before we get to that we want to begin with the republican primary race and the tale of one newton leroy gingrich, who just last month had read the electoral tea leaves and was ready to call the primary for one newton leroy gingrich. >> it's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high i'm going to be the nominee. >> jon: yeah. (laughter) >> jon: it's getting easier. (laughter) you have to think about the polls. they are unfortunately followed by the voting. the two don't really match up exactly. >> newt gingrich came in fourth in iowa. >> newt gingrich finished fourth last night in new hampshire. >> jon: say hello to the new president of fourthlandia, newt gingrich. listen, newton leroy gingrich isn't going let stion like nobody voting for him stop him from becoming the nominee. he's playing a long game. the next stop is south carolina, a state whose population is far more diverse than iowa and new hampshire. newt decided to make a bold play to expand his base. >> obama is the best food stamp president in american history. i would like to be the best paycheck p

like newton leroy gingrich. the republican establishment is flipping out over newt's recent surge. olitico reports today, panicked conservatives like ann coulter, tom delay, matt drudge and even bob dole are coming out to hammer gingrich before it's too late. they are ready to bring him down. and newt's getting mad. today he came out swinging ha harder at romney than ever before, preparing for tonight's showdown in the debate. >> we're not going to beat ra ba rack obama with some guy that has swiss bank accounts, cayman bank accounts and is himself a stockholder in fannie mae and freddie mac while he thinks the rest of us are too stupid to put the dots together and understand what this is all about. >> more bad news today for willard. with those swiss bank accounts. as we just heard, romney failed to report more than half dozen offshore holdings in his federal ethics filing. he also failed to disclose income from a multimillion-dollar swiss bank account. he is now revising those ethics forms but is yet another big flub and gingrich is ready to pounce. >> that's how much he thinks we

too bad newton leroy gingrich hasn't gotten the message. or should i say is ignoring the message. >> we will go all the way to the convention. i believe the republican party will not nominate a pro abortion, pro gun control, pro tax increase moderate from massachusetts. this is going to be a straight out contest for the next four or five months. >> four or five more months? wow! well, get ready, folks. looks like we're going to be seeing a lot more of this. >> i know the speaker is not real happy. speaker gingrich. he's not feeling very excited these days. i know. it's sad. >> he has a basic policy of carpet bombing his opponent. i give governor romney's campaign due respect for the sheer volume of negativity that they use. >> speaker gingrich said that threw him off. he can't debate before a quiet audience. then the next audience was really loud. he said that threw him off. >> governor romney is just plain not telling the truth. you cannot get to be president if you don't have the courage to tell the truth to the american people. >> yeah,

a big week for one newton leroy gingrich taking his victory to south carolina primary and brought that newt-mentum down to florida. >> right now there is no candidate in this state hotter than gingrich. >> oh my gosh. >> jon: i'm telling you man, i know that under so, here come the grahnie panties. now gingrich does have momentum but there are still concerns about voters that gingrich needs to address. >> you know, i was attacked the other night for being grandios. >> jon: can't a guy doodle his head on mt. rushmore without taking heat from the lamestream every one, actually newt say pretty shrewd politician. i'm sure will take steps to blunt that line of attack. >> i'm going give a set of goals and then i will make a set of observations about how to achieve those goals. by the end of my second term-- (laughter) >> jon: why, why limit yourself to two. but you know what, i'm sure it's more modest and humble than it sounds. probably going to say something about his second term, have some budgetary schridging, solid, achievable conservative aspiration. >> by the end of my second term-- we

newton leroy gingrich, who promised to run a positive campaign is now doing the political charles bronsonr mitt romney. >> it becomes more and more obvious that people go to anybody but romney. the fact is 3 out of 4 republicans rejected him. governor romney is a moderate massachusetts republicans to the left of the vast majority of republicans, but the fact is that governor romney in the end has a very limited appeal in a conservative party. >> this morning new hampshire voter woke up to this newt newspaper ad, that says romney is a timid moderate. newt is not the only one attacking willard today. the campaign of rick santorum, who finished just eight votes behind romney in iowa sent an e-mail out calling romney a bland, boring career politician who will lose to barack obama. jon huntsman is betting his campaign on newspaper newspaper. today he came out swinging after willard got endorsed by john mccain. this is what he said. >> i love john mccain. another dole, another mccain, another establishment endorsement. martha, nobody cares. it will mean zero in terms of any poll improvement for

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newton leroy gingrich, republican presidential candidate has one major source of funding, las vegas casinoho pumped the billionaire's equivalent of pocket change, $10 million so far into a pro-newt gingrich super pac. precitizens united, impossible. now anything goes. the only reason newt gingrich is a choice for president in america now is because one guy, one billionaire wants him to be. this is our world now. this is the best new thing in the world part of it. now the billionaire bringing us the continued candidacy of newt gingrich is also getting something else from this year's presidential politics. he gets his own private presidential caucus. he lives in nevada. nevada is like iowa with caucuses instead of primaries. they happen saturday, february 4th, day before the super bowl and they have to be done by 3:00 in the afternoon on saturday. of course saturday is also the sabbath in the jewish faith and for 7th day adventists. adelson is a strictly observant jew and they do not travel or conduct business between sunset on friday and sunset on saturday in order to honor the sabbath. thi

i believe that newt gingrich's real father was a liberal but educated black man because newt's real name is newton leroyson. that's what he was born. nobody on the planet names their children leroy except black people. [ laughter ] nobody on the planet names their sons hector, except hispanic people. if your name is hector, everybody knows somewhere down the line you hispanic, homey. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: that makes a lot of sense. [ applause ] and with the name newton, he might be part fig. [ laughter ] here in los angeles, our city council got together to pass an ordinance that requires adult film actors to wear condoms on-set and in the car on the way to the set. the ordinance passed 9-1. here's the guy that voted against it. his name is mitchell englander. i don't know why i thought it would be funny to show him. but -- [ laughter ] turns out it is. i love that this is what our city council is doing. meanwhile, i drive into a pothole the size of a mini cooper every day on my way into work. but they're going to -- how will they monitor this? will we have condom squads going around? we c

newton leroy mcphearson in 1943 in harrisburg, pennsylvania. >> when i was about 2. my mother divorced and remarried a couple years later. >> his stepfather adopted him and gave him a new last name. gingrichwith an encyclopedia which newt gingrich read every night. he developed interest in animals. while still in grade school lobbied his mayor to build a zoo. his adoptive father's army service brought the family to europe for several years. while there, gingrich visited a world war i battlefield he claims inspired him to become a politician to prevent future violence. his family moved to georgia where his high school class voted him most intellectual. along the way, he met his future wife. his geometry teacher jackie. they married and had two girls as gingrich attended college. he founded a young republics club at university before earning a ph.d. in history from tulane. gingrich then taught the subject at west georgia college. he ran two unsuccessful congressional campaigns in the 1970s. but he won on his third attempt. and became a u.s. representative in 1978. as he headed to washington, however, his family was falling apart. >> there was a part of me that was truly hollow. and it was a