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also kenneth brenner. shakespeare, to hollywood s leading man. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. while the rest of the country is deep in the holiday preparations, the world is buzzing over the official opening of the 2012 campaign. the first in the nation iowa caucuses are two weeks away. the stakes couldn t be higher in the republican field. latest cnn orc poll puts newt gingrich and mitt romney in a dead heat battling for the top spot. ron paul makes a surprisingly strong showing in third place. with all of this back and forth in the polls, i want to take for a clear front-runner to emerge in time to win. joining me now is tim pawlenty, national co chair of the romney campaign and kellyanne conway. seen advisor to newt gingrich. tim, start with you. clearly i would have thought a good week for your man. good debate performance. good on the attack. lacerating newt gingrich with these shocking tv ads. you ve gone on the offensive and it s working. would y ....
welcome to you, both. mary, is it too late for sarah palin? not technically. obviously newt gingrich came from a position of apparently being dead to being front-runner and the surge has temporarily hit the buffers, although he s still in joint lead with mitt romney. what s your reading of these fluctuations? there s durability in newt s numbers based on what you ve shown. there s other polls that confirm what you ve shown. mitt romney has basically been the front-runner. he s been running for five years. he s had a slight upparticular. a lot of gains have not gone to him. they ve gone to ron paul, some of the former herman cain voters are looking for a comfortable place to park their votes. they re up for grabs. i think what you see is that the electability argument that was propelling the romney candidacy for years now, i can win, has been completely swept away because in these polls most voters, republican voters say that either newt or mitt could beat barak oba ....
dysfunction. dysfunction, dysfunction. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett and outfront tonight, rejection and dysfunction. the house today rejecting the senate s plan to extend the payroll tax cut. now, that means that your taxes are going to go up somewhere between $700 and $2,300 next year unless, oh, the big unless an all new congressional committee and it is an all new committee comes to the agreement by the year s end. president obama s approval ratings are up as congress falls on this, and he seized the moment today. but now, even though republicans and democrats in the senate were willing to compromise for the good of the country, a faction of republicans in the house are refusing to even vote on the senate bill. bill that cuts taxes for 160 million americans. and because of their refusal to cooperate, all of those americans could face a tax hike in just 11 days. and millions of americans who are out there looking for work could find their unemployment i ....
sandra bullock, kat von d, his life. would you do the same again? jesse james, no holds barred. for the hour, this is a piers morgan exclusive. you thought i was going to hit you. love him or hate him jesse james puts it out there. he says his life is an open book and that s what it s become in american outlaw. jesse joins me now. jesse, we met twice. once on celebrity apprentice when i guay youave you a bit of grilling. you thought i was going to hit you. i did actually. it was the one time in my recent television career when i thought, this is not going to end happily. you kept staring at me with a death stair. i m sorry. i have a chilling death stare. i m a pussycat. the second time we met was a more surreal situation. it was the oscars. i was doing the red carpet. you came down and we had fun about the apprentice. i said, can i meet sandra. you brought her over and i checked yesterday. i made note of what she said. i said, i like jesse. she sai ....