well, exactly two weeks to go before the iowa caucus. newt gingrich is begging the republican field to stop attacking him. good luck with that. and in the rewrite tonight, we have got to do something about jon stewart. he is now completely out of control. we ve got to stop him. it might be time for an intervention on jon stewart. that s in the rewrite. today on the campaign trail, the formerly calm, cool, and collected newt gingrich was mad. he was mad because he asked the other candidates not to talk about all the reasons why newt shouldn t be the nominee and the candidates campaign and their super pacs continue for some strange reason, to run attack ads against newt, ads like this one from a pro romney super pac. more baggage than the airlines. gingrich cashed in. freddie mac paid newt gingrich $30,000 an hour. $1.6 million. and newt is the only speaker in history to be reprimanded. he was fined $300,000 for ethic violations by a republican congress. newt gingrich, too much bag
whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, secure their retirement. that speech was a clear rebuke of republicans especially the tea party, and music to the ears of democrats who too often find their president too timid. their philosophy is simple, we are better off when everybody s left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules. i am here to say, they are wrong. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is here to up his game today. clearly framing the campaign. why today? reporter: that s right, he is framing the campaign. and it s because essentially it s heating up now, and he has to get in he has to get in campaign gear before the frame is set for him, john. the republicans that you know are on the campaign trail every day trying to make this a referendum on the president s leadership on the economy. they think they ll win if it s a referendum on how the economy is
to do to move himself forward. and he sees that 80%. you know that number that i put up on the big board? 80% of the american people do not want medicare and medicaid changed so this was his opportunity on the big news show meet the press to step out on a sunday and say, well it s radical. it s right wing social engineering. we don t want to go that far. we re conservative is basically what he s saying but we just don t want to go that far and he thought that maybe he could get some center pieces to come along with it. well, newt is still newt and he s a wordsmith and don t you a wordsmither. don t you think it s kind of ironic that he is trying to find the right words right now to get back in the good graces? i still say tonight don t count
republicans are just looking at the landscape demographically and they look at newt gingrich and they see an older guy? they look at paul ryan and they see a young, 40-year-old guy who whether you believe it or not, i think he did show somewhat of a courageous move to put out such a radical agenda and put his name to it because it s going to follow him forever. i mean, he s putting his political career on the line and he knows it and that s why he s not going to run for the senate in wisconsin. that announcement coming out within the last 24 hours. so do you think that they re just going to decide to ride this horse instead of newt? well, you know, that was a real question the last few weeks because right after the entire house gop held hands and jumped off that cliff and all of them but a couple voted to basically eliminate medicare as we know it and replace it with this voucher system, there was all this kind of back sliding where, you know, boehner said, well, that s our plan. wel