next hour. egyptian officers raid the they may have made some powerful enemies in the process. one group is chaired by madeleine albright. the other is chaired by john mccain. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . captions by vitac www.vitac.com the clock is ticking. we re only five days away from the iowa caucuses. the focus has now turned to a certain degree, to rick santorum. an extraordinary surge in his poll. can rick santorum keep on climbing? joe johns has been following santorum in iowa on the campaign trial. joe, how did it go? well, wolf, good news and bad news for rick santorum. he s doing better in the polls. the bad news is he s the latest target on the campaign trial. what on earth took this guy so long to get traction in iowa any way? what s going on right now in iowa and i see it with the crowds getting bigger. i think they d be bigger in any circumstance. people are focused. here s a guy who spent more time in the sta
of the big newt bus. 36 trombones there you go, music man. a rewind, betty white stops by to talk about her legendary career. keep it on morning joe. oh it s clearance time!
trombones, chris. but no, i think what we re watching over the next six days is, it s clear that everybody s tracking polls, shows ron paul ahead, and the only candidate that likes that is mitt romney. mitt romney s got two ways to win iowa. he either finishes first or finishes second of ron paul. and now all of a sudden you re seeing all of these other candidates start attacking ron paul. the problem they have, though, is that paul s support that s with them, it s not going anywhere. he s attracting sort of nontraditional republicans, nontraditional conservatives. so one wonders why they re spending a lot of effort doing that while the effort is really, one, can they consolidate the evangelical vote and call themselves the alternative to mitt romney. or two, somehow expand the number of people that show up to the caucuses, try to get more conservatives to show up to make that little part of the pie they re all splitting up a little bit bigger. alex? hey, chuck, it s alex wagner.
i m saying only that i wouldn t draft him in a sanity fantasy league. our winner, judge henry e. hudson, the district judge in virginia who yesterday ruled against part of health care reform after not recusing himself though he owns a firm that has nothing but republican clients one of whom the man who filed the suit in which judge hudson ruled. the conflict of interest equivalent of the marching band with 76 trombones was not necessary. he s been called on it by the far right. a right wing blog, warren kerr writes, had a chance to read judge hudson s opinion, and it seems to me it has a fairly obvious and quite significant error. hudson, if a person s decision not to purchase health care insurance at a particular point in time does not constitute the type of economic activity subject is equally offensive to the constitution. we re deep in the woods here.
going to. during the same program, mr. beck announced he is now the mainstream media. i m not saying he s lost his mind. i m saying only that i wouldn t draft him in a sanity fantasy league. our winner, judge henry e. hudson, the district judge in virginia who yesterday ruled against part of health care reform after not recusing himself though he owns a firm that has nothing but republican clients one of whom the man who filed the suit in which judge hudson ruled. the conflict of interest equivalent of the marching band with 76 trombones was not necessary. he s been called on it by the far right. a right wing blog, warren kerr writes, had a chance to read judge husbandson shudson s opin seems to me it has a fairly obvious and quite significant error. hudson, if a person s decision not to purchase health care insurance at a particular point