michael duffy. the bbc's katty kay. kathleen parker and from "the daily beast" andrew sullivan. romney's problem is that just when the problem started paying attention, he's looking too rich for the times. he's made slip-ups like the $10,000 bet. and his tax return showed just how rich he is. newt is not much closer to every man than romney is. he'll be dragging along his deals at k street and charge accounts at tiffanys. a poll asked about whether gingrich cares about average people? 22% says gingrich cares about the average guy. 24% says romney does. when the president framed the 2012 election this way. >> can neither settle where a shrinking number do barely well, where a growing number do well. everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same set of rules. >> well the white house, the president included oftenly believes that's going to be how the pie is sliced in america. is that's how it's going to be how it makes it in america? >> i don't think that a candidate has begun his presidential campaign and put class at the center the way president obama did this wee

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with us today, "time" magazine's michael duffy. the christian scientist monitor's liz marlantes. nbc's kelly o'donnell. and politico's john harris. first up, mitt romney is on the march and could wrap it up next week in south carolina. in his 40% victory up in new hampshire he urged his rivals to cut out their chorus of criticism. >> we've seen some desperate republicans join forces with him. this is such a mistake for our party. chris: impressed by the romney roll, those who once were romney detractors from john mccain to rush limbaugh, have appealed to romney's tormentors to please stop helping the democrats. the newt pack. got an idea for you guys. recut your ads on romney. and your tag line is i am barack obama, and i approved this message. chris: but those opponents have little to lose by their attack ads. and in fact, hope to gain by somehow exploding romney's lead or at a minimum ending their own races strong. but could it be the -- this moment is a big opportunity for romney? presidents win because of character, the big test for romney in the next week, can he show charac

hague to bring the case so this is a nation of law michael duffy to the international criminal court actually his response was a very reserved and after that they said that it's very important to show to the international community that the uli b.-a does not have anything in common with the previous regime now that western companies are lining up to get lucrative deals with the new libyan authorities where does russia stand with that some of the russian companies have already. started their operations in libya like i guess probably of his working together with any of the extract oil the russian railroads are ready to give back the russian companies are talking to their counterparts in libya about returning to libya i got a very clear message from the political leadership and from the prime minister when i was in tripoli on the twenty first of december that new libyan government welcomes russian companies to be back so why not look at let's talk about syria now that's been top news for a while now what makes syria different from other countries that have been subject to the. arab spri