polling from nbc news and the wall street journal shows with the first voting only three weeks from today, republicans are not happy with tlir choices. only 21% of registered republicans say that the current field is strong. with many good candidates to choose from. 51% call their choices average. 27% say the field is weak with hardly any good choices. chris alisa is managing editor of post politics.com. there is a look at the poll. what does this tell us about the mood of the electorate certainly out there in iowa and the field, republican choices that they have in a very big field. let me first say, andrea, i get excited what new poll comes out. that s an exciting time for me. this is good news. i m glad we get to talk about it. look, i think it is surprising. at least to me, that you have only 20% of people saying they have a strong and a lot of good
so far there is no information on a possible motive. chris johns lives at the intersection. he shot video of the gunman and even engaged him in conversation to try to get his attention and he join us from los angeles. thank pup what were you thinking at the time in first of all, what drew your attention in the noise? yeah. basically, i heard pop, pop, pop. you know, i heard the gunshots. so that kind of drew my attention. i looked at the video and you said, hey, over here. look over here. why were you why were you trying to get him to come? you were asking him to shoot at you. yeah. i thought that i made a calculate calculated, kind of comparison. i thought, if people down there at point blank range to the shooter were going to get shot, you know, they were kind of helpless to avoid being killed. you know, me, i m four stories up, if i could take any of his attention and divert it towards me, any gunshots that he would shoot at me, i would have an opportunity to get
hoping to take on the candidate who may pose the greatest challenge to president obama. we are talking about mitt romney. herman cain is live with us here in the situation room this hour. we will talk about what is behind declined in the recent polls. criticism of his 9-9-9 tax plan and much more. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. he s the only candidate whose been consistently at the top of the polls in the volatile republican race for the white house. that has mitt romney increasingly targeted by president obama s supporters. now in an unusual move, the democratic national committee is targeting romney in an effort to sway the gop nominated contest pmt cnn s joe john says working the scene for us. joe, what is going on here. it raises the question, whose primary is this anyway. it was much easier to keep track of this when it was just republicans fighting among themselves. the latest in the republican battle comes from the democratic national committee,
everybody, regardless of your political affiliation, regardless of where you live in america. that is just basic common sense. like billy graham, by never took one congregation, i preach at many. what i do notice is you never give a break to the wealthiest in the congregation and make sure the poorest bears the weight. so since you wanted to use that analogy, i would never do what you party did, let the wealthiest in the congregation go with a break in their donations in the name of, they will trick tell down to the guys in the other pews. but let s go to your jobs program. today congressman barton, we, after 236 days in office, house republicans finally release tlir gop jobs agenda today. it is heavy on deregulation and cuts. blocking labor relation rules. restricting epa. cutting taxes by 20% for small businesses.
actively trying to use drones for police work. britain using drones to conduct urban surveillance will hope of getting the drones approved in time for 2012 olympics in london. arlington police in texas hope to get the drones up over the cowboy stadium for the super bowl. jamie: interesting. thank you. eric: you know one of the biggest news stories in recent history was the seizure of the united states embassy in tehran in 1979. as we have been reporting this morning, 30 years after that crisis, the former hostages returned to the site of tlir home coming. emotional homecoming this weekend. how did the media cover it? did that? liz trotta next. [ female nouncer ] most women in america aren t getting the ccium they need.