who has character, shown that character over their career, who has integrity and i hope each of these people i don t want to be critical of the people on the stage. any one of these people would do a better job than our president and i will endorse our nominee, i believe in the principles that made america such a great nation. this is a time when we re faced with not just a nation that is extraordinarily secure and a very, very calm world but facing a danger world and we have a president now who unbelievably has decided to shrink the size of the military. who unbelievably said for the first time since fdr we ll no longer have the capacity to fight two wars at a time. this president must be replaced. i want to bring in josh. i want to stay on the topic of commander in chief and put you in charge of the most powerful forces in the world. dr. paul was a flight surgeon, governor perry a pilot. there are 25 million veterans in the country. 3 million currently serving active duty so th
at the abc news debate. and cnn will bring you an encore presentation of it and it starts right now. tonight, all eyes on new hampshire. after just eight votes in iowa, separated him on to new hampshire. game on. we will win this election. the game has changed. i have decided to stand aside. now, everything is different. what do we need to do as a country. can anyone overtake mitt romney as he tries to close in and seal the nomination? can rick santorum build on his success, is time running out for these candidates to catch the front-runner. save their campaigns. we have tough decisions to make. we will take america back. this is going to continue the voting has begun and stakes couldn t be higher, tonight we put them all to the test. live in manchester and st st. anselm college in partner sh ship, this is the abc republican debate. your voice, your vote. now reporting, diane sawyer, george stephanopoulos and wmur, political director josh mckelvin. g
and so it s with great respect that i speak of him and proud to say that i worked for him. it s been a seismic cascade of events since last weekend s arrest of a former penn state defensive coordinator on charges of raping and molesting a number of other boys. two of the university officials are charged with failure to report those crimes. paterno is charged with nothing, but says he wishes that he had done more than simply tell his superiors what an assistant reported to him back in 2002. i want to go now to penn state campus and cnn s jason carroll. jason, we know it was a pretty rough night last night. what s been the atmosphere on campus today. reporter: things much, much calmer out here today. vast difference from what was experienced out here last night by many. so many of the students trying to get a handle on things today. just about half-an-hour ago some students gathered just behind us here trying to speak out, trying to speak in terms of the victims. but just a
charge, the sexual harassment charge, said it was baseless. and then anderson was hired by perry a week before politico got the story and anderson regularly contributes to politico. so it s a circumstantial case but it s an interesting one. bill: all right. but it s a mess. yeah. it s a mess and nobody wins in this kind of stuff. as far as anybody directly involved. anderson or cain. now, you just heard michele bachmann. look, bill, i have been around a long time. and this is speed bump, pothole that happens in every campaign. george bush sr. was accused of having an affair. george bush 43 had a drunk driving thing that came out right before the election. bill clinton had flowers and he had the draft. kerry had exaggerating about his war record. mccain was linked to having an affair with a lobbyist. it happens. obama had ayers and wright.
charge, the sexual harassment charge, said it was baseless. and then anderson was hired by perry a week before politico got the story and anderson regularly contributes to politico. so it s a circumstantial case but it s an interesting one. bill: all right. but it s a mess. yeah. it s a mess and nobody wins in this kind of stuff. as far as anybody directly involved. anderson or cain. now, you just heard michele bachmann. look, bill, i have been around a long time. and this is speed bump, pothole that happens in every campaign. george bush sr. was accused of having an affair. george bush 43 had a drunk driving thing that came out right before the election. bill clinton had flowers and he had the draft. kerry had exaggerating about his war record. mccain was linked to having an affair with a lobbyist. it happens. obama had ayers and wright.