different direction every morning. come on, white chocolate. oh, no. yup. he can explain that one, soledad. soledad. bye, guys. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m going to try to compose myself here. it is top of the hour. 9:00 a.m. eastern time. we begin with five days until florida s republican presidential primary and just hours from the cnn debate there. mitt romney and newt gingrich are locked in a dead heat in the polls. this debate could be a game changer. the votes the candidates want right now, latinos. the ads prove it. joe johns is live in mount dora. he s calling romney the most anti-immigration candidate. reporter: that s absolutely right, kyra. it s very interesting to watch as that develops. senator marco rub yes who s sort of a favorite son of florida actually chaz tiesed gingrich for putting that radio ad out saying it was inaccurate. gingrich saying last night in a press media availability here in florida that he pulled the ad because he did it
economic policy. but i think right now, as you match up with barack obama as barack obama defeated you tell me who defeats barack obama. sean: what is your what is this that yu fear. you re for a guy named ronald reagan who wasn t leading until september of 1980 winning against jimmy carter. someone not quite a bad of a record as ob yaum yachl he has a record of surpluses and welfare reform what. is it that you fear? do you not think he s changed?. correct. he s a good grandfather and a faithful husband, but i think the accusation on romney, i know they both do. accusation about bang capitol
capture of saddam hussein and of course today is just over eight years after saddam s capture. u.s. formally ended u.s. operations in iraq. is newt gingrich leading republican voters over an electoral cliff? he was asked that question in iowa whether the latest nbc news wall street journal poll shows him with a lead in the primary but struggling against president obama and whether that should be disqualifying. i think i m where reagan was against carter at this stage. reagan does not catch up until september of 1980. senior editor for national review and deputy governor for bloomberg news but used to work at the atlanta paper for years covering newt gingrich and steve is a democratic strategist every time newt gingrich s name i m for newt. i want to start with the establishment not rallying toward romney but rallying
political university for the republican white house hopefuls. most of the candidates have iowa on their schedule today with their eyes on the all important caucuses less than three weeks away. that includes newt gingrich, who s iowa campaign director resigned amid reports he called romney s mormon faith a cult. but do voters share that view? and could that be part of the reason why mitt romney isn t xweting even more support? joe johns is joining us with more. he s been taking a closer look at romney s faith. i guess the question is mormon faith holding him back? it s a very good question, wolf. what about mitt romney s faith? one of those questions a lot of people dismiss as soon as it s asked. partly because people of both parties say they want to believe that a presidential election ought to be about issues, that the religion is beside the point, but polls show it was an issue four years ago and believe it or not, it s still an issue today. when you ask a lot of evange
1984. it was not based on hearsay. it was based on named sources. in the spring of 1980 the gingriches broke up, two years after his first election to the congress. in september they separated. in september of 1980, newt brought his two young girls to see his mother and they asked the mother, can daddy come up and see you? while she was recovering from surgery, related to her cancer, he gave her divorce papers to review. he didn t ask for the divorce but there were divorce papers to review and who backs up this account? jackie gingrich herself, the wife. so it s not hearsay. this is what happened. so the gist of the story is that he was so insensitive as to serve, ask his wife to agree to various points of a divorce agreement while she was in the hospital with cancer treatment is true? that is true, undeniable. he and one of his daughters said it s not true without giving an alternative account. he and his new wife, calista are rewriting history with the