race. the fact of the matter is i did not accept any money from the ron paul campaign. megyn: accept is different than offered. you are saying they never offered it, no ron paul, not anyone affiliated with his campaign offered you any money to support ron paul. i was never offered a nickel from the ron paul campaign. megyn: or anybody associated with it. never offered a nickel. megyn: senator, thank you very much. you know how to create controversy so we ll see what happens over the next few days as we gear up for the iowa caucuses. they happen this tuesday night and we are taking your thoughts on it at kelly@foxnews.com. we are tapped into the political pipeline. rick santorum joins us live less than 10 minutes from now. he s the man to talk to in iowa today because he s seeing quite a surge there. he was last place in the polls
megyn: there was a cnn poll that also showed you in third place. and to your credit you said one poll doesn t tell us that much. now we have another poll from rasmussen saying you are surging. you were down at the bottom a couple weeks ago. now you are up double digits, 16% ahead of newt gingrich who was leading the pack. i always said from the beginning, i m not going to get an artificial surge, i m not going to say something witty or glib at a debate. i m going to go out and earn it and trust the people of iowa and new hampshire, but iowa first to do their job, which is to look at candidates, look at their vision for the country. look at their record as to whether they can deliver on that
continue my father s vision. and they talk about an elections special in which you talked about the critical vote coming in iowa and talking about there is a person who will help continue your father s vision, and that person is newt gingrich. they talk about this coming on the heels of an endorsement by your dad s economist, art laffer. is it an endorsement by you of newt gingrich? no, it s not an endorsement. i haven t endorsed in the primaries. news max asked me if i would host a series of specials having to do with the election of 2012, would newt gingrich help push my father s policies forward? yes, he would. but so would many of the others that are in the race. it s interesting, my wife and i had this talk this morning as i was getting ready to do your show, and she said give a shout out to rick perry campaign. so you see what s going on in our home here in los angeles. megyn: do you, is there any republican right now, michael, who you find unacceptable? oh, yeah. i think at
i was just going to answer that before you asked it. the first thing that changed my mind is first of all, you have to understand i was talking to congresswoman bachmann in february of this year well before ron paul got into the presidential race. when she asked me if i what come onto her campaign and be her state chair. i decided to make a phone call to the ron paul campaign to see what their intentions were. they said they were unsure and they were waiting for ron paul to answer. two weeks go by and i decided to sign up with michelle. i worked hard and gave her 110%. i believe we are at a time when michelle is not going to win iowa. i have seen ron paul in a tough battle. he came to my aid when i was in two tough battles. i decided it was time for me to come to his aid. i don t want romney to be