they are experted from romney s record at ceobain capital. the story of greed playing the sk system for a quick buck. a group of corporate raiders led by mitt romney. more ruthless than wall street. for tens of thousands of americans, the suffering began when mitt romney came to town. let s go live to our political reporter, peter hambee in south carolina. $3 million, $5 million, what does that buy in the next two weeks if you re looking for a lot of commercial time over there? reporter: wolf, that s a good question. to put this in perspective, a campaign typically, if they want a healthy statewide ad on broadcast on able in south carolina, will spend between
other companies? i take it he didn t mention that, did he? reporter: curiously, that went unmentioned today, wolf. maybe he ll say it here at stax s restaurant here in greenville. and if romney gets the nomination he ll talk about the tens of thousands of jobs bai nichlt capital created. i suspect that will happen down the road. peter, doing an excellent job in south carolina. jack cafferty is next with the cafferty file. and john mccain, last time around, is backing mitt romney. i ll skl senator mccabe about the escalating attacks on his candidate. plus, a bungee jump disaster. the cord snapped, but the jumper lived to tell the story. a look at the day s other top stories and a lot more news coming up right here the situation room yeah, i m married. does it matter?
but you really see this bain attack emerging in the last 24 hours as a common theme among all the candidates. huntsman was hitting romney in new hampshire and perry in anderson, drilled mitt romney on this and he said he looted with bbain, he tried to localizend and he said that romney was profiting off failure. so it s an interesting attack in a republican primary. the romney campaign is defending this saying that these other republicans are attacking the private sector and sound like democrats. but this is a state that s lost a lot of jobs and manufacturing jobs, a lot of textile industry jobs and the unemployment rate is almost 10% here. so it could be a potent theme hitting the sort of wall street corporate-raider mentality in the state where there s a lot of populist frustration with the tough economy, wolf. did rick perry, peter, mention the tens of thousands of jobs that bain capital helped to create, staples, domino pizza?
is spending millions of dollars to flood the airwaves with anti-romney attack ads. is this payback time for newt gingrich? i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. president obama dropped a bit of a bombshell a little while ago in an unscheduled appearance announcing bill daily is stepping down after just a year. he ll. replaced by the budget director, jack lou. here s jessica yellin. she s working the story for us. jessica, what s going on over here? well, wolf, first of all the president actually said that bill daley wants to spend more time with his family. let s listen to part of what the president had to say and then we ll talk about it a little bit on the back end. here s the president. obviously, this was not easy news to hear. and i didn t accept bill s decision right away. in fact, i asked him to take a couple of days to make sure that he was sure about this. but in the end, the pull of the hometown, we both love. a city that s been synonymous with
when it comes to sarah palin. she is the last candidate who has a base waiting for her. however, there s been a lesson for her in recent polling, it s gone from 16% of republicans in august to say she s my choice to be our nominee down to 7% in our lating polling. which means not that they don t like her anymore, this process, especially south carolina moved up, new hampshire and iowa are about to move up. republicans will be casting votes to pick their nominee just after new year in early january. here s the governor. i ve been adamant about the fact i would not run for president. my language was clear and direct no matter how many times i was asked the question. for me the answer was never anything but no. my job here in new jersey is my passion. i ve always meant it when i i said i felt like the luckiest guy in the world to have this job. i m doing a job that i love in the state i grew up in on behalf of some of the toughest and greatest people in this country. it wasn