talk about equality. president obama is talking about giving relief to those in the middle class and god shows knows who are working and working poor need to be relieved, as well. he was aiming at mitt romney and taking a page from the republican playbook to suggest we re going to preemptively strike even before romney tries to launch missiles against mr. obama. that s a brillianttis tillation. i want to play a piece of sound and get your reaction. last night nancy pelosi was asked about the chances of newt gingrich being president. take a listen to her response and then to newt s response this is morning on the today show. listen to this. let me just say this. that will never happen. it isn t going to happen. why are you so sure? there s something i know. she lives in the san francisco environment, a very strange fantasies and very strange understanding of reality. i have no idea what s in nancy pelosi s head. if she knows something, i have a
know, folks in this country are smart enough to know pandering when they hear it and it s got to stop. i mean, yes. i ve seen this my entire life. i ve certainly seen it the past three or four years i ve served as ceo of this great group. we saw it in 2010 with the rise of the tea party. you know, we see it now in 2012. fear of course that we re just going to see more and more of it. indeed. the sad part is this. both newt and mitch are capable of being bigger, better people. but, you know, they seem to both kind of just sort of veer toward what s easy. it is easy to pander. we need our leaders right now to do the hard work of pulling us back together as a nation because we all know there is greater strength in being united rather than divided. to your point, sir, about unity, in your statement, your own statement about the president s address, you said this. congress is dominated by obstructionists who are all too willing to let millions of
saying bring it on. senator rand paul refusing a pat-down at an airport security checkpoint after setting off an alarm on a body scanner. he s joining us live this hour. he ll tell us what happened. also, a key u.s. supreme court ruling on electronic surveillance. the justices agree that police need a warrant to plant a gps device on a suspect s car but they don t agree on why. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. what a day in politics. mitt romney is going all out as he goes after newt gingrich with a series of very bitter attacks. the new national poll out today may show why. the two rivals are in a statistical tie. the gallup daily tracking poll shows romney at 29% nationwide, down nine points in just over a week. gingrich is at 28%, double his strength in the last poll a week ago. it s a dead heat, just a week and change before the florida primary. let s bring in cnn jim acosta. he s in tampa and watching the battle for florida. it shouldn t be.
nonnative south carolina, republican voter, think country club republican, military voters, it was dead even. newt ran dead even with him among veterans and veterans is a huge chunk. the mccain coalition basically wasn t there for romney. newt cut into that in a way that, that mike huckabee couldn t do four years ago. and it just underscores the other thing. as we keep going forward, these electorates actually get more conservative. so if newt gets through, it s going to be a conservative electorate in florida. this is a closed primary. no independents will show up here this is going to be an interesting fight for the cuban-american vote down there. it might be more evenly split as far as endorsements are concerned. romney has more of them. but i want to bring up the one final point about endorsements. it s interesting, newt doesn t have any mainstream endorsements in the establishment wing of the party or when we evangelicals, they united last week behind rick santorum. i think the gr
making jobs is like al gore take credit for the internet. carl: when a former speaker of the house compared to al gore you are getting tough and gingrich has been hit by all sides. newt gingrich said romney will only play to the criticism that republicans are good morning kilter and only adopting their ideas. newt gingrich argues says it is newt to contest obama. rick santorum and newt is getting hit by santorum? carl: he says we need conservatives coalesce he is saying don t vote for rick santorum, don t vote for rick perry and he said a vote for them is a waste. it infuriates mr. santorum, the former pennsylvania senator. gingrich is suggesting he is snake bitten and could not contend for the presidency because of the big loss as a