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now? he has no one to blame but himself. she was first to speak out against herman cain. now she s back live. plus the man who always knows which way the winds are blowing, political or otherwise. what you may not know about america s favorite weatherman. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. the gop has really been the elephant in the room of american politics as the party s front-runners play a game of political musical chairs, with perry, michele bachmann, herman cain, now newt gingrich s turn. listen to what he said today after a meeting with donald trump. i want not yet. he s got to do this debate. and a trump endorsement isn t the only one in play, even though the cain train has run off the rails, the former candidate s endporsment could come any day. there s only one man who knows what it means for the president s re-election campaign and that s david axelrod who joins me now. welcome. good to be with you, piers. you re feeling fairly chipper, a
a new week and new shake-up for the battle for the presidential nomination. newt gingrich is now the solid front runner in the state of iowa. but today his focus was on new york. and a meeting with donald trump. let s go to new york. there s jim acosta following this for us. what s the latest with newt gingrich the front-runner and donald trump? well, he is in the big apple and you can say he is singing new york, new york, start spreading the newts. he his message he is can win the republican nomination. he is willing to take this battle to all 50 states. at a news conference in new york, newt gingrich insisted he can go toe to toe with mitt romney in a 50-state battle for the nomination. even with a much smaller operation. we have all these articles about how businesses are getting leaner. how they are flattening their hierarchies. doing all sorts of things. have you people who work from home. you have virtual organizations. all of these cutting edge ideas. you have a gr
his own white house run, and who now plans to host a republican debate, after christmas. then there is ex-candidate herman cain whose endorsement could go to gingrich eventually. though he now says he s going to take his time. stay with us, we ll bring you those comments live at 1:45 eastern time. also, president obama, we are told, is going to have some sort of statement or briefing in the briefing room of the white house. the subject is going to be taxes. a lot of talk of that up on capitol hill. we ll hear what the president has to say this hour. and what does first class mean to you? to the debt-laden u.s. postal service it would mean two to five days instead of one to three days. trying to help trim $20 billion a year from the postal service by 2015. it would mean closing more than half the agencies 463 mail processing facilities across the country. going to mean a lot of layoffs, too. i ll have some questions for the post master general in our face time segment
that will not be my endorsement. all right. let s bring in our paul steinhauser. so cain won t be supporting obama s re-election campaign. no surprise there. what a surprise. exactly. where do you think he ll throw his support? you know, there s a lot of speculation that maybe he throws his support to newt gingrich, the former house speaker. they are both from georgia. it was interesting on saturday. soon after cain suspended his campaign, gingrich at an event in new york city said some very, very nice things about herman cain. a lot of the candidates would like that support. here is the drama. late last night, gingrich adds a news conference today in new york city at 1:45. there s speculation, will cain be there or not? cain aides and gingrich aides saying no to that one. gingrich s people tell us at 1:45, gingrich will outline his 50-state strategy. a lot of the candidates would like cain s backing. no doubt about that we saw michele bachmann and ron paul yesterda