crusading progressive journalist. fantastically smart guy. new york made some big changes in the next couple of years and tony and the mayor will be part of that. they will do it with the best of hearts. but it s going wild ride around here for the next couple of years. let s go through your happiness guide. first of all, what was your inspiration to write this book. is there something in your background? 2012 was so grim for republicans. i m a big romney guy. i wrote a biography about him in 2007. i wrote his campaign book. and so i was pretty bummed as most republicans were. when i sat down to write a book. i m going to do something different with 10,000 interviews and if you start adding up the number you ve done whether julie andrews or dick van dike, there s always good stories to tell. i began to make a chart of what
one interesting remark, sid, adelson s consultant said to me, what he s doing is no different than what joe kennedy did helping his son. remember one of the most famous in politics, don t buy extra votes. i ll be damned if i ll pay for a landslide. i don t think gingrich is there yet. interesting to have that parallel right now. my favorite rumor is that somehow this is some sort of rivalry between adelson and steve wynn because he s a big romney guy. do you buy it? steve wynn has played it very coy. he s not come out for anybody. it s interesting that history between sheldon adelson and steve wynn. they used to really hate each other. they bonded in recent years about their disdain for the president. that s one of the reasons i think that the other candidates are not doing anything about sheldon adelson. they figure even if newt goes down, they want sheldon adelson s money later on to try to beat obama so i don t think
going to ask him, it looks like new hampshire first strategy might not have been such a great idea. we ll also get insights from the former state republican party chairman here. he s a big romney guy here. he s a long time conservative. we ll ask him what he thinks of the criticism and e get his assessment op the state of the play here. sounds like a good show. thanks very much. as his conservative rivals pound away, mitt romney just arrived in south carolina, but critics on the right haven t exactly rolled out the red carpet for him. let s go to joe johns. what s the latest? well, mitt romney has the endorsement of the state s tea party backed governor, nikki hailey. he s certainly got money. he s got a very good organization, but hey, this is south carolina, where the people like their politics raw and we ve already gotten some examples of that.
its own brutal crackdown, that s it s running out of money. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it could get lonely being the front-runner especially if you re way out front in new hampshire as romney is now. the first in the nation primary is only five days away. that makes him the prime target of his rivals, but they re also squabbling among themselves and while romney can afford to look ahead to south carolina, some candidates can t afford to fall further behind. let s go to john king in new hampshire. john, you re on the scene for us. give us the lay of the land right now. the big picture. what s going on? five days out, wolf, you would have to say new hampshire is romney country. just like in iowa, you have the campaigns now gearing up for their final push. we see more lawn signs than we did in iowa, but nowhere near the level of past campaigns. the reason, people here are pretty well considered to b
your battle armor. there s no question that speaker gingrich, santorum, governor hunt man, are going to turn their attention on romney, trying to bring him down. they want to bring him down. get him under 40% so they could say that the man under 40% or higher in the polls for months struggled here. speaker gingrich, fourth in iowa. he knows he probably needs to win south carolina to prove his viability. if he comes in behind romney, paul, santorum again, it s hard for him to make the case that he s a strong national candidate for the republicans, so look for speaker gingrich to be aggressive, focusing on romney, number one. there s a lot of bad blood brewing there, but speaker gingrich realizes rick santorum is a threat as well. what s coming up at 6:00 p.m. eastern right after us? we re going to have governor huntsman right here. he ignored iowa. insulted iowa. he s going to be here, we re