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Sure, yeah, that's more important. when you think about it, look, what we are talking about is that we are going to lose a couple months at the end of the world. >> if you see the end coming, it is not like we are going to go like, we can chill out 400 years ago, and we just discovered people were a little more true. >> they say by 2030 we will be using double the earth's capacity. ant the odds that -- aren't the odds that we will just find another earth? >> yes, i guess that's why the space exploration. i think we need to threaten a planet terry shut down it is some kind of debt thing. >> are...

aren't statistics they are people in pain. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room". we begin this hour with what's happening in iowa. right now the state that holds the lead off presidential contest is gauging early support for the republican candidates. we're standing by for the results of the iowa straw poll. the winner could get an important boost heading in to the 2012 primary season. cnn don lemon is joining us from ames, iowa. don? >> all right. thank you very much for that, wolf. joining me ...

could affect all of us, including our own mail delivery. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." jtsdzer. it all begins in iowa. right now many of the republican presidential candidates are in that state, a state that holds the lead-off contest in 2012. they're working the crowds at the state fair before tomorrow's pivotal iowa straw poll. and they're taking direct aim at president obama's handling of the debt crisis and the u.s. economy. listen to some of the republican hopefuls, including sarah palin, who insists she still hasn't decided whether to run. >> i think the q...

I do believe that we're going to get through it. if you and i were at the table we could find stuff we agree on. >> no doubt. the issue, the frustration for me outside of the conversation, which is almost everybody. >> yes. >> is that there is a sense of a decline of american prosperity and there's a sense that the representatives while addressing important things, like debt or other debates that come up, are avoiding the core prosperity debate, which is the acute issue of the american people. and you can see that in every poll. then say, this is great. the debt, good on energy. fine with the ...

What the onion does is be funny. the onion is funny. it is satire. it is not real news which is important to point out on days like this. >> some have questioned whether this is the time for the government to start selling its holdings of gold at ft. knox as well as other assets. should the u.s. liquidate assets to pay off debt? >> cnn is not supposed to be funny. cnn is not supposed to be satire. but, yes, that is the same story that ran in "the onion" three weeks ago. cnn has not done anything wrong here. it's not like they've been duped by something that was supposed to be satire like i hav...