>> that was sunday on "meet the press." when fellow republicans heard that, a lot of them went ballistic. by monday, paul ryan was saying, wth can allies like that, who needs the left?" by tuesday, gingrich called paul ryan to apologize. but he was blaming, of course, the media. >> look, i made two mistakes. first of all, if you listen to the question david gregory asked me, i should have said i'm not going to answer it. it's a hypothetical baloney question that had no hope of happening. the second was some of the words i used. but i was trying to say something that's really important. we are at the beginning of a process of solving the entitlement problems in the united states. these are enormous challenges. i believe deeply that the american people have to be an integral part of it. i think what paul ryan has done is he's started that process. >> that was gingrich on fox where their team of political pundits has been declaring his campaign dead all day. two things to keep in mind, mentioning paul ryan by name and calling the medicare question hypothetical baloney.