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controversy dogging president obama. did top aides, including the vice president joe biden warn him about it beforehand? new information coming in. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. our national political correspondent jim acosta is following it for us. reporter: it sounded like he was referring to mitt romney as mr. burns, the villain from the simpsons who once said release the hounds. that s because in the race for the alpha dog, the fangs are out. rick santorum doesn t need anybody to tell him who let the dogs out. i think it s interesting you re asking that question about governor romney and his attack dogs.connect 1200 he has an opportunity tomorrow at this convention ironically he spoke to them four years ago this week, wolf, when he was pulling out of the presidential race. let s listen to what he says. i stand for conservative prim pes, i ll fight alongside you for all the things we believe it in, and one of the things we believe is ....
deadly string of assassinations. and the first lady of the united states reacting to a controversial new book about the obama white house, saying she s not the stereotype of, quote, some angry black woman. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. with back-to-back wins in iowa and new hampshire, mitt romney has now done what no other republican incumbent candidate has ever done, once again no republican candidate except, i should say, for a sitting president. romney, of course, wants to be sitting in the white house next year, but that road leads through south carolina. that s the next primary state in ten days. his opponents are digging trenches and putting up barricades there in an all-out effort to halt his momentum. south carolina has a representation for rough and tumble primary and for picking winners. jim accost ha has the latest. jim? reporter: if only the south carolina primary could be tomorrow for mitt romney, it s going to be potentially a bru ....
political university for the republican white house hopefuls. most of the candidates have iowa on their schedule today with their eyes on the all important caucuses less than three weeks away. that includes newt gingrich, who s iowa campaign director resigned amid reports he called romney s mormon faith a cult. but do voters share that view? and could that be part of the reason why mitt romney isn t xweting even more support? joe johns is joining us with more. he s been taking a closer look at romney s faith. i guess the question is mormon faith holding him back? it s a very good question, wolf. what about mitt romney s faith? one of those questions a lot of people dismiss as soon as it s asked. partly because people of both parties say they want to believe that a presidential election ought to be about issues, that the religion is beside the point, but polls show it was an issue four years ago and believe it or not, it s still an issue today. when you ask a lot of ....
plus, the shocking end to an equally shocking case in saudi arabia. a woman beheaded for witchcraft. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. just 24 hours ago, the mud was flying between newt gingrich and mitt romney as they campaigned in the first primary state of new hampshire. now gingrich is vowing to run a clean campaign and refrain from initiating the kind of attacks that have come to characterize the modern race for the white house. some question, though, whether newt gingrich means it, whether he can live up to that commitment. joe johns is working the story for us. what are you finding out? well, wolf, the last few days have certainly been ugly, but now both candidates are saying they re going to do what a lot of voters have said they want and that is have a campaign that is free of negativism. of course, newt gingrich, the former speaker of the house running for president has gone as far to put his words actually in writing. though a lot of people ....
a new week and new shake-up for the battle for the presidential nomination. newt gingrich is now the solid front runner in the state of iowa. but today his focus was on new york. and a meeting with donald trump. let s go to new york. there s jim acosta following this for us. what s the latest with newt gingrich the front-runner and donald trump? well, he is in the big apple and you can say he is singing new york, new york, start spreading the newts. he his message he is can win the republican nomination. he is willing to take this battle to all 50 states. at a news conference in new york, newt gingrich insisted he can go toe to toe with mitt romney in a 50-state battle for the nomination. even with a much smaller operation. we have all these articles about how businesses are getting leaner. how they are flattening their hierarchies. doing all sorts of things. have you people who work from home. you have virtual organizations. all of these cutting edge ideas. you hav ....