gingrich is now 15 points ahead of romney in a new gallup poll and mr. paul steinhauser joins us right now from washington. hello, paul. how does romney plan to handle what is shaping up to be a two-man race at this point? it really is shaping up. that was the national poll, don. take a look at this, state poll. iowa. two new polls in iowa. one of them, cbs/ new york times. you adjust showed the national poll. newt gingrich ahead by double digits. the frontrunner, we re less than four weeks away from the iowa caucuses. what is mitt romney doing about all this? romney was speaking to reporters yesterday on the campaign trail and said he would be more forceful in going after newt gingrich and pointing out the differences where they stand on certain things and he also said, you ll see more of me. more interviews and more time on the campaign trail. he says after about a week from now when he finishes up some fund-raising, you ll see a lot more of mitt romney. four weeks to go
threatening to dredge it up. gingrich reporters say getting information from the house ethics investigation would be at the least unethical. pelosi says she s only talking about information already on the record. they asked the candidate about it yesterday. we turned over a million pages of material. we had a huge report. the total 83 charges were repudiated as false. the one mistake we made was a letter written by a lawyer that i didn t read carefully. mr. gingrich isn t telling the whole story about the house investigation back then. it s complicated but they wanted to know if he used money from tax exempt organizations to fund college courses that he taught and used, by his own admission, to further his political agenda. shortly after the rival filed the complaint, gingrich hired a washington lawyer who wrote two material letters to the ethics committee. gingrich signed the first letter and approved the second. both contained statements that were false. gingrich was te
second at 18%. another poll out of iowa shows it much closer. let s go to south carolina, as well. south carolina, of course, the first southern state to vote, it goes number three in the calendar and votes on the 23rd of january. this is also, again, showing newt gingrich on top. far ahead of mitt romney. romney at 23%. gingrich 18 points ahead and rick perry at 9%. kyra, i guess newt gingrich to take his national poll numbers and translate it into an operation and make sure he gets the teams in place in theearly states to get the voters to the caulks and primary sites, kyra. nancy pelosi is saying that she has information on gingrich and newt is sending her a warning. what the heck is going on here? yeah, this started yesterday and, remember, this goes back to the late 1990s when gingrich was house speaker and he was facing 84 ethics investigations and pelosi said she maybe will unearth some of the stuff that was never made public. here s what she said. i know a lot abo
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on this? it s the way the rules have been defined and the people who make the rules are the political class in washington and they ve conveniently written them in such a way they don t apply to themselves. the buying and selling of stock by corporate insiders who have access to nonpublic information that could affect the stock price can be a criminal offense. just ask hedge fund manager raj, who got prison for congressional lawmakers have no doing it. corporate responsibilities and have long been considered exempt from insider trading laws. even though they have daily access to nonpublic information and plenty of opportunities to trade on it. we know that during the healthcare debate, people were trading healthcare stocks. we know that during the financial crisis of 2008, they were getting out of the market before the rest of america knew what was going on. steve croft from 60 minutes is going to join us in a moment. what was going on was gop congressmen like spence