, joe scarborough.e is 42% to 27%. how has romney done it? how has he put himself in a position to make florida the rebound state for him? >> you don't have to ask me. just ask his advisers who are spilling their guts on the front page of the "new york times" telling the world it was not the candidate that turned things around, it was their own brilliance. i find it to be one of the most fascinating articles that in the middle of the campaign you would have. one was to make newt angry and mitt romney look tough. and that's worked well. but let's not overstate it. and we were all saying, florida is a big state. chuck and i know this. you win by having lots of money and having 30-second ads and having the wind at your back. these advisers can take all the credit they want in the end. florida is a romney state. >> look at the money. you put it up on the screen. it's quite striking. $15.7 million between the campaign and the super pac dwarfing gingrich. >> and this is the story. it's the money. it's surpris

tavis: let me circle, -- let me circle back to the comment that joe scarborough made.ple profess their face, how can washington lead at the believers and the white house and on the hill and what we see happening happened to poor people. >> the religious issues, he will hear that these are about abortion and gay marriage and all of the rest. what i'm saying is the religious issue in this campaign are those census bureau numbers. asked that is the religious issue. 22% of our children are poor. the poverty line is 22,000 for a family of four. try living on that for a while. that is a religious issue. any candidate who says they are a christian and is not dealing with that is not really raising the true religious issue. this next week, state leaders are sending a letter to every candidate, republican and to mr. obama, to say these census numbers are religious matters. how are you going to respond to these terrible numbers from the census bureau? those are for us will be the face issues in this campaign -- faith issues in this campaign. tavis: let me ask you to talk to me s

joining me the host of msnbc's morning joe, joe scarborough. anchor catty kay and nbc's political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> this thing could go on for a while. the final results from newt gingrich, newt gingrich beating mitt romney by 12 points. the chant is newt can win after three major contests. this race has three different winners. the most recent is newt gingrich. he joins us live this morning. mr. speaker, we joked about you coming on every week. here you are again. congratulations on a significant victory. >> david, thank you. the people of south carolina were and very hospitable. we had wonderful evening last night. >> what is the message that south carolina has sent and what does it mean for this race? >> i think they sent two really big messages which i wish the national establishment could pick up. the first is real pain. there's tremendous unemployment. people really are hurting, the number of people who walked up to me who have been out of work for a

joining me the anchor of nbc's world news, katty kay, and a strategist, mike murphy, and joe scarborought of "morning joe," and political director, chuck todd is here. >> we're going to start with electability. two weeks ago if we told you electability would be the most important issue in south carolina, you would assume a romney runaway. well in this case it was newt gingrich who won the electability argument. half the people that said electability was the most important, they picked gingrich. here is the more important reason why he won south carolina. he became the conservative alternative. 48% of those that described themselves very conservative picked gingrich, and less than 1% saw mitt romney as the conservative. let's look ahead to florida. florida is not quite as conservative as south carolina, but a lot more conservative than new hampshire. and this could be a recipe for why romney might not have florida as the firewall he thought he was going to have. >> let's turn to joe scarborough. why did newt gingrich win? >> david, david -- i love how you got it, and you are part of the e

joining me now, host of msnbc's morning joe, joe scarborough. thanks for joining me tonight. >> i am bain capital along with you, lawrence. >> here we go. it's time for the class warfare starts right here right now. joe, you're down in florida. you are our southern senior political republican analyst here at this network and it's coming your way. south carolina's always been where if the campaign hasn't gotten crazy already, this is where it gets really crazy. did you imagine this happening, that this would be what they are fighting about in south caroline? >> no. it's unbelievable and i can't believe the mistakes that newt gingrich is making over the course of the campaign but this has to be the worst yet. over the past 24 hours, the republican party has gone from rolling their eyes at the guy that they know is going to eventually get the nomination, mitt romney, to suddenly coming together in a way that the party hasn't been since ronald reagan went to the berlin wall and told gorbechov to tear it down. all are coming out and criticizing newt g

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money to read tokeville, this was about influencing people he was a former member with. >> okay, joe scarborough setting it up from "morning joe." we will be interested in your take tomorrow night. thanks for joining us. >>> gingrich's momentum will be put to the test. he has been using debates as a spring board and tonight, he will be looking to score again. chuck todd is nbc's host of "the daily rundown "and garrett is in bed with the romney campaign. you started on july 28th. >> in ohio. >> youhave followed him ever since. how easy is it for him to be this nasty. >> i cannot state how different it is from a few days ago. if mitt romney mentioned santorum it was a big deal. now this housing event is setting up a platform to attack gingrich on the housing issue. it's a completely different environment. >> garrett, i don't know, you've been on the road since july. one of the most remarkable things is mitt romney doing the wash with his son, chuck, tweeting out the picture. this was a new attempt to try to show, i guess the average guy, mitt romney? >> and be careful, remember the john kerry hunt

. >> with us from java joe's, "morning joe's" joe scarborough and mika.. >> it was fascinating. last night mitt romney stepped out of his comfort zone and predicted he was going to win the iowa caucus. surprised a lot of people because that's not really the way mitt usually plays. he's usually very cautious. he made that prediction this morning. he pulled back a little bit and said, hey, i'm not so sure i'm going to predict that but i'm going to predict we'll do very well. i think most scenarios you see will help romney pr if mitt wins, that's great for him. if ron paul or rick santorum wins. obviously, the romney camp very excited about those prospects, too, as long as they're in second. >> andrea, iowa could bring out three faces instead of one if there isn't a really decisive winner. and i'm saying, i have to say, it i don't see people so discouraged here in iowa as much as i do in other places in the president. so, iowa could be good still at this case for obama. it's not -- debbie wasserman schultz doing a great show on our show this morning and your

with the neville chamberlain in one nine hundred thirty eight in munich piling on conservative joe scarborough said this about newt gingrich's past criticisms of reagan this morning on its n.b.c. . i think all this really tell this is about newt gingrich is what most people already know and that is that he is just ideologically word he will say whatever he thinks will do you mean advantage that day and when the tide turns he too will turn with that tide apparently the reagan tide has now turned against gingrich so once again the reagan litmus test has been put to use despite touting reagan fifty five times in the debates just being hammered for the three times he mentioned reagan's name twenty five years ago in a not so positive light but the big picture here is this why the heck is reagan still playing such a huge role more than twenty five years after he left office in today's republican presidential race if things keep going at this rate there won't just be for podiums and four candidates on stage at the next debate in florida will be a fifth podium with a mum a firearm reagan propped up ag

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you saw governor romney saying that with joe scarborough and the president referring to super secret money. now, this is a tough situation because the law is the law, so you got to go ahead with it, right, even though you don't want to? >> i think governor romney makes a good point that the current campaign finance system doesn't make a lot of sense. i would argue that it's based on fine gold, the campaign finance law that pushes money to outside groups. candidates would rather control their own message. they'd rather have the money flowing to their campaigns and that would provide more accountability, but due to the finance restrictions, money, there's restrictive limits on what can be given to campaigns and political parties that pushes money to outside groups, which sometimes are helpful to the campaigns. we certainly hope we're helpful to governor romney's campaign. >> the personal connection is important to most people, that you are on the same page. if not you, bill burton, didn't do a super pac for the president, someone else would. >> the issue is much less who on the democra

this is joe scarborough talking about what he thinks about that kind of mouthing off by campaign staffask his advisers who are spilling their guts to front page of the new york times telling the world it was not the candidate that turned it around it was their brilliance. i find it to be one of the most fascinating articles that in the middle of the campaign you would have these people doing this. their two goals were one to make newt angry and to make mitt look tough. it worked well. but a week ago we were saying florida is a big state. >> what did you think when picked up your "new york times" yesterday? >> he did not have them around when he became governor and was a successful governor in massachusetts. everybody has something to add to a campaign but the candidate is the one that makes it work. mitt romney has been out there taking the punches, giving it back and he is the one that compiled a record of job creation. they can say what they want, he has turned it around and he is the one that will be the nominee and all credit to him. >> fred, thank you very much. and they make up a

you saw governor romney saying that with joe scarborough and the president referring to super secret money. now, this is a tough situation because the law is the law, so you got to go ahead with it, right, even though you don't want to? >> i think governor romney makes a good point that the current campaign finance system doesn't make a lot of sense. i would argue that it's based on fine gold, the campaign finance law that pushes money to outside groups. candidates would rather control their own message. they'd rather have the money flowing to their campaigns and that would provide more accountability, but due to the finance restrictions, money, there's restrictive limits on what can be given to campaigns and political parties that pushes money to outside groups, which sometimes are helpful to the campaigns. we certainly hope we're helpful to governor romney's campaign. >> the personal connection is important to most people, that you are on the same page. if not you, bill burton, didn't do a super pac for the president, someone else would. >> the issue is much less who on the democra

he is living a swinging lifestyle, going after bill clinton and joe scarborough said if newt gingrich room, leave that room. >> not everyone is a gingrich detractors, a few women in the house said, let's listen to what she said. >> newt gingrich was very, very, very welcoming to all of us who were women. ? i want to a tribute my appropriation to newt gingrich, he wanted a token pro-life republican. ann was there. so then i got appointed and kay got appointed. the republican s did not have women in appropriations. he said immediately, we will put women in the chair and, he did, he said you would be a good appropriator. >> i guess this counts as a ringing endorsement. >> plainly he likes women. >> hello, all of us who are women. >> that was pretty low wattage, if that is where we have to go to find support. >> it's faint praise. it's faint. >> but to for the man with the felony on his record, yes, newt knows how the win and he has a habit of losing and losing big. that is what they are afraid of. >> locking up votes, it will be a long dance. after the break, the pentagon proposed major

now, joe scarborough can say newt gingrich isn't a real conservative. and that's damming coming from joe. but it won't work for mitt romney. that's u number one. number two. i just spent my day in sarasota, florida. the establishment republicans were as thick upon the ground as the e grets on the golf course. and they are saying if mitt romney goes down that road, it's not going to do mitt romney any good. i talked to a guy in sarasota. he's an established republican. he said if mitt romney tries to behave like newt gingrich, mitt romney will lose what i find attractive about him, which is he's the level-headed guy. he's going to lose that fight. so the problem romney has is he's faced with a choice. does he go after them that way or not? either way, he loses. >> the roughest political advice i got was don't get into a paying match with a skunk. it's helpful information. newt gingrich told a crowd in tampa he expected mitt romney to get desperate at the debate tonight. let's watch his pregame. >> if you have been campaigning for six years and you begin t