mitt romney thinks newt gingrich is a liar. newt gingrich thinks romney is a liar. maybe they are both right. but the contrast to president obama has been very, very dramatic and will stay in people's minds for a long time to come. >> seniors in florida went according to early polls, went overwhelmingly for mitt romney 46% to 32%. congressman, you know this is a party that -- and mitt romney supported it that voted for the paul ryan plan to clearly end medicare as we know it. so they are is that going to present a problem for them in the fall? >> without any question. i think that there is already a big problem for them. in fact it's hard to believe that in any real sense they are running for president of the united states. you know, when the governor of texas is running, ron perry, it seemed like he was run as president of the confederacy and santorum running for pope and gingrich is running for president of the moon. none of the people want to be the leader that america needs. they don't talk about jobs. they don't talking about housing. they don't talk about educ

. >> newt gingrich seizes the lead as the campaign heads for florida. >> newt gingrich is south carolina's choice. it's a major blow to mitt romney's campaign. >> this is a hard fight because there's so much worth fighting for. >> four republicans went into this southern brawl. who will be left standing as the contest moves to florida? the votes are in. south carolina has spoken. and the biggest battleground yet is still ahead. rick santorum at 17%. ron paul at 13%. all the candidates say they are moving forward to florida. we have reporters stationed throughout south carolina as we have for the last several weeks. let's start off with gingrich headquarters. there are still a lot of folks there, romney headquarters looks like a ghostown. does the candidate move to florida tomorrow? >> reporter: you know, we're still waiting to hear about his travel plans. it's been on interesting day watching the gingrich campaign. this is a candidate who tends to shoot from the hip. i did catch up with somebody a few moments ago and they were watching the returns come in on the gingrich bus. i asked were

. >> newt gingrich seizes the lead as the campaign heads for florida. >> newt gingrich is south carolina's choice. it's a major blow to mitt romney's campaign. >> this is a hard fight because there's so much worth fighting for. >> four republicans went into this southern brawl. who will be left standing as the contest moves to florida? the votes are in. south carolina has spoken. and the biggest battleground yet is still ahead. rick santorum at 17%. ron paul at 13%. all the candidates say they are moving forward to florida. we have reporters stationed throughout south carolina as we have for the last several weeks. let's start off with gingrich headquarters. there are still a lot of folks there, romney headquarters looks like a ghostown. does the candidate move to florida tomorrow? >> reporter: you know, we're still waiting to hear about his travel plans. it's been on interesting day watching the gingrich campaign. this is a candidate who tends to shoot from the hip. i did catch up with somebody a few moments ago and they were watching the returns come in on the gingrich bus. i asked were

vote newt gingrich. the other big question about florida is jeb bush. everybody kind of understands that jeb bush likes mitt romney. but he hasn't actually come out and endorsed mitt romney. and the question i have is, is mitt romney -- you guys were saying is jeb bush getting into the race? my question is, is general bush going to endorse mitt romney and how much would that help? >> yeah, the bush family bears no love for newt gingrich, going back to the father and what happened to them and how they felt that newt gingrich undermined his presidency and cost him his re-election. so there's a lot of bad blood going back. but we'll be talking about this as the night goes on. florida is much more like the rest of the country. and what we know is in the last few days, mitt romney has not only seen his lead disappear in south carolina, he's seen his national lead shrink. so the gallop says it's been cut in half, from 20 points to 10 points. that same thing is happening in florida. >> if mitt romney loses in f

sources of suggesting he's going to endorse newt gingrich. he got in in part by the notion of stopping mitt romney from being the republican nominee. he has a chance to help newt gingrich do what he could not do himself. >>> moments like this really hurt him. these are some of the gaffes. take a look. >> commerce, education, and what's the third one there? let's see. >> you can't name the third one? >> education, commerce and -- let's see. i can't. the third one i can't. sorry. oops. >> that was painful. but wayne, how surprised are you by the overall performance and him buttoning things up before he has to take to another debate stage. >> i'm not that surprised. i thought he was going to drop out after iowa, as many of his staff did. that performance as well as another debate performance absolutely killed his chances. he's a southerner, a good social conservative, comes into a state like south carolina and was fifth if the polls? he knew the handwriting was on the wall. i would talk to people in iowa, new hampshire, and here in south carolin

president obama and newt gingrich. i was also told that "a major speech will be given by romney on tuesday morning" as a prebuttal to the state of the union address by the president. and romney will give another speech wednesday morning to react to the state of the union, and romney will differentiate his economic policies from newt gingrich and president obama. >> jim, expectations over there? >> wolf, they are very confident here at the gingrich headquarters. newt gingrich is scheduled to appear on three morning shows tomorrow. i had a chance to catch up with the spokesman for newt gingrich earlier today and we thought newt gingrich and mitt romney might cross paths. i thought hey, is there going to be a barbecue eating contest at this restaurant? he said if there was going to be one, we would win that, too. so it was an air of confidence all day long inside the gingrich campaign. >> anderson cooper is with us throughout the night. anderson? >> going to be a fascinating night. this rain has changed completely from wh

to him, newt gingrich directly. we stau a little bit of that tonight in his speech. what they're going to talk about is the fact that newt gingrich is a lobbyist and somebody who lobbied as they say for freddie mac. when you look at the value of housing and how it's declined in the state of florida, they oar going to have after him on that. they're going to say he's out of touch with the republican party, that he called the republican budget right wing social engineering. something that almost every house republican voted for. so they're going to also say that he's unreliable, that he's erratic. that you need somebody who is steadier at the helm and who can be depended upon to beat barack obama, because in the end, it's going to be a race about who is best able to beat the president of the united states and romney has to show in these debates coming up, including the one with wolf on thursday, that he can take it to barack obama and go the long haul with him. and win for the republican party. that's what they want.

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newt gingrich wasn't the fiery newt gingrich who had so riled up the folks in south carolina and who, frankly, i expected to try to do the same with the folks of north florida tonight. he didn't do that. he decided to play the front runner and be above it all. oh, i won't bother myself with these petty attacks from mitt romney. whereas romney, who i think is better suited for that sort of patrician front runner role, tried to be the attack dog and that's not his comfort zone. he's not great at it. at one point he gave gingrich the opportunity to take credit for medicare part b in florida, telling -- part d in florida, telling retirees, you know that lipitor you took this morning? you can thank me for it. that was kind of a flubbed opportunity. >> you know, gentlemen, we all cover the news differently, and we all have our habits of doing things. i have these msnbc cards i carry with me when i'm at a debate and write notes. the first note i wrote was "controversial when needed." that was one of the first things newt gingrich said tonight, and i thought that was somewhat a code to conser

and newt gingrich tapped into that. watch. >> you sort of just now captured the heart of this campaign. the fact is, we want to run not a republican campaign. we want to run an american campaign. >> reporter: what is it that you like about newt gingrich's message? >> there's two reasons. one is his debate performances over the last two debates where he was the first conservative candidate to really bring out the media bias over the last two campaigns. the other was the speech he gave tonight. and he was the most eloquent i've ever heard. >> i really liked that he kind of included the aspects of the other candidates' campaigns, you know, the positives of ron paul with his financial, rick santorum with family, and then the business savvy of mitt romney. >> reporter: mitt romney also seemed to hit on a key here. one of the strongest reactions from our group last night was when he defended his income and the idea that that's what america's about. >> ours is the party of free enterprise and free markets and consumer choice.

between ronald reagan and newt gingrich. mitt romney consciously, i think, tries to play the ronald reagan rolled. e. he says things will get better, american unexceptional listen, we can all work together and get through this thing. newt gingrich says let's tear the temple down and start over again that he has always been that way. when he came to congress there was a working relationship between the democrats and republicans and he said we will never get power if we do not take them on and tear down the temple and that is what he did >> i think of mitt romney as atlantic salmon. he moves along fine and then newt gingrich is the great white shark. he falls back into the water. he does not to his food. [laughter] -- it is not chew its food. [laughter] >> for those of you who enjoys all water fishing -- [laughter] >> this is more like a cooking show. the question we are faced with it with newt gingrich is -- is he a one-state wonder? is this taking off like gary hart did or jerry brown did? it could become a self sustaining o

this is newt gingrich's strength. it's where he has pulled from and what has propelled him throughout most of this primary season. it has been his debate performances. i think there was a lot of pressure on mitt romney to put in a, quote, presidential kind of performance as well as a really strong performance because he didn't get that great a grade last time. it matters now. this is the last one before the south carolina primary. >> paul steinhauser, i'm hearing you might know when rick perry's announcement is going to happen, is that right? >> reporter: yeah. the perry campaign, which is still around for now, just put out a press release moments ago while you were talking to wolf, candy, roland. it's going to be at 11:00 eastern. only a few miles from here. just a few miles from here. steve rusk, he's making the move. we'll have the cameras there. >> once again, if you're just tuning in, here's the latest news. paul telling us 11:00 a.m. eastern time right here on cnn we are going to hear rick perry step up to the m

than newt gingrich does. governor palin you are right there is an establishment attacking newt gingrich but it's not my establishment. it's not the liberal establishment attacking newt gingrich. it's your side. but you know the republican establishment has tried to kill newt gingrich before and in south carolina with all the super pac money that he had lind him gingrich was sort of ally to the criticism. he beat romney badly and took hide off. mr. gingrich's super pac ran the half hour long ad called "king of bain" a brutal attack on mitt romney supposedly great asset, his business career. now it turns out that they are not just repeating those same attacks they used in south carolina against mitt romney tonight they are premiering another long form documentary style attack ad on another issue about mitt romney, essentially accusing him of being part of a massive fraud in his bain days. they put out this trailer for their hit piece this afternoon, ahead of the release of the film, calling it "blood money." >>

the individual is not newt gingrich. if the pattern holds, billionaire casino mogul can propel newt gingrich to the candidacy and beyond. meanwhile, a group of democratic senators decry the supreme court decision that made it all possible. the beneficiary of aidle son's money, the pro gingrich super pack winning our future says it's spending $6 million on television ads and other media battleground state of florida where the adelson gift has helped bye seven times more ad space than the gingrich campaign itself. adelson, and his wife miriam have given $10 million this month alone to aid the gingrich campaign, $5 million this week $5 million in january. those two contributions are among the largest known political donations in u.s. history. >> in south carolina, the current front runners, gingrich and mitt romney each spent or had spent on their behalf about $5 million. the difference, gingrich's campaign actually put down the least of the four gop candidates competing in the state. the super pack supporting him did all t

49% said newt gingrich. mitt romney is saying you want a governor, somebody with business experience. well, newt gingrich has convinced at least south carolina republicans he has the right experience to be president by a commanding margin over mitt romney. this is a challenge going into florida. and this has been mitt romney's greatest strength the entire race, who is the best candidate to go up against president obama in the fall? a combination of the debates and campaigning -- i'm sorry, i put the wrong one up there. 51%, a majority of south carolina republicans said newt gingrich is the best candidate to beat obama. if you listen to those undecided voters, you watch them react to the speech, this is a big gap, a 14-point gap. if you see rick santorum and ron paul, these are the only two candidates, but this is the underpinning of the romney campaign. you might not like me, but i can beat barack obama. it's the psychology of the race that newt gingrich can beat barack obama and newt gingrich has the right

newt gingrich is saving him now. if newt gingrich were to get up and leave and none of us believe he will, that rick santorum could let him stop the nomination. i'm not saying and romney has more than double delegates pile rick santorum has tonight. not saying rick santorum can get to 1144 but i'm saying he's looking to stop romney. that no one will have the delegates and as lng as gingrich is in there, romney stay as live. >> 1144 magic number of delegates to get g.o.p. nomination? >> yes. the story of the night is that romney probably ends up, once adding in hawaii probably ends up winning the battle but this is not a good showing for him. newt gingrich and rick santorum will do better than he did there. it's what we've seen a cross the board if you look at very conservative voters. romney is pulling about a third of those. consistent of what he's gotten in other places. the most-interesting thing to me to look at going forward is whether there is a de facto pact between santorum and gingrich. if gingrich is gettin

newt gingrich campaign will not comment. but rick santorum suggested that that question was a gift, and it was the nicest thing that anybody could have done to newt gingrich. it was a positive reaction in the aftermath of it. >> it is amazing. and karl cameron live in south carolina. thank you very much. and just a little perspective on the economic perspective in south carolina. unemployment is 9 9 percent. and that is higher than the national rate of 8 and half percent. and those collecting unemployment are seeing smaller checks than the jobless in most other states. south carolina pays out 235 a week. >>> and greg, they have seen hard times which may explain why so many team are showing up to the polls. and what is it they need to hear and see from the candidates who are making last ditch efforts for the issues. what do folk in south carolina care about? we'll talk to congressman from south carolina. >> good afternoon. >> what is it that is most important to the folks in south carolina and do you expect a larger turn out

at the just leaves newt gingrich and rick santorum. herman cain is in town, and he'll be addressing the same group over the next two days. we're hearing we could be getting another endorsement from herman cain as. >> from the comedy side of things, with stephen colbert say he's trying to bring attention to what's going on with the super pacs, but how are people in south carolina taking that in? the seriousness of what this all means, but we have this dommic basically trying to stir things up, to prove what super pacs are all about. >> stephen colbert wildly popular, but there are a handful of folks -- oddly you should just asked that. i was talking to a guy before i came out, and he said the shtick is kind of getting old. granted, it was a former huntsman campaign worker, but he said, you know, the colbert comedy is getting kind of old. you also have to wonder if you were herman cain standing next to stephen colbert and he turns around and endorses santorum or newt gingrich, if that happens, how seriously can you take that endorsement

is going to go out and make the case for newt gingrich when newt gingrich isn't there. so looking down the road, they hope it's going to be a little bit different. we'll see, brooke. >> yeah, by the looks of these last couple of polls with mitt romney in the lead by double digits. we'll have to see how, if at all, newt gingrich changes his message and his narrative moving forward. joe johns, i appreciate it, with me in tampa, florida. next on reporter roulette i want to take you to washington where we have senior correspondent dana bash standing by on capitol hill. the senate is considering this bill where it would make it illegal for staff to make insider trades. this is something we talk about on the show, but i think a lot of americans are actually sitting there thinking, hello, how is this not illegal already? >> exactly. and you talk to some members of congress, they will tell you they believe it actually is technically illegal already, but the problem is there is a perception that members of congress are exempt from this insider trading law. what this effectively

he went after newt gingrich. he basically linkked obama to gring gingrich and said those who pick up the weapons of the left today will find them turned against us tomorrow and those who disparage free enterprise are not fit to be the nominee. >> he should rub it in on the media and then get on a plane and go to florida to give florida a choice and really try to make it rightt now between him and romney and and clear out the field. that's what he has to do get santorum out of there. >> talk about what santorum said. three different winners, iowa, santorum, new hampshire romney. south carolina, gingrich. what does that say, karl about the field of candidates and the way republican voters view them in >> we have a volatile year and probably the most volatile for the republican primary season. real quick since 1980. >> let me say he's dying to use it. >> since 1980, south carolina primary, average winning number is 45 percent and averagin is 17. by parison. >> right now gingrich has 41 percent and ahead by -a 15. >>

the fact newt gingrich has done so well. he may be out of this in two or three weeks but in it for a while now. the fact he can sell as a front-runner with the republican electorate tells you how angry they are, maybe how over the top they are to the point they can't think right. newt can't possibly be president, can he? by any standard. >> well, clearly i expect that barack obama is going to continue to be president after the november election, but let's be like real with one another here, chris. the fact that newt gingrich, rick santorum, before that michele bachmann, herman cain, the fact they were viable contenders for the nomination is an indictment by the conservative branch of that party of mitt romney. he just has an authenticity gap. and folks on that side realize that not only is he disavowing what he did in massachusetts on health care. he hasn't been truthful and transparent about his taxes. he hasn't been truthful on his record about a woman's right to choose. has been all over the place and extreme on immigrati

confidence is pouring off newt gingrich right now. on top of that he's making romney look pretty weak. >> i have been told by a variety of people that governor romney has been saying unkind things. i prefer personally not to believe it. but on the other hand, if you have been campaigning for six years and you begin to see it slip away, you get desperate. such baloney. used to be pious baloney now it's desperate baloney, that is the success se shun of the ca campai campaign. >> why is newt gingrich connecting with these conservative voters? is it because he's got a better tax plan? is it because what he wants to do with health care? is it because he's got a better idea for the economy? come on. newt gingrich just does a better job of selling his -- hate is a really tough word. he does a better job of selling how upset we should be with president obama. and how we're just heading in the wrong direction. he's selling hard, isn't he? gingrich is forcing mitt romney to go really against his own nature. mitt is not an attack dog, never has

and newt gingrich. the reverend al sharpton and newt gingrich being set up on the stump today, in south carolina, reverend sharpton has not responded to that from gingrich yet. we'll be getting a response from him after the break. at this hour, newt gingrich the projected winner of the south carolina primary. msnbc's coverage of the south carolina primary will continue in just a moment. >>> welcome back to our coverage of the south carolina primary here on msnbc. nbc news projects that newt gingrich is the winner of the south carolina primary. part of the reason that newt gingrich is thought to have done so well in south carolina is among late deciders. and part of the thing ha was driving what late deciders decided on were two debates this week. including one which resulted in a standing ovation for mr. gingrich after a racially-charged exchange that he had with juan williams. an african-american journalist on the payroll of fox news. watch. >> my email account, my twitter account has been inundated wi

for newt gingrich. did you have any clue what was going on? >> i never did. when people tell me he really had to resign, because everybody knew about calista, i say you think his friend david ban yard was protecting him and not telling him during the lewinsky stuff? but washington has been covering him for 30 years. he know this stuff. mother jones would be writing the story about his first wife every three months for 20 years. if he had been the governor of upper iguana and this was new, there would be projectile swings everywhere, but depending on what's involved in the actual allegation, if that's what it is, an open marriage, it will cost him some votes here, but i don't think it will stop the momentum cold. >> we know debates matter. we know he did well in the month need debate. look at the new nbc/marist poll, by tuesday after the debate, 31/26, it had narrowed to five points. if you're giving newt gingrich advice tonight, what does he need to do? >> focus his fire. he is -- i think he's a brillia

bad news for newt gingrich. most of the votes, it can be presumed, had he takes, he'll take from newt gingrich. and his presence in the race is a factor, that will make a difference here. >> bret: panel, we'll be back throughout the night, of course. >> megyn: the candidates kuwaiting for the results of the first in the south primary -- candidates are waiting for the results of the first in the south primary and we're close to the closing of the polls in south carolina. we're keeping an eye on the campaign headquarters for the candidates. >> bret: and our guests break down what to expect tonight, ed rollins and mike huckabee and we'll hear from sarah palin as well, this is fox news, america's election headquarters. ♪ at i am today. r science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three y we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learnin

to him, newt gingrich directly. we stau a little bit of that tonight in his speech. what they're going to talk about is the fact that newt gingrich is a lobbyist and somebody who lobbied as they say for freddie mac. when you look at the value of housing and how it's declined in the state of florida, they oar going to have after him on that. they're going to say he's out of touch with the republican party, that he called the republican budget right wing social engineering. something that almost every house republican voted for. so they're going to also say that he's unreliable, that he's erratic. that you need somebody who is steadier at the helm and who can be depended upon to beat barack obama, because in the end, it's going to be a race about who is best able to beat the president of the united states and romney has to show in these debates coming up, including the one with wolf on thursday, that he can take it to barack obama and go the long haul with him. and win for the republican party. that's what they want.

gingrich is not the match for that. newt gingrich? i mean, mike huckabee has that sort of southern appeal, yes, newt gingrich has southern background, but it's not -- he feels d.c., he doesn't feel georgia. and the way he's playing what this sort of conservative narrative is is brand new. in the sense that this form of conservatism has been exactly what he's been battled on and he's been insufficiently conservative on in much of his career. >> what newt gingrich was picking up on and this was not an issue in this primary, and this is not what mike huckabee is, honestly or not to the extent that gingrich is. this is all about strength. this primary is about nominating someone who can take the fight to barack obama. think about the times we heard that and think about why donald trump was a factor early on. he's somewhat -- well, going back -- >> there's so much to say. >> the problem that mitt romney has had in the past week has undermined his own discomfort with talking about his wealth. donald trump never had an issue with this. he em

newt gingrich is saving him now. if newt gingrich were to get up and leave and none of us believe he will, that rick santorum could let him stop the nomination. i'm not saying and romney has more than double delegates pile rick santorum has tonight. not saying rick santorum can get to 1144 but i'm saying he's looking to stop romney. that no one will have the delegates and as lng as gingrich is in there, romney stay as live. >> 1144 magic number of delegates to get g.o.p. nomination? >> yes. the story of the night is that romney probably ends up, once adding in hawaii probably ends up winning the battle but this is not a good showing for him. newt gingrich and rick santorum will do better than he did there. it's what we've seen a cross the board if you look at very conservative voters. romney is pulling about a third of those. consistent of what he's gotten in other places. the most-interesting thing to me to look at going forward is whether there is a de facto pact between santorum and gingrich. if gingrich is gettin

newt gingrich trailing there. another florida conservative quality, tea party, the tea party movement boosted rick scott and marco rubio's wins. newt gingrich has been courting them. pundits caution a weakening tea party. one in two tea party voters embrace the tea party less taxes theme. finally, florida conservative is more northern. generally the more north, the more conservative. gingrich should do well in the north here, romney in the south. the fight, watch highway i-4 in orlando and tampa. the florida conservative, evangelical, minority, tea party, and northern. and by the way, looking at social security records, chris, he is most likely called james. >> all right. something i didn't know before for sure. thank you so much, appreciate it. richard. let me bring you in. you know this area so well. let's start with what we heard from ron. you know, ties into what richard said. newt gingrich's argument, you take me, you take santorum, we're outpolling mitt romney. his implication being if santorum would get out

, vamos con los delegados ganados el día de hoy, mitt romney 117, newt gingrich 59, rick santorum 50, rick santorum con 3 estados ganados tiene menos delegados que newt gingrich. >>> está interesante, y el gordo de la noche es ohio, todavía están virtualmente empatados, pero parece que mitt romney lentamente itnee más votos. >>> así es, josé, tenemos más del 90% de los votos contados, y como proyectaras muy bien, creo que mitt romney tiene el triunfo en el estado. >>> es una larga noche para saber los resultados en ohio, vámonos a boston, massachusetts, donde el precandidato mitt romney, hace pocos minutos habló y ahí está angie sandoval con los detalles. >>> qué tal, josé, mitt romney prometió que esta noche se iría a su casa con una victoria más y lo logró, ganó idaho, todavía tiene que esperar por ohio, en su discurso dio gracias a quienes lo ayudaron en la contienda de supermartes, también felicitó a newt gingrich y ron paul, pero no mencionó a su principal rival, a rick santorum, también habló del cambio de las elecciones presidenciales de noviembre >>> es

but let's talk about newt gingrich. this wasn't just that mitt romney appears to be -- it's that newt gingrich appears to be the anti-romyy -- am nil. how? >> he's improved as a candidate as well. hiss demeanor is much more upbeat. he's not scowling like he was a few weeks ago and in particular, he changed his message. he wasn't on the perhaps right message at the beginning of south carolina. he was attacking on how governor romney made his money. saying he presided over job loss and other things. he was criticized by all kinds of conservatives so he abruptly flipped that aside and went on to other things. newt gingrich is also benefiting here from the fact that he is from georgia. actually, he's from pennsylvania, but he represented the neighboring state here. but i think it's not so much that people want to like newt gingrich or see him as president. i think some of them want this race to go on longer. they want to see romney be put in the fire a little bit. >> the other thing i would say is just that he went away fro

what does a guy like newt gingrich want? he likes to be on tv for really long times to give speeches when he has won his home state. >> and he likes to -- >> together, we will take down mitt romney. >> and together. and you put him in the cabinet? >> where would you put him and trust him? >> he can't get confirmed. don't talk cabinet. it is impossible. >> you could put him inside of the actual cabinet and make him think it is the cabinet. >> and drill lease. >> and what is dynamic is the fact that mitt romney thought he was the same guy than before tonight, which is that mitt romney still sort of looks like the nominee and still sort of winning more delegates than anybody else, but has some problems with core parts of the republican constituency, and neither rick santorum nor newt gingrich can be viable as long as they are in the race, and so the dynamic is whether rick santorum and newt gingrich can whittle down to one. >> and the romney strategy as we all agree from the beginning, is the recognition of the roller derby, yo

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>> yes, newt gingrich, i guess. if he doesn't win on saturday or he only ekes out the narrowest victory, we will have a very fun next few months. >> colby? >> romney hit the wall, so to speak, and i think even if he gets by in south carolina, he has a fight on his hands in florida and the states to come. >> what is your take? >> i remember in 1984 when mont -- walter mondale, the democratic front runner, was considered the inevitable choice and ran into the sand storm, the hurricane of gary hart. mondale gave a speech at that time in florida and said this is why i am in the race. it was just a statement of his political beliefs and principles. that is what mitt romney has to do. the question about him is core to the man and beyond that, inevitability is not a campaign argument. i am not going to vote for somebody because of the inevitable. what is it that makes mitt romney one to be president in a public sense, not private vindication cents? >> what we heard in new hampshire and iowa was i am going to vote for this

all of them came out and harshly critized newt gingrich when dole trashed newt gingrich as well and palin said he is being critized by a gop establishment not ready to make reforms that are necessary. palin considers herself a maverick outsideer . so obviously she sees a way for newt gingrich said the same thing. and in florida. a state that is got a lot of the establishment republicans who play in national politics. mitt romney has a tremendous number of people in office in the state and national level backing him. it is a fair hit for them to say that the establishment has aligned against newtingrich and for mitt romney. that makes it tougher for newt gingrich to win and come back. it is a lataino vote that could be key. one florida leader that is a high profile player is the congressman. her name came up at this year's debate. >> we have many qualified historic leaders . >> and mel martinez is back in the private sector. >> there you go. they join us with more on how latino voters could make a difference. >> great to be here. i am excited about the race. >> there is a battle underway.