dukes of hazard. former governor barb bour ran the state like boss hog. he didn t follow the law. governor barber didn t follow it. it was very clear he had to have this information. he department obtain it before he signed these pardons. now he s caused a public safety issue. these families are afraid out here. these victims have been through a terrible amount. martin savidge is in jackson, mississippi, this morning. martin s what s the constitutional issue here? is haley barbour giving any explanation? i know you tried to talk to him at the beginning of the week and you couldn t get anything. yeah, in fact, we just tried to talk to him again. we put another request in to his officials. once again, flatly turned down. let me point out what the mississippi constitution says when it comes to the issues of pardons, especially pardons granted as a result of the governor. it says in writing in that constitution that there has to be a formal 30-day notification published i
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candidates looked to score of course some last-minute points. they took part in two debates in less than 12 hours. the person who should represent our party running against president obama is not someone who called him a remarkable leader and went to be his ambassador in china. this nation is divided, david, because of attitudes like that. [ applause ] we want someone when the time gets tough, and it will in this election, we want someone who is going to stand up and fight for the conservative principles, not bail out and not run, and not run to the left of ted kennedy. can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? you have been running consistently for years and years and years. so this idea that suddenly citizenship showed up in your mind. just level with the american people. you have been running at least since the 1990s. well, mitt romney is trying to seal the deal. he is out rallying supporters in new hampshire, trying to win over last-minute converts. cnn s j
surging along with his poll numbers, i understand. tell me more about that. that s right, they raised a million dollars in 24 hours after those iowa caucuses and he is fighting hard for votes here in new hampshire. you know, the conventional wisdom was, kyra, that he would spend more time in south carolina because that s where a lot of social conservatives are, not so much up here in new hampshire. but keep in mind, rick santorum has a rust belt republican approach to how he wants to go after votes here in this new hampshire primary. he s talking about giving tax breaks to the manufacturing industry to get them to have a rebound. he s also talking about tax breaks for middle class families, so, all of that really aimed at those sort of factory workers and lunch bucket republicans who work in a lot of these towns here in new hampshire. at a town hall event earlier this morning, he was talking about what the difference is between iowa and new hampshire and how he feels he sho
shot rick santorum leap frogs into fourth. his support has tripled since the beginning of the month and closing in on mitt romney and ron paul who are locked in the statistical ties within the margin of error. joe johns is in des moines to break it down. of course, the question is, did the gingrich camp see this coming? yeah, i think to some degree they saw this coming. hammering ron paul, for example. also, mitt romney. it s pretty clear that gingrich saw he had some problems because he was just getting hammered on tv ads day after day from these guys. a lot of people attacking his baggage, attacking his alleged flip-flops. questioning his conservative credentials, questioning what he did when he was speaker of the house and his relationship with nancy pelosi. all of these things play into the mix here in iowa because there are a lot of voters who are very conservative. they want to see the most electable conservative going up against barack obama in november, hala. well