newt gingrich is surging. one new poll has him tied at second place with mitt romney, three points behind herman cain. another one puts him ahead of the pizza man and four points behind romney. it's a close one. with me, lizz winstead, co-creator of the "daily show." do they dislike mitt romney so much they'll accept newt gingrich? >> you know, this is -- it's what's crazy. i mean, i don't know who likes mitt romney. that's why he has such a big family i think, ed. he has to have people related to him that like him. even when it's clearly ease city to diss mitt, poor rick perry can't even spit it out. clearly they prepped him during the debate where he's like, are you the mitt romney who had that thing with the people, with the planned parent -- or that other -- i don't know -- i can't -- he couldn't figure. i watched the debate. and as i watched rick perry say, you know, struggle for the third department he wanted to cut, you know that herman cain was just in there going please say epoc. please say it. then h

a fresh poll today shows newt gingrich sitting at the front at 28%. how did that happen? since october, gingrich has surged 13 points while cain is down five points. romney has dropped four. perry is down 8%. it's been a long, very strange trip for newt and the gop. the former speaker announced he was running for president back on may 11th of this year. a few days later, newt was on "meet the press" and referred to congressman paul ryan's plan to privatize medicare as right wing social engineering. charles krauthammer called it a capital offense and declared gingrich's candidacy over. gingrich had a faith and freedom conference to take his third wife on a luxury cruise which prompted his staff to qu ququi quit. only to decide newt's the best they've got. newt gingrich is all about more money for millionaires and he's a cheap labor conservative. but he is red meat to the tea party and has enough political moxie to work his way through a debate without shooting himself in the foot. joining me now are e.j. dionne, senior fellow of the brookings institute and columnist for th

if perry can't hack it in a room with michele bachmann and newt gingrich, he certainly wouldn't be able to handle a debate against the former speaker of the house. even nancy pelosi knows the guy is a joke. here's what she said about the debate offer today. >> he did ask if i could debate here in washington on monday, it is my understanding that such a letter has come in. monday i'm going to be in portland in the morning. i'm going to be visiting some of our labs in california in the afternoon. that's two. i can't remember what the third thing is that i'll be doing. >> i want to commend the former speaker for being able to recognize rick perry's texas-sized "psychotalk." >>> the righties can't get the story straight. bill o'reilly says the occupy wall street movement is dead. but others say it's part of a global socialist movement. that's next. >>> how unpopular is governor scott walker in the state of wisconsin? so unpopular he's reaching out to slanthead for some help. mike tate, chairman of the wisconsin democratic party, will join me. stay with us. >> so the occupy wall street movem

if perry can't hack it in a room with michele bachmann and newt gingrich, he certainly wouldn't be able to handle a debate against the former speaker of the house. even nancy pelosi knows the guy is a joke. here's what she said about the debate offer today. >> he did ask if i could debate here in washington on monday, it is my understanding that such a letter has come in. monday i'm going to be in portland in the morning. i'm going to be visiting some of our labs in california in the afternoon. that's two. i can't remember what the third thing is that i'll be doing. >> i want to commend the former speaker for being able to recognize rick perry's texas-sized "psychotalk." >>> the righties can't get the story straight. bill o'reilly says the occupy wall street movement is dead. but others say it's part of a global socialist movement. that's next. >>> how unpopular is governor scott walker in the state of wisconsin? so unpopular he's reaching out to slanthead for some help. mike tate, chairman of the wisconsin democratic party, will join me. stay with us. it'll never work. [ female announc

nafta loving newt gingrich is considered to be the big thinker in the republican field. this is what he offered middle america today. >> you have an anti-petroleum and anti-coal administration and the richest country in the world for energy. obama is a left wing radical who believes in class warfare and surprised everybody who's attacking doesn't create jobs. what does he think was going to happen? >> iowa, the middle of the country, a very focused conversation about what are you going to do to bring back manufacturing jobs? in a sector of the economy where we've lost almost 6 million jobs, 50,000 factories with employees at 25 and over. you see this chart? there it is again. the red line, that's who the republicans are rooting for and that's who they are protecting. every time you hear about a job being outsourced to another country, you're talking about the blue liners. these middle classers down here. here are the whirlpool employees. here are the maytag employees. here are the pella window employees. and here's where the red liners go. every time that there is a job

nafta loving newt gingrich is considered to be the big thinker in the republican field. this is what he offered middle america today. >> you have an anti-petroleum and anti-coal administration and the richest country in the world for energy. obama is a left wing radical who believes in class warfare and surprised everybody who's attacking doesn't create jobs. what does he think was going to happen? >> iowa, the middle of the country, a very focused conversation about what are you going to do to bring back manufacturing jobs? in a sector of the economy where we've lost almost 6ç million jobs, 50,000 factories with employees at 25 and over. you see this chart? there it is again. the red line, that's who the republicans are rooting for and that's who they are protecting. every time you hear about a job being outsourced to another country, you're talking about the blue liners. these middle classers down here. here are the whirlpool employees. here are the maytag employees. here are the pella window employees. and here's where the red liners go. every time that there is a j

nafta loving newt gingrich is considered to be the big thinker in the republican field. this is what he offered middle america today. >> you have an anti-petroleum and anti-coal administration and the richest country in the world for energy. obama is a left wing radical who believes in class warfare and surprised everybody who's attacking doesn't create jobs. what does he think was going to happen? >> iowa, the middle of the country, a very focused conversation about what are youç going to do to bring back manufacturing jobs? in a sector of the economy where we've lost almost 6 million jobs, 50,000 factories with employees at 25 and over. you see this chart? there it is again. the red line, that's who the republicans are rooting for and that's who they are protecting. every time you hear about a job being outsourced to another country, you're talking about the blue liners. these middle classers down here. here are the whirlpool employees. here are the maytag employees. here are the pella window employees. and here's where the red liners go. every time that there is a jo

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if perry can't hack it in a room with michele bachmann and newt gingrich, he certainly wouldn't be able to handle a debate against the former speaker of the house. even nancy pelosi knows the guy is a joke. here's what she said about the debate offer today. >> he did ask if i could debate here in washington on monday, it is my understanding that such a letter has come in. monday i'm going to be in portland in the morning. i'm going to be visiting some of our labs in california in the afternoon. that's two. i can't remember what the third thing is that i'll be doing. >> i want to commend the former speaker for being able to recognize rick perry's texas-sized "psychotalk." >>> the righties can't get the story straight. bill o'reilly says the occupy wall street movement is dead. but others say it's part of a global socialist movement. that's next. >>> how unpopular is governor scott walker in the state of wisconsin? so unpopular he's reaching out to slanthead for some help. mike tate, chairman of the wisconsin democratic party, will join me. stay with us. the most epic da. [ crowd cheering