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Out? >> bob: they went to adelson and asked him to stop giving him money. didnt do it. the problem with the republican leaders who are they? secondly, in a position to do that. who can stop the super pac with an influence on this? >> eric: newt gingrich is now floating the idea of trying to get on santorums ticket so they can together beat romney, which is kind of ridiculous. here is the issue for republicans. what is better? get to a romney nomination quick sore the focus be obama or romney. or...

Happens going forward. its import toont say whether hell to v to get out of the race. this is an spirely new world in terms of where the money comes from and how it gets allocated. its a lot of regional candidates. if you looked at the map last night, santorum was strong. romney was strong on the coast to the more, hate to say it, moderate places and gingrich has won the biggest contest other than florida in the south. and so we have three candidates that represent three different regions of the...

Its great theater for us on the presidents team. and if the long ter goes on, the better. >> do you think, jon, that adelson is being tickled in the ear or whispered in the ear or blown in the ear by the romney people saying, keep this guy gingrich in the race? >> look, i dont know. thats the strange thing about these super pacs. what do you think is going on? adelson is a smart guy. i met him once. hes very smart in a business sense. why is he backing a guy who aint going nowhere unless theres ...

Missouri, where newt gingrich didnt make it on the ballot. what happened? rick santorum won missouri by 30 points over romney and won every single county. the biggest fear i think that romney has is that if he -- if this ever became just a one on one race with rick santorum versus mitt romney. >> what happens here. look at the numbers last night. i had hours to look at the numbers last night. romney cant break, dee dee, 28% in the deep south. you started south carolina, work your way through geo...

Because he is does not have the huge organization and the becomes that a couple of the -- the bucks that the couple other candidates have, so i relate to that. >> he does have a lot of money from adelson. >> he does. >> so its a again of whether he still -- its a question of of whether he still will. >> what is interesting ultimately that it looks like it can get drawn out and romney has a delegate lead, but he may not get to 50%, and then he has to on get the paul supporters, if he does it and ...

When he should have been making the case to the people of alabama and others why to vote for me. he never appealed to the people, it was all this guy did this to me, the establishment did this, he never saw a vision of anything, telling the people that stood by him he could have went and done that all in adelsons living room, that is who he should have made the speech to, that who is stood by him. one man in vegas revived him, he should have flown to vegas and gave the first part of the speech t...

The wind beneath his wings and how much longer can adelson fund gingrich? >> in definitely. >> he can continue to fund him to 2024. >> adelson is good at investments, and you you look at what is happening with gingrich and you have to say, will he make another donation? >> within that, at some point, and again, having gone through it in 08, great spin, everyone will have it, about why they are the person that can carry the votes. at some point the math comes into play and it does not matter how ...

Super tuesday, reality check? >> it comes back, actually, i think, to the money issue that you raised before. and one of the things thats interesting about the dynamic here is because of the kind of wild card of the billionaire funder keeping people afloat, the normal collapse that happens, theres usually a feedback mechanism between momentum and victory and fundraising. if you lose a string of elections and cant raise money, you drop out because you cant keep the lights on. that dynamic hasnt p...

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>> the wedomen are missing in t super pac donors. i cannot think of a woman billionaire who has written a check to any -- >> adelson. >> and meg whitman wrote a check too. >> i cannot think of a billionaire female person that wrote a check. >> how many of them are there out there? >> oprah is busy right now. and not giving any money to the gop as far as pick tell here is a live look. we are minutes away from romneys big speech. plus a new film takes audiences inside the secret unknown world of t...