with mexico, they have plummeted. time to play reporter roulette. susan candiotti, let s begin with you. jerry sandusky waived his right to the preliminary hearing today. do we know why? reporter: well, what a day it s been, brooke. imagine 11 witnesses, including at least four alleged victims who would have taken the stand talk about in excruciating detail being molested and raped by jerry sandusky but they didn t have the opportunity to do so because he waited and, why? his lawyers explain that it was a tactical decision on their part, that, in part, because they would not have had an opportunity to try to challenge the credibility of these witnesses while they were on the witness stand because of court rules, then it just wasn t to their advantage. however, they certainly, it s true, miss out on an opportunity to interview these people, put them on the stand. however, it would have meant that this day would have been filled with the testimony of what those alleged victim
good evening, everyone. i m john king reporting live from the history irk cspc hall in cedar rapids, iowa. breaking political story tonight. exactly three weeks before iowa casts the first vote of the 2012 presidential campaign. iowa conservative act innist who just signed on with the newt gingrich presidential campaign is quoted just before he took that campaign job as calling gingrich rival mitt romney s religion, quote, the cult of mormon. let me read you the quote. quote, there s a national pastor very much on the anti-mitt romney bandwagon, greg said, a lot of the evangelicals who believe god would give us four more years of obama to expose the cult of mormon. there s a thousand pasts are ready to do that. that was craig berman speaking at a voter focus before he took the job. he s hired as the gingrich iowa political director. cnn s making calls to see if he ll be allowed to keep the job. as we continue our weeklong iowa visit, a condition who has tirelessly visited e
is a partisan joke that has no chance of passing the senate. instead of playing political games congress should work to find common ground. in the days ahead i intend to do exactly that. the showdown here on capitol hill next week, bill. bill: all right, mike we ll wait, okay. tell the family. mike emanuel on the hill there. martha. martha: some background on this keystone oil pipeline project. it s estimated to be about a 7 billion-dollar project that would span nearly 2,000 miles. the ceo of transcanada says it will two years to build the pipeline and employ about 6500 people, but the state department puts that employment figure a bit lower saying it would create between 5 and 6,000 construction jobs, and then there are other estimates on how many jobs it would create. bill: brand-new fox polling numbers now in the state of the race for 2012, one poll asking voters we did who will win the
congressional stalemate that could mean a bigger government bite out of your paycheck. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . captions by vitac www.vitac.com the lines have been redrawn in the battle for the republican presidential nomination and after months of focusing his fight on president obama, mitt romney is now going after the newest front-runner, the former house speaker, newt gingrich. romney s latest assault is the classic campaign tactic of using the candidate s own words against him. joe johns is joining us now. take us inside romney s latest attack on gingrich. now we know that mitt romney apparently is not going to sit around and wait for newt gingrich to make a mistake as some have been suggesting. romney s on the offensive right now, but as far as we can tell, the former speaker hasn t exactly launched any kind of counterattack. down in the polls with weeks left until iowa caucuses, mitt romney makes his move. direct assau
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