we ve seen totalitarian regimes fall in the past, the soviet union, eastern europe, on and on. do you see the day when that could happen to this criminal regime? i do and i think there s a sense of inevitableity about it. i you know the cia talk about the opposition is small, all revolutionary groups are small. i know they think the regime will never fall. one consistency if in my years in american politics is the american government has been wrong about iran not some of the time, not most of the time, all the time. they didn t see the shah falling, they didn t see the hostage crisis, they didn t see the nuclear weapon problem, they didn t see the iran/iraq war. this he regime will fall. tighten the noose. keep the pressure on. it will fall. eric: senator saying the regime will fall. thank you.
from a publicly traded company. how close do you think he is to making a decision anne? he could well take another step. are you surprised by that? you ve been covering clinton, obviously, for quite a while. i am. we all thought she was he her in inevitableity alone would carry her to be the first big name to make it official. she looks now as if she s going to wait on into the spring. i wouldn t be at all surprised if late february or even march before she makes it official. she can afford to wait. her democratic primary opposition is you know exists but isn t any kind of a real threat to her at this point. and the bigger threat comes, frankly, from jeb bush. senator jim webb was the first to launch an exploratory committee. we haven t seen or heard a whole lot from him since he made that
here is the biggest question in republican politics tonight, is mitt romney on the verge of inevitableity? foolish to think such a thing, his rivals would assert, many of you agree. only iowa has voted. romney has just a measly 176% of the delegate, 1.6% he would need to officially clinch the nomination, but here s tonight s truth. most nomination bats are settled by momentum, not marathon delegate battles, three consecutive bats and romney s rivals have just dies stop him from beginning the race with those three consecutive victory, he won iowa, leading here in new hampshire 24 points, new polling tonight shows governor romney with a two to one lead in south carolina. so what you say? yes, it s true. after south carolina, only about 3% of the republican convention delegates will have been selected but consider history, in the past 32 years no republican incumbent, not an incumbent president, no republican has won iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, in other words, no republican in
13 sailors being held captive by somali pirates in the straigts f hormuz and draws the fury of the iranian military. up first tonight, the enormous stakes of new hampshire s presidential primary. remember, it was in this state, the hillary clinton come back four years ago, sent the democratic race into the historic obama/clinton marathon. tonight, starkly new numbers suggests former massachusetts governor mitt romney could all but lock up this cycle s republican race this month with a one, two, three punch. his iowa victory was by a mere eight points, but consider this, a new wmur poll just out tonight in new hampshire has romney leading with 44%, ron paul a distant second at 20%, rick santorum, gingrich, tied third at 8%, governor huntsman one point behind them at 7%. the race moves next to south carolina and this is eye-popping. new cnn/ time /orc polling shows governor romney leading 37%, a two to one lead over the second place rick santorum. governor romney is in the dr