your read on the debate? >> i thought he did well. there is always a question with newt gingrich does the bad newt come out, the condescending newt, the guy who looks in the mirror and sees charles degall. he avoided that. i thought he deflected some of the attacks and had a good answer for most of them. i thought his answer in particular on the one about his marriage was very effective asking for forgiveness and i think that he will find that the voters i think honor that and that is not going to become an issue in the future. so, i think he held up pretty well so far. >> chris: do youing think, mara, that they scuffed him up and some of the other issues, the k street connection, the mandate, some of that stuff? >> i don't think so. i think that all week we have heard about newt's problems. there are tons of them, he has a lot of baggage and the republican voters so far seem to be absorbing that and discounting it. i think that one of the charges against him that he is a career politician, he had a pretty