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And you were talking about top hats. did you notice that every time willie comes south of the mason dixon line -- >> man of the people. >> you do that because it fogs up. >> well, if you liked what you saw monday night if you're a newt gingrich supporter, wait until tonight. he saw the numbers we just showed where the gap closed ten points, nine points between them, he's got another crack at mitt romney again tonight two days ahead of the primary. he smells blood. clearly he smells blood and he's going after romney hard tonight. >> can you believe though, mark, we're talking about newt gingric...

Didn't believe in evolution. i think maureen said he was going to take us back to the dark ages, gary wills said that -- >> okay. bring it in for a landing. >> no, you need to understand this resentment. >> okay. >> i still remember this eight years later. gary wills saying that when you elect george w. bush, then as a country you have more in common with al qaeda than the european allies? this sort of resentment is something that i still feel as a conservative. it's also something that newt gingrich knows how to tap into. and in the age of mitt romney, in the age of george w. bush where he do...

Referred to his $375,000 in speaking -- >> i think that's the killer. >> that to me for a working class, middle class, even upper middle class earner in any state in the country sounds sort of like, really? $375,000 is not much to you, buddy? >> it's average if you pare it down $40,000 a speech. >> and mark haleprin, the question mark is, again, going back to this conservative leader i spoke with yesterday for some time about this issue. why the hell did he take the money in the first place? he didn't need the money. he's worth hundreds of millions of dollars, why take $40,000 for a speech? ev...

Problem, a blind spot that in this year of we are the 99%, it may turn off some independents. >> maybe eight years ago, seven, six years ago it didn't seem like an issue because the economy was in a different place. let's get to the latest polls, we'll get to the story about the cayman islands, but also a story about newt gingrich's ex-wife, which is developing, as well. which we do have some news on. this morning, these polls show that mitt romney is holding a 10-point lead over newt gingrich in south carolina. romney's getting 34% of the vote followed by gingrich with 24%. ron paul coming in...

Mark haleprin, asked him where this income is coming from and when he said, you know, i didn't make very much, it was just speaking stuff. when you make $41,000 per speech, which is $8,000 more than the average income per person in the state of south carolina, it's hard for voters there to say, yeah, that guy's one of us. >> you know, mark haleprin, this is -- and again, people don't mind that he's not one of them. people don't mind roosevelts and kennedys, and even, you know, reagans who made some money in hollywood running. but they have to be connected with the voters. and, mark haleprin, m...