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Blaming his old advisers, anticipating that they may not have the numbers that they are looking for on tuesday. >> peter, thank you. republican presidential candidate rick perry was agreeing with a frustrated voter who complained about the presence of multiple languages in every day life. perry's home is home to many hispanic voters. cain's former campaign manager hasn't seen any gop candidates to put the country back on track. >> politico reporter, alex, thank you for joining us. >> reporter: thank you. >> you're there at java joe's. we've been asking everybody, what is your take on iowa. w...

These caucuses for quite some time. i'm going to go ahead and ask you your guess for the win on tuesday? >> well, that is -- you know, you've been covering them for a long time so i know not to answer that question because we still have a couple days to go. i'm telling you in iowa and new hampshire, the candidacies can turn in the final 48 hours of an election. so, that's why we're all employed. >> right. susan page with "usa today," happy new year. nice to see you. >> happy new year, veronica. be sure to watch msnbc on tuesday for all day coverage of the iowa caucuses. we'll bring you all t...

With alex witt." i'm veronica. alex is on vacation. good to see you. supporters in iowa who gave the campaign an early boost, kristen welker is in hawaii where the president is on vacation. not a bad place to be. >> reporter: no, it's not. president obama certainly not going to be sitting on the sidelines, as you say, next tuesday. he will be holding a live web chat with his supporters in iowa. the obama re-election team really sees this as a chance to organize, to reach out to their supporters, to thank them and to really mobilize and get them excited for 2012. they also point to the fact tha...

It's msnbc saturday, i'm alex witt. at half past the hour, here are your fast five headlines. gabrielle giffords is facing several days of evaluation at that houston rehabilitation hospital. the chief medical officer says giffords has, quote, great rehabilitation potential. sargent shriver will be laid to rest today after a funeral mass in washington. vice president biden and former president clinton are expected to speak at the service. in the state of the union speech this tuesday, "the wall street journal" says he will ask for increased spending on education, research and infrastructure...

There's actually a half marathon going on in central park, so if you can imagine having to be out in the cold versus choosing to be in the cold, hundreds of people i'm not sure you can see right over there who are walking around and getting ready for this half marathon. and if you think it's bad here in new york, it's even worse in the midwest where it's in the negative -- the negative numbers, alex. and that's not the windchill, that's the actual temperature. international falls, negative 46 yesterday. today over the weekend in the north dakota, in minnesota, in some spots in new hampshire, i...