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today, there are just eight shopping days let me tell for christmas. do you actually know what not to buy? it was less than three weeks ago since the iowa caucus, the states largest newspaper is getting ready to endorse its republican pick for the white house. the des moines register will make that announcement today. romney picked up a key endorsement in another early voting stays. were talking about south carolina. >> it is with great pride, great respect, great support that michae...

Welcome back, were going to get reaction from juan williams and charles, your thoughts on the debate? >> very interesting debate. and romney was very steady, and he wasnt high, he wasnt low. resisting an opening on the right wing social engineering. gingrich at times really strong at times, weak. very strong attacking judges. very strong attacking obama on peace down, very weak when attacked on freddie mac $1.6 million. who did attacking? bachmann. strong attacks on gingrich on

talk more about it in our "crime and consequences" segment in 20 minutes. the clock is still ticking toward a midnight deadline to avert a partial government shutdown but the pressures gone down just a little bit. thats john boehners way of saying both parties in both houses have agreed on a trillion dollar spending package. now they just have to vote on it. the house will vote first. then start its holiday recess. the senate will vote after that. and will try to agree on extending a...

Will be inspiring and get people to the polls. there will be a lot of crazy things happen in various states. i am imminently, profoundly optimistic that we can win. >> greta: you named bachmann, santorum and perry as being not like romney and gingrich where they are v had different, or obvious difference views on important issues. why do you think that bachmann, perry and santorum cant get any sort of move in the polls? they are way low in polls. >> well, that is largely, both romney and gingric...

Is what bill bennett was just talking to you about, then you have to say right now its romney. just look at the poll numbers. he does better against obama than gingrich does. the story, and this picks up on what you were talking about, the republican establishment has come out with long knives and a trying to absolutely carve up newt gingrich in advance of the iowa caucus. that is what is going on in the polls. where we see newts numbers moderating some. had a "wall street journal" journal poll,...

That comes from bachmann, santorum, some will say he is romney. >> sean: let it fly. on the other hand, for example, i dont want to hear about romneycare anymore. i got his answer, i understand it. he gets the nomation, i will strongly support him. i dont want to hear about the flip-flops. i asked him about them 15 times and im sick of the question. the question here is who is going to decide this. does the establishment think they can influence tea party mbers and is there not a subtle campaign...

Now, steve, with 75% saying the country is on the wrong track, thats a problem for an incumbent. >> so what does he do? >> well, what he has been doing which is to campaign against the republicans, divide, use populous tactics, anything to divert attention from his record. >> sure, and, you know, in some measure, theyve been effective and gotten the dialogue going about the 1% and everything like that. a year from now, people are going to be going am i better off today than four years ago? the a...

Will be inspiring and get people to the polls. there will be a lot of crazy things happen in various states. i am imminently, profoundly optimistic that we can win. >> greta: you named bachmann, santorum and perry as being not like romney and gingrich where they are v had different, or obvious difference views on important issues. why do you think that bachmann, perry and santorum cant get any sort of move in the polls? they are way low in polls. >> well, that is largely, both romney and gingric...

That comes from bachmann, santorum, some will say he is romney. >> sean: let it fly. on the other hand, for example, i dont want to hear about romneycare anymore. i got his answer, i understand it. he gets the nomination, i will strongly support him. i dont want to hear about the flip-flops. i asked him about them 15 times and im sick of the question. the question here is who is going to decide this. does the establishment think they can influence tea party members and is there not a subtle camp...

reiterated his pledge saying, please, republicans should all be nice. heres mr. gingrich, in his own words. >> i only have one opponent, thats barack obama. i have a number of friends running and one opponent. and im going to run this campaign on a positive basis because i believe the people of iowa are smart enough that they can see the difference between somebody trying to help the country and somebody who simply is running a negative campaign. >> can he stay positive is the big ques...