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Medicare part. i want to get into a longer discussion about the medicare, but how bad a week did newt gingrich had? >> i think he had a bad week. i think the republican party had a horrible week. his campaign was definitely set back by a lot of this noise at the front end. what you saw was there's a litmus test now in the republican party. you have to be, for taking apart medicare to run for president. if that is going to be the enforced position of the republican party on their candidates in 2012, i think they're going you have to a tough campaign. >> i want to pick up on idea of a litmus tes...