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i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, newt on top. the former speak of the house dominating polls nationally and in crucial primary states. brand-new numbers out today, let's show you this, this started a week ago and has gotten stronger and more consistent. nationwide, this is what you're looking at here, gingrich holding a 15-point advantage over his competitors as you see, 37-22 for mitt romney. in iowa, caucus goers there rival mitt romney at 17%. ron paul's at 16%. as we all know, mitt romney needs to come in 1 or 2 there. down in south carolina, gingrich 38%. versus 22 for mitt...

Do, is i didn't go and lobby the congress. >> that was an amended version of something he said in the cnbc republican debate. >> i have never done any lobbying. every contract that was written during the period when i was out of the office, specifically said i would do no lobbying. and i offered advice. my advice as a historian, when they walked in and said to me, we're now making loans to people who have no credit history and have no record of paying back anything, but that's what the government wants us to do. i said to them at the time, this is a bubble, this is insane, this is impossible. ...

Series. i did this, as i said a while ago, at a number of companies who came in and asked for advice on a long range of things. as long as they were topics i was interested in and topics i cared about, i was very happy to share ideas with people. what i didn't do, and would not do, is i didn't go and lobby the congress. >> that was an amended version of something he said in the cnbc republican debate. >> i have never done any lobbying. every contract that was written during the period when i was out of the office, specifically said i would do no lobbying. and i offered advice. my advice as a h...

Is iran, and it's nuclear ambitions. some want to bomb iran, but have they even thought what the consequences would be? finally, which republican candidate said in new hampshire he doesn't care what the rest of the country thinks or fears? that's in the sideshow. we start with newt gingrich. joan wall somebody editor at large for salon.com and david corn is from "mother jones" and an msnbc political analyst. one of the more ridiculous answers at last week's cnbc republican debate. asked about his ties to freddie mac, newt gingrich said they paid him to offer advice as, quote, an historian. let...

Now to politics. republican flavor of the month newt gingrich really went out on a limb at the cnbc debate last week when he said he never worked as a lobbyist for the government-backed mortgage company freddie mac. >> your firm was paid $300,000 by freddie mac in 2006. what did you do for that money? >> are you asking me? >> yes. >> i offered them advice on precisely what they didn't do. i have never done any lobbying. every contract that was written during the period when i was out of the office specifically said i would do no lobbying and i offered advice. and my advice as a historian when ...