if they don t attack you, you re not going to attack th
details on that and what it all means just a minute from now. president obama declaring the flooding in texas a major disaster. and the people who make budweiser are stepping in to help out. both those developments are ahead. plus the president of fifa speaking out, if not lashing out about the allegations against soccer s world governing body. we ll be looking into that ahead this hour. we begin this morning with a stunning turn in the federal prosecution of former house speaker dennis hastert. federal law enforcement officials telling nbc news that hastert was paying a man in order to conceal past misconduct of a sexual nature. on thursday, as you ll recall federal prosecutors charged hastert seemingly out of the blue with concealing payments to a person named in the indictment only as individual a. more than $3 million that were allegedly promised in apparently hush money. federal law enforcement sources now saying the payments were an effort to cover up the sexual rel
can rick ride his recent wave of popularity to victory? that s the big question. he does get our writers cold open mvp, though, for that line. but for rick perry, it s back to texas. game off. i decided to return to texas, assess the results of tonight s caucus, determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race. when you say that, there s no path forward. more on the shrinking g.o.p. field, perhaps. fox & friends starts, you ve heard me, now. hi, this is rick santorum. hi, this is newt gingrich. this is congresswoman michelle bachmann. this is herman cain. this is governor rick perry of the great state of texas and you re watching fox & friends. yep. and the during happier times, a rick perry. no kidding, they all come to fox & friends and you re here this morning. we re up early to give you the news. gretch just gave it to you. it is mitt romney by eight. amazing. when we get up to get ready, we re usually in repeats so at
can rick ride his recent wave of popularity to victory? that s the big question. he does get our writers cold open mvp, though, for that line. but for rick perry, it s back to texas. game off. i decided to return to texas, assess the results of tonight s caucus, determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race. when you say that, there s no path forward. more on the shrinking g.o.p. field, perhaps. fox & friends starts, you ve heard me, now. hi, this is rick santorum. hi, this is newt gingrich. this is congresswoman michelle bachmann. this is herman cain. this is governor rick perry of the great state of texas and you re watching fox & friends. yep. and the during happier times, a rick perry. no kidding, they all come to fox & friends and you re here this morning. we re up early to give you the news. gretch just gave it to you. it is mitt romney by eight. amazing. when we get up to get ready, we re usually in repeats so at
are the protesters. wait, what? the occupy protesters have a plan for occupy caucus and as i understand it, what they re hoping to do is have people show up at caucuses but not actually vote for any of the republican candidates, just vote uncommitted. they re not even going to be voting. the idea is they know that all the media oxygen right now is taken up by politics. so what they re going to do is the people who are depicted on the cover of time magazine are going to go to iowa. we re talking about occupy people from boston, chicago, detroit, kansas city, los angeles, madison, lawrence, kansas, my alma mater, new orleans, new york. they re going to be arriving this week. the idea is what they d like to do and there s the h.q. and they would like to get arrested in front of various campaigns headquarters as well. right. they re going to stop by all the different caucuses as much as they can and some of them have been camping out at that campaign headquarters sleepi