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Big news out of iowa, new polls coming out. flattening a chaos scenario that i was just talking about with john heilemann and mark haleprin. but let's start first with the breaking news. >> yep, the death of kim jong-il. the north korean dictator. now it's a huge test for the reclusive nation where the country's few resources are diverted from a starving population and toward a nuclear wes program. the security concerns are enormous. president obama already reaching out to our ally in the region south korea. president lee putting his nation on high alert this morning. the white house put out a...

Until the iowa caucuses, it appears newt gingrich's campaign is on the decline. >> it's a little early to say that. it's a little early to say that. >> no. >> i just said it appears. >> there's a leveling out. >> and i didn't smile. >> there's a leveling out. up, down. there's some strange things going on out there. >> the latest public policy polling shows the former speaker slipping into third place in the republican presidential field. that's an 8-point drop in just one week. ron paul now leads the pack with 23% support. he's interesting. mitt romney is three points behind paul, still withi...

Of government is also risky. americans believe in that. >> different time, though, different place. i think americans are so angry, richard, at every institution, look at the polling. i think that this is a more desperate -- perhaps not more desperate economic time, but boy, the public anchor and all institutions and, especially, the conservative base, anger at the judiciary is pretty strong. >> and i think it could help -- i think, mark haleprin, it could help him with the conservative -- a portion of the conservative base in iowa. because i'm part of the conservative base, and it scares the ...

Saturday doing this bus tour. she had 16 events on saturday. 16 events on saturday. she was working it from 7:00 in the morning until 10:00 at night. and her retail skills, i thought, were very strong. she was working the coffee shops and doing a nice job. >> that's the parallel. >> very accessible, talking to everybody, and not an ounce of diva about her on saturday afternoon. >> mark, we've been thinking there's going to be a sort of second charge by michele bachmann in iowa. do you see that happening? >> absolutely growing is used. some candidates get better over time, some don't. she's got...

>> well, that's the image this morning on north korean state television. a weeping anchor announcing the death of north korean dictator kim jong-il who passed away on saturday. with us onset, we have msnbc senior political analyst mark haleprin. we have the national affairs editor for new york magazine and msnbc political analyst john heilemann. we also have the president of the council on foreign relations richard haass, and in washington, nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell. >> we've got a lot to talk about, obviously, his passing,