charging through the environmental review requirements for the project, joy of orion associates, and paul mitchell, who is with esa, which has this management team that really deserves an enormous amount of credit. that said, it could be appealed. there is a 20-day appeal period. if we get one that would be processed through the board of supervisors prior to their actions -- so with respect to the findings themselves, let me just go through those. as i mentioned, there have been project changes. some of them were already recognized in the final eir and were documented in the comments and responses document. layered on top of that are changes that have taken place in the project since we published the staff report. with respect to those that were covered in the eir already, those were related to changes and refinements in the scheduling for the race events themselves. there were a number of improvements and refinements that the event of authority and race management were able to make on their own in terms of their operations, having learned from all of these world series of events. they have made a

paul. one poll showing him one point from gingrich and running second. andrea mitchellas more on ron paul's recent rise in the heartland. >> reporter: he could be this year's sleeper candidate or even king maker. easily drawing the biggest crowds in iowa with a pitch in perfect tune with the angry voters. >> they don't have the vaguest idea what liberty is all about. >> reporter: a libertarian who godfathered the tea party, ron paul hasn't flipped or flopped since he's been in politics and has always hated government regulations. >> so my idea as a symbol of moving in a different direction, i would like to restore your right to drink raw milk any time you wanted to. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: while quirky and folksy he knows how to play politics. confronting newt gingrich to his face. >> freddie mac is bailed out by the taxpayers so in a way, newt, i think you probably got some of our taxpayers' money. >> reporter: and in ads. paul also delivered an anti-war message that resonates with many college students. >> this idea that we can be the policemen of the wor

derek valcourt reports from the mitchell courthouse with paul suric's testimony. >> paul suric took the stand, insisting he had nothing to hide and did

paul schurick. he is charged with authorizing illegal robocalls. kim dacey is live at the mitchell courthouse with more on what is expected today. >> the defense plans to call two more witnesses. one is a character witness for paul schurick. the defense attorney says one of the witnesses participated in the campaign to reach out to african american voters. he will argue the state has not burden of proof. illegally persuading african- american voters to stay home during the election. paul schurick has been charged with conspiracy and election fraud. >> we think there is no evidence whatsoever for this type of conspiracy, no evidence of any critcriminal conduct. >> he does not think the testimony of the last two witnesses will take very long and the jury could begin deliberating soon after that. kim dacey, wbal-tv 11 news. >> two people are recovering after being shot in baltimore. there were sitting in a car on vancouver road on sunday night. no word on a possible suspect . >> the search for a missing worker continues. he disappeared in montgomery county on friday. crews have been s

paul in newton, iowa. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc, but we have plenty more for you.s where we're talking now. it's still a mess, and the latest data isn't encouraging. home prices fell in most major cities for the second straight month, and a national home builders group calls this year the worst it's ever seen for new home construction. one would think the republican presidential candidates would be all over the topic, right? not exactly. the candidates are hardly talking about it or offering detailed solutions. john harwood is here to talk about it. john, it is remarkable with the very rare exception of at a debate in las vegas in october, we really haven't heard them talk much about this at all. what gives? >> well, chris, some problems are so difficult and expensive to solve that nobody feels like talking about them. we're talking about american homeowners are trillions of dollars under water. what do you do about that? this is why mitt romney's solution, which is not the kind of thing that sounds good on the campaign trail so he doesn't say it very often, is don

paul schurick. >> he is the eight accused of using robocalls to suppress the african-american vote. kim dacey is live at mitchell courthouse with more on a key witness in the case. >> jurors did hear from a key witness, the woman who recorded the call. rhonda russell is a key witness in the case against paul schurick. she is the voice on the election-day robocalls that prosecutors say were intended to keep voters in baltimore city and prince george's county at home. but russell denies the calls were an attempt at voter suppression. rather, she says, they were reverse psychology. >> the call was literally meant to stimulate voters that would not have been in support of o'malley or the democratic administration. this would stimulate the voters to say, "hey, my vote was going for ehrlich. he is down and out. i'm going to go out and vote for ehrlich after i heard this call." >> russell worked for political consultant julius henson, who had been hired by the ehrlich campaign. henson, she says, wrote the text of the call, but she's the one who picked the list of voters to call, and simply didn't take the time to inclu

paul schurick enters its homestretch. >> the jury could get the case later today to decide if schurick is guilty of using illegal robocalls. kim dacey is live at the mitchell courthouse with the latest. good morning. >> when court resumes, the defense plans to call two a final witnesses before presenting closing arguments. as paul schurick's trial enters what could potentially be its last day, the defense attorney wants to make sure the jury hears testimony from two more people. >> we have one more fact witness and one more character witness who traveled quite a distance to be here. so for that reason, i do want to give them the opportunity to testify on mr. schurick's behalf. >> the defense attorney says one of those witnesses participated in the campaign to help reach out to black voters during the 2010 election. schurick is accused of authorizing a robocall to illegally persuade african- american voters to stay homo during the november 2010 election. -- to stay home. the key adviser for former governor ehrlich has been charged with conspiracy and election fraud. once the witnesses are finished with their testimony, the defense attorney will argue that t

. ♪ >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," live fromoffva joe's in des moines, iowa, four days out, mitt romney is battling ron paulith rick santorum and rick perry closing in and newt gingrich falling way behind. our new nbc news/maris poll says mitt romney is still the man to beat. >> i'm pleased to be doing pretty darn well in the polls and have the kind of support you saw here today. huge crowds, a lot of excitement. you know, i can't tell you what we're going to do here in iowa but i can tell you that i'm pretty confident that we're going to get the 1150 delegates we need. >> this hour, my interview with the republican front-runner. >>> and what romney says about his competition. the negative ads. and why he won't release his tax returns. his wing man today on the trail, new jersey's own chris christie. is this a first glimpse of a possible republican ticket? >> all those decisions are going to be up to the nominee of the party. he's going to be the nominee of the party. >> but you can't rule it out? >> why would you? the fact of the matter is it's extraordinarily presumptuous to do something like that. >> plu

paul always out there, somebody you have to look to. but this solidifies ever more that it's a two-man race. >> mitchell: cain lost a lot of support in the last few weeks. however, he still had a lot of supporters out there. where are those folks likely to go? >> the cain voters who had been leaving him looked like they were pretty much going to newt gingrich, but the hard-core supporters who were left, those will be interesting. they liked cain because he was not a washington politician, not a member of the establishment. newt gingrich is both of those things. the core supporters also liked the fact he was a businessman. that could benefit mitt romney. it is unlikely the cain core supporters will be distributed through the remaining candidates. >> mitchell: john dickerson in washington, thanks a lot. turning now to the penn state scandal, former assistant football coach jerry sandusky said today he never molested young boys. he said prosecutors have twisted and distorted his work with children. elaine quijano has the latest. >> reporter: for the it could same since he was chargelast month, jerry sandusky denied sexually abusing any chil

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paul doing? >> i don't know. would you like him to call in? >> yes. >> you watch a lot of cnn and hln. >> i truly watch your show every night and i never miss jane velez-mitchell's if nancy grace can't cover it, i will. i love jane and i love nancy grace. she kind of talks like a morning dj but has a lot to say and she's filled with outrage. she's often outraged about the miscarriages of justice. love it. as amazed to hold on, hold on, i'll unleash the lawyers. >> have you met nancy grace. >> i finally met nancy grace in person, which was extremely exciting for her -- for me. >> because you do a whole thing on nancy grace in your last routine that i saw. >> yes. and also if i can address my camera. >> please. >> anderson and i will be recreating nancy grace's infamously nip slip. i will be showing one full breast because it's nature and it's beautiful and that's our little hook so don't tell, you know, the competition. are you having one of your fits. >> i'm starting to cough, yes. you're making me cough. >> you can't just call in sick. if you think you're laying the groundwork for i'm not feeling well today. >> there's no way that they would allow you to do it

paul doing? >> i don't know. would you like him to call in? >> yes. >> you watch a lot of cnn and hln. >> i truly watch your show every night and i never miss jane velez-mitchell'soing deep with the story. if nancy grace can't cover it, i will. i love jvm and nancy grace. she kind of talks like a morning dj but has a lot to say and she's filled with outrage. she's often outraged about the miscarriages of justice. love it. as amazed to hold on, hold on, i'll unleash the lawyers. >> have you met nancy grace. >> i finally met nancy grace in person, which was extremely exciting for her -- for me. >> because you do a whole thing on nancy grace in your last routine that i saw. >> yes. and also if i can address my camera. >> please. >> anderson and i will be recreating nancy grace's infamously nip slip. tomorrow night, so anderson will be showing -- and i will be showing one full breast because it is nature and it is beautiful, and that is our little hook, so don't tell, you know, the competition. are you having one of your fits. >> i'm starting to cough, yes. you're making me cough. >> you can't just call in sick. if you think you're laying the groundwork for i'm not

paul not invited? and the day that will live in infamy, as the nation remembers the 70th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. were there warning signs? good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. newt gingrich holds commanding leads in iowa and south carolina and has closed the gap with mitt romney in new hampshire. now he also leads romney nationally. up by 15 points in the first gallup daily tracking poll of the republican race, msnbc contributor, chris solisa, most managing director of post politics.com has our daily fix. the question is can newt's organization, especially in iowa, can that match what he's doing in the polls? and one sign is that he so far and there's a 4:00 deadline, so far, has not filed his papers for one of the later primaries in ohio. >> in fact missed a filing deadline in missouri. now granted, it's for a beauty contest. it's a nonbinding caucus in february. but still, here's what i would say, andrea. the answer is can his organization catch up to where he stands in the polls? the answer to that almost certainly is no it's very hard to build these things on the fly. we're now less than a month, amazingly, 27 days from iowa. i just