leadership. so a vote of confidence for speaker boehner. his leadership team, and now everybody is off for the holidays. and you can bet things will heat up when they have to negotiate a new deal on the payroll tax holiday starting in the new year, jamie. jamie: all right, mike emanuel for us. thanks. thank you. you know fox news is america s election headquarters. we have brand new developments from the campaign trail tonight. there is big news from virginia. fox news confirming rick perry did not qualify for the primary there. mike tobin with the news now. mike, good evening, governor perry didn t get enough signatures in virginia? we just got it confirmed through the virginia g.o.p. when it came to investigating all the signatures. when the investigating was done rick perry did not have 10,000 qualified signatures and therefore will not be on the ballot for the virginia primary. it doesn t change his status in the run-up to iowa but it
doesn t have the money. there s been two complex things that are very difficult to understand things, why romney hasn t been able to and and also, why bachmann fell off the face of the earth after the straw poll. she had all the momentum. why did that happen? let s talk about that. well, probably rick perry. michele bachmann was at the top. perry came in and remember, pawlenty got out. ironically she drove pawlenty out of the race, but his getting out overshadowed along with the perry entry her victory there. and she won that straw poll. but remember, romney didn t committee there, perry didn t compete there, newt didn t compete there. she had the thing somewhat to herself. could iowa be so muddled that the results don t matter if they re that s been the question. iowa on the republican side hasn t been a good predictor in i don t know how many cycles. on the democratic side, it s a good one, but it s a complex and weird process and it s a small
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republican caucus-goers, identify themselves as evangelicals. so you win a sizable portion of them over and you will do well in the iowa caucuses. eric: the polls now, though, show newt gingrich ahead and do you think we ll get a surprise? will that hold? we saw what happened in 08. folks who are saying, well, you know, it is too late or something, there is an eternity of time, there is three-plus not that i m counting, things can change dramatically. we have the big fox debate on thursday and there will be a lot of retail politicking and people will go away and think about christmas and new years and lead real lives but between now and january 3rd a lot can change. eric: look how much of the change, we have seen so far during the race. chris, good to see you, thanks. thank you. eric: for more of his exclusive one-on-one with governor perry, he ll be on the fox news channel, it airs at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., of
second mile announced an internal investigation today and its ceo for the past 28 years has quit. plus tonight, new questions about the judge who over the objections of prosecutors, okayed sandusky s release on bail. get this. her biography lists her as a volunteer at sandusky s second mile charity. joe paterno s name is being taken off the championship trophy. he was fired last week after he was told about one of the rapes in 2002 but apparently never told police, although he did tell university higher-ups. now pennsylvania s legislature is expected to change state laws requiring employees of universities to report the sexual assault of a child. state senator kim ward is co sponsoring such a bill. she is with us tonight. also with us is ernie allen, president and ceo of the national center for missing and exploited children. and in new york helping us with the legal issues, sunny hostin, a legal contributor to trutv. this is what you sent around to your colleagues saying h