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 swarming 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 weeks
caucuses it starts counting. republicans will start choosing candidates in a campaign after everyone you see here and a few you don t, have been the front-runner or the front-runner or may soon become the front-runner. some of these boxes may soon be empty. politico s roger simon said iowa caucuses don t pick winners, they eliminate losers. a lot of people could continue on from here even if they don t place well. a loser here may take new hampshire. someone else could win south carolina and yet another may win florida. it s just been that kind of a campaign. the polls here reflect it. take a look. the latest from the des moines register, mitt romney and ron paul in a statistical tie. rick santorum close behind. newt gingrich fourth and fading. rick perry fifth and climbing slowly. michele bachmann in single digits. that poll came out over the weekend. arg showed romney in front. paul, santorum and gingrich essentially tied for second. it won t be dull and every move matt
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
and rick santorum are running neck and neck and neck. while perry and bachmann are struggling to stay in the race. huntsman is passing on iowa and doubling down in new hampshire. for gingrich tonight s caucuses come several weeks after he peaked in the polls. but he said he is still in position to win. there s 41% who are undeci d undecided, it s very possible to win. we ve talked we ve had 18,000 people in a telephone conversation call yesterday afternoon. we reached 89,000 eye juans and telephone conference calls and one more yet today. we have precinct leaders who believe that the caucus those are going to walk in, have a discussion and a substantial number of going to switch. 41% newt gingrich mentioned are voter s who say they could change their minds. whatever happens in iowa, romney says he s going to face president obama in november. by the way the president is running in iowa too. he ll speak to the caucusing democrats live via satellite this evening and mitt