$500 million from sheldon adelson. it features people who lost their jobs as a result of romney s former employer, bain capital. mitt romney became ceo of bain capital the day the company was formed. his mission to reap massive rewards for himself and investors. mitt romney, those guys, they don t care who i am. romney took foreign money from latin america and began a pattern exploiting dozens of american businesses. i feel that is the man that destroyed us. mike alan, that looks like an ad the obama campaign will want to take and use a couple of months from now if they face romney in a general election. it does. speaker gingrich was asked yesterday by you, the super pac, supporting and making this argument, helping the democrats. what he says is that the person who is going to go up against
mike suggests he might. i think a lot of republicans would say it is time to close ranks around mitt romney because we can t have a south carolina primary where the rules are different and it is pretty rough. we can t have that dominated by attacks on the central calling card of the man who is likely to be our nominee as business experience. mike, you re looking inside the numbers here. what is most likely scenario. mitt romney, then who? we don t know because we can t tell how accurate the polls are. if polls are right, if polls are not oversampling independents, jon huntsman is a position to finish second, which is a surprise. i don t think any of us would have thought that coming out of iowa. huntsman over paul, for example? why are you saying that? it is what we saw in iowa. huntsman seems to be rising, paul seems to be falling. but paul s people will turn out. i m struck watching that clip, what late bloomers these guys are. where was that tough jon huntsman over the weeks
have him play as chief of staff who is going to focus on policy. if you have hopes there could be a big deficit deal, jack is the man to do it. he was in bill clinton s white house when we had the big deficit reduction bills. left on his own or forced out? i think he left on his own after his power was taken away. i think over christmas he thought about what that really meant to him. he s a proud, powerful man. and this makes more sense. it was an untenable situation. it didn t make sense for a white house under seetiege to have someone in the job who wasn t really on the job. mike, mark, thanks for waking up early, guys. we ll see you on morning joe. still coming up, deep down on the bayou, alabama s defense beats lsu. highlights of the historically
first let s get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. in manchester, new hampshire. round two in the race for the republican presidential nomination. the iowa caucus is now a distant memory. the six remaining contenders will hear from the voters in new hampshire today. some of the votes are already in. just after midnight, votes cast and counted in dicksville notch, a small town, 200 miles north of manchester where we are. the tiny village kept tradition alive being the first to cast the baumts. with a population of 75, nine people came out to vote. six of whom supported republican candidates mitt romney and jon huntsman. topping the field, each receiving two votes. ron paul, newt gingrich got one vote apiece. president obama took three votes in the democratic primary. perry and santorum, like lsu, shut out. they re waging a heated battle for second place and that s the story here now. just hours before the primary, the front-runner made a bit of a campaign gaffe, but only intensifie
at 5:30 a.m. in manchester, new hampshire. round two in the race for the republican presidential nomination. the iowa caucus is now a distant memory. the six remaining contenders will hear from the voters in new hampshire today. some of the votes are already in. just after midnight, votes cast and counted in dicksville notch, a small town, 200 miles north of manchester where we are. the tiny village kept tradition alive being the first to cast the baumts. with a population of 75, nine people came out to vote. six of whom supported republican candidates mitt romney and jon huntsman. topping the field, each receiving two votes. ron paul, newt gingrich got one vote apiece. president obama took three votes in the democratic primary. perry and santorum, like lsu, shut out. they re waging a heated battle for second place and that s the story here now. just hours before the primary, the front-runner made a bit of a campaign gaffe, but only intensified the line of attack against him.