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second at 18%. another poll out of iowa shows it much closer. lets go to south carolina, as well. south carolina, of course, the first southern state to vote, it goes number three in the calendar and votes on the 23rd of january. this is also, again, showing newt gingrich on top. far ahead of mitt romney. romney at 23%. gingrich 18 points ahead and rick perry at 9%. kyra, i guess newt gingrich to take his national poll numbers and translate it into an operation and make sure he gets th...

Cwelcome back to huckabee. joining us now is former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. first question from pam bondi. >> senator you said in the heritage foundation foreign policy debate that in the civil war abraham lincoln ran over our civil rights. are there parts of the patriot act that run over rights of season. >> no. >> why. >> they are consistent with what we are doing with drug king pins and gangsters and were not applied because we had a different model. we were not dealing with terro...

Cwelcome back to huckabee. joining us now is former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. first question from pam bondi. >> senator you said in the heritage foundation foreign policy debate that in the civil war abraham lincoln ran over our civil rights. are there parts of the patriot act that run over rights of season. >> no. >> why. >> they are consistent with what we are doing with drug king pins and gangsters and were not applied because we had a different model. we were not dealing with terro...

sexual abuse, but allowed it to go on, has surfaced. deborah has more from syracuse. >> reporter: hey, you know, kyra, once officials here at syracuse university heard that tape, there really was no other choice. they had to fiere bernie fine, which they did late last night. the accuser, bobby davis, lived in the fine household for a period of time. he made the recording shortly after the alleged decade-long affair came to an end. and the tape suggests that not only did the coachs wife...

"cnn newsroom" starts right now. >> happy black friday. one in four americans says that he or she plans to shop on this busy shopping day and the crowds are coming out. at times, however, things do get out of hand like at this walmart near los angeles. authorities say a woman waiting in line pepper sprayed other customers, apparently, so she could get a better place in line. ten people were hurt when the crowd scattered. no serious injuries reported. the woman paid for her items and ra...

Nationalestaurant association back in 1997. >> i want you, mr. cain, to come clean, just admit what you did. admit you were inappropriate to people. mr. cain, im more you, make this right so that you and the country can move forward and focus on the real issues at hand. martha: a lot of questions out there this morning about this story. we start a brand new hour of "americas newsroom" with that. im martha maccallum. bill: im bill hemmer. good morning. herman cain to set a news conference later t...

cain says its time to set the record straight. >> i will talk about all future firestorms. heres one thing people dont know about herman cain. im in it to win it. im not going to be discouraged. >> well, mary snow has the latest developments and mark preston is looking at the political fallout. mary, lets go ahead and begin with you. what caused cain to reverse course all of a sudden and decide to hold this news conference? >> you know, kyra, last week when herman cain railed against t...

university president vowed unconditional support for both of them. jason carroll is there. the question now is, what exactly did they know and when did they know it? >> exactly. perhaps we will get more answers later on today when the attorney general holds a press conference. when you talk about that unconditional support, you have to wonder about that now because the two school officials resigned late last night. >> hes a legend in the world of college football. for 23 years, jerry s...

>> oh, here we go. >> oh, kyra. what a laugh to start the day. >> happy monday, peeps. happy monday. [ laughter ] >> kyra, have a good show. we start off with presidential politics and the two states that will be critical in choosing the new president. -- the new presidential nominee. mitt romney is considered the heavy favorite. iowa is still up for grabs just 10 weeks before it hosts the nations first caucuses. gingrich kicking off his day with a town hall. rick santorum holding se...

>> i think that who shot first question is a bit of a red herring. first off, they were uniformed, they were wearing badges, they called out that they had a search warrant. at any point someone presented them with a threat to their lives or serious bodily injury, under the federal rules of engagement, theyre authorized and expected to use deadly force. >> we defended ourselves against a power that was coming and shooting at us. we didnt go gunning for them, they went gunning for us, and thats ju...