bit. of course, newt gingrich at the presidential debates and the rivals, they exchanged jabs, engineer jeers and some jokes last night. even though there had been 723 presidential debates you always get something out of these things. maybe the line of the night. listen to who rick perry decided to compare himself to. there are a lot of people out there, i understand it. a lot of folks who said tim tebow wasn t going to be a very good nfl quarterback and people stood up and said, well, he doesn t have the right throwing mechanisms or he s not playing the game right. and, you know, he won two national championships and that looked pretty good. we re the national champions in job creation back in texas. but i m all ready for the next level. let me tell you, i hope i am the tim tebow of the iowa caucuses. all right, i m going to try to get jim acosta to be honest with me. he s in sioux city, iowa. tell me the truth, jim. when you heard that, what was your reaction when you h
ali, underscore the importance of the immigration issue inside with the south carolina republicans. when you go to these events, how often does that issue come up more than others? yeah, the immigration issue is really important here in south carolina. the state senate recently passed an immigration law here that is very, very stringent. has a lot of the same proposals and laws that the arizona law would have. and that law, parts of the south carolina law are currently being held up by the justice department. so this is a huge issue for voters here. it s a big issue for south carolina governor nicky hailey who has yet to endorse they candidate. so this issue does frequently come up with south carolina voters, though he definitely took pains last night to clarify he doesn t favor amnesty and some of the candidates are saying he does. and that he would, in fact, support deportation for the vast
majority of immigrants that he s allowing some immigrants to stay in the country would only apply to a very small portion of the illegal immigrants in the country. very quickly, when it comes to gingrich and this quick rise in the polls. the question is whether he ll have an organization to match his standing in the polls. your seeing any evidence? i know he signed up andre bauer, somebody who ran for governor, one time lieutenant governor. does that make an organization? well, endorsement may not make up an organization, but he certainly does have the strength and ground game in the last month. he has about ten people working for his campaign here which is the largest organization any of campaign in south carolina. and by the end of this week, he ll have five campaign offices opened here. so in terms of a ground game, he is starting to materialize, albeit rather late in the season here in south carolina, chuck. ali weinberg, good stuff.
we have breaking news out of tehran around 100 iranian students have stormed the british embassy compound. the students were protesting london s support of new sanctions when the crowd grew violent. clashing with riot police and entering the compound while chanting death to england. once inside, students looted and burned embassy documents and replaced the british flag with an iranian one. embassy employees were able to flee the embassy and iranian security forces are trying to clear the compound. so far no casualties have been reported. the british foreign office has released a statement condemning the incident and calling it utterly unacceptable. there are also reports the iranian government is denying they were behind this protest as we have seen in the past. but this one a lot more violent than we have seen in the recent past. all right. let me get to my first reads of the morning. we re going to continue to track the iranian story throughout the hour. it is t-minus 35
the students were protesting london s support of new sanctions when the crowd grew violent. clashing with riot police and entering the compound while chanting death to england. once inside, students looted and burned embassy documents and replaced the british flag with an iranian one. embassy employees were able to flee the embassy and iranian security forces are trying to clear the compound. so far no casualties have been reported. the british foreign office has released a statement condemning the incident and calling it utterly unacceptable. there are also reports the iranian government is denying they were behind this protest as we have seen in the past. but this one a lot more violent than we have seen in the recent past. all right. let me get to my first reads of the morning. we re going to continue to track the iranian story throughout the hour. it is t-minus 35 days to iowa. if the last 24 hours tells us anything, it s that in this wild primary cycle, writing tomorro