mike is joining me now from new york with the advanced look at what is happening on rock center tonight. mike, fascinating stuff. do the romney relatives have any notion really of the complexity of what is going on here in the states and what is about to hit them? i think they are aware of it, they are certainly politicall l aware. i think they are a bit naive that their lives would somehow not be effected, an example, a year ago, his cousin was kidnapped and held in the mountains for three days and a very big paid ransom was never mentioned. they said, we will give you an interview but we don t think we will be talking to any more
too late to stop mitt romney? it s tough. i mean, nobody has ever won iowa and new hampshire and not won the nomination. if he wins iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, maybe so. we are going to still try to win. we have a chance of winning here if the voters turn out. we are looking at a strong second, which would be a good showing. we are rising in south carolina, we do great in nevada, so we will see. might you have to fall in place and endorse mitt romney by florida? i will support the republican nominee, i have already said that. up next, the politico briefing, the race for second place is what it s all about here in new hampshire, this is andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc.
he will have a tremendous number of people to pick from, there will be great options for him to do that, i can serve best by being a volunteer and advocate for him. what about chris christie saying that jon huntsman was disemploy to the president of the united states by plotting a political campaign against the president while he was an ambassador, is that a fair hit? if somebody appointed you to a high ranking position, i doubt that you would run against that person. it seems, and i think that was the point, what does it say when somebody a poipoints you to a position and you turn around and run against them e. mitt romney has lost ten points in iowa but is a favorite here. if he wins here and does well in south carolina, is it all over? can t take anything for
granted, so mitt romney needs to push through strongly and he will. we don t want to look ahead because business here is first. but, mitt romney winning iowa, mitt romney hopefully winning new hampshire gives him tremendous momentum in south carolina and the states coming forward. south carolina will not be an easy state but mitt s motion, his knowledge, record of results in the private sector as well as government, he has a lot of momentum behind him and i think he is still viewed as somebody who is most likely to be our nominee. in full disclosure, nbc universal is a part oewner with the weather channel. romney s rifles arivals are tak fr take s ideas from the debat.
all. [ applause ] mitt romney is perhaps best known as a former governor of massachusetts, but his family has deep roots south of the boarder. a big surprise for many people. we have more on this for tonight s edition of rock center with brian williams. it s a little known fact that there s a whole branch of mitt romney s family living in mexico, including his second cousin, laten romney, he is one of 40 romney relatives that first came here 125 areas ago. but they don t know mitt and mitt, with a media army shadowing him, doesn t know them. sg mitt romney has not written anything about his family south of the boarder. the most he said was that they