. >> taylo's attacker joe buchanan was quickly subdued and is on his way to a special management cell, pending further investigation. >> he lost his job yesterday and the counselor and the case manager went ahead and brought him in, told him he had to pack up and leave. the offender got right by the door. the case manager and counselor were coming out. counselor was kicked in the chest and popped in the head. >> taylo will be transported to the prison hospital. ironically, he shares something in common with his attacker. both their jobs require that they be sounding boards for inmates. taylo's an "f" dorm counselor. buchanan, a prison barber. >> it was always one of my dreams to be a barber, because on the street, i used to always hang around the barber shop, right? i used to always sit up in the barber shop and listen to them tell jokes one know? tell jokes and cut hair. and that's the way it was, just always fun and laughter in the barbershop and that's all i was doing here. but i got fired for it. >> offender buchanan was fired from the barbershop for making inappropriate comments

draw the spirit of pat buchanan in saying this, wolf, but i'm not sure the time spent in an international house of pancakes necessarily qualifies for foreign policy experience. >> joen, patrick j. buchanan. with us now from des moines, iowa, political director, host of the "daily rundown" on msnbc, chuck todd, live this morning at java joes. chuck, you've got those polls hot off the presses. >> i do. >> let's -- i'm going to walk you through and you can guide us a little bit. >> okay. >> likely iowa voters, the field, the snapshot at this moment, mitt romney and ron paul tied for the lead, what do you see? >> reporter: well, look, let's just highlight santorum and gingrich here. there's a chance that we could be catching these numbers sort of where you're watching them move, they're still moving and santorum could still be moving up and gingrich could still be moving down. when you look at how dramatic both movements are, you see and there are other numbers to back this up on santorum versus gingrich. it is easy to picture how gingrich could end up in single digits come tuesday night and how santorum could be for first or second come tuesday night. that's the type