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Calls. he wanted to know if anything can be done to ban robo calls or to limit them because he is getting about a dozen a day. matt do you have any response to charles? >> trust me my office bears the brunt of that. everybody thinks they come from my office and they dont. one of the unfortunately things weve seen in iowa, i think were the first frontier in this post-citizens united super pac word. i have bad news for folks in new hampshire and south carolina and other states, i think it is comin...

the government of south sue dan gained control of a remote village that was attacked over the weekend. some 4,000 army and police reinforcements have reportedly been sent to aville raj. theyre fighting over grazing land. the u.s. republican party presidential race is about to get ready over iowa. candidates have been campaigning for weeks and tuesday night voters will take part in what is being called caucuses. they are a few hundred in formal get-togethers where people take the candid...

>> you know, wouldnt be possible by design. if i had a decision to make, i would have made that decision at the news cycle this morning. so each hour that goes by is less likely. there are a good number of reasons and none have to do with anything except for respect for all of the candidates. >> can we assume, congressman, that whoever does win the iowa caucuses, whoever the republicans of your state select will be your candidate and you will endorse the winner of the iowa caucuses? >> you know,...

Hart, got 19% of the vote. came in second. and would go on to defeat us in state after state after state. it took us, i think, 10, 12, 13 states before walter mondale won another state. so theres a chance that tomorrow night that if a rick santorum, or a perry or somebody comes up from the second-tier and actually shocks and wins, or comes in second unexpectedly, that that person could garner the kind of press coverage, the kind of interest that gives them a, the other guy slot and suddenly romn...

Came in second. and would go on to defeat us in state after state after state. it took us, i think, 10, 12, 13 states before walter mondale won another state. so theres a chance that tomorrow night that if a rick santorum, or a perry or somebody comes up from the second-tier and actually shocks and wins, or comes in second unexpectedly, that that person could garner the kind of press coverage, the kind of interest that gives them a, the other guy slot and suddenly romney is in a fight for his li...

Fight goes on and the longer it goes on, i mean history has shown thats a problem for the party thats out of power because theyre spending precious resources while the incumbent, in this case barack obama, continues to organize and continues to wait with a war chest. megyn: is it necessarily though bad for the republican party to have this long, drawn-out nomination process if it becomes one. it has been a little long so far in terms of he do bates and so on? is it necessarily bad? it keeps thei...

than 50 cars set ablaze since friday. los angeles police announce arrests. im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. were counting down the hours to the first voting of the 2012 presidential campaign. 28 hours to be precise, until iowa republicans gather at more than 1700 locations for their party caucuses and start picking their favorites. candidates have spent millions of dollars, logged many thousands of miles in this long iowa marathon. now its a sprint. as they dash across t...

This is the annual or years conversation. is iowa worth it? they also persuade in the column ti. feel free to ignore iowa. she compares participation to the same amount of people watching a football game and 150,000 to the city of pomona, california. does she has a point? >> of course she does, but she doesnt. iowa matters because iowa is first. it was first as part of the most momentous shift in the nomination process. the shift of getting with the democrats in 72. from the system where many de...

Blow if this drags on. if mitt romney or gingrich, for example, or even ron paul have to go into some of the other states, virginia is on super tuesday and early march. the campaign says theyre working to pursue an aggressive write-in campaign in virginia, but that isnt actually legal. well have questions when he kecks off his bus tour and find out what their next step is. >> if things are as close as they have, every delegate will matter in this gop nomination process. thank you. >> all righty....

Recovery, the american people are hurting. they are not happy about it. clearly they are cranky about politics which is one of the reasons the republican nomination process seems interesting. i think its chop pir waters for president obama to be re-elected. >> monica: very interesting guys. merry christmas to both of you. coming up, tim tebow was mocked on and off the field of being open about his christian faith. boomer sizeman is here to give his take. and he is going to teach me how to thro...