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Fix. what a change this last 48 hours has brought. this is his strategy, clearly, but it does not seem natural to him. >> no, and you know, andrea, i was remembering back to the 2080 debates where romney was the attack dog in the early debates, he is not super comfortable on the attack, its easier to do it in a press conference than it is when the person is standing next to you. ill give you tim pawlenty not wanting to repeat obama care. romney does not handle it all that well or he has not hand...

Leadership in jobs and economic growth. i think the people in iowa have a great opportunity in caucus to send a signal to the country that negative ads written by dishonest consultants on candidates do not deserve getting votes. >> so which is it? are you an attack dog or are you going to stay positive through this? one of the reasons for gingrichs mixed messages could be his total inability to mount a real campaign in iowa even when he was leading in the polls. gingrich, what has he done? hes c...

Growth. i think the people in iowa have a great opportunity in caucus to send a signal to the country that negative ads written by dishonest consultants on candidates do not deserve getting votes. >> so which is it? are you an attack dog or are you going to stay positive through this? one of the reasons for gingrichs mixed messages could be his total inability to mount a real campaign in iowa even when he was leading in the polls. gingrich, what has he done? hes cut his bus tour in half. he does...

Attack dog but they will start attacking today. martha: romney came in last night with a lot of confidence. well talkbout that a little bit later as well. byron, thank you so much. >> thank you, martha. bill: the future for fannie mae and freddie mac still unclear. here is a little bit of context on the recent troubles. fannie mae has reported losses in 16 of the last 17 quarters!. both fannie and freddie have used about the $168 billion from the u.s. treasury to cover losses related to bad loan...

Carl cameron still with us our chief political correspondent. can you make a prediction, chris, will it stick, the no attacks on romney thing? >> no, it cant stick. sooner or later gingrich needs this to be two-man fight between him and mitt romney. he wants his basic argument here, im more electable than the rest of the conservative candidates and he needs to be, in order to look conservative he needs to be juxtaposed with the more moderate romney. clearly at some point he wants this to be a po...

Up the bridge. he did it -- he did it the to the democratic establishment in the house which it had controlled the house of representatives for 40 years. newt basically invented a new style of semi-intellectual attack politics that was made to appeal to the rising generation of republicans, baby boomers, who had read barry goldwater, read the national review and wanted an intellectual gloss for the all-out kneecapping they were about to commit against the democratic party. thats newts background...

Theres a lot to go at with newt gingrich. no question. this is someone whos been in public life for a long time. someone who has acknowledged hes taken positions that appear to be contrary to some major issues. i just wonder if by putting them all in a single 60-second ad, people dont tune it out and say a little bit, politics as usual. but if you parcelled them out one hit at a time over the next three weeks whether they might not be a little more effective. maybe thats the plan. maybe thats wh...

Creates jobs. for now at least gingrich is brushing off the attacks from his opponents vowing to stay away from negative campaigning. >> i only have one opponent. thats barack obama, and im going to continue to run a positive solution-oriented campaign. others ought to do what they want but my only observation, every time theyve attacked each other theyve gone down. i dont know that being the attack dog is necessarily a big asset. but thats the game im going to play. going on attack which is his...

He did it -- he did it the to the democratic establishment in the house which it had controlled the house of representatives for 40 years. newt basically invented a new style of semi-intellectual attack politics that was made to appeal to the rising generation of republicans, baby boomers, who had read barry goldwater, read the national review and wanted an intellectual gloss for the all-out kneecapping they were about to commit against the democratic party. thats newts background. the older gen...

As the front runner in a state he must win and laid the heaviest marker on, new hampshire, governor romney has to show that he can handle these sort of withering attacks that he is receiving. it was a lot easier for him when rick perry was out in the lead because romney could throw jabs and lay back and let them pull him down. now he is the lead dog and everybody else is trying to undermine him. gregg: rick perry and michele bachmann are really cratering as you know in the polls. they have put t...