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>> thank you. we are hours away from start of the nations first official presidential contest. to give you an idea of how wild this has been, for example, in late october, right around halloween, rick santorum had 5% in the "the des moines register" poll dead last. now hes poised to score an upset. this morning, he is feeling energized. >> i would say we strung this on shoestring but thats been ensuling shoestrings. money is coming in better than its ever come in. we suspect well have resources ...

An influence. >> richard, let me ask you. if he gets 400 dle glelegates a more going the caucus states and gets a big speech position at the national convention, what effect would that have on the republican party? >> youre going to see things like closing down whole departments in the federal government will become mainstream. were already seeing steve forbes crazy idea of flat tax go mainstream. for republicans. again, not for americans, but for republicans, ron paul is having that effect righ...

Your voices to the debate. as i said before, were at a make or break moment for the middle class. as president, i promise to do everything i can to make america a place where hard work and responsibility are rewarded. one where everyone has a fair shot and everyone does their fair share. >> for more, lets turn to jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst, and "bloomberg view" columnist and msnbc contributor joy-ann reid and managing editor of the grio. great to have both of you with us tonight. >>...

>> i think the other candidates, frankly, have been trigger happy. the way they are talking about military action against iran. the bar is so low that they think, you know, just saying boo to america when it came to the drone getting captured, that was enough to trigger military action. thats what most of the candidates said in that last debate. so for all of this wackiness, for all the isolationism and the anti-war sentiment, which wont fly with the republican elites, i think actually mainstrea...

Your voices to the debate. as i said before, were at a make or break moment for the middle class. as president, i promise to do everything i can to make america a place where hard work and responsibility are rewarded. one where everyone has a fair shot and everyone does their fair share. >> for more, lets turn to jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst, and "bloomberg view" columnist and msnbc contributor joy-ann reid and managing editor of the grio. great to have both of you with us tonight. >>...

Playbook and all the comments that president obama made and the promises. is he just going to blame it on the congress? is that it? >> well, look, the congress has been an impediment, ed, as you know, over the course of the past year. i mean, republicans in congress, especially in the house, set out on a strategy of tanking the economy, if that meant they could win an election. so we cant let them get away with that. i would say in terms of strategy, i would say three things. id say, one, the pr...

This state. to send a message on which way were going, for the status kqu. believe me, you dont have to worry about the choice if you choose another candidate, because the others represent the status quo. >> last week in newton, iowa, i didnt see him ask the way he did right there. by the way, another candidate once used caucus to his advantage. his name is president barack obama. lets turn to joan walsh, editor at large, salon.com. msnbc political analyst, richard wolffe. great to have both of ...

Which doesnt go on so much on the republican side. we have a feature on our side they dont have. if you dont get to 15% youre allowed to re-caucus and vote a second time for a candidate that you may like. its an automatic process. ed, i agree with you. i think santorum going to win tomorrow. paul coming in second. romney coming in third. thats a problem for romney. everybody knows ron paul is not going to get the nominee. santorum could be the nominee. because when they go to south carolina, san...

Seeing a big rise from him on thursday night then an even bigger spike going into friday night. we got together on saturday morning, we saw the final numbers. his numbers just rocketed. heres something thats really important to remember, ed. his electability numbers where republicans are saying who offers the best shot at toppling the president next november are nowhere near mitt romney. gingrich despite his incredible collapse in the poll is polling in at 13%. rick santorum numbers are only 7% ...

>> it was food to see congress do the right thing for millions of working americans but it was only possible because you added your voices to the debate. as i said before, were at a make or break moment for the middle class. as president, i promise to do everything i can to make america a place where hard work and responsibility are rewarded. one where everyone has a fair shot and everyone does their fair share. >> for more, lets turn to jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst, and "bloomberg vi...