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Newt gingrich edged out romney for second place by just over 1,000 votes. and just before 11:00 eastern time, an even tighter race in mississippi was called for santorum who took in 33% of the vote there. newt gingrich and mitt romney followed with newt in second with 31% and 30% respectively. and just a few hours ago, nbc news declared mitt romney the projected winner. he won 45% of the vote, defe defeating rick santorum by 20 points. withing back to "morning joe." mark haleprin and john -- no ...

>> thank you for that. thats awesome. >> now you know. >> thank you, willie. >> i feel like i can move on with my day now. i know everything. >> were your tight clothes harming your health? >> apparently they are. lets go down to "politico." mike allen with a look at the playbook. good morning. >> hey, good morning, guys. >> lets talk about what happened last night, new insight into mitt romneys game plan after two losses last night, he did win hawaii but lost alabama and mississippi. whats thei...

Primaries. just after 10:00 eastern time last night, santorum took alabama with 35% support, newt gingrich edged out romney for second place by just under 2,000 votes of the more than 600,000 cast. and just before 11:00 p.m. eastern time, an even tighter race in mississippi was called for santorum who took in 33% of the vote there. newt gingrich and then mitt romney followed with 31% and 30% respectively. and just within the hour, nbc news declared mitt romney the projected winner in the hawaii ...

Romney struggled to win over the republican base surfaced again last night with half the voters in mississippi and alabama saying the former massachusetts governor was not conservative enough. >> and what that tells me is the base is basically saying this vote that i get on primary night is about what i want, what i feel, and how i feel about these candidates. so, yeah, youll see santorum and others win. but when push comes to shove, if not -- if romney is the nominee, im going to vote for that ...

Delegates. this race is now a county-by-county knife fight. second, a bolder message from mitt romney, the base is just not buying the message now. were going to hear, for instance, look for him instead of talking about replacing barack obama, hes going to talk about defeating obama. hes going to talk more about his own economic plan, cutting taxes and spending, more sources of energy, and pivot to talking more about obama. theres two thoughts about obama. one, as you suggested when you were tal...

This effort to bring justice and hope to all our people and to bring peace to our own. >> that was president lyndon baines johnson talking about the civil rights act of 1964. and joining us now the director of the presidential library and museum in austin, texas, mark is the author of the new book just out it indomitable will," and hes here to talk about that book. it looks fantastic. >> thank you. >> i cant wait to read it. you say in the book that he is largely misunderstood. lets start there....

Campaign and the second track is going to be covering obama versus obama. really what will determine the next four years is which obama is going to get elected. is it going to be the obama of the speeches, you know, who inspires, challenges the status quo? or is it going to be the obama who has governed the way he has governed which is basically settling for what he could do, settling for the easiest, and basically forgetting everything he said himself. remember, the fierce urgency of now. remem...

I think if he got up on the stage and looked folks in the eye and go, you know, things are tough right now. >> and i know your state. >> i know your state. i know your people. and its not about grits and not about calling yall. its about calling americans who are living through tough times. thats a different conversation than the one weve seen him have up until now. >> the weakness romney is running up against is pressuring him in ways. theyre not pressuring him to talk about issues because they...

Frustrated. and we hear about this all the time about lack of access they have to senior aides. the reporters on the romney bus tell us that part of the reason there were so many stories about that bad event at ford field in detroit where there was a small mitt romney on a huge stadium was that there were no economic advisers or officials to talk to him about the policy speech he was given. if they read a tweet the campaign doesnt like, they get a complaint. so in the last few days, top aides ha...

And i do appreciate that these men are continuing to duke it out in the arena of ideas and are allowing themselves to be vetted. thank you, gentlemen, who are running on the gop ticket. staying in there allowing yourselves to be vetted by the media because they didnt do it when barack obama ran. >> good morning, its friday, march 9th. welcome to "morning joe." with us here in washington, msnbc "time" magazine senior analyst and the star of the red carpet, mark haleprin, also political editor and...