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Get real answers instead of sound bytes. and pete from florida, the current republican debate process is absolutely invaluable providing detailed insights into the each of the candidates ideologies record positions and character, i dont care if it takes 100 debates slobz it prevents a contender from rising to the thrown. thank george w. bush. maybe more debates would have kept him out of the oval office. bill in new mexico says the candidates would not be allowed to hear the response to the ques...

is spending millions of dollars to flood the airwaves with anti-romney attack ads. is this payback time for newt gingrich? im wolf blitzer and youre in the "situation room." president obama dropped a bit of a bombshell a little while ago in an unscheduled appearance announcing bill daily is stepping down after just a year. hell. replaced by the budget director, jack lou. heres jessica yellin. shes working the story for us. jessica, whats going on over here? >> well, wolf, first of al...

Party was -- hillary clinton, barack obama, john edwards and so forth going back and forth for the drok nomination and and barack obama became the nominee. this is what no, maam nags are all about. its a battle for the heart and soul of the party moving forward. this is no different from what the democrats were experiencing four years ago. >> anne, we talk about this analysis, theres an interesting nugget from the iowa poll saying that 27% of tuesdays caucus-goers, it would be their first time. ...

Night and theyve said, im not really sure and theyve been persuaded during that interesting debate process that goes on during a caucus. i do think it is believable. its what makes us all so fascinating. >> we heard from rick green earlier, they do take this seriously, iowans, about what it means to the national landscape of having the caucus. john, you tweeted yesterday afternoon that, while you can still conjure scenarios for someone other than romney to win the nomination. none of them -- you...

Persuaded during that interesting debate process that goes on during a caucus. i do think it is believable. its what makes us all so fascinating. >> we heard from rick green earlier, they do take this seriously, iowans, about what it means to the national landscape of having the caucus. john, you tweeted yesterday afternoon that, while you can still conjure scenarios for someone other than romney to win the nomination. none of them -- you are saying this is romneys to lose, correct? >> happy new...

Hes a good friend of mine. i would have great confidence him running any campaign for me. but romney has had good debates. last night was not a good debate. i think the bottom line is he didnt lose anything but he didnt make the gain he needed to. gingrich put the spotlight on him for the first time performed very effectively. >> dont you -- >> go ahead. >> you are right. it was not his best debate. we are not trying to suggest it was. this process is much deeper and more complicated than people...

Hes a good friend of mine. i would have great confidence him running any campaign for me. but romney has had good debates. last night was not a good debate. i think the bottom line is he didnt lose anything but he didnt make the gain he needed to. gingrich put the spotlight on him for the first time performed very effectively. >> dont you -- >> go ahead. >> you are right. it was not his best debate. we are not trying to suggest it was. this process is much deer and more complicated than people g...

Hes a good friend of mine. i would have great confidence him running any campaign for me. but romney has had good debates. last night was not a good debate. i think the bottom line is he didnt lose anything but he didnt make the gain he needed to. gingrich put the spotlight on him for the first time performed very effectively. >> dont you -- >> go ahead. >> you are right. it was not his best debate. we are not trying to suggest it was. this process is much deeper and more complicated than people...

Handlers, hate this debate process. they feel like its gotten out of hand and looks too much like a reality show. too many voices involved. frankly, as somebody -- and lawrence, you know, on one hand we want debates, too. every news organization wants s debate. how some of our friends at other news organizations have gone about this, theyve made the process kind of ugly. >> the democratic national committee must be trying to offer any kind of help they can in putting on this debate. if you need ...

Happen. at that point were going to be really close to the iowa caucus. everybody is going to be really interested in terms of how the candidates perform. but certainly, you know, hes going to have the opportunity to define the questions he wants and some of the issues he wants to bring up. it will be an interesting evening and good edition to the whole debate process thats occurred in the eached out to candates or representatives and did not hear a response as to whether or not they would accep...