phone etiquette, the man was an older gentleman but tells the new york times he had just gotten the iphone the day before the concert and he didn t know how it worked, didn t know it had an alarm, didn t know how to turn it off. according to the times he apologized to the conductor face to face. apology accepted. the lesson learned. at least turn the ringer off. now this. here we go. top of the hour two. welcome back. couple of stories we re watching for you. president obama wants to shrink the government. joran van der sloot learns his fate. and cnn sits down with oprah winfrey in a revealing interview. time to play reporter roulette. dan lothian, let s begin with you at the white house. a new push to try to cut part of the federal government bureaucracy. dan lothian, what s the plan? that s right in is something that the president started talking about during his state of the union address last year. he really believes that the federal government is bloated. there s
the former governor haley barbour. before leaving office he gave 14 pardons including a murderer. in an exclusive interview with cnn, eps he s sorry and has found god and changed his life. he worked in the governor s office as part of a prison program for three years and talked with the governor he said every day. reporter: your pardon, as you probably know by now, has triggered a lot of outrage. not just yours, of course. but the pardons of other prisoners. yes, sir. reporter: what do you think about that? well, you know, if the lord lay it on the governor s heart, the inmates who work at the government around the world who have been working at the governor s mansion, be they, whatever they been doing their chores at the governor s mansion, yes, i think they should be pardoned. everybody deserved a second chance in life. martin savidge tracked him down and conducted that exclusive interview. martin, explain more on how he described his relationship with the governo
that s very impressive, 71,500. he is 28 thousand votes ahead of ron paul who has come in second. jon huntsman, former utah governor coming this third, 17%. 31,886. there s a battle under way for fourth and fifth. newt gingrich right now with 81% of the precinct et reporting slightly s head of rick santorum. both at 10%. rick perry barely did anything in new hampshire. he is already in south carolina getting ready for that. let s go to mitt romney headquarters right now. candy crowley is watching what s going on. he delivered a pretty powerful speech tonight, victory speech, in new hampshire and it follows his victory. albeit by a very, very tight margin but so far candy, two for two. he is. and you know, if the romney people could have scripted this evening, it could not have gone any better for them. he had a good and solid first place, and running a distant second, ron paul, really the candidate they feared the least, the man they don t think will ever be acceptable to t
deadly string of assassinations. and the first lady of the united states reacting to a controversial new book about the obama white house, saying she s not the stereotype of, quote, some angry black woman. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. with back-to-back wins in iowa and new hampshire, mitt romney has now done what no other republican incumbent candidate has ever done, once again no republican candidate except, i should say, for a sitting president. romney, of course, wants to be sitting in the white house next year, but that road leads through south carolina. that s the next primary state in ten days. his opponents are digging trenches and putting up barricades there in an all-out effort to halt his momentum. south carolina has a representation for rough and tumble primary and for picking winners. jim accost ha has the latest. jim? reporter: if only the south carolina primary could be tomorrow for mitt romney, it s going to be potentially a brutal te
23%. jon huntsman got 17% to finish in third place. rick santorum finished with 10% ahead of newt gingrich with 9%. rick perry had 1%. well, it was a big win romney needed to shore up the front-runner status. now he s the first republican to win both iowa and new hampshire this morning on cnn, romney turned attention to beating the president. you ve got almost 2 million people that lost their job under this president. you have income that s dropped to 10% over the last four years. you have 24 million people out of work or stopped looking for work. this is a failed presidency. plenty of other people want the chance to go up against president obama. i have a long way to go before i get the nomination, if i m lucky enough to get it. i think we re best off focusing on the failures of this president. in my case i want to demonstrate that i have capacity to make america once again a great place for opportunity, for rising incomes, for job growth. i think mast what people want to