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Gingrich, basically supported that court decision. they thought it was free speech, money is speech, as they see it. and it could have destroyed his campaign. we don't know until we see the results, but he could come in fourth or fifth tonight, after this pummeling he took out here. >> there's a couple of things. those ads were devastatingly effective, but for a couple of reasons. they were reinforced by a similar attack coming from ron paul. and the other is, a lot of the charges in those ads, the truth stings. it wasn't like these were wild distortions. that was, in fact, a pretty fair criti...

Gingrich, basically supported that court decision. they thought it was free speech, money is speech, as they see it. and it could have destroyed his campaign. we don't know until we see the results, but he could come in fourth or fifth tonight, after this pummeling he took out here. >> there's a couple of things. those ads were devastatingly effective, but for a couple of reasons. they were reinforced by a similar attack coming from ron paul. and the other is, a lot of the charges in those ads, the truth stings. it wasn't like these were wild distortions. that was, in fact, a pretty fair criti...

Movement decides to coalesce behind either mitt romney -- i mean, either newt gingrich or rick perry in south carolina. if that happens, we will have a two-person race coming out of south carolina going to florida and beyond. >> matt lewis, the debate thing john brings up is a very good point. heretofor the reason newt gingrich has surged is because of his incredibly strong debate performances. there haven't been debates in recent weeks, a barrage of negative advertising but two debates scheduled for saturday and sunday. does that help newt gingrich. >> absolutely. he's a great debater. you're...

And that is fascinating. can mitt romney divide and conquer the entire campaign? >> a twist you brought up in your comments, michael steele about newt gingrich. i'm going to read about heilemann's piece in "new york" magazine about that point. there you have it, gingrich who trails romney badly in the state plans to use the week between the caucuses here and primary there to rip romney a new one. where gingrich for the moment is polling strongly and ahead of the pack. there's an opening for almost anybody in this race. >> we were out yesterday, mark and i trailing newt around and an amazing th...

And that is fascinating. can mitt romney divide and conquer the entire campaign? >> a twist you brought up in your comments, michael steele about newt gingrich. i'm going to read about heilemann's piece in "new york" magazine about that point. there you have it, gingrich who trails romney badly in the state plans to use the week between the caucuses here and primary there to rip romney a new one. where gingrich for the moment is polling strongly and ahead of the pack. there's an opening for almost anybody in this race. >> we were out yesterday, mark and i trailing newt around and an amazing th...