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Effort to avoid disruption to the morning commute. officials say a half dozen protesters were arrested there in philadelphia. well keep you posted as we get in more pictures from both l.a. and philly. meanwhile, the iowa caucuses now just over a month away. the republican presidential field looks like its becoming a two-horse race. this timeitch. the latest american research group poll shows gingrich topping the field in the state of south carolina with 33% support. impressive enough on its own....

Consultants, he made millions of dollars helping companies promote services while gaining access to government officials. the article points to meetings gingrich arranged between clients and officials noting the executives paid as much as 200,000 a year just to belong to gingrichs group. the center for health trance formation. speaking at a campaign event in south carolina yesterday, gingrich said he did not need the money bad enough to become a lobbyist. >> i did no lobbying of any kind, period...

Romney brushed off gingrichs endorsement for the new hampshire leader newspaper. romney saying he never expected to get that nod. >> you know, the union leaders have not always been happy with me. ibe terribly surprised. gingrich spent his last 30 or 40 years in washington. i spent my career in the private sector. i think that should be what the country needs right now. >> romney continued to defend himself against charge thats he changes his positions for political gain and did that while again...

They heard the actual ring tone, which some are talking about now. what happened? >> the president gets a call at 3:00 a.m. will the ring tone be abba? the ring tone is apparently a rift from a recording of the song "dancing queen" by abba. he was giving a speech and turns off gingrich is the fan of the movie mama mia with meryl streep. the movie is based oon stage musical with the same name. the musical goes all the way back to the 70s and gingrich said he likes the sequence in the movie where ...

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Perhaps give us a front-runner. mitt romney predicting, quote, were going win this but his opponents are promising the governor will have a much harder time after tonight. this afternoon the former house speaker newt gingrich told reporters his ads will start drawing, quote, a sharper, clearer contrast with governor romney and on cbs this morning, the former speaker, remember, hes the candidate who keeps promising to stay positive, well, gingrich called romney a liar. >> are you calling mitt rom...

If enough of us demand action from our leaders. >> together we can do this. >> while the romney campaign spent today raising money and talking about gingrichs zaniness and liberal excursions, it was just another day on the campaign trail for newt gingrich in iowa. >> what i want to come today and talk about, i think this may be the first time any presidential candidate ever talked about brain science. >> joining me now from des moines iowa, "new york" magazine columnist and msnbc political analy...

>> we do agree our country must take action to address climate change. if enough of us demand action from our leaders. >> together we can do this. >> while the romney campaign spent today raising money and talking about gingrichs zaniness and liberal excursions, it was just another day on the campaign trail for newt gingrich in iowa. >> what i want to come today and talk about, i think this may be the first time any presidential candidate ever talked about brain science. >> joining me now from d...

There is a real mystery at the core of this thing. number one, why couldnt the romney campaign stop it, and whats going on here? shes saying gingrich is more liberal than romney. how did this happen? howard? >> well, being one of the people that had the honor of covering the christine odonnell campaign in delaware, i can only imagine that there may be, im just saying, hypothesis, maybe some unretired campaign debts involved who know as mitt romney has said, money is no object. i cant imagine tha...

Mistake. so they just dust it aside. and that makes them more attractive in a primary. im standing by what i did in massachusetts. the biggest issue that dogs me in the primary campaign, im absolutely firm that it was the right thing for our state. ill defend that. and i understand it. it has political implications. fit keeps me from winning a primary, so be it. >> gingrich was, of course, the one who did the global warming ad with nancy pelosi. the democratic national committee focusing its att...