invoked it during bill clinton s impeachment proceedings 15 years ago. has it already been 15 years? as i come here with some sense of reluctance, the president and i have been close friends for 25 years. we even crashed a twin engine beech bonanza trying to get to the gillett coon supper, a political event that won at his own risk. and we crashed this plane on a snowy evening in a rural airport. off the runway, sailing out across the snow jumped out, j jumped up, and ran away unscathed. to the dismay of every politician in arkansas.
scene to piece together with their expertise what happened from a technical standpoint, talk to the pilot, look at safety records of the aircraft, piece the plane back together, from what you have been hearing from the first responders and the people who fled off that plane, especially those who walked away unscathed, what skr skr strikes you most from a chaotic scene to a well-run scene on the tarmac? reporter: i think we can say that the first responders did an incredible job, 225 first responders who came to the scene. the fact that you only had two fatalities when you look at that wreckage is just amazing. so the first responders really did a terrific job in terms of getting folks safely away from ta scene. obviously credit the crew as well, 16 members of the crew. i think, john, the thing that strikes me the most id just that, looking that the wreckage. you have to wonder how more people weren t either seriously hurt or killed when you look at
the conservative vote essentially would they go against mitt romney but i think what they re going to find out if voters were looking for an alternative to mitt romney they were probably going to look for the person to make the best case against mitt romney and none of them really did that. so what was interesting while gingrich came, became the target of literally half of all the ads here, mitt romney kind of got away unscathed. martha: got away unscathed. we will talk to rick perry about that. i will put that question in a little while. this is fascinating in terms of campaign strategy. byron, thank you very much. we ll see you tonight. thank you, martha. bill: he is relying on his ground game to get him a win in iowa. here s santorum. i don t know. we don t have any money for polls. we re just out here meeting voters, not looking at polls. bill: check out these numbers. back in november santorum standing among iowa voters was 3.8%. today he is at 16.3% with many voters still on
the conservative vote essentially would they go against mitt romney but i think what they re going to find out if voters were looking for an alternative to mitt romney they were probably going to look for the person to make the best case against mitt romney and none of them really did that. so what was interesting while gingrich came, became the target of literally half of all the ads here, mitt romney kind of got away unscathed. martha: got away unscathed. we will talk to rick perry about that. i will put that question in a little while. this is fascinating in terms of campaign strategy. byron, thank you very much. we ll see you tonight. thank you, martha. bill: he is relying on his ground game to get him a win in iowa. here s santorum. i don t know. we don t have any money for polls. we re just out here meeting voters, not looking at polls. bill: check out these numbers. back in november santorum standing among iowa voters was 3.8%. today he is at 16.3% with many voters still on