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Im proud to finally say these two words and i know your families agree. welcome home. welcome home. welcome home. >> president obama today at ft. bragg addressing troops who just got home from iraq. the president has ordered all u.s. troops out of iraq by the end of this month. fulfilling his campaign promise to end the war. >> as president, i want to fight on the battlefield. >> many of us tried to stop this war we knew that it would be a mistake. it claimed 4400 american lives and left nearly ...

Rapport from the troops, someone who is unthinkable, someone who can have it back and forth with the troops, welcome him home in a commander in chief manner. i think people who criticize him at this point look like they are nibbling at his a ankles, throwing shoes at those that they cant and whatever criticism you level, this president today was presidential, he wasnt speaking as a politician. >> congressman, there are those that are criticizing and trying to demogog this, i believe. >> thats ri...

Gingrich. the less obvious one is ron paul. i would not be stunned, i would be surprised but not stunned if we were talking about ron paul iowa caucus winner. >> and it depends on whether the college students decide to stay over the new years break and turn out the vote for them. thank you very much. see you tomorrow. that does it for us. for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. thank you for joining us. follow the show online. and tamron? >> bobby will join me live to talk about this cover....

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President obama today at ft. bragg admitting the iraq we leave behind is not perfect by his view and that success was never a guarantee. >> the fighting and all the dying, the bleeding and the building and the training and the partnering, all of it has led to this moment of success. now iraq is not a perfect place. it has many challenges ahead. iraqs future will be in the hands of its people. americas war in iraq will be over. >> and amid growing instability across the arab world as we all know,...

this country when he said to the troops here, welcome home. he repeated that several times. the cheer went up in the crowd and there was so many people walking away today with big smiles on their faces, a sense of the satisfaction of the war that has been done in iraq. they are also satisfied that the the troops wanted to hear a commitment from the president that the country will continue to stand by them for their needs as their year goes on, whatever problems that they have from thei...

political university for the republican white house hopefuls. most of the candidates have iowa on their schedule today with their eyes on the all important caucuses less than three weeks away. that includes newt gingrich, whos iowa campaign director resigned amid reports he called romneys mormon faith a cult. but do voters share that view? and could that be part of the reason why mitt romney isnt xweting even more support? joe johns is joining us with more. hes been taking a closer loo...

endorsements but a bit of a dark cloud on the horizon. more on that in just a moment, but, first, his fight for the gop nomination. a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows him with a commanding lead over mitt romney. the other candidates trailing far behind. paul steinhauser is in washington. paul, the same poll shows gingrich struggling in a head-to-head race against president obama. tell us about that. >> that horse race poll and two others indicate the same thing. way ahead ...

house republicans attached unrelated projects to the bill that democrats dont want. the cut expires december 31st and without an extension the typical worker will get hit with $1,000 tax increase in the new year. newt gingrich has lost his iowa campaign director. craig bergman has stepped down over some comments he reportedly made about mormons. the des mois register says he called mormonism a cult. two of gingrichs rivals rather in the republican presidential race, mitt romney and j...

one of them is leading the republican presidential pack. the other is bringing up the rear in this hour. newt gingrich and jon huntsman are facing off in a lincoln-douglas stale debate in new hampshire, where the first in the nation primary is just 29 days away wp. with the calendar closing in, flying between gingrich and its nearest rival, we are talking about mitt romney. jim has the latest for us. jim? >> with the holiday ises the debate, it could be summed up as newty versus nice. ...