this week. i will also release at the same time an estimate for 2011 tax returns. we just made a mistake in holding off as long as we did, it just was a distraction. no accident the news dump, by the way, planned to co-inside with the state of the union, perhaps as soon as president obama says the state of our union is then suddenly the e-mail will go out. gingrich on sunday said he is satisfied, for now. i commend him and i think it is exactly the right thing to do as far as i m concerned that particular issue is now set aside and talk about other bigger and more important things. by the way what is interesting, neither gingrich nor romney is living up to at least the bush precedent of releasing ten years, let alone the george romney precedent of 12. gingrich tried pivot when calling for transparency on romney s massachusetts health care plan. the governor is trying really hard to avoid answering anything, whether it is on his the romney care, for example, where the news r
sells it but he sells it in key states. i think it s helped him not only in the bigger picture but congress. look at who some of the republicans are from the states. i have to go. dan, shameless plug? outlook piece in the weekend sunday the washington post, five fifths about newt gingrich, wonderful. michael? cancer treatment center of america, i m on their board, i wanted to let everybody know. good place to go if you need cancer treatment. all right. dan balz piece on sunday, looking at changing demographics, inspired a piece i wrote for the hill tomorrow how that tracks with voter suppression efforts and demographics. i want to do a shameless plug to boston whdh, reporting that barney frank, long time democratic member of congress, is not going to run for re-election. we ll have more on that coming up in the next hour. that s it for this edition of the daily rundown. see you back here tomorrow. stay tuned for chris jansing &
momentum after the new hampshire editorial board endorsed gingrich on sunday. all this while mitt romney is off the trail today. joe mcquaid is the publisher of the new hampshire union leader. we want to refer to it as manchester united leader. nice to see you. nice to see you, chuck. was it a close call? not really. the call took a while to come to as it did with mccain in 2008. we have known gingrich for a long time and he s just at the head of the class and i think he showed that in the debates, so-called. would you, did you want to see a sign of life in his campaign before you made the call? i mean, you ve never gone with the grain, if you will, very rarely do you go with the grain where the establishment might be. but outside of pete dupont, it
differently. i don t think that s a fight. that s part of the legislative process. gingrich on sunday stood by his comments from 1993 in which he endorsed the individual mandate approach to health insurance, which is of course a tee tenet of the obama health reform plan, another comment that rush limbaugh called befuddling. shep? shepard: a big story broke on the world stage over the weekend in new york city. one of the world s most important economists, the man in charge of seeing the entirety of the global financial system is in a jail in new york city this afternoon. this comes after a judge refused his bail on charges of sexual assault. his name is dominique strauss-kahn, the chief of the international monetary fund, and also considered a frontrunner in the upcoming french presidential election. but over the weekend the new york police department arrested strauss-kahn on charges that he attempted to rape a housekeeper in a $3,000 a night hotel suite