so, we had newt gingrich and mitt romney. both on the offensive over the last 24 hours. they know that six days is a short time and that s when the caucuses are. what have we been hearing from both of the candidates, mark? well, hala, you re absolutely right. so much on the line, so much at stake here. six days until january 3rd when iowa republicans will caucus and will really kick off what has been already a very long presidential season. well, newt gingrich had pledged not to go negative in this campaign. he had said that he would only go positive and talk about his plan to try to turn the american economy around. well, the gloves have come off and, in fact, he is going negative. yesterday on the situation room with wolf blitzer, he went right after mitt romney. in fact, let s listen to what newt gingrich had to say. all i say mitt is, if you want to run a negative campaign and you want to attack people, at least be man enough to own it. that s your staff and that s
sexually attracted. i enjoy young people. i love to be around them. but, no, i m not sexually attracted to young boys. cnn s jason carroll is at penn state. so, jason, what kind of reaction is this interview getting this morning? not a good one. in terms of what students are saying this morning and a few last night that this interview actually made sandusky look worse. it s not like some of these students after the allegations had a high opinion of him after the allegations came out. but, clearly, from what we re hearing at least so far, kyra, after that interview, those who thought he was guilty before, their minds have not been changed and some others who were sort of dipping in and out of the story who happened to catch the interviews now say whatever they felt about him before, they now feel even worse. kyra? well, jason, you know, sandusky also addressed one of the key questions of this scandal. what exactly did joe paterno know and when did he know it? listen to
important to observe because they are predictive of the president s future bee haoeufr. rick: the primary was yesterday r an analysis piece in politico. democrats, president obama, what is your take. reporter: i was mystified. in colorado in the senate primary 407,000 people voted in the republican primary and 339,000 voted in the democratic primary in a state that went f r obama. the republicans was a 50, 50 thick and bennett beat romanoff by 8 points. if i was a democrat waking up this morning i d be worried about it. the democrats did have a benefit on the republican side because the democrats had no primary or governor and republicans had a
pick. you have an analysis piece in today which basically says this president has got a real reckoning coming to him right now there is a sense of a storm gathering. just in the past week, the mccain funeral, the op-ed and the woodward book together paint a consistent picture for the president and lays a groundwork for bigger things to come. do you have a timing. we all believed that he would not interfere in the midterm election. which is relatively soon or days away. what do you make of the president describing the writing as a traitor. i don t think the president knows the definition of treason. if he does, i would ask where is
investigations in a plea deal with state prosecutors up in new york. as the story notes, the development could be used as leverage to pressure mr. cohen to work with the special counsel. that would be robert mueller. i m joined by peter baker, new york times and msnbc contributor, kim wehle, assistant u.s. attorney and natasha ber hand. peter baker, you wrote in the main bar piece about this whole analysis piece. it seems to me it s the cochran method. if it looks bad for your client, shift the question with the jury over to what do you think of the la police in the case and robert mueller in this case, focus the attention at least of trump s people away from whether he did include with the russians or did obstruct justice to whether you like the justice department. if you like the federal government, and most of his people don t like the federal government. that s a pretty good place to put your focus.