american held hostage for months by somali pirates and a closer look at the president s state-of-the-union hint about the top secret mission. plus brand-new cnn polling ton underscores the stakes of our final florida debate showdown. a tiny mitt romney lead over newt gingrich just as their battle for the gop nomination takes another bitter turn. and put up or shut up. newt gingrich snaps back at nancy pelosi after she tells me if there s one thing she knows it is. this her long-time nemesis, she this her long-time nemesis, she says, will never be president. captions by vitac www.vitac.com a busy day of politics here in florida and back in washington. but we begin tonight with another stunning navy seal success story that sounds like a made for hollywood spy story. the u.s. military s daring raid to free an american woman and a danish man held by pirates in somalia. our first inkling something was up came as probe entered the house chamber last night for the state-of
ran in an election in great britain a few years ago. it s a great ad. it s right on message, targeted. it was a very, very effective ad. chris, it s a reminder of how and you ve written this and we ve all everybody wants to talk act how flawed mitt romney is as a front-runner. but boy, they are a campaign that seems to be very well oiled. i think that go and look at sort of since mitt romney announced his exploratory committee, which i sthi was early april. he hasn t done much wrong since then. he s clearly gotten stronger i would say. another money piece, you know, how much money is he going to raise, that s something they don t want to get into. but he s bracketing the president, acting like he s the nominee. going to allentown news conference. put out a web ad. this is smart. whoever the opposition researcher in his campaign is who found this spot in allentown that obama did deserves a lot of credit because this is going to get what we re talking about, a lot of atte
i remember you came on the show and you were not impressed with the $10 million figure on mitt romney and you won t be surprised if raises over $40 million. he has a lot of donors, he ought to be able to get to these people early. that s a real warning sign. jeff, barack obama, the campaign is throwing out $60 million it feels like it s a goal they want to make sure they surpass. its will surpass that. i m not sure if it s going to be 8 $80 million. and chris, you have said, you have made an observation this morning in the fix about how down overall fundraising is going to be on the republican side collectively. the first year of 2007, the big guys were actively
tying to that visit, his campaign has a new video out continuing his assault on the president s economic record. here it is. i just came from allentown middle works, where i had a chance to visit with workers there. the allentown meal work is set to close its doors on friday. msnbc contributor chris solis is managing editor of postpolitics.com. jeff zellny is the national political correspondent for the new york times. and of course charlie cook is an nbc news political analyst and editor of the cook political report and columnist for the national journal. charlie cook, mitt romney s campaign, one thing you can say about them, boy, do they stay on message. that s right. in that ad that ad. it was inspired by a british labor isn t working ad that was
the guy who is really hoping for those folks to fall in line behind him is tim pawlenty. while he is a conservative, he hasn t been nearly as outspoken on some of the social issues that christian evangelicals really want their candidate to espouse. jeff, of course, huckabee has a big following out there and all the other candidates jumping to sort of assume his mantel and heap praise on huckabee. pawlenty saying huckabee is a friend and a colleague and important leader within the party. jon huntsman, it s unfortunate we ll not have his voice or the bass guitar. rick santorum, i have long admired governor huckabee. newt gingrich saying, governor huckabee will remain a major force for conservatism. another name that comes up, mitch daniels. i don t know if the huckabee news does anything to influence daniels decision over whether to get in. but what is the state of mitch daniels? are we just going to keep talking about him or is he going