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tonights special coverage. im rachel maddow here at the and messam busy mothership with my colleagues joy, read and lawrence odonnell, and gems, aki and all remember. great to have you all. here our friends chris hayes and stephanie ruhle will be joining us later. it is going to be fun. we are less than a week out from the republican presidential caucuses in iowa, last i when public debate is underway tonight with oddly, a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five people fo...

Santorum and what the difference between romney and santorum. but this was a major surprise, because santorum had been polling in single digits until about a week before caucus day. he searched really in the final five or six days of the caucuses, and just pulled out a surprise victory. the interesting thing, as romney had been favored to win iowa, we have seen all year before the caucus different candidates rick perry for, while newt, cambridge and -- risen up briefly, taking the lead in pollin...

Laura ingram and fox news political analyst one williams. you heard him say that romney will offer a clear choice of two different economic futures. is that what romney needs to do wednesday? is that enough? >> i think it will be good to win the debate. that is my main advise to governor romney. panicking a little bit and offering his own way ahead and explaining why the next four years under president obama would be disasterrous. shouldnt focus on the last four years. focus on next four years a...

Laura ingram and fox news political analyst one williams. you heard him say that romney will offer a clear choice of two different economic futures. is that what romney needs to do wednesday? is that enough? >> i think it will be good to win the debate. that is my main advise to governor romney. panicking a little bit and offering his own way ahead and explaining why the next four years under president obama would be disasterrous. shouldnt focus on the last four years. focus on next four years a...

Laura ingram and fox news political analyst one williams. you heard him say that romney will offer a clear choice of two different economic futures. is that what romney needs to do wednesday? is that enough? >> i think it will be good to win the debate. that is my main advise to governor romney. panicking a little bit and offering his own way ahead and explaining why the next four years under president obama would be disasterrous. shouldnt focus on the last four years. focus on next four years a...

Direction and we are adrift but no one, really, has a clear sense as to what the romney alternative is. and that means his 59-point plan not excepting. >> now, to the former congressman what about the vision? >> the vision, and it fits romney, he has been a problem solver for his professional life. a good person. not a great political candidate but by all intents he is a good person who needs to show himself through this convention as someone who will go to washington as president. we suggest he...

Pay it, our view is different. our view is that they should -- we should make it more accessible and more affordable and by doing that, by the way, dee dee, those who dont have insurance, getting them into the system by making it more affordable and accessible without harming those who are -- who do have insurance as you know. one of the things that was one of the false promises was if you liked the insurance you had you would be able to keep it. were seeing time and time again that is not the c...

About his record. certainly jeremiah wright and the presidents fitness for office, his views, is he really an american, all that stuff gets into the realm. >> lets pick apart bain a moment and then go to reverend wright. on bain this week it seemed the obama campaign, they had this rollout of the ad campaign they wanted to do. but they did it, it was sort of, it wasnt well rolled out in the fact that they did it in the same day that the president himself is raising money with a hedge fund guy. >...

Candidate, nobody really talking about it, suddenly on the wrong side of that, and whats happened, every romney alternative who emerged faced the same problem. haunted by the ghosts of preobama conservatism. all sorts of crimes against current obama era conservatism. romney haunted by that and hurt him in this process, its also shieldly him from having anybody rise up. >> thank you, steven. i started the broker convention conversation, i knew you would be excited. thank you for joining us. com...

Out of the race it would help rick santorum. the latest fox news poll shows that if gingrich were to drop out mr. santorum still trails mitt romney and there is a nelgable difference without him. only two point within the margin of era change. it doesnt illustrate much of a difference that gingrichs removal from the race would have to help rick santorum who, of course, has been calling for gingrich to get out with the argument that allows santorum to coalesce the conservative right behind him as...