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Cool it. back up. and there's nothing wrong with saying i was wrong. i had never intended to do this. what i said was inaperot rat, it was wrong. you can't defend it. >> the president, the vice president said there was no racial connotation, it is overscrutinizing what candidates said when there are so many words say on the campaign trail. how do you feel? >> i agree with governor wilder. and president obama and vice president biden have doubled down on those remarks. listen, in the past couple weeks, he's had that incendiary and way over the top remark, he's had allegations about mitt romney ...

Years of tax returns or just two years of tax returns and whether mitt romney outsourced jobs at bain capital versus what the president -- i mean, you tell me as a political observer, chris, is this how campaigns are run? you know, get down to minutiae, get in people's heads about he's a felon, he's this, you know -- [laughter] and don't look at the unemployment rate, don't look at the huge, you know, numbers that identify the state of the economy. >> well, look, if president obama wants to win a second term, he'd better have something else up his sleeve because if it's july and we are already...

Healing, uniting, all of these things that the president was. well, it's not that way any more. and you look at campaign that he's running today, which is intensely negative, and focused on mitt romney, a lot of character attacks on mitt romney it looks very much like the kind of politics that obama encouraged iowa citizens to vote for him back in 2008 so that he could end, and here he is doing it. megyn: they are talking in iowa according to the reports today in the des moines register about a sense of betrayal, feeling detrade. it' betrayed. it's not that they could do better, they feel they...

Difficulty here in florida. your problem in florida is you worked for freddie mac at a time that freddie mac was not doing the right thing for the american people and you're selling influence in washington. >> the lesson the romney campaign learned from iowa, gingrich has an ability to come back from the dead and even with a decisive lead this time romney is taking nothing for granted. >> we were getting just railed on by speaker gingrich and didn't respond well back in south carolina so we decided we'll respond. politics ain't bean bags. we've made our our message is out loud and clear. >> gi...

As the caucuses drew closer. chief political correspondent, carl cameron begins our coverage tonight from romney campaign headquarters in des moines. good morning, carl. >> there are no conclusion, throw away the preconceptions and assumeses in the 99 counties, 1,774 precincts, after all the hype and all the xapg, finally, iowa caucus goers will get to have their say tonights. nasty character attacks began on the frontrunners first i think this morning on the meeting of iowa caucuses. newt gingrich romney as a liar, went for it. >> mitt romney failed to debt the truth on three levels. he is at...