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gingrich is now 15 points ahead of romney in a new gallup poll and mr. paul steinhauser joins us right now from washington. hello, paul. how does romney plan to handle what is shaping up to be a two-man race at this point? >> it really is shaping up. that was the national poll, don. take a look at this, state poll. iowa. two new polls in iowa. one of them, cbs/"new york times." you adjust showed the national poll. newt gingrich ahead by double digits. the frontrunner, we're less than four weeks away from the iowa caucuses. what is mitt romney doing about all this? romney was speaking...

second at 18%. another poll out of iowa shows it much closer. let's go to south carolina, as well. south carolina, of course, the first southern state to vote, it goes number three in the calendar and votes on the 23rd of january. this is also, again, showing newt gingrich on top. far ahead of mitt romney. romney at 23%. gingrich 18 points ahead and rick perry at 9%. kyra, i guess newt gingrich to take his national poll numbers and translate it into an operation and make sure he gets the teams in place in theearly states to get the voters to the caulks and primary sites, kyra. >> nan...

that will not be my endorsement. >> all right. let's bring in our paul steinhauser. so cain won't be supporting obama's re-election campaign. no surprise there. >> what a surprise. >> exactly. where do you think he'll throw his support? >> you know, there's a lot of speculation that maybe he throws his support to newt gingrich, the former house speaker. they are both from georgia. it was interesting on saturday. soon after cain suspended his campaign, gingrich at an event in new york city said some very, very nice things about herman cain. a lot of the candidates would like that supp...

with him. let's go to mark preston who joine joins us now from washington. cain ducked the topic during a speech last noit. do we expect him to say anything today? >> we do. this is something that will dog him along the campaign trail, don. something he has been battling for several weeks. several women come out and allege that he sexually harassed them during his tenure at the national restaurant association and now we have this new woman, ginger white coming out saying that she had an inappropriate relationship with mr. cain for 13 years. she spoke out about it on a local atlanta t...

sexual abuse, but allowed it to go on, has surfaced. deborah has more from syracuse. >> reporter: hey, you know, kyra, once officials here at syracuse university heard that tape, there really was no other choice. they had to fiere bernie fine, which they did late last night. the accuser, bobby davis, lived in the fine household for a period of time. he made the recording shortly after the alleged decade-long affair came to an end. and the tape suggests that not only did the coach's wife know about what was going on, but in fact she had a role in it. and we want to warn you that the t...