money that s poured into iowa so far by campaigns and pacs. nearly $6 million spent by rick perry and the perry pac. mitt romney and his pac have spent nearly $4 million and ron paul almost $2 million and newt gingrich almost $500,000, and he has the falling poll numbers to prove it. joining me now to take a look at some of the latest ads as well as what is working and what isn t, nbc political analyst michael steele, former chair of the republican national committee and david corn, the d.c. bureau chief for mother jones magazine. gentlemen, i want to show you some commercials, an ad released today by the pro-romney super pac restore america s future, and it throws everything but kitchen sink at newt gingrich. you know what makes barack obama happy? newt gingrich s baggage. newt has more baggage than the airlines. freddie mac helped cause the economic collapse, but gingrich cashed in. freddie mac paid newt $30,000 an hour. $1.6 million. gingrich not only teamed up with nancy pelosi
action from the campaign trail, including a sit-down with mitt romney. barnstorming his way across new hampshire, mitt romney urged newt gingrich to stop whining about the attack ads. if you can t stand the modest heat in the kitchen now, wait until obama s hell kitchen shows up. probably good to get out of in the air now so people know what is coming dune road if any of us become the nominee. gingrich insists he is running a positive campaign and accusing others of deceptive advertising. it would be nice if romney was honest about his former staff and supporters running negative ads, disown them or admit it s his campaign. the latest by a pro-romney super pac hits gingrich on abortion. newt gingrich not only teamed up with nancy pelosi on global warming but they together also cosponsored a bill to support china s butall one child policy.
former romney aids, that s why newt gingrich thinks the fix is in. romney says he can t control what they have done. the latest attack ads pretty tough stuff. here is what they are doing. gingrich not only teamed up with nancy pelosi on global warming but together they cosponsored a bill that gave $60 million a year to a u.n. program supporting china s one child policy. gingrich ensue ported taxpayer funding of some abortions. reporter: the gingrich campaign says the reference to the u.n. was never even voted on. the gingrich argument is it s a false attack. the reference to he supported some taxpayer funded abortion. that s in a specific instance where mr. gingrich said he would support assistance to people who were the victim of rape or in crest. which a lot of candidates with few exceptions have embraced.
and it throws everything but kitchen sink at newt gingrich. you know what makes barack obama happy, newt gingrich s baggage. newt has more baggage than the airlines. freddie mac helped cause the economic collapse, but gingrich cashed n.freddie mac paid newt $30,000 an hour. $1.6 million. gingrich not only teamed up with nancy pelosi on global warming, but together they co-sponsored a bill that gave $60 million a year to a u.n. program supporting china s brutal one-child policy. as speaker, gingrich even supported taxpayer funding of some abortions, and newt is the only speaker in history to be reprimanded. michael steele, i can look at the focus group, they were like this, freddie mac, check, china, check. pelosi, check. pelosi, check. they got it all but it s effective, man, a very effective spot. oh, my gosh is it effective, absolutely. you throw $2.6 million at anything you re going to have an impact, and that s what s
perspective. rick perry has thrown most of his money here. romney is preparing to go negative with this attack on gingrich. we may see it on the air soon. newt has a ton of baggage. like the fact that gingrich was fined $300,000 for ethics violations. or that he took at least $1.6 million from freddie mac. he supports amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. he even teamed up with nancy pelosi on global warming. and he was part of a national health insurance mandate the center piece of obama care. as you can see, that kitchen sink type ad right now, the campaign is also unleashing surrogates to attack the former speaker s record. yesterday the focus was on paul ryan s medicare plan. that happened here on this show. look at the way the faux