also kenneth brenner. shakespeare, to hollywood s leading man. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. while the rest of the country is deep in the holiday preparations, the world is buzzing over the official opening of the 2012 campaign. the first in the nation iowa caucuses are two weeks away. the stakes couldn t be higher in the republican field. latest cnn orc poll puts newt gingrich and mitt romney in a dead heat battling for the top spot. ron paul makes a surprisingly strong showing in third place. with all of this back and forth in the polls, i want to take for a clear front-runner to emerge in time to win. joining me now is tim pawlenty, national co chair of the romney campaign and kellyanne conway. seen advisor to newt gingrich. tim, start with you. clearly i would have thought a good week for your man. good debate performance. good on the attack. lacerating newt gingrich with these shocking tv ads. you ve gone on the offensive and it s working. would you agr
very long time. it s also sending shock waves across egypt and the entire world. fair warning, what the camera caught, what the women are protesting, well, it s hard to watch. and here s also no sound. which perhaps is just as well because the images speak for themselves. watch. now, we don t know what ultimately became of this woman except that she suffered serious cuts, serious bruises. but we do know this. she s not the only one. and yet keeping them honest, until tonight the generals in charge of egypt these days are insisting that what you just saw was only an isolated incident. translator: and here i want to mention a very important point. the armed forces and police have pledged not to use violence against protesters, physically or even verbally. now, do these troops look like they ve taken some sort of pledge of nonviolence against protesters? i mean, does beating the daylights out of defenseless people qualify as nonviolence? it s been going on for days. riot pol
dysfunction. dysfunction, dysfunction. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett and outfront tonight, rejection and dysfunction. the house today rejecting the senate s plan to extend the payroll tax cut. now, that means that your taxes are going to go up somewhere between $700 and $2,300 next year unless, oh, the big unless an all new congressional committee and it is an all new committee comes to the agreement by the year s end. president obama s approval ratings are up as congress falls on this, and he seized the moment today. but now, even though republicans and democrats in the senate were willing to compromise for the good of the country, a faction of republicans in the house are refusing to even vote on the senate bill. bill that cuts taxes for 160 million americans. and because of their refusal to cooperate, all of those americans could face a tax hike in just 11 days. and millions of americans who are out there looking for work could find their unemployment insuran
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