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good evening, everyone. im 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 romneys religion, quote, the cult of mormon. let me read you the quote. quote, theres a na...

one of them is leading the republican presidential pack. the other is bringing up the rear in this hour. newt gingrich and jon huntsman are facing off in a lincoln-douglas stale debate in new hampshire, where the first in the nation primary is just 29 days away wp. with the calendar closing in, flying between gingrich and its nearest rival, we are talking about mitt romney. jim has the latest for us. jim? >> with the holiday ises the debate, it could be summed up as newty versus nice. ...

this in an interview, cbss ""60 minutes"," the president challenges the political partisanship. he says republican strategy cuts him off at the knees. >> i think the republicans made a different calculation, which was, you know what, we really screwed up the economy. obama seems popular. our best bet is to stand on the sidelines because we think the economy will get worse and at some point just blame him. so we havent gotten the kind of engagement from them that i would have liked. a...

Its coming from fundamentally different places. when you talk to occupy wall street people, they think washington is owned by wall street, and they are mad because washington has not done enough to fix the economy, and when you talk to tea party people, they think people have been overrun by special groups -- >> they have been on the program. >> and what they think the problem in washington is, that its taking money from the top to the bottom, and one of the key polling points around that is tha...

Calling a waste. a huge waste. >> honey, i love you. you know i would not let anything happen to my daughter if i knew where she was, this wouldnt be going on. >>reporter: the prosecution rested its case. the defense, then, took over for cross-examination in the past hour and he listed the special groups of friends of casey anthony including the nanny and eric baker, allegedly the father of caylee, was told to the jury and these were all fictitious people imaginary friends and no one knows for c...

Bringing together the different factions to unite the g.o.p.? >> yeah, i dont think we of suffer from any quality of candidates being able to do that what is essential is how we are a particular could you late a compelling vision for the country. compelling vision for the future so everyone can tap into. everyone finds not only is are they home in the republican party but those various groups are comfortable with that candidate and leadership and ability to turn that vision into reality. i think...

>> greta: we are more capable. >> theres no question. more women than men graduate from college. the organized womens groups, the ones that weigh in in election seasons -- >> greta: special interests. >> they for almost all left-wing groups. this is an observation. >> greta: but shes going for the mothers, the women at home -- not just the mothers, but shes going for the women who havent been part of the special groups. and thats a large number. >> a massive number. its much larger than the memb...

Look im not here to make a campaign announcement but -- yeah, look i serve at the will of the people. if they want me to serve ill serve where they want me to serve so -- you know -- >> do you feel like you understand the distinction between a government that does -- that does favors for special groups at the expense of the country and a government that has fairness and understands the difference between agency businesses like bank and principle businesses like every other thing that we do in th...

Sewalr, heres what he told us. >> long ago an editor at mcgraw-hill told me the squeaky wheels got the attention. and what was true, what was through then is even more true today. >> reporter: so he says all kinds of special groups whether theyre nutritionists or gender activists, anybody with a special interest f they yell the loudest, theyre going to have the most success. megyn: interesting. shannon bream, thank you, lady, thank you. what do you think? would you have gotten into that pool? th...

You have choices. ask your doctor if symbicort is right for you. (announcer) if you cannot afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. >> larry: aaron cohen wanted to say david misunderstood. you deal with special groups, right? >> yeah. we werent having a discussion about parents selling their children, we were talking about organized crime groups brokering them. >> larry: thats your area? >> yeah. gang task force investigations. gang task force investigations. >> larry: do you see...