and 2007. joining me is david gregory, moderator of nbc news "meet the press." thank you for joining me. >> my pleasure. >> this is the latest bubble. we have seen several of them. the gingrich bubble. is it is your sense this is an exploration of is there a romney alternative and that it has built in to it all the curve that all the bubbles have had a few week and it's gone. >> it's remarkable. the thing i come back to is if you are mitt romney you are looking at the rest of the field and you are saying, who's the complete package? who puts it together the anti-establishment, tea party base, pop list, anti--washington type, who puts it together? it was perry. he was the one that was supposed to do it. newt gingriching was not the leading man for that role in that movie. what he's done here is attack the media. he's positioned himself in