a fellow at the institute of politics at harvard s kennedy school of government. and steve moore is with us for the first time. economics writer for the wall street journal editorial page. thank you for being with us. our starting point is super tuesday, of course. ten states will go to the polls today. there are 419 delegates up for grabs and potentially 2 presidential campaign on the line. if you look at the map of today s super tuesday, contest, newt gingrich says he s going to win dpnlg and polls are supporting him on that. rick santorum says he s going to do well in tennessee and oklahoma and the polls are supporting him in that. mitt romney says he s going to win massachusetts and vermont and idaho and the polls support him on that and he plans to win virginia, partly because he s the only person on the ballot along with ron paul. so that s probably a pretty good guess. he s leading by a lot of the poll there s. what he s focused on now is the battleground state of
what reaction. we are deeply concerned about the crackdown against ngo s. a democratic senator from maryland called the prosecutions of americans in egypt totally unacceptable and says the united states should reevaluate its relationship with cairo. shepard: ngo s is nongovernment organizations and one is run by ray lahood s son, sam lahood who is there stucky. what do we know about his democracy group? reporter: they say they are doing nothing wrong and they have been there working on trying to establish democracy in egypt and the international republican institute, the group sam lahood works for note there have been corruption in egyptian courts and the continued assault on american, german and egyptian civil society is not a legitimate view additional process but a politically motivated effort to squash egypt s growing civil society orchestrated through the courts in part by my mubarak and
he arrived with a swagger fresh off his impressive south carolina victory but what a difference nine days have made for newt gingrich in florida. on this, the eve of the state s closely-watched primary, gingrich is facing an all-out assault from mitt romney formidable operation in florida. joe johns is seeing it first hand and he had a one-on-one interview with newt gingrich earlier in the day and we ll see that at the bottom of the hour. mean time, joe, 15 hours until the polls open. what s the latest? well, wolf, it has been a very hectic 24 hours for the gingrich campaign and a very different picture of the races starting to emerge since gingrich took the palmetto state by storm. this was a far cry from his big chilling in south carolina where former georgia congressman, newt gingrich, got the favorite son of the south treatment. in florida his campaign came under attack from every direction imaginable. starting with a massive television advertising campaign that gingr
see the difference between somebody who s trying to help the country and somebody who is simply running a negative campaign. campaign insiders, do you have to play dirty to win. plus a phenomenal tim tebow. superstar even if you know nothing about football. who is he really? why his on section with 24-year-old christian quarterback. i ll talk with former nfl coach and the man who wrote the book on tebow. also kenneth brener. shakespeare, to hollywood s leading man. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. while the rest of the country is deep in the holiday preparations, the world is buzzing over the official opening of the 2012 campaign. the first in the nation iowa caucuses are two weeks away. the stakes couldn t be higher in the republican field. latest cnn orc poll puts newt gingrich and mitt romney in a dead heat battling for the top spot. ron paul makes a surprisingly strong showing in third place. with all of this back and forth in the polls, i want to take
where democracy in egypt was hegd. heading. and we were arrested just on a street off tahrir square. martha: had you been there another night. i had been there twice before. it had gun to get violent in the previous two nights. i hadn t been there for those. i had been there a couple times previously in the semester. bill: in the past month more than 40 people apparently shot and killed. they accused of you throwing explosives from the top of a roof. was that you derrik? no, that is entirely false. we were never on a rooftop at all. we never handled, threw or had any involvement with fire bombs or molotov cocktails. bill: will you go back? i hope one day. i still think the egyptian people are generally a very good people i. don t think they want me right now. but one day.