good monday morning. i'm chris jansing. can anyone stop mitt romney at this point. candidates are trying to slow him down. first round of punches starting sunday morning. look at this. >> can we drop a little bit of the baloney. >> if his record was so great as governor of massachusetts, why didn't he run for re-election? >> we can't do well against obama if we have a candidate that endorsed single pair systems and t.a.r.p. bailouts. >> and now a super pact booking

newt gingrich is trying to land another blow. spending $3.4 million to air clips of this video attacking romn romney. >> for tens of thousands of americans, the suffering began when mitt romney came to town. >> joining me now, conservative columnist and an nbc political analyst. good morning. after a political junkies dream this weekend with all of the debates, i want to talk about the ads in a moment. we finally saw romney taking a lot of heat. who knows. maybe other candidates woke up and saw the paper and criticism of the saturday night debate. do you think the attacks changed anything? >> you know, it's too little too late. mitt romney is probably going to

win the lion share of the votes. by late next week we'll talk about the one, two, three punch that mitt romney has delivered in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. you don't think there's been -- >> huntsman delivered great line over the weekend saying this is the attitude that divided the country but he missed an opportunity to say it's one thing to support the president. it's another to support his policies. here's where i don't. that's where he needed to convince conservatives that he was the alternative to mitt romney. >> let me play that clip since you brought it up. i want to make sure the control room knows where it. you have it ready to go? this is the clip that you're referring to. >> i was criticized last night by governor romney for putting my country first. >> he criticized me while he was out raising money for serving my country and china.

yes, under a democrat. >> i think it's most likely the person that should represent our party running against president obama is not someone who called him a remarkable leader and went to be his ambassador in china. >> this nation is divided, david, because of attitudes like that. [ applause ] >> you got that big applause line. huntsman is trending up in the polls. santorum trending up in the polls. what do you think? do you think that they can make enough of a dent in his lead to make people think twice or do you agree that there's this inevitability now? >> as much as i hate to agree with a conservative columnist, think that's more or less the case. there were a few flashes of attacks on the sunday morning debate. if you look at what newt did on the newt richter scale of one to ten, his blasts were about maybe a 2.5, a 3. they were all about process issues. you didn't run for re-election.

nothing about real issues to motivate new hampshire voters. even south carolina voters. >> let me play the one for you where he coined a new phrase that i particularly like. here it is. >> i realize the red light doesn't mean anything to you because you're the front-run ne, but can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney. you ran in '94 and lost. you had a bad re-election rating. you dropped out of office. you have been out of state for 200 days preparing to run for president. you didn't have this citizenship while you thought about what to do. you were running for president while you were governor. you were going all over the country. >> the daily tracking poll shows newt down seven points this week. it's a race for second place. again, if a couple of these folks get enough that 33%, is it in essence a

game changer potentially? >> if mitt romney scores in the low 30s or even below 30, it may be a game changer. if you look at the campaigns, instead of looking at what's happening with mitt romney, if you look at rick santorum and newt gingrich, they've had terrible campaigns here in new hampshire. their message has been all over the place. they lost ground in the tracking polls. rick santorum got bogged down with social conservative views and if newt gingrich is attacking mitt romney, no one takes that seriously. this is a guy who said he was paid $1.6 million as an historian for freddie mac. he's not making a good case. his message at every event changes. they both had an opportunity here to go after mitt romney and to uplift themselves and they failed miserably.

>> i want to get back to those newt gets $5 million from a friend who gives it to his super pac and they buy the half hour movie attacking romney. we'll show you what will play in south carolina. this movie lays out the lives of people who work for four companies taken over by bane capital. >> it hurt so bad to leave my home because of one man that's got 15 homes. >> i want to bring in michael. tell us a little more about this. >> well, this is actually what is a game changer here is an example of a game changer is the roll of the superpac. here you have a $5 million infusion of cash from a billionaire casino magnate.

we all expected these sort of attacks to be front and center from democrats in the general election if romney is the nominee. what we didn't see coming was that conservative republicans like gingrich using the same line of attack in the republican primary. that film is strong enough. i watched it over the weekend. it intersplices human accounts of workers who were laid off after bain capital shut down their companies. shots of romney getting his shoes polished on an airport runway. as an attack ad, it's pretty strong. it's pretty effective whether it can move the needle for newt gingrich is a whole other

question but it does show how these superpacs can influence the election. >> let me play you a little bit of what newt gingrich had to say on the "today" show this morning. >> it's based upon historical facts. at some point governor romney will have to hold a press conference and walk through with considerable detail some of the companies that bain took over where they looted companies and left people unemployed and walked off with millions of dollars. >> as michael just said, david, these are the kind of attacks you might expect from the democrats. i guess the question is the white house sitting back saying thank you, thank you, thank you. this is all working out so well for us. >> well, i tell you, i'm really happy to have newt gingrich take the mother jones perspective here. others who have covered bain and raised these issues. we've seen in the last week mitt romney get tripped up over how many jobs were created or lost

by bain. you don't expect a las vegas casino magnate with shady deals financing something that attacks capitalism and i assume the romney camp will strike back. i think what mike said there was key thing. these attacks will not help newt gingrich. he's had an undisciplined campaign and has more baggage than anyone else out there. >> do you agree it won't help him? >> for two reasons. like david said, i mean, newt gingrich is not very likable. when he levees these complaints, i would look for a mitt romney ad in the future. you had former governor on your program the other day saying

none of the candidates like superp superp superpacs. everyone is in the same park on this. >> obviously you can't put the geni back in the bottle. maybe we'll see something different. >> i think this is the way presidential elections will be fought. the candidates sort of keep their hands clean while superpacs do the dirty work. a couple weeks ago when newt gingrich was getting hammered by the romney superpacs. he demanded romney disown the ads and he would run a positive campaign, that was then. this is now. >> shocked. >> fully embracing.

>> pious baloney. >> michaeling, david, s.e., thanks to all of you. while the republicans are ratcheting up attacks, the economy is showing more signs of a recovery. legendary newsman dan rather on what that could mean for the campaign coming up next. rick perry didn't get a lot of air time during this weekend's debates but he got just enough to get in a major headline and give him credit, good joke. saturday he told americans he would send troops back into iraq even though polls show three out of four americans favor the withdrawal. sunday he gave everybody a laugh playing off of his old oops moment from last month. >> let me answer the question that you asked earlier. what are the three areas that you would make some reductions if people would feel pain and i would tell you it would be those bureaucrats at the department of commerce and energy and education that we're going to do away with.

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president obama called congresswoman gabrielle giffords last night. it's been one year since she was shot in tucson. the president told her she's an inspiration and that he and the first lady are still mourning the victims. >> with liberty and justice for all. >> she led the pledge of allegiance. her rare appearance brought the crowd to tears. different rally last night. mitt romney on the campaign trail with new jersey governor chris christie. when it looked like occupy protesters were going to get

loud, christie turned it into an attack against the president. >> this is the time of disorientated anger your cynicism and your division is causing our country. bring our country together. stop dividing it, mr. president. on second thought, mr. president, if you're up there in the family quarters of the white house, put your feet up and don't worry about it. mitt romney is going to bring america together. bright lights of hollywood may have been too much for bristol palin. she moved back to alaska and is back at her old job as a receptionist at a dermatology office. she's not seeing her ex. we thought you would want to know that. the obama campaign has seven offices across the tiny granite state. another sign of the organizational strength of the re-election campaign. that's not all. the unemployment rate nationally has slipped to a three-year low.

8.5% after a robust 200,000 jobs were add last month. with the exception of ronald reagan, no president got a second term with the unemployment rate over 6%. dan rather is joining us. good to see you. >> good morning, chris. >> if there's a perception that things are getting better for the economy, can barack obama overcome an unemployment rate of 8% plus? >> it's possible. my opinion is that president obama at this moment is an underdog in the november elections. of course it depends on whom the republicans put up. it looks like it's mitt romney at the moment. who knows. but certainly this decline slight as it is in unemployment rate gives him a boost. frankly the biggest boost that president obama has had with

possible exception of unemployment rate going down a little are these continuing republican campaigns and long debates. i think these republican candidates must feel that they are kind of extras in the barroom scene from "star wars." >> some are talking about not so many debates in 2016. it's too much. >> it is too much. your previous guest were talking about newt gingrich attacking mitt romney yesterday for pious baloney. new hampshire may be the pious baloney capital of the western world at this moment because the candidates are spending so much time trying to appeal at the extreme of the party that they are not talking to most americans. they're not talking about things that concern most americans. they are basically attacking one another all in attacking mitt romney and going after him like desperate housewives go after one of their members and so i do think that that's helped

president obama in the short-term but always like to remind that it's early in the campaign. right now i would rate president obama a slight underdog but he has a chance to win in november partly because the public really hasn't warmed tremendously to any of the republican candidates so far. >> because you've been to so many new hampshire primaries and on the ground so many times, we've seen in the past that new hampshire has produced surprises. last weekend can definitely move the numbers. what are you feeling there, dan? >> well, new hampshire is among the hardest places in the country to read before a primary partly because people in new hampshire love to surprise. they don't like to sort of validate the person who came out of iowa. secondly, they tend to decide very late in the campaign. i agree right now that in new hampshire it's mitt romney's to lose. he's basically running against himself. if he doesn't win by say ten points or more, it may be cast even though he finishes first

that he didn't do as well as expected. i have a hunch, you never report your hunches but it doesn't hurt to talk about them, that jon huntsman has put so much in new hampshire, jon huntsman if there's a surprise in new hampshire, it may be huntsman breaking himself in the pack. the polls indicate for whatever they may be worth, romney, paul and even huntsman or gingrich. gingrich is a very dangerous candidate for mitt romney particularly when he views wounded and damaged which he does right now. not just in new hampshire but moving to south carolina gingrich could be real trouble for mitt romney. my guess is romney finishes first. if he doesn't get ten points or better in the lead, it will be seen as not a great victory for him and huntsman keep an eye on him. he could be the big surprise. >> dan rather, always good to see you and have the benefit of

your experience. thank you so much, my friend. >> thank you so much, chris. record discontent with washington helped fuel the record highs of independent voters. the latest gallup poll out this morning. 40% of voters say they're independent. highest percentage in 60 years and more americans identify themselves as democrats up to 31% compared to 27% republican. >> time for "your business" entrepreneur of the week. >> for years her product was manufactured in china. now she's moved to the company to a new multimillion dollar factory in maryland reducing shipment and inventory costs and brings much needed jobs to the u.s.

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mitt romney has dropped down ten points since iowa. what's going on there, do you think? >> well, i don't know what's going on. the one thing predictable about new hampshire is that it's unpredictable. my sense is that mitt romney is going to do well here. it's a multicandidate race. you have a lot of candidates here who work very hard and committed a lot of time. it's not surprising that the numbers would be divided and spread across four or five major candidates. the fact that mitt romney is running as well as he is a plus for him and other candidates seem to be grouped 10 to 13 points behind him. >> he did take a lot of shots at the debate yesterday morning. you had written this in that article i mentioned. my guess is that this may backfire on them. most new hampshire voters are not interested in the personal attacks. they are focused on the issues especially how to get the economy going and get the nation's debt under control. candidates who depart from addressing these concerns to

delve into score settling do so at considerable risk to their own viability. his numbers are going down and if mitt romney continues to drop over the next 24 hours or so, do you think it will have been the attacks? >> well, i think it will be that mitt romney does well here. i'm not going to -- i actually never took a poll when i ran for office here over 30 years i was in office. i just don't know that you can put a lot of weight on these polls. i think mitt will do well. there has been significant negative attacks here and those may have an impact. i tend to think that most new hampshire voters are looking at the issue of jobs, the economy and the size of the government, size of the debt and deficits and when they decide on who can best address those, that's the person they're going to vote for. >> given the polls and fact that mitt romney has a house in new hampshire, was governor in the state next door, it would be

truly astonishing if this is not a race for second place if he does not win new hampshire. does the expectations game play into this moving into south carolina? does he need a strong win, do you think? >> well, the expectation is something that you folks in the media participate in. electorate up here just goes and votes. with you it does have be a impact. there's no question about that. i remember back in -- i worked for ronald reagan in '76. a while ago. it was expected he would win here in new hampshire. he lost by 1,300 votes to then gerald ford. that was a huge loss. even though numbers were small, expectation was big. expectations have a definite impact and how the press defines expectations is important. i keep hearing he has a house here and he was governor of massachusetts. he had a house here and he was governor of massachusetts when he ran last time and he lost to john mccain. he lost to john mccain.

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superpac ad? >> he has every right to be upset about some of the things in that ad. i don't -- he said virtually nothing was accurate in it, there were a number of things we didn't look at that were simply -- they were accurate. there were things in there that were absolutely not true certainly. >> he gets a couple for his interpretation of your four. >> well, anyone who cites that on national television, gets a gold star from me. >> let me play something from ron paul asked about those controversial newsletters. >> it's been explained many times. everything was written 20 years ago that i did not write so concentrating on something 20 years ago that didn't write is diverting attention from the important issues. your ruling is? >> this is three. we looked into this. he has never given a

satisfactory answer about how that language got into those newsletters he published under his names for months and months and months. you can understand one article or two articles here and there but it was of consistent pattern and he passed up another opportunity there to give an explanation. >> defieies common sense. rick perry took on ron paul over earmarks. let me play that one. >> here's what frustrates me. you get the earmarks and vote against the bill. i don't know what they call that in other places. in texas, we call that hypocrisy. your ruling? >> he's entirely correct about that. we gave ron paul three pinocchios for his strange way of requesting the earmarks and voting against the bill and saying why i don't believe in earmarks. >> rick perry gets no

pinocchios. he gets a gepeto check mark. >> any time you can get that in there is a good day. he was critical of president obama handling of the economy yet again. let me play that clip. >> we corrected more jobs in massachusetts than barack obama has created in the entire country. >> boy, if you listen to that, it's impressive. >> yeah. it's one of those apples and oranges things. it's kind of meaningless. first of all, it's bad enough to say a president creates jobs. talk about a governor creating jobs when you are subject to whims of the economy is strange. and then here romney is comparing three years of obama to four years of romney in massachusetts. three years of romney, he created 3,000 jobs maybe. it's nothing to brag about. >> just one pinocchio but not a

gepeto. glen kessler, always good to have you. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> an american citizen, a former marine, has been sentenced to death in iran. a court found the 28 year old guilty of spying for the cia. his father lives in michigan. he says his son was visiting his grandmothers in iran when he was detained. i'm joined by nbc news tehran bureau chief. what more can you tell us about this? >> reporter: good morning, chris. that's right. a very heavy death sentence is being handed down. the charges are spying for the cia. >> obviously having some problems with our signal there. i can tell you a little bit more about this story. obviously he was american born. his family lives in michigan.

his father is a college professor in flint, michigan. the state department has called for his release. he is entitled, by the way, to appeal this. his family has said he didn't get adequate legal representation. we'll continue to follow this story. a little bit of technical difficulties getting that out of tehran there. new pain at the pump. gas prices have spiked in the past couple weeks. cnbc's mandy drury is here with what's moving your money. what's going on? >> we have high prices for the stuff you make gasoline out of. higher crude oil prices have brought up wholesale prices by 19 cents a gallon. retailers have passed through only 12 cents of that so far but it is still being felt at the pump. what you pay now for average price of a regular gallon of gas has gone up for the first time since mid october. as we said, about 12 cents to about 3.36 over the last few weeks. of the cities surveyed, salt

lake city, utah, has the lowest price at 2.86. los angeles has the highest at 3.69. >> drivers aren't the only ones getting squeezed. wall street bonus checks are taking a big hit. >> banks gearing up to report fourth quarter results making final bonus decisions for last year. total compensation is likely to be the lowest since 2008. we all know that 2008 was the year when some wall street firms didn't even survive. according to those familiar with the situation, many of the roughly 400 goldman sachs partners expect to see 2011 pay cut in half. morgan stanley may shrink bonus by 30% to 40%. this comes at a sensitive time in the wake of occupy wall street when critics lashed out at financial compensation. >> the reduced number is still

over $300,000, right? >> a lot of wall streeters get comparatively higher pay. it's relative in a way. >> you no he what they say in middle america. that's a teeny tiny violin. see that. for pay cuts down to $382,000. cnbc's mandy drury, always good to see you. thank you so much. here's a look at other stories people are talking about right now. some bottles may have stray tablets or parts of tablets. here's an obvious problem. you take excedrin for your headache but it's actually a nodoz. novartis warns of unintended drug reaction or allergic reaction. a disappearance of sensitive

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another kennedy running for congress. the grandson of rfk looking to fill barney frank's seat. we'll talk to a member of the kennedy family about that. a book about the obamas. east wing versus the west wing. political tell all that has washington buzzing. that and more in the next hour. >> less than 24 hours before the nation's first primary. jon huntsman campaign is gaining momentum up five points to 13%. still well behind a slipping mitt romney. we are joined from manchester. good morning. good to see you again. let me start with you. your dad staked his entire campaign on new hampshire. said that from the beginning. he does have late momentum going into tomorrow's primary. we're less than 24 hours away. has he run out of time? >> absolutely not. i think in all of the polls you see us moving up in the right direction and everyone moving down in the wrong direction. we're feeling very confident about tomorrow. >> i know you guys all sit

around, you're a close family. i've seen you together with your mom. dish some secrets when you sit around. what's the number you think you need to hit to go on? >> there's no specific number. i think we want to exceed expectations. whatever that ends up being, i think that you will be very surprised to see how we finish in new hampshire. even governor romney around for over 15 years campaigning, his name is well known. our dad started five months ago with zero percent name recognition and now jumping into second place. that's a story in and of itself. >> your dad decided not to accept extensive financial help from your grandfather, one of the richest men in the world. he hasn't raised a lot of money frankly. do you think his lack of funding is threatening his ability to move on at all? >> absolutely not. i think in a surge type situation, whatever that means, people jump on board. we saw yesterday we had, i think, $100,000 come in in just a few hours online. i think that's what it's about. the money comes in at the right

time. that's not one of our worries. what matters is getting people connected to your message and that's what we see here on the ground. >> your father has been criticized for working for president obama as his ambassador to china. it was kind of an electric moment on the weekend debates. he also tackles that in a new ad. how does he convince voters that he can be the person to run against and beat a man he worked for and said nice things about just a short time ago. >> you know, i think he said it best yesterday at the debate. my father has always taught us since we were little to serve your country no matter what. he will take it to his grave. so we're very proud of him and you know, my father is one who can bring the people together when he ran for re-election as governor of utah, he won democrats, republicans and independents. against obama is what you need. >> it's been a couple months since i have seen you. you have been getting into the

whole new hampshire thing. we talked about how it was different than you might have expected. i'm curious, is there something that you learned about america or the political process or that's really surprised you over the last couple of months? >> i think the one thing we found that's been surprising is that it's rare to find a trustworthy candidate. i think that as you saw in the last debate, my dad frankly puts country first before politics. i think it's really rare to find that in today's political system and i think that's why we're so passionate about what we're doing and what my dad is doing right now. that's why he's surges. america wants to trust their politician and government in washington. >> when are we going to see a new video from you ladies? >> you'll have to tune in. >> too busy to make a video. it's good to see you. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> newt gingrich is still pointing the finger of blame on those negative ads that ran

against him in iowa for his poor showing there. >> 45% of the ads run in iowa were attack ads against me. i have to say, with a fairly long career in politics, that was a breathtaking achievement. when you get up and eight or nine ads an hour would be attacking, six or eight pieces of negative mail a day, four or five robo calls a day, it was stunning. >> jackie is newt gingrich's daughter and author of "the essential american." >> thank you for having me on. >> we hear your dad criticizing rivals for number of negative ads against him in iowa. there were a lot of him. a superpac supporting him says romney is a corporate raider. is this hypocritical? >> as you know the superpacs do not -- >> the numbers he was quoting about number of attack ads

against him were largely superpac ads as well. >> you're right. let me finish. the point is that dad says he hopes that ads would be factual and researched and true. his point about the ads in iowa and i think this is really important because people are saying now what's happening to the campaign? can the republican candidates stand the heat on the obama trail. if you look at the number of ads that were against my dad in iowa it was about $5 million which is about $5 billion nationally. dads has gone through the fire and survived. >> he has indeed gone on to make his case in new hampshire. he's been criticized for running something of a revenge campaign. if you look at what happened in iowa, not only was he getting attacked but frankly for a long

time he said i'm not going to go on the attack. i'm going to run a positive campaign. you can see clearly yesterday that he has decided that he needs to get tough. is it too little too late? >> well, first of all, dad's message is optimistic. i can say that under gingrich presidency we would have more jobs and more growth and entitlement reform that would work for the american people and we know we would do that butecae he's the only candidate that's balanced a budget at a national level. we know we can have a candidate that can stand against obama and provide a real contrast. i'll call it clarity. what he's providing now is clarity. he's gone through the fire in iowa. that fire will continue. we have to realize that there was a quote saturday after the debate that mitt romney is the candidate democrats want the most because he's the weakest. part of this process is to make sure everybody asked every question about every candidate because in the end we need a candidate that provides a very

good contrast to president barack obama and my dad can do that because he's been a leader in the republican party and provided a clear contrast with a contract with america and having the only one that's balanced a budget for four years in a row at the national level. >> newt gingrich's daughter, thank you. good luck tomorrow. >> today's tweet of the day comes from msnbc's own willie geist. leading the local news in manchester, new hampshire, two days ahead of the state's primary? tim tebow is coming to new england. he's known for his devotion to his religion and watch this pulling out a last-minute win again just 11 seconds into overtime. 80-yard touchdown pass to beat pittsburgh, 29-23. he'll face the patriots on saturday. [ kyle ] my bad. [ roger ] tell me you have good insurance. yup, i've got... [ dennis ] ...allstate. really? i was afraid you'd have some cut-rate policy.

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houston. the 500,000 square foot power was a fixture of the city's skyline since 1952. but it was sinking. that wraps up this hour of "jancing and company." i'm chris jansing. thomas roberts is up next. tomorrow night join msnbc special prime time coverage of the new hampshire primary. it all kicks off 6:00 p.m. tomorrow evening and i'll see you back here tomorrow. ♪ we were skipping stones and letting go ♪ [ female announcer ] nature valley granola bars, rich dark chocolate, toasted oats. perfect combinations of nature's delicious ingredients, from nature valley. ♪ nature valley granola bars, nature at its most delicious.

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