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good evening, everyone. i'm john king reporting live from the history irk cspc hall in cedar rapids, iowa. breaking political story tonight. exactly three weeks before iowa casts the first vote of the 2012 presidential campaign. iowa conservative act innist who just signed on with the newt gingrich presidential campaign is quoted just before he took that campaign job as calling gingrich rival mitt romney's religion, quote, the cult of mormon. let me read you the quote. quote, there's a national pastor very much on the anti-mitt romney bandwagon, greg said, a lot of the evangelicals w...

one of them is leading the republican presidential pack. the other is bringing up the rear in this hour. newt gingrich and jon huntsman are facing off in a lincoln-douglas stale debate in new hampshire, where the first in the nation primary is just 29 days away wp. with the calendar closing in, flying between gingrich and its nearest rival, we are talking about mitt romney. jim has the latest for us. jim? >> with the holiday ises the debate, it could be summed up as newty versus nice. but the real fight is with mitt romney and it is anything but nice. there is enough journalists swar...

this in an interview, cbs's ""60 minutes"," the president challenges the political partisanship. he says republican strategy cuts him off at the knees. >> i think the republicans made a different calculation, which was, you know what, we really screwed up the economy. obama seems popular. our best bet is to stand on the sidelines because we think the economy will get worse and at some point just blame him. so we haven't gotten the kind of engagement from them that i would have liked. all right. a lot of political buzz this morning that's centering on the weekend's gop debate. it wa...

It's coming from fundamentally different places. when you talk to occupy wall street people, they think washington is owned by wall street, and they are mad because washington has not done enough to fix the economy, and when you talk to tea party people, they think people have been overrun by special groups -- >> they have been on the program. >> and what they think the problem in washington is, that it's taking money from the top to the bottom, and one of the key polling points around that is that when you poll tea party people they think government does too much for black people, and that's ...

Calling a waste. a huge waste. >> honey, i love you. you know i would not let anything happen to my daughter if i knew where she was, this wouldn't be going on. >>reporter: the prosecution rested its case. the defense, then, took over for cross-examination in the past hour and he listed the special groups of friends of casey anthony including the nanny and eric baker, allegedly the father of caylee, was told to the jury and these were all fictitious people imaginary friends and no one knows for certain who is the kay -- day -- caylee's father. >>shepard: and we bring in the legal panel for ana...