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And willie, did you have a good weekend? >> i cant remember. im sure it was great. >> are you not -- this is a huge week for mark haleprin. >> it is. >> for all of us. >> you know what hes doing? hes preparing his -- checking his lists and making sure, willie, everybodys invited to the premiere of "game change" thursday night. his partner, though, is doing some different kind of checking. checking to make sure all the coke shipments have cleared the keys and are making it up the east coast. >> w...

That is? they havent seen it. i love that, number one, and number two, i love my friend succeeding. number two, i love the fact that shes just jumping up and down and screaming, everybody, the game change premieres coming up! look at it, look at it. >> we call high awareness that this film will be on as willie said saturday night on hbo. >> amazing. >> and its a great movie. and i think people who like sarah palin should like it and watch it. >> and julianne moore will be on the show stortomorro...

>> we noticed it too. >> i didnt feel like i was in siberia. you know ive lived in washington, lived in new york. you never realize until you travel from new york down to washington this time of year, its a huge difference temperature wise. >> southern city, washington. >> it is. >> itll be 60 here. what are you doing, mika? >> good morning, everyone. >> im sorry, i talked. >> its just a little inside joke between me and wilbert, nothing. with us onset we have senior political analyst mark halep...

Georgia. the former house speaker is vowing to fight on with primaries next week in alabama and mississippi. in all, mitt romney picked up at least 204 delegates last night, nearly half of the total number at stake. gingrichs georgia haul moved him into second place just ahead of santorum in the overall count. here we go, its wednesday, march 7th, welcome to "morning joe." with us onset, we have national affairs editor for new york magazine john heilemann, we have republican strategist and contr...

Hard for him because it is culturally an away game. but rick santorums from pennsylvania. and he may well win these southern contests. >> and newt gingrich is from an unnamed moon colony. and lets -- willie, so what did he say about this? about lowering expectations? >> marks right on it. heres what he said yesterday talking about the challenges he faces in the south. >> how important is it for you to pick up a southern state? >> well, i realize its a bit of an away game, but i think were going ...

>> i think he probably would disagree, couldve forgone the whole experience. but he did it. and itll be interesting to see whether this proportional delegate counting going on below the surface continues to keep it close. >> the thing is, mark haleprin, though, at the end of the day, the romney people were saying two weeks ago, its going to be ugly, but were going to squeak this one out. youve got to give the romney people credit. maybe their candidates not the strongest in the world, but these ...

>> if president obama actually believes this apology is going to tame down the violence, then, of course, its worth doing anything. thats not the case here, the president apologizes, the surrogates apologize, the commanding general on the ground apologizes, the violence is still spiralling pretty much out of control right now. the bigger question is, what are we going to do going forward in afghanistan? whats our strategy? thats what we should be talking about, not trying to play gotcha with the...

Five-minute stump speech. every night it was something different. every night he went on to a different topic. he couldnt stay on message because he had so many messages. this is rick santorums same fault. he cant -- hes so undisciplined on the campaign stump. its maddening and its making a lot of his supporters angry. ben smith tweeted this of rick santorums campaign last night after he lost. a frustrated gop operative e-mails me, all santorum had to do was turn his iowa speech into a tv ad and...

Lukewarm advisers fear." and mark haleprin, you say that is the big story coming out of cpac. and at the end of the night when i was bidding adieu to everybody saying good night. i said, hey, tomorrow, big day for cpac, mitt romneys going to speak and newt gingrich. nothing, nothing. and rick santorum, and the cheers erupted. theres a new ppp poll thats going to be coming out nationally, but last night the tweet came out saying its pretty clear from the first day in the field the new front-runne...

Haleprin, also political writer >> wow. >> he was hong over and whining. it was unbelievable. >> hes back. mika, we have two big stories in the political world that are going on. well get to them. there, of course, first is the hhs decision and the fallout there. you know how democrats like tim kaine who was the presidents dnc chair before he decided to run for the senate now opposing the hhs ruling. you have john larsen in the democratic leadership now opposing it. this continues, the ground sw...