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Welcome back to "morning joe." we're live at java joes. mark haleprin is still with us. and joining the set, we have national affairs editor for "new york" magazine and jon heilemann. >> there's too much profanity in television, that's the problem. >> the national republican national committee michael steele is with us. michael, let's get your take as a republican. how do you see iowa shaping up right now? after the register poll, which is usually dead on. >> yeah, you still have a significant undecided vote out there. which means tomorrow's going to be anybody's bet who walks through the fini...

And that is fascinating. can mitt romney divide and conquer the entire campaign? >> a twist you brought up in your comments, michael steele about newt gingrich. i'm going to read about heilemann's piece in "new york" magazine about that point. there you have it, gingrich who trails romney badly in the state plans to use the week between the caucuses here and primary there to rip romney a new one. where gingrich for the moment is polling strongly and ahead of the pack. there's an opening for almost anybody in this race. >> we were out yesterday, mark and i trailing newt around and an amazing th...

I think it was jon heilemann who said, you know, what's not answered in this book is what changed dick cheney from the man who was seen by everybody as the moderate voice of republicanism in washington, d.c. to a man who seemed to morph over night into darth vader. that was your nickname. brent scrocoff said i don't know dick cheney anymore. explain this transformation, first of all, and how tough has it been for you and your family to deal with that transformation? >> well, it wasn't tough to deal with the transformation. after being vice president for a few years subject of all the jokes on ...

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