out front tonight, newt on top. brand-new numbers out today, let's show you this, this started a week ago and has gotten stronger and more consistent. nationwide, this is what you're looking at here, gingrich holding a 15 point advantage over his competitors as you see, 37-22 for mitt romney. in iowa, caucusgoers there rival mitt romney at 17%. down in south carolina, gingrich 38%. gingrich still has a lot of critics inside his own party. among the most outspoken congressman peter king. i asked him whether he's happy to see the polls. >> i'm really not. to give newt credit, republicans took back the house of representatives for the first time in 40 years because of newt. he's a very good revolutionary, he's able to mobilize forces, but as far as governing, as far as being a leader, he's too erratic, he's so self-centered. the time that he was speaker, there was one crisis after another, and they were almost all self-inflicted. he puts himself at the center of everything. and it was impossible to stick to a game plan and bill clinton constantly outmaneuvered him. >> you said i don't think he has the temperaturement, intellectual -- that newt hasn't been on prominent display in recent months. >> partly because he hasn't been watched as he would be if he became president. he compared his wife to jacqueline kennedy and laura bush and nancy reagan. and yesterday he was going into a rant about child labor laws and he does that without laying any foundation for it. he's really incapable of laying out his reasons first, instead he makes his inflammatory statements, all these apocalyptic statements, the worst corruption in the history of the world, the most hypocritical thing in the history of mankind, all that type of armageddon language, it wears people out after a while. >> it's going to happen, right, buyer's remorse, if they pick him as the nominee? >> you don't change when you're 68 years old. that is newt, the good and the bad. he's a tremendously inspirational person, as for as rallying the troops. but as far as governing, he doesn't have the capacity to discipline and control himself. he cannot stay focused. the country and the congress will be going through one crisis after another. there's enough crisis in the world without inflicting crises on ourselves. the reason the republicans lost the government shutdown debate with president clinton in 1995 is because newt gave the impression it was all about him being made to get off of the back of air force one. that's the way he puts himself at the center of everything. >> he just said to abc, i'm going to be the next nominee. i know that you don't think he's the right guy, but if it were him versus president obama, who would you vote for? >> i would vote for the nominee of the party. i would certainly vote for the nominee of the republican party. >> you just think your vote wouldn't matter? >> again, newt does represent certain republican principles and i would prefer him over president obama, but he would not be overall, nowhere near the best representative of our party. >> thank you very much representative king, thank you very much for coming out tonight. >> as we said, we really are seeing some strong divisions amongst republicans. you don't really have people coming out like that against their own party. craig shipley is author of gingrich's authorized biography. he wrote a very critical column. two people very different views. but craigson just came out and made the case for why he doesn't think newt is the guy and can handle it. why don't you take the other side, you are a supporter of him, correct? >> i'm more of just a writer and biographer for gingrich. when one politician attacks another politician for being self-centered. the other thing that's interesting is that he's talking about things that happened 15, 20 years ago with gingrich. he has been on display, he's been everywhere. he's been all over the debates, everybody agrees that he's been remarkably disciplined. this is not new for the republican party. we are not witnessing, the republican party has always had a history of being bipolar. this is an extension of that story of the separation between the moderate wing and the conservative wing and it's being played out once again. >> the headline of your article, heart break awaits republicans who love newt. and then some of the words that was pulled out by bloomberg through your piece, erratic, undisciplin undisciplined, grandiose. >> i don't believe that he's changed, i think in fact all of those traits have been on display in recent weeks, in the last month, he has compared himself to ronald reagan and mar get thatcher. in the last year, he has flip-flopped three successive times about what to do about medicare, he took a vacation cruise right after the launch of his campaign. what this says to me is grandiose, undisciplined. he has not changed. >> knowing all that, and the voters presumably know all the things that were rattled off and he's surging in the polls, so all these plants about the insiders don't mean a whit to the voters in iowa and new hampshire and south carolina and florida and everywhere. they want someone who's going to articulate their conservative vision and newt's the one that's doing it. >> your book is supposed to come out, you have traveled with him. you have seen e-mails, you've heard phone calls, is there a side to him that we don't know? bl it's arrogant or ego it is kl that people who dislike him seem to use? >> he's remarkably frank about his mistakes, i asked him about the 104th and the 105th congress, he said i lost control of my caucus,a's all there is too it. he has not pulled back in any of the interviews we have engaged in. it's been almost all about policy, it's a political biography, not a personal biography. but he's been remarkably frank about all of these things. >> i want to ask, 16% of voters say that -- he's been married three times, he's admitted to extramarital affairs. is that 16% unusually high or low? what do we read into that. >> i think it means that republican voters are holding this against him, they're not saying it doesn't rule out voting for him. assuming that's the whole story, that we know the whole story. >> thanks very much, craig, appreciate it. it's going to be an interesting one. interesting to see people with their flaws and how they rise above them. ahead on out front, we have breaking news on the penn state child rape case, a ninth accuser coming forward today. and the u.s. loses an incredibly advanced drone in iran. one thing we said, what kind of knowledge does iran or whoever they share that drone with get from that sophisticated drone. and it turn out that privacy option for your facebook photos does not keep your information hidden. complex options, done. 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was it flying over the afghan-iran border or inside afghanistan and it drifted into iran? no one will say if it was over iranian air space. we also know that when the drone went down, the u.s. did consider some type of mission to either recover the wreckage or bomb it to keep it out of the hands of the iranians, that's how important it was. but all of those options were discarded because it was inside iran. the question now of course is that if the iranians have their hands on the wreckage, which the u.s. believes they go, how much do they have? how much access do the iranians have in understanding this special stealth coding, the special intelligence that's on this drone. >> what are they going to do with that technology? what do they really have in yesterday in abdue bu dhabi-- breaking news on the penn state sex abuse scandal. former assistant football -- sandusky is charged with four counts of child sex abuse of eight young boys over a preliminary time span. joining us from the state college in pennsylvania sarah, let me just ask you, you broke this story today about the ninth accuser, what exactly is he sayisay saying jerry sandusky. what he's saying is slightly different than what the other accusers have said. he said he was a second mile camper staying at second mile facilities in 2004 when he was 12 years old. he was in a swimming pool with jerry sandusky and other kids, was then separated from the other children, taken on a four with jerry sandusky, taken into the football building and into an office in that football building where jerry sandusky gave him whisky and he molested him just before he went back to camp. he was a second mile child and that's consistent with all of the other accusations, all oath other accusers have been second mile children. >> sarah. thank you very much. especially given the alcohol involved. let's bring in cnn legal corporate paul callan here, the fact that there was whisky involved, just strikes me even more than just the facts itself. explain how this happens when another accuser comes forward. >> it's not uncommon at all in these child abuse cases. i think we're up to 13 claimed victims in this case. people get the courage to come forward. they have been harboring these thoughts about the fact that they were abused as children and suddenly it's in the press and they realize that people are taking them seriously. of course it also inspires copycat people to come forward who just want to make money. so they have to sort out the real from the fake claims. most states now had eliminated this preliminary hearing business, you as a grand jury presentation and you go to trial. prosecutors like to keep their evidence secret, but in pennsylvania, we're going to have a hearing. the victims are going to come into court to testify and actually be subject to cross-examination. >> these additional ones aren't going to be involved in the preliminary hearing? >> we're going to get a real good look at how credible they may appear to be and the judge then has to make a decision. >> are we going to get to see them? or are their identities going to be protected. >> if they were children at the time, definitely protect their identities, but these are adults. some of them may be willing to raise their right to testify without being publicly identified. >> he had called in with bob costas on nbc. what is the strategy on him giving interviews. >> tradition you hire a criminal defense attorney to prevent you from being destroyed by the press. we have this thing called the right to remain silent. it exists for a reason because generally when a defendant goes out and starts making public statements, he gets crucified at trial. >> next "out front" we broke down the president's speech day in kansas, and mitt romney, he picked up an endorsement today from former vice president dan quayle, why we couldn't resist that one. n for adults. plus an excellent source of omega-3 dha in a great tasting gummy. one a day, gummies for grown-ups. and now a story we can't resist. so earlier today, mitt romney received an official endorsement from former vice president dan quayle. quayle has mostly stayed out of the limelight since his one term as vp and his run for president in 2000. in honor of his endorsement today, here's a look back on the political life of former vp dan quayle. >> in 1988, the question is whether we're going to go forward to tomorrow or we're going to go past to the back. and i can tell you -- we don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move in regard. i believe that i have made good judgments in the past and i believe i have made good judgments in the future. the future will be made tomorrow. there is nothing that a good defense cannot be a better offense. in other words a good offense wins i was known as the chief graverobber of my state. it's part of the united states that is in ireland is right here. >> and if you thought that we would forget his most notable episode. >>ed a one little bit on the end. potato, how is that spelled? 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