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corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by prudential financial. additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen:good evening 6789 after new hampshire and before south carolina, the battle lines are now well drawn in the republican primary race. the candidate who has won over the most voters, raised the most money and earned the most focused attention from the white house, is former massachusetts governor mitt romney. he's focusing his attention on the president, as well. >> i understand the president, last night, was speaking at a fundraiser in chicago. and he said, "i can promise you change is coming." and he's right. and the name of that change is mitt romney. gwen: but not so fast. before romney can take on the president directly, he has to win more than a single caucus and a single primary. and, lest we forget, newt gingrich, rick santorum, ron paul, jon huntsman and rick perry are still in this thing. gingrich, who is within striking distance so far in the palmett

additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corp persuasion -- corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again from columbia, south carolina, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. thanks, south carolina, for giving us one of the wackiest weeks of the campaign. john house man came to south carolina then he left. rick perry came to south carolina and he left. rick santorum, who lost in iowa seems now to have won there, and newt gingrich, who finished out of the top tier in both iowa and new hampshire is staging a remarkable comeback. i spoke to him yesterday. if mitt romney wins on saturday, you stand by your statement if a that if he wins in south carolina the republicans will nominate a moderate who will lose to democratic barack obama in the fall? >> i think it becomes harder but he's not doing well enough to be very convincing. if you add the conservative vote together between santorum and me we would betemit mitt by 60-40. gwen: rick santorum pushed back later that night. >> grandiosity has never been

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the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you. once again from manchester, new hampshire, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: hello from the granite state. we are here this week to bring you the best of our reporting close up. we all have been out trailing candidates from des moines to manchester, counting photo finish caucus results, tracking the latest underdog surge and watching how when stakes rise, so too do the attacks. mitt romney is still favored to win here but his path to victory is not as uncluttered as it once was. let's start there. this has been a long week for the massachusetts governor. former massachusetts governor, hasn't it, dan? >> it's been a long week and also a pretty good week for him. he won the iowa caucuses by a huge marriagen of eight votes we now call land slide. he picked up the endorsement of john mccain, one of his bitterest enemies for four years ago when they appear here. new polls in south carolina and new hampshire show him in good shape in both states. so in many ways you would say he's movi

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. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the nation's military will have to make do with fewer soldiers and marines and wait longer for some next-generation weapons. that was the upshot today as defense department leaders laid out their plans for major savings. >> left, right, left. >> brown: as army drill sergeants work to get their soldiers in shape. pentagon leaders are working to get the military's budget in shape-- cutting nearly $490 billion dollars over the next 10 years-- a figure mandated by congress. >> we had to achieve savings that would meet the requirement congress gave us. that is tough , real and something that will cause some pain but at same time we recognize defense has to play role in dealing with national deficit. >> brown: defense secretary leon panetta said the plan will shrink the number of army ground forces to 490,000 by 2017, down from a peak of 570,000 in 2010. also in the line of fire: two army brigades stationed

the jane henson foundation and the corporation for public broadcasting. >>> welcome. m bob abernathy. it's gooded to have you with us. evangelicals play a role that make up about 60% of the likely voters. candidates are hoping for a strong challenge from mitt romney who one about a third of evangelicals in less conservative new hampshire. rick santorum won about a quarter of evangelicals there. romney's mormon faith remains an issue. a new poll of mormons in the u.s. shows that many feel their religion is misunderstood. close to half of those surveyed say mormons face a lot of discrimination. majority say americans know little or nothing about the mormon faith, but a majority sees a growing acceptance of mormoni mormonism. more than half say the country is ready for a mormon president. another poll shows a dramatic increase in the percentage of the americans who see tensions between the rich and more. two-thirds of americans say there's a strong or very strong conflict between these groups. that's a 20% increase from 2009. although democrats and political liberals are

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