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lets go. and good evening to you, im brooke baldwin sitting in for erin burnett. out front, crunch time in iowa. you know the clock is ticking away. and candidates four days left to pick up support for the nations first contest in the gop nomination. first up is mitt romney bringing out the big guns and look at this, the very popular chris christie stumping on his behalf and the new jersey governor had what we will call a stern warning for the voters of iowa. take a look. >> im in a ...

next hour. egyptian officers raid the -- they may have made some powerful enemies in the process. one group is chaired by madeleine albright. the other is chaired by john mccain. im wolf blitzer. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room". -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the clock is ticking. were only five days away from the iowa caucuses. the focus has now turned to a certain degree, to rick santorum. an extraordinary surge in his poll. can rick santorum keep on climbing? j...

im candy crowley. john king is off tonight. mitt romney talks with cnn, answering newt gingrichs latest attacks and weighing in whether hed vote for ron paul. also, well talk with a former republican who is switching parties as a matter of principle, or is it political opportunism? on the high seas what would become the biggest international crisis of the new year. a whop that will hit your car in the gas tank. good evening, from des moines. we are only six days out from the iowa...

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. hes at only 14% down from 33% in our last poll. rick perry is at 11%....

Look for science-based decisionmaking, and thats what was yesterday, that came out fda. and then just out of the air we threw away the science-based evidence and rule making and -- >> but, senator, thats sort of the politics of this. this is the plan b. this would have been the decision to take e is essentially the morning-after pill for women under 16. secretary sebelius, their argument is the science may be there, but do we know that a 14-year-old would know how to take this pill? >> the senat...

I still cant really believe there was a cnn tea party express debate, but there was. those were members of the o audience cheering the proposal that sick americans should be left to die without receiving medical care if theyre uninsured. this point in the republican campaign process this year, you would think the candidates, themselves, would spr fhave fig out if something like that comes out of the audience at the debate, its okay to criticize that, that you disagree with the cheering to let am...

That hasnt helped us or anybody in the middle east. >> he actually got good applause for that kind of stuff. is that indication that ron paul fans are loud or that republicans are shifting into an antiwar mood? >> we have known for a long time how loud ron paul fans are. he had an all day fund-raiser yesterday and raised $1 million. he will be there irritating republicans for the campaign process. on afghanistan, hes kind of leading from the front on this. i dont meet voters that are excited abo...

But other candidates and mitt romney is probably the best example, have had to go through the vetting process, the primary process, the campaign process, and many, not all, but many of these primary states. and thats going to serve them pretty well in the end. >> haley barbour dropping out surprised a lot of people, because he was acting like a would-be candidate. what effect do you think this will have on the race? well, a few things. one, it takes out a pretty strong, credible contender in ter...

Dollar and that helped turn the city around. you cant be afraid of collective bargaining. it built the middle class in this country. i disagree with the indiana democrat on staying away on bills like vouchers. im against vouchers because the private schools arent forced to take anyone who applies, but im against it but thats a bill that i assume was part of the indiana campaign process. the weakness in what governor walker is doing, he said at one point i heard him say, we had an election and th...

Rirx ac university poll. why do you think young people seem to be losing interest? >> well, good morning. great to be here. you know, i would say theyre not necessarily losing interest, every day they are faced with the economic hardships, the downturn, but, you know, the governing process is very different than the campaign process. its a lot slower, theres a frustration with the pace of change and theres a frustration with the corporate influence over the peoples influence and ultimately they ...