think that, but i think mitt romney has won decisively in some states even florida. but he be a presidential pick? i think we like to see the drama and keep it going. i think jeb bush is going to be the person that runs this time around. greta: that was senator thompson s phone and not mine. it wasn t yours either. bye-bye. greta: attorney general eric holder calling fast and furious bad law enforcement. he appeared frustrated. once it was brought to my attention, i stopped it. i stopped it. in spite of what other attorney generals might have done with
evangelicals. i wonder how she does it. so he made up some amazing that s why she s the boss. grounds, this is santorum we re because the small business with the best tecology rules. talking about. contact the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 1-800-974-6006. at this point we re talking about maps and number of delegates. arizona was a winner take all state. mitt romney gets all of those delegates. if they split in michigan that is one thing. one of the key states you talked about, fred thompson is there virginia. it s a big state, a purple state which means it goes back and forth republican and democrat. as the possible pickup for republicans this year. rick santorum unfortunately for him is not on the ballot there. greta: an interesting thing to watch on tuesday is ohio. that is the state for now that rick santorum is doing well in. intriguing thing, the former u.s. senator who is now the state attorney general originally endorsed romney and now switched to santorum
of attacks on newt gingrich and that appears to be paying off. with me now, mel martinez, a romney supporter and now the regional chairman with jpmorgan chase. nice to see you. good morning, chuck. good to be with you. as you might expect the gingrich campaign is not happy with how members of the romney establishment if you will have gone after speaker gingrich. here is fred thompson yesterday on meet the press on what he calls the romney attack machine. let s just say that romney is the nominee. he basically is plays mr. nice guy until someone gets close to him and then he unleashes his attack machine. that s what happened in iowa. it s what s happening in florida spending millions of dollars. i think they spent $16 million on television ads alone in florida. do you agree with senator thompson that mitt romney s lead and now decisive lead is
and you just watch it and shake your head. it s been kind of painfully revealing to watch, but i think the reason he isn t doing so well is because of those last two debates. don t you think? for his part, speaker gingrich equated romney with president obama calling them the two twins of the establishment and accused romney of running a big lie campaign. we can t beat the money power romney himself. we can t beat the dishonest of his campaign by ourselves. we need witness who are prepared to go out and prepared to stand for conservatism and prepared to tell the truth and we need to run a big truth campaign that beats the big lie campaign. jim acosta is following the romney campaign. let s take a peek and share the video of mitt romney joking with reporters on the campaign flight this morning, throwing bags of chips around, carrying a birthday cake. the images of a confident man. what are his people saying he needs to do as we show the pictures now? can t hear his voice.
waste of an all-star game. you ve gotten seconds. it s flag football. that would be more entertaining. we ll see what else is coming up. state stay tight. we ll wait for that. all right. starting point this morning we re talk tath florida primary which, of course, is tomorrow. it could be a tiebreaker in the gop race for the nomination. you know there s been three contests with three different winners. santorum won iowa eventually, then it was mitt romney won new hampshire, then newt gingrich who won the state of south carolina. now florida, could end all there, couldn t it? no, no, no. that was a facetious question. it s not going to send it all because newt gingrich said he s going to the end and ron paul says he s going to the end and santorum said he s going to the end. interesting. yes, it is. florida is nobody s home state. population is diverse. often they divide the state into four, sometimes three, sometimes five different blocks. the one thing that