looking at this organizationally, in major events, whoever has the event as a license, corporate league, when they asked for a bid from a host city, they require the host city to take charge of eight cultural component, to create an arts festival. what i found odd in this the event sphere is that the america's cup of that authority has maintained for itself, and the right, seemingly, to organize the arts. he hadn't insisted that the city do it. while the city is the better organization to do it because they have the finger on the pulse of the city, that of the history, the city and county of sentences goal is in a better position to take charge of this. this puts the city in an uncomfortable position of asking for that power. taking it from the event authority to take charge of this and make a cultural festival happen here. so what i am asking, as i have worked with the nonprofit arts community, for the city to take a more -- a stronger stand that they insisted that a cultural festival occur and the organizing happens now. >> and the director of urban music presents. became and met with

question that anyone other than romney in this race has to answer is how do you compete organizationallywith mitt romney going beyond south carolina? no one has answered that question yet. and mitt romney is making sure people like you and i ask that question because it's the central question of the race at this point. >> can they live off the ground, can they live off debates? they've got our big debate in tampa january 23rd. newt gingrich does well in them. can't they argue that plus some superpac money can keep them going? >> they can keep going, andrea. it's an issue of what kind of campaign they can keep up. look, that worked for gingrich earlier this year. but votes are happening. we're in the finals here. you can't just keep living off the land. at some point you've got to the beat romney somewhere if you want to become relevant. >> the chris cillizza, thanks so much. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports" and wraps up our coverage of the campaign in new hampshire with great thanks to everyone here, the great nbc news team. tomorrow, "the washington post" eugen

this. but he's stronger organizationally. he's not more money.are way too thoughtful to give me just yes/no answers. thank you, john harwood, patricia murphy. >>> the jobs issue has dominated the talk in south carolina with good reason as vera gibbons will show us in just a minute. you're watching "weekends with alex witt." stay with us. what? pay you? hang on. kitchen counselor here. mom, i think what she means is "greasy dishes." cascade complete pacs fight tough greasy messes better than the other tablet. there's only one cascade. love it, or your money back. i had [ designer ]eling enough of just covering up my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. i decided enough is enough. ♪ [ spa lady ] i started enbrel. it's clinically proven to provide clearer skin. [ rv guy ] enbrel may not work for everyone -- and may not clear you completely, but for many, it gets skin clearer fast, within 2 months, and keeps it clearer up to 9 months. [ male announcer ] because enbrel suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability to fight infections. serio

three days later, it feels like it hasn't given santorum the bump organizationally and the momentum he needs here. are you concerned about this chuck. i think what you will see, this plays out through the process. let me say, i have not or our organization, c 3 organization have not endorsed a candidate. this weekend, when i was speaking, i was speaking for the group of evangelical social conservatives gathered in texas. they debated this process. in the end, they decided a super majority of those gathered decided to put their support behind rick santorum because he had a record of articulating the issues that were of concern to both social and economic conservatives and had a record of leading on those issues and felt the best reflected their views and values. as you pointed out, evangelical voters are a large portion of voters in south carolina. we'll see, come saturday, the overall effect. >> last night, rick perry, i talked about it earlier on the show, went specifically talking about rick santorum, making a case against him. he kept dropping the phrase, "good catholic" about rick santorum. not everybody read that as some

organizationally, to push back? we know what newt gingrich was not. >> no. rick santorum is not prepared for this. he doesn't have much of an organization. he's spent all his time going from town to town here in iowa. that's served him well in terms of the iowa caucuses. it's left him pretty bare when it comes to future contests. we do have a string of contests that come on pretty fast order. we have the new hampshire primary in a week and the south carolina primary and the florida primary at the end of the month. he'll have to pivot in a serious and fast way, raise money, spend it, get organized. that is a very tough... that is a very tough task for any candidate. >> ifill: how strong, sue, is ron paul's support? i was struck by the fact that he seems shocked that all these people keep showing up to see him. is it strong enough not only for him to come in second but also to do something with it after he leaves iowa? >> his problem is he has a ceiling. he's probably nudging up against it. and remember this is the kind of place where iowa where independents can participate. democrats can reregister

we continue to work internally and organizationally so that we can make better decisions to kill compounds earlier because the cost of failure in thist is really managing. can you make it 98 and 99? it is brilliant warned that if you're going to fill your info early before you spend a lot of money. those the kinds of things we're focused on internally to ensure that we improve our return on investment. >> one of the things that has soured some people is medical r&d. the fact that ten years ago we have this decoding of the human genome. so much excitement about that scientific discovery. ten years out nothing seems to have changed that much. what do you say to those people he tell you that? >> i said a couple of things. they have to be patient. you look back. the late 1970's, the predominant way to discover drugs was in vitro testing. soil aliments and plant extracts and you extract chemicals from them. then we learned how to synthesize molecule's. but this debt chains between in vitro and the chemistry approach was not overnight. took a while for people to take these approaches and figure how to apply them in the context of industri