dr. sam michaels, head of anesthesiology and dr. eric mineberg, orthopedic surgeon. they've been great champions of our plans to build a great hospital at st. luke's, one that will better serve the people of the mission. they came here to express their support. the st. luke's medical executive committee has passed a measure strongly supporting rebuild plans. the four physicians hoped to come here and express their desire, their urge for you to support the plans to better serve their patients and the people of the mission. unfortunately, they had to leave so they asked that their statements be submitted to the public record. thank you very much. >> good evening, supervisors, and mayor's staff. i'm steve wu from tenderloin neighborhood development. we brought a large group of seniors to come speak and many of them had to leave so

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michael, good to see you. political writer for the "huffington post," sam stein, dr.jeffrey sachs, and in washington, chief foreign affairs correspondent, host of "andrea mitchell reports" every day at 1:00 on msnbc, andrea mitchell. good morning. >> happy holidays to everybody. >> happyç holidays to everybod. let's get to these polls. i want to break it down for you. particularly the cnn "time" research poll, five days to go to the iowa caucuses. a new poll shaking up the race a little bit. mitt romney on top, 25% support among likely republican voters, ron paul in a close second within the margin of error. the story here, though, rick santorum up 11 points since the last poll a few weeks ago at 16% and newt gingrich down 19 points at 14%. andrea, i'll start with you, what do you read into that poll? >> well, the fact is that gingrich is really in a dive, that's clear. he hasn't figured out what to do to turn this around. i don't think going to a chocolate factory and mimicking what romney did on lucille ball is going to do it. i think he's got to talk about what pr