of contest and they don't pertain to mitt romney. >> that is unauthorized disapproved use that was never authorized for the newt gingrich campaign. >> mr. huckabee doesn't plann to enforce dorse a candidate. >> new race for the florida primary is down to the wire. only two campaigning in the sunshine state. the poll show that is mitt romney is anewt gingrich by sevenpoints and that is compared to a poll that has him up. and who seems to be having the most to gain or lose. joining us now is shell and christian. >> thank you for being here today. >> michele. i will begin with you. we are hearing about scorching attacks and challenging honesty and integrity. how concerned are you that this is hurting the gop when it comes time to go up against the president? >> i am not concerned as a lot of people seem to be these past couple of days. it is politicings. it has to play out in the open it is healthy and necessary and in the end strengthening the candidates as they head in the general. have a final four. who knows, anything might happen as we head to the brokered convention. i don't agr

getting a huge crowd and response. mr. santorum made a direct reference to romney and saying that mitt romney's job experience is great. america is not looking for a manager but commander in chief. >> we need someone who is going in there and provide that leadership. and take on the big tough issues and i don't think we'll see any record of that or vision in what governor romney is trying to promote himself as. he is trying to promote himself as the guy who wins. >> two wild cards to watch. newt gingrich. newt gingrich changed his tune and rather being relentlessly positive, he is now going straight at mitt romney and there will be newt gingrich scud missiles and put together a web page that calls not romney and will go after romney as a flip flopper. and newt gingrich's adwill say he passed health care proposals in massachusetts that had abortion. he could do serious damage to mr. romney . the other unknown quantity is ron paul. this is itate with a libitarian streak. he's been around the track and ran in 2008 and ron paul could come in second here. what that means with the repub

energized the supporters are? >> mr. romney had an event at a large city outside of manchester which is the state's largest city. it was a packed capacity crowd. it was probably one of the most energized crowds that he's had. that's partly because they're on the band wagon of who they think is a winner. but when you kind of push some of his supporters as to how they feel about mitt romney, they're a little ambivalent. there sent the energy you would expect behind a front runner surging and that speaks to a lot of the misgivings that republicans have with his candidacy. six years ago he was considered a massachusetts moderate, he sometimes actually cast himself as to the left of ted kennedy. that gives the conservatives here in new hampshire even those who are supporting him, some degree of misgiving. they're behind him, they expect him to win, but it isn't as though they're charging ahead furiously. there's a sense of a ho-hum thing about the primary because the front runner is so far ahead and across the board, republicans aren't exactly crazed about this field. >> rick: what about

an issue that worked for some of mr. romney's rivals including former speaker newt gingrich who offered this reaction this morning. >> i think that is a very good thing he is doing and i commend him for it and i think it is the right thing to do. as far as i'm concerned, that issue is set aside and we can go on to bigger, more important things. >> gingrich has expressed concern that if there is something in his tax returns it is important to get it out into the open sooner rather than later and it will be available to all on tuesday. meanwhile everybody shifts to florida, a more complicated state than south carolina. major media markets there and it takes organization and money and early voting is already underway. more people have already voted in the state of florida than voted in iowa. a different ballgame there. and mitt romney is hoping to get back on track there. newt gingrich is hoping to continue the momentum there. jaime? >> coming up, we have the florida gop chair. we will talk a lot about florida. glad are you in a warmer climate. now. >> there were many who participa

and think he would not make an adequate nominee. so you see mr. gingrich today challenging romney to release his tax returns. saying he, gingrich, will release his. this is an attack that the obama administration, democrats have been waging against romney for several weeks. santorum suggesting romney's the super pac that supports romney are running ads that are i will lit mit and false. -- illegitimate and false. neither on voters' minds if in a campaign about spending the size of government, taxes repealing obamacare and things of that nature. south carolina has a long history of going after character and integrity issues that's what these arguments are about. >> heather: carl, you mentioned overtaking romney. >> the conservative vote divided, could romney win? >> reporter: absolutely. the low country which runs the coastline as well as into the lower southern central part of the state, as opposed to the upstate. upstate is very conservative it runs along the north border with north carolina to the western part of the state that's where the conservative votes are, greenville, sparta

behind santorum or newt gingrich, very close to mr. romney in the polls. romney campaign recognizes that a win in south carolina could be decisive, it could drive nails in the coffin of other candidates. to get there, six more days of very tough attacks from the rivals that's what the romney campaign is preparing for with tomorrow's debate and this riddle of how do they get conservatives to get behind his candidacy. >> according to the latest poll romney is at 26.7%, gingrich 22%. that's pretty -- can he make it up? >> reporter: it is. he's right on his heels. newt gingrich has done so scratching back, being very aggressive attacking romney going after romney's record as a job creator. newt gingrich was first to embrace the obama campaign in the democrats' attack on romney's time as a right equity investor. today, mr. beginning mitch -- mr. gingrich joined the obama campaign and democrats' call for mitt romney to release his tax returns. >> he's got to make his own decision. president obama is releasing his records. this coming thursday, i will release my income tax records. governo

to beat john mccain's percentage in 2008? mccain beat romney 37%-31%. was if mr. romney doesn't hit those numbers and doesn't beat expectations? >> well, that's like saying what if he didn't get the same percentage as reagan got in '76 or '80. it is not as relevant. we have the current field running. we don't have previous candidates for president running or former presidents running. he's going to be judged against this field. and he's going to be judged by republican activists based on choices they are presented with. the fact is, the choices in iowa showed that he got the most votes. >> finally, there's always been a mixed issue with him. look at the newspapers and endorsements, conservative standard-bearer in new hampshire the manchester union leader endorsed gingrich. mr. romney has five endorsements of newspapers, including the "boston herald". huntsman got the boston globe, four and paul got the new hampshire press. as he goes into south carolina how come there has been such a mixed reaction? will he be able to overcome that? >> it is the same thing every candidate has to ove

-- pro-abortion, pro-gun control and pro-tax increase. end of quote. as you know, mr. romney's current position on those three issues is just the opposite. are you worried that voters are absorbing false information to the detriment of your party? so they're not only hurting their respective characters, but the voters are getting the wrong information. >> look, again, this information -- president obama would have come up with these talking points with or without our candidates doing it to each other. what pains me the most in the negative campaigning campaignind negative advertising is the attacks on free enterprise and the attacks on how an individual earns a living and frankly it's gone both ways. >> gregg: really? they haven't been just one way, attacks on mr. romney's career in venture capitalism? >> we've also seen attacks on how newt earned a living when he left the house. so it's gone both ways. >> gregg: sure. >> in america, we stand for opportunity for people to use their skills to go out and live their dreams. that's what the republican party is supposed to stand for. >> gre

organization. you endorse speaker gingrich. why mr. gingrich and not governor romney? >> speaker gingrich has been consistent with his approach to latinos. he developed, he was a co-founder of a web site of conservative values called the americano. and he has the consistent outreach, reaping out to latinos. he was the first candidate, frankly, in this gop primary to step out on a ledge, if you will, and really address the big elephant in the room that frankly republican party has not done a good job of addressing and that's the undocumented immigrants. 11 million plus or minus. >> arthel: so, of course, as we know, immigration, it's complex, but if you could break it down to its essence in and tell me what are the top three concerns as they pertain to immigration? >> well, i think the biggest issue is what do we do with the 11 million people here that are undocumented? we know that these folks here, in many cases, were not illegal. they came and overextended their visas. what do we do with this population which is really an essential part in some cases of our economy? in my state of georg

percent for mr. romney. two points apart. you got the swiss bank the cayman islands the speaker fees a list that goes on and on and on that gingrich has used against him. isn't president obama going to pick that up? >> if you look at the numbers, the story is right there in the numbers. against mitt romney the president is under that critical number 50 percent. against newt gingrich, he is over 50 percent. now why is that? it's very simple. goes back to what he said the independents. i realize where he is coming from and i am not quite sure what poll you are referring to, but the reality is most of the polling we are seeing right now on mitt romney is the republican primary. >> nbc wall street journal poll. >> when you look at the public poll numbers and see the president under 50 percent you know as well as i do any incumbent under 50 percent is a vulnerable incumbent. romney can hold the president under 50 percent in the middle of a republican primary when he is getting attackd from all sides it's a pretty good sign obama is indeed vulnerable. >> santorum according to the list he hol

gingrich and we'll see tonight, but i think when i say mr. right, i think to the right of romney and that's what i'm here with voters across the state. >> a quick one, i'm nearly out of time. when you and i talked a week ago you talked about how the gingrich sum pac negative ads attacking romney's stewardship of bain capital has back fired. has that abated? >> yeah, they quit talking about it, they knew it wasn't working and you don't see that attack line anymore, it didn't work, and the point that i also said at the time. south carolina is a place to test ideas relative to the cost of the media market in a place like florida. they've tested it and it didn't work and other trends, consolidation to the right in the republican primary in south carolina. >> things happy quickly theen qe and in south carolina-- >> make sure to tune into fox news channel, and we have the the campaign trail coverage all day long, and then bret baier, megyn kelly, to kick off the special programming and beginning at 6 p.m. eastern, and going hopefully until we know the winner, i guarantee we'll go until we

brought up bain. >> governor romney said he created with 100,000 jobs in the private sector. >> mr. speaker he said we will not allow comment -- >> let me answer his question. let me say it differently. i believe that it is fair to ask the records be clear. >> shannon: if you missed the huckabee forum it will replay tonight 8:00 eastern right here on fox. coming up, a live interview with gingrich supporter former oklahoma congressman j.c. watts. >> the christian vote has been a big question mark split between at least three. leaders of 150 christian groups met in texas yesterday and decided they would back santorum. what does it mean from other votes violating votes from the religious right? >> take a look at that in a second. first, what does it mean for rick santorum? it raises two questions, will these he van kell and conservative -- evangelical and conservative leaders support rick santorum and do they have enough time? according to the latest polls if he hopes to take second place from gingrich, santorum needs pints in the next week if he hopes to beat mitt romney he would hav

mr. romney are not going to stop. listen to this from this morning. >> south carolina began to become really clear that if you want to beat barak obama, then newt newt gingrich is the only experience who has the ability to get on the stage and drive home a conservative message with authenticity. >> and mitt romney by contrast, now has to really get productive in his criticism of newt gingrich. he tried to avoid that. now romney will go aggressively after gingrich for his personal and public last, asking him to answer specific questions about some of the baggage that most folks already know newt gingrich has carried successfully to this big upset win. for romney, however, it was a very bad week not just in the case of the defeat last night, there was the question about his tax returns and now he's said he'll reveal them on tuesday to get what has been a tuning distraction out of the -- huge distraction out of the way. >> i will release my tax returns for 2010, which is the last returns that were completed. i'll do that on tuesday of this week. i'll also release at the same time

suffering from same head cold that i got. mr. huntsman got a lot roo riding on this. if he fails to hit third place it could be end of candidacy and newt gingrich came hard against romney going after his record as attempted career politician. >> we want every day normal people to be able to run for office, not just millionaires. we want to build a system. i was an army brat. my family didn't have any money. i was able largely because of help of women's federation, i was able to run through three-times. >> reporter: gingrich pointing out his own efforts. he has only run in district in georgia. he has not run statewide in georgia but he is chief protagonist against mitt romney. he has made it clear he will go him consistently after his record. >> gregg: carl cameron, thanks very much. >> heather: candidates are working around the clock to get people to the polls stepping up their ground campaigns to win over any if voters. molly is live. molly, what are the candidates doing to get the final vote out in the final hours? >> molly: you mentioned the foot dragers, those undecided voters that

with a lot of great ideas, but he is not the leader we need at a critical time. >> and romney usually compliments that with an attack on gingrich for his proposition of a manned space staying on the moon, suggesting for mr. speaker to propose that, completely ignores the fact that the country has huge debts and can't afford that teach expanded government program. >> gregg: early vote not votingt ended in florida. how important is this in the primary? >> it's very, very important. over the years in florida where early voting and absentee ballots have been a big part of the process, they've been decisive in a couple of races. already about 11% of the florida vote has been cast. about 500,000 absentee ballots were considered. more than 270,000 have been returned. the early balloting which ends today is up to about 180,000 votes cast and it will president-elect obama be significantly -- probably be significantly larger. over the course of the weekend, getting all the ballot totals down. this is a state that's sensitive to arguments about ballot counting. the polls show romney has