with david gergen, donna brazile, and ari fleischer. governor romney, what kind of debate did you think you had tonight? i thought it was terrific, and i was delighted with the debate. it was a big night for me and for the people who support me. you saw the response of the audience. it s a big step forward and it s going to give me the boost i need going into the last couple days before the primary. you were pretty aggressive, i couldn t help but notice, in taking on newt gingrich. you seemed to turn every attack he made on you into an attack on him. particularly the attacks he made on the campaign trail about your finances. when i m shot at, i ll return fire. i m no shrinking violet. thanks. back to you, anderson. it certainly was perhaps a more energized mitt romney than we have seen in privious debates. earlier this week in florida, he appeared to be energized. he has a new debate coach. how much of a role that played, unclear. he and speaker gingrich went back
jerusalem embassy act. a congressman from georgia introduced him and they talked. they talked about israel. adelson is hawkish on israel. very involved in israeli politics, even more so than american politics. he has his own free newspaper he distributes there. but he and newt didn t have a blossoming relationship until after he left congress when adelson essentially funded his american solutions pac, $8 million worth. so they have had the israeli bond. no one was happier when newt came up with the palestinians are an invented people line than sheldon adelson and his wife, myriam, who is also hawkish on israel. they immediately associated themselves with those comments. let s be careful here. a good share of american people supports israel, generally speaking. and even people who are jewish americans who are committed to israel have positions that are
rockefeller was a candidate and refused to release his tax return because he was afraid that people would find out he wasn t as wealthy as he thought he was. how far bob: not democrats. dana: sorry, but in that race he said i m not going to release it because i don t want people to think was that a true with the donald trump thing, too. remember, people we have come to this point where eric: two quick points. if you are self-made and work hard from the beginning. didn t grow up with a silver spoon in your mouth, you are proud when you have money and that i made $20 million in 2010. the other point is can we stop with warren buffett being the liberal hero? do you hear warren buffett saying raise my capital gains tax or raise my dividend tax rate. he doesn t want to touch those, because if you did that, it would affect his
and hey, that makes sense. greg: listen to what newt said on fox and friends earlier about this. he wasn t happy. i wish in retrospect i protested when brian williams took them out of it. it s wrong. he took them out of it because the media is terrified that the audience will side with the candidate against the media. we will serve notice on future debates, we are just not going to allow it to happen. the media doesn t control free speech. people should be allowed to applaud if they want to. greg: is that controlling free speech having audience hold off applause? andrea: not exactly but i do agree, and i think they were squared it would provoke an outburst. i am surprised that newt didn t give williams the verbal smackdown with the question about the bush tax cut. he said don t you agree that the tax cut failed?
they talked about israel. adelson is hawkish on israel. even more so than american politics. he has his own free newspaper he distributes there. but he and newt didn t have a blossoming relationship until after he left congress when adelson essentially funded his american solutions pac. $8 million worth. so they have had the israeli bond. no one was happier when newt came up with the palestinians are an invented people line. his wife, who is also hawkish on israel, they associated themselves with those comments. let s be careful here. a good share of american people supports israel, generally speaking. and even people who are jewish americans who are committed to israel have positions that are reasonable. adelson has a number of positions, which most would