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Decide the former speaker newt gingrich is best suited to be the republican party nominee to go up against barack obama. gingrich has been closing in the polls behind mitt romney in last few days. he did pick up some momentum after the last debate. it has shown at events. the romney campaign where we are now at his headquarters in suburban charleston has been taking notice of mr. gingrich and pounding him back for the first time really since before iowa, recognizing that gingrich is surging and is a threat. polls expected later today are likely to show the trend for gingrich putting him within...

Announcement about all of that during a news conference at 11:00 this morning eastern time. when that happens we will take you that way as soon as that gets underway. that's how we start a brand-new hour of a hospitalizin a hopping america live. bill: the race has potentially a seismic shift when you look back on history. perry has been under pressure to get out. according to bret baier, conversations with newt gingrich, gingrich went public a few days ago asking perry and santorum to get out. he gets half of that. let's go to our chief political correspondent carl cameron on the road in charl...

Experience and causes them to come back and say, i've been through trials and tribulations and lived through it. perry wasn't able to. he never got a second look. rather than stand on a debate stage tonight and come in fifth in a field of five, he takes himself out of the play, he's no longer in it and newt gingrich gets the benefit of his endorsement. bill: thank you, carl we'll be back with you a little bit later this hour. carl is in charleston. martha: back to new york and back to charleston again, john roberts is standing by speaking with governor nikki haley and getting her reaction to a...

Contests. it looked on monday if he were likely to win three of the first three contests. now he may actually have one of the first three contests. bill: this is whether it hurts romney or hurts santorum more because he did not have the headline? >> yeah, i don't think it doesn't help santorum. i think the damage to santorum has already been done unfortunately for his campaign. he would have gotten a much bigger bounce. he got a lot of attention coming out of iowa overperforming this guy was in single digits. but, how many times again did we hear mitt romney won iowa by the slimmest of margins...

South carolina. special coverage gets underway here at 6:00 p.m. eastern. we will be here at 4:00 with a bit of a preview on a special edition of america's election headquarters. bill: like the pregame on saturday afternoon. the president not waiting for a nominee to start his re-election campaign. his team releasing a new television ad they say is meant to education americans about the president's quote, strong energy record. it also slams, quote, secretive billionaires who have launched attacked as against the president. here's a sample. >> for the first time in 13 years our dependence on fo...