becoming more aggressive against newt gingrich. they outspent gingrich, romney and his supporters have, 4 to 1 in this state, spending close to $16 million, which is a lot of money being spent, and literally, as we turn on the television when you wake up and go to bed, you can t miss the romney ads. in a state like this, had a significant impact. unbelievable the numbers. peter, thank you. newt gingrich is having a rally in pensacola, florida. that should be going on now. ron mott has been following this gingrich campaign. ron, give us a sense of where that campaign is now, because we heard just there from peter that somehow newt gingrich thinks this race is a lot closer than most polls would show it to be. he does indeed. good morning. he thinks this race will be closer than the last few polls in the past 48 hours indicate that show double digit leads for former governor mitt romney.
midnight cowboy, law and order, the godfather and newt and mitt, of course. they re all stars in our top lines weekend recap. he is a liberal. conservatives are rejecting romney. look in the mirror. i m the legitimate heir of the reagan movement. there was the huge wave of dishonest romney ads. it s like goldilocks, can t have it this way. the republican establishment believes it s okay and do virtually anything to stop a genuine insurgency from winning. vote for newt. annoy a liberal. time is not newt gingrich s
their ground. we re going to take you live to washington in just a few minutes. in northern florida, it looks like the aftermath of a bombing. look at these pictures. but these vehicles were actually incinerated by fire after a string of crashes on interstate 75. ten people lost their lives in the wreck. drivers say they could barely see anything because of smoke from a nearby fire. there was absolutely no warning whatsoever. it went from being just, i mean literally i don t know how far, whatever you could see as far as you could on the interstate to just nothing. rolled my window down and actually started hearing thuds and crashes and it was so thick i couldn t even tell you where they were coming from. well, almost nine months after the u.s. raid that killed osama bin laden, defense secretary leon panetta says he s convinced someone in pakistan s government knew the terrorist leader was hiding in a huge compound near pakistan s military academy. in a cbs 60 minutes
the second debate he said he didn t do well because the crowd was so loud. gingrich is expected to speak at a rally within the hour. he says that the gap is closing. i ll show you where the race goes after florida with cnn s wolf blitzer at the bottom of the hour. want to hang out with president obama? the president who held town halls on cyberspace and twitter and facebook? participants can comment in realtime. a few will be asked to participate in live conversation. it starts at 5:30 p.m. eastern and it s supposed to last about 45 minutes. almost a year after syria cracked down on protesters, a resolution would require ten security council members are on board. russia is offering to host peace talks which damascus supposedly as accepted. the opposition has not. another 50 people reportedly killed in at least four syrian cities. afghanistan is reportedly planning peace talks with the taliban. that could happen in saudi arabia separately and before the expected contract
santorum, it s gingrich calling him a bunch of l words. not the ones you see on tv. it s the liberal and liar. the pakistani doctor who helped track osama bin laden down. he could be tried for high treason. he s talking about bin laden saying someone in the government in pakistan must have known where he was hiding out. look out iran. a couple of guests are arriving in your fine country today. they are weapons inspectors of the iaea sort. they are looking for what you are up to. all of this while leon panetta has been warning that, you know what, iran might just have the bomb within a year. and it is occupy d.c.d day. the protesters are facing a deadline to get out today. very tense moments just blocks away from the white house. they do have a little something up their sleeve, the protesters do. all of it will unravel live. in the meantime we re still on the tick tick talk to the primary. 26 hours if my math is right until the polls open in florida. it s looking rea