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"dukes of hazard." >> former governor barb bour ran the state like boss hog. he didnt follow the law. governor barber didnt follow it. it was very clear he had to have this information. he department obtain it before he signed these pardons. now hes caused a public safety issue. these families are afraid out here. these victims have been through a terrible amount. >> martin savidge is in jackson, mississippi, this morning. martins whats the constitutional issue here? is haley barbour g...

victims family stunned and afraid. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." the republican candidates are scrambling to cover as much ground as they can. the south carolina primary only nine days away and early voting in florida starting at the same time. its now make or break for the stragglers in the gop pack. some are trying to cut into mitt romneys lead by slamming his record as a financier. romney is mounting a counter-offensive in florida today. jim acosta is joining us ...

Bain capital the day the company was formed, his mission, to reap massive rew-rdz for himself and his investors. >> mitt romney, them guys they dont care who i am. >> hes for small businesses? no he isnt. hes not. >> hes going on a hit list we know that. megyn: its an excerpt from a 30-minute film. hes a guy who used to work for romney, his campaign back in 08. now hes taking a different route. hell be here and the romney camp will then respond. dont miss that in our next hour. the f.b.i. is joi...

Like he is so broken, you wonder if he is in it to save face and be able to go back to texas and say, hey, i tried. >> and then we run the risk of having the problem we had in 08. we had great social conservatives, fred thompson stayed in there and peeled away some of our votes and that boosted the other candidates. that is what we are having, instead of having one unifiedgé social conservative vote, we are split right now. >> 37% romney and 19% santorum, and 18% -- its they finished tied in ne...

Record as a liability for romney. you can really see this division, the influential senator from south carolina, jim demint who has refused to endorse mitt romney though he did in 08 said last night on a radio show that he was really surprised to see how the others who could have had an advantage in south carolina over mitt romney crossed the line by criticizing the free market system. they will come under increasing scrutiny by small government pro free market conservatives in the days to come ...

Carolina is as conservative as a republican in new hampshire, you are right. the first slide you showed to me seems like the most important. that is, if you care first and foremost about electability you are overwhelmingly voting for mitt romney. that is his whole play here. electabili electability. things are over with. what i think youll see is that mitt romney has a floor of 28% in south carolina and a ceiling of 35% in south carolina. that is the john mccain vote. mccain got 33 in south caro...

>> tonight we celebrate. tomorrow we go back to work. >> dana bash is in manchester. christine romans is in the election center digging into who voted and why. peter ham by is in south carolina, the next stop in this grueling presidential primary. lets begin with dana there. romneys two for two. he won iowa, he won new hampshire. this victory wasnt a surprise, not to most. he was expected to win. its the size of his win thats really grabbing attention, however. is it enough to get the ...

elections center. it is on to south carolina for the republicans who would be president with mitt romney looking to run his win streak to three and to use his dramatic momentum to raise millions more this month. the texas governor rick perry is among those vowing to stop romney in south carolina. hes right here to answer republicans who say attacks on the frontrunners business record are over the line. just wait until you see governor perrys backdrop. a plot worthy of a spy model. a bo...

Smeared because his thing did the same thing to obama. >> right. they used an out of context line in 08 where he was quoting john mccain. when pushed on this they said its his choice saying those words. its ironic that the same thing is happening to romney where he is being taken not quite as much out of context but completely out of context. they have already made this principle defense of taking lines out of context. i think the combination of these two thing, hes in the position of asking him...

Is fair or poor. >> i think based on their research, certainly those numbers are lower than they were back in 08, looking at the history from what pew told us there. remember, our data showed that this is the most up and down race in recent memory for the republicans. in other words, in our tracking, the lead has changed hands more times this year among republicans than any race i think going all the way back to the 1960s, 1964. we had a litre like cain and then we had perry ahead and now we hav...