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23%. jon huntsman got 17% to finish in third place. rick santorum finished with 10% ahead of newt gingrich with 9%. rick perry had 1%. well, it was a big win romney needed to shore up the front-runner status. now he's the first republican to win both iowa and new hampshire this morning on cnn, romney turned attention to beating the president. >> you've got almost 2 million people that lost their job under this president. you have income that's dropped to 10% over the last four years. you have 24 million people out of work or stopped looking for work. this is a failed presidency. plen...

Problem and a social responsibility problem, personal responsibility problem. you know that's true. yet, you don't mention that. >> no. first of all, that's not true, bill. here again, do your homework. you just told dr. west to do his homework. you do yours. you've not seen the special and not read the transcripts. we talked to persons who are substance abusers this week. you're wrong again, my friend. we do talk about that issue in the special. check it out, number one. number two, it is a social problem but it's also a political problem. the ranks of the poorp poor in this country are growi...

>> all right. >> bill: 9% are addicted. all right? they can't work. they're going to be poor. you know it. all right? also, child abuse, 70% of it is because of substance abuse. what do you do with those people, tavis? do you let them -- does the government pay them? what does the government do real quick? >> i can answer in 15 seconds. one, you don't demonize them as you have done. you don't criminalize poverty as you like to do and you find programs to work for those who have problems but the majority of americans, again, of all races, bill, of all colors, of all creeds are not substance abu...

Black business, will you? >> bill, why o'neill? >> bill: one of the things that happened. we treat everybody the same here, tavis. >> you do not. >> bill: it doesn't matter whether they're black or white. >> bill, the bottom line is what we're talking about here is fairness, we're talking about justice here, we're talking about not protecting wall street, not one -- they've been arresting protesters, bill, left and right. arresting protesters left and right, now the talk on fox news is that it's costing taxpayers money for police to do their job, not one banker, they can arrest hundreds of pro...

If you're going to make an accusation, professor, as a learned academic that o'neill or the other fat cats on wall street broke the law, back it up! what law did they break? >> if we were able to engage in investigation and look at what was going on between 2007 and 2008, my hunch is we would find some behavior, my brother. >> bill: your hunch? >> yeah, we can't get to it. >> bill: maybe that's right. you can't make an accusation on a hunch. >> bill, there have been -- >> bill: you just -- >> major text out there. you're a reader. you're a reader. you know that. >> bill: you guys come up, you ...