kids to tell us why in a starting point exclusive. plus, get real. we have not found any skeletons in rick santorum s closets. a lot of sweater vests. like a lot. facebook twit irpicked up on his wardrobe. if you don t believe me, we re going to show you the music video of the sweater vest. not kidding. a very busy two hours. besides michele bachmann and family, newt gingrich and his two daughters joining us. senator rand paul pitching for his father, and members of occupy iowa will be occupying the diner right here. so starting point begins right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com a lot of heavy rockmusic this morning. good morning, everybody. you re looking at the waveland cafe. inside is where we are in iowa. the caucuses finally here, first ever the nation s caucuses. this is a horse race it s mitt romney leading by a nose. ron paul trying to mike it a photo finish. it s rick santorum surging from the rear and newt gingrich hedging his bets, admitting he may
senator rick santorum. let s go to cnn s joe johns right now. he s joining us from des moines. i think rick santorum believed in himself. not a whole lot of others, joe, did. but it s been quite amazing over these past few days how well he s done. reporter: that s true, wolf. you know, more than half of the republicans who participated in this process the last time around viewed themselves as evangelical christians. born again christians. so it might be a little risque to compare this process to a seduction, but rick santorum has gone a long way. he says the other candidates in the race are speed dating, and he says what he s been doing is a courtship. i have done literally 358 or 359 town hall meetings in the state of iowa. we ve been to all 99 counties, and we weren t speed dating. reporter: rick santorum s polling numbers, his surge in the race for iowa, is starting to look like love. though the question is, what took so long for a staunch conservative who s been cou
just as it began. will he stay or will he go? that s the big issue in the birth place of democracy as the greek prime minister, george papandreou and his government faces a crucial confidence vote in parliament later today. the outcome of the vote may have seemed a bit predictable just 24 hours ago. now it seems it s far from certain. after mr. papandreou backed away from a referendum on a debt deal he announced days earlier. all of this comes as leaders of the g20 are gathered. it s sure to be dominated with talk about gross s future and the escalating crisis that s gripping the euro zone. relief surrounding that possible aboutturn on the greek referendum is moving stocks but also the bond markets, because ten-year greek bonds are down just a little bit today, still yielding around 2 %. let s go live to athens where we can join jim bolden. the day is young over there in the greek capital. let s have a quick look at what we could see coming out of greece and this confidence v