leapfrogging ron paul. we re book with our panel of msnbc political analysts, howard fineman of the huffington po post, eugene robinson of the washington post, and michael steele, former chairman of the national republican committee. let s play pundit now, pure pundit, without any attitude. which is just picking this thing. what do you see in the numbers, howard? what i see in the numbers is s santorum coming on strong, ron paul having a lot of enthusiasm out there, and mitt romney trying to hang on, having allowed expectations to get a little bit out of hand here. now he needs a win. and i think it s going to be very close, down to the wire. but the two have the energy, the genuine energy and the genuine momentum are santorum and paul. gene? i see the santorum surge. i think he s peaking at the right time. the numbers also show that iz supporters are more likely say they re more likely to actually go out and caucus tomorrow than romney s do.
he ll be right with us to the terrible crash that killed their friend dan wheldon. later my compelling interview with kelsey grammer who really does open up in a way i ve never seen before. but for now jon huntsman joins me from new hampshire. he says he ll stay there rather than joining all the fun in las vegas. what s this all about? why are you avoiding the lure of sin city? well, piers, thank you for having me on. let me just say that we have a very, very important issue playing out here, and that s the viability of the new hampshire primary. why is that important? because the primary here, the first in the nation, is the window through which the american public begin to understand the candidates, who they are, what they stand for and their vision for a better america. and you begin to jeopardize that process by other states like nevada most recently leapfrogging in the process, making new hampshire virtually irrelevant as you move it forward. i say that is totally nons
their friend dan wheldon. later my compelling interview with kelsey grammer who really does open up in a way i ve never seen before. but for now jon huntsman joins me from new hampshire. he says he ll stay there rather than joining all the fun in las vegas. what s this all about? why are you avoiding the lure of sin city? well, piers, thank you for having me on. let me just say that we have a very, very important issue playing out here, and that s the viability of the new hampshire primary. why is that important? because the primary here, the first in the nation, is the window through which the american public begin to understand the candidates, who they are, what they stand for and their vision for a better america. and you begin to jeopardize that process by other states like nevada most recently leapfrogging in the process, making new hampshire virtually irrelevant as you move it forward. i say that is totally nonsense. we re going to stand with the people of new hampshi
out of the court. she could barely walk. afterwards she was reunited with her family and drove away to an undisclosed location, we believe it was a villa somewhere close to rome. since then making her way back home to her hometown of seattle where she can pick up the pieces of her shattered life. she was photographed in rome s airport. we don t what plane she got on, but flying back to seattle via london, that has not been confirmed to us. just agency reports saying that. clearly, she s doing everything she can to get back to the states as soon as possible. martin? matthew, despite all the excitement over her departure, it is still possible that prosecutors can appeal this and they have said they plan to do so, right? well, not just possible, but it s likely that they ll do that. in fact, they said they will do it. the prosecutors are going to go to the supreme court of italy to get the judges there to review the findings of this appeal court. what that will mean, theoret
new hampshire. as much as, you know, four days later than wherever new hampshire ends up. the saturday after it. or they could be the following saturday or tuesday after that. and then the other phenomenon, josh, very quickly is the fact there s actually a whole bunch of states now that are going to move back. new jersey being the biggest one. right. again, we re hearing all about the folks that are leapfrogging, right? the arizonas, michigans, georgias or floridas of the world. what we re not hearing about is how there are so many states this psyche whole have decided to comply with the rules. we ve seen a majority of states that were positioned because of their state laws in february, were required to move back. into march or later. and they have done so. moving primarily be-based states have moved back into march and some of the more blue states have moved back to april, may and june. and mark murray, i m looking at this early calendar. if it calls the way we think it s going