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Happy? newt gingrichs baggage. newt has more baggage than the airlines. freddie mac helped cause the economic collapse, but gingrich cashed in. freddie mac paid newt $30,000 an hour. $1.6 million. and newt is the only speaker in history to be reprimanded. he was fined $300,000 for ethics violations by a republican congress. newt gingrich, too much baggage. >> but for now, the gingrich campaign insists on staying positive. striking different tone in iowa. >> is there anything more inspiring than ...

see the difference between somebody whos trying to help the country and somebody who is simply running a negative campaign. >> campaign insiders, do you have to play dirty to win. plus a phenomenal tim tebow. superstar even if you know nothing about football. who is he really? why his on section with 24-year-old christian quarterback. ill talk with former nfl coach and the man who wrote the book on tebow. also kenneth brener. shakespeare, to hollywoods leading man. this is "piers mor...

also kenneth brenner. shakespeare, to hollywoods leading man. this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. while the rest of the country is deep in the holiday preparations, the world is buzzing over the official opening of the 2012 campaign. the first in the nation iowa caucuses are two weeks away. the stakes couldnt be higher in the republican field. latest cnn orc poll puts newt gingrich and mitt romney in a dead heat battling for the top spot. ron paul makes a surprisingly stron...

welcome to you, both. mary, is it too late for sarah palin? >> not technically. obviously newt gingrich came from a position of apparently being dead to being front-runner and the surge has temporarily hit the buffers, although hes still in joint lead with mitt romney. whats your reading of these fluctuations? >> theres durability in newts numbers based on what youve shown. theres other polls that confirm what youve shown. mitt romney has basically been the front-runner. hes been runn...

house democrats tried to bring up the tax extension on capitol hill. >> the house stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. on friday -- >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker. mr. speaker! >> that was a democrat there trying to get the attention. he failed. less than a half hour later, after cutting off the democrats the house republican leader was asking, where are they? >> were here, ready to work. looking for our counterparts to sit down with us. >> so when will the games be set aside and both sides ...

Welcome back to "politics nation." newton leroy gingrich is getting pounded with harsh attacks from his competitors. they are attacking him from all sides and on ways, on the airwaves. >> its a character problem. he doesnt have the discipline that you want in a president. >> he is out, and basically hes out in the left wing of the republican party. >> newt has more baggage than the airlines. as speaker gingrich even supported taxpayer funding of some abortions. newt has a ton of baggage. he was ...

Im getting used to hearing this music. tom petty, "free falling." ive actually heard it six times now for every republican front-runner falling from the top spot in iowa. and now its newton leroys turn to drop. a new poll shows his favorability plummeting over the last two weeks. he went from a 31 rating to 12 and then down to minus 1. minus 1. i guess the attacks are working. >> ethics complaints while he was speaker, driven out of the speakership in disgrace. >> having to pay $300,000 for lyin...

romney romney, now tied nationally among republicans. each with 28% support. congressman ron paul runs a distant third with 14%. the other candidates all trail in single digits. moments ago, gingrich at a media event as he struggle to reverse the slide. >> the only person who profits from republican ads attacking other republicans is barack obama and i think thats a pretty reprehensible behavior on the part of some of the candidates. so im going to be honest. we did this saturday morni...

Doles at this point. iowa is quirky. they dont like being told who to vote for. the register has not always picked the winner. there is a potential for it to backfire. >> gingrich is being attacked by by ads. it totals more than $3.2 million. thats nearly 14 times as much as gingrich has spent and romney is not the only candidate who is going after gingrich. this is what the airwaves look like right now in iowa. check this out. >> newt has a ton of baggage. like the fact that gingrich was fined ...

Formally accept a cabinet post in the new bush administration. powell became the first african-american secretary of state in u.s. history at the time of his swearing in. all right. why did mitt romney keep his powder dry last night? he is letting ads like these running in iowa do his work for him. >> newt has a ton of baggage like the fact that gingrich was fined $300,000 for ethics violations or that he took at least $1.6 million from freddie mac, $1.6 million some of it just before the hous...