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and that collapses his vote compared to four years ago is remarkable. >> tina brown? >> yeah, well, i think romney has been increasingly with the negative campaigning et cetera really begun to define himself as this 1% candidate. i think the comment about not caring about poor people, you know, the tax 14% thing. he's really being now carved out as that sort of rich guy candidate, which has not been helpful to him. and also shows the only reason to vote for romney is a sense he's supposedly competent financially executive. as soon as the conversation shifts to any other aspect of what people care about, he's nowhere. and, you know, in a campaign is a long time. you can't be just kind of one-topic candidate. i really think that, you know, there's too much that happens that comes out of the box. like this last week when all of a sudden the conversation wasn't so much the economy, it was actually the social concerns, which where romney has no -- >> and tina, let me ask you this question. could you imagine a margaret thatcher being lobbed an hhs softball, or being lobbed

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jeffrey sacks and tina brown.ebate before tuesday's primaries in michigan and arizona. it has been nearly a month since the candidates last shared a stage. an nbc news marist poll out this morning shows mitt romney and rick santorum in a statistical tie among michigan voters. ron paul and newt gingrich trail the top two contenders over 20%. so far, romney's efforts to play up his michigan roots aren't registering with voters. 88% say the candidate's ties to the state doesn't affect their vote. just 10% say it makes them more likely to support his candidacy. in arizona, mitt romney leads with a double-digit lead, leads santorum by 16 points but the cnn/"time" opinion research poll shows a closer race in arizona. romney and santorum are within the margin of error separated by just four points. been following the race since you have been off? >> yeah the races are close. i have been following more closely though what the republican front runners have been saying. maybe i have about out of the game too long. no i thin

hill on this very subject matter, but for the fact that the mainstream media in 60 minutes and tina brown newsweek worked with an avowed conservative in peter schweitzer who tried to approach this from a bipartisan level. and so all the new media often act as an insurgency and act as the stick part of the, you know, carrots and sticks back-and-forth. there is a carrots part of this. the media has done a pretty good job up to this point, but when you were using the analogy of the major league baseball team and a reporter telling the truth about what's going on, it is happening to you right now. i mean, you are a boy scout in of people's lives. everyone knows that peter schweitzer is a good guy. you have created a firestorm on the hill that has caused them to react. there are multiple pieces of legislation that are being pushed in emergency fashion. there are hearings that are going on right now, and there is one elephant in the room, and that is the fact that peter schweitzer has not been asked to testify. and the reason why is because you are the reporter who has named names and said the

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tmz is reporting brown hasn't been allowed to see his daughter, bobbi kris tina since she was hospitalized several family members told him to stay away from the funeral. >> fresh from her clean sweep at the grammys, adele hinted to vogue magazine she plans to take a five year break from her singing career to focus on her new relationship. can't she do both? >> finally, oprah winfrey has issued a rare apology after soliciting nielsene viewers in tweet to watch her show in the own network. the request ruffled feathers to reflect a biasing effect. >> she is taking advantage of the weapons she has. >> like you do with your tweets on the forecast. >> i'm working on it. >> #nationalforecast. i'm lynn berry, this is "first look" on msnbc. w "way too early" with willie geist starts now. >>> another week, another republican candidate pushing his way past mitt romney for the lead in the national polls. this time it's rick santorum. becomes a target for romney's million dollar attack machine in the next primary state of michigan. the question is, if santorum pulls off a win in romney's former home st