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 out th
r, especially in the month of august, but should the president be planning a ritzy getaway at a time when the markets and economy are going haywire? on the question of martha s vineyard, you seemed to dismiss the idea that there was an image problem for the president. megyn: and there was more of that at the white house press briefing. coming up, we ll have a fair and balanced debate. plus, it was an attack that horrified the nation, a woman terribly disfigured by the chimpanzee that she loved. just ahead, the miracle her doctors were able to perform. and well before tonight s big debate in the hawkeye state, the candidates have been flooding iowa s airwaves with ads. who s got the right message and who does not? frank luns knows, he joins us live. back in washington politicians are looting the treasury and bankrupting our nation, and barack obama has driven our economy into a ditch. someone needs to say no. i voted against raising the debt limit because it s time to balance th