chief political correspondent, candy crowley. good morning, candy. there s another big debate tomorrow night. this won t be like the others. no herman cain this time and newt gingrich is the guy to beat. well, yes. there is actually a lot at play in this debate which probably will make it the most high decibel debate that we ve seen. number one, the calendar s kind of closing in on him. those caucuses are less than a month away. number two, the conventional political wisdom always has been there are three tickets out of iowa. three people survive. not only do you have mitt romney who needs to go after newt gingrich and start to drive down some of those poll numbers, you have everybody else on that stage that wants a ticket out of iowa so they go after newt gingrich as well and probably a little bit of romney. so you have the makings of both the calendar and the politics of it at this point. this sort of promises to be a lively affair. of course it will. we re talking no
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second at 18%. another poll out of iowa shows it much closer. let s go to south carolina, as well. south carolina, of course, the first southern state to vote, it goes number three in the calendar and votes on the 23rd of january. this is also, again, showing newt gingrich on top. far ahead of mitt romney. romney at 23%. gingrich 18 points ahead and rick perry at 9%. kyra, i guess newt gingrich to take his national poll numbers and translate it into an operation and make sure he gets the teams in place in theearly states to get the voters to the caulks and primary sites, kyra. nancy pelosi is saying that she has information on gingrich and newt is sending her a warning. what the heck is going on here? yeah, this started yesterday and, remember, this goes back to the late 1990s when gingrich was house speaker and he was facing 84 ethics investigations and pelosi said she maybe will unearth some of the stuff that was never made public. here s what she said. i know a lot abo
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