my office today and one of my co-workers had left me literally a bunches of pieces of coal. i think it was a joke but i'm not sure. >> anyway, steve, you have spent some time in iowa recently. what's your sense of the race with nine days to go? >> i think that the ron paul surge, all the talk about the ron paul surge and the support that he has out there and the momentum he has potentially going into the january 3rd caucuses is real. i think that's real. i think the stories about his organization, i think they're all accurate and the question to me is whether the news surrounding his newsletters. he had these newsletters that had racist comments and anti-semitic comments. >> way back in the early 1990's. >> in the 90's when he wasn't in office. >> he says he didn't write them but he hasn't given yet a coherent explanation. he says he has some moral responsibility for the newsletters and their content but hasn't really owned them the way that you might expect. he hasn't said who has written