take a look at those numbers on your leaderboard. it s just absolutely miraculous. the closest iowa caucus vote in history. the top four, mitt romney, santorum, ron paul and newt gingrich. and it didn t become official until about 2:30 eastern time this morning if you were watching. so we have romney congratulating santorum. and he says that he and santorum are actually both winners. and both candidates are looking forward now to new hampshire, they say. but what s great about this is the story that comes out of such an incredibly close finish because you know what? it s about momentum. and it s about money. and it s about headlines. and those headlines tonight are bizarro. christine romans, you ve been breaking down these headlines. we ve been on the edge of our seats because we wasn t sure what the big story was going to be, and the big story is the story itself. the squeaker. the santorum surge that continued and also what voters were thinking. we have a better idea
perhaps give us a front-runner. mitt romney predicting, quote, we re going win this but his opponents are promising the governor will have a much harder time after tonight. this afternoon the former house speaker newt gingrich told reporters his ads will start drawing, quote, a sharper, clearer contrast with governor romney and on cbs this morning, the former speaker, remember, he s the candidate who keeps promising to stay positive, well, gingrich called romney a liar. are you calling mitt romney a liar? yes. why are you saying he s a lier? this is a man whose staff created the pac, his millionaire friends fund the pac. he pretens he has nothing to do with the pac. it s balogna, he s not telling the american people the truth. it s like a pretense he s a conservative. governor romney s laughing off gingrich s attempt to be more aggressive. i understand the speaker apparently s angry and i wish him well, he and calista. hopefully we ll be able to connect with the a
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good afternoon from des moines. we are back with the contenders 2012. i m candy crowley. we re following the republican presidential candidates as they zero in on iowa. today the candidates make their cases to the voters here. why should they be the next president of the united states? i m joined now by our joe johns who is with newt gingrich and with jim as to ta who acosta whh rick santorum. we want to start with the latest iowa cnn time orc poll. mitt romney in the lead. rick santorum up. newt gingrich down. so i want to bring in both jim and joe at this point. i don t know any of us could have forseen where this race would be at this point. but it has been a pretty exciting one and seems to me going down to the end, joe, the big question here is whether newt gingrich has had enough time to recover what s been a pretty steep fall. reporter: yeah, he said here at this event in atlantic, ahl, just a little while ago that it kind of threw him off-balance for a while and h
president obama took a break from his excavation to honor the heroes, the men and women who died at the pearl harbor. the first lady at his side after a moment of silence they scattered some plower petals into the water. the president has no other event schedule for today. he plans on returning to washington on monday. and new this morning the obama administration getting ready to sit down for talks with the taliban. past deals have always fallen through but the administration is hoping to change that in the next few weeks. no doubt part of that deal, today there is talk of releasing a high-his being taliban detainee from guantanamo bay. he s been connected to the death of thousands of shiite muslims. no decision has been made because afghanistan s new government doesn t exactly agree. and are you in the united states illegally? now there is help for you from the feds, and it s just a phone call away. the feds have set up a 24 hour hot line for illegals who feel they have bee