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Romney was extraordinarily insensitive to religious free come in america and just keeps going back and forth. you know, after south carolina it seemed like mitt romney really turned his focus very squarely against newt gingrich because, obviously, gingrich had a big surprise win in south carolina. so how destructive is this process, you know? and at what point do they turn their attention back to president obama, do you think? >> yeah. well, i hope they turn it back to president obama after toni...

Campaign trail without his politician. it is not about politics but about copyrights. not first time sullivan has taken on politician, for his "rocky iii" theme song. it is popular song on the campaign trail. you better check it out with frankie sullivan. bill: newt gingrich looking to build off his impressive showing in south carolina last saturday but he is facing a well-organized romney campaign that has outspent him significantly in florida. >> weve raised money from thousands and thousands,...

Debates, dont you think? martha: fighting words in florida. rick santorum and ron paul theyre kind of already done with the sunshine state race for them. theyre moving on. theyre focusing on contests coming up shortly out west. bill: what we find florida, martha is whole different ball of wax. we can borrow that pun. florida is so much different than south carolina and clearly different from new hampshire and iowa before that. down here in florida polls close for most of the state at 7:00 easter...

>> the idea of the moon as the 51st state is not what would have come to my mind as a campaign basis for here in florida. >> governor romney be cut off corner meals for jewish -- korber meals for senior citizens in medicaid to save $5 a day. no, you cant follow your religious prescription. martha: oh, boy, oh, boy. karl rove joins me now, former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to president bush. karl, does it always get like this, or do we just not remember it when it comes around again...

Before. i think it really breaks down to turnout, and in the different parts of the state, in the northern part of the state, um, there are really diehard conservatives. they tend to break towards newt gingrich one would think according to the polls going in. if turnout expands, and already in the early voting there are some 600,000 either early voting or absentee, if its -- and thats 100,000 more than 2008. if it expands, you know, newt gingrich could close the gap for these early polls that su...

>> i have relationships with the candidates. governor romney campaigned for me in nye senate race. newt gingrich i known for several years and working with me on a book when i was becoming speaker of the house. ill let florida voters decide. when it comes to president you cant tell people how to vote anyway. people make up their own minds, i understand that. but you stood up for mitt romney publicly, is that a hint. >> what i stood up against specific language. the accusation was anti-immigrant....

Point somebody begins to persistently win. this was the turning point, like, in 2000 for bush it was south carolina. sure, he lost a couple of primaries after that, lost michigan, but he tended to persistently win these, and my suspicion is by mid march were going to find somebody persistently winning. there are 11 contests, for example, on the 6th of march, and of those, eight of them are in states that are likely to benefit romney, two of them are in states that are likely to benefit gingrich,...

President obama in the long run, and then he turned around and made hillary clinton his secretary of state, so, i mean, you know, thats a good argument, is it not, for this being okay at this stage in the game? >> yeah. and not only that but, look, democrat enthusiasm was up, rolls of democrat donors were up, donations were up, and they dominated the news cycles. how much attention are we paying to president obama right now? we arent. most of our political attention is being paid to the contest ...

Two men seriously injured by a falling shopping cart. the men were entering the store when that cart hit both of them in the head falling from the third floor of a parking garage. here what one of the witnesses saw there. >> my friend, he is bleeding in his face. >> he wasnt mobile. he looked like he was unconscious. i hope hes all right. bill: that incident a terrible reminder of a prank last october, two boys pushing a cart up a walkway in harlem. at that time a woman with permanent brain dama...

Little bit of his language in the closing hours here. carl cameron is checking his notes, and hes aller -- all fired up and ready to go in tampa. romney sounds confident. whats the mood down there? what are you pucking up on? >> reporter: hes very confident, and newt gingrich is aware florida will probably not go his way, rick santorum and ron paul recognized theres a winner take all state, and theres no point in spending money or time here since theyre not going to get delegates, since only the...