>> i feel great. >> welcome to waterloo. >> welcome to waterloo. >> hey, how are you? >> welcome to waterloo and good luck. >> good to see you. >> oh, boy, here we go. another lutheran graduate? here we go. how are you? >> how was it the other night? >> awesome, my folks were there. >> she used to live above me. >> that's what my mom told me. >> we were downstairs where we had our college graduation. nice to be down stairs. >> hello, nice to see you again. >> i'm good, how are you, thank you. >> how are you? >> here we go. >> how are you? >> good to see you again. >> good to see you. >> good to see you. >> how are you? >> ok. >> this is amazing, isn't? >> we have them all set up for you. >> hi. >> how are you? >> good to see you. >> hello. >> how are you, sir? >> you sure did, didn't you. >> how are you? >> very good. >> thank you. [cheers and applause] >> hello, good to see you. good to see you. >> i look for you on national tv to sing at the cathedral. >> nice to see you. >> thank you for coming. >> good to see you all. hello. >> good to see you. >> hello, hello. >>

. >> come to waterloo. >> are you at the dome? >> going to try to. >> i'm working it. >> thank you. >> one, two, three. >> thank you. >> write your name on this paper like you did five years ago. we were in the fairmont room and you guys were having drinks. >> thank you, thank you. hi. >> thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> we need your help for tuesday. >> we will. >> thank you, thank you. we need your help tuesday. >> you got it, you got it. >> thank you. >> i appreciate everything you're doing. >> thank you. >> thank you for stopping by. >> nothing would keep me away on tuesday. >> i'll be there with bells on. >> hi, thank you for being here. >> how are you? >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hello. >> how are you? >> you go to luther college? >> let's get luther in here. >> luther college. >> thank you so much. good luck. >> thank you. nice meeting you. >> i have a camera and i want to thank you for running. >> need your help on tuesday. >> thank you. >> hello. >> thank you for coming. >> need your help on tuesday. >> i'm going

we have major anchor manufacturing like john deere in waterloo. let's develop a supply chain cluster wherein surrounding towns attract those smaller support businesses that feed john deere. without question, the jobs that such suppliers will bring to places like hudson, la porte city, parkersburg and denver are equally as important to those communities as the jobs that john deere provides to the citizens of waterloo. the final piece of this jobs and careers puzzle involves the dilemma faced by many iowa rural communities when a local anchor business is put up for sale. when hometown businesses are sold to out of town, out of state or out of country buyers, the local community often suffers. we must work to keep iowa companies in iowa even when the ownership -- even when an ownership change takes place. this is not just a tool for iowa businesses, it's a tool for iowa communities. iowa communities where these companies represent so much more than just jobs, where these companies represent our families, friends and our way of life. many of these com

. >> go down to the waterloo ballpark with your big caravan. i hope you'll remember me because i'll be out there carrying that torch. >> look forward to seeing you tuesday night, ok? >> thank you. >> need your help tuesday night. >> hello. how are you? hi. how are sflu >> you've been an inspiration. could you sign my book? >> what's your name? >> jim rucker. >> any trollings scott rucker? >> it's with the iowa republican party in des moines? >> yeah. >> i don't think so. >> r-e-c-k-e-r. you've been an inspiration and i followed you during the 1990's and your debate performance has been unbelievable and -- >> ok. i'd love to have your support. >> i want to see you defeat obama. >> with your help i will. need your help on tuesday. >> thank you very much. >> hello. how are you? good to see you. >> from marietta, georgia. >> good to have you up here. >> nice to meet you. >> we need your help tuesday, ok? >> can we get a picture? >> sure. can always get a picture. there we go. thanks. thank you very much. hello. how are you? is good to see you. >> i

waterloo iowa has about just under 4 in. ...look at what will happen this weekend the snow could last through the afternoon tomorrow very light ... and then we see a changeover to rein for sunday and then possibly a changeover to lights know by monday there will be 30 mi. per hour wind gusts this weekend ... so to summarize there is a winter storm warning until 9:00 p.m. and the chicago land area steady snow fall during the evening rush-hour the high will be 19 degrees we may see wind gusts to 20 mi. per hour snow showers will continue through the lakeside counties until midnight temperatures will go into the teens tomorrow morning we will see some lake effect snow showers tomorrow afternoon overcast skies with a peak of sun in the afternoon temperatures could reach the mid-20s we will warm to 38 degrees by sunday with the possibility of rain ... we will see some moderation next week but we expect cold air toward the end of the week ... >>hopefully this snow will be light enough to shovel easily ... this is a relatively dry snow

good to see you. >> could to have you here in lot of low -- in waterloo. i look for you on national tv. >> did to sea wall. hello -- good to see you all. >> nice to see you. >> well, ok. is this working? >> working in the other room. >> working in the other room, is that it? so the other room cannot hear me. this room can hear me. first of all, what a great, great turnout. thank you very much for coming out this evening. this has been a very exciting caucus. i'm looking forward very much to tuesday night. i thought the most interesting thing in the "demo and register" poll is that voters may change their vote between nine tuesday night. that is less than the actual number that will do it. i'm here to ask you both to show up for me to the night but also to make a couple of arguments that i think are very important. i want to start with the whole nature of the campaign this year. i said we would have a positive campaign and offer positive solutions. some of my opponents have gone on the attack, in part because they could not defend their record. 41% of ads h

eastern in waterloo. follow the candidates through the iowa caucuses here on c- span. >> tuesday, the road to the white house goes to america's heartland for the iowa caucuses. c-span coverage continues at des0 a.m. eastern live from > moines with "washington journal." at 8:00, c-span live coverage from central iowa followed by the entire caucasus results and candidate speeches. we will have live coverage from another province from western iowa on c-span 2. c-span coverage is available online. >> coming up tomorrow on washington journal, a look ahead at tuesday's caucuses. the iowa state chair for the rick perry campaign will discuss their strategy and expectations. then we will hear from the house republican leader. and then the newt gingrich chair. then we will hear about the iowa caucus and its role in the election. "washington journal" every morning at 7:00 a.m. right here on c-span. republican presidential candidate ron paul said that all u.s. wars since world war ii have been unconstitutional since

when the prussians changed sides to fight at the great battles, and then in the 1815 campaign, the waterloo campaign, fights. so he's a very experienced officer. after the war he is appointed to head the prussian war college, and from 1818-1831, he spent most of his time writing about his experiences in the great wars. he dies from cholera. his collected writings are published posthumously. the first four blogs make up the book known as onboard. on war is a famous book regarded by many as the most important book ever written on armed conflict. it is currently standard reading and all the war colleges of the united states armed workforce. and your book is called "decoding clausewitz." why? >> well, it's called "decoding clausewitz" because i think that "on war" has been very badly misunderstood. and it's not like it's just any common book. we misunderstand many books, but this book because of it place to american military education. for it to be misunderstood, has a real world consequences that are despicable. one of them miss conceptions is he is a proponent of the offenses. and when, in fa

her waterloo on tuesday night. >> same question to you, alex, what do you think?> well, i think it is a slightly more complicated issue. when newt gingrich failed to counter attack when ron paul and mitt romney started to launch the negative campaign to bring gingrich down a few weeks ago, when he didn't respond he opened iowa to mitt romney and now we have seen romney go up in the polls. everyone else go down. romney has an opportunity to take this race. the other candidates now, there's really almost no one left who is a serious threat for the republican nomination. so in that sense, they can all stay in. and they may well. these campaigns now can live off the land and the internet. and that may be to romney's advantage. if he can keep the right divided, he can walk away with the center right, go from iowa, win new hampshire and maybe end this contest early. >> it's all been so interesting that the give and take, the back and forth and iowans saying they are still undecided and could change their minds. so with three days left, alex, do you first see any hail ma

. >>> this comes from kwwl channel 7 in waterloo, iowa.ne teen's afterschool job earned him a nickname around high school, the mayor. jeremy recently previeded over his first city council meeting because he really is the mayor. the 18-year-old's first order of business was to decide when to plow the roads. the senior in high school has big goals for the town. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today." just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> two sea lions made their debut in china on monday. a pair of white bengal tigers met visitors for the very first time in celebration of a chinese spring festival. born two months ago, the twins have already learned to walk and also play together. they're also adorable. the bengal tiger is one of the world's most endangered animals with only around 210 populating the wild. >>> in south korea, one aquarium dove into the year of the dragon with a splash. a team of divers plunged into an enormous fish tank and performed a range of under water tricks swimming through a school of sardines a

his favorite answer -- >> the question was, who defeated napoleon at waterloo?s kid very eagerly said, duke ellington! >> reporter: with confidence. >> yes. >> reporter: among his favorite days with wrc, radio. a drive time announcer in the big band era. interviewing some big names. >> i would select them. and i would go up and interview them. ♪ >> reporter: he still comes back to nbc 4 every week with former colleagues to listen to favorites. ♪ hey there ♪ you there with the stars in your eyes ♪ >> reporter: and it's the good old days that make for his favorite kinds of questions. >> i like when they do broadway show questions. i grew up in new york city, and i saw first premier run on oklahoma. >> reporter: his legend is still legendary here. he can rattle off baseball stats. while most of us were always just waking up on saturday mornings to watch, mac was always spot-on, never missing a beat. you've got cheerleaders, fans, bleachers filled, the parents, students. there's so much electricity in here, there's a lot of nervous energy, too. what's it like for yo

she said she went to waterloo to be where rick perry was.rd to analyze this. even if a person goes out and does all the right things, says all the right things and worked it. she worked it hard. she went to all 99 counties in a blitz like we haven't seen. but there are other intangibles people pick up in their gut and it's no shame if you're in the last seven people. it didn't mean they don't like miche michele, they just aren't convinced she should be the president. >> iowa has one of these odd records that they hold that a lot of women don't like, which is they have never sent a woman to congress, they have -- a woman ran for president on the democratic side, lost iowa. a woman runs for president on the republican side, lost in iowa. i think they are one of two states that have never elected a woman governor, senator or member of congress. do you think gender played a role? >> we nominate a woman to run for congress and democratic women work against her. so we look at the -- it's about 21% females and the balance males within the legislatu

we were in waterloo, which have the largest single site for caucusing, and a very distant relatives named craig gingrich spoke for me, and he was very kind. he got to know my younger daughter, and he would send what he was going to save. part of it was about his sons who just came back from serving in the middle east. i would like to close with this. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. cracks at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to know your -- >> at union bank, our relationship managers ard to know your business. we offer solutions to small businesses and to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news america" was presented by kcet los angeles. presented by kcet los angeles.

some of the colder air near the quad cities, cedar rapids and waterloo will be on the chillier side.indchills will be in the single digits. in the afternoon, it will get up to the 20s. shouldn't be anything that would keep voters at home. the cold air is moving in through the great lakes. that's sparked our first significant great lakes -- lake-effect snow event. especially off of lake erie and ontario later today. and almost blizzard conditions today. areas off lake michigan and chicago has a little snow. the windchills the coldest today in the northern plains. and the forecast in chicago, only 23 for a high today. many areas of iowa will have temperatures in the 20s. it's hard to complain. we've all been really spoiled with a warm and lack of snow winter. as far as the voters there are concerned, nothing they can't handle. >> might be a little chilly. no rain, no snow, no problem here in iowa. thanks so much. we'll talk to you in a little bit. >>> we turn to a little football last night. the 100th meeting ever between the giants and cowboys. last night at the meadowlands. and teams

so they knew when wellington had won the battle of waterloo before the prime minister. of course, that meant they could buy, um, british government stocks first. [laughter] so it's sad that they made a great fortune. now they call it insider trading. it hadn't been invented yet luckily for montefiore. now, he was exactly what victorians thought, aristocrats and royalty thought a jew should be like. he was 6-4, blue-eyed, barrel-chested, broad-shouldered, fair-haired, and he, he was one of those people who must have had great charm. and when queen victoria met him in her diary, whenever she saw him, she used to say, i saw moses montefiore, what a grand old hebrew he is. [laughter] which at the time was a great compliment. wouldn't go down so well today. but the point was england was in a strange situation at the time, and it was a situation, it was -- many of the leaders of britain, the aristocracy and the middle class were then evangelicals, and they believed absolutely in the return of the jews to, um, to israel. the regathering of the jewish people, a jewish jerusalem

when i was a little girl, growing up in our lutheran church in waterloo, iowa, i have no shadow of a doubt that the gospel was preached from our pulpit in, , but i never heard it. it went one ear and went out the other. i remember one time thinking so clearly when i was hearing a sermon about heaven, thinking, oh, i am so glad i am lutheran because i know that i am going to happen. that is what my basis was on. my parents were in church and i could look down the row and there is my grandparents and we were lutheran so we were good to go. check that box. it was later, when we moved away from iowa and up to minnesota, we were fairly middle-class. something happened in our family that happens to millions of families, but it had never happened in our extended family by parents were divorced. when my parents were divorced, are lives changed dramatically. my father had left. i thank god that he gave me the parents that i did. i thought the move that the state and we went below poverty almost overnight. we lost everything we had. our house had to be sold. a lot of our things were put in the

road to the white house" coverage continues to republican presidential candidate newt gingrich in waterloo, iowa. he held a meet and greet with supporters in iowa. this is a little over an hour. >> morning. thank you so much. how are you? love the hat! >> nice to see you, newt. >> hey, how are you? >> how you feeling? >> you feel great. >> oh, boy, here we go. another lutheran graduate? >> yes, i am. >> here you go. how are you? a rather bigger institution. >> how are you? good to see you. good to see you. how are you? this is amazing, isn't it? >> we get them all set up for you. >> hi. how are you? >> how are you, sir? >> wow, you sure did, didn't you? how are you? >> very good. >> thank you. [applause] >> hello. how are you? good to see you. >> i look for you on national tv. >> nice to see you. thank you for coming. >> good to see you all. hello. hello. >> nice to see you. >> well, ok. is this working? >> a little bit. >> it works in the other room? is that it in so the other room can hear me? but this room can't hear me? >> yes, we can. >> ok the let me say first of all what a great, gr

eastern time in waterloo, iowa. thank you very much for watching this edition. we will see you again tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. >> coming up today on c-span, holly petraeus is the assistant director at the consumer protection bureau and interviewed by bloomberg news and "military times." our events leading up to tuesday's iowa caucus with rick santorum at a campaign rally. and our live coverage of this iowa caucus begins with michele bachmann and mitt romney and newt gingrich. follow the candidates to the iowa caucus here on c spife span. >> "road to the white house" goes to the iowa caucus. live from des moines with "washington journal" talking with political experts and taking your calls. our preview program on the caucus process and the state of the republican presidential race. live caucus coverage from central iowa and the results and candidates' speeches. we will have live coverage from western iowa on c-span2. it is available on c-span radio and online. >> they are interested in what can be verified and reliable sources. >> as creator of

career he had the first rothschild and it has been proven recently they were seeing the battle of waterloo. they new-line tin had when the battle because that meant they could buy the british government's stock. so it is said they made a great fortune. luckily for montefiore. he is exactly what the victoria in nearest -- aristocrats thought 614, barrel chester, fair hair, in one of those people who had great charm when queen victoria met him she would say i saw montefiore what should grand hebrew he was which was a great complement but would not go down so well today but he england was in a strange situation and 90 of the leaders of britain with evangelicals believed in the return of the jews to israel as every gathering of the jewish people and ultimately this would accelerate both of their hopes for british control and also the second coming that coincides with a montefiore. he was very friendly of the evangelicals. there were very similar. when montefiore went to jerusalem he was a world the english gentleman who made his first fortune who was jewish but not orthodox. when he saw jerusa

. >> the question was, who defeated napoleon at waterloo and this kid eagerly said, duke ellington. >> reporter: with confidence! >> yeah. >> reporter: among his favorite days with wrc, radio, a drive-time announcer in the big band era, interviewing big names. >> i would select them and i would go up and interview them. >> reporter: he still comes back to nbc for every week with former colleagues to listen to favorites. >> ♪ hey there you with the stars in your eyes ♪ >> reporter: on "it's academic" it's the good old days that make for his favorite kinds of questions. >> i like broadway show questions. i grew up in new york city and able to go to these shows and saw the premier run on oklahoma. >> reporter: his memory still legendary here, he can rattle off baseball stats and names of world leaders who graced studio a while most of us were just waking up on saturday mornings to watch, mac was always spot on, never missing a beat. >> you have cheerleaders, bands, bleachers filled, parents, students, there's so much electricity in here, a lot of nervous energy, too. what's it like for y

we've said on this show that south carolina is his -- where he could be his waterloo. the thing that's interesting to me is that normally in new hampshire, as we said before, usually there's one trailer candidate, maybe two. here you have a lot of them. the antiromney vote will no not coalesce. if there was one person standing after iowa, romney would be in trouble. he keeps a margin because you'll get 20, 15, 17 but there's nor undecided in new hampshire than i remember any race that i've covered. >> 44,. >> there's a good lesson to be learned by the political strategists, they had an opportunity a couple years ago to ask the rnc to be the broker for debates. the candidates couldn't agree. so they're doing debates. it's hard for anybody to do a 12 -- a debate at 10:00 p.m., then get up and do it again. >> what was the point of msnbc debate after the abc debate? >> i agree. >> i think it's interesting to see how he does in new hampshire. the expectations are high. he did better than people thought in iowa but if he doesn't win by 15 or 20% in new hampshire that could w

i think florida will really be the waterloo for everybody. >> all right, in the meantime, we have to get through new hampshire. mark, wtop political analyst. thank you for joining us via phone tonight from new hampshire. >> thank you. >> and we are looking ahead to the rest of january. the gop candidates are going to battle it out in three states. first in new hampshire. that's going to happen on january 10. then they are heading to south carolina. that will take place on january 21, and on to florida january 31. >> a new book creating a lot of buzz around the first family. we're going to take a look behind the scenes at the friction between the obama's and their closest advisers. and it's been almost a year since gabrielle giffords survived a massacre. we are just getting started here on fox 5 news at 10:00. stay with us.  >>> republican candidates have been talking about how to bring jobs back to the united states. that's already happening and the unemployment rate has dropped. and as fox reports, that may be good news for president obama's reelection campaign. >>

we were in waterloo together.ople come to her to shake hands and rick santorum crashed that event, if you recall. >> he was there before perry spoke and he ate dinner with everyone as perry did, and not only did michele bachmann -- not only had michele bachmann made everyone come to her on stage where she gave away some goodies, she had stayed on her bus while everyone else was eating dinner. she didn't eat donor with the crowd. this was a dinner event. >> has she changed at all? is she suddenly changing tact tactics? >> this is what's so interesting. some time in october the campaign decided not to play rock music and it would be silent and she would shake every hand in the room. they made a decision to take more questions and yet, for some reason it's not necessarily translating. everyone i talked to, the voters they like her and they like her for the same reason. we like her values and we like her faith. she doesn't seem to be making a pitch. you do get the sense that they wish she would have done that. >> yes.

we have major anchor manufactures like john deere in waterloo.op a supply chain cluster were in surrounding towns attract those smaller support businesses that feed john deere. without question, the jobs such suppliers will bring to places like hudson, laporte city, parkersburg and denver are equally as important to those communities is the jobs that john deere provides to the citizens of waterloo. the final piece of this jobs and careers puzzle involves the dilemma faced by rural communities when there anchor businesses put up for sale. when hometown business are sold to out-of-state or out of country buyers the local community often suffers. we must work to keep iowa companies in iowa, even though -- even when an ownership change takes place. this is not just a tool for iowa businesses. it is a tool for iowa communities. iowa communities where these companies represent so much more than jobs, where these companies represent our families, friends and our way of life. many of these companies have operated in iowa for years, operated by owners com

and so it's a waterloo for gingrich as to whether he can stay alive or not in the campaign.rces are coming in to santorum, everything's lining up for him. timing is everything. and of course the weather's good. romney, look, romney got 30,000 votes, just over 30 how to in the last caucus. i think santorum's going to get 35,000, 36,000 and win it. >> you mentioned newt gingrich. he said earlier, downplaying expectations game, that he doesn't think he can win tonight and apparently some people on his staff got pretty upset with him about that because people go to these caucuses and they change their mind, their influence, they want to go with the winner. did he make a mistake trying to downplay expectations and telling people i'm not going to win? >> well, when you look at mitt romney, he's looking at the long haul. he's viewing this as a marathon and not a sprint. this is more of a sprint for santorum. but along the way, the culture of it can build and i think that he can win iowa and he can do extremely well in south carolina. i just think that in the long haul romney has mo

she was born in waterloo, iowa, launched her presidential campaign in the great state of iowa.ongresswoman michele bachmann joins me next to explain why she believes she is the best candidate to take on president obama in 2012, as "hannity" continues tonight from des moines straight ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome back to special edition of "hannity." live in des moines, iowa. despite falling in the poll since winning the straw poll, congresswoman michele bachmann is making a strong final push ahead of the caucuses tomorrow. she is touting her ties to iowa, the state where she was born. does she have what it takes to clinch a surprise finish? joining me now with reaction, the presidential candidate herself, michele bachmann. how are you? good to see you. >> thank you. good to see you. welcome to iowa. >> sean: i was with you the day you won the ames straw poll. you took a dive in the polls. the last poll i saw you, back up in double digits. you see the fluctuation as gallop said, the most volatile g.o.p. race since thed a vent of polling. how do you explain it? >> wait four day

we were over in waterloo, which has the largest caucusing. very distant relative. 190 years, name craig, who came from pennsylvania spoke. he was very kind. he has gotten to know my younger daughter. he sent her what he was going to say. part of what he said was about his two sons who just came back from serving in the middle east. it reminded me. i would like to close with this. it is why the iowa experience and the new hampshire experience, the places where you have to see people, you cannot buy tv ads. this process is what they risked their lives to preserve. this process of people coming together, sharing of values, sharing fears and dreams, finding a way to come and get it to work, unlike the current mess in washington which i believe is a bipartisan mess, unlike the current mess in washington, the american system over time works when the american people roll up their sleeves and make it work. everyone of us, it is part of what made these ads is so shameful. this process survives because young men and women risk their lives to allow us.

. >>> john mccain, this was his waterloo in 2000.t became essentially his crowning achievement in 2008. mitt romney almost wants to replicate that. look at these results from 2008. mccain won it with 33%. that's essentially the romney path here. he only got 15 last time so he needs half of mccain's numbers and hope that rick perry and newt gingrich somehow peel off enough to prevent rick santorum, a/k/a mini huckabee. >> and that's the challenge here. they hope they have a little life in them because it's better for them if they all stay in the race, michele bachmann to rick perry. that's the real question for south carolina, will rick perry and michele bachmann still be in this race. >> if rick perry is a fifth place finisher, does he really go to south carolina? >> i think that's the big question, who claims the fourth place prize. fourth place is going to be critical. if it's rick perry, i think absolutely he has a rationalization for going forward to south carolina. if he comes in fifth, i think it's tougher. here's the thing. i

we were over earlier tonight in waterloo who had the largest single sight for caucusing. and a very distant rel relative came from pennsylvania for his great, great grandfather spoke for me. and he was very kind he's gotten to know my younger daughter and said to her what he's going to say. part of what he said is about his two sons who just came back from serving in the military. it reminded me why iowa experience and new hampshire experience places where have you to see people, you can't just buy tv ads and use robo calls. in the end, it's people. this process is what they risk their lives to preserve. this process, people coming together. sharing values. sharing fears and dreams. finding ways to come get it to work. unlike current total mess in washington which i believe is a bipartisan mess. and american system, over time works when american people roll up their sleeves to make us work. it's part of what made these ads. everyone of us, this process survives it's young men and women risk their lives to allow us to do this. we should act worthy of them. thank you. good

the fact that she was born in waterloo. she is a congresswoman from minnesota, she came here, she officially kicked off her campaign in the city of waterloo. talking about the iowan values and so forth. it absolutely didn't take off beyond what happened earlier in the summer, which was her very strong showing. in fact, not only did it not take off, it absolutely plummeted. the more she went around the state, the more she talked, the less she gained voters. that was obviously a huge, huge problem in the results that we saw last night. >> she was one of the candidates, it seemed that she struck the right balance when it came to negative and positive ads there. she really saved much of her fire power for president obama, almost as if she was trying to leap frog above some of her competitors there. she really went very hard after the president. did that seem to resonate with the supporters? >> reporter: you know, it obviously didn't resonate enough because what they wanted was somebody who was quite a different candidate. cover

she was born in waterloo, iowa, launched her presidential campaign in the great state of iowa.ongresswoman michele bachmann joins me next to explain why she believes she is the best candidate to take on president obama in 2012, as "hannity" continues tonight from des moines straight ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome back to special edition of "hannity." live in des moines, iowa. despite falling in the poll since winning the straw poll, congresswoman michele bachmann is making a strong final push ahead of the caucuses tomorrow. she is touting her ties to iowa, the state where she was born. does she have what it takes to clinch a surprise finish? joining me now with reaction, the presidential candidate herself, michele bachmann. how are you? good to see you. >> thank you. good to see you. welcome to iowa. >> sean: i was with you the day you won the ames straw poll. you took a dive in the polls. the last poll i saw you, back up in double digits. you see the fluctuation as gallop said, the most volatile g.o.p. race since thed a vent of polling. how do you explain it? >> wait four day

i was born and raised in waterloo and cedar falls, iowa. i'm thrilled to be in my own back yard. it's exciting for me to be here. this is the very first night beginning the book on who will replace barack obama as president. >> have you spoken with anyone in the crowd that's undecided? >> a there's a lot of people undecided. we've been here shaking hands and talking to people. i'll speak for about four minutes and we'll continue to meet with more people. >> reporter: how do you try to get them off the fence into your camp? the caucus vote is is about to start any moment. >> it's about to start. people are looking for the one true core conservative that can take on barack obama and win. that's what i've demonstrated without the campaign, i have an unassailable record whether on cutting standing, standing up for human life and marriage or standing for national security. i'm the only candidate with current experience in security. i'm the one that's demonstrated the fortitude to stand up in washington. it haven't caved. i remained a real person. that's what they want in the next pres

john wayne was from waterloo, iowa?re was a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result of the vaccine. the win-win-win plan. the people of iowa spoke with a very clear voice so i have decided to stand aside. >> i think the vaccine comment was the turning point, don't you? iowa was the end of the line for bachmann's 2012 presidential hopes, but her husband, marcus, would be glad he can stop campaigning and return to other activities. >> he was buying doggy sunglasses for our dog, boomer, while we were out visiting all of the many businesses. >> there you go. of course, michele bachmann is still a member of congress and the leader of the tea party caucus. and she still wants president obama to be a one-term president. so you can bet we haven't heard the end of bachmann in "psycho talk." >>> my prediction about rick santorum got a lot of liberals really worked up. come on, chill out. i go interview a righty and everybody's working me over on twitter and fac

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was so much less than what they had expected, after being with her in juning when she announced in waterlooiowa, a great deal of support around her, the ames straw poll victory. in talking with voters of the ground i heard from so many that they liked her, they shared many of her ideas but did not believe she could go the distance and that was a real drain on her support. also got a sense from some churchgoers that we interviewed that they had some discomfort with a woman going forward. that will be sorted out. but she has certainly fought very hard. she's had good debate performances and tough times along the way. but we expect significant announcement from michele bachmann in just a short while. chris? >> kelly o'donnell, thank you. one of the people suggesting by the way that michele bachmann might want to think about getting out was sarah palin. we'll see where she goes next, if she might support maybe rick santorum. there you see that is marine one and the president should be coming out. and he, of course, will be getting on air force one, heading to cleveland, ohio, heading to suburba