HEADLINES

1. Newt Gingrich: Serious candidate or sideshow?

   Good Newt and Bad Newt will both be running in this race. The big question is which one we will see more of between now and the Iowa caucuses.
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2. Boehner to bring GOP debt message to Wall Street titans

   House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) is set to deliver a sermon of fiscal austerity and federal debt Monday evening before the titans of the nation's financial industry.
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3. 2chambers: Dean Heller sworn in as newest senator

   Former Rep. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) was sworn in Monday afternoon as the Senate's newest member, succeeding former Sen. John Ensign (R), who resigned last week amid an ethics committee investigation into his handling of an affair with a former staffer.
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4. Arizona governor taking immigration case to Supreme Court

   Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced Monday she will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that put the most controversial parts of the state's immigration enforcement law on hold.
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5. Ezra Klein: Obama's belated immigration push

   It's hard to imagine this Congress, at this moment, turning its attention towards a sober and successful discussion of immigration reform. The administration knows that, and so the president's speech will call for more outside pressure to force Congress to act.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY

Rich Galen, a GOP strategist and former communications director for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, commenting on the news that Gingrich will announce a bid for the Republican presidentinal nomination on Wednesday:

"Newt's name ID is 130 [percent] so just about everyone who has ever even flipped by a cable news channel en route an NCIS rerun knows who [he] is, and has an opinion of him. He is going to have to convince a lot of people this is the New Newt."

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COMMENT OF THE DAY

sharedgum, on Joby Warrick and Karin Brulliard's "Obama's team divided over bin Laden raid" story:

I think that morally, this was a really tough call as you don't want to lose any of your men. Obama did the right thing in not bombing the place to the oblivion and ultimately getting him.

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Q&A DISCUSSIONS

The Fix's Chris Cillizza was online at 11:20 a.m. ET to discuss head-to-head matchups submitted by readers that are usually, but not necessarily about the march to the to the 2012 presidential election:

Q: Does anyone actually know what his base is? Because it seems like he's [angered] all of them: Tea Partiers, Social Cons, Fiscal Cons, Establishment Types? I mean is he really just running a quasi-issue campaign and hoping that like the top five bust?

Chris Cillizza:

No. Look, Gingrich has weaknesses, cleary, as I've talked about. I do think, though, he has down a lot of spade work and I think you'll be surprised by the amount of spade work — particularly in Iowa — that he's done with social conservatives. I think he'll do better than expected there.

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MULTIMEDIA

Video: Obama on bin Laden raid: 'Longest 40 minutes of my life'

In his first and only interview since the death of Osama bin Laden, President Obama tells "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Kroft about the mission that led to the killing of the al Qaeda leader.