a new week and new shake-up for the battle for the presidential nomination. newt gingrich is now the solid front runner in the state of iowa. but today his focus was on new york. and a meeting with donald trump. let s go to new york. there s jim acosta following this for us. what s the latest with newt gingrich the front-runner and donald trump? well, he is in the big apple and you can say he is singing new york, new york, start spreading the newts. he his message he is can win the republican nomination. he is willing to take this battle to all 50 states. at a news conference in new york, newt gingrich insisted he can go toe to toe with mitt romney in a 50-state battle for the nomination. even with a much smaller operation. we have all these articles about how businesses are getting leaner. how they are flattening their hierarchies. doing all sorts of things. have you people who work from home. you have virtual organizations. all of these cutting edge ideas. you have a gr
his own white house run, and who now plans to host a republican debate, after christmas. then there is ex-candidate herman cain whose endorsement could go to gingrich eventually. though he now says he s going to take his time. stay with us, we ll bring you those comments live at 1:45 eastern time. also, president obama, we are told, is going to have some sort of statement or briefing in the briefing room of the white house. the subject is going to be taxes. a lot of talk of that up on capitol hill. we ll hear what the president has to say this hour. and what does first class mean to you? to the debt-laden u.s. postal service it would mean two to five days instead of one to three days. trying to help trim $20 billion a year from the postal service by 2015. it would mean closing more than half the agencies 463 mail processing facilities across the country. going to mean a lot of layoffs, too. i ll have some questions for the post master general in our face time segment
i m christine romans along with my friend, carol costello. happy day before friday. up first this hour, iraqi officials honoring the service and sacrifice of u.s. and coalition troops as well as their own. special ceremony at camp victory overnight. vice president biden was on hand. the event coming just weeks before american troops complete their withdrawal from iraq. cnn s martin savidge live in baghdad. we were hoping you could attend that ceremony but you could not. reporter: good morning to you, carol. you are right. we were told about 12 hours before that ceremony was to begin that members of the media were not allowed to attend. even though the buildup a week and a half we were told absolutely we would be there. the explanation that was given was security. does not appear we were the primary security threat but the concern was that they honl limited space. this is going to be held indoors for security reasons at a palace out there at camp victory because they neede
i know everything that went on with them. bernie has issues. maybe not that you are aware of but he has issues. you trusted somebody you shouldn t have trusted. bernie is in denial. i think that he did the things he did but he s somehow through his own mental telepathy find yourself a gay boy. you know, get your rocks off, maybe it is over with. you know, he needs a, that male companionship. that i can t give him. i care about you and didn t like to see you treated that way. if it was another girl like i told you it would be easy to step in because you know what you are up against. when it is a guy you can t compete with that. he says that fine molested them when they were ball boys. today, affiliate wcsh spoke to a third accuser coming forward, 23-year-old zach tomaselli. he said fine molested him the night before a syracuse game against pitt. he described the alleged abuse in detail. i was in the hotel room. he was, he would put his hand down my shorts whenever i wa
zandi and veteran political journalist ron brownstein of the national journal and peter baker of the new york times. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. herman cain and michele bachmann were on this show the day after the iowa straw poll in august. she won, he was fifth, but unbowed. this campaign has encouraged and our momentum continues to grow. reporter: in an august quinnipiac poll, bachmann ranked third among republicans with 12%. cain just 5%. now in a cbs news poll of republican primary voters she sits between ron paul and rick santorum with 4%. he s tied for first with mitt romney. herman cain is big-league now soaking up the limelight on the view and the tonight show promoting his book this is herman cain. still, in the universe of 2012 politics getting to the top and staying there are wholly different things. with me now, republican presidential candidate herman cain. thanks for finding time for us between the view and the tonig