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Institutions? all this is his inability to answer the question confidently. it indicates something is wrong with his taxes. something is wrong with his campaign or something with the candidate. maybe all three. >> you know, its totally fair game. not only for him, but heres a guy who has bragged every campaign speech he gives. the focus of his speech is look at how successful i was in the private sector making money. not doing things, but making money. bragging about how much money hes made. aga...

Some say a huge rally by local standards with herman cain there. the crowd was attended by 4,000 it people. thats a big number down here. thats more than the actual candidates see in a rally. he is continuing to explore running for president in south carolina. what effect will he havekarnackr for salon. today on "morning joe," colbert took on the question of open marriage. god knows what he said, but here it is. lets listen. >> what, sir, is your position on open marriages? >> i just cant believ...

Who is he arguing with? i would say the straw man. he made up this fictitious character. have you paid a fair tax? i think thats a legitimate question. >> chris, you know when a politician changes the subject, its for a reason. ill take a slight issue with you. mitt romney, you know, in the year of occupy wall street, four years now after the wall street crash, he is mr. 1%. the whole issue of income and inequality has become a more popular issue. the republicans have even been talking about it....

Change hands in a health write housing market. a rough day for shares of google that lost 8%. it is gaining back some ground, however, in afterhours trading. taco bell is looking to start serving breakfast. they are set to roll out next week at 750 restaurants. and finally, a 36% jump in fourth quarter profits thanks to offshore operations in the gulf and abroad. the stock was up more than 1% today. thats it from cnbc. now back to "hardball." welcome back to "hardball." newt gingrich deflected...

Harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and im appalled you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that. [ applause ] >> howard, you notice how he turns a question about his behavior into a criticism of the media. its an old tactic. from a defensive position. there you go again. your thoughts on what we just saw. howard. >> well, that was to be expected. cnn had been talking about that open marriage quote all afternoon. newt was loaded for bear. he knew what was goin...

Hes winning. right now, newt is looking more and more like a winner. today the head of the poll said the lead over gingrich is collapsing. and even mitt conceded it could be a long race hes facing now. now throw in it all came together for newt last night. opening to the media, a supportive crowd, and a chance to show indignation about a question of marital infidelity that he knew was coming. the audience gave newt a pass, but will this claim by his second wife asking for an open marriage change...

Recount. i guess the question is, is this going to send any good message? because people, i am convinced, this is a sad commentary. regular people dont give money to candidates. they maybe give a couple hundred bucks. some may give that kind of money, but most people, when they see millions of dollars being paid by people like the koch brothers, they cant even get it in their heads what that means. so they move on to voting on a guy, how he deals with his wife, issues like the economy, they can ...

Grandchildren. trying to say this is a nonissue for them and its well in the past. >> you know, theres very little comic nature to divorce. but i was just wondering, james are you familiar with the fact he said his patriotic spirit, in his case, was what caused him to have the affair that ended that second marriage, which a lot of us thought was a ludicrous cover story. >> he seemed to have almost mitt romney-like answers. mitt romney has not been able to answer this tax question at all. and ear...

We do talk a lot about character in a presidential election. but you raise another thing you talked about tonight, which is that newt had a lot of fight in him last night when he was taking on john king. thats a lot of these voters wanted to see. a candidate with conviction who could fight. i talked to a senior strategist for the campaign. he thought newt answered the question last night, which is why he cancelled gingrichs daughters this morning for morning interviews. they said it was yesterda...

Away from newt. none of the tactics involved answering the question. it was pure gold because what the voters here want is somebody who wants to attack. i keep mentioning the fact they used to have cock fighting here in south carolina. thats what they like. this is not iowa. its not even new hampshire. they want the colors bold and they want them bright. >> thats the first cock fighting reference we have had on "hardball" in the history of the program. heres newt going on the attack against cnn ...