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♪ >> all right. welcome back "the five." that was abba, who is going to come out on top in iowa? here is what brit hume and charles krauthammer on the factor. >> who is going to win. surely, bill, you wont expect me to go where talking points wont go, i dont see a scenario, an outcome here which would really disturb mitt romneys position in the race as the man to be. >> win, place and show, everybody knows. romney, santorum and ron paul. the real issue is newt and perry, do they finish 4th or ...

It win knows. this will be a winnowing process. the top three will go on to north carolina and florida. >> bill: are you surprised newt didnt fight back harder? >> no. because i think as brit hume said the reason he could be the sung of literally hours of negative attacks is because he had hours of negative baggage in his history. unlike any other candidate policies wall-to-wall that were easy to highlight and cite. >> bill: conservative hypocrisies. >> hypocrisies, okay. im not sure he was bein...

♪ >> all right. welcome back "the five." that was abba, who is going to come out on top in iowa? here is what brit hume and charles krauthammer on the factor. >> who is going to win. surely, bill, you wont expect me to go where talking points wont go, i dont see a scenario, an outcome here which would really disturb mitt romneys position in the race as the man to be. >> win, place and show, everybody knows. romney, santorum and ron paul. the real issue is newt and perry, do they finish 4th or ...

It win knows. this will be a winnowing process. the top three will go on to north carolina and florida. >> bill: are you surprised newt didnt fight back harder? >> no. because i think as brit hume said the reason he could be the sung of literally hours of negative attacks is because he had hours of negative baggage in his history. unlike any other candidate policies wall-to-wall that were easy to highlight and cite. >> bill: conservative hypocrisies. >> hypocrisies, okay. im not sure he was bein...

It win knows. this will be a winnowing process. the top three will go on to north carolina and florida. >> bill: are you surprised newt didnt fight back harder? >> no. because i think as brit hume said the reason he could be the sung of literally hours of negative attacks is because he had hours of negative baggage in his history. unlike any other candidate policies wall-to-wall that were easy to highlight and cite. >> bill: conservative hypocrisies. >> hypocrisies, okay. im not sure he was bein...

america? lets go "outfront." >> im erin burnett. were just an hour away. eight republican candidates vying for the party nomination. they are all taking to the stage tonight. the topic, national security. it has been 109 days since america lost its aaa credit rating. thats going to turn the rate on our mortgages and a whole lot more. were not doing anything about it. were still mad has hell about the super committee failing yesterday. fitch said the committees failure would most likely...

And weve been having them in succession. we are having a debate tonight. our next fox debate is in seiu city, iowa on december 15th. this is the time in which the winnowing process begins. megyn: who has the most to lose. weve been watching among others rick perry in each of these debates and they have not been good for his campaign. his campaign has ticked up a two notches as he has gone with ads on the airways. >> reporter: he needs to have another performance in which he steps up. the last on...

Think about people who havent declared. this is where people are able to indulge their political and the is. i would love to see jeb bush run or where is chris christie. this week is important to whats going on. its a winnowing process. i dont know what my options are going to be. but this is what i have got now. and thats where people either start to soar or start to crash. martha: the early buzz this morning was pawlenty -- this is a good thing for pawlenty. a good thing for mitch daniels. a s...

Right. youve got mitch daniels and john huntsman potentially representing that wing of the party to the extent it still exists. but this is a very socially conservative campaign field right now. and that may have trouble converting in the general election to appeal to independent voters. >> we all write every day. one of the things i like about george will, whether you love, like, disagree with his politics, george has a very good way with words. we uses them smartly to bring clarity. sheer geor...

Senator, elected numerous times from his state of south carolina, a fairly prominent politician, is not just going to be on the undercard debate, will not be debating, is relegated to essentially also-ran status? >> well, its a very, very tough thing for senator graham, and he certainly is somebody that has served his state and served his party very effectively. but the fact of the matter is that politics isnt the same thing when youre running for u.s. senate as it is when youre running for pres...