stunning iowa success? is time running out for these candidates to catch the front-runner? save their campaigns? we ve got some tough decisions to make. we are going to take america back. believe me, this momentum is going to continue. the voting has begun. the stakes couldn t be any higher. n tonight, we put them all to the test. so what s next in this campaign season filled with so many dramatic surprises? this is the abc news republican presidential debate. your voice. your vote. now joining us tonight from new hampshire s own wmur, political director josh mckelvin. good evening to all of you. welcome to st. anselm college and the first debate of 2012. those eight votes in iowa vote counts. we are off and running. great to be here with you, josh. now let s introduce the candidates. former governor jon huntsman, ron paul, former governor of massachusetts, mitt romney, rick santorum, former speak of the house newt gingrich and texas governor rick perry. time
pornography. this in the hideaway of a self-described religious warrior who says the united states and the west are immoral and godless. let s assess the importance of these new revelations with michael shoier, and with our national homeland security adviser, fran townsend. michael, let me start, i guess it s no surprise that the leader of al qaeda would want the president of the united states dead. but it s startling and jolting a bit to hear what written communications, plural, in which bin laden discusses his desire to have the president of the united states assassinated? i don t think it s surprising. and i think it s probably even worse now. they ll be looking to exact an eye for an eye. i suspect the secret service is very much en garde, because obama put himself in the bull s-eye. is assassination in the playbook? bin laden was very much involved in the early 90s in yemen in arranging the assassination of socialists and marxist yemeni politician. so it s not out