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Eating right while she has a large posterior herself." his campaign said "he was referring to to the first ladys healthy food initiative. he doesnt think the government should be telling americans what to eat. he plans to contact the first ladys office to apologize for his comments." the first ladys lest move campaign encourages children to eat healthier. mitt romney says president obamas uncle should be deported. he was arrested in august for drunk driving, also an illegal immigrant. romney...

Unexpectedly in terms of just surging on the heels of his performance at the debate. so the question is whether or not the money caught up with him like we saw with herman cain. when his campaign started to surge, the money came in. hell put it on the ground to try to get organization in place to turn out the vote in 15 days. >> congressman, lets bring you into the mix here. how big of a problem do you feel this is going to be for gingrich, and what is romneys strategy from here on out? do you f...

And its not all that clear to us how good gingrichs ground game is, but we know he only has about 20 of those precinct captains, and those are really critical to reaching out to people on the ground. >> lets get really quickly about the mood of the people. your thoughts? >> some say a ron paul win could ruin the caucuses. there was talk about that last time, though, when it didnt go anywhere. and john mccain went on to win the candidacy. if ron paul doesnt win, its an indication of the voters. ...

And destroying the eventual nominee and they all basically harken back to what happened in 2008 when hillary clinton and barack obama went at it for months, i mean, from january of 2008 up until i guess june before she dropped out and it didnt hurt obama and probably made him a stronger candidate and mobilized his support and built a better field organization and kept the medias attention, and, so i think theres a feeling of, you know -- theres not a lot left they havent thrown at each other. i ...

Where mitt romney has been strong, for the past two years. so, if newt gingrich doesnt win iowa, and, mitt romney goes on to win new hampshire, the gingrich train could meet its end quickly in the primary process. >> jamie: before we leave i want to go back to the "national review" article and talk about the other candidates. because it is interesting that even though they pretty much spend the majority of time bashing newt gingrich, for his impulsiveness and record and personal life, they do gi...

Ive interviewed him a thurm of times, i think hes a very interesting guy, i fully understand why his thousands and thousands -- millions of supporters across the country, but thousands here in iowa are so supportive of him. but i think it is fair to say he is a long shot for the republican nomination. and to the degree that people look at these states and say are they picking a president, if they were to pick paul, i think a lot of the -- you know, and maybe were not so smart, but a lot of the s...

Want to get in a tit for tat? >> its not a good argument for either one of them to make. but if you pick the plutocrat out of the two, its not a slam dunk that mitt romney is the stronger general election candidate. romneys been slow and steady in the primary race. hes basically stayed right at 20% to 25%. if hes slow and steady in the general election, he doesnt win. if newt gingrich can sow a little chaos, that might be what the republicans need in order to pull off a victory in 2012. >> lets ...

Lets go down to politico. "politicos" executive editor jim vandehei. jonathan martin has a piece up for you guys. taking a look at newt gingrich and the way hes running his campaign in iowa. asking the question, is newt taking the hawkeye state seriously enough? reason to believe hes not? >> you had a real smart observation earlier when you were talking about, did he peak too soon? because suddenly thanks to this surge, you have two different attack ads from a group affiliated with romney agains...

>> part is because he hasnt had the resources and that may work in iowa and that may be a real problem. especially if he doesnt win iowa. it will be important for the outside groups that were enabled and empowered by the supreme court decisions and the lower federal court decisions to spend unlimited money from real wealthy folks on ads with the candidates to come to his aid and we are reporting that one of the wealthiest backers, shelden adeleson committed to raising or directly writing a check...

With over a couple million dollars of negative ads in iowa against newt gingrich. and youll see more of that in the next few weeks. >> will florida be his firewall? is that where hell make his stand? where he puts all the money hes willing to put in the campaign, in a media campaign and diverse florida with the belief if he loses florida and finishes out january with no victories except a squeaker in new hampshire, hes not really in this game anymore. >> i think he can keep going. the you look a...