make the election about barack obama and his policy. it s about him. plus, for the first time rick santorum s wife karen and four of his children join us. my two younger boys said you can t run because you won t be able to coach baseball. this is the piers morgan interview. starts now. good evening. i m in charleston, south carolina, 24 hours to go before the crucial south carolina primary. who better to talk to than rick santorum, a man who has just discovered he won the iowa caucuses when everybody thought mitt romney had. he s edging third in south carolina to his advantage or disadvantage rick perry has pulled out leaving four contenders left. welcome. thank you very much. call me rick. i m no longer in the senate. you should be thrilled with life, concerned with life or ready to throw in the towel? every one of these things that happened. in the last 24 hours. it s a crazy period. how do you feel? you know, i m a slow and steady kind of guy. i don t t
tommy s country ham house in greenville, south carolina. they ll both be there at the same time. as a matter of fact, mitt romney showed up. he showed up early, which is kind of interesting. we ll take you there. plus, a lot of people are dealing with rough weather today. meteorologist reynolds rolf will show you. from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is cnn saturday morning. i m gary tuchman. for three hours and counting that is how long south carolinaens have been voting. in between are these three members of our cnn team. our don lemon is talking to voters in lexington. paul steinhauser is watching the candidates from columbia. schon na sheppard is watching the action. she s been watching newt gingrich for a long time. he s one of the two front-runner s at the ham house. it sounds funny. how did they end up going to the same restaurant in the same state at the same time? reporter: you know, gary, the candidates are saying it was purely a coincidence that th
tonight is karen and the kids are going to be on piers morgan show tonight on cnn. so i would encourage you all to take a look at that. we did the interview yesterday from charleston and you ll get to see what at the end of the interview, piers morgan leaned over to me and said, you want my suggestion? less rick, more karen. thank you for the punt, mr. santorum. and sound and fury came in last night at the cnn-sponsored debate. gingrich seems to be the target of a new dirty trick. e-mails are being sent to republican activists and they claim and cnn did not send them out. it s not clear how many people received them. from dirty tricks to political mischief by a political odd couple. you re looking at pictures from stephen colbert who is teaming up with herman cain for a rally at this hour in charleston. what a scene there. colbert is calling the event the rock me like a herman cain primary rally. even though he s out of the race, he s entering the race himself and say
took the spotlight. he was asking to have an open marriage and i refused. he wanted an open marriage? yeah. that i accept the fact that he has somebody else in his life. she says that you came to her in 1999, at a time when you were having an affair. she says you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take some time to respond to that? no, but i will. and i am frankly astounded that cnn would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate. i am tired of the elite media protecting barack obama by attacking republicans. joe johns is at the republican leadership conference where gingrich is speaking at this hour. joe, gingrich got a standing o when he was asked about that interview. reporter: yeah, he sure did. i mean, this is you can say a lot of things about it, but i think probably the most important thing to say, kyra, is that this is the south. this is newt gingrich s home base. if there s anywhere these charges have
we also have ron brownstein and will cain, nephew of herman cain. brother from another mother. roland martin here shaking his head. oh, my goodness. way too much soul in here. haven t seen him since the family reunion. right. we have a lot to talk about this morning. we have former new hampshire governor john sununu is going to join us, the chairman is going to be here as well. former we re going to talk to you about this big announcen t about who you are endorsing which honestly confused the heck out of me. virginia governor bob mcdonald is going to be with us as well. south carolina congressman jim clyburn is going to join us. we re going to talk to those reporters who broke the news on the maryanne geingricgingrich. kind of hard talking. nothing going on. nothing at all. light morning. first, though, let s get to some of the other stories a are pappi i happening. we re going to shatart in afghanistan. the taliban claiming responsibility for shooting dow