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good morning. welcome. im soledad obrien. welcome to "starting point." we are coming to you from manchester, new hampshire. we are coming to you live from the airport diner. five day ways from primary day here. our starting point this morning is something that you are bogey to hear on the combine trail today which is the future of the american military. just about four hours president obama will reveal his plan for a slimmed-down force that will no longer be fighting two full-blown gro...

What has happened in iowa. take a look at a little window into perhaps what could be happening based on a cnn/orc poll conducted last night with those who were actually watching the caucuses. mitt romney, the polling numbers from early december was he was up 47%. as of yesterday, last night, he continues to be at 47%. paul is at 17%. the same that he was at in december. jon huntsman at 13%, again, he has not changed at all. but the important number to focus on is rick santorum. his number back i...

And weve just taken a poll in the aftermath of what has happened in iowa to see whats going on. how have likely primary voters in new hampshire, how have they changed, if at all, as a result of what has happened in iowa? john king is here with us. take a look at these numbers. this is the new cnn/orc poll. caucus watchers. people who watched iowa closely in new hampshire. how have they changed? take a look at this. in late december, 47% were for romney. 47% still for romney in new hampshire. ron...

To but they know everything about what he stands on and also know him just as a person. again, we dont see much fluctuation when we look at the latest position from nbc, orc -- rather cnn orc where he was at 47% in december, continues to be in 47% according to those who were watching the caucuses last night. the only shift that we have seen is with senator santorum where he has now gone from an early december 5% to last night at 10%. his supporters we talked to believe that the momentum that he ...

reporting. it is a virtual tie between rick santorum and mitt romney. weve already heard from ron paul. hes coming in third. newt gingrich, we heard from him. hes coming in fourth. we heard from rick perry, a dramatic change. the texas governor not going to south carolina. as he originally anticipated. hes going back to texas to reassess whether he should continue in this campaign. michele bachmann, we heard from her. she says even though shes come in a very, very disappointing 5%, vir...

then she has tumbled, tumbled in a pretty intense way in the polls. its really unclear why because she has at least at the beginning she had done pretty well in debates. she had been here campaigning very hard. she, like rick santorum at the end of this campaign, was around the state. she did all 99 counties. guess what, she was even born here. she was born in water loo, iowa. she is a native daughter of the state. she did not do very well. very disappointing. at the end of the day, su...

at the winners and losers and dan lothian and david mattingly looking ahead to the battlegrounds that are now more important than ever. all right, lets start with dana bash. dana? >> well, we have some potential news this morning about what this caucus has did to the field on the republican side. michele bachmann who, of course, came in a disappointing sixth, effectively dead last here in iowa is going to hold a news conference in a few hours. her campaign is not saying what it is abou...

♪ hello, there. its not quite 2012 yet. we still have some news to get to before the new year. im hala garani in washington. kyra phillips has the day off and we begin with the latest out of the united states in terms of politics this morning. lets get you straight to iowa and expecting any minute now, by the way, the new jersey governor chris christie will join mitt romney in iowa. christie is a rising star and many republicans wanted in this presidential race. he endorsed romney ...

much more from and about the hawkeye caucuses later this hour. sears holdings is out with a partial list of the sears and k-mart stores it plans to close. earlier this week sears said it would close between 100 and 120 stores as a result of poor holiday sales. the firm has released a list of 79 that will be closed nationwide. sears said in a statement that it could not say how many jobs will be cut or when the stores will be closed. sears holdings has more than 4,000 stores in the u....

santorum, gingrich, ron paul, rick perry and mitt romney all have campaign events this hour and we will dip in and listen in where we can. speaking of moving, michele bachmanns campaign is moving on without the former chairman of its iowa operations. he left to work for ron paul and bachmann claims she knows why. >> i had a conversation with kent sorenson. in the direct conversation i had with him he told me that he was offered money. he was offered a lot of money by the ron paul cam...