and that is fascinating. can mitt romney divide and conquer the entire campaign? >> a twist you brought up in your comments, michael steele about newt gingrich. i'm going to read about heilemann's piece in "new york" magazine about that point. there you have it, gingrich who trails romney badly in the state plans to use the week between the caucuses here and primary there to rip romney a new one. where gingrich for the moment is polling strongly and ahead of the pack. there's an opening for almost anybody in this race. >> we were out yesterday, mark and i trailing newt around and an amazing thing happened up in marshalltown where he was not scheduled to take questions from reporters but got goaded into a media availability where our colleague chris matthews more or less dominated the proceedings. and essentially got newt engaged enough that he started talking about his intention to finally