el chopo has been in hiding. he has been for more than a decade. his drug ring which we ve talked about on this show continues to thrive, mexican officials call him the most powerful drug traffic ner the world and his biog tpaf says he gets good p.r. because he builds hospitals, protect jobs and protects those in his region mexico. he does it with drug money, most of it from the u.s. jon: a little bit of robin hood going on there. rick, thanks. jenna: let s get you caught up on the weather. it s been a relatively mild weather but apparently changes are on the way for some of us. janice dean is live in the fox weather center with more, wearing sunny yellow! but yet that, doesn t necessarily fit the weather that we might see! reporter: i thought i would brighten up the weather studio. we need a little bit of snow, don t we, jenna? jenna: doesn t feel like winter without it. reporter: it really
we needed that. our confidence was down a little bit. jon: we do appreciate that. you wrote a piece for the washington times in which you really take on rick perry and newt gingrich for their attacks on mitt romney of late. what s your problem with what they ve had to say? i think within the last 48 hours, both rick perry and newt gingrich have sort of stepped up these attacks, attacking mitt romney for his time working in a private equity firm. rick p.y called him a vulture. they re liking him to they re sort of playing this weird class warfare game in the middle of a republican primary. you know, there s plenty to make fun of and to criticize mitt romney about, but goodness! for participating successfully in making a lot of money in america s free market? that s not one of them. and i think that it really does undermine their own credibility in a republican nomination. it sort of makes them look silly and conservatives just it really turns them off. and i think it basically
reporter: that s right, we had a new debate to a new bell to quiet the candidates, but there s a new bell at the political action conference taking place essentially in the same facility as the debate last night and last night s comments from texas governor rick perry, that people who disagree with his support for providing illegal aliens in-state tuition benefits from texas suggest that those people have no heart, this morning, mitt romney, michele bachmann, newt gingrich, and others have taken issue with rick p.y s position and mitt romney went right after him for suggesting illegal immigrants, immigration foes, or at least who are moore conservative than rick perry, are partyless. my friend governor perry said if you don t agree with his position on giving that in-state tuition to illegals, that you don t have a heart. i think if you re opposed to illegal immigration, it doesn t mean that you don t
here s what i want to ask you, john. among all voters and we re just not talking about republican, 14 percent say rick perry is too extreme. does perry need to deal with that, and if so, how? perry has his own problems because there s this texas swagger that programs people may have had too much of during the bush years and the texas style doesn t appeal to independents in the northeast and the west, so rick perry has got to show his record of governance in texas, he s the state s longest serving governor, overcomes awfully that and he has to be a good listener, he has to say look, i may have a certain style but i can listen to your concerns and reach out to you. right now i think rick p.y is a very strong primary candidate but he does have to convince primary voters he s electable in the fall against barack obama. gregg: it s stuff like calling for social security as failure, he objected to in theco tax, called for the state sledge late
started this. last week he was sentenced to ten years probation for sending harmful images to a minor, reportedly that was more than 400 e-mails, sexually explicit e-mails, that he sent online via my space to an 11-year-old girl. alisyn. alisyn: it sounds like all of the siblings have been in an equal amount of trouble. we ll explore that later on with the sheriff in the area. phil, thank you very much phil, thank you very much. bill: all the pictures. they have been elusive. breaking news now. we are only minutes away from the opening bell on wall street, and how are investors going to react, only a day after one of the largest selloffs in history? the best business coverage in cable is coming your way in minutes, ali. alisyn: the rumor mill is working overtime. what is rick p.y up to this week? we are about to find out.