>>> we've got nbc special correspondent , tom brokaw , here to share his perspective on the presidential race . he's also the author of a new book called "the time of our lives." tom, good morning to you.
>> good morning, ann.
>> could gingrich in portraying essentially romney as part of the 1%, create a backlash that could hurt the republican chances of getting in the white house ?
>> we've looked at his financials, he got $1.8 million from the federal housing agencies, ran up a $5 million in bills in tiffanys. i think he's going to have a hard time portraying himself as just a man of main street . now having said all of that, this has had a kind of two-tiered effect. first of all, it's prompted a lot of people to come to mitt romney 's defense. notably, jim demint , a senator from south carolina , widely perceived to be the most powerful republican in that state, has not endorsed, but he said in the last 24 hours , george romney is going to win this primary in south carolina . and he criticized both rick perry and newt gingrich for lashing out at what he said was the exercise of a free enterprise system . he defended mitt romney . so it's worked against them as well as for them. democrats are pretty happy. they think they're doing the work that governor perry and newt gingrich are doing the work of the democrats come the fall campaign.
>> gingrich got some push-back at an event recently where a voter asked him, maybe you should be criticizing romney on another tack, not this one. and while gingrich 's comments may have been misinterpreted about in terms of whether or not he thought that was a mistake, he did, his campaign did release this statement. saying we will continue to examine what decisions he, being romney , made at bain. why he made those decisions, what was motivating him to make those decisions and the american people can decide whether or not they want an investment banker in chief as their commander-in-chief. so how ugly could this get in south carolina ? it looks like gingrich is doubling down.
>> it's the republican party equivalent of a g-out. they're going hard after george romney .
>> mitt romney .
>> they're going hard after governor romney , in part because they see that he has got a big head of steam at this point. he's very likely going to be the candidate if it continues as well as it has in the opening two phases of this campaign. but it's, the real danger for the republicans is it will deeply divide the party at a time when they want it to be united. because most republicans, as we've seen demonstrated in iowa and new hampshire, want somebody who they think is electable. who can run a strong race against president obama .
>> well the real question then becomes, is will it work? will this tactic work in terms of taking down romney ? because romney is saying look, it didn't work in iowa, it didn't work in new hampshire. why do you think it's going to work here on?
>> we saw the way it could go in south carolina . and a lot of things could happen, there's two debates between now and then. and that's always the test, about who makes the biggest mistake or the strongest impression. my guess is, it won't work. i've been talking to a lot of people in south carolina . i'm going down there next week. and the issue for them is the economy. they've got very high unemployment, almost 10% of the state. and they're looking for somebody who can solve the economy. and many of them have set aside their so-called social conservative issues. it's a very conservative state. it's a very religious state. but most people we're talking to are saying this time we've got to get somebody who can fix this economy. and romney , continues to run very strongly in all of the south carolina polls. so at this stage of the game, and a week away is a lifetime in primary politics. at this stage of the game, george romney seems to be holding his own and the momentum continues for him. especially because senator demint spoke up for him.
>> that's right, for mitt romney . thank you so much. tom brokaw , it's always great to have you here. great perspective, we'll see you back also tomorrow because we're going to have our big 60th anniversary celebration. have we mentioned that?
>> has anybody been talking about that? i hadn't known about that? is that true? we ought to say something about that on television. could we talk about a little more here on the "today show"?
>> all right. point well taken
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