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Out? >> bob: they went to adelson and asked him to stop giving him money. didn't do it. the problem with the republican leaders who are they? secondly, in a position to do that. who can stop the super pac with an influence on this? >> eric: newt gingrich is now floating the idea of trying to get on santorum's ticket so they can together beat romney, which is kind of ridiculous. here is the issue for republicans. what is better? get to a romney nomination quick sore the focus be obama or romney. or keep this going on for a while so billion-dollar obama campaign doesn't have the target to focus ...

Happens going forward. it's import toont say whether he'll to v to get out of the race. this is an spirely new world in terms of where the money comes from and how it gets allocated. it's a lot of regional candidates. if you looked at the map last night, santorum was strong. romney was strong on the coast to the more, hate to say it, moderate places and gingrich has won the biggest contest other than florida in the south. and so we have three candidates that represent three different regions of the party and sort of different -- slightly different ideologies and see how it goes. it's great the...

It's great theater for us on the president's team. and if the long ter goes on, the better. >> do you think, jon, that adelson is being tickled in the ear or whispered in the ear or blown in the ear by the romney people saying, keep this guy gingrich in the race? >> look, i don't know. that's the strange thing about these super pacs. what do you think is going on? adelson is a smart guy. i met him once. he's very smart in a business sense. why is he backing a guy who ain't going nowhere unless there's a rim shot bunker shot, whatever you call it. what is going on? why does he want gingrich in ...

Missouri, where newt gingrich didn't make it on the ballot. what happened? rick santorum won missouri by 30 points over romney and won every single county. the biggest fear i think that romney has is that if he -- if this ever became just a one on one race with rick santorum versus mitt romney. >> what happens here. look at the numbers last night. i had hours to look at the numbers last night. romney can't break, dee dee, 28% in the deep south. you started south carolina, work your way through georgia, over to tennessee and oklahoma. he never gets above 28%. one of these two other guys also --...

Because he is does not have the huge organization and the becomes that a couple of the -- the bucks that the couple other candidates have, so i relate to that. >> he does have a lot of money from adelson. >> he does. >> so it's a again of whether he still -- it's a question of of whether he still will. >> what is interesting ultimately that it looks like it can get drawn out and romney has a delegate lead, but he may not get to 50%, and then he has to on get the paul supporters, if he does it and then an interesting conversation happens between santorum and gingrich camps. so this is good your...