saying about those ads? yeah, i talked to a few voters about it and just depends, i think a lot of them it is bias who they support. obviously if they support romney they are going to say, this is a ridiculous attack on free enterprise and yeah, he made those difficult choices but so do all businesses. arthel: once again that split as well. so a couple of things before i let you go, adam. we ll have the big debate there in south carolina, fox news debate moderated by bret baier. we ll talk about what these guys, your voters in south carolina will be looking for, what they want to hear. if you could, you, do a science project. take a couple of all the contenders here, part of this one, part of that one, put them in a bunsen burner which parts would you take from which candidates, quickly? you mean for the ideal candidate for south carolina? arthel: to be appealing to the voter there in south carolina, correct. well, i think ideally you would take faith and values
well as the law enforcement and enforcement prong. reporter: here s a staggering statistic. more people abuse prescription drugs than the number of people who use cocaine, methaphetamine and heroin combined in the united states according to dea, arthel. arthel: a lot of people are under the misperception prescribed pills are not narcoticss. they are. laura, thank you very much. bill: how about solyndra? the bankrupt solar panel that burned through half a billion of your tax dollars apparently not done spending money. how about a bonus for company executives. good work if you can get it apparently. arthel: i m going to apply. could it be divine intervention? why tim tebow isn t the only one who thinks god helps him on the field. . [ coughs ]
back then the economy, even though it was down it was in much better shape to absorb the jobs. real problem now unemployment in south carolina where some counties it is 12 or 14%, bill. bill: wow! that is remarkable that will be an issue come next week. what did voters have to say, john? what are they telling you? reporter: at that same place we talked to one fellow, a voter from florida, voting on 31st. he is not voting for romney because of record for bain capital. i ran into another fellow, tim. he will be probably voting for santorum but he didn t hold any kind of a grudge for mitt romney what happened there in gaffney, south carolina. here is what he told me. he may have came in tried to streamline it. if there was not a feasibility to keep it open, sometimes plants closed, you know. that s way capitalism is. reporter: so might not have had that much of an effect in the northwestern part of the state but here s the reality, bill. negative campaigning and negative advertising
you have to be like a citizen of virginia to collect signatures from other citizens. bill: what is citizen though? citizen, someone in the state, you pay your taxes there. you have citizenship you vote there. you have to be a virginia voter. bill: i gotcha. if you re a campaign you hire people that were virginians to do this. that is what other campaigns have done. we ve never seen a problem with smaller presidential campaigns and bigger campaigns in the past. this is the first time. bill: we re on standby. when the judge s order comes out we ll find out whether the four men win or lose. thank you, jordan. thanks, bill. arthel: the u.s. delivering a stern warning to iran, the line the rogue nation is told it must not cross unless it wants to see a response from america. bill: this is judgement day for joran van der sloot, the prime suspect in the disappearance of natalie holloway from six 1/2 years ago. we are only minutes away from his own sentencing for the murder of another yo