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Business acumen. martha: past 24 hours, a real huge change in the dynamic from the mitt romney folks. they went to a possible sweep of first three states, iowa new hampshire, south carolina that would give them a big head of steam going into florida. now theyre looking at situation where rick santorum won in iowa, he won new hampshire but may lose south carolina to newt gingrich. you have to wonder what is going on behind the doors at the romney meeting today? >> well, romney was looking to go 3...

Conservative candidates in this race, have several events today. newt gingrich with seven separate stops today. rick santorum with five stops. meanwhile, mitt romney after this event is going to speak to the media to answer some questions weve been trying to pose to him recently, then he lets to new york. playing the field as it were for a big fund-raiser hoping to raise more than $1 million tonight to continue his ad wars, super pac obviously very successful in knocking down some of his opponen...

our latest polls on the republican race, they are just coming out this minute andy sho stunning change in fortune for two of the republican hopefuls. mitt romney still plead leads in iowa with 21%. ron paul is right behind at 22%. but look at this. rick santorum has jumped into third place with 16%. tripling his shows just three weeks ago. meantime, newt gingrich has fallen off a cliff. at least it seems like it now. hes at only 14% down from 33% in our last poll. rick perry is at 11%....

Because it sets the mood and the tone for how those voters are going to respond to the national front-runner, in this case, newt. for mitt romney and certainly for someone like ron paul, the opportunity to tear down that veneer of invincibility or inevitability around the idea of electability is important. and the poll does show that there is some electability issues that newt is going to have vis-a-vis, the president come next year, but that is a year out. between now and january, this is good ...

Its still too early, only a quarter past 3:00 in the morning here. too early to get any real reaction from people. i had a chance to speak to people over the past. one of the things that really struck me is that osama bin laden had not only loomed so large in the minds and imaginations of these people for such a long time, but he had really developed aurora of invincibility. people said to me they capitol even believe that he was dead because a, they had heard those stories before and they were ...

Getting more reaction on the tapes that have been released today here in the u.s. from afghanistan. and stan grant is live there. what are you hearing? are people up, and have they been watching the tapes being released? >> reporter: yes, the reaction from anyone here, drew, its very early in the morning here, so no chance of getting to talk to anyone yet, but its going to be interesting to see the reaction here. because over the past week, i had a chance to talk to people on the street about th...

That myth of invincibility that he showed even more. >> there was an enormous taliban attack on government forces in kandahar. various targets, an impressive, spectacular assault. to what extent is the talabon still fighting with the memory of bin laden or in the name of bin laden now that al qaeda is gone from afghanistan. >> we do know that bin laden and al qaeda and the taliban were li linked. it was the refusal to give up bin laden that provoked the u.s.-led invasion here and the battles we ...

Mumbarak and hope to elect somebody else from his party. they are not going to let the opposition guy take over unless theres a lot more -- put that aside. i will give awe chance to rebuttal but i want to go to marco who is director of global strategy project geopolitical research and analysis. thanks for being here. does museum b mumbarak stay or ? >> he himself has to go. its a matter of time. the question is how and when? obviously hes over stayed his welcome. thats the bottom line. he did se...

End of this term this fall for mumbarak and hope to elect somebody else from his party. they are not going to let the opposition guy take over unless theres a lot more -- put that aside. i will give awe chance to rebuttal but i want to go to marco who is director of global strategy project geopolitical research and analysis. thanks for being here. does museum b mumbarak stay or ? >> he himself has to go. its a matter of time. the question is how and when? obviously hes over stayed his welcome. t...

End of this term this fall for mumbarak and hope to elect somebody else from his party. they are not going to let the opposition guy take over unless theres a lot more -- put that aside. i will give awe chance to rebuttal but i want to go to marco who is director of global strategy project geopolitical research and analysis. thanks for being here. does museum b mumbarak stay or ? >> he himself has to go. its a matter of time. the question is how and when? obviously hes over stayed his welcome. t...