rich galen doesn't think the candidacy will rise or fall on his personal life, but it could be a factor, and some of the other factors include his management style and the question of whether he can actually stay on message. so there's a lot out there. >> a big problem for him. joe, stand by. gloria borger, our senior political analyst is here as well. how does he do that, over come not only the personal stuff but some would argue the gaffs, if you will? he speaks a lot. some of the stuff he says is very intelligent, some not so much. >> everybody you talk to about newt gingrich say he's undisciplined. the problem with gingrich is he has an awful lot of ideas, and some of them are even good, right? but he tends to talk about all of them. i spoke with somebody who used to work with him who said, you know, his problem is that he surrounds himself with people who let him say whatever he wants to say. he needs people around him who can say, you know, newt, you shouldn't talk about that or that, here is the message of our campaign and you need to stick with it. there's a real concern that he

a lot to talk about with paul begala and republican strategist rich galen, who once served as newt gingrich's press secretary. >> i did, but if you say that again. >> rich, what do you make of this? is his explanation of the explanation, does it make sense? >> of course not. this isn't just a rookie mistake, this is a mistake by somebody that's in single-a short season hagerstown. the whole part of this you left out was his press secretary then blaming everybody on the planet except for themselves. no, this is -- i think what happened was that they didn't realize how dangerous this was. it took them and day and a half to get their arms around it. as the thing kept building, newt kept trying to find new ways to wriggle out of it. unfortunately as you have done here, and i think fairly, as you have done here when you string all of the -- all of everything he said and where he said it, plus getting a box of lucky charms poured on his bed, which he didn't need this week, it's been a tough week for newt and i don't know that the campaign is over. what i would do if i were involved, which i am not,

galen and hippocrates had entirely right.they're hearing that the english are doing this experiment. they don't want to be doing them. but england and france are in the thick of pretty much a space race. the whole idea of nationbuilding is developing, and for a nation to have prominent, you do the victors both on the battlefield but you also had to be victors in science. so the french in the academy, french academy of science, they start to do these experiments hopefully to determine that the english are wrong. and their experiments didn't work. and it took me a while to figure out how is this that the english had such great success in the 16 '60s, and the french did not. and you're all thinking, too, how is it they can be doing this with animals because we know that animals have blood ties, they have more blood types than human, and they don't know anything about anesthesia. and we think about incentives are blood type. it turns out there are three variables. the first is how fast the blood goes in. the second is how much an

rich galen, sooner or later i suspect unfortunately the campaign will collapse from the top because peopleay i lon him and he's really smart but he can't be president. it's swift, unsparing. let me ask you this. does it seem like from some of the people that we're hearing from didn't want him in the running in the first place? >> yeah. i think there are a lot of people who believe -- they credit newt gingrich -- don't forget. this is a man who engineered the retaking of the house for republicans after 40 years of democratic rule in 1994. so this is somebody who gets a lot of credit. former house speaker. but they also think that his time has passed, that he can't recreate that, and that he wasn't in touch with the republican constituency and how it feels about the ryan budget plan. he apologized but i think this is a very republican thing for him because he's got to win the republican primary. when he seemed to be criticizing the ryan plan it seemed to me he was already talking as if he were in a general election rather than having to win a republican primary, and he seemed to be forgettin