gop strategist rich galen. and cornel belcher, a pollster for the obama 2012 campaign and was in 2008 as well. rich, does newt gingrich have a problem with super pacs or just hostile super pacs who have a lot more money than his super pacs do? >> look, nobody can be more scrapingly mean when he's after somebody than newt gingrich. the fact is he tends to do it himself, which hasn't helped him over the years. but he has a super pac. and not only that, but his super pac, the spokesman for his super pac is his long-time spokesman, rick tyler. so everything he said about the romney pac is in fact true for him. and the truth is that those of us who actually agreed with the supreme court decision, because of the first amendment and all that stuff, the fact is that everybody's got a chance to build their own super pac. my guess is that it was somebody from a super pac that called -- that called governor perry today. and that was the enlightenment that he got. they said we'll raise you 5 million bucks. but everybody ca

rich galen was newt gingrich's communication director when he was speaker of the house.aren finney is former dnc communications director. rich, let's start with you. watching the first four minutes, were you thinking, this is it? game over? >> no, but i was thinking this is great tv. i was thinking that. i have no idea how that will play down here in south carolina. newt started this process by attacking the media or at least the moderator in every debate getting an applause line raising a couple thousand bucks, and that kept him going. that was a technique he has used. this was a little more over the top. in john king's defense, that was a question that was on everybody's mind here. he had to ask it. >> he had to ask it because they had been covering it all day on the programming, so certainly gingrich knew this was probably the first question prepared as such. >> i'm sure he -- he was ready for it, but gingrich is a great debater, a great speech maker, a great sense of timing. i don't think he was as good monday night, but he was so good monday night, i don't think he

case is even more dangerous than it was in the case of iraq for political science professor pierre galen says that by isolating iran the western leaders are trying to score political points while ignoring the economic disaster it spells for them from an economic point of view it is not wise but you know from a political point of view this is grandstanding and political. coming from leaders who are facing elections obama in the u.s. and obama has been very tough on iran because it is accused by the republicans of being soft on iran and so cozy want to spread it in crisis try to score a success so trying to bash iran something good for political reasons for this readers on the domestic speech economically because if oil prices continue to raise it would be very bad. for the entire global economy i think this tensions are likely to affect european countries as well and in fact i read that mario draghi is asking for it in the leverage to leave because he ran owes it to live a lot of money so maybe the sanctions are not going to happen in the way they were announced today but it would be very

joining us former press secretary to former house speaker newt gingrich, rich galen.e word i've been using. >> that was the unhappy newt. >> that was not happy. he's angry. >> the angry newt we've known for the last 25 years has not served him well. i'm hoping he gets over it overnight. >> i don't know. he really felt like a victim. he felt like he was victimized here in iowa. was newt gingrich victimized by the state of iowa? >> they did gang up on him. and the romney campaign, i think everybody will agree, did everything to support santorum short of buying actual advertising for him. >> why is that a good strategy for romney? >> because there's no path for santorum forward. >> and why is that? >> no money, no organization. santorum won here because he's been here for seven or eight months. 99 counties, 300, whatever, town hall meetings because he had the time, because he was the first one. >> is he a huckabee? >> likely to be. the difference -- i think he likely is -- i think this thing will end at the end of january. >> rich, we were showing last night -- we were s

rich galen, you've known newt gingrich for a very long time. there's just something.terday. >> the fight is not -- is that a good analogy? >> i suspect that newt may have a third, maybe even fourth act. >> when your the moderator of "meet the press" you get that cup. when you're not. >> oh, that's terrible! >> he carries around tea cups. it's all right. >> newt -- one of newt's longstanding kind of message is that most people fail at the things they try to do because they give up too quickly. they don't have the perseverance to work their way through the tough part. if you go back to 1994, we first met in 1982 and we didn't know what year it was going to be and he was plotting 1994 when i was back at the congressional campaign committee as press secretary over there, so this is part of what he does. you don't always agree with it and that's not always as pol issued as you wish he might be, but he'll have the debate. that's the point. he wants to attack romney and wants to put the moderate label on and wants the advantage of the debate to remind people and he talked to

discuss what's going on with our cnn political contributor paul begala and republican strategist rich galenbody knew he was having an affair. this is not news, but to hear her say it like this on television? is it going to have an impact? >> it's not exactly on message, as we say in the business, but as you point out, it's not exactly new either. newt gingrich is an amazingly talented debater. what he seems to like most is attacking the media. what i think you'll see is bashing abc news and try to pivot it. he tells a wonderful story of his personal redemption, and people like that. i don't know that it's going to be terribly damaging. it's upsetting personally. you hate to see any family -- i'm not a fan of gingrich -- it should be a private problem. >> you worked for newt gingrich. did you have any clue what was going on? >> i never did. when people tell me he really had to resign, because everybody knew about calista, i say you think his friend david ban yard was protecting him and not telling him during the lewinsky stuff? but washington has been covering him for 30 years. he know this

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i think, you know, rich galen said on this show something that i think is very smart that sums up wheret he has. everybody else running for the presidency right now on the republican side is doing a serial race. you hit everything you have with new hampshire. >> yes. >> pull up stakes, get out, hit south carolina really hard. romney is the only one who has had the resources and the time and the diligence in a way to have a parallel campaign that is running at the same time all of these states. >> right. >> and, of course, that's what you have to do in the general election, and -- and -- and that's why it's pretty hard to see how romney gets derailed. and -- and santorum wasn't even sequential, it was iowa and maybe if we get out of here we'll plan for the next place. >> what's interesting, and the romney people have to be concerned when you break down the numbers from iowa. look at the numbers from iowa in 2008, mitt romney on a collective had 30,021 votes n.2012 in iowa he had 30,015 votes so it looks like mitt romney didn't do a whole lot in iowa to gain a base or grow his base. the p

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