have a great day. your next local update coming up at 7:25. "the early show" is next. good morning, it's iowa caucus day as the people here cast the nations first vote in the contest for the republican presidential nomination. mitt romney is predicting a victory, but an overwhelming number of undecided voters could open the doors for others like rick santorum, who has been closing in on the top spot. we'll get the latest as the candidates make their final push. ron paul remains a frontrunner in iowa, thanks in part to his popularity among younger voters. we'll see if his youth appeal will translate to a win. rand paul is hitting the campaign trail for his dad. and newt gingrich had all but given up winning the iowa

caucuses, but this morning, he's calling on voters to help him pull off a historic upset. we'll talk live with gingrich early this tuesday morning, we'll talk live with gingrich early this tuesday morning, january 3rd, 2012. captioning funded by cbs and good morning, again. i'm bob schieffer. >> and i'm norah o'donnell. it's great to be back here this morning. >> here we go, again. there is a reason thiokol this "the early show." it gets early out here. >> as i like to say, top of the morning to you. we're back here, again, in the iowa state capital in the law library, which is just such a beautiful room to anchor from. >> absolutely. i think we may have a shot of this library where our cameras got all fogged up yesterday, we wanted to show you a picture, but it was so cold when they brought the camera in, but,

look, there you are. this is how it looks. this is the library where the legislatures come to study and all the legislation here is filed and we love being here out here. cbs has been using this room for a long, long time on caucus night. well, let's get down to it. today is the day, this is the day after more than a dozen debates, month of campaigning, tonight the voters of iowa will speak their mind and we'll find out who they think and meet president obama in november. >> that's right, we'll start with jan crawford is here with us to look at the republican candidates and how they spent their final full day of campaigning. good morning to you, jan. >> well, good morning to you, norah. the republican candidates were all over the state yesterday and they weren't in the beautiful law library room where you and bob are they were in diners, construction plants, meeting with voters, pressing their case that their the nominee and the one who i think seemed to draw

the most supporters yesterday was mitt romney. >> you guys, i need you tomorrow night. i need every single vote in this room. >> reporter: mitt romney is rolling through the hawkeye state with the confidence of a frontrunner, focused on his final goal, defeating barack obama in the general election. >> i think this is a campaign that focuses on the policies of the president and there is no question in my mind but the american people know those policies have failed. >> reporter: he is following second in the polls. rand paul stuck to his anti-government message. >> we're talking about a real cuts in the shrinking of the size of the federal government. >> reporter: but going into today's voting is rick santorum, who seemed to have the most momentum. he continues the battle for the christian conservative vote and portrayed himself as the most consistent voice in the race. >> you know, polls change. convictions shouldn't. and that's what i bring to the equation. >> reporter: cbs news anchor

scott pelley talked to santorum about his chances. >> finally, it's often said only three tickets out of iowa. first, second or third. are you going to have one of those tickets? >> that's the plan. ten days ago you were reporting and asking me the question of when i was getting out because i wasn't catching on. i think we're catching on. >> reporter: more attacks from the other candidate competing with him for the social conservative vote. >> i don't understand how you can come to iowa and say, i am a fiscal conservative when you voted eight times to raise the debt limit. >> reporter: rick perry once was a frontrunner, as was newt gingrich, but gingrich's support has crumbled and he was all but conceding the race. >> i don't think i'm going to win. i think i'll look at the numbers and that level has done enough damage. >> reporter: the campaign had been prepared to keep his momentum going. >> we had this temporary real explosion and we weren't

prepared to sustain that and that, of course, convinced several of my competitors that they had to attack me pretty savishly because i was in danger of pulling away and consolidating. >> a lot of this, of course, is about expectations. these candidates want voters to believe they can win. so, last night a precinct happened for newt gingrich chewed him out and said what is all this negativity that you're not going to win. you have to say you are going to win and we're going to come out for you. last night gingrich was talking a different tune. we can pull one of the greatest upsets in the history of the iowa caucuses. >> jan crawford, thank you. candidate ron paul has been running a strong campaign here in iowa. wherever he goes, he gets the rock star treatment. "early show" contributor taryn winter brill spent some time on the trail. >> he may be the oldest, but seems to be attracting the youngest voters.

with all this youthful buzz around him, i'm pretty certain that he had good momentum and feeling good about tonight's race. strong poll numbers and growing crowds. >> it does look like there are more cameras than there used to be. >> reporter: ron paul is a bonified hit in iowa. >> iowa is ready for ron paul. >> reporter: some might say that paul has bet the farm on the hawkeye state spending $1.3 million on ads here, but it's his boots on the ground organization that is reaching the masses and the 76-year-old texas congressman has been especially appealing to younger voters. >> everything the man says is just absolutely wonderful. >> i feel like he has a fantastic plan to help the country out and to help my generation. >> ron paul! >> reporter: what do you think it is you're saying that resonates with young voters so much? >> freedsome a young idea. >> reporter: paul says the win in iowa will do wonders for his

national campaign. >> maybe they will get a lot more attention and a lot more momentum. >> reporter: art sanders isn't so sure. >> when you move outside of economics, you know, ron paul believes that drugs should be legalized. he believes that whether or not people get married, should be a private decision. the state should stay out of it. ron paul has all kinds of positions that are never going to be attractive to republicans. >> stop the inflation, stop the debt. >> reporter: still, what ailes iowa caucus goers is the economy. a shared sentiment among voters nationwide. >> given the nature of the economy and especially the belief among republicans that the problem is too much government spending, his long-term commitment to cutting that spending in drastic kind of ways makes him look attractive. >> i would support anything that

would rein in the irs and reduce your taxes. those are the two things they have to do. >> later this morning dr. paul will attend a high school assembly where he'll address 800 caucus eligible juniors and seniors. he's targeting the youth vote in hopes that they come out in huge numbers tonight. guys? >> all right, thank you. for ron paul getting out the vote for tonight's caucuses is a family affair. joining us now rand paul, junior senator from kentucky. >> good morning. >> i just heard the voters say iowa is ready for ron paul. when i hear the remarks around the country, is america ready for ron paul? there's no question that your dad is not in the main stream republican party. >> i think that's a matter of opinion. i think the interesting thing about it, when you choose a commander in chief, someone who is going to be in charge of our

nuclear arsenal, you want someone who is reasonable and someone who isn't happy to bomb other countries. most of the other republican field seems to be a little bit overeager to use nuclear weapons and to bomb other countries. i think there are people within the republican party and definitely many independents who are saying, gosh, we want someone with a little more wisdom and reluctance to go to war. >> you bring up the point of being commander in chief. let me read you what steve king recently said of your father. he said, "i don't think the paul supporters have really stepped back and thought about what would happen if ron paul were operating out of the oval office and the commander in chief of oour armd forces." you know, he has said that he wants to bring home our troops from japan. he said he wants to bring home the troops from south korea. i guess after 60 years do we not think that the japanese can afford to support their own national defense now that the south koreans who are doing

quite well economically could not afford to finance their own defense? i think a lot of people agree with that. a very main stream position and, in fact, a growing position. if you went around with us yesterday in iowa, i bet we had had the biggest crowds of any presidential candidate. we had 600 here in des moines and i went to the headquarters last night, 250 young people between the ages and 20 and 30 making phone calls last night. the place was packed to the rafters with young people. >> let me just follow on that. your father talks about personal liberty and that's the centerpiece of his campaign. that means in terms of issues, he's for legalizing drugs including heroin and cocaine. he's for legalizing prostitution. >> actually, i've never, ever heard him give a speech campaigning on any of those issues. >> he does support those things. he wants to pull troops out of afghanistan and south korea. >> it doesn't characterize who he is. if you go and listen to your campaign stump speech, he is someone who is concerned about the debt and thinks we can only fix our debt problem if you

address our military spending and our domestic spending. i never heard him use the word prostitution, much less campaign on it. that's not a fair characterization of who ron paul is. >> you talked about fiscal discipline. yesterday he called rick santorum who is surging in this contest a liberal. if rick santorum is a liberal, who is mitt romney? >> what i would say santorum on social issues is very conservati conservative. on economic issues like foreign aid, he's voted for foreign aid repeatedly and he voted to double the size of department of education. old school reagan republicans don't believe in the department of education, rick santorum voted to double the size of education. >> what is it about mitt romney then? >> he supported the linchpin of obama care, the mandate and the bank bailout. all these things wrapped together don't make romney a good opponent for obama either. >> senator paul, we thank you for coming by this morning. >> thank you. >> right now ron paul is running fairly tight second to mitt romney in tonight's caucuses.

the latest poll from the des moines register has romney with 24% of the vote. that is a 2% lead over congressman paul. rick santorum is running third with 15%, but next tuesday, in new hampshire, it's all romney, according to a poll from the suffolk university. he is crushing the competition with 41%. paul is now a distant second with just 15% and newt gingrich is third with 11%. so, here to tell us what all that means is our political director john dickerson. good morning, john. >> good morning, bob, how are you? >> let's talk about rick santorum who is surging. you were out with him yesterday on the campaign trail and i think he's hoping in many ways that this voter enthusiasm trumps organization. if he does well here, maybe comes in second, first place, does he, can he sustain a campaign in new hampshire and south carolina? >> well, you know, in new hampshire he has worked the

ground game the way that he has here in iowa. he has been to the state a lot and he has some organization but it's clear there are strains. yesterday at one of his events, they didn't have a public address system. he was talking and being drowned out by the horde of media. organizations from all over the world. so, clearly, still scrambling. today they just put out their schedule this morning and trying to find gym nasiums to deal with the crowds that are big enough. it is going to be a big challenge and he will have to raise money and because not just raising money to get this deluge of negative attacks and he'll need money to fight back against that. >> is the crowd the media or the voters? some of these events we keep saying, you know, 50 reporters and 15 citizens. >> that's right. >> i mean, it's a sign that you're doing well. you don't actually get to meet a voter in iowa if you're doing well enough because in polk city

yesterday, way more than actual voters and this one poor woman was trying to get in to hear him and i don't think she ever got in there. that is a bit of a problem. but in some of these venues, it is lots of voters and they are excited and they are interested in him and there is a genuine surge going on, not just in the media. >> mitt romney still the frontrunner and probably do well here. we have several debates coming up. do you expect we'll see a more aggressive rick santorum in these debates and a more aggressive newt gingrich in terms of challenging mitt romney? what does it mean for the contest that mitt romney needs to run? >> they need to get aggressive if they do well here. especially somebody like newt gingrich. he hasn't had a debate here and hasn't had the money to fight back against these ads. on television here you see one positive newt gingrich ad and if a voter has a warm feeling about him, it's dashed within a few seconds because come ad after ad attacking. >> that will come after santorum.

>> i talked to several voters yesterday and they said we like santorum and driving down here and heard these radio ads and heard senator paul attacking him and that made us think twice. >> so, your job depends on this now, john. just tell us what is going to happen in what order. >> well, good news is you'll have three winners and they'll all declare themselves the winner but it will be santorum, romney and paul probably bunched all there at the top. >> john dickerson, good to see you this morning. still ahead this morning, we'll speak live with newt gingrich. >> he is hoping voters in iowa will help him pull off a huge upset tonight. by the way, this is "the early show" on cbs. good grief mom, you gonna clean that thing or wrestle it?

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nora o'donnell. we're in des moines, iowa, looking ahead to tonight's important gop caucuses. >> tonight will determine what happens over the next several weeks. >> last night was a big night. we were out reporting. getting the pulse of the place and i came to the one conclusion. the best steaks in america are right here in des moines. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. before we get to more on that, we're now going to get the latest news headlines from new york and debbye turner bell. >> good morning. a house being fire bombed sunday in what may be a possible series of bias crimes. the attacks also included an attack on a mosque. an immigration dispute may be what sparked that dangerous arson spree in los angeles. suspect harry burkehart is a

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well, welcome back to "the early show" from des moines, iowa. i'm norah o'donnell. i like to call this a special collector's edition. >> one day they might package this like the song hits from the '50s. we are back here on the final day of the iowa caucuses. people here in iowa are going to get together tonight and hold those meetings in hundreds of locations across the state, starting a process of picking a republican presidential nominee. >> that's right. one of the candidates fighting for votes is newt gingrich, after dropping in the polls, he's calling on folks here in iowa to help him pull off one of the great upsets in the history

of the iowa caucuses. he joins us now from davenport, iowa. good morning to you, mr. speaker. >> good morning. i have been trying to figure out now, am i on the humfry bogart role, exactly what role do i get to play? >> that's the nice thing about this show, you get to play the role that you want to play. i know you want to play the role of victor here tonight in the iowa caucuses. you have been saying for a couple days here after this barrage of negative ads that you face that you think you're going to lose here and one of our precinct captains scolded you and now you're predicting an upset and you don't expect that you'll get first or second place, do you, mr. speaker? >> actually, i don't think anybody knows who is going to get what right now. what happened, i'm very excited about. part of why my style is so different than others. telephone town hall meeting yesterday with 16,000 iowans who

had various telephone town hall meetings in the last ten days or so and one of the folks got on and talked to me and said, look, he just spent five hours preparing the argument that he'll make at the caucus tonight. he is convinced that he will win his caucus. i talked a little bit later with our leader who is going to help us carry scott county and they had done focus groups. when you walk through the case and you outline the fact that you can beat barack obama in a debate and you outline my experience as speaker having created jobs and gotten to a balanced budget and created economic growth and you pointed out ron paul's position on nuclear weapons in iran and they didn't seem to care. you saw people moving, even people who were already committed. the des moines registry said 41% of the voters were up for grabs. so, i think what you're seeing, this has been our experience over the last two weeks. we have been in 24 towns, later

this afternoon when i go back to waterloo, everywhere we go a large number of undecided people who walk in generally interested and tell you up front they haven't made their mind up. i think anybody could come in first. >> mr. speaker, though, you were riding atop of the polls and after millions of dollars were spent on your record, you've kind of had a spectacular crash in the polls. and i want to ask you because just the other day on the campaign trail, you talked about that. you scolded mitt romney, his friends who are running this superpac that has funded that and you said of mitt romney, someone who will lie to you to get to be president will lie to you when they are president. i have to ask you, are you calling mitt romney a liar? >> yes. >> you're calling mitt romney a liar? >> well, you seem shocked by it, yes. i mean, why -- >> why are you saying he is a liar? >> because this is a man whose

staff created the pac and his millionaire friends fund the pac and it's baloney. he's not telling the american people the truth. here's a massachusetts moderate who has tax paid abortions in romney care and puts planned parenthood in romney care and raises hundreds of millions of dollars and appoints liberal judges and wants the rest of us to believe he's somehow magically a conservative. i think he ought tobe honest with the american people and try to win as the real mitt romney and not consultant-guided version that goes with talking points. i don't think he's being candid and that will be a major issue. from here on out from the rest of this campaign, the country has to decide. do you really want a massachusetts moderate who won't level with you to run against barack obama who, frankly, will just tear him apart. >> massachusetts moderate that you have just said is flat out a

liar. that does raise the question, mr. speaker, if he does get the nomination, do you think that you can find a way to support him or will that just be a little too much for you? you could, you'd support a liar. >> no, i would support a republican candidate against barack obama because i think barack obama is tearing the country apt. he is tearing the country apart. let's be clear. which part of what i just said is false? why is it that if i'm candid in person and i want to be honest in person, that is shocking. his pack buys millions of dollars of ads to say things that are false. is that way washington plays the game? isn't that what is exactly sick about this game right now? isn't that what the american people are tired snf. >> but you just -- but what you said -- but what you said, speaker gingrich, someone will lie to you to get to be president will lie to when you they're president. so you're saying that romney would be liar as president.

how can you say that? >> he is much more destructive than barack obama. >> i think if you watch what the white house is doing right now, this whole governing without the congress is stunningly unconstitutional. and so i would -- >> finally -- >> mr. speaker, what you're saying is, folks, obama is so bad that we would be better off electing a bald faced liar to the presidency, somebody that we never know if he's telling the truth. >> well, i think that would be -- look, i think that -- go check his record, bob. look, you're a professional reporter. did he support reagan or not? the ans is no. did he vote as a democrat for paul tsongas or did he not?

yes, he did. >> did he run to the left of ted i can den i can? yes, he did. why is it politically incorrect to tell the truth? you're saying that a traditional washington pattern. it's better to be sweet and honest than have the face and say we want to be nice to each other no matter what the american people want to hear. i think the american people deserve the truth. i'm prepared to defend everything i said this morning. candidly, i wish mitt would level with the american people, be who he really is and let's have a debate about massachusetts moderate versus a real conservativconservative. >> all right. mr. speaker, we have to bring it to a close there. we thank you for coming on and answering the questions this morning. thank you very much. >> thank you, plaintifmr. speak. on an emerald card. e just bring in your tax information and get a refund anticipation check... in 7-14 days, for up to $9,999.

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welcome back to a special edition of the early show from des moines, iowa. i'm along with my pal, nora o'donnell. >> and i think that interview with newt gingrich may have knocked your purple socks off. my goodness he made news there. calling mitt romney a liar. >> he just said flat out, he's a

liar. as bad as that, is he said that's not -- that would still cause him to vote for him instead of barack obama. >> we'll have more on tonight's caucuses. let's go back to new york though and check in with debbie turner. she has a check of the headlines. hi, debbie. >> good morning. yeah, that was quite an interview there. we start with this news. president obama is back in washington. the president landed at andrews air force base following his trip to hawaii. and the body of shooting suspect benjamin barns is recovered in mt. ranier national park. he is suspected of killing a park ranger. barnes apparently died of exposure. the suspect ends the series of arson fires in los angeles area is being held without bail this morning. harry birk heart was arrested yesterday and tipped from a federal immigration officer led to arrest of harry burkehart according to "los angeles times." the 24-year-old from germany

made an outburst at an immigration hearing involving his mother. it was a part time sheriff who first stopped the suspect yesterday. he was praised from his colleagues and bosses last night. >> a full time attorney, a part time reserve deputy sheriff although for the past four days he's been

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this started late and a lot more attack television floating around and caucus goers seem to be having a hard time sorting it out. a lot of fluidity and indecision. >> not just the caucus, but the politicians here in iowa. we talked to the republican, congressman steve king, republican senator chuck grassley, none of them have endorsed in this race. >> well, and some of them won't. they learned to stay out of this. but, you know, it just, i think if the caucus goer is having a hard time, all the candidates offer something. republicans desperately want to beat barack obama, but they want to find a good, electable conservative. they're having trouble sorting that out. >> how do they work? just run us through this. >> at 7:00 tonight, they'll gather and about 1,000 precincts around the state. neighborhood meetings and on the republican side, they'll just visit among themselves. people giving little talks about why i like a certain candidate

and then they vote on a slip of paper. it's pretty straight forward. >> and the democrats do theirs in public, though. >> they're in public. they break out. that's right. it gets a little more confusing. probably a little easier to understand. >> do you have any sense of what's going to happen? >> no, i don't. i think mitt romney clearly has something going, but rick santorum is kind of moving and surging here at the end, rallying social conservatives. a number of outcomes is possible. >> how much does organization matter because clearly mitt romney is the most well-funded and most organized of the candidates. rick santorum has the voter enthusiasm, but he lacks the organization. does that matter as much? can he still pull off and can that still propel him to a great victory? >> it could. organization is not as important this time as it has been in the past. debate performances have actually been very important. but, you know, in a race this close, norah, you know, the guy who still has somebody out there

making phone calls and making his neighbors come with him, that could be the margins. >> david, i want to thank you very much. you helped me for years. so, i appreciate it. we'll talk to, of all people, presidential candidate herman cain about who he thinks will win tonight's caucuses. we'll be right back. mid grade dark roast forest fresh full tank brain freeze cake donettes rolling hot dogs bag of ice anti-freeze wash and dry diesel

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and welcome back to the special edition of "the early show" from out here in des moines, iowa. >> i'm the lucky girl who gets to sit next to you for these two days, nora o'donnell. >> wow. but, you know, we're both kind of lucky because, you know, nora, as sometimes you never know until you ask. and somebody at cbs news had the idea the other day, why don't we ask herman cain to come on. he's suspended his campaign. he said yes. he's in our new york headquarters this morning. mr. cain, welcome to the broadcast. we're glad to see you back. but i've got to ask you something.

you know, you suspended your campaign. and we're pleased to have you, but why did you accept the invitation? do you have something you want to tell us this morning? are you going to endorse a candidate? what brings you to television this morning? >> well, number one, i'm not going to endorse anyone right now. but when i do make an endorsement, it will be unconventional. remember, i'm the unconventional candidate with unconventional ideas. but it will not be at this particular point in time. secondly, the reason that i accepted your invitation is because i wanted to let people know that just because i am not seeking the position of president, i have not abandoned the mission which is to help get barack obama out of the white house. >> so -- >> you say you're starting a new movement. what kind of movement? >> it's going to be a movement that's going to keep attention on solutions. one of the things that has frustrated me and many of the

american people has been all of the negative attacks that have taken place during this campaign. just look at what happened last week. and secondly, it takes attention away from how you're going to fix stuff. this is what the american people want. when i was in the campaign and i was at the top of the polls, it was the fact that people were connecting with solutions. and so what i plan to do is continue to promote solutions to problems because not enough attention is being paid to them. >> you talk a little about all of these negative attacks. we had kind of an extraordinary little interview with candidate newt gingrich just a while ago. and basically, talking about the attacks that mitt romney has leveled on him. he said flatly, yes, that mitt romney is simply a liar. and i went on to ask him, well, then, can you endorse him if he decides if he gets the nomination, and he said, well,

yes he could because even though he's a liar, he's better than barack obama. what did you come away from the campaign thinking about mitt romney? do you agree with newt gingrich that he is in gingrich's word, quote, a liar? unquote. >> well, bob, as you know, in politics, there's political speak, and then can you choose other words. now, in political speak, it would have been stated as, well, he was not totally honest. and newt has tried to call him out on this. but you'd have to raise that same question with every candidate including the current president. can you honestly say that the current president has been 100% truthful about everything that he's said? i think if we were to do the analysis, you'd come to come away and say some of them may not have been as truthful as they could have been. so i think it is a choice of words. not as strongly as he would support a liar. that's my opinion. >> interesting that you bring up

the question of truthfulness because what drove you from the campaign were questions about your own truthfulness in terms of your relationship with women. i do want to ask you this morning, how is your wife? >> my wife is doing marvelous, thank you. we are blessed to have our fourth grandchild on new year's day. so 2012 has gotten off to a great start for my wife and i. she is doing fine because since i got out of the race, we don't have to constantly hear the spinning and the respinning of those false accusations. and so you are absolutely right. from that standpoint, she's great. and she is very supportive of this national movement that i'm going to be launching later this week in order to keep attention on what's really important in this. the whole iowa caucus, with all due respect, it should narrow the field. the same thing should happen with new hampshire. and so as the field now rolls, i think and i hope that people

will get back to paying more attention to how are these candidates going to fix problems? that's what the american people are looking for. >> mr. cain, i know you've said in some recent interviews that if a republican were to defeat barack obama, you would be interested in serving in the next administration as secretary of defense. that is a big job to serve as secretary of defense. i just want to ask you a couple of questions. you've had some mistakes on the campaign trail. you were confused about the taliban. you said that you thought that the taliban might take control in libya. you know that the taliban are not in libya, correct? >> correct. nora, look. it's a learning process. and there are a lot of things that i have learned as a result of having been in the campaign as well as after the campaign. now, the reason that i indicated that i would consider being secretary of defense, i don't think that my qualifications

would be the secretary of defense should be based upon something that i said months ago in error. no, it should be based upon leadership. national security is one of our biggest challenges that we have in this country. and i believe that as a leader in that position, if we have the right president, i would be able to bring a lot to the party in terms of helping to prioritize those things that need to be prioritized. >> and mr. cain, wouldn't you have to start out being kind of fairly familiar with what the basic national security issues are? i mean, you, throughout the campaign, seemed unaware of a lot of the things that the secretary of defense would have to deal with. i mean, good intentions are one thing, and bringing fresh insight, but do you really sincerely feel that you have the background and really the knowledge that you could handle a cabinet-level position like that? >> bob, allow me to remind you

of something that didn't get picked up when i was beat up about what i didn't know. i served on the citizens advisory board of the strategic air command in omaha, nebraska, for several years when i was there. i was exposed to some of those issues at that particular time. i started my career as a ball li ballistics analyst with the navy. i have been on ships so i have been around some of these issues. so it's not that i'm totally void of it. >> sir, if i may interrupt, i've been on a navy ship, too, but i don't think that qualifies me to be secretary of defense. >> i didn't say that qualified me to be secretary of defense. there you go talking about one of the things i mentioned when i'm trying to make a point. that's not the point, bob. i didn't say being on a ship one time qualified me for being secretary of defense. my point is quite simply this. we need strong leadership in that position. and there was a hypothetical question, and i gave a response based upon the question that was

asked. >> simple question. how many people serve in the armed services? >> we have about 3 million people who serve in the armed services. was that a gotcha question, nora? >> yeah. we have about 1.6 who are active duty and about 2 million total if you include reservists who are part of our armed services. herman cain, thank you so much for joining us. good to see you. we appreciate it. we're going to go back to debbye turner bell for a look at this morning's headlines. good morning, nora. president obama's hawaiian vacation is over. the president returned to the white house this morning. tonight mr. obama plans a live web chat with his supporters in iowa. he'll travel to cleveland tomorrow to discuss the economy. and a new study shows men are taking most of the new jobs being created including those traditionally held by women. men are getting more than two-thirds of the new private sector jobs according to the government. 1.3 million men were hired in the 12 months that ended last

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well, voters in iowa head to the caucuses this evening. they're going to make their choices. >> and to help us understand because he knows who they're going to choose and who will come out on top, the head of the iowa gop, the point person for the caucuses, matt strong. good morning, mr. chairman. >> no pressure, bob. great to have you here in des moines this morning. >> how has this been shaping up? there's no question it's different than i've seen in the past and voters are still undecided. >> it's remarkable. i had an opportunity to go to four different ee veptds yesterday starting with rick santorum. people prefaced it by saying they were still undecided. i think we'll start seeing people making their minds up around 7:20 local time tonight. >> who does it favor? >> i think the more organized

candidate. people here in iowa talk about how important organization is. when you have 1774 precincts simultaneously in action, you need to have somebody that stands up on your behalf and somebody that's a local opinion leader, whether it's a member of the hergy, elected official, chamber of commerce leader making that final sale. even though the campaigns have kept that organization stuff close to the vest, they have to show their cards tonight. >> we know that rick santorum has had the momentum, a lot of voter enthusiasm. we saw that in "the des moines register" poll. does he have the organization? >> well, i think we'll find that out. it seemed senator santorum has been in iowa so much, i half expect to see him at my breakfast table in the morning. there's no question he's really caught wind and behind his back over the last few weeks. so i think we'll find that out tonight. no question, congressman paul has a strong organization. mitt romney still has a strong organization. so i think it's probably unprecedented how volatile this has been. >> what do you think iowa voters will make of the tone of this campaign?

you know, we've heard a lot of voters here. they're complaining about what's been on television, the sort of sewage that's been pouring out of the television set, these negative ads. >> and then this morning right here, nora asked mitt -- i mean newt gingrich, did he think mitt romney was a liar? and he just said flat out yes. >> well, i think in an era of super pacs and post citizens united unlimited spending, iowa is probably the first frontier of that. i think it's coming new hampshire's way, south carolina's way and unfortunately for the citizens of iowa, we're going to be one of those six or seven swing states throughout the general election. so that probably doesn't let up here. but it's fascinating when you're outsourcing to third-party entities. >> i cover the white house cbs news so i talk about the chicago obama team. and they have tried to make the point that they are better organized in iowa than the republicans are. that he could win the state in the general election again.

what's the reply to that? >> i hope you ask their team how come since he's been president one out of ten democrats have fled the party here in iowa. we've had 33 straight months of republican registration gains in the state, and we've closed the gap from 111,000 to 30,000 since he's been president. >> bood poigood point. >> thank you for being with us. up next, rick perry's brain freeze to the bailout of gm, we look at the best and worst moments from the gop campaign. this is "the early show" on cbs. so i was the guy who was never going to have the heart attack.

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leading up to tonight's iowa caucuses, we all know the republican candidates have been debating this year. more than a dozen debates all across the country and out of those debate came, i would say, norah some defining moments for this campaign. >> there were record viewership of all of these debates. joining us now to talk about some of these moments as we walk

down memory lane frank luntz president and ceo of luntz global. let's start out with one of the moments from the debate that was most gring worthy when rick perry had trouble remembering which agencies he was going to eliminate. >> education, the -- commerce. let's see. i can't. the third one i can't. sor sorry. oops. >> and it goes on and on and i was doing the dial session and had 30 people sitting and watching it and first they started to laugh. then they started to get horrified. and finally they felt embarrassed on his behalf. the most incredible. they expect you to have the answer. to be sitting up here and have the answer at your fingertips. if you don't, they punish you for it. >> it's been devastating for his campaign. >> i'm not sure he ever got over

that. >> he didn't. but rick perry was not prepared. he raised more money in one month than any other presidential candidate. >> returning to the debates this exchange between mitt romney and governor perry. >> anderson, you said you knew you had illegals working -- >> are you going to keep talking or are you going to let me finish with what i have to say? >> now, people sort of like that because it was them sort of arguing at one another, but what did it tell us about them? >> with all due respect republicans looked at that and didn't like it at all. to them the opposition is barack obama and not each other. the hostility and the fact that they talked over each other. they thought they were trying to score needless political points and they resented it. of all the moments we tested in every debate, that one you just showed was the one that made republicans the angriest. >> another moment that you said tested well was a moment from newt gingrich, we talked to this morning. let's listen.

>> i think those are questions that a lot of people want to hear answers to and you're responsible for your record. >> if i get a rebuttal. i think that there's too much attention paid by the press corps about the campaign minutia and not enough paid to the press corps about the base ideas to distinguish us from barack obama. >> you can hear the applause. >> beating up on the media. >> it was a fox debate and a conservative audience actually booed fox news. later on they said this is one of the better debates because they held the candidates accountable. and terconservatives do like th. >> frank luntz, thanks for bringing your shoes along with bob's purple socks this morning. i think we can get a quick shot of that. there we go. what a day. >> i know. >> all right. mine are now tax deductible. >> more great moments coming up.

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and welcome back to the special edition of "the early show" from iowa where tonight the first voting for the presidential contest will take place tonight. i'm bob schieffer. >> and i'm nora o'donnell. >> i thought that's who you

were. >> on this special collection of the "early show." >> that's right. democrats are working hard to make their presence felt and debbie wasserman-schultz is with us today. and so why are you here? >> well, i'm here, because we have eight offices across the state of iowa, we've made 350,000 phone calls, we've made 4,000 one on one meetings, 1,200 house parties and while the republicans have been in a duke it out contest, we've been quietly organizing, gearing up to run the biggest grassroots campaign. >> this is a state that has gone from blue to red, back to blue again. barack obama won it by ten points in the last election. i know you've been making the case that you're very well organized here. we spoke with the republican

chairman, matt straun who said that they've closed the gap from 100,000 to 30,000 and are making the case that democrats are leaving your party in droves here. >> i know that's his job and bravo for matt strawn for making that case. the fact is that this is a state whose employment has -- is among the lowest in the country, who has benefited from the policies of president obama, fighting for the middle class, fighting for working families, taking us from bleeding 750,000 jobs a month -- now we've had 22 straight months of private sector job growth. iowa cares about making sure we have a president in the white house who stands up for the middle class, not the collection of republicans who want to fight for the wealthiest. >> i think that exchange is illustrated. i just picked up on it. as i talk to obama officials, you talk a lot in data points and numbers. >> they're called facts. >> yeah, and voter confidence but there's also the facts of

voter frustration. i swau switowa switched to red the last election and it seems he's having trouble here in iowa. >> no. if you look at any poll, there's no single republican that beats the president head to head. the reason for that is there's a dramatic contrast in the two directions the country could go in novemb or folks like mitt romney who think that corporations are people, who think that we should let housing and foreclosure crisis hit bottom and let investors come in and buy up the properties. essentially, mitt romney has said the middle class, you're on your own. we're going to go back to the failed policies of the past that got us to the present economic

disaster. >> let me ask you this. let's suppose mitt romney does get the republican nomination. i have no idea if he will. >> he certainly practically declared victory yesterday. >> what if we took that young senator from your home state on the ticket with him, how would that team fare against barack obama? >> a matchup like that would be the most extreme when it comes to the policies that matter to americans that we've ever seen. >> how so? >> he it comes to immigration. mitt romney, who said that if congress passes the dream act, he would veto it. that's insensitive and callous. marco rubio, who has not stood up for the middle class, not stood up to create jobs, opposed tax breaks for small businesses and working families. that combination -- really, any combination of anyone in the republican field would be a dramatic contrast to president obama and the direction that

he's taking this country. >> congresswoman debbie wasserman-schultz, thank you. we'll turn to debbye turner bell in new york for the last look at today's headlines. good morning, nora. iran is saying it's in charge of security in the persian gulf, no other nation. near the straight of hermuz in the gulf. vital to shipping. a u.s. navy aircraft carrier, they say, should stay out of the persian gulf. a record number of background checks for guns were submitted this holiday season. in the six days before christmas, gun dealers submitted nearly half a million names for gun checks. usa today reports 20% of those came on december 23rd making the friday before christmas the second busiest gun-buying day in

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well, thisou well, this could be a pivotal day for republican candidate rick perry here in iowa. he is currently in fourth place and the latest poll is finishing up a 16-day bus tour across the state today. >> and here to discuss her husband, the governor of texas, anita perry. thank you so much for joining us. >> you're welcome. good morning. >> so what's it like, a national campaign like this? you've been in politics a while. >> uh-huh.

>> he has been governor longer than any person in the history of the state. but this is a little different, isn't it? >> well, it is. i thought i was a seasoned campaign wife, but i certainly have learned lessons along the way. and it's much more difficult than i ever imagined it would be. >> what's the hardest part? >> i think the scrutiny of the national media. peeling away layer by layer, but that's good. let's tairt take a hard look at the man who wants to lead the most powerful country in the world. >> your husband has been the front-runner. his debate performance, i know you said you get nervous before the debates. what do you think? do you think the debates are one of the reasons your husband fell in the poll numbers? >> i do, nora. he has improved and gotten much better. i really enjoy them, because i'm seeing him excel now and we're going to do two debates in new

hampshire and i think he's excited about it, too. >> why do you think he had that problem? was he just not prepared, didn't know what to expect? what was it? >> maybe so. we got into the race late. the veto period and june 30th we really wanted to make sure we had support, to raise the money that we did. and the first 47 days were spent so much of that time raising money. i don't think rick really had debate prep time. >> what's different about your husband and this race? we see rick santorum surging. he may do very well tonight. your husband may come in the bottom tier of the candidates but how is your husband's campaign coffers? >> we have the money, the infrastructure. we have ground game here. we have 1,300 to 1,500 precinct leaders in iowa. we're very excited.

the energy has been great on the bus tour. we're going, as i said, into new hampshire and south carolina. >> are you really going to compete, though, in new hampshire? i keep hearing you're going to go straight to south carolina. >> they released the schedule yesterday and i haven't really seen that. i'm not sure. i know i'm going home to texas tomorrow to pay bills and check the dogs. >> all right. miss perry, so nice to have you. >> thank you. >> nice to see you. >> thank you. for the past few months, iowa has been the center of the universe for these republican candidates and one iowan took all the handshakes and promises in stride and, of all things, wrote a musical about it. >> that's right. they're calling it the hottest new musical in the country. karen winter brill got a chance to see it. >> good morning. "caucus: the musical" opened to rave reviews and now it's back, poking just a little bit of fun at how iowa does politic zpls

this might be iowa's last big hoorah. >> what do you mean? >> iowans play a serious role in presidential politics, but that doesn't mean they don't have a sense of humor about it. >> they say we're too white. >> too rural. >> too old. >> too cold. >> playing a second caucus season since it opened in 2008. ♪ >> iowa voters get to experience a bit of art imitating life. >> we've been putting up with all these politicians for the last how many months? it was just great to sit there and laugh at them. >> it had a lot of inside jokes that if you've been following politics you would recognize the people from now to four years ago. it was nice to work those in. >> as tough as it is for iowans to mac sense out of the political noise every four

years, finding likely caucus voters is just as daunting. >> 119,000 showed up in 2008. that was considered a big turnout. they are a needle in a haystack, when you consider 2 million voters statewide ♪ time to go to iowa >> don't quite understand what the process is and why iowa has this oversized role in the presidential election process. ♪ when you can make another speech in iowa ♪ >> i thought this is one way to document what the caucuses are and what iowans go through every four years. >> when did iowa become so important in the race to the white house? >> jimmy carter decided, well, i don't know if i can do well in new hampshire. maybe i should spend time in iowa. an unknown southern governor, really, from a national perspective, came to iowa and won and catapulted on the national scene. >> candidates from then on said,

gee, we should pay attention to iowa. ♪ trust me trust me trust me trust me ♪ >> do you think the candidates can take anything away from the show? >> i would hope they could, learning how iowans respond to the process. i don't think the characters are way off base here as to what a typical iowa caucus is like and what they want through the process. yeah, i think they could learn a few things from the show ♪ what i want is someone who in the end i proudly call a friend ♪ that's what i want. >> and, by the way, the tag line for this year's show is "2012:the gop strikes back." the creator assures me this is an equal opportunity satire. final five performances of the show were completely sold out, turning away hundreds at the door. quite a hit here in iowa. back to you. >> that's fun. i've got another hit for you, something from the greatest hits

reel. >> uh-oh. >> bob shall this is not your first rodeo, hosting "the early sho show". we dug back in, found this clip of another woman you once hosted "the early show" with. >> coming up, dr. robert arnott -- >> sorry, i dropped the -- this has been a very unusual morning, hasn't it? poor maria. i've given her the giggles. >> we'll be back. >> turned over a cup of coffee. we'll be back. i'm sorry. >> now 36 past the hour. >> that's just about the funniest thing i have ever seen. and thank you for not dropping a cup of coffee on me. >> i've been very careful. it can be dangerous. maria shriver. i've known her since george mcgovern put her dad on the ticket, when she was 16 years old in those days. she used to come back and hang around with all of us on the press box. she was a great person.

i was afraid -- by that time she was married to arnold schwarzenegger and i could just see this guy coming in there with a baseball bat or something, spilled hot coffee on his wife. >> exactly. >> she's a great person. >> we'll be right back, with more. laces? really? slip-on's the way to go. more people do that, security would be like -- there's no charge for the bag. thanks. i know a quiet little place where we can get some work done. there's a three-prong plug. i have club passes. [ male announcer ] now there's a mileage card that offers special perks on united, like a free checked bag, united club passes, and priority boarding. thanks. ♪ okay. what's your secret? ♪ [ male announcer ] the new united mileageplus explorer card.

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we want to tell you this morning about an incredible team of unheralded journalists, the cbs news national journal off-air reporters. what they do is -- they're assigned to a canndidate and thy go everywhere that candidate goes, as they crisscross the country. >> i'm telling you, bob, they work round the clock. i get their e-mails all throughout the night. they're still all in great shape and with us here this morning. take a look at what they do on the road. >> hi. i'm here in west des moines at the cafe covering michele bachmann. today, she has obviously a big

gaggle of press here. 5:00 am this morning, she had an "early show" live hit and now she has a rally at 9:00 pm. we have really long days but you live for it. >> so one of the big things to do every morning is to label the tapes. these are all of my gizmos and gadgets, literally -- basically never, ever, ever leave my side. it's also important we get all our gear, like batteries, tapes and that we don't leave them in the hotel. that would be bad. >> okay. i'm at this event. this bag is like 65 pounds and i carry it on my back in addition to three other bags. it's got my camera, all my camera equipment, laptop and got my tripod. >> another big element for a job is twitter. and while we're shooting, we're also logging and tribing the

interviews and we're tweeting and we're on the phone and we're just doing a million things at onc once. >> and joining us now, two of that incredible team you just saw, sarah boxer, who covers the romney campaign and my man, rodney hawkins, currently on the bachmann beat. good morning to both of you. i'm just sitting there watching, that was me about 50 years ago. this is a great job. people would kill to have these jobs. >> did they have twitter when you did it? >> no. we had still cameras. what's it like out there, sarah? >> it's hard. we have a lot of gear we take with us as well and we're with all the candidates and the reporters all the time now. you're in a bubble with them. i was on a bus tour around iowa the last two days, covering the campaign. they've been really good bussing

us around but there were no outlet plugs on the bus. everywhere was like tweaked, all your devices were -- the batteries were draining. no one -- you had to talk to each other in person. so, it's hard. >> when you said you live and breathe with these candidates and their staff, that is what you do, because you're there with them all the time. and, as a result, you have amazing stories. you have an amazing sense of these candidates. and, rodney, you've been here in iowa. you've been with them and covered all of them. how do they stack up? >> it really boils down to who has the most money, when you see the organization. >> really? >> so, covering them as a reporter, you want to make sure that they have the organization to be able to tell you, this is a malt box. this is where you can plug in your camera so you can hear the sound and the candidate. that determines what you think about that candidate, whether or not they're organized or not. i've been thinking that romney

has stacked up the most with that. he has really been able to have that advanced team to tell us where to go, what to do and i felt really comfortable there. >> i often tell some of the romney staffers that i think in another life they could be tv producers, because they know what kind of shots look good, what to frame behind him, how to set up the crowd around him. i've covered a couple of other candidates just popping in and out here and there, and it's really not the same sort of big visual effect that the romney campaign really has. >> what's the biggest surprise that you've found? i mean, what have you learned about somebody that you thought -- god, i never knew he was like that or -- >> right. for me, i have covered rick santorum for a while, senator rick santorum. there was this moment about two weeks ago where we were in this small town, like an amish town. he would go to each of the storefronts and visit each of the people there. and then there was a brewery. we were like, okay, he's going to come in here, say hi and do

his thing and leave. no, he goes in. there's taps all there, beer taps, starts drinking. says i want four samples. then gives us this whole long list of the beers that he drinks and i'm like, really? like you're a beer connosoier and i'm like, well, you are from pennsylvania. >> i thought you were going to tell us how many different colors of sweater vests. >> there's a twitter account for it. yeah. >> we actually chartered with governor romney a couple of weeks ago and the first time we chartered with him, we were seated by the campaign and i am one of the smallest in stature sized reporters who was covering him and randomly was seated in the exit row, which is quite large and multiple people on the flight, including governor romney, came up to me quite nervously and asked if we were in an emergency if we would be okay with me -- >> in an emergency, we have to

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