turn out to see people already arriving here. to tell us a bit about what will happen here tonight, i mjoined by about what will happen here tonight, i m joined by david young. david is a former congressman for the third district and iowa, also former chief of staff to chuck grassley, the senior senator, so he knows his iowa politics. what ll happen here tonight? in iowa, we don tjust pick corn, but presidents, that s what we re but presidents, that s what we re doing tonight. first to say hi we re doing tonight. first to say hi to we re doing tonight. first to say hi to your viewers and in being say hi to your viewers and in being educated about what we do here, being educated about what we do here, it s being educated about what we do here, it s a being educated about what we do here, it s a very arduous process, here, it s a very arduous process, but it s also simple. candidates come in here and we kick the candidates come in here and we kick the tires on
successful. organization matters, it does every time. megyn: one guy who is not making a push in iowa is jon huntsman. he says iowan s pick corn and not presidents. if you can t come here and answer the tough questions from iowa citizens it will be tough for you to justify as to why you should be the next president of the united states. megyn: thanks so much for being here. all the best, sir. governor is in water lieu iowa right now for a meet and greet with the voters. he is trailing in the latest polls but moving up from his position a couple of weeks ago. what does he need to do to close strong in iowa and what if he doesn t? what does he consider the margin of victory. we ll ask him live when he joins us next hour.
a ton of money. this hour, how he s dealing with the new messes that the country simply can t afford right now. and from the seat of power to an iron cage in a courtroom, the ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak goes on trial for allegedly ordering the killing of protesters. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. sort of vacation right now, they re on leave while tens of thousands of american workers are going without a paycheck because of their inaction. a lot of new anger and fingerpointing over the partial shut down of the federal aviation administration. senators went on break yesterday without extending the agency s funding. today the president is urging them to get back to work and solve this expensive and very embarrassing problem. let s begin our coverage this hour with cnn s ted rowlands joining us live from chicago s o hare airport. this is an outrage, ted, what is it like out there? well, wolf, people around the country are absolutely disgusted