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good evening upon. i'm ali velshi sitting in for erin burnett tonight. out in front, campaign is kicking into high gear. candidates are criss-crossing the state, trying to pick up last-minute support for the first con tefrt in the race for the gop nomination. let's go straight to the political correspondent. jim acosta is on the ground in iowa. good to see you. lots of campaign events and everybody is back in the game. a recent poll shows 12% of voters in iowa, still undecided. you spoke with the iowa gop chair about the race. what did he have to say? >> ali, basically he said this i...

Jon: is this the next big showdown? >> the white house definitely wants this to be the next showdown. i've talked to administration officials that feel strongly that the politics are fundamentally with the white house, that republicans over the course of this debate are going to be portrayed if the white house is successful as companions of the democratic national committee are as portraying them as friends of the big wall street bankers, republicans have their own talking points which is if this currently put together regulatory package goes through, there will be a greater taxpayer risk for ...

And what have you. and so nobody has any experience. i mean, up until that point, we didn't have any experience, and after that, we never saw anything. i mean, there's an active coal veino on the -- volcano on the island in hawaii but it doesn't have that plume on it and there was one in the philippines, and the problem is, at night you can't see t. so the safest thing to do, if there's a volcano around, just stay away from it, that's what they -- that's what needs to be done and it's the smart thing to do. jon: different volcanos spit out different stuff but it's my understanding this iceland...

Turbine blades and the compressor blades, and it will mess up the air flow through the engine. so there's a lot of different things. the ash can be obviously different types, but all of it, you need to stay away from, it's dangerous. jon: this volcano hasn't erupted in about 200 years, but this thing could go on for a while. in europe, aviation could be a mess for who knows how long. >> they're saying that the minimum of two weeks before it really slows down, and it could be as long as several months. so i would suspect that they'll start using the southern track away from it as quickly as the...

Really depends on the weather pattern and beyond that the volcano itself. how long these eruptions are going to continue, and also, they're going to have to, keep in mind, too, what type of ash is coming out of the volcano. some very fine ash that could perpetuate the problem longer. jane: what does it mean for the president? >> right now they're saying this trip is in fact still on, the family of the polish president says they do not want the state funeral to be delayed and right now the airport in krakow, poland is shut down and i'm quoting a deputy white house official, they are keeping an ...