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Live in charleston, south carolina. mark haleprin still with us. joining us now msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. >> eugene! >> host of "andrea mitchell reports," andrea mitchell. lets get right to it. >> by the way, our good friend chris christie -- >> please give him my regards. >> he loves you. >> yes, yes. >> and were going to get you guys together. >> well work it out. >> maybe over a bowl of soup and salad and you guys can work that out. >> absolutely. and well take a walk afterward...

Was primed to go after john king on something. and it was a gimme he had the opportunity in the very first question. >> but you said that republicans in south carolina hate what? you said they hate the news media more than they hate open marriages or something along those lines that they would rather side with newt on this very personal question. >> i think its also that people -- everyone has had trouble in their lives, family members, whatever. and mark haleprin and i were talking about this b...

Romney cant get his arm around this basic question? >> i didnt think he handled it as well as he couldve. youre right. he shouldve anticipated the question. why not get it out of the way early? i dont think the gentleman has anything to be embarrassed or ashamed about even though his taxation rate was 15%. its due to the fact that his companies that hes invested in already paid corporate taxes at the rate of 35% and 40%. so hes only being taxed on 15%, but in total, its over half the earnings of...

The president is a very smart man, but if he wins in november, that wont be the reason. it will be luck. he could not have chosen more self-destructive adversaries. >> krauthammer as always nails it. >> yeah. thats about as crystallizing as it comes and searing, as well. >> the republican field, mark haleprin has moved this race on to president obamas terrain. >> if, as it appears right now, there are two options for the republican nomination, newt gingrich and mitt romney. the republican establ...

New revelations may disrupt newt gingrichs campaign. tonight abc news is apparently airing an interview with the former speakers second wife maryann. in a preview of what could be in store, she has been saying as far back as the 1990s that she could end her former husbands career with a single interview. >> the question, mark haleprin, you used to work at abc newsment why does abc news put this on the air at perhaps the most pivotal point in this campaign yet where newt gingrich, you know -- if ...

And you were talking about top hats. did you notice that every time willie comes south of the mason dixon line -- >> man of the people. >> you do that because it fogs up. >> well, if you liked what you saw monday night if youre a newt gingrich supporter, wait until tonight. he saw the numbers we just showed where the gap closed ten points, nine points between them, hes got another crack at mitt romney again tonight two days ahead of the primary. he smells blood. clearly he smells blood and hes g...

Didnt believe in evolution. i think maureen said he was going to take us back to the dark ages, gary wills said that -- >> okay. bring it in for a landing. >> no, you need to understand this resentment. >> okay. >> i still remember this eight years later. gary wills saying that when you elect george w. bush, then as a country you have more in common with al qaeda than the european allies? this sort of resentment is something that i still feel as a conservative. its also something that newt gingr...

Referred to his $375,000 in speaking -- >> i think thats the killer. >> that to me for a working class, middle class, even upper middle class earner in any state in the country sounds sort of like, really? $375,000 is not much to you, buddy? >> its average if you pare it down $40,000 a speech. >> and mark haleprin, the question mark is, again, going back to this conservative leader i spoke with yesterday for some time about this issue. why the hell did he take the money in the first place? he di...

Problem, a blind spot that in this year of we are the 99%, it may turn off some independents. >> maybe eight years ago, seven, six years ago it didnt seem like an issue because the economy was in a different place. lets get to the latest polls, well get to the story about the cayman islands, but also a story about newt gingrichs ex-wife, which is developing, as well. which we do have some news on. this morning, these polls show that mitt romney is holding a 10-point lead over newt gingrich in so...

Mark haleprin, asked him where this income is coming from and when he said, you know, i didnt make very much, it was just speaking stuff. when you make $41,000 per speech, which is $8,000 more than the average income per person in the state of south carolina, its hard for voters there to say, yeah, that guys one of us. >> you know, mark haleprin, this is -- and again, people dont mind that hes not one of them. people dont mind roosevelts and kennedys, and even, you know, reagans who made some mo...