than 50 cars set ablaze since friday. los angeles police announce arrests. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. we re counting down the hours to the first voting of the 2012 presidential campaign. 28 hours to be precise, until iowa republicans gather at more than 1700 locations for their party caucuses and start picking their favorites. candidates have spent millions of dollars, logged many thousands of miles in this long iowa marathon. now it s a sprint. as they dash across the state looking for the last few votes. mitt romney is at the head of the pack trying to hold back ron paul and a hard charging rick santorum. let s go live to cnn joe johns joining us from marion iowa right now with the latest. joe? wolf, mitt romney is pushing across the state traveling hundreds of miles. certainly one of the busiest days of his entire campaign. he is trying to get his supporters to go out and caucus for him. on the final day of campaigning, energy is everything in io
reporter: mr. cain, mr. cain, jim acosta with cnn. are you vowing to stay in the race? we are reassessing and re-evaluating. reporter: are you staying in the race. we re re-evaluating and reassessing. reporter: how soon will you have a in the next several days. cain appeared on fox news. we should point out he routinely refuses to come on this program. somehow de he did find time to down with fox s neil cavuto. on ginger white, why would she say she s known you 13 years, and you say nonam more russ relationship, why would she say, out of the blue, he s not fit to be president? neil, i have no idea unless the people who i believe are putting her up to this maybe that was one of the lines that she was supposed to use. i have no idea. herman cain saying he believes ginger white was put up to it. when asked who put her up to it, take a look. we have no idea who it is, but i just happen to know that the reason that i was trying to help her as a friend fin
reporter: how soon will you have a in the next several days. cain appeared on fox news. we should point out he routinely refuses to come on this program. we asked again and his campaign said he was unavailable all week. somehow he did find time to sit down with fox s neil cavuto. i don t want to overbelabor this. you re answering this directly. on ginger white, why would she say she s known you 13 years, and you say non amorous relationship, why would she say, out of the blue, he s not fit to be president? neil, i have no idea unless the people who i believe are putting her up to this maybe that was one of the lines that she was supposed to use. i have no idea. herman cain saying he believes ginger white was put up to it. when asked who put her up to it, take a look. we have no idea who it is, but i just happen to know that the reason that i was trying to help her as a friend financially because she was in some deep financial problems about to not even be ab