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will on the streets. journalists get a look at the violence syria doesn t want you to see. it is amazing to me how this guy has been shot this many times. i mean, he s superman. i have been shot three times. my fingers have bullet holes. did you hear had a? part man, part terminator. shot three times in a robbery. a marine pulls out the bullets with his own hands. and now he s talking about it from his hospital bed on this american morning. good morning, everyone. it is thursday, december 29. this is american morning. a lot going on today. let s get right to it. that s right. good morning, everybody. glad you are with us. i m alina cho. up first, dramatic shift in the political landscape with five days to go before the iowa caucuses. just look at this brand-new c cnn/ time poll. mitt romney on top in iowa now. followed closely by ron paul. newt gingrich plunging and rick santorum suddenly rolling right to the top three. gingrich now 11 points behind romney. ....
reiterated his pledge saying, please, republicans should all be nice. here s mr. gingrich, in his own words. i only have one opponent, that s barack obama. i have a number of friends running and one opponent. and i m going to run this campaign on a positive basis because i believe the people of iowa are smart enough that they can see the difference between somebody trying to help the country and somebody who simply is running a negative campaign. can he stay positive is the big question because speaker gingrich make no mistake, is feeling the heat. let s bring in cnn s jim acosta. here in iowa tracking the republican candidates, jim, that is the big question. the speaker s the front-runner. he says let s be nice. describe to our viewers the kind of heat he s getting. reporter: well, you know, it s almost impossible to figure out a direction where he s not being attacked from right now. keep in mind he s has three other candidates in this field attack him with eith ....