wile we ll see how effectively he makes that case. if he makes that case aggressively, here s why you vote for me. juliana, what he could say is i m in fourth place and maybe this won t happen for me. what i could do is just hack away at the man who did a lot of negative advertising against me. how likely is that going to happen? at this point, it s pretty likely unless he looks in the mirror and decides if he wants to make a difference with the voters in new hampshire, he has to stop whining and feeling like a victim and looking more like a candidate. he ll be in my town tomorrow. so, i ll get a chance to take a peek. andrew and juliana sitting with me and ron brownstein and hilary rosen, thank you. still to come, we ll hear from people in new hampshire, at least people in the diner. five days before the primary, find out what they care about. in this morning s reveal,
we re back at the airport diner. i m soledad o brien. let s get right back to our political panel. ron brownstein in d.c. and hillary rosen and here juliana bergeron and editorial page director of new hampshire union leader. nice to have everybody back. let s get right to rick santorum as he rises in polling. as he rises in focus, everyone starts to parse his every single word. here s a little bit of what he said about a week ago on the campaign trail. listen. i don t want to make a lot of people s lives better by giving them someone else s money. i want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money. okay. you know what, guys, cue that up, again. i want to play that one more time. that is the $64,000 thing. many people said, i don t want to make black people s lives
good morning. welcome. i m soledad o brien. welcome to starting point. we are coming to you from manchester, new hampshire. we are coming to you live from the airport diner. five day ways from primary day here. our starting point this morning is something that you are bogey to hear on the combine trail today which is the future of the american military. just about four hours president obama will reveal his plan for a slimmed-down force that will no longer be fighting two full-blown ground wars. digging into the details and talking a lot about it this morning. also, mitt romney, does he have a tea party problem? they didn t go away in iowa but could new hampshire be different? we are going to ask the tea party favorite and romney supporter christine o donnell this morning. and despite the sparring back in 2008 in this very state, senator john mccain is now backing mitt romney. he is going to join thus morning to tell us why. then oops, we deported your teenage daughter. a fa
good morning. welcome. i m soledad o brien. welcome to starting point. we are coming to you from manchester, new hampshire. we are coming to you live from the airport diner. five day ways from primary day here. our starting point this morning is something that you are bogey to hear on the combine trail today which is the future of the american military. just about four hours president obama will reveal his plan for a slimmed-down force that will no longer be fighting two full-blown ground wars. digging into the details and talking a lot about it this morning. also, mitt romney, does he have a tea party problem? they didn t go away in iowa but could new hampshire be different? we are going to ask the tea party favorite and romney supporter christine o donnell this morning. and despite the sparring back in 2008 in this very state, senator john mccain is now backing mitt romney. he is going to join thus morning to tell us why. then oops, we deported your teenage daughter. a fa