but you, of course, traveled the country with newt gingrich. right. on an education campaign. so i m hoping you can sort of help me see the other side of the story. joe is objective. i m not yet. but perhaps you can help me. well, i m very confused. president obama as joe and i have talked about said he asked newt gingrich and i to tour the country with the education secretary for education reform. the confusion is that we went to a lot of these poor communities, inner cities, that newt now claims such ignorance about. he says that these poor communities have no work the ethic. their parents don t go to work. the only monetary trade is illegal. those are the communities that he and i toured. was he saying that when you were there? no. that the only way these kids can make money is by doing something illegal? was he saying that with you? no. he was saluting them. we went on meet the press together and talked about how these kids needed an opportunity because look how w
is a series of unsustainable surges. that said, i tell you, the most important poll number this morning i think is coming out of south carolina. i agree. i agree. where does mitt romney win if gingrich, if he loses both iowa and south carolina? i m sorry. it s certainly not the state of florida. that is a closed republican primary. let me ask you, chuck. if newt gingrich wins iowa, newt gingrich wins south carolina, doesn t newt gingrich win florida? i the florida republican primary is closed. and what that means is it s only registered republicans. that electorate is going to be more conservative than maybe some people think a florida republican primary normally would be. and you have to say gingrich would be the heavy george lemieux, senator from florida, newt is running away with florida in a lot of polls. how does newt gingrich fare in
in this case idaho has won a national championship before. national championship that gingrich he made it to the final four. he didn t make the championship. i m talking about newt engineered historic, legislative landslide. he has been a national figure. he s been time magazine s person of the year. he has been there before. i think he s going to collapse over time. that said, mika, he has been to the top. he has had his as this column says he was governor. i just think that there is nothing like being on a national stage and being beaten up every day politically like newt gingrich has. he hasn t learned his lessons. we ll see if he has a second time. but i want to go back to the point of fox news. he s been on fox news as mark said for such a long time, and fox news drives primary voters. republican primary voters because they all, you know, they
doing. the first city we went in, philadelphia, the school went from the bottom to the top in academic achievement. their parents were there. newt just said though that the only way these kids could make any money, by doing things illegally. he wasn t saying that when he was with you and when went in to work with the president and you on education reform? not at all. that s why i m confused. so newt has either had a real case of amnesia or he s playing it is one thing to say something offensive but itas nother thing to say something you know is not let me ask you, because i am really curious, you listen to what he says about the president. he says awful things about the president. i disagree with the president but i ve always said he s a good man. i m sure he s a good father and good husband and loves his country and is doing what he thinks is best even if i personally disagree with it. newt, though, has said some horrible things about this president. i m just curious. when y
but sometimes put on a helmet and take cheap shots. that s what i m talking about. when newt gingrich calls good people like secretary sebelius, who i may disagree with her politically, but you know what? she s given her life to public service, when he compares her to joseph stalin, a guy who killed 30 million people, and when that s the norm for newt, it s just not a nice person. i think you ve made that clear but i also think people will take advantage of it anyway so get ready. i don t care. i won t read the blogs. i just want the people who watch to know. i don t know him personally though i worked with him but i kind of like it that way. michele bachmann will be here, robert gibbs, and tom brokaw. up next a political exclusive. our elite romney supporters starting to show signs of nerves? that s next. first here is bill karins with a check on the forecast. good morning. it s going to be a rough morning commute. we have fog to deal with down in