mitt romney should be talking to a guy like matt lewis.conservativing pac blogger of the year. has he done a single interview with a mainstream journalist? >> he was on fox news sunday three weeks ago. catherine, go ahead. >> you know, remember, we do love to chase shiny objects. you know, the comment that matt just made that we create a narrative and then stick with it, you have a surprise vote in one of the primaries, and the next day's headlines are the comeback kids. boy, we have swung our attention someplace else. so we are relatively easily manipulated into a new narrative. >> well, speaking of shiny objects, catherine, what about this dog story? i brought this up on the air a couple of months ago. i said the media just love this 30-year-old story about strapping the irish setter to the roof -- going on the family vacation. why should post put it on the front page this week, santorum brought it up, and again, if you turn on msnbc, they're talking about the dog. why is that? >> you are talking to somebody with six dogs. i could have t

matt lewis wrote the story. he's with us tonight. welcome back, matt. very outspoken column. you think he should get out? >> well, because he can't win, and there could be unintended consequences of him staying in. the only reason for him to stay in at this point. if he can't win in alabama and mississippi, he can't win. so now the only reason to stay in would be to have some sort of bargaining power at the convention. that's not inspirational. that's not the reason you run for president. >> you know, i watched him last night. he looked depressed, he looked low, and he was very sort of sarcastic and, you know, sort of going after mitt romney. is there a vendetta between newt and mitt romney? is that why he wants to stay in the race to keep taking shots at romney? >> he certainly doesn't like mitt romney, i don't blame him, romney had a scorched earth campaign against him in iowa. but having said that, the -- maybe it's the best way to get back at mitt romney would frankly be for newt gingrich to exit the stage right now. but look, he is a resilient character and newt gingrich

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matt jablow out there to investigate. >> i was driving up to d.c. >> shanay lewis got more than she bargained for when she bought a $20 cassette adapter. >> unbelievable. >> according to her, the problem began as she was paying for the adapter when this radio shack salesman told her about the 5-cent bag tax in montgomery county. a tax she had never heard of and she lives in baltimore. >> i'm like 5 cents, i just paid sales tax. it's 5 cents for a bag. he said yeah. this is montgomery county. >> after going back and forth with the salesman over the 5- cent bag tax, she decided to forget the whole thing and get her money back. the store took an extremely unusual and disturbing turn. >> when the salesman gave her back her money, he gave her the receipt. at the bottom of which, he typed in, ugly u.s.a. tattooville, maryland. >> obviously he was talking about me. >> the salesman claimed he was only kidding. clearly she didn't and doesn't think it was funny. >> i was shocked more so than anything. >> manager kicked us out when we asked for an explanation of what happened. and shanay says he wouldn't talk to her either. >> the manage

the staff sergeant's family was moved on to joint base lewis mcchord for their safety in washington state. you can see matt lauer's full interview at 7:00 a.m. we're also learning that the u.s. military has paid $50,000 to the families of the people who were killed in the shootings and $11,000 each to the people who were wounded. >> thank you very much. you can just imagine the trauma that the -- the difficult time she's facing now. she and her whole family are facing now. >> it seems as though it's mysterious to her, too. >> i can imagine. >> rough. >> stunning. thank you very much. >> uh-huh. >> aaron gilchrist. >>> today big crowds are expected in cuba to welcome pope benedict xvi to that island nation. catholics in cuba hope the pope's first visit to the country in 14 years will help bring economic and political changes. catholicism has been severely repressed in the decade since the cuban revolution with many followers being jailed or thrown out of the country. >>> the wife of a maryland man jailed in cuba hopes the pope's visit will lead to her husband's freedom. judy gross is hoping supporteders of

lewis mcchord in washington state near seattle. that's closer to where bales' wife and two small children are. military officials say there are no plans to move him there any time soon. matt? >> all right, john yang, thank you very much. staff sergeant bales' wife carrie is speaking out for the very first time. we sat down with her exclusively over the weekend and i asked her about the situation her husband is in. >> i was actually at the grocery store that morning, and a phone call from my parents, and they said well it looks like a u.s. soldier, some afghan civilians were killed by a soldier. >> and when you got home, did you hear the story expanded upon first before you heard bob's name mentioned? >> i saw 38-year-old staff sergeant, and i don't think there are very many of those, and i probably prayed and prayed that my husband wasn't involved. and then, i received a phone call from the army saying that they would like to come out and talk to me. and i was relieved, because when you get a phone call, you know that your soldier is not deceased. >> can you remember what they said? >> they held my hand and they just said that perhaps, you know, they thought that he had l