captions by vitac www.vitac.com under two hours from the start of iowa s presidential caucuses. a vote to shrink the field and perhaps give us a front-runner. mitt romney predicting, quote, we re going win this but his opponents are promising the governor will have a much harder time after tonight. this afternoon the former house speaker newt gingrich told reporters his ads will start drawing, quote, a sharper, clearer contrast with governor romney and on cbs this morning, the former speaker, remember, he s the candidate who keeps promising to stay positive, well, gingrich called romney a liar. are you calling mitt romney a liar? yes. why are you saying he s a lier? this is a man whose staff created the pac, his millionaire friends fund the pac. he pretens he has nothing to do with the pac. it s balogna, he s not telling the american people the truth. it s like a pretense he s a conservative. governor romney s laughing off gingrich s attempt to be more aggress
i ll talk to a man who knows a lot about that, herman cain, a force to be reckoned with. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. while most of americans are celebrating the holidays, most of iowa has been inundated with presidential candidates, mitt romney, ron paul, rick santorum, rick perry and michele bachmann sbaurming the state. today alone they ve had more than two dozen events and done innumerable interviews. participants who say they might still change their minds. jon huntsman says forget iowa. i ll concentrate on new hampshire. the man with the most on the line in iowa may well be newt gingrich. the former front-runner actually did something pretty unusual today. he told voters he ll probably lose tomorrow s caucuses, which is a revolutionary strategy in politics called honesty. joining me now newt gingrich. mr. speaker, how are you? i m doing great. how you are? i m good. it seems like all the focus has been on you, good, bad and ugly in the last few week
only dreamt about a month ago. i m asking you to not settle for someone who as your nominee, who might be able to win the election, but the election would be a victory where we wouldn t have a candidate that s elected president who will do what s necessary of what america needs. romney, gingrich, perry and bachmann all have campaign events in iowa this hour. we ll dip in live where and when we can. cnn of course, the place you want to be tomorrow night. we begin getting results from the iowa caucuses. america s choice 2012 special coverage tomorrow night 7:00 eastern on cnn. a person of interest is being held for questioning in california after another night of arsons. the flames have spread to buildingings, started from parked cars. we ll get the latest on this arson spree from l.a. s biggest since those riots back in 92. the mayor will join me live. mr. nis washington state have a definite suspect in yesterday s shooting death of a park ranger at rainier national
than 50 cars set ablaze since friday. los angeles police announce arrests. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. we re counting down the hours to the first voting of the 2012 presidential campaign. 28 hours to be precise, until iowa republicans gather at more than 1700 locations for their party caucuses and start picking their favorites. candidates have spent millions of dollars, logged many thousands of miles in this long iowa marathon. now it s a sprint. as they dash across the state looking for the last few votes. mitt romney is at the head of the pack trying to hold back ron paul and a hard charging rick santorum. let s go live to cnn joe johns joining us from marion iowa right now with the latest. joe? wolf, mitt romney is pushing across the state traveling hundreds of miles. certainly one of the busiest days of his entire campaign. he is trying to get his supporters to go out and caucus for him. on the final day of campaigning, energy is everything in io
girls. at last word, bochblg children are listed in fair condition. watch this. welcome back a. hour two, i m brooke baldwin. got to talk about iowa ushgs, one day left. also, the president signs a defense bill despite his and i m quoting serious reservations. and iran tests a missile. starting with joe johns on the ground in iowa, i know you have been with the romney camp today. here we are one day left, what s mitt romney up to? reporter: well, he s moving across the state at a very fast clip, brooke. he as also playing it very safe. couple of events today, didn t take questions, made some jokes. pretty much stayed to his stump speech. that s what he s been doing for the past two or three days. it s pretty clear that the romney camp is happy where they are, what they re saying is they don t expect to win, they re not predicting a win. nonetheless, they would very much like to win and i think they re running strong in the polls. so it s a challenge for him to make hi