floor of the convention? the question is will they go to gingrich, will they go to santorum. i think the only reason mitt romney is doing as well as he is today is because rick santorum continues to make gaffes. he continues to do dumb things and say dumb things that his wife he admits so has to reel him back in on and say enough. you ve got to stop saying these kinds of things. that was his career in the senate. he s going do it over and over again. that s why romney is doing as well as he is today in my opinion. the base does not like romney. the base does like rick santorum although they re scared of him and look at newt gingrich and think you re a larger than life figure. it s a weak field. that is the line of the day a lot of people are repeating. it is according to all of the analysts and the numbers out there and enthusiasm gap with the gop. it s a weak field even according to those within the party. thank you very much, jimmy. i appreciate it. anytime. still ahead is, dem
2008. we ve seen this movie before and we know how it ends. when the conservative base is not energized, republicans lose presidential elections. the love the one you re with never works for anything, politics or relationships. so, that s a little bit of advice for you all. thank you, steve, ann, greatly appreciate it. michael, thank you, as well. coming up, what s newt gingrich s next move? what state coming up do you think you can win? i don t know yet. doesn t note yet? what s the plan? well, i ll talking with vince haley, the policy director for gingrich s campaign. and in a rare and stunning decision this story is getting so much attention. u.s. wildlife officials give a native american tribe permission to kill not one, but two bald eagles for religious purposes. we ll get the details on what s happening there plus, can we call it spring fever? it certainly feels like may in much of the country. record high temperatures. join the conversation on
mississippi. one or two points off that, and they were right but guess what, you lose you lose. do i think gingrich gingrich has a big problem. he is larger than life. everybody knows him. he s a serial polygamist as people like to call him per se. he did also do some great things. did he balance the budget. he did do the republican revolution, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. he is a mixed bag of results. whereas rick santorum, you know, and by the way, newt gingrich never lost a race in his life. rick santorum lost by 18 points in his own home state that he can t carry in the general. so then mitt romney s people or the moderates, people making above $100,000 a year and the country club republicans as we like to call them, where will they go if they realize that a majority of republicans in this country i ep caucusgoers and conservative voters aren t going to support mitt romney on the
yesterday. and what vick just said is exactly what had he sent out. listen, they are inherent lit strong because mitt romney is inherently weak. and they feel like that at the end of the day, republican conservatives are either going to having to make a decision, where do the romney voters go when they realize, a, conservatives are never going to vote for ta guy on the convention floor and b, santorum is going to let his mouth overload his butt as my grandmother used to say. that is the thing. their math, their psychology is that will the republican conservatives will then go to the gingrich camp. the odds of that happening in your opinion? well, i m the guy that predicted that newt gingrich was going to win last night by a very narrow margin. so i should end this segment now because you were wrong? no, i was talking to the gingrich campaign and they wering me internal polls showed em up two to five and even in
debt and increased it. these are contrasts that will come out with new scrutiny on rick santorum. we know that mirror shines both ways and the scrutiny that the former speaker has endured and will continue to with his record as well which is what the santorum campaign would retort here. we ll see what happens next as we move forward to illinois next week. thank you so much. the republican candidates are gearing up for four more contests. missouri holds caucuses saturday, puerto rico on sunday. but certainly as i mentioned, illinois primary is next tuesday. that s what a lot of people are watching. louisiana will hold its primary sated. let s bring in msnbc contributor jimmy williams. you do not bite into bs. i m not going to say anyone is bsin us. what do you make of gingrich s campaign and their rationale? i was reading the campaign memo that was sent out by the policy folks and the press people to the gingrich surrogates all across the nation