This hour, we continue to monitor the repulsive antiisrael protests on around the country. Last night, far left riotersit in new york city burned an american flag. They also vandalized a worldno war one memorial. Meanwhile, new yorks governor, kathy hochul, was caught on tape saying, well, something downright degradinggradin about African Americans. Were going to play that tape coming Ug Africay Thatp in. As democrats try to demagogue abortion. Well, guesabortions what . Were going to introduce you to one of the most prolife senatorsroduce to grace the halh of capitol hill. That persons name, joe biden. Weve got the record now, of course, joe has since flushed his deeply held, quote, catholic beliefs down the drain to appease the radical base that now makes his party just like he abandoned israel to appease the Radicatl Marxistsis that make up the radicals that run the party. Run the now, the full story is p up straight ahead. We do Begin Tonighstraightt Witn In A Manhattan courtroom w
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you re in the situation room . the first republican presidential contest is two weeks away and a top obama adviser says the democrats are counting on a long primary season slugfest between newt gingrich and mitt romney. every word from the candidates could make a difference. jim acosta is covering the final sprint of the caucuses. jim, we re seeing a possible shift in the romney campaign strategy. what are you seeing? what are you hearing? reporter: well, there may be a big momentum shift for mitt romney out here in iowa, wolf. he had a pretty good debate on thursday night against the gop field. he merged pretty much unscathed. he was not the subject of the attacks from the other candidates. that was really newt gingrich s role. he was beat up pretty good during that contest. and so mitt romney came into a city and he said he plans to take over the voters in the coming weeks. what concerns me is that we have in washington a class of people who spent their whole time i