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Mitt Romney said Tuesday that he doesn't know why Newt Gingrich "is so angry" over attack ads funded by a political action committee supporting his campaign, and downplayed Gingrich's charge that he was a "liar" during an interview Tuesday on the Laura Ingraham show.

"Well I don’t know why he is so angry," Romney said when asked to respond to Gingrich's comments.

When Ingraham said that Gingrich was upset by being attacked in commercials over his abortion record, Romney said he decried statements when they were "dishonest."

"I think he is mad for a lot of reasons but I think he is a good guy, I like his wife Callista, I wish him well, this is going to be a long c! ampaign and you know I think we are going to plough ahead," Romney said. "By the way, of course the Super PAC that is working for me I know the people there, of course I helped raise money for it, but the law says I can’t tell them what ads to run or when to run them or where to run them...and if they make mistakes or say things that are wrong, I decry that. Don’t say things that are dishonest."

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