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france. police in a self-described al qaeda militant accused of killing seven people over the past ten days are facing off. the suspect has confessed to the killings of three french paratroopers, a jewish rabbi and three jewish children over the past ten days. dan rivers is at the scene in the city of toulouse with the latest. >> reporter: well, erin, its been a pretty dramatic day of developments here in toulouse, france. first of all, the news that mohammed merah who has been surroun...

Comments and since the iowa caucus, your comments are directed only at least as far as i can see as governor mitt romney. have you decided in your mind that governor mitt romney is the candidate that you need not worry about the other ones? >> no, as i said before, mitt romney has simply earned this kind of scrutiny. when you are someone who operates without core conviction, when you are a candidate like mitt romney who has exclusive focused and trained your attacks an mischaracterizations and d...

Be the president of the united states. >> greta: are you saying by your silence toward other candidates they are not doing that? >> no, they are doing that. but mitt romney has been top of the attack for quite -- top of the pack for quite some time consistently distort and lied about the presidents record. he particularly earns that focus because he has no core conviction. i mean i know for me as an elected official, i pride myself on taking a position, on talking about it in my district. and yo...

Be the president of the united states. >> greta: are you saying by your silence toward other candidates they are not doing that? >> no, they are doing that. but mitt romney has been top of the attack for quite -- top of the pack for quite some time consistently distort and lied about the presidents record. he particularly earns that focus because he has no core conviction. i mean i know for me as an elected official, i pride myself on taking a position, on talking about it in my district. and yo...

Get elected. that is important for people to know in who they decide to be the president of the united states. >> greta: are you saying by your silence toward other candidates they are not doing that? >> no, they are doing that. but mitt romney has been top of the attack for quite -- top of the pack for quite some time consistently distort and lied about the presidents record. he particularly earns that focus because he has no core conviction. i mean i know for me as an elected official, i pride...

Good evening. >> thank you for having me. >> greta: thank you for being here. im curious. i have been looking at your comments and since the iowa caucus, your comments are directed only at least as far as i can see as governor mitt romney. have you decided in your mind that governor mitt romney is the candidate that you need not worry about the other ones? >> no, as i said before, mitt romney has simply earned this kind of scrutiny. when you are someone who operates without core conviction, when...

>> greta: thank you for being here. im curious. i have been looking at your comments and since the iowa caucus, your comments are directed only at least as far as i can see as governor mitt romney. have you decided in your mind that governor mitt romney is the candidate that you need not worry about the other ones? >> no, as i said before, mitt romney has simply earned this kind of scrutiny. when you are someone who operates without core conviction, when you are a candidate like mitt romney who ...

Surprise sos far for me, at least, i may -- maybe you can weigh in. are you surprised, ron paul doing very well. now there is a new cnn poll that has mitt romney at 25. ron paul, 22. up until today, ron paul was leading. does that surprise you? >> you know, everything is so in flux right now. about half of iowans are completely undecided. thats why we decided to embark on our 99 county tour all across iowa. im in winterset, iowa right now, were deep in the heart of madison county. this is our 94...

American people to see it. dont forget for a moment no matter who the nominee is, president obama and his team will make sure they take apart our nominee limb by limb. we need to remember that we need a candidate who has no surprises. who is a true conservative with a core conviction. i think im the best choice on that score. >> greta: i think the media is somewhat complicity in this. i dont think the candidates are without blame themselves. were seeing the super pack and ron paul taking ads out...

That image. thats why they also keep saying, send us somebody to love. they want somebody whos got that core conviction, who cannot only take on the president, but present that image of a very strong republican candidate without a lot of extraneous baggage, without scandals popping up every five minutes, without reports that hes not really get with the program. >> and gingrich oddly enough doesnt really fit that bill, even though hes the front-runner right now, taking his turn as the not-mitt, g...