that it s krun f time? and we re digging deeper into ron paul s writings and finding sexual harassment victims. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re here in the new cnn election center counting down to the final few days and hours before the first contest of 2012. the new iowa poll out today reenforcing mitt romney s place at the top of the pack, running neck and neck with ron paul. it drives home the bombshell findings of our poll this week, sh showing rick santorum has surged to third place in iowa, while newt gingrich has faded. it s put iting more and more pressure on romney to go for broke in iowa, to try to pull off a win tuesday night. jim acosta is joining us from des moines with more. t mitt romney has the big mo and the question heading into this weekend is whether he will win the iowa caucuses without breaking a sweat. no wonder mitt romney appears to be going all in in iowa. he just might be holding a winning hand. a sign just days before
tonight, bachmann is doing it without two high-ranking members of her team. bachmann s iowa campaign chairman jumped ship and went to ron paul s campaign. bachmann says he is a sellout and was paid to go to the paul campaign. take a look. i had a conversation with kent sorenson. and in the direct conversation i had with him, he told me he was offered money. he was offered a lot of money by the ron paul campaign to go and associate with the ron paul campaign. no one else knows about that conversation other than kent and myself. i know what he said to me about that. he says he went to the paul camp because ron paul has the best change of beating romney and president obama. in his statement, he says as for the ridiculous allegations that congresswoman bachman made, i was never paid. here is what he said on fox news with megan kelly. was money offered to you by anybody from the ron paul camp to jump ship? absolutely not. i did not accept money. i was never offered a nicke
Shifting. so the co-chair of the bachmann campaign has jumped ship and gone over to ron paul. up next, romney made millions of dollars at bain capital by putting my next guest and his co-workers at ampad on the unemployment line. don t forget to tweet us using #edshow. stay tuned. [ male announcer ] it s easy to see what subaru owners care about. that s why we created the share the love event.
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