and we are a little punch drunk, as you can tell. it s been quite an exciting night. mitt romney declared the winner here. 30,015 votes. and rick santorum, 30,007. if you do the math, it is eight votes that separated them. and as ashleigh s been saying, you should always exercise your right to vote. that last precinct, we had to wait until they reported in order to get to these numbers. it was back and forth and back and forth. like 2 1/2 hours ago. the whole cnn team has been here. in fact, i m still wondering if they re putting their shoes back on. i saw wolf, john king, gloria borger. we asked them to say. they re, like, huh-uh. most pious among the voters would be me. i m a new american so i am so thrill when had i get a chance to vote. and i can t stress it enough today. today s results tell you, america, vote. here is the fabulous des moines register front page. of course, they go to print before they even knew what the decision was. split decision, yes. but the
poll. dick cheney and dick rumsfeld gets booed. talk about switcheroos. we missed lot of the fun last week because of the revolution in egypt. tonight what you need to know about how the right plans to run against president obama. if this is the starting lineup i can only imagine what characters they ve got sitting on the bench. about the revolution in egypt, it s spreading. today the unrest erupted in yemen and bahrain and iran. there s no footage, of course, because they won t allow it but our nbc news producer reports thousands have gathered and fought with security forces in tehran and other iranian cities. could we be witnessing the start of a new iranian revolution and you might even end up having a republic over there. also, obama presents his budget.
right-wing jamboree. where ron paul wins the straw poll. dick cheney and dick rumsfeld gets booed. talk about switcheroos. we miss ad lot of the fun last week because of the revolution in egypt. tonight what you need to know about how the right plans to run against president obama. if this is the starting lineup i can only imagine what characters they ve got sitting on the bench. about the revolution in egypt, it s spreading. today the unrest erupted in yemen and bahrain and iran. there s no footage, of course, because they won t allow it but our nbc news producer reports thousands have gathered and fought with security forces in tehran and other iranian cities. could we be witnessing the start
up this wonderful catalog of switcheroos by the guy. here he is doing it in about 24 hours, going from one side to the other. disconcerting. looks like he s got it together here. i think it s a big switch room. it was huge story for the british press. they had a lot of fun with it. you ve just been running some of the headlines, mitt the twit or mr. nowhere, that apparent reference to him being in charge of the salt lake city games in 2002. that was quite a mild rebuke from the prime minister david cameron when he mentioned that. i saw the response last night from salt lake city. they weren t particularly very complimentary about mr. cameron. and they said look, if he wants a map of where the middle of nowhere is, he can come and get one from us. but really, this is a bit of a faux pas or a political difficulty for him. because at the end of the day, these two men should get on very well. as you just mentioned, david cameron is a conservative prime minister, and yet the european bran
mitt romney tried to end the static he had stirred up with a nightly news interview he did with brian williams. he did it by complimenting now. he has switched in the past just about everything. here he is switching on the british olympics. here he is, mitt romney this morning. after being here a couple of days, it looks to me like london is ready. and of course it is hard to put on games in a major metropolitan area. and here he is with his original comment about trying to, well, causing trouble. here he is the first time out. let s listen. in the short time you ve been here in london, do they look ready to your experienced eye? you know, it s hard to know just how well it will turn out there were a few things that were disconcerting. you know, i have to tell you, chris, that this is wonderful romneyism. it s taken us a while to build up this wonderful catalog of switcheroos by the guy. here he is doing it in about 24 hours, going from one side to the other. disconcerting.