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Us with the daily fix. do you think there is a play for mitt romney in iowa? could there be a knockout punch against rick perry? >> theres no question there could be a knockout punch. i think there is a classic high risk, high reward situation, andrea. the risk is that mitt romney spent $10 million in iowa in 2007 and 2008. he was there and basically lived there and he was there multiple days doing multiple events every single day in the runup to the caucuses and watched as a guy who didnt spent...

Taking shots at the candidates as they travel through iowa. >> bret: i asked him whether or not -- >> i asked him whether or not there was anything how he treated romney in the runup to the caucuses and he said there was one thing, that he didnt do more of it, because romney is back as a candidate this go around. bret? >> bret: steve, thank you. lets bring in a man who knows a thing or two about iowa politics, chuck grassley is in his sixth term as united states senator from iowa. he joins us no...

Jim. this seems like given evidentable marriage as the motivated section of the population, large part that agreed with ron paul ideas has taken root with the american right. they became known as the tea party. he gets out in to iowa and makes this announcement to form his exploratory committee just in time for the first of the republican debate. if you remember to runup of 2008, he was moved off to the fringes or the sidelines because of his opposition to the iraq war. however, his ideas about ...

The white house is keying to downplay s&ps intervention saying that any warning should be taken in context. >> what the s&p analysis also said was that the american economy is strong. its growing, diversified, dynamic. it continues to be the most important and most powerful economy in the world. as for its political analysis, we simply believe that the prospects are better. we think that the political process will outperform s&p expectations. >> but the man responsible for the u.s. outlook downg...

Congresswoman michele bachmann and a bunch of other republican presidential hopefuls were in iowa this weekend letting their freak flag fly. but this is a story that has to be fired up first tonight. president obama clearly, clearly laid out our military involvement in libya during his address from the national defense university in washington, d.c. earlier this evening. the president was quick to label the villain. >> moammar gadhafi. he has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, mu...

And the prospect of being forced to spend the holiday away from home. meanwhile, ground crews at qualcomm stadium worked around the clock to clear the field for last nights bowl. and a nations capital saw a white christmas in 2002. residents are preparing for a heavy snowstorm expected there this weekend. well have much more on what is in store for your holiday commute in a few moments in weather. did you make your list? check it twice? realize you still have plenty to do? well, youre in luc...

>> when you think about the runup to the super bowl, brian, what is it that they -- both the teams say? they say were gonna win, right? forget about those polls out there that show that the house surely will fall to the republicans and the senate not so close. anyway, we had both the leaders of both the parties on the sunday chat shows and essentially they echoed what you would expect them to say. theyre gonna win. >> heres the amazing thing to me. a third of the voters dont know who yet. you ha...

Base may backfire. >> youre out there trying to terrify them and put all the scare tactics it there and hope that the fear will drive them to the polls. >> mr. obama is on a four-state swing to drum up support amid a faltering economy. >> i dont think theres one of them -- one specific sector we can place blame on. >> a third of americans do. in a new nbc-"wall street journal" poll, the percentage that blame mr. obama for the economic woe has doubled since january. the tea party says theyve gott...

Lets get an idea on whats happening on the coast in the carolinas. rob marciano, what do you have for us? >> reporter: well, the sun is back out, reynolds. weve been in the cloud cover, the outflow youve been depicting with the satellite picture, but clearly the rainfall is pretty far off the coa coast. the winds, though, have picked up, and the waves have picked up as well. its getting more rough here, larger swells rolling in probably anywhere from 8 to 12-footers at this point. the difference...