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you re getting screwed. it may be do or die time for hunt man, who just won a key endorsement from the boston glob globe . that may explain why a group supporting paul released this outrageous web ad governor, should ron paul disavow that ad from that video from his supporters? well, if the group is any way affiliated with ron paul s organization, of course he should. are you offended? it s just political campaign nonsense. now is not the time. later in the day, paul said the ad did not come from him. i haven t looked at it, but i understand it s an ugly ad. i ve disavowed it. obviously, all campaigns have to suffer these consequences when they put the candidate s name on there and you get bad press for it. obviously, it was way out of order for them to do that. ....
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a stunning turnd around in south carolina where mitt romney has nearly downed his support in the past month to take a solid lead. in our latest cnn orc poll, 37% of likely voters are now backing romney in south carolina. santorum and gingrich are battling for second and 18% respectly. but santorum is soaring. while gingrich has dropped 25 points. paul has jumped up to 12%. perry has slipped to only 5% in south carolina. jon huntsman stands at 1%. with a look at what s behind romney s south carolina surge, let s go to joe johns. wolf, taking a detour from new hampshire, mitt romney decided to go somewhere he thought he could use some help, hoping a little extra attention to the palmetto state would pay off. looking stronger than expected in south carolina, mitt romney wrapped up his brief swing with a rally in conway. it s a state where the candidate came in fourth in the last presidential primary, but t ....
its own brutal crackdown, that s it s running out of money. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it could get lonely being the front-runner especially if you re way out front in new hampshire as romney is now. the first in the nation primary is only five days away. that makes him the prime target of his rivals, but they re also squabbling among themselves and while romney can afford to look ahead to south carolina, some candidates can t afford to fall further behind. let s go to john king in new hampshire. john, you re on the scene for us. give us the lay of the land right now. the big picture. what s going on? five days out, wolf, you would have to say new hampshire is romney country. just like in iowa, you have the campaigns now gearing up for their final push. we see more lawn signs than we did in iowa, but nowhere near the level of past campaigns. the reason, people here are pretty well considere ....
You have high expectations just ask rick perry. you make one flub and you re done. newt gingrich will make those flubs. he has a history making the flubs. he has a history creating policy that created a better america. what does obama have? that s what the american people are after. right. newt gingrich has a track record, part not so great but when you talk about the contract with america and president clinton that was some of our most prosperous times. that s what i would stick with. bill: three quick points. gingrich has refrained or restrained himself for the most part, not entirely going after romney or anybody else. hunt man will be on the stage tonight. what romney s team tell you they gamed out this system all the way to california on june 5th and that s the lesson they learned from 08 between obama and hillary clinton. angela, thank you. chris, thank you. i know where you guys will be tonight. thanks for having us. bill: see you real soon. okay, martha. martha: after n ....
trump. he s always outspoken, and his old possible presidential ambitions. he still has some. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get to breaking news. a chilling sense of da ja view. reports of shots fired, campus lock down, virginia tech university earlier this afternoon. it brings to mind the 2007 rampage by a student that left 33 people dead. today s incident was a shooting during the traffic stop by campus police. two people are are dead. brian todd is monitoring the developments for us. what is the very latest? as far as we know, a man hunt the still underway. officials say one of the people killed was a virginia tech police officer making a routine traffic stop in the parking lot of the sports complex. the second body has not been identified. they say the shooter fled on foot and a search is underway. the campus on lockdown. here is what one eyewitness told a local station. i was coming out of the gym and i was just walking to the sidewa ....