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New business because of things directly attributable to this president and his administration. >> chris: let's turn to the other big story and that is the case of the chinese dissident cheng who the government there now says can apply for a travel permit to go to the united states to study. before, secretary of state clinton worked out this apparent deal with the beijing government mitt romney weighed in and here is what he had to say about the cheng case and what at that point seemed to be the fact that he had been turned over to the chinese without any protections. >> this is a dark day for ...

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 contest in the race for the gop nomination. let's go straight to the political correspondt. 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? >> reporter: ali, basically he said ...

The other countries in the region have their territorial claims and the u.s. has broad interests there as well. so i think he did a nice job. >> let me slip into raw domestic politics. many people of the former bush administrations particularly george h.w. bush have expressed some concern about the republican field, the gaffes mccain has made, allegations against herman cain, rick perry's gaffes. do you share that level of concern that people like the former chief of staff have voiced publicly? >> yes. >> is what we're seeing right now, you see some people describing a clown show. that these p...

Happen. the way you avoid them going to al qaeda is precisely to have a more open system where they have to run for elections and they can't just use guns. so -- you know, the vast majority of people who have announced their opposition to goif like misrata, and they're just the youth of libya. they've put 0u9communiqu. the language they use is that of secular nationalism. this fear is just fearmongering. >> professor cole from michigan, we appreciate it. thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks for having me. the recall effort for republican state senators is going strong. we'll show you w...

We can influence events but in a certain limited way in bahrain, the problem is this. we have an interest in seeing some stability the maintenance of our ankrage fleet. but there is a question of the values here. and that is you always have to ask yourself when there is a revolutionary situation what comes next? if it's not as in egypt, the chance of a better life, decent life, open system and democracy, there is a reasonable chance of it happening in egypt. then you go with the people in the street. we don't foe what is going to happen in bahrain. the problem is this. iran claims it, as its o...