jon huntsman s staking everything on new hampshire. tonight i ll ask him can he win that huge bet? plus wild card donald trump. he has a lot to say about the republican field. we re going to have him grade all the candidates. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. we expected the iowa caucuses to be close but not that close. in a dramatic evening we saw mitt romney win by just eight points. and now we go on to new hampshire where he has a much larger lead at the moment. today he picked up an endorsement from the man he battled for the nomination last time around, john mccain. mitt romney and i and you believe that america s greatest days are still ahead of us. it just requires the kind of leadership to put us back in the position that made america the greatest and noblest experiment in the history of the world. and the person who will do that is right here with you today. president mitt romney. [ applause ] so good night for mitt romney and a very good night for
barack obama. i think it will be very hard for him to win the general election because i think it just blurs everything. i think a real conservative who stands for solid values, essentially for new hampshire values the former massachusetts governor holds what looks like an insurmountable lead in new hampshire so he is moving on to south carolina. that state s primary is january 21st. it has been a deadly day in iraq. at least 60 people were killed in attacks in baghdad and other cities across the country. most of the victims were shiites raising fears of renewed sectarian violence. the deadly attack was a suicide bombing targeting shiite pilgrims west of the city of nasiriyah. at least 36 people were killed. dozens wounded. the iraqi military blames the attacks on terrorist groups. president obama says a fighting force that costs less can still be the best in the world and it will be. in an unusual visit to the pentagon, the commander in chief unveiled a rewrite of co
but back to the ads and also keeping them honest, how clean are speaker gingrich s hands or rick perry or anyone else s. in his concession speech last night from beginning to end, speaker gingrich ignored the attack ads. they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. i would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars of negative advertising. if it weren t for the thousands of volunteers who showed up and who helped us in every town and in every precinct, and every one of us that are members, what made part of these negative ads so shameful, every one of us should remember, this process survives because young and women risk their lives to allow us to do this. now here s a sampling of the ads that ran all over iowa in the last few weeks. has more baggage than the airlines. newt gingrich supports amnesty for millions of illegals. he was fined $300,000 for ethics violations. whatever you think of them
its own brutal crackdown, that s it s running out of money. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it could get lonely being the front-runner especially if you re way out front in new hampshire as romney is now. the first in the nation primary is only five days away. that makes him the prime target of his rivals, but they re also squabbling among themselves and while romney can afford to look ahead to south carolina, some candidates can t afford to fall further behind. let s go to john king in new hampshire. john, you re on the scene for us. give us the lay of the land right now. the big picture. what s going on? five days out, wolf, you would have to say new hampshire is romney country. just like in iowa, you have the campaigns now gearing up for their final push. we see more lawn signs than we did in iowa, but nowhere near the level of past campaigns. the reason, people here are pretty well considered to b