tonight, our super pacs super shady. the presidential candidates seem to think so. the people of south carolina need to know the truth and when they know the truth, i think they ll find it s not surprising that governor romney is not as conservative as his pac and his campaign has said that he is. so, super pacs were born out of the controversial supreme court case citizens united in 2010. the the ruling allowed so-called super pacs to raise and spend unlimited amount of money on campaigns, but they re not allowed to take direction from the candidate. they have to be independent. but are they? what we found is that the ties do seem pretty close. for example, the pro mitt romney super pac s treasurers spees was romney s general counsel in 2008. the pro gingrich super pac founded by rick tyler. gingrich s former press secretary and bill burton, the president s former deputy press secretary. these super pacs do seem to be run by some of the candidate s super close friends. i
you will have to answer all my questions. what about condi rice and you offering to cook her gumbo? how much are you worth? if you could relive five minutes of your life, what would they be? i thought you might ask me that. my first year as piers morgan and one-on-one with my interviewer, chelsea sea handler. happy first anniversary, piers morgan. thank you. congratulations on a very commendable year so far. commendable. that was a very delicate choice of words. i m a delicate lady, as you may know. we wanted to turn the tables on you because we wanted to go over and see what your thoughts are on some of your performances, some of your questions. let s start by letting everybody know how this show came to be. because initially, you weren t supposed to be a live breaking news show, correct? initially, i d do a show back in the uk called life stories a more auto-biographical hour-long interview with one guest. that was kind of what we thought we would be doi
destructive newt gingrich for the hour. the piers morgan interview starts now. good evening. the eyes of the political world are on south carolina, the republican primary is just days away and the candidates are swarming all over the state. but here s something you may not know about one of them, newt gingrich. the man has an absolute passion for animals and zoos. so he invited us here to south carolina s roper mountain science center. it s dog eat dog out on that campaign trail, but all the while, things in here seem pretty peaceful to me so far, with the exception, possibly, of newt gingrich. why here? it s fun. it s interesting. it gets you back to nature. it reminds you of the world that we live in and of the fact that life is bigger than us. last time i talked to you, i said, you must be in the most memorable moment of your life. and you actually, instinctively, cited being in the african bush and seeing the wild animals at play. so it wasn t entirely surprising
stone but they got it wrong. the new memorial to dr. martin luther king jr. needs to be fixed but how? i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. dramatic new pictures of the dangerous search and rescue effort off the italian coast where a cruise ship the size of a skyscraper lies on its side half submerged. the costa concordia struck rocks on friday night with 4200 people on board. six are known dead. 16 remain unaccounted for including two americans. look at these extraordinary images showing the massive gash ripped into the ship s hull. italian prosecutors say the captain made a grave error and could face serious charges. cnn s dan rivers is on the scene. reporter: wolf, this picture says it all about how precarious, difficult and dangerous this search and rescue operation is proving to be. it s been called off for several hours after the costa concordia started shifting, all of the rescue and fire officers were wenched off in a scramble as they felt the su
their turn, losing once but then going on to get the nomination down the road, like bob dole or john mccain, you know. that s the kind of thing, george h.w. bush. it s happened before. and maybe he s still a relatively young guy, jon huntsman is thinking along those lines. one of the things i noticed, wolf, about huntsman is that he really is relatively he walks away relatively unscathed in this process when you think about it, because he hasn t been hit by all that money from the super pacs to really bury him in criticism like newt gingrich is talking about. and at the same time, he gets to walk away from this, he still has his own money, his own reputation in tact. he doesn t have that kind of really harsh criticism that would have happened if he had gone on to south carolina. do you think he s positioning himself now for, say, a position in the romney cabinet, potentially secretary of state? i don t know about secretary of state, but certainly he could position himse