arthur and marie's fifth child, constance, was born in february of 1958. >> mrs. noe talk about her fear with each of the children and in fact, after constance was born, there's a mention in one of the files of a doctor coming in and saying to her, i'm going to be your new pediatrician. and i'm looking forward to taking care of your kids. she said something like, well, why bother, they all die anyway. >> those words proved prophetic. constance noe lived just one month before she was found dead in her crib by her father. for the first time, the death was referred to as a crib death. today known as sudden infant death syndrome, or sids. sids is a cause of death given when doctors fail to find anything physically wrong with the baby. constance's death piqued the interest of police in the medical examiner's office. after five babies born to the same young parents died under mysterious circumstances, they started asking questions. >> the police looked into this. they didn't look into it for very long and they didn't decide there was anything to do about it. but the pro

. >> people understand i'm a man of steadiness and constancy, i've been married to the same woman for 25 -- i'll get in trouble -- for 42 years. >> are we drawing too many conclusions to this? >> no, we're not. politics is about, he is especially when you get to this level, we're less than a month away from iowa caucuses, it's about comparing and i don't think they will come out and say newt gingrich has been married three times and acknowledged an extra marital affair. they'll say he's a man of steadiness and constancy, lots more images like that to come. >> chris, thanks very much. let's bring in andrea sol, she joins me now. let me ask you right off the bat, are we drawing too many conclusions with the ad you're airing in new hampshire and iowa? >> yes, you are. that is a positive ad about mitt romney, what his values are. we ran similar ads in 2007. i'd venture to say every political candidate runs an ad like this in any time they are in a campaign. as you know, chuck, that debate clip was from a debate a few weeks ago when newt gingrich wasn't ahead in the polls. you're absolutel

>> i think it's an attempt for him to talk about his own constancy. think they mention newt gingrich in there at all. if they wanted to run an anti-gingrich ad they'd run an ad based on paul ryan's plan. >> governor ryan -- governor sununu, thanks for coming on. >> had my son on this morning. >> the plural of sununus? what is it? >> a palindrome. >> thank you very much, sir. we're fresh out of sununus, but our political panel will be here next. >>> but first, as always, the white house soup of the day, chicken tortilla. i can promise you this -- this is not a leftover soup. this is not made of leftovers because they serve nod chid no last night. [ male announcer ] xbox 360 with kinect, this season's hottest games and...sweatbands. [ grunting noises ] ahh! this is gold. [ mom ] woo! [ game ] snaps up the ace. i'll never be popular. [ game ] next game decides our winner. [ male announcer ] get low prices on this season's hottest games. like kinect sports season 2 for xbox 360 with kinect. rated e for everyone. backed by our christmas price guarantee. sa

. >> i think people understand that i'm a man of steadiness and constancy. i don't think he'll find somebody with more of that's an beauts of . i've been married to the same woman for 25 -- excuse me, 42 years. >> that's a moving ad. >> this election year is about wealth and equality, and about job creation, and i don't think it's really about family values so much, because if it was he wouldn't have newt gingrich vying for -- he is the front- runner, but vying for the nomination. plugs the fact christians who make up a large part of the iowa electorate love a story of redemption. newt can say he is converted to catholicism. he is close to his children and his grandchildren. and mitt romney after all is a mormon, which is still kind of a conflict with certain voters. >> the voters remember about newt gingrich, why he excites them, the last time he was in power he led a revolution a republican revolution, and that's what people want now. they want a new republican revolution, so the guy who ran the last one. >> they see him as an historic figure, which isn't

. >> that comes after mitt's ad highlighting the constancy of his marriage over 40 years and a jab at his serial adultery and multiple marriages. guess who is playing mr. nice guy. the former speaker famous and listen to what he said about the attacks. >> i'm going to stay positive and how we solve the country's problems. i have one opponent. barack obama. >> gingrich proved going after the president's allegedly socialist economic policies. >> i'm not into wealth redistribution. i'm into wealth creation. this is the most effective food stamp president in american history. i would like to be the most effective paycheck president in american history. >> he certainly is into creating wealth isn't he? how uls would he keep shopping at tiffany's. the foreign policy swipes at the president on wednesday before the jewish coalition where mitt romney got in the game. >> defending freedom and america is the first business of the state department not appeasing our opponents. >> president obama adopted an appeasement strategy. appeasement betrays a lack of faith in america and strength and in ame

. >> city council member pete constance says the law will take effect on sunday. it costs the city $60,000 every year for responding to false alarms. police, as they were saying, have to focus on high priority calls. >>> it's 4:36 right now. more than 400 people tattled on their neighbors for lighting wood fires in their home. poor air quality triggered spare-the-air days on christmas eve and christmas day. bay area air quality police didn'tish used fines, but sifting through 77 cases of potential violater. if you're planning a new year's eve party, a ban may be in place this weekend as well. first-time violations will get a warning. repeat offenders will get a $400 ticket. >> you have to break out a space heater and maybe an extra blanket. it won't be quite as romantic, but it will work. >> it will work. >> let's check in with meteorologist christina loren. >> we will be a couple degrees cooler today. the biggest difference between this time yesterday and this morning is we don't have any fog to report just yet. i'm expecting quite a bit to develop though. as we

. >> i think people understand that i'm a man of steadiness and constancy. i don't think you're going to find somebody who has more of those attributes than i do. i've been married to the same woman for 25 -- oh, excuse me, i'll get in trouble, for 42 years. i've been in the same church my i worked at one company, bain, for 25 years, and i left that to go off and help save the olympic games. if i'm president of the united states, i will be true to my family, to my faith, and to our country, and i will never apologize for the united states of america. >> you know, a lot of people convert from one religion to another, we do that in a free society. i think it's very unfortunate for someone who's spent two years of his life converting people as a missionary to make fun of conversion. i think part of a free expression of religion comes the right to, if you will, change religions. now for the below-the-belt version of what we just saw. an iowa pastor who is backing rick santorum is sending out a blast message to voters, urging them to watch this inflammatory -- we

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unlikely to damage the relationships with other protest leaders that demonstrators whom he'd arrived as constance on a grid. that saw his cross talk finds out if the transition of power in north korea will be smooth the country mourns the death of their leader kim jong il and prepares for his son to take over as the great success. with. history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven. if you. want to. blow it welcome to cross not computable from one came to the next the passage of north korea's dear leader again highlights the acute insecurity on the korean peninsula and beyond will the leadership transition be smooth will north korea's domestic and foreign policy east change under the younger kim and what can the rest of the world do except to watch from the sidelines. to cross-talk the ongoing legacy of the kim family i'm joined by peter jenkins in cambridge he is the former u.k. ambassador to the i.a.e.a. and international organizations and partner at a d r g m basters in boston we have jim walsh he's an expert in international security and a research associat

about that and so i think that's what they like about john tester rather than isn't this also a constancy to ron paul will. you agree or disagree he insists he's you know where he stands and he's not going to sort of cave you know eve basically is he's there and it's in i think they want to legalize heroin he's a racist has a racist past and i mean i'm really curious though even wars i'm familiar with the with the new republic and the other articles that have come out i was eight there his are his own over the words of his it was a newsletter he was associated with and i'm not sure house the ron paul newsletter yeah but i'm not sure you know if i i would if i had my name on it i'd read it you know what i'm saying is that four years ago when these stories came out i thought that would be enough to end him as a presidential candidate so i'm curious myself what i don't know about this story because if you really was putting out this stuff and was actively doing it i don't know how i think this is our. party that doesn't care what minorities think it is or it's certainly expanded it was just

if the question of constancy outside of marriage, the big knock on mitt romney is he used to be for healthmandate, now he is sort of against it. well, newt gingrich used to be for that same health care mandate. it's going to be those same complex of issues. but i think the real question if i were advising mitt romney i would say is the question republicans want to know is do you want to make this recollection an referendum on the clinton presidency? nominating newt gingrich means you're going that. you're putting bill clinton on the ballot and he's real popular right now. >> when you look at these numbers in our new poll, we had such a race. donald trump was the alternative and then bachmann and cain. when you dig deep here, though, i used the word volatility. i'll still say today i'm not sure the voters won't give us another surprise or two. fwhut is very different than it was as we get closer to the votes. iowa votes in 27 days. it seems like there's a hardening at the race, after months of volatility, right? >> yes and no. another number that really struck me throughout the four state p

. >> i think people understand i'm a man of steadiness and constancy. i don't think you will find someone with more attributes than i do. i will be true to my family, my faith and our country. >> that's a nice and beautiful ad and it looks great with the family video and they make you feel good, but if conservatives want a fighter, that's not a fighter. that's a nice guy. >> that has been the problem all along. newt has taken off. he knows how to snarl and come off the chain and that's what the voters want. they want to come off the chain. that's what we will see if romney has it in him. if he does, he will see it this weekend. >> people have the same line of questions when we talk about the president whether he is a tough guy and really bring the fire. i think he has proven that he can. i want to play what he said regarding mitt rom no's comments that he is appeasing or not taking a strong enough stand to back israel. let me play what he said in response to the appeasement remarks with mitt romney. >> ask osama bin laden and the 22 out of 30 top leader

and of course, we also had the privilege of service to our country at very constance sequential times. i think about leadership and thing about dr. rite as a transformational leader and i think of president shalala and ambassador cobb as transformational leaders, and you might ask the, what are the common traits? vision. contextual knowledge. understanding the environment in which you're operating. communication and motivational skills. they're challenging but empowering, rock-solid integrity. unusual determination, and perserverance, per very veerance and perserverance. i'm a great admirer of dr. rice. not quite as much as moammar gadhafi i don't have a crabbook. -- i don't have a scrapbook. [applause] >> die have an enormous regard for dr. rice and am very, very pleased she is here, and to do her formal introduction, i'd like to invite ambassador cobb to the stage. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. thank you, president shalala, and my wife, for those nice, nice comments. and before i introduce condoleezza rice, i want to share with all of you a favoritism i have, a bias i have.

. >> city council member pete constance says the law will take effect sunday.e says it costs the city $600,000 a year to respond to false alarms and police need to focus again on those high priority calls. >>> it's 5:37 right now. a high priority for us, checking in with meteorologist christina loren. >> finally i have action happening in my department. we have rain showers coming down across the bay area. it's another mild start. 39 degrees in fairfield, at 48, almost 50 degrees in san francisco and 41 right here in san jose. as we head throughout your morning hours, we'll continue to see these very light showers pass through the north bay. healdsburg, you might find slick conditions up there as we head through the next half hour. as you can see here, the front is draped across the north bay right now. we're expecting it to slide to the south as we head through the afternoon. let's set your futurecast in motion. you can see between about 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., we'll see mostly cloudy conditions over the greater bay area. limited sunshine. because we're star

. >> i think people understand that i'm a man of steadies in and constancy. i don't think you're going to find somebody who has more of those attributes than i do. i've been married to the same woman for 25 -- oh, excuse me, for 42 years. i've been in the same church my entire life. i worked at one company, bain, for 25 years. i left that to go off and help save the olympic games. if i'm the president of the united states, i will never apologize for the united states of america. >> what do you make of that, steve schmidt? i have to tell you, i think that is dangerous territory, to criticize somebody for being converted to another religion. most of us are the religion of our parents, fair enough. but if someone sees the light and wants to go to another religion, we cherish that right. that is essential to being an american, the right to choose your religious faith. here's a guy knocking a guy for conversion, again, which is something that the lds church is heavily into, which is conversion. >> well, i don't like any religious task entering into these primaries

. >>> city council member pete constance say it is law will take effect sunday as planned he says itts the city $600,000 a year to respond to false alarms and police need to focus on the high-priority calls. >>> police in gilroy looking for a man accused of robbing a walmart start. we have a look at the surveillance video. that is the image of the man taken prior to the robbery on the night of december 23rd. if you recognize this guy, call gilroy police. the suspect is wearing a giants ball cap and a black and white reeboks jacket. police say he simply walked up to the cashier and demanded money and did not show a weapon. he was threatening enough, the employee gave the man some cash before the man took off. >>> funeral ceremonies for north korean leader kim jong il are under way this morning. experts around the world are paying close attention looking for signs of any shifts in power as the country transitions to kim's son kim jong-un. an expert in korean universe ti tells "the new york times," if anything, the funeral indicates who kim jong-un's closest aides will be. funeral cerem

. >> i think people understand that i'm a man of steadiness and constancy. don't think you're going to find somebody who has more of those attributes than i do. i've been married to the same woman for 25 -- excuse me, i'll get in trouble, for 42 years. i've been in the same church my entire life. i've worked at one company, bain, for 25 years, and i left that to go off and help save the olympic games. if i'm president of the united states, i will be true to my family, to my faith and to our country, and i will never apologize for the united states of america. i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> i'm going wild here. he has gone after newt gingrich for, quote, changing his religion, coming up with two marriages beyond the one he started, shows this gorgeous picture of his wife, fair enough, but the message is clearly, bob, that this guy, unlike him, he stayed with his lds mormon religion and the other guy switched religions, i've never seen anything like this in politics, going after this guy for being a religious convert. usually you think that's a

. >> i think people understand that i'm a man of steadness and constancy.een married to the same woman for 25 -- excuse me. i'll get in trouble. 42 years. >> was that not the most direct attack on mr. gingrich's serial adultery and multiple marriages? >> that was a pretty direct attack. you could that get more direct unless you're a late night comedian, really. i think that's about as baldly as you'll put night political ad. i think it's dangerous a little bit in iowa. you look at the polling. people don't really care about newt gingrich's marriages. actually, this same poll from before, only 16% of likely caucusgoers said that was a reason to vote against newt gingrich. about the same proportion by the way that found romney's religion as a reason to vote against him. so you're kind of playing with dangerous ground there when you start to write up this stuff. i think this is one election where even republicans, even heartland republican voter who we're used to seeing going with social conservative issues, they really care about the economy. they really care

he says i've been a man of constance and steadiness and my marriage is the best example of that. that not by accident. it comes with newt gingrich, as newt gingrich rises. >> you could infer from that that he's trying to counter the whole arguments of him as a flip-flopper on different issues. >> it's a two-fer. >> dual-prong, no question about it. >> chris, see you later, thanks so much for starting us off today. and the president is going populist, as he unveils his re-election campaign themes. on tuesday he argued that more has to be done to help people victimized by those who caused the recession. >> it was wrong. it combined the breath-taking greed of a few, with irresponsibility all across the system. and it plunged our economy and the world into a crisis from which we're still fighting to recover. >> with me now, west virginia democratic senator, joe mansion and illinois republican senator, mark kirk. and the two of you share a position on the payroll tax. >> yes, we do, andrea, thank you for having us, we appreciate it very much. mark and i have been doing our bipartisan

. >> i think people understand that i'm a man of steadiness and constancy. i don't think you'll find anybody who's got more of that than me. i've been married to the same woman for 42 years. i go to the same church all my life. i worked for one company for 25 years and i left to go off and help save the olympic games. if i'm president of the united states i will be true to my family, to my faith, and to my country, and i will never apologize for the united states of america. >> i'm mitt romney, and i approve this message. >> mitt romney was probably going to run as a family values guy anyway. they all do. but what better time to start the family values part of the campaign than when newt gingrich shoots by you in the polls with his third wife in tow? the thing that has democrats really excited about mitt romney today, though, is that mr. romney's newfound energy, the get up and go in his campaign that seems to be inspired by newt gingrich beating him all over the country now has caused mr. romney to throw caution to the wind on a really important thing. earl

they want constancy and stability. >> i think newt's look those ghosts on "christmas carol."deal, but once you've gotten past them, you get to be president. it will be more fun and more charming to debate romney, but you might lose to him. anyway, thank you very much, john heilemann. that's my weird assessment of things. it's better to debate one guy, but probably better to campaign against the other. >>> up next, out with a bang. herman cain's announcement saturday that he's suspending his campaign was perfect timing for the crew at, guess where, at "saturday night live." their take on cain's exit, next in the sideshow. you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. hey, the new guy is loaded with protein! really? 25 grams of protein. what do we have? all four of us, together? 24. he's low fat, too, and has 5 grams of sugars. i'll believe it when i--- [ both ] oooooh... what's shakin'? [ female announcer ] as you get older, protein is an important part of staying active and strong. new ensure high protein... fifty percent of your daily value of protein. low fat and five grams of

they want constancy and stability. >> i think newt's look those ghosts on "christmas carol." awful to deal, but once you've gotten past them, you get to be president. and it will be more fun and more charming to debate romney, but you might lose to him. anyway, thank you very much, john heilemann. that's my weird assessment of things. it's better to debate one guy, but probably better to campaign against the other. >>> up next, out with a bang. herman cain's announcement saturday that he's suspending his campaign was perfect timing for the crew at, guess where, at "saturday night live." their take on cain's exit, next in the sideshow. you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people are choosing advil®. here's one story. [ regis ] we love to play tennis. as a matter of fact it was joy who taught me how to play tennis. and with it comes some aches and pains and one way to relieve them all is to go right to the advil®. i have become increasingly amazed at regis's endurance. it's scary sometimes what he accomplishes in a day. well i'd

i love listening to the guy, but the constancy he needs. the fact he has no organization is no accident. it's the sail issue. i agree with mark and the question is will republicans say i sort of love listening to that guy. no way he can win. i think at the end of the day they will make that determination. >> lehrer: end of the day, herman cain going to be gone tomorrow you think? >> any time, jim, presidential candidate voluntarily uses the word "consensual" in a press conference-- >> lehrer: no matter what the subject? >> it's lights out. >> lehrer: you agree with that, too. >> bill clinton used that term. i think the voters have decided. whether he has decide or not, voters have decided. >> it was bill clinton's second term. >> lehrer: the payroll tax thing that was reported on at the beginning and we've been talking about it all week, where is that going to end up? they're going to extend it, where they not? >> they're going to extend it. it's the first time on a tax issue the republicans got caught on the wrong side. while they were in

. >> i think people understand that i'm a man of steadiness and constancy. i don't think you're going to find somebody who has more of those attributes than i do. i've been married to the same woman for 25 -- oh, excuse me, i'll get in trouble, for 42 years. i've been in the same church my entire life. i worked at one company, bain, for 25 years, and i left that to go off and help save the olympic games. if i'm president of the united states, i will be true to my family, to my faith, and to our country, and i will never apologize for the united states of america. >> you know, a lot of people convert from one religion to another, we do that in a free society. i think it's very unfortunate for someone who's spent two years of his life converting people as a missionary to make fun of conversion. i think part of a free expression of religion comes the right to, if you will, change religions. now for the below-the-belt version of what we just saw. an iowa pastor who is backs rick santorum is sending out a blast message for voters, urging them to watch this inflam

they want constancy and stability. >> i think newt's look those ghosts on "christmas carol." they're awful to deal, but once you've gotten past them, you get to be president. it will be more fun and more charming to debate romney, but you might lose to him. anyway, thank you very much, john heilemann. that's my weird assessment of things. it's better to debate one guy, but probably better to campaign against the other. >>> up next, out with a bang. herman cain's announcement saturday that he's suspending his campaign was perfect timing for the crew at, guess where, at "saturday night live." their take on cain's exit, next in the sideshow. you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. >>> back to "hardball." by the way, that was chuck webb there, the bay-owned bleeder i was referring to, not someone over in england. anyway, first up, going out with a bang. that might not be the best way to describe herman cain's recent exit from the 2012 presidential race, but at least somebody scored with the timing of the cain train derailment. "saturday night live." let's watch the "snl" take

in the end this new ad says people understand that i'm a man of steadiness and constancy. someone who has had more of those attributes than i do. is that a counter to, i guess the excitement with newt gingrich? >> it is clearly, they're trying to draw a contrast with newt gingrich's three marriages. i think that's the beginning but it won't be enough for mitt romney. mitt romney needs to go out there and be inspiring to the republican electorate if he wants to win this race. newt gingrich is someone, he has been successful. this is someone that has an acu rating that's not much different from john mccain. he is not the great conservative hopeful so i think there is a real contrast and a real battle of ideas that will come down the line. and mitt romney starting with that ad but i don't think that will get him where he needs to go. >> thank you for your patience as well with the technical issues. thanks to simon, too. we'll talk to him again. >>> coming up on news nation -- >> when we come on this, we think bring on the heat here. these are serious violations. >> a very wea