congressional stalemate that could mean a bigger government bite out of your paycheck. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . captions by vitac www.vitac.com the lines have been redrawn in the battle for the republican presidential nomination and after months of focusing his fight on president obama, mitt romney is now going after the newest front-runner, the former house speaker, newt gingrich. romney s latest assault is the classic campaign tactic of using the candidate s own words against him. joe johns is joining us now. take us inside romney s latest attack on gingrich. now we know that mitt romney apparently is not going to sit around and wait for newt gingrich to make a mistake as some have been suggesting. romney s on the offensive right now, but as far as we can tell, the former speaker hasn t exactly launched any kind of counterattack. down in the polls with weeks left until iowa caucuses, mitt romney makes his move. direct assau
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chief political correspondent, candy crowley. good morning, candy. there s another big debate tomorrow night. this won t be like the others. no herman cain this time and newt gingrich is the guy to beat. well, yes. there is actually a lot at play in this debate which probably will make it the most high decibel debate that we ve seen. number one, the calendar s kind of closing in on him. those caucuses are less than a month away. number two, the conventional political wisdom always has been there are three tickets out of iowa. three people survive. not only do you have mitt romney who needs to go after newt gingrich and start to drive down some of those poll numbers, you have everybody else on that stage that wants a ticket out of iowa so they go after newt gingrich as well and probably a little bit of romney. so you have the makings of both the calendar and the politics of it at this point. this sort of promises to be a lively affair. of course it will. we re talking no
whole bunch of crap. take a look. this is the core challenge of america. beyond the words is a real question of policy and a real question of values and a real question of serious seriousness. it is a real question of policy. we don t always see eye to eye, do we, newt? no, but we do agree our country must take action to address climate change. newt gingrich has been on both sides of a long list of issues, and sometimes in the same week. i don t think right wing social engineering is anymore desirable than left wing social engineering. it cuts paul randolph off at the knees. there is no explanation for it. that was campaigning. meanwhile our favorite presidential campaign daughters, the huntsman daughters released a video of their own set to the tune of
take a look. this is the core challenge of america. beyond the words is a real question of policy and a real question of values and a real question of serious seriousness. it is a real question of policy. we don t always see eye to eye, do we, newt? no, but we do agree our country must take action to address climate change. newt gingrich has been on both sides of a long list of issues, and sometimes in the same week. i don t think right wing social engineering is anymore desirable than left wing social engineering. it cuts paul randolph off at the knees. there is no explanation for it. that was campaigning. meanwhile our favorite presidential campaign daughters, the huntsman daughters released a video of their own set to the tune of some song by justin