on bended knee to a group of conservative bloggers basically saying, will you help me out? newt told them, my hope is to find a way to work with the house republicans. i used language that was too strong although the underlying principle i think was right. newt gingrich doesn't know the first thing about principles. newt has spent his entire political career tearing down his enemies and he's got the word list to do it. newt doesn't have a lot of friends to turn to right now. it might be too late. late this afternoon he knows it's kind of the 11th hour so he went into full damage control mode and he placed a phone call to paul ryan. he surrendered. he capitulated. he apologized. paul ryan called nointo a hate merchant, mark levine, and talked about it. >> i think he now understands the magnitude of his comments, how wrong they were, and i think