those thus far who tried to throw a punch have been excoriated by trump and that s what makes politics fickle. who ever thought one of the most important strategies this election cycle would be how to handle a guy named trump. you can always get my take on my facebook every day and at fox news.com. now we are up to 20 private planes helping in the search for the two teenage boys who disappeared during a fishing adventure on friday. the families of perry cohen and austin stephanos say private planes continue to search as they have since they vanished. this as we learn perry wasn t allowed in the ocean just in the nearby river. search teams spotted their over turned boat off the coast on sunday. meantime the u.s. coast guard is expanding the search as far north as van, georgia. quite a distance
from congress is going to be more for the lawyers and judges and caring for these children. now we know that a substantial piece, like we said, about $1.5 billion, is for security and enforcement. and then the remainder will be for that legal process that s required by law, giving each one of these kids due process to plead their case before a judge, to stay here, even though in reality most of them will be sent home, brooke. okay, so we have that dollar amount now. let s talk texas, because we know the president, president obama heads to texas tomorrow. the plan was to travel there for these fund-raisers. then you have this whole, you know, story that is front and center as it pertains to immigration. all these thousands of kids crossing over. the question for you, this whole back and forth between president obama and republican governor of texas, rick perry, they re finally meeting. governor perry wasn t going to meet him on the tarmac. now they re having this longer meeting. what
experience and causes them to come back and say, i ve been through trials and tribulations and lived through it. perry wasn t able to. he never got a second look. rather than stand on a debate stage tonight and come in fifth in a field of five, he takes himself out of the play, he s no longer in it and newt gingrich gets the benefit of his endorsement. bill: thank you, carl we ll be back with you a little bit later this hour. carl is in charleston. martha: back to new york and back to charleston again, john roberts is standing by speaking with governor nikki haley and getting her reaction to a very volum volatile situation on the ground, john. reporter: governor nikki hayley is here. you ve supported mitt romney. what do you make of rick perry dropping out of race and throwing his support behind newt gingrich. this is what primaries are all about. they decide who they like. certainly the voters will be the ones who decide on saturday.
years working with you. as i said, we will always be friends and i look forward to seeing you in new york. i will see you there soon. the next chapter. one more day. i ll be here tomorrow. so will i. i ll see you then. t.j., thank you very much. good afternoon, i m alina cho. fredricka is off today. it s saturday december 24th. thanks so much for joining us. two big stories today. politics and the christmas eve shopping crunch. in virginia, two candidates not making it onto the ballot. newt gingrich and rick perry. what happened? and last-minute holiday shopping. will it be the therapy that retail needs? let s start with politics and a surprising announcement from the republican party in virginia. newt gingrich and rick perry will not appear on the state s presidential primary ballot. the region? the candidates did not submit enough signatures to qualify. athena jones joins us from washington. athen ark, how did this happen? a lot of supporters of these two candid
we re reassessing, re-evaluating. reporter: you are staying in the race? we re re-evaluating and reassessing. reporter: how soon should we have an answer? we ll be making a decision in the next several days. reporter: late today, cain appeared on fox news. he routinely refuses to come on this program. we asked again today and his campaign said he was unavailable all week. somehow he did find time to sit down with fox. reporter: so i don t want to overbelabor this in you answering these questions directly. but on ginger white. she s known you 13 years. you say a friendship. why would she say out of the blue, he s not fit to be president? neil, i have no idea unless the people who i believe are putting her up to this, maybe that was one of the lines she was supposed to use. i have no idea. wheth whether asked who put her up to it, take a look. we have no idea who it is. but i just happen to know that the reason that i was trying to help her as a friend finan