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well look at big stories. give you interesting details and go inside information, only a worldwide news organization like cnn can bring to you every single day. were going to talk to the leaders and newsmakers and also real folks and challenge some of the conventional looks and issues people are discussing today. the "starting point" this morning is about changing minds in iowa. just 36 hours before the caucuses begin, and it is a statistical dead heat for first place between president...

Nationally but in iowa they have come down because, how can you survive when every time you turn on the television there is two or three or four ads per hour. and they are from different sources. you ran for the presidency, i asked you regret it. i dont know how you suntd your family and friends to what is grueling and you cant respond, no matter what you say there is ten against you. >> isnt it interesting that gingrich is supposed to be a loose cannon guy and while the ads are run he is most c...

Like to talk like newt, so he said, weve language tested this with focus groups and polls and so on, and heres what you should to. when you talk about your opponent, he said to republican candidates all across the country, he sent them letters, he said, when you talk about your opponent, use words like, betray, sick, pathetic, lie, anti-flag, anti-family, corrupt. those are the words that newt said you should apply to your opponents in order to win elections. well, you know what, thats just disq...

one of them is leading the republican presidential pack. the other is bringing up the rear in this hour. newt gingrich and jon huntsman are facing off in a lincoln-douglas stale debate in new hampshire, where the first in the nation primary is just 29 days away wp. with the calendar closing in, flying between gingrich and its nearest rival, we are talking about mitt romney. jim has the latest for us. jim? >> with the holiday ises the debate, it could be summed up as newty versus nice. ...

together. tonight, a shocking ad campaign insulting american jews paid for by the government of israel. >> christmas. >> but up first tone the dramatic reshuffling of the race for president and a rare inside look at the focus groups used to help with the strategy decisions. suppose youre herman cain, trying to decide whether your candidacy can survive, or newt gingrich testing whether your rise in the polls can sustain tough scrutiny now of your record. >> who is newt gingrich? >> gr...

>> per back with our panel now, i want to play two pieces of sound for all of you. president obama last night. listen to this. >> they will fight with everything they have to protect the tax cuts of the wealthiest americans and have no problem breaking the oath with raising taxes on middle class families. just to score political points. >> noted republican pollster and frequent guest frank luntz has noticed something in his focus groups. that republicans may be missing whats happening on the str...

with president obama and the first family, but hes with me this hour to explain more. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." hes come on through the rise and fall of michele bachmann, but this time, it might be different for mitt romney. newt gingrich is now posing a threat to romneys persistent high polling, opening up a new battle line in the republican race for the white house. joe johns the working the story for us. whats the latest between romney and gingrich? >> well, ...

we were talking about this yesterday. today it seems to have gotten a little worse in material of the damage that has manifested itself. the santa ana winds, unreal. >> really bad. even into utah. the intermountain west, the great basin from centreville, had a wind gust in utah. 102 miles per hour. they said in some places, almost every house has some type of damage from the wind that occurred yesterday. then the wind went down across into vegas. made a bunch of dust. then right throug...

4,999 a month, hes dropped 28 and 24 respectively. this is not a good place to be in you are barack obama and hope to get re-elected. >> lets go to the first part of your white board. is there a way president obama can reenergize his base? >> he can, but only if the republicans give him the chance to do so. these people have lost faith in him. they like him. i have been watching a bunch of focus groups, reading transcripts and looking at the analyses of the focus groups. these people like him bu...

Want to participate in these focus groups, go to luntzglobal.com. and you, too, will be given a device and get a chance to turn it up and down like that one right there. >> fantastic. id rather have an ipad. frank, thank you very much for joining us live. by the way, good job last week in iowa on that roundtable. it was very interesting. >> yep. thank you, i appreciate it. >> meanwhile, straight ahead, you need to stay around for the next story especially. why? using a laptop could ruin your cha...