>> i love it. willie what did you learn? >> i learned that mark halperin is never more uncomfortable than when surprised with birthday wishes on national television. >> everyone to the car. >> thank you, new hampshire, we absolutely love you. >> we'll see you back in new york tomorrow, stick down for more coverage of the primary with chuck todd, see you tomorrow. thank you, new hampshire. tonight we made history. >> romney rules. he takes the granite state 39%, more than john mccain in 2008. first nonincumbent republican to win both iowa and new hampshire, south carolina and florida come next. they're road games, a whole new ball game. ron paul, strong shows in second place, huntsman, gingrich and santorum follow, but no one's

ready to drop out. we'll take you inside the numbers, what were the most important considerationings for these republican voters and what does that mean for a general election. and last night romney lashed out against democrat republicans for their attacks on him. my conversation with one of those, quote, desperate republicans, newt gingrich, where is his campaigning going from here? it's wednesday, january 11, 2012. it's a really important day in rundown history. and in manchester new hampshire, and michelle obama responds for the first time to that eyebrow raising new book alleging friction between the first lady and the president's west wing staff. but first, my "first reads" of the morning. romney did what he failed to do four years ago, he won decisively in his backyard. he captured a 1-2 stage early

sweep. 39% of the vote. ron huntsman -- newt gingrich and rick santorum barely cracked double digits. we have to wait for the final votes and then there is rick perry. in the race to 1144, romney picks up five more delegates, ron paul won three and huntman 2. romney may have coasted to victory, but now they move south to what promises to be a brutal fight. and in south carolina, romney won't have the advantage of the outlier electorate. 40% of primary voters identified themselves as independents. 47% called themselves moderate or liberal. just 21% said they were, quote, very conservative. folks that's not what south

carolina's going to look like. and teeing up his south carolina argument. romney tried to look like a tough nominee with an attack on obama. >> this president has enacted job killing legislations, i'll elet eliminate them. tonight we're asking the good people of north carolina to make 2012 the year he runs out of time. >> and he took on republicans who have leveled populist attacks at his business record at bain capital. >> president obama wants to put free enterprise on trial and in the last few days we have seen desperate republicans join forces with him. this is such a mistake for our party. i stand ready to lead us down a different path, where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentiment of success.

>> newt gingrich, rick santorum and jon huntsman have a different strategy, deny newt a victory. gingrich said on tuesday this isn't over yet. >> in the next couple of days, make a list of every person you know in south carolina and every person you know in florida, i believe we can reach out and we can create a majority that will shock the country and a majority that will begin to put us back on the right track. it is a daunting challenge but consider the alternative. >> for those who would like to think that somehow or another that this race could be over in one or two states, states that have been, well, let's say the backyard and the home of a certain candidate. we have an opportunity to be the true conservative. >> jon huntsman says he's still

in, he tried to put the best face on what was a disappointing third place. >> we have proved the point that this state won't wants its cand to earn it the old-fashioned way, that's on the ground, hand shake by hand shake, conversation by conversation, vote by vote. i would say third place is a ticket to ride, ladies and gentlemen. hello, south carolina! >> yes, that song will be in your head all day, "you've got a ticket to ride". >> i wanted to thank the union leader for not endorsing me. i sort of have to chuckle when they describe you and me as being dangerous. we are dangerous to the status quote of this country. >> john paul actually looked

like he enjoyed giving that speech last night. the race from here will be a brutal fight on the airwaves with staggering amounts of money involved. gingrich's campaign announced this new ad in south carolina, attacking romney on a social position, abortion. >> what happened after massachusetts governor mitt romney -- romney appointed a pro abortion judge, expanded access to abortion pills and romney signed health care with taxpayer supported abortions. mitt romney can't be trusted. >> gingrich is superpacked winning our future will finally drop the first ad naming romney's record today. romney is countering with six new ad byes in south carolina and florida.

and this morning romney is already out with a spanish language ad where he tries his hand at the language. [ speaking spanish ] >> yes, he approves this message, thank you. exit polls in new hampshire found romney with the best chance to beat president obama but the numbers also raised a few red flags. anti-romney voters weren't ready to appear yet. maggie haberman, senior political writer and reporter for politico. are we all mad at him for not giving us a story? >> you know what, chuck, i think he can be. >> i was driving home last night, chuck, and i was going through history and i know i'm the new hampshire home boy, so i'll lend some credibility here for this conversation going forward. this was the worst, most boring primary since 1960.

since 1960, we basically didn't have a primary. this was not obviously thank you for coming, i'm sorry i couldn't add more. >> all right, let's go to the quality that mattered most. look at the first two quality guys from the exit poll, can't defeat obama, that's 61% basically thinking practically, maggie haberman, that was already good news for mitt romney. who can defeat president obama, romney got 62% of those voters on experience and he kind of split that with huntsman. still good for romney. >> it's hard to argue at once, yes it was expected, yes we knew it was coming, but these numbers bear well for him, people who want electability, people who think he looks like the person who can beat the president. he does head into carolina with a split conservative vote. he won it barely, but as long as

everybody stays in the race and keeps fractures that vote, it's good for him. >> it's amazing that winning for the first time, he almost filled the nominee suit. i don't know what you can do. he just looked like he had that air of confidence. i see yellow flashing lights with mitt romney. that is not going to be what real republican primaries are like. romney and santorum were neck and neck. 33-26. this is where you could see how he runs into a problem in south carolina. >> you can see how he runs into a problem, the conservative vote can be a much larger voting -- two good things for him. one, he actually won the tea party vote and the very conservative vote here which means maybe his problem was iowa more than it was conservatives, it's something to think about. and also the bain issue, i wonder if it's been taken off the table some as return

limbaugh say hey we're the republican party. i wonder if the conservative leadership -- >> i might want to talk about that in a second. but this was interesting, among nonromney voters, james, how would you feel if he's nominated, would you be satisfied. some people see this as a negative for romney. i think 42% is a positive. >> you talk about the anomaly of new hampshire republican voters and iowa is an anomaly of national republican voters and yet he won both states. and when we look at this electability number, this is something i thought was fascinating. new hampshire's supposed to be for the electability. this is the first time in all the polling all year is

eelectabilieeleclectr electability is trumped. >> the road ahead, we have two more primary this is month, south carolina and florida, big conservative votes there. february, there's a lot of caucuses, a little ron paul territory. but then i'm a big fan of february 4, because if romney struggles, that's going to be a big day for him. arizona, michigan. i want to point something out about these states, that's the fact, look at the economic distress. iowa and new hampshire have low unemployment rates, lower than the national average. what are we up to 8.5 now in five of the next states, the big states all with higher unemployment rates, 9.9 in florida, 10% in florida. >> it's not that they think this is actually so easy to contend with, mitt romney was already doing the new hampshire shows this is not an issue.

the ads did not air here on bain, there's concern among his advisors that he will get defined in a very negative way not only in the primaries but heading forward in the future. they need to start defining bain, because there are economies where there are a lot of people who are out of work. >> conservative voters may be mad at the big banks for foreclosing on their friend's house. >> the fire thing may be misconstrued, but the corporation are people, he's got to reduce the lines, which is a little bit out of touch. not only are democrats bouncing on that, but republicans are too. >> what happened to the buchanan coalition here? is this state just not as conservative as it used to be? >> it's not. you saw a rise of that in 2010. certainly i think going forward for new hampshire, the more

interesting question is what happened to the ron paul question. mitt romney won the nomination. >> and maggie, the president's primary number, 29%, that's more than bush got in '04, less than bill clinton. but more important for obama, it was half the turnout of clinton '96. that's a little bit of concern. >> they were looking at this very carefully to see how to boost things, there was some speculation as to how to hoon l handle independents. this is not clear sailing for obama either going forward. >> you can call me any time, we got plenty of time. >> let us know when mark warner gets here for 2016. >> governor cuomo, we'll see him. we'll be back. thank you all. we're headed south, it's going to be a little warmer. although it's nice here, the republican race is already

there. you're looking at pictures of rock hill, north carolina, newt gingrich is calling this his defining speech he wants to go forward. up next, on the road with newt, who admitted to me that south carolina a must win for him or it's over. and what the former speaker is staying about his rivals. but first, a look ahead at the president's schedule, off to chicago later today, folks, got a little jobs council meeting, you're watching "the daily rundown" live from new hampshire, we'll be right back. ♪

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well after his fourth place finish last night. newt gingrich is putting all his chips in south carolina. he's calling the defining speech for his candidacy. the former speaker previewed it with me. called south carolina a must win and he's putting up those first ads. i sat down with him on his bus to talk about how he's going to beat mitt romney and win south carolina. a couple of weeks you backed off

of going off mitt. are you learning more about bain? >> we have had several articles in a row now that have had very sobering information. "the wall street journal" yesterday reported on a company that he had invested, bain had invested $30 million. they took $180 million out, and it was six to one. and you have to ask yourself, if you need a six to one return with the company going bankrupt, what would have happened if you had only taken three to one. >> that's something president obama would say, that's capping the market. >> not capping the market. if you invested in google in the beginning, you've probably made a 25,000-fold return. and that was fine, because it was a great return. if you invested in home depot, that's fine, because the company grew. there's a big difference between

financial manipulation and capitalism. capitalism is when entrepreneurs go out, investors go out, they start something real, they grow something and that has real impact. >> and you don't think that's a class war argument? >> first of all, okay, is he allowed to cite his record or not? if he's allowed to cite his record, is somebody else allowed to criticize his record or not. criticizing one businessman for one set of practices is not an assault on capitalism. i am totally for free enterprise, i'm totally for capitalism. his first book that was actually quite dense was about the notion that you have to be virtuous society. within which you can have capitalism. i'm not saying anything romney's done was outside of the law, i'm saying it may have been bad judgment, it may have been

exploitism, the idea of saying well, i was inside the law, so it's okay, no. was it the right thing to do? just because you have the right to do something, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. >> this seems to be, you're a steward of the populist movement, believing all wall street's problem. on the right, they believe it's government -- government's picking winners or losers, but what they both sort of have in common is they feel like the deck is stacked against them. >> part of the difference is the tea party movement which i identify with. believes the big institutions are dangerous, whether they're big banks, big government, big labor because they inherently conflict with the model of american freedom. their answer is more freedom. the occupied wall streeters

believe that it's more government. which i believe is exactly backwards. >> let's go to the tea party you said you were identifying with, to me, this has been your clearest attempt at sort of identifying with the tea party when it comes to using bain in that way. is that a good way of differentiating you and governor romney when it comes to the tea party. >> there are two differentiat n differentiations under way. one is class liberal conservative and no modern republican has survived in a presidential campaign being on the left. and romney clearly razz governor w was on the left. and is second is populist versus elitist. i am a middle class, my dad was an army officer, i grew up in a middle class background, i have middle class values. i find powerful rich people rigging games very distasteful.

>> do you think once the superpak supe superpac is done, he's going to become more electable? >> i think the last thing the republican party can do is to nominate someone who's not properly vetted, and then watch obama destroy them. >> south carolina, you said it's must win. >> i think south carolina is the place where we're going to make our stand and that's where we always thought we would make our stand. >> and then once you start winning, it's hard to stop winning. is that a fairw way to put it? >> in santorum's last election, he set the record of losing by the biggest margin. if you talk about defeating

obama, it would be better to have somebody who has ran against national -- >> are you concerned that south carolina is going to get personal, your personal life, romney's religion, all this sort of stuff that nobody wants to see happen. >> i oppose all that kind of stuff and if you'll notice, you know, i didn't jump when taking his comments yesterday out of context. they said they were clearly taken out of context and that's the wrong thing to do. i'm going to have the same attitude in south carolina. an individual's religion shouldn't be part of this process. an individual's personal life shouldn't be part of this process. we don't need to get into that kind of negativity. >> what do you think of the comparison? >> it could be a texas thing? >> do you agree with it?

or is it using oversized color commentary there? >> i think texans find it very hard to be overstated. i think it depends on who's won and what kind of mess we're in. >> can you rally around -- >> if romney can win south carolina, he's probably going to be the nominee. this is his big test. >> no matter the number, even if it's sort of a low the way mccain did it? >> he has so much money that if he also has the advantage of momentum, it's going to be very hard to stop him. >> you heard it, newt gingrich saying it right there, if romney wins south carolina in his mind, it's basically over. we have a preview of the day on wall street and as the race rolls on, we're going to talk to one of the republican party's power brokers of sorts.

remember governor mcdonnell, . plus first lady michelle obama speaks out about that much talked about new book about her relationship as president and what she says about her behind the scenes roll in the white house and that alleged friction. but first, today's trivia question, since 1952, which candidate won the new hampshire primary with the smallest percentage of the vote. bonus points if you can tell us what that winning percentage was. i guess that means you'll get a double on friday. the first correct answer will get their share of kudos from us. the answer and more coming up on "the daily rundown". ♪

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pictures of newt gingrich in rock hill, south carolina. mitt romney gets there later this afternoon. time for the "market rundown". becky quick is here. do these folks react at all to the fact that romney is now a strong front-runner? >> it's funny on in trade, they now have i think 87% odds that mitt romney is going to be the front-runner and we have been watching that through the day. some of the market strategists say in the immediate term that probably could be some good news, if we come up with one presidential candidate from the republicans, that they'll be focusing around that. i don't know that that's playing out today. the market is opening up down by about 40% on the dow. there are a lot of interesting stories i want to share with you. i know you're a huge user of twitter. there's a smackdown between twitter and google.

google rolled out a new feature on its service. they allow you to search all kinds of posts that your friends have posted, pictures that have come up and twitter is saying this is going to make it a lot more difficult for its posts to come up in any search that you do so they're complaining about that. and if you drink orange juice every morning with your breakfast, you could be playing very much higher prices in the future because frozen orange concentrate juices are at the all-time high because of a bann bann banned fungicide. >> all right, thank you much. "the daily rundown" will be back in 30 seconds.

a new other stories making headlines in iran. two attackers are accused of making a bomb to kill a scientist. tehran's deputy governor blames israel for the attack. according to a new pugh poll americans blame members of congress and not the system for the problems on capitol hill. 55% of those polled say the political system works just

fine, 32% say the process is broken. today marks the ten-year anniversary of the guantanamo bay prison, the facility remains open despite president obama's campaign promise to shut it down. 171 detainees remain at gitmo today. and first lady michelle obama is speaking out for the first time about that controversial new book on the first couple. she says there is no friction between her and the west wing staff and she says that the accounts are an unfair portrayal of her. >> i guess it's more interesting to imagine a conflicted situation here, a strong woman and -- but that's been an image that people have tried to paint of me since the day barack announced that i'm some angry black woman. i just try to be me and my hope is that over time, people get to know me. and they get to judge me for me. >> you know, the reel questial

in that book was the friction being caused by something that was assumed what was the first lady thought versus what actually the first lady thought might be some of the back and forth and while there was so much intrigue. south carolina and what's likely to be the last chance for mitt romney's rivals to slow him down. tim scott will continue those presidential town hall meetings. on saturday, it's virginia governor bob mcdonald who will headline that event. he also chairs the republican governor's association and he joins me now. governor mcdonald, you know, after a 1-2 punch that governor romney pulled off, winning iowa and then winning new hampshire, granted in his backyard. the assumption that it's okay, do more people jump on the bandwagon? are we going to start seeing a bunch of endorsements from the

next couple of days? >> chuck, first happy new year and congratulations on the second anniversary of your show, great job. >> yes, very nice, thank you sir. >> you're welcome. mitt's done something nobody's done for about 35 years or so and that's to win iowa and new hampshire back to back. different electorates and i think it's certainly pretty impressive to have done that and he's been the steady one, 21% to 30% along the way and now nearly 40% in new hampshire. i think he's got some momentum. i think south carolina is a test, some of the other candidates are showing momentum as well. so i think if he does well in south carolina, then i think it gets a little easier down the road for him. what other governors may do at this point, i don't know. very few have made endorsements at this point, but it's certainly possible here in the near future that many will weigh

and i think the best candidate for our team would be a governor or former governor simply because when you look at what's broken in washington, somebody needs to know how to create jobs and balance budgets. governors do that. >> speaker gingrich is making the case that there is -- that there is an alternative message that could defeat governor romney, the question of course for a lot of conservatives, is there an alternative messenger. he's making a point about conservative populous, there is a big chunk of the republican electorate that is uncomfortable with big business as much as they are uncomfortable with big government. what do you say to that? >> i say there's a handful of important issues that are going to determine who's the next president of the united states. and that is who can get the greatest country on earth back to fiscal health and get us back

to -- to get americans back to work. that to me is what's at stake in this upcoming election. everything else is pale. i think the message of traditional values and fiscal conservatism, they are party beliefs and part and parcel of that message. i think many of our candidates have had very solid messages on that. but the final factor is who can best beat president obama in a debate and at the polls and i think that's what's going to determine who wins the primary. >> i want to talk specifically about the attacks on governor romney's time at bain capital. do you think speaker gingrich's attacks on him are fair? >> there's a lot to the people who say everything's fair in love, war and politics. that's up to others to decide whether it's fair.

i can say that part of what this country's about is about achieving the american dream. we want to have less class warfare and more people that have the opportunity to be self-sufficient and self-reliability, it's what our founding fathers meant when they wrote these documents more than 200 years ago. now we need to have a good civic, corporate responsibility, and those are fair issues. but overall, being successful in business, i think is a good thing. >> you just used the phrase class warfare, do you think speaker gingrich and rick perry are tiptoeing on the line of class warfare on these attacks on bain? >> no, but i think pat obama is, this 99% versus 1% is the epitome of that. if you look at who contributes most to fiphilanthropy in this

country, it's the basic tenants of the american dream. we ought to celebrate more americans being successful and make it financially or politically or any other successes in life and not criticize it. i think that's not healthy for our country. and people that have shown success in any walk of life ought to be uplifted as a model. >> do you see bain capital as something that was a job creating place, wealth creating place? is it an either/or proposition? >> no, listen, i haven't looked into all the detailsnd all the attacks that are being made. but people that are in venture capital firms are the ones that provide seed capital for the entrepreneur as well as big businesses, they buy, they manage, they sell companies, but their job is to make a profit for the investors, just like a publicly traded company's job is to make money for the shareholders, large and small.

that's just the system we have in america and people might make fair value judgments as to whether someone had civic responsibility in their duties. >> more people going to get on the virginia ballot now? >> well, that's up to the courts, i think, at this point. there's only two that qualified, chuck, and that's romney and paul. and unless the courts do something else, that's it. >> all right, governor bob mcdonnell who will be in south carolina, we'll call it your first trip of 2016, or 2020, i'm teasing. governor mcdonnell, thanks for coming on this morning. >> the surf looks good in myrtle beach this time of year, i'm going to check it out. next the political panel joins me riling here in new hampshire and then the white house soup of the day, what a great sort of unique soup to

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>> samantha, take a seat. >> oh, great. i thought you would never ask. i've been calling and calling. >> so we're going to talk about politics, not cooking. >> that's a low blow. a low blow, chuck. >> take that, roker. >> i got a whole panel here, let me introduce everybody. romney defending his record. >> we expected president obama to put free enterprise on trial and to continue his, you know, rhetoric of envy and class warfare. we're a little surprised to see it coming from speaker gingrich and others. i don't think it will work in sblg south caroli south carolina, take your best shot. i've got president obama next if i'm lucky enough to be the nominee. >> bill burton, former press

secretary for president obama and a founder of one of those dreaded super pacs. let me start with you. you cover this fight of the conservatives. does new hampshire impact where some of the movement conservatives, what are the movement conservatives thinking a day after new hampshire? >> i spoke to a lot of conservatives yesterday in new hampshire, they all talked about electability, they have to be able to beat barack obama. going into south carolina, it's batting practice for -- i think movement conservatives, they like a lot of the other contend contenders, but they're going do move towards romney. >> are they moving towards romney or settling for romney? >> that's going to be a problem for romney. there's not a lot of enthusiasm still on the trail.

>> romney is calling conservative populous. >> romney's now the old guy in the tuxedo and the top hat. the suffering began, a group of corporate raiders. the left could not improve on this. you know, you could -- the newt pac, i got an idea for you guys, recut your ads on romney. and your tag line is, i am barack obama and i approve of this message. >> molly, before i get to you, bill burton is here, used to work for team obama. >> i tell you what, i think that mitt romney is vulnerable on this, but mostly because he has such a hard time explaining what it was he was doing when he was in private --

>> is newt gingrich using the -- if you look at the polls, this is something that's resonate, even with republicans. >> bill did that with a straight face. >> i would not be doing it if it didn't work. >> and that seems to be the line here, right? >> it's always been the divide among the conservatives, right, as you've got the conservative, the populism, of course the conservative elites don't like this. but there's a whole other stream of the republican party and frankly a lot of them are in south carolina and that could reason ate with them. >> don't you think the reasons have done a better job of enunciating this attack against romney. i hope that the democrats are takes notes. it gives romney an opportunity to really refine his response to it in these early days when

let's face it independent persuadable voters aren't paying as much attention as people around this table are. >> in fact on the "today" show this morning, mitt romney -- i love it from 7:00 to 9:00. i do, you know, i these mixed feelings. and that 10:00 to 11:00 hour is fantastic. >> because they drinking. >> we drink too. >> there was a question matt asked them that the issue of envy, that these attacks that maybe they're envious of something. it's an interesting phrase to use. >> but mitt romney didn't back off from it. matt was asking is it a question of envy or is it a question of fairness. he said it's a question of envy. >> he's going aggressive, not defense. he's not backing down from capitalism. >> when newt gingrich was saying why did you have to pick a 6-1

out of there. >> they hear the 11th commandment from reagan. it's too much. conservatives don't like it. >> we are going to do more after the break. a four person panel. usually you keep me on track. >> this is weird for me. >> they are playing the music here. trivia time, we asked since 1952, which candidate won the new hampshire primary with the smallest percentage of the vote. a lot of you said dole. remember, buchanan won in '96. 27.4% of the vote. if you guessed jimmy carter, there were a few of you. you weren't totally wrong. it's the smallest percentage a democrat ever won by. pat buchanan holds the prize. we'll be back with daily rundown on msnbc. ♪

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let's bring back the panel, molly, bill and savannah. savannah guthrie. what happens in new hampshire does it stay in new hampshire for jon huntsman? >> i think so. itis hard to imagine a path forward. it's hard to see who he appeals to there. it's got establishment support. in new hampshire, he began more openly selling himself to the independents, the obama republicans. >> right. >> there are a lot of obama republicans. >> he's doing well with the people who aroouf that. >> i met a lot of them. they were going for huntsman. they said they didn't like the republicans in general, so, there's not a lot. >> mitt romney, what does he have to fear more, attacks on the private sector experience in south carolina, foreclosure or

the stuff everybody thinks is going to happen, the dark side, religion. >> i don't think he's in a position to fear at all going into south carolina. the party is co-lessing around him because they are sick and tired of newt gingrich and perry going after him. they know this is going to be the key theme, the economy and capitalism. i don't think it's going to be a big issue. it is one of the things to look for. >> bill, is it fair to say there's been a lot of reporting saying the obama campaign is disappointing romney is probably going to wrap this up sooner rather than later? >> i think there's a feeling you would like to see him go through the paces more. his problem right now is mitt romney. he's created the biggest troubles he hasby saying how he enjoys firing people. the politics of envy is going to come back. the pink slip issue.

people have the idea of him being rich and unrelated. >> savannah, are the voters engaged? what's something you think we have been too weedy about? >> in some ways voters, independent people living their lives voters aren't paying that close of attention yet. it's about the general p population. >> my piece on rick santorum looking at his rise in pennsylvania and how it could play elsewhere. >> molly? >> terrible pandering but i love new hampshire which i experienced for the first time. >> sneak over the border to maine. >> action.org, we have a new video about the coronation of mitt romney and the messiness of his campaign. >> you can't fund raise on this program, can you? >> two years is impressive.

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