axelrod: good evening. i m jim axelrod. all but certain republican presidential romney mitt romney made an appeal today to evangelical christians, a group whose whose support he will certainly need if he is to prevail in the fall. romney traveled to the largest evangelical college in the world to reach out. chip reid joins us now. chip, good evening. reporter: well,ing good evening, jim. mitt romney has struggled to win over evangelical christians in part because many evangelicals believe mormonnism, romney s faict, is a religious cult. today romney emphasized the shared values of two very different branches of christianity. people of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose when there are so many differences in creed and theology. reporter: their different faiths can meet, romney contended, by way of a common world view based on christian values. there is no greater force for good in the nation than christian consc
colder and getting colder, coldest night of the season here and the wind is going to blow the next several hours. um. and warmer by the weekend, though, and doesn t help me now. get inside, mr. gary, see you soon. thank you. a lost us support us your photos. can you upload yours on our website, www.myfoxdc.com. we have a link on our home page. it s finally here, the first primary of the 2012 presidential election takes place. the iowa caucuses get underway at 8:00 our time and the republican candidates spent the day making the final push in the hawkeye state. craig bosswell is live with the details. craig. reporter: good evening to you, brian. it s game time. republican presidential candidates are using every final seconds of the final moments to win over support here in iowa. tonight, it boils down to turnout. it s a political conversation in the hawkeye state. in the final hours, the words can get harsh. iowans are picking the leader they believe is most in line w
rumor. the republican candidate, i think they could be setting ua situation where come january, if there is trouble, they say i told you so. jot reason for this, in large part, the united states in iraq and iraq couldn t agree of granting immunity to the u.s. soldiers as the united states continued to have a force in iraq. the president said none of that today at the white house. gloss over the fact that this negotiation was a big part of the decision y. that was? i don t think he wanted to focus on that. clearly there were a lot of discussions on that immune etissue. it was a very sticky issue and it seems like they had the discussion and iraq said lessen, we re not going grant that, humanity and you re going to have to be on your own. it s friday, there is a lot of talk about the timing on this and the president comes out and makes this announcement. how much did yesterday s event in libya play into this white house wanting to capitalize on the momentum it has on fore
today and it s unclear at this hour if they made it into court for their first appearances before a federal magistrate judge. how did the scheme work and who uncovered this? reporter: the scheme was uncovered by the fbi. this is very, very complicated. the indictment claims this carrie kahn used two companies. one that was unnamed in the indictment to kick back money directly to him through phony invoices. the riches are listed as cash, furnishings for his home, renovations for multiple properties, flat screen televisions and computer equipment, shawn? thank you, paul wagner. to the latest in the amanda knox saga. knox is right now on a british airways flight headed to london from the hometown of ceiling. the cameras caught her family at heathrow airport in london after an early-morning flight out of rome today. an italian court, you remember, reversed her murder conviction yesterday, setting her free after four years behind bars. knox is expected to land around 8:00
a void. reporter: eleanor holmes norton sits on the homeland committee and has been briefed by u.s. officials. reporter: am impressed they know so much about these people. i don t think i have ever, since 9/11, heard this kind of specificity. and that is through nationality, down to coming from outside of the country and the rest of it is they have a wonderful listing. reporter: michael o hamlin is a national security analyst with the brookings institution. i m not hearing anyone tell me to change my weekend plans. i m not hearing any of my friends in the intelligence world copy call up and say just a special tip, a word to the rise to the friend you probably want to avoid and no one is saying that. reporter: we are and should take the threat seriously. if something is on the road and it s a weapon, a weaponized vehicle, you need luck to find it. it s this simple. reporter: u.s. officials learned of the latest threat on wednesday night considered raising the