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of a badge of honor. but in any event, i m not sure any of this should be relevant for further discussion. but if the social conservatives are honing in on herman cain, they should also hone in on newt. i think the answer to your question is, what s going to happen? the romney forces and gingrich forces, obviously somebody has got to go after all of the weaknesses in newt gingrich s record. if they don t, he s going to continue to move up and move up and maybe steal this nomination. but i don t think it s necessarily mitt romney. rick perry is still out there with herman cain collapsing, if rick perry can do something to bring newt gingrich down, he has a chance to fill that vacuum, after all he s been through. i still think he has a chance. he has a lot of money. fy were rick perry, that s who i d be focusing. there s a heck of a lot to focus on. we want to go ahead and check in with mike vie cara and take a
ground and debates and now he may get additional support and infrastructure as he was out of the union leader and to south carolina tonight. great to see you. thanks for joining us today. that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. my colleague tamron hall has a look at what s next. in our next hour, we are following newt gingrich on his way to south carolina, the state where he has hired at least nine new staffers, but does hiring staffers or the big endorsement matter when he has $300,000 on hand? our political panel will weigh in on newt and bill clinton s comments on him. we have the new dncad going after mitt romney. what s it all about? a mom is locked in a battle with authority who is removed her child from the family home and placed the kid in toft foster
indeed. a bath is exactly what you may need after watching the republican debate on foreign policy. here to help us perform a predebate ceremonial cleansing are our strategists and scholar, author and professor at georgetown university. good afternoon to both of you. we already heard newt gingrich take two positions in libya while herman cain is waiting for china to be a nuclear power. mitt romney promised he is the man to keep iran from ever having a nuclear weapon. with all the attention on newt, will he have the target on his back tonight? certainly. i think anybody who is the front-runner is going to draw the attention. newt gingrich s reemergence as a dog in that fight will make him the lead person who will be subject to the scrutiny of the
want to find fault in newt gingrich, they can. the question is, are they desperate enough to find a mitt romney alternative that they are willing to live with the past sins. what are do you think? i think he handled it in a good way. he put everything out there and that was smart. here s the thing that s hard thing. he is participating them as coming from the mainstream media. none want to be seen as part of the media making these attacks. it makes it hard to level against him. well done, newt. another poll revealed troubling numbers. despite leading mitt romney by ten points overall, whenç it comes to the question of strong moral character, newt trails not just romney, but bachman as well. what do you make of that? yeah, i think it s the