good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. and outfront tonight, exposed super pacs drop the fig leaf. after months of being in the dark about whose bankrolling the candidates, we have answers. now, you know that the super pacs are groups that can raise unlimited money and you know they re major players this election season. the federal election commission says this election might cost $11 billion. twice as much as 2008. and that jump thanks in no small part to super pacs. there are more than 300 of them already. so, today, we poored through hundreds of pages of super pac documents, really only for a few of the super pacs. the pro romney super pac called restore our future raised nearly $30 million last year. now, there were a group of donors that gave a million dollars each and one is julian robertson. he s been a mitt romney fan since the last election and told me that mitt is quote the smartest guy and extremely decent. outfront s strike team member mark was on the list
dark about whose bankrolling the candidates, we have answers. now, you know that the super pacs are groups that can raise unlimited money and you know they re major players this election season. the federal election commission says this election might cost $11 billion. twice as much as 2008. and that jump thanks in no small part to super pacs. there are more than 300 of them already. so, today, we poored through hundreds of pages of super pac documents, really only for a few of the super pacs. the pro romney super pac called restore our future raised nearly $30 million last year. now, there were a group of donors that gave a million dollars each and one is julian robertson. he s been a mitt romney fan since the last election and told me that mitt is quote the smartest guy and extremely decent. outfront s strike team member mark was on the list. the facebook board member told me quote, i think he gets it with respect to the economy in a way that the others don t. the super p
exclusive interview with the arab league secretary general. you re in the situation room. newt gingrich may give it as the gift that keeps on giving. we re talking about the remark romney made right here on cnn that s gone viral that he s not concerned about the very poor because they have a safety net. rather, he s concerned about the middle class. newt gingrich is making the most of it as he and rochl any cmney in nevada. joe, what s the latest on this latest round between newt gingrich and mitt romney? wolf, clearly the gingrich campaign right now is trying to sort of capitalize, if you will, and use the recent remarks by mitt romney. but one of the things they ve been concerned about is getting out of the habit of engaging in a mud slinging match with mitt romney. gingrich clearly being advised how to focus also on his own ideas, his vision for the put to try to say positively what he is for. and they viewed these recent comments by mitt romney about the poor as a p
tonight, the billion dollar presidential election. so far, $35 million have been spent in only four states on the republican side and 85% of the money that gingrich and romney s super pacs have spent has been on negative ads. ronald reagan fight reagan. gingrich exaggerates dropping reagan s name 50 time, but in his diary, reagan mentioned gingrich only once. there are a lot of reasons not to elect me. all right. 35 million super pac damage so far is just a scratch compared to the gash this will inflict on candidates before november. american cross roads and priorities u.s.a. action are two names we all need to know. they are the two big super pacs for the republicans and the democrats and they say they will raise hundreds of millions of dollars to support their candidate. who is bankrollinging this? well, you may find out on tuesday a little bit because that s when super pacs are required to reveal their donors. first time in six months we re going to see that for th
politics in-depth. i m wolf blitzer in florida, you re in the situation room. the dust is settling here in jacksonville, florida, after our very exciting cnn republican presidential debate last night. and there s new evidence that mitt romney is gaining support four days before florida puts its stamp on the republican race for the white house. the new poll shows romney nine points ahead of gingrich among likely gop primary voters here in florida. the survey was taken tuesday through thursday entirely before our debate last night. gingrich was leading romney in florida earlier this week. right after he won the south carolina primary, but in the last couple of days, he clearly lost some of that momentum here in florida. and he s now trailing romney. newt gingrich came out swinging in debate here in jacksonville, but some campaign watchers think he was off his game last night. our chief political analyst gloria borger listened to every word of the debate. she was here in jac