cetera, but should listen to good advice and get stuck in. whatever that means. that one came after a tweet reminding us not to forget about the fourth of july. thank you, rupert. up next, legendary penn state football coach joe paterno may have been more involved in protecting jerry sandusky than he admitted. buzz joins us for the latest blockbuster in the sandusky case. that s next. you re watching hardball, the place for politics.
with team romney. here s this morning s murdoch follow-up. romney people upset at me. of course i want him to win. save us from socialism, et cetera, but should listen to good advice and get stuck in. whatever that means. that one came after a tweet reminding us not to forget about the fourth of july. thank you, rupert. up next, legendary penn state football coach joe paterno may have been more involved in protecting jerry sandusky than he admitted. buzz joins us for the latest blockbuster in the sandusky case. that s next. you re watching hardball, the place for politics.
new cnn/orc polling tonight shows a statistical dead heat, 36% to 34% romney to gingrich. well within the five-point margin of error. that s from sampling of monday, tuesday and wednesday. in other words, after saturday in south carolina. but if you isolate just tuesday after governor romney s sharp attacks in monday night s debate, there s a nine-point advantage for him over the former speaker. you can expect the numbers to change. expect tomorrow night s debate to move the needle, as well. also, expect more of what we saw today. each candidate hammering the other. [ speaking spanish ] the gingrich campaign today stopped running the radio spot accusing mitt romney of being, quote, the most anti-immigration candidate in the race. they took the ad down after florida senator mark rubio who s cuban-america took strong exceptions to it calling it inaccurate and inflammatory. the romney campaign meantime also angling for the latino vote slamming speaker gingrich for being the ul
all right, show time i was going to say, it s going to be a hip-hop morning here. get it started. let s get it started. welcome, everybody. as i mentioned we re coming to you from the diner. every morning we tell you what we re eating. so i m going to tell you what we re eating, i got to read this one. specialty of the house. this is called the kroek and dagger, two eggs over easy with bacon or ham, sandwiched between french loaf smothered in sauce, cheese, served with home fries or grits. coming in at 27 can i hold it up for you? 27,000 calories right here. and i m going to put that in front of our guest panelist today who is joining us is congressman aaron shock. he s the republican from the state of illinois who i saw your picture on the front of men s health. i m not eating a whole lot of those. that s not how you get abs like the congressman has. i should mention he is joining our panel and women have all been on twitter to have you here today. appreciate you
just what is it gingrich was paid an estimated $1.7 million to do. that s not only the breaking news tonight. reports tonight out of las vegas 245 a gingrich friend is writing another $5 million check to the supersuper pac. all this showing that mitt romney s lead is evaporating in florida and basically gone nationwide. take a look at the latest tracking poll. shows a virtual-romney gingrich dead heat. that s a sharp change from just last week before this weekend s south carolina gingrich blowout victory. those numbers could and almost certainly will change, but for now, the trend is so worrying to the romney forces they re attacking the challenger, not through surrogates like they have in the past or through super pacs but directly. while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich cashed in. gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the scandal ridden agency that helped create the crisis. that new ad was straight from the romney campaign, this ear