february 8th. rick santorum shakes up the republican race. he s coming off a three state sweep in minnesota, colorado and missouri. is an or rum hopes to cash in on his big wins. today he s in texas because an adviser says that is where the money is. so santorum said money isn t everything, but it s part of the game. we re doing very well raising money. i think last night we raised about a quarter of a million dollars online. and we feel like going forward we ll have the money we need to make the case we want to make. sap tore rum s rivals are nursing their wounds looking ahead to the next dates on the election calendar. newt gingrich is in ohio, one of the ten states holding haekss on super tuesday, march 6th. gingrich is hoping those races will revive in some way his campaign. mitt romney also looking for a win in colorado yesterday. now he s trying to rebound from his loss to sap tore rum. nonstop shelling is said to be under way in homs. we just got this video. this i
with you and that question. candidates are going to be crisscrossing the state today. talk to us about this day a week before the caucuses, joe. oh, yeah, you can call this crunchtime for sure, hala. a time when the candidates really bear down and iowa truly gets focuses on the caucuses. mitt romney starts out his day in inp. the. however, he like many of the other candidates will end up here in iowa. he s going out on a bus tour and so is newt gingrich, in fact. he is another guy we re watching very closely and he is supposed to show up in an interview with wolf blitzer on the situation room later today. notably, one of the candidates who is expected to get back out here until tomorrow is ron paul and he and mitt romney and newt gingrich are locked up in a three-way statistical tie for the caucuses here in iowa. very busy days ahead. and we re looking forward to it, hala. okay, yes, we look forward to your reporting, as well. mark, romney, gingrich and ron paul, all lo
presidentialness of romney, you would have the perfect candidate. if only it worked that way, huh? much more on the iowa stakes and the states in play. first the news you need to know. we ll shift to new hampshire. newt gingrich just wrapped up a debate with jon huntsman. it seem the real sparring was between speaker gingrich and mitt romney. romney threw the first punch saying gingrich should return the nearly $2 million in fees paid to him by freddie mac. one of the things that i think people recognize in washington is that people go there to serve the people and then they stay there to serve themselves. do you believe he should give that money back? i sure do. from the form he speaker, this counter punch. if governor romney would like to give back all the money he s earned from bankrupting company and laying off employees, over his years, i would be glad to then listen to him and i ll bet you $10, not $10,000, that he won t take the offer. and responding to c
afghanistan. it s not clear how much harm it would do to close that base. it s been an asset that the u.s. wanted to preserve. what you re concerned about with pakistan is basically three things. supply routes to nato forces inside afghanistan. 40% of the nonlethal aid to nato forces in afghanistan comes through pakistan. second, you re concerned about the safety of their nuclear weapons. you don t want those nuclear weapons falling in the hand of the network, al qaeda, other terrorist groups and third, you re concerned about the relationship with india. you don t want a nuclear war in the south asian sub continent. the u.s. has maintained a military relationship with pakistan but at this point, you have to question whether the benefits we re getting are worth the amount of money that we re devoting to pakistan and whether this relationship needs retuning. okay. joe, thank you. you have an open door to discuss
news. mission over, but hardly mission accomplished in iraq. so today i can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in iraq will come home by the end of the year. now president bush began the war in march 2003 with a dose of what the pentagon called shock and awe. in announcing its end, president obama used the term success, not victory, and said it was time america focused less on wars overseas and more on economic problems here at home. i would note that the end of war in iraq reflects the larger transition. the tide of war is receding. there is no doubt public opinion is on the president s side. nearly 7 in 10 americans oppose the war in iraq. but a number of conservatives, including the leading republican candidates for president tonight say, president obama is weakening america and emboldening iran. the former massachusetts governor, mitt romney, said the unavoidable question is whether this decision is the result of a naked political calculation or simp