work. thank you so much. facebook.com/carolcnn if you d like to continue the conversation. let s continue the cnn newsroom with randi kaye. hello, it s 1:00. two short days before the make or break south carolina primary. one gop hopeful is out. governor rick perry who dominated the field so briefly last summer called it a race. good morning, i have come to the conclusion that there is no more viable path for me in this campaign. therefore, today i m suspending my campaign and endorsing newt gingrich for president of the united states. our latest polls shows gingrich gaining on romney and perry stuck in fifth with single digits. santorum is running third but today he s officially the winner of the iowa caucuses. 16 days ago, you ll recall romney was on top with eight votes but the final results show santorum actually won by a total of 34 votes. it s basically a toss-up because eight votes are still missing. four republican candidates will meet tonight and wolf blitz
candidates for president, notably former house speaker gingrich who calls the decision stunningly stupid, and the energy industry says, claims, that if this pipeline project, $7 billion, went through it would have immediately created some 20,000 direct jobs in the united states, 340,000 jobs by the year 2015. shepard: james, so the news is breaking for now, the keystone pipeline is debt, the president says it is because republicans set an arbitrary deadline and they did not have time to study it and the republicans say, or newt gingrich says it is stunningly stupid and the republicans say this fight is not over and they have gathered they talk about what a horrible decision it was. politicsed rest assured. one of governor romney s top political allies joining calls for the millionaire to release his tax records. why wait until april? and a new white house advisor
would come in from the workers paying taxes, and from the energy that is coming into our country because of the key citizen xl pipeline. it will not happen now. neil: what i didn t understand about this and you are immersed in it, but the nebraska governor offers, well, we will move it to the other side of state or hundreds of miles more around the area of dispute, and which seemed to be a common sense solution around this issue and it was rejected out of hand. so i think this is more politics than substance. guest: other than today there was a lot common sense on the project. i have been standing shoulder to shoulder with the head of the labor, union on this project because they understand the number of jobs that it created tore their members but it also is important the pipeline project is important because it would provide a stable, reliable, affordable source of energy for manufacturers who use a third of this nation s energy
five days after the coast of concordia ran aground, search teams have repeatedly had to pull back as the wreckage moved and shifted. but the captain is now out of jail and is facing an array of charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship. the first congressional vote of 2012 is worth $1.2 trillion but doesn t amount to anything. as part of last summer s ex cruise ating debt ceiling drama, the house gets to impose another which the senate will ignore. and as per the earlier agreement, the deal also called for more than two trillion in spending cuts over a decade. we could be hearing from the white house about their decision in the keystone pipeline despite pressure by the republicans according to a democratic source. the obama administration is expected to reject fast tracking the controversial pipeline project. it would run from northern alberta in canada to texas gulf coast. some say the time line would create thousands of jobs but the obama administration is refusing t
mitt romney is picking up a significant endorsement in south carolina today. one that could help boost his standing with tea party republicans who continue to question his conservative credentials. romney now has the backing of governor nikki hailey, who herself was propelled into office with tea party support. can she convince those same tea party voters to back mitt romney? joe johns is joining us now. this is a huge day for mitt romney. tell us what we know. mitt romney continued to get a bunch of big endorsements. this goes up on the top shelf. republicans of south carolina have been telling the romney organization to make more of a play for voters in the state and stop acting like there s no way he can win there. the nikki hailey endorsement suggesting the romney camp is responding. the nomination race in the early state of south carolina, the first primary in the south, just got interesting. nikki hailey endorsing mitt romney for president. today is the day i m thro