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Will take the bain arguments about his days at bain capital that investment firm and trying to tell positive stories out of it. right now they say only the negative stories are being told. the problem, though, is it's republicans hitting him on a vulnerability that the democrats and president obama already believe was a liability for him with swing voters and they have always believed once you're able to talk about his record as one of these, quote, wall street guys, bain is not technically a wall street firm but if he gets classified as that, then now the obama campaign can use newt gingrich ...

Crir sten powers, good morning, good to see you. >> good morning. martha: let's talk about newt gingrich first. what's your take on this? is this a big issue for him, do you think? >> this is a big issue among conservatives. i don't know if he was a the -- if he was the nominee it would be a big issue but conservatives for a long time have been very unhappy with fannie mae and freddie mac and in fact, even gingrich himself had criticized barack obama for taking money in '08 from two executives from these companies. so there's been a little bit of a boogyman to the right, so i think for him to ...

Congressmen yesterday who were saying -- they're in the debt ceiling, there truly were a lot of people calling into congress, into capitol hill saying, hey, will you just solve this thing? it's almost as if the public's not paying attention, throwing up their hands, not tuning in. >> is he unable to figure out? has he not figured out that the other side of the aisle is n giving him nothing? >> i think that's the calculus they have made. that's the calculation they've made. we're not going to get anything, so let's try to make the political argument. >> and jack up the rhetoric. >> the problem ...

Times. been on the news for the last several months, saying he's innocent repeatedly. i think saying that tonight again doesn't help him. >> reporter: blagojevich was paid for his appearance tonight, but the college democrats won't say how much. whether this publicity is worth that paycheck will likely be determined at his trial this summer. marion brooks, nbc 5 news. >> my alma mater. >> i got rejected from there. >> i only got in for grad school and am still paying for it. don't be sad. and coming up, mort zuckerman with his reasons for not running for senate. mort! client's come in, they'...

Will have loyal folks to him part of this so that this committee doesn't steer off course and consume the republican party next year as they're trying to make the case to voters to become the majority party. >> no matter who he picks there is one republican that nancy pelosi selected to be on this special commit tee. congresswoman liz cheney. >> one he doesn't want on the committee. this is a no win situation for kevin mccarthy. he wants to be speaker of the house but if this is a circus that doesn't help him. the other problem he has is who's going to accept this? does jim jordan want to be o...