happening. and the big jobs report for december is coming out today. christine romans calling it the big granddaddy of them all. it s probably good news for the democrats and she ll share details. and there s this thing that climbers like to do. seven peaks, it s a big deal for anybody. but if you re 15 years old. it s a huge deal. we ll tell you about this kid. who happened to just globe-trot the world and climb the seven highest peaks. and we re going to add in an eighth one. which one s that? you ll see. quite a little wonder that we re going to see this morning i m looking forward to it. learn something every day. we begin this morning with the critical endorsement in the battle for new hampshire. for jon huntsman. the boston globe has it as a banner headline, they say former utah governor offers the republican party an opportunity to renew itself. the boston globe editor spoke to our own erin burnett last night. huntsman is bold anywhere the campaig
this is about how do you persuade and bring people and personality has a lot to do with that. we ve been watching in my office, what happens in social media. what kind of conversation is going on. and yesterday we noticed in that, in that brief window, that the negative comments online increased double-fold on rick santorum. debates around what you just saw him do. so it s two things. number one, it s the substance, and number two, it s how do you handle it. he would have been lot better off saying, look, i think you and i just disagree and let me tell you what i agree, rather than the patronizing, picking on her when she tried to challenge hi him. and when you look at the kind of conversations going on. in iowa, it s parallel to what you found in the polling and it s kind of an interesting validation, when you see the movement go forward and come up and down, and where in the