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deadly string of assassinations. and the first lady of the united states reacting to a controversial new book about the obama white house, saying she s not the stereotype of, quote, some angry black woman. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. with back-to-back wins in iowa and new hampshire, mitt romney has now done what no other republican incumbent candidate has ever done, once again no republican candidate except, i should say, for a sitting president. romney, of course, wants to be sitting in the white house next year, but that road leads through south carolina. that s the next primary state in ten days. his opponents are digging trenches and putting up barricades there in an all-out effort to halt his momentum. south carolina has a representation for rough and tumble primary and for picking winners. jim accost ha has the latest. jim? reporter: if only the south carolina primary could be tomorrow for mitt romney, it s going to be potentially a bru ....
Televised debates and my next guest, speaker of the house put his sights on mitt romney. can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney. the fact is you ran in 94 and lost and that s were you weren t in the senate with rick santorum and the fact is you had a very bad reelection rating and dropped out of office, and on the stake for 200 days preparing to run for business and didn t have the citizenship when you thought about what to do and running for president while you were governor, and you ve gone all over the country and out of state consistency and reentered politics and happened to lose to mccain as you d lost to kennedy and you ve been running for kennel for years and years and years so this idea suddenly citizenship showed up in your mind. level with the american people and you ve been running since at least the 1990 s. sean: and joining me now from the campaign trail here in new hampshire is presidential candidate newt gingrichment before we get to ....
Of an a ann anarchyism in them blocking people s right to free speech. we decided it wasn t worth risking some kind of big confrontation so we frankly decided to just skip past that particular event. unfortunately let s talk all right. i think that we can t be held hostage by those kind of people. sean: talk about the statement you made, pious baloney and other exchanges with mitt romney? well, i ve been trying to find the right phrase to explain what governor romney s technique is, and that is it is to sort of say something as though it sound totally correct except it s not true. and i thought baloney was probably the best way to capture all that. you know, he was in the middle of a riff that was just plain blony and old-fashioned terms i was born in central ....
Republican field on the exact things seen as his big selling points. let s face it. his business background, his ability to create jobs and his outside washington persona. his political innocence. he was hit hard yesterday at the meet the press debate. it started early. let s watch what romney said about his career and then watch newt gingrich cut into it. this, for me, politics, is not a career. for me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. my life s passion has been my family, my faith and my country. can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? the sfact you ran in 94 and lost. that s why you weren t serving the senate with rick santorum. you ve been running consistently for years and years and years. so this idea that suddenly citizenship showed up in your mind, just level with the american people. you ve been running at least since the 1990s. well, you hear the applause there. and this i was in that audience in our debate su ....
Threat to president obama s re-election is under attack by his own party. the other republican candidates are inflicting wounds that could destroy romney for the general election. at yesterday s nbc news/facebook debate, jon huntsman had the line of the day after romney criticized him for working for president obama. this nation is divided, david, because of attitudes like that. that moment recalled joseph welch asking joe mccarthy, have you left no sense of decency? meanwhile, gingrich called mitt out for what he called his pious baloney. mitt romney s pretension of being a man above politics. so the games begun. romney s biggest vulnerability of all may not be his reputation as a flip-flopper, but his years making millions at bain capital. newt gingrich is going for the kill launching a $3.4 million ....