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Got to ask you this. just saw this this morning. former minnesota governor, tim pawlenty, said he might have stayed in the republican presidential race longer had he known it would be this volatile. pawlenty says he would have persisted in the race if he would have known then what he knows now. >> hindsight is 2020. i would have loved for him to stay in the race. he made his decision. he has endorsed governor romney and is working hard for him now. >> you hear lee merrioff say less than 30% of romney supporters call themselves committed in iowa. we know what the pawlenty path was, sort of tryi...

Pawlenty at 3%. why is it still so unclear what the republicans are doing? >> because the republican party in several decades have not had no clear front runner. today i think there are three slots. we'll see how it develops and see who ends up running. i think newt gingrich has a got, mitt romney has a slot and there's an establishment alternative to romney's slot. i don't think the speech has changed much. we have to see some establishment figure step forward to try to take that mantle away from mitt romney and those three slots will be joined by a lot of other people trying to claw their wa...

No clear front runner. today i think there are three slots. we'll see how it develops and see who ends up running. i think newt gingrich has a got, mitt romney has a slot and there's an establishment alternative to romney's slot. i don't think the speech has changed much. we have to see some establishment figure step forward to try to take that mantle away from mitt romney and those three slots will be joined by a lot of other people trying to claw their way into the possibility of nomination. >> dee dee myers, what's the dynamic here? i think this week was when senator obama announced. there ...

Not had a clear front-runner. today i think there are three slots. we'll see how it develops and see who ends up running. i think newt gingrich has a slot, mitt romney has a slot, and there's an establishment alternative to romney's slot. i don't think the speech has changed much. we have to see some establishment figure step forward to try to take that mantle away from mitt romney and those three slots will be joined by a lot of other people trying to claw their way into the possibility of nomination. >> dee dee myers, what's the dynamic here? a lot of people talk about four years ago, i thin...

People have the pride, if you will, of discovering the undiscovered candidate, you know this, ari. >> i will. i will. >> i've covered a million of these campaigns. people in iowa and new hampshire like to think they discovered the answer. they haven't been told it by ari melber or me or whomever. that's the strength of ben carson as a word of mouth build. >> yeah. i think that's fair and clear that through as you mentioned the book circuit, the conservative events, word of mouth and then talk radio he is hitting something different. now, on the jeb bush side of things, howard, is there a point...