bran stat said today, we re not that close to tway deal is concern for the markets and the administration. let s talk about a subset of wages i know matters a lot to me. the gender pay gap. it is still an issue. i remember a year ago when larry kudlow was still your colleague at cnbc. he said the gender pay gap didn t exist. he was wrong then. and if he repeats himself today, he d be wrong now because women in the united states were earning 82% of what men did in 2017. that means it would take a woman 47 extra days of work to do the same thing as her male counterpart. and if we close the gap at the rate we re going somebody told me it s going to be 80 years or something before it closes. i don t understand why it still exists. it just makes absolutely no sense. i guess the point is we can keep looking into why it exists or we can decide, john, what fixes it? do we need policy prescriptives to actually fix this? because the free market doesn t seem to be doing it on its own.
they aren t going anywhere. mitt romney being the most electable can take him over the finish line. and terry bran stat, a center-right candidate. a photo finish. this is a long way from over. i think you re right. particularly an interested in eric erickson, get you to weigh in on this, on governor perry and also rick santorum, because these guys are very organized. like, i don t know if most know this, but they are very organized. i think santorum has basically been living in iowa for a year. rick perry about 1,000 different captains in the various polling centers, and rick santorum said somewhere around 2,000. so they ve got the men on the ground. men and women on the ground in those centers who will be arg gowing for them and trying to pitch their cause. does that, perhaps, bode well for santorum and perry, because they have the boots on the ground? to a degree it does. depends on how well the
also, we ve got something very unusual that s happening in mt. rainier. there s been a murder of a park ranger and they re looking for this person. they feel like he s escaped on foot at this point and have had to actually rescue some of the people that have been camping. we ll tell you more details about that. the fat weather service says blizzard condition in the great lakes could make the travel you re trying to execute impossible. isn t this like one of the busiest days of the year for travel. a lot got used to the warmer weather, you know, the nice conditions and snap out of it. bam, wake up. hey, guess what you ll have to snap out of that pre-election lull. we re down to 36 hours before vote time in iowa. talk about shaking hands. i wish they had a shake-oh-meter to know how many hands had been shaken buffett the polls started opening in the iowa caucuses. we have numbers for you. some are surprising. the new york times says it is the worst los angeles
national security. they faced off in a debate last night to tackle everything from iran to immigration. the national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live in washington. jennifer, some controversy last night when it came to illegal immigrants. that s right. and newt gingrich may have alienated iowa voters with this pronouncement on immigration. the party that says it s the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century and i m prepared to take the heat for saying let s be humane in enforcing the law. iowa governor terry bran stat s age tweeted quote newt did himself significant harm on immigration among caucus and primary voters. governor mitt romney called governor gingrich s plan amnesty. trace? jennifer, there was also talk about forcing regime change in iran. that s right. newt gingrich was in favor of