gingrich beats romney romney in every category including electability. bill: they are interesting findings. iowa could be a different picture than new hampshire. that's why we watch. byron, good to have you today. >> thank you, bill. bill: byron york in washington. martha: well it is the white house versus the gop and wall street and president obama is going all-out to push the unlikely confirmation of a man named richard cordray. he has been nominated to head this big new consumer watchdog agency that was created to right all the wrongs of the financial institutions that hit us so hard back in 2008. but 45 republican senators already said they are pledged to block this confirmation. so that makes a filibuster for democrats highly unlikely. but the whole thing does provide the president with a way to say that the gop is protecting wall street which has been a major point of his re-election effort. he will go on a huge media