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He's got the vest on. >> love that vest. >> in washington pulitzer prize winning columnist and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. once again, good to have you back on the show. eugene has a piece in "the washington post" today, which candidate should answer that 3:00 a.m. phone call? yes it's about that time to be asking that question. >> gene, what's the answer? >> well i don't think, it is certainly not newt. you don't want newt answering any 3:00 a.m. phone calls. and, you know, i was talking about north korea. mitt romney, if you look at his website his position on north korea seems ...

Primary. at freddie mac newt was peddling influence to a quasi--governmental entity. at bing capital romney was risking private equity and private business enterprise. what sort of conservative would conflate the two? >> all right. >> would you consider that an attack? >> no. i think that is legitimate. >> just a basic question? >> but there is an awful lot of that going on out there. >> well yeah. it's just weird that -- i'm not sure where your emotion is coming from. >> well, but you notice he stole donny's word, gestault. >> he did. >> that's okay. >> you wrote a really important piece. >> ...

Spending just shy of a quarter million dollars this week and rick perry is betting big on iowa spending over $450,000 on tv ads there. >> so let me ask you, because since he's dropped in the polls, newt has acknowledged these negative ads are actually hurting him, you know, the perry ads are focusing on attacking gingrich. this is politics. so i'm not whining. i think, i guess what concerns me, is the creation of these super pacs allow you to launch negative ads against one person, whoever goes in front. >> right. >> and this -- if mitt romney were 30 points ahead then all be attacking mitt ro...

>> new jersey is going to be a tough state for any republican so start with that as a granted. i think new jerseyans have a long memory about his time as speaker of the house and i don't think -- he was very unpopular in new jersey back then. >> why? >> i think people saw him as uncompromising and incindiary when he was speaker. so -- >> how do you -- >> a very fair way of pitting it. >> -- balance things looking at newt. have you ever met newt? >> yeah. >> do you like him personally? >> i don't know him well enough to say if i like him personally. certainly he didn't offend me when i met him....

Very well. i would not want to be a defendant in a court where she's a prosecutor. she is, boy, she is the most improved. >> isn't that funny though? in the last month her campaign skills have upticked to the point on where she vernlgs ges being an effective candidate. >> she is. >> anybody out there who thinks negative ads don't work? wow. they work. >> look at newt's numbers. >> he has a lot of baggage, a lot of material to work with. >> hold on. negative ads, what do you mean? first of all you can talk about negative, unfair attack ads that are completely wrong including one by the way that...