chuck todd and peter alexander are in iowa tonight. abc s john carl in iowa for us tonight. we ll turn our critical edge on reporters in iowa and washington and especially the surge in negative reporting about ron paul. this the skeleton in ron paul s closet. this is from the ron paul newsletter. so you read them but you didn t do anything about it at the time. i never read this stuff. why did the press take so long to start examining the congressman s sometimes inflammatory record? i m howard kurtz and we re kicking off the 2012 season onsome reliable sources. happy new year to all of you. it s obviously not a holiday for much of the political press gearing up for actual voting of 2012 after a year of prediction and prognostication. after treating ron paul as an entertaining side show they reacted to his rise in the polls the same way michele bachmann, rick perry, herman cain and newt gingrich shot up in surveys by belatedly examining his record including ince
and this is state of the union . it s been a rough couple of weeks for ron paul. his top tier seating hs brought new scrutiny to some of his old writings. now big enough threat to draw unanimous dismissals from opponents. unelectable. you need to think long and hard about in casting your vote for congressman paul. one of the people run for president thinks it s okay for iran to have a nuclear weapon. i don t. ron paul is not getting the nominati nomination. someone that is so out of sync with the american people that they don t need to be the president of the united states. could you vote for him? no. reporter: through it all paul s proven support in iowa has not waivered. he is marching on dropping major cash for ads in new hampshire and south carolina and he s confident enough about iowa to spend this weekend at home in texas. i spoke to the congressman earlier this morning. congressman paul, thank you so much for joining us this morning. new des moines reg
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risen more than 400% over ever the last 30 years. things sure have changed. take baby boomers. many were the first in their family to go to college. right? well, today their children and grandchildren may told a degree but it comes at a steep price and they re still looking for a job. student loan debt stands at $865 billion, topping credit card debt for the first time. let s bring in ryan mack, president of optimum capital management, and from austin, and aaron smith, co-founder of the group called yun invincible, a non-partisan organization based on issues facing young americans and a cnn.com contributor. aaron, it s your generation. millennials, ages 18 to 30. how do they feel about this shifting, this shifting situation for education? it costs more. you re not guaranteed a job but you know you need it. there s tremendous concern out there. we know that as young americans that we need that education to get ahead. there s huge benefits from getting a college degree, but a
state until the final push. what the heck is a caucus any way? and are you looking for a job? one employer says you better not smoke. we ll show you how they are testing job applicants for nicotine. happy new year to you. if you re celebrating new zealand style. that s because it s midnight there. let s look at auckland. there it is. they are among the first to ring in the new year. they do it in amazing style. we will spend the next couple hours showing you the new year s celebrations from around the world as the clock strikes midnight in various parts of the world. there s a new year and perhaps changes for the better. iran says it has no plans to close the strait of hormuz. the country had said they would block the strait if sanctions on iran were enforced. reports said they fired a long-range missile during the training, but now a senior commander says they didn t, but will in the next few days. after complaints by defense secretary leon panetta, egypt says it will