know, but apparently a couple of dzhokhar s friends, their visas were not good. you know, it s very, very difficult, this has been a long-standing controversial issue. the custom and borders say your visa has expired now you have to do something with that. who enforces it? local police at state and local agents do not want to become custom agents. it s a question of resources, how much money do you give to the immigration officials, what kind of patrols can they do? it s kind of a sticky issue, but now what boston is highlighting is there must be much better cooperation. jon: one of of the kids apparently had dropped out of school completely, show up back in the country after a trip home, does -pbt have a visa and we let him any anyway. you re going to see a lot of these questions being raised. including when the information came from a foreign source there is going to be a whole reexamination of how custom and borders operates within the location hraoeuszed community. jon: does it
seasons hotel restaurant, was planned in mexico with mexican drug cartels. so they re getting pretty close to you, and they re close to us. now, they re brazen with these attempted attacks now even while they don t have nuclear weapons. imagine should iran complete its nuclear weapons program, break through with weapons-grade enrichment in the next couple of months and then producing warheads a little bit after that? megyn: yeah. then we re in a whole different world. then the iranian terrorist threat is going to be far greater to all of us. megyn: it is a chilling thought. ambassador, thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate it, sir. my pleasure. megyn: well, we have a follow up now to a scary attack caught on live television. wait until you hear what happened to the tv anchor who got a little l too close to one furry guest. and rick santorum shaking up the republican race for the white house in a very big way. we have breaking news on the gop
appear to be going all out trying to ratchet fear on this issue, saying that gas prices could reach $5 a gallon by summer. what s your sense as to how disastrous that would be for the world s economy? in the worst case scenario, it doesn t seem so far out of reach. if iran does carry through with its threat, could throw the global economy into a depression, would drive oil prices up to unpredictable levels. he says that consumers wouldn t be able to afford it. you d see an impact on economic activity. it would really hurt consumers getting hurt in other ways, with housing prices and unemployment so high. these higher gas prices will wind up taking money out of their pockets. money that would be spent on other things. it would be spent on consumer confidence. when you see that gas sign of that gas price, people get scared by paying an extra few dollars at the gas pump, even though in reality, it s not as big an impact of getting a good mortgage rate or having a good job. thi
but just in right now, new poll numbers painting a very telling picture of the race for the republican presidential nomination. we can now report that mitt romney is the candidate to beat in at least two of the crucial first four voting contests of the 2012 election with herman cain a sometimes close, sometimes distant second. our new cnn time orc poll of republican voters just released shows romney on top in iowa s january 3rd caucuses, leading herman cain by three points, but that s well within the sampling error of plus or mines. in new hampshire, romney has a lead over cain. in south carolina, a two-point edge for romney, again, within the margin of error. in florida, it s romney 30% to cain s 18%. before the polls came out, romney made it clear he s setting his sights very high. i think the greatest threat to my success would be president obama and i m planning on beating him soon. let s talk about these new poll numbers with our chief political correspondent, the