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And as governor romney says, this is still about the economy and the american people are not stupid, and they're going to go to the polls in november looking at this barack obama's record and they're going to vote for mitt romney because they know and they have -- polls have shown that they trust him to handle the economy better than the current president. >> alice, real quickly, i want to get you and your take, your old boss, michele bachmann threw her weight behind mitt romney on the trail, what is the importance of her endorsement and how does she ultimately help mitt romney? >> i spoke to ...

Out of the mainstream and aren't helping him with independent voters. i do have to quickly touch on something j.p. said, it's completely missing the point to say surrounding yourself with women solves your outreach to women or your support for women. it's about what you stand for and what you're fighting for. it's not about how many women who are around you and personally michele bachmann's positions on women's issues are just as bad or worse than mitt romney romney's. >> i want to talk to you guys about the endorsement of newt gingrich to romney, take a listen to what he had to say last night...

Was on stage with representative bachmann as well as mcdonald, you had protesters outside talking about this issue of women's rights, of abortion and this bill that he signed into law that mandated that women would have to see an ultrasound before they got abortion so, yes, democrats certainly want to play on that ground when it comes to the economy and to women's rights. they want to focus on the ways in which they think the republicans are really chip in to some of these rights around abortion and you saw that in that video that they released yesterday, the life of julia. they also know that...

I think the reality is that everyone did well, they froze their vote in place. so michele bachmann had a good night, santorum made some points. nobody lost votes. at the end of the day, romney had a solid performance because he wasn't entangled with gingrich or perry. >> margaret, do you agree, there is not a lot of fluidity at this point? >> i agree. it's seltzed down. but i was so struck by how mitt romney really ran as a general election candidate and newt gingrich was running as the first of the nation primary caucus in january. he was really positioning himself for a win in iowa and his p...

Donald trump section of the book was reals interesting in the sense that, you know, he was -- rocketed up in the polls. but when the correspondence dinner came, obama had released his birth certificate, just a few days prior. really had set this up. he planned to go in and humiliate him. seth myers, the talent at the white house correspondence dinner, did a bit on donald in his opening. you know, obama really went -- some people think he went overboard in the way he went after donald in the public setting, a thousand people -- you know what the dinner's like. and obama really took it to him. a...