i would like to thank mr. leroy and j giliad. [applause] mr. james goodwin. [applause] mr. clyde grimes. [applause] mr. richard harter. [applause] mr. harold hodgkins. [applause] mr. james warren. [applause] and mr. les williams. [applause] i would sincerely like to thank you for attending with us today. mr. roberts. [applause] there are few more people but also deserve recognition. thank you to mr. david cunningham that as president of the chapter of the tuskegee airmen. all of whom make this possible. i would also like to a knowledge mr. miles perkins. he has joined us on behalf of lucas film, the producer of the red tails film. [applause] on just one final last note, i want to encourage everyone to learn more about the history and the legacy of these gentlemen that are standing here before us. the tuskegee airmen have their story that has been a new and being told. this past weekend, the george lucas film about the airman was released. it has a g alreadyrossed 18 -- already grossed $18 million, the number two box office hit. when he was shopping around trying to find fun

. >> let me show you newton leroy gingrich, the other contender. he was hitting mr. romney on foreclosures. what he's essentially hitting romney on is how he's unfair in this regard and all of that. let me let you hear what newton had to say. >> here's a guy who owns freddie mac and fannie mae stock. he owns a goldman sachs subsidiary which is foreclosing on floridians. we wants to run a campaign where he drowns me in mud with money he raises from people foreclosing floridians. i think he has a lot of gall to start raising the issue. i think we ought to find out, so how much money has he made over the years foreclosing on floridians. >> now aside from the personal attacks and i'm sure we'll hear enough of that in the debate, hasn't the president really changed the conversation? because now we have them talking about foreclosures. we have them talking about the economy. hasn't the president really began making them come back to what the american people are really concerned about? >> well, there's not a lot of times i'd say i'd agree with newt gingrich. mitt romney doe

leroy made. he became the leading conservative alternative warned republicans that mr. romney's pedigree would make it more difficult to push back against the income and equality argument that is the central theme of the strategy. here's the quote. there's no classes. he needled mr. romney for the term, middle class. the idea we're going buy into the class warfare argument of barack oh what should not be part of the republican lexicon. leapt's hear from missouri now. marissa on the democrats' line. good morning. >> i'm so grateful for c-span. they're the shining light. you guys are single handedly keeping demock are a sip alive in america. i have a couple of things. number one, i hear these republican candidates saying building the infrastructure will not help the economy. that's completely untrue. in red bud, montana, they built a rodeo grounds, a civic center, a pass up to cook city, a ski station and our economy still is completely dependent upon those things. so that's completely untrue that building public works program. let's give people jobs, not money. can you p