check out newt gingrich. his website has shiny, new explanations for why he's changed his positions on the health care mandate, on global warming, on t.a.r.p., on what he called paul ryan's right wing social engineering medicare plan and luckily for newt, all of his new positions line up nicely with the conservative republican primary voters. well, also the veto -- >>> the video that went viral this weekend. campus police pepper spraying peaceful occupy protesters out at uc dave this california. the university's police chief was placed on administrative leave today and many students are calling for the university's chancellor to step down. >>> and look who has decided to take a chance on iowa, mitt romney. he may be trying to win it all up front, but if he loses out there and loses big, it could be all over for mitt. >>> finally, let me finish tonight with why i think november 22nd, tomorrow, should never be a day to remember john f. kennedy. >>> we start with the super committee's failure to reach a deal tod

check out newt gingrich. his website has shiny, new explanations for why he's changed his positions on the health care mandate, on global warming, on t.a.r.p., on what he called paul ryan's right wing social engineering medicare plan and luckily for newt, all of his new positions line up nicely with the conservative republican primary voters. well, also the veto -- >>> the video that went viral this weekend. campus police pepper spraying peaceful occupy protesters out at uc davis in california. the university's police chief was placed on administrative leave today and many students are calling for the university's chancellor to step down. >>> and look who has decided to take a chance on iowa, mitt romney. he may be trying to win it all up front, but if he loses out there and loses big, it could be all over for mitt. >>> finally, let me finish tonight with why i think november 22nd, tomorrow, should never be a day to remember john f. kennedy. >>> we start with the super committee's failure to reach a deal toda

we start with newt gingrich. howard fineman is an msnbc political analyst and the "huffington post" media group editorial director. and melissa donohue is now a fellow with the eisenhower institute. the new hampshire leader endorsement had a subtle slap at romney. "gingrich is by no means the perfect candidate. we would rather back someone with whom we may sometimes disagree than one who tells us what he thinks we want to hear." boy, that is a shot. howard, tell me about this. this is an endorsement that doesn't mean you win, but it means what? >> well, you don't want to get in the gun sights of the union leader. and it's clear that mitt romney is right there. sure, joe mcquaid, the publisher and president, who i spoke to just a couple of hours ago to ask him about the endorsement is thinking behind the endorsement. and the first thing joe mcquaid said to me was, did you see "saturday night live" last week, in the skit that they did about mitt romney? that's the one where the comedian plays mitt romney and mitt r

you get that sense with newt gingrich. i hesitate to say this one's going to last when it comes to this search for the anti-romney. but i thought you put it very well. i think the conservatives that are not sold on romney, that are basically looking for anybody but romney won't be embarrassed by gingrich. there was a sense that, well, cain may embarrass me by supporting him. maybe rick perry embarrasses me because i don't like the fact that he's not coming across as bright as he should be. newt's not going to embarrass me if i support him. i think that does matter to a republican electorate that's paying very close attention to this race and really wants to win but wants to do so on a set of princeles. >> john, you're a deep south southern, evangelical by your religion. you can answern't go with herman cain anymore. he's getting more embarrassing every day. he keeps changing his story about him. you've got romney who's certainly not acceptable to you because he's a rhino who keeps swapping back and forth. and then you have

could it really be newt gingrich? jon stewart captured the iron of that news on "the daily show" last night. let's watch. >> the scandal has taken its toll on the cain campaign. reports are now emerging that he might be considering withdrawing from the race which i strongly discourage him from doing. i've already lost trump. i can't lose you, too. if these allegations of sexual improprietary derail cain, who will benefit. >> herman cain was already losing altitude in this race. where do his votes go? >> they go to newt gingrich i think. >> what? so voters leave cain because they don't like that he had an affair and go to the guy who had two of them. i guess newt gingrich becomes the candidate for people who like herman cain but think he was too monogamous. [ laughter ] >> well, look, the only candidate saddened by cain's downfall besides cain is mitt romney. here's junts man speaking for the happy survivors. quote, we've got real issues to talk about, not the latest bimbo eruption. well, this whole shebang has been li

well, check out newt gingrich. his website has shiny new explanations for why he's changed his positions on the health care mandate, global warming, t.a.r.p., and what he called paul ryan's, quote, right-wing social engineering medicare plan. and luckily for newt, all of his new position line, it lines up nicely with the conservative republican primary voters. big surprise. >>> also, the video that went viral this weekend. campus police pepper spraying peaceful occupy protesters at unc davis, that's out in california. university's police chief was placed on administrative leave today and many students are calling for the university's chancellor to step down. >>> and look who's decided to take a chance on iowa! give iowa a try. mitt romney. he may be trying to win it all up there in that first big event next year, but if he loses big, it could be all over for mitt. >>> finally, let me finish tonight why i think november 22nd, tomorrow, should never be a day to remember john f. kennedy. >>> we start with the super co

it could be the current gop poster boy, newt gingrich. but with so many republicans saying anyone but mitt, isn't newt the logical choice? so the obama campaign right now is focusing its energy and charges at mitt romney. it's a win-win strategy for them. help newt knock him out now or finish him off yourself in november. the dnc has put out a second anti-mitt video in two days. this one taking romney to task for his dishonest ad last week, and wait until you see stephen colbert's takedown of that romney ad. it's in the sideshow. finally, let me finish tonight with this exit of barney frank and this rise of newt. talk about bad tidings of the season. >>> we start with the possible end to the herman cain campaign. dana milbank is a "washington post" columnist and satirist, and jim vandehei is editor in chief for politico. it's very hard -- let me go to the hard news reporter now for the entire organ of politico. jim, thank you for joining us. you've got the entire resources of politico working this story, i assume. yesterday cain said he w

four months ago, if we were on talking about the renaissance of newt gingrich, newt gingrich as the hot, young thing in the republican presidential race, we would have laughed a lot more than a republican convention. this is an unpredictable electorate in an unpredictable election cycle. i would agree 100% with susan. it's not going to happen because the republican party poobahs won't let it happen. >> this is the scariest vision i've come across since ebenezer scrooge spotted jacob marley on his doorknob. thank you, chris and susan. >>> up next, mitt romney's campaign released an ad last week which clearly took the president's words out of context, in fact, i think totally distorted them. and now susan -- susan? now stephen colbert has taken his revenge. that's coming up in the sideshow. colbert to destroy romney. you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. [ knock on door ] cool. you found it. wow. nice place. yeah. [ chuckles ] the family thinks i'm out shipping these. smooth move. you used priority mail flat rate boxes. if it fits, it ships for a low, flat rate. paid for postage onli

newt gingrich is serving in the polls. newt gingrich. to sit in lincoln's chair, and perhaps sleep in lincoln's bed. well, fact is, with cain fanning and perry paring, it's newt positioned to become the next anti-romney, and the gingrich that could steal christmas. will newt become the first republican to self-destruct, or the first one to put a real scare into mitt? he scares me. also, the spooky 1987 television interview with penn state's jerry sandusky talking about how much he loves children. we've got the ghastly video and the latest on this story. >>> and how about the law on reporting crimes against children? does it need to be strengthened? >>> plus, a new wrinkle in the herman cain alleged sexual predator story. sharon bialek's then-boyfriend backs her story that the two met cain in the late 1990s and that she told him that cain grabbed her during an evening together. we'll ask the cain strategist whether cain can survive. >>> and the anybody but mitt contest, which has become. i bet he does. and we'll ask p.j. o'roarke what he

we start with the apparent gop front-runner right now, newt gingrich. david gregory is the moderator of nbc's meet the per"meet the." and howard fineman is an msnbc political analyst and "the huffington post" media group editorial director. david gregory, great to have you on. we'll talk about "meet the press" coming up this weekend. but let me ask you about this whole thing. don't you think just in a psychological way, what do you think it can does to mitt romney, who's been running for president since the last time to realize that newt gingrich is now the preferred candidate of the republican party, with all newt's baggage. i mean, totally, objectively, he's carrying so much baggage, serial marriages, moved out by his own caucus for the speakership. and here he is back as if none of that happened. >> i think it's troubling for romney. at the same time, i think there's a level of resignation in the romney campaign, that their campaign was not predicated on setting the electorate on fire. by being this charming historical figure. this was going to be a

four months ago, if we were on talking about the renaissance of newt gingrich, newt gingrich as the hot, young thing in the republican presidential race, we would have laughed a lot more than a republican convention. this is an unpredictable electorate in an unpredictable election cycle. i would agree 100% with susan. it's not going to happen because the republican party poobahs won't let it happen. >> this is the scariest vision i've come across since ebenezer scrooge spotted jacob marley on his doorknob. thank you, chris and susan. >>> up next, mitt romney's campaign released an ad last week which clearly took the president's words out of context, in fact, i think totally distorted them. and now susan -- susan? now stephen colbert has taken his revenge. that's coming up in the sideshow. colbert to destroy romney. you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. @ápápáp:@:02 " introducing the perfect situp. invented by the u.s. navy seal who brought you the perfect pushup, the perfect situp re-invents the situp by combining the upper ab crunch with the lower ab leg lift. then the perfect

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newt gingrich is serving in the polls. newt gingrich. to sit in lincoln's chair, and perhaps sleep in lincoln's bed. well, fact is, with cain fanning and perry paring, it's newt's position to become the next anti-romney, and the gingrich that could steal christmas. will newt become the first republican to self-destruct, or the first one to put a real scare into mitt? he scares me. also, the spooky 1978 television interview with penn state's jerry sandusky talking about how much he loves children. we've got the ghastly video and the latest on this story. >>> and how about the law on reporting crimes against children? does it need to be strengthened? >>> plus, a new wrinkle in the herman cain alleged sexual predator story. sharon bialek's then-boyfriend backs her story that the two met cain in the late '90s and that she told him that cain grabbed her during an evening together. we'll ask the cain strategist whether cain can survive. >>> and we'll ask p.j. o'roarke what he thinks of the republicans running. >>> we start with the search for

we start with newt gingrich's hypocrisy. one of gingrich's sharpest critics has been democratic congressman barney frank who joins us now. congressman frank, it just seems to me that this is getting more crazy, this defense by newt gingrich. paid a couple million dollars to apparently persuade conservative republicans that freddie mac is a great organization. members of congress on capitol hill. he is saying that is not lobbying. >> well, he's just lying. it is of course lobbying and again he slipped when he was defending the fee although he says he can't remember how much because he said, well, after all, i am a former speaker of the house. well, that's an important credential if you're hiring a lobbyist. as i understand it, it doesn't get you tenure at the yale history department. having been a former speaker has never been considered a credential. this is symptomattic of the republicans' effort to blame us for their mistakes which you see of course with the effort to blame obama for what he inherited from george bush. her

and unfortunately, newt gingrich is one of them who's done it. he's engaged in the exact kind of corruption that america disdains. the very things that anger the tea party movement and the occupy wall street movement and everybody who's not in a movement and watches washington and says, why are these guys getting all this money? why did they go become so rich? why do they have these advantages? unfortunately, newt seems to have played right into that. >> you call that corruption? that's a heavy charge. >> well, what is it? it is corruption. >> there he is, casino jack, sharing the guilt for his lifetime. let me ask you congressman frank if you can explain as a respected legislator, and i mean this, the way they hire big shots, big feet who come out of congress or politics generally, they put them in these big law firms or consulting firms and they don't actually come to the hill and lobby in a sense of waiting for you folks outside of the chamber, but they basically are directing their traffic. can you explain how that works for these guys? >> we

we start with newt gingrich. jonathan alter is an msnbc political analyst and michael scherr is the white house correspondent for "time" magazine. here's this from last night's debate getting the most attention and it's newt gingrich on illegal immigrants who have been in the country for years. >> if you've been here for 25 years, three kids and two grandkids, you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, i don't think we should uproot you forcefully and kick you out. i don't see how the party that says they are the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century, and i'm prepared to take the heat for saying let's be humane in enforcing the law without giving them citizenship but by finding a way to create legality so that they are not separated from their family. >> governor? >> michael, he says he's prepared to take the heat. what is the extent of the heat? what's the net effect? >> well, there's going -- there's national heat and state h

now, here comes newt gingrich. today we learned from bloomberg news that gingrich was paid up to $1.8 million by freddie mac, that quasi-government mortgage company newt himself loves to trash. hired freddie mac officials say to build bridges of love to republicans bent on destroying freddie. in other words, to lobby. welcome to front-runner status, newt. you've been caught. plus, how many blunders can one party take, from rick perry's oops to herman cain's ó0@&h(lc% head-scratching on libya, to michele bachmann on, well, almost everything? looking foolish has become the dress code in this republican race, and what does that say about a party that most resembles now a clown car from the best days of barnum & bailey. also penn state, what happened when mike mcqueary allegedly saw jerry sandusky molesting a -- violating a child? he says he left immediately, and now he says he stopped it and called police. if his credibility is questioned, how will that affect the prosecution? it's clear the republicans can't touch p

we start with newt gingrich. jonathan alter is an msnbc political analyst and michael scherr is the white house correspondent for "time" magazine. here's this from last night's debate getting the most attention and it's newt gingrich on illegal immigrants who have been in the country for years. let's watch. >> if you've been here for 25 years, three kids and two grandkids, you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, i don't think we should uproot you forcefully and kick you out. i don't see how the party that says they are the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century, and i'm prepared to take the heat for saying let's be humane in enforcing the law without giving them citizenship but by finding a way to create legality so that they are not separated from their family. >> governor? >> michael, he says he's prepared to take the heat. what is the extent of the heat? what's the net effect? >> well, there's going -- there's national hea

we start with the apparent gop front-runner right now, newt gingrich. david gregory is the moderator of nbc's "meet the press." and howard fineman is an msnbc political analyst and "the huffington post" media group editorial director. david gregory, great to have you on. we'll talk about "meet the press" coming up this weekend. but let me ask you about this whole thing. don't you think just in a psychological way, what do you think it can does to mitt romney, who's been running for president since the last time to realize that newt gingrich is now the preferred candidate of the republican party, with all newt's baggage. i mean, totally, objectively, he's carrying so much baggage, serial marriages, moved out by his own caucus for the speakership. and here he is back as if none of that happened. >> i think it's troubling for romney. at the same time, i think there's a level of resignation in the romney campaign, that their campaign was not predicated on setting the electorate on fire. by being this charming historical figure. this was going to be a differ

now, here comes newt gingrich. today we learned from bloomberg news that gingrich was paid up to $1.8 million by freddie mac, that quasi-government mortgage company newt himself loves to trash. hired freddie mac officials say to build bridges of love to republicans bent on destroying freddie. in other words, to lobby. welcome to front-runner status, newt. you've been caught. plus, how many blunders can one party take, from rick perry's oops to herman cain's head-scratching on libya, to michele bachmann on, well, almost everything? looking foolish has become the dress code in this republican race, and what does that say about a party that most resembles now a clown car from the best days of barnum & bailey. also penn state, what happened when mike mcqueary allegedly saw jerry sandusky molesting a -- violating a child? he says he left immediately, and now he says he stopped it and called police. if his credibility is questioned, how will that affect the prosecution? it's clear the republicans can't touch president ob

and newt gingrich up to now has had the advantage of low expectations. the media hasn't gone and looked at the 17 organizations he's running -- he's run. one good example, the other night at the debate, on cnbc, they asked about $300,000 he was paid by, what was it, freddie or fannie. and you know, when they were trying to get political influence in washington to keep the regulators off their back. he said that they turned to him because he was a historian and he would give them historical lectures. i spoke to someone at fannie mae about this and they were laughing about this. he wasn't telling the truth. no one's dug into a lot of these things, in 30 years of political controversies. so he may come up for a while, but he's going to fall down like everybody else, like we say herman cain now. you may be left with mitt romney because there's nobody else in the barrel of apples. >> david, i agree with you. but i would just add one little component, a twist on what you said. i think the candidate has to be trustworthy. people have to trust them, in that what

could it be newt gingrich? he wanted to be seen in kind of a buddy picture at that texas debate, the two of them, he and cain. >> well, look, there's a lot of buzz in establishment circles about the notion that newt gingrich's time is coming and we've had all of these non-romney's rise and fall, whether it's people like donald trump or michele bachmann or rick perry, herman cain has not yet fallen in his numbers. but he may be about to. it might be newt gingrich's turn again. that's possible. iowa conservatives, he's getting a lot of buzz on the ground among crowds and so on. so it's perfectly possible. but i said this last week and i'll say it again, republicans -- what we find in polling is that republican voters want someone who can beat president obama. and republicans are always at a disadvantage with female voters. i can't understand how a republican voter who wants badly to beat president obama doesn't think that herman cain is now toxic for suburban moderate women that you need -- the republicans need t

and newt gingrich up to now has had the advantage of low expectations. the media hasn't gone and looked at the 17 organizations he's running -- he's run. one good example, the other night at the debate, on cnbc, they asked about $300,000 he was paid by, what was it, freddie or fannie. and you know, when they were trying to get political influence in washington to keep the regulators off their back. he said that they turned to him because he was a historian and he would give them historical lectures. i spoke to someone at fannie mae about that, and they were laughing about this. he wasn't telling the truth. no one's dug into a lot of these things, in 30 years of political controversies. so he may come up for a while, but he's going to fall down like everybody else, like we say see herman cain now. you may be left with mitt romney because there's nobody else in the barrel of apples. >> david, i agree with you. but i would just add one little component, a twist on what you said. i think the candidate has to be trustworthy. people have to trust them, in that

we start with newt gingrich's hypocrisy. one has been barney frank who joins us now. congressman frank, it seems to me this is getting more crazy, this defense by newt gingrich. paid a couple million dollars to apparently persuade conservative republicans that freddie mac is a great organization. members of congress and capitol hill. he's saying that is not lobbying. >> well, he's just lying. it is of course lobbying. again, he slipped when he was defending the fee, although he says he can't remember how much. because he said, well, after all i'm former speaker of the house. well, that's an important credential if you're hiring lobbyists. if i understand it it doesn't get you tenure at the yale history department. it's not a credential. the fact this is really symptomatic to blame us for their mistake. blaming obama for what he inherited from george bush. he is the basic point. fannie mae and freddie mac went unregulated for the 12 years during which the republicans controlled the congress. they ran it from 1995 to 2006. chris dodd and i were the minority. people who

could it be newt gingrich? he seemed to have warmed -- wanted to be seen as a buddy picture this weekend with at that texas debate, the two of them, he and cain. >> well, look, there's a lot of buzz, obviously, in establishment circles about the notion that newt gingrich's time is coming. and we've had all of these non-romneys kind of rise and fall, whether it's people like donald trump or michele bachmann or rick perry. herman cain has not yet fallen in his numbers, but he may be about to. it may be newt gingrich's turn. he's getting a lot of buzz in crowds on the ground. it's perfectly possible. i said this last week and i'll say it again. republicans, what we find in polling over and over again is that republican voters want want most of all is somebody who can beat president obama. and republicans always are at a disadvantage with female voters in a general election. they have an advantage with male voters and they're disadvantaged among female voters. i just can't understand how a republican voter who want

gingrich because newt gingrich is not expected to go anywhere. let's go back to florida with you. florida cannot be the one for romney really prove he can win. this is the first national state representative state of all the ones we've talked about. is that the one that really decides this thing, florida, the guy or woman who wins down there is the key front-runner? >> if romney doesn't win florida and rick perry has not had a miraculousrevitalization, then the party has to come through -- >> you see an intervention? i love this. does florida make or break having a front-runner? >> it is a big pile of delegates, that's certainly true. if mitt romney has lost new hampshire, i don't see how florida helps him very much. assuming he's won new hampshire and then florida, he's looking pretty good. >> what about the party just says we're not getting anything done here? >> if they've got three different nominees -- three different winners by the time they get to florida, i think there's going to be a lot of angst among the establishment. >> john, do you

we start with newt gingrich. jonathan alter is an msnbc political analyst and michael scherr is the white house correspondent for "time" magazine. here's this from last night's debate getting the most attention and it's newt gingrich on illegal immigrants who have been in the country for years. >> if you've been here for 25 years, three kids and two grandkids and owe paying the law and paying taxes, i don't think we should uproot you forcefully and kick you out. i don't see how the party that says they are the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century, and i'm prepared to take the heat for saying let's be humane in enforcing the law without giving them citizenship but by finding a way to create legality so that they are not separated from their family. >> governor? >> michael, he says he's prepared to take the heat. what is the extent of the heat? what's the net effect? >> well, there's going -- there's not heat and gop heat. newt new

now, here comes newt gingrich. today we learned from bloomberg news that gingrich was paid up to $1.8 million by freddie mac, that quasi-government mortgage company newt himself loves to trash. hired freddie mac officials say to build bridges of love to republicans bent on destroying freddie. in other words, to lobby.ç welcome to front-runner status, newt. you've been caught. plus, how many blunders can one party take, from rick perry's oops to herman cain's head-scratching on libya, to michele bachmann on, well, almost everything? looking foolish has become the dress code in this republican race, and what does that say about a party that most resembles now a clown car from the best days of barn barnum & bailey. also penn state, what happened when mike mcqueary allegedly saw jerry sandusky molesting a child. he says he left immediately, and now he says he stopped it and called police f.his credibility is questioned, how will that affect the prosecution? it's clear the republicans can't touch the president on fore

newt gingrich can afford a loss in new hampshire, but for mitt it may be win or go home. the winner or go home january races. next, president obama's chances of beating the nominee. where does he stand in the crucial battleground states? historically, how have other presidents done with approval ratings in the mid-40s one year out? and that's where he is. could marco rubio seal florida for romney? could we see a gingrich/cain ticket? and would president obama consider dumping joe biden for hillary clinton if things looked really bad. what about a third-party run? it would throw the election to one side or the other, but which one? this is no fantasy, we'll be joined by somebody who is making sure that a third candidate will be on the ballot in all 50 states. >>> finally, amateur hour, we'll go to the videotape for the campaign low lights, if you will, in the gop race so far. we start with january madness. politico columnist cynthia tucker who is a visiting prof s professor at the university of georgia. and john heilemann an msnbc political analyst. first of all, the iowa

but when you broaden it out nationally, it's newt gingrich in the lead. the new quinnipiac poll has gingrich at 26 and romney stuck at 22 andk.n ♪ silent night ♪ holy night ♪ sleep in heavenly peace ♪ sleep in heavenly peace ♪ sleep in heavenly peace ♪ sleep in heavenly peace since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them. helping millions of americans over the centuries. the strength of a global financial leader. the heart of a one-to-one relationship. together for your future. ♪ >>> as the motorcade turns onto houston street, hugh's camera inadvertently trains on the texas school book depository building. after undergoing the ground-breaking process of scanning and restoration, does hugh's high-resolution film show the sniper taking aim from the sixth floor window. >> well, we're back. that was a clip from the new national geographic documentary, "jfk, the loft bullet." it attempts to

but when you broaden it out nationally, it's newt gingrich in the lead. the new quinnipiac poll has gingrich at 26 and romney stuck at 22, and herman cain sinking hard at 14. we'll be right back. >>> as the motorcade turns onto houston street, hugh's camera inadvertently trains on the texas school book depository building. after undergoing the ground-breaking process of scanning and restoration, does hugh's high-resolution film show the sniper taking aim from the sixth floor window. >> after the shots were fired he happened to look up at the sixth floor. >> well, we're back. that was a clip from the new national geographic documentary, "jfk, the lost bullet." the documentary attempts to ç prove once and for all that president kennedy was killed by a lone gunman, lee harvey oswald, through never-before-seen photos and coverage of that fateful day in dallas 48 years ago. max holland is the historian worked on the documentary and joins us to talk about the new evidence he and his team were able to discover. so i'm going to talk about this later when you're

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newt gingrich has already figured out. this gordian knot, and he is cut it. he will be the best buddy herman cain ever had on the planet for the next week. >> on the debate tomorrow night, saturday night, they will walk a fine line. in some people's interest, to remind people he was a lobbyist in washington. others trying to burnish their anti establishment credentials and what may come with that is some of the alleged activity why he was a lobbyist. but short of that, i think they actually try to layoff of him. you know, again, this is about what happens in the next few days and how much support begins to crumble beneath him. >> i think he's a genius at what the jesuits might call disassembling. they taught us how to do it. that answer of whether he was going to take a lie detector test is for the records. i still don't know what he's saying. thank you. >>> coming up, the accuser, will we see his candidacy survive? you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. ♪ [ male announcer ] you never know when a moment might turn into something more. and when it does me

i think the same would be true of newt gingrich or bachman. i think this guy would be an interesting person. let me get back to you, alex, on covering this guy and his popularity. you mentioned the polls are going to tell us a lot. do you have any kind of horse sense or gut sense, seat of the pants estimate, are we sure he's going to go down in the polls? look at what happened today in fund-raising. this guy had his best fund-raising day ever in the last 24 hours. >> well, chris, what i would say to that is, i think we've clearly seen, since this story broke sunday night, that there is a core of herman cain supporters that is totally undeterred by whatever new information comes out. but i'm not sure that group of people is the full 20 to 25% that he's polling in places like iowa and south carolina. there's a good number of those people who probably know about -- as much about herman cain as hay did nine months ago when he was an obscure figure. >> here cain said his campaign was being sabotaged. this isç where it plays into ts fund-raising l

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it's newt gingrich. i don't know whether michele bachmann catches fire, but rick perry at least has the money, even though he had a poor showing in our poll to climb back into this race as an anti-romney candidate. but if herman cain -- i mean, you heard haley barbour on the program sunday. bill bennett saying, you know, look, we can't blame the media when we led the charge against bill clinton for sexual impropriety, he's got to answer these questions, he's got to come clean about all of this. these are the challenges he faces. >> okay. here is herman cain. and this is going to be a very dramatic press conference. >> i've been practicing law in georgia for a little over 34 years and i have had the opportunity in my practice of law to represent female victims of sexual harassment. serious legitimate claims of sexual harassment are not settled for nuisance value. i have also had the opportunity in my law practice to represent victims of sexual assault. when they have come to my law office, i did not take

newt gingrich has already figured out. this gordian knot, and he is cut it. he will be the best buddy herman cain ever had on the planet for the next week. >> on the debate tomorrow night, saturday night, they will walk a fine line. in some people's interest, to remind people he was a lobbyist in washington. others trying to burnish their anti establishment credentials and what may come with that is some of the alleged activity why he was a lobbyist. but short of that, i think they actually try to layoff of him. you know, again, this is about what happens in the next few days and how much support begins to crumble beneath him. >> i think he's a genius at what the jesuits might call disassembli disassembling. they taught us how to do it. that answer of whether he was going to take a lie detector test is for the records. i still don't know what he's saying. thank you. >>> coming up, the accuser, will we see his candidacy survive? you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. mpact ol exports from new zealand, textile production in spain, and the use of medical tech

i think the same would be true of newt gingrich or bachmann. i think this guy would be an interesting person. let me get back to you, alex, on covering this guy and his popularity. you mentioned the polls are going to tell us a lot. do you have any kind of horse sense or gut sense, seat of the pants estimate, are we sure he's going to go down in the polls? look at what happened today in fund-raising. this guy had his best fund-raising day ever in the last 24 hours. >> well, chris, what i would say to that is, i think we've clearly seen, since this story broke sunday night, that there is a core of herman cain supporters that is totally undeterred by whatever new information comes out. but i'm not sure that group of people is the full 20% to 25% that he's polling in places like iowa and south carolina. there's a good number of those people who probably know about as much about herman cain as they did nine months ago when he was a very, very obscure political figure, and it's those folks who are probably going to dictate exactly how much damage he

i think the same would be true of nutrinutd -- of newt gingrich or bachmann. i think this guy would be an interesting person. let me get back to you, alex, on covering this guy and his popularity. you mentioned the polls are going to tell us a lot. do you have any kind of horse sense or gut sense, seat of the pants estimate, are we sure he's going to go down in the polls? look at what happened today in fund-raising. this guy had his best fund-raising day ever in the last 24 hours. >> well, chris, what i would say to that is, i think we've clearly seen, since this story broke sunday night, that there is a core of herman cain supporters that is totally undeterred by whatever new information comes out. but i'm not sure that group of people is the full 20% to 25% that he's polling in places like iowa and south carolina. there's a good number of those people who probably know about as much about herman cain as they did nine months ago when he was a very, very obscure political figure, and it's those folks who are probably going to dictate exactly how much damage he