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That's absolutely wrong. >> what she just said is factually not true. i think sometimes people ought to have facts before they make wild allegations. >> bachmann also hit gingrich on his record on abortion. >> he had an opportunity to defund planned parenthood and he chose not to take it. that's a big issue. speaker gingrich said that he would actively support and campaign for republicans to got behind the barbaric practice of partial birth abortion. this was not a small issue. >> sometimes congresswoman bachmann doesn't get her facts very accurate. >> bachmann even tangled with the other guy ...

A senator goes on the record but first there is no doubt in his mind, newt gingrich says this. >> they try to knock you down. we work very hard to be front runners. why are they picking on me now that i am the front-runner. >> greta: just how close are the numbers? we have news out of iowa. a new poll shows big changes, congressman ron paul is closing in on the speaker. it gingrich's lead has been shaved to one point. he still leads by a wide margin. politicalnalyst joins us. how is it to be the front-runner sort of. >> they have lasted a few weeks. they started to sink.

Long-time conventional wisdom that new hampshire will only reward people who focus specifically on them. of course, mitt romney is strong in new hampshire, now spreading his love to iowa and across the country. >> a poll out just this week. latest polling from time magazine showing how close things have gotten over the last couple of months. about a month and a half. now the lead for mitt romney over newt gingrich, nine points. gingrich up 21 points since mid october. how does mitt romney stem that? >> well, one of the things that he's doing is being much more aggressive. we've seen him doing ...

Do, is i didn't go and lobby the congress. >> that was an amended version of something he said in the cnbc republican debate. >> i have never done any lobbying. every contract that was written during the period when i was out of the office, specifically said i would do no lobbying. and i offered advice. my advice as a historian, when they walked in and said to me, we're now making loans to people who have no credit history and have no record of paying back anything, but that's what the government wants us to do. i said to them at the time, this is a bubble, this is insane, this is impossible. ...

Conservative columnist george will knows a historian when he sees one. >> gingrich is an amazingly efficient candidacy and it embodies almost everything disagreeable about modern washington. he's the classic rental politician. people think his problem is his colorful personal life. he's going to hope people concentrate on that rather than on, for example, ethanol. al gore has recanted ethanol. not newt gingrich who served the ethanol lobby. industrial policy of the sort that got us solndra. freddie mac he said hired him as a historian. the bush administration was trying to pass a large entitle...