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david brooks and mark shields, thank you both for joining us.at wraps up our special coverage of the iowa cause kussmentsz i'm jud --caucuses. i'm use judy woodruff. gwen. >> you can check out our interactive map all night for the final results plus we'll post videos of all the candidate speeches. all that and more you'll find on our website newshour dot pbs.org. thank you and good night. . >> rose: funding for charlie rose was provided by the llowing. captioning sponsored by rose communications >> additional funding provided by these funers. funders. and by bloomberg. a provider of multimedia news and informion services worldwide. tonight the special edition of charlie rose, live analysis of the iowa caucus. >> rose: welcome to our coverage of the iowa caucuses at the time of this taping 11:00 p.m. eastern tonight tonight's results are too close to call. mitt romney and rk santorum tied for first place, ron paul is a cle third. whoever emerges as the winner this could be onof the closest contests in iowan recent memory, newt gingrich and rick s

david brooks, how did this become, this republican debate be about relative wealth? how did that happen? >> the party is actually going the other way. one of the odd things about the south carolina republican electorate is going down market. the number of college grads was lower than this time four years ago. it's a working class party. they have two normal working class candidates. and so it's thrust up. i personally don't think it's going to have a big political effect. i think a lot of americans assume that the people who run for president are super rich and if it's a choice between the lobby i haves and the bain capital guy, neither is joe six pack exactly. right now they're looking for the most assertive manly man. right now that's newt gingrich. >> ifill: that goes right to you, ruth. >> yes. manly man or whatever. i think i disagree that it's not going to have an impact. first of all, in this race, yes, people are looking for anger but they're also looking for authenticity. what you have here is the battle of the inauthentic. i wasn't a lobbyist but i had to h

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, david brooks, how did mitt romney in the end pull this off? >> broadly. you know, to me what is most impressive about the thing is that he did well just about among every group, among mod rats, among independents, social conservatives tea party conservatives so he is competing against a bunch of guys who are niche brands, he is not, she the mass brand and so, you know, the next electorate, the next four or five electorates or all of the other electorates is different than new hampshire but if he can keep support among the social conservatives, the tea party times he will do pretty well and i thought the big thing today he took the attacks on bain as you and judy mentioned and turned them into a referendum on capitalism, that's the kind of fight he wants to have. >> woodruff: when you talk about bain you are talking about the company, the venture capital company he once ran, he came under some assault for his management of that. hey, mark, you listened to mitt romney's acceptance speech tonight, what did you think of it? >> well, i think you ma

no worries. >>> columnist david brooks, "time" magazine senior political analyst mark halperin. the des moines register, kathie obradovich and host of "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc, nbc's andrea mitchell. thanks for being here. happy new year. great political story to dig into. major moments of the week, and kathie obradovich with "the des moines register." iowa, as a toss-up. who's going to win this thing? >> boy, you know, it is a moving target right now. and right now all the movement is behind rick santorum. our poll actually, the first two days that we were in the field this week had romney and paul neck and neck. we actually had an illustration on the front page for our paper of romney and paul arm wrestling. and when we came in, saw the last two days, we had to put in rick santorum into the picture. so he is the only candidate that is urging upward right now. everybody else is static except ron paul who is trending down. i think he peaked a week ago. >> mike murphy, you're a veteran of these parts, and also of the tactics of expectations. >> sure. >> i spoke to some

moines register kathieobradovich, republican strategist mik murphy, "new york times" columnist david brooks, "time" magazine's senior political analyst mark halper, and host of "andrea mitchell reports," nbc's andrea mitchell. >>> god morning. here we go. the presidential race of 2012 is about to officiall beg, as the voting starts here in iowa on tuesday. and here's how the race looks this morning, with the "des moines register" poll showing a three-way race now with romney leading ron paul by two points and ric santorum with a late surge. we will lk to santorum about his surpre momentum in the race just a couple of moment but first we have wi us nbc's political director chuck todd, and the chairman of iowa's republican party, matt strawn. welcome to both of you. good morng. happy new year. >> good morning. welcome ck. >> so, chuck todd, partner, where are we this morning? >> well, i think we're trying to gure out this. wht are iowaaucusgoers going to do? are they going to come into these caucuses tuesday night and ck a president or are they oing to do what they've done in the pt, which is

we have the results from iowa, and then we have an assessment of where we go from now with david brooks of "the new york times", and mattçó dowd of bloomberg news and abc news. >> you plead to have a total sense of your own gut, you need½ ekuz develop a narrative of youe with that vote, with the voters, if you need to learn and be abli to connect practice as you go through things in iowa, but don't spend all of this time on fund-raising, don't spend all of this time on searching for the right consultant, don't spend all of this time on doing all of these things campaign seem to spend way too much time on and basically figure out a development of your own self an then say what are the moments debate and other press moments where at those moments i am going to be at the top of my game. >> rose: we conclude this evening with the actor kevin spacey, he is the director of the old vick and his latest production this which he stars in richard the third. >> i mean look i have been here a lot and sat at this table and talked about a lot of experiences i have had, nothing i have ever done in a th

tonight in the warren of cubicles in chicago, the obama campaign is taking very careful notes. >> david brooks of "the new york times", mark shields, thank you both again. >> thank you. >> on line, we have much more about new hampshire, we have a preview. >> on our home page find rings to an interactive link of results. >> plus patchwork nations breaks down the granite state that romney needs to win tonight on our world page we continue our look at haiti two years after the earthquake with a story on efforts to move victims out of tent camps into more permanent housing. and we spoke with two brothers in their 90s who still swing for olympic gold every summer and usually win. they share their tips for lifelong fitness on our health page. all that and more is on our web site. >> and that is the news hour for tonight, i am guinn ifill. >> we will see you on line and be here later tonight for a special report on the new hampshire primary result. 11:00 p.m. eastern time and back again tomorrow evening. thanks for watching. good night. major funding major funding for the pbs newshour has been provid

. >> suarez: plus mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the republican presidential frontrunner, campaigning in south carolina, stepped up his defense against fellow gop attacks on his record in business. this, as the political wars intensified on the state's television airwaves. >> mitt romney helped create and ran a company that invested in struggling businesses, started new ones, and rebuilt old ones, creating thousands of jobs. those are the facts. >> woodruff: that tv commercial began airing as mitt romney campaigned across south carolina today. it's a full-throated defense of his time running a

. >> brown: david brooks and e.j. dionne analyze the week's news. >> suarez: and we close with poet rae armantrout, whose new book, "money shot," deals in part with the financial crisis. >> is to write about the intersection of the public and private. or what's left of the flight our lives. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by bnsf railway. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st centu. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> suarez: tuesday's florida republican primary looked to be a two-man race with the latest batch of polls showing former massachusetts governor mitt romney leading former house speaker newt gingrich. judy woodruff has our report. >> wood

. >> woodruff: and we close with more on the political campaign from mark shields and david brooks. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the republican presidential race in florida came to a close today after a rough-and-tumble ten days. it boiled down to a two-man race, and attacks on the stump and a blitzkrieg of broadcast ads raged on to the very end. at stake: a trove of 50 delegates, and momentum heading into february. republicans predicted a record turnout in florida, more than two million voters. and mitt romney hoped for a decisive victory. >> i'm mitt romne

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with me now are david brooks and ruth marcus. david, give me your first reaction to this. >> brooks: over an hour. republicans don't go. it was his best state of the union speech. look at what he tried to achieve. 38% approval among independents. is he going to wage a campaign that really goes to their issues, that gives them a whole series of policies? i'm not a liberal but i'm sort of for that. if you look at the policies that were in the speech, i didn't think they were the biggest things in the world. i don't personally think they're sufficient. they're pretty reasonable. they're pretty moderate i think on balance. on the whole i think it was a successful speech. >> ifill: the president always goes for the small things. i remember when bill clinton talked about school uniforms. he was derided for that. he was talking about vests for police that could stop a bullet. >> marcus: i'm not sure they're completely comparable. i think i was struck by three things. first of all, in a year like this, in an election year always unmistak

with me now are david brooks and ruth marcus. david, give me your first reaction to this. >> brooks: over an hour. republicans don't go. it was his best state of the union speech. look at what he tried to achieve. 38% approval among independents. is he going to wage a campaign that really goes to their issues, that gives them a whole series of policies? i'm not a liberal but i'm sort of for that. if you look at the policies that were in the speech, i didn't think they were the biggest things in the world. i don't personally think they're sufficient. they're pretty reasonable. they're pretty moderate i think on balance. on the whole i think it was a successful speech. >> ifill: the president always goes for the small things. i remember when bill clinton talked about school uniforms. he was derided for that. he was talking about vests for police that could stop a bullet. >> marcus: i'm not sure they're completely comparable. i think i was struck by three things. first of all, in a year like this, in an election year always unmistaka

that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. good to have you with us here in iowa. david, we've been watching these candidates throughout the campaign. tonight the voters are finally going to weigh in. let's look back at what we've learned about these, in iowa, five men and one woman. what have we learned about them over the course of this campaign? >> the big story is it's much more likely that mitt romney could get the nomination. rick perry annuity gingrich were the challengers and they have not done so well. mitt romney is still very likely. the microstory is rick santorum's rise. i think that's a big story. it's partly because there have been a lot of social conservatives here. they've been looking and time is up. they have to make a decision. going to the des moines register polls they've gone with santorum. the second thing is he's not only getting with social conservatives but to go a lot better with people without high school degrees who make up the majority of the electorate among republicans. mitt romney has had trou

. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> brown: and ray suarez examines a new report showing good teachers have a lasting impact on their students' lives and livelihoods. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: bnsf railway. >> the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> 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 u.s. economy added more than 200,000 jobs last month, beating expectations and raising hopes that a stronger recovery might be underway. spurred by a surge in hiring in december, the nation ended 2011 with a jobs report that had some of the best numbers seen in some time. among them, the unemployment rate-- down to 8.5%-- the lowest in nearly three years, and falling for the fourth consecutive month. t