and mod rattle. now liberals and moderates. now rick perry is suggesting that you are a big spender and that you are one of those guys who loved the earmarks americans have such a problem with. this is rick perry in iowa earlier today. i want to get your response. senator santorum loaded up his bills with pennsylvania pork. and he even voted for the alaska bridge to nowhere. he said in 2009, and i quote, i have a lot of earmarks. in fact i m proud of all of my earmarks. i put them in my bills and i will defend earmarks. well, senator santorum, i m going to give you that opportunity to defend your earmarks. megyn: your response, sir. i ll say the same thing congressman paul said when rick perry went after him on his earmarks. if you look at constitution, the
megyn: today s bust comes one day after police handcuffed 7 occupy protesters outside of mitt romney s head quartsers also in des moines. they met wednesday to think of ways to attend these campaign events and make their presence known. one of them predicted mass arrests. now we see them starting. coming up, rick santorum. we gave you the sound before the break. unfortunately i have a 1:15 fox news hit i have got to get on with megyn kelly and i don t want to disappoint megyn kelly. megyn: you did, senator, because you are late. but he s coming. we ll give him a minute. he s talking to the folks in iowa. he will be on moments from now. our thanks to the good senator.
that was not my intention but i believe you have to do what s right. you were michele bachmann s campaign chair in iowa. ron paul s folks wanted you to support him and were trying to woo you away. you thought you belonged with bachmann until yesterday. you show up with an event with michele bachmann. then three hours later you walk onto the stage with ron paul. people are calling you disloyal. you got the facts a little wrong there. i was always in the ron paul camp before michelle came into the scene. i ran for the iowa house in 2008 when the republican establishment refused to help me. i lived in a district that could not be won by a republican. barack obama was marching across
politics, or at least some observers are saying that. this man will be my guest at the top of our 2 p.m. hour, i will ask him about his decision to jump ship and why when jumping ship this late in the game did he go to ron paul? also, as i mentioned, rick santorum, he ll be on the program later. right now he s holding a faith, family and freedom meeting in muscatine, iowa. he has seen a big poll surge since the beginning of the month. he predicted that something like this would happen right before the iowa caucuses. i will ask him about his latest momentum. it s not just in this rasmussen poll. there was a cnn poll and some others that are suggesting santorum is sort of like secretariat, likes to run from behind. but as we near the final, the finish line, he s making a big, big push, folks. he joins me live next hour. plus, everybody, want to let you know that monday and tuesday america live is in iowa as the caucuses take place to bring you the brand new developments from the campai
to be against congressional earmarks because it gives more power to the president. megyn: any predictions for tuesday night? we ll do better than everyone thought we would do a week ago. i m grateful to the people of iowa. we have had a lot of great response and we feel like we ll get that spark. how big i don t know. we ll keep working hard. we don t have the resources all the other candidates have. we have had our best day online. if you want to go to ricksantorum.com you can help us. megyn: coming up. a convicted sex offender who broke into a girl s home is on the run because a major city chose to ignore a federal government request to hold dangerous felons who also happen to be illegal aliens. a live report on a controversy that is hardly an isolated case. the most memorable images of