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stay in contact with me. more on how this dramatic announcement will impact the martin investigation in a few moments. back now to a defining day in the race for the white house. tonight, the only candidate to emerge as a long-term threat to governor romney is out of the race. in pennsylvania this afternoon, just a few hours after bringing his 3-year-old daughter home from the hospital, rick santorum called it quits. we we made the decision to get into this race at our kitchen table. and against all the odds. and we made a decision over the weekend that while this presidential race for us is over for me, and we will suspend our campaign effective today, we are not done fighting. joined now to break down this story, cnn political reporter peter ham british dana bash and jim acosta who is in gettysburg today for the big announcement. jim, let me start with you, you are in the room, family considerations, political considerations. in the end what were the decisiv ....
i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. we re live here at constitution hall, here in the nation s capitol, where in just a little bit more than 24 hours, the republican presidential hopeful will face off for the first time in a major debate on national security, foreign affairs and the economy. he will be mod rating the event co-sponsored by the her kaj foundation and american enterprise institute. on the eve of this critical contest an eye-popping shift? the republican con taft. a new cnn poll just released minutes ago, shows newt gingrich on top of the republican pack for the first time. look at this wp 24% of republicans asked, if the former house speaker is their choice to be the presidential nominee, compared to mitt romney there is a dead heat, with gingrich and romney nationwide. other candidates, all in single digits. our chief political analyst, still at constitutional hall looking at numbers, gloria, gingrich is doing amazingly well. in several cate ....
January. you have said that you will stop the tax cuts for the so-called rich. what you fail to realize is the so-called rich are the small business owner, the pizza shop owner who makes $300,000 before they pay their four employees, before they feed their own families. this is going to cost we re going to try and have a conversation rather than just a diatribe, if we can. it would be help to have an exchange of ideas and let each of us take turns. so thank you for mod rating, wolf. it s important to look at some of the things she s thrown out on her website. most of them are untrue, some are flat out lies, some are just factually untrue. so i m not going to stop every single time there s something i disagree with. but much of what you put out is incorrect. and if we simply sit here this evening and say that s not true, we re not going to make much progress. do you support keeping the ....