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Speaker was ultimately cleared it was a single account that had to dole with incorrect documents filed his attorney. how do you respond to the charges that casting him in a light where he was forced out because of ethics try layingses they say is not accurate? >> an independent fact check organization did an analysis of all of the candidates. what they found was that speaker gingrich tells the truth less than he doesn't tell the truth. about 60 percent of what he has said has been proven untrue. for someone who can't tell the truth half of the time i am not sure we want to take his word for it...

They're going to newt? >> and according to the paper mitt romney, here is what he said on the campaign trail on saturday. >> he was given the opportunity to lead our parties, he failed, he was fined for ethics violation and had to resign in disgrace. he can't rewrite history. we have to go back and look at history and may be a great guy with a lot of great ideas, but he's not the leader that we need at a critical time. this, this will be a historic election and we need to have someone who has been a leader and succeeded at being a leader. i have and i'll lead america back to strength. >> well,...

What is the truth? joining us from washington fox news political analyst charles krauthammer. all right, charles, take it away. was that fair? >> no, it wasn't exactly true. when newt gingrich resigned at the end of the '98 elections because of the defeat the republicans had suffered, and the fact that he lost the confidence of the republics in the house, the disgrace that romney was talking about was what had happened two years earlier when, in january 1997, gingrich was reprimanded by the house and had to pay a fine for some ethics violation. if he had resigned in disgrace, he would have res...

King, listen to this regarding newt gingrich becoming president of the united states, you know he's running. >> he's not going to be president of the united states, that's not going to happen. let me just make my prediction instead by, it isn't going to happen. >> why are you so sure? >> it's something i know. the republicans, if they choose to nominate him, that's his prerogative. i don't think that's going to happen. >> there's something she knows. >> she threatens this about a month ago, remember? it has to do with ethics violation investigation back in the 90's. >> she can't release that s...

Conservative because they can't carry that argument. it's -- >> they are calling him a crook? >> they are calling him a crook and they cleverly cut in the fact he had the ethics violation and left congress with fannie and freddie which really weren't related at all but they make it look that way. that can cut down here. don't you think, chuck? >> it can because of the foreclosure and all that thing but it doesn't deal with the romney problem. that's the issue. he's got a message problem. >> we've got to go. who do you want fighting obama? they seem to want newt right now. chuck todd and howard...