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He was attacked way knife. nbc's keir simmons monitoring the story and with us from london. keir, what happened? >> reporter: well, i mean now he's in the hospital and has undergone 2.5 hours of surgery. 80 stitches. what happened was, he went to a breakfast event, and we can show you more of those pictures. he was jumped on allegedly, by this man. he was -- remarkably cool as he walked away. you can see there. holding his cheek, and those -- that wound to his cheek, four inches wide an inch deep. so she extremely lucky. he left the building got into a car headed to the hospital. meanwhile, th...

Possibly. going to be some people in this field who seat place very much make or break because of the social conservative and it being, of course, the first primary in the south, kyra. >> joe johns, following it closely. and is trying to seal the deal, out rallying supporters in new hampshire, trying to win over last-minute converts. jim acosta was at romney's breakfast convenient in nashua. that this where he is standing by live now. romney was attacked from all sides in the weekend debates. we have been talking about it all morning. >> that's right. he really was. but you have to say at th...

His rivals. they're fighting for second place and trying to stay in this presidential race. romney has given them, today, some new ammunition, jim mccosta is joining us. romney under fire for talking about firing people. jim, what's going on here? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. mitt romney has had a couple of stumbles in the last 24 hours over the issue of layoffs. and while the comments may not hurt him here in new hampshire where he's way out in front they could haunt him down the road. touring metalworks factory mitt romney saw the day before, it has manufactured nothing but trouble. at a...

Fired. there were a couple of times i worried about if i was getting a pink slip. >> looking ahead to south carolina, rick perry couldn't resist. >> i have no doubt mitt romney was worried about pink slips, perry said, whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out. romney said he was talking about how he worked his way up from the bottom in the business world. >> like anybody that starts at the bottom of an enterprise, you wonder when you don't do so well if you can hang on to your job. >> reporter: democrats are also piling on. back at the breakfast event a woman from the united aut...

candidates looked to score of course some last-minute points. they took part in two debates in less than 12 hours. >> the person who should represent our party running against president obama is not someone who called him a remarkable leader and went to be his ambassador in china. >> this nation is divided, david, because of attitudes like that. [ applause ] >> we want someone when the time gets tough, and it will in this election, we want someone who is going to stand up and fight for the conservative principles, not bail out and not run, and not run to the left of ted kennedy. >> c...