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Cool it. back up. and theres nothing wrong with saying i was wrong. i had never intended to do this. what i said was inaperot rat, it was wrong. you cant defend it. >> the president, the vice president said there was no racial connotation, it is overscrutinizing what candidates said when there are so many words say on the campaign trail. how do you feel? >> i agree with governor wilder. and president obama and vice president biden have doubled down on those remarks. listen, in the past couple we...

Years of tax returns or just two years of tax returns and whether mitt romney outsourced jobs at bain capital versus what the president -- i mean, you tell me as a political observer, chris, is this how campaigns are run? you know, get down to minutiae, get in peoples heads about hes a felon, hes this, you know -- [laughter] and dont look at the unemployment rate, dont look at the huge, you know, numbers that identify the state of the economy. >> well, look, if president obama wants to win a sec...

Healing, uniting, all of these things that the president was. well, its not that way any more. and you look at campaign that hes running today, which is intensely negative, and focused on mitt romney, a lot of character attacks on mitt romney it looks very much like the kind of politics that obama encouraged iowa citizens to vote for him back in 2008 so that he could end, and here he is doing it. megyn: they are talking in iowa according to the reports today in the des moines register about a se...

Difficulty here in florida. your problem in florida is you worked for freddie mac at a time that freddie mac was not doing the right thing for the american people and youre selling influence in washington. >> the lesson the romney campaign learned from iowa, gingrich has an ability to come back from the dead and even with a decisive lead this time romney is taking nothing for granted. >> we were getting just railed on by speaker gingrich and didnt respond well back in south carolina so we decide...

As the caucuses drew closer. chief political correspondent, carl cameron begins our coverage tonight from romney campaign headquarters in des moines. good morning, carl. >> there are no conclusion, throw away the preconceptions and assumeses in the 99 counties, 1,774 precincts, after all the hype and all the xapg, finally, iowa caucus goers will get to have their say tonights. nasty character attacks began on the frontrunners first i think this morning on the meeting of iowa caucuses. newt gingr...

Street executives in exchange for their support. minority leader mcconnell himself having struggled to explain the purpose of the meeting or what was discussed. >> we sure didnt talk about bloggin blocking this bill. i met with kentucky bankers, the little banks, community banks on wall street. we were talking about financial regulation as everyone in the country ais talking about. the vast majority are on his side, supported him during the election, they still support him. is he saying we shoul...