Vegas this morning mpk. former congress woman gabby gifrd shot six years ago. at a press conference in front of the capitol yesterday, giffor giffords. to die because of our weakness to address evil and then another and then another and then another. the nations counting on you.
lead evaporating in florida and gone nationwide. it shows a virtual romney-gingrich dead heat, a sharp change this last week before the south carolina blowout victory. those numbers could and certainly will change. for now, the trend is so worrying to romney forces, they re doing what they rarely do, taking the challenger, not through super pacs but directly. while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich cashed in. gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the scandal ridden agency that helped create the crisis. that new ad was straight from the romney campaign, this earlier today was straight from the stump. i m calling on speaker gingrich to do two things, release all the work product associated with his work at freddie mac and return the funds he made from freddie mac. i wouldn t have normally suggested that other than he was the one that said if you made money on this failed model you ought to return that money. within hours of that, the
Situation being taken, but when it comes to the work of the con cities yenlts, how does it get done? reporter: these are not like every job on the planet right now. in congress you have a very large staff that s able to do most of the work for you. they do constituency service third quarter do meetings. giffor giffords staff has been working hard and doing what they can. in a situation like this which is happily very rare have a lot of sympathy for what their representative is going through. it s, again, extremely rare for somebody to be extremely incapacitated and pulled out. in 1980 a congressman in maryland had a heart attack, won an election, but her family decided it was better for her to go out. the norm is to stick in there as long as everyone s comfortable with it. the work goes unabated. it s something that people deal with as they look for updates on
Prayers for congresswoman giffor giffords full recovery. i send my condolences to the families of the good people we lost. and wish them spiritual solace and emotional recovery. we will take a few questions. he has been. he was asked to make a personal statement and he couldn t physically be in two places at the same time and it was very important that he was at the funeral so he asked my sister and i to make it on his behalf. i did. i was with him when he left the hospital. it was both joyous and sad at the same time. we ve really created quite a family on the icu and we re going to miss them greatly but we re definitely going to come back and visit. it was quite a moment.