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Across the polls, and i have been doing this with all the candidates i have spoken with tonight, in new hampshire you are at 8.5%. in iowa you are at 19%, have held on to a pretty decent position in iowa. in south carolina you have held on to your lead there. so im imagining that you are hoping that two candidates will split iowa and new hampshire and if you come up with south carolina you will be in a pretty good spot? >> exactly. and we happen to believe that we are going to hold on to the lea...

Across the polls, and i have been doing this with all the candidates i have spoken with tonight, in new hampshire you are at 8.5%. in iowa you are at 19%, have held on to a pretty decent position in iowa. in south carolina you have held on to your lead there. so im imagining that you are hoping that two candidates will split iowa and new hampshire and if you come up with south carolina you will be in a pretty good spot? >> exactly. and we happen to believe that we are going to hold on to the lea...

Waiting to see is if the people whove really put the time in there like santorum are going to do better. now -- or if romney has a support base thats not showing up in all the flash of these candidates who rise for two months, then collapse. >> yeah. well, we havent mentioned rick perry. hes down at 7%. hes got a lot of money. and we should point out that the evangelical christian vote in rural iowa is going to come out in full force. is his 7%, hes down in low numbers, but could that be mislead...

If the people who put the time in there, like santorum, are going to do better or if romney has a support base thats not shows up in all the flash of these candidates who rise for two months then collapse. >> yeah. well, we havent mentioned rick perry. hes down at 7%. hes got a lot of money. and we should point out that the evangelical christian vote in rural iowa is going to come out in full force. is his 7%, hes down in low numbers, but could that be misleading, with the amount of money that h...

Polls. what a lot of us are waiting to see is if theyre going to put the time in there. the support base is not showing up in the flash of these candidates who rise for two months and collapse. >> we havent mentioned rick perry, hes down at 7%, hes got a lot of money, and we should point out that the evangelical christian vote in iowa is going to come out in full force. hes down low numbers. could that be misleading? >> not terribly, because remember the thing that really brought him down more t...

Spot. herman cain has raised a ton of money. there is this defiant part of his support base that feels that somehow that is some sort of elite trying to destroy him. >> right. there is going to be trying to dig deeper. the question is, is that part of the base big enough to carry ca states which i think romney is faring very well. he gave this speech on friday that few people paid attention to. >> death by the way, david brooks loves you, means youre not conservative enough, right? >> new hampsh...

>> i think theyre looking at his policies. i do not think that evangelicals see mormonism as another brand of christianity. they do see it as a distinct faith. those focused on the theological will have problems with that. if mitt romney has the nomination, gains the nomination, i think that you would see strong support for him based upon the policies that he has embraced compared to the policies that this current president has advanced. >> the whisper campaign would not to support mitt romney? ...

I want to play sound here from senator lieberman. >> if assad does what gadhafi was doing, which is to threaten to go house to house and kill anybody not on his side, theres a precedent now that the world community has set in libya and its the right one. were not going to stand by and allow this assad to slaughter his people like his father did years ago. >> so congressman this might concern some. would you see this as a setup for more u.s. involvement in the arab world? >> i think theres two ad...

Affiliates, its about 10 percent. bill: im reading for 2008, which is the last year available, $634,000 in government grants? >> again, you have to look at the local affiliates. bill: thats a good chunk of money. >> yeah. bill: -- >> again, i dont think npr needs this, and in fact, theres precedent for lots of media organizations that are funded from private sector. we have an enormous amount of media diversity in this country. npr has to clean up its act. bill: the first point you make is the m...

But you can see, as you said, from still photograph, circulating this morning, that there was an explosion near the presidents convoy and happened 100 yards from his car and fell, apparently closures to where journalists in the convoy were traveling. and, again, no one hurt and it doesnt appear to be a serious attack but the issue is, what was it about and we dont know that, bill, and a lot of people say in iran if it was something serious, in fact, a close call, they would have made a big deal ...