good evening, i m ali velshi sitting in for erin burnett outfront tonight. newt sinking and santorum surging a brand-new poll out of iowa and it has stunning, new numbers. the former front-runner, newt gingrich, plunging from his top slot, down to fourth place. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum doing the opposite, he surged from single digits into third place. mitt romney now leads the pack with 25%, and there s another new poll out of new hampshire where the nation s second contest in the race for the gop nominee will be held one week later on january the 10th. mitt romney dominating his opposition there. he s at 44%. rivals ron paul and newt gingrich trailing 17% and 16%, respectively. let s go right to political correspondent joe johns. he s on the ground in iowa. joe, this is a bit of a shocker. santorum rising as much as he has. he was out there with representative steve king on the hunting trip. king did not endorse him on that trip. it made people wonder, we
outfront tonight. newt sinking and santorum surging a brand-new poll out of iowa and it has stunning, new numbers. the former front-runner, newt gingrich, plunging from his top slot, down to fourth place. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum doing the opposite, he surged from single digits into third place. mitt romney now leads the pack with 25%, and there s another new poll out of new hampshire where the nation s second contest in the race for the gop nominee will be held one week later on january the 10th. mitt romney dominating his opposition there. he s at 44%. rivals ron paul and newt gingrich trailing 17% and 16%, respectively. let s go right to political correspondent joe johns. he s on the ground in iowa. joe, this is a bit of a shocker. santorum rising as much as he has. he was out there with representative steve king on the hunting trip. king did not endorse him on that trip. it made people wonder, we re so close, this is a guy to every county in the state.
providing enough documentation and accuses the republicans. this is one of increasing testy showdowns who say the republicans are conducting tough oversight investigations and the white house seeing witch hunts, not legitimate inquiries. jess, any sign the white house will give? you were here when they first got the request and they said no, we ve given you enough. any threat a subpoena will say, here, more dock plns? reporter: no signs it will. the white house has maintains they through their agencies turns over more than 70,000 pages of documents and that the white house itself has turned over 900 pages and as you have said, they have made it clear there s an important precedent to be protects, the president s advice from his advisers in the white house has to be protected. early on the white house said that the republicans were exaggerating this, this one lone gun bad, a pretty good program. now the chief of staff is having an independent review inside the white house.