santorum, it's gingrich calling him a bunch of "l" words. not the ones you see on tv. it's the liberal and liar. >> the pakistani doctor who helped track osama bin laden down. he could be tried for high treason. he's talking about bin laden saying someone in the government in pakistan must have known where he was hiding out. look out iran. a couple of guests are arriving in your fine country today. they are weapons inspectors of the iaea sort. they are looking for what you are up to. all of this while leon panetta has been warning that, you know what, iran might just have the bomb within a year. and it is occupy d.c.d day. the protesters are facing a deadline to get out today. very tense moments just blocks away from the white house. they do have a little something up their sleeve, the protesters do. all of it will unravel live. in the meantime we're still on the tick tick talk to the primary. 26 hours if my math is right until the polls open in florida. it's looking real good for mitt romney right now. a whole bunch of rallies taking place over the weekend for both candidates. newt gingrich has been really trying to push the whole liberal label on to mitt romney. and mitt romney has been all over gingrich's, quote, failed leadership while he was in congress. >> how is that all working out? a new american research group poll shows romney with a double digit lead in florida. 43% to 32%. a new nbc news maris poll shows romney's lead is higher, 42% to 27%. the candidates are always sparring. they do agree on one thing, beat owing bomb ma. >> i think it's been a ground hog day presidency where he keeps saying the same thing again and again and again. we keep waking up and we have the same problems day after day after day. >> if we're going to beat obama, he's going to have a billion dollars. almost all of it will be spent negatively because he doesn't have any positive record to run on. so, i mean, he's going from, yes, we can to why we couldn't as his theme. >> well, the delegate scoreboard so far after iowa, new hampshire, florida looks like this. they've gingrich has 23. romney is not far behind with 19. rick santorum has 13 and ron paul, not bad. not bad for ron paul picking up 3. did well in new hampshire. florida though is the big kahoona. it has 50 delegates. winner take all. the numbers could change greatly by the end of tomorrow. let's talk about that from some of the folks who know best. independent political analyst goldie tailor joining us. matt keelan and democratic jamie harrison. goldie, i want to start with you to weigh in on mr. tom bro could have while he's not ang coring the news now is fee during heavily in an ad that mitt romney is playing against newt gingrich all about hissette things. let's have a listen. >> newt gingrich came to power after all preaching a higher standard. a man who brought down another speaker on ethics allegations. tonight he has on his own record the judgment of his peers, democratic and republican. by an overwhelming vote they found him guilty of ethics violations. >> to the ominous music as well back from the 1990s. goldie, that is not the kind of thing you want to hear if you're newt gingrich regardless if it was the '90s and he has all sorts of explanations. people love tom brokaw. how is it playing? >> i think it's playing well. it is a winner take all but, two, as newt has risen on the debates, he's also fallen on the debates. three, mitt romney has spent an awful lot of money on television, nearly 5 to 1, mostly negative ads. it's working. in terms of tom brokaw, i wouldn't want to be put in that position. i think nbc in their family brands have fought against it in a good way. >> they don't like it. tom brokaw has actually been asking for the campaign to pull the ad. thus far to my knowledge, although it is only 5:05 in the east, it hasn't been pulled. let's move on to another media source, shall we? "the new yorker." it's the cover "the new yorker." . now they've got barack obama seemingly looking at the super bowl between newt and mitt and drinking his beer and holding his football. this is a lot of fun and games, but the truth of the matter is, jamie, that this is kind of what the democrats are feeling right now, that it's just wonderful to watch this circular firing squad among the republicans, right? >> yeah. it's like wrestle mania. get your chips and drinks out. it's really amazing to see the barrage of attacks from the romney and gop establishment on newt gingrich. gingrich isn't being a shrinking violet. he came out very forcefully against mitt romney. called him an anti- -- a pro abortion, pro tax increase massachusetts moderate. it's really like world war iii in the republican party. >> talk about this. the republican strategy right now in terms of newt's -- or, rather, mitt's opponents has been to sort of paint him as this elitist, rich guy who, by the way, a lot of people in the field, a lot of people who have been polling have said, that ain't such a bad thing if he can run a business that well, maybe he can run the country that well. the ""l.a. times"" has come out with something that was interesting is that business leaders haven't always made for good political leaders. when you're a business leader you don't have opposition to fight. there's got to be something to that. >> i think what romney's going to need to do is talk about being governor of massachusetts once he pivots to the general election. talk about how he was bipartisan, got things done with a democratic legislature up there. right now he's focused on how great of a businessman he is. if you talk to most people on wall street and across the country in business, he's one of the top ten american business men. >> i want you all to weigh in with one word, the word is either good, bad, doesn't make a difference. jeb bush has not endorsed anyone in florida. >> doesn't make a difference. >> matt? >> it's good. >> jaime. >> doesn't make a difference. >> you are awesome. the producers are like, we love this panel. thanks, guys, very much. we're going to talk to you a little bit later on in this program. for the best political coverage on the entire television netscape tune in to what we have going on. at 6:30 eastern david vifter will join us. soledad o'brien, former presidential candidate herman cain is going to tell soledad why he decided to endorse newt gingrich this weekend and what a difference it will make. it is 5:08 in the east. we give you an early start to your day by alerting you to the news that's happening later. the stories that are developing now whampt will be the big story. andrew young, former aid to presidential candidate john edwards will be in court to answer contempt charges. young and his wife are accused of turning sealed documents over to federal prosecutors. those documents are part of a civil lawsuit filed against them by edwards former miss stress for invasion of privacy. hunter is trying to reclaim personal items that she says belonged to her, including photographs and that alleged sex tape. john edwards, you'll recall, is charged with using campaign contributions to hide his affair with hunter. and the occupy protesters in washington, d.c., might not have such a nice wakeup call today. they could get the boot earlier than expected. they've only got until noon. if they're late sleepers, it means wake up and get out. they want to clear out the two sites near the white house where they've been camping. we're hearing police could start clearing out the camps in the next few hours. cnn has a crew there. we're going to keep our eye on it, make sure we know exactly what's going on, especially if any violence ensues. >> let's mind your business shall we. u.s. markets closing mixed on friday. the dow and s&p down and nasdaq up. let's bring in christine romans. >> happy monday. >> you know what made me happy, the idea that there could be a facebook ipo. >> there's been a lot of chatter. it's the holy grail of ipos. we won't know for sure until they file some documents with the sec. "the wall street journal" has been reporting the timing might be getting closer to being decided. we still don't know yet. ipo would be very interesting for facebook. also a tough week though for stocks probably this week. one of the reasons is you have stocks near the highest since april. last week was a tough week. you could use debt discussions going on with greece still. you have the first european union kind of big summit of the year and earnings. let's be careful of this week. it ends with the jobs report in the united states. a lot of things for stock investors this week that could be a little bit tough. >> you're watching florida. >> i want to talk about florida because tomorrow it's all about florida. you just heard one of your guests say that he might be one of the top ten business men in america, right? in florida that seems to be going over well, that and the fact that they're spending an awful lot of money -- >> three to one. >> right. they're spending a lot of money. i was just in florida on friday. this whole idea of, you know, he's rich, that's a bad thing. it wasn't playing with the people i was talking to in north florida. one person said to me the american national pastime is buying lottery tijts. mitt romney is what we all want to be. this whole fight within the republicans about money is not something that resonates with them. >> it's the american dream for heavens sake. >> but it depends on where you are. in some places they're saying what about the 99 to 1. what about occupy. he is the representation of that. where i was in north florida that was not what they were saying. i want to talk a little bit about housing because in florida you have 9.9% unemployment rate. you have a housing market that's been cut in half from the prices since the peak. i was talking to a professor at the university of north floor darks real estate professor, guys, and he sees some signs of hope in all of these dire statistics. that might be playing out in the primaries tomorrow. listen. >> i did a study going back to the '60s and times when it's this affordable, five years hence prices have usually gone up significantly. i don't know this is so unusual and so rare, but this is such a good sign that housing prices will go up in the future. >> there you go. finally i heard someone say that maybe housing prices could go up. they're cleaning out and that's such a cruel word to use, cleaning out a lot of these foreclosures. i'm not saying it's going to get better tomorrow. he's not saying it's going to get better tongue but we're bumping along the bottom. >> that's such a vague word though. everybody knows they will eventually go up. >> when you're talking about the politics of it, at some point this is all terrible, loud background noise for people going in there. it's been like this. in florida, they were the first to rise and the first to fall and fall in a big way. i was asking people when you go in and you're at the primary on tuesday or when you're casting the ballot in the general election, what are you thinking and hoping for? you're talking about who's got the qualifications to lead the economy and grasp those little signs of hope and turn that into a real recovery. it's just interesting. the tone is so much different in florida than it was in iowa, and even in south carolina. that's what makes it so exciting talking about politics. >> the housing crisis is the worst there? >> it's horrible. >> the professor, when he was talking about this, was he referring to florida or -- >> florida only. >> we have nevada to come. that is a buktd of junk. >> in nevada i don't think anybody's going to be -- i'll try to find that one person who says that. >> guess who's going to nevada? >> are you going to nevada? >> no. no. >> thank you, christine. we appreciate it. it is 5:13 in the east. a warm end to january unless you are in alaska. >> which you're used to anyway if you're in alaska. rob marciano standing by with the good, the bad, the ugly. >> hi. speaking of florida, we'll start you there. not the best days yesterday with fog and smoke creating a deadly accident along i-75. still a small smidgen of that from what i can find of i-75 clos closed. some of the state highways around the fire just south of gainesville closed before of smoke. right now temperatures in this area are pretty chilly. as you go up in the atmosphere they're warmer above than they are below. that is putting a lid, a cap on this smoke and keeping it close to the ground. we have dense smoke advisories and visibilities are low across parts of north florida. 32 degrees in gainesville. you go up 1,000 feet and the temperatures are 50 degrees. we have to burn through this inversion in order to get the atmosphere mixed up. chilly up to the north. couple of week clipper type systems bringing light showers. this shouldn't be that big of a deal. cool shot of air across the northeastern tier. for the most part, most of the ufrmt s. is going to be above normal. this warmth will be pumping up east and north as we go along to the next couple of days. tomorrow looks to be fairly toasty. if you are traveling, new york, boston, detroit and miami are going to be the spots that see some delays. 40 degrees in new york. it will be warm joer tomorrow. guys, back up to you. >> 40 degrees is where we should be? >> that's interesting. i would have thought that was warmer. >> maybe a couple degrees warmer. >> you're so smart. >> thank you, rob. >> it is now 15 minutes past the hour so get up and at her. while you're busy in your room, we'll give you the top stories of the day. newt gingrich trying to channel good old ronald regan as he slips further and further behind mitt romney. sunshine state is holding that primary tomorrow. right now romney holds a double digit lead over newt gingrich. former house speaker telling florida voters he is the new ronald regan person in the race. take a look at this video, folks. opposition groups blame government forces for more than 160 deaths. critics have slammed the arab league mission for doing little to stop the crackdown on protesters. >> then back here at home it always makes big headlines. sag awards. when they get all fancy, dress up and they get awards. it was a big night for ""the help"" the the screen actors guild awards. it won the top prize, best ensemble cast. two of its stargs were honored. >> i rarely watch movies. i need you to ask me about this one? >> have you seen this. >> yes, i have. >> viola davis, octave yeah spencer. very deserving if you haven't seen the movie, run, don't walk. it's terrific. on the tv side, they do the tv thing there too, "modern family" won for best comedy ensemble. "board walk empire." >> 5:16. pakistani doctor who helped the u.s. track down osama bin laden could be tried for high treason. let's see what leon panetta says. >> also a little unusual, puppy snatching. weird video. they're caught on surveillance tape stealing that little bitty baby puppy. no, don't say it. the pet owner says police, call off the hounds. drop the charges. why? you're going to find out in our early read segment coming up next. ♪[music plays] ♪[music plays] purina one beyond. food for your cat or dog. mid grade dark roast forest fresh full tank brain freeze cake donettes rolling hot dogs bag of ice anti-freeze wash and dry diesel self-serve fix a flat jumper cables 5% cashback right now, get 5% cashback at gas stations. it pays to discover. it is 5:20in the morning in the east. we're getting an early read on your local news that is making national headlines. this morning we have papers from oak lapped and los angeles. we're going to begin in oakland, the "oakland tribune." the city is assessing damage from a weekend protest. more than 400 people were arrested. they broke into and vandalized city hall. despite the damage they say city hall will reopen this morning. the city says the protesters broke windows, damaged architecture more than 100 years old. the protesters say that the actual aggression is -- they're blaming the police. they say they've become more aggressive so, in turn, they have to. >> i don't like flag burning. i know it's your first amendment right, but i don't like it. the "l.a. times," this is a weird story. see that girl? see that thing she's opening up? there's a chow puppy in there worth about 600 bucks. off she goes dog napping. taking a dog. the pet owner wanted the police to charge the dog napper. the dog napper decided to send the pet owner the pet store an apology note and the $600. that was just the penultimate response. they went one step further and they sent another apology and even more money to cover the taxes and the fees on that little puppy dog. very unusual. so the store owner then accepted the apology and asked the police to drop the charges. puppy is safe. all is good. very weird. >> very odd. how often does that happen, right? >> i don't know. kinder, gentler crooks? word of the day by the way, ting. >> what is your word of the day? >> penultimate. you have to check our tweets to find out what the word of the day is every day. >> all right. >> little insider thing. >> it is 5:22 now. senior pakistani officials are telling cnn that the government has not yet decided whether to try a doctor who helped track down osama bin laden. defense secretary panetta talking about the raid on cbs "60 minutes." he believes some pakistani officials must have known where bin laden was hiding. he talked about the pakistani doctor who is now in prison. >> i'm very concerned about what the pakistanis did with this individual. this was an individual who, in fact, helped provide intelligence on -- that was very helpful with regards to this operation and he was not in any way treasonous towards pakistan. he was not in any way doing anything that would have undermined pakistan. as a matter of fact, if pakistan -- i've always said this. they have a common cause here against terrorism. >> cnn's reza is live in pakistan. he has been charged with high treason and is in custody? >> reporter: he has yet to be charged with high treason. a commission here in pakistan that has been charged with investigating the raid on the bin laden compound has recommended for him to be charged with treason, but this doctor has become another bone of contention between pakistan and the u.s. there are many. u.s. officials say he's a good guy. pakistani authorities say he's a bad guy. so far they've treated him as a suspected criminal. his name is shaquil faridi. he played a key role in the operation. it's not necessarily clear what role he played and why he was so important. what we do know is that he tried to set up a fake vak sin nation campaign in the town where bin laden was hiding. the plan was for nurses to get into the compound, extract blood from the bin laden kids in order to verify his identity. the plan did not work. it failed. even so pakistani authorities were not happy. they arrested him. again, late last year a commission charged with investigating the raid on the bin laden compound recommended that he be tried for treason. he's been in jail for about eight months and his name surfaced again over the weekend when defense secretary leon panetta called for his release but there's absolutely no indication that he's going to be released any time soon. it's now up to the federal government to decide whether to try him. it's not clear when they'll make that decision. >> if he is charged with the crime, what's the punishment for the crime? >> reporter: the punishment is death. it's the death sentence, but i think when you talk to analysts here, they don't believe that a trial is actually going to take place. i think when you look at the overall picture, this raid on the bin laden compound really highlighted the very real differences between pakistan and the u.s., this very vo