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day. small in numbers but a very big message. so you carry a lot of weight in this state. to send a message which way we re going. the stakes are high in the hawkeye state. after a dozen debates, seven different front-runners $16 million in ad spending and over 150 different campaign stops. tonight somebody may not be headed to new hampshire when all votes are counted. but let s put all of the factors together. turnout, timing, moan tum, expectations game, and look in the caucus crystal ball we do that with chuck todd, nbc political director host of the daily rundown here on msnbc. and we hope, we hope, that you have already eaten that chicken soup that savannah brought you earlier to battle off that cold. i have. we re lucky we have it it around here. let s get straight to this because we ve seen iowa front-runners come and go, seven in fact set stage for us. how does this history fore shadow what we could see happening tonight? we are lucky enough, mitt romn ....
Influential newspaper. a conservative newspaper endorsed me. the des moines register, which is a liberal newspaper, did not endorse me. i think that indicates who the conservative in this race is. alex mo is following the gingrich campaign for us. the former speaker spoke with thousands of supporters in iowa via conference call this weekend. is that a sign that his support is slipping there, that he s trying to make these all-out efforts while he s not there, but make these all-out efforts to make the connection? well, the former speaker is getting hammered every day here in iowa by negative ads, so he felt he needed to do that conference call to ask any questions that iowans have. with just 15 days before the caucus, he s seeing a little bit of slipping in some recent iowa polls, but he hopes with these endorsements like with former watts he got today and some other endorsements this week ....
the international community on high alert this morning. we re going to start with team coverage with nbc s adrian long. let s start with the facts we re hearing about kim jong il s suck so he is successor and what the response has been in morning. within hours of kim jong il s death, the korean government also released a statement saying that his son, kim jong un, had been designated the great successor. this is also confirmed just this evening here in beijing when the chinese government, while expressing its condolences to the people, also made a statement pretty much with a vote of confidence in kim jong un, saying he hoped he would be able to steer the country forward and continue to strengthen it. as you alluded torques there is to, there is anxiety about who this young fellow is. he s 26, 27 or 28. it s not clear how much of a grip he has on power. the succession transition has actually been under way for almost two years. his father had started moving the pi ....
the international community on high alert this morning. we re going to start with team coverage with nbc s adrian long. let s start with the facts we re hearing about kim jong il s suck so he is successor and what the response has been in morning. within hours of kim jong il s death, the korean government also released a statement saying that his son, kim jong un, had been designated the great successor. this is also confirmed just this evening here in beijing when the chinese government, while expressing its condolences to the people, also made a statement pretty much with a vote of confidence in kim jong un, saying he hoped he would be able to steer the country forward and continue to strengthen it. as you alluded torques there is to, there is anxiety about who this young fellow is. he s 26, 27 or 28. it s not clear how much of a grip he has on power. the succession transition has actually been under way for almost two years. his father had started moving ....
Much for the update. we ll get more on the endorsement in iowa from mitt romney. the des moines register placing bets on mitt romney. what does this mean for him on the ground in the hawkeye state? we re joined by alex mo on this. hello. let s get to how the other candidates are reacting o this. the romney rivals to this endorsement. well, all the candidates that are in iowa, are reacting a little bit different to the big endorsement that came out on-line last night. michele bachmann congratulated mitt romney on his endorsement. but added that she disagrees with their calculation regarding her candidacy. and speaker newt gingrich spokesman said mitt romney, put a stamp on him. dmr, certified liberal. the newspaper, though, said that mitt romney was the best candidate to be endorsed this year, saying that rebuilding the economy is the nation s top priority and romney makes the best case among the republicans ....