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>> well, welcome back to "morning joe." >> oh, look at you. >> i'm here. >> can we see that picture of you and herman cain again? >> it was a rough night last night. >> have we put that up? oh, look at that. the happy couple. >> i -- >> you look so comfortable. >> i went to cpac. i went to cpac, eugene. mark haleprin is still with us here in washington. joining the table, we have the host of msnbc's "hardball." author of "jack kennedy: elusive hero" and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson, and it was a lovely event, you did a great job. >> thank you, mika. >> there were very nice people th...

Bit, that would let the wind out of the sails in a way i don't think is comfortable for his campaign. >> i think for rick over the past year and a half, mark haleprin, and you followed him a good bit speaking to crowds of 14 and 15 and donut shops in western iowa, to step into cpac, to have a hero's welcome, freeze was there last night, he's energi energized, ready to write more checks. i'll tell you what, i think rick is going to find this crowd to his liking. >> he had huge crowds in oklahoma over the last couple of days. i'll tell you there's a difference, probably, between gingrich and san...

>> well, because the other groups are pretty much vote a certain way. jewish voters tend to be liberal, tend to be democrats, they tend to be african-americans, tend to be democrats overwhelmingly. catholics really differs, they don't vote as a block. they just don't. they're suburban, increasing suburban, irish, italian, black, all kinds of ethnic groups involved. and they're very, they just are swing voters. you look at that 53% that president obama won by, how many of that 53% can you give away? well, you may have given a lot of it away just by doing the heroic things on health care. and am...

Under 25. and they get passionate and they get loud and it'll be pretty, pretty cool to see how it works out over the next three days. >> al, let me ask you the great question, you're obviously a florida gu republican party, good friend of ours, jeb bush, his name is going to be coming up over the next couple of weeks. mark haleprin's talking about the possibility of a brokered convention. do you think we can drag jeb bush into it by the end of it? >> well, listen, as you know, he's a friend of both of ours. i think that there's a lot of people here in that whisper campaign about jeb bush, but...

Know, president obama getting great numbers on friday but having a rough week this week on a bunch of issues that they would probably consider to be side issues they never expected to come up. but the second big story this week is mitt romney. i won't say mitt romney's collapse -- >> or rick santorum, but either way, it's a story. >> mitt romney has had a terrible week. if you look at the editorial pages today. mark haleprin was talking to me before the show, the conservatives aren't panicked, but they are going after mitt romney. really quickly, the "wall street journal." conservatives don't ...