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Rick santorum also has a role in this year's race. his role is -- oh, i'm sorry, that was actually my own typo. rick santorum does not have a role. he's just rick santorum. finally there's newt gingrich. newt gingrich started off as the grumpy profiteering also ran d.c. scam artist guy with all the offices on k. street. as a late surging front-runner now, mr. gingrich plays a useful role in the race. not just for republican voters making a decision on who to vote for for president, but the whole country trying to understand republican politics by watching the republican presidential race. newt...

Fact the government claims they've taken control of it. nic robertson, cnn, libya. >> it is nighttime in libya. that is where we find under a dark sky nic robertson in tripoli. nic, watching that and hearing the gunfire, you didn't even flinch. i guess these days that's just par for the course where you are, huh? >> reporter: i must say my heart rate went up quite a bit. after we left that area, we saw more troops, about 150 troops, going in in jeeps on the backs of trucks, singing songs quite triumphantly. we get a feeling that the government will try to make a final push. that offensive has ...

Do you think the democratic party hasn't been tough enough in letting slating and making their case? >> you've got to realize that you've got only three friends in life, that's god, your mama and the democratic party. and do be too sure about your mama. >> people are say dwlug're in can hoots with the tea party and you're helping to get the tea party elected. >> these are the same people who think that adam and eve wrote on the backs of dinosaurs. the same people. >> i guess that means no truth in it according to you. i wind want to ask you about net neutrality. this is about whether the phone...

It's a much lower rate. >> upon lower income people is much greater. >> you're taxing capital. >> let me give this to jonathan for a second. you kicked this off with me, jonathan. vat tax is a possibility here. consumption tax, get rid of income tax. what should we do to deal with the debt issue? >> well, well, to jonas' point, stop spending. i don't think there's enough money in the world to cover the type of debt that we're racking up in terms of the entitlement spending in this country. but i think what needs to go is the notion that the rich owes everybody else and they get rich on the bac...