romney spent three times the amount of money in january. he raised $6.5 million and spent $18.7 million. that was as of january 31st. but it seems clear romney is on the verge of potentially writing his own campaign checkbook, particularly if michigan goes the wrong way. only 2 million separated romney s fund raising from the other candidates in january. gingrich brought in $5.6 million. and paul and santorum raised $4.5 million. and demonstrating the power of super apacs on the republican race, all outraised the counter parts. restore the future raised more than he did. $6.5 million. that s less than the $11 million gingrich s pac brought in. $10 million he said it s unfair
out. my apologies sir. i am usually much better behaved than that. and editor and publisher of the nation and the editor of the change i believe in. steve is back. political writer for salon.com. our starting point this morning is the national polls and the polls show rick santorum is surging. up by double dinlg jimts. sometimes we say surge and it s not really a surge but i think this time it s fair to say surge. nine months before the election democrats are going on the attack. there are plans to hit both now rick santorum and mitt romney and there s a new e-mail on the democratic national committee yesterday that said this about santorum. quote, rick santorum has embraced the same philosophy that created the economic crisis. his tax plan would primarily benefit the very wealthy while adding $900 billion to the national deficit. it would be a disaster for middle class families. let s get right to jennifer, democratic strategist, former white house deputy communicat
disorderly disintegration of greece and the european union that causes all of our financial ankments to come unclooued. finally markets get to react to $173 billion bailout deal that was thrashed out. one of the european leaders actually saying there s a reason why the marathon was invented in greece, because that s what they were doing last night, marathon negotiations. greece will stay in the eurozone. it will get the financing it needs to pay its bills in march. a big bond payment due. greece will have to take more cutting, more painful cutting and all of this is something that investors in this country are relieved about. believe it or not, in case you missed it, the dow, stocks have been moving higher for some time now on the hopes that greece would get this all settled. the dow jones industrial average is trading at the highest level since january 2008. also an election year, kyra. a real big advance. 66% has been the gain since the president took office of the dow jone
the fans saying it s a little bit weird about moneyball because it doesn t have that traditional ending so where does it take you? it s looking pretty good. box office mojo says it will win the box office and have $18.7 million this weekend and i asked pitt about not having that traditional hollywood ending. i find it more interesting ending. more complex and true to life ending. those endings try to say that everything is all right and happily ever after and things are more complex than this. this one defines that victory. i find more value in the victory that only you, yourself, can understand. the tough thing, craig, is this will be put up against the blind side which did $255 million. that was michael lewis other
hurting the most. we ve flnever had anything ts severe, drought, heat, lack of food. it s survival of fittest and we re seeing it in all species. the situation is so dire for every animal they take in dozens more may die in the wild. captain america conquering boy wizard at the box office. the superhero film raked in $65.5 million, beating out harry potter and the deathly hallows 2 for the number one spot. the final film in the series came in second with $48.9 million, then in third place with $18.7 million the comedy friends with benefits. justen timberlake is one of the co-stars of friends with benefits but acting is not the only thing on his resume. the pop star is promoting himself as an entrepreneur in social media, thanks to his recent investment in myspace. newsweek and daily beast