that was, of course, al pacino and diane keaton christmas shopping on 5th avenue. find out how coppola won all of those battles and many more, on christmas day at 10:00 a.m. eastern. then, on new year s day at 10:00 a.m. eastern, you can wake up with billy joel. here he is talking about what happens when he wakes up with a song idea. when you write, you always say the music comes first. yes. does that mean, take us through that. you get up in the morning and you start humming something and that stays with you? a lot of times i will have dreamt music that i don t instantly remember when i wake up. but i do know what was that thing i dreamt last night? it was really good, almost sim phonic. and i will spend a good amount
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
as these holidays wind down. the president yial campaign sean is heating up. one week from tomorrow, the iowa caucuses will mark the first formal votes in the 2012 race. right now, it s too close to call, statistically speaking. according to a poll from the american research group, ron paul, mitt romney, and newt gingrich are locked in a three-way statistical tie. you can see it there. 21, 20, 19% apiece. paul steinhauser is in des moines with more on this three-way battle. and no clear front-runner at least for iowa, paul. reporter: no clear front-runner. and that poll you just showed from arg came out on friday. the most receipt polling we have of people likely to take part in that caucus on january 30. it also indicates with just a week to go 1-10 still say they haven t made up their minds. and a sizeable amount are saying, i m backing this candidate or that candidate, but i may change my mind. three-way traffic jam, i guess you could say, for the top spot. ron paul, tho