wednesday. they suggested that president obama appears more generous to our enemies in the middle east than he does to our friends. internationally president obama has adopted an appeasem ent strategy. megyn: the president has answered that charge. ahead we will debate where the administration stands when it comes to the big threat in the middle east. on the campaign trail mitt romney s campaign is now stepping up its attacks on the new frontrunner in the case, newt gingrich. releasing a web video called, with friends like newt. the ad blasts the former house speaker s very public dis of congressman paul ryan s medicare reform plan. he doesn t have the discipline that you want in a
screen. i it is friday, jon and we ll see if the geezer bandit tries again or if he is caught. jon: southern cal, a lot of makeup artists and special effects wizards out there. reporter: that s true. jon: rick folbaum, thanks. jenna: right now, a frontrunner snowdown playing out in realtime. there is new evidence mitt romney feels the heat from newt gingrich s surge in the polls. the romney campaign releasing a new web video, titled, with friends like newt. and to put it simply it is not too flattering at all. calls the former house speaker s conservative credentials into question. he is out and basically he is out in the left-wing of the republican party. with friends allies like that, who needs the left? jenna: yikes!, the music right, joe? pretty dramatic. joe trippi former campaign manager for howard dean and fox news contributor.
when there were even different leads in the polls, absolutely not. bill: i accept that all as being true. you put out a release an hour ago, with friends like newt who needs the left. you re setting up distinses between romney and gingrich, you won t deny that will you? absolutely. to that point we will draw contrasts with speaker gingrich. we talked about how when the conservative kog needed him most with paul ryan s budget he pulled the rug out from paul ryan. when we needed republican leaders to step up governor romney praised paul ryan s plan, he put forth his own immediate care plan but he provided the leadership in talking about paul ryan rather than going out and providing ammo to the democrats to attack republicans, which is what speaker gingrich did. bill: i apologize for the interruption, i want to get to this last item here. you re fighting a two-front war