kellyanne conway and jim talent, thank you both very much. so who is more likely to unite the gop, newt gingrich or mitt romney? joining me now is the chairman of the republican national committee, and that's reince priebus. mr. priebus, we heard there the spokespeople for either party, both gearing up the rhetoric, getting stuck into each other. so it's clearly gloves off time. from your perspective, obviously, you have to remain fairly neutral at the moment, but how are you viewing the race as it's progressing? >> well, i don't know if the gloves are off. i mean, i think it's a pretty typical primary battle. i really think primaries are good for our party, piers. if you look at what happened with hillary clinton, barack obama four years ago, they nearly took a fork to each other's eyeballs through the end of june before the national convention. and you know, the president won pretty easily and took a supermajority of congress and 60 votes in the senate with him. so i know people love to talk about this stuff, but i think in primaries you're

kellyanne, let me bring you in here. what is newt gingrich's view of this apparently intransigent position by the republicans which is causing endless grief to anybody. >> if anybody wants to know newt's views on anything go to newt.org. i would submit to you you'll never see another candidate's name on the website. it's all about solutions. i'm glad you mentioned do these candidates understand that folks are so upset with washington? congress has an 11% approval rating. you want to talk about solutions and having done things. when newt was there as speaker we had welfare reform. that is the last major entitlement reform in our lifetimes. that was real. that was done with a democratic president bill clinton. they had a balanced budget for four straight years when newt was speaker. that's a sound bite now. it's a total elusive dream in washington, d.c. there were millions of jobs created when he was speaker. let's talk about not just a vision, let's talk about a track record. i can turn that negative awful ad around and t

joining me is kellyanne conway and senator tim talent. let's start with you, kelly, you're new to the gingrich machine. in fact he didn't have a machine until recently. so can we take the mere fact that you are on board as a sign that he's getting serious? >> well, this campaign is much more consequently than any couple of hires, but the reason he's risen in the polls is very simple. what ended up exciting primary caucus voters across the country, piers, are ideas. and he's been very solutions focused, very specific, very positive and cheerful even given the newly minted onslaught of vicious attack that are happening, unfortunately, from some of the romney surrogates. but it turns the out that people are very engaged in what he has to say on the debate stage. for months, piers, people were saying, oh, newt was the smartest guy in the room, but, he's the best performer in the debates, but. and the buts have melted away when they find that he makes sense and he reflects what's happening around our kitchen tables. >> she has a point, hasn't