weather help them or make their efforts to battle this giant blaze even harder. we begin with crime and punishment tonight. jerry sandusky. faced one of his accusers on the first day of testimony in his child sex abuse trial. in court documents, the accuser is known as victim number four. he s the first to take the stand for the prosecution. the former penn state assistant football coach sat with his lawyer through often graphic testimony about their so-called relationship. victim number four detailed years of alleged sexual encounters. he also opened up about their private conversations and discussed what has been described as love letters from sandusky. his testimony happened after both sides previewed their cases during opening statements. the defense hinted that sandusky might take the stand in his own defense and even suggested he may have a psychological disorder. that could explain some of his alleged behavior. jason carroll was in the courtroom today. he s live in pen
gingrich. and one of president obama s staunchest supporters, movie mogul harvey weinstein, on why he thinks it s plain sailing for the democrats. i think the republicans every time they talk, it just doesn t seem to go too well for them. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. just three weeks to go until the iowa caucuses, the nation s first contest of the 2012 presidential campaign. and two new surveys put newt gingrich firmly in the lead in that state. american research group gives him 22%. while the university of iowa hawkeye poll gives him 30%. so is the gingrich surge for real? joining me now is gingrich senior adviser kellyanne conway and gingrich senior adviser jim talent. let s start with you, kelly, you re new to the gingrich machine. in fact, he didn t have a machine until recently. so can we take the mere fact that you are on board as a sign that he s getting serious? well, this campaign is much more consequential than any couple of hires. but the r
about, but then you have to look at what they actually did. what would gingrich s surge carry him on to the nomination and is that what the gop really wants? i ll ask campaign insiders and the party chief. also all about the rise and fall of a front-runner, rudy giuliani. his advice to romney and gingrich. and one of president obama s staunchest supporters movie mogul harvey weinstein on why he thinks it s plain sailing for the democrats. the republicans, every time they talk, it doesn t seem to go too well for them. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. three weeks to go until the iowa caucuses, the nation s first contest of the 2012 presidential campaign. and two new surveys put newt gingrich firmly in the lead in that state. the american research group gives him 22%. the university of iowa hawkeye poll gives him 30%. so is the gingrich surge for real? joining me is kellyanne conway and senator tim talent. let s start with you, kelly, you re new to the gin
how did this reveal the soul of rick perry? so rick perry, mark haleprin and i talked to him, we wrote a very good story, and i think rick perry is on to something. i think he s tapping into something in the republican electorate, particularly the primary electorate, something that hasn t been out there before. he s sort of like the gun slinger who walks into the saloon and changes everything. and that s definitely you do think that you re scaring me. you make me feel i m not giving him the credit he deserves. you re not giving him credit. what are you doing? what am i doing? he s a big rick perry fan. we want an interesting race, don t we? i think it s fair to say i ve been tough on rick perry. and to quote klein, perhaps i ve underestimated him. have i? is rick perry far more astute than he appears on tv? i don t know.
161 law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty as of monday. we re talking about federal and local level. now that number it s up almost 40% from 2009 which had the lowest tally we ve seen in 50 years with about 117 deaths. mainly here traffic accidents are to blame for the deaths this year. but still 60 officers were fatally shot including this georgia trooper. a gunman shot him twice in the face on monday night during a traffic stop. right now there s a debate going on, a very interesting debate, heated debate going on in new mexico about whether another cop killer should be granted a pardon. this cop killer didn t kill a police officer this year or last year or in the past ten years. this was a long time ago in the old west, talking about 100 years ago, billy the kid. legend has at any time controversial gun slinger killed