you talked to -- going back to newt gingrich here you talked to one of the guys that was stiffed by newtgrich. >> yeah, earlier today i spoke with larry shefler in las vegas with las vegas color graphics, but they make campaign paraphenalia, buttons. he has -- $7,500 worth of work that is unpaid for and he did it sort of on a handshake with the newt gingrich campaign. >> that's a bad idea. >> let's listen to larry shefler talk about, you know, what happened and how it went down. it's an unbelievable story. >> the debt to us is about $7,500. it ranges in campaign signs, hispanic cards that we printed that we had to ship to his next location, bumper stickers lapel stickers and so on. >> tell me about your efforts to reach out to the gingrich campaign. >> i called yesterday. he answered. i said: is this newt gingrich? he said, yes it is. i said this is larry shefler, i own las vegas color graphics. you own me money. it's running me into a block wall and he said how much do i owe you? i said about $8,000. he said we have had a rough time in florida, got behind. i will try to scrape some mone

newt gingrich is in third place a couple weeks ago, newt gingrich decided to shift his campaign strategy and focus more on courting some of the individual delegates. here's an interesting line that newt gingrich yesterday about mitt romney on fox. >> i think you have to be realistic. given the size of his organization, the number of primaries he's won, he's the most likely nominee. if he does get to 1144 delegates, i'll support him. i'll do everything i can to help defeat obama. >> reporter: the former house speaker commented on some of the heated back and forth exchanges. >> i hit him as hard as i could. he hit me as hard as he could. he had more things to hit me w that's part of the business. all honesty, if i were to end up the republican nominee, he would work as hard for me. >> reporter: so kelly that makes you stop and think. it's a different side of newt gingrich than we've seen in the past few months. >> all right. thanks for that live report. >>> coming up all new tonight at 6:00, a brushfire in harford county threatens homes, the fire danger we're dealing with now and what you

it is not that they forgot the style of newt gingrich and newt gingrich going back at him like someoneo had killed his sister, and this was a very intense thing and now, suddenly, it is hunky dory. >>carl: whether it was the 20-plus episode of debate reality tv or the sparring matches they had long distance across the campaign trail newt gingrich was throwing tough barbs at romney but he and rick santorum and romney have all said for months they would back the other if the nomination goes to a rival so rick santorum and gingrich have made good their commitments and said they will endorse romney and support him and this has been unfolding with the now former republican rivals the republican national committee has moved aggressively to essentially share staff, share resources, and unify the g.o.p. machine so that the romney campaign and the republican national committee apparatus can better run against president obama. so, the coalescing behind the republican nominee has sellly happened as romney predicted it would and last night having woman the five states heñr did,e has now declared t

newt gingrich says he's determined to stay in the presidential race. a rally in milwaukee, gingrich focused his attention on president obama instead of gop front-runner mitt romney. >> this is the heart of the power struggle we're engaged in as a country. are we in fact a people where god -- where power comes from god to each one of you personally, and you are personally sof remember. sovereign. you loan power to the state. the state does not loan power to you. now, is that true or not? in barack obama's world that's not true. in his world the government is sovereign. we are subjects, not citizens. the government can tell us to do anything. if you actually read the questions going on with the supreme court and obama care, they cut right to the heart of this. and it was justice breyer who said the other day, we are really questioning the degree to which the federal government can intervene directly and change our entire relationship between government and individuals. do you have rights, or do you only have residual benefits given to you by the governme

mitt romney called newt gingrich i'm told now without newt gingrich knowing the call was going to come apparently during that call mitt romney told the former house speaker if he had decided to stay in the race and continue with the campaign, then mitt romney would, in fact, be okay with that. he would understand. but if newt gingrich decided to then suspend his campaign, then mitt romney asked him to be part of his campaign team to try to help him win the white house in november. now, this is very, very important because it just shows you these relationships that occur between presidential candidates between campaigns that you normally don't hear here on television or you certainly don't see printed in newspapers. these very personal relationships, suzanne, that really help propel campaigns forward. >> it's really a nice kind of pulling back the curtain and taking a look at the relationship between these two men. do we know how gingrich responded at all when romney actually said, hey, are you willing to join my team? >> what i'm told by gingrich's speaksman is that gingrich agreed tha

now that newt gingrich isn't running it day-to-day, they are like well, if i'm not getting newt gingrichng? so of course people started pulling out of it and it went bankrupt. i think we have a word for this in the english language. that's right. fail. tough to figure out. all right. it appears that we are out of time. so go to

be newt gingrich.ormational figure that he thinks he is. >>guest: look, he is not. he layed a major role in the mid-1990's balancing the budget. setting a new role for the republican party. but today he recognizes the reality which is if he will transform america, it is part of, as he put it romney's team and with the rnc not going as a lone wolf. >>guest: but he, look at what he has done the past few months. newt gingrich has forced romney to go further to the right than he would have liked. he has helped shape some of the news of the race and shaped the debate during the race. >>gregg: assume president obama is re-elected. you have to go forward four years does rick santorum need to drop out before the pennsylvania primary because if he loses his home state to romney, he is finished for good. >>guest: if i was advising rick santorum, which i most assureddedly am not i would tell him to do what you suggest. drop out. recognize the reality. the polls are showing him running behind, probably going do ge

where newt gingrich is the president. of the moon. how can anybody be president of the moon, you ask, from the past where you live? back when he was just candidate gingrich, president newt, that's what we call him president newt, he not only promised a permanent colony on the moon before the end of his second term, he said that we would have a colony. after we had a colony here, the moon could be the 51st state. >> that happened, in our lifetimes, america. do you think mitt romney is ever going to inspire somebody to wear a space costume on a news show? will romney ever reveal his true self-through a ring tone? >> mitt romney's favorite ring tone is "dancing queen." i could be wrong, fernando. >> can you hear what he's playing there? i thought we had the subtitle there showing. ♪ dancing queen >> this is newt gingrich's ring tone. it's "dancing queen" by abba. i paid for the "dancing queen" ring tone and i am keeping the "dancing queen" ring tone. i will never reminisce about the gingrich candidacy, the thing i will remember about the

romney 573, santorum 212, newt gingrich 137, ron paul 34. now, how do you influence the debate when you have 137 delegates and you're so far behind? does he risk really blowing his legacy and the respect that he has gained in many circles for you know the intellectual firepower, whatever you want to say about newt gingrich in the past, he has a lot of supporters. does that now become more difficult to preserve if he sticks it out? can you stay too long at the party? >> well, first of all, call me patrick. mr. milsap is my father. second of all, the great thing about newt gingrich is he makes decisions on what he feels is best for the country and not on what he thinks his legacy is going to be. we have 178,000 donors to his campaign he feels he owes a duty to. he has millions of people that voted for him and he has people that want to see him as a part of this conversation and by me being here this morning as his representative, he is still part of the conversation. the people calling for him to quit i think defies the american spirit of not

and newt gingrich 25,000. and wisconsin, 375, 040, and rick santorum 270,000, and newt gingrich 43,000. >> can you give us those numbers again? >> we got very specific. >> and now the latest delegate count. after the primaries in washington, dc, maryland, and wisconsin, romney picked up a total of 83 delegates. santorum got at least six. newt gingrich, ron paul, they did not get any delegates and this are three delegates that have not been allocated. now, to total delegate counts, the magic number to secure the nomination is 1,144. got that? got that? romney is now at 655. 400 ahead of santorum in second place and 278. and newt gingrich is 135 and ron paul is 51. >> for more on primary sweep we go to washington. doug? still trying to dot math. romney did what he needed to do winning three contests and picked up a pile of new delegates and he celebrated last night in wisconsin which was the most closely watched of the throw races and the one with the narrowest margin but he edged out rick santorum and he is loc

obviously i am on the moon, where newt gingrich is the president of the moon. , you ask from the past where you live? back when he was just candidate gingrich, president new to, that is what we call him. he not only promised a permanent colony by the end of his second term, but he determined that colony would be an american colony. he said it once he figured out a way to get a few thousand americans up on the moon in the permanent colony, the moon could then become the 51st date. >> don't miss the days when he was a front runner for the republican nomination? that happened in our lifetimes, american. the you think he will inspire and lead to wear 8 space suit on a new show? >> newt gingrich's rippetoe is dancing queen. i do think that nobody will take a chance on newt gingrich, but i could be wrong. >> can you hear what he is playing? ♪ >> this rippetoe is newt gingrich's rippetoe. it's dancing queen by abbott. >> suspend all you want. i pay for the dancing queen rain tone. i have to say that years from now when i find myself reminiscing about the candidacy, ful

newt gingrich anymore.wt doing? he fancies himself a historic figure. he wants to continue on this campaign for history ex-reasons he wants to be a reagan-type figure ala '76 at the convention. i don't think he's living a political reality but trying to have a different kind of campaign, not just running against mitt romney. >> isn't part of the strategy, you hear him talk about this, i'll go to tampa, part of that is i'm going to tampa and cut a deal, whether that's putting things on the platform that he feels strongly about, whether it's somehow trying to leverage whatever delegates he has, for a speaking position on -- in the program. i mean this is kind of what we see from candidates of both parties when we get to this point. >> i have known newt for a long time. newt doesn't have a driving ambition to president. he didn't have driving ambition to be speak. >> why is he running for president? >> he has an interest in the republican party. newt gingrich ran from georgia when you couldn't get your trash p

newt gingrich and ron paul.eighed in today on santorum's decision. >> this is a more open convention than people think. governor romney has huge money but he has distinct liability in ideas and distinct liability frankly in people raising questions about him. frankly, on values and on conservatism, i am much closer to senator santorum's delegates than governor romney is. >> bret: he went on in the press availability to ask for santorum delegates and ask for santorum to endorse newt gingrich. steve, we talked about the gingrich campaign in debt. more than $4.5 million. he talked on "fox news sunday" as a candidate who appeared to be coming to grips with that. then in the last 24 hours has changed at least his public tune. >> the race is over. he is not going to win. he might have some sort of spar for something that allows him to go out and give a press conference like that. he is not going to win. santorum is it no going to endorse him. his delegates are not going to flock to gingrich. the race is over. it's pro

newt gingrich is reassessing his chances in a gop presidential race. he said mitt romney is the likely republican nominee. >> you have to be realistic, given the size of this organization, given the number of primaries he's won. he is far and away the most likely republican nominee. if he does get to 1,144 delegates, i'll support him, and do everything this fall to help defeat obama. the primary goal of the entire republican party has to be to defeat barack obama. i'm glad i did this. for me, it was important as a citizen to try to do some very hard things. to try to bring new ideas and new approaches. it turned out to be much harder than i thought it would be. but it was the right thing for me to do at that point, in my life and where i thought the country was. i have no regrets. but it's clear that governor romney has done a very good job of building a very substantial machine. and i think santorum is discovering it in pennsylvania right now. it's a challenge. i hit him as hard as i could, he hit me as hard as he could. he had more things to hit than

newt gingrich had a chance and he did not make it. >>shepard: if he got out the republicans would be able to unite around one candidate and have a big hug moment. >>guest: we need that, because the campaign, romney campaign now needs to put structure in place, in addition to the vetting process, and we have to start building some of the state organizations after raising tremendous we sum of money and we have to get in the race without worrying about the primaries. >>shepard: that is true. one of the most important things you can do, the most important state is florida and rubio is from florida and president obama recognizes that and is campaigning today, in florida. he is renewing a push to raise taxes on the richest americans and speaking in florida on the east coast a big school, a diverse population in that school, and, now, the president on the campaign trail on the day that santorum says he's out. >> the work that some of the churches did, did more good for people and their communities than any government program could. in those

that support will show this election day. >> reporter: he was here recently in arbutus, newt gingrich stopped by and ron paul. we had a few stumping here but not rick santorum. >> santorum is 20 points behind. they are looking at other states that are little bit more competitive than maryland. they made the stops here. it's not necessarily the big place. >> reporter: we will talk to you more throughout the morning. the polls open at 7:00 this morning and they close at 8:00 p.m. tonight. reporting life at hazelwood elementary school, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> mitt romney is halfway towards clinching the republican nomination. the massachusetts governor is up to 572 delegates, this as of monday, half of the 1144 needed that move comes as three delegates in tennessee were not accounted for. who is going to be where today? mitt romney is going to be holding election day lunch in wisconsin, evening part in milwaukee. rick santorum in pennsylvania run a paul in chico, california. newt gingrich's wife speaking in millford del aware. >>> campaigning in maryland was former house speaker

is newt gingrich your candidate? >>guest: i have not endorsed newt gingrich or romney, i only endorsed rick santorum and i found out as you did, a couple of hours ago, that he suspended the campaign. so, it is a time for deep breath. there is a lot of time between now and election day. and the national convention to take place. it will be romney's responsibility to be the nominee to unite people. >>neil: romney launched the senator's come back campaign. the announcement and now the questions of the money which republican candidate gets the cash right now and newt gingrich could pick up some of that. romney will pick up a lot of money. a lot people from the campaign will have to lick their wounds. but i do think the smartest thing the romney campaign could do would be to reach out to the top fundraisers for the campaigns for newt gingrich's campaign, for rick santorum's campaign. and get somewhat i like to call the low hanging fruit. not just focusing on the foster friess or whoever was behind him. >> foster said he c

this is him from only 10 hours ago. >> the republican nominee, whether it's governor romney or newt gingrich, is going to be substantially more conservative than is barack obama. >> republican nominee gingrich, romney? he's still got a 50-50 chance, right? oh, okay, let's look cats in krispy kreme is coming out of his donut coma. oh, god. >> jon: thank you very much, sam, for that update. while the gingrich campaign goes on, for more on the first real day of the general election we're joined by assif mandvi at obama headquarters, and wyatt cenac with the romney cam ( cheers and applause ) guys, now that it's sort of settled, got to be a lot of excitement out there where you're at. >> you bet. >> it is on! >> the main event! >> finally, we've got all those crazy fringe candidates out of the way! >> jon: all right, how does the strategy change, then, as romney begins to focus more on the president? >> jon, romney's going straight for the president's kkill ease heel, obamacare. >> this presidency has been a failure, and at the centerpiece of this failure is this-- this piece of legislation back

want to ignore ron paul. >> who wants to despair raj newt gingrich? >> he's still in the race. >> that's right. he's still in the race and as long as he's in it and the same with paul, they're going to get some votes notice those proportional states like texas. >> but michael, what's the value of that now? so yeah, there's still some little action going on like you have -- >> the value is those individuals on the ground who support those candidates will have a chance to speak their minds on that point. >> and daniel the front-runner? >> no, that's the front-runner. you guys seem to think that being the front-runner that's automatic stuff that goes with that. you've got to work to be the front-runner. you've got to work to get that base to support you, work to get that money in the door. you can't look to your other opponent and blame them because your game ain't. >> michael, aren't we talking about -- real talk. >> i'm sorry. >> aren't we talking about mitt romney one of the criticisms that was lobbed at senator santorum was it wasn't just sort of, th

can newt gingrich be a help to mitt romney? >> i'm sure he would like to think of himself as being very helpful at this point. right, that's a man not running a campaign to win. he is running a campaign to keep romney ideologically pure. now, arguably, newt gingrich is even less relevant to this race right now than ron paul. whether he can, in fact, do that is somewhat questionable. it's very significant that newt gingrich who is practically lighting his famous hairdo on fire in an ability to turn people against romney is now saying, okay, i get it, i'm at peace. >> susan, dana is saying there that newt stays in this to keep romney ideologically pure. other people might contend it's to keep newt relevant in the mind of the republican party. which do you think it is? >> neither. what i think it is is is about for him to leave in a graceful way, for him to have one more way of -- a big speech or something so he can leave and leave on a high note instead of being -- >> like at the conventioconvent? >> or even a policy speech. he d

and mitt romney stands in an awful light like newt gingrich and he stealing his best lines like government-centric society that comes right from newt. mitt romney in his quasi-general election speech sounded like a hybrid. our campaigns are running off on him. he realizes front-runner or not he will have to be a little less allergic to conservatism to be a convincing nominee. i learned two things. one is mathematical. we have the big states coming up and texas can be a winner take all state. that's a big enchilada in one day. we have a lot ahead of us. the second thing is that mitt romney can no longer whine and complain he doesn't have a free shot at barack obama. he never mentioned gingrich, paul, or santorum. he took it right to obama. he got the clear shot. i think he said a lot of great things that conservatives and people like me would love to hear, but it seemed very cut and paste, kid tested, mother approved. to string it all and eek out strategies. he will have to polish that. we will see how that works out in the polls. >> would it be helpful if newt gingrich quit the race and put his su

the one night we've barely heard tonight is newt gingrich.e's had another poor night and wore worryingly isn't part of the debate anymore. it's all about santorum and romney. how do you feel about that in the gingrich camp? >> well, we're glad that you're giving us a voice and a platform tonight, piers, thank you for that. >> always my pleasure. >> i want to congratulate governor romney and certainly senator santorum and really all four who are still in the race. i disagree with the fact newt is not part of the conversation. today again the president called out newt by name. he wanted to distort the facts to fit his narrative. the president reminded us all today, piers, why newt gingrich is staying in this race. he'd have a very dangerous second term. he's bullying the supreme court, accusing them of unprecedented action and judicial activism if they dare overturn as unconstitutional his unconstitutional health care plan. i think he was absent the first day of law school when we all lurnd marbury versus madison and the president also went rig

do think that's a knockout blow even though it doesn't necessarily mean that rick santorum or newt gingrich or ron paul will actually get out of the race. they may dial it back as gingrich has done, but they don't necessarily believe they'll get out, but they do believe it will be apparent to republicans, after this clean sweep tonight, that this train has actually left the station, wolf. >> candy, stand by. i want you to continue with our panel. political analyst gloria borger, ari fleischer. the romney campaign and the super pac that supports romney, they're going to be spending millions of dollars in pennsylvania to try to nail it down. >> they are because they would love nothing more than to defeat rick santorum in pennsylvania and make that be the final death blow to rick santorum's campaign. what could occur, wolf, could be a split decision. i've heard a lot of people say, while rick santorum might win the popular vote, mitt romney would be able to win in the delegates. speaking of delegates, we should also point out that tonight mitt romney is going to make a very big hole of delegat

he had supported newt gingrich after dropping out in january. newt gingrich will throw his support behind mitt romney after he officially suspended his campaign next week. ron paul says he will stay in the race until all the delegates are counted. >> the time is 6:15 -- the parents of a missing arizona girl are making an emotional plea for her return. >> to the person or persons tell us your demands. tell us what you want. we will do anything for her. >> the 6-year-old disappeared friday night from her home in tucson. police have scaled back the massive search and are now focusing on what nearby surveillance cameras may have captured. the parents are not ruled out as suspects in a $37,000 reward is being offered. a catholic school teacher in fort wayne, indiana is suing the school that fired her. she was let go yesterday after undergoing fertility treatments. she says her civil rights are being violated and the catholic church says in vitro fertilization goes against their beliefs. the father of an autistic boy says he recorded his son's cheaper

newt gingrich is an error lobbyist -- uber lobbyist. barney frank talk about michele bachmann. he also called out newt gingrich and said he held him responsible for the demonization of opponents that has contributed to the atmosphere we live in today. i do think he came into the house. he slashed all of the caucasus and civility. we are seeing this. this is a man who a few days ago talked about education reform in the context of firing the janitors in schools and putting the kids to work. a lot of the media called that unconventional. [laughter] let's repeal child labor ls

and newt gingrich by the way lost his secret service protection, but he is still going to the zoos.s is one of the strangest things in history. and people are going to say, what did this guy have to do with running for president and going to the zoos? you can't believe it. he has created the "sideshow" and we will be right back. ♪ >>> back to "hardball" and time for the "sideshow" and a slipup that says it all. we see the republicans time and time again with republicans dancing around the religion of the president and whether he was born in the united states or not. >> the president says he is a christian and i accept him at his word. >> i believe that the faith that most americans are questioning is the president's faith in the government. the president says he is a christian and i tack him at his word. >> i take him at his word. >> the american people have the right to think what they want to think. >> i think it is very bizarre that he is desperately concerned to apologize to the muslim religious fanatics. >> he is a devout muslim and why isn't something being done to get him out