bill: yeah, in pennsylvania. that was more of a barack obama, you know, phenomenon. but, look, santorum has really retailed it in iowa. he has been to all 99 counties. yeah. bill: i think iowains respect his work ethic. they respect the fact that he has been out there and he is be a honest guy. he doesn t have a lot of stuff in his background questionable. everybody knows in iowa is substantial. they seem to be supporting mr. santorum even though he is a catholic. once he gets out of iowa and has to go to new hampshire and then south korea and florida, you don t believe he has the infrastructure, the money raising capability to compete. is that what you are saying tonight? what i would say about it is that this has been tried before. candidates who have come out of nowhere in the past. bill: huckabee last time around. huckabee. and it always comes out looking like he ran for president of iowa or president of new hampshire if that s
World. bill: yeah, in pennsylvania. that was more of a barack obama, you know, phenomenon. but, look, santorum has really retailed it in iowa. he has been to all 99 counties. yeah. bill: i think iowains respect his work ethic. they respect the fact that he has been out there and he is be a honest guy. he doesn t have a lot of stuff in his background questionable. everybody knows in iowa is substantial. they seem to be supporting mr. santorum even though he is a catholic. once he gets out of iowa and has to go to new hampshire and then south korea and florida, you don t believe he has the infrastructure, the money raising capability to compete. is that what you are saying tonight? what i would say about it is that this has been tried before. candidates who have come out of nowhere in the past. bill: huckabee last time around. huckabee. and it always comes out looking like he ran for
we re live on the las vegas strip where in just four hours, the republican hopefuls will face off in a cnn western presidential debate. tonight, herman cain is the candidate to beat. since the last debate one week ago in new hampshire, herman cain has continued to rise in the polls and is now the front-runner for the republican presidential nomination. he is joining me now. he s here in the situation room. we re in las vegas. mr. cain, thanks very much for coming in. how does that feel to be called the front-runner running for the nomination? the way it feels is that you got this big bull s eye on your back so that keeps gets bigger. it feels great, but as you know, the challenge is how do we continue that momentum and we believe we know how to do it. they re all going to come after you tonight. i m ready. have you been practicing? what are you doing? what i always do. in other words, i make sure i know where i stand on all the solutions i m putting on the table.
And let me finish tonight with a call to action to those protesting on wall street. get something done. we start with the rise of herman cain. david corn s an msnbc political analyst and mother jones magazine s washington bureau chief, and jonathan martin is senior political reporter for politico. gentleman, i want to know how this ends for this fellow, herman cain, who s come out of nowhere. you re chuckling, but lead me raise a couple of questions here. i m going to give you a number of questions, the scenario. this guy keeps going up. he s ahead now in south carolina. he s ahead now in florida. he s ahead of the field against a guy who can t do anything but flatline. mitt romney won t get above 23. he stays right there, like a dead guy, politically. whereas cain keeps going up. my question to you, if cain can even hold second place to romney, who gets ahead of him? who beats him? it ends up with herman cain on fox news and a lot of book sales. this guy will not be the nominee, c
hello, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield. breaking news we re covering now. new developments this hour from the conflict in libya. we re working to confirm several reports that one of the sons of toppled leader moammar gadhafi has left libya and may have surfaced in another country. live now from kabul, afghanistan, our senior international correspondent nic robertson. nic, you know that saadi gadhafi may have left. you apparently know him personally, you ve had e-mail exchanges, et cetera. what are you learning about his where abouts? reporter: what we know from the minister of justice and ministerial spokesman as well is that saaad gadhafi has crossed into niger. they say he was allowed into the country for humanitarian reasons. niger is to the south of libya across part of the sahara desert. we do know and i do know from talking to saadi gadhafi last weekend, exactly a week ago today, that he has split essentially with his family, with his father and with his brother. it