the state s primary now three days away. newt gingrich and mitt romney a busy day ahead of them with events planned across the sunshine state and we have team coverage with you with nbc s ron mott in port st. lucie and peter alexander in pensacola. ron, i know you sat down with the former house speaker. what did he tell you? reporter: hey, there, alex. good saturday morning. we have the former speaker on the record on a number of things. he says his campaign is a threat to the political status quo in washington and that despite all of the money being spent against him, he says the people power back in his campaign will ultimately prevail. in winning south carolina s primary a week ago, newt gingrich shook up the gop establishment, which he says favors mitt romney and with florida s primary tuesday looming as a possible springboard toward the republican nomination, anti-gingrich voices are growing in tenor and tone. i think we ought to send newt gingrich to the moon and mi
entering its final stretch with the state s primary now three days away. newt gingrich and mitt romney a busy day ahead of them with events planned across the sunshine state and we have team coverage with you with nbc s ron mott in port st. lucie and peter alexander in pensacola. ron, i know you sat down with the former house speaker. what did he tell you? reporter: hey, there, alex. good saturday morning. we have the former speaker on the record on a number of things. he says his campaign is a threat to the political status quo in washington and that despite all of the money being spent against him, he says the people power back in his campaign will ultimately prevail. in winning south carolina s primary a week ago, newt gingrich shook up the gop establishment, which he says favors mitt romney and with florida s primary tuesday looming as a possible springboard toward the republican nomination, anti-gingrich voices are growing in tenor and tone. i think we ought to send
projects. it will carry a device to analyze particles believed to have been created in the big bang. the atlantis shuttle will take over june 28 and will officially close the door on that 30 year program. what will nasa s future look like. i m joined by former nasa mission controller james ober. good morning to you. let s talk about what s happening with nasa having doled out millions to some sort of space taxi to the international space station and big rocket for deep space exploration. talk about that. that s correct, alex. what we re looking at now is that the shuttle has done its task, to assemble the space station. we now need routine 5:00 accepts to the station and back. for a while we re buying russian tickets but we ll get our own tickets soon. also developing spacecraft and boosters to go beyond orbit to
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right now on msnbc saturday, running on empty. will cash for clunkers survive after the weekend? we ll tell you about the strings being pulled to keep it in place. the president s health care plan. clearly a rather clearing a key hurdle on capitol hill. we are live with those details. and octomom, looking back and having regrets. today she is shedding light on her life as a single mom of 14. a very good saturday morning to all of you, i m alex witt. we ve all that, plus another attempt to smooth things over in the flap over the arrest of a harvard professor. this time it is flowers instead of beer. we re going to explain all that. but first the health reform bill finally made it through the health committee last night much later than the house white house had expected. we re getting a statement from the president about the vote. let s go right to the white house. nbc s mike vaccer ra, who is at his post there. let s get the white house reaction. what is it, mike?