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interesting to watch -- >> why are so many conservative commentators ganging up on gingrich? president obamas state of the union draws the usual wall to wall television coverage. >> good evening. while our focus in primetime here in washington tonight will be the presidents state of the union address before a joint session of congress at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. to be fair, the attention hasnt been on the president, not for months. >> within a day the story fades. has the medias atten...

>> exactly. one thinks of relationship. they are the number one terrorist state responsible for killing jas and marines. and and threatening to keel the jaudy ambassor. and holding up them. and ignored four rounds of sanctions and we talk about it instead of saying a regime change . they are not talking about that. >> it is actively embracing the opposition. >> it is remarkable. those of us who are supporting the oncision. the opposition with iran and most effective is the nek.

coming up shortly. gloria borger is standing by with david gergen, donna brazile, and ari fleischer. >> governor romney, what kind of debate did you think you had tonight? >> i thought it was terrific, and i was delighted with the debate. it was a big night for me and for the people who support me. you saw the response of the audience. its a big step forward and its going to give me the boost i need going into the last couple days before the primary. >> you were pretty aggressive, i co...

with david gergen, donna brazile, and ari fleischer. >> governor romney, what kind of debate did you think you had tonight? >> i thought it was terrific, and i was delighted with the debate. it was a big night for me and for the people who support me. you saw the response of the audience. its a big step forward and its going to give me the boost i need going into the last couple days before the primary. >> you were pretty aggressive, i couldnt help but notice, in taking on newt gingric...

shot wound to the hid. shes made remarkable recovery, but shes stepping down to focus on it. there was a call to action in the house and senate who have gotten precious little done lately. well talk with a senior advideser for the house. first, though, here are key moments from tonights speech. >> we are not going to settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do well while a growing number of people barely get by, a weak can restore an economy where every gets their fair s...

Out there that the trendlines in our global economy are moving in our direction, towards innovation and openness and transparency. weve got to take advantage of it and you need a strong ally and an effective, lean, government. that is what this authority can do. thank you very much, everybody. thank you. [applause] jon: with a nod to his desires to improve lives for middle class families, the president there announcing his plans to request of congress the authority to consolidate government agen...

People who i assume were shooting at them. this is primitive behavior. but this doesnt call for a national embracing of this as a failure of our system, never mind our proud, effective, courageous marine corps. >> lets talk about this showdown with iran. a lot of moving parts here, we have got this issue in the straits of hormuz. how concerned are you about iran not heeding the warnings of the u.s. military here about these actions in the straits? >> i think we ought to pay a lot of attention to...

11:20 eastern. going to bring you the remarks live. and just a week and a day until the south carolina primaries. one of them will be in florida. newt gingrich attends the opening of his campaign headquarters. thats happening this hour. mitt romney speaks in south carolina in the next hour and r rick perry is going to be in bluffton. >> hes made a career out of poking fun at the political process. but now comedian stephen colbert actually talking about running for president himself. it...

And i -- my sense of it is he needs to mount an effective, perhaps with advertising, defense of the role he played at bain capital. martha: you know, in fact newt gingrich has said that he has to come out and have a press conference to answer all the questions, newt gingrich says that need to be answered about bain capital. and the super pack that supports him has spent a tremendous amount of money on a 28-minute documentary that kind of looks like a michael moore-style attack on american capita...

Similar line of attack from debbie wasserman schultz yesterday. listen to this. >> demonstrates how little support there is on the republican side and little enthusiasm there is for mitt romneys candidacy and he is limp nothing new hampshire. >> is that a winning argument, do you think, for the democrats at this stage? >> well, i think its kind of true. mitt romney is sort of a weak front-runner and i think to richards point they feel like they need to start defining mitt romney now because that...