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>> tell me if theres some secret parallel universe in which massachusetts is the right place for a republican presidential contender to be in november before an election. >> particularly harvard square, you know. hes really going to the belly of the beast and taking on the elites that would plot against middle america. thats all i can gather up there. i mean, i have to say, listening to you, everything you said i agree with, but i do think the flip-flop on the individual mandate is significant o...

The think tank emerged today in the front page of "the washington post", frankly what "the washington post" sought to emphasize how much money gingrich raised in order to create think tank for health transformation. i dont think that was a problem the problem was he endorsed a individual mandate requiring anybody who made $50,000 or more to buy health insurance or post a bond that would pay their bills in the event they got sick or ended up in the hospital. ironic thing we have two the front-run...

Acceptable, am i right? >> its absolutely right. i work for a law firm, you consult for a number of companies, but ive made it clear that i wont take a position and wont advocate for something i didnt believe in while i was governor in my public career. i think thats what all politicians should do. you cant be hired guns. you cant start getting out there and start talking about things that are antithey cal to what you tried to do while in office. let me ask you, chairman steele, weve seen in the...

speaking to reporters right now on the occupy wall street developments. >> people, particularly our first responders, are going to be arrested. thats behavior that has nothing to do with the first amendment. it is designed to keep people from being able to go about their business and express themselves and just not going to be tolerated, but i think the real story for tomorrow mornings paper is that the just were not that many people out here. most expressed themselves and then went ba...

Lose florida or ohio. >>guest: they have to win north dakota. we lose florida we are gone. we lose ohio, we are gone. and virginia and north carolina and others we lost last time, and new hampshire and colorado and nevada. those are key. >>shepard: you mentioned the flavor of the week or month, is gingrich but the other flavors are out. out of the other flavors. >>guest: what i would say is, since there is no real organization in iowa, and iowa launches someone, someone will come out of iowa and...

Massachusetts governor romney beating president obama in a matchup in new hampshire but that state has been the winner of, picked the winner of four of the last presidential elections. and now the republican strategist, who worked on presidential campaigns for decades. including those of ronald reagan and bob dole and nixon and george bush. >>guest: and others. a few losers. the great mike huckabee. who would have been a real contender. >>shepard: is it going to be romney? >>guest: there will be...

The ultimate indication that he is the true washin(wjz insider. he is trying to run as an outsider and it is so fascinating right when voters have foregiven his marital infidelities, now they dont have perry and another contender to take on mitt romney for the nomination, they are finding that newt gingrich has all these liabilities that have nothing to do with adultery or three inches ma and have everything to do with what he did to capitalize once he left as speaker of the house. >> and he got...

Win. my sense is, we will see. my sense is he will be a contender. he is one of the two or three that will stay in the race. >>shepard: he gets the right vote and romney gets the rest. romney today is 25 percent or 30 percent but better in new hampshire and he has to bring the other 65 percent who watched him for four or five years and he has not made the sale. >>shepard: and these polls from november 10 and 11, romney 50 percent and obama 40 percent in the state of new hampshire. the polls are ...

Republican contender to rise to the top of the polls, of course come the attacks, a lot of his previous marriages. more from nbcs exclusive interview with former penn state coach jersey sandusky, what he admits was wrong and wishes that he didnt do.

For paul ryans budget and the cuts in medicare. they think that alone will be just a huge talking point for them in the general. >> it is the alleged absurdity of this field that we talk about almost every day going back to palin who didnt come into the field, herman cain, all these characters. is it really so unusual? dont we feel like every time theres a primary season you have seven or eight people, six or seven? >> weakest field in our lifetime either party. >> this is not alleged either. >>...