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President. and i would say to him now, mr. president, you cannot sing your way past a disaster of your presidency. >> mitt romney won the florida primary yesterday with 46% of the vote easily outpacing newt gingrich. gingrich took 32% followed by rick santorum at 13% and ron paul who did not campaign in florida at 7%. welcome back to "morning joe," everyone, top of the hour, mark haleprin and donny deutsch are still with us. and joining the table, the editor of "newsweek," tina brown is with us. >> mika, you make a singing reference. newt makes a singing reference, right? >> he did. >> and he ...

>> i agree with you -- >> and this "wall street journal" editorial, as a matter of math, if you look at his policies and project them out ore ten years, the "wall street journal" is dead right. you can talk about -- you can talk about oh, what barack obama inherited. and i'll be the first to say george w. bush had a miserable record on fiscal restraint. >> during better economic times for this country. >> but barack obama has projected a ten-year deficit and a ten-year debt that will cripple the united states of america. and as mark haleprin has said, he's not done anything about that. in his ...

Deficits do matter. >> look at europe. >> we have to balance an approach to job growth with also the approach to slowing down the massive deficits that we keep accumulating. >> all right. from the "wall street journal," mark haleprin, listen to this, $5 trillion and change, this is the paper's editorial. about $1.25 trillion, cuts come from the automatic reductions that congress and mr. obama agreed to last year. but wait, more than half of those cuts will come from the military budget and even defense secretary leon panetta says these could be devastating to national security. to sum it all u...

97-0, that's hard to do, we'll see what he sends up in a couple of weeks. but looks like the president as he did in the state of the union address is choosing to ignore the fiscal problem because it doesn't make good politics for him. >> mark haleprin? >> newt gingrich says he's going to fight all the way to the convention, what standard do you think speaker gingrich should use to decide when to get out of the race? if to get out of the race at all? >> my sense is he's going to stay in, and i think ron paul and rick santorum will, as well. and that's okay. chuck todd used the word momentum ear...

They went from tearing each other apart -- >> to just ignoring, to not even knowing the other was there. >> talking about the president. no, it's -- this is about how it looked in florida this past week. here's a cover of newsweek about the gladiators. they, mika, these two guys just tore each other from limb to limb and there are a lot of republicans worried that it's going to damage the party in the long run. >> it was ugly. and i think we're going to have mitt romney on the show this morning. and i think you know what. we had a pretty heated conversation yesterday about what it is he has to...