reason to abandon the life he has. i m not i think he could be a king maker. he will have influence on who the nominee will be. i don t see him helping particular candidate right now simply by his absence. bret: let s talk about newt gingrich who had an interesting interview over the weekend and has since tried to walk some of this back. after a big conservative backlash. take a listen to this. i said consistently, we ought to have some requirement the you have health insurance or you post a bond or indicate you will be held accountable. that is the individual mandate. it s variation on it. i am completely opposed to the obamacare mandate on individuals. i am for the repeal of obamacare. any effort to oppose a federal mandate on anyone fundamentally wrong. unconstitutional. bret: that was put together today in response to the backlash. a last element on the interview over the weekend.
this? no. this is real high. reporter: work is slow and time consuming and has to be done. as you saw there, wolf, the good news is the fact that nobody had to be rescued and i suppose, given the way things are along the mississippi river today that is probably the happiest ending you re going to find. we should also point out that here in memphis there are still about 800 people that had to be evacuated, 400 in shelters, homes and businesses that have been affected by the floodwater which you still see here. martin savage on the scene for us, as he always is. thank you very much. new conservative backlash against potential presidential hopeful mitt romney. just ahead, why he is now being dubbed, at least on the editorial page of the wall street journal, owe billion embassy running mate. plus, a vivid account of bin laden s body moment he is after being killed from someone who just viewed the classified
shepard: and newt gingrich may have heard his cause over the last 36 hours, according to many observers. yeah. a strong conservative backlash has developed since the former house speaker appeared on meet the press yesterday morning and there described the budget plan put forth by paul ryan, the republican congressman from wisconsin who speaks for the gop on spending issues as a radical example of right wing social engineering. rush limbaugh today calls gingrich s comments mind-boggling and accused the former speaker of cutting ryan off at the knees. gingrich admitted his language may have been too dramatic, but otherwise blamed the dustup on liberal media bias. we re in a phase here where if you re a conservative, you better expect gotcha press and they took dramatically out of context what i said and tried to make it dramatically into a fight between paul and ryan. i don t have a fight with paul ryan. we would approach medicare