crashing an outdoor graduation. caught rhett handed and rhett faced. a robber sprased and spanked. you re going to see it. good morning, everybody. who love this is one. i love that one, too. bang, bang, don t come back. it s nice to have you here. i m ashleigh banfield. and zoraida. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east so let s get started for you. up first bill clinton getting back on script and back in step with the white house at least for now. in an exclusive interview with wolf blitzer, the former president doing a lot of apologizing after praising mitt romney s sterling business record and suggesting he would be open to extending the bush tax cuts with the wealthy, a position directly at odds with president obama. here s clinton yesterday on the situation room. i m very sorry about what happened ned. i thought something had to be done on the fiscal cliff before the election. apparently nothing has to be done until the first of the year. he should just stick with his
they re referring to the straits of hormuz. this is a big threat from iran, the closure of it and the u.s. is bearing down on that as well as the accusations we killed their scientist. you ll those words. there are new efforts to take away parole power from the governor in one state. and this is reaction to that fiasco that happened in mississippi where the outgoing governor decided to give full pardons so there are four convicted murders on the loose right now, the attorney general is saying there will be a nationwide manhunt for those guys that took off running. i still don t understand that how can you work for a guy that is technically innocent? weird. we ll get to the bottom of it. also, here s one for the funny books. stephen force. or is it. i love this man. but would he be a good president? could he be a good president? could he even be president? he made a big late night announcement. it ain t the first time stephen colbert has suggested throwing his hat
To draw contrast between the big bad ceo and the voters there. if you want to sound smart, tell your friends in south carolina incomes per person is just over $33,000. that s about $7,000 below the national average in the state s unemployment rate has not been below 9% in three years. enough of the real news. let s huddle up around the water cooler and talk about the cobert report. you may have heard that stephen cobert leads john huntsman by a point. needless to say, he makes hay out of that last night. my home state of south carolina is where presidents are chosen and occasionally suk s d succeeded from. everyone in the republican field has already had their i m not mitt moment. i wish there was a fresh face. a new poll widely republican voters in the upcoming south carolina primary has 5% going to
Stephen cobert. the south carolina native is not even officially on the ballot. but he is still getting 5%? oh, my god! it s me! i am so not mitt. look how different we are. i m the one with the glasses. but wait. wait. wait. that s crazy! these guys have been running for a year now. how could i ever compete with an established candidate like governor jon huntsman. you have seen this? no. now i m looking for the colbert bug in south carolina. i m sorry, i guess the col bs bert bump reflected off you and bounced back to me. this just got real. a major pollster has me at 5% and ahead of the third place finisher in new hampshire. i i got to ask what do you think, nation? should i run for president in
good evening. i m ali velshi sitting in for erin burnett. the iowa caucus is just eight days away. republican presidential candidates have just over a week left to prove to iowans that they re the first to win the nation s contest held on january 3rd. polls show the race there is still very much up for grabs, but there was only one candidate out today with an official campaign event and it wasn t one of those top three. it was rick santorum and he went hunting with an important guest. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash joins us now with more. who is this special guest that got rick santorum out on a campaign event today? he s congressman steve king, a very prominent republican from the state of iowa whose endorsement is coveted big time. he didn t endorse santorum today and i spoke with him by phone as he was driving in the car, ali, to this hunting event with rick santorum. he told me he d planned to endorse months ago. he wanted to back one of these candidat