with a double-digit lead over newt gingrich. part of his advantage comes from early voter who is went his way more than 50% of the time. here s a reaction from gingrich, just a short time ago. mr. speaker, do you still see a path to the nomination? of course. how? unify the conservatives, you win the delegates, and then you have the nomination. freshman florida senator marco rubio is a very popular man these days. he s been mentioned as a possible vice presidential choice for whomever comes out on top. but he says, no way. my answer hasn t changed on that. i ve answered it repeatedly. the fact is, i m focused on my job here in the senate. i ll do anything the nominee wants me to do in terms of getting elected. i don t think that s going to be vice president. i don t think i m going to be the vice presidential nominee. rubio, who was speaking with our soledad o brien, also talked about why he hasn t endorsed everyone. i have relationships with two of the four c
that it s krun f time? and we re digging deeper into ron paul s writings and finding sexual harassment victims. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re here in the new cnn election center counting down to the final few days and hours before the first contest of 2012. the new iowa poll out today reenforcing mitt romney s place at the top of the pack, running neck and neck with ron paul. it drives home the bombshell findings of our poll this week, sh showing rick santorum has surged to third place in iowa, while newt gingrich has faded. it s put iting more and more pressure on romney to go for broke in iowa, to try to pull off a win tuesday night. jim acosta is joining us from des moines with more. t mitt romney has the big mo and the question heading into this weekend is whether he will win the iowa caucuses without breaking a sweat. no wonder mitt romney appears to be going all in in iowa. he just might be holding a winning hand. a sign just days before
in custody of those rebel forces before he apparently died somehow in an ambulance on his way from sirte to misrata. what s interesting is as you know, the predator drones are not just there to fire missiles, but the primary mission is surveillance. it s very likely given the kind of intense fighting over sirte and u.s. intelligence that said moammar gadhafi is in sirte, that that predator drone was hovering over sirte when moammar gadhafi made his way into the convoy and out of sirte. it is more likely than not that the u.s. military already knew that moammar gadhafi was that n that convoy when they fired upon it. which of course raises the question about u.s. claims that they were not out to actually kill moammar gadhafi. it appears they weren t. indeed, jim. you rub shoulders with more military sources than i have
before. partially from the libyan armies or brought over from defeking soldiers. they also pose long-term security threats. i m with matthew schroeder. we have a picture here of a libyan rebel launching a missile towards a libyan jet. are these floating arn for the taking now? yes, those are outside of state control now. and our big concern is they will be diverted to the black market by terrorists outside of libya. there s no evidence they are sold weapons to terrorists or they intend to, but arms traffickers could see the libyan fight as a hans to stock up, one of the most popular weapons shoulder fire missiles, move at high speed. most civilian aircraft done have counter measures against them.
decisions so they ll be made fairly soon. both the last administration and this one made very clear that our role in syria is the defeat of isis. we are not going to engage in the civil war itself. now you can look back to a year ago when we did fire missiles into syria unrelated to isis and that was because of the use of chemical weapons. some things are inexcusable and in the interest of civil evasion itself. how do we deal with this very complex situation? first of all, we are committed to ending that war through the geneva process through the u.n. orchestrat orchestrated effort. russia has blocked the effort. the last time we dealt with it by sending 59 tomahawks in