in florida. but it is what it is, wolf. i think there will be flen of time for our nominee to recover but it certainly has a damaging effect. >> listen to newt gingrich go after mitt romney yesterday on the "meet the press" debate. it got very personal. listen to this. >> i realize the red light doesn't mean anything to you because you're the frontrunner. but could we drop a little bit of the pious bologna? you ran in '94 and lost. you had a very bad re-election rating. you dropped out of office. you have been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. >> all right, if you had a chance to speak to newt gingrich what would you say to him right now? >> i would say, you're not helping yourself much because i still think you have to give people a reason to vote for you.