with freddie mac between and 99 and 2007. joining me is david gregory, moderator of nbc news meet the press. thank you for joining me. my pleasure. this is the latest bubble. we have seen several of them. the gingrich bubble. is it is your sense this is an exploration of is there a romney alternative and that it has built in to it all the curve that all the bubbles have had a few week and it s gone. it s remarkable. the thing i come back to is if you are mitt romney you are looking at the rest of the field and you are saying, who s the complete package? who puts it together the anti-establishment, tea party base, pop list, anti washington type, who puts it together? it was perry. he was the one that was supposed to do it. newt gingriching was not the leading man for that role in that movie. what he s done here is attack the media. he s positioned himself in debates where he s not really
newt gingrich is doing very well and mitt romney and romney apparently tied. that s a tough decision right there. [ laughter ] it is funny, because romney is the mormon. and newt gingrich is the one with three wives. it s odd. it makes sense gingrich is rising. he s the only candidate who appears to be made of dough. mostly people think he is moving up in the polls, his strategy has been to avoid mistakes and play it safe. a lot of other republicans have been making mistakes and he s been avoiding gaffes but judging by newt s latest, i think he is maybe being too cautious. i m newt gingrich. i worked with president reagan. herman cain having a rough couple of weeks. it was all over the news. herman cain couldn t answer a
does me say poll surge make you think of herman cain. newt gingrich is doing very well and mitt romney and romney apparently tied. that s a tough decision right there. [ laughter ] it is funny, because romney is the mormon. and newt gingrich is the one with three wives. it s odd. it makes sense gingrich is rising. he s the only candidate who appears to be made of dough. mostly people think he is moving up in the polls, his strategy has been to avoid mistakes and play it safe. a lot of other republicans have been making mistakes and he s been avoiding gaffes but judging by newt s latest, i think he is maybe being too cautious. i m newt gingrich. i worked with president reagan. herman cain having a rough couple of weeks. it was all over the news. herman cain couldn t answer a basic question about libya. yeah. all cain could say is i believe
york. our daily fix today, the republican national committee has declared the obvious, mitt romney is the nominee. he so why are newt gingrich and risk santorum so late to the party. chris cillizza, you ve got the sort of gingrich and santorum factor. it s not that they have any leverage left. they ve obviously stayed too long at the party and now we hear newt gingriching is going to formally officially suspend the campaign on tuesday and will no longer be getting secret service. the thing with newt gingrich, we talked about this yesterday, it was really kind of the end had already come. he hasn t acknowledged it, frankly. this is his acknowledgement but in his own very newt way, not suspending his campaign today but announcing he will suspend his campaign in a week s time. you re right, andrea, i don t understand the thinking here in terms of lever and.