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including the same unit that killed osama bin laden, stage another daring raid, this time on mission to rescue hostages from pirates in somalia. tears on both sides of the aisle. congress bids an emotional farewell and gets an inspirational message. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." but first this just coming in. were seeing a tight race, a very tight race here in florida. that makes tomorrow nights cnn republican presidential debate potentially all the more important...

Press about gingrich. >> saying that newt gingrich is a lobbyist is just a matter-of-fact. he indicates that he doesnt fall within the narrow definition of lobbyist that he might have in mind but if youre working for a company getting paid for a company through one of your many entities and youre speaking with congressmen in a way that would help that company, thats lobbying. if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck. >> reporter: very tough stuff from mitt romney who in five c...

Okay, you could argue that the two best debaters, doesnt matter if you agree or not, romney and gingrich, and number three has probably been rick santorum and he hasnt popped. i have my own theories on that. >> right. >> what is it that youve found that gingrich is just doing better than romney, just simply as an observer? >> and throw in the fact that rick santorum is the true evangelical in the race and is getting nowhere. i had an epiphany and trying to figure out what he had in common with h...

Volatile environment that we could in likely see third and fourth party candidates emerge. always have them on the ballot, but people that can get 10%, 20% of the vote collectively. >> conventional wisdom says that definitely guarantees the presidents re-election but the re-election team yesterday in a briefing with reporters very much seemed fearful of a third party. >> i think its what bill said. its a very volatile electorate. i think anyone who is going to say one element will help one or th...

Least potentially appealing to the president and newt gingrich solves his problems in one fell swoop. what is it, the independent number between romney and gingrich, i think it moves like 25 points. >> i mean against romney the president is down by two points. against gingrich with independents hes winning by 22. the margin with seniors also gets better under gingrich. i mean, look, i think clearly the polls are -- all the polls would suggest that we have a better chance of winning against newt ...

Workers face another looming government shutdown. and donald trump pulls the plug on his much ballyhooed republican debate after newt gingrich and rick santorum promised to show up. thats not the reason he cites for dropping the plan. its wednesday, december 14th, 2011. 20 days until the caucuses. its "the daily run down." im chuck todd. to my first reads of the morning, according to the new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, two leading republicans have one thing in common, electability pro...

Report, particularly here in wall street. is there a collective like uh-oh in wall street about gingrich. >> theres a big collective uh-oh about gingrich. the general election matchups with president obama dont look well. >> wall street loves romney. >> they dont love romney. >> they used to love obama. >> romney is in new york and doing a series of wall street event to raise a lot of money and they just think hes a winner ultimately in the general election and wall street likes winners. theres ...

mitt romney on the defense. we are just three weeks away from the first presidential contest of the 2012 campaign, and the attacks are in full force. >> lets be candid. the only reason you didnt become a career politician is you lost to teddy kennedy in 1994. >> wait a second. now wait a second. thats -- wait a second. >> paul steinhauser is joining us from des moines. gingrich survived. how did he do it? >> exactly, kyra. listen, newt gingrich, the reason he jumped in the polls and su...

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Speakership, 27% of the public had a positive view of gingrich compared to 46% with a negative view. 13 years later, after he was chased out of the speakership, gingrichs rating barely better, 25% now view him positively and 40% negatively. despite, that gingrich has surged to become the strongest republican that weve tested since the start of this primary campaign leading the republican field with 40% to romneys 23%. still, romney supporters think that president barack obama would love to face ...