mr. gingrich's fate and thereby the whole fate of the race to the extent that it depends on mr. ngrich's continued participation in it. i can see why a guy like sheldon adel would be doing what he's doing. if you're one of the billionaires supporting mitt romney, what do you get for your money? you can be replaced by the other billionaires in the room if you don't step uchlt no one billionaire is important to the romney campaign, why do it? what motivates you? where write a seven-figure check to the mitt romney pac? what do you get? right after new york state passed marriage equality last year, after the length gislature, and governor cuomo signed it in laurks the new york times did a post morten came together, what motivated the governor to do it and push hard, what persuaded the republicans who changed their minds, how the pro-game marriage side came together. the rich guy republican donors, conservative donors who met secretly with the staft fers and said they would help him out even though he is a democrat. "within days the wealthy republicans sent back word they were on boar

mr. gingrich another $5 million.ll come too late to resuscitate his political hopes, in time for arizona or michigan tomorrow but it does mean he will be alive for super tuesday next week. washington post reporting that this pro-gingrich super pac will use the new money for mr. gingrich's billion to put up ads in georgia, oklahoma, ohio and tennessee, with more to come wednesday in mississippi, alabama and kansas. skipping tomorrow and looking ahead to naex week. makes sense for mr. gingrich to not try for tomorrow, the polls in michigan and arizona show him getting crush in both states. didn't much have the option to compete, when mr. gingrich is between cash infusions from his billionaire, his campaign prospects shrivel up like a stranded earth worm on a hot walk. but money keeps mr. gingrich alive and in the race and now has more money. since we know that newt gingrich's billionaire wants newt gingrich or mitt romney to be the nominee but does not want rick santorum to be the nominee it's worth newt gingrich has n

mr. gingrich placed second to mr. romney there. now mr. gingrich is petitioning the republican party to get some of the florida delegates and nobody knows what is going to happen there. again, a totally in conclusive mess. in nebraska -- nevada, caucuses to end at 3:00 p.m., then hate-add an extra one that started at 10:00 after the other ones were over. when they did end on saturday night, then they ended again, the state republican party was not able to release a final vote for nevada for two days. after they found they had more ballots cast than voters. that itself is remarkable given the republican party chair in nevada predicted a turnout of 70,000 people and they got less than half that. imagine what a mess it would have been had they got a reasonable turnout with less than half the people they expected it still took them more than two days to count it. all that disaster upon disaster in the republican race thus far, all that logistical collapse pales before missouri. voters will have the choice of these candidates, mitt romney, rick

mr. gingrich conceded that he lost the primary to mr. romney. mr. ch did not make a concession and in fact mr. gingrich did not call mr. romney tonight to congratulate him on the victory. though we know from their speeches that ron paul and rick santorum did. let's go back it miami and chris matthewes. chris? >> i think that's consistent, rachel. that love is all around us tonight. we brought in two experts. gene robinson, and former chair of the republican national committee, both are msnbc political analysts and valued colleagues. i don't want to continue that very long. my reaction, michael, i had the same reaction our colleagues had on calling him president of commandener chief. al green, what do you call it tribute that president did the other night. i guess i associate newt gingrich with a ma nef lent attitude toward this thing so i think he was playing the number. you don't agree. >> i don't agree. i thought that, my hat is off to rick. it is hard it take your hat off to something and explain it. i think we have to get beyond using race behind

mr. gingrich. if you look at the races in february. mr. gingrich is looking ahead to super tuesday, march 6th. a the lot of surgeon states, including his home state of georgia he's hoping will catapult him back into the race. he's got a lot including the states that mr. romney did well in 2000 #, maine, colorado, michigan and others he's showing strength. will the pressure be too great? can he make it all the way to march. >> i think we're in a mysterious period, with the web and debates and hard to predict. i don't see anything that's going to stop mitt romney from getting in nomination. i mean, between the money and the organization and the fact that he now is the front runner, and i think it's that reality is beginning to sink in among republican voters, it doesn't mean they're enthusiastic, but i think he's on a path to the nomination, the question is he going to arrive at the nomination with the wind of the republican party at his back. >> if you look at exit polls, he's got work to do. he did well mopping all kinds of demographic grou

mr. gingrich since then. the green line on this graph. yeah, total collapse. s disappeared in oh blifion in the republican race over the last month, sung like a stone falling through water. so, newt gingrich is a man currently in need of a path back to relevance. enter potential path back to relevance. >> gas prices are at the highest levels ever for this time of year, up 25 cents a gallon on average since the beginning of 2012. >> the recent spike in gas prices, while pretty bad news for the overall u.s. economy, has turned out to be great news for the politics of newt gingrich. mr. gingrich has just released a nearly 30-minute -- 30-minute-long tv ad that's all about rising gas prices and what president newt gingrich is going to do to bring them down. the ad has mr. gingrich in front of this blue curtain you see here, speaking directly into the camera for 29 straight minutes. no video, no graphics, just this for half an hour. "the wall street journal" reporting today that the gingrich campaign will run the entire video in key cities until super tuesday on mar

mr. gingrich's billionaire might be cutting him off. in the next contest in nevada, newt gingrich came in a deep distant second place to mitt romney. lost to mitt romney by nearly 30 points in nevada. and then newt gingrich kept right on losing. remember the saturday caucus was on a saturday night? we didn't get the final results until monday after the caucuses in nevada. and then the very next day there were three more contests, minnesota, colorado and missouri. not only did newt gingrich face plant in all three of those states, he wasn't on the ballot in missouri. that night after getting wiped out in three states, newt gingrich was invisible. all the other candidates gave speeches that night, but not newt gingrich. at least after he lost in nevada he didn't give a speech but held a press conference to announce his strategy going forward but after he lost colorado and minnesota and wasn't even on the ballot in missouri, mr. gingrich went to bed early, didn't show up. he also then disappeared from the campaign trail, ostensibly to raise

mr. gingrich has certainly run a blueprint for how to run against mr. romney. i want to talk about the president running against congress, but let's talk about specifically mr. romney. it will not work for the obama campaign? >> i think they are going to use it. we think about the focus on his wealth and what lovain did in destroying -- whether he created or destroyed jobs. i think is going to be very difficult if you look at the 2008 and the 2010 results for them to make inroads into that working class community. it is not their coalition anymore. what do these up for middle- class suburbanites think about? how do they interpret the gain experience? if you look up polling that has been done in swing states like florida, pennsylvania, ohio, romney does well among college- educated whites who know about the economy. as a process this, do they see it as the class warfare as republicans wanted to see it? or do they see it as a wall street maneuvering that has hurt them? i think they are the key audience. and i honestly do not know. how of voters in jabr that exper

mr. gingrich, digress. back to birth control. some republicans say it's an important political issue because they say mr. obama's contraception rules forszed religious institution to vid it to their employees despite their religious beliefs. something mr. gingrich has brought up repeatedly. >> i don't care what deal he tries to cut. this is a man who is deeply committed, if he wins re-election, he will wage war on the catholic church the morning after he's re-elected. we cannot trust him. we should -- we know who he really is and we should make sure the country knows who he really is. >> that kind of rhetoric does not mean mr. gingrich or any other republican candidate is fighting to ban birth control. they're not. still, democrat nancy pelosi is holding an unofficial hearing on women's reproductive rights today starring the georgetown university law student who was barred from testifying at last week's republican-led hearing on reproductive rights and religious liberty. so i end with where i began, birth control. a political foot

when mitt romney was tearing newt gingrich apart, mr. romney benefitted from the fact that the entire republican establishment, including most of the conservative opinion leaders in the country, all hate newt gingrich. anything mitt romney said against newt gingrich the whole conservative establishment would say, uh-huh, yep, and go along with it and enforce it. mr. romney was attacking as "the washington post" put it this week, the most ds liked politician in america. that phrase isn't an attack it's what the polling shows. newt gingrich enjoys a 16% favorability rating among americans. 16. attacking newt gingrich was effective for mitt romney because newt gingrich is deeply unpopular. that well of hatred, forever, for the candidate, does not seem to exist when it comes to rick santorum. to be clear, mr. santorum does not seem to have of a rooting section or base, he did lose his own state by 18 points when he was last running for office. but he does not appear to inspire the same kind of loathing newt gingrich does particularly among co

mr. gingrich since then. the green line on this graph. yeah, total collapse. ngrich's disappeared in oh blifion in the republican race over the last month, sung like a stone falling through water. so, newt gingrich is a man currently in need of a path back to relevance. enter potential path back to relevance. >> gas prices are at the highest levels ever for this time of year. up 25 cents a gallon on average since the beginning of 2012. >> the recent pike in gas prices while bad news for the u.s. economy turned out to be great news for the politics of newt gingrich. mr. gingrich released a nearly 30 minute, 30 minute long tv ad that is all about rising gas prices and what president newt gingrich will do to bring them down. he speaks directly in the camera for 29 straight minutes. no video. no graphics, just "the wall street journal" reporting today that the gingrich campaign will run the entire video in cities until on. your regularly scheduled programming will not be seen tonight so we can bring you 30 straight minutes of newt gingrich talking into the camera a

mr. gingrich supporters don't flock to rick santorum and beat mr. romney. also, mr. romney needs the gingrich camp to please stop attacking him. so how about killing both of those birds with one $10 million stone? or one $100 million stone? see i told you he's mitt romney billionaire. joining us is steve kornacki, good to see you again >> good to be here. >> horse race stuff is not my favorite politics, i find this dynamic to be fascinating. do you see it this way, do you think that is what is going on here is the three-way dynamic? >> absolutely. when you look at the demographics, it gets pronounced beyond the next three contests and move to super tuesday in the middle of march, that is when the race shifts back to the south, the deep south. we've seen at least the basis, the foundation for a regional cultural divide, where romney has done well in the coasts moreorless, broadly defined. santorum the candidate of the midwest, gingrich in south carolina and in the panhandle region of florida has done well with the sort of white evangelicals down there. they tend to be

mr. santorum, of course, helped in winning mosby the fact na newt gingrich was not on the ballot there. it was the first national test of a republican primary with only one non-mitt romney republican, non-ron paul alternative. mr. gingrich is not in any states that hold contests tonight, which is his way to say i'm expecting to go over three. my question is does it matter? mitt romney is going to be in colorado. he expects to do well in colorado. he won that state with 60% of the vote that time around. athat didn't help in the long run, fb. he lost the republican primary in 2008, and then barack obama beat john mccain nationally and in the state of colorado by nine points in the 2008 election. one of the other interest thing that is happened in colorado in the '08 election is that they voted on one of these personhood amendments that define a fertilized egg as a person. it is in effect a total ban on abortion and a likely ban on hormonal forms of birth control, things like the iud or birth control pill. they rejected that by a 3-1 margin. it lost by 36 points. lots of other statewide de

his main opponent, newt gingrich, wasn't even on the ballot in missouri, and mr. mitt romney still got crushed there by rick santorum. in minnesota mitt romney not only lost to rick santorum but as you saw he's losing to ron paul as well he's way back in third. he won minnesota four years ago. in colorado a state mitt romney won in a landslide last time with 60% of the vote, it appears to be out of the question tonight he'll get another landslide. he's just looking for a win. mr. romney said he hoped to peculiar in first or second in colorado. the romney campaign said he called rick santorum earlier tonight to congratulate him on his victories. apparently mr. romney could only leave a message for mr. santorum. here was rick santorum addressing his supporters earlier foent in missouri. >> kwefconservatism is alive an well in missouri and minnesota. your votes today were not just heard loud and wide across the state of missouri and minnesota, but they were heard loud and louder all across this country, and particularly in a play i suspect may be in massachusetts. th

mr. romney was done with his speech, former house speaker newt gingrich took the stage. mr. gingrich was introduced by his wife who you see there, so mitt romney introduced by the guy hosting the event of the newt gingrich introduced by his wife. rick santorum? who introduced rick santorum? he was introduced by his billionaire, his billionaire opened with a joke. >> there is a little bar couple doors down and a conservative, a liberal and a moderate walked into the bar. the bartender says hi, mitt. [ laughing ] >> can i pay you to laugh? if i keep laugh something how about now? i could pay you all. would mitt romney really walk in a bar? your introduction is a form of political framing, like picking a running mate or where you choose to announce the candidacy or what metaphor you use in your stump speech, all important parts of political framing. usually in presidential politics your political framing is about compensating for some perceived weakness you have as a candidate. bolstering something about your candidacy that is wobbly. john mccain seen as being the guy who has be

mr. gingrich has decided he's desperate enough that he's willing to be the guy lecturing the country on what it is to be a good catholic. it's kind of remarkable given that newt gingrich is more famous for his adultery than anything else about him. he also wanted to draw mitt romney into this thing. just as newt gingrich knows what he's doing when he calls the first african-american president a food stamp president, i think he knows what nerve he's hitting when he says that. i think he knows what nerve he's hitting when he draws the man who is potential ly the first party candidate who is mormon in to discussion of religious values. so newt gingrich brings this thing up after the fact. he raises the issue. he gets mitt romney talking about religion every day as part of his stump speech, and he boxes mitt romney in. when mitt romney was governor of massachusetts, he did not exempt catholic hospitals from having to provide emergency contraception to rape victims. now newt gingrich has mitt romney talking about religion on the stump every day and he's nailing him as a hypocrite who can't be tru

mr. romney weathered the exact same storm from newt gingrich and mr. gingrich went away and mr. came back and went away again. though it's exciting in the moment, a rival republican candidate coming from no where to surge it's not the most novel story in the world. yes, mr. santorum has come from nowhere to meet or exceed mr. if in all the breathless rick santorum coverage today you feel like you have seen this movie before, it is because you have seen this movie before. and it might end up being a big deal, but it might not. this is what's going on in the republican rate for president. the more happens in the race, the more voting, the more campaigning this year, the more voters have decided nationally that they cannot stand mitt romney. if there's polling in politics that might be worth blanket coverage from the beltway media, i would think that this would be it. chart imitates life. happy valentine's day. your finances can't manage themselves. but that doesn't mean they won't try. bring all your finances together with the help of the one person who can. a certified financial

mr. gingrich, thank you very much for stopping by. we hope to see you again before all this is over.reciate you coming by this morning. i want to turn now to somebody who has been watching us from afar. rudy giuliani is out in indianapolis this morning. i can't imagine why. >> (laughing). >> schieffer: mr. mayor, are you prepared to endorse anyone other than the new york giants today? >> (laughing) not yet. i'm listening very carefully. i know all of these men very well. i have very high regard for them. i've become concerned when they start attacking each other not in general but when they start attacking each other as if they're democrats. when newt began with the attack on romney with regard to bain capital a couple of weeks ago. he ceased from that. or vice versa when romney attacked newt over some of the ways in which he's earned his money. the best thing for us would be if newt said everything after his first comment, which are the issues of the campaign. there is a difference. they have big differences over romney-care. they have big differences over taxes. newt's plan on taxe

mr. gingrich wants to fundamentally transform america, he wants to change us into something we may not recognize. >> reporter: it is also meant to deflect criticism from his comment earlier that the poor didn't need tax cuts. >> i think we need to be concerned about 100% of the american people. >> reporter: for newt gingrich a and -- to show his focus on caucus states. >> i want to thank you for coming out and with all the enthusiasm. i think that we have reason to be optimistic. >> showdown in the silver state, the first test out west for the gop candidate. >> whatever happens in vegas won't stay there, the minnesota and colorado caucuses are just three days away. brian moore, nbc news, washington. >>> if you're taking metro from northern virginia to d.c. this weekend, expect some delays, because of track work, free shuttle buss are running between the stations, there will also be single tracking on the red line between van necessass and frien heights. all that should be done by monday morning. >>> and still ahead on news4. >> three, two, one. >> making a splash in fairfax county. why today was

gingrich campaign. he said they thought they had this locked up. he said they were planning to endorse mitt romney. it's a story an endorsement to mr. newt gingrich leaked out. he said he tried to get ahold of mr. gingrich this morning but haven't been able to. >> all right. thank you very much. let me bring in michael smerconi smerconish. thank you. michael, i'll start off with you because i know this is your favorite topic, donald trump. garrett says it's a done deal. we know he's endorsing mitt romney. >> i think this is the worst possible thing that could happen to the romney campaign today. >> why? >> the worth possible. the whole dialogue today is all about the comments where governor romney said he doesn't care about the poor and i don't want to take it out of context. everybody knows the full statement but on day when people are assessing what's his level of concern for those who have the least, he's going to stand up and claim the endorsement of the most notorious billionaire in the united states. i think this is ridiculous. i think it's bad advance work. he should have called him up and said the donald, can we put this off

mr. gingrich also deployed president raking on's 1985 meeting with mikhail gorbachev, and iceland. e said it was "the most dangerous summit for the west since adolf hitler met with met 1938." question, has newt gingrich overstated his role in the reagan administration? pat boone. >> first, that's an outrageous comment, where i was with ronald reagan right down there in lofty house. and -- and that the comment this compare this to munich was outrageous. gingrich's comment. but look, in the reagan white house, newt gingrich was considered quite frankly by a lot of folks to be something of a political opportunist and who was not trusted and who had played no role whatsoever. he was a rockefeller republican in the great goldwater battle, where conservativism came of age. i do think this, though. newt has been pounded managers leslie, had people he worked with basically turn on him and dump on him down there in florida, which somehow i think may have had some role in the fact that the great fighter and battler of south carolina had no fight in him whatsoever in the monday and thursday de

mr. gingrich.to have to make a decision whether or not they are going to look to the substance of the candidates and their past records politically or if the ability to kind of drown the other candidates in negative advertising is going to win the day. i have to say to you before i make this next statement i will adopt whoever wins the republican primary because the worst nightmare america could have is a reelection of barack obama. it is very important for the romney campaign to focus on the real issues and not to count on negative false campaign ads. you know, in florida, which was a critical race, 92% of the romney ads were negative and they were also focused on suggesting somehow that newt gingrich was antiregan or that regan was antigingrich. nothing could be further from the truth. my first campaign ever being involved was in the regan first campaign and mr. gingrich was, indeed, a centerpiece of all that. here is what happens when we focus on negativity in our primary we lose our greatest ad