also minnesota is a border states of iowa. iowa knows minnesota and minnesota knows iowa.penn's minnesota background, particularly as governor, gives him an edge in the iowa caucuses and iowa's presidential primary. together these races add up to the kingmaker, the king then goes on to win more caulk busses primaries, collectively fingerrering the party's favorite for the november 2012 presidential election. bit way, here's of former governor of former governor tim pawlenty. age 50, white, married, two teenage daughters, ana and mara. university of minnesota, ba in doctor of law. practicing attorney, 15 years. minnesota's state legislature house of representatives, 10 years. minnesota house majority leader, four years. state of minnesota eight years, 2003-2011. question, can pawlenty win iowa? tim? >> absolutely, and i'm very happy he began by going to iowa and attacking ethanol subsidies, especially because he used to favor them. that takes guts. his being from a border state is good. okay, michelle bachman could complicate it, but if the ethanol thing is a cue and he'll

we used it in minnesota and it really works. so i've raised my hand and said i want to be the first presidential candidate to sign up for the strong american out initiative. [applause] >> if it's the first thing that ever gave me hope that our country can make it fiscally spent i want mary to get them in our house for our daughters so they can get the beds made faster, get the grass mowed quicker, the whole deal. but on the at large issue, let me just be very blunt with you. but never one responsibility of the net state government is national security. we've got to stay focused on that. but right after that if we don't get this deficit and debt under control it's going to take down our country from within. i'm running for president because i want to fix the debt and deficit and get this economy growing again. [applause] >> and on the spending side come if you look at an outlay of federal spending, where the money goes in a pie chart form, read been things that are not discretion it, so it's medicare, medicaid, social security, i

we did this in minnesota. say to providers, we are going to pay you more if you have not just more volumes of procedures, but better outcomes and results, and we want to incentivize consumers, patients, to giet them to the best places. if you go to a place with higher quality, you will get your rebate check or something like that. if its people to better care, health care outcomes, and it saves money for them. one example, we said to our state employees, you can go where you like, but if you pick somewhere that has that results or high costs, you will pay more, and he could do some place with better results, you will pay less. 80% of them migrated to more efficient and increasingly higher quality plants, and the premium increases in those plans have been dramatically below market during my time as governor. there is a powerful examples as well. type i diabetes and it does not get treated, you did not get the best care, it can lead to dangerous situations, organ failure, and the cases, and it is not good for th

paul, minnesota told a state house committee, god gave marriage as a gift to adam and eve.arty outnumbered seven to ten on the house bill. an eloquent rewrite to the theological basis of the debate before the vote. >>> we have to be careful about trying to shine our beliefs, however valid we believe them to be in the constitution. what i'm hearing today and friday is largely a religious justification for change in the minnesota constitution. i don't think it's right. i don't think it's fair. i think it departs from tradition. the other thing that makes people squirm but we have to discuss it. how much of homosexuality is nature versus nurture? is this something you learn or acquire? are you born with it? is it a lifestyle choice like skateboarding and gardening? i want to take a page from what i heard last friday, a member of the clergy and he said you know what, sexuality and sexual orientation are a gift from god. i think it's true. scientific evidence shows more and more every day that sexuality and sexual orientation is something we are all born with. i ask you not toda

i grew up in minnesota.d when i was 16 years old, my mom passed away of ovarian cancer. later my dad lost his job for a while. in a situation like that, if you see some things and you learn some things. at a young age, i learned the now you of clinging to my faith in job in challenging top -- my faith in god and challenging times and in all times. i learned the value of hard work and responsibility for doing my part. i learned that education was the ticket to opportunity. and i learned the value of a job and a paycheck. i had a chance to work in a grocery store for about seven years. i was a union member. i was proud to earn some money to help pay for school costs and to help make ends meet. the values i learned of america's baggies. i know the american dream. because i have lived it. i am running for president to keep that dream alive. [applause] the first that toward restoring america's promise is to elect a president who keeps his promise to america. how do i know that conservative values and principles c

we did this in minnesota. we say to providers, we will pay you more if you have better outcomes and results. we also want to incentivize consumers as patients to get to the best places. we want to say, you can go to your like, but if you go to a place that is higher quality, we will pay you more. we will get to a rebate check. what that does is get people better care and it saves money for them and for us. to give you one example, we told arrested employees to go where they like for their health care plan. but if he picks a minute -- somewhere that is bad or high cost, you will pay more. 80% migrated to more efficient and higher quality plans. the premiums have been at below market. there is some powerful examples of this. if you up type 1 diabetes and you do not treat it or you do not get the best care, it can lead to dangerous situations. it can lead to amputation, organ failure, it is not good for the patient. it is expensive to take care of once it reaches that level of a problem. the better path is to mak

cravaack of minnesota. the chair: the gentleman in minnesota, mr. cravaack, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. mr. cravaack: i yield myself three minutes. after years of spending, the united states is facing difficult economic and fiscal straits. we are suffering under a $14.39 trillion in national tet and roughly 40 cents of every dollar we spend must be borrowed and placed on the backs of our children. funding if fovet programs and nonprofit organizations not critical to the functioning of core government services must be considered for cuts. with an extensive effort to portray the institute for peace as incredibly important, a few u.s. officials have signed letters in its support. while i have seen evidence to the contrary, i will cede their point. however i will note that the united states institute for peace grant program is entirely duplicative of existing grant programs in the united states government, the private seblingtor and nonprofit organizations. at a time when the government must do more with less, i remain convinced

the gentleman from minnesota. mr.as much time as i may consume. i'd like to thank the chairman, the gentleman from minnesota, for bringing this bill and the others to the floor today. it's appropriate as we're approaching memorial day, working to fight our our veterans, but i think that all of us who get the opportunity to work in that v.a. committee know the chairman's focus on veterans is every day of the year, not just memorial day. and this is certainly a good one. i rise in wholehearted support of the veterans' compensation costive living act of 2011 as amended. while we don't control the board, we knew how important it was to get this forward. it's important that these payments are made on time. this nation has a solemn and moral responsibility to our veterans and this is just one more way to make sure that we do what's right. i'd also like to thank the chairman for including mr. braley's bill, the andrew connolly act. it's really important, i think all of white house heard the testimony of mr. connolly and his

tim pawlenty has a law degree from the university of minnesota and was first elected governor of minnesota in 2002. subsequently having been reelected in 2006. more recently, he was vice chair of the republican governors association, playing an important role in the gop's remarkable pickup of 11 previously democratically-held governorships. as i mentioned, is talk here about the need and a means for reducing the size of the federal government. please welcome the former governor of minnesota tim pawlenty. [applause] >> well, good afternoon. thank you for being here today. i want to thing ed and the cato institute for their important work and for their gracious hospitality in hosting these remarks today. i appreciated very much. the work of the cato institute has been at the forefront of the cause of trying to limit government and have it live within its means and to have a proper and a limited relationship with the people of this great country. i know the conservatives all across the country look to you and to the cato institute for really good research, a great ideas, and the work you do a

we're talking about minnesota? >> minnesota and many other states going through the afternoon and evening. let's go to the first up right now which is central minnesota. you can see i highlighted the tornado warning. another one popped up moments ago. what you are looking at is carver koicarve er county and scott county. a tornado near gaylord with the storm moving east. it's a fast moving storm. another one popped up south of duluth in northern minnesota. you can see there are severe thunderstorm warnings highlighted in orange boxes there as well. even if you don't have a tornado, you certainly can see damaging winds and strong hail as we have been seeing across the country. more severe weather working its way through. chicago getting strong thunderstorms right now sweeping across lake michigan. that's a problem. look at the severe thunderstorm warnings popping up in southern illinois on into areas of indiana as well. now taking you to the east of upstate new york where we have areas we're watching for severe weat

by the way, the democrats in minnesota wanted more spending. so this idea that there is a deficit and i left it in minnesota is not accurate. the two-year budget cycle ends in the black in the summer and the two years after that is a projection based on preposterous assumptions. >> if i may make a follow-up, one of the reasons people talk about a projected deficit of $6 billion is from the borrowing you took from local school districts and the state has to pay back the local schools $4 billion. >> well, actually, the deferral of those payments to schools was something that i wanted to make permanent through an executive action, called allotments and asked the legislate tower make them permanent. and they refused. so they choose to do it one time. by the way, in this session, now it looks like they will make it permanent. and they should have done it when i asked them the first time. >> governor johnson, i am glad to get to you, sir. >> great! thanks. >> you say that medicare and medicaid should be cut almost in half, turned into bloc grants and

one of the things we did in minnesota is we work with the state employee union. the city's health-care costs are going up high for them and we got to a new system. if you go somewhere higher in quality and more efficient, you will pay less for it about 80% of the state employees migrated to higher quality or equal quality providers but they are more efficient. the prince and that program over seven or eight years in my time as governor were dramatically below market. a couple of the years had zero percent increases. now people had some skin and again about what they're worth doing and what they're consuming and choosing an had a dramatic affect. the myth about everything being free was partially realigned into people becoming more informed and responsible consumers. that model applies across much of government and point the way forward for reform in many of these programs. i will leave the rest of the time for questions and answers but i thank you for being here today. the way forward may not be easy but it is not complex. we know this country has had the most su

same-sex marriage took a big step today in minnesota.nesota will decide if they want gay marriage banned in their state. karen tells us why lawmakers are turning to the voters to make the decision. >>reporter: and long last a break in the turbulent weather raging inside the state capital. when inside, emotionally charged atmosphere has not subsided. hundreds of people rallied at the capitol demonstrating against budget cuts they say will devastate the middle class and working poor. in the meantime outside the chamber another sizzling showdown. this one between both sides of the gay marriage debate. they were prepared to take up the amendment many lawmakers will decide whether the issue ends up on the 2012 ballot. if voters will decide whether the state constitution will limit marriage to opposite sex couples. a bill that would require voters to show photo id at the polls. >> i am outraged. >>reporter: debate fiery with democrats allege in the measurement would disengage franchise the voters. speaking make it difficult for people with dis

[ applause ] >> minnesota state representative steve simon joins me now.. that speech has been viewed on youtube when we put this segment together at a rate of 180,000 times. are you surprised or did you hope to become an internet sensation so that other people in other states would hear your message? >> completely shocked, i have to tell you. i had no idea when i said those words that it would spread like this. i'm gratified not so much personally because everyone will forget my name in a few days. the important thing is the underlying message and i hope that helps not only in minnesota but nationwide. >> sir, you are a straight ally for what this cause is but we've heard that outside religious groups have been donating money to make a constitutional gay marriage ban a reality in your state. how much impact is that having and do you know the dollar figures of the money that's being funneled into minnesota? >> that's a good question. we don't know in part because of some of our loose campaign finance laws and i don't think we really will know for a while.

we begin with a developing story out of minnesota where severe storms and at least three tornadoes have swept through sections of minneapolis. early pictures from there show extensive damage in residential areas in north minneapolis and thousands are said to be without power. by late afternoon our colleagues at the weather channel had tallied at least 17 tornadoes across sections of minnesota, iowa and missouri. on what has been an especially dangerous and volatile weekend throughout the country's midsection. right now severe weather watches and warnings cover a 1,000-mile stretch from dallas north to the twin cities. nbc's janet shamlian leads off our coverage with this report. >> reporter: a first look at the devastation from above after at least four suspected tornado touchdowns in and around minneapolis. >> everybody okay? >> everybody okay? >> reporter: shocked neighbors getting their first look at the damage. >> then it got real dark. the power started going in and out. and we just made a run for it. >> reporter: like this home ripped apart at the seams. debris everywhere. and ton

i'm still not very well known outside of minnesota.i think momentum is on my side. >> shannon: congressman paul, a lot of folks consider you the founding father of the tea party movement. now congresswoman bachmann heads-up the tea party caucus in the house. has she eclipsed you? >> she is not here tonight -- [ laughing ] >> we attend meetings together. of course the tea party movement was started during the last campaign when there was a special day where they raised six million dollars spontaneously. [ cheering ] >> that was the beginning of it. no, i don't feel threatened. >> shannon: thank you. >> juan: senator santorum, newt gingrich, after pulling out of this south carolina debate appears ready to announce his presidential candidacy next week in georgia. as a social conservative senator, do you have a problem with gingrich's past personal behavior? >> i think that you should be very careful about how you deal with those issues. all of us make mistakes. just because we make mistakes, we shouldn't be inhabit -- in ed from saying th

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i was nine years old when the old washington senators moved to minnesota and became the minnesota twins. we were so excited to have a major league team in minnesota and killebrew was the heart and sowfl the franchise, batting -- and soul of the franchise, batting cleanup and hitting 4 400-foot-plus home runs with his unbelievable swing. by 1965. killebrew, along with tony aleva and bob allison, earl batty, jim perry, jim cott and mudcat grant unseeded the yankee dynasty and took the american league pennant. he was sitting along the left field line of metropolitan stadium, the game before the all-star game that year, when killebrew hit a ninth-inning walk-off homer to beat the yankees. it was not a typical killebrew home run. it was a line drive that just shot out of the park into the left field stands and it sent us into the all-star break in first place. and i, along with lots of twins fans, believe that that -- it was that blow that was the key to the season. now, as i said, that rope of a homer was not a typical killebrew home run. he was known for these towering blasts. i remember o

. >> smith: unless your house is in minnesota, tim pawlenty is not exactly a household name, but theernor reportedly will announce at noon on monday he's running for the republican nomination for president. political correspondent jan crawford reports he'll be joining a g.o.p. field that's off to a bumpy start. >> reporter: when newt gingrich criticized fellow republican paul ryan's congressional budget plan, conservatives went ballistic. >> my god! it's inexplicable. >> reporter: and democratic operatives went to work on television attack ads. >> newt gingrich says the republican plan that would essentially end medicare is too radical. >> reporter: the ad takes aim at presumptive republican front- runner mitt romney, implying he flip-flops on issues. >> but with mitt romney you have to wonder, which page is he on today? >> reporter: and it's not just democrats on the attack. the influential "wall street journal" editorial page, as well as other conservative outlets, have skewered both romney and gingrich. their missteps helped former minnesota governor tim pawlenty, who told me earl

final score minnesota 11, the a's 1. the bay bridge series, heats up tomorrow night. three games.day night, saturday and sunday at at&t park the giants and the a's. dorch dern v. dur cant. dirk nowitzki brilliant. 48 points. with no lakers you got to get off on dirk nowitzki and kevin durant. throwing it down. 24. dirk nowitzki had 29. man that guy gets up. 106-100 and the series is even 1-1. sharks, a better win tomorrow night. snow secret, ben eager had five penalties, 20 minutes, lost his composure last night. mcclellan and clowe trying to find something to g to say. do or die. sharks down 2-0. >> we need to be stronger. give them credit. >> you want to win so bad, we get frustrated, lose composure, like last night. just got to respond. >> all right. that is 6:00 puck drop tomorrow night in san jose. meanwhile the boston bruins lead their series 2-1 winner tonight. two games to 1, bruins lead the lightening. five stages down at the tour of california, who said bicycle racing can't get physical. 135-miles and there is the big crash. and down goes larson and ben. both forced out

and i did that in minnesota. i was one of the few governors in the country to get an a grade from the cato institute on fiscal management, i know how to balance budgets, how to tackle spending, i know how to get economies growing. my state we thread way back under very difficult circumstances. it's a liberal state. if you can do it there you can do it anywhere. so i'm running for president to get this spending and out of control federal government back in control and to grow this economy and i can do it. >> let's tackle that spending for a minute. you write this morning government money isn't free, saying cuts are needed in the trillions and can't just be from people's favorite programs. how do you really cut? give me a good idea. are we talking entitlements, defense spending? where are you going to make a big difference if elected in the budget? >> well, we're going to have to look the american people in the eye and tell them the truth. that's what i'll talk about today and throughout this campaign. it starts wi

and there was one fatality in minnesota.of the number of tornadoes yesterday during the outbreak. 48 of them from extreme southwestern missouri up through wisconsin and minneapolis which had 30 injuries and that one fatality. and kansas on saturday had one fatality as well. here's what's going on as far as the radar last night. there it is. blows up across southeastern kansas and then just hammers joplin and continues on a southeastern track. that's a little different than what we saw in the last outbreak. nonetheless, a massive super cell structure that had hail, had rain, and obviously had that tornado that ripped through joplin proper. and now, we've got another thunderstorm that's heading towards joplin. severe thunderstorm watch has just been posted by the storm's prediction center out of norman, oklahoma, and look at how this cell has blown up to the west of jopl joplin. at this point, the winds aren't quite as set up as they were yesterday for this to begin rotating, but that's not completely out of the question. this

an official announcement by the former minnesota gopher tim pawlenty. at podium right now. he is going to be officially launching his 2012 run for president, republican there. he's just one of many who have decided to join in the race. they are from the very important state of iowa in des moines, iowa, to make that official announcement that he will throw his hat into the ring. >>> also, president obama connecting with his roots today and, yes, it is in ireland. he's about to deliver remarks at an irish celebration at college green in dublin. you're looking at live pictures there as well. he and the first lady just visited the tiny village of moneygall. that is where president obama's maternal great great great grandfather was born. we're going to have more live pictures and that event right after the break. >>> it's official, republican tim pawlenty has formally entered the 2012 race for president. the former minnesota governor kicking off his campaign just moments ago in iowa. he is promising to tell the truth. >> if we want a new and better -- >> and

wet day from minnesota down to missouri. cooler and west from boston up north.y out by the afternoon. showers in south florida. snow in the rockies and cascades and showers in washington state. >> near 60 in seattle. 70 in salt lake city and a hot 97 in phoenix. mostly 60s from fargo to indianapolis. 59 in boston. 69 in baltimore. 70s, meanwhile in atlanta, new orleans, and dallas. >>> how about this. some california college students are showing their appreciation in a very big way, we mean big. >> a chapman university sorority just created a giant thank-you letter for all of the men and women serving in the military. get this, it's 30x90 feet and they're hoping it sets a new guinness world record. >> the students there correlated event with military appreciation month. a small token for our heroes putting their lives on the line every single day. good reminder. >> and that could not be more timely considering what we've seen the true heroes do with osama bin laden in the last couple of days. incredible. >> and say, hats off it our heroes. the men and women of o

we also have report of a possible tornado in fillmore county in southeastern minnesota.est of harmony. this is such a huge area where this outbreak is taking place today. stretching from minnesota down into texas and more than 800 miles that we're talking of a broken line of severe thunderstorms. and the worst of the rotating thunderstorms have been up in this area that we'll be watching this closely. keep this in mind. milwaukee, chicago, you guys are under warnings. those storms haven't arrived there just yet. but that will be happening in the upcoming hours. >> we'll look for that. thanks so much on those details. >>> straight ahead, a country music superstar is moved to action after seeing the devastated alabama, that landscape. he wants you to join him. a challenge from hank williams jr., next. ♪ [ heather ] businesses need a reliable financial partner. one who can stay in sync with their moves. my job at ge capital is to get bobcat all the financial and business support they need. we provide financing for every bobcat dealer in north america. together, we've rolled

tim pawlenty of minnesota. rick santorum. >> jon: you might have to google some of those candidates. although i guess for the last guy i prefer you didn't do that. by the way, if you didn't get that joke, go google samtorum right now. i'll wait. yeah. (beep) believe that? santorum might as well change his last name to lemon party. go ahead. google that. i'll wait. all right. let's move on. perhaps the most well known candidate was 12th term texas congressman ron paul the only participant currently holding office. >> we do not need secret prisons nor do we need the torture that goes on in the secret military prisons. maybe we can take care of some people back here at home if we weren't spending $1.5 trillion a year on our mill tarism. >> jon: what are you doing? this is a weak republican field. all you have to do is compromise your libertarian principles a little bit, feed these people christian conservative red meat like the three most important people in the world are reagan, jesus and reagan again. gays can g

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confronting armed abuses of authority and we'll be joined by robert when a seventeen year old from minnesota who was illegally detained by corrupt police officer dustin hill and adam a freeman of cop block dot org but first tonight we'll sit down with the author of a return to common sense problem and we'll get a proper understanding of just who the men in blue costumes with guns really are with none other than stuff on molyneux let's see if i can get through tonight's episode without getting arrested showing your watch and adam versus the ma'am. for years liberals complained that president bush took us to war without a proper constitutional declaration and they were right to complain but maybe for the wrong reasons now numerous republicans and constitutionalists are complaining that obama has initiated phonetic military action without this legally necessary declaration but that's in a declaration is it permission from congress to the president to do something well not according to our next guest with me in studio today is writer and political analyst tom. an author of a return to common sen

minnesota police are looking for people who are high on drugs but not to bust them these druggies are for training purposes only only people whose drug of choice is alcohol people on other narcotics are more difficult to spot for some of us that's actually one of the appeals of smoking pot don't like alcohol it does not make it obvious to true moron but cuts in minneapolis need extra training now to spot people who are on drugs other than alcohol and are getting help from some unusual sources in one case it was a woman who was under the influence of marijuana as a passenger in a car that was pulled over who volunteered to help by submitting herself to a forty five minute evaluation the conclusion of which was invert road heights offer chris wagner saying looking at initial signs i would say cannabis marijuana i don't know what you would if i was high in the back of a car that was pulled over because the driver was drunk and then a cop asked me to do a test so i could do my civic duty and maybe help my friend the drunk driver and then they try to determine what drug i was on by rigor s

seek shelter if you live in winona or minnesota into the la kros area.at's going to be coming up in the upcoming days, our weather pattern has changed. we're going to see a series of storms roll through the middle of mississippi and ohio river valleys over the next four days or so. this is a forecast of rainfall through the next four or five days. that's showing 3 to 6 inches of rain. we don't think this is going to do a lot at this point. if this is all it is, you know, it won't do much for the mississippi river. maybe not even the ohio river. but a lot of the smaller tributaries and rivers and streams that all feed into those will certainly be impacted and could be rising. one last thing that i want to mention here are the travel delays, fredricka. a ground stop in effect for chicago. a lot of severe thunderstorms rumbled through there the last 20 to 30 minutes. looking at delays into the northeast. mostly clouds here. even out west we've got delays because of the clouds. a lot of travel issues, lots of severe weather breaking out. this will be ongoing

in minnesota, they do have a district policy. they do not have a model policy. they do not have -- i take that back. they do have cyberbullying mentioned in their policy. they don't have enumerated categories. so there's no clear signal what is covered. they do not have any procedures for reporting. they do not have any notification processes for parents so parents won't even know that there's a policy there. there's no requirement for training so administrators, educators don't have to do it. and there's no accountability or reporting which is a key component for us. how do we know what's happening is being reported? how can this body, you know, do a better job? we need data collection. we need an analysis of how widespread and so that's why for us this combination of having state laws as well as the federal government doing the big picture would be enormously helpful to advance this. thank you. >> chair recognizes commissioner titus. >> this is our last panel and last chance to speak, i want to sum up a couple of things. i read a lot of references we don't nee

you can seat in minnesota, wisconsin, now passing kansas city, st. louis, chicago could see some showers later on. that system is moving east, and that is what is going to cloud our skies up during the day tomorrow and bring us showers by mid to late afternoon. today we've got high pressure so it's a good day but between the high and the low in new england there's not a lot of real estate with a pretty big pressure change and that's why we've got the winds driving today out of the northwest. but as the high and low gets farther apart everynight the winds lighten up. tomorrow this trough of low pressure starts to move east. we're still okay midday. clouds will thicken. midafternoon, 3:00, shenandoah valley is by evening rush hour we'll have some showers around here. this whole area is going to scoot east of us so that by saturday morning it's gone. we're only talking about .1 or .2 of an inch of rain. 68 windy degrees today. tomorrow 68, isolated rumble of thunder. saturday, nice, 72. sunday, sorry, mom, a few showers in the forecast. we're back aroun

. >> in minneapolis minnesota, the presidential candidate in new gate bridge was a prank by a gay rightsctivist. our reporter kimberlee has a look at the video. >> last night the former speaker at the house spoke at a dinner for the minnesota council house. they went here to a book citing-signing. it was a hotel downtown minneapolis he and his wife were approached by the activist take a look. >> stop the hate, scott the anti-gay politics, it is dividing the country and not fixing the economy. >> it is nice to live in a free country >> adjutancy, he remained becalmed. here is a look at the incident from another angle, this is not the activist first brush with the spotlight, last year he cranked the governor that wanted to reduce the number of service workers in his state. stay with us, news is coming next. saddam and a shocking revelation has turned media frenzy. new details are emerging about the woman had a baby with former gov. arnold schwarzenegger. we have the photographs just uncovered including the pregnancy pictures of the other woman. if that money maria shriver speaks out today.

the minnesota congresswoman turned up today in new hampshire at a memorial day event. she said she would announce her decision next month. >> if i decide to throw my hat in the ring, i think i'll do very favorably against barack obama. >> reporter: meanwhile, former minnesota governor tim pawlenty barn storming in another state, making the rounds in iowa. >> we're in a competition for the future direction of the country. >> reporter: even some party insiders say whoever enters the race will face a formidable opponent, president obama. >> he's a great candidate, prolific fund-raiser. just because republican voters don't like the president doesn't mean we can take that for granted. >> reporter: nearly 4 in 10 republican voters surveyed said they were not satisfied with the current choices. still, it's very early in this race for the white house. kristen welker, nbc news, washington. >>> overseas now to yemen, a place where the current president has held power for more than 30 years, using deadly force to combat growing demands that he step down. today, some of the worst

michelle bachman the congresswoman from minnesota is is a natural fit for the huckabee voter world. has iowa roots. she's from there. she could make a very strong play amongst the caucus goers in iowa. she's somebody to watch. her aides are saying she's all about certain to get into the race. >> ifill: she can easily differentiate herself not only on gender but also on politics. >> no doubt about it. she is the head of the tea party caucus in the congress. she is the representative of this new sort of virulent strand of politics going on inside the republican party. certnly gender also. she'll obviously look different than anybody else on that debate stage. she'll get a lot of attention. >> ifill: david chalian, as always, thank you. >> sure. >> woodruff: now to some dramatic findings from a recent aids study and what they suggest about using drugs for the prevention of the disease. ray suarez has the story. >> suarez: the power of anti-aids drugs in treating patients has been well documented but a breakthrough study has found new evence showing drugs can help prevent the spread of