>> all right. let us begin this morning with breaking political news. the overnight release of mitt romney 's tax returns . nbc's peter alexander is in tampa. good morning to you.
>> reporter: matt, good morning. as you noted this morning governor romney has been facing increasing pressure to release his tax returns . he put out his 2010 tax returns and an estimate of the 2011 returns. we'll put that information now up on your screen. they reveal that he made a combined income in two years of nearly $43 million. he paid more to charity than he did to the irs paying out $6.2 million in taxes over two years. his charitable giving was $7 million. finally that adds up to a tax rate of 14%. the debate last night was a role reversal with mitt romney on the offensive against newt gingrich referring to him often as an influence peddler.
>> i think this is going to come down to a question of leadership.
>> reporter: with new aggressiveness mitt romney wasted little time attacking newt gingrich . the speaker was given an opportunity to be the leader of our party in 1994 . at the end of four years he had to resign in disgrace.
>> i'm not going to spend time chasing down governor romney .
>> i'm not going to get attacked day in day out without returning fire.
>> reporter: early monday romney rolled out his first negative ad of the campaign taking aim of gingrich 's relationship with freddie mac .
>> gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the group that created the crisis.
>> i was a historian.
>> reporter: gingrich released his before the debate.
>> mr. speaker, you were on this stage at a prior debate. you said you were paid $300,000 by freddie mac as an historian. they don't pay people $25,000 a month for six years as historians. we have congressmen who say you lobbied them in favor --
>> i didn't lobby them.
>> they say you lobbied them with regard to medicare part d .
>> whoa, whoa. you just jumped a long way over here, friend. i understand your technique which you used on mccain, huckabee. you have used it consistently. it's unfortunate and it won't work well because the american people see through it.
>> rick santorum stayed above the fray saying he draws the clearest contrast with president obama .
>> if you have learned anything about this election that any type of prediction is going to be wrong. the idea that this was a two-person race has been an idea that has been in fashion now for eight months and it's been wrong about eight times.
>> reporter: also trailing the front-runners here, ron paul said he has no plans to run as a third party candidate but gave a back-handed compliment to his surging rival.
>> would you support a newt gingrich for the gop?
>> he hints about attacking the fed, talks about gold. if i could change him on foreign policy we might be able to talk business.
>> reporter: a couple miglight moments on stage. tonight we'll hear the state of the union . today mitt romney is expected to speak about jobs and the economy right here in what was a factory where they produced drywall. this place has been shuttered for years.
Source: http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/46113347/
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