santorum: there you go. ok. >> thank you. mr. santorum: appreciate your vote. let's do a little gaggle. just a couple of questions the reporters have. year,pared 2012 and this the dynamics. mr. santorum: it is like running a marathon and breathing through a swizzle stick. there is no oxygen. there is no media coverage. do, it is, are you going to donald trump's thing? i spent time laying out a compelling vision of the country. you are right. there are twice as many this time. is in the business of selling papers and getting eyeballs for their tv program. if you have someone that is entertaining, you will cover that person. you will have everyone else in a race with that person. >> you have practically moved here over the last five years. mr. santorum: i do not know. spent about 3.5 years after i left. >> we are going to go live to iowa for a rally with donald trump, skipping the republican debate to hold what he calls a special event to benefit veterans organizations. live at drake university, where rand paul held an event earlier, we are waiting for donald tru

> rick santorum despises libertarians.s everything libertarian stands for from a social point -- he truly decides -- i don't think he does. bless his bones and i believe he is a man of faith and great passion, however it does president coincide. we wouldn't be a match on e harmony. >> speaking of the political angle of the ad he hasn't been in the senate for, what, nine years? how long ago did he lose? was it 2006 or 2007? why does president -- why doesn't he run as an outsider? >> he is a populist. he could run as a democrat. >> there is a tape of him in the last debate when ron paul called him out for a vote. he said you have to vote with your party every time. he said that and it was no child left behind. >> rick santorum has a hobby. >> that's running for president. >> that's what he is doing. he is running for president. >> what the heck else am i going to do, crossfit? >> dave makes a great point. now we are in an anti-party atmosphere and santorum is from the era where you stood with your party. >> i think this go a

and marco rubio is about where rick santorum was in the last poll last time and santorum won. i wouldn't be surprised waking up on monday night because i'll take a nap, waking up monday night and realizing that either trump or cruz or rubio has won the caucuses. >> so your point about rubio, in the iowa poll, he sort of flat-lines in the last couple days. i looked last week that showed he was going up a little built. that's the question. one candidate doing this, that and santorum came like a rocket four years ago in the last couple weeks. but to your point about the open-mindedness, peter, if you pick up "the des moines register," you'll see a full-page ad from trump critics going after trump's history, saying this guy is way left of center, whether it's abortion rights, whether it's taxes, whether it's praise of the obama administration. why did they wait? people were so afraid to go after trump for so long. >> exactly. >> now they're trying to do it the day before the caucuses, when to jackie's point, most of trump's people say they're in. >> they wanted to save their bigge

santorum: great question. four years ago -- the reason i got involved was i thought we needed a candidate that could go up and talk about the problems of obamacare and why we needed to repeal and replace. i thought that was barack obama's take vulnerability. theink it was one of reasons we were not successful four years ago. we will not be successful unless we nominate somebody who can go out there and show not only why we have to repeal obamacare, but actually has ideas to make thate comfortable republicans will not get rid of something and not provide a pathway for them to get a better quality health care. there's an opportunity here. we kato institute at a fourth just a week or so ago by they talk about replacing obamacare. one of the cosponsors was the pough charitable -- terrible trust. they were a huge supporter of obamacare. they asked why they were there supporting this private sector libertarian think tank. after five years of looking at obamacare, and we supported it more than any other group, it is

santorum: there you go. ok. >> thank you. mr. santorum: appreciate your vote. let's do a little gaggle. just a couple of questions the reporters have. year,pared 2012 and this the dynamics. mr. santorum: it is like running a marathon and breathing through a swizzle stick. there is no oxygen. there is no media coverage.

rick santorum went on to win.can be wrong, they can be surprising. does history repeat itself thattthat we're so focused on trump and cruz. mark, what do you think? >> interesting comparison because rubio's number is so close to santorum's in 2012. it was very accurate for all candidates except for santorum who had an 8-point trump. santorum had a lock on the evangelical votes and rubio is appealing to an entirely different base of voters. santorum had evangelical endorsements. rubio's got endorsements from george pit tacky and former senator john kyle, the des moines register. these are stalwart moderates so rubio is targeting a very different audience. >> you know what i'm wondering about the evangelical vote because it certainly isn't following evangelical patterns. >> right. >> when very prominent evangelical and i'll throw sarah palin in the mix, she endorsed donald trump. jerry falwell jr. backs donald trump, many others. and i'm wondering whether that shows either that group of voters is looking at other th

rick santorum and mike huckabee will be making an appearance at the palmetto senior show... down at the state fair grounds. the event starts at nine this morning in the new goodman building. from there, santorum will head to the the citadel in charleston to sit down with attorney general alan wilson... as a part of his presidential forum series. and democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders' campaign is kicking off its "historically black colleges and universities tour"... tonight at south carolina state university. that's going to be at seven at the barbara a. vaughn fine arts center. sanders, along with fellow democratic presidential hopefuls... hillary clinton and martin o'malley will be here in columbia on monday... to take part in "king day at the dome." religious and civic leader jesse jackson.... is busy criss-crossing the head to the polls next month. jackson will take part in the "rally-to-the polls" event at u-s-c aiken today... before heading to bamberg to speak on medicaid expansion. jackson spoke on the u-s healthcare system during a stop last night ih colu

trish: senator santorum? >> all has to do is listen to the democratic debate and find out about how bad the economy is. all they do is talk about how america is struggling so badly that they have to make radical changes in washington. they have been in control for the last 7 years. what have we seen in the most important jobs that fill the middle for the 74% of americans who don't have a college degree twent age of 25-65, are manufacturing jobs. your governor and legislature have done an amazing job of bringing manufacturing jobs back to south carolina. right here. right here. in charleston. right down the street with boeing. you have done a great job. you have grown this economy and strengthened the center of your state. the middle. if you are going to create wealth and opportunity you have to get good paying jobs for everybody. two million manufacturing jobs have left this country because of barack obama. regulations, epa, workplace regulations, things driving people offshore all because of his number one p

trish: senator santorum? >> all has to do is listen to the democratic debate and find out about how bad the economy is. all they do is talk about how america is struggling so badly that they have to make radical changes in washington. they have been in control for the last 7 years. what have we seen in the most important jobs that fill the middle for the 74% of americans who don't have a college degree twent age of 25-65, are manufacturing jobs. your governor and legislature have done an amazing job of bringing manufacturing jobs back to south carolina. right here. right here. in charleston. right down the street with boeing. you have done a great job. you have grown this economy and strengthened the center of your state. the middle. if you are going to create wealth and opportunity you have to get good paying jobs for everybody. two million manufacturing jobs have left this country because of barack obama. regulations, epa, workplace regulations, things driving people offshore all because of his number one p

rick santorum. nice to see you. good to see you. nice to see you, guys. how are you? rick santorum. good to see you. pretty good chicken, huh? >> not bad. rick: i think it's pretty good. pretty good. nice to see you guys. all right. have a good day. hello, folks. how are you? nice to see you. rick santorum. nice to see you. >> thank you. rick: thank you. nice to see you. you have a good day. come back and visit with us. if you want, we'll be talking back there. >> ice cream on top. rick: that's pretty intense right there. >> yeah. rick: that's a couple calories. to thicken you up a little. >> yeah. rick: good to see you guys. how are you? take care. all right. all right. hello, everybody. how you doing? hi. good to see you. >> nice to see you. rick: good to see you. thank you for coming out. hi. good to see you today. how are you? sure. anybody that wants pictures we'll do pictures. >> oh, wow. rick: someone will tell you -- there you go. >> wow. thank you. rick: there we go. thank you. turn around. why don't you get in the iddle? all right. >> thank you. rick: you bet. you want to

trish: senator santorum? >> all has to do is listen to the democratic debate and find out about how bad the economy is. all they do is talk about how america is struggling so badly that they have to make radical changes in washington. they have been in control for the last 7 years. what have we seen in the most important jobs that fill the middle for the 74% of americans who don't have a college degree twent age of 25-65, are manufacturing jobs. your governor and legislature have done an amazing job of bringing manufacturing jobs back to south carolina. right here. right here. in charleston. right down the street with boeing. you have done a great job. you have grown this economy and strengthened the center of your state. the middle. if you are going to create wealth and opportunity you have to get good paying jobs for everybody. two million manufacturing jobs have left this country because of barack obama. regulations, epa, workplace regulations, things driving people offshore all because of his number one p

trish: senator santorum? >> all has to do is listen to the democratic debate and find out about how bad the economy is. all they do is talk about how america is struggling so badly that they have to make radical changes in washington. they have been in control for the last 7 years. what have we seen in the most important jobs that fill the middle for the 74% of americans who don't have a college degree twent age of 25-65, are manufacturing jobs. your governor and legislature have done an amazing job of bringing manufacturing jobs back to south carolina. right here. right here. in charleston. right down the street with boeing. you have done a great job. you have grown this economy and strengthened the center of your state. the middle. if you are going to create wealth and opportunity you have to get good paying jobs for everybody. two million manufacturing jobs have left this country because of barack obama. regulations, epa, workplace regulations, things driving people offshore all because of his number one p

back in 2012, it wasn't until right before the caucus that santorum began to gain momentum. ktiv's michelle schoening joins us live in the newsroom michelle, you spoke one on one with the senator, what he have to say? robert, the former senator talked with me about the importance of getting out and interacting with iowans. and the sub-zero temperatures didn't keep those in the hawkeye state from showing up. more than 70 people attended the house party tonight in sac city. those at the gathering spoke with santorum on issues of national security, faith, and action he would take if elected. the former senator explained the importance of meeting one-on-one caucus. "a lot can happen and the reason don't pay attention to the national polls, they don't pay attention to what the experts say are best for them. they go out and do what these 75-80 people are doing here tonight; which is come out, meet the candidates, and kick the tires," said rick santorum, gop candidate. tomorrow morning for a town hall at the pizza ranch beginning at 10 am. robert, as you alluded to earlier, the for

senator santorum, to you first. obama urged technology leaders to make it hard for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice. hillary clinton says social media companies can help by swiftly shutting down terrorist accounts. the companies say they're already working with law enforcement and any proposed legislation would do more harm than good. should companies like facebook and twitter be required by law to more actively, be more actively engaged in fighting terror? >> i would just say if we were doing a better job within the government we would not need the private sector to do the things we're asking them to do. [applause] i've had a little experience in this in the private sector myself and what i found was a government with layers and layers of bureaucracy, of people who had some technical expertise but they had no authority, number one. one of the things i found out about in the bureaucracy if a lot of people have authority, nobody has authority, number one, and number two, if you don't do anything, y

another former caucus winner, rick santorum is in independence right now.at 7 tonight, santorum will be in robins for a house party. republican front-runner donald

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trish: senator santorum? >> all has to do is listen to the democratic debate and find out about how bad the economy is. all they do is talk about how america is struggling so badly that they have to make radical changes in washington. they have been in control for the last 7 years. what have we seen in the most important jobs that fill the middle for the 74% of americans who don't have a college degree twent age of 25-65, are manufacturing jobs. your governor and legislature have done an amazing job of bringing manufacturing jobs back to south carolina. right here. right here. in charleston. right down the street with boeing. you have done a great job. you have grown this economy and strengthened the center of your state. the middle. if you are going to create wealth and opportunity you have to get good paying jobs for everybody. two million manufacturing jobs have left this country because of barack obama. regulations, epa, workplace regulations, things driving people offshore all because of his number one p

santorum: great question. four years ago, i ran -- i thought we needed a candidate who could go out and talk about the problems of obamacare and why we need to repeal it and replace it. i thought that was barack obama's great vulnerability. we nominate a candidate who could not do that. i think it is why we were not successful. we will not be successful this time unless we nominate someone who can go out there and show not only why we have to repeal obamacare, but actually has ideas to make people comfortable that republicans are not just going to get rid of something and not provide a pathway for them to get a better quality health care. there is an opportunity here. the cato institute, which is a libertarian think tank, had a form just a week or so ago, where they were talking about replacing obamacare. one of the cosponsors of the few charitable trusts. they are a liberal foundation that was a huge supporter of obamacare. they were asked by the media, why are you there, supporting this private sector libert

santorum? >> yeah, the certify vote result. >> the last time republicans held their iowa caucuses they said mitt romney won and then it was a tie and then rick santorum. in the end who got the delegates from the state of iowa for 2012 after they went through that whole make it up as we go along. it was neither of them. >> and, now, now, 16 weeks after the voting happened and mitt romney was declared the winner and 14 weeks after rick santorum was declared the winner, now it appears that ron paul is the winner. >> mitt romney won first and then it was a tie and then rick santorum and then ron paul got all the delegates or at least almost all the delegates. that was before three of his aides got indicted for the way they bribed their way to that victory. can we call it a victory? iowa gets treated like it's a cross between hallmark card and a norman rockwell painting and a slice of apple pie with a puppy on top. iowa has been kind of a banana republic in recent years. i do not mean the clothing s

former senator rick santorum and former governor mike huckabee each held a town hall gathering today. they talked about why they should get that presidential bid. << wednesday, two presidential hopefuls looked to boost their way up through the crowd of candidates. former senator rick santorum stopped at the copper cup coffee house in cherokee where he discussed the experience needed for that presidential bid. "people have been upset for several years of sending people to washington who say they're going to do one thing then don't do what they say they're going to do," said presidential candidate, rick santorum. former arkansas governor mike huckabee held a "huddle" at the cherokee train depot where e talked about his commitmeme to the state of iowa. "i think that a lot of people in iowa are beginning to think through that they don't want to give their caucus vote to someone that they don't know that well...and they know me," sakd presidential candidate, mike huckabee. the kunickis went to both santorum and huckabee's town halls and say they're impressed with both presidential hopefuls

santorum made six iowa campaign stops today. at this appearance in charles city he expressed support for going to war against isis and his opposition to same- sex marriage. vermont senator bernie sanders is counting on support from people who were too young to vote in 20-12... sanders 16:25:50 our campaign is generating the excitement, generating the interest, bringing young people in sanders is trying to do what president obama did eight years ago... rally young voters to defeat hillary clinton. he campaigned in fort dodge today.... and he says the momentum is building... sanders 16:23:12 when we started we were in 3% in the polls, we were 50 points behind. today the inevitable candidate and that's really the case in new hampshire... a c-n-n poll released today has sanders ahead of clinton by 27-points. the same poll had sanders up by ten- points a month ago. in iowa.. sanders and clinton are neck-and-neck. the polls might not be clinton's only worry. the u-s inspector general says both top secret and "special access program" i

rick santorum. nice to see you. good to see you. nice to see you, guys. how are you? rick santorum. good to see you. pretty good chicken, huh? >> not bad. rick: i think it's pretty good. pretty good. ice to see you guys. all right. have a good day. hello, folks. how are you? nice to see you. rick santorum. nice to see you. >> thank you. rick: thank you. nice to see you. you have a good day. come back and visit with us. if you want, we'll be talking back there. >> ice cream on top. rick: that's pretty intense right there. >> yeah. rick: that's a couple calories. to thicken you up a little. >> yeah. rick: good to see you guys. how are you? take care. all right. all right. hello, everybody. how you doing? hi. good to see you. >> nice to see you. rick: good to see you. thank you for coming out. hi. good to see you today. how are you? sure. anybody that wants pictures we'll do pictures. >> oh, wow. rick: someone will tell you -- there you go. >> wow. thank you. rick: there we go. thank you. turn around. why don't you get in the iddle? all right. >> thank you. rick: you bet. you want to d

and rick santorum edged mitt romney in 2012. and with home-state senator tom harkin running in 1992, bill clinton only registered single-digit support. (dennis goldford, drake university political science professor) iowa does not pick the president. iowa doesn't even necessarily pick the party nominee. what iowa does is reveal unexpected strengths and unexpected weaknesses in the campaigns. with a mere six electoral votes in the general election, caucus day will pretty much end iowa's 20- 16 stardom. it may also mean the end for some campaigns. but it's just the beginning of the process, of choosing the next president of the united states. in des moines, iowa, i'm karin caifa. straight ahead in healthbeat 4: we'll go along on a journey with one local doctor as he gives out free medical advice and also leads a group to better health. do you spend too much time car repairs, home improvements, a family trip... it's not easy to afford them. what did marco rubio do? he put $22,000 in personal expenses on a republican party credit car

gop candidate rick santorum returned to iowa this weekend. the former senator talked about the importance of getting out and interacting with iowans. more than 70 people attended the house party last night in sac city. those at the gathering spoke with santorum about issues of national security, faith, and action he would take if elected. the former senator explained the importance of meeting one-on-one with iowans leading up to the caucus. "a lot can happen and the reason a lot can is becuase iowans don't pay attention to the attention to what the experts say are best for them. they go out and do what these 75-80 people are doing here tonight; which is come out, meet the candidates, and kick the tires," said rick santorum, gop candidate. santorum will be in orange city this morning for a town hall at iowa's fourth district will have a gop primary in 2016. paul lunde of ames, iowa officially announced today that he will seek the republican nomination for the fourth disctrict seat in the u.s. house of representativ es. lunde will be running ag

same with santorum in 2012.ruz right now, he's just a full spectrum, constitutional pro family conservative that people are uniting around, rallying around. i expect a good night tonight and monday night in the iowa caucuses. >> the other two guys you endorsed in '08 and '12, they're still running. what did they think of you not picking them this time around? >> those were definitely hard phone calls to make because they're both very close friends. i assured them, and i think they trust me that it had nothing to do with mike huckabee, nothing to do with rick santorum. it had everything to do with ted cruz. for whatever reason, the momentum is going around ted cruz. you're seeing it every day here in iowa. i've never seen a campaign infrastructure around a candidate like this. he is poised for success. >> it's interesting because there's been a lot made and a lot of articles written about his ground game there and the number of volunteers he has, even the technology he's utilized as far as trying to pinpoint spec

santorum can bring us together. >> as you know, foster, rick santorum isn't doiso well in th polls.to drop out so voters can coalesce about a candidate who is doing okay, like marco rubio. do you think that it's time for candidates with low percentages to drop out? >> if they're at 2%, at least they're tied with low fat milk. that's a start. who cares about the polls? the polls last time he was 5% in the polls nine days before he won iowa. what does that say, and matt devin was down 4% in the kentucky race and won by 9 %. the polls are, like, 360 people. you have a possibility far surprise. you go to these little events, people love rick santorum's warmth. they love his temperament and the fact that he can sit down and explain what is the threat of isis? he authored the iranian sanctions and he named the enemy as fundamental of islam. d why do people not name the enemy? >> all right. i have to leave it there. foster freeze, thank you for being with me this morning. >> oh, i'm here right in the middle of an iowa heat wave. i'm going to put my bathing suit on and head to the lake this

santorum just said something i think really interesting. he talked about the nationalization of this race, which i think in some ways has been one of the key factors. this is a pro ethanol group going after ted cruz today and this is a mailer that went out sort of attacking him on -- that he doesn't support ethanol. now, this is of course a tried and true means of iowa campaigning. >> sure. >> but i think what we're seeing in this race is those sort of local issues, essentially their sail yens has entirely evaporated. do you agree with that? >> in many respects that's right. i've said for some time one of the problems going into this cycle by relying on national polls whether it is to determine who's going to stand on the stage to debate or where they are in the poll position leading up to the vote in a few weeks distorts the outcome, distorts the way this race would naturally unfold. this is really the first time we've seen this injection of national polls where folks around the country, not just republicans and democrats but everyone, jus

brooke. >> we'll talk to santorum coming up.e can get anything more out of the former senator about what this is tonight. thank you so much. >>> now, trump's rivals are ribbing him big time for his no show this evening. here's just a little sample. >> i think he's very much afraid of questions about his bankruptcies. maybe afraid about the fact that he's actually never voted in a republican presidential primary. for 70 years, he's been a progressive democrat. i was wondering if maybe he's going to show up for the democratic primary debate the next time. >> apparently mr. trump considers megyn kelly very, very scary. and you know donald is a fragile soul. she might ask him mean questions. who knows what could happen. i mean, his hair could stand on end. >> also, to discuss with me, cnn national political reporter. also a campaign consultant. cleveland pastor, trump supporter daryl scott and brian stelter, host of "reliable sources." welcome to all of you. daryl, let me just begin with you. when you look at the polls from iowa, yo

it doesn't stop there for rick santorum and a handful of other contenders. five of them will make a combined total of sixteen tops in the state today... the republicans include santorum, carly fiorina, mike huckabee, and donald trump. hillary clinton is holding down the fort for the democrats. we're now just 12 days out from our first in the nation caucus. the supreme court is taking up the president's executive action on immigration.... the action's aimed at allowing millions of undocumented immigrants whose kids are u-s citizens to apply for work permits and avoid being deported temporarily. more than half of the states after it was issued. the court will decide whether president obama's action violates the constitution. and iowa's latino community hopes justices side with him... it makes no sense to have 11 million hard working people to be put in the shadows especially when theyre rebuilding this country, so we need to change directions and were hopeful that the next president will do that. the court will hear arguments in april, and likely issue its rul

let me just ask a quick question here to senator santorum.the g.o.p. candidates to attend the march for life in washington last week. where were you? >> well, i have7<(3 been to the march for life for about 25 years. and i thought -- i think that's a pretty good record. [ applause ] >> spoken at it a few times and i have sheparded every single pro-life piece of legislation that's passed over the last 20 years. i have either authored it or sheparded it through the united states congress. i'm pretty proud of that record, too. [ applause ] but we have an elections going on and there was some snow coming and i decided that maybe it would be better for me to get out and do some campaigning and not be stuck as my wife and kids were for a week piling out of two and a half feet of snow. here's what i would say. if you want someone that's going to talk a good game there are a lot of folks on this stage who have talked a good game on the issue of life. not only i have talked a good game on life, i have done some things, but i have also lived it. you kn

i gave them another chance with rick santorum. rk: who's this? man: i'm going to withhold my answer to start out with. rk: ok that means he doesn't know, do you know? man: i don't know. i have no idea. rk: he's a presidential candidate, do you guys want to phone a friend, you want some help? man: how bout some initials again? rk: rs. man: is that rick santorum? rk: that is. do you have any idea what state he's from? man: nope. rick santorum was a challenge for her too! rk: let's see if you know who this is. yeah i do but i don't know if i can confirm. santorum.rk: is she nb: i told her to. the candidate that seemed to stump our group the most was republican john kasich: rk: who's that? woman: is that that kasich guy? rk: is that that kasich guy? allright, you have some points there. you definitely got some points there. did you know that? who'd you think it was? woman: i had no idea! woman: he's one of the republican candidates of the many, i have no idea. rk: so he's not a hollywood actor? he's definitely a republican candidate? you sure? woman:

charles: right, so a president santorum, a president santorum has to deal with someone who wants to get a hydrogen bomb, put it on a warhead. he's crazy, to your point, what would you do? >> we know they have a nuclear capability. charles: but there's a huge difference between the atomic bombs and hydrogen bomb they're so desperately trying to develop. >> the key here is that we have to be able to defend ourselves, and you go back to the basics. how do you defend yourself from a nuclear attack? from a ballistic missile attack? you have to have a shield. we have to create a missile defense system. we have parked that to the side over the years, and certainly by this administration has pushed it to the side. i would eenergize a missile defense system that will protect us from what is coming. either it's from north korea, now iran on a path to nuclear weapon. you have other potential rogue nations that with those two nations on the path at having them, sharing that technology, this is a very serious threat to the united states, and we need to develop defensive capability, much less by the

presidential candidate, rick santorum, also stopped in siouxland today. the rupublican spoke at the pizza ranch headquarters in orange city today. the candidate discussed the threat of isis and how he would put more boots on the ground if he were to win the presidential bid. the former pennsylvania senator explained why he's concerned about the combination of radical islam and the iran nuclear deal. he says there's two things he would do to iran nuclear deal and take away the land isis operates on in the middle east. "we have american politicians who aren't honest with the american public about the nature of the threat we confront and tell the truth because we want to be politically correct, we don't want to offend anybody. well we've gotten to the point where we're more concerned about offending people then telling them the truth about a real threat that is now attacking us," said former pennsylvania senator and presidential candidate, rick santorum. pizza ranch's founder says santorum reiterated how everyone has a voice. "i didn't realize he's an expert

a very strong statement from rick santorum, he hit on the issues that are the top trending issues on facebook. you can see religion, iraq, isis and syria. the economy is the third most important issue talked about on facebook over the last few weeks, and santorum, fiorina and huckabee hitting that very hard. homeland security and terror really is the take home point for a lot of facebook users and those on twitter. that's what really matters when it comes to choosing from the primaries and caucuses coming up, and the top five issues, the fifth one rounding out the facebook discussion is guns and certainly heard that in carly fiorina's closing statement, saying she does not want her guns taken away, in that closing statement. but what's interesting here is looking ahead to the debate coming up, lou, you've got the top five candidates trending on facebook, and it runs actually counter to the polls we've been seeing. of course donald trump, no surprise, coming in as a top trending candidate on facebook. he's got 18 million people talking about him. 103 million times. he really is taking

santorum will be in cedar rapids, iowa tomorrow. the next republican presidential debate on thursday night will feature just seven candidates on the senator rand paul did not qualify for the main debate. the two will join candidates mike huckabee and rick santorum in the undercaca debate earlier in the evening. the debate will be live on the fox business network on thursday night. and, former president bill clinton will be in sioux city on friday to support his wife's campaign. an event will take place at morningside college on friday at noon at the olson student center. doors open at 11:15 a.m. for information on tickets, check out our website at ktiv.com. a fire firced a popular sioux city chicken restaurant to close its doors today. fire started in a storage shed that was added onto sneaky's chicken on gordon drive. this was all happening while the owner, dave ferris and employees worked inside. ferris and hisismployees made it t safetly. fire officials say despite the sub-zero temperatures and difficult conditions they got the f

rick santorum won. remember, just that same morning the party had said it was a split decision, but then in the afternoon the state party chairman said this -- it is indispuundisputable that certified caucus results had rick santorum winning by 34 votes. i feel i owe senator santorum and his supporters a apology. >> declaring it a victory for rick santorum. >> yeah. the certified vote results. >> the last time republicans held their iowa caucuses that night they declared romney won. two weeks later they said that was tie. a split decision, then that afternoon it was a rick santorum. who got the delegates from the state of iowa for 2012? after they went through that make it up as we go along? turns out it was neither of the candidates who won or tied, fending on which day you ask. neither of them. >> and now 16 weeks after the voting happened, and mitt romney was declared the winner, and 14 weeks after santorum was declared the winner. it appears that ron paul is the winner in iowa. >> mitt romney first,

rick santorum in 2012. what does he do?oks like he won't win iowa, but he has, i think, a chance to be kind of a player in this race after he leaves the race, which will probably be, you know, i'm not going to make any predictions, but he probably won't win iowa and maybe he leaves the race after that. >> he won iowa in 2008, rick santorum won in 2012 and both of those winners are coming to the donald trump event later tonight. ladies, stand by. we have much more to discuss. the political news is still coming in. we'll take a quick break and we'll be right back. see see me. don't stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. i'm not contagious. see me to know that i won't stop. until i find what works. discover cosentyx, a different kind of medicine for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. proven to help the majority of people find clear or almost clear skin. 8 out of 10 people saw 75% skin clearance at 3 months. while the majority saw 90% clearance. do not use if you are allergic

rick santorum was the actual winner, and that mistake many argue cost santorum valuable momentum. mary snow, al jazeera. >> coming up, the fight against the crisis of epidemic proportions. >> i'm doing what's right for you. >> that's the kind of debate that we need to have. >> stay with al jazeera america for... >> it's going to be about getting people out to the caucus, which is not an easy thing to do. >> comprehensive coverage that's... >> the focus will be on south carolina tonight. >> on thursday the world health organization announced it would be holding an emergency meeting to discuss the zika virus. which has been exploding exponentially. it is leaked to guillan barre syndrome, and peril sis. ebola claimed more than 11,000 lives. one of the hardest hit countries was liberia. a tragic story of one liberian village's fight after a man brings his sick child to the facility. >> knowing what to expect is still impossible. >> i always keep it at the back of my mind that ebola is very deadly. so i don't come in contact with my patients, i do interview them from a distance. so i a

mike huckabee and santorum are past iowa winners.s hard to see them pressing on if they can't climb out of the bottom of the pack here. ben carson is another question mark. rand paul is a huge question. his team promises surprise on caucus night. it predicts it will get a big boost from the fact that colleges are in session here this year at caucus time. it hasn't happened the last two cycles and ron paul who has been largely absent from his strong's campaign is coming in this weekend to try to energize his past supporters. team paul promises it will be this cycle's iowa surprise. if it fails to deliver, pressure will mount for the kentucky senator to pack it in because his senate seat is on the ballot this year. that's it for "inside politics." we want to thank people here at smokey row for their hospitality and the coffee is awesome! state of the union with jake tapper starts right now. >>> sanders leading clinton. trump ahead of cruz. the latest predictions out of iowa with the first votes just days away. and the gop at war over t