newt gingrich? you don't know. >> other thing that came up at the debate which was interesting and fish you are we see here is aid to pakistan. michele bachmann and governor perry of texas got into it. >> michele bachmann who serves on the intelligence committee showed her credentials mattered when she talked about pakistan in the debate and made the case that pakistan was, quote, too nuclear to fail. that perry made the case that we were giving pakistan a blank check and ought to stop doing that because we weren't getting anything in return. and she turned to perry and said that that was naive. that, in fact, of course you have to deal with pakistan and of course you have to support pakistan to a certain agree, and by the way, you may not know this, governor, we are getting intelligence in return and i would know that because i serve on the intelligence committee and you don't. [laughter] >> it was a telling exchange and speaks to the larger political question about foreign aid, because rick perry

>> newt gingrich is the latest to top the field. michele bachmann is shrugging it off. >> the main endorsement is the one here in iowa and on january 3rd. >> herman cain is struggling to regain momentum in do >> obviously false ids asians and confusions about some of my positions have contributed. >> jon huntsman is hoping for his turn. >> i am getting whiplashed watching these people go up and down. >> republican voters are still shopping around. for gingrich, more momentum means more money but also more scrutiny. brian more in washington. back to you. >> landmark elections. still to come come egypt getting its first taste of democracy in decades. a look at the chaotic boycott surrounding the elections. how your morning cup of joe could affect your risk for developing cancer. >> pretty soon, we will say goodbye to the mild weather. a big storm, mild and rainy weather on the way. here is a live look outdoors, quiet tranquil clouds, 63 at bwi marshall. 65 at the inner harbor. >> egyptian citizens are flocking to the polls to vote in

we start with the apparent gop front-runner right now, newt gingrich. david gregory is the moderator of nbc's "meet the press." and howard fineman is an msnbc political analyst and "the huffington post" media group editorial director. david gregory, great to have you on. we'll talk about "meet the press" coming up this weekend. but let me ask you about this whole thing. don't you think just in a psychological way, what do you think it does to mitt romney, who's been running for president since the last time to realize that newt gingrich is now the preferred candidate of the republican party, with all newt's baggage. i mean, totally, objectively, he's carrying so much baggage, serial marriages, moved out by his own caucus for the speakership. and here he is back as if none of that happened. >> i think it's troubling for romney. at the same time, i think there's a level of resignation in the romney campaign, that their campaign was not predicated on setting the electorate on fire. by being this charming historical figure. this was going to be a different

him candidate. >> gingrich faces scrutiny over what he did as head of the gingrich group to receive $1.5 million in eight years from mortgage giant freddie mac. >> my advice as historian when they walk in and said to me we are now making loans to people with no credit history and no record of paying back anything. that is what the government wants to do. this is a bubble. >> by monday, gingrich confessed to speaking out of turn. >> you gave advice to freddie mac and they did not take it? >> correct. i also want to say there is a confidentiality agree there. i can't go in detail with. >> others took him to task for it. >> does this remind people that your background comes from being a washington insider? >> it reminds me that i know a great deal about washington. if you want to train washington, it didn't work well. having someone that knows washington might be a good thing. >> i am standing up for little guy in the united states. i wasn't shilling for them. i was fighting for them. >> in a statement this afternoon, gingrich started various firms after resigning as house speaker in 1

what is the connection with gingrich? gingrich worked for six years with high level officials at freddie mac. gingrich was paid to coach freddie mac officials on how to talk to conservative lawmakers, to garner their support to keep freddie mac alive. gingrich's total compensation for his services to freddie ranged between 1.6 and $1.8 million. gingrich says he acted as an advisor to freddie mack, but never lobbied lawmakers on freddie mac's baffle. >> advice over long period of time. someone aimed at how to you explain what you're doing? i did no lobby of any kind. >> critics accuse gingrich of political hypocrisy. but taking money from freddie mac as a private citizen and then blaming freddie mac for causing the housing crisis, when he was a presidential candidate. others accuse gingrich of using his political experience, namely four years as speaker of the u.s. house of representatives, to cash in. so says washington examiner columnist tim carney. >> are you prepared to live by your statement there. >> absolutely. and

>> newt gingrich, according to newt gingrich, told a freddie mac while he was being paid $25,000 to $30,000 a month, that their business model was insane. nobody at freddie mac ever heard him say this, and at least five people say he never did say it. but this is newt gingrich, and going back to what charles' point was, this is a man who has shown incredible intellectual flexibility. he is somebody who has been on both sides of an awful lot of issues. i think that is what is going to be his undoing. >> here's a question from friday's "wall street journal." "how to politicians who are rife in washington, d.c. as a minimum of modest means the as millionairess?" -- leave as millionaires?" question posed by sarah palin. >> while the rest of the country has been hurting, the washington area has been doing great, and a big part of that is lobbying money. congress is bought and sold legally. that is the problem. if you don't think that these congressmen are bought and sold, you are dreaming. >> taking advantage of inside information that would send somebody on wall street to prison. >> the supreme

prestige of newt gingrich. prestige of the speakership of the house. that's what they're selling. it's the newt gingrich signed gavel and newt gingrich framed certificate and the party where you're allowed or guaranteed you'll be allowed to be near newt gingrich. it is the letter you get from the desk of speaker newt gingrich. and today we have learned that it's not just small businesses and doctors who've been suckered into the whole access to newt fund-raising spam scam. it's big companies, too. today "washington post" reports that the newt gingrich's health care think tank, the center for health transformation, collected $37 million over the past 8 years from some of the biggest health care companies in the country. companies like astrazeneca and blue cross blue shield and ge health care and wellpoint. all of these companies would pay newt's for h-profit health care thing, $200,000 a year in membership dues. what would they get for their membership dues money? in part, they'd get special access to the former

a second contract with the gingrich group between 2006 and 2008 paid $600,000. that contract ended as the housing market was teetering and with freddie mac playing a major role in the eventual collapse. the questions for gingrich center on what he did to make that much money fo freddie mac. gingrich has insisted he did not use his contact as former speaker of the house to lobby members of congress. >> someone asked how did you explain what you were doing but i did no lobbying. >> reporter: officials of freddie mac confirmed gingrich did not lobby but would not provide details. other sources said gingrich was hired to talk up the company's business model. gingrich explained it this way. >> i offered advice and my advice as a historian when they said we have making alones to people with no credit history and no record of paying back anything but that's what the government wants us to do. i said to them at the time. this is a bubble. this is insane. >> reporter: republicans, and especially tea party supporters, point to freddie mac and its competitor, fannie mae, a

a second contract with the gingrich group between 2006 and 2008 paid $600,000. that contract ended as the housing market was teetering and with freddie mac playing a major role in the eventual collapse. the questions for gingrich center on what he did to make that much money for freddie mac. gingrich has insisted he did not use his contacts as former speaker of the house to lobby members of congress. >> someone asked how did you explain what you were doing, but i did no lobbying. >> reporter: officials of freddie mac confirmed gingrich did not lobby but would not provide details. other sources said gingrich was hired to talk up the company's government sponsored business model. gingrich explained it this way. >> i offered advice and my advice as a historian when they said we are now making loans to people with no credit history and no record of paying back anything but that's what the government wants us to do. i said to them at the time. this is a bubble. this is insane. >> reporter: republicans, and especially tea party supporters, point to freddie mac and its

that candidate is newt gingrich." new hampshire, as you know, holds the first in the nation primary. that's happening a week after the iowa caucus. so gingrich who has seen his campaign surge over the past several weeks actually is now picking up an influential endorsement. he has moved up in the polls in new hampshire as we know, going up to the double digits but still it has been mitt romney who has been surging and had at least 40% in a number of the polls so he's way ahead in polls but now gingrich who has become a front-runner could now really start to surge after this influential endorsement. our rachel vikville covers all things new hampshire for us. she is on the line now. raichel -- these newspaper endorsements come and go. this one carries some weight. >> sure, you are right, t.j. this is the biggest newspaper in new hampshire. it is closely watched both locally and on a national scale obviously. the paper says newt gingrich is not the perfect candidate, but as you said, they said that he is the best candida

he use to do work for gingrich for a time. aft after ten years he was one of the staffers that walked out on newt back in june and provide the family values tip for three times de versed leader perkins. welcome everybody. tony may i start with you? what do you think about gingrich? is it a nonstarter because of his divorces? >> i don't think so. i think what you see happening here is what you said. you have seen romney competing against pawlenty head to head pawlenty faded you had michelle the media drove her numbers down. then it was rick perry. then it was cane. now we see romney and gingrich in a head to head. i think there are two issues here two assumptions we can make safely. one is voters conservatives in particular who dominate the primary states are looking for anybody but romney. secondly the second assumption is it's not a safe place to be to be that alternative. >> you are not answering my question specifically about these three divorces. with the values oriented christian evangelical voters -- >> it is -- >> be sp

. >> gingrich is soaring trade why? first, rick perry is not a person you would choose to be captain of your debating team. second, herman cain appears to be geographically challenged. third, mitt romney is lukewarm support brought forth, as mark shields predicted would happen months ago, newt gingrich's effective performance in the bidding has been reflected in polls. -- in debating has been reflected in polls. do you want to take it victory that here? >> n -- take a victory lap here? >> no, but i want to point out that this format is made up for newt gingrich. you have a premium on people speaking coherently, cohesively, using facts in the document. he is the best at by far. and there's nothing adversarial, nobody's saying, "did you say something different earlier?" marriott bartiromo -- maria bartiromo of cnbc was the only person who challenged him. in a party dying to beat barack obama, he is the one guy they field and go toe to toe with obama. mitt is not the guy they want to go home with. >> this debate was not as

gingrich is up 15 points in the poll. >> so it's gingrich? >> it's a horse race. that makes it fun. >> it's going to end at some point. >> i don't bet this far out in advance. anything can happen. we still have john huntsman. who knows. we will have newt name out and john huntsman will ride out. >> that would be something and the 1% in the polls to 25%. thanks so much. coming up, we clear the air on the demise of the godfather. stay with us. a vacation on a budget with expedia. make it work. booking a flight by itself is an uh-oh. see if we can "stitch" together a better deal. that's a hint, antoine. ooh! see what anandra did? booking your flight and hotel at the same time gets you prices hotels and airlines won't let expedia show separately. book it. major wow factor! where you book matters. expedia. >>> preliminary reportsing is that u.s. officials think the taliban may have tricked forces into launching a deadly attack on pakistani soldiers stationed near the afghan border. 25 pakistani soldiers were killed saturday after nato forces claim they were fired on fi

newt gingrich is nothing iff not glib. unfortrtunaty, there are facts that conadict thehings he said when you say you did not lobby, it becomes a techninical truth. you are getting paid mamet's amounts of money, and the strategic advice is how have access to people he was formerly speaker for and howow to do the deals you want to do, and then that becomes a distinction without a difference. >> mark? >> nt gingrich, according to newtingrich, told freddie mac whom he was being paid $25,000 to $30,000 a month that ththe business model wasas insane, and at the houousing bubble was goining to blow. nobody at freddie mac ever heard him say this, at least five people say he never d say it. but this is newt gingrich, and coming back to what charles' point was, this is a man who has shown incrediblintellectual flexibility. he is somebody who has been on both sides o of an awful lot of issues and that is going to be his undoing. >> here's a question from fridayay's "wall street journal." "how to politicians who are right in washingt

he was forced to because gingrich knew in many ways. >> you asked about the gingrich thing. he's surging based on new and interesting ideas. clinton did that in 92. i think that he's, i think that clinton is right about that. >> is it that the count very hungry for an intellectual alternative to obama? >> you're looking at how many debates can you go through and see one guy be the brightest person in the room? most articulate with the most creative ideas without at some point voting for him? i think he's outlasted everyone. he gave that answer that mcveigh succeeded? that was fabulous, put ron paul in his place. >> sean: what about talking heads? i guess conral consensus is that gingrich is going to mess up. there is going to be a misstep here. and is this a case where maybe they think he will be easy than romney be careful what you wish for? >> yes. i think they believe romney would be harder to defeat. not that he would be, but that is what they think. i believe newt is not going to self destruct. i believe it's premature to say this is going to be a romney-gingrich fight.

when cain drops, gingrich gains. in new hampshire, a rasmussen poll, a conservative leaning poll, we've seen over the last month herman cain dropping by 12 points, newt gingrich rising by 16 points. public policy polling which is a left leaning firm, they took a really interesting approach to this question. they called herman cain's supporters in ohio, mississippi, iowa, california, arizona and pennsylvania and essentially asked cain supporters if herman cain drops out, who do you like? here's how ppp signed up per their findings. "cain supporters absolutely love newt gingrich and absolutely hate mitt romney." among cain supporters, gingrich has a plus 52 favorability rating. mitt romney's favorability rating among cain supporters is negative, really negative. as herman cain's numbers drop like a stone, it appears to be newt gingrich's gain in the presidential race, at least for now. and that is sort of amazing when you step back from those numbers and you consider what kind of scandals exactly are causing herman cai

gingrich. mr. gingrich's stepfather, with him on the family trip in france at the time, said newt never mentioned anything about that trip was all that important to him at the time. "he never said anything about it. he never discussed it." regardless, that's the myth now. this whole my political career started when i was in france on vacation at the age of 15. that is part of newt gingrich's myth making, building himself up into an important seeming, serious seeming guy. buy my book. he's also told other origin myths about himself like the one where he only ended up in politics reluctantly after abandoning his long held dream to be a zoologist. that's another newt gingrich origin myth he tells whenever he's photographed near adorable animals. or when he was trying to sell himself as an environmental. one of his two dozen books has that environmentalist title. it's called "a contract with the earth." you can get an autographed copy of "a contract with the earth" at gingrichproductions.com for $9.99.

and gingrich said, yeah, i'd be really mad. gingrich said well, it should be bad. you know what? if i were president, i'd be angry at the pakistanies because the implication being that they knew where osama bin laden was. >> and the thought that she is saying when pakistan is too nuclear to fail, what she was basically saying is that this could be what you fear in iran if iran wore to get a nuclear bomb. you would have a disaster. but pakistan already has dozens of nuclear bombs. and if the islamists or the al qaeda elements, taliban elements were to take over, you would have a nuclear threat. >> and you would have the same conversation about iran which is are you doing enough? are the sanctions strong enough? should we sanction the central bank? you spoke about that. or should we get involved in any military action if israel decides to -- >> and there is a nuance policy towards pakistan. you can't get let it get foot hands of the bad guys. >> there was a piece a few weeks ago on the agree grooe to which the hold of the nuclear weapons is already frag. and, you know, this is a pr

we start with the apparent gop front-runner right now, newt gingrich. david gregory is the moderator of nbc's "meet the press." and howard fineman is an msnbc political analyst and "the huffington post" media group editorial director. david gregory, great to have you on. we'll talk about "meet the press" coming up this weekend. but let me ask you about this whole thing. don't you think just in a psychological way, what do you think it can does to mitt romney, who's been running for president since the last time to realize that newt gingrich is now the preferred candidate of the republican party, with all newt's baggage. i mean, totally, objectively, he's carrying so much baggage, serial marriages, reprimanded from the house of representativess, basically moved out from his own party caucus from the speakership. and here he is back as if none of that happened. >> i think it's troubling for romney. at the same time, i think there's a level of resignation in the romney campaign, that their campaign was not predicated on setting the electorate on fire. by b

it has gingrich with 20 points . romney is trailing with len. >>> and joining us to talk about newt gingrich and the budget super committee is michael burgess . he threw his support behind newt gingrich. thank you for being with us. congressman. >> he tops the poll in iowa and new hampshire and nationwide and he is taking heat for recent comments on immigration. here is fellow candidate michele bachmann on fox and friends. >> even barack obama couldn't get amnesty through the congress because the american people opposed. newt gingrich said he was for it. and even as recently as a year ago before the latinos in the united states. he came out with the policy that said he stands for amnesty for illegal aliens. >> bachmann pointed out no mention of the 25 years and law-abiding and the other qualifiers that newt gingrich is putting on it now. what about that? >> first thing, i think you have to acknowledge that speaker newt gingrich is the only presidential candidate in all of the years that i have followed politicings wh

gingrich is providing leadership. he's saying what is right to allow people who have been here longer to stay here in this country and i think people are looking for someone who's a straight talker, like mccain was in 2008. i think gingrich now appear to be the straight talker in the group. and so if he can whittle this down to a two-man race, he's got a shot at this thing. >> 36 days until iowa. jennifer, thanks for your time this morning. >>> egypt votes in the first historic election since the uprising that deposed mubarak. live inside cairo with the very latest. >>> american students, they are speaking out about their ordeal after being detained in egypt. some claim they were beaten. we'll speak with one of them coming up later in this hour. >>> plus, he left congress with ethical questions swirling around him. now, newt gingrich has built a multimillion dollar empire, centered around newt and his contact. so how did he do it? will the same strategy win him the gop nomination? that and much more after this it's li

gingrich has been a beneficiary. look at the new arg poll today, gingrich, 27%, romney, 20%, paul, 16%, everybody else in single digits. speaker gingrich is a good communicator, it's safe to say he's a better communicator than john mccain. but all of the evidence at the ballot box has been the party's moving to the right since 2008. if the position was on immigration and mccain was for path to citizenship, spooik speaker gingrich stopped short of that if it was damning for john mccain, is speaker gingrich that good of a talker, that good of an explainer? >> newt gingrich enters this with more trust among conservatives. rush limbaugh on his air today was not critical at all of speaker gingrich. i think he enters this with much more trust than senator mccain did certainly. i think the burden is on him to explain this. perhaps there is a new way here. but, boy, it's really hard to believe that suddenly he'll be able to be that persuasive. >> that trust points is very important. also important is the fact we're six weeks

gingrich, speaking to fox news, romney brushed off gingrich's endorsement for the new hampshire leader newspaper. romney saying he never expected to get that nod. >> you know, the union leaders have not always been happy with me. ibe terribly surprised. gingrich spent his last 30 or 40 years in washington. i spent my career in the private sector. i think that should be what the country needs right now. >> romney continued to defend himself against charge that's he changes his positions for political gain and did that while again taking a jab at gingrich. >> this whole stream of thought that you began with which is you need it to get elected. if that was the case, would i still be defending massachusetts health care? if i were willing to say anything to get elected, wouldn't i just say it was a mistake? i watched other people on the stage when they talk about the cap and trade policies. they say that was a mistake. when someone says i did this ad on global warming, that was a mistake. so they just dust it aside. and that makes them more attractive in a primary. i'm standing by what i di

gwen: newt gingrich coming on strong. the 2012 candidates and foreign policy. the supreme court tackles health care and a supercommittee lurches towards the deadline. tonight on washington week -- newt gingrich is soaring in the polls. you know what that means. new scrutiny. >> the 1.6 million. >> i don't know. we'll check. gwen: plus, what affects might the election might have on u.s. foreign policy? >> one thing you'll know and that is if we re-elect barack obama, iraq will be a nuclear weapon. >> i am making it clear that the united states is stepping up its commitment to the entire asia-pacific. gwen: those choices get more clear and in congress the superacademy's choices become less clear. >> i'm still optimistic but i'm realistic as well. >> they're well aware of what we're willing to do. you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. gwen: and the supreme court agrees to an election-year review of the national health care law. covering the week, jeanne cummings of bloomberg news. major garrett of "national journal." lori montgomery to have "

gingrich. in order to understand the wa way in which newt gingrich is peaking in the post-thanksgiving flush, in order to understand that, you have to understand this guy. >> america, we do not promise that everyone wins. only that everyone gets a chance to try. and you have given me that chance. i took advantage of it as well as i could. i appreciate it. and thank you for it. >> that is pete du pont speaking in 1988 about five seconds after losing really badly in the new hampshire republican presidential primary. pete du pont came in fourth out of five candidates in new hampshire that year and promptly dropped out, never to be heard from again. pete du pont was a late '80s version of one of the koch brothers today. he was a zillionaire inheriter of his family's chemical company, a company not called koch industries in his case but called du pont. mr. du pont used his family a's fortune to run for office and create a big intrusive government for regular people, government all up in your busines

but this is newt gingrich. oing back to what charles' point was, this man has shown incredible intellectual flexibility. he is somebody who has been on both sides of an awful lot of issues. that is going to be his undoing. >> here is a question from friday's "wall street journal." "how to politicians who arrive in washington, d.c. what with modest means leave as millionaires?" question posed by sarah palin. >> so much money i washington. while the rest of the country has been hurting, the washington area has been great, and the big part of that is lobbying money. politicians are bought and sold legally. that is the problem. if you don't think these congressmen are not bought and sold, you are dreaming. >> inside information sending somebody to present -- >> the supreme court may say there is no corruption that justifies restrictions on campaign money, but there are going to be billions and billions of dollars spent this year. we will not know who sped them, who they benefitted, and the kinds of scandals you mig

plus, newt gingrich's frontrunner standing takes a hit. we'll ask our sunday panel if a possible misstep on illegal immigration could cost gingrich in iowa. and our power player of the week offers a pay patriotic idea for christmas shopping. all right now. on fox news sunday. >> chris: hello again from fox news sunday in washington. well, we areifiabley entering the home stretch in the run up to real people, casting real votes in the republican presidential race. continuing our one-on-one series of interviews, we are joined by former utah governor, jon huntsman, comes to us from whitefield, new hampshire, a state where he has been spending a lot of time. welcome to fox news sunday. >> chris, it's an honor to be with you. welcome from new hampshire. >> chris: there you go. let's start, if we can, looking at a poll. you are at 2% in last place, but in new hampshire, you are in fourth place at 9%, though you are still, according to this poll at least, far behind mitt romney. you say that defeat is not an option in new hampshire. you have held

i think gingrich -- gingrich probably looked one of the best. >> dana, stand by. we'll get more analysis. the pictures, conditions are shaking hands in the hall. strong debate performance overall, but did he get in trouble with conservatives, his answer on immigration, saying we're nerve ever going expel the 10 million, 11 million illegal immigrants? gloria borger standing by with the former speaker of the house. take it away. >> here i am with former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. what did you think of the debate and your own performance? >> i thought it was terrific. i told wolf blitzer he did very well. a balanced and well-managed debate. people got to really talk about ideas. >> let me ask you, one thing that came up at the end of the debate the question of immigration. and you said that americans want to be humane about immigration. >> sure. >> they don't want to throw people out who have been in the country for a number of years. >> there are lots of people who will go home, they have no ties no roots but also millions will end up staying. i can't imag

romney or gingrich? well, the latest polling out of new hampshire from the university of new hampshire shows that in a general election match-up, president obama leads mitt romney but just marginally. but look at the matchup with gingrich, it's got the president ahead, 52/40. but jennifer, this time you start, it seems to me in terms of just a pleasant outlook for the year, this president, barack obama, would want to prefer, it seems to me, looking forward to series of genteel debates with governor romney, where he's sort of predictable and he'll throw his sunday punch, but you know what it's going to be, whereas newt will have 40 or 50 follow-up punches and they may be thought up on the spot. go ahead, your thoughts. >> i totally agree. i think that newt gingrich turns on a dime. he's a great debater. he's not afraid to really go for the jugular, but he doesn't do it in a very negative way, either. i think he actually could do it and dismantle obama and make it very difficult for obama to be -- defend h

but newt gingrich is different. newt gingrich is different from all the rest of these pachinko ball candidates for five minutes. newt gingrich is fun to cover in his moment in the sun here. he's been around politics in one incarnation or another basically forever. to trace the origins of the eyebrow raising stuff that newt gingrich is promoting now that he's the presidential front-runner, go back to newt gingrich's old cassette tapes. member cassette tapes? for all viewers younger than me, this is a cassette tape. used to have boom boxes and machines in our cars that would play these things and sometimes your car would mess it up and the tape could get tied like this. one of the things newt gingrich did when he was on his way to becoming speaker of the house newt gingrich -- look, i broke it. there it goes. he took over a republican organization called go-pac and he would send republican coaching cassette tapes to republican candidates for office all around the country. people running for dogcatcher. if you were a r

gingrich. in order to understand the wa way in which newt gingrich is peaking in the post-thanksgiving flush, in order to understand that, you have to understand this guy. >> america, we do not promise that everyone wins. only that everyone gets a chance to try. and you have given me that chance. i took advantage of it as well as i could. i appreciate it. and thank you for it. >> that is pete du pont speaking in 1988 about five seconds after losing really badly in the new hampshire republican presidential primary. pete du pont came in fourth out of five candidates in new hampshire that year and promptly dropped out, never to be heard from again. pete du pont was a late '80s version of one of the koch brothers today. he was a zillionaire inheriter of his family's chemical company, a company not called koch industries in his case but called du pont. mr. du pont used his family's fortune to run for office and create a big intrusive government for regular people, government all up in your business

cost gingrich in iowa. our power player of the week offers a patriotic idea for christmas shopping. all right now on fox news sunday. >> hello again from fox news in washington. well we are finally entering a home stretch in the run up to real people casting real votes in the republican presidential race. continuing our 2012 interviews former utah governor john hunts man who comes from a state where they are spending a lot of time. welcome to fox news sunday. >> it is an honor to be with you. welcome from new hampshire. >>> let's start with looking nationally you are still trailing the field all of the way back as you can see at 2 percent in last place. in new hampshire you are starting to make gains at 9 percent. you are still kierding to this poll far behind mitt romney. it is not an option in new hampshire. don't you have to win there? >> we have to beat market expectations. people want to talk about our economic deficit and trust deficit. we had two town hall meetings today we will have three town hall

check out newt gingrich. his website has shiny, new explanations for why he's changed his positions on the health care mandate, on global warming, on t.a.r.p., on what he called paul ryan's right wing social engineering medicare plan and luckily for newt, all of his new positions line up nicely with the conservative republican primary voters. well, also the veto -- >>> the video that went viral this weekend. campus police pepper spraying peaceful occupy protesters out at uc davis in california. the university's police chief was placed on administrative leave today and many students are calling for the university's chancellor to step down. >>> and look who has decided to take a chance on iowa, mitt romney. he may be trying to win it all up front, but if he loses out there and loses big, it could be all over for mitt. >>> finally, let me finish tonight with why i think november 22nd, tomorrow, should never be a day to remember john f. kennedy. >>> we start with the super committee's failure to reach a deal toda

cain, 20%, newt gingrich 19%, mit romney -- i'm sorry, ron paul 19%, gingrich 17%. that's a pretty tight run. whoever wins or does well in iowa comes out with a lot of momentum. >> iowa is all about confirming or defying expectations. if romney comes out on top or second place he's probably fine. but he has gingrich, who has a huge bump. but you have to be careful because you can think back to 2008, my former boss came in fourth in iowa and ended up capturing the nomination. >> i think it goes to the diversity of the republican electorate. it's a thoughtful electorate at that point. we say do we want to be over here with paul or here with gingrich? these are varying view points in terms of these candidates and shows the diversity of thought. >> and you have romney, too. >> right. >> the one constant has been romney. many people have come up and down, and now newt gingrich, probably the timing couldn't be any better for him as he now has dramatically increased in the policy. do you think he is the biggest challenge to romney? >> this is the time to do it. if he doesn