big. within a day, 150 people had joined the book club. now it is 830 members in 39 states. and iowa being iowa with a caucus victory as glittering at des moines capitol dome, the guaranteed book club crowds have proven irresistible to candidates. . i think it s a great idea. i think primaries should be battles of ideas. so on a friday night with avid readers packed into andrea s leverage, beverages at the ready, john delaney makes his long-shot case for president. . my program gives every american basically health care as a right of citizenship. . i think i work a lot. it helps us to be really educated voters. the necessary morning, another crowd at the local y for kirsten gillibrand. why should someone read your book? because it will tell you what i care about and why i m perfect for this job. what about your potty mouth? you discuss it in your book that your grandmother had an epic
clinton by a two to one margin during the last election. what she s pitching not only a caucus victory but folks have to go and win in the election. iowa went by 10 percentage points after going for obama in twomp. she has two events today. she s going to be here for an hour at the brewing company. you ve heard candidates, been on the ground with cory booker and elizabeth warren. it s interesting to hear. these candidates are very human. they try to feed off different energies and different emotions of folks. you heard from cory booker. he s up in new hampshire. he s really driving home that idea. elizabeth warren very focused trying to extract the frustrations out of folks. everybody has these different, whether it be nra or oil companies, that s where she s getting the message from. amy klobuchar, her message, i m
rising in the polls, he s also facing questions over his comments and the aftermath of last week s community college shooting in oregon. not only would i probably not cooperate with them, i would not just stand there and let them shoot me. i would say, hey, guys, everyone attack him. he may shoot me but can t get us off. reporter: he suggested that the media was trying to twist his remarks. we re living in a culture now where you have a group of people who just sit there. they don t try to listen to what you re saying. they are just trying to find a defect. reporter: despite carson being on his heels in the polls, trump is defending his rival. i thought ben carson was treated frankly, i thought he was treated very unfairly. reporter: meanwhile, here in iowa, where polls show that he s also on top, trump told me he has a team ready to turn that support into a caucus victory. we have a great team, we have a great ground game and i think we re going to do very well. i thin
try to listen to what you re saying. they re just trying to find a defect so that they can cause more division. by carson being on his heels in the polls, trump is defending his rival. i thought ben carson i thought he was treated very unfairly. meanwhile in ohio polls show he is also on top. trump told me he has a team ready to turn that support into a caucus victory. we have a great team. we have a great ground game and i think we re going to do very well. i actually think we ll do even better in the polls. and as for organizing folks to turn out for trump come caucus night next february, the former apprentice contestant who is now a state co-chair for trump spent time warming up the crowd telling them what it would be like on caucus night. it is a theme to educate the caucus-goers. all right, thank you, ben carson getting backing from donald trump in the process. these are the number one and two
much much. much. here we go, hour two. captions by vitac www.vitac.com welcome back. i m brooke baldwin. news just in from the mitt romney regarding those iowa caucus results. this as rick santorum declares victory and newt gingrich cuts into romney s leads in south carolina. time to play in all political roulette here. cnn politics style. we ll begin with jim an costas following team romney this charleston, south carolina. jim, it looks like iowa is out of now romney s you know, win column. the newly certified tally shows santorum actually won the caucuses by 34 votes. what s romney saying? that s right. that s a good question, brooke. we re not really sure right now, to be quite honest with you. our paul steinhauser told me a few moments ago that he got a call or that he called hogan gidly with the santorum campaign and the santorum campaign says mitt romney called rick santorum to concede the iowa caucuses. now, candy crowley has said she has heard from the romney