you re in the situation room . the first republican presidential contest is two weeks away and a top obama adviser says the democrats are counting on a long primary season slugfest between newt gingrich and mitt romney. every word from the candidates could make a difference. jim acosta is covering the final sprint of the caucuses. jim, we re seeing a possible shift in the romney campaign strategy. what are you seeing? what are you hearing? reporter: well, there may be a big momentum shift for mitt romney out here in iowa, wolf. he had a pretty good debate on thursday night against the gop field. he merged pretty much unscathed. he was not the subject of the attacks from the other candidates. that was really newt gingrich s role. he was beat up pretty good during that contest. and so mitt romney came into a city and he said he plans to take over the voters in the coming weeks. what concerns me is that we have in washington a class of people who spent their whole time i
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house republicans attached unrelated projects to the bill that democrats don t want. the cut expires december 31st and without an extension the typical worker will get hit with $1,000 tax increase in the new year. newt gingrich has lost his iowa campaign director. craig bergman has stepped down over some comments he reportedly made about mormons. the des mois register says he called mormonism a cult. two of gingrich s rivals rather in the republican presidential race, mitt romney and jon huntsman are mormons. the faa says starting friday american airlines pilots can use ipads in the cockpit. the devices will replace hard copies of flight manuals and navigation charts. american says cutting out about 50 pounds of paper on every flight will save massive amounts of fuel across the airline. don t worry about distracted pilots. the ipads will not have internet access during flight. a federal safety board is calling for a nationwide ban on cell phone use while driving. that m
i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the u.s. pullout of iraq and its final hours. in 19 days all troops will be out. iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki traveled to washington to meet president obama today. this is a historic moment. a war is ending. a new day is upon us. and let us never forget those who gave us this chance. the untold number of iraqis who have given their lives. more than 1 million americans, military and civilian, who have served in iraq. nearly 4,500 fallen americans who gave their last full measure of devotion. we have a moral obligation to all of them to build a future worthy of their sacrifice. the two leaders laid a wreath at arlington national cemetery for the close to 4,500 troops who did lose their lives in iraq. but with 16,000 americans slated to remain, none of whom will be military, some are worried that america has made the wrong call in pulling troops out. one of those concerned is former vice president dick cheney. i asked him earlier
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