really well on monday night tomorrow night in a debate and thursday night in still another debate and somehow is able to keep the momentum from his victory in south carolina it could happen again. i know romney is going to do everything to try to stop it but newt may just be at this point a force of nature. shannon: also want to ask you you have the speaker of the house focusing back here on washington a lot of unfinished business. absolutely. and i must say i have the sense it is going to remain unfinished. talked to john boehner. he will be right behind the president delivering the speech tuesday night. he said look, basically what he said is we have the right ideas. the president has to change and listen to his own jobs council and has to come along and do what we want to do. i don t get the sense of a lot of compromise. shannon: news worthy interviews and a fantastic panel as well. chris: , thank you. shannon: catch the exclusive one on one interview with mitt romney righ
lead. a little bit of an uptick for santorum in this average of polls. others are likely to come in the next few days showing santorum probably getting more of the bounce out of iowa. let s bring in the panel. bill kristol, editor of weekly standard. juan williams, columnist with the hill and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. bill, you heard the candidates today in new hampshire. talking about president obama. and actually, mitt romney sounded a lot like michele bachmann on the crony capita capitalism charge. perhaps he is moving that in to try to get some michele bachmann voters. yeah, or maybe trying to appeal to some of the populist unhappiness with the wall street washington crony capitalism conglomerate. that mitt romney talked about, sarah palin talked about and santorum remains the best speech given by a republican in a long time. his speech tuesday night,
speech given by a republican in a long time. his speech tuesday night, really captured the appeal to the reagan democrats. appeal to the hillary clinton voters of 2008. not simply saying markets are great. let s cut the budget. let s get the government out of there. which is fine, santorum is for that to some degree. but also saying let s help working people have a chance to rise. let s be for opportunity. i think romney has a sense his message has looked a little bit too market is great, business is great. get government out of the way. now he is trying to pin it a little bit and pick up some of the populist middle american rhetoric that santorum deployed effectively. bret: juan, newt gingrich, on the attack. against mitt romney. he was at first praising rick santorum for his performance in iowa. today, it took a bit of a turn. take a listen to this. first about romney. then about santorum.
lead. a little bit of an uptick for santorum in this average of polls. others are likely to come in the next few days showing santorum probably getting more of the bounce out of iowa. let s bring in the panel. bill kristol, editor of weekly standard. juan williams, columnist with the hill and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. bill, you heard the candidates today in new hampshire. talking about president obama. and actually, mitt romney sounded a lot like michele bachmann on the crony capita capitalism charge. perhaps he is moving that in to try to get some michele bachmann voters. yeah, or maybe trying to appeal to some of the populist unhappiness with the wall street washington crony capitalism conglomerate. that mitt romney talked about, sarah palin talked about and santorum remains the best speech given by a republican in a long time. his speech tuesday night,
that contested primaries are bad things. sometimes they are. this is a consequential choice for the republican party. that s over the top and it will hurt newt gingrich. it s hurting him in the short term. the last two or three weeks of newt gingrich being utterly out of control has not been good for him and this tack will not work for him. i believe a contested tough primary will be better for whoever the eventual nominee is. i think the president has a huge problem the heart land. rick santorum who has a working class message which is important for republicans to do and is often neglected. and his whole speech tuesday night was aimed at rebutting that image of the party. that s an important element to be heard. santorum also said he s for income inequality. that s not going to play well