bell and air conditioning and modern hospitals. it is not another world. so given that given how closely related the united states is to europe and has always been, you would imagine our leaders would notice when europe began to fall apart, especially when the signs were not subtle at all and they weren t. this summer, germans begin clearcutting ancient forests to heat their homes. in poland, families queued up for hours to buy coal just did one hundred and fifty years ago in the uk, the government projected that more than ten thousand britons will freeze to death, will die this winter for lack of heating fuel. freeze to death in england. that is not supposed to happen in a first world country. so europe is moving backward at high speed and it s not clear where it will end. so the question is why is this happening? and the answer for once is a very simple one to warm ukraine. that s why it s happening. a huge percentage of europe s energy came from russia. those imports h
show and revise his assessment, maybe through a few apologieshrh around and be a decent perso an so that invitation remains open. chuck todd, i hope we see you soon. so it s just a few weeks ago inw the veryee democratic state of michigan that the current governor , the incumbent, gretchen whitmer, had a seventeecurren n point lead over her rival, tooter dixon, that lead has evaporated. a new poll from trafalgar shows wiis race tied within the margin of error.d that even how that happen inik a democratic state like michigan? well, partly because tooter dixon did a great job exposing the fact that gretchen whitmer i is a liar. and incompetent and was particularly awful during the pandemic. awful she did it tuesday during the debate between the two of them. watch thi s. wheat we made m quick decisions to save lives and studies show we t saved thousands. i am proudi am pro of that. but while i was getting deathg e threats, saving lives during
our latest polls on the republican race, they are just coming out this minute andy sho stunning change in fortune for two of the republican hopefuls. mitt romney still plead leads in iowa with 21%. ron paul is right behind at 22%. but look at this. rick santorum has jumped into third place with 16%. tripling his shows just three weeks ago. meantime, newt gingrich has fallen off a cliff. at least it seems like it now. he s at only 14% down from 33% in our last poll. rick perry is at 11%. michele bachmann, still in single digits, followed by jon huntsm huntsman, who has written off campaigning here in iowa. there s less drama in romney s backyard of new hampshire. he s at 44% there, followed by paul at 17%, gingrich at 16%. the rest of the poll in single digits. joining us now from des moines, candy crowley. candy, i guess the headline here is not necessarily that mitt romney is number one in iowa, although he is even though he really hasn t spent a lot of time here. but all of