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with president obama and the first family, but hes with me this hour to explain more. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." hes come on through the rise and fall of michele bachmann, but this time, it might be different for mitt romney. newt gingrich is now posing a threat to romneys persistent high polling, opening up a new battle line in the republican race for the white house. joe johns the working the story for us. whats the latest between romney and gingrich? >> well, ...

Conservative friends, why is this field so weak? >> i thought about this this morning. >> every public officials misspeaks. president obama visited 57 states. you go on down the list. everyone has some aha moments. the problem with perry is theres a narrative there, that he didnt have the horsepower to get to the finish line. he made a mistake. the problem is he continues to make a lot of mistakes, so it creates a larger narrative. >> its one gigantic mistake occasionally studded with -- >> he s...

Platform? >> theyre all pretty conservative. i love this years -- >> who is the most? who has the most conservative record? >> well, id say romney, cain, bachmann, im not sure they are the most conservative -- the most kind of conservative i like. i mean, i think both santorum and perry and gingrich have problems with amnesty and that is a big issue with the republican party. doesnt matter what everyone says. at "the wall street journal", on fox news, george bush tried to put amnesty -- push amn...

If newt could step in and make that play there is no reason he cant occupy that void if perry continues to flounder as he has for weeks. >> willie, do you think perry has a second act? >> no. i think its over. i think he flamd out quickly. >> you think bachmann though may have a second act in iowa? >> because of iowa, yeah. i dont know that she wins iowa but i think she is competitive there. >> she actually last week though turned in two of her strongest performances on the fallon show. at the d...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com republican presidential candidate herman cain tells his staff he is reassessing the viability of his campaign less than 24 hours after he dropped a political bombshell right here in "the situation room." during my interview with him yesterday, cain revealed that an atlanta woman is claiming she and cain engaged in a 13-year extramarital affair, a claim cain flatly denies. coming on the heels of sexual harassment allegations, this leaves his campa...

Have been waiting for this thing to finally be over. im not sure this will be it. insofar as as herman cain seems very reluctant to leave the national stage. but in terms of being taken seriously, i think its over. >> lets do better what we do better than anyone else. does this help to clear the field for newt to the right of romney? you got to get a clean shot that way. that could give him a clean shot. less interference with the cain vote. less interference, probably, from perry already. >> i ...

after a shocking tape has come to light. also, the markets getting a bit of a black friday bounce. pakistan puts the u.s. on notice after a deadly nato strike. and a wet, dare i say possibly snowy, day for the southeast. im going to play reporter roulette here on this monday. ed lavandera, in syracuse where syracuse university fired assistant basketball coach bernie fine, fine is accused of sexually abusing kids. ed, also news fines termination just hours after the world heard th...

>> i know everything that went on with them. bernie has issues. maybe not that you are aware of but he has issues. you trusted somebody you shouldnt have trusted. bernie is in denial. i think that he did the things he did but hes somehow through his own mental telepathy find yourself a gay boy. you know, get your rocks off, maybe it is over with. >> you know, he needs a, that male companionship. that i cant give him. i care about you and didnt like to see you treated that way. if it wa...

Policy. michele bachmann is beating him up about it. >> they probably have more liberal immigration than any candidate in the race. we know that speaker gingrichs position is. he said clearly he would make legal 11 million illegal workers. no other candidate goes that extreme. >> kimberly: what do you think of obamas commen -- bachs comments? >> andrea: the most rib lal is perry because he favors in-state tuition to illegal that newt does not. newts statement is workable. realistic. intellectual...

Policy. michele bachmann is beating him up about it. >> they probably have more liberal immigration than any candidate in the race. we know that speaker gingrichs position is. he said clearly he would make legal 11 million illegal workers. no other candidate goes that extreme. >> kimberly: what do you think of obamas commen -- bachs comments? >> andrea: the most rib lal is perry because he favors in-state tuition to illegal that newt does not. newts statement is workable. realistic. intellectual...