he rallied crowds friday with cheer leading from new jersey governor chris kristi. >> when romney is president of the state, there's not going to be any on the job training. >> i'm the only one that has real cuts. >> reporter: the gop field is tied and crowded and almost half of voters here are undecided. leaving time for candidates to make a last impression. newt gingrich showed a softer side friday. gearing up talking about his late mother. >> dealing with you know, the real problems of real people in my family. >> reporter: his supporters will roll out a new weapon this weekend. a 30 minute infomercial that opens with reagan's son. >> a decision for the future of the our country. >> reporter: undecided voters have december 2012 on their mind. >> i'm torn from going to that strategic candidate that's going to beat obama or for the one i'm truly in line with. >> reporter: candidates will spend the weekend trying to convince people of their vote. >> he's due back in iowa tomorrow, ron paul is spending the weekend at home in texas. >>> maryland's water ways are more dangerous than the

. >>> this is probably not the response chris kristi was expecting in iowa. had to pause for several minutes as "mitt romney and chris christie serve the corporate 1%." in i had style uniquely his watch as he takes on a group of those occupy protesters. >> hey, listen, you know what? we're used to dealing with jokers like this in new jersey all the time. don't you worry about. their anger is rooted in the fact that they believed in this hope and change garbage. >> well the nominee hasn't been decided yet on the republican side but there's already talk about the vp stakes, for instance would rick perry be interested? >> why would you leave being governor of the state of texas to be vice president? >> you'd be next in line to be the president of the united states. >> being vice president is not worth a bucket of warm spit. >> i wonder how dick cheney would feel about that. how about mitt romney as newt gingrich's vp? >> i think the circumstances where he'd certainly be on a list, whether he'd want to or not but he's a very competent person. this is a serious ma

fight with you but willing to spit on you as he fights with you in chris christie, i think that chris kristip of the ticket would be a game changer because he would open up states that there is a problem w sarah palin was an attempt to disprove this rule, but vice presidential candidates don't generally change the game. i think chris christie, like everybody else, no matter what he says, no matter what any of them say, if they are offered the vice presidential nomination, almost to a person they will accept t you never close the door on that very hard when the nominee of your party comes to you and says i need to you help me get elected president. very hard to say no. i think chris cribbty was very frank there yes, of course, i will consider it unless my wife says no i will probably take it. that is are really true for all of them. >> one last possibility, has the game changed so much that a reality tv star in the person of donald trump could mount a serious third party campaign here? >> i don't think anything donald trump does is serious. i want to put that off the table. i do think the lik

but remember all the noncandidates -- how many weeks and months did we spend, sairp might run, chris kristias going to come in, saying it's not too late for someone to get in. meaning me. >> the other thing is how often the conventional wisdom is wrong. how often the candidates were written off early -- >> newt gingrich. >> then reality sets in and we discover that all of the conventional -- the appealing narrative that's been pushed along by the media turns out to be flatly not true. >> i give you ron paul, okay? if we're talking about a quirky oddball kind of candidate, this man may win iowa. and he's been all but ignored the last seven or eight weeks. >> this is a fascinating case story. the editor of "national review" and republican pundits are trying to discredit ron paul. they didn't worry before. they say if paul wins the iowa caucuses, no one should take them seriously again. in other words, will be discounted by them -- discounted because ron paul went out, organized, got people excited and managed to win. >> he's wrong for the reason she said. it's conventional wisdom. if you see

. >> at an outdoor rally, new jersey governor chris kristi worked to rally mitt romney supporters.ore we get to calls, we want to remind you that we are covering candidates in iowa today. rick perry is our first live event today. is an event at a coffee and gift shop. rick perry will be there at 11:30 a.m. eastern time. you can watch live coverage on this network, c-span. in the meantime, the rick perry campaign released a new online ad. here it is. >> hi, i am rick perry. as we travel across the state, i am awed by your dedication. from cafes, town halls and churches, we have talked about our kids future. you know my record, creating 1 million jobs while the rest of the nation lost two million. i have proposed a part-time congress, cut their pay, make them accountable. i'm honored to have your support on january 3rd. i am rick perry, an outsider who will overhaul washington, and i approve this message. host: again, look for live coverage of rick perry, and ronnie and rick santorum later today. first call from the independent line. edward. caller: great program. i wanted to give yo

which is actually in the united states, someone asked governor chris christie if he plants audience questions at town hall meetings. kristi's response was christie-esque. >> do you or your staff ever plant questions at a town hall meeting? >> to say it is a planted question, that means my staff is telling someone to ask a particular question. >> correct. >> and that doesn't happen. so you really in front of this group with all of the important issues we have going on in this state, you are wasting these people's time with a qi on whether we plant questions in the audience. >> well, with all due respect, if it was a planted question, you are wasting time at the town hall meeting. >> if i planted the question why the hell did i call on you? >> that was so good. >> that was so magical. >> tucker, how -- this guy should be running for president? how can you change his mind? >> he is playing at the higher level. he gave --20 years of covering politics and he gave the single most compelling speech. it doesn't mean he would be a great president, but he can communicate better than anybody i have ever seen. why is he not running? no

massachusetts governor mitt romney campaigned with popular new jersey governor chris christie, their first event together since kristi's endorsement. he told the crowd he would be back new jersey style if they didn't turn out in troos's caucuses for mitt romney! allison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> an attorney in virginia has filed a lawsuit to have newt gingrich's name placed on the state's primary ballot. the virginia republican party determined gingrich's campaign failed to turn in the required 10,000 signatures. but the attorney filing the lawsuit contends many of the signatures supporting gingrich were improperly excluded. only two of the republican candidates, were tunnel for eligible for the ply mare. >>> "american idol" winner kelly clarkson is facing back already for her endorsement of ron paul. she tweeted in part -- that immediately drew backlash from clarkson's twitter followers is. ron paul came under fire recently for newsletters published in miss name in the 1980s and 90s that caned racist and anti-gay language. clarkson later tweeted that she was sorry if she offended anyone and that she supports gay

kristie and asked him about romney, and let's listen to that. i can see the ticket. i can see the ticket before me. how doing? >> how doing, chris? >> good to see you. >> oh, i don't know, we'll see. >> i don't think so. listen, i don't know. he's going to do really well here, but i don't know what that is going to mean. >> second place good enough? >> going to do well. i'm not setting expectations. >> first or second good enough? >> he'll do really well. you'll be watching, rights? i'll be watching you. >> new jersey, pennsylvania and ohio and break this thing wide open? >> he'll win jersey and pennsylvania and ohio in the open. the fact is, people know it's not going right and he's the guy to fix it. >> are you going across the country with him right now? >> i'm going wherever he's asked me to go. >> i do think it's a possible ticket, so many, john thune, let's stop talking about romney winning this thing. is this a rock meeting a hard place, whatever, because an unmoveable force meeting an unstoppable object? a guy that has had a ceiling because the evangelicals don't like him, a moderate, lds, whatever the factors are. he see

ahead kristie that you know one of my favorite saying hey i want my favorite things in dealing with pakistan is that for the united states to save afghanistan it must destroy pakistan go ahead chris. yeah i mean you know maybe your suggestion for sort of creative engagement with pakistan would be to stop sending unmanned drones into their territory and killing loads of their soldiers and civilians that might be a start i mean it does feel as if the nato response to everything at the moment is you know far a rocket basically and you know what really did anyone sensible expect the pakistanis to do when you've killed twenty four or twenty five of their soldiers with an unmanned drone and not even apologize for at least initially you know it's going to create a diplomatic incident i mean it's quite extraordinary that we need to have this discussion the fact of the matter is and we all know this otherwise people are saying the fact of the matter is there is no possibility of any kind of negotiated solution in the region unless pakistan's around the table and you know we shouldn't make if we if we want that to happen if we want to move in that direction then don't create acts of war ag

chris christie is the governor of new jersey, as you know, and a former u.s. attorney. the leader has reduced deficits, working closely with a democratically controlled state legislature. with his brusque and unconventional approach, kristiaditional state leader. his willingness to wield the power, to fight teachers unions and cut thousands of public- sector jobs has and him as many enemies as it has friends. there is no denying his ability to get results. an editorial writer of new jersey called the alliance between the new work mayer and chris christie, "the best example of services seem today." instead of working mike two independent municipalities, they are working as a team. even if christie a republican, andbooker, a democrat, are doing so to reach their own goals. christie told an audience in february, leadership today in america has to be about doing the big things. congratulations given a christie. -- governor christie. ♪ what's a typical introduction for me. i want to thank everyone. i was saying to folks, when this invitation came in -- it is a busy time of year for everyone. i was time to think i can make this work. my son, my 18-year-old son, a senior in high school, he is taking a leadership class. he saw i