we see ann romney introducing her husband on the campaign trail. >> ann romney is like a surrogate. there to not only help to paint a portrait of who mitt romney is, turn around, i haven't heard her talk about the cooking schools yet but that will come. but calis t a, you just looked at her. she just stands there very proper. look, if you want to get to a majority of delegates in any contest, republican or democratic, you really need to go after the women's vote. since jarkz women have voted overwhelmingly against newt gingrich. he has a women problem. it's very difficult for him to get women to trust him. dealing with some of the internal issues that many of us maybe we don't talk about it. i'll talk about it. there's a problem with trust. women don't trust newt gingrich. >> there is part of the issue here, talking about trust for the women, it's going to be hard to stand her out to say trust with women when they're looking at you saying i can't forget the affairs. >> this is a problem that newt gingrich has not figured out how to overcome. ann romney, i think it is an intentional s

that would be ann romney, the candidate's wife, who is also born, raised right here in michigan just like mitt romney. she brought a certain amount of energy to the room with her humor. listen. >> a year ago when we were making that final decision whether to step forward and do this again was a tough decision. i told mitt four years before, i was never going to do this again. he laughs and said, you said that after every pregnancy. maybe i should just do all the talking and let him stand here and watch me. i've also decided no more debates. if we are going to do another debate, he is going to sit in the audience and watch me. that will be it. >> so funny. a lot of people have debate fatigue, i think. there's been an awful lot of them, 0 now. >> it was like a weekly tv show. >> i know. it's unbelievable. a different way of doing elections. at least of knows what they heard once the debate is over. it's fascinating stuff this election year. >> if ann romney were the warm-up act for all the debates, i don't think people would complain. she is fantastic. >> yeah, she is. she has a great s

there is ann romney walking up to the podium. eeing the 62% of the vote in. 47% for romney. 32% for newt gingrich onset with us, governor eliot spitzer. i guess we are going to hear ann romney introduce her husband. so let's listen in. >> thank you florida! [cheers] [cheers]. >> we are grateful for being here tonight. thank you. this is a very wonderful reception. [cheers] . >> you know, this experience of mit running for president has been extraordinary for our family. it's just -- it's just hard to express what it means for a wife and a mother. >> governor, while we are waiting for governor romney to come up, and listening to ann romney, we have been looking at these numbers since we got on the set. it's now 62%, still 47 to 32. i mean this is locked in. it's going to be 15% or more. >> absolutely. when one gets 62 it's hard mathematically for it to shift. this is an overwhelming victory for mitt romney huge repudiation for newt gingrich. a lot of questions ahead but mitt romney got what he he wanted and newt gingrich is sick to

there is ann romney. we're seeing 47% for romney 32% for newt gingrich. we're going to hear ann romney introduce her husband. let's listen in. >> thank you, florida! [ cheers and applause ] >> we are so grateful to all of you for being here tonight. and how great all of you are. thank you, this is a very wonderful reception. >> we thank you! [ cheers and applause ] >> this experience of myth running for president has been ex -- extraordinary for our family -- >> we have been looking at these numbers since we got on the set. it's now 62%, it's still 47 to 32. this is locked in. it will be 15% or more. >> absolutely. it is very hard mathematically for its to shift. this is an overwhelming victory for mitt romney. newt gingrich is sick to his stomach now. >> if newt were able to get within maybe six, seven, eight he could still say i'm still a viable candidate. can he still say that now? >> only to the true believers. he has a brood enough appeal to really challenge mitt romney and i think we're going to see the entire republican establishment coalescing aro

(cheers and applause) >> ann romney introducing her husband to the stage. josh and matt and two of the sons and some of the 16 grandchildren. we don't know how many. there you see the family. let's listen in. (cheers) >> wow. >> thank you. thank you, guys. wow. what a great showing. thank you, nevada. this is not the first time you gave me your vote of confidence. this time i am going to take it to the white house. (cheers) four years ago candidate obama came to nevada promising to help. after he was elected his help was telling people to skip coming here for conventions and meetings. (booing) today nevada unemployment is over 12 percent. home values plummeted and foreclosure rate is the highest in the nation. i walked in nevada neighborho s neighborhoods. people wonder why barack obama nailed them. nevada has had enough of your kind of help. (cheers) complu three years ago a newly elected president obama told america if congress moved the plan to borrow nearly a trillion dollars he would hold unemployment below 8 percent. it hasn't been below 8 percent sin

it's politics. >> governor romney's wife, ann romney, earlier tonight. with candy crowley who has been covering the romney campaign for us all night long, joins us from the empty romney headquarters at this hour. the campaign already, has governor romney already left for nevada. we're told gingrich is leaving tonight? >> no, he's actually going to minnesota. and you know, as you know, these come quickly. there are also three states that are up next tuesday. so he's up in minnesota, he'll hook up there with tim pawlenty who dropped out of inrace and has endorsed romney. you will see him in nevada and colorado, which is also next tuesday. >> it was interesting to hear ann romney talk about her husband as a turn around guy. is that a theme they're going to try to hit. the notion he's har turned around companies, he can turn around the country? >> that was always their theme. the romney campaign went into this venture saying this is the percht time for business credentials. we have seen the type of credentials he has been questioned as vulture c capitalism, e

(cheers and applause) >> ann romney introducing her husband to the stage.osh and matt and two of the sons and some of the 16 grandchildren. we don't know how many. there you see the family. let's listen in. (cheers) >> wow. >> thank you. thank you, guys. wow. what a great showing. thank you, nevada. this is not the first time you gave me your vote of confidence. this time i am going to take it to the white house. (cheers) four years ago candidate obama came to nevada promising to help. after he was elected his help was telling people to skip coming here for conventions and meetings. (booing) today nevada unemployment is over 12 percent. home values plummeted and foreclosure rate is the highest in the nation. i walked in nevada neighborho s neighborhoods. people wonder why barack obama nailed them. nevada has had enough of your kind of help. (cheers) complu three years ago a newly elected president obama told america if congress moved the plan to borrow nearly a trillion dollars he would hold unemployment below 8 percent. it hasn't been below 8 percent since

that's what you saw with mitt and ann romney. disagree with conservatives who suggested that mitt romney should have somehow rejected this endorsement and should have said no way, i don't want to be associated with donald trump. you can't do that. this is somebody who entertained publicly the idea of running as a third party candidate. you have an opportunity to get an endorsement. you take it, you make as short event as possible. this was five minutes, and you move on. think think that's exactly what they're going to do. >> bret: charles? >> you're all wrong. i think it matters. even though as we saw in the poll and people say, well, the endorsement won't induce them to vote against the endorseee, i think it matters for this reason: newt had positioned himself as the insurgent of the outsider, the antiestablishment guy. then you had all these endorsements of people who were the anti-romneys who went ahead and who supported his narrative. cain, perry, and then with a quasi endorsement, sarah palin. so all -- for these people that

ann romney, the wife of mitt romney, is going to introduce her husband. >> thank you, nevada. [ applausee again, i'm here to make sure that you listen to me this time and obey when i tell you, don't clap until i'm finished. nobody listened to me last time. but i do have to give special thanks to all the people that made this happen. and by the way, the most people i need to thank are all the volunteers. so a big thank you to all of you that volunteered. our nevada coach here, lieutenant governor and congressman joe hick. and i want to thank our nevada finance chair mark hutchinson. and the many nevada elected officials throughout the state who have been so crucial to our success here. we are so appreciative. and of course, nevada state director sarah nelson, ryan irwin, nevada state finance director cory christianson. [ applause ] you know, i want to give a special shout-out to dee mcquinn. you're first lady from nevada from a you years ago and she and i served as first ladies together and she's become a good friend of mine. and we so miss her sweet husband, kenny. so a shout out to her.

was going to be received warmly, especially in this place. >> joe, i think that was a great move, ann romney very funny, kind of warmed up to the audience there. and i know they're trying to humanize mitt romney, but it's almost like he has so many missteps. he was talking about being from michigan, loving the trees. then he talked about the cars that he drove and the quote unquote cars that his wife drove, right? >> reporter: right, right. and the thing about that, i was in the room there at that football stadium where he gave that speech. and the message he was trying to send was, he and his wife, ann, really love cars. but i think the message that some people might have received is that they're really, really rich. so that's a problem for him. as you said, there's never a time where he does any huge damage to himself. it's just a bunch of little cuts and a lot of times it's about the way in which he sort of refers to things, the way he talks about things. truly a problem for mitt romney going forward, especially if he gets the nomination, because he's going to be up against a guy who tend

or callista gingrich, ann romney has been a great help to romney.of looking out and their behavior on the campaign fratrail and ho they help or hurt their husband's reputation? >> you know, i think, listen there's got to be a lot of interesting conversations when somebody tries to run for president, and i think the only thing you can do is kind of stand by your man and be the voice of all the good virtues of him. i look at michelle obama and i think she has done a great job and done a great job because she has been a voice and she has been standing for a woman that works and a mom and a first lady and i think that that to me is the right kind of role model now. especially for, you know, i have two girls more my girls. it's interesting to watch, it's more interesting to see what they do with that role when they become first lady. when you are a first lady, you have a lot of power and bring about more change than you thing, i'm proud of a first lady that goes out and kind of does her own thing and makes her own changes and one day when i'm first lady

one of them is to bring out anne romney who is the wife of the candidate. they brought her out here in troy, michigan. and she really warmed up the audience and connected with them. listen to the sound bite. >> year ago when we were making the decision to do this again. it was a tough decision. i told myth i was never going to the this again. he laughs and said you say that after every pregnancy. so. maybe i should do all the talking and let him stand here and watch me. i have also decided no more debates. if we are doing a debate he is going to sit in the audience and watch me. and that will be it. >> she has an advantage, though. she grew up here in michigan. she was going to be received warmly as specially in this place. >> i think that was a great move. anne romney funny, warmed up to the audience there. they are trying to humanize mitt romney. but he has so many missteps. he was talking about loving the trees and loving michigan but talked about the cars that he drove and the cars that his wife drove, right? >> right. right. exactly right. and the thin

my wife of 20 years, ann romney. -- 42 years, ann romney. [applause] >> this is a great group. thank you. this is home and this is interesting. we bleed burners. the other thing you do is listen to tiger baseball. i had a little pink transistor radio that i carry around with me and listened to piper baseball. i had the opportunity to come out once a week when i was in high school. i work at my father's company in troy, michigan. the back story on that is my grandfather, born in wales, and started working at age 6 in the coal mine. when my father was 16, they immigrated here. this is where we got our start. when you think about where we come from and who we are grateful for, we are grateful for our ancestors who made sacrifices and brought us to the greatest land in the world. [applause] all of my aunts and ogles pulled their money together and gave my father a college education. with that college education, he started a company right here in troy. my father was a brilliant man. he engineered parts for aircraft carriers. hydraulic lifts that brought the plane up. my father was t

patti ann: romney says that call is misleading voters.or san diego did something today which i think is deceptive and a dirty trick. he put an ad out there sounding like a labor ad telling labor folks and democrats to go vote against me and vote for rick santorum. at the very end there is little trailer that he paid for this but it is confusing people. it's a new low in this campaign. patti ann: all right. so bob beckel is the former advisor to democratic candidates and a campaign manager. and andrea tanteros is a daily news columnist and both are co-hosts of "the five." thanks for joining us. >> good morning. patti ann: andrea, romney first of all says the call was misleading. sounded like it came from labor. what about that. >> no, i'm sorry, romney does not have a leg to stand on here. democrats and independents can actually vote today in michigan. so rick santorum knows there is a lot on the line. he will try to appeal to the reagan democrats. that has been a theme of his campaign for a long time. he is going out and trying to get dem

a person, ann romney has dealt with issues. has, whether it's her ms, whether she is a breast cancer survivor. she, she has endured real challenges, real crises in her life. i think she just utterly humanizes him in a way probably that nobody else can do in the race. i think that she is probably the most important asset that the romney campaign has going forward looking ahead to a general election. >> yeah, i know. one of the great challenges for women in politics is to identify with women who work outside the home and women who don't. i would imagine she faces no problems in either direction. that might bea striength. reach all the women who got to vote. majority voters in the country. when you put together a national campaign is that something you think of every day. more women voters than male? >> before you answer that question. here we go. here is the candidate. steve take a shot at that. do you think about women voters more? >> absolutely. you think about the women voters, particularly because republican candidates have s

. >> and look, if we're talking about a general election race, ann romney has come a considerable wayhere's any wife on the campaign trail that can give michelle obama a rub for her money in terms of likability, i think it's probably ann romney. speaking about president obama, in the fourth quarter he raised more money than all the gop candidates combined with a $68 millimet million haul averaging $1,700 per donor given the fact that he's an incumbent. howard, what do you make of that? >> he's a very, very good fund-raiser. it's clear he's not going to slow down very much this time. there's a lot of people who gave last time who may end up giving. he may get new donors. he will not want for money. and while romney is forced to spend money in the primary, he's going to sit on that money. you don't have to spend a lot of that money. if he wants to, he can. if he wants to begin finding republicans, he can do that. there was a time in our lifetime when democrats wouldn't raise as much money as republicans. those days are over. barack obama is going to be well funded. >> do you think he's

of cadillacs, actually and i used to have a dodge truck, so i used to have all three covered. >> ann romney trying to cover that up a little bit. listen to what ann had to say. >> maybe i should just do all the talking and let him just stand here and watch me. i've also got-- i have he' also decided no more debates, if we're going to do another debate he's going to sit in the audience and watch me and that will be it. >> dave: wow, and she connects in a way that mitt romney doesn't right now. and is she an asset or does-- i don't know, let us know what you think about all this have. >> alisyn: meanwhile, let's get to the headlines and other news is happening outside of politics because two people have been killed in a suicide bombing outside of a church in nigeria. this happened earlier today during sunday services and several more hurt in the blast. religious and ethnic bombing outside of a church on christmas day has left hundreds dead in the country and no word whether the same group responsible for that attack is also behind this one. well, the sight of that daring u.s. raid where usama

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ann romney is going to introduce her husband.i want all our viewers to listen. >> thank you, nevada. once again, i'm here to make sure that you listen to me this take and obey when i tell you don't clap until i'm finished. nobody listened to me last time. i have to give special thanks to all the people that made this happen. by the way, the most people i need to thank are the volunteers. a big thank you to all the people that volunteered. our nevada co-chairs, lieutenant-governor and congressman joe heck. i want to thank congressman mark amaday, our nevada finance chair steve fellows and mark hutchinson. and the many nevada elected officials throughout the state who have been so crucial to our success here. we're so appreciative. of course, nevada state director sarah nelson, nevada senior advisory ryan irwin, nevada state finance director cory christians christiansen. i want to give a special shout-out to dema gwynn. she and i served together as first ladies together, and she became a very good friend of mine and she's been help

my sweetheart anne romney. >> this is wonderful. the only thing is i cannot see your faces very well because of the lights. it is wonderful to be in michigan. mitt and i grew up here. if they cut me, i bleed vernor's. i had a little pink transistor radio. i walked around listening to tigers baseball. al is still my favorite baseball player. we love michigan. and we are michigan bred and born. when mitt is president of the united states, guess which state we will care about and jobs and the economy being strong here? we will be partners with the governor over here and we will help bring michigan back. we love michigan. we are michiganers through and through. i climbed the sleeping bear dunes and sleeping in michigan. here we are. i have known this guy, as he mentioned, a long time. we have five sons together. 16 grandchildren. when i was a young mom, he my j important than his. i have a feeling, his next job might be more important than mine. and everything he has done, he has done it with excellence, integrity and just success in ev

every time ann coulter talks about mitt romney at the annual conservative political action conference's something in direct contradiction to the last thing she said. let's look at ann and mitt through the years. here's ann coulter at cpac the first time mitt romney was running for president in 2007. >> what i think of governor romney's candidacy for presidency. i think he's probably our best candidate. >> "probably our best candidate." here is ann coulter at cpac last year when mitt romney was gearing up for his second presidential run. >> i may as well tell you what my prediction is. i think -- well, i'll put it in a nutshell. if we don't run chris christie, romney will be the nominee and we'll lose. >> and just a year after that, here is ann coulter at cpac on friday. >> you can't call him dumb, you can't call him crazy. you can call him square. and that seems to be what a lot of right-wingers don't like about him. keep asking, what is it? well, i don't know, he's kind of a ken doll, he's sort of stiff. i think we've had enough of hip. hip has nearly wrecked the country. let's try s