with speaker gingrich to the news apparently one u.s. serviceman walked off his base in southern afghanistan, went into civilian s homes shot them up may have killed as many as 16 people and 16 children. what is your reaction to that. what is it like speaker gingrich may not be doable and may need to get out. it is obviously a terrible situation that happened there. s it is one of those things that you cannot ex-campaiplain excep give the deepest sympathy to those victims and see that justice is done. i might add that there was a significant step forward in agreement concerning detainees between president karzai and the united states which i think would move us very much closer
between santorum and romney. we saw in missouri with kbing rich out of the way santorum appears to have gotten all of newt gingrich s vote. that would make him a mormidable opponent. bret: gingrich campaign would say there are no delegates tied to this one when they have more award delegates in their caucuses which is just strange for the state of missouri he will be on the ballot then. so. you know it s conceiveable that missouri could change and say gingrich is someone. sure. whatever the state of the race is would win march 17th when they had like colorado and minnesota did, had straw polls on the first day of the caucus process. gingrich may northbound a better position and may do better. who knows? point for gingrich is that he s got a chance this, is april up and down
including the same unit that killed osama bin laden, stage another daring raid, this time on mission to rescue hostages from pirates in somalia. tears on both sides of the aisle. congress bids an emotional farewell and gets an inspirational message. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. but first this just coming in. we re seeing a tight race, a very tight race here in florida. that makes tomorrow night s cnn republican presidential debate potentially all the more important as the candidates try to make an impact. the new cnn/ time /orcp poll shows a virtual tie. ging r. has near will you doubled his support here, while romney has slipped. but that big jump by gingrich may not snell tell the whole story. there s another trend developing, and there s lots to explore. let s getting right to our chief political analyst gloria borger and mike all crowley of time magazine. on the face of it, it looks like a tie, but there s other trends developing. right, i thi
most polling places in new hampshire have been opened for about five hours. two, however, have already closed. we re talking about, the super tiny towns of dixville notch and heart s location, voters there cast their ballots just after midnight. in dixville notch, romney and jon huntsman each got 2 votes. newt gingrich and ron paul each got 1. in heart s low case. it was five for romney, four for pul, 2 for huntsman and 1 for paul and gingrich. a new hampshire primary is mitt romney s to lose. according to the latest tracking poll by news 7/suffolk university. the poll puts him at 37%. ron paul, second, at 18%. followed by jon huntsman at 16%. rick santorum is fourth and newt gingrich in fifth. candidates, they are busy. making final pitches for the voters. they re trying to drum up the last-minute votes. getting ready for primary night parties. . the exception however, rick perry, he s already campaigning in south carolina. the other candidates are also looking ahead to th
and run negatives against paul, not against gingrich. laura: why should romney be negative against paul? it helps gingrich because is he no longer the guy getting the shots. and i think that what s most likely to happen here is everybody will close in and go negative on paul because he is surging. laura: i don t see that. romney will win but gingrich may at that point rise to a second place finish, i also think that romney will win iowa and new hampshire. i think gingrich will come back in south carolina where i don t think they will vote on a primary. contenders all the way through what about rick santorum. what about rick perry? they have been doing the retail style politicking in that state for many, many