oversight of the president and his team and the president must determine this week whether to compromise on the border wall or trigger another government shutdown. this is a moral issue. the lawless state of our southern border is a threat to the safety, security and financial well-being of all america. in the past, most of the people in this room voted for a wall. but the proper wall never got built. i will get it built. and elizabeth warren joins the crowded 2020 democratic field. progressives love her attacks on powerful banks and corporations but her liberal views and claims about native american ancestry raise electability questions. this won t be easy. now there are a lot of people out there with money and power and armies of lobbyists and lawyers. people who are prepared to spend more money than you and i could ever dream of to stop us from
a high-stakes pardon showdown. could we learn today if most of those prisoners released in mississippi will have to go back to prison? along those, four convicted murderers. classes are resuming at that l.a. school where the entire staff was fired after two teachers were arrested on child abuse cases. investigators at this point have made yet another disgusting discovery. they were not fired, they were reassigned temporarily. should say not fired but cleared out. the bombing is unrelenting in syria. families are afraid to escape their homes. these are some of the most disturbing images our network has ever seen. we ll do that story, first we ll begin with what is welcomed news for almost 1 million people who own homes in this country. if you owe more money than your house is worth, you re under water, but there could be finally some relief coming your way. all of this comes as new york and california are signing into the deal. so let s run the numbers. we re tal
newt gingrich takes south carolina. we proved here in south carolina that people power with the right ideas beats big money, and with your help, we re going to prove it again in florida. the former house speaker says he may not have the money, but he can take on mitt romney. we ll take you live to south carolina for the post-primary analysis. despite false reports swirling on social media, former penn state coach joe paterno is alive, but in serious condition. students lit candles in his support. we will take you live to penn state. and search and rescue teams continue working on the italian cruise ship this morning. they stopped briefly overnight for safety issues. we ve got the latest in the investigation. plus, new audiotape from the ship s captain. hello, and good morning to everybody. we start with the runaway victory for newt gingrich. in the south carolina republican primary. look at the numbers. it was a double digit win for the former house speaker. easily be
good morning, everybody. i m gary tuchman. newt gingrich is celebrating a big win in south carolina. the biggest thing i take from the campaign in south carolina is that it is very humbling and very sobering to have so many people who so deeply want their country to get back on the right track. speaking of the right track, mitt romney is hoping to find it in florida. we ll get voter reactions from the next big campaign contest about what happened in south carolina. despite some immediate ra reports to the contrary, joe paterno is alive but in serious condition this morning. we ll get an update from state college, pennsylvania. we start with what was a runaway victory for newt gingrich in the south carolina republican presidential primary. look at these numbers. it was a double digit win. 12 percentage points for the former house speaker. easily beating mitt romney. rick santorum came in third place. ron paul in fourth. now, check out this cnn exit poll. there were man
yeah. maybe too simple to put it this way, but people believe bachman is a pure conservative candidate, but might have electability questions. people think mitt romney may be electable, but might not be as pure as they want him to be. rick perry i think hopes to come in right in between those two. he could be electable and conservative. he s going to talk about jobs. he s going to talk about what he has done in texas to create jobs and i think that is something that no other candidate is going to have. bret: jeff, i asked about this, texas governor perry s announcement and the debate and it was interesting to hear some of the candidates react to that and how they re going to react to him in this race. without a doubt, it s going to mitt romney is not going to sit on the side lines here and be his low key self. he is going to go after him. either publicly or privately and really ferret it out. they spent a lot of time investigating in his record and things. so he s going to be