congressman paul is joining us from iowa. great to see you out there. >> nice to be with you. >> you are expecting a better outcome this time around? >> i sure am and i will be disacious pointed if we don't have a better outcome. that is our goal. i don't know if i can predict much more than that. >> what gives you the sense of confidence that your supporters have what it takes? >> and the one thing is, we talked about certain principles on foreign policy and monetary policy and spending for many, many yearrs . there for a while there was not much support. but the views are growing and including the disenchantment with the american people with the wars going on. the country move in our direction and this is reflected in the number of people and the ease of raisingly money and the number of volunteers and the organization that we have had out here. we can't help but be optmistic to do better. >> the race will get more crowded in a while with rick perry jumping in the race. how do you feel about that? >> well, that's the way th

congresswoman michele bachmann joins from us iowa. woo she do about the economy if she were president? we will ask a her very specific questions directly ahead. gas and bloating. with the strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight, go out to where michele bachmann is campaigning to be president. congresswoman, get very specific tonight in the face of all of this disaster. if you were president, what would be the first thing you would do economically? the first thing? >> well, the number one thing that needs to be done is i think the treasury secretary has to go. you have to have some fire. you mentioned that in your talking points memo. if your economic team isn't working, you have got to get someone in who know what is to do. that needs to be done. secondly, if i were president today, i would call all the members of congress back into washington, d.c. and i would say. this look, we are going to get this a.a.a. c

thank you so much for taking my call and you have a blessed day. >> john is joining us from iowa. independent line. >> how are you doing today? i think what we need is an actual politician that is not going to lie to the american people. i think the american people are ready for some level of transparency. and i think we just need a little bit of honesty in the game and a little bit of up- frontness from everybody in what the situation is with the economy and how it will affect us. i don't know -- i would like to see actually one of the politicians actually stand up and say what is really going on and where we really stand globally in this economy. >> thanks for the call. you can long on to iowastatefa ir.org. there is information about the infamous butter cow. it has been a tradition. and they're also featuring fried better this year. dallas, texas. democrats line. go ahead. go ahead. >> i would like to speak about campaign donations. during the last election, president obama spent over $785 million just to get himself elected. now, the republican field. no one has yet utilize th

he joins us from iowa. did you say that governor rick perry was destructive or not?on on allowing states to go ahead and do whatever they want with the issue of marriage was destructive. because you can't have 50 different marriage laws in this country. i thought that position would be destructive to the basic institution of marriage and family. >> greta: so we got that squared away. now, tomorrow night several of you up on the stage. how do you distinguish yourself from the other candidates? >> i'm someone who has been a consistent conservative over the past -- over my political career. i've been out there arguing when it was unpopular for entitlement reform and private sector health care. i didn't advocate for climate change and things like that. i've been someone who has led on all the issues, national security, more cultural issues like partial birth abortion and other pro-life things. i'm the own person on that stage who was able to author a bill and work it through the united states senate that ended a federal entitlement. if you look at some of the big issues

iowa. lester. >> kristin in new hampshire, thank you. moderator and meet the press david gregory joins us from ames, iowa. does governor perry's entrance into the race diminish the significance of finishing among the frontrunners. >> splits the screen. governor perry is coming in at a time when there's a lot of republican money on the sidelines and there's still a lot of excitement yet to be generated among republican primary voters who don't love the field right now. they know that this is a high stakes election and the republican primary voters don't like president obama. he's coming in at a good moment. >> the name of the game, of course, is fundraising at this point. if you're near the bottom of the pile tonight and then rick perry gets into the race, are you looking at a nail in the cough infinally? >> yes, i think you are. it's a test of viability, a test of organization in iowa. if you're not breaking through in the polls and getting a lot of media attention and not raising the money, like i said, it's still on the sidelines, you have some problems. this is the first test for governor perry. how mu

we're looking tense scenes from the iowa state fair. jacqueline is joining us from colorado springs on the democratic line. >> thank you for taking my call. i wanted to comment and said i am a registered democrat. looking at the republican field so far, we have not heard from rick perry yet, but i am not too afraid of how they're going to hold up in the debates with obama. i have not seen anyone that knows what they're talking about him except for ron paul. he consistently has the same set of views, but not talking points other than his convictions. >> thank you for the call. we just thought chuck grassley joined by former massachusetts governor mitt romney yes it. he is back at the state fair, likely to head over and say hello to tim pawlenty. let's listen in. >> everybody is clear on taxes. secondly, everybody had some solution to the job problem. one of them have a comprehensive solution. i get the impression with the president's discredited economic and fiscal policy that any one of them can be impaired >> you think any one of the candidates can beat presid

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>> don is joining us from logan, iowa. go ahead. >> thank you. my comment mainly is what the first caller is. it seems like there is class warfare going on. everybody now is attacking the successful in this country. what we do not need is what is happening over in london right now and that is exactly what is coming to our streets. it is obvious that there is a full attack on the successful, like mitt romney, and it is coming to our streets if we do not shape up. that is my comment. thank you. >> next is tom joyner is from oregon. live for republicans. go ahead. >> thank you. i believe that taxes are not the way to solve our economic problems. we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. until we get our spending under control, we will continue down the road we are on. thank you. >> you can check out all of our campaign coverage on c-span site for politics. a complete video library of the interviews we have done with the candidates. we will look as some of the issues and campaign announcements. we'll look at the vincennes then fold in iowa.

wyatt andrews, cbs news, austin. >> joining us now from ames, iowa, seen of last night's debate and tomorrow'snnell and john dickerson. great to have you both with us. welcome back norah. >> good morning. >> i want to begin, norah, with the fact that rick perry is in and will be officially in as of this weekend. how big of a shadow did that last on last night's debate? >> well, i think it overshadows many of the candidates who were gathered here in iowa because rick perry is going to announce on saturday in south carolina, then he's going to travel to new hampshire, then he'll come here to iowa on sunday. and rick perry has a following with social conservatives who maybe have not found their candidate in this race, although many of them like michele bachmann. he has a fiscal record in terms of jobs in texas, and there are a lot of republican fund-raisers out there, money men and money women, who are looking for a candidate to get behind and rick perry may be that candidate. his entrance no doubt will shake up this race. >> john, what's your take in. >> i think norah's exactly right. he's also

iowa for us. of course, jake will be hoping abc's "this week" from iowa tomorrow.s will be republican presidential hopefuls, former minnesota governor tim pawlenty and minnesota congresswoman bianna? bachmann. >> that will be a heated show to watch. all right, josh. >>> well, now to another key early voting state, south carolina, where today texas governor rick perry will make it official. abc's david kerley joins us from charleston. and there was a lot of buildup to today, david. >> reporter: bianna, in just a couple of hours, rick perry will stand on this stage and say he wants to be the latest texan to occupy the oval house, and in doing so, he is turning the republican presidential race on its head. rick perry has been hinting for days that he will make it official, that he is a candidate for president. >> i'm very calm in my heart that this is what i'm supposed to be doing. >> reporter: perry chose charleston, south carolina, at nearly the exact time that iowa straw poll is under way to make his announcement, so a small conserertive meeting here is now the lau

. >> and jake is back with us now from iowa. we know who the winner is in michele bachmann. but the question is, who is the loser? because often these straw polls whittle down the race. >> well, the big loser is the third place finisher, the former governor of minnesota, pawlenty. both the first place winner and the second place winner got more than twice as many as votes than he did. pawlenty put a lot of energy into this state. and it was a fairly weak showing with the fourth place finisher, rick can tore rum santorum, former senator from pennsylvania, very close behind him. there's going to be a lot of questions for what pawlenty does going forward. >> i wanted to ask you about mitt romney. defending those comments this week that corporations are people. we learned about his work overnight. upwards of $250 million accord to some reports. p what do you make of his defending of his words again? >> i don't think it's the kind of comment that will hurt him in a republican primary but it is something the democrats are trying to make a lot of hay out of, saying he's more pro-bu

out reporting in ames iowa christine for our team but we don't have to wait until tomorrow to talk to christine what is really going on there get the inside scoop she joins us now from iowa christine now ron paul got a lot of air time last night rick santorum even complain about it you are there is there a sense there ron paul's ideas hold more weight and resonate with this crowd in a stronger way than ever before. yeah and it's really really interesting where i'm standing now is the press center here at iowa state university where the straw poll will take place tomorrow right behind me actually all the candidates including ron paul will be giving his speech this is also where i was last night for the debate that you were just talking about and it was really really interesting we had the debate on the jumbotron in here and just a sea of media and here and every time a ron paul particularly about iran or q but you can just hear the keyboards going faster people really are not totally shocked but certainly when ron paul speaks from the things he says make waves and there are things that people like to discuss and talk about and write about and not showed itself last n

tonight n iowa and when we come back, the one and only, one of the most outspoken critics of the obama administration. former speaker of the house newt gingrich will join us, live, ahead fromiowa tonight. >>> i'd love to see the rest of the debate asking us about what we'd do to lead in americat whose president has failed to lead instead of playing micky mouse games. >> speaker gingrich, if you think questions about your records are micky mouse, i'm sorry. i think those are questions a lot of people want to hear answers to and you're responsible for your records. >> i've got a rebuttal. i think that there is too much attention paid by the press core and not enough paid to the basic idea that distinguish us from barack obama. >> sean: and welcome back to thel special post-debate edition of "hannity". we're in ames, iowa. you just heard from newt gingrich, never too shy to criticize the poll says of barack obama. tonight moderateors got a taste of his answers. anyway, former speaker joins us, how are you? >> great to be with you. >> it was interesting. joe tripi thought this was a where's the beef moment. it reminded me of i paid for this microphone. you know, you seem to th

and chris wallace with a front row seat for the action, joining us live from iowa.did you think of this debate? >>chris: very interesting. but in all fairness i got to say and i was asking the questions of bachmann and pawlenty it was pretty easy to get them going. there could be just one ticket out of iowa for pawlenty and bachmann and they are both grabbing for it. they both of course come from minnesota, across the border from iowa and they both appeal to the same voters, tea partyers and conservatives, and bachmann at this point is whipping pawlenty in the polls and he was trying to scuff her up and she fought right back. so, yes i'm glad i got them going but it wasn't hard. >>jon: and then there was not gingrich. listen to this. >> speaker, one of the ways we judge a candidate is the campaign they run. how do you respond to people with say your campaign has been a mess so far? >>guest: i took seriously the injunction to put aside talking points and i wish you would put aside the gotcha questions. i would love to see the debate asking us what we would do to lead

enough paid to the basic idea that distinguish us from barack obama. >> sean: and welcome back to thel special post-debate edition of "hannity". we're in ames, iowa newt gingrich, never too shy to criticize the poll says of barack obama. tonight moderateors got a taste of his answers. anyway, former speaker joins us, how are you? >> great to be with you. >> it was interesting. joe tripi thought this was a where's the beef moment. it reminded me of i paid for this microphone. you know, you seem to think wait a minute. why are we talking about this? we've got to talk about substance. you're not happy. >> what made it differÑnv is when bret opened the show he said we want you to put aside your talking points. we want you to have a conversation about what you'd really do. i wrote that down and i wrote under it, then we want you to put gotcha questions. because i knew sooner or later dwoitsing to happen. it's part of the washington culture, i do think we're in desperate trouble as a country. we do need a serious national conversation. and gotcha kind of questions disrupt and slow down the flow of trying to find solutions. >> sean: i don't mind hard qu

enough paid to the basic idea that distinguish us from barack obama. >> sean: and welcome back to thel special post-debate edition of "hannity". we're in ames, iowaust heard from newt gingrich, never too shy to criticize the poll says of barack obama. tonight moderateors got a taste of his answers. anyway, former speaker joins us, how are you? >> great to be with you. >> it was interesting. joe tripi thought this was a where's the beef moment. it reminded me of i paid for this microphone. you know, you seem to think wait a minute. why are we talking about this? we've got to talk about substance. you're not happy. >> what made it differÑnv is when bret opened the show he said we want you to put aside your talking points. we want you to have a conversation about what you'd really do. i wrote that down and i wrote under it, then we want you to put gotcha questions. because i knew sooner or later dwoitsing to happen. it's part of the washington culture, i do think we're in desperate trouble as a country. we do need a serious national conversation. and gotcha kind of questions disrupt and slow down the flow of trying to find solutions. >> sean: i don'

michael steele, chris hayes still with us, along with mark halperin in iowa. joining us fromical writer for the "huffington post," sam stein. >> i just want to say -- i think maybe we're alone here, michael steele. we are totally alone, mika says. i can say this because i've been critical of newt. i thought newt did pretty well last night. >> i thought newt did very well last night. much to the chagrin of a lot of folks, i thought he stepped up his game. he gained the most of all the candidates on the stage last night because he substantively put some things out there to debate -- >> newt wasn't like playing newt trying to be presidential candidate with a goofy smile. newt was himself. >> he wasn't the professor. >> he wasn't a professor. anyway, i think we're alone on that. i want to say, though -- did you think pawlenty did well? >> i did. >> we're alone on that, too. >> i thought he was his best when he wasn't engaging michele bachmann, frankly. >> the headline, mark halperin, mitt romney, a lot of don't like him, so do. head and shoulders -- it's what buchanan calls as a

chief political correspondent carl cameron fills us in from iowa.nstead of attending the iowa debate and straw poll this week, texas governor rick perry has been booked to speak at the red state.com conference of conservative bloggers in south carolina, home of the first southern primary where perry can play up his so you were roots. saturday he will visit new hampshire, home of the first of the nation primary and sunday he will visit iowa to take part of the g.o.p. dinner waterloo. that is the town where michele bachmann who is hoping to win the straw poll saturday was born and announced her candidacy two months ago. for now she is focused on this week's debate and straw poll. >> would you come to ames on saturday? would you give me your vote on saturday. >> fire bread evangelical conservative, perry has experience as governor that bachmann lacks and could overshadow her. his record in the lone star state of cutting taxes and budget service contrasts with mitt romney who signed healthcare reform law in massachusetts that became the model for obamac

iowa straw poll. the winner could get an important boost heading in to the 2012 primary season. cnn don lemon is joining us from ames, iowa. don? >> all right. thank you very much for that, wolf. joining me here is cnn candy crowley to talk about all of this. are you hearing anything? >> back there at thtabulating. i mention we'll hear in the next 15, 20 minutes. >> we were talking about ron paul, herman cain, rick santorum, michelle bachmann. he said if he didn't place high enough he's is going to get out. >> the problem isn't so much oh, my gosh this person placed fifth it's that donors look at it and they don't want to give any more because you only have so much money. so money starts to dry up after the straw poll. >> newt gingrich, mitt romney, jim huntsman. >> he can self-fund. he can stay in it if he wants to. usually it's me sitting in a studio tossing to you. >> here i am and i don't have a thing. >> it's great to see the energy. we had some folks joining us earlier. tons of people here. they bus in from all over the state. they have to show i.d.. they feed them. they give them drink. they give them lo

from their own party and i think that contributes to it. some of it frankly, wolf, is i think the media's changed, you know, it's much more splintered. >> wolf blitzer live with us tonight from iowa where he conducted that interview. wolf, very telling, the president said it's washington's fault, it's washington's fault we can't get a jobs bill through, but he acknowledges if the unemployment doesn't go down, he could be at risk, and i thought his point i promised to make washington better and it's even worse was pretty telling. >> yeah. i was surprised he said that. because, you know, he ran on hope and change and it wasn't supposed to be like this, but he knows it is the same old, same old, and as he says it may even be a whole lot worse. he went into some specifics about how the country is so divided right now. redistri redistricting, for example, has created solid republican districts in the house of representatives, solid democratic districts in the house of representatives. he says the media is partially to blame because republicans want to watch one channel, that is, republican oriented. democrats will watch another channel. they won't hear what each other are saying reall

let me bring in jill lawrence, who joins us from ames, iowa. is going to be the republicans are all on stage. but as nia was saying, two republicans not on stage are really going to dominate a loet lot of the attention that you have, rick perry, who just happened to announce today, right on the day of the debate, that he is -- to upstage the debate and the strong poll, that's quite a coincidence? >> reporter: it is not a coincident at all. in fact, people in iowa are not happy about it. i was talking to the congressman from iowa. he said if he were advising perry, he would advise him to not make it look as if he were trying to overshadow the straw poll. to add insult to injury, he is coming to waterloo to exactly the same spot where michele bachmann announced her campaign. rick perry has a reputation for playing hard ball and i think it has already started. >> nia, rick perry is also is not alone because sarah palin is coming into town. she has decided that with all of the bus routes in america, she's got to bring her bus through iowa. what is

. >> we're also going to be joined by paul steinhauser who's joining us from ames, iowa, keeping a close eye on this as well. jim just mentioned, paul, nikki haley, she got great support from the tea party, she was already on the stage there at this conservative gathering. but you have to wonder. the tea party -- would the tea party and its backing of governor perry be as influential going into this race as perhaps the tea party has been backing other candidates before so much recent criticism of congress? >> reporter: yeah. this is going to be fascinating how the tea party plays in the race for the white house on the republican side. no doubt about it. remember, the tea party activists were extremely influential in 2010, last year, in the mid-term elections and influencing those republican primary battles. they've got a lot of favorites, it seems, right now. michele bachmann, the congresswoman from minnesota, is a darling of many tea party activists. ron paul, a lot of supporters in the movement as well. now that rick perry is jumping into the race, it's an interesting dynamic and a lot

iowa. it's fun. >> joining us from idb, waiting if amy gardner who is in ames, iowa. caller: hello. you so much for taking my call. i first wanted to make a commeant about how reporting from different news media outlets how the republican field of candidates is not deep and i think all the different candidates coming out really proved there's a misconception. i've been a michele balkman supporter and follower for quite a number of years, and i have to say all these well, she is most definitely not a hypocrite. she talks the talk and walks the walk and votes how she says she is going to vote. but i really am kind of torn, because i am so impressed with herman cain, and that really shows, you know, how strong of a candidate he is, because i've been steadfast that i'm a michele balkman supporter. and now i'm to a point where i'm kind of torn between the two of them, and i think his speech was one of the strongest speeches i've ever heard and within last point about people saying they are not discussing jobs. but a president does not create jobs, policies create or discourage job growth

joining us from iowa, the senior editor of texas monthly. casey's in iowa.for politico. casey, you're in iowa. >> i am. >> and, paul, you are not. >> i am. >> welcome to both of you. rick perry supported this call to prayer to pray for the country, to find a way out of its economic woes. you're in iowa. it seems other republican contenders are ripping a page from rick perry's book. michele bachmann is one, supposedly praying publicly. >> she is. i was on the trail with her last april and she kept the praying mostly to herself or for church events. now a day or so after rick perry's massive prayer rally, she was here yesterday in des moines, doing a prayer event and did a very lengthy and public prayer, praying for the 30 american service members killed in afghanistan. it certainly was a fitting thing to do. but it was something we had not seen her do often outside a church setting. >> does it resonate with voters in iowa? >> it certainly resonated last night with the folks who showed up to see her. of course, there's always extended discussions of how import

iowa. and maybe perry finishes third with romney in there, you don't know. but second or third. then bachmann, using the momentum from iowa, finishes second to romney in new hampshire. at that point, perry who will probably win south carolina, becomes a regional southern candidate, not unlike mike huckabee. >> sean: i think he's going to thread the needle and try to appeal to both groups and draw from all sighs, that would be my guess. >> he could fall between two chairs is the problem. >> sean: a lot has happened. we had the debate thursday night. straw poll saturday. pawlenty out. perry in. if you had to assess putting all these new developments together, who stands where at this moment? >> well, again i always see this in terms of semifinals. the right wing semifinal in the centrists semifinal. in the right wing, bachmann clearly did very well. she is moving out from the pack. i would not count out rick santorum, who had a very strong debate performance. and has a perfect foil in ron paul claiming iran would be fine if they got a bomb and they don't intend to get a bomb any way. santorum looked good at the ames po

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during the duration of the certainly if not the drone war but they haven't killed a civilian from iowa for us. our evidence suggests entirely the contrary we were hearing rumors of over us officials in washington trying to cast aspersions on our study before it was even published. for example trying to link with someone they were collaborating with us. and also raising doubts about the validity of our research itself we went back and looked at over two thousand individual media reports from pakistani u.s. u.k. international media looking at the strikes and then once we've actually untangled that process and got the clearest idea of what looks like a place we don't cross reference with a host of material which included legal studies case notes of lawyers who are for i think are going to have to civilians from pakistan intelligence documents us secret cables that were leaked by wiki leaks earlier this year and so on so we're trying to build up really as comprehensive a public view as we could of what's actually been taking place. it's a page on some of the world headlines now this hour in front

iowa straw poll here with us. congresswoman bachmann. stay with us. rérésékérékékéréúé> >> mike: why are live from the iowa straw poll.f the day is congresswoman much -- michelle bachmann who won in a way. congresswoman, let's talk about the victory. first of all emotionally. i know you invested in an amount of time and energy and campaign money. what are you feeling in the moments after the announcement that you have won? >> we are stunned and humble and grateful and all of the rest of the the people of iowa did this. this was not us. it was the people of iowa. the fact that is unique 48 days in this campaign and we are able to win despite the fact other people have been here for years and invested. this invested to the fact that people wanted to have a champion for their voice. i was born here and they want to send a strong signal to barack obama that he will be a one-term president. >> mike: you know he got his start in the iowa caucus. that propelled him to a position where people thought he might win and your victory here in the straw poll gave you a status and level of respect that the front runner is going to h

supports tomorrow by playing his bass guitar for santorum and herman cain but joining us now from the ground in ames iowa. for the straw poll that has had a better sense of why this event is given such importance we are joined tonight by artie's artie america's own christine for is out there saying thanks so much for being with us tonight and adam aria outstanding so from what you're seeing there do the people of iowa this year in this in this particular election especially those in ames of course do they have a sense of the extra weight that their votes carry what americans put so much stock in the results of early primary or caucus states like iowa. yeah it's really interesting out and when you think about it i mean when you look at the fifty states in this country iowa ranks thirty in terms of population so it doesn't always make sense to everyone but the people that live here they certainly feel like it is their right they feel like their opinion is strong we were at the iowa state fair this morning talking to a lot of people and they really take this seriously and if you think about it you know thos

. >>> cnn's brianna keilar joins us live from peosta, iowa.. >> good morning, christine. we're here in peosta, iowa, the single stop for president obama today for this rural economic forum. we're at northeastern iowa community college. this is really the anchor of his three-day bus tour. this is an event that the white house committed to months ago and they built the bus tour around it. and he'll be talking today with people in this community about some of the things they've been doing. it's interesting, if you look at the counties the president is going to on this bus tour, they have much better unemployment rates that the national average which is 9.1%. looking at the counties, the five stops he'll be making over these three days, they have unemployment rates between 4.8% and in the high 6s. one of the things the white house says they want to do is get a sense of what's working in these areas that maybe they could use in other parts around the country. but also, rural areas, very important as you know, christine, a place where democrats did

us. how you can move on from an eighth place showing in iowa. straight talk 8th place showing in michigan and. >> and iowa. first of all, offering better solutions. there is no question in a three big money candidates in the race. >> laura: money is important u isn't it at this point, newt. >> maybe. mccain was consistently outspent by romney and giuliani. it didn't matter. reagan at times was outspent and it doesn't matter. ideas do matter in the end. i think we are going to offer better solutions. talk about things people ought to be talking about. an american energy plan. how you would go about dramatically reshaping the government. in ways that i think the other candidates don't talk about. we're also going to talk about issues like how you deal with alzheimer's and autism and a variety of other things that relate to brain science. how you modernize the food and drug administration. how you replace the e.p.a. with an earn environmental solutions agency. remember, people don't just want to send a message to washington. >> laura: you have been

debbie wasserman-schultz joins us from the iowa state fair and of course runs the dnc. again. >> thank you very much. megyn: thank you very much for coming on the program. you watched this unfold live and i was talking to my guests about whether this is one of those moments that can help define a candidate or campaign for better or worse, and i'm sure a lot of gopers think it was for better, you say it was for worse. tell us why. >> well, it's just one in a series of gaffs made by mitt romney, one that he made a few weeks ago where he actually joked around that he doesn't have a job. yesterday, he declared the corporations are people. i mean, it just shows how shockingly out of touch this whole packet of republican candidates for president are and the icing on the cake is last night, when all nine of them raised their hand and pledged allegiance and adherence to the tea party stripture that even when asked if they would support 10-1 cuts to revenue, they still rigidly stuck to the tea party line that under no circumstances do we ask the most fortunate americans to pay t

us. joining me now from iowa, katny obradovich, thanks for joining me tonight, kathie, i really appreciate it. >> thanks, chris. >> what do you make of the sort of sniping is the characterization people have given to it, congresswoman wasserman schultz said it was like her kids. >> first of all, pawlenty and bachmann are the key competitors in saturday's straw poll. pawlenty wanted to sort of knock bachmann down a peg, but the other thing is, pawlenty was accused of kind of wimping out of saying to the opponent's face things that he had already been saying to the media. he really couldn't afford to have that happen to him again, so when he was asked specifically about comments he was making about michele bachmann's record, of course, he had to reiterate that. she responded with an attack on governor pawlenty, and he ratcheted up his attack, so it was sort of a nuclear escalation there for awhile. >> a nuclear escalation of pettiness, so you were out there today, i imagine, talking to folks, and what is both the press's reaction and people's reaction to the sudden appearance of non-candidat

iowa. kicking the race into high gear. >> steve: joining us from ames, iowa where it all hit the fan last nightt the fan. we saw sides of these candidates we have not seen before on television. >> no. this is probably the most contentious early presidential candidate debate that i can recall. the 11th commandment throned reagan invoked, you shall not speak of a fellow republican shattered last night and largely the folks taking a hammer were the two minnesota candidates, michelle bachman and tim pawlenty. this is a sample of how it went last night. >> she says that she's fighting for these things. she fought for less government spending. we got a lot more. she led the effort against obamacare, we got obamacare. she led the effort against tarp. we got tarp. she said she's got a titanium spine. it's not her spine we're worried about. it's her record of results. if that's your view of effective leadership with results, please stop 'cause you're killing us. >> wait, wait. >> when you were governor in minnesota, you implemented cap and trade in our state, and you praised the unconstitutional individ

poll ballot and will skip the iowa caucuses and was in iowa to make his debate debut before moving on to new hampshire. governor huntsman is with us from new hampshire. it was your debate debut last night in iowa and i want to read the review from the des moines register. he was a scoop of vanilla in a dish of rocky road. smooth, a little bland and different from the rest. i guess not the greatest review. are you vanilla, a scoop of vanilla and a dish of rocky road? >> listen, all you can do is be yourself. all you can do is run on your record, not from your record. we're very pleased to be in this race. we are a blue sky people here in america. we want solutions. we want to find ways to get out of the most difficult economic circumstances and sadly and rarely get a chance to talk about the things done in in country, articulate a record from the state of utah where we had historic tax cuts, created the most business-friendly environment and took that state to the number one creator in terms of jobs. same thing that needs to happen in this country. didn't get around to talk about, for example, where we are in afghanistan. we fought the

or two about iowa politics, chuck grassley is in his sixth term as united states senator from iowa. he joins us now. senator, welcome? >> i'm glad to be with you. >> you've been through a few of these. >> yeah, i think since 1979. >> bret: what do you think of this one, turnout and the overall anecdotes you're hearing? >> more people turning out. there is an undercurrent of outrage. i think because of the president's discredited economic and fiscal policies. there is a real determination to change the leadership of this country. it's not -- this was a quiet turnout, as you meet people one on one. but under there, there is a current. >> bret: do you sense that across the state? >> yes. absolutely. and particularly in the last three or four days as i interacted with so many people two days at the state fair, and almost as many people here. >> bret: there is a lot of discontent across the country for congress and getting things done and some say that's about coming together. others say it's about standing on principle. how do you respond to the criticism of congress looking like it's just grinding

us in iowa. and joining us is roger simon from politico. and great to see you. >> great to see you. >> and you were on with lawrence o'donnell last night -- >> yes. >> and you took issue with the importance of the ames straw poll and you placed it with the poll winners and those who ended up winning the gop nomination. george w. bush won the straw poll, but ronald reagan was the nominee, and in 1987, pat robertson and then george h.w. bush won the gop nominee, and the same as in 1999 and 2007, and you don't place a lot of emphasis on the straw poll and why? >> i don't buy any emphasis on who wins the straw poll, but the straw poll, itself, is very important. it doesn't matter who wins, because that is a bad determiner as you have just shown of who wins the nomination and the presidency and so why should we care and tune into msnbc saturday and watch? because you will get to see what hasn't been seen before. nine republicans one after another giving their stump speech speeches. now i know that people are rolling their eyes and saying, oh, my