i don't think it works with a guy like romney. >> joe klein and robert draper, thank you both for joiningonight. >> my pleasure. >>> drew kline and editor of "the new hampshire union leader" was in the room today when herman cain met with the newspaper for an hour to discuss his 13-year relationship with ginger white. drew kline joins me next to tell us what herman cain had to say today. >>> and later, my exclusive interview with ginger white. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of a pain free holiday. ♪ this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. but proven technologies allow natural gas producers to supply affordable, cleaner energy, while protecting our environment. across america, these technologies protect air - by monitoring air quality and reducing emissions... ...protect water - through conservation and self-contained recycling systems... ... and protect land - by reducing our footprint and respecting wildlife. america's natural gas... domestic, abundant, clean energy to power our lives... that's smarter power today. >>> coming up, the edito

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. >> robert draper his article sunday is entitled building a better knit romney. romney and i don't know if you heard the laugh because i heard you say to lawrence last night that you hadn't gotten an interview. >> no, i've interviewed him in the past, but it's his prerogative to talk to -- or pot talk to whomever he wishes, but it's kind of curious because romney is not like a rick perry or herman cain. he's well versed on all sorts of issues. and so it's not as if he's going to commit a bunch of unforced errors by talking. and the additional thing is that there's sort of will ceiling of popularity that has loomed over him. he conditions sean't seem to cr. and you'd think that they would recognize their work is cut out for them to sort of put him out there and see a more animated version of him. >> even in a fairly friendly setting, a good strong interview on fox, but this was the romney response. >> climate change, abortion, immigration, gay rights. how can voters trust what they hear from you today is what you will believe if you win the white house? >> your li

doing interviews, not doing interview with joe kline in time magazine for the cover story or with robert draper the "new york times" magazine and that he is now letting newt gingrich take the stage? >> well, the romney campaign has been building an organization and a campaign aimed at defeating president obama next year. and i don't think they're going to get dissuaded from that task because we have yet another candidate that's risen in the polls against him. i'm not taking anything away from newt gingrich's rise in the polls. it appears to be very real. but it's preceded by a prize by michele bachmann last july and august, by rick perry in september and by herman cain in october and november. and i would assume that this is necessarily different than that. although you obviously have to pay attention to it. but the main objective has to be who's building an organization and a structure that can contest president obama effectively a year from now. and romney is not going to get dissuaded from that task. >> does gingrich's new strength in south carolina, though, give you some caution that he eve

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and it's a new york times magazine story by robert draper coming up which talks about these elusive quality, where they are packaging him as the corporate steady as you go guy in a campaign year where people want passion and they want somebody that can be rough against him. >> the last two standing on that stage, meaning romney and gingrich, is there a possibility that jon huntsman could catch the wave? >> i think it's going to be very difficult. i think that the combination of factors here, who can go after obama most strongly, who can really take that criticism to him, and how does romney make the case for ee electric ta built and still tap into that passion. it's underscored by the fact that you're seeing so many candidates up and then down and it's gingrich riding the rocket. gingrich is riding the rocket in a couple of ways. he can take off with popularity if cain stumbles but come back down because he's newt gingrich because he can be so undisciplined because he can take that fight to obama and that's what voters want to see right now. >> andrea, we're going to talk later in the progr

why mitt romney is not falling down, a piece by robert draper. inside you will see a shot of here at the peterboro townhouse in new hampshire last month. a little bit of the text they right his campaign is decided upon a rather novel approach to winning the presidency. it has taken a smart and highly qualified but largely colorless candidate and made him o one-dimensional. all businessman. the most boring super hero. in the recent past they have struggled to clear the regular guy. dukakis couldn't emote even asked what he would do if his wife were rape and murdered. george bush was befuddled by a grocery store scanner. they go on to talk more about the romney campaign and it is in "new york times" magazine today. the world's most boring super hero is one cut line. salisbury, north carolina, max, republican, organic. caller: i would like to comment on cain resigning. i was very impressed with the guy and looked at his leadership as a businessman. he screwed up, there is no question about that. and i'm sorry for him and his family. but let me say o

they turned down an interview with robert draper of the "new york times" magazine who was doing a cover need to. but then you see the interview with fox and we see there something that we reported in our ebook that people who work with mitt romney in 2008 said he's easily rattled that as my mother says, he can get hot under the collar. you can rattle him. >> you know, which, of course, doesn't happen to me or anybody around this table. you just wonder why -- >> i've never seen you lose it. >> here's the real problem. you talked -- and i know you talked to republicans out there all the time. i talk to the republicans and say why newt? you know, he's got all these flaws, politically, personally, why newt? and they all seem to say the same thing because i want to see him debate. -- barack obama. i think he can beat barack ob a obama, doesn't -- and mitt has done great in debates up until this point. but doesn't this underline the fact that what mike's saying that republicans are going, wait, do we really want to put a guy up against barack obama that can't even handle an interview with fox