and good morning to you. it is tuesday, december 13th. i feel like it s a homecoming. a long time since the three of us have been together. good to see you. as usual a busy, busy news morning. breaking news now. four soldiers are dead after two army choppers went down during a training exercise. it happened a joint base lewis-mcchord in washington state. crash investigators are trying to find out what went wrong right now. pliv on the pholive on the phon crash site. what do we know? i m watching the lights of the recovery teams that have been looking throughout the night to go in the grim task of recovering those bodies of the four aviators that lost their lives. still don t know what went wrong. at about 11:00 p.m. eastern last nim, sometime after 11:00 p.m. two helicopters crashed killing everybody aboard both helicopters. these are small observation helicopters, ali. the eyes and ears of what s on the ground. flying maneuvers over a training area when this crash to
to build the kind of organization mitt romney has methodically put in place for a year. the reality is we re flying by the seat of the pants. can gingrich win iowa flying by the seat of the pants? absolutely. he can. my former colleague, matthew dowd, had the most succinct explanation of what matters going into iowa, and it s no momentme momentum. newt gingrich has momentum but iowa is 30 days out. it s an eternity in politics. if this was a football game, we re six minutes into the third quarter. we ll be at the two-minute warning on christmas day. it will be flat-out and a close race all the way through iowa, through new hampshire. msnbc political analyst steve schmidt, thank you very much for joining me tonight. you bet, thank you, lawrence. coming up, it isn t just the newt surge in iowa. ron paul is holding his own. we ll show you why he s appealing to iowa caucusgoers.
the reality is we re flying by the seat of the pants. can gingrich win iowa flying by the seat of the pants? absolutely. he can. my former colleague, matthew dowd, had the most succinct explanation of what matters going into iowa, and it s no momentum. newt gingrich has momentum but iowa is 30 days out. it s an eternity in politics. if this was a football game, we re six minutes into the third quarter. we ll be at the two-minute warning on christmas day. it will be flat-out and a close race all the way through iowa, through new hampshire. msnbc political analyst steve schmidt, thank you very much for joining me tonight. you bet, thank you, lawrence. coming up, it isn t just the newt surge in iowa. ron paul is holding his own. we ll show you why he s appealing to iowa caucus goers. but first, mitt romney