in other words, a non-profit paid for by newt gingrich paid a for profit company-owned by newt gingrichding to abc news, those payments were never dis -- disclosed on the charity's tax forms. we contacted a man named pastor jim garlow whose taken over the running of real from gingrich's spokesperson. pastor garlow told abc news real also had to pay gingrich communications full price for books and dvds they would sell. gingrich communications has denied that saying they got them at cost. a spokeswoman for the pastor told us the same thing. they toll the pastor as saying "my concern was, is there any way we can get these a whole lot cheaper". meaning books and dfds. he goes on we couldn't and we didn't. pastor garlow's spokesperson told us that it was in her word a misstatement. there are other questions about real that are potentially damaging to newt gingrich and may even make this a legal case. real's 2009 tax return showed that real spent 86% of what it took in. 86% on postage and mail service. that is on developing mailing lists and soliciting donations. now, add to that what it paid

how did you think about newt gingrich? there was that whole issue of loyalty, potential muslim appointees came up. how did you think he did given his problems with his campaign? >> well, you know, i noticed at the end when he was waving it looked like he was waving to the people who used to run his campaign, good by! look. gingrich gingrich, i said a long time ago, has this -- newt gingrich has this reputation that somehow he's the professor in the republican party. he's the idea man. no, he's a nut. and i think people are now coming around to this. that just because he says things that are out of the box doesn't mean they're smart or clever or workable. what is this you're referring to that i may have missed this part. >> we actually have the sound bite. >> we did this in dealing with the nazis and we did this in dealing with the communists and it was controversial both times. and both times we discovered after awhile, you know, there are some genuinely bad people who would like to infiltrate our country and we've got to

gingrich being newt gingrich. if his back is against the wall, he may be up for it. host: rita wilson, thanks for joining us. eid wilson, thanks for joining us. here's a comment on twitter. you can join the conversation at these numbers. if you support newt gingrich or do not, the call -- the numbers are on the screen. let's go to tampa, fla., where it bluhm joins us. -- lou joins us. host: i am supporting rudy guiliani and i wish he would get into the race. i called the law firm that he is a part of the new york and i believe he is a viable candidate. i believe he could take on obama and defeating next year. host: what do you think about newt gingrich? caller: i think he will be smashed by mr. ryan. host: ok, next caller. what do you think? caller: i think it would be a mistake for new to to run for president because i do not think it is his time yet. i thinking you'll see a political fascination of some of the baggage that he might bring along with him. i like newt gingrich and i think he's a good man and i thin

i'm not a newt gingrich supporter.ever, i support republicans to speak their mind and go against the typical republican mantra, a diluted republican mantra. i wish newt gingrich would maintain his role as a voice behind a curtain. i wish he would urge the conservative movement forward but not being its leader per se. host: the numbers to call are on your screen. in fort worth, texas, bett he joins us, good morning. caller: good morning. i personally never really considered newt gingrich a real viable candidate. i have to agree with the tweet that said he was just promoting his book. someone who is serious i would think would stay here instead of going on vacation and do some actual work. as far as rick perry trying to move into his place, you might want to take go look at a star- telegram poll here in fort worth a couple of weeks ago. they did a straw poll with registered republicans. he got 4% who thought he would make a good president. i am not sure that most people realize that in texas, the governor is just a figur

and newt gingrich made a statement. i want to play that for our viewers. >> you recently said you would not appoint a muslim to your cabinet and thend you backed off and said that you would first want to know if they're committed to the constitution. you expressed concern that, quote, a lot of muslims are not totally dedicated to this country. our american muslims as a group, less committed to the constitution than say, christians or jews? >> first, the statement was -- would i be comfortable with the muslim in my administration. no that i wouldn't appoint one. that's the exact transcript. and i would not be comfortable because you have peaceful muslims and then you have militant muslims. those that are trying to kill us. and so when i said i wouldn't be comfortable, i was thinking about the ones that are trying to kill us. >> now, i just want to go out on a limb here. i'm in favor of saying to people -- if you're not prepared to be loyal to the united states you will not in my administration, period. we did this in dea

he lost some people, didn't collapse. >> this thing is over for newt. i think newt is done.-driven person, doesn't need staff, a few staffers and then the purdue leaving and going to pawlenty, devastating for newt. i think he is done. >> home state, governor sonny purdue. >> first republican governor in that state since reconstruction, a terrible blow to newt. what i take away from this, newt is one of the smartest people in american politics, i don't agree with his ideas, okay, but's smart guy and i think the beginning of the end for him seemed to be when he took the position that the paul ryan budget, which essentially ends medicare, words of the "wall street journal," was not a good idea. when he criticized that plan to essentially end medicare it essentially ended his campaign. this is now the litmus test for the republican party. you have to be for essentially end heing medicare -- >> here is my two cents, he tried fix that he back aid way from it tried to fix the tiffany's credit account, whatever that was, but then he goes on vacation for two weeks on a mediterranean

and also newt gingrich has severe hurdles. john mccain had a strong base in new hampshire, he had a fire in his gut. gingrich's problem is his negatives are very high. in a cbs poll this week, his negatives are almost as high among republicans as sarah palin and he's undisciplined and has already had a fight with his own republican party. >> he's not the only person to make an unconventional campaign move this week. the presumed front-runner, mitt romney, announced that he was not going to participate in the iowa straw poll this august. >> that's exactly right, and for those who don't know, and haven't lived through the iowa straw poll as we have, for the republican party in iowa, this is like saying i'm not coming home for thanksgiving dinner to your own family. this is an affront to them because in iowa, no matter who you're for, you're for the caucus process and the greater glory of it and the straw poll is something everyone is supposed to compete in. romney has a balancing act in iowa. in the last campaign, he put a lot o

newt gingrich skewered it so i think that was a real talking point against newt within the republicanarty. but who does win. of the other candidates out there, who do you see as the leading candidate that has stature. >> you don't even have a leading candidate. all you have to do is talk to some of the statesmen and they're like i don't know, i don't see anybody i'm excited about. i think this opens up a door for some of the other candidates who have not gotten in. somebody like rick perry. two of these guys are former rick perry aides. this opens up the door for him to walk in and just proves more and more that this field has not had its star come in. >> rick perry, the governor of texas, who was touting his balanced budget only to say, whoops, we've got a $25 billion deficit on a budget only twice that size? >> i'm just saying that this is a chance for him to get into the race. again, newt is not out of it. >> he's going to reboot his cam sglan and rick perry who decimated the public education system in texas. i'm going on the record early on this is bachman. when i look at romney,

a lot is riding on the line tonight, kyra, for newt gingrich. we will all be looking to see how he performs. >> yes, we will. we'll have coverage all day long and then join us as the republican hopefuls face off in new hampshire, 8:00 pm only on cnn. >>> we're keeping our eye on syria, where video via cell phones continue to show us the violence. thousands of people continue to flee their homes. zain verjee now. what have you heard? >> the accounts are pretty chilling from them.

up first, the growing controversy swirling around newt gingrich. just one day after the stunning revelations that most of the senior staff and the potential viability of the candidate. gingrich now insists that he's in it for a long hall and explaining the campaign breakup this way. >> there's a fundamental strategic difference between the traditional community and the kind of campaign i want to run. now, we'll find out over the next engineer who is right. >> let's bring in gloria borger who has been working the story for us. what are these fundamental differences that newt gingrich is talking about? >> well, it's very clear, in trying to piece this together over the last couple of days, that this is a campaign staff that felt they had completely lost control of their candidate, that there was a candidate who had no discipline, who wouldn't adhere to the schedule they wanted. it was very difficult in terms of getting him to focus on a particular vision or a particular set of ideas. he wanted to get across to his voters. someone said to me that he j

newt and calista have a very healthy partnership. they make decisions together about their schedule as every other couple does. ultimately, this campaign will be about the challenges facing american and the solutions newt is putting forward. >> reporter: aides quit the campaign asking him to put off a luxury cruise to the greek islands but he refused. in iowa, a key state where it is all about aggressive retail politics, newt worked the crowds and was a great communicator meeting everyday folks. his former campaign adviser there resigned because he said he needed more of that from gingrich to move the political needle but it was challenging getting iowa on the schedule. there were also disagreements on newt gingrich's role, that he still liked playing the role of the strategist, the educator, the guy talking about the polling numbers. his former communications director said, no matter how good you are as a strategist, you can't be your own strategist when you are the candidate. wolf? >> lisa, thank you. >>> the gop presidential candi

but kiran, with newt campaign's right now, newt gingrich's campaign, in this implosion mode, it could give rise to another candidate by the name of rick per iry, the texas governor, somebody who said he's not interested in running. however he is now looking at the race and, in fact, two of newt gingrich's top aides who have left newt gingrich, are very close to rick perry. interesting to see if rick perry will decide to seek the republican nomination. >> stay tuned. a lot of changes going on. we have that debate monday night. thanks so much. as we said, seven gop candidates for president going head-to-head, monday, 8:00 eastern, live from new hampshire, only on cnn. >> you're going be there. >> that's right. i'm going to be there and we'll be talking about the field and whether the field will grow from here on out and how the candidates are going to differentiate their positions and what influence the tea party politics and cut the deficit politics will have all in all that. >>> new signs moammar gadhafi's days in power are numbered. senior nato officials hinting the end game in libya

is this curtains for newt gingrich, colby king? >> i don't know if it is curtains for him. he has a lot of explaining to do. he has got to respond to the charge that there was a difference in strategy and they think he does not have his heart in this thing. he does not want to talk about the kind of thing. he is going to go to los angeles and give a speech on the middle east, knocking obama. but he has got to deal with the question of whether his heart is in it, and what will his wife, play.ta, is going to >> charles, are we talking curtains? >> s, but he will still be on stage in front of the curtain. his campaign is over. his idea was to run the campaign out of the tv studio. he is a man of ideas and all he has to do is communicate through the new media in debates and television. he did not want to go out and shake hands. everybody on the staff knew that if you do at shake hands in iowa and new hampshire and elsewhere, you not going to win. >> evan thomas, running for president is a demanding, physically challenging. it means that a degree of being with people, answering

discipline was always the question about newt gingrich.e heard from a couple of sources, is are you going to listen to us or are mr. and mrs. gingrich going to run this campaign? because there was also a lot of tension with his wife about who's running the candidate's schedule. and so i think they tried this intervention and in the end he wanted to do it his way. >> and rich, you're a veteran of campaigns. it is not uncommon for the staff and the spouse to sometimes have communication issues, strategy differences, how are you putting my spouse and partner out there. but in this case is it more so? >> it appears to me -- and we've all known these folks for a long time. it appears to me that if we get -- when somebody comes out from under the -- you know, the cone of silence that we will find out. it wouldn't surprise me. what it came down to is either we, the professional staff who's got hundreds of years of campaign experience, are going to run this thing, or you and calista are going to run it, which way is it going to be, and i think obv

newt gingrich is hitting back saying, lay off my wife. gingrich 2012 is not about the man who would be president but about the would-be first couple. by his side is calista beginning rish, featured prominently on his campaign website. she is his third wife, married 11 years. he is 22 years her season. they began dating while he was still the married speaker of the house and she worked for the house agriculture committee. he may be playing up his family man role but calista gingrich has become something of a political liability according to officials close to the gingrich camp. first, it was his credit line of

same thing for newt gingrich.n say newt gingrich has the most to prove in this debate. most of his top aides, his staff, advisers left the campaign yesterday. also this is the first time we've seen michele bachmann, first time for her in a republican debate. she is not a candidate yet. but she's leading very much toward that. she'll have a big announcement to make. pretty big tip. >> we're always waiting for things to pop in these debates. especially in the beginning stages. what do we expect? what do we need to stand out this group that we've seen? >> that's a great question, some candidates do need to stand out. take former senator rick santorum of pennsylvania. he's a social conservative and beloved by many people, but not well known nationally. this kind of debate, this kind of arena, a nationally televised debate will give him a chance to stand out. herman cain is a businessman, former ceo of godfather's pizza. beloved by many tea party activists but not well known by many activists. this will give him a chan

calista gingrich, wife of newt gingrich.ng a lot more about calista gingrich. >> before we get to that, newt gingrich's campaign got off to a rocky start losing a dozen key members of his team. one of the issues is his wife, calista. aides say she limits the amount of time she has for campaigning. he said lay off my wife. gingrich 2012 is not about the man who would be president, but by head side is calista gingrich featured on his campaign website. this is his third wife, married 11 years. he began dating while he was still the married speaker of the house and she worked for the house agricultural committee. he may be now playing up his family man role but calista has become something of a politicalliability according to officials close to the gingrich camp. first it was his credit line of up to $500,000 at the upscale tiffany's jewelry store. gingrich was put on defense. >> do you feel like -- >> i feel you are far more fascinated with that than most americans. normal americans actually ask about jobs. they ask about energ

a setback for republican presidential candidate newt gingerich as several of his top aides quit. >>> staying put, embattled congressman anthony weiner refuses to resign. >>> and birds of prey. residents of a los angeles neighborhood come under attack in a scene reminiscent of a hitchcock film. captions paid for by nbc-universal television hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with the bumpy road to 2012. gop presidential hopeful newt gingerich says he is still in the race for the white house, despite yesterday's unprecedented mass exodus of several key members of his campaign staff. brian moore joins us from washington with more on that as well as the latest details on the road to 2012. good morning. >> good morning. newt gingerich's campaign manager and several other top aides have jumped the bandwagon gingerich says he's very much still in the campaign. that is the eve of a big debate that will be attended by non other by mitt romney. that's a clear sign that he wants to side step the social

newt had a different path. when that happens they have to leave. his national chair has moved over to tim pawlenty's camp. they could join texas governor, rick perry who is reportedly considering a run for the white house. despite the major blow, the former house speaker is pushing forward giving a speech in california sunday night. on his facebook page he wrote -- i'm committed to running a substantive solutions-oriented campaign i set out to run earlier this spring. the gop frontrunner, mitt romney, is breaking with campaign trail tradition. on thursday he announced he would not be participating in any of the so-called "straw polls." the popularity contests are considered key in early voting states. the former massachusetts governor spent more than a million dollars to win the gop straw poll in iowa four years ago. in a statement, his campaign manager says this time we'll focus our energy and resources on winning primaries and caucuses. his advisers pledged a more disciplined campaign. >> the obama economy is not doing well. >> focused on winning

artists are besides tools i'm a ward and it goes to newt gingrich so the g.o.p. presidential candidate who has a very long good chance of winning the nomination is still making an ass out of himself on the campaign trail newt was asked about new york lawmakers voting friday night to give gay couples in marriage equality and new set of the u.s. is quote drifting towards a terrible model by not limiting marriage to members of the opposite sex such words of wisdom from the man is a marriage of three times and he went on to say i believe that marriage is between a man and a. woman i think that's what marriage ought to be and i would like to find ways to defend that view as legitimately and as effectively as possible that new believes that marriage is between one man and one woman now let's her new he believes marriage is between one man and one woman followed by a different woman and then a third woman and casey believing under a rock newt's tied the knot three times so gingrich is first marriage was to jackie batley back in one thousand nine hundred eighty two she w

the investigation they did into why newt gingrich's staff decided to bail out on . one exam. to have her hair. back. ok i don't know what's worse is it worse that they actually use an investigative team to look into why new kitchen staff left and this is the best reasoning that they can come up with is that calista needed to get her hair done or the fact that they're actually blaming it on the fact that calista needed to get her hair done and not the new king maybe is somebody that you know can't control his own marriage they can't control his own team and just isn't cut out to be the president. you know i don't blame the investigative team for looking into it because newt gingrich has done some shady things in the past for instance he has a nonprofit organization and he used funds specifically two hundred twenty thousand dollars for that nonprofit and then he put it into a for profit company that he runs so i don't i don't mind the investigative team looking into it and i question whether or not calista gingrich is the real reason why the staffers resigned but let's let's gi

house speaker newt gingrich deciding that he does want to become president.ifficult, cnn has learned as other news agencies are reporting his campaign manager rob johnson has resigned in addition to that, several other senior staff members have left the gingrich campaign. this comes at a critical time next week on monday night cnn is holding the first real republican presidential debate where all of the candidates will be on stage. newt gingrich, however, doesn't appear to have his senior staff in place heading into monday night. of course we'll be following this to figure out what will be newt gingrich's next steps. as you said, he's come under criticism, he came off the campaign trail two weeks, back in new hampshire yesterday for an appearance-however, he is down today. following the story in washington. >> mark preston, let us know in you learn anything else about newt gingrich and his staff. >>> we ask you'd if you knew how much the u.s. debt ceiling was first set in 1917. you thought about it, you mulled this over. answer? number two, answer, $11. 5 bil

newt's campaign nightmare be a dream come true for rick perry. we'll ask our sunday panel who in the gop is up, down or in or out. all right now on fox news sunday. >> chris: hello again from fox news in washington. we start today with light news. first photos released of congresswoman gabreille giffords since she was shot in the head in the january rampage in tucson. aids say she is making a good recovery and has difficulty streaming together words. and the latest on new york congressman anthony weiner who announced he's seeking professional treatment to deal with practice of sending on line sexual image to women. weiner said he will have a leave of absence. but top democrats including nancy pelosi called on him to resign. but first. newt's campaign in disarray there is a opening for tim pawlenty to open up. we continue our one on one interviews with tim pawlenty. let's get going. you unvealed a bold economic plan and let's run through your major proposals. massive tax cuts take the top corporate rate from 35 percent down to 15 and individual ta

>>> newt's reboot. >>>nernewp newt gingrinewtd for the white house, as the republican field prepares fforp for tonightfor tonigt fforp for tonightfor toni . >>> market jitters, the dow opep opens this morniopens, followir followingp ffo. is thpis this just a marken or something worse? >>> and mav-nificent. the dallas mavericks rise to the top of the nba. >> the dallas mavericks are nba champions, the first title in franchise history. captioning funded by cbs >> good morning, everyone. appreciate you joining us. i'm terrell brown in for betty nguyen. we begin with politics this morning. it's the first major debate between republican white house hopefuls. the seven candidates will share the stage in new hampshire, this includes newt gingrich, he relaunched his campaign with a speech last tonight. joel brown is in washington with more. joel morning. >> terrell good morning to you. with the nation's sour economic mood, tonight's debate will hinge largely on how well each of these candidates can pin the blam

you know i don't blame the investigative team for looking into it because newt gingrich has done some shady things in the past for instance he has a nonprofit organization and he used funds specifically two hundred twenty thousand dollars for that nonprofit and then he put it into a for profit company that he runs so i don't i don't mind the investigative team looking into it and i question whether or not calista gingrich is the real reason why the staffers resigned but let's let's give them a little credibility let's say you know for the sake of this conversation that that's what the investigative team really found ok calista gingrich is very very difficult to work with you know she's the one who dictates the schedule she's the one who says that she does a lot of flights in the morning because she needs time to do her hair all right let's believe that for the sake of the conversation if that is the case and i do question it newt gingrich is the person who's campaigning to be president ok so he's the one who needs to figure out what the balance is ok i understand he would want to keep

roger ailes has taken off the air people -- rick santorum, newt gingrich -- make a decision. if you are a candidate, you are not a commentator. >> we let donald trump play us for weeks, and now she's playing us. >> at the convention in camp the next year, we are not going to remember today, we're not going to remember rolling thunder. we are going to have a serious candidate, is serious election. it is likely to be either ramadi or pawlenty -- romney or pawlenty. >> what tim pawlenty is doing right now is a retailing, meeting people -- that is the connection point he has to make and what he has to build from. >> that is how scott brown did it in massachusetts. let's mention other names -- one of them, rudy giuliani, coming back. how did that florida strategy worked for him last time? >> that was the worst campaign -- this the only man in the last 16 presidential elections to that in all polls one year before the -- who led in all the polls one year before the nomination and did not get the nomination. republicans a lot of runners. rudy giuliani is squandered that. he showed h

errol louis, thanks very much and should point out that newt gingrich is relaunching his campaign at an event tonight. let's hope tomorrow night. newt gingrich is going to relaunch, and he'll be speaking tonight, and we'll bring it here to you on cnn. up next, the first pictures of congresswoman gabrielle giffords since she was shot in january. plus, return at your own risk, what thousands of residents in arizona are now being told. ♪ we are the phantom hawks and we follow don lemon on cnn on twitter ♪ >> you better. of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of new cell sites... for greater access to all the things you want, whenever you want them. it's the at&t network... and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. there's another way to minimize litter box odor: purina tidy cats. tidy cats premium line of litters now works harder to help neutralize odors in multiple-cat homes. and our im

this with newt gingrich is the same. he had a two week sail around the mediterranean to come up with what to say. he's always been a bad manager. i would frankly be interested in the congresswoman, she was there with him awhile. >> yeah. >> to what people perceive of gingrich's weakness, lack of discipline. people who quit as you well know, were not just paid political consultants, these are people in newt world, for them to walk away is a big deal. >> we had dial testing groups, independent voters watching the debate. i don't like to make too much of this, they track audience sentiment, what gets them excited and turns them off. i want to play a snip et that herman cane said, watch the dial group. >> i do not believe in sharia law in american courts. i believe in american laws in american courts, period. >>. [ applause ] >> there have been instances in new jersey, there was an instance in oklahoma where muslims did try to influence court decisions with sharia law. i was simply saying very emphatically american laws in a

on a day that one headline writer called apocalypse newt. 16 members of gingrich's campaign staff quit in one day. we're not talking about interns here, his campaign manager quit. his press secretary quit. his top strategist in the key battlefield states of new hampshire and south carolina quit, as well as staffers in iowa. 16 people in all. basically his staff. they said they could not convince him to run a focused campaign. operations have been hamstrung mainly beginning rich himself. there was confusion when his campaign was announced and the trouble began when he on "meet the press" attacked paul ryan's plan to turn medicare into a voucher program. >> i don't think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left wing social engineering. i don't think imposing radical change from the left or the right is a good way for a free society to operate. i think we need a national conversation to get to more choices for seniors. i think that is too big a jump. >> he later denied that he was talking about congressman ryan, hen though

>> because newt gingrich certainly is a very smart man, he is a great politician. too smart and he might have been too good of a politician that he wasn't willing to listen to people around him. he surrounded himself with very smart staffers. in in order to run a successful campaign, don, a ceo has to look at his lieutenants and take their advice. >> maybe a bit arrogant too as well. >> i'm sure some of those departing staffers would say that. >> was it the thing with tiffanys and all of that or was it really that they felt i don't know slighted in the sense that he wasn't paying attention to him because they wanted him to stay, get on the phone, start raising money, start making calls. he says i'm going on a vacation. then he said his wife had too much influence over him and his campaign. first of all, for them to be successful he had to be successful. and they thought that he needed to take their advice. in some ways i think they're correct. but there was a bunch of things. there was the credit line at tiffanys. but really the straw that broke the camel's back wa

>> it's going to be awfully hard to recover for newt gingrich. there have been other campaigns in the past, who lost key staff members and went on to be successful. newt gingrich lost a whole bus load of staffers. that's a big blow. the message was that newt gingrich is not committed to the campaign. when campaigns need money and they call people and say please donate. you can't convince somebody to donate when they don't think the candidate has it in him. >> sarah palin, i wonder, did she score a few points with voters by not fighting to keep the e-mails private. >> they turned out to be great news for sarah palin. 24,000 of them and she can claim that on the one hand, the media is obsessed with her trying to find the smallest fault in her past, but then she can say she was given a thorough teeth cleaning by the media, and there were no bomb shells. >> mitchell: as always, thanks a shot in the head by a gunman. intense understand prompted the release. >> raging wildfires in arizona, officials say 6% of the fire has been contained, up from yester

. >> when it comes to economic policy -- >> newt gingrich -- hold on.ewt gingrich three weeks ago. >> i'm running for president, as this country needs very dramatic change. program of very dramatic change. >> question, this week newt got his drama but not what he had in mind. what happened? >> well, unfortunately, there was no more inevitable headline in the 2012 primaries than gingrich campaign implodes. though we are surprised how quickly we got that headline. there was a dispute over strategy, basically would newt run a serious campaign or not? and when you go to the greek isles on a vacation with your wife, after the story breaks about the tiffany expense account, you're not running a serious campaign. so at the serious political professional got out of there. >> it's -- aspirational campaign. gradly could have resolve the accounts of tiffany's and go on to the greek isles. he wanted to run a campaign where he shows up and does social media and has a lot of hired guns, professionals working for him. he want to run a real campaign some if they expose

for newt gingrich. whether he's going to be a factor in the campaign and whether he's going to win. i think it is very, very hard for him right now. it's going to be a very long back to winning the nomination. but newt gingrich is somebody who has never really relied much on staff. he's relied on newt gingrich. he's relied on ideas and he's always tried to force a debate about the world view that we're going to have in politics and policy. so i think that -- i wouldn't count him out. i think there's going to be a chance where he can get his campaign back on track to the point where he will be a factor in the race but in order to win that nomination, he's going to have to have infrastructure and money. and it seems like he's out of both. >> he can't do it alone. though when you look at this, he does like to force debate. do you think this is more of a vanity campaign? >> if you look back at what happened to newt gingrich's campaign, it all started to fall apart him when he said that paul ryan's budget, t

newt gingri newt gingrich whose stunning campaign implosion threw his entire candidacy into question. ron paul, making his third presidentialed by. minnesota congressman michelle bachmann makes her debut tonight. she has yet to formally announce but all signs are pointing to a presidential run. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum among the least known of the seven. he's popular among social conservatives, opposing abortion and same-sex marriage. and herman cain is beginning to gain some traction. guys, thanks very much. i want you to listen to what tim pawlenty, the former minnesota governor said about mitt romney yesterday on tv. listen to this. >> you don't have to take my word for it. president obama said he drafted his obamacare after romney care. so now we have obamneycare. what i don't understand is they both continue to defend it. >> it wasn't exactly a slam, but for tim pawlenty, it was a biting comment. >> yeah. i think it was a slam. 59 mitt romney. it's clear that pawlenty has made a decision he's going to take on romney and try to make this a two-man race. i'm not so

newt gingrich loses most of his top-tier staffers in just one day. new details this morning about why they walked out. >>> out of control. arizona's wildfire forcing new evacuations. and it's spreading into neighboring states. >>> and the million-dollar maltese who inherited a fortune from his owner, leona helmsley, has died. so, where is the money now? >>> good morning. even after more than a dozen of his top aides jumped ship, newt gingrich is vowing to continue his presidential campaign. >> in a posting on facebook, gingrich says, the campaign begins anew sunday in los angeles. but political insiders say it's difficult to see how that will happen. here's karen travers. >> reporter: less than a month after launching his presidential campaign, newt gingrich went on vacation. the week-long, luxury cruise to the greek islands stunned his staff and may have been the final straw. his entire senior staff resigned, including the campaign manager, senior advisers in key, early voting states. and his devoted spokesman of a dozen years, rick tyler, who told

newt-- newt took a different approach.t refused to accept what every other presidential candidate knows, and that is in order to be nominated in a contested year, you have to win, ideally, both iowa and new hampshire, but at least one of the two. the voters of iowa and new hampshire, call them what they are-- i happen to have great respect for them-- but they want to see candidates. they want to take the measure of candidates personally. they want to-- a sense of their personality, to hear their answers, to hear their questions answered, to be asked for their vote. and newt gingrich treated this like he was promoting a book or on a movie tour. he was going to do talk shows. he would come in and do talk shows and maybe do an op-ed page piece. and david's absolutely right. i mean, he just had no idea what a campaign-- he couldn't run a two-car funeral. >> brown: do you think he's still a viable candidate, if he ever was? >> he is dead man walking right now. >> brown: dead man walking. >> right. he will be at the debate on mo

the former speaker of the house, newt gingrich of georgia.mann. and the former senator from pennsylvania, rick san to her yum. say hello to the seven candidates here tonight. >> there's the formal introduction. the crowd is excited obviously. momentarily this debate will formally begin. the photo opes and the photographers are there taking pictures. all seven of these candidates. as we watch this, gloria and david is still here as well. i think the initial round, the first few questions will set the stage, gloria, for what could happen over the course of two hours. >> i have to guess that the first few questions are going to be about the economy and how these republicans are going to say they would manage the economy better than barack obama. and as david was saying earlier, we don't have a lot of detail on the plans, and the plans we do have some detail on don't seem to add up. >> the democrats are saying they put out a long memo and i spoke to robert gibbs the former white house press secretary who was here a while ago. he's in new hampshir

start with newt gingrich most recent book. >> we are excited to be having your next book with newt gingrich have found several books with him they are all big best sellers and of course, he is a leading figure in the conservative market place on the republicans stage and has driven the discussion of important topics that are going to be coming up in the election cycle. this book is actually a little different because previously his books were policy heavy talking about solutions are problems that we face. what he does with this book called a nation like no other is a more historical viewpoint that he is poised to do as a historian and talking about what makes this country exceptional and great and how are we in danger of losing that? one thing he said to me across the country when you ask americans do believe that american exceptional is an? they say guess but if you follow what what does that mean? most of us do not know or cannot answer it. that is so liberal began and gives the elite to denigrate it to say american exceptional wasn't, it is bragging about how wonderful we are and newt gi

all eyes i would imagine going to be on newt gingrich.r resigning last week on thursday. >> so, look. there's going seven candidates on stage. we'll all be looking to see what happens to newt gingrich. will he show us he can regroup and continue moving forward. he's put out statements and talked about how his campaign will move forward every though he lost every one of his senior staffers. newt gingrich said he's going to move on. >> does rick perry benefit the most? >> anybody who is in the race or not in the race he can fwef most. two of newt gingrich's top staffers are very close to rick perry. expect these staff towers move over and run his campaign. >> who is going to be here. what do they have to prove? what do they have to do on monday night to get people to take them seriously and to become, everybody wants to be the front-runner. >> everybody wants to be the front-runner. her man kane, michelle bachmann, rick santorum. this is their opportunity to introduce themselves. ron paul has to show he's ron paul. continue talking about th

but one candidate who has made news early and often is former speaker of the house newt gingrich. tonight, brian ross with a stunning investigation on how running for president could benefit gingrich, whether he wins or not. brian? >> reporter: cynthia, we assume that people running for president are doing it to actually win the job. but this year, in a number of cases, being considered a possible presidential candidate seems to be little more than a savvy marketing ploy, a proven method for a big payday. and that is now the question facing many candidates, including newt gingrich, whose entire top staff resigned last thursday, convinced he was not serious about running. ♪ >> reporter: in presidential politics, winning is no longer everything. >> there's a heck of a business out there for expoliticians that have run. >> reporter: like sarah palin, who has turned her political celebrity into a multimillion dollar business. with a reality tv show, as well as books and paid speeches. a lot to give up. >> well, i think palin's faced a real choice, because she's got a very lucrative ca

newt gingrich.w, took a pretty big hit this week with the resignations of a number of his top staffers including his campaign manager. cnn deputy political director paul steinhauser is live in new hampshire, site of the debate. paul, good morning to you. everybody else might be putting this pressure on newt gingrich and saying he has to do well on monday night, but is he putting that same kind of pressure on himself? >> reporter: i'm sure quietly to himself he is. newt gingrich has been kind of defiant since most of his top staffers, advisers quit on thursday. he says he will endure on. he says he'll be at a speech tomorrow flight in los angeles and yeah, he says he'll be right here monday night for our debate, but t.j., a lot of questions for newt gingrich now. without a staff it's hard to campaign, let's be honest and a lot of his staff left, also raising money, not that easy to do. some of the staffers felt he wasn't committed enough to raise money and campaign. gingrich says he is very committed