[Baldwin:] You can call it an "oops" moment for the Gingrich campaign. They missed the application deadline for the Missouri primary. That means no Newt Gingrich on ballot in February. Let's go to Joe Johns in Washington with your America's Choice 2012 politics update. Joe Johns, good to see you. What does this mean for Camp Gingrich?
[Joe Johns, Cnn Senior Correspondent:] Yes, you know, it's one of those moments I think where the people in the campaign look at each other and say, yikes. How do we do that? Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich may be surging in the polls for the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but multiple news organizations now reporting he won't be on the Missouri primary ballot in February. His campaign was supposed to file papers last Tuesday to get on the ballot. Somehow they didn't do it. The rest of the Republican field, yes, on the Missouri ballot though this is not a monumental mistake. The primary is nonbinding. No delegates at stake, but being at the ballot would really be a matter of keeping a candidate's momentum going, if you will, through the primaries. Still a mistake for the Gingrich campaign, but more importantly another sign that Gingrich's success in the polls is creating a lot of challenges for him. You know, he's got some work to do to get his campaign organization up to speed. We reached out to them. They haven't gotten back to us yet. Gingrich is expected to appear, Brooke, at a town hall in Naples, Florida today.
[Baldwin:] OK, let's talk about another candidate. You know Michele Bachmann, you and I talked about this earlier in the week.
[Johns:] Right.
[Baldwin:] She was on the Jimmy Fallon show a couple of days ago. In the intro, there was that song with a derogatory word in the song. She got an apology from Jimmy Fallon, but what about the network?
[Johns:] Right, well, the network has now weighed in. Yes, I mean, this was just sort of embarrassing all around. We know about the house band on the Jimmy Fallon show playing part of the song with the title I don't want to say on TV, which included the derogatory term to women. Michele Bachmann was there. NBC has apologized and also reports out today that Michele Bachmann has actually accepted, if you will, the apology of the network. But she's also said this is the kind of thing that would have created outrage had it happened to a liberal woman. But she says, it sort of gets passed over when it happens to a conservative woman so apparently a little bit of hard feelings still out there. Even though she said she accepts the apology. She said that on a radio station interview I think in Texas.
[Baldwin:] OK so, Joe Johns, I hear you're in for the blitz, for Mr. Blitzer.
[Johns:] Absolutely.
[Baldwin:] What do you have coming up on "SITUATION ROOM?"
[Johns:] Right, yes, well, we're going to talk a lot about the situation in Egypt and the very latest there including the reporter who was sexually assaulted while she was covering the story. We're going to take a close look, of course, at politics, as it stands right now. The race who is hot and who is not, and all the day's news coming up on THE SITUATION ROOM while Wolf Blitzer is taking up a badly needed rest. He's the hardest working man
[Baldwin:] The man loves his job, and never takes a break so good for him. We love seeing you on, Joe Johns. We'll see you in two hours. Thank you so much.
[Johns:] We match. Did you know?
[Baldwin:] Very nice, you and I like this. Joe, thank you. Coming up next, the moment you've been waiting for, I've been waiting for this. This guy is a TV legend. Buddybuddy with some biggest celebrities on the planet. Really, one of the few stars who's on a first name basis with the world, he is Regis Philbin standing by. We're going to talk George Clooney. We're going to talk about his retirement from his daytime TV talk show and who he says, may be able to replace him. Don't miss this. Talk about his new book.