good mornrng. mitt romney celebrating a narrow victory in the iowa caucucuc winnnng by justtight v ves in the f fst contest to pick a republican presidedeial nomimie. >> thank you so much for all your help. on to newewhampshire. >> we will spepepeith the former massachusetts governor about his big win. romnene is not the o o o nner in iowa.. rick santorum impressive second place finish brings new life into his shoestring campaign. >> game on. >> we wiwi see if he's got what takes to o the distance. >> d dappointing finisiss by rick perrynd michele bachmanan have them reassessing their r cacaaign. we will have more on that and full coverage of the iowa caucus results "early""" this wedneneay

morning, januaryryth, 2012. captioningngunded by cbs from man chestt err, new hampshire, good momoing. >> w w ge broadcasting frfr manchester newewampshire because it's the nexex place in the race for the republican nomination. if everrn example why every vote countsts last night, it was it. >> t t focus to new hampshire. age the excitinggesults after lala night's iowa cacaus it may ab state too fafa is morning we are talkiki out last night's iowa caucus results. >> they were amazing. mitt romney and rick santorum in a dede heat but the closestst racac in the history of the iowaa

caucuses. a record 122,255 iowawa voteded st night. romney finishing just eight votes ahead of santorum. eight t vovos. xas congressmamaron paul came in third at 21%. >> the last time the gop race was this close was 1980 when george h.w. bush edged ronald reaganany justtight 00votes. bill whitaker joinsns now. >> the raceas so tight,t, it wasn't even decided u uil 2:30 this morning. they just don't getet any closer orore dramatic than this. >> gamee on. reporter: a latat s sge by former pennsylvania senator rick santorum pushehe him from near obscurity to near ctory, thanks to the p psionate supportrt of social cocoervatives. i've survived the challenges s so far by the dailyrace that

mes from god. >> reporter: in a nail-biter tt romney sweped to victory in the caucuses. the former massachusetts governor, at first indifferent to iowa made a big and ultimately successful final push. >> we are going to change the white housus and g g america bacac on ack. >> reporter: texas congressman ron paululinished third. >> this movememtt is going to continue and we are going to keepep sng just as we have tonight. >> reporter: while the top three saw their fortunes rise in the final days former gop house leader newt gingrich saw his plumme a reversal he blalad onn a barrage of negativiv a a by romneysupporters. last night, his concession speech was a call to arar. >> i d d reserve the right to tell t t truth a a if the truth seemgative that may be more a comment on his record than it is on politics. >> reporter: now, the focus shifts to new hampshire where gingrich is rolling out a stinging ad in the largest paper calling romney a timid

massachusetts moderate. romney who vacations in new hampshire enjoys a double digit plead in the recent polls. here he meets a new challenger, jon huntsman. the former utah governor by by-by-passed iowa and to the new arrivals to their iowa results, he offered this greeting. >> it would be a welcome to new hampshire nobody cares. >> reporter: two of the major contenders won't be going to new hampshire. minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann who finished seventh in iowa is heading straight to campaign in south carolina. and texas governor rick perry who came in sixth. >> i've decided to return to texaxa assess the results of tonight's caucus determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race. >> reporter: now today, mitt romney gets another boost. arizona senator john mccain, the gop presidential candidate in 2008 comes here to new

hampshire to give his endorsement to mitt romney. >> and that is big, because mccain has said he might not endorse anybody this time around. >> yes. it was a very close night. >> bit whiltaker, thank you very much. >> joining us is former massachusetts governor mitt romney. i'm thinking a few of your sporters eat some chicken wings and watch some college basketball last night we would be talking about a second place finish for you. a little too close for comfort on the narrow margin victory? >> you have to 2k34i9 admit, i think iowa is a big boost for rick san tore 'em and ron paul and myself. we are all in a stronger position and i think pretty happy this morning. >> by way of comparison six years spent out in iowa and i think you end up with 66 more votes this time than in 2008.

can you explain this challenge you had in iowa about getting more traction this go around? >> i'm pleased that we have a seven-person field this time and three people on a virtual dead heat. so mathematically it's higher to get a higher percent by i'm pleased we had a good strong showing here. a few weeks ago i was well behind in the polls here so to come up with a strong finish is something that, obviously, is very encouraging. we got new hampshire next and on after that to south carolina and florida. it's going to be a long road. >> governor romney your runner-up rick santorum calling you a, quote, bland, boring politician. here is what is awaiting you when you get to new hampshire. a full page ad in "the manchester union leader" from newt gingrich saying the choice between the two of you is a bold reagan conservative and you. is this payback for the $3

million negative ads the outside groups affiliated with you ran in iowa? >> you know, i've got broad shoulders. i know that when you get in a campaign, there's a big target on you. it's, obviously, a small target compared what is going to come from the democratic national committee and barack obama. they have already begun attacking me. i'm not too worried about that. the american people will focus on whether i have the skills to lead the country and have the job again. i'm proud of the record i have and happy to defend my record and contrast it with the other people that are coming after me particularly president obama. >> so let's talk about your record a little bit, because, yesterday, so much of the back and forth had to do with newt gingrich calling you a liar but that sort of obscured what was a legitimate question embedded in what he was talking about. i just want to read to you something he said and let's separate the name-calling for a second. talking about you. he said here is a massachusetts

moderate who has tax paid abortions in romney care and puts planned parenthood in romney care and appoints liberal judges to appease democrats and wants the rest of us to believe somehow he's a conservative. setting aside the name-calling can you respond specifically to what he was raising by way of legitimate questions? >> well, he's got his facts wrong and i'm sure we will get a chance during the debates to talk about those things. i understand people will rattle off a list of supposed sins and then you get a chance to go through them one-by-one. i think the people in new hampshire in particular know pretty darn well what i faced when i was governor of massachusetts and i balanced the balance every four years and cut taxes 19 times and funds of $2 billion and helped our schools stay number one in the nation and got our state police to enforce immigration laws. i'm pretty proud of a

conservative record but we will get a chance to talk about that in the months ahead. >> which of the facts specifically were wrong? >> well, for instance our health care bill doesn't mention planned parenthood in any way. in fact, it doesn't mention abortion. the decision with regards abortion funding was a decision by the court. not by the legislature and certainly not by me as the governor. so we will get a chance to talk about those things i'm sure as we proceed during the debates. >> let's look ahead for a second. >> that's right. you're leading by 30 points here in new hampshire. very friendly territory for you and so friendly you're thinking of going to south carolina a few days and campaign there instead. in south carolina, though, it's a rockier road. you came in fourth there four years ago. struggling with christian conservatives. what do you think is different this time around? all of your opponents will be trying to stop your momentum in south carolina. >> well, i'm really pleased that we get momentum that starts here and that in new hampshire, i hope 'em able to do well in new hampshire and i'm going to keep on talking about my record as a

conservative governor and my vision to get the economy going again. of the people in the race i'm the only person who spent over 25 years of the life in a private sector competing with businesses around the world. i understand how jobs come and how they go and if we want to have a nominee who can post up against barack obama with a record of job creation and a record of having worked in the private sector, you know i think i start off with a strongest resume for that purpose. >> right. but nancy's question is about south carolina and it points up what has been historically a little bit of a difficult situation for you especially with conservative christian and evangelicals. south carolina is the first real test for that. what do you anticipate? >> well, you know, i'm pleased that as i look at the record of south carolina that they have selected people of differing backgrounds. i don't think people choose a candidate based upon his or her religion primarily.

i'm sure there will be some who will find that a major issue. but i expect to get good support in south carolina and recognize i'd like to win south carolina. i'd like to win all of the states. but i know that this is going to be a long road. i hope to get delegates in these early states and amass the number need to get the 1,150 total. i think at this stage having the other guys in this race i've organized a national campaign team, we have funding that we have drawn from different states. i've got the capacity i think to take this campaign all the way to tampa and that is something which i think other folks in this race are going to find a little more difficult to do. >> well, governor romney thank you so much for joining us this morning. congratulations, again, on your victory. definitely one for the record books and we look forward to seeing you here in new hampshire. >> thanks, nancy and jim. good to be with you. >> obviously, the close results in iowa are going to impact strategy for the gop candidates as they head into the next week's primary here in new

hampshire. >> we are going to check in in des moines iowa now where we find john dickerson with the latest from the rick santorum camp and jan crawford following the mitt romney campaign and wyatt andrews tracking ron paul. john it looks like the evangelicals came out tonight according to the entrance polls, 57% of the voters affiliate themselves as evangelicals and they must have been the key to santorum's close second. 33% of them said they voted for him. >> that's right. it's one of the questions of this caucus was would the evangelical voters come out the way they did in 2008? and they did. and that matters because, as you and jim were asking governor romney, evangelical voters will play a big role in south carolina. santorum also won with conservatives. those who picked true conservatism their number one issue that they voted on picked santorum by a big margin. mitt romney only got 1% and what

santorum pay attention to now arguing he is the true conservative in the race trying to coalesce all of that support. >> let's bring in chief political correspondent jan crawford right now. jan, the romney campaign must be feeling very comfortable, given how strong they are polling in new hampshire. is the attention actually on south carolina now? >> reporter: right now they are focused on the fact they won south carolina, something no one would have predicted just a month or two ago. because they kept expectations so low here. so the mood in the romney camp right now is extremely positive. they think they are in good position in new hampshire and then they are going to be spending time actually in south carolina this week to get that campaign under way. i think the way they are thinking right now this is going even better than they would have expected. they are going into new hampshire with that commanding lead and they are going to duck down to south carolina on thursday, spend friday there and go back to new hampshire over the weekend. they have a long term strategy as governor romney told you and they are putting it into place

now. >> let's go to wyatt andrews because he is with ron paul who did surprisingly well in iowa. he is second here in new hampshire, but it's a distant second, wyatt. can he replicate his performance in iowa here or anywhere else? >> reporter: that's very, very unclear, nancy, because last night, he got a devoted campaign organization to turn out an organization that was driven largely by young people. young people in iowa it turns out are very afraid of the national deficit and ron paul has the strongest message saying deficit. but there is a big difference between the 21% he got here last night and the 16% where he is polling in new hampshire. he is not a typical politician and that is probably his problem. he's not a typical republican. if you cut all foreign aid, that cuts foreign aid to israel religious conservatives don't like that. if you withdrawal all u.s. forces mainstream republicans

don't want that because they want a more muscular american foreign policy. he does leave iowa claiming this third spot and he has the money and the organization nancy, to go forward in the republican primaries on this different message. >> one quick one, back to john dickerson dickerson. as people getting their arms around what happened in iowa is rick santorum the mike huckabee in 2012 or is this race now a longer extended campaign? >> well, he is sort of a little huckabee. he got a lot of support from evangelicals and conservatives but, in a way this was also part of th anti-mitt romney feeling that we have seen as republicans have circledycled through the republican candidates. rick santorum worked hard in iowa and he was lucky and timing great and last man standing in terms of the nonmitt romney candidates. >> john jan, wyatt, in a chilly iowa, thanks to you. we will be right back with this

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♪ welcome back to "the early show." i'm jim axelrod, along with nancy cordes. we are in manchester new hampshire. very exciting. i feel like yesterday was opening day and i was sitting around talking about the first games. >> that's right. we finally got real results to talk about. who thought, eight votes, not eight points would have separated the two leaders in iowa. right now, we will go new york and debbye turner bell with a check of the rest of the morning's headlines. >> good morning. i know it's cold there. the blast of old air across florida. citrus farmers up all night spraying water on their crops and hope a thin coating of ice will act as insulation against the cold. some places are reporting temperatures in the low 20s.

officials expect to lift a hard freeze warning for much of the state later this morning. police here in new york say the suspect in a string of fire bomb attacks told them he was motivated by revenge. ray lengend was arrested yesterday. police say he confessed to fire fire bombings on new year's day, including a muslim cultural center. there were no injuries in any of the attacks. and the new year has brought new surprises higher of course. a gallon of regular gasoline averages $3.28 today. that's up a nickel from last week. and a tall cup of starbucks coffee is up 10 cents in the northeast and sun celt states. the daily "the new york times" now costs 50 cents more on the newsstands here in the new york area. that is $2.50 an issue monday through saturday. news is

. good morning. clear skies in the area. there is no heavy duty wind in the area. we lost the wind and the windchill. it is cold, it is like 15 now. the forecast is calling for a high of 51 told. the warm front over the area, 25 overnight and maybe a flurry or two blowing around, but back up to 42 coming up the differences between new hampshire and iowa in choosing the next republican presidential candidate. >> the contrast could be night and day when it comes to religion. we will be right back. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. you sure its a good price? pretty sure... sfx: truth phone rings hello? pretty sure? consider this your wake-up call. everybody has a price guarantee. but only sears guarantees the best price on all top 10 brands, because only sears carries them all. with experts who know them all.

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. it is cold, we have more on the drive and marty has weather. no windchill, that is the big story, it is not an issue at all this morning. cloud he -- cloudy skies, a push of mild air will move in and mid 40s tomorrow and mid 50s on friday. over to traffic control for more. >> tab morning. we still have that extent on the topside of the beltway. it is not slowing down much on the shoulder. that accident is on west side, that could take time to clear

up. this is at preston, on route 198, there is a look at the speeds on the beltway, 38 to 49 miles per hour. minor delays and there is a lock out there, the sun glare could be a problem there. there is a more on the attic, quickly reducing energy costs. back to you. if you are struggling to get the chill out of your bones, you are not alone. winter is being felt here in a big way. here is more on the beltway in baltimore county. >> good morning, everybody. the sudden snow squals yesterday could not have come at a worse time, this snow was so local, the state crews got the salt down and the dusting turned to ice and some cars and trucks got up the hills and the

block age compounding the back up. it took about an hour in parkville to move a block. the state said that the areas were overnight fully saltd for this morning's drive. reporting live on 95, wjz news, back to you. the trial has started for a man accused in the gang rape after 13-year-old girl in baltimore county. she identified the 26-year-old as one attack her. he and two others are said to have drug the girl in a storage room and forced her to perform sex acts there. the rink closed last year -- a 38-year-old man is behind bars for impersonation of a police officer and the auction sexual assault of a woman and trying to assault another in the same location two days later. stay with us for more. up next, the gop candidate will be speaking about the future of his campaign and what will make

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♪ new hampshire holds the first primary of the 2012 campaign next tuesday and the primary looks more interesting than ever after mitt romney and rick santorum finished eight votes apart with ron paul not far behind in iowa last night. the candidates face a different challenge connecting with voters here than they did in iowa. >> correspondent karen brown is here with that part of the story. what is the big difference between these two states? >> the caucuses and this primary aren't just apples and oranges. truly, they are granite cliffs and corn fields. that is how different they are.

a key camp about half of the voters last night said they were very conservative. here in the last election only 20% described themselves that way. for republicans in new hampshire, it's about being a fiscal conserve with small business owners leading that charge. >> thank you for being with us. >> reporter: fritz is not running for office. business down 10% at his historic hotel in jackson, new hampshire, he is making sure. >> the original floor from 1869. >> reporter: his place doesn't become history. >> this is everything i have. >> reporter: koppel is a new england moderate republican and shares one thing with his conservative counterparts in iowa. >> this election is all about the economy. >> reporter: but don't think the white steeple church outside means they have much more in common. university of new hampshire pollster andy smith. >> iowa republicans, for example, are dominated by evangelical churches home

school organizations. new hampshire, according to one study by gallup is the second least religious state in the country. >> reporter: the kind of top that played in iowa. >> this is a great country and i trust in god. >> reporter: may not play here. >> christmas is my game you know? like if the economy does well i do well. >> reporter: the state's low, 5.2 unemployment rate is almost as picturesque as the state. small businesses are keeping people employed. as a small business owner, how frustrated are you? >> well, i immediately ripped all my hair off my head. >> reporter: how important are small business owners in this election? >> i'm first to say that new hampshire essentially has no large businesses. small businesses dominate in new hampshire economy. >> reporter: iowa in contrast leans toward agribusiness and

smaller pool of voters. >> 538 total votes. >> reporter: the caucus are republican only. in new hampshire, independents like concord deli owner peter also participates. he is a swing voter who seen firsthand consumer confidence drop to its lowest level in two years. why do you think your business is down 20%? >> they are bringing their own lunch and cutting back. when they do come in they get a half a sandwich instead of a whole sandwich. >> reporter: and that is because of the uncertainty, you think? >> i think it's uncertainty, yeah, sure. >> reporter: in the last election, he made headlines with president obama. so you sit rye here. you took a picket with the president? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: you had it up in your restaurant. you took it down. why? >> hope and change hasn't translated into anything for my business and i'm sure, for a lot of small businesses. >> reporter: why is it the government's responsibility to fix it for you? >> it's not their responsibility

to fix my business but it's the government's responsibility to set a mood that it's okay to go out and spend money again. >> reporter: 4 out of 10 new hampshire independents consistently vote democrat but like sylvester, a growing number are switching allegiance. >> for the first time in my life i'm going to vote republican. >> reporter: do you feel a little bit like a turncoat? >> not at all. i feel like a patriot. maybe it will wake up some people in washington. >> reporter: and unlike in the iowa caucuses where 6% of the eligible voters turned out, here, the candidates have a lot more voters to convince. >> we observe have turnouts higher than some states have in their jen election for president. we are seen that republican interest is higher this year than in 2008. >> i do think the republicans have a good chance to be back in the white house. >> reporter: and that is also lit a political fire in koppel. so your concern for your

country, as well as your business, has you superfocused on politics right now? >> exactly. glued to the tv. >> reporter: and, of course we will be glued here in new hampshire. one thing to keep in mind is this whole idea that 40% of the voters here are independents is a bit of a misnomer. in fact, 30% of them always vote republican. 40% vote democrat and one thing to really keep in mind is the fact that according to professor smith, about 10% of those who usually vote democrat are now planning on voting republican so something to keep an eye on. >> wow. i think there is no better sign of how different these two states are iowa and new hampshire in the fact that no nonincumbent republican has ever won both of them. >> it's just completely different. the social issues are the focus in iowa. the economy is the number one issue everywhere but social issues are key in iowa. here, it's the fiscal issues. you can watch as the candidates will start to really change their message here.

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welcome back to a special edition of "the early show." i'm nancy cordes along with jim axelrod here in manchester new hampshire. >> before the latest on next week's primary, we want to go to new york and check in with debbie durner bell. the suspect in the los angeles arson suspect is in custody. lee cowan has this report. >> reporter: the day before some 53 arson fires wreaked havoc across los angeles, the man police say is their prime suspect, 24-year-old harry burkhart went on a tirade in this federal courthouse. sources say he was upset his mother dorothee had been arrested in a warrant out of germany. >> he entered the courtroom and made quite a disturbance. a lot of cursing in english and words i won't repeat here. >> reporter: court documents indicate his mother is held on

19 counts of fraud and may well be extradited out of the u.s. if burkhart's motive was rehabilitation for his mother's arrest investigators aren't saying. >> i'm not going to get into any of the details of the statements he made. >> reporter: both here in the country illegally say officials. records say his mother was running a massage service and a federal agent remembered burkhart's outburst in court when he saw the release of the arson suspect. investigators say a lot more charges are pending for burkhart. lee cowan, cbs news los - angeles. >> citrus farmers in florida are scurrying to protect their fruit. farmers are spraying oranges and other crops with water, hoping a thin coating of ice can insulate

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>> he is focusing on new hampshire. i know you want to talk about next week, but we have to start a look back and getting your impressions on what happened in iowa yesterday. >> happy to do that. but i have to tell you that the one take out of iowa really is extraordinary ambiguity. no sense of a leader coming out of iowa. kind after jumbled up three-way tie. i say this speaks directly to exactly the lay of the land not just in iowa but here in new hampshire as well. it's people don't want to be told for whom to vote. they want the candidates to earn their vote with a message that speaks to reform that speaks to change and a new generation of leadership. who would have guessed rick santorum, toodling around in his pickup truck, would have gone from nowhere to practically winning the caucus? and i say new hampshire is going to result in the same thing and this nation will follow suit. >> you said last night when you were speaking to your fellow candidates, welcome to new hampshire. nobody cares what happened in iowa which would be convenient if it were true but do you

really think it's true? >> i think it's absolutely the case. i've been around 150 public event in this state and i have to say the good people of the granite state don't want to be told for whom to vote. they want the candidates to come in. they want to learn their heart and soul and what is in their head and be able to understand their vision for a better america and then do their diligence and stare down the ballot box and say i have to make a decision. i have to decide who can be the president of the united states of america? and that will drive their thinking. >> the story is the process, so far, the republican process, nominating process has been you have this guy, mitt romney who is sort of accepted front-runner and everybody else circles in for a dance. bachmann had a dance and perry and gingrich have had a dance. how come you haven't had a dance yet? >> we are about to start one here in new hampshire. >> let's take a look where things stand in new hampshire according to the latest suffolk

university poll you're polling in third place and mitt romney with 41% and ron paul ahead of you by six points. romney hat wind in his back coming out of iowa. how do you make up that kind of ground in a week? >> polls go up and down. i was ahead of rick santorum in an iowa poll about a week ago. five or six percent. he was at 5%. look how quickly these things change. it's because you'll have the citizens of this great state will begin to coalesce around a candidate who they have heard from and seen who they trust to deliver a message that is going to deal with this nation's economic deficit and deal with our trust deficit. those are the two most compelling issues of our time. we have taken our history as a public servant out there, told the people of this great state what we are prepared to do to get this country moving again and i like our chances. we have gone from zero to now third place in this race and i like our position going forward. >> governor, sketch out a narrative for me in which your

candidacy catches some fire. what do you have to do in new hampshire? because then the next thing you have to do it go to south carolina where you can't be very well positioned. tell me how it works. >> i love the highly am bigus field. you say romney got a quarter of the vote coming out of iowa. look at how much blue sky there is for the rest of the field. this is a wide open race still. i say we just have to beat market expectations in new hampshire. the market will set a certain expectation for us. i have to wake up on the 11th and see we have beat the market expectation and we move on to south carolina where we have supporters like the current attorney general alan wilson and the carroll campbell family and family of hen ri mcmaster, the former attorney general who just lost the governorship and they are part of our team down there and we are ready to come and we need to come out of new hampshire with a head of steam and we will get that this week. >> if you don't come out of new hampshire first or second what then? do you drop out? >> that's not an option. losing isn't an option!

we are going to stay focused on success and let it play out and let the people make their choice as they do in this great country and live with whatever the consequences are, knowing we have done our best. >> got it. governor jon huntsman thank you for joining us in manchester this morning. >> thank you. newt gingrich came in fourth in iowa and already on the attack here in new hampshire. this is "the early show" on cbs. >> announcer: one fabric softener has that special snuggly softness your family loves. >> hi, i'm snuggle. snuggly softness that feels so good. look, i get towels fluffy... [giggles] blankets cuddly... and clothes stay fresh... [sniffs] for 14 days, with my snuggle fresh release scent droplets. and i cost less than the leading brand. let's make the world a softer place. let's snuggle. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] next time

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. a cold morning. roads after the weather. a called start. sharron will be here with traffic in a moment. let's look at the forecast. we will go for a hot temperature of 31 today. we lost the winds and the breeze, it is a very big deal. it is cold now and through the day. 25 is normal overnight. partly sunny, the high of 42, back up to normal. how about the mid 350s on friday? over to the traffic control, good morning. >> a pretty normal morning drive, clearing up the accident on the topside of the highway, but one is left, the fluids in the road there and another

accident that is at preston and court, and another one that is the one you want to watch for as well. there is a lock at the spyeds on the beltway, not that bad, in the 30s on the top and west side and there is a look at the west side, the sun glare could be a factor there. more on the pest control in your attic to reduce the energy costs. sticking with transportation action many people in maryland hope for a smoother ride home today after that surprising slick afternoon yesterday. >> the snow yesterday could not have come at a worst time, as people headed home from work and because the snow was so local, the straight crews were not able to get the salt down

and that dusting turned to ice. some trucks blocked and compounded the back i hopes and some drivers said it took over an hour to move one block. the state said that they were overnight fully saltd for this morning's drive. back to you on t.v. hill. >> the republican state congresswoman said she will run for the second congressional seat held by a democrat. she is planning to i can it official with an announcement tomorrow -- stay with us for more news --

♪ welcome back to a special edition of "the early show" the day after the iowa caucuses. i'm nancy cordes. >> i'm jim axelrod. a good day to be here in new hampshire. we do want to mention another big day ahead next monday. this broadcast will debut at cbs "this morning," with charlie rose and gayle king. >> every vote in iowa really did matter there. mitt romney pulling off an extremely slim victory over rick santorum. eight votes separating the two of them after deadlocked most of the night. >> correspondent bill whitaker was up late last night and up early this morning for us.

good morning, bill. >> good morning, guys. >> reporter: iowa as it often does, shuffled the deck last night. newt gingrich in the lead a month ago, came in fourth. for the top two, a photo fish. >> game on. >> reporter: a late surge by former pennsylvania jor ricksenator rick santorum pushed him to near victory thanks to the passionate support of social conservatives. >> i've survived the challenges so far by the daily grace that comes from god. >> reporter: in a nail-biter, mitt romney sweeped to victory in the iowa caucuses. the former massachusetts governor, at first indifferent to iowa made a big and ultimately successful final push. >> we are going to change the white house and get america back on track. >> reporter: libertarian leader texas congressman ron paul finished third. >> this movement is going to continue and we are going to keep scoring just as we have tonight. >> reporter: now the focus shifts to new hampshire, where

gingrich is rolling out a stinging add in the largest paper, calling romney a timid massachusetts moderate. romney who vacations in new hampshire enjoys a double dgit lead in the recent polls. here, he meets a new challenger, jon huntsman. the former utah governor bypassed iowa and to the new arrivals to their iowa results, he offered this greeting. >> it would be a welcome to new hampshire nobody cares. >> reporter: two of the major contenders won't be going to new hampshire. minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann, who finished seventh in iowa, is heading straight to campaign in south carolina. and texas governor rick perry who came in sixth. >> i've decided to return to texas, assess the results of tonight's caucus, determine whether there is a path forward for myself in this race. >> reporter: now romney is heavily favored here. as that gingrich newspaper ad

indicates, expect a bitter battle here in new hampshire. >> of course bill another shake-up coming which is that john mccain who won the republican nomination in 2008 this was his turn around state. new hampshire is expected to endorse mitt romney today, right? >> reporter: politics make strange bedfellows. four years ago, they were bitter rivals, and today they embrace. >> newt gingrich finished fourth in iowa and isn't waiting on hitting back to mitt romney. >> dean reynolds joins us. looks like newt left iowa in bad mood. >> he seemed bitter. i think he is going to try a much more aggressive approach in new hampshire, if only to try to stall romney so that gingrich can get to south carolina which he is finds to be much more

fertile field. gingrich got here early this morning, determined to sharpen his message and his criticism of romney. and you could see that in his remarks last night in des moines. >> one of the great debate. that is whether this party wants a reagan conservative who helped change washington in the 1980s with ronald reagan and helped change washington in the 1990s as speaker of the house. somebody who into changing washington. or we want a massachusetts moderate who, in fact will be pretty good at managing the decay that has given no evidence in his years in massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure or change the government. >> reporter: now that is essentially the message in that full-page ad today in "the manchester union leader."

"the choice." the massachusetts moderate romney is depicted as versus the reagan conservative. the gingrich folks got blindsided by the negative advertising in iowa and determined not to let that happen again here. they are going to try to define romney much as he defined gingrich and in words and ways that romney may not appreciate. >> is it a different landscape at all for gingrich? romney had such a big lead in new hampshire. does he sort of want to get the conversation away from new hampshire altogether and keep it focused on what follows in south carolina? >> well, yeah. he would definitely want to get to south carolina as quickly as he possibly can. but with romney up in the 40s, 40% up here they feel that if they can drive him down to like the mid-30s, it would be an embarrassment. that's what they are trying to draw some blood, you know? if they can do that they feel

that will be, you know a pretty decent showing for them a result for them and they can go on to south carolina and raise some money too. that's the other thing. they think they can go to texas if rick perry really drops out of the race go to texas and look at that treasure atrophy efficient trove of donations that might be more clined to support gingrich this romney. >> i want to bring bill whitaker on this point. gingrich talks of rom niece as a massachusetts moderate as if that is a dirty word but here in new hampshire it might not hurt him so much. >> it might not hurt him so much. what is interesting, in iowa, mitt romney was able to pull about 25%. you look back four years ago, that's about what he got four years ago. >> right. >> and also what he has been getting in the national polls leading up to these primaries and caucuses. so it could indicate that romney has a ceiling problem. he's got to break through that 25% and i think he is looking to

new hampshire to help him come up with some bigger numbers. >> right. the big question is does he get those bigger numbers once some of the lower ranking candidates drop out. bill whitaker and dean reynolds thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thanks guys. we will go back to new york and debbye turner bell is at the news desk for a check of today's other headlines. >> good morning. florida farmers trying to save their crops from the big chill. this morning growers near tampa are spraying fields with strawberries with water. the idea is that a thin coating of ice will protect the fragile plants from the frost damage. temperatures are in the 20s in several places. forecasters expect the crisis to ease later today as readings rise into the more seasonable zone. in britain this morning police hope to solve a royal murder with a royal twist. a woman's body was found on one of the grounds of queen

elizabeth estate. it was turned into a crime scene. the royal family spent the holidays there, including a new year's celebration. police are trying to identify the murder victim. obviously we will be continuing on the inquiries the next several days and weeks to establish, a, who she is and, b, how she came to be here and who is responsible for her being here. >> an autopsy was conducted yesterday, but the cause of death was not disclosed. no royals are involved in the investigation. and a lonely pine tree in northeastern japan has become a symbol of survival for the whole country. the 98-foot tall tree is thought to be more than 260 years old. it survived the earthquake and tsunami in march 2011 but it has become one of japan's most

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to endorse for next week's new hampshire primary. thank you for joining us congressman. i want to take a look at how tea party supporters voted in iowa. about 64% of them identified themselves as tea party supporters so a large chunk of the electorate actually say they have support for the tea party in iowa. >> i think frustration for the spending at the federal level and lack of reducing our debt and deficit and where they are focusing their attention. you'l see that discussion in iowa and see that this week in new hampshire. still quite a few people are undecided and things will tighten up in new hampshire and see how the week shakes out. >> what are we talking about right now? a 27% lead for mitt romney in the latest suffolk poll in new hampshire? what does that tell us about tea party strength in this state? >> i think pockets of strecket in strength in new hampshire.

mitt romney has a vacationing home here in new hampshire. now that the iowa caucus is down, the final seven days whom am i going to vote for. ovenlts different newspapers have supported different candidates and that will make things interesting. rick santorum the clear winner i think, last night because of just the expectation game. he doesn't have any expectations here so i think you're going to see him surge. and i think it's going to be between the three of them despite the fact jon huntsman has spent so much time here. >> there are four or five candidates trying to lay claim to the tea party vote and what it has ended up in is a fractured tea party vote. the tea party hasn't coalesced around any one candidate. does that hurt the movement's power at all the fact that you haven't gotten behind -- >> i don't think it hurts the movement, because the movement is not a group focus so much as individual based. and people have the right and the responsibility to make their own decisions as to who they are going to support.

that being said, you know with the tea party go away as a result of maybe not having coalescing for one candidate? absolutely not. i think, if anything, make the tea party stronger to put the people in the white house or congress who have the values of reducing the debt and deficit and focusing on limit government and doing it in a structural long-term way. >> you're not going to endorse before next tuesday in? >> honestly i have not decided. i was talking about this this morning with my wife. i have not made a final decision yet. i know it's time sensitive and i have to make a decision within the next day or so. >> which candidates strike you now with tea party voters right now? >> i think the most consistent is newt gingrich and rick santorum. there is more than just that. you have to focus on elect ability and who has the best equipped campaign to run against barack obama. this for tea party i think more importantly is about making barack obama one-term president. that is number one. and then who can do that, who has the full package. that's why i think there is

dissention among the ranks. >> i think it's struckive even though iowa many considered themselves tea party republicans, they said they went with the candidate who was most likely to beat barack obama, not the true conservative. >> exactly. that is why this is more about barack obama and getting rid of barack obama. it's not an ideological campaign. who can we put up that will beat barack obama? tea partiers are angry at his policies, health care foreign policy spending stimulus. those things are not in tune with the tea party nor do i i think it's quite in tune with the country. that is what the guiding principle is for tea parties and why they are explicit amongst the candidates. >> congressman frank guinta a former mayor of manchester where we are sitting now, thanks for coming on. >> thank you for being in our great city and our great state. coming up next who has got the momentum going into next week's new hampshire primary? >> and can rick santorum

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welcome back. here is the big question now. with mitt romney winning the iowa caucuses by just a razor-thin margin who has the momentum coming into next week's primary in new hampshire? >> joining us is major garrett. >> great to be with you. >> any difference between mitt romney winning by eight votes or winning by 8,000 votes? >> well, certainly. 8,000 votes would have been a big deal for mitt romney. he underperformed a little bit from what he did four years ago, getting precisely six votes less than time than he did it four years ago. though, he spent much less money. mitt romney arrives in new hampshire just fine. he has a to deal with rick santorum. now the latest in the long list of the alternatives. romney had a skilve way to deal with perry and knocked him out

and plan to get rid of newt gingrich. he has made him much less of a factor and now focus his attention on rick santorum. if you look at his past records dealing with challenges you have believe the romney campaign will have a plan and execute it against rick santorum to maintain his front-runner status. >> rick perry says he is going back to texas to reassess the campaign. do we take it to mean he is dropping out the next couple of days? >> pick perry is reassessing because he vastly underperformed in iowa and he knows he cannot credibly tell those who wrote early checks for his campaign he has a plan or formulation or a strategy to win. when you underperform that spectacularly the reassessment is your bridge to withdrawing. >> let's go back to rick santorum for a minute if we can, major. is this morning the high point of rick santorum's campaign or is it along the lines of what we saw with mike huckabee four years ago or is he going to be able to sustain this a little bit longer? >> well, rick santorum will

raise money now. he has some organization in new hampshire. although the poll status there is very low but he'll close the gap because he'll get free media now continuously until the new hampshire primary. what he can't do is buy television money because he doesn't have the money an the tv slots are already purchased and no longer i vable. what rick perry can do to help rick santorum if he is so inclined pull out now and open the slots that his super pact opened up on his behalf and open it up so rick santorum. if that happens some areas that santorum can buy. without it he'll have to do it on free media which means who cover him on the campaign trail, he will not have the ability to buy tv time because it's already purchased. >> major, you cover capitol hill a lot and we're speaking about santorum. he has gotten barely any support from his former peers.

if you look at the numbers of the former and current members of congress running for office. newt gingrich has only got eight endorsements from members of congress and ron paul three, michele bachmann one and rick santorum, zero. is this a matter of familiarity breeding contempt? why don't they have more support from the people who know them best? >> a couple of reasons. endorsements carry much less value than they used to number one. number two, washington is not a popular place so not a great thing if you're a republican saying i'm going to confront the system to have those within the system along your side. those are two factors that have very important. for rick santorum the answer is simpler than that. nobody thought he had a chance until a week ago until rick santorum. the endorsement game doesn't carry the value it used to. politicians now operate as their own wholly-owned campaigns and own political corporations if you will and bringing more into the mix is sometimes more trouble than it's worth. >> got it. major garrett from washington, d.c., thanks so much.

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♪ welcome back to a special "the early show" coming to you live from a chilly manchester new hampshire, the day after the iowa caucuses. i'm nancy cordes. >> i'm jim actlexelrodaxelrod. we are covering politics and politics and politics. >> while iowa republicans were voting last night, president obama was reaching out to

democrats in the state. >> he spoke to them by video conference speaking of his victory there four years ago and his accomplishments since then. >> i'm actually more optimistic now than i was when i first ran because we have already seen change take place. but part of it is also framing this larger debate. what kind of country are we going to leave for our children and our grandchildren. >> naturally the president and his staff were very interested in last night's republican caucuses in iowa. senior white house correspondent bill plante joins us with their reaction. good morning, bill. i'm wondering how the results in iowa with republicans are playing in the white house. >> reporter: jim, i tell you what, the president is focused here, they say, on his day job. the public saying he isn't paying much attention to the republican race, that he doesn't watch much tv except for

sports, of course, and he is too busy running the country to worry about what the republicans are up to. even if he isn't paying attention, you can be sure that the white house staff here and the campaign staff in chicago watching very closely. the president advisers of the dnc have had their attacks focused on romney of course from the beginning and they expect him to be the nominee and they have to be pleased today that iowa didn't make romney a clear winner. they hope that romney's opponents will do as much damage to him as possible and make this race last. >> bill rick santorum who came in razor close second place last night, likes to say the obama administration is the most worried about him. there doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence of that but does his strong finish last night in iowa indicate that they will change strategy at all and start, you know, putting out anything against him? >> reporter: no, nancy, i don't

think so. i mean, they regard santorum as an iowa phenomenon. they will be interested to see what he does in north carolina but i don't think it's going to change their stance. they still believe romney will be the nominee and they are acting in the campaign headquarters in chicago and here as well on that assumption. i mean the president today goes to campaign in shaker heights and his message is jobs and the economy. it's an event that focusing on what he has focused on all along. if you suggest to the senior staff here that is like campaigning, they will tell you with a straight face oh, no! it's about the president doing the urgent business of the nation. >> got it. admirable spin from the white house. bill plante at the white house this morning, thank you so much. >> joining us now from boston with more on the president's re-election campaign is the governor of massachusetts, a democrat deval patrick. >> he knows about his

predecesor mitt romney. >> it's a win last night for the tea party agenda. that was really the big winner. i mean, the candidates in many respects are either changeable because they are all offering exactly the same plan and that is a plan that says that everybody in america is on his or her own and that is a very, very different plan than the president has offered and the democratic party stands for. >> how can you say it was a win for the tea party when mitt romney, according to to even the people who voted last night, is not the most conservative person in the field? >> well, it's really hard. let me first say that mitt romney has always been a gentleman to me personally. but he has occupied just about every position available in politics in the course of this campaign and a lot of his -- a lot of his rhetoric these days is very much aligned with the tea party. >> but you have a situation now, governor where every republican -- we just had a tea

party congressman in here. newt gingrich said yesterday, better to elect a liar than to reelect president obama. every candidate is focused on defeating president obama. so what are you seeing coming out of iowa that is going to shape white house strategy in pushing back against this forceful attack against the president? >> well, jim, i think that is an important observation. in fact, the focus of the national republican party on defeatng this president is not just an election season interest. that's been an interest since the president first took office. even at a time when we needed to come together to address critical problems facing the american people. the difference between this president and modern national republican party is that this president really does believe we are all in this together. and he is focused on how we relieve the suffering of so many of the people here in this country. there is a view out there

offered by the hard right of the republican party which dominates the national party today, that everybody is on his or her own. the president believes that we share in the responsibility for ourselves, our community, and our country. and that's a very, very different offering than what has been offered by the republican party and that is what the - american people will get to choose come november. >> but, again governor the candidate who looks like he is emerging at least now has a 27-point advantage here in new hampshire, is not somebody from the hard right of the republican party. so, again, let me ask you how president obama is going to run a campaign with still high unemployment, a campaign that looks more and more like it's going to turn entirely on economics? >> well, you can say that mitt romney isn't from the hard right of the republican party and in the past he hasn't been. but listen to what he is saying today and very much aligned with them. he took, you should know a very hands-off approach to the economy when he was governor of massachusetts. and we were growing jobs at number 47th out of 50 states.

we take a very different approach today and we're growing jobs faster than most other states. we are at number 6 today. he took a very hands-off approach to education. but, today, we take a very hands-on approach to education and there's more reform going on in our schools than almost any other place else in the country and our students are number one in the nation on student achievement. so, you know, there is more to these labels which i think jim and nancy, you both agree are a little oversimplified than just saying where they are on a political spectrum. it's what he has actually done that reflects what he believes in. you distinguish that from president obama who has, after decades of trying extended health care security to every man, woman, and child in the country, who has invested in our infrastructure and invested in closing the achievement gap, the way of winning the future a strategy we have seen proven here in massachusetts and in the past in our history in america has proven to be a winning

strategy and that is the choice facing the american people. >> governor we don't have that much time left. would you agree that governor romney comes out of iowa strengthened? a couple of months he wasn't expected to do that well there. he came in first. he is now poised to pull off something no other republican - who is not an incumbent has ever done before which is win iowa and new hampshire. >> he might. i wish him well. not too well. but i wish him well. as i say, he has always been a gentleman to me and he is a great campaigner. he will present well. he has a beautiful family. but i think that at the end of the day, the voters who will vote in the general election are going to see a very different choice in philosophy about what direction the country should take. and it's the direction about whether we are, as i say, a country and united in moving forward or whether we say to everybody they are on their own. i favor the united approach that president obama has offered. >> massachusetts governor deval patrick, we will leave it there.

thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. now let's go back to new york to debbye turner bell for the rest of this morning's headlines. >> good morning. the man suspected of setting more than 50 fires in the los angeles area is being arraigned today on one count of arson. authorities believe harry burkhart's alleged arson spree was triggered by his mother's legal troubles. she faces deportation to her native germany and appeared in federal court yesterday. dorothee burkehart was and aware her son was in jail. she says the following. >> the judge assured her that her son is not missing, has not disappeared i believe was the world the judge used. >> dorothee burkhart is charged

with 19 counts of fraud in germany. >> police say a suspect in a string of new year's fire bomb attacks in new york says he was out for revenge. ray lengend was charged yesterday with a hate crime and police say he confessed for five fire bombings. one target was a muslim cultural center. no one was injured in any of the attacks. a california group calling for higher taxes on millionaires is making kim kardashian its poster child. it says kardashian made $12 million last year, but just paid 1 percentage point more in taxes than someone who made $47,000. the popular sitcom i carly" will feature a special guest later this month. take a look at this clip. >> what are you doing here? >> you mean setting up the surprise birthday party on "i carly"? >> my husband and i talk with a lot of people with family in the military.

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iowa was the first state to vote on the republican presidential candidates but next year new hampshire holds the first primary election. >> folks in the granite state are proud to have that distinction. correspondent karen brown is more wmore on that. >> it is sort of their identity here being first in the nation. this is a small state. there is only 1.3 million people in this state and being first in the nation not only puts it on the map, but it is good for business. the primary season brings in over $300 million. not the biggest money maker. nascar events bring in 100 million more than that. the attention this state gets from the national spotlight is priceless. and a big reason they relish being first in the nation. >> how seriously do you take your politics? >> very seriously. i think everybody in new hampshire does because they know they are the first and it will make a difference in the way

that the country goes. >> reporter: new hampshire voters like sculpting the political landscape. >> we are proud of setting the direction the country goes in. >> reporter: behind the scenes the state is seizing on that free advertising. >> it is awesome to be here in new hampshire. >> reporter: to sell itself. >> as far as we're concerned, in terms of business environment, place to live, we are first in the nation. >> reporter: not just the first primary? >> no. >> reporter: first in the nation has become new hampshire's brand. and a crucial tool for economic developer chris way to aggressively recruit businesses. you're luring them in with coffee table books? >> i'm luring them in with whatever is at my disposable. we are touted as the most livable state in the nation.

we want them to know that government is accessible that we are somewhat different. >> reporter: and no state income tax. >> a very favorable tax climate. >> reporter: bill skelley knows the lure of new hampshire. his medical retooling company used to be in massachusetts. so you're sitting on a plane. >> yes. >> reporter: and -- >> talking to a gentleman across the aisle. >> reporter: about your frustration? >> about our business the frustration. not being approved in massachusetts to expand a building i owned. >> he was talking about his business and complaining. >> reporter: you're eavesdropping basically? >> no. i'm always independence interested in talking to other people. i talked to him about possibly relocating to new hampshire. >> reporter: you said? >> love to. hadn't thought about it but what can you tell me? he said i'm the governor and if you give me your business card we'd like to follow up. >> when i got back to new hampshire i asked people from our economic development office to contact him. >> i had 20 30 e-mails of

different spaces in new hampshire. >> reporter: a negotiator wouldn't let go. >> we narrowed it down to this place and he said let me negotiate a better price for you. i said wow! >> reporter: skelley medical of new hampshire is now growing with clients worldwide. so you're like the recruiter in chief? >> i try to be. i try to be an ambassador for new hampshire. >> reporter: keeping their first in the nation title is so important, it's a state law that new hampshire's primary must be held before any others. >> it just gives them a sense of new hampshire. >> reporter: canoeing. >> you can see all of our tourism and you can see our business environment our universities. so it really gives companies a sense of what the quality of life is like in new hampshire. >> reporter: and new hampshire has seen first in the nation pay off. its unemployment rate is a low 5.2%. exports here are at an all-time high and it's see ago more modern manufacturing sector continuing to grow. as the candidates change their message and really focus on the

fiscal issues, when they come here and say, wow, look at that low unemployment rate. wow, look at how business friendly you are. that is unsolicited advertising just can't buy. >> the governor is not talking about when he likes to stay in touch with small business folks? >> i literally gives them his cell phone number. if somebody is thinking about moving here he gives them an open line. >> politicking in new hampshire. >> exactly. >> karen brown, thanks for being with us. joining us now with a look at the importance of next week's primary is dante scala, associate prefer of political science at the university of new hampshire. give us the lay of the land right now. >> mitt romney is first in new hampshire all year long and he never stopped campaigning in this state since his narrow loss four years ago and almost eight years of work have been building to this moment where he steps forward as the national

front-runner. >> who, besides romney has the organization to compete here in new hampshire? ron paul had maybe the strongest organization of anyone in iowa. what does he have here? what does huntsman have here? can they put on a serious challenge? >> ron paul also has been campaigning for years in new hampshire. and he has a strong organization. he's broadened his base of the vote and polling about twice as well as he was four years ago in the primary. so he is poised perhaps to take second place in new hampshire which is a bit of a surprise given all of the candidates that have come and gone this year. >> i suppose everybody now wants to know about rick santorum since he is the big story coming out of iowa but he comes to new hampshire with not much by way of organization or a lot of money to spend. so what are the next couple of days look like for him? >> yeah. he has considerable up side in the state. he hasn't spent much time on the air but has spent a lot of on the ground visiting the state. his national campaign manager is an old new hampshire hand who impose back to the days of pat

buchanan. they know the state well and make the most out of the momentum and the free media they will earn this week. >> how does a social conservatism in santorum do in new hampshire? you see others skipping the state altogether and newt gingrich has seen his numbers drop significantly the past couple of weeks. >> i think a good baseline for rick santorum is how mike huck huckabee did four years ago. he won iowa and came to new hampshire and won 10% of the vote. i think that is a floor for rick santorum. i think he can finish ahead of gingrich and maybe huntsman. >> he said iowa didn't matter, it all comes down to new hampshire said jon huntsman. >> he is no longer the story in new hampshire. rick santorum the new face and mitt romney had good time last

night. no one has won iowa and new hampshire not reagan, not bush, not mccain. the romney will take eight-point victory and sell it. >> three tickets coming out of iowa to get to new hampshire, how many tickets are there out of new hampshire to get to south carolina? >> i think three. i think you see rick santorum ron paul and mitt romney, if they finish in the top three, i think those are your three candidates going to south carolina and maybe beyond. >> how significant is is it that the former nominee, john mccain, is expected to endorse mitt romney here in new hampshire today? he won new hampshire four years ago. >> yeah. there was no love lost between those two back in 2008. so it's significant, but mitt romney's campaign is -- it's not about momentum it's about maintaining what he has had all year but it does take some shine off of jon huntsman who has been trying to run this maverick john mccain-like campaign here. >> it does seem like, you know

gingrich and perhaps a couple of other candidates maybe perry, might end up throwing their support around santorum now that he is gaining steam, and start hitting romney sh who is not accustomed to that. >> that will be a real test. i remember four years ago in debates leading up to the primary, romney took it from all sides and didn't get the best of that exchange. he's a much better campaigner a much better debater. he's had lots of practice in new hampshire. so you can expect him to give as good as he gets. >> do you ever feel like you live your entire life in one week? >> yeah, pretty much! >> quite a week here in new hampshire. >> absolutely. >> dante scala, appreciate you being with us. quite a start to the season huh? >> we will back from manchester thursday and friday and continue talking about politics. >> that's right, our favorite topic. thanks for being here everybody. your local news is next. see you tomorrow.

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