if you look up gail collins now, i'm not going to go into it, but if you look up gail collins, if you hit gail collins m it comes up mitt romney. if you hit d it comes up dog. can the editor tell her, please, it's not funny, it's not elegant -- hello? >> it says gail collins book -- >> put an m, mitt romney's dog. >> david brooks, dog on roof. donald trump. >> she will be known on her epitaph -- >> mitt romney dog, mitt romney dog on roof. >> 45 times, andrew. 45 times. it's every column she writes. >> everybody needs a theme, joe. >> it's the most trivial -- people complain about how trivial some of this stuff is. it's sad. anyway, eamon, we digress. are you still with us? >> reporter: i am still with you and i wanted to mention one more thing. >> go ahead. >> reporter: andrew mention this had yesterday and i think it's an important thing for a wall street audience to keep their eye on. newt gingrich has been going after goldman sachs and he did it again yesterday. >> oh, boy. >> reporter: tying mitt romney to goldman sachs, new york elites, and washington elites. in newt gingrich's

joining us fresh off the plan from south carolina is gail collins. you want this to go on forever? >> i sort of want this moment in the south carolina contest to go on forever. i feel like somebody were either in hyperspeed or time has stopped, because so much is happening all at once. and each thing feels like it's epic, each thing tells such a major story about these candidates, our politics and where we're at. >> okay, rachel, if you really want it to last forever. >> you disagree, you're ready for it to be over? >> i'm ready for it to move along a little bit. >> really? what do you feel we are stalled on? >> right now we're stalled on the south carolina primary. we're stalled on will we have mitt romney or not, that is the basic question, but i'm always good for a good sex scandal, you know, that's my point in life, really. >> do you feel like the inevitability of mitt romney is becoming more evitable? >> i sort of actually don't still. i don't. i truly don't. because it's like at the end it's like the idaho caucus will happen, all these things out there that you have to plan f

gail collins in "the new york times" poke fun at this week at the state for being unrep. does iowa deserve all this criticism, evan thomas? >> yes and no. [laughter] >> there is a bold statement. >> it is not representative in that it is isolationist, extremely far right, and it does not pick president's. but one great thing, and this is a great thing, the retail business, that you actually have to go out there and meet the folks. because it is a long process and you have to get to know them, you do get to know thaem. their qualities and values are shown. >> i think that tradition has been really eroded in this cycle. santorum did good in 99 counties, bachmann wants to do the same thing. romney barely went there, and now he is closing strong. >> he did campaign for years ago out there. >> he did and lost. this time he was too afraid to commit and put himself out there. what we're seeing in iowa this cycle is what we're seeing nationally, lots of television advertising instead of a lot of the town all sorts of things. we have a debate and tv ads, but not the same sorts of

gail collins, just great. let's read -- >> is it fair? okay. let's do jonah gold. >> is it fair? saying? >> i think if gail collins at the "new york times" is accusing of you of demagoguing on bain capital, chances are, you're not going to hit the sweet spot of republican voters in south carolina. >> this is good. >> romney's authentic inauthenticity problem isn't going away. that's an ominous sign given how much enthusiasm there should be for making obama a one-term president. the mo that calculation always assumed that rank and file republicans will vote for their nominee in huge numbers no matter what. they may well still be -- that may well still be the case, but feels less guaranteed every day. every four years, pundits and activists talk about how cool it would be to have a brokered convention. this is the first time i can remember where people say it may be necessary. wow. harsh. true at this point? do we feel that way after new hampshire? >> do conservatives -- this is -- conservatives have been looking at one flawed conservative candidate after another over the past year

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gail c collins in all but a " -- in "the new york times" poke fun at the state for being out rep. does it deserve all this criticism, and thomas -- evan thomas? >> yes and no. [laughter] >> there is a bold statement. >> it is not representativin the sense that it is isolationist extremely far right, and it does not take precedence. -- not picked presidents. but the one great thing is the retail business that you have to go out there and meet the folks. because it is a long process, we do get t to know them. the qualities and failures are shown. >> but i think that that tradition has been really eroded in this cycle a itay be the end that kind of tradition. we now that santorum can go to all 99 counties, bachmann wants to do the same thing. romney barely went there, and is closing strong. he certainly has not been out there working -- >> he campaigned d at there four year ago. >> hee did and lost.t. what we're seeing in iowa this cycle is what we are seeing nationallyly, lots of television advertising instead of a lot of the town all sorts of things. we have debates and we have tv

gail collins piling on in "the new york timeson thursday, writing fe free to ignore iowa, the republicans hope to get more than 100,000 participants. that's about the same number of people in pomona, california. imagine your reaction to seeing a sto saying that a plurality of people in pomona thought newt gingrich would be the best gop presidential candidate. would you say wow, i guess newt is now the front-runner? possibly not. now i'mrom the los angeles area so i don't like anybo picking on pomona. b, is iowa gng to pick the president? >> wl, listen, this is the quadrennialttack on the hawkeyetate and i think iowa is representative. if you look at the last four national presidentl elections, ia's popular vothas mirrored at has hpened nationally. you also have to think what our role in the process is. we're first. we're not last. we're not the decider. we start winnowing the ield. the one thing you can't discount, there are very few ings the last few presidents inhe united states have in common but their path to the whithouse did start winning the iowa caucuses. >> what are you looking f

the new york times today if you see the review page has another vicious piece by gail collins talking of his ex-wives and girlfriends, et cetera, et cetera. there are hints of people more will come out if he gets the nomination. what is happening you have the republican establishment completely rattled basically thinking if he gets the nomination he is going to be unable to beat barack obama. for a while the anti media campaign worked. many conservatives not necessarily hard right to believe of course there is a liberal media and they have been doing obama's bidding for some time now. how long will that be a viable strategy? what do you do after that? how long will it stick? bob dole even came out against him which was apparently the result of an old fight they were having together in the 90s which is too long to go into. george will, charles crowd hammer, our very own ann coulter, tom delay calling himmer erratic and undisciplined. >> ann coulter is not a fox contributor but independent commentator. >> thank you very much. >> the investors business daily churchill prone to greater or

gail collins of "new york times" doesn't without mentioning seamus and the car.romney, i would be out there with a dog commercial, son of seamus, grandson of seamus. having seamus lick me all over. that is an issue. his lack of connectedness, connectivity with the average person, that is very much an issue in this campaign. it is appropriate. jon: okay. thank you both. always an interesting discussion with these two. judy miller, kirsten powers. thanks. >> thank you. jenna: well breaking now. investigators trying to piece together exactly what was happening in the moments before that ship crashed and started to sink in italy and they're focusing on the actions of the ship's captain and someone with him, a woman by his side in the moments before the tragedy is speaking out now about why she was there. >> translator: i was asked to remain on the deck because i speak five languages. just so i was there in case needed to make the last announcement. i was next to the captain, 20 officers and the director of the trip who was quite important person on the ship. we were

host: gail collins has a piece in the sunday "new york times." "gingrich might go down as the canada to prove that voters don't care about a politician's sexual behavior." this is a different take on it, which ties into what our last caller said. "gingrich says his marital issues make him seem more normal. he said it makes them seem more normal and that a person who wanders around seeming perfect." he did an interview with david brodie of the christian broadcasting network -- david brody of the christian broadcasting network. "the evangelicals he spoke to bring up the word 'forgiveness.' asked what the sentiment of forgiveness tells him, gingrich responded that it is importeant that he has not hidden from the facts of his life." good morning, john. caller: good morning. how are you this morning? host: good. which candidate do you relate to? caller: i cannot relate to too many of them under the conditions the political process is in right now. probably gingrich more than anybody. i think obama is very unqualified, and i don't even want to go into