what you said though, i see some encouragement from, by newt trying to pin the unemployment in florida on foreclosure crisis in florida on newt, at the very least, we could have a debate that involves the foreclosure and housing issues and unemployment as opposed to open marriage and gay marriage. or all the other completely irrelevant issues we have been talking about. that s an important point. we might finally get down to real fundamentals. the problem is they will be talking about the right issues, but they will be saying things about those issues that aren t true. your one of the only people in the press who will be able to correct a lot of this. it s complicated. the housing crisis has multiple sources. the system. it s not new.
the big, fat line of credit at tiffany s, he s not nearly as rich as mitt romney. and he knows that and he knows that by calling attention to what mitt romney hasn t released, he can put a little more pressure on him leading up to south carolina and that vote on saturday, when a lot of events are going in newt gingrich s favor right now. and in fact, the release of his tax returns in putting the pressure on mitt romney is going to be a half hour before tonight s debate. so it s all calculated, smart politics on newt s part, but also after the evening newscast. because there s going to be a lot of scrutiny. there had been questions raised in the past. there had been published reports, questioning whether or not he used some of his expense money from some of the 527 or one of the 527s in particular for personal expenses and whether there was a mixing of those accounts. so depends on how much he actually discloses. john harwood, thank you very much. david gregory, we ll be seeing
they had a meeting with their two least supporters to drop a piano on newt s head. that s what s starting to happen. romney s operating on the theory that once people are reminded of who newt really is, he can t be the nominee. which is a lot of republicans think. i agree. i m not worried that romney s ultimately going to get the nomination. he s got enough money and organization to push that through. but i think it s fascinating how people are reacting to the debates this week, to the momentum that gingrich got coming off that, particularly on the food stamps issue, i think it really made romney look like the 1% that s out of the touch. his tax issues, the continuie i press about that. we ll definitely talk about the tax issue. elizabeth, when we talk about marianne gingrich, who s dropping bombs, talking about newt gingrich in an open marriage, two phrases that i did not think would be butting each other in conversation, newt gingrich and open marriage. let s listen to what she s
waiting for newt to fumble the ball, i just wouldn t risk it. it s a little too much to take at this point. i was chatting last night with some of romney s team. the big question now has got to be, do they wait until ten days ut and try to come in with a real assault and really try to change the terms of the debate just ahead of the primary? that s the real question. do you come in with a killer punch? gillian, i saw the first round poll commercial on newt was really effective. don t you think they could wait a while to see you let michelle back the running. she can go forth, do aggressive stuff and basically mitt romney looks cleansville. somebody on this show said a wicked commercial, romney, if i had been married to the same woman voters don t think it s a wicked commercial.
and the newt of 1994 and 98 is not the same newt of 2011-2012. and the sooner people get that, the better they ll understand why he s sitting in the polls. you can t go after newt based on what you knew of him as speaker. he s a very different man. absolutely. he starts in people s minds with maybe an f grade and he can only go up, right? somebody like mitt romney starts with n aa, boring kid, always done god in class and he can only go down. good point. everybody here knows about n newt. everybody on k street. everybody inside the beltway. i m not sure that the voters had any idea he did a commercial with nancy pelosi, pushing global warming. don t you think i think that matters. they know the personal stuff. absolutely. they don t know about any