e. romney on top here clearly trailed closely by ron paul, and rick santorum, and in third with 15% and newt gingrich there in fifth place. and the former speaker of the house, he had a bit of an emotional moment today shedding a couple of tears, but not for that reason in the polls. we will tell you why that happened in a minute, but first right to cnn's political correspondent jim acosta who was there in the chris christie event. i suppose if mitt romney can hold on to the standings there, governor christie won't have to make good on that promise. >> well with that, was new jersey nasty to mix in with the iowa nice out here, brooke. he has the big mo coming into the iowa caucuses, but the question right now is whether or not he is going to break a sweat in winning tuesday night. there are several reasons why. he is leading in the polls right now, although statistically tied with ron paul, but there are a couple of other dine mix going on and one is that you saw newt gingrich and he has