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
the boost that ron paul would get because a shift like that does not look to me like it will be effective. i think it is not a political move that is wise on ron paul s part and i am troubled bit whole thing and we will find out the truth. over time it will come out and we will have a good sense of who is telling the clear of the story. eric: and ron paul s camp has denied we offering any sort of money as a pay out to come over from the other camp, but, talk to us about what is going on there, ron paul is saying romney looks to be moving up and gingrich is moving down. are you surprised of the strength of ron paul in iowa? guest: i am. i have said in the past that he deserves credit. he has been competing by the rules and people said he had a ceiling at 7 percent or 8 percent and he doubled or tripled that, and i give him credit for putting his finger on
paul. would i vote for him if he got the nomination? yeah, i d vote for ron paul if he got the nomination. i think that was a mistake by, in fact, newt gingrich also at this point saying who he would not vote for or leading us to believe he would vote for obama over ron paul, the nominee. if you re going to be a true reaganite, you, in fact, support the nominee of the party. what s going on is the fact that you have mitt romney who stays at 23, 24, 25%. you have five conservatives in this race splitting 50% of the vote. they need to find out which conservative s going to go on, and the battleground is going to be in south carolina in a couple of weeks. and whoever coming out of south carolina, the conservative out of there, will go forward. everybody else will have to stay home. megyn: and newt gingrich so far is still doing very well in south carolina, atop many polls there. michael, thank you so much. and, folks, with just days until the caucuses, the candidates are hitting the trail
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