back to you. jon: and the controversy goes on. douglas kennedy, thank you. reporter: thank you. jenna: well, with rick santorum surging in the polls, the media is finally taking notice. so what does this mean for his campaign? our news watch panel is next with alan colmes and rich lowry, looking forward to that. and stick with fox news for tomorrow s iowa caucuses. we have the latest developments all day, and our special coverage begins at 6 p.m. eastern time. [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription. this is mary. who has a million things to pick up each nth on top of her prescriptions. so she was thrilled that her walgreens pharmacist recommended a 3-month supply and would always be there to answer questions about her health. now mary gets 3 refills in one and for 3 months, she s done. more or less. ask your pharmacist about a 90 day supply today. walgreens. there s a way to stay well.
surging in the polls, the media seems to be paying more attention to his campaign. let s bring in our news watch panel, rich lowry, alan colmes is the host of the alan combs show and a familiar face here at fox. so is rick santorum surging, rich, because of media attention or in spite of it? in spite of it. he made this happen on the ground, jon. he, you know, went to all 99 counties, ran a very traditional iowa campaign at a time when a lot of the smartest pundits were saying, ah, you don t need to do that traditional work anymore. it s all about the debates, it s all about national advertising. so this surge is a product of hard work and a product, also, of all the other anti-romney candidates collapsing around him. jon: alan, do you agree it s hard work, and does it deserve to be rewarded? well [laughter] certainly hard work in that he visited, you know, went to every part of the state, and it s also, you know, the republicans have speed dated every other
they want to. that s it from the here, jon, back to you. jon: and the controversy goes on. douglas kennedy, thank you. reporter: thank you. jenna: well, with rick santorum surging in the polls, the media is finally taking notice. so what does this mean for his campaign? our news watch panel is next with alan colmes and rich lowry, looking forward to that. and stick with fox news for tomorrow s iowa caucuses. we have the latest developments all day, and our special coverage begins at 6 p.m. eastern time. [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription. this is mary. who has a million things to pick up each nth on top of her prescriptions. so she was thrilled that her walgreens pharmacist recommended a 3-month supply and would always be there to answer questions about her health. now mary gets 3 refills in one and for 3 months, she s done. more or less. ask your pharmacist about a 90 day supply today. walgreens. there s a way to stay well.
jon: so with rick santorum surging in the polls, the media seems to be paying more attention to his campaign. let s bring in our news watch panel, rich lowry, alan colmes is the host of the alan combs show and a familiar face here at fox. so is rick santorum surging, rich, because of media attention or in spite of it? in spite of it. he made this happen on the ground, jon. he, you know, went to all 99 counties, ran a very traditional iowa campaign at a time when a lot of the smartest pundits were saying, ah, you don t need to do that traditional work anymore. it s all about the debates, it s all about national advertising. so this surge is a product of hard work and a product, also, of all the other anti-romney candidates collapsing around him. jon: alan, do you agree it s hard work, and does it deserve to be rewarded? well [laughter] certainly hard work in that he visited, you know, went to every part of the state, and it s also, you know, the republicans have speed dated every
take action to address climate change. if enough of us demand action from our leaders. together we can do this. jon: some old video of newt gingrich there with nancy pelosi the kiss of death to conservative voters. let s talk about it with our news watch panel, alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show. jim pinker ton an editor and writer for the conservative magazine. newt gingrich has gone onto say that the sit down on the couch with nancy pelosi is the single dumbest thing he s ever done. i imagine when he sat down on the couch he wasn t thinking of a presidential run. apparently not. gingrich did it, the video is there. all he can do is apologize for it and as they say, move on.