26% of the michigan people think he s truly from their state. because he spent so little time in the big picture. look at him still as a governor from massachusetts. see if he s able to get people beside the seniors that remember his dad quite well. in addition to all the money that mitt romney is spending and his super pac as well, newt gingrich has his super pac. they re spending a lot of dough on the radio. i heard a couple of spots attacking rick santorum and on television as well. newt himself is taking a lot of his money and he has recorded a half-hour presentation where he talks about energy. here he is talking about he says the other candidates are afraid to debate him, this is last night. listen to this. look, we re going to find ways to communicate with the american people. i like debating. i think debating is good for the country. it gives us a chance to communicate without editing by the news media. it happens to be particularly good for me. but if the other guys are
campaign s negative ads. also gingrich says he won t vote for ron paul if the texas congressman wins the republican nomination. plus a frightening day at country s biggest shopping mall and nothing to keep from happening the a mall near you. first in iowa, the skating criticism newt gingrich levelled at two of his republican opponents, mitt romney and ron paul. just a short time ago wolf blitzer asked gingrich about the barrage of attack ads both romney and paul are running in iowa. republican voters caucus exactly one week from tonight. listen to some of what newt gingrich had to say about mitt romney. mitt romney made fun of you today. i don t know if you heard. no. about the virginia snafu and all of that. i ll play the clip, watch this. okay. you know, i i think you compare that to pearl harbor. i think it s more like lucille ball at the chocolate factory. so i mean, you ve got to get it organized. he was referring to a statement that your campaign
leave the congress, he paints the responsibility on a waping amount of enthusiasm on the part of congressional friends and we know he was kicked out by a unanimous vote because of corruption. this guy, he only cheated on two wives so far. i don t think if we can draw conclusions from that yet, but a 30-year record of newt being newt. he is out there now as we talked about the spirit of christmas and how we shouldn t be attacking each other. back in the 90s, this is one of my favorite newt items. he sent out a memo to republicans running in state races and congestionaries saying here say list of preferred words to use when talking about your opponents. they were words such as traitor, treasonist, betrayer and nothing to do with policy and history and the grand debates of our
joining me now, katrina vanden heuvel. editor and publisher of the nation magazine and author of the book change i believe in. congratulations on that. thank you, ed. all right. is this a turning point in any way, shape or form for the republicans, with newt being the front-runner right now? and this big stumble by mitt romney? your thoughts. i think it s too early to tell. we ve seen bullets before. there s still time to take newt down some. i still think in iowa ron paul has a chance to come in first. has the best field ground operation, may bring in new caucusgoers. for romney, that moment, i don t know if your viewers remember, when his father came back from vietnam in 1967, mitt romney s father, his father said, i was brainwashed. he was out of that race. the campaign ended. i don t know if the campaign ends for mitt romney. but, boy, is he clueless. $10,000 is one-fifth of the median income of an iowa family. he didn t know it. they re out of touch in general with the s
i want to know what you think. tonight s question. does mitt romney have any clue how much $10,000 means to average americans? text a for yes, text b for no to 622639. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we ll bring you the results later on in the show. joining me now, katrina vanden heuvel. author of the book change i believe in. congratulations on that. thank you, ed. all right. is this a turning point in any way, shape or form for the republicans, with newt being the front-runner right now? and this big stumble by mitt romney? your thoughts. i think it s too early to tell. we ve seen bullets before. there s still time to take newt down some. i still think in iowa ron paul has a chance to come in first. has the best field to ground operation, may bring in new caucusgoers. for romney, that moment, i don t know if your viewers remember, when his father came back from vietnam in 1967, mitt romney s