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
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 a slow and steady kind of guy. i don t t
considering calling off the exploration so salvage work can start. face-off in the debates in south carolinament they talked about jobs, tax returns, health care and who s best qualified to take on president barack obama in november. newt gingrich lashed out at the media when asked to comment on his ex-wife s claims about their marriage. six nato troops are dead. their nationalities haven t been released. nato says there was no hostile activity in the area when the chopper went down. but the taliban are claiming responsibility. those are the headlines from cnn. i m zain verjee, world business today starts now. hello. and a very happy friday too you. welcome to world business today. activists strike back after celebrity-ebb endorse web site megaup load to shut down over privacy claims. google pulls back on the stock market. and why the captain of a wrecked cruise liner was ordering dinner and desert when he should have been evacuating the ship. all of that and more to
concordia. today, divers blew a hole in the capsized cruise ship to make the search easier. soon afterwards, they found five bodies, bringing the total of known deaths to 11. now back on land, the ship s captain still in jail, likely facing a host of criminal charges, up to and including manslaughter. not only did he not go down with his ship, an exasperated coast guard official had to order him, more than one, to go back and help rescue passengers. here s a portion of an extraordinary audio recording that turned up today in italian media. it s translated on your screen for you. quite an exchange, isn t it? we re going to have more on this in crime and consequence coming up a little later in the hour. you may not have noticed they are gone, but lawmakers are heading back to work today after a three-week holiday recess. and the unwelcome mat has been rolled out. occupy congress greeted our elected representatives with a noisy protest and a pink slip for each and every o
authorities have a name and they have a picture of the man they are hunting. this is him. benjamin colton barnes, 24 years old, believed to have military experience and an assault rifle somewhere in the sprawling national park. and there s one other thing. police say barnes is their only person of interest in a shooting earlier today that left four people wounded outside seattle. so let s get more on this story. to mt. rainier national park and to komo tv. what s the latest on the manhunt? we just stepped away from a police briefing seconds before we hit air here. what they are trying to tell us is the severity of barnes, the power and danger he potentially poses. they have not fully named him as a suspect, but the only person of interest in this particular shooting and, obviously, the shooting earlier this morning when it comes to the new year s eve shooting. barnes has a military background. definitely some familiarity with military weapons. we were told the car he owns w