extending the payroll tax cut holiday. it mr. get through the house and what happen was that provision in the senate is going to be the next step. either way we are looking at any type of deal coming at the earliest late this week. this looks like it is possibly going into the weekend, even early next week. senate majority leader harry reid says that the house republican plan including the keystone pipeline is no chance of passing in the upper chamber. that s what senator reid had to say about that. we will see what s next. thank you, luke. greatly appreciate. it take care. be well. thank you. coming up, predator drones are not being used just for border patrol in this country and war zones. details on how local police are now using the spy planes. interesting. plus, home improvement chain lowe s is under fire today for caving to a conservative christian group. they yanked their ads from a reality tv show that profiled american muslim families in detroit. well, lowe s offered a
gingrich is now 15 points ahead of romney in a new gallup poll and mr. paul steinhauser joins us right now from washington. hello, paul. how does romney plan to handle what is shaping up to be a two-man race at this point? it really is shaping up. that was the national poll, don. take a look at this, state poll. iowa. two new polls in iowa. one of them, cbs/ new york times. you adjust showed the national poll. newt gingrich ahead by double digits. the frontrunner, we re less than four weeks away from the iowa caucuses. what is mitt romney doing about all this? romney was speaking to reporters yesterday on the campaign trail and said he would be more forceful in going after newt gingrich and pointing out the differences where they stand on certain things and he also said, you ll see more of me. more interviews and more time on the campaign trail. he says after about a week from now when he finishes up some fund-raising, you ll see a lot more of mitt romney. four weeks to go
about the additional coverage you may need. to another troubled part of the middle east, iran, and a senior u.s. official has confirmed that the iranian military has recovered a united states spy drone after it lost control and crashed on the border with afghanistan. for more i m joined by jim miklaszewski. this is a highly sophisticated drone. how did ground commanders lose control, and what kind of intelligence might it provide to the iranians? the technology is great whether it works, but it doesn t always work, martin. in fact, over the history of these so-called drone wars, a number of predator drones and other kinds of drones have actually just been lost in the operations. they somehow lose or disconnect
for suggesting some immigrants should be able to stay but not receive citizenship. interestingly the pew research center looked into gingrich s comment and found that two-thirds of illegal immigrants have been here for more than a decade. what has struck me is that setting aside his plan for immigration, the rhetoric around immigration in this country is as strident and as divisive as it has been. horrific. and it s interesting when you hear herman cain talk about an eelectrified fence and rick perry talking about using predator drones. those into are rejected also in europe. do you know this week the german government issued an appeal to the public to help find a group of knee neo-naziss who they bel are responsible for murders this week. they are workings on stores who are turkish. and what you re seeing in france
politico reporting one of cain s accusers received $45,000 as par parts of the cash settlement from the national restaurant association. that s more than one or two month s pay mr. cain recalled. we ll have to wait to hear from one of cain s accusers. her lawyer is negotiating with the restaurant association. those talks expected to continue tomorrow. an hour ago, herman cain told sean hannity on his program he never thought he would be attacked on a planned story coming from one another campaign. about you connect the dots, they lead to the perry campaign. let s just say, there aren t enough bread crumbs that we can lay down and connect that leads us anywhere else at this particular point in time. we are moving on. and, here s mr. cain s message to a tea party town hall. we have been able to trace it back to the perry campaign, that stirred this up in order to discredit me, my campaign, and slow us down. the fingerprints are all over the rick perry campaign, based upon