what he hear about the risk of jail for members of the 1/6 committee. vintage gingrich in a way, what vicious buffoonery. and there is not the slightest possibility of any crime there and you re attempted to just disregard it. on the the other hand he is what passes as an intellectual presence in the republican party now with no policy platform except for the big lie. and so, i do i m sure that democrats on the committee and republicans think that there is no bottom to where the republicans will go if they take over after the midterms and hopefully it is not deterring them from doing their very important job of finding out what happened. so, who is to say. but the basic reaction is, you know, what a buffoon. but how serious do you take it. because i can t tell if he s engaging in buffoonery, because
bill: another shakeup at the top of the republican presidential field. this time mitt romney battling it out with newt begin privilege. in 2008 romney led early and fizzled in the end. should romney be worried now? tony, good morning to you. where is the mo going for gingrich, tony? gingrich is occupying the same space rick perry did beforehand and michele bachman did before them. he has not broken 25 per of the
can avoid the collapse that has affected all the others that have held that spot. that latest poll is one of several. if you average them out, he s not 13 points ahead, but he is ahead, and one sense is that that s about right in iowa. martha: he had some pretty harsh words for the occupy wall street folks, and we showed a clip of it. yeah, i heard it. martha: what he said going into that clip was, you know, they re in a park that they didn t pay for, he went on and on and on about how sort of the whole substance of what they re doing kind of negates what they re talking about because they, in his words, aren t willing to go out and actually get a job to become part of this whole process that then is supposed to come back and feed those who need help. well, that was, that comment you heard about, you know, get a job after you take a bath, that s vintage gingrich. he always phrases things in very strong language, and that will meet with approval by a lot of people in iowa, you heard
this time. there is no alternative in new hampshire. they want to see what you just said, romney spent a lot of time in new hampshire. 35 days. he s building that fire wall. he s going to have that fire wall in new hampshire and that s letting him go on offense in iowa where he is airs ads. bill: in 1996 pat buchanan over bob dole. and 2000, john mccain over george bush. and that played to mccain s favor in 2008 when he beat romney again. if newt is able to be even or slightly win iowa, then hold romney even in new hampshire. those are weaker states for romney, stronger for gingrich. so if it s a big if, newt can
republican electorate. i don t know if gingrich is going to be that problem, though. bill: if you go back to june and see where gingrich was be he was 12% back in june. if you see the trend it was dawn ward. down to 4% in september. now, you see the arc come up the other way. if you look at mitt romney. here he is at 19 per back in june. but after that 27% and it stayed along this line. now at 20% on this chart compared to gingrich s 19%. what does that tell you in your history of studying polls like these? your point is correct. newt gingrich is surging because he s the anti-romney. romney is trending downward