each person who provides it presents a leak. they are threatened with excommunication from the xhur ch. are they willing to give awacey credits, if you will, while facing excommunication? that remains to be seen. reporter: finally, the inside man. remember, the oath of secrecy is standard. after pope benedict one unnamed cardinal leaked informer about the top ten. the church would like to avoid such an embarrassment, again. anderson? tom, thanks very much. let s get caught up on other stories. isha is here with more. anderson, breaking news. a man who is accused of killing
are they willing to give away credits, if you will, while facing excommunication? that remains to be seen. reporter: finally, the inside man. remember, the oath of secrecy is standard. after pope benedict one unnamed cardinal leaked information about the other top contenders. whether any of this will play out, we don t know. we do know that the vatican is stinging from some leaks of very high-level papers. and the church would like to avoid such embarrassment again. anderson? tom, thanks very much. let s get caught up on other stories. isha is here with more. anderson, breaking news. a standoff is over at an oregon hotel where a man who is accused of killing his grandparents was holed up this evening. police say they got michael boyson out of the room with no injuries after some apparently self-inflicted wounds to the suspect. he s accused of killing his grandparents in washington state after they they hosted a party over the weekend to welcome him
the cardinals deliberate by themselves and sleep 100 yards away. they need food, water, supplies and medical care. each person who provides it presents a leak. they are threatened with excommunication from the xhur ch. are they willing to give awacey credits, if you will, while facing excommunication? that remains to be seen. reporter: finally, the inside man. remember, the oath of secrecy is standard. after pope benedict one unnamed cardinal leaked informer about the top ten. the church would like to avoid such an embarrassment, again. anderson? tom, thanks very much. let s get caught up on other stories. isha is here with more.
campaign in 2008. steve, we have to start with you, the inside man. what is your feeling about this race? well, i think it s become a two-person race, chris. for newt gingrich, he said he was relevant in this race, that he had a southern strategy. you have to win states like mississippi and alabama if you re going to put together a southern strategy. so i think that he s effectively finished as a candidate. and now mitt romney completely lost the inestability argument. now he s in a message campaign that is an ideological contest with a conservative running to his right. and it s got to be a process that continues to go forward because santorum s argument that neither one of us may get enough delegates to win to lock this up and it should get settled at the c convention if that s the case, that got a lot of wind behind it. so you think people would like to have this thing go on a
republican strategist steve schmidt ran the mccain/palin campaign in 2008 and eugene robinson is a msnbc political analyst. steve, we ve got to start with you, the inside man. what is your feeling about this race? well, i think it s become a two-person race, chris. for newt gingrich, he said that he was relevant in this race, that he had a southern strategy. you have to win states like mississippi and alabama if you re going to put together a southern strategy, so i think that s he s effectively finished as a kancandidate and now mitt romney has completely lost the message, so he s in an ideological contest with a conservative running to his right. santorum s argument that neither one of us might get enough delegates to win to lock this up, and it should get settled at the convention, if that s the case, that got a lot of wind behind it last night, i think.