and people who didn t like gay marriage weren t going to vote for the president anyway. and the republican contingent wasn t going to vote for him. you can t really fall off the floor. so there was no risk for him there. and certainly now i think he s sort of probably energized the democratic base at this point because the republicans are going to sort of stake their claim in the ground. we saw that with romney s announcement. now it s going to energize the base. and apparently, the first 90 minutes after endorsing gay marriage, obama raised $1 million. in an hour and a half after the announcement. so the twitter and then the tweets came and the cash followed, too. interesting, too. you can see much more of this interview coming up later today on good morning america with robin roberts. congrats to her on a big interview here. a big get. check it out this morning on gma. also today, some new details about the possible terror plots against the united states by al qaeda s t
jeb bush endorsed mitt romney this morning. will other republican holdouts now get on board? chris cillizza is managing editor of post politics.com and msnbc news chief white house correspondent and political director chuck todd is host of the daily rundown right here on msnbc. jeb is the big get. a big get. there s they re or fo there s three or four more to get. the nomination plane is coming in for the landing the wheels are down. you can always abort landings. you can t this jeb bush endorsement, it s important. it would be it has been more telling that it took so long. look how it was done, by press release, by tweet. and then the romney campaign even you know, they put out a release talking about that it happened. where was the joint news conference? where was the stopover in florida? there s a long history here. jeb bush has not been happy with mitt romney and how mitt romney
interview and thought it was uncalled for. and the romney staff was particularly whiney after cnn s security debate so much so it made me wonder if they knew something we didn t. here s tonight s truth. if there is a romney collapse, you will trace the roots of the unraveling back to this week. whining is not sim non nom this with winning. team romney senses a disruption in the force. that united states a week ago. things aren t getting better from the romney perspective. a new florida poll shows romney 30 points behind newt gingrich. herman cain s campaign is teetering and its collapse could help gingrich consolidate the anti-romney vote in the early key gop battlegrounds. if you need more proof the republican race has a new front-runner, watch here. ron paul turning his attention to gingrich. i think he s getting a free ride and i ve worked with him for a long time and i think that the points i made on various issues he s a flip-flopper. he can hardly beat me on terms o
sexual relationship? absolutely. i can only imagine, i can t imagine him actually confirming. it s the name of the game, i guess. david bettingly is here to look at the atlanta businesswoman who is making the accusations and joe johns focuses on the beleaguered cain campaign. let s begin with you, joe, in washington. can this cain train really keep on rolling here? is this going to essentially kill his hopes of being president? hey, ted, i think you have to say, number one, other politicians have survived allegations of extra marital affairs. interesting to see what happens with herman cain because on top of that he has all this talk about allegations of sexual harassment. still, herman cain s polling had already been trending downward. this certainly does not help him, but he does say he s not getting out of the race. here s what he told wolf blitzer in the situation room. you re staying in this race, you re not dropping out. i m not dropping out of this race, no
america and many are wondering if it will help the party as much as the 1994 contract with america. joining us is the anchor of fox news sunday, chris wallace. hey, chris. guess what i have here, the pledge to america, 45 pages, very glossy, lots of nice pictures, lots of nice words. it s an interesting document. it s an interesting document, but there has been some criticism as you re well aware and yesterday mike huckabee on the show describing it vanilla and conservatives satisfying it doesn t address ear marks and deficits. you re going to have john boehner on the show today, a big get. what are you going to ask him? i m going to ask him why it doesn t address ear marks and has no specific proposals for the entitlements where most of the pony is not a single proposal in the 45 pages about social security, medicare, medicaid, entitlements, part of the problem you can t get buy in by all of your members