tim pawlenty is not that guy. the real attack dog, if you ask me, which you didn't, chris christy christy. >> there was oneself a politician said it was like being attacked by a dead sheep. i guess tim pawlenty got it pretty tough. is pretty obama smiling and laughing now? he must be. >> i can only imagine that he and the rest of his team are. they are continuing to treat mitt romney as the presumptive nominee. florida will make the big difference. remember four years ago john mccane's campaign was saved by florida. then, the far right reluctantly supported him for the nomination. now, we've seen this resur gent or insurgent tea party movement. it's possible newt gingrich will win florida. that will give him big momentum going into super tuesday and other races down the road. we'll see. >> our instant polling says you've been so great, we'll keep you for the next. stay where you are. >>> coming up, unemployment near 10%, a housing crisis in full bloom. why florida may be the real test of 2012. >> i have emotion an

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former minnesota governor tim pawlenty. hi, hi, gov. but who else? you, else, the correct answer is thaddeus mccover. a short-lived and little-noticed campaign for the republican nomination for president that ended around the same time that tim pawlenty's campaign did. interesting about thaddeus mccover and tim pawlenty, they were the first two candidates to drop out of the race. they both endorsed mitt romney when they dropped out with, but the next to candidates to get out of the race did not endorse, neither herman cain nor michele bachmann, neither of the next two candidates to get out of the race after thaddeus mccover and tim pawlenty made an endorsement of anyone, any other candidate when they quit. so today when jon huntsman quit, when jon huntsman advanced the inevitable and quit his campaign, it was ant foregone conclusion that he would make an endorsement. and given how jon huntsman campaigned for the presidency, there was really no reason to expect that his endorsement would be for mitt romney. >> you can't be a perfectly lubricated weath

you got to wonder, as you think about tim pawlenty looking at these results tonight, think about mike huckabee looking at these results tonight, maybe jeb bush, maybe mitch daniels, you got to wonder who is looking at this three-way tie tonight in iowa and thinking, oh, why didn't i stay with it? >> tough wonder what tim pawlenty is thinking you tonight. >> yes, you do. >> at the end of the day i think rick santorum proves this, this is an endurance contest, it is a long, lonely slog. i remember in 2007 in the summer after senator mccain's campaign collapsed, he was riding to new hampshire in the mild seat on a southwest flight, you know, carrying his bags alone through the airport it is one foot in front of the other and i think rick santorum to his credit, understood that and i think you have to endure, you have to hang on the i think mitt romney understands that and i think his campaign is scaled now for an endurance contest going forward and that will be a key test. >> rachel, i have never known a politician who believed that he or she could win the presidency who didn't run for i

. >>> today we have a response from tim pawlenty. >> when you are a junior person new in the door of any company, as it happen its ups and downs, of course you will wonder will i make it or be the one laid off. >> and how will that impact the battle for second place. has ron paul hit a ceiling and a revealing new book that exposes rifts between the first lady and the president's inner circle. good day. >>> in our daily fix today, the pro gingrich super pac winning our future has announced that it will spend $3.5 million attacking mitt romney. and put out this ad. chris, this is after we come from iowa, and newt gingrich has complained about the negative super pac attacks, the romney attacks against him. he is now doing the same thing. does he risk looking like a hypocrite? >> sure. but i think at this point he may not care. you know, andrea you and i talked about this, newt on a mission, that he mu fundamentally -- he feels that mitt's super pac ruined his chances and he does not care all that much and he is willing to do this. i would say though that the romney team, this is, maybe

katrina vanden heuvel joins me on that. 2% tim pawlenty told me he needs a little help get to sleep.e got a bedtime story for the former governor of minnesota, and now of course surrogate for mitt romney. that is coming up in psycho talk. >>> john sununu calls the analysis of mitt romney's tax plan a crock of crap. i'll talk to ezra klein later in the program about that find out if it is. share your thoughts on twitter #edshow. we're right back. ♪ get a free balcony upgrade when you book now. limited time offer. some restrictions apply. >>> back to the ed show, thanks for watching. mitt romney's opponents want to paint him as a massachusetts liberal. he has become as conservative and extremity as rich santorum or newt gingrich. he made his views clear last night during his victory speech in new hampshire. >> i will make the federal government simpler, smaller and smarter. i will cut cap and balance the federal budget. this president has enacted job-killing regulations, i'll eliminate that. he lost our triple a credit rating, i'll restore it. he passed obama-care, i'll repeal it. he a

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martha: ouch, ouch, ouch, governor tim pawlenty joins us from new hampshire.his own presidential campaign in august. it's great to have you with us this morning. >> good to be with you, martha. the video of that failed bungee jump kind of reminded me of my own presidential campaign. martha: i don't know, you know, a lot of folks think maybe you should have stayed in there. do you think you're going to go bungee jumping again any time soon in. >> we had a fair shot at it. i'm honored to be supporting mitt romney. he's the most capable and knowledgeable candidate in the field, and most reee hrebtable. most electable. i feel honored to be supporting him. martha: what did you think when newt said he was full of pie us baloney? >> speaker gingrich has spent most of his life in washington d.c. mitt romney has been in the private sector for most of his life and right now we need the private sector in the economy to grow. that's one of the differencence in the campaign, it's a fair contrast. for newt gingrich to say mitt romney wanted to spend his whole life in govern

jim acosta is there and he's watching tim pawlenty as he warms up the crowd.d slimmer. are you having a tough time hearing me? just give me a one-two on what we can expect from mitt romney as he -- i think he will take the stage soon. >> reporter: ashleigh, tim pawlenty is warming up the crowd right now. make no mistake, the romney campaign is reeling somewhat because of comments that romney has made over the last couple of days. i want to take you back to a comment that was made this morning. he was asked about the health care plan that requires people in that state to buy health insurance. mitt romney was trying to explain why he thinks that's a good system, so people have the ability to chose between the companies out there providing insurance and then he made a comment that a lot of people are ceasing on today. i want to play that for you and then talk about it on the other side. let's hear what he had to say. >> i want individuals to have insurance. that means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep you healthy. it also means if you don't lik

and coming up, romney supporter, former presidential candidate himself tim pawlenty is going to join me live as we continue from manchester and the results come in at 75% reporting there you have romney 38%, paul 23, jon huntsman, 17%. >> and we're live tonight in manchester, new hampshire. thanks for being with us, where the first in the nation's primary has been wrapped up and mitt romney has been declared the winner and during the victory speech he had a message for some of his g.o.p. fellow contenders. >> president obama wants to put free enterprise on trial and we've seen desperate republicans join forces with him. >> ooh! >> and this is such a mistake for our party and for our nation. the country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. we have to offer an alternative vision. i stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success. >> and joining me now with reaction is romney supporter and former minnesota governor and presidential candidate tim pawlenty, thank you f

in minutes we'll talk to a romney supporter and former governor tim pawlenty.road to the republican nomination. craig melvin is live in columbia. craig, what are you hearing this hour, what we keep hearing is a lowering of expectations for mitt romney. >> reporter: i want to talk -- i heard you talking about it, we have new information on turnout specifically in the upstate. upstate going to be very important for newt gingrich, counties like greenville and pickens and spartan berg, 40% of voters tend too come from upstate south carolina. right now we're hearing the words record turnout thrown around in pickens county and also heavier than expected. that's despite a lot of rain that we've seen, tornado watches in effect for several counties as well. but the upstate right now again, when you start looking at the number of voters who are turning out, that's going to be very good news for newt gingrich. speak gs of some of the expectations you were talking about, political pundits, pollsters, probably more of them per capita in south carolina than any other state i

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. >> reporter: romney's fighting back with help from chris christie and former rival tim pawlenty. but new hampshire's a tough crowd, and not everyone here is backing him. >> i will not vote for mitt romney. i think the fact he won't show his tax returns, he has something to hide. >> reporter: the next two debates are in south carolina. if, in fact, romney wins here and wins big, some campaigns are saying it could be hard to stop him there. lori. >>> it's hard to believe, it was just one year ago when congresswoman gabrielle giffords and 18 others were gunned down outside a grocery store in tucson, arizona. yesterday, congresswoman giffords and thousands of others gathered in tucson to mark the bitter anniversary. nbc's gina kim has the story. >> reporter: in one of her first public appearances in tucson since being shot, congresswoman gabrielle giffords joined hundreds of others at university of arizona. in a strong, passionate voice, led the crowd in the pledge of allegiance. >> and with leberty and justice for all. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: guided by her husband, astr

former minnesota republican governor tim pawlenty. once thought to be the best republican presidential nominee. pawlenty bowed out after the iowa straw poll bad numbers. >> best spin of the year, pat? >> newt gingrich. that 1.6 million was for my role as a historian giving strategic advice to freddie mac. >> quote, not intended to be a factual statement, which is what the spokesman for arizona senator jon kyl said after he declared on the floor that upwards of 90% of what planned parenthood does is abortions. the correct number is 3%. >> rich? >> best spin is president obama blaming republican policies for the weak economy after he got whatever he wanted for two years. >> yeah, and the other spin to follow on that was to blame the republicans for failing to arrive at a debt reduction agreement when in fact they had an agreement on thursday night and he walked away from it on friday morning. >> best spin of the year, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke. also bernanke's decision to hold press conferences. it worked. both the press and

remember when tim pawlenty was running for president last year? that was fun.owa can narrow the field on both sides. it can cause people to quit. this year, the candidates you could see as being least viable, if they don't do well in iowa, at least don't appear to be prepared to drop out as the result of a bad showing. newt gingrich, for example, says he knows he won't win in iowa but he definitely won't drop out no matter how he places. he's already announced his campaign plans for after he says he will loose se iowa. rick perry and michele bachmann announced post-iowa events will be. both signaling they won't drop out. maybe iowa won't exactly narrow down the field this time around. another thesis about what the iowa caucuses are good for on the republican side, and this is statistically sound. this was advanced by nate silver at "the new york times" this year. that is that iowa does not tell you who is going to be the nominee but tells you something about who's going to win the next contest in new hampshire. new hampshire can tell you something about who's g

tim pawlenty is at home right now going, what was i thinking. >> tim pawlenty definitely did it withb move. >> he didn't have any money. >> he didn't have any money, but look. it was ridiculous to drop out after the ames straw poll. it is not ridiculous -- >> how much of a blunder was it for newt gingrich not to respond to all of these attack ads. >> you can argue this one either way. by the traditional rules of politics, it was a huge mistake. when you're being hit, you hit back. you at least defend yourself. you at least defend yourself then you decide whether to hit back. however, newt gingrich is not your normal political candidate in the sense he's trying to recreate himself. republicans remember newt gingrich. the caustic, controversial sometimes nasty newt gingrich. four in ten americans view him negatively. in iowa, the state where he decided to stay positive, 40% of iowa republicans say they would never consider voting for newt gingrich. if he went slash and burn, he raises his own negatives. now he says he might do that after iowa. the question is, would he benefit from tha

look at tim pawlenty, he's probably wondering why he's gone at this point. knows where he would have been if he would have stayed in the race. >> he said he had no money left. mitt romney came out yesterday, you had a day of predictions and newt gingrich saying i'm not going to win and said he got yelled at by a precinct captain who said i'm working hard for you and a lot of people haven't made up their mind, as you just heard and there's governor mitt romney who is always tamping down expectations in iowa. didn't do much until the last 2 1/2 weeks. didn't buy many ads until the last two weeks and came out yesterday and said something he later would walk back to a degree. listen. >> we're gonna win this thing with all of our passion and strength and do everything we can to get this campaign on the right track to go across the nation. and to pick up other states and to get the ballots i need, the votes i need to become our nominee. that's what we're gonna get. >> so he didn't say that he's gonna win iowa. what he was talking about is he's gonna wind up with t

look at tim pawlenty, he's probably wondering why he's gone at this point. knows where he would have been if he would have stayed in the race. >> he said he had no money left. mitt romney came out yesterday, you had a day of predictions and newt gingrich saying i'm not going to win and said he got yelled at by a precinct captain who said i'm working hard for you and a lot of people haven't made up their mind, as you just heard and there's governor mitt romney who is always tamping down expectations in iowa. didn't do much until the last 2 1/2 weeks. didn't buy many ads until the last two weeks and came out yesterday and said something he later would walk back to a degree. listen. >> we're gonna win this thing with all of our passion and strength and do everything we can to get this campaign on the right track to go across the nation. and to pick up other states and to get the ballots i need, the votes i need to become our nominee. that's what we're gonna get. >> so he didn't say that he's gonna win iowa. what he was talking about is he's gonna wind up with t

one is easy, tim pawlenty, hi, gov. who else dropped out in august, after the iowa straw poll?ck with the hand up, yes you, congratulations the correct answer is thaddeus mccutter. short-lived, little noticed campaign for republican nomination for president that ended around the time tim pawlenty. they both endorsed mitt romney when they dropped out. the next two candidates to get out of the race didn't endorse, neither herman cain nor michele bachmann, neither of the next two to get out after that made an endorsement of any other candidate when they quit. and so when jon huntsman quit, advanced the inevitable, finally quit his campaign, it wasn't a foregone conclusion he would make an endorsement. given how he campaigned for the presidency, even if you expected him to make endorsement when he dropped out, there was no reason to expect his endorsement would be for mitt romney. >> you can't be a perfectly lubricated weather vane on important issues. romney has been missing in action in terms of showing any kind of leadership. >> governor romney enjoys firing people. >> if we are

reporter: romney's fighting back with help from new jersey governor chris christie and former rival tim pawlenty. new hampshire's a tough crowd and not everyone here is backing him. >> i will not vote for mitt romney. i think the fact that he won't show his tax returns, i think he has something to hide. >> reporter: now, the next two debates are in south carolina. if in fact romney wins here and he wins big, some campaigns are saying it could be hard to stop him there. lori? >> thanks, tracie. >>> it's hard to believe it was one year ago when congresswoman gabrielle giffords and 18 others were gunned down outside a grocery store in tucson, arizona. yesterday, congresswoman giffords and thousands of others gathered in tucson to mark the bitter anniversary. nbc's gina kim has the story. >> reporter: in one of her first public appearances in tucson since being shot, congresswoman gabrielle giffords joined hundreds of others at the university of arizona. in a strong passionate voice, led the crowd in the pledge of allegiance. >> one nation under god with liberty and just for all. >> reporter: guided