hello jon huntsman. you look at the latest polling out of new hampshire, mitt romney is still way out ahead but his support has been dropping in the last week. support for jon huntsman has begun to tick up. nobody thinks that mitt romney will lose new hampshire, mitt romney barring a political miracle, will win new hampshire and win it by a lot. but jon huntsman appears to be in a position to be like rick santorum, the unexpectedly strong second place finisher there. this is the first time mr. huntsman had momentum like this. he had a buzz worthy launch, as soon as he stepped in the race, he stepped on 1000 different rakes, his own campaign spelled his name wrong on launch day. reporters following the campaign were mistakenly directed to a plane headed for saudi arabia. weird dirt bike ads, nobody understood. all those things hurt jon huntsman right when the most people were looking at him at the apex of his national aten -- attention. in the debates, the debate ts widely watched and entertaining, jon hu

i like jon huntsman. as i take a look at accomplishments as governor, rolling back taxes, regulatory reform, leading the country in job growth, you take a look at his economic plan, i am not sure rick has one, but jon huntsman has the best economic plan to put this country on a path for prosperity. push this economy forward, competing your way to prosperity. when you have worked in the u.s. trade office, you are an ambassador. you put those things together along with experience, i think he tromps senator santorum. host: we will be talking about the economic policies coming up later on "washington journal." let me ask you this. do you think jon huntsman has hurt his chances being an ambassador to china? is it a strike against him? disco i certainly hope not. i was in new hampshire -- guest: i certainly hope not. i was in new hampshire a couple of months ago. he had several slogans in the campaign. i think when you're president calls, you answer. the first president who called me was richard nixon. i answer

is jon huntsman a conservative? policiwise, he had one of the most conservative tax reforms out there to radically simplify the tax code. and on financial reform, a radical plan to break up the banks. if they are too big to fail, they are too big to exist. so it brings up the question, what is a conservative? why are people in the news calling jon huntsman a moderate? it says to me we define these men more by their style and opinions on civil unions and gay marriage than by their policy proposals. and i don't think that is appropriate. you want to talk about 2016, kyra, let me say this. jon huntsman needs to take lessons from this campaign. he is responsible for this. he painted himself as a moderate. he consistently threw conservatives under the bus, and pandered to the left. what i don't understand is why anybody was unable to look past this. because he really was a conservative guy. by the time we get to 2016, it's going to be crowded. paul ryan. possibly kris kristoffersocys c. >> i have to of coursa you guys a

jon huntsman is at 1%. so the common wisdom was that mitt romney was supposed to be an athama in new hampshire. that's bull pucky. rick santorum is supposed to be surging after his iowa win this week. that's the common wisdom. being up here today, i can tell you mr. santorum is attracting crowds, but the crowds do not necessarily seem to like what they are hearing from mr. santorum. so this is the rick santorum event at the dublin school in dublin, new hampshire, web just drove to. it's packed. everybody is telling us we can't get in. so let's try. i went to this crowded, crowded rick santorum event at the dublin school today in southern new hampshire. it definitely was crowded. i couldn't get past the overflow room though i tried. interestingly, even from the overflow room, his speech did not have a single applause line. i did not talk to anyone who was there to see him speak who supported his candidacy or who liked what they were hearing. the aggressive questioning and criticizing of mr. santorum from the

. -- jon huntsman. but we have staff in new hampshire and a very significant support. for the past two decades, the individual who has been endorsed has been the republican nominee. he endorses jon huntsman. a state party chairman. he turned the party from a democrat majority to a democrat who became the minority. the republicans are in ascendancy. he is supporting jon huntsman. carol campbell went on to become the most popular governors in state history. i had the privilege to serve with him. his wife, his son, they are supporting jon huntsman. alan wilson, the incumbent attorney general, the one who put the lead on obamacare, who has fought the administration with regard to the resistance in south carolina and 8 tea party -- a tea party favre. they are all endorsing jon huntsman. i think we are very positioned positioned in new hampshire to take that momentum into south carolina and continue the momentum we are building up. here in new hampshire. host: let's go to the republican caller in san diego. g

going to evaluate how jon huntsman did here who matters more than anybody else and that's jon huntsman senior. he's going to be looking at whether his son -- to have him suddenly be financially viable in south carolina, florida, and everywhere else in the country. if that happens on wednesday or the equivalent, jon huntsman can go anywhere in the country with the aid of his super pac and get on the air and start to take big chunks of mitt romney. if that check doesn't come forward and the money doesn't come in, he could come in second here and it won't matter at all. >> let me tell you who else is going to be watching closely other than jon huntsman sr. >> who's that? >> people at america elects. the third party team. there are a lot of people there that love jon huntsman and want him to run as an independent. >> and feel he belongs there more. >> a strong showing in new hampshire launches him at least internally inside that group, which would put him on the ballot in all 50 states. >> launches him into that game. >> if he is strong here and an independent-minded state like new hampshi

we are live in new hampshire at jon huntsman paid final campaign event. -- jon huntsman paid -- jon huntsman's final campaign event. [chanting: join the fight] [chanting: country first] >> we understand jon huntsman about to come in the room. exeter, new hampshire, the night before the first-in-the-nation primary. south carolina coming up january 21, and florida on tuesday the 31st. the national journal just treated the result of a new national poll that came out from cbs. mitt romney and ron paul neck- in-neck with president obama in 8 general election match up, according to a news poll released late today that shows the front runners in tuesday's new hampshire gop primary running stronger against the president than their fellow republicans. before we get jon huntsman on page, we will get a caller or two. republican line. kevin, are you there? caller: this is john. host: go ahead with your thoughts. caller: i believe any of the gop candidates will do better than obama. i want someone who will become president that knows the united states, that knows why he is not part of asia. i am originally

i ran after jon huntsman in concord. a producer did get a question to governor huntsman in even though the campaign told me there was no chance for me to talk to him. then we drove an hour to dublin, new hampshire to stand in the overflow room at rick santorum event and get a clear picture how i was get nothing where near the this supposed rick san forum surge. i went one for two talking to candidates. did speak that night. after we finished the show, wrapped up at 10:00 eastern, right at the end of the show, somebody told me rick santorum was in the hotel where we were staying right at that very moment, right then, right above where i was sitting, in fact. on the mezzanine level of the hotel, we found rick santorum. he was a special guest on wbz 1030, a big powerful news radio station, hosted by dan ray, great host, running the rodeo, fielding the calls, keeping people on point. i think once senator santorum realized we were there he wanted to keep taking calls on wbz all night. sooner or later you have to stop at least

jon huntsman, more with you after a quick break. >>> and we're back with jon huntsman. jon, just before the break, on sunday morning you had said it was attitudes like romneys that are what is dividing the country. you actually received a huge applause during the debate about that comment. do you think romney is a divisive candidate and how are you the guy to bridge that divide in american politics right now, huge divide? >> well, he's certainly established in the debate that he is the person that wants to put politics first. for me it's always going to be country first, and as i've gone around to 170 public events in new hampshire, we have worked our tails off the last six, seven months, we talk about country first. i realize that, you know, in a hyper charged political environment that might not be the best sound bite in the wofrl, but i think the results from tonight, i have no idea what we'll be looking at, will be in some measure an indicator of our message which is really about pulling together as americans first and foremost, about putting our country first. the

jon huntsman is at 1%. so the common wisdom was that mitt romney was supposed to be anathema in new hampshire. that's bull pucky. rick santorum is supposed to be surging after his iowa win this week. that's the common wisdom. being up here today, i can tell you mr. santorum is attracting crowds, but the crowds do not necessarily seem to like what they are hearing from mr. santorum. so this is the rick santorum event at the dublin school in dublin, new hampshire, web just drove to. it's packed. everybody is telling us we can't get in. so let's try. i went to this crowded, crowded rick santorum event at the dublin school today in southern new hampshire. it definitely was crowded. i couldn't get past the overflow room, even though i tried. interestingly, even from the overflow room, his speech did not have a single applause line. i did not talk to anyone who was there to see him speak who supported his candidacy or who liked what they were hearing. the aggressive questioning and criticiing of mr. santorum from

jon huntsman. i'm going to check with my producer and make sure these numbers are completely accurate. let's take a look at what she has here. mitt romney, 927. again, these are unofficial tabulated. mitt romney, 927. ron paul, 341. rick santorum, 162. jon huntsman, 403. rick perry, only 10 votes cast here. michele bachmann, 4. even herman cain got one vote cast for him here. these are very raw. they still have to go through write-in ballots. if there was damage or what have you, so these numbers will change, however, this is significant because these are the very first election returns comiing in from this ward. >> you said how many people are voted? because if mitt romney got almost 1,000, that sounds like 40 to 50%, is that right? >> that sounds about right. i have here, 2,904 ballots cast here. about 5,800 registered voters here, so yeah, 744 for democrats. 2140 and 92 write-ins. 927 for mitt romney. that's a significant amount. >> looks like jon huntsman came in second. ron paul third at least

where do we stand on how we know when jon huntsman came to this decision? >> it's a good question, thomas, we posed that to senior advisers in the huntsman campaign. they told us he had been having this discussion with his advisers and family members over the last several days, the days following his disappointing finish in new hampshire, but didn't come to a final decision. it wasn't conclusive until late yesterday evening. we were in charleston with his family dining, between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m. he put a call out to governor romney, acknowledging he would be endorsing romney at today's event. this would be a little suspect given the statements the two have made. it was just a week ago where he called out romney for putting party before country as has been a theme throughout the campaign and then in november, governor huntsman said of romney that he was unelectable, saying he lacked a certain core and had so many shifting positions that made him not a sufficient candidate. huntsman is more moderate, as is romney, so many expected this to happen. here was t

jon huntsman's announced in his dropping out of the race and the expected history of jon huntsman. he formally entered the race back in june. well after many of his republican rivals such as romney who had already formed campaign organizations and fund-raising networks. huntsman was ambassador to china but resigned in late april. from the beginning, huntsman had vowed to be a different kind of candidate. as a campaign developed, and began drawing sharper contrast with his rivals, especially mitt romney. the news today been reported by the associated press and others as husband plans to drop out of the race today and anticipated to endorse mitt romney. democratic caller, ohio. caller: good morning. with and dropping out of the race and supporting mitt romney, it is a brought to me. host: wide use said that? caller: with mitt romney being a mormon, i feel like having john huntsman endorse him, to me, it, normalizes mitt romney. host: arizona, michael is on the independent line. let's move on to florida. republican. welcome. caller: i question why jon huntsman endorses mitt romney aft

tight battle for fourth and ron paul and jon huntsman. perhaps the man out of new hampshire walks out with a big victory tonight. >> shepard: we shall see. carl, thanks. indications of just which issues are important to voters here in new hampshire. compare them with your own why don't you. martha maccallum monitoring the exit polls she is live with us from new york. good evening. >> good evening. the polls are going to be closing fairly soon. we are still questioning voters when they come out. you can learn a lot about what's on their mind tonight. how about what kind of candidate are the voters looking for in 2012? top of the list here is one who can beat president obama in november. 33% say that's the most important thing to them. after that experience coming in at 27%. strong moral character 24%. and true conservative gets 14% as you well remember, in iowa, the true conservative issue was a very important thing to voters there. and that's what really helped rick santorum a lot. not as important to the folks in new hampshire. how about

romney said i is a lul jon huntsman and his wife. he ran a spirited campaign based on unity, not division and love of country. i appreciate his friendship and support. it's interesting that mitt romney would bring up the love of country. it was jon huntsman who slammed mitt romney in one of the last debate whether he knows he said he worked for the obama administrati administration. he said i put my country over my party and he puts a compliment regarding that. >> reporter: he said in his words he put politics first, not country. huntsman said we have stop with the negative attacks. he attacked mitt romney as being out of touch. he said he was a job killer, not a job creator. he also said mitt romney was not electable against barack obama right now. obviously, backing off those statements as we move forward. clearly what happens right now, there's three separate sections, the moderate, the conservative. rick santorum says he has a big boost from about 150 evangelical leaders in texas who gave him their support over the course of the

jon huntsman, it appears, has finally made it. now that the republican presidential race has moved on from iowa, we are didn't really compete, to new hampshire, where he has been focusing, governor jon huntsman's public profile has finally, maybe at least, risen high enough for him to earn a starring role as the villain in a remarkable new anti-jon huntsman attack ad. have you seen this today? i saw this at the website wonkette. the ad -- now, it does not appear to be an official campaign ad. it appears to have been produced by ron paul supporters in new hampshire. and it specifically zeros in on jon huntsman's most recent job as u.s. ambassador to china. watch. ♪ [ speaking chinese ] ♪ [ speaking chinese ] ♪ [ speaking chinese ] ♪ >> jon huntsman is secretly not only the manchurian candidate but secretly actually chairman mao video. that is claimed by a group called nh, new hampshire, liberty for paul. now, that group does not appear to be formally affiliated with the ron paul campaign by any way, shape, or form. and that

jon huntsman is dropping out today. he's expected to endorse mitt romney. 28 points past the hour here. the owner of the luxury liner that ran aground off the italian coast is pointing the finger right at the ship's captain. it's saying in part, he may have made, quote, very serious judgment mistakes. the captain was arrested over the weekend, accused of manslaughter and abandoning the ship. friday's accident raising questions about safety of cruise ships, espially for the estimated 10 million americans who plan on taking a cruise this year. so fran golden is a cruise expert, a contributor for "budget travel" magazine as well. she's joining us to talk about this. so many questions here. i want to begin with the training on the cruise ship. because one of the things that has us mortified is when we welcome at the images and hear what people was saying, it's like the crew was against them and not helping them get off of that ship. what is the train all about on ambassador a cruise ship? >> well, first i want to say that i

then jon huntsman drops out of the race. then the woman who wrote the editorial endorsing huntsman actually says, it's as if he turned to her, after love making, and said, you know what, i think i'm gay. >> jon huntsman is dropping his presidential bid. >> jon huntsman officially dropped out of the race for president. >> huntsman calls it quits. >> today, i am suspending my campaign. >> ending a candidacy that was always better in theory than in practice. >> some have described jon huntsman as a media mirage all along. >> he's singing a new tune when it comes to mitt romney. >> i believe that candidate is governor mitt romney. >> he's praising mitt romney as the most electable. >> he's dropping out of the race today and throwing his support to the man he once called unelectable. >> moderates are backing moderates. >> he attacked mitt romney as being out of touch. he said that he was a job killer, not a job creator. >> we are now left with big government conservatives. >> i wore my jeans! look at that! i wore my -- i wore my

jon huntsman bows out of the race. and then a brothel says they are pimping for ron paul. >>> reverend martin luther king jr. would be alive today had he not received an assassin's bullet in 1968. he was fighting for the ritz are of an can americans. king was trying to get a living wage for all americans. i want you to listen to his son, martin luther king, iii, who spoke at a memorial on sunday. >> on my father's last birthday they brought out a cake where they sang happy birthday to him in january of 1968. but in the basement of eberniser church, they were planning for what was called the poor people's campaign where he wanted to bring together poor blacks and whites and native americans and americans from all walks of life to say to our nation's policy makers that we really demand the right of decent job and decent pay. he did not live to see that come to fruition. >> joining me now, reverend rafael warnock is the senior priest where reverend king preached. >> thank you, suzanne. >> when you look and think about how

similar to jon huntsman. the hampshire is the only question -- the only state where we have seen a superpac , in that was largely funded by his father. candidates in the past, typically, need to perform well enough. they tend to not take president's down the field. but if the situation is that if you can fund a superpac, you may be able to stay in the game. the political impact of that on this particular election, we had a large west. if jon huntsman can stay in this race and can convince one person put him in this race, you will have all of these other candidates on the ballot. iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, and possibly the nomination. host: brian, iowa. caller: i would like to make several comments and have this fellow respond to them. i think that in large part, the national media elects our elected officials. i do not think that it has a lot to do with the ballot. secondly, and i understand that this is what i have heard, that most of the election will cost about $1 billion. who would spend $1 bill

jon huntsman. who dropped out of the race this morning. chief political correspondent carl cameron begins the coverage tonight. >> reporter: unable to generate momentum in south carolina after disappointing third place in new hampshire, former utah governor jon huntsman bailed out and got behind the front runner. >> today i'm suspending my campaign for presidency and it's time to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat barack obama. i believe that candidate is mitt romney. >> reporter: knowing it wouldn't happen he urged the rivals to stop trashing each other. >> the race degenerated to an onslaught of negative and personal attacks not worthy of the american people. not worry of this critical time in our nation's history. >> reporter: huntsman's sliver of south carolina support is expected to gravitate toward romney. romney is seeking conservative trust and support, a move reminiscent of pleas for conservative unity made by john mccain en route to the g.o.p. nomination last time. newt gi

jon huntsman, who we will speak to in a little while, jon huntsman will say you're completely wrong about him in terms how he should be characterized. he did a lot of cutting. "wall street journal" has called him the most conservative candidate out there. >> yeah, unfortunately jon huntsman has these fawning letters which he expresses his tremendous admiration for president obama. jon huntsman --. martha: that doesn't change his record in utah, sir? >> but it changes where he is coming from. the last thing in the world you want is an obama-lover running against president obama in this election. martha: we thank you for your candidness. good to have you here, mr. sununu. >> thank you. martha: great to see you. we'll see how it all plays out in your great state of new hampshire. >> thank you. bill: we'll cover that live of course on primary night. on sunday night we have a special 8:00 eastern time. but on tuesday night, january 10th, live on the air, only on fox news channel starting here 6:00 p.m. eastern time. nobody thought what happened in iowa and on tuesday night. so it is anybody's

jon huntsman sr. started a successful chemical company, making built onspending his latter years giving much of it away, but ironically what's holding him back? a lack of money. huntsman hasn't asked his father to put up the big bucks to move the politically meter. his campaign says it's a matter of principle. huntsman's daughters were asked about it by wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> my dad, like he did in utah, he's not going to pay his way to the white house. you know, you want support of the people. he said the people's candidate, and so i think you'll see the resources come with momentum. that's exactly what we're seeing on the ground. >> huntsman's poll numbers may be going up, but is the tide turning fast enough? >> one boost came from "the boston globe" which endorsed him. his super pac has been raising more money. so we'll see how he does tonight. does he beat expectations. can that give him momentum going into south carolina and florida? >> certainly he's blessed with a great family

less than a week before south carolina's gop presidential primary, jon huntsman is calling it quits. >>> end of an era. a factory worker's daughter helped bring down the site of a tragic fire. >>> and red carpet close-up. hollywood celebrities strike a pose at the 69th annual golden globes. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello, and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation, including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. today, we begin with a narrowing field. despite securing an endorsement from south carolina's largest newspaper, jon huntsman is officially ending his bid for the republican presidential nomination. he is expected to endorse front-runner mitt romney later today. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington with all the details. good morning. >> reporter: hi, lynn. good morning, everyone. first of all, we often don't see that endorsement come so soon. in this case, the same day the candidate is announcing he's quitting. this time, jon huntsman is expected to endorse mitt romney today as he announces he's leaving this race. the other thi

jon huntsman in, third place is in trouble. he told mike huckabee if he didn't come in first he'd drop out of the race. now, huntsman with not a lot of money and not a lot of organization in south carolina because he's concentrated in new hampshire is going head down to the south palmetto state and try to compete where rick perry has been. and already, he's been hammering romney trying to cast himself as the most ardent conservative to run against him. newt gingrich launching an abortion ad attacking mitt romney for his pro-choice views just five years ago, pointing out he appointed pro-choice judges and passed a budget including funding for planned parenthood. that is five, six years ago he was pro-choice and changed his position. it will be a tough ad. and rick santorum, as well as going after him and ron paul who came in second said it was a good, and clear-cut victory for mitt romney but ron paul said he's nipping at his heels. none of the candidates despite in new hampshire seem to have intention of backing off. greta? >>