ahead unless breaking news changes everything. fox news is america s election headquarters. and the former house speaker gingrich is way out in front extending the lead in the race for the republican presidential nomination, the closest rival, mitt romney. voters in iowa head to the caucuses on january 3rd and a week later new hampshire holds the first in the nation primary. according to the latest real clear politics average of polls, gingrich leads in iowa while romney is ahead in new hampshire. and speaker gingrich is predicting a drawn out race. the fact is if i win in iowa which i hope to do it makes it harder to capture new hampshire because the average new hampshire will say i will not let people in iowa let me what to do. this could be a long war. shepard: despite the rise not polls, governor romney says gingrich does not have the necessary staying power. i have seen a lot of people who have risen in the polls and people take a closer look and they come back down
candidate, see what reporters are seeing, and track the latest contributions with c- span s website. it helps navigate the political landscape with twitter feeds and facebook updates bios, and the latest polling data,a. good afternoon, everybody. i completed a call with my national security council of the situation on libya, and today i talked to the prime minister of great britain about the events taking place there. the situation is very fluid. there remains a degree of uncertainty, and there are still regime elements that pose a threat. the gaddafi regime is coming to the end and the future of libby is in the hands of its people. in six months, the 42-year rein of gaddafi has unraveled. the joyful longing for human freedom at the voices we had heard all across the region, from tunis to cairo. the face of these protests, the regime responded with a brutal crackdown. civilians were murdered in the streets, and a campaign of violence was launched against the libyan people.