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we have robert costa, the national review, along with newt gingrich supporters, and rick tyler.ith newt and mitt. he offered a cabinet offer. didn't offer to repay his debt. what came out of that meeting? >> i have no idea. i'm sure newt accepted the meeting, but i'm sure it was short. because mitt has nothing to offer newt. from vp, second, ambassadorship. mitt is not in the position to offer anything. >> don't you think it is not important what newt is doing, but what he want. mitt was probably smart to reach out to gingrich. >> sure. >> rm rm knee doesnromney doesn want that kind of chaos. i was with romney in georgetown on wednesday. he is not going negative on santorum and he want it play a role in this party. mitt romney is in the spot. >> newt is going to play a role in the party. that's the whole point. this is george w. baush's party. it is not newt gingrich's party. newt came out of nowhere. ne >> he doesn't want to be a spoiler, right, rick? >> newt doesn't want to be a bringer. wen't it bring the party back to the party that used to went on conservative principles. >

robert costa with the national review, a cnbc contributor. going to run it down. vening, robert. can you just ask you real quick, puerto rico, does romney win? >> i think romney wins there. most important factor, he has the support of the governor there, fortino, a popular republican and conservative. >> missouri, sunday, what happens in missouri? santorum's already won that primary. these are the caucuses, i guess. does romney win those, too? >> i think romney is pretty well organized. they still have a little more in their delegates selection. the real prize is illinois. i think missouri's going to be split. >> talk to me about illinois because some polls show romney with a double-digit lead. >> that's right. but look. santorum has closed very strongly in a lot of these polls. people didn't expect santorum to win in mississippi and alabama. the polls didn't have him winning down there in the deep south. but he closed strong. i still think romney's going to win in illinois. he has all the establishment republican support. a deep network. and he's outspent santorum

robert costa, national review, thank you very much.lks, rick santorum apparently blew a double digit leads in michigan. mitt romney snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. at this power polls suggest the same thing could be happening in ohio as mr. costa reported. now, santorum's lead evaporating. is ohio santorum's last stand? well, we're joined by former ohio romney backer turned santorum supporter, that being ohio state attorney general and former u.s. senator mike dewine. i'm employing to call you senator dewine, sir, because that's how i knew you in washington d.c. let me just get down to it. you switched from romney to santorum. it's almost like a stock market trader. you're buying when you should have been selling, and you are selling when you should have been buying because it looks like santorum is going to lose in ohio also. what are you thinking? why did you do this? >> he is not going to lose ohio. you're looking at 1,000 people behind me at this rally tonight for santorum. he had a huge crowd this morning in southern ohi

robert costa is with the national review. chris hays, the host of "up with chris hayes." let's start with the president. politico did report he had a hundred fundraisers so far. twice the number of george bush had at this point in the campaign what's changed the game? are republicans right that he's spending too much time raising money? >> everyone spends too much time raising money. the life of an american politician in the last 20 or 30 years, particularly in this era as the inequality has intensified, requires a tremendous, shocking amount of time raising money. it's even worse at the congressional level. local congressman walk over to the dccc and just sit there and work the phones and make phone calls. that's what they are doing with their time. everyone spends too much time raising money. the interesting thing to look at in terms of the president's perspective is they are seeing what is happening on the super pac era in terms of mitt romney. and they see themselves facing a tsunami of million-dollar donors. and they are worried about that. they want to raise a lot o

and robert costa, political report he for the national review and a contributor to our friends at cnbcant to stick with 2012. jonathan, we know that it seems the romney folks are trying to have a field day with santorum because they're hoping that pay no attention to what happened with the ballot box in louisiana saturday night. but do pay attention to what they're trying to create a hash tag. are they having any luck? >> well, thanks to rick santorum and his anger at our colleague and friend jeff, it might work. the romney campaign has been single-minded in its determination to win this nomination. they're not so much concerned about states. as much as they would love to win states. i'm sure they would have loved to have won louisiana. time and again we hear the romney campaign about, it is all about the delegates. anything they can do to knock rick santorum off his message. we're about his expletive and about not anything that rick santorum wants to do as the republican nominee. >> it's funny. you bring this up. you were with them early this morning. we had a report he roundtable a l

but first up, robert costa of the national review with all of the latest h. good evening, bob costa. >> look, mitt romney got the momentum out of michigan, but it's a more complicated story. he split the delegates. 30 delegates in michigan, santorum walks away with 15, romney walks away with 15. so romney got the momentum, he wrote his tax cut, his big speech on friday, into victory in michigan by a couple of points, but in super tuesday, santorum's not out of this hunt. >> what does romney have to do to stay on message? i agree with you that tax cuts and santorum's miserable performance on extreme culture war, i think the tax cuts did it. what does he got to do, bob costa? >> look at what he said last night in his victory speech. it was a speech that really focused on the economy, on electability, that's what he's going back to. he needs to go into ohio and he has an organizational advantage there, but he has to go back to the growth message. can he not only go into ohio but pivot, compete even down south, tennessee, oklahoma, and georgia, big supertuesday s

joining us now robert costa, the national review. he has a lot on super tuesday.i want to ask you one thing. what happens after tonight? what is the next big driving compelling event after tonight? >> first, we have to find out what happens in ohio. if santorum can pull off an upset in ohio, he is still in this race. if he does not, and exit polls seem like romney is going to -- he will have a perilous bout ahead. gingrich may have oxygen, but not much after winning georgia. >> what's next after the primary test after tonight? major test. >> you'll see kansas, alabama. they're going to be coming up soon. really the next test is only going to come in april when you start getting to maryland and pennsylvania, but the real test was tonight, and unless santorum can come up with something at the last minute, this was romney's night, and it looks like he is sewing up this nomination. >> bob costa, exit polling suggests that mr. romney was having trouble with the blue collar workers. i know that's been a matter of contention. santorum versus romney. you have been reporti

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let's bring in cnbc contributor robert costa, the national review. you have probably heard amman.been winning about half the delegates. i think that's fair. he needs to stay on track in order to get the nomination. is that your reading, robert? does that work? >> that's right, but this is about more than math, lear. it's about how well romney can do getting back momentum. remember, he lost in the deep south, lost alabama, mississippi. he wants to come back now. rust belt has been strong for santorum. a big win in i will wile help put romney on the fast track towards the nomination. it's about the message too. he has been focussing on the economy all week. i'm watching those suburbs around chicago to see if that economic message is really going to click. >> we heard he was focussing on gasoline prices more, tax cuts less. >> that's true. energy is important. romney's campaign adapts. they see the headlines. they see gingrich getting a little traction on energy. they want a piece of that pie. romney is trying to have a broader growth message. not just make it about tax reform, but a

. >> more with robert kagan an foreign policy and his latest, "the world america made" that's sunday night at 8:00 eastern. >>> survivors of the costa concordia ship wreck today testified that the crew on board told passengers to go back to their cabins more than an hour after the ship ran aground off the coast. the death toll from the accident now stands at 25. the house transportation subcommittee on maritime transportation held a hearing on cruise ship safety that also included witnesses from the coast guard and the cruise ship industry. >> i want to thank the witnesses for appearing today. and we want to note on behalf of the subcommittee that we understand very clearly that there's an ongoing investigation and as such, we understand that the witnesses today may not be able to answer all of the questions we have about what happened, and clearly due to the nature of investigation and legalities that are involved with this. we'll continue to monitor the investigation. and look forward to a full accounting of what happened when the investigation is complete and that information becomes available. in the interim we'll look for ways

robert handa checking in on some locals in the marina for a progress update. >>> this comes after the costarida sank in italy. bookings fell off so much it suffered a first quarter loss of $139 million. that's compared to a $152 million profit in the first quarter of last year. even so carnival says it does not plan to offer discounts to get customers to come back and those who are waiting for a cut rate prices will likely be disappointed. >>> space weather forecasters continue to keep an eye on a solar storm. the same area of the sun erupted again. no disruptions have been reported. a milder storm is expected in the early hours of early sunday. >>> this is one of those days that you have to go, is it still winter, really. it was just beautiful out there. what more can you say bill? >> it's still winter and you're right. that's how i felt today too. the trees are blooming, it really does feel like april or may as opposed to late winter where you would expect serious weather around here. flexion -- next week it's going to rain. next week is going to feel like winter. winds right now blowing

costa county court today. this happened outside of the richmond high school homecoming dance in october of 2009. >>james: army staff sergeant robertll will be charged with 17 counts of murder and six counts of assault and attempted murder for. a u.s. defense attorney says charges will be announced for the likely to face. he is accused of going on a shooting rampage in afghanistan killing 16 people. officials could not say why he is facing 17 murder charges when only 16 deaths were reported. he is being held at fort leavenworth, kansas. officials want a return to afghanistan to face trial there but the military says he will be tried in the u.s.. the incident further strains the already tense relationship between the two countries. s. >>justine: one of the country's largest mortgage lenders is testing a program that could keep families from becoming homeless. bank of america its mortgage to lease program will allow preselected customers facing foreclosure to stay inside their homes. customers can turn their deeds over to break of america, it will not own their home anymore but it will not owe any more money on their mortgage. bankam

costa county's first penalty case in more than five years. >>> in livermore an obese man is receiving an outpouring support after he posted a video on you tube. robert gibbs just turned 33 yearsology. he estimates he weighs as much as 700 pounds. tkpweub's video has generated 200,000 hits and he just posted it yesterday. he says he's been hospitalized and has tried all sorts of diets but he just can't lose any weight. it's kept him at home for four years and he has recently experienced problems. >> i haven't been able to get off my bed, and i just had a nephew born two weeks ago. and, i want to be able to live to see him grow up. >> reporter: gibbs says he made the video because he didn't know what else to do. he says several people have reached out including nationally syndicated television shows. you can find more of our interview with robert gibbs on ktvu.com. look for the video player. >>> how do you tell a little boy that his mom is not coming back home? >>> that's the painful question some north bay families are dealing with tonight. how one driver caused a triple fatality crash. >>> and he called a [ teen ] times are good, aren't they, kids?

costa county's first penalty case in more than five years. >>> in livermore an obese man is receiving an outpouring support after he posted a video on you tube. robertibbs just turned 33 yearsology. he estimates he weighs as much as 700 pounds. tkpweub's video has generated 200,000 hits and he just posted it yesterday. he says he's been hospitalized and has tried all sorts of diets but he just can't lose any weight. it's kept him at home for four years and he has recently experienced problems. >> i haven't been able to get off my bed, and i just had a nephew born two weeks ago. and, i want to be able to live to see him grow up. >> reporter: gibbs says he made the video because he didn't know what else to do. he says several people have reached out including nationally syndicated television shows. you can find more of our interview with robert gibbs on ktvu.com. look for the video player. >>> how do you tell a little boy that his mom is not coming back home? >>> that's the painful question some north bay families are dealing with tonight. how one driver caused a triple fatality crash. >>> and he called a college student a slut on his national radio s

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