let s give them a big round of applause. yeah! by then it was almost 3:00 in the morning and all of us were giddy to begin with. we were having a little fun covering this election. wolf, this is the back story, he never left the computer, never goes to the restroom. anderson was sitting on the floor. erin took her shoes off. what was john king doing? he was looking at the map, looking at the percentage of this and that. everybody was working but we were having some fun, too. erin burnett had lovely shoes but she took them off. she was standing. gloria borr glor gloria borrow borrowi gloria borger was sitting but erin was standing. i felt bad for her. the situation room, 4:00. hello, everyone. thanks for joining us. i m don lemon. the president makes his own choice for 2012. the battlefield shifts to primaries in new hampshire and south carolina and count michele bachmann out of both. it s time to play reporter rule let. david mattingly in south carolina, first. i
whether there is a path forward for myself in this race. wow. it could really be over despite all the money in his account. fox & friends starts right now. good morning, everyone. we were up an hour earlier today for an extended version of fox & friends. why? because the iowa caucus is now finish even though it didn t finish until the middle of the night with mitt romney winning by eight votes over rick santorum. 30,015 to 30,007. trotted out at about 2:45 eastern time and 1:40 local time and we did not have a winner. for a while with rick santorum on time but this is the smallest margin in the history of the caucuses. eight votes, mitt romney can say i won and rick santorum can say my miraculous turn around which is going to make political history and really has from 10 days 10 days ago, he had 3% of the vote and ends up with 25% of the vote. in third place, you had ron paul as you can see right there with 22%. who doubled his output from 2008. right, new
tonight s caucus, determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race. wow. it could really be over despite all the money in his account. fox & friends starts right now. good morning, everyone. we were up an hour earlier today for an extended version of fox & friends. why? because the iowa caucus is now finish even though it didn t finish until the middle of the night with mitt romney winning by eight votes over rick santorum. 30,015 to 30,007. trotted out at about 2:45 eastern time and 1:40 local time and we did not have a winner. for a while with rick santorum on time but this is the smallest margin in the history of the caucuses. eight votes, mitt romney can say i won and rick santorum can say my miraculous turn around which is going to make political history and really has from 10 days 10 days ago, he had 3% of the vote and ends up with 25% of the vote. in third place, you had ron paul as you can see right there with 22%. who doubled his ou
to iowa where he squeaked out a victory in the caucuses last night by the smallest margin of any presidential contest ever. much more on that in a moment. the guy whose job romney wants is right now in the suburb of cleveland to talk about the economy. we will hear from president obama live at a quarter past the hour. hours after the sixth-place finish in iowa, michele bachmann says that her campaign is finished or technically suspended. the minnesota congresswoman who was born in iowa and who won a straw poll there in august cancelled a trip to south carolina today for this announcement. so last night, the people of iowa spoke with a very clear voice, and so i have decided to stand aside. i believe that if we are going to repeal obama care, turn our country around and take back our country, we must do so united. bachmann took 5% of the iowa vote, and less than every other candidate except for jon huntsman who did not campaign there. rick perry did twice as well, and pr
announce ad few hours ago that she was us suspending her campa. if we are going to repeal obama care, turn our country around and take back our country, we must do so united. and i believe that we must rally around the person that our country and our party and our people select to be that standard bearer. meanwhile rick perry announced he is staying in the race. late last night he announced he would go back to texas to decide his next move. he tweeted the next leg of the marathon is the palmetto state. here we go, south carolina. now the focus is on new hampshire. newt gingrich said he is preparing to strike out against romney. cnbc chief washington correspondent john harwood joins us. great to see you. what a night last night. let s talk a little bit about how this is all flowing into what you re seeing in new hampshire today. well, i think the question is how does this field shake out? you ve had one good development for rick santorum and one bad development. the good