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is money. would you ever allow a shutdown in the future? >> a shutdowns in terms of covid? i let the governors make their decisions, some of them from south carolina, you know and frankly, north dakota a few of them tennessee, they didnt shut down at all. florida did shut down, ron desantis shut down, or ron desanctimonious as he is known. he shut his state down, very violently down. he shut the highways down. >> donald trump criticizing ron dissents for his response to the covid-19 pa...

Thats something folks in iowa are tuned to. theyre gonna be a lot of people that go out there for desantis or nikki haley. they dont have the fervor that of trump people. its a caucus, its very different. its very public. if youve been saying this whole time your trump gal, and you get up there you are on the wrong side, you have to think about the neighbors think about it. theres >> something about iowa, you take trump out of it. we stand up in front of your kids basketball players, and then sa...

Going to be the nominee when you get to the actual mechanics of voting in the primary and the actual caucus, that is -- no ones actually pulled a lever yet, no ones actually pulled a lever in the caucus setting. important the polling for trumps translates into actual votes for trump. >> hillary clinton came under some contribute civil herself in the last debate that she suggesteded that isis was using donald trump in recruitment videos in trying to recruit radicals and jihad itselves around the ...

Is very much an establishment money person who can put the money into a super pac and creates his own or gives to other people, but his support is very, very significant. >> and shelby adelson is another p person we were talking about might go for marco rubio, too, and the talent of who is moving or on the fence and on the bush campaign and moving over to rubio. >> and the calculus with is who h the grass roots movement. so you are two tracts, the establishment and who they are back backing and ...

Thats the question for 2012. does one candidate, a santorum, perry, bachmann, can they win here in the middle part of the state? mike huckabee one with just 356 votes. you say thats not many. you come into the caucus setting, you win all these small towns, you offset the romney wins here. does one candidate, wolf, does one candidate get all this? or is it split? if the evangelical vote is split and mitt romney can match this, maybe grow a little bit, that 25% might be enough to win. one more poi...

Santorum surge, mitt romney gets a piece of the evangelical vote and ron paul. he needs it. he needs it if he wants to pull off the surprise win. lets come back to the map. that is the question for 2012. does one candidate, one candidate, a santorum, a perry, a bachmann, can they win in the middle part of the state? mike huckabee won with 366 votes. thats not many but if you come into the caucus setting, you win all these small towns and you offset the romney win. does one candidate get these? i...

Mitt romney gets a piece of it. ron paul surprisingly gets a pretty good piece of the evangelical vote. look at these candidates. she needs it, he needs, he needs it. he needs it if hes going to pull up a surprise win. go back to the map. thats the question for 2012. does one candidate, a santorum, perry, bachmann, can they win here in the middle part of the state? mike huckabee one with just 356 votes. you say thats not many. you come into the caucus setting, you win all these small towns, you ...

polling station with the final numbers from iowa to show us whos on top right now and why everything could change on tuesday. and our ali velshi is over at the social media screen keeping tabs on what americans are saying online about the candidates. its been a very busy new years day out on the campaign trail in iowa. cnns jim acosta is covering the last big push for votes. jim, set the scene for us. a very important day today. >> reporter: thats right, wolf. and newt gingrich is not ...