santorum and ron paul. new cnn polling shows a statistical dead heat. look at that, 36% to 34%. well within the five-point margin of error. romney there at the 36%. that s from sampling done sunday, monday, and tuesday. as always, expect the numbers to change. expect tomorrow night s debate to move that 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 spanish language radio spaup accusing romney of being quote the most anti-immigration candidate in the debate. they took it down after mark rubio took strong exceptions to it calling it inaccurate and inappropriate. romney had an ad slamming gingrich for being the ultimate washington insider. romney has striebed him as a fo former lobbyist for the giant. today we heard about it. you work for the people of freddie mac. i m glad you ask that. i work for the people, of course, i work for the people. now, and by the w
companies that can benefit from a piece of legislation and you then meet with the republican congressmen and encourage them to support that legislation, you can call it whatever you d like. i call it influence peddling. before the contract surfaced, newt gingrich obama was the second largest recipient of money from fannie mae and freddie mac freddie. given his closeness from fannie mae and freddie mac inconceivable he could be fair to write a bill and protect the taxpayers. john mccain should have said obama are you pretaryed to give back the money freddie mac and fannie mae gave to you? experts say the activities similar to lobbying likely did not meet the legal definition of it. you have to meet with a federal government official and spend 20% or more of your time lobbying or doing lobbying activity and spend certain money in three-month period lobbying.
the organization? funny you should ask. yes,we can. the contract the first pain shows he was reporting to the director of public policy for freddie mac a man by the name of craig thomas, who in fact was one of freddie mac s top lobbyists. so the consulting work that newt gingrich was doing was for the freddie mac top lobbyist, but gingrich insists it did not consist of lobbying. the lobbying disclosure law and how it defines lobbying activities, it does say lobbying activity consists of work in preparation for lobbying or work as background material that is intended to help lobbying. so i think again, the fact that he was reporting to a freddie mac lobbyist does raise the further questions what he was actually doing. michael isikoff, thank you for helping us explain this. complicated but i feel more
there is a conservative contract here is he was not a lobbyist. is there anything we can tell, like who he was reporting to at freddie mac who could explain how he was functioning at their organization? funny you should ask. yes, we can. the contract, the first page, shows he was reporting to the director of public policy for freddie mac, a man by the name of craig thomas, who, in fact, was one of freddie mac s top lobbyists. so the consulting work that newt gingrich was doing was for the freddie mac top lobbyist, but gingrich insists it did not consist of lobbying. actually, if you read closely the lobbying disclosure law and how it defines lobbying activities, it does say lobbying activity consists of work in preparation for lobbying or work as background material that s intended to help lobbying. so i think, again, the fact that he was reporting to a freddie
how he was functioning within the organization? funny you should ask. yes,we can. the contract the first pain shows he was reporting to the director of public policy for freddie mac a man by the name of craig thomas, who in fact was one of freddie mac s top lobbyists. so the consulting work that newt gingrich was doing was for the freddie mac top lobbyist, but gingrich insists it did not consist of lobbying. the lobbying disclosure law and how it defines lobbying activities, it does say lobbying activity consists of work in preparation for lobbying or work as background material that is intended to help lobbying. so i think again, the fact that he was reporting to a freddie mac lobbyist does raise the further questions what he was actually doing. michael isikoff, thank you for helping us explain this.