good evening. tonight, newt gingrich giving mitt romney a run for his money in south carolina. a new poll shows the former speaker trailing by four points. almost within the margin of error and much closer than just a week ago. could south carolina be newt's comeback state? here's what he had to say about that. >> i think i'm going to win south carolina on a liberal conservative split where i represent conservative and romney represents a massachusetts view. second, i hope to win on jobs. i had a record with reagan on jobs, as speaker, where we added 11 million new jobs. i think on the jobs front and conservative liberal front, which appeals to south carolina, we have a really good chance to win next saturday. >> you got me to jobs, i want to get straight to that. you're in florida today, versailles, florida. you said this about your jobs creating record when you worked with president reagan. >> we banished a series of tax cuts, series of deregulations. it was so successful that in one month, august of 1983, we created a million 300,000 jobs in one month. >> all right, so i heard that this morning and i said, no way, did we ever have 1.3 million a month. so we checked the numbers and there has not been a month where we had that many jobs created. but it seems a little unfair because more than half of those jobs, 640,000 were at&t workers returning from strike. are you taking credit for that? >> well, actually, i can double check that. my staff had come up with that number and that's where it came from. no, i wouldn't take credit for that. but if you look at the reagan job creation record, it was clearly millions and millions of new jobs. the unemployment rate dropped from 10.8% to 5.6. so he added about five percentage points went back to work in a growing workforce and i don't think anybody doubts that the reagan recovery was one of the greatest periods in history. but i'll double check that. i did in the know that. good job on your part. >> i look at those jobs numbers every month, so i saw that, couldn't believe that. you also went on to talk about that record and the 11 million that you were create iing about talking when you were speaker. obviously, you were in a position of power in government when those jobs were created. are you saying that government is an important player in creating jobs? >> absolutely. a government which is cutting taxes as my plan proposes, a government which is cutting relations, which is supportive of american energy, favorable to entrepreneurial job creators, helps dramatically set the environment. a government against jobs, a government which wants class warfare, which races taxes, overregulates, kills jobs. governments themselves don't do the work, but create the conditions and they can create favorable conditions as reagan did and as clinton and i did or they can create very unfavorable conditions. i think that's a big factor. you look at romney's record in massachusetts. he created a relatively unfavorable condition by raising taxes constantly and the result was massachusetts was 47th in job creation in the four years he was governor. >> let me ask you about mitt romney because we have the strike team on this show where we got dow 30 ceos on, venture capitalists, small entrepreneurs, it's a real broad swath of the economy. i asked who they thought was the best on the republican side of the economy. all but three picked mitt romney, two picked you. most said if romney didn't win, they'd be okay with you. let me just ask you about this. what do you have to say to those business leaders that picked mitt romney over you? >> look, i don't blame them. mitt romney's running around saying he created 100,000 jobs. two days ago, "the washington post" gave him three pinocchios because he said it wasn't true, he couldn't prove it. when he ran for the senate, he claimed 10,000 jobs and a new ad, drop the claim. says he helped create thousands of jobs. he's had six months of running without anybody challenging him on this claim. now, it turns out he didn't create very many jobs in the private sector and actually weakened job creation in massachusetts. i suspect if you go back to your panel and sigh, this guy was 47th in job creation, raised $730 million in taxes, they can go to romneytaxes.com and they will see how many taxes he raised because there was a long list there. i think all of a sudden, they'd have a different attitude. he's done a very good job of selling something which is baloney, but he sold it very methodically and now that he's being tested on it, they're a little rattled. he's not a particularly good job creator. >> we saw an ad airing in south carolina today. here's a very brief clip. >> and just hike john kerry -- he speaks french, too. >> all right, so mitt romney speaks french, partially because he's a mormon. did his mission in france. is that fair? >> john kerry's not a -- wait a second. john kerry's not a mormon. he's catholic. >> no, no, i'm saying the reason mitt romney speaks. what's wrong with mitt romney speaking french? >> nothing is wrong with it. let me quote herman cain. sometimes, it's good to have a sense of humor. that particular ad has gone viral because it's funny. >> but really trying to be funny and not play on the antifrench, foreign thing? >> it wasn't anti french. we happen to have a clip of kerry speaking french. we were making the point of how similar massachusetts politicians are and they normally don't do well in republican primaries. you're a republican primary going, due caucus, mitt romney, is that where i want to have my candidate come from? >> do you speak french? >> no. i used to live in france. a long time ago, i spoke some french. i have a phd in european history. i can do some in spanish, french and german. don't overthink this. it's funny. this is not a pbs documentary. it was just done to be funny. >> today in virginia, you were trying to get on the ballot there. went appealed it. how big of a problem is this? are you dead set on getting that ballot? will it crush you to not get on it? >> you have to accept reality and if that's the last word, it's the last word. it means the voters of virginia have been denied five candidacies on there. it's the only state we've had that kind of problem and i think we're now on 25 or 30 ballots around country. we're going to keep going. means i have to come out of winning south carolina and florida, i'll have to beat romney in enough states to make up for it. >> one thing about the polls that stood out to me as a woman, i saw this today. you lead with men. south carolina, no problem. 29%, you lead with men. women, mitt romney leads with 38%. why do you think that is? i know mitt romney objectively, he's a good looking guy, right? i don't know if that's why. why do you think it is? >> maybe it's the hair. i don't know. i don't know what people are cueing off of right now. i think that the commercial advertising version of mitt romney is very appealing. i think the reality of who he has been as governor is dramatically less appealing and i think as that message sinks in, that we're going to pull away from him in the next week here. he claims to be pro life. in fact, he's been very pro abortion. he said publicly he's for gun l control. and he actually had a 400% increase in taxes on guns, so i think as people see his real record versus commercials, i think he will lose ground with men and women. >> so what do you say to people also when it comes to electability, really going for mitt romney in a dramatic change. now, we got 55% of people saying mitt romney, 13% are saying you're more electable. a month ago, you were tied. what are you saying to those who are saying he's more electable than you are? >> i say watch and see what happens in south carolina and you'll see the whole thing reverse again. we've been up and down like this all year and what happens is he got one-fourth of the vote in iowa after five years of campaigning and $20 million. he came in first by eight votes. he actually bought a house, moved into new hampshire, has been living there and got 37%. two out of three republicans said no. but he came in first. people go, gee, i guess it's him. if we win south carolina, the electability issue will go back down to being even. it's all respontive to the daily news. >> good to see you. hope to see you in person next week. >> you, too. >> all right. coming up, a close call or more serious threat? new video just coming in of iranian speedboats come right up to american naval ships. on his last day in office, mississippi governor pardoned more than 250 convicted felons. we tracked down one of the men pardoned and the governor explains his actions. and posting photos on the internet. your social security number and location can be determined just by those images. we'll be back. and since my doctor prescribed lipitor, i won't go without it for my high cholesterol and my risk of heart attack. why kid myself? 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he says it's a christian thing to do to forgive. one of the convicted murdererers say he's found god. >> i do not believe there's no way in logic haley barbour can say that he can believe 210 people that he's pardoned, that all of them have found god and have been redeemed. there's been no background investigation. he doesn't know if all of them read the bible or whatever. and i know criminals read the bible. all kind of people read the bible, but that does not realize or say that these people are ready to be returned into our society here within mississippi. >> and obviously, he's made the point that 90% of the people pardons were recommended by the parole board to be released, which is part of it, but obviously, there are murderers who were not on the list. but as a person, do you believe someone can kill someone and change their life around and be forgiven? >> i know that some of the people pardoned were turned down by the parol board, but to your question, there are people who can turn their lives around, but the point is, have all 210 people turned their lives around? these are a lot of people that have been released into the societity of mississippi. this is frightening to me in my district and across the state of mississippi. our das weren't aware of it. immediately, they released in our society without any public hearing, without any public notice. haley barbour signed the form to say release them and put them back into mississippi's community. that's outrageous. >> thank you very much for coming in. viewe viewers, let us know what he think. he said he felt comfortable with some of these murderers playing with his own grandchildren. by now, we're all aware, personal information is being connected over the internet, but do you know how much? if you post a photo from your iphone, people with figure out where you are. did you know the first five digits of your social security number can be predicted from a web cam photo? most likely, that means you. and all that information is being sold to the highest bidder. we asked laurie andrews if the law is doing anything to protect you. >> judges have said it's okay if one party gives consent. it doesn't violate the statute or computer fraud abuse statute. so if you're an internet service provider consents to the marketing of your private information for which they get money, it's okay. you're not protected. >> andrews suggests the constitution, saying better legal system lags technology. president obama says he's making the federal government a lean, mean political machine. he says i want to have six agencies become one. you'd think the republicans would say, holy grail, let's have a hug, but they're not. and rick santorum supports your right to bear arms, but he wants you to pay $100 for it. . no, sorry, i can't help you with that. i'm not authorized to access that transaction. that's not in our policy. i will transfer you now. my supervisor is currently not available. would you like to hold ? 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