mitt romney is picking up a significant endorsement in south carolina today. one that could help boost his standing with tea party republicans who continue to question his conservative credentials. romney now has the backing of governor nikki hailey, who herself was propelled into office with tea party support. can she convince those same tea party voters to back mitt romney? joe johns is joining us now. this is a huge day for mitt romney. tell us what we know. mitt romney continued to get a bunch of big endorsements. this goes up on the top shelf. republicans of south carolina have been telling the romney organization to make more of a play for voters in the state and stop acting like there s no way he can win there. the nikki hailey endorsement suggesting the romney camp is responding. the nomination race in the early state of south carolina, the first primary in the south, just got interesting. nikki hailey endorsing mitt romney for president. today is the day i m thro
not another shoe to drop. he said if there s another shoe dropping, somebody is making up that shoe. you know, how the cain campaign and how herman cain deals with this in the next 24, 36, maybe 72 hours, depending upon how this story develops, will be the key to the rest of his campaign. and you saw him address it here, i think he ll be on other shows, he s on iron the record tonight with greta and he ll be on center seat tomorrow with my panel with special report . this is a key moment for the campaign and we ll see how much damage, or if damage is done by these allegations. jon: well, and it often seems to happen this way, to players of both parties, that the higher you rise in the polls, the more dirt that seems to come out about you, and you know, often, that comes from opposing campaigns. it s always a little neb u lous where these things come from. sure, where they generate from.
electricity. volunteer crews from other states are helping utility workers clear frozen limbs from power lines. and we have a clearer picture today of that deadly attack in kabul. military officials in afghanistan now say five nato troops were killed yesterday when a suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into their armored bus. four of them were american. one a canadian. the taliban claims responsibility. australia s qantas airways says it could be again flying again tomorrow afternoon. all of the flights were grounded yesterday worldwide during a labor dispute. 70,000 passengers were stranded. earlier today a labor board ordered the airline to end its dispute. all right. now to the 2012 contenders. this next hour we focus on them and the race for the white house. the iowa caucus is the first in the nation and we re hearing from republican voters already there which candidate they like. a new poll from the des moines register shows herman cain and mitt romney statisticall
yesterday had a fairly good performance. there were no new revelations. they didn t admit to any other wrong doing within the company. they said it was others responsibility. there was no shoe dropping. i think there was a sense of relief after the last couple of weeks of all the selling. i think there was some sense that maybe it s gone too far. paul thank you for joining us. appreciate your time. thank you. the taliban is getting in on the phone hacking thing. the afghan group insists its phones and website were hacked and that s what caused the announcement that its leader had died. the taliban now insists its chief is alive. denies that he died of a heart attack in spite of the text message and web announcement that went out. the taliban blames u.s. intelligence agencies for the hack. a stark warning from the capitol. we re in the debt deadline danger zone. time is running out to get a
it has certainly tainted the overall brand of the company. the stock market has punished it. it was off about 15% in the last couple of weeks. wiped out a few billion dollars of shareholder value. it recovered today and has been recovering because there s the sense that rupert and james yesterday had a fairly good performance. there were no new revelations. they didn t admit to any other wrong doing within the company. they said it was others responsibility. there was no shoe dropping. i think there was a sense of relief after the last couple of weeks of all the selling. i think there was some sense that maybe it s gone too far. paul thank you for joining us. appreciate your time. thank you. the taliban is getting in on the phone hacking thing. the afghan group insists its phones and website were hacked and that s what caused the announcement that its leader had died. the taliban now insists its chief is alive. denies that he died of a heart