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keep your taxes from going up on january 1st. the president also made a point of thanking voters for telling congressional republicans to block the payroll tax cut extension. >> you reminded people in this town what our debates and all of our debates should be about. it's about you, it's about your lives. it's about your families. >> jessica yellin was right there when the president said aloha and walked out of the briefing room is few hours ago. the president won this fight. the question is, how much of it carries over to the reelection year and the reelection campaign? >> reporter:...

Expertise. i think far from turning voters off, they are attracted to it. >> gregg: gingrich is taking fire bike george will, charles krauthammer, they fear he can't beat president obama. they call him unsteady. then there is this comment from michael gerson, former aide to george w. bush. so adultery is not disqualifying for high office but it can reveal character trait that has might be recklessness, selfishness and compulsiveness are relevant. do personal failings matters to voters in iowa or not? >> certainly newt gingrich has had two failed marriages, but he has and i the question remarka...

Columnist david brooks, who "the times" might say is a conservative, conservatives say he's not, but he's clearly a center-right columnist. he writes, "he has every negative character trait that conservatives associate with the '60s. excess, narcissism, self-righteousness, self-indulgence, intemperance." now, in brooks' defense, it was a column going, "i should be for newt." he's a guy that sort of likes government, but he couldn't do it, and it seemed to be personal. >> i've always thought that newt is more of a henry clay type of leader. for the speaker who really wanted to transform the rol...

And things can happen in the arabs spring, in the white house. is it yemen, is it libya, is it egypt, is it saudi arabia? all of these places are explosive. pakistan is still the powder keg of the region, but i think katty's right, it's not the foreign policy issues necessarily, though something might explode. presidential elections are run on character. and the character trait that has emerged here, it sure is a positive at the moment, is nerve. there is a nerve matters in the presidency. people want to have a sense the president is out there looking for me. if he can take that nerve and tran...

This arab spring, and what can this president now do to have a positive influence on that? >> well, that's the crapshoot. you just don't know. and as we're all hinting that, of course, this is very good news, but very good news is rarely followed by better news. it's followed by bad news. and things can happen in the arabs spring, in the white house. is it yemen, is it libya, is it egypt, is it saudi arabia? all of these places are explosive. pakistan is still the powder keg of the region, but i think katty's right, it's not the foreign policy issues necessarily, though something might explode...