internal? i think when you look and realize the conservative part of the republican party, you can measure it a bunch of ways. in iowa, for instance, half the caucus goers we surveyed identified with the tea party. that was herman cain advantage there. he leads among tea party supporters in iowa. and he does better, he s closer to romney in new hampshire among tea party supporters. the new hampshire republican electorate, though, is more moderate, less conservative than the iowa electorate. that would be the big warning sign for mitt romney as he decides how seriously and how much resources does he devote to iowa. for instance, one number that jumped out at me, among first time caucus goers, those that haven t done it before, romney does pretty well. but it is as we know largely for active regular caucus goers who participate in this thing, and that s a more conservative republican electorate and that s a pitfall for romney. the other thing i would go out there, when you lo
listen to this: i know that we can t keep spending money that we don t have. that s why i fought against the wasteful bailout, against the stimulus. i will not vote to increase the debt ceiling. reporter: bachmann is number two on the air, pawlenty is the on other candidate running ads and he s way back in the polls, bachmann is the only candidate has not disclosed how much money she raised in the second quarter but it s also true she just raised money in the last few weeks. alisyn: and so carl, is the thinking that michelle bachmann is mostly stealing the thunder from tim palent gle. absolutely. pawlenty has to do well in iowa. it was for a time believed it was his must-win state because he s a minnesotan as is bachmann, he the former governor of minnesota, she a congresswoman from it and now there s a problem with ben webber, the man you see on the screen there, he is the national campaign chairman for tim pawlenty
release date of july 13, 2011. that s next week. alisyn: incredible. that s certainly not going to make the protesters outside of the courthouse happy today. thank you so much for that breaking news update. meanwhile, there s two female lawmakers duking it out in front of a very shocked parliament. what sparred this angry dust-up? and a deadly bear attack in yellowstone national park during the busiest week of the summer season. a man is mauled to death, his wife barely escapes. the attacks come as the bear population is increasing around the country. would you know what to do if you encountered a bear? we have the answers next. thankfully, there s new crest pro-health
alert, we have more details on that gruesome attack from yellowstone national park where a man was mauled to death. rick foal bawn has the details. reporter: you hate to hear about this, officials at yellowstone national park are searching for the bear who was involved in that deadly attack. trails around the site of the mauling, right in the middle of the park, are closed while they conduct the search. this is just file video of grizzly bears, not the bears involved here, but the attack came as a man and his wife were hiking in the back country area of the park, a 57-year-old man and his wife and apparently, they unintentionally surprised a mama grizzly and her cubs, the bear charged the couple, and the woman s husband told her to run, and when the bear caught up with her, she apparently played dead, so the bear lifted her up off the ground by her backpack and dropped her and then took off, and she had some scrapes and bruises but she was okay, enough to call 911 on her cell phone a
and yesterday as the pawlenty campaign was downplaying its expectations suggest thank bachmann would be, quote, hard to beat, those were the words of ben webber, he went on to explain she has a number of advantages, she has home town paul because she was born in iowa, ideological appeal because she s a tea party favorite and chair of the tea party caulk nous the house and she has sex appeal and for that it took mr. webber a short couple of hours before he apologized for it and said it was inappropriate. tim pawlenty also said he thought the comments were inappropriate in assessing whether or not somebody should be president. there s been no comment from michelle bachmann s campaign jon: right now the effort to stop sophisticated cyber terrorists from getting access to the country s classified secrets, take a look at a house hearing on the growing threat imposed by hackers who are increasing their attacks on defense contractors and government labs. national correspondent catherine herri