interview and thought it was uncalled for. >> and the romney staff was particularly whiney after cnn's security debate so much so it made me wonder if they knew something we didn't. here's tonight's truth. if there is a romney collapse, you will trace the roots of the unraveling back to this week. whining is not sim non nom this with winning. team romney senses a disruption in the force. that united states a week ago. things aren't getting better from the romney perspective. a new florida poll shows romney 30 points behind newt gingrich. herman cain's campaign is teetering and its collapse could help gingrich consolidate the anti-romney vote in the early key gop battlegrounds. if you need more proof the republican race has a new front-runner, watch here. ron paul turning his attention to gingrich. >> i think he's getting a free ride and i've worked with him for a long time and i think that the points i made on various issues he's a flip-flopper. he can hardly beat me on terms of mitt romney. >> ouch! listening closely. even after an afterthought in na sound bite from ron paul, governor romney gets labeled a flip-flopper. the campaign is to see a candidate determined, at least most of the time, to put principle ahead of political expediency. consider this from the "time" magazine cover story. he seems to discovered, you gain credibility, you see more real if you don't try to please all of the people all of the time. joe kleine wrote this excellent time cover story. joe joins us from new york. i want to read more from your piece. unfortunately all romney's calculations all of the improvements in his stump and debate performances all 0 it has lest him in the same old place, uninspiring to moderates and untrustworthy to conservatives an the vast mo jort of romney's support have suffered a series of malarial fevers and chills, warming and cooling on his opponents, desperate to find a candidate to take his place. ouch. that's a tough assessment yet he's still, if not the front-runner, the top alternative. is he the top alternative to newt gingrich, i guess? >> i guess he is. and but this is a week, john, i think where things have suddenly gotten very tough for romney. up until this point he could get away with skating by with maybe 20%, 25% of the republican electorate support. now we're getting down to crunch time. and suddenly, gingrich is putting together the kind of coalition that the other republican candidates could have only dreamed about. he has become the unmitt. you know in some states like south carolina, florida, the poll numbers are just extreme. >> so, part of it is you question the romney strategy, how they get to this point. they've had a play it straight strategy. he doesn't do many interviews. they've had a pretty run level campaign but haven't addressed in a smart way most republican strategists would say the big fundamental question, you talk a lot about it in your piece, and that is his reputation, his history, and the label of a flip-flopper. and you write this, sometimes a flip is justified as with romney's position on ethanol. but all too often his switchbacks have been so expedient to make you wonder how stupid or short sighted he thinks the electorate is. and that is the label, right? that he has just -- for massachusetts governor he ran as a moderate, now as president trying to run as a conservative. he's not been able to shake that. >> you know you get the sense with romney, he's a very smart guy and in the old days he used to talk to me he didn't talk to me this year. but he's not talking to anybody. this strategy has been disastrous for him because you know you look at his interview with fox news this week, which was very uncomfortable. if you choose not to ever confront issues like these flip-flops, even fox news is going to ask you about them when they finally get a shot at you. that's what happen this week. that's what's going to happen every single time romney makes himself avail. >> to the media. if he doesn't make himself available to us, he's going to suffer as well, as he has been. >> so they come up with their first tv ad in iowa. the calculation seems to be they need to play there in an aggressive way because of what you just noted. it gets worse. he's leading in new hampshire but look at south carolina, florida, and it's beginning to look bleak. in camp romney they think we better make a try in iowa, we better try hold or lead in new hampshire. he's a seasoned candidate from last time around he has a deep and experienced campaign around team. what are they missing or what haven't they done what they need to do? >> what they're missing is that the presidency is the most intimate office that we have running for president is the most, the closest that any politician ever gets to the american public. and you have to make yourself available. you have to make yourself available in every which way. every last position you've ever taken, every last change that you've made, comes under scrutiny. they've underestimated the importance of that and it becomes more important every last campaign because you know the breadth of the media gets greater. we have internet, tweeting, all kinds of stuff now. >> we see front-runners have this problem sometimes, maybe the specifics of this one different, but every front-runner hits a ditch. john mccain, last time around, written off as dead, he had personally a tenacity, a fight, he refused to die and when he was written off he fought back. does mitt romney have them that in him? >> we haven't seen it so far. it's striking how much gingrich's campaign resembles mccain's campaign. gingrich fell apart in the spring when he went to the greek isles and spent $250,000, more or less, at tiffany and he just didn't seem to be running very smart or very hard. now he comes back, and you have to wonder, here's a guy, gingrich, who has made many of the exact same policy flip-flops as romney and yet he can get away with them, i think, because he's far more passionate and bombastic in a way na republicans, who have become the party of passion, respond to. >> very smart take on state of the romney campaign in this "time" cover story, why don't they like me? the flip-flopper label that annoyed romney most about the fox interview. >> there's no question but the people are going to take snippets and take things out of context and try and show that there are differences where in some case there's are not. >> there that conversation governor romney conceded a change of heart and position on the abortion issue. but he says other flip-flop critiques are dead wrong or grossly exaggerated. to steal a lining we report, you decide. we showed you a then and now on immigration last night. gun control is another favorite of romney's critics. then -- >> we do have tough gun laws in massachusetts. i support them. i won't chip away at them. i believe they help protect us and provide for our safety. >> and now -- >> i do not support any new legislation of an assault weapon ban nature. >> now all front returns as i noted hit a rough patch. the question is, can governor romney recover and regain the calm confidence that of late has given way to whining. susan molinari is a romney backer and dana lash. congresswoman to you, first, as a lead surrogate, one of the leading surrogates of the romney campaign, you have conference calls all the time, when you talk to the campaign, what is it that you folks on outside have telling them at a time it's obvious they're in a ditch and they're struggling? >> the truth is, i'm not an official surrogate. i am an official supporter. i'm not on a lot of phone calls but if i were to give advice i would talk about, particularly to somebody like dana loesch who has some concerns about the conservatism of governor romney is his record in massachusetts of cutting taxes, increasing employment, of what he was able to do change an entire culture in the way this nation needs to changed in the bluest of blue states. when we talk about conservatism it's going back and looking at the type of governor he was and how he governor earns under the circumstances. >> look at the polling, talk to tea party activists in iowa, i was just in south carolina the over day, there's a steady and firm and deep organization in all of the states. the question is, is it deep enough? what has the last week or two done to the zeitgeist, if you will, the buzz about romney? the romney buzz has died down. i think it's also because of his report. someone like me and other grassroots individuals that obviously speak for themselves, they look at governor romney's record on massachusetts and one of the things they see is increase in fees. we know there are different buzzwords that different politicians like to use when they discuss tax increases and governor romney's the word that he liked to use was fees he raises hundreds of millions on businesses, on first responders, gun owners for licenses. we look at his record and we couple that with this oversensitivity that we've seen this week and it just doesn't play out well. just atone for your record. if you're repenitent about some of the thing yufs you've done so and don't go back. >> one-the things that they get it a lot of early speeches, campaign appearances and some of the web videos they have done, even they're first ads have been about how he put me up against president obama, running as if you're already the nominee and you're a general election candidate. look at this ad in iowa. mitt romney's well known, has 100% name identification among republicans yet his first statewide tv ad in iowa is getting to know you. >> i spend my life in the private sector. i've competed with companies around the world. i've learned something about how it is that economies grow. >> that, to me, susan, is a sense that they're saying, i'll get back to running a republican caucus candidate. let's hit the reset butten. i think it's also that, but i think it's also we want to get in people's minds. what is the discussion going to be when we enter the general election? jobs and the economy, that is the overriding issue. and it's going to be the one that president obama has to defend against somebody like mitt romney who, in his former lives, has done an awful lot to create jobs, left a rainy day fund when he was in government and increased employment. to get back to not only the republican roots but what the overall country wanted to discuss, which is this stagnant economic condition that president obama continues to boast. >> he also says in that ad, dana, you know, you can -- you have to cut spending, you're not just going to have jobs, grow the economy. i take that as a sense they realize they have doubt as the grassroots and trying to go straight at them. is it too late? >> i don't know if anything is too late at this point. again, you know, i look at his record when he left, he left his pred s predecessor over $1 billion budget deficit. to say we have to reduce spending, this is what i would cut, these are the steps i would taking i don't think that could hurt him. he has to a lot of press in the flesh to make up that ground that he's lost with and his record to conservatives. >> iowa votes a month from tuesday and the question is, so much volatility in the race, dana's trite say, who knows if it's too late. but let's look at the moment. we know gingrich has surged in iowa polls, he's doing better in south carolina. governor romney seems to be holding his lead in new hampshire. look at these numbers from florida today. niece are the kind of things that make you say, what's in the water? gingrich, 50, romney, 19. in october, it was romney, 28, gingrich, 11. that's 39 points for newt gingrich in a month which tells you there's something happening out there. and it has speaker gingrich so confident, bordering on cocky he said this to abc's jake tapper a short time ago. they are not going to be the nominee, meaning his rivals. i don't have to point out inconsistencies of people who are not going to be the nominee. jake asks, you're going to be the nominee? speaker gingrich says, i'm going to be the nominee. it's hard to look at recent polls and not think the odds are very high. >> it's a shock newt gingrich would present himself with such an ego. so uncharacteristic of the man we know. >> you would be confident if your polling in florida went from 11 to 50 in a month. >> maybe it wouldn't be the best political strategy to exercise. that's the overall concern to those who know and served with newt -- i was part of his revolution -- that ego, that inability to deal with what were the more politics things to say and do, and that is what concerns a lot of us. were he to become certainly the republican nominee and especially if he were to become president. >> so dana, we've watched the anybody but romney ball as we call it passed from michele bachmann to rick perry to herman cain, speaker gingrich has it now. is what the conversation at the grassroots level? do they want to pass it around some more or are they happy with it staying there? >> i think the ball's going to get passed around quite a bit and it will be until the point, we're at the end of it, it's time to pull the cord, do or die time. there's a lot of decision making to be made. i think there's a lot of the conversation -- i have this conversation with a couple of activists today we were discussing how we can't believe that now we're looking at newt gingrich, who is soaring in the polls and is becoming the leader, you never thought you would have this conversation ten years ago or five years ago or even a couple of years ago. it's been extraordinary. it's proof that anything could happen and anything definitely could. >> volatility is the catch word of our politics today. susan, dana, thanks for coming in. still to come here, consider this question -- is your new iphone a new ally for the anti-abortion movement? herman cain gives a new hampshire newspaper new details whether he'll stay in the gop race. take a look at this. on the ellipse behind the white house, that is kermit the frog. that was. president of the united states, they lit the christmas tree, the holiday tree some call it across from the white house today. the president and his daughters leaving the stage at the white house tonight. you hear a lot of merry christmas.no gi an amazing gift, shouldn't it be given in an amazing way? 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was it after the fact? >> yeah, after she -- >> after this woman came out. >> after she went public. >> why didn't you tell your wife during the time what was going on? >> you know, there are some things that you -- it may appear now that why didn't i tell her about this when it was going on? you're absolutely right. >> in retrospect. >> but retrospect doesn't necessarily change what we're dealing with now. >> retrospect done change that he's dealing with now. your gut sense from having this conversation. the first face-to-face with gloria cain, he's been on the road, dealing with this. is this candidate, do you believe, will he be a candidate come monday? >> monday, tuesday, i don't think so. i again wu winly feel for the guy. this in was an astounding interview. this is one, john, blown off a couple of weeks ago, a, he didn't want to tape, b, he could only be 20 minutes. tiling is everything. he came in today. i threw him a couple of softball questions about the federal reserve, but good on my reporter, john, who asked him about the text messages back and forth, herman answered and said, yeah, if she hit me 8 times with text, i responded 17 times and john said what were they? she was asking for help. i was responding trying to help her. did you give her money? yes. how much? i can't tell you on advice of counsel. it was astounding. >> and i want to read a little bit. john posted a story on line after the conversation in which he said, cain said he will leave the race if his wife asks him to do so but my wife couldn't ask me to get out. i would make a decision base on how all of this stuff is affecting her. gloria borger, it's a decision time for mr. cain. let's take him at his word that the most important calculation is his family. but he knows, as he sits down with that conversation, that he is sliding precipitously in the polls everyy. >> first of all, i have to say i'm astounded he hasn't had that conversation before this moment since these charges came out on monday. but i do think that there is a decision that's got to be made on the personal side and also on the cal pain side. if he's running out of money, one, he can't continue. if he's losing support among women, which he wasn't strong to begin with, he can't continue. he's got his family and his wife. he could continue in this race to be some kind of a spoiler. but it's clear to me he's not going to get the nomination and that's also something else he has to take into consideration. >> this was on again, off again, mr. cain didn't want to do it he wanted to do in 20 minutes. i want to give him credit, he came in at a tough time in the campaign, sat down with the editorial board and reporters who asked tough questions and pulled no punches and we played first video we're getting from it. he also said this here. i have about the -- how this came about. but i have strong speculation that someone offered her a lot of money. i was helping her with month to month bills and expenses and somebody, this is speculation only, offered her a lot of money. one of my objective is to clear my name and reputation. he said it's speculation. he didn't have evidence, that's his gut? >> that's it, that's his gut. he thought it was somebody trying to injure him in this race. he said rat later on he's discod politics is very, very dirty and there were three groups in the country. there's the media, there's the political establishment, and there's the voters and supporters. and he thought he still had the third but the other two weren't going to give him a break. >> what's your sense in new hampshire? does he have the third? is there a deep enough reservoir for herman cain that he can have a credible showing in the new hampshire primary? >> i don't think so, john destasio said to him, this is the place where you can meet face-to-face with the people. are you going to be here? he and his staff pulled out a ljl ljl ledger said they'd been here 22 times. he's got to be here in the next 22 days and there's no indication that was going to be the case. >> did the fund-raising come up in one of the questions was he said he's reassessing his campaign and see how he does financially. after the sexual harassment allegations they were quick to rush out, look at all of the money we raised online. they have been silent so far. >> he didn't say what he'd raised but after family, fund-raising was the most important consideration that he'd be taking into account this within. >> so family and fund-raising, gloria. we haven't heard anything about the fundraising. you're at a point in the campaign, he has run an un-orthodox campaign, he was in ohio yesterday, iowa and new hampshire vote in 33, 40 days. if i'm off, it's a day or so. i don't know why you'd be in ohio. >> selling books? selling books? >> just right now, family and fund-raising, we've seen again they were quick to rush out after the israel allegations look at the money we were getting. raising millions. newt gingrich was doing well, talking about how much money he's raising after the sexual harassment allegations, the money started pouring in because people believed herman caining his supporters really believed him and said this is a conspiracy. cain at that point charged it was another republican campaign that was leaking the information, they denied it. now he's saying it's people who want to do him in, whether it's democrats, giving her some money. you know, at a certain point, john, people have to decide whether on they believe herman cain because you have to trust someone you're going to vote for for president. >> gloria borger, joe mcquade, thanks for coming in. we see you in new hampshire soon. if you want more of the union go to the union leader's website. we'll bring you more of the video at cnn as soon as it comes in. president obama says he is the best friend in the white house israel has ever had. many republicans are taking issue. the new iphone can get you to the nearest gas station, even find a strip club if that's what you ask it to do. is it true it won't help you looking for contraception advice or an abortion clinic?us ess s its doors. or creates another laptop bag, or hires another employee, it's not just good for business. it's good for the entire community. at bank of america, we know the impact that local businesses have on communities. that's why we extended $13.2 billion to small businesses across the country so far this year. because the more we help them, the more we help make opportunity possible. we've saved people a lot of money on car insurance. feels nice going into the holidays. ohhhh.... will you marry me? 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when you ask people who bought the new iphone 4s, 49% say it's their favorite feature, siri, ease of use. half of the people say this is probably why i love the phone the most. no matter what language siri speaks, some abortion rights activists think she's has an agenda. people started posting complaints siri can't find abortion clinics. they blamed technical glitches in the programming. let's talk this over, dan simon, cnn's silicon valley correspondent, on the phone, robert cringely, and in washington, laura murphy. i want to go straight to this, because this was buzzing around today. we heard about this controversy. we decided to put it to the test here. right here in d.c., got an iphone 4s with siri and? >> where is the nearest abortion clinic. >> i found two abortion clinics a little ways from you. >> a little ways from you, it says. there are at least three abortion clinics. sry. . i told us in pennsylvania and virginia. it did give us clinics, it didn't give us the closest. once more, dan simon, you're in san francisco. we head out there. here it is. >> are there any abortion clinics in california? >> i didn't find any abortion clinics. >> all right. laura, you come in at this point. plenty of abortion clinics in the san francisco area. apple says the a glitch, this is a beta, technology being developed and improved and they'll fix it. you think? >> i think it's more than a glitch. i think it's a values issue and i think that their software provider or someone gave them information that was biased. you should be able to find out about birth control, you should be able foo-tto find out about and legal abortions and we shouldn't have women's issues stigmatized by software and technology providers. >> robert, is that feasible that this is just a technical glitch or for this to happen and for this function to do so many remarkable things somebody, somewhere wrote the software with a political agenda? >> well, it's always possible there's a political agenda. if there is one i don't think it's at apple. i think it would be at yelp, the supplier of the date to to the system. whether someone at yelp has this biased. it could be surprising no one seems to be asking yelp. >> we'll ask the question of yelp, excellent point. dan simon, apple knows how important the product is. you would think apple might have done some work. maybe they don't have a political group to ask these kind of questions. first i said we have a third example. new york city, one of the more liberal communities. yes there are abortion clinics around new york city. watch this. >> where can i get an abortion? >> i'm checking your current location. i didn't find any abortion clinics. >> what does apple make of this? is this a controversial that hurts them or do they need to fix the software? >> reporter: it's a good question. apple is image conscious. you would think everything they do is deliberate. and there's also a contradiction here if you ask siri for an escort service, guess what? it provides you with one. so they say that this is still in beta mode and they're working out kinks one would have to believe this was a deliberate feature that siri put into the system. >> interesting point. you can find a strip club, an escort service. >> viagra provide. >> so it's not a -- i don't know -- hard to lump things together -- it's not like somebody who is so conservative trying to be so moralistic to cut off just about anything that some conservative might find objectionable. you think it was dlab rate to one issue? >> i do. i think there's a hostility toward contraception, towards safe and legal abortion, and i think that we've got to make sure that these providers give us unbiased information. that's the best business model for them, especially as libraries disappear and the yellow pages is no longer used we increasingly rely on them for unbiased, neutral information. when they harm women's health this waist, thy this is a probl >> help me out with this. technology is changing in a way we're going to ask our homes to do things for us, our devices to do things. what is the lesson here for the entire industry about making decisions, introducing new products that may lead you into the political quagmire? >> for apple, the lesson is how to handle damage control. they have a great sense of privacy and innate need to control the message so much, i'm sure in cupertino they're banging heads and scrambling how to figure out how properly to response. they'll fix it immediately. an interesting point, suddenly today they talk about it being beta soft ware where they didn't do that before. >> interesting point. maybe it's politics. we call that spin maybe. we'll see how they handle this one. thanks for coming in. here with us, the truth about today's bold prediction from newt gingrich. next, remarkable pictures from hillary clinton's visit to a long isolated country whose leaders maybe about to join the modern world. the employee of the month is... spark card from capital one. spark cash gives me the most rewards of any small business credit card. it's hard for my crew to keep up with 2% cash back on every purchase, every day. 2% cash back. that's setting the bar pretty high. thanks to spark, owning my own business has never been more rewarding. 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pretty depressing how they've been going back to their bases and blaming the other side. but you know what? we're an eternal optimist on "outfront." could be a hollywood block buster called super committee ii, a thriller. there could be a super committee ii. we have the senator in charge of that and he is going to be with us today explaining what that means. plus -- a billionaire who uses colorful language that would be richard branson. he's going say why he named his company virgin, to begin with. >> don't go yet. richard branson, i talked to rich and branson around thanksgiving last year. always a great interview. looking forward to that. i wanted to wonder if you saw this today. wolf blitzer with a friend. i want to show you here. >> you look good, by the way. >> thank you very much. it's more important in those countries because the voltage is high. >> what does that mean? >> sounded interesting. i'm trying to sound studious and intel again. >> i start thinking, who is wolf's booker. >> elmo, you could solve the world's problem now. >> how? >> so, in washington, everybody hates each other. nobody will do anything together. >> really? >> and it's hurting america. how do you fix it? >> play dates. >> play dates? >> yeah. everybody has play dates. >> like put a democrat and a republican play dates? >> play dates. >> cookie monster and the grouch. i have exclusive rights to cookie monster and the grouch. that's it. i'm laying down the law. >> if you get oscar, that's the big get. >> my staff thinks i am oscar. we'll see you in just a few minutes. >> see you in a few minutes. when we come back, if you listen to newt gingrich today he thinks we don't need to have the iowa caucuses. don't need to have the new hampshire primary. he says i'm going to be the nominee. that's next. for a limited time, passages malibu will be giving away free copies of the alcoholism & addiction cure. to get yours, go to ssagesmalibubook.com. every good politician is full of confidence. newt gingrich, even more than most. listen to this. i'm going to be the nominee, he predict any conversation with abc's jake tapper today. it's very hard to look at recent polls and not think the odds are very high i'm going to be the nominee. well, here's tonight's truth. speaker gingrich would be wise to mix in caution with confidence. the history of this republican campaigns a wild one. he's surging at the moment but rick perry and herman cain real-time lessons in the value of caution and humility. speaker gingrich has his own history. as a close friend told me, he surprises you by climbing high mountains and then again when he blows them up unhis own feet. the friend is a big fan and thinks he sees evidence of a new, more disciplined newt. no doubt the wind is at the former speaker's back. we've had plenty of proof this year already what goes up can quickly come crashing down. speaker gingrich would be wise to dial it back. confident, yes, but his history suggests when he gets cocky, he gets in trouble. >> here with their own thoughtses on what gingrich call newt mentum. he tells jake tapper i'm going to be the nominee. last night he's doing a little bit of chest thumping. >> i think where i would have thought originally it was mitt and not mitt i think it's may turn out to be newt and not newt and that's a very different formula than frankly so we're having to redesign our campaign strategy because we're 60 days ahead of where i thought we'd be. >> confident, bordering on cocky, is there a risk there? >> oh, i think newt's in love with his wife's husband again and that's always a mistake in politics. you know, i've been down near florida for last couple of days talking to a lot of republicans and it's interesting. there's unanimity almost. they tell you they love newt, they like mitt romney but newt is the bachelor party while romney is the wedding. newt is the fun they're going to enjoy that for a while and that's where their hearts want them to go, but their heads tell them, yeah, might still be mitt romney that we take home at the end of the day. and i think a lot of that is newt is undisciplined and we've just seen a lot of that. he's a great ideas guy, and we want one like that so badly at times as republicans we turn to newt gingrich for that ideas guy. but he's undisciplined and at the end that blows him up. >> he's been disciplined so far in this campaign, so much so, donna brazile, ron paul work has steady numbers in iowa, new hampshire, to be an impact candidate, we've yet to see evidence that he can grow to be a threat for the nomination. as of now, he's turning not on romney but on gingrich. >> i think he's getting a free ride and i've worked with him for a long time and i think that points i made on various issues he's a flip-flopper. he can hardly be the alternative to mitt romney. >> congressman paul says on climate change, t.a.r.p., health carement date he's flip-flopped. is he for real? >> well, no one knows better than newt gingrich that this so-called wave can be a very short crest. and that's because his campaign has already died once before. he's back in action. he's a contender. john, the goal here is to try to get delegates and he's missed an important deadline in the missouri primary. let's see if he can ride this wave and if he becomes the anti-romney candidate. >> it's a lot of people think if it's not newt, somebody will get another try at it. cain was the anti-romney, bachmann was the anti-romney, governor perry was the anti-romney. some think he might get a second act. there's a "vanity fair" article about the perry collapse and it says this, quote, the most intriguing explanation for perry's collapse has been circulating in austin for weeks. the theory suggests that the governor's suffering from the aftereffects of effects of his low back surgery in july six week before he announced his candidacy. ever since, you saw this at the very first debate, he seemed to be uncomfortable, you know twisting his torso, observes the dean of political writers, his surgery, he had his spine fused. stem cell injected into him. and there is some buzz among conservatives this somehow is planting the seeds of a perry exit strategy? >> that's what we are hearing. that this is the beginning of the perry exit strategy. other candidates have come back from, you know at the very bottom of the well, but perry's situation is unique because he disqualified himself on ability, not on position on an issue. voters came to doubt that he was capable of doing the job. that is hard to fix. so, we don't see him coming back. but, the word is now, that -- he did actually have, this is not just spivenlt n. he had serious health issues. the back surgery did not go that well. therefore he was not really up to the campaign. now that is bad news for mitt romney. what that means with cain going away, with perry going away, the right is consolidating. and romney has been staying ahead of the pack, not because he is doing well or running a great campaign, but because the pack is fragmented. and now that's beginning to change. >> a fascinating time. you guys stay put. alex thomas stay right there. ahead, president obama said israel never had a better friend in the white house. and joe biden is still opening doors with a smile. the humana walmart-preferred rx plan gives you the lowest plan premium in the country... so you can focus on what really matters. call humana at 1-800-808-4003. 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is it a political fund-raising because of the jewish vote in the snuunited states? what is it? >> let's look at the issue, israel's security. what president obama was saying he has been and the united states is a strong friend of israel in terms of israel's security. under his leadership he wee hwe increased the amount of money we have given. prime minister netanyahu praised president obama for his handling of the egyptian crisis when israeli diplomats had to be rescued. let me take it another step further. joe lieberman said, question add but this, he said it is true when it comes to israel's security, president obama has been very strong. so i think the evidence points to united states/israel strong ties there. the evidence also points to president obama rallying international support for strong sanctions against iran, something that israel is supporting indeed. >> alex, you are in a state where the jewish vote can be a swing constituency. does it matter? >> president obama should be campaigning for swing votes. ever since a special election in new york for congress not long abow where the democrats lost a good portion of the jewish vote, it's clear that president obama has problems there. only 22% of voters in israel say that they're happy with the work the administration is doing in the middle east. voters here in his base, jewish voters are having problems with him. he is having problems raising money from them. it is a big problem, not just a jewish issue, an arrogance issue. we heard president obama say how hard it is not to pat himself on the back, for all the great stuff he has done. that's comparable, comparable to newt gingrich's i think, sense of ego there. >> hey, alex, what matters here is israel's security. and on that issue, the president and the united states stands with israel. when it came to united nations vote on the palestinians seeking statehood it was president obama who showed leadership. so the rhetoric is, it is hot, but 51%, 51%, new poll out, alex, brookings, 51% of israeli jews support this president. >> if that were the case the president wouldn't be fighting for his base. >> he's going to fight for
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